An active social life is the food of every day.
one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic
how can you even be a woman without going absolutely batshit insane
LUCILLE CLIFTON
Wounds of the Earth
— by xis.lanyx
a human heart cost $442,000 & I gave you mine for free you ungrateful bitch
Concept: We’re sitting on the couch together and we’re both super tired. I can hear the rain outside falling and tapping against the window. You lay your head in my lap and I gently stroke your hair. Everything is peaceful as the rain lulls us to sleep.
eleanor calling herself a “legit snack” while she is literally in tears over something that will defnintely scar her for (after)life is a constant mood and nothing can top it
How you, yes, YOU, can be both PUNK and A PRETENTIOUS BASTARD (dark academic) at the SAME TIME.
(yes, I do recognise that making a 'how-to' type list is basically the opposite of punk, leave me alone.)
Read poetry (I highly recommend John Cooper Clarke).
Be angry all the time, not at people around you, but at capitalism, social injustice, the government, and societal constructs.
Read Marx.
Doc Martens should be your best friend. Yes, they're expensive. But they're also high quality and will last you a lifetime (I've had a pair for about five years now, and they've literally grown with me).
Ratty blazers are cool.
Drink fruit juice, don't take drugs. In the beginning, the punk movement was very anti-drugs, so gangs of them would get together to drink fruit juice instead.
Only quote the insults from Shakespeare's works.
Wash your hair in beer. (Just trust me. My great grandmother washed her hair with beer, and she had great hair.)
Berets
Black velvet (whilst usually more goth) can definitely be adopted.
Know that 'modern' or 'new' doesn't necessarily mean 'better'.
Go to protests, talks, lectures, anywhere where you might be able to make a difference. Say something about anything you feel passionately about, don't stand for things you feel are wrong.