a week ago I met martin freeman and this was truly the most full circle moment of my entire life !!! (still screaming at these photos btw)

basically when I found out martin freeman was coming on our show after working here for 3 years and never asking to meet any guests because I was saving my ask for when(if) martin freeman came on someday I cried and had 5 existential crises in a row before I decided the only way I could live with myself was if I didn’t ask him for anything and made the moment solely about taking in the moment and thanking him for his impact on my life (in other words no selfies/autographs) LITTLE DID I KNOW I WAS GETTING PICS

I memorized what I was going to say because I knew if I didn’t I would say something stupid and I wouldn’t be able to keep it short. I was not expecting to meet him inside of his dressing room and I was NOT expecting our show photographer to offer getting pics of the moment (moments before I went in!) but everything just happened all of a sudden

so when I walked in I slightly blacked out but the gist our interaction was “nice to meet you!” *handshake* “I just wanted to say thank you because I would not be working in tv if I hadn’t seen your work. so thank you” which was all I had prepared and it went exactly as planned but then he asked me to elaborate so I just sort of reiterated how I genuinely didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life before I discovered my favorite shows (which he’s in all of them) and he said “wow, tell me more, I mean just keep complimenting me” which made my heart burst

eventually I came over to his side of the room to pose for pictures (at some point I also mentioned seeing him in richard III at trafalgar ! ) and I clearly didn’t know what to do with my arm here

this was the part where he was sort of bouncing forward and backwards saying billy bob taught him that if you want to look better than everyone else you’ve got to move your head behind them, as to make your face look slimmer or something 😂😂 I was losing it at this point because he is just so effortlessly funny without trying i honestly

[oh I forgot to mention when I saw him on stage doing cell phone profile and making jokes with james, I actually started crying. I have never cried from seeing a celebrity in person before. i will never forget it]

at the end of the day, my coworker (the one who introduced me to him) told me that martin actually mentioned me on his way out of the building saying he loved/appreciated what I said and that it really touched him (!!!!!!!!!!)  

to think…….. that what i said…… actually made him feel good !!! ??? 🥺🥺🥺 and that just multiplied everything i was feeling x a million

dream come true period. i am really proud of myself for pushing through all of the anxiety and stuff because this moment really surpassed my wildest expectations and I am so grateful. 

Everything about this is freaking awesomeeee. Congratulations!!! Assuming this was pre-show, OP I think you can take some credit for him being in such a good mood that day lol. Only somewhat sassy but I don’t think as grumpy as he usually is 😂

“Wow, tell me more, I mean just keep complimenting me” is such a 110% fucking Martin thing to say lolololol. I’m pretty sure most famous people get fawned over on a regular basis but it’s not always that they’re told that they had a positive impact on someone’s life, so I bet he really appreciated it.

Also wtf Martin you’re small enough you don’t need to move any further away from the camera lol smh.

I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed

SHIT WHAT

Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.

I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we don’t let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesn’t have a release valve. Men, please cry. You’ll feel better. It’s ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.

This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. They’re literally made up of different things. 

Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.

I looked it up, cuz that tidbit was dope to me and..

Never would have known

Ah yes, the emotions: grief, change, onion, humor

me reading my own posts: hmm..  That’s an embarrassing thing 2 post on the internet 

Kindergarteners learned to sign “Happy Birthday” song to Deaf custodian, Mr. James. And he was surprised 😭😭

Gosh can we start caring more about the people that are around our kids like this…. please?

some guy at the mens bathroom was like oi whatre you doin here and i was like wym im not a girl and he was like aw fuck sorry you just got beautiful features and fist bumped me

this is so iconic we stan whoever this man was

I’m suing the U.S. government for causing the climate change crisis, and I'm 22.

My name is Kelsey Juliana and I’m suing the United States government for causing and accelerating the climate change crisis. I’m 22 years old and I’ve been a climate activist for more than half of my life.

I know that young people like me, and others who have yet to be born, have a right to a safe climate system. The constitution guarantees all Americans the right to life, liberty, and property. But how is anyone supposed to live a life of freedom amid a climate crisis? My own government is violating my constitutional rights by its ongoing and deliberate actions that cause climate change and it’s not right.

I, along with 20 other young people from around the country, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2015, called Juliana v. United States.

We’re not asking for money. Instead, we’re asking the court to order the government to develop and implement a National Climate Recovery Plan based on the best available science.

This plan should end the reign of fossil fuels and quickly decarbonize our atmosphere so that we can stabilize our climate system before it’s too late.

The longer we go without climate recovery, the more we risk allowing our climate to spiral completely out of control.

And the climate is spiraling out of control, no matter how many politicians claim we’re experiencing normal fluctuations or, worse, a “hoax.” All of the expert witnesses in our lawsuit say that we are currently—already—in the “danger zone” and an “emergency situation” with only 1°C of planetary heating. Allowing the planet to heat up any more is not safe for our species, as well as so many others. And according to the Trump administration’s most recent environmental impact statement, the planet could heat as much as 7°F before the end of this century. We cannot allow this to happen because we simply will not survive.

We originally filed our lawsuit against the Obama administration. That administration tried to have the case dismissed, but the judge ruled in our favor and found that we should be allowed to go to trial.

In 2017, the Trump administration inherited the lawsuit and it has done everything in its power, employing every conceivable tactic, to deny my fellow plaintiffs and me our right to present our case in court. This administration is so fiercely attempting to silence our voices.

At this point, every level of the federal judiciary—the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court—has denied the Trump administration’s efforts to have the case thrown out. Yet it will not halt its efforts to avoid standard legal procedures and confront us, the nation’s youth, in court.

Our trial is officially scheduled to begin on October 29, 2018 in Eugene, Oregon.

What we’re asking for could change everything.

My fellow plaintiffs and I want you with us as we head into the courtroom to confront the United States government for knowingly violating our constitutional rights. Supporters will hold rallies in every state around the country, so if you can’t be with us in Eugene, find your local rally here.

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Boosting!

you’re yelling? at ME? the one person who has never done anything wrong ever?????

Thank you, Carrie Fisher.

Carrie: specifically asks women

Man: talks

Carrie: Shut the fuck up I wasn’t talking to you

me: time to get some work done at this here work  brain: if symmetry and balance is sought in a story structure, and John at the end of ep1 saves Sherlock using a gun, the same one which John thought to use on himself, the mirror of that is Sherlock saving John from me:  gonna stop you right there !! gonna stop you right there buddy 

[HQ] New still from Cargo (x)

*gets absolutely nothing done* well time for a break