Wild nights are my glory

good read for teachers.

I’ve been yelling this for years

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I already said this in the tags of my previous reblog but I also want to add: a lot of the time, “lazy” people can also be suffering from mental health symptoms or neurodiversity traits/symptoms. My ADHD was pretty bad before I started medication, and I could barely remember tasks, let alone start them when my executive dysfunction was at an all time high.

Not only that, disability and chronic conditions are major factors that also affect someone’s ability to perform simple tasks. My spouse’s executive dysfunction, depression, and anxiety absolutely made various things immensely difficult, but their unmedicated POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) made even the simplest self care, like brushing their teeth or staying awake, a Sysyphean task. I know a number of people whose chronic pain flare-ups make even eating, getting changed, or moving around nearly impossible. If simple tasks are difficult, imagine a project, an errand, an essay, etc; and with how many hours of near undivided attention that work and school demand from people, without allowing for even a smidge of rest during these long hours, if you’re already “low on spell slots”, things become difficult on an entirely new level.

I don’t want to take away from the anxiety and confusion factors, because I think those affect absolutely everyone, regardless of physical or mental health, but I think it’s super important to point out that things like chronic illness, mental health problems, and neurodiversity are often forgotten, even though they are heavy mounting factors (many times invisible and forgotten, even by the people who have them!) that deeply affect the people who suffer with them on a daily basis

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goodbye random stranger

If we interacted for the first time today via boops and are unlikely to run into each other again because we don't have the same fandom niches I just want you to know our boop bond is real and if I ever see you randomly come across my dash I'll think to myself "aww my boop bud" and send you warm thoughts and good vibes

on a list of dumb shit i know:

What else?

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Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, how did you did that.

kill me three times, this time loop fucking sucks

Stoned off my ass currently and so fucking mad at this meme that i had to fix it. Google sheets you are fucking on the google sheets.

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tweet 1: tweet by @/PresidentToguro says "we fuckin on the Microsoft Excel bed tn" with an image of a bed with a spreadsheet duvet cover and Google sheets taskbar pillow covers

reblog with a screenshot of tags that say "we aren't fuckin at all if you can't discern between excel and sheets"

tweet 1 again, with a green box and white text (in the style of Google Sheets) over the latter half of the sentence, so that it reads "we fuckin on the Google sheets"

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ANDREW LOOMIS (American 1892 - 1959) Two Women Oil on board. 23.5 x 20 in. Signed lower right.

went to see if my late package maybe showed up without being scanned

but the post man yesterday said it would be here at ooooooooooone

is 9…………. post office closing time…….  no pkg……………………………………………………… >:C

well at least i can skip my post office visit tomorrow

i mean what did i expect really

a package?

too unrealistic

amazon sent me a replacement for my lost package and it “arrived” today

omg she recognized me immediately and got nervous with me while checking the system using my name

she was just as distraught as me when it turned up “arriving tomorrow” again but then she had another idea

mail is dumb

The mail lady saying “NO. I REFUSE to say it again” was more climactic than the Braveheart speech.

oh my gosh, op’s bio says “The package was a laptop” which gives SUCH a new perspective

Absolutely wild that this is presented as something the drug companies are doing and not a law that the Biden admin passed.

The only reason they're doing this is that Biden threatened to seize their drug patents.

One and all I present you: a Shadowgast coloring book! Art drawn by the lovely folk over at The Aeor is for Lovers discord server!

You can access the book pdf here and a folder containing all the drawings here!

The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks

Ok firstly l already love love LOVE analysis’ like this and this is fucking AMAZING but also like

percy’s choice to refuse immortality and to tell the gods to break the cycle is just such an empowering scene, and when l first read the book, l read that chapter over and over and over again and l didn’t know why, but it’s just because that scene just gives you that moment of oh, wow, and it feels like that first domino falling, that first action that very first step, in a series of chain reactions that’s going to lead us to a better place.

And yeah, I’m future series we see that’s things aren’t going perfectly because nothing’s perfect, y’know, and that’s just reality, but you can still see that chain of dominoes falling one after another, and you realise that this can happen, we can break this cycle, and you see that Percy’s world isn’t so different from ours, because both worlds are still incredibly messed up with so many problems that still haven’t been solved, but these books just make it a little better, and a little more hopeful, and OH MY GOD THE NEW PERCY JACKSON SERIES EPISODE TITLES

It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks

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Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.

I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.

The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.

If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.

At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.

At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.

This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.

Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.

Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.

Leave people alone.

The world is complicated.

Make your own content.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.