optais-amme:

dancerdyke:

dadrielle:

I saw a sad facebook post from the gay bookstore back in Ann Arbor where I used to live about how they hadn’t sold any books that day so I went on their online store and bought a couple, and while you don’t get #deals like elsewhere online, I’d love it if y’all would consider buying your next gay book from them instead of like, Amazon.

!!!!!!!

Sometimes Tumblr is a force for good. :’)

samalsoblogs:

riverselkie:

i want to run away…but like in ghibli movie. like i take a block of cheese a loaf of bread and some apples and wander through the flower-specked mountains wrapped up in a shawl and i happen to wander into a moving castle and fall in love with a cute wizard

me (deep in the woods, dragging dufflebag of Kraft Singles™

 and hopelessly lost): where’s totoro

curseworm:

curseworm:

catholic school speedrun

during the first liturgy if you slap the communion wine out of the priests hands and collapse at his feet hollering in tongues you can clip right through the floor and go straight to hell

studyingmeblr:

cidermoon:

ramoorebooks:

• Sylvia Plath: There certainly isn’t enough genuine talent for us to take notice.
• Rudyard Kipling: I’m sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language.
• Emily Dickinson: [Your poems] are quite as remarkable for defects as for beauties and are generally devoid of true poetical qualities.
• Ernest Hemingway (on The Torrents of Spring): It would be extremely rotten taste, to say nothing of being horribly cruel, should we want to publish it.
• Dr. Seuss: Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.
• The Diary of Anne Frank: The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the ‘curiosity’ level.
• Richard Bach (on Jonathan Livingston Seagull): will never make it as a paperback. (Over 7.25 million copies sold)
• H.G. Wells (on The War of the Worlds): An endless nightmare. I do not believe it would “take”…I think the verdict would be ‘Oh don’t read that horrid book’. And (on The Time Machine): It is not interesting enough for the general reader and not thorough enough for the scientific reader.
• Edgar Allan Poe: Readers in this country have a decided and strong preference for works in which a single and connected story occupies the entire volume.
• Herman Melville (on Moby Dick): We regret to say that our united opinion is entirely against the book as we do not think it would be at all suitable for the Juvenile Market in [England]. It is very long, rather old-fashioned…
• Jack London: [Your book is] forbidding and depressing.
• William Faulkner: If the book had a plot and structure, we might suggest shortening and revisions, but it is so diffuse that I don’t think this would be of any use. My chief objection is that you don’t have any story to tell. And two years later: Good God, I can’t publish this!
• Stephen King (on Carrie): We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias. They do not sell.
• Joseph Heller (on Catch–22): I haven’t really the foggiest idea about what the man is trying to say… Apparently the author intends it to be funny – possibly even satire – but it is really not funny on any intellectual level … From your long publishing experience you will know that it is less disastrous to turn down a work of genius than to turn down talented mediocrities.
• George Orwell (on Animal Farm): It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.
• Oscar Wilde (on Lady Windermere’s Fan): My dear sir, I have read your manuscript. Oh, my dear sir.
• Vladimir Nabokov (on Lolita): … overwhelmingly nauseating, even to an enlightened Freudian … the whole thing is an unsure cross between hideous reality and improbable fantasy. It often becomes a wild neurotic daydream … I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years.

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit was turned down so many times, Beatrix Potter initially self-published it.
• Lust for Life by Irving Stone was rejected 16 times, but found a publisher and went on to sell about 25 million copies.
• John Grisham’s first novel was rejected 25 times.
• Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) received 134 rejections.
• Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) received 121 rejections.
• Gertrude Stein spent 22 years submitting before getting a single poem accepted.
• Judy Blume, beloved by children everywhere, received rejections for two straight years.
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle received 26 rejections.
• Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected 20 times.
• Carrie by Stephen King received 30 rejections.
• The Diary of Anne Frank received 16 rejections.
• Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rolling was rejected 12 times.
• Dr. Seuss received 27 rejection letters

Now this…THIS inspires me.

Don’t give up people.

anarcho-dragonitism:

anarcho-dragonitism:

can we stop saying that words like dumb and stupid are ableist slurs or ableist language please I’m autistic and that’s just… not what the fuck a slur is bye

A slur is when a word’s principal colloquial usage is intended to target a certain group in a violent manner and stupid and dumb are used in relation to disability like 0.1% of the time. It’s almost always referring to people who say shit completely out of their lane and realm of expertise and it’s actually useful language. It’s like, I’ve been called disgusting for being gay b4 but disgusting is mainly intended to refer to other stuff and it’s not homophobic to use it in a context that has nothing to do with gay ppl. Tired of seeing ppl getting hassled over insulting an idea using the only language that can describe the negative quality of the idea. Like, guys. R***rded is a slur. Stupid and dumb are not damn slurs.

I’m Autistic and Schizophrenic and I think both ND and NT ppl should reblog this if they want

bitchwhoyoukiddin:

theblacfox:

onlyblackgirl:

lavitabella87:

melinda-january:

wwesavedme:

thegiftedoneishere:

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👏👏👏👏👏👏

I’m reblogging this every time I see it. 

white people are so pressed he got this cover

This man is everything!

Side note read other places: He wouldn’t wear anything in this shoot that wasn’t designed by a black person or a woman.