Inevitable.

He loved her in a subtle kind of way. It wasn’t the kind of love you see in movies, with swelling music and giant gestures and running through the streets to catch a departing train. It wasn’t the kind of love that Byron or Shakespeare wrote about, with flowery language and hyperbole and iambic pentameter. It was still and deep, like water that you might mistake for shallow if you just watched the surface. It was entirely his, not dependent on her own feelings for him, and it would still be there whether she, or him, or everyone else on the world disappeared. It was a subtle kind of love, but it was true.

― Jake Christie, Small Stories (via perfect)

(Source: larmoyante)

tastefullyoffensive:

[whyatt]

If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.

― A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via hidekihotblock)

llbwwb:

Delicate Arch painted with a ‘white’ LED flashlight (by IronRodArt - Royce Bair (“Star Shooter”))

themumblingwizard:

So my sisters went to see Beyonce last night and got into the VIP section and my sister went that crazy that she almost pulled Beyonce into the crowd and she got this photo.

That half-hearted struggle to stop your relatives from giving you money.

“No no, really no, I won’t take it, please no…okay thanks.”

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