"Female fat [as] a moral issue is articulated with words like good and bad. If our culture’s fixation on female fatness or thinness was about sex, it would be private issue between a woman and her lover; if it were about health, between a woman and herself… A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but one about obedience."
- Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth (via romantickissingporn)
(Source: fatgirlsguide, via ljm)
Here’s that card I made for my D’s birthday. Yeah, yeah. Another ship drawing, I know.
But itt was inspired by Sam Cooke lyrics (who he loves). On each fold of the accordion it has a line from You Were Made For Me.
“A fish was made to swim in the ocean, a ship was made to sail on the sea, as long as there are stars above, i know, i know, you were made for me.”
I’ve been really into making accordion fold illustrations right now. It appeals to the side of me that used to construct elaborate tiny, illustrated sets for my animations.
(Source: positivefoxissquee, via musicophilia101)
YO IS THIS A PICTURE OF RAMSEY AND ROVER?
5,000 notes for Ramsey and Rover, the cutest and most famous human+dog couple in the world.
truth. i was just thinking about this photo today and wondering how far it had swirled around the internet. oh jeez.
ljm:
Hey! I finally got around to putting List 15 and Everydaypants #2 on-line for sale. I mean, right here.
List 15 is $4.
This issue is about moving to a new city to try to move on from a past relationship and to try to find a place that feels like home. It’s about new figuring myself out, saying goodbye to the past, and opening new chapters. Some list samples are: big plans, things i miss/don’t miss about chicago, being a confident introvert, adventures in dating, all the things that have happened since list 14, traits i admire in other people, how i ended up in a relationship, the things i think are most important, places i’ve been and what i remember about them, and many more!Everydaypants #2 is $3. (be warned, if you read my tumblr, you’ve seen all of these comics before. But it might be fun to see them in print!)
I drew all of these comics throughout the year 2011, for various things, and wanted to see them all in one place and in print! This includes a selection of pages from a 115 page, long-term comic series I’ve been working on about my first year in Philadelphia (to be printed at the end of 2012).
Everydaypants #2 is filled with short comics about music, diy, nannying, and moving to a new city.
This is 24 pages, black and white, and saddle stitched!If you wanna order one, you can paypal monies to everydaypants@gmail.com or send me an ASK if you want to order through the mail, and I’ll give you my address. Non-creepers only, thanks.
It’s also for sale on my etsy, but if you wanna just buy through me directly it saves me dumb etsy fees and I won’t charge for shipping. How about that?
If you prefer etsy, however, my etsy shop is at http://everydaypants.etsy.com
Thanks buddies.
i love ramsey’s drawings and i’m buying both of these. YOU HEARD ME. BOTH.
"What my kids remind me, every evening, is that books are not always parboiled eggplant or overcooked asparagus; they’re not giant horse pills stuffed with mental-multivitamin-dust meant to be choked down before dessert. Some books are roasted lobsters soaked with butter; some are molten tubs of dark chocolate; some are luminescent piles of narcotics."
- Let us now praise libraries, librarians (via rachelfershleiser)
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This is my sixth tattoo, third literary. I was born with heart defect and had open heart surgery at a young age, leaving me with a 10-inch scar on my chest and a 6-inch one on my leg. I have recurring heart issues today, at the age of 24, and have lost several family members to heart disease, most recently my father, who was not even 60. This is from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar: “I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my hear: I am. I am. I am.” My heart says, “I am” with every beat.
This is my fifth tattoo, second literary. It’s a quote from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods that reminds me to always believe in something, to have wonder, and be open to magic. It’s the beginning of a long and brilliant soliloquy by Girl Sam.
