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YES >:(

Some days it’s definitely like that.

roseticospacebae

xenosagaepisodeone

I am undergoing a full character arc in my mind that I will forget about in the next hour

pumpkster-deactivated20250205

ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

netheritenugget

Holy FUCK, this is an amazing tool.

scrabbleknight

Reblogging for my artist fellows.

i-imade-a-thing

Reblog this!

#ref

archiveofyearning

Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place // Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities // Warsan Shire, Conversations About Home // Fatimah Asghar, Partition // Aysha, Diaspora Defiance // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous // Kaveh Akbar, Do You Speak Persian? // Safia Elhillo, Date Night With Abdelhalim Hafez // Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues // Scherezade Siobhan, How to Welcome the Dead

imageofvoid

[ID 1: “For isn’t it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?” ID 2: What does it mean, to sing in the language of those who have killed your mother, would kill her again? Does meaning … ID 3: … faces. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. I’ve been carrying the old anthem in my mouth for so long that there’s no space for another song, another longue or another language. I know a shame that shrouds, totally engulfs. I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel. I’m bloated with language I can’t afford to forget. ID 4: … again. or some kind of spanish. you speak a language until you don’t. until you only recognize it between your auntie’s lips. your father was fluent in four languages. you’re illiterate in the tongues of your father. ID 5: - when my mother struggles to spell a word in english I wans to break the entire language into little pieces so the edges of these letters will stop cutting her ID 6: … ended, ashed. Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war. ID 7: I don’t remember how to same home in my first language, or lonely, or light. I remember only delam barat tang shodeh, I miss you, and shab bekheir, goodnight. ID 8: i have an accent in every language ID 9 : The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don’t belong to English though I belong nowhere else ID 10: “To love in one language. To pray in another.” /end ID]

rainbowgazes-archive

man googling stuff kinda fucking sucks now huh

rainbowgazes-archive

want a product recommendation? why not check out 13 lists in a row that are all sponsored by the companies that list their products on said lists. need advice on how to do with something? how about 11 sites that were just registered 2 months ago and all look virtually identical that have the same bits of advice listed. want computer help? well heres fixmypc2021.com and unfuckmycomputer.biz and windowshelpreal.info all listing the same basic troubleshooting steps like "restart your computer" or "download our malware ridden program" that dont help at all

rainbowgazes-archive

do you know how much it hurts to have to add "reddit" to the end of all my search queries because its just about the only way i can guarantee ill encounter real people that have the same questions i do and not 58 articles all written by an AI program designed to catch the most amount of web traffic from google as possible?

triflingshadows

New and hopefully better commissions sheet! PM @triflingshadows or email [email protected] for inquiries/info <3

#ref #for when id like my ocs drawn #also #these are amazing #<3

newtonpermetersquare

Facts

calamardoybobesponja

1yellowpepper

Ok def was not expecting this level of relatability

tchaikovskaya

*submits this to the library of congress as a culturally, historically or aesthetically significant film*

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

daisyprayers

Experiencing burnout in an area you love doesn’t mean you are no longer passionate about that thing, or are any less good at it. It’s often an indication that there are other parts of your life that need your care. A garden looks most beautiful when every flower is watered, and you deserve to nourish yourself in the same way. You will flourish again.

We've been doing distance learning since November. Consequently, my depression and anxiety have just gotten worse. Especially these past few weeks. I'm studying in a foreign country, in a foreign language. I've been so homesick through Covid and it's really started to get to me. I've started to resent being here knowing that if I'd stayed home, I'd have finished school long ago and even if I hadn't, i wouldn't have had to struggle with the language, and assignments and studying would be much easier. It's gotten so bad that I haven't been able to focus. I have to reread things more often and then, after I've understood something, I struggle to complete the tasks. Assignments already took me much more time to get through than most people, and now it's gotten worse. Last week I couldn't even get through just reading what I was supposed to do before feeling like I was going to have a panic attack. I ended up giving up and running the assignments and my answers through Google translate. It took 10 minutes. Of course, when I did that, one of my teachers said I did a great job.. which just makes things worse 'cause it just confirms that if I were doing this in my native language, it would be so much simpler. And it sucks.

Half of the school has gone back to in-person classes this week, including myself. I'm hoping this will help me not feel so.. I don't know what. So far today was great, but it's just one day. I know myself well enough to know my anxiety and depression come and go without rhyme or reason. If things get bad again, I'm seriously considering finding a therapist. I've got two more semesters after this one. I can't let my grades slip now. I've worked too hard.

On a happy note, my husband has been really great through this. He doesn't really understand anxiety or depression the way I experience it, but he does his best to be comforting and supportive and I'm just really glad I have him.