What the frig is that pony tailed beast?

I was only about 13 when I heard it and it was another one that I played a lot in my bedroom. There was a trilogy of females, which was Joni Mitchell’s Blue, Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love and Bjork’s Debut that I discovered when I was 12 and obviously had a huge impact on me. But Joni Mitchell, for me, her voice is like an instrument, the same as Bjork’s - I just loved hearing a woman’s voice that sounded so free and was doing weird things to my brain, pulling it around. How do you even talk about something like this? You just end up saying a load of cliches! There’s songs like ‘River’ and ‘Blue’ and I didn’t know anything really as a 13-year-old about California and Laurel Canyon and the psychedelic 60s and what had happened to everybody, the disenchantment they maybe felt later on. I didn’t really understand the background of that, yet there was this woman coming out of my speaker, her feminine energy and her freedom, her expression, her unapologetic rawness, again, and the beauty and competence, and weird tunings, it all completely made sense to me.

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—	Natasha Khan, (Bat For Lashes), on Joni Mitchell’s Blue,[x]. (via lollapa-loser)

idk why I’m thinking about this, but in my exit interview this morning Kristin said something really nice about my illustration work that got to me - she said that when I handle topics or subjects that people might consider “fluffy”, like pop-culture stuff or some of the pieces I’ve done with animal symbols, I give them a real weight and depth and thoughtfulness, but when I do serious, heavier stuff like my thesis project I’m able to humanize it and make it accessible. And I hadn’t really thought about it like that before, and not to sound like a total asshole, but she pretty much nailed what I try to go for and I kind of like that about myself. I think that’s a good quality to have.

livelaughawesome:

patriarchyforbreakfast:

moonandshore:

irresistible-revolution:

mexicanprincessbrienne:

oh beyonce i think i love you more and more each day

why more people dont pick you as their feminist icon i’ll never know

I’m crying. This is my life in a gifset.

There is a sea of female celebrities who slut-shame, say shit like “I’m not like other girls” and “all my friends are guys,” and then there is Beyonce.

casually reblogging this again because I had such an awesome night last night with my girlfriends, at two separate parties and an impromptu slumber party. Spending time with the woman in my life who care about me and understand me is the absolute best way to feel good about myself. I just love my girlfriends.

bey4matriarch

abackwardsmarch:

iamamiwhoami; bounty press release - distributed with initial copies of the album sample CD.

carolineferguson:

I can’t with this couple.

effington:

The Ben Folds & WASO dvd is my number one most comforting thing I own probably

If school’s taught me anything, it’s that ingenuity and courage are everywhere, right along with apathy and selfishness, and that everything worth making or doing comes at a price. That’s when I finally understood why music matters, why art of any kind matters. It’s how we can take painful contradictions and make them beautiful. We can embrace what overwhelms us, and then do something about it.

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—	Vienna Teng

Sansa had once dreamt of having a sister like Margaery; beautiful and gentle, with all the world’s graces at her command.