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writernotwaiting:

by Melissa Stoddard

Because her body is winter inside a cave
because someone built
fire there and forgot to put it out
because bedtime is a castle
she’s building inside herself
with a moat
and portcullis
and buckets full of mist
because when you let go
the reins
horses
tumble over cliffs and turn
into moths before hitting bottom
because their hooves leave streaks of midnight
in the sky
because stuffed rabbits
are better at keeping secrets
than stopping hands
because when the world got
shoved up inside her
she held it tight like a kegel ball
and wondered
at the struggle Atlas had
carrying such a tiny thing
on his back

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National Poetry Month day 3

I’ll be posting a new poem every day all month. Let me know if you want to be added to the tag list.

@pedeka @iamhisgloriouspurpose @anastasiaoftheironwood @sherala007 @runningamokwithanaxe @sarabeth72 @incredifishface @icybluepenguin @catedevalois @engrprof 

joanhello2:

oceansgratitude:

maryam0revna:

attention college freshmen/anyone feeding themselves for the first time

this is for you

it has come to my attention that some people are not feeding themselves properly bc they don’t know how to cook/aren’t sure how to cook on a budget. bc i am everyone’s mom (or at least everyone’s wise older sister) let me drop some very real Broke Rookie Cooking Knowledge. 2 of my favorite recipes are under the cut, both of which come out to $2 OR LESS PER SERVING.

-MAKE a MENU. pick out like 5 things you know how to make and buy JUST WHAT YOU NEED FOR THOSE THINGS. and also a few snacks, but otherwise, JUST THAT. don’t just buy some random-ass groceries you think you’ll need. (also, if you don’t know how to make 5 things, seriously just google simple dinner recipes. i used a “mississippi heirloom cookbook” my aunt gave me and got a ton of good ones.)

-tbh i don’t even buy snacks except for a giant box of cookies that lasts me like 2 weeks at a time and an assload of apples. snacking is bad for you, and if you don’t HAVE snacks, you can’t EAT snacks. fuck snacks.

-off-brand EVERYTHING. you think you can taste a difference? you CAN’T. get shit in cans. vegetables. pasta sauce. salsa. whatthefuckever. it all comes in cans, and it’s always cheaper. i have no idea why.

-whole grain bread and brown rice/pasta are not more expensive than the regular kind, and they keep you full longer. GET THEM.

-@ my americans, Dollar Tree has literally everything. every kitchen utensil. (it’s where i got my big-ass chef’s knife, and that bitch is still sharp.) dishes/cups. snacks. drinks. literal loaves of bread. all kinds of basics, from peanut butter to sriracha to progresso soup. some even have freezer sections. all for ONE DOLLAR. go to Dollar Tree first, then go to the grocery store for whatever you couldn’t find there. i s2g it saves me so much money. (they also have tupperware, cleaning supplies, toilet paper, EVERYTHING. for one dollar.)

-produce is way cheaper than you think. get some fresh vegetables. you really will start to feel like a bag of hot garbage if you don’t eat your veggies.

-COOK in ADVANCE. i work during the day and go to school in the evenings, then i come home and work out. lemme tell you, my ass does NOT wanna cook when im done with all that. cook shit in big quantities, stock up on tupperware (dollar treeeeee), and stick it in the fridge for later. when you’re exhausted and remember you have instant dinner already made, you will want to kiss yourself.

-find some sandwiches you love. make a lot of sandwiches. (pls for the love of God dont use kraft american singles tho. deli-sliced cheese is literally right next to it, and it is NOT more expensive.)`

-FUCK organic free-range shit. you got organic free-range money? GREAT. i sure as hell don’t, and neither do most people. don’t waste your money trying to live your foodstagram #goals while you’re young and poor.

-if you qualify for SNAP/EBT, GET THAT SHIT. there are some assholes out there that will tell you not to, to leave it for the ~real~ poor people. tell them, ‘motherfucker I AM REAL POOR.’ for real though, corporations take advantage of any assistance the government gives them and they still lobby for more. you’d be a fool not to do the same. 

now some cheap-ass recipes

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Reblogging cause this cheese is for me

If you are looking for housing, try to find a place where electricity is included in the rent. (You will mainly find this in apartment buildings that used to be single family houses, where the landlord didn’t want to spend the money on separate meters for each unit.) Then haunt the second hand stores until you find a slow cooker. With this excellent (but electricity-gobbling) appliance, you can convert the connective tissue in tough (cheap) meat into digestible nutrition, especially if you cook it in an acidic liquid such as tomato sauce. Beef stew meat, retired laying hens (sold as “fowl”), game if someone gives you some. You can get slow cooker recipe books through your public library.

scienceshenanigans:

havephysicswilltravel:

scienceshenanigans:

themidgetsmama:

scienceshenanigans:

Yes hello, I’m starting a new postdoc tomorrow and I’m terrified. 

I feel you. I start working in adult mental health in May and all I can think is, “these people think I’m qualified?!?”

Hello impostor syndrome, my old friend.

How do y'all deal with imposter syndrome? I didn’t deal with it at all in my undergrad but I def should now as I’ve started a new teaching job… plz help

My plan is to keep pretending like I know what I’m doing until someone catches me. 

I’ve dealt with imposter syndrome for longer than most of you have been alive. But it is OVER.
Look at the current President of the United States and his cabinet. You are MORE qualified for your jobs than they are. You figured out Tumblr which none of them could have a prayer of doing. Just fess up when you mess up and keep learning. You GOT this!

petermorwood:

vongoladodicesimo:

sadakotetsuwan:

kaytayzombay:

showerthoughtsofficial:

How important do you have to be to have been “assassinated” instead of “murdered”?

That is…a good question

If the motivation is political, then it’s assassination. Otherwise it’s murder. You cannot be assassinated by accident.

If a jilted ex murders the Prince of Placeland, it’s just a murder.

If a jilted ex is also a member of a rival political faction, it may be assassination.

If a jilted ex is driving home in tears and accidentally runs over the Prince of Placeland in the middle of the night in a neighborhood where the streetlights are out because of the prince’s questionable infrastructure policy, it’s manslaughter.

Thanks murder side of tumblr

Maybe better to say that if the victim is a political figure, it’s (attempted) assassination - AFAIK John Hinckley’s motive in trying to kill President Ronald Reagan wasn’t political but a part of his obsession with actress Jodie Foster.

Murder = It’s Personal. Prince Charming’s wife kills him in a fit of rage over his multiple infidelities (he’s charming, not sincere. Or honest. Or clever. Or nice.)

Assassination = It’s Political. Prince Charming’s latest mistress/catamite kills him to make way for the leader of their own faction, Prince Sensible; becoming his mistress/catamite in order to do so emphasises assassination over murder.

Tooth-gritting reluctance to become the mistress/catamite often features in such plots, because of his Bad Reputation. After the Bad Reputation is confirmed during first bedtime (or maybe second or third, when Charming can’t restrain his True Nature any longer) reluctance to assassinate him is greatly reduced, but may still provoke tears because at bottom the assassin is far nicer than he ever was. But they did what had to be done…

Execution = It’s Practical. Prince Sensible’s faction take over on a wave of popular support, put Prince Charming on trial because his multiple infidelities and diplomatic stupidity have brought the country to the brink of civil war, then chop his head off.

In public, so people know he’s dead. Secret disposal only leads to tiresome rumours that maybe he’s still alive somewhere and can be restored by those who would benefit from it…

After his execution Charming may become a martyr and a figurehead for revolts against Sensible rule, but he certainly won’t be wearing the crown again due to not having a head to put it on.

That head on a spike at the city gate will (usually) put a big question-mark over the authenticity of any Pretenders claiming to be Charming, though there will always be people who’ll claim - for any number of reasons good or bad - that he miraculously escaped from prison before chopping-day, the Sensible usurpers substituted another prisoner, wasn’t it odd how the crowds at the execution were held back such a distance, what a remarkably large blindfold he was wearing, and so on.

Once the early revolts are stamped out, some careful enhancement of Charming’s known Bad Reputation by historians and skilled playwrights will make any future attempts at support or rehabilitation no more than the wittering of eccentrics with nothing better to do…

And maybe, long after it’s ceased to matter, someone will point out that it’s extraordinary how all the evidence against Prince Charming originates from the supporters of the Sensible regime that replaced him. And, except for a few people still dismissed as wittering eccentrics, nobody will care.

Character assassination lasts far longer than real assassination, and in such cases the pen is definitely mightier than the sword.

(Source: reddit.com, via serafinastuff)

voidbat:

callmebliss:

hedgehog-o-brien:

I’ve been on a  Discworld re-read for about a year now, and it just struck me how Pterry gets progressively angrier and less subtle about it throughout the series.

Like, we start out nice and easy with Rincewind who’s on some wacky adventures and ha ha ha oh golly that Twoflower sure is silly and the Luggage is epic, where can I get one. Meanwhile Rincewind just wants to live out his boring days as a boring Librarian but is dragged along against his will by an annoying little tourist guy and honestly? Fuck this.

We get the first view of Sam Vimes, and he’s just a drunken beaten down sod who wants to spend his last days as a copper in some dive but oh fuck now he has to fight a dragon and honestly? Fuck this. 

The first time we see Granny Weatherwax, she’s just a cranky old woman who has never set foot outside her village but oh fuck now she has to guide this weird girl who should be a witch but is apparently a wizard all the way down to Ankh Morpork and honestly? Fuck this.

Like, these books deal with grumpy, cranky people.  But mostly, the early books are a lot of fun. Sure, they have messages about good and evil and the weirdness of the world, and they’re good messages too, but mostly they are just wacky romps through a world that’s just different enough that we can have a good laugh about it without taking things too much to heart.

But then you get to Small Gods, in which organized religion is eviscerated so thorouhgly that if it was human, even the Quisition would say it’s gone a bit too far while at the same time not condemning people having faith which is kind of an important distinction.

You get to Men at Arms and I encourage everybody with an opinion on the Second Amendment to read that one. 

You get to Jingo, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal (featuring an evil CEO who is squeezing his own company dry to get to every last penny, not caring one lick about his product or his workers or his customers or anything else and who, coincidentally, works out of Tump Tower. I’m not making this up). 

And just when you think, whew, this is getting a bit much but hey, look, he wrote YA as well! And it’s about this cute little girl who wants to be a witch and has help from a lot of rowdy blue little men, this will be fun! A bit of a break from all the anger!

Wrong. 

The Tiffany Aching books are the angriest of all. But you know what the great thing is? 

The great thing is that Pterry’s anger is the kind of fury that makes you want to get up and do something about it. It upsets you, sure. But it also says It’s up to you to change all of this. And you can change all of this, and even if you can’t. Do it anyway. Because magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

It’s the kind of anger that gives you purpose, and it gives you hope. And that concludes my essay about why the Discworld series is so gloriously cathartic to read when it seems like all the world is going to shit.

So go. Read them, get angry and then get up and fight. Fight for truth. Justice. Freedom. Reasonably priced love and, most importantly, a hard-boiled egg.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

GNU Terry Pritchett

GNU Terry Pratchett

GNU Terry Pratchett

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Since Autism Awareness Month is coming up, here’s what you should know

sbroxman-autisticquestions:

Many autistic people prefer to call it “Autism Acceptance Month”: Awareness and acceptance are two very different things. You could be aware of autism, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to accept and understand it

Autism Speaks is hated by most autistic people: Ask most autistic people what they think of Autism Speaks, and they’ll tell you it’s awful. Autism Speaks seems intent on finding a cure, and is awful when it comes to their treatment of autistic people, treating autism like a monster that destroys families

Many autistic people don’t want a cure: Sure, there’s some that do, but there’s a lot that don’t. And they would prefer more understanding of autism than a cure for it

Don’t light it up blue, go #RedInstead: Lighting up blue is often associated with Autism Speaks, many autistic people would prefer you to light up red instead

If you’re a neurotypical relative, don’t make it all about yourself: So many “Autism Parents” out there make posts taking about how hard autism is for them, without seemingly giving much thought to their child, and they get angry when autistic people correct them. Yes, autism can be tough, but I can guarantee that it’s going to be a lot more difficult for them, especially if you refuse to understand and listen to us

Listen to autistic people: This one should be obvious, but so many people don’t do this. Sometimes autistic people get told they’re “not autistic enough” or “not that autistic” when they’re trying to talk about their own experiences. If you want to understand autism, we’re the best people to come to

Be careful about the autism information you share online, check the facts: Whilst Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month should be a good thing, many autistic people don’t like it because it’s also the chance for more misinformation and lies to be spread about autism. Don’t always believe what you read, check for evidence to prove the facts to be true

(Source: spongebob-autisticquestions, via engineeringworldhealth)

nuitdenovembre:

so heemy told me yesterday she’d never listened to the recording of the secret of sherlock holmes, that one play written exclusively for jeremy brett’s holmes and edward hardwicke’s watson, which is an outrage, so:

act one & act two

couple of things:

• unlike in the granada series, watson gets married in this — it’s the catalyst for most of the intrigue — so it’s not part of the same narrative structure; it’s an alternate universe with the same actors playing the same characters.
• the quality isn’t the best, but it’s the only recording i have been able to find so far, and i’ve been looking for years.
• the h/w relationship in this is one of the most believable and most heartbreaking (and ultimately rewarding) i have ever been given the pleasure to hear. but you’ll cry. fair warning.

(via astudyincanon)

showerthoughtsofficial:

Money can buy the chemical dopamine, therefore it can buy happiness

So, where exactly do you buy dopamine?

Asking for a friend.

(Source: reddit.com)

Finally!

My library hold on Tricks for Free by @seananmcguire came in!  Thank goodness for ebooks.  I can start right now.  So I’m busy today.  Hold my calls!

shredsandpatches:

skeleton-richard:

skeleton-richard:

So it’s been decided that @shredsandpatches and I, and our leather jackets shall make a non-queerphobic documentary on the Plantagenets.

@the-golden-ghost @oldshrewsburyian I’m sure we can use all the help!

…now that I think of it my trademark article of clothing is a plaid shirt so that’s what I’ll be wearing.

YOU CAN ALL BE IN THE SHOW AND IT WILL ROCK

Plus we need people who are better-looking than me to present because I don’t want to be subject to the same kind of columns that come out every time Mary Beard does a show — I don’t have her credentials or confidence!

This sounds amazing!

(via shredsandpatches)