Turpentine erase me whole

dixiedeadshake: We have markers and small cardboard squares at...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:47:26 +0200

dixiedeadshake:

We have markers and small cardboard squares at the desk. So…a GG.

oswald-ears: elkaydee: You guys like Cinderella’s new...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:25:52 +0200

oswald-ears:

elkaydee:

You guys like Cinderella’s new makeover? I like her hat

There’s a snake in my glass slipper.

call-me-taurustastic: The Spine appreciation post. Because he...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:23:27 +0200

call-me-taurustastic:

The Spine appreciation post.

Because he deserves one.

He’s not the wacky or outrageous or outstanding or outANYTHING type of character, he’s stoic and serious, but he’s still one sassy motherfucker and he deserves to be appreciated for it. I love you The Spine.

I’d like this more if it had sources cited for all the images!

Me: Why is this book over

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:17:27 +0200

Me: Why is this book over
Me: Why couldn't it be longer
Me: What am I supposed to read now
*glances at pile of unread books*
Me: Don't look at me like that

There was a time I was in loveand all the angels and the...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:34:51 +0200

There was a time I was in love
and all the angels and the doves
couldn’t make her say
“I love you”

amandapalmer: tattoos come into my life a lot, but this one...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:43:20 +0200

amandapalmer:

tattoos come into my life a lot, but this one broke my heart open.

neil and i both see a lot of tattoos of our words and works on people’s skin, and we have lots of weird tattoo anecdotes. last night I signed the inside of a girls thigh at the littlefield show and recommended that she walk home bowlegged because seriously that shit will sweat right the fuck off on a hot New York night. neil proudly tells the tale of the time someone got his signature on their arm in a signing line and then returned to the same signing line three hours later with saran wrap covering the freshly inked proof.

some people get my face tattooed on them. that always feels surreally challenging, to look at my own visage staring back at me from somebody else’s arm or back, like knowing I have sister-spy-selves all over the world, hiding under hoodies in the deep winter.

if you hadn’t noticed, i’ve been battling a kind of depression for the last few months. circumstances make it pretty understandable, i’m facing some crushing personal and business problems and feeling lonely and at loose ends in pretty much every department. the last time i was this low i was in college - unable to get out of bed and skipping classes. it wasn’t until i escaped the setting that things turned around. maybe tour will help. it never does.

anyway, i’m not so fucking depressed that i couldn’t write a song, which was the saving grace of last week, and having the house party in nashville actually directly kicked my ass to finish what i’d started, which was a massive blessing because i have a bad habit of finishing songs 59% and then leaving them for years unless i have an active instant-gratification motivator (usually a show, and even better if its a show for 50 people in a house, where i feel safe to fuck it up).

so as i was writing and wandering from the verse into the first chorus, the words “i am bigger on the inside” spilled out and i thought…i can’t fucking use this. can i?

it had ricocheted from doctor who into my incredibly dark mood, and i felt conflicted…on the one side my little sobbing song and on the other side, hoards of people in tardis t-shirts. fuck it. yes.

and i used the lyric.

i played it, two hours after finishing it, for a teeny room of 15 people at the nashville house party and cried through most of the second and third verse.

a few days later i flew to milwaukee to play for pride festival. i was having a rough night. the darkness was getting the better of me. against all better judgment (it was an outdoor festival celebration of YAY) i stuck the song towards the end of my set - a quiet, 8-minute introspective and repetitive ukulele song that I couldn’t play through without my throat getting stuck because it was just too fucking sad.

the crowd had never heard the song, because it didn’t exist anywhere. i cried through verse two and three again and it was fine except that I went straight into the ukulele anthem afterwards and had a giant shiny glean of weeping-snot on my upper lip for the whole song. whatever. yes.

after the show i signed for a few hundred people. a boy asked me to write the chorus lyrics on his chest. the next day, he sent me this picture. he’d had them tattooed.

beat that, neil gaiman, i said, as i showed him the tweet, collapsing into a pile of useless blubbering on the floor of my mind.

but actually…there is no competition.

and this is what i see and understand about him, about me, about you, about doctor who, about coincidence, about the millions of ingredients and chances that lead us to this moment right here where we are facing each other (maybe through a screen, maybe not).

we are all connected - there is no way out, nor should there be.

say yes.

love
amanda

p.s. the body & the tattoo belong to gavin michael batker,
@shizaminnelli on twitter.

p.p.s. i hope to record the song soon. stay with me.

bitter-progress: [♢] It’s a for-shits-and-giggles...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:52:18 +0200

bitter-progress:

[♢]

It’s a for-shits-and-giggles cover, it shouldn’t give me feels. But it is.

karengills: Anonymously tell me your honest opinion about me. I can’t reply, just post it.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:11:29 +0200

karengills:

Anonymously tell me your honest opinion about me. I can’t reply, just post it.

dixiedeadshake replied to your post: Six months ago today, I stumbled across a music… And...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:41:59 +0200

dixiedeadshake replied to your post: Six months ago today, I stumbled across a music…

And it introduced us! Glad you found them buddy! :)

It did indeed! :) <3

Oops, my hand slipped. Quick doodle spurred on by this. Looks...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:34:09 +0200

Oops, my hand slipped.

Quick doodle spurred on by this. Looks nothing like Paige tho. I’m sorry!

cutepoweredjellyfish: moonykins: cutepoweredjellyfish: moonykins answered your question: Why do I...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:49:14 +0200

cutepoweredjellyfish:

moonykins:

cutepoweredjellyfish:

moonykins answered your question: Why do I even have almost 450 followers? Why are…

yes, yes you should be the cutest Rabbit duo to ever cute together with me. Yupyup.

I’m still so ridiculously excited about this.

I can’t waittttt.

Oh god if SPWF falls through in one way or another I will be heartbroken.

IF YOU NEED A PLACE TO LAND, we can probably fit you in our hotel room <3 And yes, I really, really hope it doesn’t fall through because I need to hug you and soon(ish).

Gosh thank you <3 I do believe hotel room is sorted - honestly it’s the flight that will break my neck, as it’ll cost roughly $1000. So basically I need a job SIX MONTHS AGO so I can set aside a lump of money every month. I currently cannot spare a single penny :(

So yeah, desperately looking for a job and also commissions would be nice. Wehh.

YES HUGS. <3

cutepoweredjellyfish: moonykins answered your question: Why do I even have almost 450 followers?...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:41:23 +0200

cutepoweredjellyfish:

moonykins answered your question: Why do I even have almost 450 followers? Why are…

yes, yes you should be the cutest Rabbit duo to ever cute together with me. Yupyup.

I’m still so ridiculously excited about this.

I can’t waittttt.

Oh god if SPWF falls through in one way or another I will be heartbroken.

So, uh. Due to a super generous offer from a friend, I might be able to make it to London for...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:52:12 +0200

So, uh. Due to a super generous offer from a friend, I might be able to make it to London for October Expo. However, unless someone hires me soon, or I at least get a handful more commissions, orrrr monetary gifts for my birthday, I won’t be able to pay for my hotel room or my expo entrance ticket D:

ru-debega: Whenever Christians talk to me about God I feel like they’re trying to name-drop a...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:13:34 +0200

ru-debega:

Whenever Christians talk to me about God I feel like they’re trying to name-drop a famous friend I don’t care about

Reblog if you're a cuddler.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:09:08 +0200

THE KING IS DEAD: Queerness in Christianity from the perspective of a queer Christian

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:00 +0200

THE KING IS DEAD: Queerness in Christianity from the perspective of a queer Christian:

rileylaroux:

stevethesoundguy:

goodthinker:

Disclaimers + notes before I start.
-This may be long and I’m on mobile, so there’s no way to add a read more (that I know of). If you aren’t interested in reading, hitting “J” on your keyboard should scroll you past this post.
-I don’t think I’m the best Christian in that my faith hasn’t been…

You know the whole Noah’s Ark flood thing from the Bible?

God flooded the world because he regretted how he created the human race and wanted to erase his mistake and start over. Best way to do that is to drown millions of people in a raging-typhoon-whirlpool-of-death that would send even Captain Albert Alexander running in terror.

THANK YOU, MERCIFUL GOD WHO NEVER MAKES MISTAKES!

<3

And happy Pride Month to all you excellent humans out there!

Straight-up. I respect everyone’s right to have a religion and follow it closely but you really don’t need to outline the loopholes by which I am actually not as bad as a murderer. The book just says some messed up stuff in places. It’s cool. As long as you’re not terrible to me yourself we can hang, but to be totally honest, I don’t really need to be assured that I am not actually going to be burning forever in a pit of fire and torment. Within my reality and perspective on the world, that place is as real and relevant to my sexuality, morality and views on death as Teletubby land.

So you know. “God doesn’t actually think you’re bad” is an awesome belief for you to have, and if it makes you act like a nice person then please keep and hold it, but for me, it’s about the same as Krampus thinking my gaming skills are really fly.

Maybe I’m a shitty person? Either way. Happy Pride, whether supernatural beings are cool with it or not!

Word. To me, the bible is a work of fiction, and nothing more. People can believe in it all the want, but I don’t, and never will.

Whether you believe in a bearded dude in white robes or a sentient lump of spaghetti and meatballs, or whatever, I really don’t care. Just be a nice person and it’s all good :3

I don’t run around and tell religious people that their belief is dumb - there’s no need for me to voice that to people who do have this belief, however dumb I may or may not think it is. I’m not a jerk. I upsets me if people talk shit to me about The Lord of the Rings, for example, so of course a religious person would be upset if I went up to them and told them I think the Bible is a shitty piece of fiction. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all, basically, right?

However, I also don’t really want religious people to tell me my sexuality, gender identity or whatever else is a-ok with their god. I get that they’re trying to be nice, but, like… I don’t need validation from what is to me, in essence, a figment of your imagination.

Let’s all just be nice to each other without shoving our beliefs down each others’ throats! :3

And, y’know, happy pride and all that. <3

shojo: wings-of-enochian: Cooking with David Bennett that’s...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:20:53 +0200

shojo:

wings-of-enochian:

Cooking with David Bennett

that’s the spirit, david.

His faces and noises as he was washing the bowl… I laughed so hard I got teary-eyed.

Gosh darn giant lovable goof.

stop scrolling.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:13:29 +0200

robotsandink:

Yo Fanmily

Hey, yeah me again.

Kay so here’s what we’re gonna do.

We’re gonna let it be.

No accusations. No Drama. No nothin’.

Alright? Can we agree on that?

Awesome. Continue scrolling.

Something Personal

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:09:38 +0200

rileylaroux:

davidmichaelbennett:

So while this is a personal topic and really isn’t anyone’s business, we thought we still needed to let all the fans know so you are all aware…it only seemed right.

Brianna and I are no longer together. To make things easier for the two of us, her and I thought it best for her not to work for Steam Powered Giraffe anymore. You will not be seeing her as a regular Walter Girl anymore. Hopefully that makes sense to all of you and that you respect our choices in those regards.

We’d prefer to keep it at that, so please do not fill our inboxes and such with your condolences, questions, and opinions. Neither of us want to dwell on it and you can imagine how crummy thousands of messages about it would feel to both of us.
It didn’t end bad and we still care about each other, but it’s a sore subject for both of us and we hope you can understand and respect that.

The best thing to do as fans is to continue to support SPG, take care of our own personal lives and learn to karate chop bees out of the air

So let’s all work on that :D

ladyofgondor: ok i’m traumatised by that tampon commercial with the shark. i am never going to swim...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:48:11 +0200

ladyofgondor:

ok i’m traumatised by that tampon commercial with the shark. i am never going to swim in the sea again.

The sharks smelling blood in the water and going in for a kill thing is a complete myth - at least human blood. It’s been tested - sharks completely ignore the human blood. Fish blood, on the other hand…!