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Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

quasi-normalcy

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

quasi-normalcy

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

quasi-normalcy

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

quasi-normalcy

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

thememedaddy

chucktaylorupset

(via hornedchick)

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.

bruciemilf

Part 1000th of Gotham twitter being unhinged

fruitgravies

running thru my head

prints • insta • twt

hunkydorybaby

rice and beans and cheese and avocados and tortillas and cinnamon and vanilla and cocoa and coffee and bananas and corn and

langernameohnebedeutung

the 'how big is your english vocabulary' test dropped new ship dynamics

fullmetalfisting

Tbh germ theory DOES sound crazy. Like if you told a regency-era nobleman that tiny creatures lived on the surface of everything and THAT’S what causes consumption, they’d be like “ah, I see you are a lunatic. Would you reside in my hermitage? Rantings and ravings do so amuse my guests”

mysteryteacup

But if you told a Medieval person this they would probably go "Ah, so when the miasma settles on surfaces it gains evil life. I understand."

alarajrogers

Yeah, actually, it would probably be pretty easy to explain germ theory to a Medieval person as tiny evil spirits that live on everything, but they can be purified by soap and water, or by alcohol, because that is why God has granted us those things. And because they can float in the air, if you cough or sneeze after they have infested you, that can cause them to infest others. And when you are sick, the angels God has deputized to defend the bodies of His beloved children are at war with the evil spirits, and, sadly, sometimes they lose, but the best way to help your angels win their battle is to rest, drink plenty (this would probably be small beer in this time period, not water, because the water was also infested), stay clean, and for the sake of God do not allow anyone to let your blood, for the angels need that blood in their war against the evil spirits. Bloodletting is good for some types of illnesses but not the kinds caused by the tiny evil spirits.

chekhovs-raygun

boiling as a sterilization measure is also easy to explain. water returns to the air when heated and it rises as steam back up to the floodgates of heaven; we know God created the world in seven days, He's not up there making more water every time it rains. it circulates. the returning of water to heaven also purifies the water of unclean and malign influences. you know wormy water from a muddy puddle will kill your kid. you know you wouldn't wade into a bog and have a slurp. water that remains in the low places of earth absorbs all that is unclean from our waste and it may also sponge up new diseases from hell, we're not totally sure about that one, but it seems likely. God set up the heavenly water cycle so that the earth's waters wouldn't totally fill up with gunk.

what does this have to do with boiling your surgical tools? well look, the boiling water releases bubbles of steam which carries the malign influences up to heaven. you boil a knife, you send all the miasmic particles off with the steam to heaven. if you rinse the knife off in a bucket the water isn't hot enough, the particles go into the water and then right back on to the knife. you gotta boil it to get the particles all the way away. how can a tool or rag or a bed have miasmic particles on it when you can't smell them? humans have a lousy sense of smell. look at your dog on the hunt. are there no rabbits in the woods just because you can't smell them? we know that miasma is carried on the air, and is what makes stench so dangerous, and we know that humans can't smell worth a damn compared to dogs cats horses etc. a dog can smell if a rat died in a corner of the room last week. you can't. do you think licking the spot where the rat died is going to go well for you? luckily, what humans lack in snout we make up for in brains. we have extra brains where our sniffers should have been. God set that up for a reason.

and why does a rinse with wine spirits work? man, look how fast alcohol evaporates. my guess is that because wine contains a lot more vice than water, it evaporates a whole lot faster, in sort of an equal and opposite way that a rock falls faster than a feather. if you want the miasmic particles to get off there FAST, you dunk it in something that's going back to heaven at a gallop.

what's up with honey? it just preserves things against corruption. doesn't clean them off. honey doesn't evaporate at all. probably because bees don't sin. it's not good for ridding a tool of particles-- it's sticky-- but fine for preserving anything you don't want to go to heaven OR hell. this is why you wash the wound with wine spirits or purified water FIRST, to sluice the miasma out, then slap the honey on AFTER. and boil the damn bandage, too. you wouldn't put a rotten door in a sound doorframe and expect it to keep out bandits, would you? cmon.

hauntedmestunningly

give me your eyes I need sunshine

animentality

booksandchainmail

#WHAT a fucking read of the manic pixie dream girl#I want this desperately actually???#perfect quirky enigmatic mystery girl who has all the traits you don't but long for#and lives life with extreme confidence and whimsy doing whatever she truly wants#and she's the future you can have!! she's here because she loves you! she wants you to be happy!#she hated being you so she knows how much you hate being yourself but she's here to prove to you#that there is a joy you can attain#there is a self you will love (tags via @aethersea)

midniter

here is the traffic

#mcr #danger days #killjoys

paranormal-taters

Has someone said this yet?

paranormal-taters

THAT PART.

paranormal-taters

And like!!!

There's no plausible in-universe excuse for what happened to Katniss. BUT THE CLARK KENT THING WOULD BE SO EASY TO FIX.

It would make SO much sense in-universe if Clark, at some point, trained himself out of his Kansan accent in order to be taken more seriously/not stand out as much once he moves to Metropolis and especially starts working for The Daily Planet, because that's something that real people especially with southern, midwestern, or Appalachian roots have to do to avoid academic and workplace discrimination in particular. But as far as I know, that has never been explored in any Superman canon. Which is a massive shame because it would make Clark's struggles with identity (being both an alien from Krypton and a homegrown farm boy) hit home even harder for a LOT of people.

springsgreenleaves

Hollywood discrimination is alive and well.

thunderwhenhepurrs

Let’s also note that Ma and Pa Kent are only ever given accents when they’re being portrayed as Simple People who can’t even use a cell phone correctly. 🙃

hotcupoteckla

I wonder if this is a hold over from the Red Kercheif war that was held in the 1920s- 1930s and got some laws put on the books against company towns.

thunderwhenhepurrs

Disclaimer - I’ve only read academia focused on tangential parts of this; most of my knowledge is from personal experience and anecdotal evidence from people I know. If I had to hazard a guess though, it’s a large mix of things, instances like that among them. Accents around the world have a tendency to have class connotations to them (see England’s regional accents for a good example), and the accents of “working class” people are often the most panned.

There’s also almost certainly racism involved on the American side of the house. It’s not a coincidence that AAVE and certain rural white accents have a lot of similarities. Also not a coincidence that a lot of the accents with prejudice against then are spoken by Irish and Scottish descendants (see the ‘dog needs fed’ versus ‘dog needs to be fed’ lingusitic quirk). I’m willing to bet lines can be drawn between Mexican communities that were heavy into cattle driving and current rural accents in farm country today.

Add to this cocktail that many rural communities are incredibly isolated (the vast majority do not have internet access and limited cellular service), and isolated communities develop linguistically on their own, and then stereotypes further fueled by poor educational systems, predatory politicians, rigid religious structure, and systemic poverty — it becomes an intersectional mess of prejudices all connected to the simple way someone talks.