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Hey lovely people, Claire here! I'm 20 and from Germany. Fandoms include Haikyuu!!, snk, vld, yoi and more. I also post random stuff I find funny or important. My super cute avatar was made by lance-lot-voltron.Aquarius//ENFP//Ravenclaw

[weebleroxanne]

“Nope,” I whisper as I exit out of a fic with no paragraph breaks.

[nicosdisangelic]

New Republican ad came out today which gave me the best reaction image I’ve ever seen.

[internetdruid]

[bogleech]

daily reminder to please not make “natural selection” or “darwinism in action” jokes about anti vaxxers when the people actually dying are their helpless little kids who never got a choice or a chance.

[menacinglemon]

Fuck off I’ll make jokes about dying kids. I’ll make jokes about anyone dying. I’ll make jokes about myself dying.

[bogleech]

Hey neat I was wondering how many Rick and Morty Funko pops you own and how sticky they are right now

[rare-drop-deactivated20250823]

[anhedoniacity]

i just wanna know what weed-addicted brunette broke john green’s heart in high school and gave him enough material for a decade’s worth of identical books

[mysharona1987]

[wha-et-deactivated20210209]

reblog if you want to join the coven

[languill]

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

[flavoracle]

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

[c-is-for-circinate]

THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it.  (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

[moi-ennepe-deactivated20251213]

thank u <3

[banishedquasiroyal-deact]

FUCK silverfish

[daystxlker]

if those are the little bug things that look like centipedes yeah fuck em omfg

[banishedquasiroyal-deact]

I HATE THEM SO MUCH

[daystxlker]

OH IN MINECRAFT I THOUGHT YOU MEANT. REAL ONES SLDKJFLSKDJLFSDF

[banishedquasiroyal-deact]

wait

WHAT DO YOU MEAN REAL ONES

[booty-clappin-deactivated201807]

where do you think the name came from

[banishedquasiroyal-deact]

i don’t know, tumblr user plump9000. i sort of thought they weren’t real, like endermen. or creepers.

[timurmurtazin]

>implying endermen aren’t real

[banishedquasiroyal-deact]

really not liking what you’re implying buddy

[amosseleznev92]

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[showerthoughtsofficial]

Maybe only cats can become ghost. That’s why ghosts just knock over stuff and make noises at night.

[scp-4999]

[shikuuz-deactivated20200407]

he angery

[anotherdragonsfan]

[samcarpnter]

“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via wordsnquotes)

[womaninpearls-deactivated201908]

As I get older I’m finding that a lot of the “intellectuals” I used to admire are actually just condescending and pretentious. And also realizing how much more important it is to be present, considerate, and empathetic because nobody really knows what they’re talking about and anyone who claims to know everything about anything is feeding you bs.

[extra-stuff]

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

[itsabear]

I am also realizing that actual intellectuals make their subjects easy to understand, and faux intelectuals will attempt to baffle.

[wolf-of-wall-st-deactivated2019]

“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”

- Albert Einstein

[obimomkenobi-deactivated2020062]

when you and your friends are playing monsters & mana and you just so happen to be Lore Master

[chaos-is-neutral]

I hit reblog so fast every time this beauty appears on my dashboard

[maplebunie]

today is the only day you can reblog this ever

[starvationxa]

some of u bitches r trying your hardest to stay positive and hopeful despite all the bullshit you’ve been going thru and it really shows and i’m proud of u

[borrowedfeathers]

If a little girl says that she thinks boys are gross, the correct response isn’t “you’ll like boys when you’re older, honey,” it’s “you don’t have to like boys if you don’t want to.”