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I think I need to start dedicating a time for social media.

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Meeting new people

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This was drawn a while back, but incidentally, I’ve found the latest Ace Attorney at the library last week.

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Points

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Let’s get started.

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Now on Tumblr!

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Motivational Puss Poster for your week.

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I want fish

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For Mouna

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Ria Ackerly 

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[bastille]

its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager 

[phantasmsystem]

oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.

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Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!

[scottandhiskind]

Fun story my biology professor just told us:  When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker.  He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader.  

One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left.  Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him.  He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.

His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001.  Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree.  He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class.  He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.

So don’t let anyone tell you that you’re future is based on your choices as a teenager.

[geekyangie]

Seriously.  Do not believe this.  You aren’t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s.  I didn’t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday.  It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s.  My husband has a political science degree, and he’s a sports journalist.

You are not tied to anything.  Go.  Be.

[roane72]

My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.

Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer–because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn’t actually figure out what I “wanted to do when I grew up” until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40. 

There is always time to change. And don’t let anyone tell you that high school is “the best time of your life” either, because that’s bullshit too.

[elvenclub]

Reblogging for my followers. My high school teachers didn’t know what to do with me, and I failed everything but a low photography grade. I thought university wasn’t for me, and settled for marrying a mediocre man who spent all day on Warcraft. Then I went to community college. Now I’m in uni doing a double English and philosophy degree, just back from America. I am also single.

[raeseddon]

Also important: College is not the only option. Don’t let anyone try to tell you it is. If you’re not academically inclined, the trades are an option and they are a good option– if the only thing you think you’re good at is make-up do that. There are people who can live comfortably just doing make-up. We have this idea planted in our heads as teenagers (and younger) that not fitting into an academic mould of some sort means you’re failing at life and this is bullshit. There’s no reason to feel like you’re “failing at life” because you don’t like school or were never good at it. We need skilled workers in the world, and the thing they don’t tell you is all work is skilled work. If it’s work, it takes skill. Yes, this encompasses “service” jobs, it encompasses all jobs. Please don’t think that what you do, or what you have an interest in doing is of less value than something that requires a college education. This coming from the college-educated white girl who is a seamstress because it’s what I enjoy. If college isn’t going to get you where you want to go, than you don’t need to go! It’s that simple. Take whatever path you need to get to where you are happy and comfortable and fufilled. If you’re doing what you love you are sucessful.

[beanarie]

i didn’t graduate with my bachelor’s until i was 26 and life took a few turns along the way but now, at 37, i have a job that makes me genuinely happy. and it’s got nothing to do with how well i did in high school.

[foreveramedley]

This! This make me cry… I’m 23 and I really don’t know where I’m going, so reading this kinds of storys makes me feel hope!

[videodromefag]

I love all this support and inspiring stories, but what I think op was getting at was that our teachers/parents/elders ingrain this idea in us that if we fuck up in our teens, we fuck up everything. So don’t ever let adults make you feel less for needing/spending more time to achieve your goals. You’re still amazing if you get a degree at 24 or 44 or even not at all

[studypetals]

for everyone needing this as much as i do right now

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exactly what i needed??? aaAAAAH

[jenni41]

The best lessons often come from mistakes.

One of the worse things about the education system where I live is we don’t let children fail any more and then fling them into the world without coping mechanisms.

Your teenage years are when you should be taking risks and making mistakes.

[jenroses]

I was a national merit scholar in high school and dropped out of college at 21 to have a baby and I’ve done some amazing things in my life that gained me a lot of recognition and zero of them had to do with being a national merit scholar, in fact, I’d argue that dropping out to have a kid put me more on the road to the things I spent my adult life getting recognition for than anything I did in high school.

And no, I’m not saying, “get knocked up and drop out, it will be fine!” 

But I am saying that the great lie of “everything you do as a teenager Matters” is super harmful. I was a welfare parent for 3 years, and 15 years or so later had an award named after me. I spent the time between them being a graphic designer and editor (despite never having taken part in anything related to graphic design or journalism once in high school or college… and I was good at it) and doing childbirth education, labor support and breastfeeding advocacy, as well as a lot of parent education. None of which were part of anything I did as a teenager. At one point I helped create two international organizations and I ran the first ever international conference in that field, mostly to prove that it could and should be done. 

What did I study so hard in school? Well, I took AP lit, calculus, French, and as many different types of science classes as I had time for. Choir, sociology… I did not take business classes, journalism, art classes, or whatnot because I was hyperfocused on an intense academic track, mostly because I had a great math teacher and it was the first time school wasn’t mind numbingly dull. 

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Mapping the rest of this chapter out, we’re now looking at 26 pages. 

...so much for the initial 18 page plan.

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A Get to Know Meme.  Get it???

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Hey Tumblr, it’s been a while. How have things been?

Once upon a time, a dear friend asked for Nami as Seras Victoria. 

I hope this finds you.