×mari

Have you seen Hoseok’s dimples 🥺

[funnytwittertweets]

[somethinginthestatic]

remember when halsey badlands was like thee music of all time and listening to it felt like being some kind of god in a really vibrant sexy urban fantasy novel or was that just me

[dankmemeuniversity]

[moonybyte]

Sanyo ICC-0081 "Mini Calculator": You can carry a calculator with you now, you never have to make big math in your head ever again!

Math teachers: We will multiply 14,762 times 2,853,654 among others in this test, no calculators allowed

Sanyo ICC-0081 "Mini Calculator":

[tracing-rivers]

Linguists throughout the ages: We have spent lifetimes gathering the significations of words and phrases in various language so everyone can appreciate them as well as possible.

Language teachers: Translate this text, no dictionaries allowed.

Linguists:

[drtanner]

Literally thousands of artists, engineers and scientists over the years: Look at all of these awesome tools we made to help artists make more art more quickly and more easily! Now art is much more accessible to everyone!

Art snobs: If you use anything more than a pencil and ink and these specific paints and brushes you’re cheating and not a real artist. Especially if you draw digitally. That’s double cheating.  

Artists, engineers and scientists:

[rohirric-hunter]

I was always told in math class that I wouldn't be able to carry a calculator with me everywhere I went.

I'm writing this from my smartphone.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

Fuck all my math teachers from 2000-2010 who said this

[priboltao]

You know what I always remember?

That post where someone said that the most broken thing ab the current education system is how we are conditioned to work alone and never look for help. This person was telling how they held a seminar for people in a company and there was a task like, to test what hey remembered, and everyone sat in silence and alone until this person was like “uh... you guys realize you can ask for help and consult the material right?”

And like, it’s so dumb. When you’re in a work place, you can do these things. You can (and sometimes must) work with others. You can refer back to manuals and materials, you don’t have to memorize everything and work by yourself.

The education system is dumb as fuck.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

👏👏👏

[emeraldmercury]

Don’t forget IT majors who are forced to use NOTEPAD or even MS-DOS to program during tests because all the modern IDEs have autocorrect features and drop down menus to help you with your syntax and for header files.

Bitch nobody in the IT industry memorises syntaxes, everyone goes to Stack Overflow for reference even experienced engineers. Why are we forced to mug up this stuff and not actually learn how to think like a programmer?

[joaniam]

Tho some of these, like the language teacher making people do their own translations? Are a part of learning the thing. Sure, Gothe has been translated to English, but how is reading an English version of Gothe gonna help me learn German?

[haveievermentioned]

I've done translations but we should still have dictionaries.

Also doing my own translations means I translated the Iliad's opening as "of wars, I speak, and of men" and not "I speak of wars and men" and I like mine better.

[rebornghostgirl]

Even my genetics professor has the animo acids chart next to his desk...

[rivkahstudies]

It’s almost as if humans have evolved with fantastic capacities for communication and collaboration... and yet some of our societies decide to ignore all of that in favor of unnecessary cutthroat competition.

[runnily]

[amorverde]

me accepting compliments

“omg thank you”

“aw thank you”

“omg ily”

“ily omg”

“aw thank you omg ily”

[merlinoutofcontext]

[pennybxnce]

writing playlist: on

google docs: open

mind: ready

[ionlywantosleep]

Page: Blank

[solarmorrigan]

So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes

Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”

To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil

There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”

Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

[loveharuokumura]

Back in my 10th grade we did a similar things around Lord of the Flies, where we had a test scheduled for that day, and when we walked in, the teacher took role by looking through the window of the door and never entered the classroom. On the board were three tasks written and the teacher had brought in donuts. At first we all sat around and waited for the teacher to come in, but eventually we just started tackling the list of tasks. Task 1- the test. Everybody took it silently, no one cheated, everyone turned it in and we went on to Task Two: tidy up the room. So we did, we split into a couple groups and each one cleaned an area of the room. Task Three: Hand out the donuts. There were 12 donuts, and 30 of us. So we split the donuts into thirds, each took a third, and left the extras for the teacher. After this, the teacher came in absolutely FUMING. She was so upset we had followed all the rules and completed the tasks. Apparently she had been texting kids telling them to start some chaos but they all ignored it because they were too nice. She tried to dock our grades for not going absolutely wild because it meant her class didn’t get the point across

[hookedonafeeeling]

That’s because lord of the flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads

[thesevenumbrellas]

I feel like people forget that Lord of the flies is fucking made up and not an actual experiment

[kieletlanguage]

the most awkward part of learning a language is when you are able to understand a sentence but you have no idea how to make that sentence

[lobotomycase]

Me: *watches any movie/TV show that has gay subtext*

Me, while watching it: nah, it’s not gay. I’m probably just imagining it

Also me: *goes on tumblr as soon as it’s finished to see if anyone else thought it was gay*

[fluffygif]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[namkooks-deactivated20210523]

me too jimin

[alphalewolf]

[brolinmerthurendlesslove]

#ugh #he’s saying thank you for choosing me even though i know how much your father means to you #and i will love you and protect you forever and always don’t you worry #you were the only one for me and i wouldn’t have it any other way #all with the look in his eyes (via magikalk)

[akingandhiswarlock]

Now that I’m watching their faces on repeat, I’m realizing what their looks really mean in this moment.

I have no doubt that Arthur protected Merlin from Uther more than once while he was alive; Uther handed out punishments like candy to anyone less than a knight, and we all know Merlin often made mistakes because he’s The Worst Manservant Ever. Even so, I don’t think it ever occurred to Arthur that Uther would kill Merlin for anything. Earlier he asked Merlin why Uther’s ghost would have tried to kill Guinevere, when “he knows how much I love her.” I think he thought the same thing about Merlin. Uther had seen the bond between his son and Merlin a lot more than he’d seen Arthur and Gwen’s love. It was obvious to everyone in the castle how much Merlin and Arthur cared about each other. I think it’s breaking Arthur’s heart right here to realize that Uther really did care more about his legacy than about how Arthur would feel if Merlin, his best friend and closest companion, were to die, when Uther knew the unspoken love his son had for Merlin.

And Merlin, just like it says in the tags above, is realizing that Arthur really will put him first when it comes down to it. Arthur didn’t hesitate to send Uther back–didn’t try reasoning or talking to him like he had before. Arthur blew the horn without even stopping to let him finish his sentence, because once his father tried to kill Merlin, he was done with him for good. I think Merlin is seeing, once again, how worthy Arthur is of his love–how brave and strong his king must be to stand up to his father like that, when he’d spent all of his life respecting and fearing Uther. He’s relieved that he was saved and his magic wasn’t found out, but he’s also just so proud and loving Arthur more than ever.

Merlin and Arthur is literally just the best love story ever.

[pseudoparenchyma]

every merlin episode ever

evil sorcerer: performs evil magic

evil sorcerer: KASSGFG ERASTYV VUHGITHY UTHER PENDRAGON

evil sorcerer: maniacal laugh

*****

arthur: omg merlin ur the worst servant ever

merlin: ur fat

arthur: go clean the horse shit off my boots asshole

gaius: long day?

merlin: how come no1 appreciates me

gaius: wow sorry ur life's so fucking hard

merlin: wut

gaius: eat ur porridge

merlin:

random knight: uther requests ur presence immediately

******

uther: omg gaius this thing just gave eleventy eight knights a disease

uther: they r dying

uther: wats going on

gaius: well there's this legend of magic things doing this

uther:

gaius:

uther: lol the thats the dumbest shit i ever heard ur really stupid

gaius: no for realz

uther: omg

uther: not my division u go arthur

arthur: but pops

uther: did i fucking stutter

arthur: ok nvm

*********

merlin: arthur this is a fucking bad idea

arthur: i luv my daddy he said it was good so it is

merlin: no

arthur:

merlin:

arthur: whatevs im taking u with me

merlin: wut

arthur: ily

merlin: u2

arthur: wut

merlin: wut

***********

arthur: hmm this twig tells me something has been here

knight: my lord its a monster

arthur: oh shit

knights: throw swords

arthur: it must be magic cuz nothing works

merlin: asgdf tfhtrdf filyghgtktf *eyes glow gold*

monster: runs away

arthur: wut

knights: wut

merlin:

arthur: wow merlin ur a fuckin scaredy cat

arthur: its a good thing u have me

arthur: i saved ur life

*************

arthur: daddy ily but the thingy is still out there

uther: ur a fucking disappointment

arthur: i kno

uther: try again 2morro u coward

arthur: ok ily

uther: go away fatass

*************

gaius: so wut happened

merlin: my powers r not strong enuff

gaius: i believe in u

merlin: arthur called me a scaredy cat

gaius: no ur not

merlin: thank

****************

dragon: young warlock

merlin: hey gurl

dragon: how u been

merlin: ugh dont even get me started

dragon:

merlin:

dragon: well wtf do u want

merlin: how do i defeat this beast

dragon: idk

merlin: yes u do

dragon: u will understand when the time is ripe

merlin; what the fuck

dragon: 2 sides same coin

merlin: no he called me a scaredy cat

dragon: sometimes it lasts in luv but sometimes it hurts instead

merlin:

dragon:

merlin: fuck u

*****************

arthur: if i dont make it today merlin

merlin: yes

arthur: ....

merlin: wut is it my lord

arthur: ur not a scaredy cat ok

merlin: *blushes* ok

knights: um

arthur: omg its here look the monster

merlin: oh shit

knights and arthur: *hits monster with swords*

merlin: omg i hope arthur's ok

arthur: almost dies

merlin: fuck

merlin: ASDFGHVEVK WGFH TGN *eyes glow gold*

monster: *dies*

arthur:

merlin:

knights:

arthur: i did it

arthur: its a good thing i was here

arthur: to save merlin

arthur: i saved his life

arthur: ur still a scaredy cat merlin

merlin: fuck u

**************

uther: wow my son is so brave and dashing

arthur: i'd like to thank my knights and the academy

uther: wut a great prince amiright

merlin: fuck this shit

**************

gaius: im proud of u

merlin: thank

gaius: u still have to clean my leech tank haha

merlin: hahahahaha

gaius: hahahahaaaha

credits

[purehomicide]

Gwaine: Do you think I could fit fifteen marshmallows in my mouth?

Elyan: You’re a hazard to society.

Merlin: And a coward. Do twenty.

[vintage--lilacs]

Arthur Pendragon, King of Camelot memes