idk why i just remembered this but all throughout kindergarten and first grade i used to draw a lil snail in the corner of every paper i had to turn in because it was a happy snail so i thought it would make my teachers happy when they were grading papers because i was a pure and simple child but in 2nd grade my teacher would take off 2 points if i drew it on my homework and 5 points if i drew it on a quiz or test so i stopped but like
it was so harmless it was just a lil shitty doodle of a smiling snail it wasn’t distracting me or anything from the task at hand
so i’d like to say to mrs whoeverthefuck that snail was supposed to be a happy thing u bitch
This perfectly describes what is wrong with our education system
Honestly, the first thing in my head was "A Spurt"
Writing, when you get down to the nuts and bolts of actually putting words on paper, is one of the loneliest professions. But then there are conventions, panels, collaborative serialized storytelling experiments, and (thanks to social media) Twitter hashtag fun and Reddit AMAs, all of which see authors congregating in the same physical or digital space. But what do you call it when these famously reclusive creatures are all collected together? Like a mob of kangaroos or a unkindness of ravens, we thought writers deserved their very own descriptive collective noun. We came up with “a mischief of authors,” but we want to hear yours!
A collective noun could be useful in all sorts of situations, really, including our fanfic about Lord Byron’s ghost story competition (the one that lead to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein). Oddly, one never comes up in Mike Carey’s The Unwritten, which features cameos from many authors throughout history and plays heavily with stories and the lives they warp.
Of course, your answer reveals what you really think about scribes, whether it’s “a rumpus of writers,” “an audacity of authors,” “a gossip of columnists”… Or none of the above!
So, we implore you to stretch your own writing muscles and fill in the blank: “a [collective noun] of authors.”
18 minutes from leaving work, and I'm crying. So, you know, Friday.
This small Jyn Erso is actually named Harley, and her dad Dino Ignacio makes all sort of fantastic cosplay outfits for his family. This year, in honor of the dearly departed Carrie Fisher, Harley came to the Star Wars Celebration prepared with her Jyn outfit and a stack of Death Star plans–and handed them out to every Leia she saw.
Observe. And then cry with us.
A New Hope Leia!
A Cloud City Leia!
An Endor Leia!
A–hey, wait a minute, that’s skipping over a significant part of the plot!
There are more of these utterly charming photos from the Star Wars Celebration over at Ignacio’s Imgur account. And you’ll find more impressive cosplay in his gallery!
This statement is a response to the people who are continually shocked that “pro-life” doesn’t care about babies after they are born, the death penalty, making sure poor people don’t die b/c their health care has been stolen, etc.
Yes, of course “pro-life” doesn’t care about that. Because it’s not about lives and it never was.
They never cared about babies.
The whole baby thing is part of the con.
It’s a con. Stop believing in right wing lies.
It’s not about babies. It was never about babies.
Stop arguing with them about babies.
Never argue with a liar on their own liar terms.
This is why “pro-life” people are also coming after IUDs and the Pill and preventing people from getting life-saving miscarriage care.
So-called “pro-life” is a movement that murders doctors and bombs medical clinics.
And we really need to talk about tactics here, b/c misogyny is winning the propaganda war and has been for decades.
If your personal stance is- I believe everyone should be able to get an abortion but…
Just stop before the but.
Stop qualifying it with “but I never would” or I think it’s wrong" or whatever other “I’m a good person” signal you are trying to throw out.
B/c by doing that, you are ceding ground to misogynist violence. You are letting them win the “is abortion a bad thing” argument.
Abortion is not bad.
And if you support abortion access- All you need to say is “I support abortion access for anyone who wants one”.
We have to reframe the abortion fight as what it really is- a misogynist attack on gender equality.
It’s not about babies at all. It never was.
If you understand that, you will understand why the so called “pro-life” movement behaves as it does.
The rhetoric and behavior does not match up at all.
That should tell you something.
Don’t pay attention to what they say.
Only to what they do.
If you want solid proof of this, check out some of the historyof the “pro-life” movement. Before about 1980, almost no evangelical leader would have said abortion was murder. It was only the advancement of women’s rights that made it an issue. It’s been solely about politics, not religion, since the beginning.
I love this. For the abortion stuff, yes because it’s so true. But also because we really do need to stop debating on the terms of those who put us in the defensive while working for oppression. We react like they’re playing by fair rules we set out as a society long ago, but they’re not.
You hate women, your argument is invalid. I don’t have to debate, I don’t owe that.
I really need the credits scene on Ragnarok to be a close-up shot of sensible boots walking down an alley and stopping at the remains of Mjolnir, then a woman’s hand picking up the handle, the pieces slowly reform around it as it’s lifted into the air, we see glimpses of the red cape, flowing hair, and helmet amid flashes of lightning, and then Mjolnir, whole once more, lifted high, and Natalie Portman’s voice saying “the world will always need a Thor” and then Thor will return end movie
A 22-month-old female scaredy cat tiger appeared to get the shock of her young life when she encountered a dead leaf floating on a pool of water in the Bandhavgarh National Park, India. Clearly unusure about just what was approaching her, the partially submerged youngster’s tail shot up in the air and with teeth bared she let out her most fearsome growl - all in an effort to scare the humble leaf away.
Picture: HERMANN BREHM / NPL / Rex Features
I CAN’T BREATHE
OMFG I AM DYING!
this is like the happiest thing I have encountered in a while
they should form a support group.
I lost it when I saw the tail, before I even read the comment oh my god
My name is cat And wen I see An unnown thing Approaching me Prepared to fite I show my teef I growl real loud I scare the leef
Juvenile punks are brightly colored as a form of protective visibility, allowing their parents to find them easily and preventing injuries such as traffic mishaps and accidental mosh pit squishing. As they mature, punks develop their darker, studded adult plumage.
That was…not the description I was expecting, but it’s perfect.
"All of this raises the obvious question: If Republicans never had a plausible alternative to Obamacare, if this debacle was so inevitable, what was the constant refrain of “repeal and replace” all about?" RACISM.
It’s not surprising Republican repeal-and-replace efforts keep getting nowhere.
Do you sometimes sob over the fact that Buffy killed herself in season 5 so she wouldn’t have to lose Dawn and then a year later she realizes she wants to live because she wants to see Dawn live her life?
cats are squishy cartoon friends that live in your house with you and do rad stunts. if they like you they vibrate at you very loudly. this is somehow a real animal
Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.
Like he will not be happy at all.
For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.
This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others).
Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status.
And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.
I will always reblog this.
I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by
R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.
This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.
There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.
Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).
Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.
If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.
The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.
And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.
Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.
So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done.
In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier.
And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.
You can read an article about it here. But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize.
There’s some researchers at UBC in Vancouver who look at this kind of bias, and they use the acronym WEIRD–standing for “Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic”–to describe how the typical research subject differs from the world on average.
