Our Words are Our Own

The hard wooden curves of a sailboat frame are beautiful. Ocean surf crashing on a rock beach over thousands of years and grinding those stones down to sand, is beautiful. A fleck of blood hanging on a boys eyelid after a fight, glimmering with the promise that wounds will heal, is beautiful.

None of those things are distinctly feminine or girly. The word beautiful has no gender unless the person using it chooses to assign it one. It’s not syntax that prevents us from saying our sons are beautiful, it’s culture. 

Beauty carries a notion of something rising above the grittiness of the world. Something aesthetic breaking out of the noise of the world. Handsome then is an attractiveness grounded in the grittiness of the world. As a culture we elevate our girls as princesses. They should be pure and above it all. Boys are the ones who are supposed to tough it out. They must be part of that rough world,

We don’t have to subscribe to those notions though. When we talk about babies we prefer beautiful regardless of gender. Some boys are beautiful, some girls are handsome. This can change moment to moment. If beautiful feels right, say beautiful. Never let language limit you; It is the world your mind inhabits. Take a cue from Shakespeare and Dr.Seuss and constantly redraw its borders.

for Leah. It’s pleasantly shocking to see you being one of ‘those girls’.


Of all that’s wrong with Microsoft’s magic future, the funniest is that it’s all based around lots and lots of fluid animations which have only just recently become possible on Microsoft devices but have been integral to shipping Apple products for the past few years.



I’m not sure how this is on the first page for this term. I was looking for tips/critique on movie openings.

I’m not sure how this is on the first page for this term. I was looking for tips/critique on movie openings.


Why use such a gross finger image? It’s like they cropped it out of a violent crime evidence photo. The contrast against the serene photoshopped face is really awkward.

Why use such a gross finger image? It’s like they cropped it out of a violent crime evidence photo. The contrast against the serene photoshopped face is really awkward.



I own this poster. Actually a stack of about 15.

I own this poster. Actually a stack of about 15.

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Wow, the two in the middle look just like Karen Gillan and Matt… ohhhhhhhh.

Wow, the two in the middle look just like Karen Gillan and Matt… ohhhhhhhh.

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lostateminor:

Who said typefaces had to be static? Whoever it was certainly didn’t tell Hussain Almossawi from the Skyrill Design studio who created this incredible Fluid Type in which each character in the set has both a static and an exploding animation version. We love. 
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lostateminor:

Who said typefaces had to be static? Whoever it was certainly didn’t tell Hussain Almossawi from the Skyrill Design studio who created this incredible Fluid Type in which each character in the set has both a static and an exploding animation version. We love.




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