A Million Raindrops

Taylor Swift blog: making-forts-undercovers Learning to dance in the rain. INFJ | 1w9 | Ravenclaw | Ph.D student in Chemistry Moving to Jinja, Uganda in January 2020! Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ~ C.S. Lewis

[dancing-chemist]

Made chocolate cookies while listening to @taylorswift 's new album. It was a perfect summer night. #tryingnewrecipes #favoritesongs #taylorswift #lover https://www.instagram.com/p/B1iMyezlbCl/?igshid=1hmo77rv6fewo

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

When i get married my bachelorette party is gonna be me and 7 of my closest friends hiking for months in life threatening conditions in Fellowship cosplay

[unavidasilenciosa-deactivated20]

Do you have 7 close friends? wtf how do you get that?

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I actually have like 13 so some of them have to be Orcs and just continually attack us at random throughout the trip

[trans-sister-radi0]

Why seven? There were *nine* of them

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I wanna go back and forth between Legolas and Frodo bc I like their outfits

[wallpatterns-deactivated2019120]

u know what’s attractive???

magnets

[spillywolf-deactivated20190920]

If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it

[oncemylove-deactivated20180625]

this is beautiful

[randomslasher]

By this same token, maybe goodness isn’t the absence of bad thoughts or impulses, but the conscious choice to behave according to your moral ideals in spite of them. 

[zippythewondersquirrel]

All true

[thenightling]

randomslasher  Actually true.  That’s why many mistakenly think good = naive, which isn’t true at all.   Real goodness is choosing to do what is right. 

[1001galaxies]

Aaaaaamen.

[theboysandtheballet]

i just recently hit 1300 followers which is crazy?? thank you so much to everyone who took the time to press follow and especially if you interact with me. i love you all so so much

soooo as a thanks to all of you i decided to do a giveaway!

the winner gets an edit based off of a song of their choice! your request for the edit can be as broad or specific as you want.

examples include: a lockscreen, a header, a movie poster, etc.

the winner also can get one of the following urls:

@i-stand-with-taylor

@taylorswiftstadiumtour

@yeahyouneedtocalmdown

@yourebeiingtooloud

@ifamantalksshits

1. you must be following! (i will check)

2. reblog this post as many times as you want. each reblog = one entry. (likes don’t count)

the winner we be chosen at random!

(I WILL DM THE WINNER!)

tagging some mutuals!

@bees-blog @lomglive @iamyourrsummer @fromyredlipss @swiftiekate @youneedtoclamdown @ellielovestaylor13 @everythingjust-stops @trying-to-calm-down @taylorsbihair

[dancing-chemist]

Passing this along as well as entering!!

[determined-mind-deactivated2025]

[girlwhorpsalot]

I needed this.

[mentalmentalhealth]

Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!

[aro-ace-christian]

Yeah… Not gonna lie… I cried…

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

We need more people like this

[armillary-spheres-lover]

Goddamn it stop making me feel human

[dreamsrainandwitchythings]

The therapist I wanna be.

[positivelyqueerace]

Text in the image:

“I’m a therapist and keep this poster in my waiting room, apparently it’s saved a few lives.”

I don’t like the phrase “a cry for help.” I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide. I have a plan: I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing I see is helplessness.

I think your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see any good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.

But still here you are: you’ve come over to me, banged on my door and said, “HEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”

How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines. Your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.

And you’re still just going, “GIVE ME A STICK. I’M NOT DYING OUT HERE.” “A cry for help” makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you, but you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.

With NO hope, running on NOTHING, you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.

All I’m doing is handing out sticks.

You’re the one saying alive.

[ultimate-science-nerd]

I legit cried at this. I’ve needed to hear it put this way. Bless this post.

[tea-rabbits]

Every time I see this post I stop to read the whole image. It always helps — even on the good days.

Because it wasn’t weakness. It wasn’t shameful to seek help. It wasn’t pathetic to “cry for help”. I was looking for a stick, be that from myself or from someone else. I was trying to find a way out. I was trying to heal myself.

[aurora-nerin]

this is fuckin incredible. 

[irondad-not-ironsad]

I’m sorry if I repost to many of these, but if it could be someone’s “stick” then it’s worth it

[unicornempire]

BAM!

[dancing-chemist]

Everyone needs a stick now and again.

[dancing-chemist]

If you're wondering where all the TS posts are, they're over @making-forts-under-covers-13

[mytearsrricochet]

what’s your holy trinity of Taylor Swift songs? mine is our song, begin again, and dress (at least at this moment) put yours in the tags

[pansoph]

for chinese new year they get all these famous actors and comedians together and they do a lil show and one of the comedians was like “i was in a hotel in america once and there was a mouse in my room so i called reception except i forgot the english word for mouse so instead i said ‘you know tom and jerry? jerry is here’

[beefmilkthings]

jerry is here

[eruriholic]

my chinese teacher once shared this story in class about someone who went to the grocery to buy chicken, but they forgot the english word for it, so they grabbed an egg, went to the nearest sales lady and said “where’s the mother”

[cuddlyaxe-deactivated20190218]

When I was a teenager, we went to Italy for the summer holidays. We are German, neither of us speaks more than a few words of Italian. That didn’t keep my family from always referring to me when they wanted something translated because “You’re so good with languages and you took Latin”. (I told them a hundred times I couldn’t order ice cream in Latin, they ignored that.) Anyway, my dad really loved a certain cheese there, made from sheep’s milk. He knew the Italian word for ‘cheese’ – formaggio – and he knew how to say ‘please’. And he had already spotted a little shop that sold the cheese. He asked me what ‘sheep’ was in Italian, and of course, I had no idea. So he just shrugged and said “I’ll manage” and went into the shop. 5 mins later, he comes out with a little bag, obviously very pleased with himself. How did he manage it? He had gone in and said “'Baaaah’ formaggio, prego.”

I was done for the day.

[ravenpuffheadcanons]

This makes me feel better about every conversation I had in both Rome and Ghent.

[elodieunderglass]

I once lost my husband in the ruins of a French castle on a mountain, and trotted around looking for him in increasing desperation. “Have you seen my husband?” I asked some French people, having forgotten all descriptive words. “He is small, and English. His hair is the color of bread.”

I did not find my husband in this way.

In rural France it is apparently Known that one brings one’s own shopping bags to the grocery store. I was a visitor and had not been briefed and had no shopping bag. I saw that other people were able to conduct negotiations to purchase shopping bags, but I could not remember the word for “bag.”

“Can I have a box that is not a box,” I said.

The checkout lady looked extremely tired and said, “Un sac?” (A sack?)

Of course. A fucking sack. And so I did get a sack.

[kat2107]

I once was at a German-American Church youth camp for two weeks and predictably, we spoke a whole lot of English. 

When I phoned my mom during week two I tried to tell her that it was a bit cold in the sleeping bag at night. I stumbled around the word in German because for the love of god, I could remember the Germwn word for sleeping bag.

“Yeah so, it’s like a bag you sleep in at night?”

“And my mother must probably have thought I lost my mind. She just sighed and was like ‘So, a Schlafsack, yes?”

Which is LITERALLY Sleeping sac … The German word is a basically a one on one translation of the English word and I just… I failed it. At my mother tongue. BIG

[eridaniepsilon]

My former boss is Italian and she ended up working in a lab where the common language was English. She once saw an insect running through the lab and she went to tell her colleagues. She remembered it was the name of a famous English band so she barged in the office yelling there was a rolling stone in the lab…

[backonrepeat]

I’m Spanish and have been living in the UK for a while now. I recently changed jobs and moved to a new office which is lost somewhere in the Midlands’ countryside. It’s a pretty quaint location, surrounded by forest on pretty much all sides, and with nice grounds… full of pheasants. I was pretty shocked when I drove in and saw a fucking pheasant strolling across the road. Calm as you please.

That afternoon I met up with some friends and was talking about the new job, and the new office, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the English word for pheasants. So I basically ended up bragging to my friends about “the very fancy chickens” we had outside the office.

Best thing is, everyone understood what I meant.

[eridaniepsilon]

I love those stories so much…

[acleverforgery]

Picture a Jewish American girl whose grasp of the Hebrew language comes from 10+ years of immersion in Biblical and liturgical Hebrew, not the modern language. Some words are identical, while others have significantly evolved.

She gets to Israel and is riding a bus for the very first time.

American: כמה ממון זה? (”How much money?” but in rather archaic language)

Bus Driver: שתי זוזים. (”Two zuzim” – a currency that’s been out of circulation for millenia)

[learningftw]

that’s hilarious

[shiraglassman]

I am officially screamlaughing at my desk from that last one OH MY 

[speakertoyesterday]

Does everyone know the prime minister who promised to fuck the country?

So in Biblical Hebrew the word for penis and weapon are the same. There is a verb meaning to arm, which modern Hebrew semanticly drifted into “fuck”: i.e. give someone your dick.

The minister was making a speech while a candidate, bemoning the state of the world. “The Soviet Union is fucking Egypt. Germany is fucking Syria. The Americans are fucking everyone. But who is fucking us? When I am prime minister, I will ensure we are fucked!”

[andhishorse]

What the hell Biblical Hebrew.

[moral-autism]

Just guessing: The path from something like “give someone a blade” to “give someone a blade, if you know what I mean ;)” is probably not that difficult or unlikely.

[liminalreader]

^Given that the Latin word for sheath (like, for a sword) is literally “vagina”, I can verify that this metaphor is a time-honored one. 

[liminalreader]

Oh yeah and one time my Latin professor was at this conference in Greece and his flight was canceled, so he needed to extend his hotel stay by one more night.

Except he doesn’t speak a lick of modern Greek, and the receptionist couldn’t speak English.  Or French.  Or German.  Or Italian.  (He tried all of them.)

Finally, in a fit of inspiration, he went upstairs and got his copy of Medea in the original Greek (you know, the stuff separated from modern Greek by two and a half thousand years).  He found the passage where Medea begs Jason to let her stay for one more day, went downstairs, and read it to the receptionist.

She laughed her head off, but she gave him the extra night.  

[madenthusiasms]

Reblogged just for Medea

[localshortqueer]

@verysadbee

[lostboylovestory]

My cousin’s mother tongue is English, but she also speaks Spanish, French, and Arabic so you could say she’s pretty good with languages. She also has an extensive English vocabulary. She spent two years in Peru and spoke nothing but Spanish while she was there. For the first few hours after we picked her up from the airport, she was fine and used her crazy advanced vocabulary like she hadn’t left. But we were eating dinner and she was telling a story and said “There something on the…” she said something in Spanish. We’re like “Sorry Meg we don’t speak Spanish. She huffs and says “You know, the /thing/.” She points down and waves other hand in a flat plane. After her struggling like this for another 30 seconds my uncle is just like “Do you mean the ‘ground’, Meg?” She slammed her hand down on the table “YES!”

[shadeslayers]

(Bel)

I did a cover of the latest Taylor bop! 

Instrumental is not mine! Got it from here

[befearlessbeyou]

This is the BEST!! COVER!! EVER!!

@taylorswift you have to listen to this sister!

[thisismaetrying]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH???? @taylorswift

[dancing-chemist]

Last weekend will be held dearly for a long time. I'm still unpacking (literally and metaphorically) everything that happened. Thank you everyone who came to watch us! It is always so rewarding to share what we've been crafting. Thank you to everyone who made the recital possible. It is never to be taken for granted that we get to share our gifts and worship God through dance in the same place that we learn about and worship Him on Sundays. Thank you to all my lovely students, who never cease to amaze me with their hard work and how they show up even after a semester of their teacher being just a little more crazy. Every word you wrote will be treasured always. Thank you to my fellow dancers. That last week is always the hardest but we made it through, despite injuries, sickness, and a myriad of other unexpected problems. There is no other group of people I would rather go through that than with you. Thank you to all of my wonderful teachers, this year and in the past, who spent so much of their time and effort to make us look good and still point us to why we dance. Thank you especially to Carolyn and Devin. I hope you know how much you've shaped my life. And lastly, thank you Jesus for sustaining me this last year. Taking it one day at a time has never been a talent of mine, so thank you for walking me through that and for letting me be a part of something as special as this. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByWcyCflVnS/?igshid=o6whvp9zma9h

[kdx78]

[meredithdraper-deactivated20150]

Happy March 32nd, everyone!

[tshifty]

you can only reblog this once a year

[princesconsuela]

[tomhiddletson]

Pride & Prejudice (2005), dir. Joe Wright

[crimsonclad]

We don’t talk enough about how part of Jane falling for Bingley is that he thinks Elizabeth is DOPE AS SHIT and openly loves hanging out with her. Cute nice boy has taken Netherfield at last? Great! Cute nice boy who would legitimately be super stoked if Elizabeth ended up being a spinster aunt who lived with them and taught their children to embroider their cushions very ill indeed as long as she kept laying down sick burns? MARRIAGE MATERIAL.

Post-book Mr. Bingley is ALWAYS excited before parties where Elizabeth will be in attendance, because he knows she is going to make some very unexpected jokes and he will be in STITCHES and also in AWE and yay for loving and supporting at least one of your in-laws.

[geekybibliophile]

@zombeesknees

[ferociousqueak]

#i mean Bingley genuinely LIKES Darcy#they’re a classic combo of golden retriever and aloof dignified cat#so of course golden retriever Bingley is going to meet Elizabeth and go YES GOOD A NEW CAT FRIEND#DARCY COME MEET MY NEW CAT FRIEND#Darcy: HISSS#Elizabeth: HISSS#Bingley: SEE WE’RE FRIENDS

via @pagerunner

[accras]

A woodpecker hitched a ride on the side of this man’s car during a rainy day in Chicago.

[uniquely-khaotic-deactivated201]

Cute but I woulda lost it 😂

[lazysundrops]

Lmfaooooo the way the bird closed its eyes when he said “you’re beautiful” had me weak.

[smokingpixie]

I would have felt so blessed if was chilling on my arm

[ororomunroedontpullout]

*in a thick Chicago accent* “Welcome to Chicago”

[wherethereareoctobers]

If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?

[cineraria]

[no-the-fandoms-protested-deacti]

move your finger back and forth so it looks like the cat is following it

This is more entertaining than it should be.

[larryslove]

This is why I love Tumblr.

[kiddjmccann]

two hours later i click reblog

[bruve-blog]

five hours later i click reblog

[guactactical-deactivated2017040]

It’s more fun if you move a quarter of a second before the cat does so it looks like it has a shitty reaction time

[pro-crastinator14]

Wow…