I'm a mess

but I'm the mess that you wanted

[aslowmotionlovepotion]

the duality of taylor swift

[abby-howard]

[cheshirelibrary]

[incognito-princess]

My friend teaches high school history and allowed his students to do their chapter summaries on their chosen biographies as originally created memes. He said that he had never had kids read so carefully to find the most obscure detail from chapters to make their memes. [pro-tip, for younger middle school/elementary school students, make a folder of popular meme templates, to avoid uncomfortable internet searches}

[your-eyes-can-be-so-cruell]

This reminds me of my class watching the 90s film and when it got to this scene some guy in my class shouted out ‘hoe don’t do it’ and then 5 seconds later -sigh- ‘he did it’.

[finrays]

Shakespeare would have loved this 😔

[ilikeit-art]

[1esbrarian]

[arqueete]

check out this spotify playlist of men covering women’s songs without changing pronouns

[1esbrarian]

nice

[thegenesimmonsboots]

the same user made a playlist of women covering men’s songs without changing pronouns!

[aphony-cree]

double nice

[holyfunnyhistoryherring]

[ID: a tweet by Joel Kim Booster “If you’re covering someone else’s love song, don’t change the pronouns, you fucking coward. That song is about a man and you’re gay for the next three minutes!!!” End ID.]

[unbotheredmuse]

[omgciochemipiace]

🤣🤣🤣

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

Stuff like this reminds me that not only are Elephants immensely intelligent and deeply social, they also generally consider humans to be legitimately “cute/adorable” in the same way we do for dogs or cats.

This playful elephant is likely acting accordingly.

[ironedorchid]

Elephant scientist testing whether humans understand object permanence.

[mysteriousgirlatlibrary-deactiv]

[lordsmaf]

I will forever respect Animorphs for tricking kids who are just really into animals to read a book series by going “Hey you, you daydream about what it’s like to be a dolphin or a bird or a wolf? Have I got a book for you!” and then slowly radicalizing them with 50+ books of “There are no winners in war. Whatever ‘victory’ you perceive comes at the cost of sacrificing your own morals and killing the part of you that is human. In the end you will resort to murder, torture and war crimes and the knowledge of what you have done will haunt you for as long as you live.”

[trickstertime]

I also respect the author for putting them all online for free

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#what the FUCK is going on in the animorphs books

Why not find out they’re all online for free

[stsathyre]

@badatwritingstuff @nerdyvirgo @takingmyselfhostage

Should book club start with something a little old and a little strange?

[wulfhalls]

ITS TIME

[dailycupofcreativitea]

So my coworker (lab mate?) is partially deaf and was given a sign language interpreter by the university (so he doesn't pay for anything) and also got one at his new job, which is really cool.

I didn't realize just how hard sign language interpreters work until I started interacting with his interpreter.

Any time I need a Zoom call from my coworker to get him to explain some machine learning stuff to me, his interpreter joins the Zoom call.

During 2 hour lab meetings, he has 2 interpreters that constantly switch so they don't get tired, and when there's only one, we have to take a break in the middle so she can rest.

Both his interpreters spent a lot of time reading complex scientific journal articles in machine learning in order to agree on what language to use during the lab meetings.

We went out for a lab lunch and everyone ordered all this delicious food...and the interpreter couldn't eat anything, because she had to work (my coworker said it's part of their job but still!).

She would constantly ask me what the group on the other side of the table was talking about so she could keep my coworker "in the loop" of the "office chatter" instead of only interpreting when someone spoke directly to him.

Having to struggle with words from other languages (I'm bilingual and when I mixed in some Urdu words, the interpreter asked me to translate so she could sign them). Also having to interpret conversations where everyone is interrupting each other.

Just...it's such an important job and I didn't realize how much work goes into it. Sign language interpreters are amazing and really do their part to not only "translate" for deaf people, but to make them feel included in all of the conversation.

[fall-out-boy]

on this day, 6 yrs ago, bruno mars was surprised to see pete wentz

[emoheritageposts]

on this day, 13 yrs ago, bruno mars was surprised to see pete wentz

[emoheritageposts]

on this day, 14 yrs ago, bruno mars was surprised to see pete wentz

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[breakbleheavens]

So this tour has been in ways that I can’t begin to explain, has been one of the best things that’s ever happened to me in my life and one of my favorite things I’ve ever gotten to be apart of. I feel like I started one person and at this point am a different one. And that’s because of you, that’s because of the love and generosity and hospitality you’ve shown us every night on this tour.

REPUTATION STADIUM TOUR May 8 - November 21, 2018

happy birthday to my mirror twin @nobodynocrime​!!

[sentrysvoid]

The Hunger Games (2012) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

bonus:

[medievalthymes]

peeta:

[lolaf87]

#ngl one thing i adore about this series is that the girl is dark and brooding and physically intimidating and deadly with a weapon#and the boy is soft and gentle and generous and kitchen oriented and emotionally brilliant and manipulative#they’re foils in a very traditional way but the traditional gender role split is very neatly inverted#he represents home and domesticity and babies and he’s almost fridged#but he’s not soft in a simplistic way. he knows how to work the crowd by showing a little throat#these books are too stressful for me to reread but parts of them have really stuck with me#the hunger games#peeta mellark

yeah what maculategiraffe said

[fluffygif]

Just storm in a Canada

[catspinach]

[pollicinor]

Il troll di Photoshop

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Imagine being this good at photoshop and using it for evil.