afternoonsnoozebutton: (ilovecharts)
Can I just point out this blog to you - “Women fighters in reasonable armour”.  Warrior women who battle the bad guys, and scant. 
teachingliteracy: “…once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.” - The Velveteen Rabbit I sometimes get a tiny glimpse of understanding of this idea and it makes me feel dizzy. I will never not exist.  
gingerhaze: thenizu: dryingthebones: During the fledgling age of portrait photography, it was of the utmost importance for the subjects to stay still for a period of time. Obviously since this would be difficult for children, their mothers were brought in for the portrait. For reasons I cannot fathom, it was common for the mothers to be covered in cloth or a curtain. These fabric- covered matriarchs were jokingly referred to as ‘Ghost Mums’. We were talking about this, Foca… “I am a chair. I will win the Hunger Games.”
Thomas Moran, Moonlit Seascape, 1902
Henrique Oliveira

"Don’t bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior."