The weapon we have is still love.

Linda. 28. Gryffindor. I love a lot of things. Current priorities include: Harry Potter, The Last of Us, music, books, TV, friends, musicals, video games, movies, and The New York Mets.

[macgyver-morris]

Surf’s up, Romeo.

STRANGER THINGS 4 | Volume 2

[heartstoppercentral]

Alice Oseman’s art / Pride in London 2022

[im-rey]

Be careful what you wish for, Parker.

[inventingjune]

shitty b. knight, 2019, colorized.

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

yeah i have impostor syndrome *kills you in electrical*

[captain-flint]

Sobriety’s overrated. Look where it’s gotten you, though. Well, where has it gotten me? Where has it gotten me? Nowhere. I can’t talk to the person I love. People still don’t take me seriously. I wanna be numb again.

[gatovtina]

Golden trio 🌟

[manny-jacinto]

The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

[joan-deactivated20230204]

love this country

[regularlesbian]

do these people ever get new material?

[nudityandnerdery]

New material is probably communism.

[why-did-you-just-lie-to-mcgee]

New York City when it became official

[whitepeopletwitter]

[awed-frog]

Hermione Granger by wuvadub

[constitutionalweasleymonarchy]

Instant favorite. Instant classic.

[shesnake]

The Umbrella Academy season 2 episode 2 “The Frankel Footage” (2020) dir. Mark Goffman

[dragon-in-a-fez]

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

[antigothesis]

Teen: *gets a job*

“I GOT THE JOB!”

Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family

[discowitchparty]

Teen: *gets all A’s*

“I worked really hard!”

Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.

[silver-tongues-blog]

probably why so many teens take to social media where they can enthusiastically share their interests and achievements and get positive feedback that their parents never gave

[moonlighteduniverse]

A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

[bisexual-boredom-deactivated202]

This hit hard

[rowark]

I remember once, when I was in my early 20s, I was an afternoon supervisor at my job, and I worked with mostly teenagers, and the one day this one kid, who was like 15, was bored so I suggested he could clean out the fridge. He did and when he was done I said he did a good job.

After that, this kid was cleaning out the fridge at least once a week, and I was like, “why are you always cleaning the fridge?” Like, I didn’t mind, but it seemed odd. And he said, “one time I cleaned the fridge and you said I did a good job. I wanted to make you proud of me again.”

Literally, I changed the entire way I interacted with teenagers after that. I actually got a package of glitter stars and I would stick them on their nametags when they did a good job, and they loved it.

My manager had commented on how hard these kids work and I said, “they’re starved for positive feedback. They go to school all day then come to work all evening and no one appreciates it because it’s expected of them, but they’re still kids. They need positive feedback from adults in their lives.”

Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but like… it wasn’t about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because they’re young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like they’re lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

photo🍁of the day

http://instagram.com/jackiegreaney/

[grawly]

[woodsandnature]