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I SHOULD BE SEEING THIS ON MY DASH LIKE 5 TIMES A DAY NOW COME ON WHERE YALL AT
I will stop after Christmas
I wonât
do you have any tips for handling existential despair? there's about a 60% chance that when I leave my bedroom, I'll hear my grandfather listening to the news, and his quite frankly insensitive commentary on it, and I'm just so tired. my parents aren't nearly as bad but my grandfather will never stop even if I ask him to. even if you don't have any advice, a digital hug would be nice?
*offers hugs* Iâm sorry youâre dealing with this, this is something I also had to put up with a lot growing up, and is one of the main reasons I tend to walk around with headphones in all the time, because if I was listening to music or an audio book, I didnât have to hear my dad yelling at the news, or my mum yelling at my dad for yelling. (Usually followed by my brother yelling shUT UP from the next room and slamming the door shut.)
Itâs still something that can and will upset me, even now as an adult, years after having moved out. If I am at home and my dad kicks off at the news, I wind up walking out the room and either retreating to another part of the house, or going out entirely just to have peace from it until I calm down.
Some helpful tips my therapist has given me in the last year for dealing with this kind of emotional trigger, is to take the focus away from the person causing it, and to focus on what my own body is doing in response to the negative stimuli.
Is my breathing too fast? I should find a quiet space to calm it down. Focus on steadying my breathing, in and out, nice and slowly. Am I clenching my fists? Shake them out. Am I hunching my shoulders? Roll them out and walk away.
How am I reacting mentally to this? What thoughts are going through my head? Do I think the person might hate me if I disagreed with them? (If so, is their approval really something worth having? Why do I want it?) Do I think others might hate me because of XYZ reason? Find another outlet for your emotions so that they donât bubble over into despair. Write them down, try to work out what exactly it is you feel when his news ranting starts. You can either keep or destroy the notes, whatever will help you feel better. Find another distraction, something productive, like cleaning, making your bed, going for a walk, let your body be busy while your mind works. Heck even finding a quiet place to scream into a pillow isnât unhealthy, what becomes unhealthy is when you bottle the emotions up or never move on from that emotional trigger response and get stuck in the despair loop.
I dunno if any of this will be helpful for you, but I hope that it is, and that you have some peace and quiet in your near future. Take care <3
Good advice as we all seem to struggle with news-related anxiety lately.
âSometimes I feel as though there are two meâs, one coating directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when heâs supposed to nod and says what heâs supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams⌠Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though Iâm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.â
â Lauren Oliver, Delirium (via books-n-quotes)
âAnd I want a moment to be real, Wanna touch things I donât feel, Wanna hold on and feel I belong.â
yo treasure planet was literally the best 2d disney film ever made like the setting? the colors? the flawless transition? the gorgeous world building? the three dimensional characters? a main character whoâs never pressured to get into anything remotely close to romance? complex relationships? an antagonist who has layers to his character? the soundtrack? i could go the FUCK on,
PLUS THIS SCENE?
AND THIS????
Weâre all just suckers for lonely heroes accidentally acquiring a dad.
the reason why this movie is so underrated is that disney released it almost side by side with the harry potter movie.
treasure planet was a very, very expensive movie that used novel cgi mixed with 2d drawing, took a lot of work and money to create, the script itself was amazing to work with, the characters had arcs and depths, and the story as a whole was compelling and never off.
i donât think anyone ever figured out why disney wanted it to flop, but the date of release was strictly suicidal for a movie. thatâs why it never got the attention it deserved.
This is my favorite Disney movie like for real I watched it like 10000 times as a little kid and even more when I got older. I love it
If you guys want a full understanding of just how underrated this movie is hereâs a video about all the cool shit that went into the movie
Yess I was trying to find this video!
and letâs not forget, good olâ John Silver didnât suddenly flip to some crazy evil Disney villain when they actually found the treasure, when it came down to it he threw away a good chunk of treasure he collected to be able to save Jim when the planet was self-destructing, and when they met again right before John left to avoid going to prison he not only left Jim morph to keep safe and to remember him by, but even gave him some of the gems he WAS able to take from the planet so that Jim would have enough money to rebuild his familyâs home and inn the Benbow Inn that Johnâs crew destroyed in the beginning
Honestly in all of these stories these poetic white men who somehow end up immortal get so bored and miserable because they just sit in their mansion all day doing whatever it is they need to do in order to sustain their immortality and then they just throw lavish parties and organize orgies or whatever and then theyâre like âwhy am I sad I eat three course meals and have at least one orgy daily what MORE could I POSSIBLY need??â
Like???? Damn go for a walk. Do you even KNOW your neighbors? Get a dog and take it to the park. Set up an elaborate fish tank. Go skiing like youâve been alive for 200 years and youâve spent 180 of it in your house looking at paintings and drinking wine with other rich assholes no wonder ur life sucks my man.
Buy a canoe.
this post was specifically targeting dorian grey.
why was this show cancelled
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t/n: The lunar zodiac year of the dog is 2018, lunar zodiac year of the boar will be 2019.
Oikawa and Kuroo are probably watching the TBS J-drama Unnatural (2018)
Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904
this is an extremely important picture
Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg
He has a nice face
No but the history behind this picture is really interesting
The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasnât that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.
It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.
But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people werenât exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and thatâs the pose he wanted to strike.
I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.
Hey, look; âMan Laughing Alone With Riceâ is back on my dash.
always reblog Happy Rice Guy. once upon a time, he really enjoyed his lunch, and thatâs beautiful.
#GrowingUpUgly When guys in middle school would get dared by their friends to ask you out and see if you say yes as a joke
How about growingupugly and then turning out sort of okay looking but you donât know for sure because your self esteem is shot and youâre convinced you look awful?
#GrowingUpUgly Being so wholly convinced of your hideousness that as an adult you now literally cannot even imagine that someone would pay you a compliment and mean it; the only conceivable thing that could be happening is that theyâre either a) taking the piss like the boys in school used to or b) so repulsed by you that they feel sorry for you and are telling you youâre pretty because they think you need to hear it.
I donât know if this helps, but Iâd like to say it anyway just in case it does.
None of you were ugly.
The other day I found a class picture from fourth grade and I looked everyone in it, and then I saw the âugly girlâ â the one people constantly harassed, whose desk kids would pretend was contaminated, the one kids would invent complex songs about just to voice their disgust toward her.
And she looked like a normal little girl.
She looked no different than the rest of the class.
She was never ugly. And I know that you may be thinking to yourself âbut I WAS uglyâ â I just want you to consider for a moment that maybe you werenât.
Maybe you were tormented by your peers for no reason except that they were experimenting with and learning the rules of callous human cruelty that would define the rest of their lives â and recognizing this, the adults who should have protected you, let it happen. Cruelty and social shaming â the foundations of how human beings police their society is learned and it is practiced.
Since Iâve become an adult, I donât recall ever seeing an âuglyâ kid. Kids are all just strange-looking works in progress that the artist seems to have abandoned intending to finish them later.
I want you to think about our racist and unhealthy âstandards of beautyâ. Are any of the things that society fixates on as âuglyâ truly ugly? No. We take things that are beautiful and we associate them with ugliness and badness and coarseness â to control them â to batter the will of the already oppressed down to the point where they think the abuse they receive is justified.
The children who demeaned you were learning to crush the human spirit to the point where the target internalizes all that hate and keeps hating themselves even when the bullies are no longer there. Those children were learning the sadism that defines our social hierarchy â we live in a culture where success is achieved through exploiting others.
No one deserves to be treated that way. LGBT children shouldnât grow up ashamed of themselves. Black children shouldnât grow up thinking white children are inherently prettier.
You were not ugly. You were told you were ugly so that people could have an âexcuseâ to target you, to ostracize you, to other you, and to abuse you.
An âugly childâ wouldnât know they were ugly until someone TOLD them they were. They donât grow up ugly, they grow up emotionally abused.
And still if you feel that you were the exception and you were objectively and unquestionably so ugly as a child that everyone noticed â even if you feel you are still that ugly nowâŚ
That doesnât mean you donât deserve love. It doesnât mean you wonât find love, and trust and happiness.
You are worthy of respect. You have worth. You have value.
And if the rest of the world doesnât seem to notice your worth â look at the evil and vile things the world does value and count yourself lucky not to be among that number.
There are people who will see your worth. There are people who will look at you and not see âuglinessâ â they will see a friend, a mentor, a hero and even, yes, a lover.
If no one else says it today, and even if you canât say it yourself, I would like to tell you that you are not ugly. That you were not ugly. That you did nothing wrong. That you did not deserve to be treated the way that you have been and that you deserve happiness and love and respect. And you will find it.
When Anne has a will, Anne hathaway.
I think we need to add her to the immortal list.
Confirmed. Likely a very modern one, due to her lack of period affectations. Sheâs just kicking this journey off and has plans for centuries.Â
Counterpoint, from @if-i-am-not-for-me, she was married to Shakespeare. Sheâs just pretty good at keeping up with things.
Further counterpoint,Â
Sheâs still married to Shakespeare
When Anne hath a Will, Anne HathawayÂ
I think a big part of why I read way more fanfiction than books is that thereâs just a hell of a lot less exposition
the first 10 pages of most books are always âthese are the main characters and hereâs some background on each of them and this is the setting etc etcâ and itâs such a fucking hassle getting to the plot sometimes
fanfic is just like âfuck it you know all of this already letâs goâ
Thatâs a really good point.
Same here but thereâs actually a point here of well written exposition. Take AUs for example. Even in the most complicated, as-far-removed-from-canon settings we get at most a single paragraph before the actual fic where the author gives us a quick rundown of the rules for that universe. The rest we are left to figure out on our own and it works. Weâre not spoon fed every trivial detail when all we want is to get to the plot. Everything thatâs important is said at the moment it is important, not sooner not later. Especially in long fics characters often take on such a unique characterisation that you get to know them all over again but the readers do so organically, in the situations that define those characters as they happen. Same with looks. The fic author generally assumes the readers know what the characters look like and donât spend paragraphs describing them, and only bring it up when it fits the plot. Iâve read a few fanfics from fandoms Iâve never been in and surprisingly it still worked out. I had generally a good idea of who these people were, what they did where and why and how they worked together. Point is, if youâre a writer writing original fiction, pretend itâs fanfic and everyone knows your setting and characters already. That way youâll only have to add a few details if and when your beta readers mention needing more information and chances are they wonât need a lot.Â
Point is, if youâre a writer writing original fiction, pretend itâs fanfic and everyone knows your setting and characters already. That way youâll only have to add a few details if and when your beta readers mention needing more information and chances are they wonât need a lot.
Bolding this fantastic advice.Â
Funny thing is, I do this already but I have been told itâs the wrong way to go about original fiction??
Good to know thereâs people who think otherwise.
Let me introduce you to the Malazan Book of the Fallen in which exposition is âfuck you, guessâ
Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.
Like he will not be happy at all.
For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.
This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children werenât all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and itâs emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.
I will always reblog this.
I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.
This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.
Thereâs an experiment called âThe Ultimatum Gameâ. It goes something like this.
Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).
Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.
If Subject B accepts Subject Aâs offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.
The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.
And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.
Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.
So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other âsmall scaleâ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done.Â
In fact, the âuniversalâ result? Was an outlier.Â
And thatâs the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature⌠even things like optical illusions, just⌠arenât.
 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize.Â