fall down seven times, get up eight

see you @ the movies

[officercrunchcontrol-deactivate]

BASED ON THE HEADCANON THAT TERU SEES MOB SHOUJO-FIED JUST LIKE HOW MOB SEES TSUBOMI SHOUJO-FIED (I think the first person I saw post this idea was @/ilovemobble on Twitter but I could be wrong)

[griefphemerate]

She lorem on my ipsum til I dolor

[thespoonisvictory]

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

[thespoonisvictory]

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

[jabberwockypie]

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

[quousque]

while everyone else was learning how to complete assignments and do homework and study for tests and make friends, I was off learning advanced math and english and all about quipus. and by the time I was like “wait SHIT how the fuck do I study and how do I make friends” I was an adult and I was already expected to know those things and no one was teaching “social skills you should have learned in kindergarten”

[sovietnam]

[tea-and-taiko]

Text box: “You’re ... an intriguing woman. Come with me (and join our company)!”

[spacejaming]

[stantler]

[osakaxkobe]

[monkeysaysficus]

Me making perfectly round meatballs

[forgamers]

[ink-the-artist]

new fursona just dropped

[ink-the-artist]

[lesbiantahani]

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

[ryebreadgf]

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

[homemade-ghosts]

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

[eugeniedanglars]

“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

[buttpoems]

[colinarmistead]

I think I’m addicted to making Giphy stickers

[ec-machlan]

Bro the Blue Eyes White Dragons are just his fucking dogs

[windmill-ghost]

I’ve seen people pass around the “hold up, I’m googlin’ something” image but it cropped out the part where he was googling “how many guys can one guy take”

[windmill-ghost]

this page, in isolation, is possibly the funniest thing i have seen in any manga

[fireflaked]

would zuko give the blue spirit a full pardon after the war is over or do you think he would mess with everyone and raise the bounty even higher

[janetfraisersmassivestrap]

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

my nephew, who is like 11 or 12, is playing “5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel”, which is exactly what it says on the tin, and I have never been more terrified of the youth of today

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

here’s a sample picture from the Steam page:

what the hell is this

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

[cute-overload]