It happens when a father realizes he doesn’t just love his daughter, but also her wife. It happens when a soldier tells his unit that he’s gay, and they tell him they knew it all along and they didn’t care, because he was the toughest guy in the unit. It happens when a video sparks a movement to let every single young person know they’re not alone, and things will get better.

It happens when people look past their ultimately minor differences to see themselves in the hopes and struggles of their fellow human beings. That’s where change is happening.

And that’s not just the story of the gay rights movement. That’s the story of America—the slow, inexorable march towards a more perfect union.
— President Obama (via barackobama)

What do you mean there are 2.5 servings in one box of mac and cheese?

Instructions on How To Listen To Albums By The Cure

Oh God that felt good to write. Anyone else wanna do one?

Three Imaginary Boys – listen on a sunny day while riding your bike to the park because you got laid off from your job.

Seventeen Seconds – listen while 15 and walking home from your best friend’s house on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.

Faith – listen first thing in the morning on one of those depressingly cold days when it should be Spring but it isn’t.

Pornography – listen in the middle of the night just after you’ve gotten home but just before you go inside and he left you and he won’t say why.

The Top – listen in a lantern-lit attic with lots of red curtains everywhere, a few close drunk friends, and a Ouija board.

The Head on the Door – listen at a pool party at night where you don’t know anyone but just want to dance a little bit.

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me – listen while trick-or-treating dressed in drag and rollerblades.

Disintegration – listen on the back porch of a winter morning in the arms of someone you love as the sun rises but the temperature  stays just below freezing.

Wish – listen in a stranger’s crowded apartment on a first date with someone who couldn’t possibly love you as much as you already love him.

Wild Mood Swings – listen while drinking heavily, dressed well, and under inescapable fluorescent light

Bloodflowers – listen just after the coffee shop closed after you waited and waited for him but now it’s raining and the sea is weirdly green.

The Cure  - listen while driving through the night on a clear warm night, hoping you get in before Christmas, but after the fighting is done.

4:13 Dream – listen while driving somewhere, anywhere, just to be out of the house but while making sure nobody knows you skipped work because you hate it and can’t think of anything else to do.

hungergamestweets:

Remember that word ‘innocent’? This is why Trayvon Martin is dead.

hungergamestweets:

Remember that word ‘innocent’? This is why Trayvon Martin is dead.

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hfml:

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Dolly Parton’s Other Voice - Jolene

FACT: Dolly Parton is two amazing singers. If you slow her songs down (as if you were playing an old 45 at 33rpm) she sounds completely different and really terrific.

I’ve always loved Dolly, but somehow this makes me respect her singing and songwriting even more. Freaky.

WEDNESDAY MORNING JAMS.

I am digging this.

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aaaaaaaaaaaaa! Mark as Read! Mark as Read!

aaaaaaaaaaaaa! Mark as Read! Mark as Read!

This looks just like Bump!

This looks just like Bump!

FIRST CRUSH (shhh!)

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