beautiful, but annihilating

anna, bi/aro, she/her, upper 20's. a lot of what i reblog is 'sjw'-esque and things i think my friends will find funny. or just stuff i'm into. please be aware i am not tag-friendly, as this is my personal blog and i don't expect a whole lot of people to follow me for whatever random shit i post.

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[dinosaur-mayonnaise]

obsessed with characters who were written for one another. like, what do you mean the reason for my existence is to be by your side? what do you mean our divine purpose is to belong to one another, for better or worse?

[cryysis]

@willowbird

[gojinka]

This post is so funny like comment subscribe if you picture your favs bloodied and coughing on the floor and flinching

[cryysis]

@willowbird

[cryysis]

Whenever my new boss/director asks to talk to me, my first response has always been "what did I do?"

Well they finally asked me about it, and I had to explain for about ten - fifteen minutes that my manager from 3 years ago was such a fucking prick that even thinking about it now still upsets me. And the only time the ass ever wanted to "talk to me" was if, according to them, I did something wrong.

Like... I'm getting better about it. I am. But sometimes it's still my gut reaction to think I fucked up when my director wants to talk to me. As of I'm still trying to prove myself.

And when I think about it, I wonder if that's why my muchness (thank you Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland) seems to have flagged. Before I always felt like I had something to prove, something to work against (and I did, but that's another conversation.) And now I'm just... comfortable where I'm at.

I don't think I like it. It's weird to miss being so on edge.

[charlemane]

writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

[rare-basement]

It’s The anniversary of the day I had a stroke for no reason so let’s celebrate with this real bus ad

“Milllenials! They say you can’t have it all. Well we’re here to say you can. You can have a stroke!”

[wanderingthunderstorm]

Image description: the sign additionally says:

Learn the signs:

F - Facial drooping?

A - Arm weakness?

S - Slurred speech?

T - Time to call 9-1-1. With stroke, every second counts. Take the signs seriously. And, eat something; you're skin and bones!

The first letter in each word of the list is highlighted and spells out FAST - the acronym that helps you to remember the signs of a stroke.

/end ID

Reminder to call emergency services for your specific country, not 9-1-1, if you live outside of the US!

[alexseanchai]

addendum to image description: it's by Minnesota Stroke Association, StrokeMN dot org

[rare-basement]

thank you both!! Transcription of words from an image is a almost impossible for me now bc I can’t type on a keyboard without autocorrect and my working.memory is crap bc of the stroke so it all gets jumbled. I am very happy when people take the time to caption stuff I post ❤️❤️

[rare-basement]

Appreciate people reblogging this without the misinformation about smelling burnt toast (it’s not a stroke symptom!)

[c3rvida3]

When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I'm allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.

[mothocean]

[asphodelimago]

So there's a medication called hyaluronidase. It's used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.

One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It's used in a number of injected medications.

Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.

This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it's actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don't actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.

Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.

tl;dr: They won't inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say 'eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees' and try to kill you anyway.

[bearbellyblog]

The world is full of such beauty and wonder. Thank you for that sentence.

[elodieunderglass]

Hat tip @mugwomps thank you!

[thehmn]

I only recently learned that in Japan you don’t draw you and your lover/crush’s name in a heart but under an umbrella like this

And I fucking love learning new things like that because suddenly I understand all the umbrella imagery in manga and anime and how it can tell a whole story depending on who is holding it, how it’s being held and how they’re reacting to it.

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

[feral-ballad]

Marie Howe, from Magdalene: Poems; “Walking Home”

[bob-belcher]

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick

[thehmn]

I haven’t watched the Uncharted movie but listening to Americans/Canadians/Australians talk about how unrealistic it would be to make an old church into a nightclub and have an ancient thing behind plexiglass in a fast food restaurant is pretty funny.

Guys you would not believe how much old crap we got in Europe. In Leeds I walked by an old church that had been turned into a nightclub every day and in Denmark I once went to a McDonalds that had a glass window in the floor where you could see old ruins underneath.

We are way too many people living in a place where countries and cultures have come and gone over thousands of years and yeah we think it’s cool when we find some of our old stuff we forgot about so we want to preserve it in some way but we also want to make new things so we have to work around it.

Like look at this! This is from the biggest city near me, Odense.

They build a new shiny building around an old ruin! The thing behind it is a grocery store! That’s just what you gotta do in this part of the world.

So to all aspiring writers; it’s absolutely very realistic to mix old and new things in ridiculous ways in Europe so feel free to go nuts with it.

[blackkatmagic]

the sheer offensiveness of rereading something you wrote, discovering that, hey, it’s actually pretty good, and then reaching the end, wherein you realize that if you want more you actually have to write it

[caledoniaseries]

fuck’s sake 

[taste-of-ink-deactivated2020071]

writers will look at their own WIPs and be like “is anyone gonna finish that” and then close the tab

[cryysis]

@nikkxb @pointyobjects

[pacthesis]

[romeo-the-cactus]

[the-mother-of-lions]

BBC MERLIN | Latin Proverbs (part two)

[western-woods]

[rattle-my-stars]

[winterofherdiscontent]

. 𝓑𝓮𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓾𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓜𝓸𝓸𝓷 

[ a digital painting i created for the lovely @sashakielman featuring 2 original characters from their story. I put a lot of energy into this one, spending time with these characters was a joy ] 

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