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My Rocket Queen Michelle

@myrocketqueenmichelle / myrocketqueenmichelle.tumblr.com

Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the boys are pretty
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After hearing the song "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes for the first time in a good while . . . I'm now basically obsessed with it again and this is a PSA for it to be Harry's next cover.

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I think next thursday is gonna be the best day of my entire life tbh

reblog for next thursday to be the best day of your life

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not risking it

I like how this post didn’t threaten me or my mother if I did not reblog…very wholesome. Have a great Thursday

I have a test. Not risking it

I’d like to put a reminder in this post that all you’re risking is a normal Thursday, and reblogging only gives you internal positive vibes. It’s a bit unsettling that any post that jokingly gives good luck is always interpreted as having an implicit threat. Your Thursday’s gonna be great. <3

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99 legal sites to download literature

The Classics

Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.

  1. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
  2. The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
  3. Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
  4. Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
  5. Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
  6. Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
  7. Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
  8. Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
  9. The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
  10. Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
  11. Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
  12. Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
  13. Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
  14. Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

Textbooks

If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.

  1. Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
  2. Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
  3. KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
  4. Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
  5. Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
  6. MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
  7. Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
  8. Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
  9. Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
  10. eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.
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mrsokiedoke

Annnnd our parents and grandparents never taught us basic life skills because the baby boomer generation loved outsourcing easy work, like hemming pants and baking cakes. The generations before us glommed onto the fast, easy fix, and important skills have been lost in the process.

(And of course the generation who raised us loves to act fake shocked like “my grandkids don’t know how to boil water” like yeah, Janice, that’s because you took your kids out to eat 6 nights a week and baked Stouffers lasagna one night)

And now we are broke. And can’t afford to pay $60 to have every pair of pants we own hemmed (shoutout to shorties!). We are making yogurt because we can’t afford to pay $2.50 for one yogurt.

I’ve learned to knit to make myself wool hats and scarves. I’ve learned to sew so I can make items that would otherwise cost me 4x the cost to make it. I’ve learned to make yogurt because I would prefer to spend $2 for a gallon of milk and get 24 yogurts out of it rather than just one.

I’ve planted fruit trees in my yard so I can reduce the carbon footprint of the fruit I eat, and because produce is expensive.

I raise egg-laying chickens so I don’t contribute to factory farming.

My husband hunts deer so that we can eat lean, virtually fat free meat, and also not contribute to factory farming. The deer live happy lives and are not allowed to suffer. (Hey PS also, hunting up here plays an important role in ecology, as otherwise the deer population would explode, and deer would starve in the winter. Thanks for coming to my TEDta…)

My generation is going on YouTube to learn to change tires, bake bread and do their taxes because y’all sure as shit didn’t teach us.

THIS

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ironbite4

Lets not forget the phasing out of the HomeEc class.  Or the Shop Class.

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lkeke35

Alleviating one’s ignorance of a subject should NEVER, EVER be looked down on! Learning and growing are never anything to be shamed of, or for!

reblogging for the additions.  

really if you take a moment to think about the headline it basically just says “millennials are so helpless they’re taking time to learn how to do things they don’t know how to do”

oh no…how awful…

Damn kids and their *spins roulette wheel* commitment to continued education in practical skills…

I mean you expect us to spend 4+ taking classes that ultimately don’t really help us find a job anyway, sooo seems more logical to take classes that are actually useful???

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kaydean

get to know me, pick some numbers.

1. selfie 2. what would you name your future kids? 3. do you miss anyone? 4. what are you looking forward to? 5. is there anyone who can always make you smile? 6. is it hard for you to get over someone? 7. what was your life like last year? 8. have you ever cried because you were so annoyed? 9. who did you last see in person? 10. are you good at hiding your feelings? 11. are you listening to music right now? 12. what is something you want right now? 13. how do you feel right now? 14. when was the last time someone of the opposite sex hugged you? 15. personality description 16. have you ever wanted to tell someone something but you didn’t? 17. opinion on insecurities. 18. do you miss how things were a year ago? 19. have you ever been to New York? 20. what is your favourite song at the moment? 21. age and birthday? 22. description of crush. 23. fear(s) 24. height 25. role model 26. idol(s) 27. things i hate 28. i’ll love you if… 29. favourite film(s) 30. favourite tv show(s) 31. 3 random facts 32. are your friends mainly girls or guys? 33. something you want to learn 34. most embarrassing moment 35. favourite subject 36. 3 dreams you want to fulfill? 37. favourite actor/actress 38. favourite comedian(s) 39. favourite sport(s) 40. favourite memory 41. relationship status 42. favourite book(s) 43. favourite song ever 44. age you get mistaken for 45. how you found out about your idol 46. what my last text message says 47. turn ons 48. turn offs 49. where i want to be right now 50. favourite picture of your idol 51. starsign 52. something i’m talented at 53. 5 things that make me happy 54. something thats worrying me at the moment 55. tumblr friends 56. favourite food(s) 57. favourite animal(s) 58. description of my best friend 59. why i joined tumblr 60. ask me anything you want

Ask away folks! ✨🌸

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You guys . . . No, listen . . . GUYS LISTEN.

Harry Styles is actually important. So. Fucking. Critical in this day and age. He is a 25 year old millennial right? Born in 1994. The year Kurt Cobain died. And he is doing shit that basically nobody else in our generation is doing. He is creating real fucking music. With actual fucking instruments. And he is bringing back the kind of music that so many of our generation goes “oh yeah my dad likes that stuff”. Harry is doing that shit. A 25 year old. A millennial. A member of OUR generation. A Sign of the Times indeed. He is so fucking important and yet so sadly underrated.

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This goes to the people that never had a romantic relationship with someone and feel like they are behind everyone else.

You are not strange.

I am 24 and yet haven’t had a single relationship that went farther than friendship. And it’s alright.

I am a beautiful girl. I am funny. I am sometimes a little bit weird, but most people are. What I am has nothing to do with my relationship status. I am lovable and so are you.

Chances are you just haven’t met the person you are capabel to love yet. Chances are that somewhere on this planet there is someone who will love you the way you are.

Chances are the world has made you believe that romance is nessessary to feel complete. And that’s a lie.

I was looking for that kind of love my whole life. I had several people being in love with me but I couldn’t be with them because of a simple fact.

You can’t force yourself to love. And sometimes it isn’t meant to be.

Nobody gave my sister a badge or a trophy for being in a relationship in high school. Sometimes the relationship itself is the trophy. Sometimes it’s worse than staying alone.

I know (because I used to think that way too) that being in a relationship as a teenager seems to be the most important thing. But it isn’t. Care for yourself and learn to love yourself before you worry about your relationship status.

Sometimes you might feel alone and weird but nothing is worse than being in a relationship you didn’t really wanted in the first place, just so you could say: I am in a relationship. In the long run you will break two hearts this way.

You are not just a half. And there is nobody to complete you. You are already complete.

Don’t feel sad but look happily into the future and be open for what might come. Maybe you find love at 25, maybe at 50, maybe in different ways than you have expected. There are a million other things awesome about this life :)

I just saw that this post got a lot of attention and it’s making me happy that it seems to help so many people and that so many people relate to it :’)  We’re all cool beans, my friends ^^ Nothing wrong with us!

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