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Loud & Proud: I need help.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:10 -0400

baapi-makwa:

I recently reapplied for a forbearance on my student loans, citing financial reasons and figured everything would be fine. I live on my monthly disability check, there is no way I can afford to make student loan payments. Today I got a letter from the…

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:08 -0400

realinternetho: i finally added a donation button to my page medical bills are piling up help if...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:05:42 -0400

realinternetho:

i finally added a donation button to my page

medical bills are piling up

help if you can

muchos gracias

fivelettered: crafthunters: Bleach fabric drawings. To Do It...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:05:40 -0400

fivelettered:

crafthunters:

Bleach fabric drawings. To Do It Yourself you just need: - bleach - pencil with a an eraser - fabric

➡Don’t miss our new craft finds, inspirations & DIY ideas! Let’s crafthunt together!

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this. is. legit!

healthier-habits: Chicken Parmesan Meatloaf Muffins Recipe...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:05:37 -0400

healthier-habits:

Chicken Parmesan Meatloaf Muffins

Recipe Link: emilybites.com

Click here for more healthy recipes!

crustified: Swimsuit Recreation Tutorial (by coolirpa) This is...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:47:59 -0400

crustified:

Swimsuit Recreation Tutorial (by coolirpa)

This is a great tutorial, and I think it’s especially interesting for bigger people who might not be able to find or afford a cute swimsuit in their size! So this way you can just buy some plain old swimsuit, and transform it into something cool :)

YAAAAAAYYYY i need a sewing machine

airyairyquitecontrary: avengersandcats: its really hard to...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:47:36 -0400

airyairyquitecontrary:

avengersandcats:

its really hard to make a lego’s death dramatic

look can I just ask

I don’t play video games

did they make the Horn of Gondor look like a banana

or is it just A BANANA

cclarissaa: ungracefullys: frails: fuck I want this THEY’RE...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:46:17 -0400

cclarissaa:

ungracefullys:

frails:

fuck I want this

THEY’RE FRENCH FRY BODY PILLOWS YOU CAN PRETEND ITS A BOY BUT ITS FOOD AND THAT SUMS UP MY ENTIRE LIFE

My mom suggested ketchup packet pillows…

tiedostoaeisaatavilla: Some ladies making tough guy cry

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:46:09 -0400

tiedostoaeisaatavilla:

Some ladies making tough guy cry

brujitaxicanita: peeeugs peeeeegs

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:45:43 -0400

brujitaxicanita:

peeeugs

peeeeegs

terra-mater: 15 amazing things in nature you won’t believe...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:45:21 -0400

terra-mater:

15 amazing things in nature you won’t believe actually exist

Source

15 looks like a lake of bubblegum flavor amoxycillin

or pepto bismol

"Heteronormativity isn’t just about the presumption that everyone is heterosexual. The expectation..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:50:08 -0400

“Heteronormativity isn’t just about the presumption that everyone is heterosexual. The expectation that boys woo girls feeds into your mind the expectation that relationships are necessary for fulfilment, and you are less than if you are not having particular kinds of sex with a particular, and a particular kind of, person at particular intervals. It’s about what Lauren Berlant calls the love plot, in which love is produced as a generic text enabling society to interpret your life as following certain conventions. It’s not about what you want, it’s about what you’re supposed to want. You’re not encouraged to think about what you want in relationships, if anything, so much as you are encouraged to fit a script. Heteronormativity messes things up for everyone, straight people included.”

- Tossing the script of desire | Zero at the Bone (via brute-reason)

Have I already reblogged this? Don’t know don’t care.

(via queercore)

kyleehenke: chariotoffortune: YOUR POKEMON CAN SEE YOU YOU CAN SMILE AT THEM AND MAKE THEM HAPPY...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:42:47 -0400

kyleehenke:

chariotoffortune:

YOUR POKEMON CAN SEE YOU

YOU CAN SMILE AT THEM AND MAKE THEM HAPPY ALKSDNFALGDASDFAN

#THIS WILL MAKE NUZLOCKE CHALLENGES EVEN WORSE

NO

The Unbearable Awkwardness Of Being: lightandwinged: brilliant-smallfish: sahnin: dammitmat: marillawen:...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:25:57 -0400

The Unbearable Awkwardness Of Being: lightandwinged: brilliant-smallfish: sahnin: dammitmat: marillawen:...:

sourcedumal:

annakie:

afirethatwillneverburn:

futuresoon:

hokuton-punch:

bluestalking-fox:

mx-fortune:

lightandwinged:

brilliant-smallfish:

sahnin:

dammitmat:

marillawen:

wigglytuffitout:

shadowaeledfyr:

excitedbreath:

99% of girls choose “Mage” as her first character job in a MMORPG.

aka statistics op just made up

i always knew i was doing it…

Bard, in the one game I ever played. So.

I HAVE NEVER DONE MAGE BECAUSE I AM INTIMIDATED BY MAGIC-USERS

So traditionally I favored rangers (although I can’t remember what all my one-shot characters have been?), until I learned that what I really like is BARBARIANS AND BARDS and really if you cross-class as a BARDBARIAN I am (a) very happy (b) playing myself

I do warriors pretty much

first WoW character: warrior, first (so far only) tabletop character: warrior, first (also so far only) DA:O character: warrior

Hokuto love smash okay

in WOW i was always a hunter because it’s pretty much the easiest solo class (i fear human contact in MMOs), and in DA games i am always a rogue because rogue is the best class okay there is no denying this

why would anyone not pick the class that lets you see traps before everyone in the party stumbles into them

you can pick locks without needing another rogue in your party if you don’t like the other rogues (i do but not everyone does)

you can dual-wield i don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to stab away at their enemies with two blades at once

in ME there isn’t really a rogue equivalent so i picked the one that lets you psychically headbutt your enemies which isn’t a very mage thing to do

actually have these comments gotten to the point where it’s not so much “hey let’s refute the OP” as “hey let’s brag about our classes”

pretty much!

While I tend to play casters it isn’t for any reason except that casters let me bloody murder everything with fire and explosions.

Otherwise my favored classes are dual-wielding rogues and duelists (hell, my NWN2 character is a sorcerer but is also a dual-wielder and will be prestige classing in duelist so…

Bard (if available) —-> Rogue —-> Cleric —-> Mage —-> Fighter is my preference. Mostly because generally fighters are boring in RPGs, but if I find out the fighters are well made I’ll try one if I play the game enough.

Cleric->Paladin->Fighter->Rogue->Mage

first WoW character was a hunter

and then another hunter

and then three more hunters

…i really like hunters okay

thecakebar: Dark Chocolate Raspberry Gelato Tutorial Low carb,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:44:13 -0400

thecakebar:

Dark Chocolate Raspberry Gelato Tutorial

Low carb, gluten free

Loud & Proud: bmoburns: hey everyone, it’s the littlekneesofbees’ new blog. my name...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:44:09 -0400

Loud & Proud: bmoburns: hey everyone, it’s the littlekneesofbees’ new blog. my name...:

bmoburns:

hey everyone, it’s the littlekneesofbees’ new blog. my name is renleigh, nice to meetcha. i currently live in the not so nicest of environments, mostly because i made the mistake of coming out to my parents last year. next month, an apartment opens up in brooklyn for $900 and i’m…

fajazo: lady-nevada: writeswrongs: cumaeansibyl: peeingisfree...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:44:03 -0400

fajazo:

lady-nevada:

writeswrongs:

cumaeansibyl:

peeingisfreeing:

coffeeandconlangs:

Unnecessary “fillers” in our speech. I’d rather have “like” than up-talking, though (if we had to choose one, that is). Ewwww, up-talking. Then again, a combination of the two would render me homicidal maniac.

yes, colloquial speech is stupid

discourse particles are stupid

quotative particles are stupid

fillers are stupid

lower registers of speech = stupid!!!!!!woah aaa/

Like, did you ever notice? That, like, the speech patterns people, like, think are stupid? Are, like, commonly associated with, like, women?

And, like, there’s this thing? Where, like, women aren’t supposed to be, like, assertive? So they, like, qualify their speech? Because, like, we’re not supposed to, like, stand by our opinions?

1) humiliate women so they don’t feel qualified to speak authoritatively about anything

2) humiliate women for speaking in such a way that reflects how you treat her

3) laugh, you are superior because you don’t use words like “like.” It isn’t as if being a huge stupid asshole has ever made you worse than a woman who speaks with verbal tics.

Holy shit

fuck this noise.

"The complexity of texts students are being assigned to read has declined by about three grade levels..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:12:50 -0400

““The complexity of texts students are being assigned to read has declined by about three grade levels over the past 100 years. A century ago, students were being assigned books with the complexity of around the ninth- or 10th-grade level. But in 2012, the average was around the sixth-grade level.””

- What Kids Are Reading, In School And Out

Walk into any bookstore or library, and you’ll find shelves and shelves of hugely popular novels and book series for kids. But research shows that as young readers get older, they are not moving to more complex books. High-schoolers are reading books written for younger kids, and teachers aren’t assigning difficult classics as much as they once did.

Children are reading significantly less challenging material in school every year. Read more or listen to the full report at NPR.

(via pacificstand)

I assigned a fairly classic anthropology text to my students in a Four-Year University and received a chorus of “This was too hard.” When I countered with, “I read this exact same book my Freshman year,” a student said, “Yeah, but you like this shit.”

(via praxjarvin)

I think there are genuine issues with college students being less prepared to work hard or engage with complex material. I just wish this article didn’t conflate that problem with, “Because they’re reading young adult fiction.” I’d venture to say kids who actively read for pleasure are not the ones causing problems in college. And teachers assigning complex ‘classics’ is no guarantee of the students reading them; if anything, ‘classics’ are easier to cheat with because Cliff-notes type study aids are so readily available.

(via madmarvelgirl)

Boo hoo. What percentage of the U.S. population do you s’pose completes a high school education, compared to 100 years ago? What aptitudes do they expect every one of these kids to possess? Which KINDS of intelligence does the system value? The answer, post-…well, Enlightenment, tbh, is, “the ability to close-read Western literature, and memorize a bunch of facts and STEM formulas,” and not much else. How many straight-A English students do you know who are incapable of drawing a box, panic at the sight of Ikea flat-packs, are mortifyingly awful at reading social situations, have never once dunked a basketball, couldn’t wire a lamp if their lives depended on it, can’t memorize a ten-item grocery list, and would die if left alone in the woods for two weeks? I’m not saying everybody should have all those abilities — quite the opposite. I’m saying high school probably at some point made your genius bike mechanic believe she was stupid because she never grokked King Lear.

Here, have a whiteboard animation:

[RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms]

(via stultiloquentia)

Also, to what purpose was the “challenging” material being put? Kids in my classes were being assigned King Lear and Siddharta and pretty much doing shit with it. It didn’t enlighten them, it didn’t instill in them a love of reading or practical reasoning, it did sweet fuck all except, bluntly, make them hate their class.

As someone with a degree in English Lit, as someone who actually was reading “challenging material” for pleasure and as someone who regularly gets, from strangers she’s struck up a conversation about a book with, “Wow. You should TEACH. Suddenly everything about this is six times more meaningful - why didn’t they teach this to me this way in school?”, I’ll tell you right now that you can make more use of Harry Potter to teach about literature, literary history, literary conventions, critical thinking, textual deconstruction and liking to read fucking books to a class of kids who have some interest in Harry Potter and can actually see what the fucking point is, than handing out Jane Eyre with a bunch of worksheets and a lecture to a class whose eyes glaze over at Victorian sentence structure.

Which, I don’t blame them. I’m perfectly capable of reading Victorian sentence structure, but I am also perfectly capable of reading Freud: it doesn’t mean either of them enlighten me, or are something I’d do for pleasure.

(To be fair, I am not sure this is what’s being done by any means, but that’s not the point - the point is “challenging texts” is a fucking bullshit metric, and also, ffs, CS Lewis had a character complaining in bewilderment about how twelve year olds were no longer taught Plato. FOR INSTANCE.

(via tygermama)

Why are those texts complex?? Because they’re old?? Keep in mind, most of the things on assigned reading lists were written in a bygone era where people talked and thought differently than they do today. They were also written by educated adults FOR educated adults. Not adolescents in the process of obtaining an education. This can make the cultural differences, the historical difference and the language differences impenetrable to today’s youth without a massive, MASSIVE history lesson first. It also makes the characters and the text entirely unrelatable to anything the young adult has experienced thus far in life. While they may have been relevant to adults, or young adults when they were published, they offer little to today’s kids. And lastly—assigned reading lists of days of yore were filled to the brim with dead white European males. Is it so tragic to get other voices into a reading list? Things not by dead white or British dudes? Seriously? Basically they’re saying it aint good if it was written by a minority or a woman. Only the finest in dead white dudes will do for our children. Those books may have been thought of as the height of education by our parents and grandparents, but they’re just furthering the Dead White Dude agenda now days.

(via deducecanoe)

^^^^^^^^^THISSSS. The standards of what they call complex are based on a system that reveres whiteness. The texts that are written by woc and other marginalized people tend to be linguistically complex in ways those people dont understand. id like to see them try to analyze the linguistic nuances in the Color Purple— i bet you a million dollars they couldnt do it.

there also tend to be really profound ideas in those “easy” books that question the very foundation of societal norms and mainstream values. whereas white lit presents basic concepts (usually stuff that is taken as a given in poc cultures) as AMaZing EpiPhANIez and it is canonized based on that perspective.

my shittrash stepmother gave me a copy of emma by jane austen when i was little and i couldnt get through it. it turns out it was because i dont give a fuck about rich white european peoples lives and cant relate to stories about them

WHOOPS

(via labrownrecluse)

Personally I’m not all about bougie literature but grade level and complexity aren’t always tied together and when kids are in 11th grade reading books that they’ve been reading because comfort level and not being pushed to challenge themselves. As someone who went to high school like 5/10 years before some kids in my college classes, I can see a difference. Like it hinders my shit because they are so rigid and used to lackluster education. I haven’t read most classics but there was so much young adult literature that progressively went up in level that were awesome to read if made available. But so many parents and teachers don’t want their kids to learn about sex and drug use etc they don’t allow those kids to read the books that really make you wanna read more. I dunno, I’m done lol I’m rambling

(via strugglingtobeheard)

at your service!

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:04:01 -0400

Thorin and co., at your service:

Dwalin,

Balin,

Kili, Fili

Dori, Nori and Ori.

Oin, sir and Gloin, sir.

Call him Bifur and him Bofur.

And uh, Bombur, at your service.

We are all at your service.

at your service!

Searching for Knowledge: duchessofc: If any of you could please share the videos concerning...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:09:28 -0400

Searching for Knowledge: duchessofc: If any of you could please share the videos concerning...:

duchessofc:

If any of you could please share the videos concerning Brazil I have posted below. The mass media is not reporting on any of this, today radio stations’ signals were cut and replaced with the narration of soccer games simply because they were reporting on police brutality who…