Annoyingly Optimistic

I'm just a simple writer with an absurd sense of humor. Mostly writing and positive things here. She/her 

[j-k-i-ng]

“Untitled“ by | Karl Steinegger

[papayajuan2019]

[depsidase]

[ateazure]

"and the universe said i love you."

[forthegothicheroine]

The problem with saying "Frankenstein is about [X]" is the same as saying "Dracula is about [X]"- these books are not fables, they are novels. They do certainly draw from their author's lives and the cultural zeitgeist around them, so you could say Frankenstein is about:

Mary Shelley's birth killing her mother

Mary Shelley's own baby dying

Mary Shelley never really getting her father's love and respect

Mary Shelley's close friendship with Lord Byron, who had been exiled from society

Mary Shelley being exiled from society herself following her elopement

Mary Shelley "breaking up" a marriage where the wife later (but before the book's publication) killed herself

A bad dream

Erasmus Darwin's experiments

A holiday in a place with history about alchemists

A ghost story contest

All of those things were surely on Mary Shelley's mind when she wrote Frankenstein, consciously or unconsciously. The book is about all of these things, and also it's about an entirely fictional scenario.

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Countryside in Anhui province, China. (photos by 奶茶他爸.shawn, 白洋-Aries, 三山, 仲卿, 与石结缘, Annie小暖卢女士)

[puppygirllaika]

Instructor who gave U of Oklahoma student a zero on anti-trans paper removed from teaching

Graduate assistant Mel Curth found Samantha Fulnecky's paper unscientific and offensive in referring to trans people as "demonic."

They fired her.

The university also placed another teacher on leave for allowing her students to leave class to attend a protest in support the instructor.

[bonniebugsy]

Completely unrelated, but current students of OU are transferring out and alumni are wanting refunds for their tuition, since OU has made it abundantly clear that their degrees aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

[canary-prince]

If you call the university's main number and express polite confusion over the situation, they will transfer you to someone to talk to about it. So if you feel like playing Concerned Parent: 1-405-325-0311

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

And here’s the business of the mom who orchestrated this whole plan to get a trans woman fired from teaching, in case you want to let her customers know what a lying sack of shit she is

Fulnecky Law · 4.9★(69) · Attorney

2627 W Republic Rd Suite A-108, Springfield, MO 65807

[shamebats]

[ploobytumbls]

I would like to share the story of a very understandable but unfortunate mistake i made at work recently

So I'm weeding our ancient and terrible collection of children's books for the first time in possibly ever, and I'm making a decision about a book about migrant workers by Sandra Weiner, called Small Hands, Big Hands. And I'm not 100% sure and I go to just see if there's anything out there about this book's being notable in any way so I do an open web search for

"small hands big hands weiner"

And then I look at my results for a moment

and then at last I somberly add to the end of my search, "BOOK"

[chaostheorietblr]

I have one like that:

In mathematics, you often consider the two-dimensional plane - you know, the idealised flat two-dimensional object that extends infinitely - which can be real or complex (doesn't matter what that means)

On this, you can perform a mathematical operation called a "blow-up" (resulting in a more complicated geometry)

I needed to look up a formula related to this, so I confidently typed into the search bar:

"Blow up real plane"

The results were not what I wanted and I am not sure if I'm on a terror watchlist now.

[arithetonberry]

Three years of papercraft invertebrates for the Sea Unseen Zine! I usually do one big papercraft piece per year, I think I'm going to start the next one soon.

To help with some emergency costs, I am offering commissions now! Please message me for questions or details

[humanpeoplefanblog]

saw this amazing post but rbs got turned off so. get funged idiot

[nortism]

This remains, to me, the most poignant Les Misérables quote

[mewvore]

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[angelbabymikaa]

i’m looking for my spark again. if anyone’s seen her

[junglejim4322]

At the end of the day you have to understand some people are mentally ill like really really mentally ill on a level you can’t understand. I see this a lot when someone does something weird or incomprehensible and people are shocked trying to figure out their intentions and why they’d do it and it’s like there’s people who are psychotic or delusional or have rapid mood swings you’ll never be able to comprehend and very often people with other mental illnesses who are able to function more acceptably have a bad lack of understanding of that and compare what they can do and act like as the standard not understanding that’s not the same playing field

[junglejim4322]

People facing addiction, eating disorders, abuse, etc as well will do things you’ll never understand. Getting in the habit of not judging or at the very least not making the lives people who aren’t harming you worse, is actually, a pretty good thing to do

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“A little heartthrob”  The Canadian Goose and Vermilion Flycatcher