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it really do be like that sometimes

[agoraphobe]

[meow-nepeta]

has anyone figured out how to become normal if you were like that?

[silverrocksong]

why can't i just blink my life away,, i hate when i get moments when the world starts to feel like it leads somewhere but it feels unreal and feels like a trap.. i hate when i get existential dread in the middle of feeling happy, why can't I just be happy? why can't i give myself just a moment of peace?

[silverrocksong]

Tangina kakilig pala talaga when someone offers you a seat.. grabe ang ganda niya pa

[silverrocksong]

Things i would miss when i turn into a corpse:

1. Listening to music

2. Singing

3. My crusty dog

[silverrocksong]

may mga tao talagang nabuhay para maging NPC lang,, i appreciate the works of talented people and everything that's beautiful about the world but I'm afraid there's nothing for me to add or contribute. where do people get their passion? i think i was never meant to be human and existed here by chance. is this just the reality of adulting or am i doing something wrong?

[silverrocksong]

i die every single day I'm alive

[silverrocksong]

life at 2:48 am feels different. it's like i own the world and the nothingness of everything gives me a sense of calm. i could literally do anything and not have to worry until the 'real' morning comes because no one else is awake yet. i could email my university I'm dropping out and not have to think about the consequences immediately because business hours start at 8. it's so lonely to live in a loud and busy world when the only thing that gives me peace is the calm of the world at 2:00 am.

[silverrocksong]

i tried to contain every bit of you to my heart but i guess i did not give you room to grow,, you had to break me so you could be free.

it's only me who's still holding on to these tiny little pieces. my precious little friend in my memory, i see you've outgrown me.

you're much better than who you could have been had you stayed with me.

[terrierfan123]

Sometimes I put my face up against my dog while he's sleeping to feel his little lungs expand and his little heart beat and I am struck by the beauty of of life and the miracle of nature to evolve for thousands of years just to create one little guy and put him in my house

[silverrocksong]

I don't feel burdened by my failures or have any motivation to succeed at all. I feel like I don't deserve anything good out of this life because ultimately I am just nothing. When death finally comes to take me, it would not matter. i have no desperation to live, but I would feel so ungrateful to take my own life. When my time comes, please don't mourn me, there is nothing beautiful about this empty shell.

[glorious-spoon]

one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

[greelin]

my point is like.. NO kid asked to be born, they had no control over it, it isn’t something they had any power in, and the very LEAST you can do, if you bring a child into the world, is to let them feel loved and supported and make it clear that they have every right to be here and be loved and succeed.. it’s.. you’re obligated. sorry. there’s no excuse for treating a child like they’re a burden and verbally conveying that to them and/or giving off that message w/ yr actions and approach to interaction w/ them.. every child deserves far better than being made to feel like their existence is a burden or a mistake. bc it isn’t. 

[jillianleedy]

[geekgirlintraining]

This is an important message.

[majaminxx22]

I will never NOT reblog this.

[unfuck-it]

we’ve all had the ‘it would be weird if we didn’t talk one day’ conversations with people we don’t talk to anymore

[hermuis-blog]

Girls get made fun of for everything might as well do what you want lol

[firesuns-archive]

not to be dramatic but this mentality literally freed me

[gothicprep]

honestly do u ever get to a point with a friend where u just realize “holy shit I don’t actually like you, like, at all”

[song-of-the-spheres]

DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access-  Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.  Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.