Lets Travel the Stars, Just You and Me!

The average life is full of near misses and absolute hits, of great love and small disasters. It's made up of banana milkshakes, loft insulation, and random shoes. It's dead ordinary and truly, truly amazing. What you've got to realise is it's all here now. So breathe deep and swallow it whole because take it from me, life just whizzes by.

[ptolemv]

[marthajefferson]

The Solar System + Pluto

Someday death will take us to another star

[ktt]

Wanderer by Tiina Törmänen

Cold vast emptiness but something so beautiful. Self portrait series. Arctic Lapland wilderness, Finland

[insomniac-arrest]

why retail workers shouldn’t wear name tags

tacky

too intimate

hearing my first name from strangers is terrifying

ruins my aura of mystery and intrigue

detracts from the Sexy Rivalry market

imagine if Harry Potter worked at Starbucks and Malfoy walked in and was forced to call him “Harry.” Awful. Unseemly.

weird power dynamics where they know my name forever and I don’t know theirs

is used because capitalism demands we treat customers like close relations and Imma be real with you pal:

[keybladesoras]

Finn and Poe - From beginning to end.

[678i0u]

[rhaenyratargeryen]

CAPTAIN MARVEL (2019) dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

[aredhels]

middle-earth meme: eight characters (4/8) — eowyn

My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on.

[foodffs]

The Best Homemade Hot Chocolate

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Is this how you roll?

[firbolging]

the pride and prejudice musical we deserve:

darcy doesn’t sing a single note even during conversations where everyone else is singing at him that is until the argument following his first attempt at proposing to lizzy where you can see his restraint fall away

his first big solo is the letter he writes her

gelsey bell is mary and the unofficial narrator and she sits down at her piano to describe whats going on but before she can ever reveal her feelings on the matter, starting with that gelsey bell scream, mr bennet comes over and does the whole ‘that’s nice dear but give someone else a turn’

mr wickham has this huge ballad about how darcy ruined his life and its super melodramatic and touching

mr collins proposal to lizzy is an absolute bop that he gets so into he forgets for a moment what he’s doing he’s just owning the stage

wickham has a song where he’s trying to seduce lydia but she’s not even listening she’s just monologuing about how excited she is to get laid

during darcy’s second proposal he keeps hesitating waiting for lizzy to interrupt him like she has done every time before but she doesn’t say anything until he’s finished

at the end mary sits down at the piano and right where she’d usually be interrupted, kitty joins her and harmonises

 jane and bingley have the adorable upbeat romantic duet which is just them being super polite like ‘oh so nice to have you here’ ‘so nice to be here’ interspersed with their inner monologue which is just them being like fucking jesus I’m so in love

the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo

lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden

there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping

[pilgrimkitty]

Hi I need this in order to survive.

[avatarparallels]

Iroh: I’m sorry, I just nag you because, well, ever since I lost my son… Zuko: Uncle, you don’t have to say it. Iroh: I think of you as my own.

[mizunoir]

Aand here’s my artwork for postcard for crossroads zine ♥

There’s never such thing as too much content for those 2

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

Still life with Peonies by Jose Escofet (Spanish, b. 1930)

[callmebliss]

@bendycripple

[renee--rapp]

I used to have nothing. And then I got this. This job… This family. And I was better because of it. And even though they’re gone, I’m still trying to be better.

Natasha Romanoff in The Infinity Saga (2008-2019)

[sleepystellarsister]

Hozier and Florence Welch are just pseudonyms Hades and Persephone have taken on after haven taken music lessons from Orpheus for a couple thousand years and deciding going into the music industry and gaining “fans” would be a modern equivalent form of the worship that previously sustained them thanks for coming to my ted talk

[manticoreimaginary]

#yeah except florence is hades and hozier is persephone

[anadia-chan]

Avatar the Last Airbender will always be one of my all time favorites. Here is Azula in all her evil glory.

Follow me on Instagram @anadiachan

[breastforce]

“Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them…or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.”

Holy SHIT

[t-ycho]

WELL THEN

[appropriately-inappropriate]

Yep.

They actually tested me for a learning disability in high school because I was consistently failing math.

They discovered that I actually scored in the 80th percentile in that sort of learning.

Problem was, in every other subject, I was in the 99.8th percentile.

I had never learned how to study because I never needed to—and then, when something proved to be even the slightest bit challenging, my brain went

“LOL nope this is impossible abort”

Meanwhile, this entire time I’m scraping by in subjects like English. The assignments I did turn in, I’d score top marks—but I’d avoid turning in projects I didn’t think were “good” enough.

Essentially, my brain had two settings: “100%” or “0%”.

This sort of Baby Genius shit makes kids and adolescents neurotic and self-destructive.

[cassiebones]

We learned about this in Child Development. And we learned to reward hard work and not good job. Like don’t say to a child, “oh you are so smart.” Say “Oh did worked so hard.” Be proud of the child, not the achievement.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

Be proud of the child, not the achievement.

[thalassarche]

Decades of research have been done on this by Dr. Carol Dweck. When the emphasis is placed on effort (a factor people can control) rather than talent (an innate skill), it’s a lot easier to see mistakes as a learning opportunity rather than something you just won’t ever be good at. And kids who were encouraged by effort were also more willing to take on more challenging work and considered it a lot more fun, while the kids who were praised for their intelligence were reluctant to put themselves in a situation where they might lose that identifier as a “smart kid” by making mistakes, so they preferred to do work they were confident they could master. Also, the kids praised for effort wanted to compare their results to kids who got higher scores, to see where they made their mistakes, while those praised for intelligence wanted to compare their results to kids who scored lower, to reassure themselves.

Not only does this set up “smart” students for a lot of trouble when they enter college and start being regularly challenged, the effects last long beyond that. It can be very hard for the “you’re so smart!” kids to unlearn as they become adults and struggle with even common adult things, and are afraid to ask for help because of that lesson they learned from misguided praise that they are supposed to be smart and supposed to know the answers. 

[kyanve]

…Honestly +1 here.  It’s very well researched and documented and yeah.  Making the emphasis on “You succeed and we are proud of you b/c you are SMART as an intrinsic quality!” makes failure/setbacks/difficulty -TERRIFYING- b/c if you’re “smart” it doesn’t happen and if you fail that means you’re not smart and that’s what everyone’s drilled into you as your main point of worth.

And the rates of anxiety disorders among “gifted student” kids are kinda horrifying.    

[swampgallows]

This is why “you’re so smart” means absolutely nothing to me any more. It’s used as punishment as often as it’s used as praise. 

[wigglyflippingout]

#i hate how real this post is

fucking same

[fighting-bird-deactivated201710]

yeah add this to the list of “shit I’m struggling with”

[ms-demeanor]

It took me a long time to learn that “smart” mattered a lot less than kind, and you can always choose to be more kind even if you can’t be more smart.

[destructionx7]

i’m pretty sure i’ve discussed why “you’re a smart kid” always made me flinch, but hey here it is again with research and Facts™

[thotstark]

[caroofthemyscira-deactivated202]

I really appreciate how Jake Gyllenhaal has replaced aging with gleeful chaos.

[rae-redacted]

Let us all experience gleesful chaos