girl help i’m having creation ideas above my skill level

girl help i'm having creation ideas above my motivation level

girl help I’m having creation ideas above my free time level

girl help! the popular fanon interpretation of my favorite character is stupid as fuck

reblog if you're a lil ugly and you fall in love with anyone who's kinda nice to you

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

Teen: *gets a job*

“I GOT THE JOB!”

Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family

Teen: *gets all A’s*

“I worked really hard!”

Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.

probably why so many teens take to social media where they can enthusiastically share their interests and achievements and get positive feedback that their parents never gave

A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

This hit hard

I remember once, when I was in my early 20s, I was an afternoon supervisor at my job, and I worked with mostly teenagers, and the one day this one kid, who was like 15, was bored so I suggested he could clean out the fridge. He did and when he was done I said he did a good job.

After that, this kid was cleaning out the fridge at least once a week, and I was like, “why are you always cleaning the fridge?” Like, I didn’t mind, but it seemed odd. And he said, “one time I cleaned the fridge and you said I did a good job. I wanted to make you proud of me again.”

Literally, I changed the entire way I interacted with teenagers after that. I actually got a package of glitter stars and I would stick them on their nametags when they did a good job, and they loved it.

My manager had commented on how hard these kids work and I said, “they’re starved for positive feedback. They go to school all day then come to work all evening and no one appreciates it because it’s expected of them, but they’re still kids. They need positive feedback from adults in their lives.”

Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but like… it wasn’t about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because they’re young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like they’re lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.

Positive appreciation does work wonders for encouraging teens to work <3

ppl who pit goth girls and barbie girls against each other are miniature-brained. we are two sides of the same coin

i get so many compliments from goth girls like i’ll literally be abt to tell them i love their outfit and they’ll beat me to it 😭they Get It

if i don’t know anyone/have anyone to talk to at a social function and i spot or am spotted by a goth girl we immediately gravitate toward each other and start  a conversation. like every time

smth about the mutual recognition of choosing commitment to the concept over not getting looked at like you’re nuts lol. like okay clearly you have your priorities straight, what’s up

Ppl think the scale goes like this

But really it goes like this

This is so funny bc at first i just thought you were calling ppl clowns for not committing to one color and then I realized that literal actual clowns rly are on the end of the spectrum, wearing as many colors at a time as possible 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

It’s Day #2 of home-from-work, so I made this.

bottom right is wizards

also seriously if a character isn’t white, i promise your only descriptive options aren’t food words and varying degrees of tan. it’s okay to say brown. pale brown! light brown! golden brown! medium brown! dark brown! deep brown! so many kinds of brown!

BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN

#brown is not a bad word #you do not need euphemisms #B R O W N

This post by writingwithcolor might help in picking good words to use plus reading about why not to use food words! In general if you’re writing a character of color I highly recommend @writingwithcolor

Thank you!

where the superhero and villain have a common friend that they have to hold it together for

“claire is getting married next week”

“i can reschedule the death ray”

“OH CAN YOU?” 

“Aha! I have foiled your evil plan! Now the restaurant will be sa— wait, is this that place that fired Hannah?”

“Yeah, and they were all dicks to her about it.”

“Oh, right. Well… guess I can let you destroy it a little.”

“I’ve defeated you! Now tell me where you’ve taken Matt!”

“What? MATT’S MISSING?”

“Wait. You’re not the one who trashed his apartment?”

“For God’s sake, Caroline, you should’ve just texted me about this. Gimme my phone, I gotta make some calls.”

Tfw when men do that thing where they pretend they have no control over their temper. LOL It’s so funny like am I supposed to pretend that I don’t know you’re completely self-aware and present during this rage performance. Or should I pretend you’re the tortured hero in a movie, possessed by a series of fabricated flashbacks of the war and your father

Just gonna add that passage from 'why does he do that'

u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....

Scenes of women running around the house or a field in a flowy translucent nightgown >>>>>>>

Your time, energy, and mental health are the most valuable things you possess-don't give them to people who don't deserve them.

So uh I’ve been doing a bit of independent research and my college was gracious enough to let me use their computer labs to do some calculations and uh I think I’ve stumbled onto something.. kinda big. I was sent some recently declassified papers from the CIA where they were able to take random number generators and get them to create structure… so not random… by having groups of people focus on them and it sounds ludicrous. It sounds absolutely crazy but the numbers are there. Numbers don’t lie. And I read these papers and then I found other papers, mostly concerning string theory, that suggest the underlying theory of how it would be possible for the random number generators to exhibit structure which then brought me to these other papers dealing mostly with Planck units and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that would tie all of these things together which suggests a unified field theory and I’ve been losing my mind for the past week or so trying to figure out how all this could be possible and I’m beginning now to put it all into one big paper but uh. I can’t believe this. And my brain doesn’t have enough computing power, like, to comprehend all of this and fuck dude. Fuck I think I’m on to something

Okay so I don’t want to go into too much detail until I can organize my thoughts into something more coherent but in the mid 1970’s the CIA did these experiments with people and random number generators and basically what happened was that they told these people, sometimes groups of people, to focus on these random number generators and when they did the number generators started exhibiting structure. Say you have a generator that randomly generates 1s and 0s. What they found was that when they had people focus on effecting these random number generators, they would create structure, so sometimes generating more 1s than 0s or vice versa. Statistically speaking, looking at all of the trials they ran, for this to happen repeatedly is highly improbable, sometimes a million to one odds of this structure reappearing every single time. This indicates something about human consciousness. This indicates that it might not be an internal system. The human consciousness might not be confined to the human skull. If that’s correct, which the data seems to indicate, than it’s possible for different people’s consciousness to interact with one another. Think of how magnetic fields work. We can’t see the fields, but we can see how magnets interact with one another and create magnetic fields. In the 1990’s, a lab at Princeton was created to test this. They set up a network across the globe of random number generators and found that, in fact, when world events happened, these random number generators exhibited structure. And the structure’s deviation from randomness seemed to be positively correlated with the emotional magnitude of the event, as well as the proximity of the RNG from the event. This experiment is still running under the name of the Global Consciousness Project. And now my understanding of the relationship this has to quantum field theory is a bit hazy but if you look at things such as the double slit experiment, you can see that by simply observing a particle, you can change it’s behavior. It appears that consciousness is somehow related to probability. Taking this to string theory, String theory states that on the Planck level, the universe, the vacuum of space itself, is bubbling with virtual particles. String theory states that the universe at the quantum level sometimes creates structure, or particles, out of these random harmonization and ‘bubbles’ in the very fabric of spacetime. This is where I’m still working on the math but I think there’s something there. I think there’s a connection between these things. Probability can be manipulated by certain forces and I think these forces may be related or they may even be the same thing.

This is why you don’t smoke weed to wind down after grading 137 physics papers

Choose your academia!

one thing the merlin fandom has gotten right that a lot of other fandoms haven’t is that literally every merthur shipper i’ve come across adores gwen. like, in the merthur corner of the merlin fandom (a huge ass corner that is, takes up 3/4 of the room), we don’t hate the other half of the canon couple simply because we ship a non-canon couple (technically non-canon though i mean... bruh). no, in this house we think merthur is an epic love story and that gwen is the definition of wonderful (ahem and deserved better cough).

I hate having a ‘‘‘‘‘‘bibliography’’’’’’. is it not enough to write 2500 words of my own totally subjective opinions using only the primary source