Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

coolyo294:

theweirdwideweb:

Minnesota has the longest unbroken streak voting Democrat of any state (since 1976)—-but I particularly appreciate this electoral map from 84′:

bakasara:

bob-belcher:

reasons why Halloween is the best holiday:

• you are not obligated to visit your relatives
• you are not obligated to get gifts for anybody
• people will give you candy for absolutely no reason other than it’s Halloween
• it’s the only day of the year when it’s socially acceptable to go out in public dressed as a penguin

• spoopy

butim-justharry:

household memes. memes that only make sense to the people you live with.

for example, in my house: saying ‘ew’ in a monotone voice, slapping your leg and saying “iiiiiii know it!” and the other person replies “well that’s just it.”

reblog with your household memes in the comments or tags

the44thpilot:

cmnedark:

led-sbian:

my-patronus-is-a-computer:

there’s no such thing as a stupid reason not to kill yourself.

your school sells cookies on thursdays? your favorite band is coming out with a new album? you’re still saving up for that tattoo? there’s still five sodas in your fridge and it’d be a shame to let them go to waste? you want to see the season finale of that show you love? keep living.

your reasons don’t have to be big, if they mean anything to you then they’re good reasons.

Yes! Just make something to look forward to

Okay but this is honestly true.

One of the closest times I came to committing suicide was when I was home alone for the weekend a few years ago. The reason I didn’t?

No one else was there to feed the cat until Monday. 

That’s it. That’s all that saved me. 

See, this is such good advice, because it can put you in the frame of mind that you need to be in to combat depression. Even things that seem little, like, “My plant will die if I don’t water it,” or “I’m the only one that takes out the trash, anyways” are examples of how you’re needed and valuable, even appreciated.

There are people out there that need you and love you. Stay alive friend, because it is so worth it.

pesteche:

Living with ADHD is sometimes gives me pleasant surprises like “oh look I already got a spoon for my coffee apparently”.

likealeafonthewind:

I know the idea about Obi-Wan being called Sith Killer (or Sith Slayer, perhaps?) has been done before but what about this:

After Naboo, Obi-Wan becomes known as the Sith Killer in the Order. It makes him uncomfortable but he can’t get people to stop calling him that; even before he had killed Maul, he had already defeated two Darksiders (Xanatos and Bruck) so after this, his status as that really cool, badass Jedi to emulate just skyrockets, especially among the newly Knighted and all the Padawans and Initiates. It’s also pretty clear from the fire in his eyes that he is deadset on finding the other Sith. Other young Knights are eager to help - it starts with his friends Bant, Garen, and Reeft: Whenever they’re on a mission, they also look for clues about Dark Side activity; sometimes they’ll follow up on those leads after their official Council-assigned mission ends and then hand that information to Obi-Wan, who’s compiling them. More and more Knights and even young Masters start doing that. Soon, Obi-Wan unofficially is the head of the Sith Hunting Task Force.

Anyway, so Anakin becomes known as the Padawan of the Sith Killer, not the Chosen One (how many Jedi even knew that Qui-Gon thought he was the Chosen One? He only told the Council about it, after all, not made a general Temple-wide announcement). The Jedi are a little flummoxed at first about Obi-Wan taking on a non-Temple raised Padawan but then they’re like, okay, well, this is the Sith Killer. If he wants to do things differently, who are we to tell him no? It’s not like any of us have encountered, fought, or defeated a Sith. And maybe that’s even the better way to do things??? Bringing on people who have life experience outside the Order so they can bring new ideas in?

Every time Anakin does things that they don’t expect, or show more emotion and passion than they’re taught to allow, they’re just like….well, he is the Sith Killer’s Padawan. Obviously the Sith Killer is teaching him differently. Maybe this is how Obi-Wan was able to kill a Sith himself???  (Some enterprising Padawan managed to get their hands on the footage of the fight from Naboo and they all watched it. Obi-Wan was obviously feeling a lot of anger and fear during his fight, and then he calmed himself at the end and managed to defeat his opponent. So Emotions, then peace becomes the new motto for this generation of apprentices.)

Everyone starts trying to befriend Anakin. All the other Padawans start trying to be more like him. He’s passionately speaking out about slavery? Well, they will too then. Obviously, slavery is an evil that will lead people to Fall. It should be stopped. He talks openly about his attachment to his mother? Well, attachment must be okay then. (And they remember from that video that Obi-Wan was obviously very attached to Qui-Gon so there’s another point in favor of attachments.)

Some overly enthusiastic Padawan also hacks into the Temple records and finds out about Obi-Wan’s fights with Bruck as an Initiate. And everyone’s like, even then, he must have somehow known that Bruck was going to Fall. So people all try to avoid getting into fights with Anakin cuz like, if they do, does that mean that they’re going to Fall? Anakin’s the Sith Killer’s Padawan, after all. There must be something special about him. What if he too can tell when someone’s gonna Fall and that’s why he’s fighting with them?

So that’s how Obi-Wan and Anakin inadvertently change the Order. The Council starts noticing that something’s changing but they can’t manage to stop it or reverse it. The younger Knights, Padawans, and Initiates have stopped thinking of them as the all-knowing wise senior members of the Order and started seeing them as the old guard clinging to outdated traditions - none of them have ever fought a Sith or seen one in person, after all. Few of them even go on missions anymore. They just sit in their tower handing out assignments and reprimanding Jedi for not following their Code.

crimescened:

i’ve thought about it and yes, i’d sell my soul & turn myself inside out to make sure no one i love ever gets hurt again

phantomrose96:

Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest

you can lead a content creator to water but you sure as fuck can’t make him drink

shanastoryteller:

i think the narrative should explore the fact that clary is valentine’s daughter.

by which i mean - clary is dangerously charismatic. even alec, who hated her and has been forced to pick up after her, becomes close to her in the end. clary has stomped on every tradition and rule he was raised with, endangered countless lives - but still in the end he forgives, thanks her for saving isabelle’s life when she’s the one who endangered it.

maybe it is jocelyn’s daughter that saves the little mage child. but it is valentines daughter that went marching to magnus’s in the first place. jocelyn went to magnus when she was ready to hide - clary went to him when she was ready to fight. and when she brings the vampires and werewolves together - that type of leadership and manipulation is valentine. jocelyn helped save the downworlders by running from valentine and stealing the cup - clary doesn’t run. from the beginning she doesn’t run.

she fights, but not alone. she draws people to her, like moths to a flame. even meliorn is impressed by her, grants her a favor he’s granted no other. she negotiates with vampires, with simon’s help yes, but on her own.

and speaking of simon - valentine turned his best friend into a werewolf, and clary turned hers into a vampire. granted he was trying to kill luke and clary was trying to save simon, but still. jocelyn left luke wounded in a barn to make his choice, but clary made simon’s choice for him.

valentine and clary act - jocelyn only ever reacts. jocelyn may be a fighter, but she’s not a leader. she’s a soldier. luke is a soldier. but valentine and clary are smart enough and charming enough and ruthless enough to be generals. clary is always convinced she’s doing the right thing - even when lives are in danger and people are getting hurt she thinks she’s making the best choice for everyone. and she can usually convince most of everyone that she’s right. this is dangerous.

she’s not the same kind of leader that valentine is now. valentine is hard and violent and makes you walk over coals for his approval. but once upon a time he did what clary did - was kind and charismatic and told people that he knew what was right, that by listening to him they would be saving the world. clary has been in this world a couple of months and already she draws her inner circle around her, already she has allies that no one else has ever had before.

people are right to be wary of clary for being valentine’s daughter, but not for the reasons they think. clary will die before she joins her father, but she has the potential to succeed where her father failed. clary doesn’t like the clave, doesn’t agree with the clave, and she is valentine’s daughter more than she is jocelyns. those who knew valentine must see all his best and most terrifying qualities shining out in her. she may succeed where her father failed, and if she decides the clave is doing more harm than good - what’s to stop her in leading her allies in tearing it to the ground?

she is joan of arc, she is julias caesar. people believe in her, are willing to fight and die with their worst enemies for her, break oaths to their queen for her.

the only way to get rid of people like her is to stab her 52 times in the senate or burn her in a holy fire. but then she becomes a martyr and then shes more dangerous dead than alive.

there is someone in the clave who’s seeing clary and is seething, panicking, because this little girl is her father’s daughter, and she has the potential to amass an army that will destroy them all.

clary is valentine’s daughter.

her enemies should fear her - including valentine himself.

God BLESS, this was the series I wanted to read and God willing it’s gonna be the show I get to watch.

ardatli:

the-new-venus:

What they don’t tell you:
Self care sometimes isn’t fun. It’s going to class even when you want to stay in bed and rest. It’s paying bills on time and running errands even when every strand of your being cant stand it. It’s going to therapy and taking your medicine even when you don’t want to. It’s using coping skills even when going back to self destructive ones seems more appealing.

Recovering sucks. It’s hard. But you have to believe in the light at the end of the tunnel. And even on those days you don’t, you fake it till you make it.

Recovery is still worth it.

Sometimes self-care is taking care of future-me. Because she deserves to have someone looking out for her. 

bubonickitten:

girlwithapurplescarf:

bubonickitten:

someone with a wine cellar please invite trump to their wine cellar with promises of vintage amontillado

Show him how to build a real wall.

this is my favorite response so far

wylaneck:

- gay parents
- female masturbation
- guys showing emotion
- they/them pronouns

aro-ace-wonderwoman:

farewellpercy:

aro-ace-wonderwoman:

Reblog if you, ace spectrum or not, would rather have a dragon than sex.

Is it a trained dragon?

Yes. And friendly and will protect you.

squidplatoon:

maybe the real cask was the friends we led into the basement and trapped in a wall along the way

wehaveallgotknives:

brinnanza:

my favorite thing about the cask of amontillado meme (which I LOVE) is that it displays, yet again, how difficult millennials on the internet are to predict. oh, giant company, you want your advertisement to go viral? well this week the kids are obsessed with a short story written in 1846 good fucking luck

oh my dear marketing man,you want me to explain how to track this? well, I could show you a chart that indicates the next five big memes. it is down in my basement, though it is quite cold, and surely you have another engagement to attend.

runecestershire:

words-writ-in-starlight:

So in my research for my thesis, I learned a thing, and it’s not useful for my thesis so I’m posting it here instead.  

Okay, so, everyone knows that the words canon and cannon are not synonyms, and if you’re like me it kind of makes your teeth grind when people talk about firing the canons or historical cannon.  BUT HERE’S THE THING.  The word canon is a direct lift from Latin, and it means law or rule.  And so when heavy metal guns were developed and needed to be called something other than ‘that big murder machine over there’, the word cannon developed directly out of canon in the sense of “to lay down the law,” the same way Samuel Colt’s gun got called the Peacemaker.  Likewise, ordnance comes directly from the Latin ordinance, which also got transferred directly into English as another synonym for ‘rule.’

And that is your totally useless historical fun fact of the day.

Hmmm, do we have a source for this? Because according to Etymonline, cannon is related to cane, roughly means “tube”, and goes back to Latin canna (reed).

Etymology is a vast and complex field, and it’s of course possible that Etymonline is only reporting one of several purported derivations, but he’s usually really good at listing various theories and I’ve never heard this one before soo….

(similarly, ordinance as in weaponry seems to come from the notion of organising it in an armoury)

Yes I do, but the page presenting the theories (although well-cited and reputable to the best of my research, and as this thesis is what’s going to dictate whether I get a BA I’m being rather choosy) is about three hours of reading.  It’s about halfway through, and if you want to Ctrl-F it you can just search ‘Peacemaker’.  I suppose a better way to phrase it would be that, yeah, cannon is related to canna for ‘reed’ but was introduced with significantly strong associations to bind it to the word canon on an implicit level.  This is, generally speaking, why I don’t write posts while distracted late at night–ADHD doesn’t play well with those things if I’m trying to be coherent and weird connections start to appear.  And now that it’s a respectable hour I’m kind of wondering how I even managed grammatical sentences.

ibuzoo:

drop a number and a fandom in my askbox and I’ll answer:

1. things that inspire you
   
2. things that motivate you
3. name three favorite writers
4. name three authors that were influential to your work and tell why
5. since how long do you write?
6. how did writing change you?
7. early influences on your writing
8. what time are you most productive?
9. do you set yourself deadlines?
10. how do you do your researches?
11. do you listen to music when writing?
12. favorite place to write
13. hardest character to write
    
14. easiest character to write
15. hardest verse to write
16. easiest verse to write
17. favorite AU to write
    
18. favorite pairing to write
    
19. favorite fandom to write
    
20. favorite character to write
21. least favorite character to write
22. favorite story you’ve ever written
23. least favorite story you’ve ever written
24. favorite scene you’ve ever written
25. favorite line you’ve ever written
    
26. story you’re most proud of
27. best review you ever got
    
28. worst review you ever got
    
29. favorite story/poem of another author
30. hardest part of writing
    
31. easiest part of writing
32. alternate title for (insert story title)
33. alternate ending for (insert story title)
34. alternate pairing for (insert story title)
35. single story or multi-part story?
    
36. one-shot or multi-chaptered story?
37. canon or AU?
    
38. do you reread your own stories?
    
39. do you want to be published some day?
40. which one of your stories would you most like to see as a movie/series
41. one song that captures (insert story title)
    
42. do you plan or do you write whatever comes to your mind?
43. would you ever write a sequel for (insert fic title here)
44. do you write linear or do you write future scenes if you feel like it?
    
45. share the synopsis of a story you work on that you haven’t published yet
46. share a scene of a story that you haven’t published yet
47. how many unfinished ideas/stories are you working on at the same time?
48. three spoilers for (insert story title)
49. writing advice
50. open question to the writer

mikkeneko:

neshtasplace:

jemeryl:

I have bipolar mood disorder and I get worried that I’m too reliant on my medication especially if the dosage goes up

Then I realized

NEUROTYPICAL PEOPLE ARE JUST AS RELIANT on the neurochemicals in my medication, it’s just that their bodies produce it and mine doesn’t, it’s not that I’m a bad person and idk this realization seems to have really helped me understand and not feel so bad about it?

Exactly!

#if you can’t make your own neurotransmitters storebought is fine  

andanubes:

can we consider an assassins au where allura and shiro are both after zarkon’s head and they join forces to kill him?

broodingborzoiboyscout:

“Why do you take politics so personally.”

What if I told you

that these policies

affect me personally?

fearmywaffles:

big-bara-brothers:

forgottenwinterfrost:

aelx:

ipoog:

daily reminder to click a button so you can give free food to a shelter!!

if every one of my followers did this, we could give more than 85 meals to less-fortunate animals. for free.

AH HHA ITS BACK YES PLEASE IT TAKES A SECOND OF YOUR TIME AND A LIFE OF AN ANIMAL

If my followers did this there would be 676 clicks

If all my followers did that there would be 1,351 clicks!!

sashayed:

The New York Times’ response to Trump’s attempted cease-and-desist letter is literally just NYT attorney David E. McCraw slammin 2 shots of scorpion vodka, leaping onto a table w/ a death’s-head grin & eyes ablaze and yelling “Do it, my guy!!! Haha, DO IT!!!!!” as X Gon Give It To Ya thumps over the sound system and I for one couldn’t be happier

joyeuse-noelle:

madlori:

charlesoberonn:

kylebobbergman:

charlesoberonn:

“I love the tune of this song but hate the gross lyrics. What should I do?”

“But I like both old and new songs”

“I also like polka?”

This man is a treasure.

Weird Al:

1. Is very cautious about the effect of his works, apologizing whenever he does something even a tiny bit offensive on accident.

2. Asks for permission from the creators of the songs he parodies, even though he legally doesn’t have to.

3.  Is a straight-up genius; he skipped two grades and graduated at 16 the valedictorian of his class.  He went to CalTech.

4.  Is often upset by the fact that any parody of any song is usually mistakenly attributed to him, espeically the dirty ones because he’s careful to keep his music safe for all ages.

5.  Is a genuine A+ human being, 10/10 would recommend.

6. Is everyone’s goofy uncle.