Writer Fights #1
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The educational system in one image.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend the rest of its life thinking it’s an idiot.” -Albert Einstein
Reblogging. always. always. always.
OKAY BUT THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. I’m analytically highly intelligent. I’m not just bragging here, I have a point, but first you have to understand that I’m pretty smart. Smart enough that socializing is difficult because I have a lot of difficulty understanding how other people process the world (also it turns out that people get angry when you admit that you’re psychoanalyzing them so that you know what to say, which is pretty much how I interact with humanity). Like, I walked into the SAT severely concussed with no preparation and scored a 2190 out of 2400, and I got a perfect 800 on the Critical Reading section (notoriously near-impossible to ace), but I was born without that road map for how to be an Earthling.
So I’m not good with people, they make me uneasy, and I had to learn how to do the society thing mostly by rote memorization–this makes people angry, this makes them happy, and it makes them cruel when I admit that I can learn languages at ridiculous paces and do number theory in my head and read four hundred pages in an hour. (Yeah, also? Don’t tell people they’re being arrogant and condescending unless you’re being as polite as possible, because they might be trying really hard, and that shit hurts after a while.) My mom? She’s great with people. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a total introvert who basically comes home and rants about the idiots at her job, but she is flat-out brilliant at handling them. So she can’t keep up with me when I go on a tirade about how nice the Fibonacci sequence is or when I sit down and recite whole blocks of text–who gives a fuck? She’s brilliant. She’s a genius. She can talk to someone for ten minutes and be able to make them sign over their soul with a smile–I might be able to charm someone because I had to learn it to survive (no one likes someone who thinks everyone should be able to keep up), but I have nothing like her talent.
So this is an alternative genius appreciation post. Also an appreciation of Moran’s mom post, because she’s awesome.
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seeing your NOTP (that you hate) on your dash, but understanding that it’s their opinion and ur not a hater
Reblog it. Now. We all know the dark truth
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by special request of ourlolitadaydreams, a larger version of that hold my flower doodle
BUt yall don’t understand how perfect this is.
Cause, it’s generally agreed: Hades was a pretty chill dude. He was rich and powerful and grim and kind of a moody manic sometimes, but generally, as long as you stayed on your side of the styx and didn’t much up with him he was content to leave you be. And even if you come crashing down into his realm being a jackass, he was still fair and just, if annoyed. (The story where Heracles bails out one of the guys he had punished for being rude psycho jackasses basically amounts to “leave the lead jackass to rot, but if it means that much take the other brats”)
He’s a very Lawful Neutral figure: The guy behind the desk of the great tax collector in the ancient world. The Greeks had a healthy respect and fear for him, but as long as you followed the rules and paid the ferry man there wasn’t anything to fear- and really he wasn’t the one responsible for the system…Just the guy enforcing it.
But Persephone.
Persephone.
There was someone you didn’t not want to piss off. There is a reason Hades name is just “The Rich One” and her’s is “The Iron Queen”. She took her job as queen of the underworld very very seriously and she had a mean streak a mile wide. When Orpheus came down to fetch his wife Hades was all for letting them go he was so moved by the man’s music, but Persephone is the one that set the trial knowing that Orpheus couldn’t resist looking- in some versions of the myth after he’s ripped apart by nymphs she seats him in their court to be their musician and it’s implied that was her plan all along- to not only keep one soul but to gain another- capable of great music to please her husband. When the whole thing with Adonis went down, she threatened the stability of all the world to tip the scales in her favor. According to Homer when men wanted to call curses down on the souls of the departed they invoked her name.
The Greeks where terrified of her. Aside from her priests no one was allowed to speak her name legally (with Hades and the others it was just social tabbo) for fear of drawing her attention. To them- she was the Goddess of Life AND Death, Summer and Winter. She command power over men’s lives and their deaths. You did not mess with her.
In all likely hood this is exactly how it would go down- Hades holding her flower while she meeted out the divine hellish punishment on the offenders.
In the Odyssey, when Odysseus is visiting the underworld, the thing that makes them finally nervous enough to get back up to the surface was the prospect of Persephone noticing them. They are shaking in their little Greek booties.
Which is why it pISSES ME OFF that the Romans dismissed her as “the one minor spring goddess, abducted by and married to Pluto…”
She was fucking badass.
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A parents sacrifice.
This killed me
this actually made me tear up
Reblogging again because this is so real.
reblogging again during this graduation season, just shows a pursuit of education isn’t just for the student
again.
this is the real deal guys, there is no fabrication here, this is the hard truth, that there are people out there in the world that exist under these circumstances.
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no other song is “this generation’s bohemian rhapsody”
bohemian rhapsody is every generation’s bohemian rhapsody
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*Gif does not belong to me*
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