kushandwizdom:

“Replace the thoughts of ‘why is this happening to me’ with ‘what is this trying to show me’.”

— Audrey Kitching

spooderham:

im-not-a-crack-pot:

rhaella:

rhaella:

zelys:

scofflawsins:

rhaella:

why is barbie’s the nutcracker the only good film adaption of the nutcracker that has ever been made

because barbie movies slap next question

are u implying barbie rapunzel isnt also the only good rapunzel adaptation that has ever been made

tangled is just a rip-off of barbie rapunzel and that’s just the tea ☕️☕️

anyway here’s a definitive ranking of every barbie movie I’ve ever even vaguely heard of

Hey fucker you dare diss Barbie and The Princess School I’ll fight you at 3:36 am in a Denny’s

How can you in clear conscience call barbie and the magic pegasus “bad teir”???????

phoebe-does:

life’s too short to not fill each moment with love. Choose to buy that plant you saw at the shops and nurture it. Choose to take a study break and spend it sketching or day dreaming. Choose to keep that picture you took of you with your s/o for yourself to enjoy instead of watching for the likes coming on social media. Put love into how you do your hair or maybe whack it into a messy bun and put love into creating art. Put love into how you treat others and value all members of society, treating everyone with love and respect. Choose to love yourself as you would others, respecting yourself and loving yourself, especially after failure. Choose love.

ib-studyblr:

study-sprout:

by a horrible procrastinator

scheduling:

• keep things realistic. you may think you can read 200 pages of jane eyre in one night, and honestly, you could…but you won’t unless that essay that’s 30% of your grade is due, you know, tomorrow.
  
• you know your habits better than anyone. try to work around what you know you’re going to do. can you read about 25 pages without getting totally bored/sidetracked? well, make yourself do that. it’s only 25 pages, right?
• try to accomplish one thing every day. don’t ever let your day slip away from you without doing anything. even if that “one accomplishment” is making a stupid text post on tumblr or revising your notes or washing your sheets…just be productive!
• this is especially important for those of you with mental illness! having a “zero day” can really plummet your mood or set you in an unproductive rut.
• if you really feel like you need a day to just chill out, napping can count as your accomplishment
  
• don’t push studying off! you’ve probably heard this one a million times, but seriously. don’t. you’re not going to retain 10 weeks worth of information with one study session…okay, maybe you can, but do you really want to?
• the best, low-effort way of remembering information is to, at first, review it often. right after you learn the material, review it a couple times during the week. maybe re-write your notes that weekend. then, the next week, visit one or two times, just glazing over parts you don’t really remember well. then, maybe once every two weeks, etc…by the time you get to finals, you’ll be familiar with all the information! trust me, it works.
• organize your to-do’s. personally, i make a huge to-do list for the entire week. then, i delegate different ‘levels’ of urgency to it (see below.) you can do this however you want, but i do it this way to help me visualize how lazy i can be and not pay for it…
• i tend to organize it by these ‘categories’ / ‘urgent levels’
• is there a quiz on the material due soon
• how likely is there to be a pop quiz
• what’s my grade in the class like / how badly do i need that ‘a’
• does the homework/assignment need to be turned in
• etc
  

actually doing it:

• studyspo helps. okay, i know this is kind of obvious considering i’m a studyblr, but… you see that notebook you just bought? isn’t it fucking adorable? don’t you want to make some sweet, sweet note-love to it? you know you do.
  
• don’t spend too much time setting up your work space or browsing tumblr. seriously. you know when you’re overstepping.
• have some nice playlists. preferably with music you already know! if you don’t know the song already, chances are it’s just going to become a distraction.
  
• 8tracks is a great site for this! you can make your own mixes or take a listen to one of the many, many study / chill playlists available. again, take a listen to the track on your way to class or whatever before actually trying to study with it on.
  
• instrumentals + classical + video game music are the standard
• get organized. messy = stressy. seriously. organize your desk, organize your notes. even if it’s not really your style, at least try to keep things ‘in your personal order.’ try to pretend you have your shit together. you will be so much more productive & confident if you feel in control of your situation.
  
• if you’re a perfectionist, you may want to disregard this. really. you don’t want to put ‘tidiness’ above productivity.
• taking pictures of your awesome, super-nice work space is awesome motivation. give that illusion of productivity. become tumblr famous.
  
• if you can afford it, matching stationary and cute shit like that is super awesome feeling. it makes studying aesthetically satisfying.
  
• take care of yourself. brush your teeth, put on that nice-smelling lotion, drink water. eating healthy foods, getting some exercise, all that good shit people tell you to do…it really is important. it’s kind of hard to focus or remain motivated if you’re miserably bloated & haven’t showered in 3 days.
• especially for my neurod or mentally ill followers!

i fucked up: 

• repeat after me: IT’S OKAY. IT’S OKAY. we all fuck up. you’re allowed to fuck up. sometimes assignments don’t get done, sometimes we don’t do as well on tests as we’d like. it’s okay. you’re okay.
  
• recovery. alright, so, now that we’ve accepted that we’re human beans who sometimes grow upside-down…
• cuddle in a blanket, and write down what you think you did wrong. did you not study enough? do you need to go to your professors office hours? write down your ideas.
  
• let your failure motivate you! you hit your lowest point, alright? now you can focus on doing better, even if it’s just a few points difference.
• you can do some things wrong. you don’t need to get an A every single time. did you understand 50% of the material? well, that’s halfway there!
  
• you’re not going to be perfect at everything. we all have growing pains.
  

well, that’s all i have to say. keep growing towards the sun, kids.

“try to pretend you have your shit together. you will be so much more productive & confident if you feel in control of your situation.”

kamorth:

nerdygirlnoodles:

Okay, but seriously on the topic of straight people being so overly concerned about their children being exposed to homosexuality…

As some of you know, I am a makeup artist in a holistic beauty boutique in a very wealthy area of eastern New York. The week before Halloween I was offering simple costume makeup designs for both adults and children. So my last client of the evening was a 15 year old girl who came in to get her makeup done for the Halloween dance at her school. I was enjoying a conversation with both the girl and her mother when suddenly the topic of transgender came up. I got a little nervous because I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when I hear people speaking negatively about these sorts of topics and as I mentioned, my store is in a very upscale, white, conservative area…

Anyway, the girl starts telling us that her friend prefers to be a boy now. She says it very simply and comfortably and it made me happy to see her talk about it as if it was really no big deal.

Her mother says

“How does she even know what transgender is though? She’s a little young to be making a decision like that. I really think the media is taking things too far with all this gay stuff. I’m not against it or anything, but didn’t you just tell me two boys in your class are dating too?”

The girl said that yes, two boys she knew were dating and another boy she knew was gay also. (And she also corrected the pronouns her mother used for her friend)

“I don’t mind that she knows that homosexuality is,” the mother said. “But I don’t think it should be taught at such a young age. Did you know it’s on Disney channel now?”

It took me a moment to respond, I just kept painting the girl’s face until I could figure out what I wanted to say.

“Well,” I said. “We tend to teach heterosexuality literally from the time a child is born. Most children’s books and movies are even centered around a romance of some kind like a Prince and a Princess for example. There’s rarely a children’s movie that comes out where the main male and female character don’t end up marrying each other in the end. If we don’t have a problem flooding our children’s minds with heterosexuality from the time they are able to sit up and watch a movie on their own, what is so wrong with showing them two boys or two girls being in love? We aren’t showing them sex. We aren’t showing them anything inappropriate. Since when is love inappropriate? If we show them love in all it’s forms (be it gay or straight) from an early age, they will see that it’s all perfectly normal and natural and maybe we can finally put homophobic the past…”

The woman considered this for a second and then said “I just feel like they see it and then they start to think that they might be too.”

“And maybe they are. But isn’t it better for them to know that it’s okay? They aren’t hurting anyone.”

Then the girl said. “No ones going around just thinking they are gay because they know what gay is, mom. I know what a chicken is, that doesn’t mean I’m going to wake up tomorrow and start clucking.”

I loved this kid. I hope she does well in all of her endeavors

I’m not going to wake up tomorrow and start clucking

archaeologicals:

miscellaneous links no. 3

• here’s a short history of cursed paintings and a longer investigation of haunted antiques.
  
• michelangelo and raphael; constable and turner; leibniz and newton. does every creative genius need a bitter rival?
  
• what the sleeping hermaphrodite motif in greco-roman art tells us about art, sex, and good taste.
  
• 2,500-year-old homoerotic graffiti was found on a wild, windswept, rocky, and remote aegean island.
  
• this isn’t quite as secret, but deserves to be better known: the paintings of poet e.e. cummings.
• how to respond to people who say “i could do that” when they look at modern art.
  
• the newly uncovered colours of two van gogh paintings show how the artist’s darkening life cast a shadow over his work, and change the way art experts see the late period of his life. 
• two historians discuss cosmetics in the renaissance. 

disappointed-pero-not-surprised:

bubblybikerides:

marshmallowfrootloops:

covertplantigrade:

subtly-shakespearean:

the-start-of-something8059:

i threw a bunch of vines into a shakespearean translator and they’re all great great but this one is definitely my favorite:

“Love looks with the heart, not with the mind, and therefore, Cupid is blind wench. I ain’t nev'r gonna cease loving thee… wench”

@shadowforce25

“Can i privee recieveth a waffle?” Bitch this took me out

lilabard:

reblog and put in the tags what your total number of notes across all original posts are from this site. it also gives you your top 9 posts.