No Church in the Wild

What's a god to a non-believer?

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brightly, brightly: Dating, love, and... Swimming?

moon—moth:

colinweaver:

I know, I’m ranting again about dating. Sorry. I just hate the way our generation goes about it. It seems so backwards to me. There are all of these ridiculous unspoken rules that everyone is supposed to know about, but the people who abide by them get confused when someone else…

And you wonder why you even bother swimming with anyone anymore.

An excellent rant on why dating suuuuuucks.

I’m so tired of how no one is allowed to have any fucking Feelings. Everyone is so fucking scared, including me most of the time. Even though I know there are much worse things than being honest about what’s in my head. 

(Cute that they think it’s a problem of people in their 20’s, though. It doesn’t get better on the other side of 30. It gets worse.) 

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Heading on down to the small-town Texas parade. It’s quite the glamorous life here. #gpoy

Heading on down to the small-town Texas parade. It’s quite the glamorous life here. #gpoy

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Esoterica: hamburgerjack: DYSAETHESIA AETHIOPICA: atriptothemorg:...

hamburgerjack:

DYSAETHESIA AETHIOPICA: atriptothemorg: failedblackwoman: IDK how casting Bagels Cucumbers as…

atriptothemorg:

failedblackwoman:

IDK how casting Bagels Cucumbers as Khan isn’t disrespectful to Gene Roddenberry tbh. 

That man fought networks tooth and nail to have people of different races on his show. He fought long and hard to have an interracial kiss on TV. 

My grandmother does not like Sci-Fi, but you better believe her ass was watching Star Trek, you know why? Because it was one of the few places you could see a black woman on TV. And she had an important job! She was important! She wasn’t just in the background. 

Shit, as fake and hokey as Chekov’s accent was, he made sure there was a russian on the show, why? BECAUSE HIS VERSION OF THE FUTURE WAS ONE OF DIVERSITY AND PEOPLE GETTING ALONG KINDA SORTA. 

NOT LIKE THE OTHER TREKS TRIED TO PRESERVE THAT MESSAGE

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(No I don’t know about the dude doing the Blue Steel back there, I barely remember Enterprise it’s boring)

“It’s about the actors performance.”

MAAAN, fuck that noise.

No, it’s not, there are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of actors out there of Indian descent. You’re telling me that Binglebangle Coochiebutt was better than all of them? Show me the tapes, I gotta see that. Show me them auditions that I’m pretty sure they didn’t even do because casting a white dude is easier than being not a bastard.

People of color already struggle when it comes to seeing ourselves in the media, and before you go “But he’s a baaaad guy.” No one is saying that PoC can’t be cast as bad guys. It’s that we’re cast as the same kind of bad guys each and every fucking time. Mindless, one note, stereotypical. 

Khan was different, he was smart, he was strong, he was cunning, he was layered. He garnered the respect of his enemies he was that fucking great. AND HE WAS BROWN. AWESOME SAUCE YEEEEEAAAAAH. 

But nope, let’s cast a white dude because who gives a shit about diversity. HAHAHAA WE HONOR U GENE RODDENBERRY BY WHITEWASHING. 

P.S I’m just gonna link this cause shut up I do what i want. 

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/01/showbiz/tv/tv-kids-self-esteem

fucking preach 

(via fuckyeahfeminists)

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I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.
Andrea Gibson (via wecrythestars)

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I see pictures of other people’s homes… people my age, that I went to school with or whatever. It blows my mind. They’re like grown-ups. They have nice, matching furniture. There is actual art-work on their walls. There have plants that look like someone is keeping them alive. 

I bought this house 4.5 years ago. I swore I’d finally be one of those people and I’m still not. Same end-tables I got from Craigslist for $25 several years ago. Cheap TV stand from Target, probably. Not one piece of art on a single wall. Haven’t seen the top of my dining room table in years. Same shitty blinds that came with the house that are probably 15 years old. I bought some curtain rods but never any curtains. 

How? Why? Why do I suck at this? Why am I not a grown-up yet? Even my total stoner mother, she-of-the-mismatched-furniture, managed to have artwork on the walls. I fucking quit. 

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