Opinionanted.

Reblogging what I want, when I want. Fandoms, liberal opinions, cats, pretty things. Whatever I like. Tree Hugger, Gryffinpuff, Writer, Chaser, Student. She/her. Enjoy!

[crazywriting]

Help a student please!!!!

Hello!

I’m currently working on my senior paper which I need to finally graduate, and I would love you forever if I could get some help right now.

So the project is about everyday language use in Tumblr, and I study the use of things such as “idk”, “plz”, and other things.

What I need is to know whether you are a native English speaker (preferably from the UK and Australia, since I already have enough from the USA) that usually makes comments on other people’s posts, or make original text posts; and if you’d let me use them in my study (I will only register the amount of times in which a linguistic variation occurs over a determinate amount of time, nothing else).

SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE like this or message me if you are, and share if you’re not. PLEEEEEEASSSEEEE!!!

[pervocracy]

child handling for the childless nurse

My current job has me working with children, which is kind of a weird shock after years in environments where a “young” patient is 40 years old.  Here’s my impressions so far:

Birth - 1 year: Essentially a small cute animal.  Handle accordingly; gently and affectionately, but relying heavily on the caregivers and with no real expectation of cooperation.

Age 1 - 2: Hates you.  Hates you so much.  You can smile, you can coo, you can attempt to soothe; they hate you anyway, because you’re a stranger and you’re scary and you’re touching them.  There’s no winning this so just get it over with as quickly and non-traumatically as possible.

Age 3 - 5: Nervous around medical things, but possible to soothe.  Easily upset, but also easily distracted from the thing that upset them.  Smartphone cartoons and “who wants a sticker?!!?!?” are key management techniques.

Age 6 - 10: Really cool, actually.  I did not realize kids were this cool.  Around this age they tend to be fairly outgoing, and super curious and eager to learn.  Absolutely do not babytalk; instead, flatter them with how grown-up they are, teach them some Fun Gross Medical Facts, and introduce potentially frightening experiences with “hey, you want to see something really cool?”

Age 11 - 14: Extremely variable.  Can be very childish or very mature, or rapidly switch from one mode to the other.  At this point you can almost treat them as an adult, just… a really sensitive and unpredictable adult.  Do not, under any circumstances, offer stickers.  (But they might grab one out of the bin anyway.)

Age 15 - 18: Basically an adult with severely limited life experience.  Treat as an adult who needs a little extra education with their care.  Keep parents out of the room as much as possible, unless the kid wants them there.  At this point you can go ahead and offer stickers again, because they’ll probably think it’s funny.  And they’ll want one.  Deep down, everyone wants a sticker.

[marcvscicero]

writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page 

[fencer-x]

I came out here, to this point, to this place, hoping against all hope and despite signs and portends suggesting otherwise that I might, somehow, find myself having a pleasant experience, and yet here I stand, alone against the world, feeling assaulted, attacked on all fronts, knowing not my enemy’s name nor his face nor whether our battle is done.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

….is that “I came here to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now” but by Oscar Wilde

[winterinthetardis]

SO APPARENTLY MY ENTIRE LIFE IS A LIE HOW HAS YOUR GUYS’ NIGHT BEEN

[jumpingjacktrash]

i’m sorry to laugh at you but this is adorable and hilarious

[yayfeminism]

A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.

Wow.

[sardonicblisters]

these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.

[imamisfittoy]

^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal

[babyanimalgifs]

[jesusdontdoshit]

I’ll always reboot this. I think it’s hilarious.

[princess-kileyy]

I just had a straight guy tell me “Gah I love lesbians” and before I could even say anything, he added, “because, ya know, they like the same thing I do and sometimes it’s nice to get advice from a girl instead of guys who think making love is just repeatedly putting your dick in something, ya know?” And I have never been more proud of the human race.

[garbagebagger-deactivated201503]

i was very mad and then i wasn’t 

[ofyourshadow-blog]

[just-sly]

Re-blogging ‘cause I think everyone could use this at one point in there life or another.

[carnival-toys]

it should be socially acceptable for everyone to bring stuffed animals with them wherever they want tbh

[theroguefeminist]

Disaster in California

I don’t know if people are aware, but the wildfires in California have been declared a state of emergency. There are 15 fires that started around the same time Monday, October 9th and have been blazing ever since burning through over 100,000 acres. Many are 0% contained or in the small percentages of containment, which means they are actively spreading. Death toll is at 23, but that number keeps rising, and hundreds are missing.

Hundreds of homes have burned down, and thousands of people have evacuated. In some places, communication has been spotty or down, making it harder for loved ones to stay in contact. Many places, even those not directly affected by the fires, are recording the worst air quality ever recorded in northern California. People are homeless or without food in some places.

I encourage everyone to donate if they can or at the very least spread the word.. These fires are being dubbed one of the worst disasters in California’s history, but there’s not a whole lot of awareness like there was with the hurricanes. This whole thing has been so upsetting and demoralizing for me as a Californian–I have loved ones near the fires; they’re safe, but it’s scary. This is a resource page for people who want to help and those who need help.

[theroguefeminist]

Updates: There are 21 fires now. Almost 200,000 acres have been affected. More than 20,000 people have been evacuated. 3,500 buildings have burned down. Almost 50,000 people are without power. Over 600 people missing in Sonoma County alone. Whole neighborhoods have been destroyed. This is a picture of a neighborhood in Santa Rosa, a city with over 150,000 people. 

Nothing left in this neighborhood–the fire leveled almost all buildings.

Source.

Another link for things you can do to help.

[sage-hendricks]

At least 2 friends of mine lost everything they own. I mean everything. One of them was on vacation with their whole family, the other was at work when they started and her house was one of the first to burn in Sonoma county. If you can help, please do.

[flowerfeminism]

So I was notified via email that in order to vote in the 2018 primaries, I had to register my party affiliation, in my home state….by OCY 13TH

Holy shit guys. Please find out ur state’s voting rules and OH MY GOD PLEASE DO IT BEFORE TIME RUNS OUT. WE HAVE TO BEAT THE CONSERVATIVES IF WE WANT TO HAVE ANY MEANS OF OPPOSING TRUMP.

Voting abroad should still be similar to ur state’s rules, please….google is ur friend.

Holy shit please take ten min to google what to do and register.

[grownupgeekgirl]

To vote in the 2017 Virginia elections, you have to register and have your info up-to-date by October 16, 2017.

You want to make a difference? You vote in off years. Non-presidential elections. And you vote on all of the elections. It will take you a few minutes on your state board of elections website to figure out the issues, candidates, and where to get the info.

VOTE. Please.

[diebrarian]

And this year in Virginia, it’s a big election. Our governor cannot run again for reelection, and we’re up against a scary ‘I was Trump before Trump was Trump’ republican and a more insidious, Pence-style republican. You want people to stand up to Trump and create laws that support the local population? This is it. This is when it matters.

Vote.

[mikkeneko]

Here’s how to check which district you’re in and who your rep is.

Here’s how to find out if you’re registered.

Here are the deadlines for when to register.

Here’s how to register, if it turns out you’re not.

Here’s how to find local polling places.

Tag it with “voting reference” and you’ll always be able to find it again.

[shiraglassman]

Richard Spencer is coming to my town next week. Please don’t sit on this, y'all.

[this-isnt-my-bra]

Once my friend Henry was accused of wearing wireless headphones by a substitute so she said for him to hand them over so he took them off and handed them to her. Then later on she asked him a question and he didn’t respond so she said it louder and he still didn’t respond. She asked why he was not responding and he said “I can’t understand you ma'am, you took my hearing aids.”

[lolodapsycho-deactivated2017030]

HOLY SHIT

[mamoru]

one time we had a sub that was handing back papers and called my name. I asked if someone could grab it for me and she started mocking me for not even standing up. taunting me asking why I was not walking up to the front to get the paper myself.

my classmates went dead silent and after the sub’s laughter ended someone informed her that the wheelchair parked nearby belonged to me

[silver-rayn123-deactivated20181]

I had a sub in English once, on presentation day. And everyone goes up and does their thing, and then its my turn. The whole time im stuttering and mixing up my words, having to stop and re-say my sentences. The rest of the class is used to this and claps. However, by the time its over, the teacher is 100% done.

Starts saying horrible thing about how im going to have to get over my ‘fear of public speaking’ and how she’s heard 8 year olds give better presentations (plus worse things but I don’t really member them). By then im in tears and on the brink of a panic attack, and then she starts telling me off for crying The rest of the class is horrified. Then this boy stands up. He never been my friend and we never really got along, but he’d never bullied me. He told her in a pissed off, cold voice that in freshmen year I got a concussion and that I never really recovered from it, so all that was medical related and I couldn’t help it. Then he starts telling her off and the rest of the class joins him.   The teacher is mortified and tries to cover her ass, but the whole class walked out and that boy took me by the shoulders and we all walked to the principles office and told him what had happened. Lets just say she isn’t teaching anymore. Also, turns out that boy had a sister like me, who couldn’t really speak. We’ve been best friends for 8 years and i’ll be his best woman at his wedding next year.  The moral is that Teachers, even subs, and adults shouldn’t scold kids before knowing the whole story, because shit like that can fuck up kids self-esteem for the rest of their life. 

[quixylvre]

When I was thirteen, I had to have spinal surgery. When my doctor said I was allowed to attend school again, he said I had to use a wheelchair when on school grounds. My first day back at school, my special-ed teacher had put up a banner in her classroom that read, “There is no elevator to success. You must take the stairs.” I asked what that meant regarding my wheelchair, and she gave me detention for “disrespecting her authority”. The next week she gave us a homework assignment to design a poster that could potentially be used as a Public Service Advertisement. On the due-date, I handed this in.

My special-ed teacher was fucking OUTRAGED. She wanted me expelled for ridiculing her authority in front of the other students. The principal proclaimed my work to be “a masterpiece of satirical genius” and vetoed the special-ed teacher’s attempt to expel me.

[chaotic-carnifex]

Reblogging this post yet again, this time for the masterpiece of satirical genius. Hope the teacher got in trouble.

[brunhiddensmusings]

reblogging because apparently teachers have the same problem cops do- some people become one because they honestly want to make the world a better place, while others become one because they want to abuse authority over the helpless im lucky that most of my teachers were pretty good, but i can also remember a middle school math teacher who purposely drove me to cry in front of class so he could gloat over me not knowing something (dipshit, your job was to teach it to me) and the ‘special ed’ class they had was more of a lost and found bin that was barely addressed

[serhumfreysbrokencollarbone]

A concept: Hermione sending howlers to her kids on the Minister for Magic stationary. The letterhead and all official insignia become part of the soundblast. THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

LEVEL ONE THE MINISTER FOR MAGIC’S OFFICE

HUGO FREDERICK WEASLEY, YOU BEST HAVE A WHOLE PRESENTATION ABOUT EXACTLY HOW YOUR NAME WOUND UP IN THAT BLASTED GOBLET AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HOW IT CAME BACK OUT. INTERPRETIVE DANCE RECOMMENDED. HAS OUR FAMILY’S TRACK RECORD TAUGHT YOU ABSOLUTELY NOTHING? I AM SURE YOU ARE AWARE THAT THIS IS ONLY A VANGUARD OF A PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF YOURS TRULY.

TOURNAMENT NOR BINDING MAGICAL CONTRACT WILL HAVE TIME TO KILL YOU AS I’LL GET THERE FIRST. I AM SO CROSS. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MADAME HERMIONE JEAN GRANGER-WEASLEY, MINISTER FOR MAGIC, ORDER OF MERLIN FIRST CLASS, SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF WIX, GRAND SORCERESS

[serhumfreysbrokencollarbone]

Meanwhile, Ron:

WEASLEY’S WIZARD WHEEZES DIAGON ALLEY, LONDON

YOU DONE COCKED UP, KIDDO.

RONALD WEASLEY-GRANGER I’M VERY FAMOUS.

[justlookatthosesausages]

i can’t breathe because not only this is golden and totally canon but also Hermione’s signature is ridiculously long and scary like, I totally picture Ministry of Magic’s interns being terrified of her before any actual meeting

[steveharringtrn]

Season 2 deleted Scene.

[actualcanadianfemmesherlock-dea]

THIS IS PERFECT

[do-you-have-a-flag]

horse is my favourite companion

[winterpunk]

ARTHUR FOREVER.

[stealatimelord-blog]

Reblogging for him reciting companion rules to a horse.

[renegadeinquisition-deactivated]

I wish this wasn’t deleted lol it is perf

[captaindannylid]

THAT’S WHY HE WANTED TO KEEP THE HORSE

[fidough-fr-deactivated20221024]

[natureisthegreatestartist]

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

Sculptor/photographer Andy Goldsworthy

(via natureisthegreatestartist)

Agreed~

(via glasshalffullurbanfarm)

[thepersonalquotes]