louise @louiseeana - Tumblr Blog

"teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable" - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

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mxjackparker

Sometimes homeless people will be off-putting and rude and demand more of your attention than you're comfortable giving. I promise you, if you had to deal with a fraction of what they do on a daily basis, you'd become off-putting too. Sit with your discomfort and direct your anger at the systems which made them homeless, not at the person in front of you who is struggling.

placeeee

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Albert Square, Manchester (1910) by Adolphe Valette | Contemporary Art (2015) by Emily Allchurch

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the top is an original, from 1910, the bottom is a new version painted in 2015

spacedouterri

THE BOTTOM IS A PAINTING????

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also does a really good job reminding the view just how much air quality has improved since we stopped burning coal in every building lol

aidashakur

with the right person, love actually feels like returning back home to yourself

wordfather

just found out that accidentally in love by counting crows was literally made for shrek. they didnt just choose it. it didnt exist before. they asked counting crows to make a song for shrek 2 and thats how we got one of the best songs ever made. insane.

wordfather

counting crows knew shrek 2 would become one of the best movies ever made and had to act accordingly

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jamjamthe3rd

it wild to me that there are people out there who aren't interested in history

like wdym you don't think about the fact that women would tell stories as they made butter in the same way we listen to podcasts today? wdym you don't think about that one Chinese poet who wrote about how much he loved his cats hundreds of years ago? wdym you don't think about the fact that we found a gravesite of a young child surrounded by flowers from THOUSANDS of years ago? wdym you don't think about how people wrote "i was here" into the walls in Pompeii? wdym you don't think about the little egyptian boy who drew little doodles at the top of his school works more then a thousand years ago?

wdym you don't think about the fact that people, no matter the place, time, or social status, are fundamentally no different from you. that they loved the same as you, enjoyed the same things you did, dreamed about a better life the same way you did. that despite how seemingly detached you are from these people, in time, place, and culture, the things you do and what u are is so undeniably human that it transcends time and space

coffee-n-converse

This is why I love history so much. It’s why I study it and want to tell the stories from it. I want to be able to say “see this person from so many years ago? This is their story. This is what they did or who they were” and have someone go “oh dang, they’re not that different from me.”

I think about that scene in Mulan when she picks up the doll in the snow and how, as a kid, my first thought was “hey, that little girl had a doll she loved just like I love my teddy bear.”

I know things were different father back in time. Of course they were. But so many people want to look at how they were different. I love the ways they were the same as us.