odditiesoflife:

Long Term Exposure of Mating Gold Fireflies

Japanese photographer Yuki Karo goes to various places around Maniwa and Okayama Prefectures in Japan and uses long exposure to capture some stunning shots of mating gold fireflies.

This is absolutely beautiful.

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warsan is elsewhere.: 34 excuses for why we failed at love.

warsanshire:

1. I’m lonely so I do lonely things.

2. Loving you was like going to war, I never came back the same.

3. You hate women, just like your father and his father, so it runs in your blood.

4. I was wandering the derelict car park of your heart looking for a ride home.

5. You’re a…

I really enjoy this and the other poetry posted here. 

The irony is that an HIV-positive person with a consistently undetectable viral load and the absence of other sexually transmitted diseases is up to 96-percent less likely to transmit HIV than an HIV-positive person who is untreated, especially in the presence of safer sex practices, and disputably even in the absence of safer sex practices. This means that it is much safer for an HIV-negative person to have sex with me than with someone who has mistakenly identified himself as HIV-negative, unaware that he has become HIV-positive since his last test, or with someone who is blatantly lying about his HIV status.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-snow/confessions-of-an-hiv-positive-total-bottom_b_2696948.html

He asked me, “Well, what if you found out that the trans woman you were attracted to still had a penis?”

I laughed and replied that I am attracted to people, not disembodied body parts. And I would be a selfish, ignorant, and unsatisfying lover if I believed that my partner’s genitals existed primarily for my pleasure rather than her own.

All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings- anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination.

“Whipping Girl” by Julia Serano, Love Rant (via dirtyhands)

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thepeoplesrecord:

Here’s the first part of our critics of capitlalism image series we’re uploading onto our Facebook featuring activists, historic figures, writers, artists, and movement leaders from various backgrounds and time periods idealogically united against capitalism. We’ll do another set tomorrow. In the mean time, like and share our photos on Tumblr, Facebook & everywhere else! :D

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