a sprinter learning to wait

Natalie: 30s. She/Her or They/Them. Bi. Professional storyteller. Sometimes I play guitar. I make good mix cds. For the record, almost all of my posts are queued. “You’ve always had a certain stress about you.”—a testimonial from my therapist

[nataliving]

For that special time of year....

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

the last food you ate is your nickname now how is it going

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Remaining time: 22 hours 40 minutes

[littleguysdaily]

[laterkiss]

i should've locked in when i was thirteen

[toomuchworld]

for the people taking this unironically. everyone regrets what they did at 13 no matter what.

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[prokopetz]

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

[buggyhuman]

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

[woodsfae]

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[lhazaar]

look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

[darkandstormyslash]

There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.

The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.

But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.

All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.

The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) - they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.

The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?

tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[queer-reader-07]

[laeffy]

Hey tumblr???? Hey fucking tumblr?????

[thyrell]

her what

[thyrell]

does anyone know whag the rest of it says

[cargopantsman]

[indeedgoodman]

[sayahbayahboo]

One pool floatie to rule them all

[beaft]

i don't understand people who are rude on purpose. i'm not saying that to be holier-than-thou i just genuinely don't get it

[beaft]

this post brought to you by my visit to the job centre this morning where i had an appointment with a woman who plainly hated the job centre and everyone in it (fair), and expressed this by being really unpleasant to all her clients. when someone is unpleasant to me i like to respond by being extra nice to them, and she clearly didn't know what to do with that because she kept trying to find new ways to be rude to me and i kept pretending i hadn't noticed. which seemed like a lot of effort on her part when it would probably have been easier to just be nice back

[beaft]

before i left i made a point of giving her a big toothy smile and telling her how helpful she'd been and she looked like she wanted to run me through with a greatsword. next time i should bring her a complimentary pastry to see if i can make her head explode

[tuiyla]

Gleeful Paintbox Project 2.1: Audition ↳ the one, the only, the iconic: quinntana hallway fight

[kibumkim]

The patriarchy won lmao

[disgracedmilfman]

Evergreen

[packpack-killkill]

This young coyote was playing around in the dirt, digging and jumping around until he finally found the prize- a tissue or something 😂. It was almost dark, so a little challenging getting the shots. Los Angeles County, June 2026.

Coyote | Shannon Sommer

[evardstentacles]

fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever

[martyreddie]

it's literally the evilest thing in the world to finally have time to write but then be tired. like wow you're telling me these two hours before going to bed are completely free but my brain is just Not Feeling It? fuck off