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When I was a kid, I had this intense, visceral loathing for raw umber. I hated even looking at it. Sometimes I would draw a tiny line of raw umber on my paper just to see how ugly it was and give myself the shivers. Then I’d quickly scribble over it with a better color, like brown. Raw umber was basically my childhood nemesis. I can’t remember any Crayola representatives ever coming by to interview me about my feelings (BRICK RED FOREVER!) but I can’t help but take the defeat of raw umber as something of a personal victory.

I feel kind of bad for thistle.

imremembering:

Retired Crayons

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In celebrity news, Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky take a walk through London, England, with what appears to be a tiny loaf of bread.

chrishemsworth:

Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky take a walk through London, England on May 16, 2012 with their newborn daughter India Rose (born on May 11, 2012)

lesleygee:

thedailywhat:

Kindle Passage of the Day: The most highlighted passage in all of Kindle Land? It’s Katniss talking about her mom in Catching Fire:

“Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.”

Not suprisingly, the Hunger Games trilogy accounts for eight of the top 10 most-highlighted Kindle passages. Which begs the question: Readers are taking theHunger Games so seriously that they’re highlighting passages using Kindle?

[amazon]

I guarantee you most of those highlighted passages end up tattooed on the bodies of eighteen-year-olds across the nation.

“I cannot believe, in retrospect, that I was ever conned into believing that talking about feelings with a dude you were hooking up with was this embarrassing uncool thing that only clingy girls did. Today, if somebody I was boning, however casually, got judge-y or weird on me because I tried to have a conversation about my feelings, I would laugh out loud, walk out and then make fun of him to all my friends. Seriously? Feelings are not spiders or the Ebola virus. If a guy gets “scared” when you try to discuss yours with him, you should dump him and find a new hookup buddy who isn’t terrified about something that your average kindergartner can handle hearing about on Sesame Street.”

I may not have accomplished anything else this week, but 300 people like a comment that I made on the Hairpin, and that’s good enough for me!

Semi-Secret Affairs, Smanging, and the 88 Percent | The Hairpin

And this is why I always read the comments. Holy shit, AMEN.

(via sarahchristine)

She can keep her kitchen but I want that dress.

And those earrings.

And that hair.

And that skin tone.

And the bracelet.

DAMN.

(Source: hippykitchen)

“If you find yourself lost, dig

a cave in the snow, quickly
you need shelter against the night”

Nick Lynn, from “Elsewhere, Mon Amour” (via proustitute)

Alternatively, you could try google maps.

nevver:

Look at this fucking hipster

scurtisillustration:

This is for my project, deconstruction of the body. Its a real, whole, skeleton that used to belong to a deer.

awesomepeoplereading:

Sasha Grey reads to kids.

nevver:

Everybody knows it

Happy Valentine’s Day!