Generally Hysterical

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[generallyhysterical]

13 Reasons Why Not To Buy Into The Hype

I followed the flock. I am a sheep. I’m an angry sheep.

Any publicity is good publicity right? Representation absolutely matters and giving issues like suicide and sexual assault attention though mainstream media is vital. However, it should be done well. And by that I don’t mean quality of the writing or artistry. I mean in a way that is not harmful.

The media has often been accused of glamorising social issues and trivialising teenage concerns. This piece of media is deserving of that.

While individuals live very different lives and no account of mental health illness can compare to every other, the depiction of suicide in this programme is concerning considering the target audience. Suicide contagion is a real problem and presentations of suicide as beautifully tragic contribute to this.

I could go on for ages but I don’t have the time or patience to defend all my opinions so I just want to say this:

- They say that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem and they are kind of right. But the only thing suicide solves is life itself. Any problems that you can live through can be solved in other ways, but they cannot if you don’t believe they can be.

- People can feel suicidal for a variety of reasons, the main one being that they feel unable to live anymore. Very rarely is there one event or person or action that cause these feelings. And if someone kills themselves, they end their struggle but they cause pain to those they leave behind. This pain will be severely worsened if they try to work out who is to blame, when it is not fair to make anyone responsible for someone ending their life. People are too complicated to assign that kind of blame. 

- It is not possible to get through these kind of feelings without help. Talking to anyone, family, friend, professional, literally anyone at first. Organise your thoughts for yourself and if you still feel overwhelmed, the best thing you can do is get help. Because no matter what influences the feelings, they are in your head and you can’t run from that. 

If someone offers help, take it. If no one offers help, ask for it. Be open, be honest, be yourself. And make it so your ‘self’ feels worth living for.

[generallyhysterical]

Mad Men can BOGOF

My first post in a long time and my worst title, it’s hard to pun about advertising. Oh, by the way, this is about advertising.

Disclosure, I’ll mainly be talking about adverts traditionally aimed towards women and featuring women. Also, rather than a usual rant I’m going to compare how adverts are (reality) versus how they should be (better).

Chocolate adverts- 

Reality: Model sits in bizarre position on armchair, wearing large shirt and socks and not much else. Close up reveals perfect teeth biting through half the chocolate.

Better: Different shots of lots of different women, messy hair/clothes/makeup, reaching into fridge while clutching hot water bottles to womb

Perfume adverts-

Reality: Dark, sexy, usually whispered French voiceover

Better: Show woman getting ready for date, spraying perfume, montage of date, going home and hanging up coat and scarf. Woman leaves in morning and after door closes, date turns to see scarf, smells it and smiles.

Mascara adverts-

Reality: Model with ridiculous lashes

Better: Pretty much the same, just with large letters underneath reading “This model is wearing THREE separate pairs pf lashes, this mascara is good, but no mascara is THAT good”

Yoghurt adverts-

Reality: Women who are ridiculously excited by yoghurt

Better: No need for models or exotic locations, just a woman quietly enjoying a yoghurt the reasonable amount 

How obvious is it that I would want to make this into a satirical video, but I have no media skills?

[generallyhysterical]

Bisexuality

Do I want to be her or fuck her?

[generallyhysterical]

Why so serious?

Having experienced something, I just want to say this:

Your feelings are genuine.

It seems so simple? And yet people are always underestimating how others feel. "Look on the bright side". "It could be worse". "That happened to me and I am okay".

There are more specific examples, but the point is the same. Rather than try and provide a solution or motivation to get through it, sometimes the best thing to do is listen. Find out how they feel about it, to what extent, let them talk through it to get it sorted in their own head.

And to the people feeling in whatever way is causing distress, your feelings are legitimate. You might feel like you don't feel that bad. You may think that whatever is making you feel bad isn't enough to do so. You might imagine that people couldn't understand why you feel this way. But the feelings are still there.

Yes, you wouldn't have a panic attack about the thing that just happened, but I did. I can't calm down because you want me to. My feelings have nothing to do with being tired, or hungry, or hormones from my period. I just sometimes get upset and sometimes that upset is more than just that. 

Look after yourselves

[averageblackteen-deactivated201]

Reblog if Black Lives Matter to you

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gayngelofthelordlovesdean:

tangdynastie:

neesie09:

averageblackteen:

Where are those woke white people at!?

The amount of notes this doesn’t have bothers me…

Tumblr has 30-50 million active users. Why does this not even have 1 million notes?

I have over three thousand followers and so far only two reblogged this I’m disappointed

[hyliaschosenhero]

i have no explanation

[hyliaschosenhero]

[sparrf-blog]

i keep thinking about that tribe of baboons where all the alpha males died from eating poison garbage and then the baby boy monkeys were taken care of by the lady monkeys and never got socialized to be aggressive so they all just live peacefully and groom eachother instead of fighting and killing eachother and its been generations of that, it only took 1 wipeout of the aggressive males to change the whole social order of the species i am crying they must be so much happier

[theclassykindoftrasy]

……….I have an idea.

[chessys]

i love when ur lying on ur side and a little tear rolls out for no reason its so cinematic and on brand

[unpretty]

ways i have tricked people into thinking i am competent:

bought a really nice looking fountain pen

that sounds like a joke but fountain pens are cheap as shit and when you use one people look at you like you’re a fucking wizard

this hero 901 cost me $3 on ebay and i don’t know why people assume that this is a pen for intelligent people but they do

it works better when i am using a nice notebook and not the avengers notebook that makes it look like the hulk is grabbing my sweet pen

i write in code which for some reason leads everyone to assume that i am some kind of da vinci motherfucker, instead of the reality, which is that i am writing about dicks and don’t want anyone to know

it looks like i am constantly taking notes on everything which is both intimidating and inaccurate, just the way i like it

i bought a usb clicker/laser pointer for $11 and now it seems like i’ve got this shit on lock, like i am so pro at giving presentations i even own accessories

holding a clicker makes you seem at least 10% more like you know what you’re talking about i’m pretty sure

i check the weekly freebies on creativemarket every monday so now i have a huge folder of pro-looking website themes and powerpoint templates and fill-in-the-blank resumes (also a lot of autumnal clipart and watercolor flowers and script fonts but that is less relevant)

i bought a ceramic coffee mug at world market years ago and it makes me look like a productive coffee-drinker because no one knows it’s full of hot cocoa

i don’t know why drinking coffee makes you look busy it just does even though i’m pretty sure it statistically reduces productivity

bonus: not only does no one know i’m just drinking Depression Chocolate but they think i am being Environmentally Conscious rather than Poor As Shit

extra bonus: i can take a sip whenever it looks like someone is going to ask a question and then they ask someone else

i almost never have to answer questions and i leave the room a lot because i have to pee constantly so double extra bonus

“That’s a very good question, and one that deserves an in-depth answer, so if you’d like to leave me your card I’d be happy to discuss it with you later one-on-one” aka “how DARE you suggest i waste everyone’s time answering this question right now” aka “lmfao i have no fucking clue what you just said please let me secretly google that okay”

bonus: now it seems like you are a sophisticated grownup who assumes everyone has A Card and if they have to settle for writing their email on a scrap of paper you can feel smug about it even though in your heart you know that you are no better

i’ve got anxiety and poor impulse control and anxiety about my poor impulse control so i generally say jack shit about shit and this constant silence is often misinterpreted as aloof observation

no one knows that my air of mystery is actually a bad case of the shy and i am too shy to correct them so it works out

when i’m on my laptop and i don’t want anyone to notice how much i’m dicking around i turn the brightness way down so they can’t snoop without being obvious

at least one window of notepad++ with some random html page or css stylesheet in it makes randos assume you are some kind of genius doing some genius shit, unless they are CS major randos, in which case i guess find an intimidating looking excel spreadsheet and hope for the best

[rainbowcolouredshoes]

One day I hope I am the girl that walks into a room and all eyes are on her. 

[andthebluestblue]

The trick is to get a really big hat and then scream

[thatisnotahat]

[refinery29]

Watch: This awesome restaurant in Staten Island had the idea to employ grandmothers from all over the world to make its food

There’s nothing better than your grandma’s cooking…except maybe a bunch of grandmas’ cooking all in one restaurant. That’s exactly what Enoteca Maria in Staten Island, New York is offering.

Gifs: Gothamist

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[hoodjab]

YOOOOOOOOOOO

[thelighthouseguardian]

This is the best fucking idea. My heart is so full!

[w3bsites]

Flirting with boys: sarcastic, aloof, almost rolling my eyes, might kick their ass

Flirting with girls: too complimentary, slightly flustered, obviously trying

[winterbramble]

oh my god I’m crying with laughter. My idiot sons

[threemarshmallows]

everyone please look at my pidgeottos

[luvyourselfsomeesteem-deactivat]

Shoutout to the thick girls who are also thick in the arms and belly and everywhere else that isn’t considered as sexy.

[generallyhysterical]

Anxiety: THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!!

Me: What is too much?

Anxiety: THIS

Me: I am literally sitting at home doing nothing. My only obligation this evening is to take out the trash. Work went well today. What exactly is the problem????

Anxiety: EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING ALL AT ONCE

Me: But nothing is happening?

Anxiety: TOO MUCH

[heartsnmagic]