I will be calm, I will be mistress of myself!

Christian | ISFP | Bookmaster | Currently Reading: Queens of the Age of Chivalry and The Book of Three

[inmygardenofeden]

The difference between bravery and cowardice is action. Do not dance on the knife’s edge between the two, wield the blade and push through.

[uptownthots]

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

[oysters-aint-for-me]

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

[oysters-aint-for-me]

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

[srsfunny]

Finally, a win

[saintofpride201]

This dumbass stigma that "hick" states are somehow dumber than the more urban ones because they're from poorer areas has to cease...

[animenutcase]

Hicks are the ones who put us in space.

[delicatefury]

You know what they changed? What Alabama is doing so different from California and New York?

They’re teaching the kids phonics.

It is legally required.

Turns out, actually learning to read improves students’ skills across the board. Who woulda guessed?

[ohifonlyx33]

They also started holding kids back at 3rd grade because the foundations of education are important.

What's a highschool teacher supposed to do with a 16 year old who can't do 12x15 without a calculator and can't spell mischief without autocorrect?

Oh, and they've also heavily restricted the gender and DEI insanity... baseball, huh?

[sugar-petals]

since ai companies are now scanning and shredding any literature they can seize, our collective 'hoard all the books even if you don't have enough space for them' instinct has paid off

[unusual-suspects]

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[2productive]

I always loved how back in the day before cellphones, people were unreachable if they weren’t at home. You can call but I won’t be there to answer. You can leave a message but you don’t know how long it’ll be until I hear it. You don’t know if I’m home, but you will have to make the trip to come to my house and knock on the door, hoping I’ll be there. And if I’m not…you can’t reach me!! Now that everyone has a cellphone the expectation of being reachable 24/7 is so disastrous. And let’s not even get into read receipts. I think one of the worst times of my inner peace is when I had an apple watch and suddenly every text and phone call and notification was on my freaking wrist, even if my phone was giving the illusion of distance by being in my pocket or bag or charging in another room. I stopped using it in 2022 and I’d rather eat a jean jacket with no water than ever be so connected again. “oh you can just turn off notifications!” not the point.

[quiet-but-not-blind]

Classroom theme

Light academia

Dark academia

Voting ended on12h

[replicated-archive]

I do in fact have that summertime sadness

[urgetocreate]

Haidee-Jo Summers (British b.1971), Walking with Maisie, Cornwall, 2025, Oil on panel

[winedark]

i do think there is something so exceptional that something as rare and beautiful as an eclipse is something you should not look at directly because it might permanently damage your vision. a partial eclipse is so bright it hurts to look at, a total eclipse breaks and the light overwhelms your vision.... at the risk of sounding trite it does feel like that element of cosmic horror that is too much for a human to behold without losing something of yourself. i luv space

[cottagemoridollynatural]

[napoleononthebellerophon]

the amount of lawsuits these exploited children are going to be filing 20 years from now is going to be crazy and im all for it

[wren-clouds]

Hey, can I challenge the Christian userbase in here to consider how we use language, specifically the word 'retard'

I've only ever seen that word put on my dash by the Christian blogs I follow, and it makes me very sad. We should be using loving words that uplift and build people up, not words that are slurs and used to put people down.

It's careless and thoughtless, and serves only to anger people or put them down. It's a word with a long history of abuse towards people with intellectual disabilities, and we should be aware of that. (And yes, I am aware that it was originally a clinical diagnosis. But words change meaning overtime, and is that really the context you're using it in?)

Sincerely, the sister of an awesome kid with Down Syndrome.

[angedemystere]

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23)

[kosmogrl]

mutuals, out of curiosity what season were you born in and what's your favorite season?

[json-derulo]

I like my men like I like my horses: tall, about as afraid of me as I am of them, eating hay, never mind this was funnier in my head

[r0siedays]

🤎🧡happy sunday🧡🤎