art hoe things:

Alyssa Hillary, Criptiques (via stimmyabby)

I caved and put the ZR characters into the hunger games simulator. Some highlights:

power couple

phil no

this is going to end well.

no one messes with sam’s runners.

…except maybe the runners themselves.

that’s right, working together like the badasses they are

oh sHIT

wait WHAT

let’s not get cocky there, five. it’s just a snuggle.

aww.

WAIT W H A T

that’s right asshole, you better feel guilty

what a fucking surprise.

what if we had vision like bats, like:

hey what do you think of my haircut

JSUT  A FUCKIN SECOND LEMEM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT LOOKS GREAT HAROLD

your fave is problematic… hydromatic… ultramatic… why it could be greased lightning!!!!

first rule of fight club

this was so cute lma o and made me giggle

This makes me happy haha

Alex Garant x The People’s Printshop.

Alex Garant has just released a gorgeous hand embellished print entitled “Kaleidoscope” with The People’s Printshop.  She customized each and every print with acrylics, pencils and metallic inks.  Check it out!

I made a new straight pride flag. please put this on your blog if you support the straights. i’ve seen too much heterophobia on tumblr and i want to know who our allies are uwu. WE NEED PROTECTION TOO!!

No! No, no, no, no, no! Do you know what this will do? This will make every above-average student choose between being an unpaid, uncredited tutor or an unpaid source of cheating. I have been in group projects in non-ability-segregated classes. I have almost always ended up either doing all the work or being teacher or taskmaster to the other students. This produces results that look good on paper. It does not produce real learning.

Also, yes math tracking sometimes allows kids to gain status. So do varsity sports. Who cares? Allow me some verifiable signal of my abilities, please.

(Sorry for the outrage. Every time I see education proposals, I picture me being born a few years later and having to deal with the results of the proposals. I know, typical mind fallacy, sorry. Needs of the many and whatnot. But I still don’t think this is a good idea, we need to get people who actually know math somehow.)

Boldface mine because AAAAHHHHHH.

When I was in high school, the district next to mine did away with tracking, with the explicit goal of turning students into uncredited tutors. “We hope that high-achieving students will serve as role models to their lower-achieving peers.” Besides the obvious issue of holding higher-achieving kids back, it also makes lower-achieving kids feel like shit. You can’t coerce higher performance by comparing kids to their peers.

The only real issue I have with tracking is that it can be difficult to change your track. I don’t think kids should be pigeonholed if they’re slow at first and catch up later. But JESUS CHRIST, forcing everyone into the middle is not a solution.

Or the other way around!

I would probably have learned a lot more math if they’d been willing to drop me into lower math classes. 

i chime in with a haven’t you people ever heard of

man door hand hook car door

Ode to Spot, Data Stardate 46154.2 (via trekuniverse)

Nimoy on Spock and Happiness

Interviewer: Does Spock envy Kirk in any way - or wish he had that ease with women, rather than the problems he’s always having?

Nimoy: “Well - Wait a minute - What problems?”

Interviewer: ‘Well, for example, Leila in “This Side of Paradise -“

Nimoy: “‘This Side of Paradise?’ That’s not a problem.”

Interviewer: ‘“I can love you,” Spock says when he finally is under the effect of the spores. Before that he couldn’t even talk to her.’

Nimoy [flatly]: “It’s not a problem. Spock without the influence of the spores functions the way he wants to - functions the way he chooses to. The spores put him in an altered position, where he functions differently because of the spores. But before and after the effect of the spores, he functions the way he chooses to.

Interviewer: ‘But the essence of that particular story is that spores released him to express the emotions which he had within him.’

Nimoy: "Well, I dealt with that in the book, I Am Not Spock. The point is that what you’re saying, the position you’re taking is that Spock, if he had the choice would choose to function as he did under the influence of the spores. Or that he was happiest then. And what I said in the book was that that’s not necessarily true. He had some insight into another kind of experience, which was interesting. But that does not necessarily mean that that would be his choice. Given the opportunity, he makes the choice to go the other way. He could, at the end of the show say, I would prefer to be that way, to be in that condition. But he doesn’t, does he?”

Interviewer: ‘Actually, he almost does. He says, “For the first time in my life, I was happy.” ’

Nimoy: “I wrote about that line, and what I said was that the human assumption would be that that would be a desirable state. Spock is not describing it in a qualitative sense. He’s describing it in a descriptive sense. Like you might say, ‘For the first time in my life I had a hamburger. For the first time in my life I was happy. For the first time in my life I walked down La Cienega Boulevard. For the first time in my life, I sat down and had lunch at The Captain’s Table.’ It’s just a statement of fact of something that he experienced. Humans would automatically say, ‘Aw, the poor guy, he can’t be happy anymore. He was only happy for that moment.’ Spock wasn’t feeling sorry for himself when he said that. He isn’t saying: (Spock:) ‘That’s a state of grace that I would like to achieve for the rest of my life.’ He’s just saying: ‘That’s interesting. Now I know what Humans mean when they say, “I’m happy.” Well, for the first time in my life, I was happy. So, I know, now. It’s part of my recorded matter in my head. If somebody says, “Do you know what happiness is?” - Yeah, I think I could say I know what that is. I had that once.’”

taken from this interview

sometimes I think that my dysphoria isn’t that bad, and that maybe the financial and emotional cost of medically transitioning isn’t worth it. Sometimes other people almost manage to convince me of that!

But enduring dysphoria is, for me, a massive and intricate process of denial. I feel okay for exactly as long as I can literally forget how my body looks and feels. This is disrupted by heat, mirrors, being misgendered, my clothes moving slightly, and, on a bad day, moving at all

dysphoria isn’t necessarily a constant state of anguish, but if the idea that I can control it predictably without transitioning is bullshit and I need to let it go

I feel like so many people fall into this trap of thinking that if they’re not AS MISERABLE AS THEY COULD POSSIBLY BE, then they aren’t miserable enough to deserve help. Which is such a bullshit binary. Suffering isn’t a competition, but even doctors and therapists frame it as such so much of the time.

the news is getting too real :o