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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>hi there. i’m kira, and this blog mostly consists of a mix of art, sometimes music, fascinating things, deeply philosophic shit, a bit of overreacting to stuff, and some  unclassified randomness.
 
i’m glad if you like it though, because as it is my personal blog it is meant to express my personality, so if you like my blog you might as well like me and i might like you and we really should talk sometime.

well, that basically always is a good idea 

talk to me, i love talking, talking is brilliant. 

</description><title>beginnings never end.</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @sparksandpatterns)</generator><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ez4jtrsm1qcb5fko1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53275117352</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53275117352</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:24:16 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f2beb226d54121c1247ab649452c6b6e/tumblr_mib05rp6Ub1rxlou0o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53144916972</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53144916972</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:15:20 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>ihavetofart:

THIS IS A SICK JOKE
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c6fdd36df5b596cf45e92316341d302a/tumblr_mnsb47sJz51qcovvqo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ihavetofart.tumblr.com/post/52000580375/this-is-a-sick-joke" target="_blank"&gt;ihavetofart&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THIS IS A SICK JOKE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53137825572</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53137825572</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:39:25 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/939f6fb3b322d33f7d75b1c1164df9c4/tumblr_mm1m39CHtT1qzadmeo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53133991631</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53133991631</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:48:07 +0200</pubDate><category>favourite</category></item><item><title>narutos-dick:

trenchgun:

“Uwaaah! I’m gonna be late!”
I’m Obama Barakku, 47 years old! Starting...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://narutos-dick.tumblr.com/post/44808270455/trenchgun-uwaaah-im-gonna-be-late-im" target="_blank"&gt;narutos-dick&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://trenchgun.tumblr.com/post/44793498911" target="_blank"&gt;trenchgun&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Uwaaah! I’m gonna be late!”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m Obama Barakku, 47 years old! Starting today, I’m gonna be a president!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/aceffa3e7a4d7abf72154eadd251155d/tumblr_inline_mjb8bv4OS91qz4rgp.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53018131438</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/53018131438</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:44:01 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/49d74a9c12c948b961a5d0970d297230/tumblr_ml9p04tGZY1qf4teko1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52976399146</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52976399146</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:12:16 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Me: Wow you lost so much weight! It looks really good :)&#13;</title><description>Me: Wow you lost so much weight! It looks really good :)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Kira: Thanks :)&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
as soon as our teacher leaves the classroom&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Kira: DID YOUR BOOBS GET BIGGER?!</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52895678974</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52895678974</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:31:38 +0200</pubDate><category>oh well</category><category>they did though</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/32dd5c4abf7996004ebd762dd5d1e680/tumblr_mnip3xEuqe1s5m0l1o1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52649502343</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52649502343</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:16:04 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you."</title><description>“People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Abraham Hicks (via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://expiry.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;expiry&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52637191674</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52637191674</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:18:38 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md8lvxaMMy1r09idxo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52637029670</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52637029670</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:16:02 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz2ssrcW6K1r7r2j3o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52637008399</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52637008399</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:15:41 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>"Stand naked in front of a mirror for a long time, under unflattering light if possible. Trace the..."</title><description>“Stand naked in front of a mirror for a long time, under unflattering light if possible. Trace the rises and falls of the little ripples on your skin — the scars, the dimples, the cellulite — and think about how much you try to hide these things in your day-to-day. Wonder why you hate them so much, and if this hate stems from somewhere within yourself, or as a result of being told all your life that it’s wrong to have physical flaws. Wonder what you would think of your body if you never looked at a magazine, if you never thought about celebrities and models, if you never had to wonder where someone would rate you on a scale of 10. Look at yourself until the initial recoil softens, and you can consider your features in a more forgiving frame of mind. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

Listen to the music which makes you want to both sob and dance with uninhibited joy, and allow yourself to repeat any song you want as many times as your heart desires. Think of the person you are when you have your favorite song in your headphones and are walking down a street you feel you own completely, swaying your hips and smiling for no good reason — remember how many things you love about yourself during those moments, how much you are willing to forgive in yourself, how confident you are for no good reason. Try to think of confidence as a gift you give yourself when you need it, instead of something you have to siphon from every unreliable source in your life. Dance because the music makes you remember how much you love yourself, not because it allows you to forget the fact that you don’t. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

Write a list of all the things you like about yourself, even if you think it’s a self-indulgent and narcissistic activity. Start as early as you like in your life — put down that time you won a trophy playing little league soccer when you were eight and then got an extra-large shake at the DQ on the way home, and don’t feel silly for remembering it. Try to understand how many sources in your life happiness can come from, how many things you could be proud of if you chose to. Ask yourself why you so tightly limit the things you take pride in, why you set your own hurdles for happiness and fulfillment so much higher than you do with anyone else in your life. Let your list go on for pages and pages if you want it to. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

Touch and care for yourself with the attention and the patience that you would someone you loved more than life itself. Rub lotion in small circles on your elbows and hands when it is cold and your skin is dry and cracked. Make soup for yourself when your nose is running and curl up, with your favorite movie, in a pile of expertly-stacked pillows. Light a few candles and let their glow flicker against your body. Admire how gentle they are, how delicately their warmth touches you — wonder why you don’t let yourself do the same. Soak your feet in warm water at the end of a long day, until they have forgiven you for walking on them for so long without so much as a ‘thank you.’ Listen to your body when it aches to be touched, and don’t be afraid to give it every orgasm that you may have been too ashamed to ask for in someone else’s bed. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

Be patient with yourself, and don’t worry if a switch doesn’t flip in you which abruptly takes you from ‘crippling self-doubt’ to ‘uncompromising self-love.’ Allow yourself all the trepidation and clumsy, uneven infatuation that you would with a promising stranger. Try only to be kinder, to be softer, and to remember all of the things within you which are worth loving. Listen to the voice in the back of your head which tells you, as much out of sadness as anger, ‘You are ugly. You are stupid. You are boring.’ Give it the fleeting moment of attention it so craves, and then remind it, ‘Even if that were true, I’d still be worth loving.’”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Chelsea Fagan, &lt;a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/how-to-fall-in-love-with-yourself/" target="_blank"&gt;How To Fall In Love With Yourself&lt;/a&gt;   (via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://crowcrow.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;crowcrow&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52636816725</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52636816725</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:12:39 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e6caf195fb622096e9acfb94b0f7ccac/tumblr_mm9d4mcS4I1s4g8s6o1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b5923a2645b27b52997c4ac5b7232037/tumblr_mm9d4mcS4I1s4g8s6o2_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52623449273</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52623449273</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:51:52 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>
250 men and women were asked to draw what these emotions felt...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0e4nzdpR61qhu16ao1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;250 men and women were asked to draw what these emotions felt like in their bodies. These are the combined results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52623204910</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52623204910</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:45:23 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/609b898479a2d8c924f96f1c39a3698a/tumblr_mmp1a3ZBJA1rkptaqo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52581460879</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52581460879</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:07:02 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me74lk0T9Y1qder5oo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52580881758</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52580881758</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:58:21 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>ingroan:

I need to get a real job so I can stop crying over expensive lingerie and start crying...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ingroan.tumblr.com/post/51239361292/i-need-to-get-a-real-job-so-i-can-stop-crying-over" target="_blank"&gt;ingroan&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I need to get a real job so I can stop crying over expensive lingerie and start crying &lt;em&gt;in &lt;/em&gt;expensive lingerie&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52570278738</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52570278738</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:29:34 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mek62dPwvP1rq2wmio1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52570070865</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52570070865</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:26:47 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/466e9f8e68915837a456c9dbb4930bde/tumblr_mmxyndllzW1qzkl4ao1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52569107685</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52569107685</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:13:43 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>triptyk:

shadyperfection:

“They presume that, if the math is...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4fc218e2b80de469f0b56d223f6325c8/tumblr_mlq3it2NpN1s8v8suo1_r3_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fb681a6782919de816151b41b0753f86/tumblr_mlq3it2NpN1s8v8suo2_r3_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a47f62f1488463f9b09297d64001b4fd/tumblr_mlq3it2NpN1s8v8suo3_r3_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://triptyk.tumblr.com/post/52495111989/shadyperfection-they-presume-that-if-the-math" target="_blank"&gt;triptyk&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://shadyperfection.tumblr.com/post/48710588209/they-presume-that-if-the-math-is-not-coming" target="_blank"&gt;shadyperfection&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“They presume that, if the math is not coming easy, that therefore you’ll never learn it, and I meant it literally that math is the language of the universe and it’s like any other language, especially a language that does not share the Roman alphabet. So, for example, if you wanted to study chinese it looks completely intractable, at first.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And so, and you could ask the question, “How long does it take one to become fluent in Chinese if you are not Chinese, yourself?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And so, it can take years and five years, almost 10 years if you never go to China. You go to China for maybe five years of intensive exposure and you’ve never done that with math. Imagine that level of exposure to math. What kind of fluency you will have at the other end of that pipeline?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So, at least give yourself the opportunity that any person learning a foreign language would give themselves, before you turn around and say you’re not good at math.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;— Neil deGrasse Tyson&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again and again, Neil you are awesome.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52495301444</link><guid>http://sparksandpatterns.tumblr.com/post/52495301444</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:53:59 +0200</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
