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hanneflute-deactivated20190107

This made me cry a little. The number of people who tell me they used to play the flute but that they weren’t ‘talented’ enough or they gave it up to, you know, do life… This is just so beautiful.

rollinginhelmsdeep-deactivated2

Here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all the possibilites that were opened to us, but that we didn’t take. Time is like wax, dripping from a candle flame. In the moment, it is molten and falling, with the capability to transform any shape. Then the moment passes and the wax hits the table top and solidifies into the shape it will always be. It becomes the past, a solid single record of what happened, still holding in its wild curves and contures the potential of every shape it could have held. It is impossible… not to feel a little sad looking at that bit of wax. It is impossible not to think of all the wild forms that wax will never take.

Welcome to Night Vale, episode 21 “A Memory of Europe”

(via rollinginhelmsdeep)

#always reblog

synthientmain

#roflmfao

hypnotic-flow

beautysatan

I have real grown-up person work I should be doing, and yet

duskisnigh

Will you spend the rest of your life with me?

micdotcom

Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.

annakie

At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.

They gave me a number to shoot for. It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.

So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.

I got what I asked for.

If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known. I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.

You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.

brianadeshe

Because this is crucially important

gayforbagels

Except for the fact that 90% of the time you are under contract not to talk about your salary otherwise the company can sue you. Every job I’ve had I’ve had to sign that I won’t discuss my pay with other employees otherwise my employment is terminated and the company will take legal action.

kintatsujo

It’s actually illegal for companies to forbid wage discussion, they’re just counting on you not knowing your rights.

tuf-luv

Important

ryantherabbot

Fuck.

radiantsolstice-blog

If you scrolled right past this - GO THE FUCK BACK UP - this is a huge PSA

jfc I’ll be having some words with some folks

cleastrnge

“Captain Marvel should smile more” “she looks so serious all the time” “she should smile more” “she’ll look better with a smile”

BRIE LARSON SNAPPED

diandrahollman-deactivated20211

My God, did some clueless asshole actually say that?

sabrecmc

This is hilarious

powerofthestruggle

Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904

comradepiyaz-deactivated2016020

this is an extremely important picture

fear-and-trembling-pdf-deactiva

Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg

scootsenshi

He has a nice face

fearwax-deactivated20200108

No but the history behind this picture is really interesting

The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.

It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.

But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.

thisisarebeljyn

I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.