mymentalquo

getting by uni suffering a little more everyday

[my-mental-quo]

It's been so long I might just kill this blog

[danskjavlarna]

[whatsupbeanie]

Did you make “potions” out of random things in your backyard too? My friend and I constantly pretended to be wizards and fed all of our toys with the potions we made haha. Thankfully this was the closest we’ve ever gotten to actually drinking them ourselves hahaha. 

[my-mental-quo]

I swear half the ppl that post in the humans are weird tags on tumblr are really aliens documenting their findings on our planet

[my-mental-quo]

It makes me happy to know that a month ago this post is still getting notes

[my-mental-quo]

New content posting my brain mush through my last year of uni

I post on Twitter too

[silostosstuff]

Not gonna lie if I were Inspector Barnes and I had to deal everyday with some teenagers with a superiority complex I would be pissed too

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[sourdoughsweethearts]

handletheheat.com

[tat-buns-deactivated20181211]

This is SO important.

[note-a-bear]

this is on my obligatory reblog list

[khealywu]

THIS IS VERY COOL FOODY AND SCIENCEY

[katistrophe]

(The recipes in question:

chocolate chip cookies (part 2 3 4)

pie crust

cupcakes

brownies

dinner rolls)

[onlyblackgirl]

Imma eat them all anyways.

[shortvideosandstuff]

[the-absolute-best-posts]

[organicslut]

[crowsent]

remember, this is for a DOOR lock.

remember that when picking a DOOR lock, you have to apply a little bit of pressure to your tension wrench (the thing that you use to turn the knob). too little or too much and you wont be able to pick the door open. you can use anything for the tension wrench. a bobby pin. bits of wire. a paper clip. etc.

its best to be completely silent when youre picking locks bc theres this small ‘click’ when youre picking that you might miss if youre using headphones or listening to music.

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if youre picking one of these

you jam something thin and long above one of the rotation dials and you push up on the shackle.

. if its one of these

you get yourself some shims. (or make one. you can make shims out of fucking soda cans), you wiggle them in the tiny space between the shackle and the body of the lock, and you pop these suckers open.

. for a chain deadbolt,

you get something flexible but sturdy and you just push this fucker down

. for one of these rotating combination locks

you can also shim this motherfucker open. jam your shims between the shackle and the body and pry it unlocked. if, for some reason, you dont wanna shim it open, maybe you dont have a shim or you just like a challenge, this bitch can be decoded ridiculously easy. heres what you do:

spin this bitch to the right about two or three times to “reset” it. then you pull up on the shackle a bit, and turn it right slowly until you hear a click. your number is two spaces further. then you turn left 360 degrees until you land on the right number again, and start turning this motherfucker left until it stops. when it stops, turn right. if its loose, its the wrong number, keep going left. if its not loose, you have the right number, and you turn right all the way until this bitch pops

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now you know how to pick several common locks!!!!! congratulations!!!!

[summerwithaniinit]

Thanku

[official-lucifers-child]

*frantically takes more notes*

[blackness-by-your-side]

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

[cuntybearjamboree]

FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[dancing-coyote]

That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.

BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

[unlimitedgamesbutnogames]

HERE’S ALL THE PDF VERSIONS I COULD FIND SINCE WE’RE ALL IN QUARANTINE AND WE CAN’T PHYSICALLY GET THE BOOKS WE DON’T HAVE

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

COULD NOT FIND The Words of Cesar Chavez (however I did manage to download the first 71 pages of the book from EBSCO and I put it here but I couldn’t get the rest. sorry y’all)

[emeraldscholar]

rebloggan 4 links

[jaubaius]

Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

[waffilicious]

imagine if a fuckin……. giant alien just showed up and stuck a huge hand in front of your face and then proceeded to offer you three different houses and wouldn’t stop until you moved out of your old shitty apartment and then helped you fuckin move

and then just left

[hellbabyfromhell]

Pissed off i didnt recieve any packages because i didnt order anything. Just unfair

[bananonbinary]

i hope yall are being careful with lil nas x; he’s a very good and entertaining performer, but he’s still not your friend. i’m not saying he’s secretly horrible, but the familiarity from like his twitter and tik tok and all is just part of the performance. In a very real way, lil nas x doesn’t actually exist; he’s just a character Montero Lamar Hill plays for our amusement. don’t forget that.

[bananonbinary]

this isn’t like about any specific reaction i’ve seen, just that anyone who becomes a Tumblr Darling will inevitably be turned on real fuckin fast when it turns out they’re a real person with a private life, so when people start talking about this guy like he’s the Best Most Real Celebrity, i start to get Very Very Nervous.

[enthusispastic]

See, when I think to myself “we need to protect this man” I DO 100% mean that we need to protect him from being the next celebrity to be thrown violently from a pedestal he should never have been forced into.

[jabberwockypie]

Also he’s only 22, and I’d be concerned about pretty much any 22-year-old considering just how badly the entertainment industry chews people up.

[dancinbutterfly]

If you are in your 30s and up and a fan of his? please remember how fucking stupid you were in your 20s. Now imagine how stupid you would have been if you had millions of dollars at your disposal and no one to tell you “no.” If you are not yet 22? Think about the stupidest thing you have ever done. Now think of something even stupider. Now imagine you had millions of dollars and no one to tell you “no.” That is how stupid he could be. Give him room to do that outside of maliciously attacking someone physically. Because he has MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND POSSIBLY NO ONE TO TELL HIM “NO” AND I SWEAR TO YOU - HOWEVER BAD YOU THINK YOU FUCKED UP - PUT THAT BEHIND SOMEONE AND IT GETS THAT MUCH WORSE. People fuck up. Its just what we do. Mind your own business and as long as they’re not actively trying to hurt anyone? MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

[lambbabies]

Additionally if you listen to his latest album, he SAYS all of this. He says he’s young and will make mistakes and asks his fans to remember that. He keenly aware of the way stanning and fandom works and is already trying to let folks know that he’s HUMAN. He’s going to fuck up as we all do.

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

“can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding” is the most concise and powerful dismissal of people who are “jokingly” racist and i can’t believe it’s from a They Might Be Giants song

[mothric]

1. if you can’t believe it you really ought to listen to more TMBG

2. the song in question is “Your Racist Friend”. here it is.

[mothric]

so I compiled some more raw-ass TMBG lines. this isn’t a comprehensive list by any means, but have a sampling:

“No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.” (Don’t Let’s Start)

“Laugh hard, it’s a long way to the bank.” (Rhythm Section Want Ad)

“Ads up in the subway are the work of someone trying to please their boss. And though the guy’s a pig, we all know what he wants is just to please somebody else.” (Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head)

“You made my day, now you have to sleep in it.” (Stand on Your Own Head)

“If it wasn’t for disappointment, I wouldn’t have any appointments.” (Snowball in Hell)

“Now it’s over, I’m dead, and I haven’t done anything that I want; or I’m still alive and there’s nothing I want to do.” (Dead)

“Turning to drugs to help you sleep will only lead to sleep, and sleeping is a gateway drug to being awake again.” (Wearing a Raincoat)

“I’m not saying all boys are the same, but some boys are the same and it’s Thursday now.” (Take Out the Trash)

“Don’t be burdened by regrets or make your failures an obsession. Know you’re never just a hat, you’re never only just a hat.” (Hovering Sombrero)

they also sometimes like to call out asshats by writing songs from the perspective of asshats:

“I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class” (Kiss Me, Sun of God)

“The record of my unspeakable crimes in previous lives, in previous times, indelibly stains the pages of history.” (Reprehensible)

“I’d hate to see you leave, cause I have grown so grateful for the blame you save me from.” (My Evil Twin)

feel free to reblog and add more great lines I didn’t mention here

[stinkyhat-deactivated20231213]

[brw]

[id; a tweet by nathan bernhardt @jonberhardt: "why do marvel movies do so much stuff in CGI surely they could have just had wardrobe-" makeup and wardrobe is a union crew. the CGI animation sweatshop is not. it really is that simple. end id/]

[mapsontheweb]

3D Population density map of Middle East.