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caduceus-tealeaf

Other players DMing

babyanimalgifs

Gotta be quicker than that

(via @hugoandursula)

chasekip

Honestly love how much thought was put into each and every pokemons walking animation

From slower pokemon like Slowpoke getting left behind to Porygon glitching out as it hovers along they all look exactly how I imagined them as a kid.

Say what you want about the game as a whole but I think we can all agree that following pokemon is great and deserves to be in every game

bixbiboom

If you won’t talk to your kids about Dungeons & Dragons… who will?

keybladesoras

#Okoye asking the real questions

orphayeus

music theory student rates clefs

bass clef: simple and very easy to draw. not hard to understand how music works in it at all. an easy clef to read and to write in. 10/10.

treble clef: equally as easy to understand the musical layout of this clef. first one i learned. however, trying to draw one is impossible. i know exacty what it is supposed to look like but i can’t replicate it for the life of me. fairly easy clef to read and to write in, at least if you’re using a computer or manuscript paper with pre-printed clefs, but if you’re writing manually, good luck trying to actuallu draw the clef. 8.5/10.

do clef: helpful when you don’t have a specific key. points to do. nice. 6/10.

rhythm clef: nice. simple. good for percussion or for laying out rhythms, but doesn’t do much else. fairly simple. not a bad clef. 4/10.

alto/tenor clef: what the fuck??? this clef is fairly easy to draw, just looks like a B. nice. but trying to read or write in this clef??? good luck fam! very confusing. how does it- what??? what the fuck?? no wonder it’s rarely used anymore. just. what the fuck. what the actual fuck. 0/10.

sopranoandthealtoclef

I WILL DEFEND ALTO CLEF WITH MY LIFE

theycallmeachemistrynerd

But middle c is literally in the middle of the staff! And the middle of the clef symbol points you to exactly where that is in case you’re still struggling to find it!

sopranoandthealtoclef

mordodirosa

i... alto clef... is a B?

#how the FUCK did i never see this

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baph0meat

im serious about that “stop saving things for special occasions” bit tho like. even if u aren’t in your 20s. thats for everyone. its one of the most useful things ive learned lately

stop! just stop. eat the special snack. drink the expensive hippie tea. use the incense or the bath bomb or whatever you paid way too much for because you were feeling really bad and retail therapy makes u feel alive

when we save things for special occasions/rainy days it contributes to us feeling like A.) our day to day existence is lackluster and B.) you have to be feeling a certain level of Bad, or have to reach a certain level of Socially Accepted Achievement, to enjoy things

just give yourself stuff. there are definitely sometimes reasons to withhold things from yourself - as motivation, if it’s something you consciously want to use sparingly, etc - but at least for me half the time it just turns into self-flagellation and also cool things and cool experiences and nice treats just collect dust while i wait for some fabled day when i convince myself i finally Deserve it

just fuckin give yourself stuff dude. life’s so mindblowingly short

voidbat

my grandmother died having only used her china like twice in her life. during the year or so before her death, she was starting to package up and give things of hers to her kids, and gave mom the china while sighing “oh i wish i had used the china more!” and mom tried so hard to convince her to just keep it, then, and eat corny dogs off it if she wanted. she insisted she couldn’t possibly, you need a special reason to use the fine china. when nana died, we used her fine china as our everyday dishes for years. i was 18 when she died, and never really stopped having that in the back of my head. now, when i hear myself say “i wish i had a reason to wear/do/eat/use X!” i hear nana regretting never really using her china. and let me tell you a thing: spaghettios taste great when eaten from fine china.

dear-miss-adair

I’ve seen this post making the rounds. Just wanted to add something to it that my sister-in-law once told me:

“A ‘special thing’ can make any occasion special.”

She told me this when I objected to her opening a really expensive bottle of champagne just to watch a movie. And you know, she was right. The champagne was amazing and while we always sit around and watch movies, that bottle made that night a really special occasion that I will always remember.

So, cut yourself a little slack and remember that an ordinary day can become special.

thisnameisquitequeer

My mother has always had a habit of buying what she calls “love gifts”. Essentially she would buy me my favorite snack or take me to get iced coffee or buy me fuzzy socks something like that

Her reason for that was simply because she thought of us at work and wanted to get something as a way of saying “I was thinking about you and I love you”

Now as a kid I just took the presents but when I got older I felt a little bad

She didn’t always buy something small, sometimes it was some new makeup or video games or something else that was more than just a few bucks

When I told her “hey mom it’s sweet that you do this, but you don’t have to go do this all the time. You can just wait until a special day or a special occasion”

She just looked at me and said “but Samantha, this is a love gift, and I love you every day not just the special ones”

And ever since she said that I haven’t objected again

the-half-elf-disaster

Matching icons from the moment for you and your besties

retrogamingblog

Pokeball Interiors made by Susan Lao

onlinecounsellingcollege

How to Help a Friend See they’re Not a Failure

1. Remind them of all the kind and thoughtful things they’ve done for you, and for the other people in their life.

2. Remind them of times when they’ve pushed ahead, and kept on going, even when it was hard.

3. Remind them of the times when things worked out eventually, and their efforts were rewarded, and they reached a personal goal.

4. Remind of the funny things they’ve said and done, and the times when you have laughed, and shared some happy memories.

5. Show them they are worthwhile and are valuable by doing something special that makes them feel they’re loved.

stimman3000

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the-myrna-loy-blog

Nora Charles would love this, with some whiskey.

lettingthewaterholdmedown-deact

Wooooow!

mordodirosa

@dckhaksar unless you can do this get the fuck out

jamesdean666

someone: hi

me: between 2009 and 2012 kesha satirised and parodied the archetype of the female pop star and the drunken party girl image. she has a 140 near genius IQ and studied psychology and comparative religion between recording her first album, the irreverent and heartwarming satirical masterpiece “Animal”. time after time she deconstructed the pop star image with a trash glam aesthetic that was authentic to her music taste and she frequently honoured her mother’s country rock/hippie mentality that informed her unique working class upbringing. “Rainbow” is a Butterly moment and the magnum opus of her career that honours her country rock beginnings and amplified the vulnerability of her songwriting. ‘Warrior’ is one of the most underrated pop albums of all time. she wrote every lyric to nearly all her songs and when you actually listen to the anecdotes in the verses of “TiK ToK” it’s clear she’s writing about real life experiences of parties in Nashville/California instead of just generic party song lyrics about being in the club. she really did brush her teeth with jack one morning in vegas, in this essay i will

#i love her too much not to reblog

arrowquillpokemon

game: has any kind of elemental based fighting system

me: apply pokemon logic

gluttonousgoddess

To be fair Pokemon element logic is rooted in normal logic.

arrowquillpokemon

yeah, everyone knows a wrestlers biggest weakness is the local pigeons

karnalesbian

go outside and try to suplex a bird

dolleyeresponse

tell me how bug resists fighting

karnalesbian

go outside and try to suplex a bug

overpricedvodka

Reasons why Millennials prefer e-mail to phone in a work environment:

1) We don’t want to talk to you.

2) We don’t want to pause our music to talk to you.

3) We don’t even talk to each other on the phone — why would we want to talk to you?

But the biggest reason is A TRAIL. If I e-mail you back, you can see what was said in the future. You can’t tell me I forgot to tell you something because it’s right there. You can’t tell me I “never reached out” because we can both SEE it. I don’t have to trust your recollection.

And, in a group inbox, you can see who has been responded to. I got forwarded a voicemail from my supervisor (through e-mail! imagine that!) asking me to call some lady back for clarification. So I did, against my will of course…and she said somebody had called her yesterday.

Who? When? What did y’all talk about? Is follow-up necessary?

Phone calls back and forth only work in a workflow where the standard procedure is to *log* phone calls in a shared system with a brief summary of what was discussed. Otherwise, y’all need to let us e-mail. It’s not just about a generation gap. It’s also about efficiency.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Any feedback can be proffered via e-mail.

EDIT

Also: let’s keep it real – we multi-task better than you do. If I’m on the phone with you, I’m FORCED to do that ONE thing and put whatever you want above all the other things I could’ve been doing. If you e-mail me, I can research what you want (while doing other things), find the solution (while doing other things), and offer it to you in a nice concise package (while doing other things) without sitting on the phone with you in awkward silence looking for the answer to whatever you think is urgent. (It’s not urgent. You’re not dying. I know it’s not urgent.)