You are my sunshine

Hey, I'm Cai. I love all things cute and adorable and you will most likely see a lot of baby organisms on here. I also love SuperWhoLock, Harry Potter, all things Disney and food. Follow if you like, hope you enjoy. :)

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[jayalaw]

I need good news. So tired

[feral-sins]

been a while since I last saw this

[killorbekillian]

[killorbekillian]

do you know how rare it is for me to have a post on my main blog that breaks 1k notes? this is is really the one the people have chosen?

[killorbekillian]

THIS WAS NOT MY WHOLE MEAL. I WAS JUST GONNA ADD IT TO INSTANT RAMEN. DON’T KICK ME WHILE I’M DOWN.

[fluffygif]

Amazing dominoes structure

[cricketoid]

god destroying the tower of babel

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there really is nothing more charming or telling about humanity than the amount of time and effort we’ll put into something just to see how cool it will look when we make it fall down 

[saint-ambrosef]

me: that’s a lot of….oh…OH

[dylan-hart]

wednesday: my future partner must be intelligent, unfazed by even the most of disturbing things, and capable in every way possible—

enid: [trips and falls with a tray of cupcakes in her hands and then proceeds to sob for thirty minutes]

wednesday: that one. that’s the one i want.

[wessasaurus-rex]

i laughed WAY too hard at this 

[catlips001]

Woah… Donkey smoke a weed?

[gayvian]

no, im afraid this image was ehanced with adobe photoshop

[catlips001]

Donkey don’t smoke a weed? :(

[breastforce]

“Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them…or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.”

Holy SHIT

[t-ycho]

WELL THEN

[appropriately-inappropriate]

Yep.

They actually tested me for a learning disability in high school because I was consistently failing math.

They discovered that I actually scored in the 80th percentile in that sort of learning.

Problem was, in every other subject, I was in the 99.8th percentile.

I had never learned how to study because I never needed to—and then, when something proved to be even the slightest bit challenging, my brain went

“LOL nope this is impossible abort”

Meanwhile, this entire time I’m scraping by in subjects like English. The assignments I did turn in, I’d score top marks—but I’d avoid turning in projects I didn’t think were “good” enough.

Essentially, my brain had two settings: “100%” or “0%”.

This sort of Baby Genius shit makes kids and adolescents neurotic and self-destructive.

[cassiebones]

We learned about this in Child Development. And we learned to reward hard work and not good job. Like don’t say to a child, “oh you are so smart.” Say “Oh did worked so hard.” Be proud of the child, not the achievement.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

Be proud of the child, not the achievement.

[thalassarche]

Decades of research have been done on this by Dr. Carol Dweck. When the emphasis is placed on effort (a factor people can control) rather than talent (an innate skill), it’s a lot easier to see mistakes as a learning opportunity rather than something you just won’t ever be good at. And kids who were encouraged by effort were also more willing to take on more challenging work and considered it a lot more fun, while the kids who were praised for their intelligence were reluctant to put themselves in a situation where they might lose that identifier as a “smart kid” by making mistakes, so they preferred to do work they were confident they could master. Also, the kids praised for effort wanted to compare their results to kids who got higher scores, to see where they made their mistakes, while those praised for intelligence wanted to compare their results to kids who scored lower, to reassure themselves.

Not only does this set up “smart” students for a lot of trouble when they enter college and start being regularly challenged, the effects last long beyond that. It can be very hard for the “you’re so smart!” kids to unlearn as they become adults and struggle with even common adult things, and are afraid to ask for help because of that lesson they learned from misguided praise that they are supposed to be smart and supposed to know the answers. 

[kyanve]

…Honestly +1 here.  It’s very well researched and documented and yeah.  Making the emphasis on “You succeed and we are proud of you b/c you are SMART as an intrinsic quality!” makes failure/setbacks/difficulty -TERRIFYING- b/c if you’re “smart” it doesn’t happen and if you fail that means you’re not smart and that’s what everyone’s drilled into you as your main point of worth.

And the rates of anxiety disorders among “gifted student” kids are kinda horrifying.    

[swampgallows]

This is why “you’re so smart” means absolutely nothing to me any more. It’s used as punishment as often as it’s used as praise. 

[wigglyflippingout]

#i hate how real this post is

fucking same

[malocclusive]

Little bit of hope! I may be a humble art teacher, but in my 4th year teaching/4th year out of college, this is the current standard taught, at least at Towson. Staff meetings are all about praising growth over mastery, but we’re still focused test score wise on mastery. We’re at least budging! I always tell my kids my fave piece of advice from @hopefulrhyme ’s partner: no matter what you do, you’re gonna think it looks bad. The sooner you stop caring, the sooner you can get the work out which is where you really make progress.

[auckie]

What if you poked me in the chest and your finger broke through like you were cracking into a rotted plank of wood and dust came out and I just crumpled into nothing and my spores got into your nose

[kelleysroom-deactivated20200511]

I would not hang out with you again that's for sure!

[auckie]

Well there you have it!

[windsroad]

why do people in dnd each occupy a 5ft by 5ft square, how far apart do you think people need to be? why are dnd minis afraid of touching

[windsroad]

dnd minis standing five feet apart in a dungeon cuz they’re not gay

[brunhiddensmusings]

look, if the guy to my left has to do the turbo-macarena while charging a bolt of flesh melting while the guy on my right is doing every bruce lee move at the same time and the guy in front of me is flourishing a broadaxe like hes doing yo-yo tricks im going to give each of them enough floorspace to not liquefy myself

[pileofknives]

[pulling-aggro]

fuck a “personal bubble”, stay out of my

BLOOD CIRCLE

[autijacen]

So glad that non-scouts can appreciate the term blood circle properly.

[addictedtothe-thrill]

Flip your phone upside down

[gayyyisthewayyy]

This will always be my one of my favorite videos.

[legitimatelala]

That was a good idea

[lostgalaxies]

Me: Mannnnn what the talkin bout? “Flip your phone” don’t tell me what to—

W I T C H C R A F T 🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♂️

[queensparklekitten]

me on desktop:

[kaanbubelli-deactivated20221218]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[injuries-in-dust]

Fun Fact, thats, more or less, something that wealthy people in China and Japan did, they were called “musical floorboards.” Designed to squeak when stood upon. A person could make noise all the way down a corridor.

The residents and servants knew which floorboards made a sound and avoided them. But a burglar, or assassin didn’t. If you heard the creaking of floorboards, you knew danger was coming.

Even better, despite what movies may show, a lot of the old west was founded by Chinese immigrants, so there could have been carpenters around who knew how to make the musical floorboards!

[apocalypticvalraven]

They were also called Nightingale Floors, and looking up to make sure I had the right term, I found they were super clever! They were more than just ill-fit boards or whatever makes floors creak normally, they actually used little metal bars under the boards placed into small holes in the boards to cause the creak.

[swan2swan]

The best things on the internet are when someone makes a joke and then Miss Frizzle rolls up for an educational adventure.

[detectivehole]

some of you are miserable because you're mean. like you're just mean to people and things

[detectivehole]

"why don't i have any friends" because you are mean

[detectivehole]

this can be fixed at least in part very easily though! just stop being mean. i believe in all of you 👍

[eeriedeer-deactivated20240803]

[morcey-deactivated20231210]

[Image ID: Two screenshots of Tumblr tags.

The first screenshot reads as follows:

"Truth. I've met a whole lot of people in the last 20 years on the Internet; the Venn diagram of ‘people who are mean’ and ‘people who won't shut the fuck up about their own misery’, is a circle. If you're constantly trauma-dumping in group convos or spend most of your time online whining, and are totally puzzled as to why you can't seem to hold onto friends very often, people aren't ‘leaving’ or 'betraying' you bc you're Too Mentally Ill. It's probably bc you're fucking mean. People will largely stick by you thru pretty dark shit if you're also making their lives brighter the rest of the time, but if you're a moody little jackass when you're not wallowing, you're mean".

End first screenshot.

The second, and final, screenshot reads as follows:

"Sometimes it's the imposter-syndrome anxiety lizard brain, and sometimes it really is you. Being traumatized or ill or disabled or oppressed isn't an excuse for being a trash person. There's no such thing as a 'my life sucks so bad i don't have to treat people well’ hall pass. Also i guess pro-tip, but if you have a friend or a person in your group, and you constantly find yourself making excuses for their behavior, or you feel like you can't be honest when THEY fuck up, your friend is mean. 'Having empathy’ and ‘excusing genuinely shitty behavior’ are two different things, and if you can't tell the difference … maybe work on that".

End second, and final, screenshot.

End ID]

[mellointheory]

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

[the-haiku-bot]

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mellointheory]

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

[the-haiku-bot]

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[solkorolevaa]

[thenewborndeity]

This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[daco-showman]

literally nothing funnier than a newly born aquatic mammal realizing they've been cursed to live in water

[thepartyponies]

When you’re out with your dad and he just keeps talking to some random guy

[heartofalifer]

what was this movie even 

[eddiemoonson]

A cinematic masterpiece.

[angremlin-deactivated20250312]

I CANNOT stress enough that in the Spy Kids films, Danny Trejo is literally playing his titular character from the Machete movies, who happens to be the kids’ uncle, because the movies have the same director

[lang-wich]

what this reply misses is that Machete originated *in* Spy Kids. the Machete movies are Spy Kids spinoffs

[hobgoblinhero]

I think it’s important to make clear that Robert Rodriguez, the director, says that Spy Kids and Machete are alternate universe versions of each other , while Danny Trejo, the actor, says that what happens in Machete is just what he does when he’s not hanging out with the kids

[neenarchive]

(through gritted teeth) i love being out of my comfort zone it is necessary for my personal development