March 2012
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Allison - Pixies
“I am revising French” really means “I am lying on my bedroom floor listening to a dreamy playlist consisting of Sylvie Vartan, Francoise Hardy, France Gall, and Brigitte Bardot, pretending to do something worthwhile”.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, filed under IDEAS
Family breaks up. It leaves marks on three children, two of whom ruin themselves keeping a family together and a third who doesn’t.
A young woman bill collector undertakes to collect a ruined man’s debts. They prove to be moral as well as financial.
Story of a man trying to live down his crazy past and encountering it everywhere.
Father teaches son to...
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Anonymous asked: what's wrong with a wolf whistle? (uh alliteration...) it's no different to a compliment at work about... your hair, but you wouldn't call them a "mysogynistic wanker".
Anonymous asked: just wondering,how do you find out about all these events and protests and stuff? I'd like to go to more, as I also live in London, but I don't know where to find out about upcoming ones. Thanks x
As I was on my way to meet Rachel for a PRETTY PRINCESS AFTERNOON AROUND LONDON, some awful guy tried to wolf-whistle as I walked past him but he couldn’t actually whistle.
I mean, what a loser - he couldn’t even be a misogynistic wanker properly.
I am not at the pro-choice protest (woe) because I feel really uncomfortable going to protests in the evening as it is, as I always end up having to come home alone in the dark stuck on public transport with creepy people, but none of my friends could really come and I really dislike the idea of protesting alone as you never know how things would end up.
So yeah, (inspired by how Caitlin...
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– Shakesville: Rape Culture 101
I am weeping at the amount of revision I’m forcing myself through but I am going to have an ace evening of pizza and protesting against the very creepy ‘40 days for life group’ (which is motivating me to study how I can use the subjunctive in French).
Today was a glorious day for me because I was ‘inaugurated’ as deputy head girl and received a shiny badge which says so (except I was accidentally given Errol’s deputy head boy badge at first). I also danced to Independent Women dressed as a spy for the prefect dance in front of the entire school during the talent show which was a very strange experience.
I think I set a...
Anonymous asked: Can you still be a feminist/ have feminist views even if you don't get the opportunities to participate in active events like you do?
I am going to start worrying about revision tomorrow because I just spent over eight hours drinking in a park (as I’m a classy chick). It was mostly brilliant because we ran around the streets of London and bought lots of chips and bitched about people we dislike (even if there was someone there whose name has the prefix ‘creepy’ attached to it who stroked my back uh).
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There is so much truth in the statement ‘but you could never kiss a Tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue again’.
The thought of great works of writing being lost terrifies me. Like, Virgil wanted the Aeneid to be burned after his death, and if it hadn’t have been for the emperor demanding that it was published, the epic tale wouldn’t exist today (and would not have caused me so much anguish when I took Latin). My teacher gave me a pack of articles on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes to prepare for our...
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“‘What are you going to do with your life?’ In one way or another it...”
– One Day by David Nicholls
Anonymous asked: what year are you in in school?
It’s strange that I only have one more year of secondary school because despite all the lousy things about it, I think I’m going to miss all the chaotic antics. Like my head of year, who actually makes declarations like ‘Henry VII invaded Scotland to display how much of a ‘badman’ and a ‘don’ he was to the Scottish king innit’ and instead of telling us off for arguing with Tories...
I’m very tempted to just read all the Hunger Games now even though I have no time - because otherwise I might just read them during exams to escape revising, when I really won’t have any free time and I will just obsess over them instead of passing French AS.
Linking on very nicely from Caitlin Moran article, I want to tell any Londoners to come to a pro-choice counter protest on Friday!
An American anti-abortion group “40 Days for Life” has started holding vigils outside abortion clinics in London, Birmingham, Brighton and elsewhere in the UK, and they’re outside every day - praying, approaching people who enter the clinic, hand...
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A woman’s right to choose
Caitlin Moran
‘Women still die in childbirth. Not as many as used to – but notably more than die while receiving other “gifts”, such as scented candles’
There’s something disturbing about the idea of someone pressing something unwanted – wholly unwanted – in your hands, saying, “It’s a gift! It’s a gift!”
And you demur, politely at first, saying, “How lovely, but no. I do not want this...
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Is that why they call me a sullen girl— sullen girl? They don’t know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea. But he washed me ashore and he took my pearl, and left an empty shell of me. And there’s too much going on, but it’s clam under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion.
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Anonymous asked: What did you get for your birthday?
Anonymous asked: You are one of the strangest, most unique, beautiful individuals that I have ever encountered.
Yesterday was my 90s themed party where we had party bags (with sweets and heart shaped bubbles) and we did the macarena and made pretty princess crowns with glitter and flowers from poundland (not exactly as nice as Tavi Gevinson’s, but whatever). My friend came as Jarvis Cocker and when we put on Disco 2000, SHE COULD DANCE EXACTLY LIKE HIM. It was glorious mostly because I just invited...
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The London Mayoral Elections are so tedious. It’s between Boris and Ken (again). The Lib-Dems are even more irrelevant than they were several years ago, I cannot even remember the Green candidate’s name, and the only sane choice is an Independent so she’s got a very small chance of winning. Boris is a buffoon, but Ken is a hypocrite.
In a weird way, I’m a little glad...
Anonymous asked: What do you think of the American healthcare system?
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Don’t know who to be for my own 90s themed party…?
I have so much to do for my 90s night tomorrow like BAKE CUPCAKES WITH AGENT COOPER’S FACE ON THEM and CLEAN ALL THE THINGS and DECIDE WHO I AM GOING TO BE and so on, but all I’m doing is practising the Macarena…
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OKAY so you know how I wrote down what I want iced on my cake while I was deliriously ill?
It doesn’t even say ‘princess shayane’. It says ‘princes chayane’.
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The Queen Mum was so sassy and fabulous (not just because Helena Bonham-Carter played her in the Queen’s Speech). Some Tory minister tried to tell her not to employ homosexuals, so she declared that without them, ‘we’d have to go self-service’ and once, when she was out with her friend Noël Coward at a party as he gazed at the soldiers lining the staircase, she said...
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Whilst I was deliriously ill, my parents asked me what I want iced on my cake.
Apparently the cake for my seventeenth birthday party will say ‘princess shayane’.
I am on my deathbed seriously. If I die, please tell Ryan Gosling that I love him (thank you and goodnight).
Anonymous asked: What are your religious views?
I am sad because of the NHS but everyone called me princess today because of my tiara (my religious studies teacher shouted ‘very outlandish headgear, Lacey!’ at me in the middle of the street).
It’s also Persian New Year (I know, I know - how dare they schedule it on the day of my glorious birth?) so hurrah if you’re celebrating it this evening like my family.
I missed the opportunity to make this joke at the perfect time but I AM SIXTEEN GOING ON SEVENTEEN except I don’t need some older and wiser Nazi telling me what to do, okay?
Anonymous asked: can you explain the NHS bill, if you don't mind? or provide a link, please?
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I spent my last night of being sixteen at the NHS vigil holding an advent candle and a tealight in a Marmite jar with my friends. Lucy and I talked into a megaphone a little about our experiences with the NHS and she ended up saying ‘fuck you Cameron’ as someone burnt a mask of his face.
I am cold and bit of wax are stuck to my clothes and I almost set Lucy and Hannah on fire several...
After I went to see my GP, I was waiting to give in a form about seeing the counsellor to the receptionist but I was mostly trying not to laugh/cringe as an overwhelmingly posh man rambled and asked embarrassing questions very loudly (‘can you get condoms on the NHS?’ ‘ooh how did you know that I’m extra-large’).
Anna helped me choose a tiara for tomorrow (my...
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I am on the verge of tears thinking about our entire society being privatised.
Private healthcare! Private roads! Private police forces! Private education! Private air!
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If you live in London, please come to a peaceful candlelight vigil for the NHS tomorrow evening by Westminster Bridge!
I am terrified that they are going to privatise EVERYTHING in this country (David Cameron has announced that he wants to sell off our roads now). WE DIDN’T EVEN VOTE YOU IN.
I spent the afternoon singing ‘I am sixteen going on seventeen’ as IT IS ACTUALLY ME except I am not Liesl von Trapp being serenaded by a Nazi.
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There aren’t that many boys in my sixth form (because my school is mostly all-girls) and the ones that I’m friends with are sweethearts - there are a few that I don’t even know properly as we’re not in any classes together, but hearing about the ridiculous comments they make just makes me furious.
Like there’s one guy who always makes misogynistic comments but claims...
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School is a battlefield for your heart. So when Rayanne Graff told me my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. ‘Cause she wasn’t just talking about my hair. She was talking about my life.
For our English coursework, we have to do a piece of creative writing based on a novel and then write a critical response to it (I obviously chose ‘the Virgin Suicides’).
I’m struggling to find inspiration, so I am lying on my bedroom floor listening to Air’s score and researching the names of Catholic saints that died in tragic circumstances.