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Omfg this just brought up my whole mood

i knew in the 2nd grade that standardized testing was bullshit. harry potter book 4 had just come out and i was at a good part. harry had just put his name into the goblet of fire.

during the standardized test, we were allowed to keep a post-test book on our desk. i diligently got started on part 1: english. at the time, all of the answers went on the same sheet, but all of the questions were in different booklets. so i finish all my english questions, read in my extra time, and then it’s part 2: math.

i realize i have answered all of my english questions on the math portion of the answer sheet. at first, annoyed but undeterred, i’m like. okay great i gotta erase every bubble. but i get bored around question 5 of doing this because… like… harry potter is sitting on my desk and i could just give them the wrong answers. so i answer maybe 10 whole questions in the math portion, copy the english answers over to where they actually belong, and then crack open the book and call it a day.

i obviously failed. this is the real life, not a movie. my parents were called in. i had scored in the lowest percentile. i was bad at math. i was concerningly bad at math. i could have done better just guessing than how i did with the english answers. 

if this was just a funny story, someone would ask me “why did you do so badly when you usually get fairly average grades” and i would have said “i wanted to read harry potter, not take this stupid test.” but it’s the real life, and nobody asked. instead, i was branded stupid and bad at math. i got placed in a lower math than i needed to be in; got bored, stopped paying attention. knew i was in the “worst at math” group, started saying “i’m bad at math” and 100% stopped trying because the further i fell behind, the worse i got. through the rest of my academic career - until senior year in high school, i never got above a c on a math test, because i was “just bad” at math.

i had undiagnosed adhd. the only reason i know now i have adhd is because at 22 years old, i finally went to a therapist, who effectively said, “are you kidding me you have the most obvious case of attention deficit i’ve ever seen.”

but nobody had been looking. my one test grade had given teachers permission to not look, because, obviously, i was bad at math. the one time i got 100% on a math test - that one time in senior year - i remember my math teacher looking at it and saying “it’s clear that if you just focused, you could do the work.”

in college i’d take a math class and i actually “just focused” for the first time in my life - meaning i treated math as a challenge, but one i could overcome with the skills i’d learned all on my own, through constant work and practice. i got the highest grade in my class. i still think i’m bad at math. 

which makes me wonder: how many people got fucked over because of something stupid like “i was too preoccupied with harry potter”. who had nobody looking out for them. who slipped under the radar because - come on, aren’t some people just bad at things?

Salvaggio went on to explain that Downey gave Chris Evans the Camaro as a gift when they had finished filming Avengers: Infinity War.

Oh god that’s a sexy car.

63. New Friends

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Okay, but this is an excellent method to use when anyone is being inappropriate. Pretend that you don’t get it. Whether the comment is sexist, racist, sexual, misogynistic, inappropriate, off-color… watching them squirm as they try to explain and realize just how awful their comment was it is better than being angry about it.

Playing dumb is very effective. When this one company I worked for asked me to do something sketchy I left a note saying “I’m not sure I understand. I thought we couldn’t do […] because it was illegal? Was I incorrect? Is […] something you want me to do?” And they quickly changed their minds. It works much better than a straight accusation if you’re in a vulnerable position.

here’s some caps of stanley tucci crying with laughter after being asked what wine pairs best with eating ass 

The face of a man who knows the answer but doesn’t want to say it

This is nicer than my apartment. (via ccoragordonn)

I can’t get over how Yurio continuously gives Victor and Yuri the cold shoulder/ I’m a brooding teen so Idk how to show affection and them responding with nothing but love for this cute tiger boy!

Example one:

Yurio and Victor meet in Russia in the hotel before the short program, and Victor warmly wraps an arm around him and smiles, saying to the reporters “did you all check out the new short program I created for Yurio?” How does Yurio reply? By knocking Victor’s coffee out of his hand and saying “You’re no longer Russia’s top skater Victor, I’m the star of this event! ” With an oh so cringy rock tune playing in the background, bless his angsty soul.

So Victor replies with what?

A WARM PROUD DAD SMILE! He’s like ‘oh my precious boy you’re so cute and determined.’

Example two:

Yurio catches yuri in the elevator and kicks off the conversation with “why are you sneaking around?”

Yuri’s response?

“Hey Yurio! Good to see you again! ”

Awkward silence, then yuri says.

“I know both of us can’t win, but I’m sure we’ll both skate well!”

I MEAN CAN YOU GET MORE SUPPORTIVE?!

Yurio replies

“Net! You will suffer a miserable defeat here in Moscow. ”

LOOK AT YURI’S FACE! HE DOESN’T EVEN SKIN A BEAT. HE DOESN’T LOOK NERVOUS OR UPSET! He just looks happy that his son is ready, confident, and determined to skate!

Last but definitely not least!

Yuri just finished his performance at the short program, and Victor’s on the side lines yelling “Yuri you did amazing! ” But he gets cut off by Yurio walking towards the ice.

I KID YOU NOT, LITERAL INTENSE VIVIAN-ESQUE ORGAN MUSIC STARTS PLAYING!

Yuri skates over, and let’s out a gasp at how serious and calm yurio looks.

Yurio starts walking forward and says “Out of my way, piggy. ”

And THIS is how they respond!

At first you I was like ‘oh they must be thinking something like… ’ “what happened to our precious boy! ”

Right? WRONG! Yuri goes, “it looks like he found his agape. ” And then him and Victor turn to each other and smile exclaiming, “FINALLY! ”

LOOK AT THEIR PROUD DAD FACES! I CAN NOT DEAL WITH THIS! THEY’RE SO HAPPY FOR HIM! AND It’s not too long afterwards that yurio opens up to the both of them! But that’s a rant for another time. Just look at my precious skaters!

Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997

Our neighbor didn’t die, he was just needed someplace else.

He took a moment that was about recognizing him and turned it into a moment to recognize everyone who was there and everyone who made it possible for him to do what he does. If you want a perfect example of why he is so fondly remembered and such a great person, it’s tough to find a better one than this.

I’m going to need y’all to stop putting the stuff on my dash and reducing me to a pile of tears. I swear Mr. Rogers just instantly turns on the faucet for me.

Just look at the faces on the audience. You can tell how moved they are to think of the people who helped them along the way. Maybe they were thinking of a grandmother or a sibling or a best friend or kindly neighbor. He made that moment so real for all of them.

“Early this year, when television handed him its highest honor, he responded by telling television— gently, of course— to just shut up for once, and television listened. He had already won his third Daytime Emmy, and now he went onstage to accept Emmy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and there, in front of all the soap-opera stars and talk-show sinceratrons, in front of all the jutting man-tanned jaws and jutting saltwater bosoms, he made his small bow and said into the microphone, ‘All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are… Ten seconds of silence.’ And then he lifted his wrist, and looked at the audience, and looked at his watch, and said softly, ‘I’ll watch the time,’ and there was, at first, a small whoop from the crowd, a giddy, strangled hiccup of laughter, as people realized that he wasn’t kidding, that Mister Rogers was not some convenient eunuch but rather a man, an authority figure who actually expected them to do what he asked… and so they did. One second, two seconds, three seconds… and now the jaws clenched, and the bosoms heaved, and the mascara ran, and the tears fell upon the beglittered gathering like rain leaking down a crystal chandelier, and Mister Rogers finally looked up from his watch and said, ‘May God be with you’ to all his vanquished children.“ - Tom Junod, Esquire

I love the idea of Mr. Rogers being an authority figure you wouldn’t dare disobey, not out of fear but out of pure, overflowing, deep respect. To disappoint him is unfathomable.

Note also that normally in the face of pure silence, the orchestra would be expected to play him off.

They didn’t.

YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!

is this legit?

This is legit. My husband, sitting across the room, looks over and says, “IS THAT SOMEONE SHOWING HOW TO CONVERT ENGLISH TO TENGWAR?  BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY!”

Believe this man.  He owns atlases of Middle Earth, the complete history of Midle Earth (leatherbound), and has read the books at least 150 times.  Also: speaks elvish.

Yes.

Gaming then and now

If you thought I wouldn’t find a way to reference Britney Spears in my very serious Honors thesis,

You’d be wrong

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