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everything can be magical if you let it be. i remember the first time seeing red-winged blackbirds i was just…enthralled. i watched them for maybe an hour. i thought they made the sweetest noises and were just so pretty. and i found out later on that people consider them nuisances and pests. they’re literally common all over the united states but because they weren’t familiar to me they weren’t a burden or an annoyance but something beautiful. if we don’t let other people tell us how to feel about things, maybe we can just like things for what they are

this is a hotter, deeper take than i ever expected to see from this blog, but you’re so fucking right and i think this is a good ass post and a sentiment everyone should at least think about

Familiarity breeds contempt if you let it. Don’t let it.

Elect to live in a world of magic.

I don’t know if that’s meant in a metaphorical way as in, “their insults have no bite” or a literal sense as in “someone was talking shit so he got his fucking teeth knocked out” but I like it either way

“Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is a war crime.”

Wait it’s a fucking WAR CRIME?!?! I mean that might not be 100% accurate but now I gotta know

holy crap, collective punishment is a war crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Collective_punishments

and according to the exact legal phrasing-

No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.

This technically counts, as students are civilians, and thus considered a “protected person”. So yes, collective classroom punishment breaks the fourth Geneva Convention, and she should be rewarded for standing up for human rights and doing her research.

Power-move: accuse your teacher of a war crime using knowledge they supplied you with

donald trump look like he fighting death so hard lmao just close your eyes and walk towards the light my guy

ok so the other day i was at sears. I was in the baby section. Im standing there looking at clothes and a lady who works there comes up and is like “oh are you expecting?” And i was like “uhhhh” and because im a dumbass i was like “no i already delivered.” And she was like “How long ago?” And i was just like “two weeks.” And she said “wow! You look great! When i had my first son, i looked like a mess for six months. Is it a boy or a girl?” And i was just awkwardly like “a girl….” And she asked her name and i said Chernobyl and she was like “oh what a cute name! It sounds really familiar.” And i honestly just stood there going through all that and pretending i had a human baby two weeks ago named Chernobyl because i didnt wanna tell this poor lady i was buying baby clothes for my fucking baby opossum

every time i see this text post i forget the ending and every single time it decimates me

for best results when issuing a prophecy, sit on a three-legged stool. if you can’t summon the fumes directly from hades, dry ice is fine.

@spiritspodcast

i don’t know if this is common knowledge or not but anne frank’s diary was not some random document that sprang into existence by accident, she fully intended to publish it and she was actively revising it for publication at the time of her arrest, she desperately wanted to be an author when she grew up and she left behind a substantial amount of fiction (several short stories, a novel in progress) when she died. her diary was not a private stream of consciousness, like, she was writing to communicate with other people and to create a work of literature. there are unabridged editions available which are less polished and include passages that she and her father originally struck from the record, but the most widely available version, probably the one you read, was carefully edited and revised both by her and, after her death, her father. 

not to be controversial but absolutely disgusting that it’s sunday night 

“be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.” the best advice I’ve ever received.

that’s how I wanna go

Okay but if you read the article he wasn’t stabbed

he literally walked into the blade thinking it was a toy and not that it was a replica actual sword

HE LITERALLY WALKED INTO MY SWORD OFFICER

HE WALKED INTO MY SWORD TEN TIMES

HE HAD IT COMING

HE HAD IT COMING

HE ONLY HAD HIMSELF TO BLAME

Zelda to Chicago in 0.2 seconds

my adhd ass when someone says something and expects me to be able to comprehend it the first time

“not adhd but-”

People who just go “ugh nevermind” are the bane of my existence

Reposting again because some people just don’t seem to get the message

Jesus Christ I got a triple with me because I’m literally three of the hands

I just needed to make sure more people saw this.

I want those fucking shoes man

*smoke emiting from clenched fist*

woman: OOOOoOOH NoO!!!! It’s meelltIINNGG!!

*ring melts off woman’s hand*

woman: MY PRECIOUS POWERRrRR RING! GONE FOORRVVERrrr..

woman: *screams like a pterodactyl* 

I read the description and though “surely it’s not actually like that”

The contrast between the unbelievably extra voice acting and the extremely stiff and emotionless animation is what really makes this a masterpiece. 

the curse of the Toy Story generation

someone understands

people be like “is it really fair to judge someone based on their beliefs, choices, and actions?? :/“

I fuckin hate people who are just like negative about the most random pointless shit? like one time I said “guesstimation’ and the person I was talkin to was like “UGH god don’t fucking say that I HATE when ppl say GUESSTIMATION like it’s not a REAL WORD it pisses me off just say ESTIMATION” I was like damn…..jesus…….calm fuckin down……..I’m GUESSTIMATING you need a fuckin mid-day nap you god damn baby