Listen to the music playing in your head...

[memesandlaughs]

[music-thestrongestformofmagic]

Fun fact! France actually has a similar law, banning work e-mail after 6pm! It’s actually part of a growing conversation, because, and I quote:

[D]igital technologies have created an “explosion of undeclared labor” that is forcing employees to work outside the typical work week.

So yeah! It’s not a bizarre random wishful law making a funny meme! And it’s actually a thing that may happen! Yay!

[madtomedgar]

thinking about the statement that all maladaptive coping mechanisms were helpful and, well, adaptive, at some point, and that they become maladaptive when the circumstance changes or when their detriments outweigh their benefits, and how the framework of “this is no longer helpful to you” is probably better than “this is a bad habit/this is bad for you.” How much better “you don’t have to live like that anymore” feels than “that’s a bad habit you picked up when you were in a bad place.” “It’s ok, you can look now,” vs “you’ve been tainted/infected/sullied by a previous bad circumstance.”

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

Thought about this today while reading about hermit crabs. 

Hermit crabs start out their lives tiny and defenceless, and they choose a small shell to protect them. When they grow too big for the shell, big enough that it stops them from growing more, they abandon it and move on to a shell better for them at that size.

Does that mean the old shell was a terrible mistake? No, because it protected them back when they were smaller and more defenceless! But now it’s limiting their growth, and it’s time for them to find a better shell.

Humans, like hermit crabs, pick up shells when we need protection. Sometimes, we need to ditch those shells to keep growing! If we look at them as shells instead of Irredeemable Moral Failures, it’s a hell of a lot easier to let them go.

[meanwhilepoetry]

Full moon on the first night, clearly a sign. This is the year of your wolf. Time to let your inner wild out, fight for what you believe in and find the bliss that has eluded you for so long.

Nikita Gill

[kimreesesdaughter]

The year is 2018. Your bills are on autopay. You just got paid and you still have $1200 from the last check. When you want something, you buy it without moving money around. Your credit cards are paid off. You and your friends have 2 international trips planned and paid for this year. Your parents are in great health and you’re able to help if they need anything. You love your job. Your desired creative career is falling into place and you get to take your little cousins to Six Flags and Universal Studios over the Summer. Your relationships are healthy and supportive. All of the toxic energy from the past 6 years is gone. You going to concerts, eating good across the states and your crib has art and warmth throughout. 2018 is going to be so good to you.

[alexbelvocal]

In Jesus name Amen 🙏🏾

[beeyoutifulblaqueen]

I need & deserve this energy ✨

[harrypotterhousequotes]

SLYTHERIN: “Still you refer to us as children. No wonder our successes mount. You consistently underestimate us.” -Greg Weisman (Aqualad: Young Justice: Summit)

[tastefullyoffensive]

Godspeed Boaty. (via The Guardian)

[jumpingjacktrash]

backfired? or SUCCEEDED ADMIRABLY?

[roachpatrol]

honestly the boat having a name this silly is going to do it nothing but good. what news outfit isn’t going to want to run a little update segment on how boaty mcboatface is doing? 

[jumpingjacktrash]

i am definitely a member of the boaty mcboatface fandom

[the-daily-horcrux-blog]

[waspabi]

#I’ve always felt like Harry and Draco weren’t opposites #They were two sides to the same coin #And this gif set just HURTS because ugh these two poor boys #Caught up in something so much bigger than themselves #And they’re just CHILDREN

[icouldwritebooks]

How to Tell if Somebody is fandom!old

- They use terms like lemons, smut, or UST to talk about the genre of their fic.

- They have squicks.

- They want you to have squicks. Which isn’t to say that they want to squick you, just that it’s a useful term.

- *glomps*

- They leave long comments on everything the read. Possibly not in the tags. They might do something super bizarre like send a message or put their thoughts on the end of your post.

- They write disclaimers on everything. Or on literally anything, since nobody does that anymore.

- They write about orbs, and those orbs are cerulean.

- Or literally anything else is cerulean. Cerulean is an outdated term. I’m calling it.

- The tongues of their characters are still battling for dominance, even though it’s 2017, and really a winner should have been declared by now.

- They have a fear of Mary Sue.

- Characters in their modern AU are chatting on AIM instant messenger, and calling each other on landlines. There are references to Ceiling Cat, because the characters are hip to meme culture. This AU is ~modern~ after all.

- Their fic is interlaced with slightly relevant song lyrics (disclaimer, they didn’t write the song.)

- They don’t do any of above, because they are New Fandom Savy, but they write or reblog nostalgic posts about these things.

- They had a livejournal.

- They still have a livejournal.

- They ended up on tumblr only after getting into a new fandom, searching livejournal for content and fellow fans, and suddenly coming to the startling realization that livejournal has become a barren wasteland of tumbleweeds and chirping crickets.

- They miss their geocities site.

- They wrote fic for the X-Files while the original nine seasons were still airing.

- Bonus, they wrote fic for the original Star Trek and published it in a zine, before the Internet was a thing. That’s like super mega fandom old.

- They might be less inclined to call themselves “trash”, but they are totally out there, reading all the things.

[imamandanelson]

“Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn’t suck any more than being a woman in the world,” she says, facing the class. “My advice? Be terrifying.”

Kelly Sue DeConnick Is the Future of Women in Comics | Vanity Fair (via imamandanelson)

[marvelgifs]

[sidneypagget]

“what the fuck” is an emotion now and its the only one i have

[october31st1981]

I always laugh when somebody declares James Potter on the verge of expulsion for his pranks in fic because Malfoy was literally a Death Eater trying to kill the Headmaster and Dumbledore was like “Let’s just see if we can gently guide him away from this” I’m pretty sure the only thing that gets you expelled at Hogwarts is if you have already straight up murdered someone

[tacticalmoonbeam]

Tom Riddle: *straight up murdered someone*

Dumbledore: *keeps an annoyingly close eye on*

[thoodleoo]

if anyone ever tries to tell you that the ancient greeks were more sophisticated than us, just remember that there was a ship war between plato and aeschylus over whether achilles or patroclus was the top in their relationship, while xenophon was off complaining that he didn’t ship that

[opossumprince]

“Is Achilles A Twink” - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

[tastefullyoffensive]

Life and Donuts by Pablo Stanley

[actualbloggerwangyao-deactivate]

I need to say this is one of the most uplifting things I’ve seen.

[eviemay]

well that’s my existential crisis sorted out

seriously though its nice to have that kind of comfort written out like that

[muntantandproud]

[scully]

PIERS MORGAN DOESN’T REALIZE HE WROTE WHAT JK ROWLING RETWEETED ABOUT HERSELF, BYE. 

[skygenders]

Fox news just @ me next time

[violeteyedmedium]

Reblog if you are an alpha woman who are unable to love, you support alpha women who are unable to love, or you just laughed really hard at the article title