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[ruinedchildhood]

[riverselkie-deactivated20190510]

i feel like there’s this huge unfulfilled niche in the Dark Academia thing (kill your darlings, the secret history, dead poets society etc) for stories about women???? like can we have rakish girls quoting sappho and anxious genius poet girls, bespectacled, frantically tapping away at typewriters? wild girls trying to start literary movements and being dragged down by their own hubris? innocent girls discovering love and sex and angela carter? cute girls in 60s looking school uniforms investigating ~mysterious happenings~? going to class the next day hungover and exchanging knowing glances? can we just have. the thing

[vajeentambourine]

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.

Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.

Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.

Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.

I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.

Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.

But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

[youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201]

Where do you live? What language did your great grand parents speak? What are you afraid of?

[apeaches]

youngbadmanbrown:

Reblog and add your answers in the tags

[silk101]

[geeksngamers]

Game of Thrones: Quotes of the Realm - Created by WeareYAWN

[jawghosts-deactivated20181205]

[zeeday]

i was trying to find the two pugs that featured in Desolation of Smaug so searched “pugs in The Hobbit” oh boy did i get more than i bargained for

[verycutegirl-deactivated2015070]

DOG WIZARD

[mamasam]

THAT’S WHAT PILBO PUGGINS HATES

[fuckyeahvikingsandcelts]

The Pug of the Rings

[allidoiswynn]

[rebeccayanovska]

The second piece in my Winged series — sequel to “Ascent of Man”.

This is “Descent of Man”

Ballpoint on Moleskine

15.5x10.5”

22K Gold Leaf & Shell Gold

[jennathings]

send help

[psyhces]

what Icarus imagined:

Apollo has a smile like the sun; lips soft and loving; the warmth that welcomes spring buds; beautiful, brilliant, bright;

tasting immortality; too little; golden ichor, golden everything;  the stuff of legends 

wings that are light; lifted up by life;

kind breezes caressing feathers;

a sky big enough for mortal dreams

what Icarus saw:

Apollo has a smile like the sun; teeth harsh and unforgiving; the heat that orders summer famines; burning, blazing, bright;

tasting immortality; too much; charred veins, charred everything; the stuff of fables

wings that are light; weighed down by wax;

cruel gales consuming feathers;

a sky too small for godly dreams

── hey icarus, was it worth the fall? | fio huang

[studenting]

APPS

All the apps listed are free to download (iOS). However, those that are not bolded offer in-app purchases and may require you to upgrade to premium or pay extra to access everything. Bolded = completely free.

Duolingo

Mango Languages

iTunes U (search “French” and browse courses)

WordReference (dictionary)

Quizlet (search for specific topics, such as “French Greetings”)

MosaLingua

Memrise

busuu

Learn French by MindSnacks

Learn French by Brainscape

Penyo Pal (made for kids)

activities and worksheets

Babbel (only one free lesson for each course)

FluentU

Conjugaison

Tigercards (go to “Course Bank” next to the “+” button)

French by Nemo

Radio France

Radios France (not the same as Radio France)

News in Slow French

WEBSITES

Some of these websites are not aesthetically pleasing, but they get the job done. 

Carnegie Mellon Elementary French I

Carnegie Mellon Elementary French II 

Français Interactif

Tex’s French Grammar

BBC French

Ma France

Lingvist

Livemocha

french.about.com

TV5Monde (click “Émissions” to watch TV shows in French)

Apprendre Le Français Avec TV5Monde

Talk in French

Beginner Level

Intermediate Level

Advanced Level

7 jours sur la planète (video news)

BrainPOP in French

Games for Language

The French Experiment 

Bonjour

Informal French and French Slang Tutorial

ielanguages.com

Language Guide

Polymath

MyLanguages

FrenchSpanishOnline

To Learn French

french-online.de

Enhancing French Skills

Quizlet that correlates 

QC French

French Vocabulary for Beginners

“Glue” Words

VERBS + CONJUGATION

How To Conjugate French Verbs

Reverso Conjugator

Conjugationfr

Conjuguemos Conjugation Activities

verb2verbe

TEXTBOOKS/WORKBOOKS/BOOKS/DICTIONARIES 

Barron’s 501 French Verbs

French-English Bilingual Dictionary 

McGraw-Hill Tune Up Your French

Collins French with Paul Noble

Modern French Grammar 

Modern French Grammar Workbook

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Fench on Your Own

French Demystified 

Beginning French for the Utterly Confused

Learn French the Fast and Fun Way

Horizons

Easy French Step-by-Step

Practice Makes Perfect French Vocabulary 

Practice Makes Perfect Complete French Grammar

Collins Easy Learning French Grammar

Liberté: A First-Year French Textbook

French Learning Package

Rosetta Stone French Level 1

Course Content

Student Workbook

Tests

Answer Key

Rosetta Stone French Level 2

Course Content

Student Workbook

Tests

Answer Key

Rosetta Stone French Level 3

Course Content

Student Workbook

Tests

Answer Key

Bon Voyage Level 1

Textbook

Workbook

Listening Activities (under red book)

Practice Quizzes

Bon Voyage Level 2

Textbook

Workbook

Listening Activities (under green book)

Practice Quizzes

Bon Voyage Level 3

Textbook

Workbook

No Listening Activities :( 

Practice Quizzes

French from Wikibooks

French Children’s Stories (such as goldilocks and little red riding hood)

Children’s Books Forever

GET STARTED

Start Learning French

French for Beginners

Self-Study Checklist

 i figured i would never be 100% content with this masterpost because i keep finding new things i want to add, so i’m just going to post it now and update it every now and then! bonne chance!! :) 

love, @studenting (previously @thestudiousstudent)

[istj-gal]

Just a collection of a few personality tests! Most of them are more psychological or geared toward assisting in self-improvement or pointing out aptitude, but I sprinkled a few fun ones at the end just for kicks.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Arguably the most well-known and commonly used system of typing personality, MBTI is based on the way the human mind processes and reacts to other people and the world around them. I highly recommend that you look into cognitive functions afterwards to verify your type, as online testing can often be incorrect.

Enneagram System

If you’ve ever seen those weird number combinations floating around tumblr (7w8, 6w5), you’ve encountered it before. There are nine main types, although you will end up having a “wing”, which is your second, complementary type.

Four Temperaments

This one’s probably the oldest, first coming into common use in the 5th century to type people based on–get this–people’s body fluids. Since then, we obviously know that people’s personalities are not based on biological makeup, but the typology itself still can be useful.

Big Five Project

As the one agreed upon my most of psychological academia, this test is the one you should take if you’re going for scientific accuracy. It holds that there are only five completely distinct personality traits in people, which can be mixed on different levels to make every other personality trait.

Multiple Intelligences

Mainly used for self-help or aptitude, Multiple Intelligences tests the area where you’re smart, whether it be socially, linguistically or spatially, to name a few.

Holland Codes

For all of you students wondering what to do for university, this one might be helpful for you! It tests your interests and aptitude in six different career areas and will give you a three-letter code of your top scoring areas.

Moral Alignment

Sure, it’s from Dungeons and Dragons, but it’s actually pretty interesting. There are two sets of alignments, the first being lawful, neutral, and chaotic, and the next being good, neutral, and evil. You’ll end up getting a combination of one from each set (e.g. chaotic good, neutral evil).

Love Languages

This one’s not as well-known, but worth taking nevertheless. It tests the way you show love or affection (platonic, romantic or otherwise) to people around you.

Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale

Just what it says on the tin. Basically, how self-confident are you?

Hogwarts Houses

If you’re a Harry Potter fan, chances are you’ve already taken this test: it sorts you into one of four Hogwarts houses. The most accurate test is at Pottermore, but I know some people are loathe to make an account just for a test, so the link above is satisfactory enough.

Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale

Yes, this test exists. There is actually a quantifiable amount of nerdiness you can have, and this test will show you exactly how much of it is in you.

[petitetimidgay-deactivated20240]

i really wish platonic relationships were more important. i’m tired of losing friendships because i’m less important than their significant other. i hate that i’m automatically not as close to my friends because i’m not the person they’re dating/sleeping with. and i hate how whenever i complain about it the response is “you’ll find someone too someday!” like no I shouldn’t have to “find someone” to feel loved and important, maybe we should stop promoting investing all your time and effort and physical and emotional intimacy into one romantic/sexual partner idk

[dccrways]

B O O K M E M E/ Y A LIT M E M E

[3/5] Protagonists: Alina Starkov, The Grisha Trilogy

by Leigh Bardugo

[tokengothfriend]

short and stoat

[ommanyte]

yo what are you always so stressed about?

me: