Mrimm's World

Welcome to Bookstravaganza 2012!

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:28:52 -0700

I’m so great at this “quitting Tumblr” thing, aren’t I?

Here’s another blog for you to check out. It should be rad. Follow the Bookstravaganza adventure!

Once again, I am joining my beloved friends Dorothy and Matthew in the grand challenge that is Bookstravaganza. Bookstravaganza 2011 was a whirlwind competition to see which of the three of us could read the most books over the Christmas break. Dorothy won. Bookstravaganza 2012 is fourteen crazed bibliophiles trying to outread each other for the entire month of December.

I believe very much in the importance of reading. It is one of the greates, easiest ways to expand your mind; it stretches your imagination, your scope of the world, and your understanding of people. For myself as a writer it is a doubly important exercise.

Sadly, for many of us readers it is a hobby that all too often falls to the wayside. But reading should be more than a hobby; it should be a way of life. And so we have Bookstravaganza, one frenzied month to remind us of the magic of reading (specifically reading really, really fast).

If you’re interested in following along the madness, there are a few ways…

Some of us are blogging about the competition at www.bookstravaganza2012.wordpress.com

There’s also, of course, this blog! Here you will find my own Bookstravaganza 2012 adventure as cross-posted with our official, all-encompasing blog, in case you only care about my readings and musings (I don’t blame you). I’ll probably be posting some extra material here as well, so stay tuned.

Bookstravaganza is also on Twitter: @Bookstravaganza and @Bookstravaganza2012

Happy reading!

XO

I know I said I was quitting Tumblr, and I really am, I mean I really have been,...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:01:00 -0600

I know I said I was quitting Tumblr, and I really am, I mean I really have been, but…

I’m leaving this weekend to do a semester in Italy (eeeek!) and I’m going to be blogging about it as a way of keeping in contact with back home.

So if you’re so inclined, follow my sort-of-travel, sort-of-school blog.

ciaomarina:

Buon giorno!

My name is Marina. I’m in my final semester of a Bachelor of Arts (English major, Creative Writing minor) at the University of Alberta. Lucky for me, the fates have aligned and I get to spend that final semester at the UofA’s satellite campus in Cortona, Italy.

And so, to ease communication with back home, I have set up this blog in which to make record of my travels. Should you be so inclined, you too can follow my (mis)adventures abroad.

See you in Italy!

XO

Guys, I think I need to quit Tumblr.

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:20:00 -0600

mrimm:

I love you all so much, but you are such a huge time suck. I spend WAY too much time on Tumblr. And it is totally unproductive time. When I first joined Tumblr, I tried to use it as a way to build up a daily writing habit, but now I just reblog everyone else’s awesomeness.

Anyways, it boils down to this: I’ve started a business that, if done right, is going to retire me in the next two years. But it has to be done right, and that means total commitment. And it’s become very clear to me that I can’t properly commit my time when I have the option of coming home and being on Tumblr for three hours.

So, I’m done. Sorry.

There are some of you that I’d love to keep in contact with, if you still want to keep in contact with me. Send me a message. I’ll check my askbox a few times before I do anything else. I’m not going to delete my blog, because I still like it, but I am going to get someone to change the password without telling me, or just unfollow everyone so I have an empty dash.

Anyways… see you guys in a few years when I don’t have to work.

(Also there might be some posts left in my queue. So yeah, that will happen.)

Just reblogging in case some of you missed this. I’ve unfollowed everyone so that whenever I try to check Tumblr, there’s nothing on my dash. I’ve been creeping a few people’s blogs because I have no self-control, but I will stop doing that soon!

Anyways, I’m changing my password to something I will hopefully forget now. Love you all.

ceasesilence: tal9000: jawdust: hipstersbleedroses: Open question to the Internet: Why is it...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 06:51:58 -0600

ceasesilence:

tal9000:

jawdust:

hipstersbleedroses:

Open question to the Internet: Why is it apparently mysogynistic of men to get excited about the Olympics women’s beach volleyball because there’s pretty ladies jumping about in tight sport bikinis, when half of the female Tumblr population has done little else this week but perve over the Olympic male swimmers in their tiny swimming trunks?

Because female athletes aren’t considered to be serious competitors. Because the women’s football tickets are being given away, and the men’s football tickets cost thousands upon thousands of pounds. Because female athletes struggle for sponsorship unless they’re stereotypically aesthetically attractive enough to get modelling deals whereas Wayne Rooney’s neanderthal face gets paid millions. Because male athletes are valued because of their prowess, their skill, their charm, and female athletes are valued for their bodies. Because Michael Phelps breaks records and is a national hero, and Ye Shiwen breaks records and is accused of doping. Because the male gaze is a product of hundreds of years of oppression, of complex gender dynamics, of sexualisation and sexual exploitation, and there’s no female equivalent. Because the female exposure of the body is a sign of vulnerability, of sex, of reproduction, of physical use and nothing more, whereas male exposure is a sign of confidence, of power, of physical strength. Because women are naked on the covers of magazines to pleasure men and men are naked on the cover of magazines to inspire other men. In other words, the world is backwards, and twisted, and complicated, and your observation is perversely oversimplified.

^^^^^^^^

Brava

Photo

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:37:44 -0600

toughtink: you’re welcome, bbc

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:25:17 -0600

toughtink:

you’re welcome, bbc

ONGOING DATABASE THAT DEPICTS WHEN AND WHERE UNARMED POC WERE KILLED BY AUTHORITY FIGURES

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:08:00 -0600

ONGOING DATABASE THAT DEPICTS WHEN AND WHERE UNARMED POC WERE KILLED BY AUTHORITY FIGURES:

icecreamritual:

REBLOG AND SUPPORT

"I really want your opinion on my looks, weight, career, religion, sexuality, political decisions...."

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:09:45 -0600

“I really want your opinion on my looks, weight, career, religion, sexuality, political decisions. Basically I am dying to hear your opinion on what I should do with my life.”

- No woman to a man, ever. (via iamhazleweatherfield)

yamino: marsandry: periodpoops: fatfeferi: somerset: inflate...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:02:19 -0600

yamino:

marsandry:

periodpoops:

fatfeferi:

somerset:

inflateablefilth:

dogneedsagrr:

thisisnotafrica:

People & People:

dis bitch

can we talk about all her awkward appropriation and her use of Japanese women as her ‘slave dolls’ who weren’t allowed to speak at all as part of their contract?

this bitch is like the queen of cultural appropriation

and this shit has always creeped me out, but i had no idea that she didnt let them speak…what the actual fuck?

peep the lyrics to “rich girl”:

I’d get me four Harajuku girls to
Inspire me and they’d come to my rescue
I’d dress them wicked, I’d give them names
Love, Angel, Music, Baby
Hurry up and come and save me

so shes into having pet asian women to name and dress up? if that isnt some dehumanizing psycho shit then im a fucking unicorn frog

tbh i hope her and dita von teese fall of a cliff

*shudders*

I think it says a hell of a lot that I’ve never once seen these women’s real names and I have never seen an interview or even so much as a soundbite from them. All I know of them is those little doll perfumes and Stefani’s creepy ass music.

Gwen Stefani has made an entire career out of fetishizing and appropriating the cutlure of women of color, which she gets credit for only because she is white. Bindis on brown girls?!? That’s really not that creative or cool. A bindi on a skinny blond white lady??? Someone throw some money at her. And notice how the women are made up in the above photo - it’s not just japanese women that she is appropriating and fetishizing, it’s black and latina women too.

once upon a time i was silly enough to buy a pair of wedges by her brand, and there was a little brown girl character on the insole. so you can literally step on woc as you walk.

it wasn’t the only reason i returned the shoes but just lol wow

self-absorbed fuckin creep

this is so messed up

Don’t forget how she ‘loves dressing like a chola’. I bet there isn’t one brown group that she hasn’t tried to appropriate.

Years ago before I was aware of cultural appropriation, I used to make fun of Gwen Stefani for being the most famous weeaboo. Now I realize just how unfunny and harmful her appropriation is. =/

Guys, I think I need to quit Tumblr.

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:54:36 -0600

I love you all so much, but you are such a huge time suck. I spend WAY too much time on Tumblr. And it is totally unproductive time. When I first joined Tumblr, I tried to use it as a way to build up a daily writing habit, but now I just reblog everyone else’s awesomeness.

Anyways, it boils down to this: I’ve started a business that, if done right, is going to retire me in the next two years. But it has to be done right, and that means total commitment. And it’s become very clear to me that I can’t properly commit my time when I have the option of coming home and being on Tumblr for three hours.

So, I’m done. Sorry.

There are some of you that I’d love to keep in contact with, if you still want to keep in contact with me. Send me a message. I’ll check my askbox a few times before I do anything else. I’m not going to delete my blog, because I still like it, but I am going to get someone to change the password without telling me, or just unfollow everyone so I have an empty dash.

Anyways… see you guys in a few years when I don’t have to work.

(Also there might be some posts left in my queue. So yeah, that will happen.)

Photo

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:48:39 -0600

"What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could..."

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:38:18 -0600

“

What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?

The answer is clear - menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:

Men would brag about how long and how much.

Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties.

Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.

Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. (Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of commercial brands such as John Wayne Tampons, Muhammad Ali’s Rope-a-dope Pads, Joe Namath Jock Shields - “For Those Light Bachelor Days,” and Robert “Baretta” Blake Maxi-Pads.)

Military men, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation (“men-struation”) as proof that only men could serve in the Army (“you have to give blood to take blood”), occupy political office (“can women be aggressive without that steadfast cycle governed by the planet Mars?”), be priest and ministers (“how could a woman give her blood for our sins?”) or rabbis (“without the monthly loss of impurities, women remain unclean”).

”

- Gloria Steinem (via waityouguys)

ohhhh becca i’m loving your blog today.

(via breakplans)

This is a great fucking post.

(via amodollface)

Oh God, sad part is, this would probably happen.

(via ducksinthehat)

hstizzy: ring around the rosie pocket full of poseys

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:27:55 -0600

hstizzy:

ring around the rosie pocket full of poseys

thingslarslikes: hehangs: companions can only be young pretty...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:19:45 -0600

thingslarslikes:

hehangs:

companions can only be young pretty things my butt moffat

God bless the cactuses.

Photo

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:13:07 -0600

flatbear: If anyone ever tries to tell me Hermione isn’t one of...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:06:56 -0600

flatbear:

If anyone ever tries to tell me Hermione isn’t one of the greatest characters of all time, we’re gonna have words. Not a great ‘female’ character, and not a ‘strong female’ character. Just a great fucking character.

laughingstation: more funny posts here!

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:55:02 -0600

laughingstation:

more funny posts here!

brofisting: scootermoto: bernardin: Now, this is a biker-gang...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:49:01 -0600

brofisting:

scootermoto:

bernardin:

Now, this is a biker-gang patch I would happily wear on my back.

nrrrdcakkke:

YES

i feel strongly about this

Lilo, why are you all wet?

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:37:40 -0600

Lilo, why are you all wet?:

This is actually heartbreaking when you remember Lilo tells Stitch her parents went for a drive, and the bad weather caused them to crash.

I always thought this scene was adorable

Wow thanks guy

Right in the childhood.

i never made that connection

Oh my god. That’s why it’s so important to her. Oh my god

this is tragic.

I cried a little reading this. Holy shit.

"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you..."

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:34:40 -0600

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.”

- Neil Gaiman (via tagliatellegrande)