Just a Darkness Lover

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There is a big big bowl of noodles waiting for me!!

"Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart."

- Dr. Hyde, Looking for Alaska (John Green)

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albotas:

A Little Bit on the Hot Liquid Side: This thermally activated mug shows your lifeforce slowly drain as you drink your coffee or tea. Once it turns completely black, you drop dead unless you have a fairy in a bottle in your pocket.

I think I need this in my life.

Somedays…

You just gotta chill at your house alone and do your thing and read your books and do your work and sing your songs and not go anywhere.

That’s today. It feels good.

I don’t think I can adequately describe how unbelievably excited I am about this show. One of the only things I frequently mention regretting is missing all of my opportunities to see The Almanac Shouters before they broke up.

I only got to see them with Defiance Ohio in Sept. ‘10 at the The DAAC. It was the first time I’d heard of them. And they just blew me away. Their whole set I wished so much I’d knew their songs so I could sing along with everyone else. And when they played Going Nowhere I about started crying right there in a crowd of people because it was one of those perfect songs at the perfect moment in my life I needed to hear those words. And went right out and bought their cd and a t-shirt and found out they were from Kzoo and I was like WHAT THE FUCK AWESOME. And then stupid, scared, depressed little me knew they were playing in town many times after that and I didn’t fucking take the initiative to go a couple miles down the road to see them.

After I had A Long Road Home I listened to it about 50 times in a week. I listen to it a lot in the days leading up to any convention or trip I take. And its absolute required listening in the car on every trip I take. I don’t care who’s with me, if they’ll like it or not. It’s my travelin’ tunes. Those songs have seen me to Baltimore and Boston. Chicago, Detroit, DC, Knoxville, Nashville, Milwaukee and more. I fondly remember driving down a long straight road that ran next to some railroad tracks and blasting Little Black Train with my mother on our way to Peoria, IL on cold clear January day.

And ever since I finally stopped being dumb and started going to shows a lot I always cross my fingers that they’d do a show again (and I wouldn’t be out of town or something if they did). Dreams coming true. lol. I wouldn’t miss this for the world. <3

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senile-snake:

Red Velvet ice cream on a chocolate cone

Why do you do this to me tumblr?

This looks like heaven. I want it.

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (via pullmydaisy)

Oh my, this is beautiful and I agree with every word.

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Everyday lately I have felt this way. I am so thankful for the pieces of good in these rough days. I am so thankful for the people that have given me those good moments. I am so thankful for the stranger in the coffee shop that left a note on my table the other morning telling me he liked my hoodie & my hat and to have a good day. Thankful to get that as I wrote a stressful email trying to settle a stressful issue that doesn’t seem to want to go away.

thegaslightanthem:

So Tom’s gonna be Laura now… and in 2012 I still find people on the internet commenting on another persons life how they insult and condemn a person for his choices.

How about the people who go through this and never find peace and end up committing suicide? Would you rather that? Or maybe he could become a raging drug addict and ruin his life and family? Would you rather that? Or maybe we could have rules from a dictator where everyone gets killed for anything they believe against the government, oh wait that doesn’t work…

How about you leave the guy alone. How about you let another human being make a decision about their lives without your snide prejudices and bigotry? This is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. From my limited understanding of the subject, it means feeling your whole life like you were born in the wrong skin. That’s something that 99% of us can’t understand. Weither you agree or don’t, it’s not your life. It’s not your family. it’s not your band, it’s theirs.

I don’t see the AM! guys very often, or if at all, but I always wish them well. They’re a great band. Leave it at that. Just let them be a great band.

To those being kind, this is not for you…

If this is joke though, it’s in very bad taste to the people who actually go through this. But I will say that I still feel this way about anyone who makes a decision against what we call normal. You can’t hate them, and they have the right, here in America, to make their own choices and live their lives free of prejudice.

So go live, Tom.

XOXO
Gossip Girl

****PS- EDIT NOTE**** - I do realize using “she” and “Laura” are appropriate but I was being considerate, since I don’t know Tom (Laura) that at this current moment to the best of my knowledge He is still a man named Tom, and hasn’t informed me to begin using she and Larua yet, as we don’t speak, and I haven’t read the article yet. though he will soon be a woman named Laura, which I will then refer to her as such. Can you please just look at the big picture here?
Thanks.
XOXO
What are you my english teacher?

(photo copyright (c) 2012 Rolling Stone)

I have the utmost respect for Tom Gabel choosing to make this transition to become Laura Grace. Any fan of Against Me! that’s ever listened to them closely shouldn’t be very surprised. Personally its something that I’ve wondered about occasionally.

I hope the music community will being accepting, respectful, and supportive. I don’t expect every jerk on the internet to keep their nasty opinions to themselves. But for every nasty comment out there I hope their will be many more voicing their support. This is courageous thing to do for any person, and to still be brave enough to come out while the world is watching makes it that much harder.

Tom/Laura’s music has seen me through a lot. Against Me! has some of my most memorable concert experiences and their lyrics have helped me keep going when I didn’t have much else to hold on to. I’ll still be proud to wear my AM! hoodie everyday. And I’m certainly even more proud to have “Walking is Still Honest” tattooed on me.

I have that tattoo not only because that song and this band mean so much to me, but because last June I was in a car accident after seeing them. And I knew in that moment if I had died I would not have been happy with my life as it was right then. And afterwards I resolved to start living my life differently. To make the changes and take the steps to better myself and be the person I wanted to be. To face the fears I’d let hold me back for a very long time. I wanted something permanent on me to remind me to continue taking the steps to do that. And I will wear it with extra pride now, knowing the person who wrote the words that continue to give me so much strength and resolve in my life is also facing so much in their life right now.

I’m so happy to say I’ve overcome a lot the fears I held a year ago. I will continue to fight every fight like I can win and I will continue to support Tom/Laura and Against Me! and I hope all the other punk kids and fans out there will join me.

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