almaswithinalmas

May312013

thebigblackwolfe:

boiledleather:

thewenchandthekingslayer:

rekkka:

1x06 // 3x08 suggested by khaleesiofthesouth

aka why sansa has trust issues

GREAT point.

welp

maybe now people that just watch the show can realize why many book readers are more defensive of poor Sansa

because we see how terribly she is treated

I don’t like people who don’t like Sansa because she’s such a ‘weak character.’ I haven’t read the books (ok I read like 40% of the first one), and yet I can still the strength in her character. To be so deeply wounded, to have everything you held dear be either taken away from you or shown to be revolting, and still be able to find hope is strength. I think most people in her position would have given up completely. She hasn’t.

7AM

aloofshahbanou:

Alice Walker said it best:

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening […] Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

in the end, it’s all a painful and important shift in consciousness, and I’m just trying, really trying, to see the harmony within this chaos.

(via indianajosh)

May302013

Also, being yourself among desi aunties is sooo harddddd

complaining time

6PM

Shalwar kameez makes me feel soooo fatttt

6PM

bubonickitten:

inseptica:

iou-a-colt:

steel-and-snow:

A photo of the rare dabadeedabatiger.

this rare species of tiger has the rare pigment “dabadeedabadie” derived from a blue world

scientists have proven that all day and all night end everything he sees is just blue like him inside and outside

observation of him in his natural habitat has shown that he drives a blue corvette and everything is blue for him

I saw this picture and how many notes it had and immediately thought there is no way that many people fell for this. And then I read the name of the tiger.

(Source: steel-and-snow, via thismakesmeanxious)

May292013

brick and mortar

austerefrivolity:

Strolling the rows of a bookstore,

passing pockets of moments

reflected in the eyes of others.

A mother and daughter,

deliciously gulping down words of another language,

their eyes lit by the dreams of a vacation-to-be.

the carefully crafted nonchalance

of a young man

meticulously scanning aisles and aisles

of adventures to be.

a housewife,

tantalized by the love

and romance

found between pages of books.

8AM

kabutopz:

So last night I came across this table with 3 girls. They said they were out celebrating. When I asked what they were celebrating, one girl replied “my new hair color I’m now blonde”. She wasn’t blonde, her hair was golden brown. Anyway, so she orders a blue cheese bacon burger and wanted to add extra cheddar cheese. When her burger came out, there was no blue cheese. So being my job, I brought it back to the kitchen and brought out a new burger with blue cheese. After about 10 mins or so, she tells me she hates the blue cheese and wants it off. Of course I take the burger back and make her a new burger for the second time. Then seeing she eats half the burger and assuming shes done since she put trash on her plate, she complains she hated the burger all together. Then asks for a sundae with sparklers and candles since they wanted to make this a big celebration. After I was done serving them, correctly doing my job and being as helpful and has nice as I can, I drop off the check. After they leave, this is what I find. I understand she was upset about her burger, but I worked my ass off for this table and did so much for them. I even got them stuff discounted on the bill. She put “NAH SON” for tip and signed it “smooche da puss” instead of her signature. I can’t believe how disrespectful some people are now a days.

I once had a big party at a chain restaurant (I think about 30 people) and I had trouble organizing everyone to make sure they pay correctly (I was a guest there as well). The restaurant was short staffed that day and we only had one waiter for all of us. Mostly everyone was patient and dealt with the stressed out waiter as patiently as they could, but there was this one group of sisters at the end of the table who were being rowdy. I didn’t know what they were up to since I was on the opposite end of the table, but I tried helping them not be rowdy. Also, everyone also requested separate checks, so it probably was a waiter’s nightmare that day. I told everyone to tip much more than the suggested 18%(? - can’t remember) for large groups.

Everyone listened except for that one group of girls. They left a penny and wrote something like, “Get a real job” on the back of the receipt before I could actually do something about it. I was so embarrassed that I was considered the ‘group leader’ and they did something like that. I apologized to the waiter, left a tip on behalf of those girls, and every time I’m back in town I make sure to go to that restaurant and give them a pleasant time.

I can never ever stand how people treat others like this, and I hope the majority of your customers treat you with the respect you deserve. After that day, I hope to never be an irritating customer to any place of service.

(via meenerhabi)

May282013

austerefrivolity:

This video is perfection. SPOILER ALERT: Will Smith, Alfonso Ribeiro, DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Must watch!!

Ive watcheD This So Many Times!!

(Source: austerefrivolity)

10PM

austerefrivolity:

Hobbit Bonsai

I read the hobbit for the first time, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I know it was written for children, but I really liked the optimistic wonder it portrayed :)

Omgggh wannnt

6PM

Can someone explain this to me?

May252013

seriouslyamerica:

New favorite meme: Old Economy Steven

(via lalazarda)

10AM

“At bottom, al-Ghazali’s argument against the theological extremists - among whom are both Traditionalists and Rationalists - is that they fail (or refuse) to recognize that their doctrines are grounded in interpretive presuppositions that are historically-determined. This failure on their part results in an effective obliteration of the distinction between interpretation and revelation. In effect, theological extremists regard their doctrines as being unmediated through fallible and unavoidably secular processes of human thought. As such, their doctrines are sublated into the transcendental realm of revelation. On this conflation there is virtually no distinction between a primary and a secondary belief. Rather, the theological extremists hold that to go against any of their doctrines is to go against revelation itself, whence the ubiquitous charge of Unbelief [kufr] hurled against their adversaries.” Sherman A. Jackson in On The Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam (Abu Hamid al-Ghazali;s Faysal al-Tafriqa Bayna al-Islam wa al-Zandaqa)

(Source: globalwarmist)

May232013

kapooyah:

bellabracha:

what even IS american culture

it’s just a big ball of different cultures with no set value

i don’t get it

I also approve the peeling McDonalds ad that seems to show a nonprofit organization underneath

(Source: bracha-ncc1701, via psyphi-noetics)

7PM

did-you-kno:

Source

The suicide bomber who killed my friend’s uncle in Pakistan was a child bought by the Taliban. The family was extremely poor and the money that they gave for the child was something that they had never seen before. Never had they imagined that the child would be used for that purpose. After the bombing, the mother of the suicide bomber went mentally insane after constantly seeing her son in nightmares where he is in hell begging his mother to get forgiveness from the families.

3PM

Fuck you r/atheism.

illluminadi:

Most racist, prejudiced subreddit on Reddit. I’m finding it harder and harder to believe there is such a thing as polite atheists. For a people who feel so shunned and hated by religious institutions, they do a pretty good job of perpetuating more hate in this world.

Probably half of my friends are atheists and they are the most open-minded caring people I’ve met. In fact, in many cases I prefer to hang out with them more than certain Muslim friends, so please don’t give up on people just because of internet stupidity.