The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report about teens, sleep, and the ideal time to start school. It found that 4 out of 5 junior high and high school students are starting school too early. Too early = any time before 8:30 a.m.
This wasn’t a small school sampling, either. It included 40,000 public junior and high schools.
an interesting thing: women constantly ask their friends if they have the right to be angry/upset/sad or if they’re just being “crazy” and men don’t ever do that, they were raised believing in their feelings and worth and never have to ask twice
Check your student e-mail EVERY DAY. More than once if you can. Forgetting to check your e-mail is the #1 way to screw yourself over, and also sometimes you can save yourself stress or a walk to class by noticing right away that a professor has cancelled class of extended a deadline.
there are 2 songs that have 100 beats per minute which is the correct amount for cpr and they are “staying alive” and “another one bites the dust” and if u don’t think that’s the rawest shit you’ve ever heard you can unfollow me right now.
My entire EMT class thought I was fucking terrifying because when we were learning CPR they were having trouble with the rhythm and I just sat down and slammed out like a solid minute of flawless CPR and they all went “How do you do that” and I did it again singing Another One Bites The Dust and they were all really afraid.
I do not recommend singing Queen while actually doing CPR.
AU where people age until they reach 18 and then stop aging until they meet their soul mate so they can grow old together.
i’d never die
but imagine already being in a relationship at 18 and then at 22 you’re both sitting there looking at each other and realizing that you both haven’t aged a day
imagine platonically moving in with ur best friend at 18 and then realizing a few years later that you’ve been aging together
imagine purposely never finding your soul mate so you can reign eternal
holy shit i think we may have stumbled upon the greatest romance/adventure concept ever
What if you killed your soul mate so you’d make sure you never aged.
This just makes me really want a story where the main antagonist is someone who has been killing their soulmate for centuries whenever they find them, and the main protagonist is the newly re-incarnated version of their soulmate
okay but you guys dont realize the potential.
imagine meeting a handsome young man who’s seen as a player and sleeps around a lot and you notice a scar along his arm and ask where he got it. he just look down at his feet and said “i used to be a soldier in world war one”. He’s been sleeping around and hooking up so much cause he’s been trying to find his soulmate for years but hasn’t yet.
Imagine going on your first date with someone and you really hit it off and then the next day you notice a grey hair and call them on the phone excitedly screaming and they both just sit on the phone hysterically crying and laughing.
Imagine sitting in silence with your partner and having them say out of the blue “i feel so old when im around you… but… in a good way” and thats the moment you know that they love you.
imagine having a dog thats 18 in human years and it starts to get gray patches of fur because they loves you so much.
imagine noticing you look older and freaking out but then stopping and getting super confused because “im not dating anyone right now…. which of my friends is my soulmate… WHICH ONE IS IT!?!?!?” and then they hopelessly date everyone they know in order to find out which one it fucking was. it was the pizza delivery guy the whole time. they went on 27 dates that all ended in confusion and heartbreak and it was the god damn pizza delivery guy from a month ago the whole fucking time.
imagine someone dating their partner for 5 years and then having an affair. only after the affair do they start aging.
imagine nuns who start to age after they ceremoniously “marry god”
imagine people getting surgeries to look older cause they dont want people to think theyre alone.
imagine having parents who wont let you date anyone but they start to notice you aging and then you have to have a terrifying “surprise im gay and i have a boyfriend haha oops” conversation
imagine seeing couples with teenage kids and the couple both looks 18.
Buy a bat (I have my old color guard rifle) or similar. Keep it in your room/near your bed.
Get a lock for your bedroom door.
If you’re moving into a new place, change the locks. Who knows who had a key to your place before you.
Keep your phone/a phone in your room.
Get a weather alert system set up. App, weather call, little weather radio that tells you about major weather events.
Adopt a pet
Wave at your neighbors. Take note of the ones that make you uneasy. Watch out for kids always.
Be nice to your mail person. No matter what.
If you choose to drink/etc alone, unplug your wifi router. You’ll thank me.
Have extra seating. People sit when they visit. Your one comfy chair is great for you. Not so great for you + grandma + ur five cousins, your aunt, and a couple others.
Learn the self-Heimlich
When you take a shower, bring your phone to the bathroom in case you fall your phone is no longer halfway across the house, it’s just on your counter
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Idk what else
If you live in an one-room apartment, put a screen around your bed. It’ll feel less like you visit people, esp. strangers, into your bedroom. Also you’ll feel much safer sleeping in the enclosure.
Cook enough for a few meals each time you cook, and freeze the extra food. That way you’ll prevent things from expiring and it’s great when you don’t feel like cooking or have no time or energy for it.
Give a key to someone near you trust, or hid it somewhere few people will look, like up in a tree. Shutting yourself out isn’t nice, esp. not at night.
Put something translucent like curtains or stickers for windows where people can walk past or look in. You’ll feel less watched that way.
Put some contant money somewhere in your room. Good to have in case your bag gets lost or stolen.
Feeling lonely? Remember, online contacts are not less valuable.
I would say maybe set reminders for everything too. Taking meds/vitamins, working out, going to sleep, waking up.
Buy a small fan for white noise at night if you’re the kind (like me) that gets anxious at all the little ambient noises that ANY building can supply in the dark.
Don’t watch scary movies in the dark by yourself, with no visitors.
NETFLIX, if you can afford it. It’s also useful because you can watch movies / shows with your online buddies at the same time, miles and states and (sometimes even) countries apart.
get an app like safetrek. never walk into allies or empty streets if there is a more populated/well-lit route to your destination. keep emergency contacts in your wallet and a red cross card with your blood type on it in case anything happens. carry a list of medications you’re allergic to, if any.
walking around with a headset or headphones discourages people from yelling at you on the street, and it’s easier to escape from hasslers. however, it’s pretty advisable to not have anything actually playing so you can be aware of your surroundings. if anything, have it at low volume.
if you get grabbed on the street (this used to happen to me a lot), immediately scream, and the person will usually get startled, giving you time to get away.
if you feel like you’re in a really bad place, call someone, or even pretend like you’re calling someone. say where you are. act like you’re planning on meeting up with them. be loud about it. make it seem like someone will notice if you go missing, even for a little bit.
also u should look up manufacturer’s coupons like damn i feel like a successful suburban mom every time i walk into cvs and save 2 dollars on my toothbrushes
Motherfucking coupons, man. Those small savings really add up over time.
Please don’t forget that Bernie Sanders is a Jewish man who’s parents survived the Holocaust? When you hurl labels at him such as “white supremacist” you need to remind yourself that his family was shaped and harmed by white supremacy, eugenics, and genocide. Stop brushing him off as another run of the mill white man, and stop being antisemitic.
tbh i dont get why most people assume that robots are always cold
like have u felt a laptop while its working? its kinda not exactly cold yo
tbh any piece of machinery thats working hard to function is usually not cold, the only time its ever cold is when its turned off
so id like to think while a robot is awake and functioning they could have the potential to be as warm as a human being :0
never thought about this before but now it’s obvious
although like i hope they’ve actually improved cooling tech by the time they’re building androids bc my laptop can actually get so hot it makes THE ROOM hot and it’s only the size of a laptop so potentially an android who was thinking very hard would be a veritable furnace
think too hard, overheat, faint
fainting couches for androids omg
Fainting couches for androids is the best possible thing
file under things i didn’t know i needed in my life
humans who carry around those chemical freeze-packs in case they need something to drape across their friend’s fevered brow
humans who insist on holding a parasol for their robot friend on sunny days
a robot draping herself over a fainting couch in distress and a bunch of worried humans mobbing up to fuss and fan her and bring her some cool water and pat her hand and gallantly offer to beat up whatever alarmed her
too cute
Okay guys and gals I like where ur going but I think we’ve glossed over something with real potential.
Androids blushing
A human calls their android friend cute and then they look flustered and you hear their cooling fans kick into high gear
A human plants a little kiss on their cheek and they turn red hot (literally) from embarrassment
“Brr, it’s friggin cold in here.”
“Hold on I got this. Hey TX-10 did I tell you you look very pretty today?”
The room temp rises a couple degrees as TX-10 tries to hide their blushing.
I got an email from a reader earlier. The sender was a lovely young woman who had just re-read my first published fic and wanted to tell me how much she enjoyed it—how it made her feel, how it made her smile, how it made her cry, how it made her excited to get home each night and curl up in bed with it, how it helped ease the pain of a difficult patch in her life, and how much she misses it now that it’s over. It was a beautiful letter, and my reaction to it must have been visible enough to make my saner half take notice from across the room. He shot me a questioning look, and I turned the laptop around and gestured to the screen.
I followed his eyes as they scanned each line, saw his lips tip up in a smile that grew broader as he read, then braced myself for the good natured snark I’ve come to expect when my little literary hobby comes up in conversation.
“Wow.” He said. “That was kind of amazing. How does it feel to be someone’s favorite author?”
“Don’t be a dick,” I said, slapping him on the shoulder.
“I’m serious,” he replied, gesturing to the screen. "That’s what she said—right there: You’re my favorite author.”
“I think she means favorite fic author. Not real author.”
“Is there a difference?” He asked.
“Yes,” I said, rolling my eyes. ”Of course there is.”
“Why?”
“Because, as someone in this room who isn’t ME is fond of pointing out, self published gay mystery romance novels aren’t exactly eligible for the pulitzer.” I said, turning the computer back around.
“So what?” he shrugged, “Something you wrote inspired a stranger to sit down write what it meant to them and send it to you. A lot of total strangers, as a matter of fact. You write, people read it and react. That makes you an author.”
“Huh.” I said, very eloquently, then got up and went into the kitchen to start dinner.
Hours later, sitting down to reply to the letter in question I find myself writing this post instead. Because here’s the thing: That wonderfully crazy man who lives in my house is right. (But please don’t tell him I said that)
From the moment I realized that letters made up words and words made up sentences and sentences made up worlds that were mine to explore any time I wanted to I’ve been a reader. I have fallen in love with perfect phrases and epic stories and countless characters pressed between the pages of the thousands of books I’ve read in my life so far—and sitting down to string together those same 26 letters into tens of thousands of words of stories I felt needed telling? That makes me an author.
I have adored the work of countless authors in numerous genres, and the world of fan fic is no exception. I have admired and cherished and savored the words of talented writers whose work is no less legitimate for the fact that their names include random keyboard characters and their words don’t live on bound paper on a shelf.
It’s not JUST fan fic. It’s literature. It’s published. It’s read. It’s loved.
It matters.
Thanks to all of my favorite authors for every word on every page on every screen that I’ve ever loved.
Reblog for the sweet anon who asked me if I thought fanfic was as important as “real” fiction. Hope this answers your question. :)
Thanks for reading my work, so happy you’re enjoying In The Library!
Read this. Take it to heart. REMEMBER IT.
Comments are the best
They really are. Anything that manages to touch another person, make their life – their day, a particular minute – better is invaluable.
True story: back at Northeastern, I took my required Advanced Writing class for English majors, and my professor was very into discussing new, modern forms of literature. I did a whole presentation on why fanfic is actually literature (and opened it with a YouTube video of a dramatic reading of My Immortal: Chapter 1).
It was actually very well received, and I feel like fanfic is being recognized more and more as actual literature. There was even a healthy dose of scholarship I could find on the issue, and this was easily 5 years ago.
It’s literature, it’s here to stay, and it’s always nice to show authors how much they’re appreciated. I mean, most of them/us are working for free to engage with your favorite media in new and different ways. Is there always going to be strange, crack!fic like My Immortal? Yes (and that’s literature too!). But there’s also some of my most favorite works of fiction up on AO3, some lines that I don’t think even the best traditionally-published authors I can think of could have come up with, and some of the most passion I have ever seen from people engaging with media in new, different, and often subversive ways.
tl;dr fanfic is 100% a valid form of literature, and appreciate all your favorite authors who aren’t traditionally published authors.
Yes yes yes yes yes
Also guys Even if you don’t agree with this, which is your prerogative, please please /please/ don’t try to force that opinion on other people. Honestly, don’t even mention it. Especially around fanfic writers.
When I was much younger and just starting to write seriously, I had a friend who insisted that fanfiction was stupid and not literature. It took me years to start writing the fanfics floating around my head because of the opinions of this one person, even after drifting away from them. Even now I don’t let friends or family read my fanfics because I’m embarrassed and innately feel like my fanfics don’t count as writing.
Please let fanfic writers have their well-deserved excitement and pride in their writing, because one tiny comment can ruin it for years.
at work I called out his coffee order and he was like “that’s not how women usually call out my name ;) ;) ;)” so I just blinked and said “I’ll try to sound more disappointed next time then” then walked away
“A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932.
He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews.
So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.”—
So Disney, since you’re gonna make Frozen 2… I just wanna remind you of a few things.
Same-sex marriage is now legal.
Almost everyone thinks Elsa is gay and wants her love interest to be female.
IDINA MENZEL WANTS THIS TOO!
You’re a company who has been actively supportive of the LGBTQ community for years, so NO BACKING DOWN NOW!
*chanting* LESBIAN DISNEY PRINCESS LESBIAN DISNEY PRINCESS
LESBIAN DISNEY QUEEN LESBIAN DISNEY QUEEN
If Elsa isn’t a lesbian I’m filing a fucking lawsuit
Interestingly, if you look at the lesbian couples who’ve been showing up in children’s cartoons lately, they always seem to be colour-coded red and blue. Korra and Asami, Ruby and Sapphire - take your pick, really.
And, you know, Elsa’s fashion sense strongly favours blue.
All I’m saying is, if the promotional material for Frozen 2 ends up featuring a girl who dresses predominantly in red (fire powers optional), keep your eye on her.
*Chants in the tune of the bill nye theme song* GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY
buddy cop movie with hayley atwell and idris elba as unlikely partners and dwayne the rock johnson as the bakery owner who witnesses a violent crime in the alley behind his shop and has to be protected
#what do you mean you don’t know how to punch? you’re jacked dude! #hey making dough isn’t easy! these are the result of grating carrots for carrot cake!
People need to stop glorifying stretch marks and fat rolls. You can tell people their beautiful all you want, but you know what's beautiful? VS models. Tell your followers to get some coco butter or lazor surgery to look like them. Stop romantisizing imperfections.
These are your VS models
Before they’ve been
altered and photo shopped
to where you can’t see
their stretch marks
or cellulite
or rolls
but you know what?
they’re still fucking beautiful
photos not mine - found on google images under “vs models untouched”
I gotta say, it sounds like you got some pretty shitty EMT training. I'm a pharmacy school graduate and we were always taught how to treat/diagnose ALL patients, if their ethnicity/gender/etc required something different than the standard. You should get your money back.
Hi, anon, thanks for your input. I’m glad your pharmacy schooling was so high quality, it’s great that you were educated in how to treat everyone, and it’s unfortunate that not all textbooks/courses are up to that level. I was personally taught in a relatively small town with an admittedly less-than-diverse population, so it’s possible that there were effect from that. Also, from what I know pharmaceutical schooling is intended to be a career, while–contrary to popular opinion–many EMTs work on a volunteer basis, or work as an EMT in addition to another job. It’s completely feasible that the higher level education in emergency medical services, like Advanced EMT training or paramedic training, is more complete in these matters.
That said, the class I took was thorough in all other areas, and with prompting the teachers were both able and willing to give answers for the treatment of patients of various ethnicity/gender/etc. I did outside research to confirm what they told me, given that they were speaking from experience and not from the textbook. The flaws were not in the specific course, but rather in the official material–textbooks lacking explanations of how to administer CPR to a large-chested individual, or suggestions of ways to communicate with someone who either speaks a different language or who is nonverbal for some reason, just for example.
Also, I would like to politely express that I worked hard in that class, which I took in addition to a full class load at my college, and my family does not often have seven hundred dollars to drop on extra things, even something as useful as medical training. The teachers worked hard to deliver a quality education, and the inherent flaws in the textbook were not their fault. While I’m aware that this comment was in all likelihood intended to be completely benign, and even if it wasn’t I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, it did not completely come across that way. I agree that it is a serious problem that not all medical fields are as on the ball as pharmacy school evidently is, but it is neither my fault nor the fault of the men and women who taught me–indeed, my teachers had clearly gone to some effort to ensure they were capable of treating everyone. Again, thank you for your input, and I hope you have a lovely day.
“If you don’t support Snape and his problems, you hate the mentally ill.”
NEWS FUCKING FLASH
JUST BECAUSE HE HAD A SHITTY CHILDHOOD, JUST BECAUSE HE’S MENTALLY ILL DOES NOT FUCKING EXCUSE HIS ACTIONS.
I am mentally ill, and I ENCOURAGE people to call me out when I pull bullshit. I was bullied, I was abused as a child, and I have NEVER FUCKING called a friend a FUCKING SLUR.
I have never OBSESSED over a person when they didn’t want me around, and I would never TORTURE a child just because of my hurt fee-fees. Everyone wants to excuse him, and talk about how Snape just needed a little forgiveness.
No. What he did, despite mental illness, despite childhood trauma, was not okay. Stop fucking insisting that he is the beacon of mentally ill characters in that book.
You know who suffers from PTSD? You know who lived every day of his life, struggling because of his illness?
Remus Lupin.
Lupin wasn’t a good person despite his illness. He was a good person WITH his illness. Maybe he made some bad decisions, but ultimately, he was a good person. A good person with PTSD, a good person with an illness. He never used it as an excuse, and he never expected anyone to just accept everything he did because of it.
What mental illness does Snape have?
I’ve seen a lot of his fans argue that he has depression and/or PTSD. Don’t think JKR’s said anything about it one way or the other, though.
