the-sixth-month:

fandomshatewomen:

marxferatu:

This is a really cool fact, but it’s sad how women were routinely locked out of certain fields for so long

-mod c

For a split of a second i thought Harry Potter has a fourth child with a terrible name

flavoracle:

the-aspiring-maverick:

mojave-red:

saltrat88:

frederick-the-ii:

pinetreeanarchism:

thedevitoanditsown:

llleighsmith:

heartmurmuration:

llleighsmith:

i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills

it’s just choppin wood and harvesting vegetables and herbs from here on out

amen!

unironically this

Please hit me with more homesteading concept drawings

Good reference material here.

My brain during sane hours of the day: “I have a good job with benefits, a stable social network with supportive friends and family, and I’m a nerd who thrives on advanced technology. Also, I dislike the taste of fish.”

My brain on Tumblr at 3:30am: “Y’know, abandoning all technology and leaving civilization behind looks like a lot of fun! And I could teach the kids how to build a fish trap!”

the-real-seebs:

perfectlycrazydragon:

autisticeducator:

Okay fellow ADHDers

My professor said Tumblr blogs can be a source (and yet Wikipedia still isn’t 😝) in our multiple perspectives presentation on “Should ADHD be a disability category for IEPs under IDEA” (yes, another US centric post).

So my group really wants perspectives on this topic.

•Did you have an IEP in school (either via the “other health impairments” or another disability). Was that helpful to you? Would it have been more helpful if ADHD was its own disability category?

•Did you have a 504 in school? Was that helpful to you or do you think an IEP would have helped you more?

•Did you lack accommodations through school and were diagnosed during K-12 schooling? Do you think if ADHD was its own disability category, it would have helped you?

•Did you lack accommodations through school and were diagnosed as an adult. Do you think if ADHD was a disability category for IEPs under IDEA when you were in school that it would have made a difference?

If you can reblog with a link to a post, that would be ideal as that is easier to cite. If you need time to write one, that’s fine. It’s not due till early November.

Um, yeah, not ADHD, but maybe @the-real-seebs can help?   Do I have any followers with ADHD?

No clue, I wasn’t diagnosed until my mid-30s. So I guess “were diagnosed as an adult”. I honestly don’t know whether IDEA existed that long ago. I don’t know whether the categories help or hurt, I just don’t know enough about the way they work in the first place. In general, better awareness of the thing woulda helped, I think.

I was diagnosed as an adult. I did have an IEP (I’m Canadian and in my early 30s, so – I have no idea whether IDEA was a thing at the time or if it’s a thing here), but it was for my autism. The doctor who diagnosed me as autistic, though, did include in her notes a pretty strong recommendation that my parents should get me checked to see if I also had ADHD. (They did not get me checked for that.)

I do think that if I’d been diagnosed with ADHD when I was in school, and had accommodations for it, it would have helped a lot. I got some accommodations in college, which helped a lot, but knowing what I needed help with would have done more; knowing that it wasn’t just an issue of not being able to focus consistently in class, and needing note-takers and the ability to record lectures, and being taught how to study? That would have helped a lot in high school, since I wouldn’t have been having to figure out how to study and what was helpful for accommodations when I got to college.

jumpingjacktrash:

whetstonefires:

siderealsandman:

fernstrike:

I need to talk about this for a second.

This is right after Gandalf says, “A balrog. A demon of the ancient world.”

I just love how PJ chose to cut to Legolas’ face because he is exactly who you should cut to at this moment. You need an elf to show what it really means. Other than Gandalf, the rest of the Fellowship can sense something is gravely wrong, but they don’t understand just how grave. Like Gandalf, Legolas knows the terror. He understands the gravity of what lies around that corner. He’s got a piddly little bow and he is mere steps away from a demon of the ancient world. This frame shows a kid coming to the realisation that he is way out of his depth, that this mission will take him to places he only knew to exist in legends of the Elder Days, a time long gone, barely history. 

He’s probably one of the youngest elves in Middle Earth at this point. He probably grew up on stories of the balrogs, slaying the ancient High Kings of the Eldar and tearing Middle Earth apart, thousands and thousands of years ago. They are legends in old crumbling books, read illicitly by a little elfling who was kept up at night by the terrible tales.They are the monsters under the bed and the shadows in the heart of the forest. They are the beasts behind the winged hordes of hell, that older elves, who’ve seen the worst that Arda has to offer, always assured him were no more than distant nightmares, stories relegated to dust and ancient memory. Except now they are real. They are here. They are coming.

The best part is that in the books he just starts screaming when he lays eyes on it

In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left hand it held a whip of many thongs.

‘Ai! ai! wailed Legolas. “A Balrog! A Balrog has come!’

Legolas can be relied upon to have the correct reaction to everything.

It is not necessarily normal, or socially appropriate, or sane, but it is always 100% correct.

it’s like they’re all looking at a shiny thing in the sky and gandalf is like “a meteor is a rock that falls from space” and legolas is the only one who’s seen pictures of tunguska

jumpingjacktrash:

think back to the last time you saw a bunch of bloggers saying those things

and how many of them turned out to be employed by the Russian Internet Research Agency to get trump elected

i don’t know whether the russian agitprop bloggers are back under new names or whether there’s a fresh new footbullet brigade who actually bought their nihilistic message, but in the end it doesn’t matter

anyone telling you that, if you hate the way america is turning into a fascist puppet state, you should do nothing, is an enemy

anyone telling you that exercising your rights as a citizen is a bad thing, and that you should totally stick it to the man by sitting around with your thumb up your ass fantasizing about ‘burning it all down’, is a dangerous enemy, or dangerously stupid

and anyone who actually tries to get you to make real plans to go out and blow shit up, do murders, start fires, and get a lot of gung-ho idiots and innocent bystanders killed, is a literal felon, and either it’s a sting or they’re a terrorist

i don’t care if the thought of being a gun-toting shoot-first patriot sounds a-ok to you as long as you’re a leftist gun-toting shoot-first patriot, i am telling you, as Internet Dad, Local Calm Person, and Guy Who Has Seen This Shit Before, put the hateboner back in your pants, wash your hands, and go do what real americans do when they want freedom and progress: VOTE.

ceescedasticity:

galaxystew:

kiragecko:

tuesdayisfordancing:

whetstonefires:

jes-cher:

theladyscribe:

shoshanah-ben-hohim:

madmaudlingoes:

copperbadge:

stephen-amell:

emilysidhe:

alrightevans:

tag game: what would your name be if your parents had named you like edward and bella named renesmee (renée + esme) 

Oh man this is gonna be so whacky let me see you put my grandmothers’ names together and you get … Maryanne. Oh.

Hmm, well my grandmothers are called Ivy and Marguerita, so….. Ivuerita?

If my grandmothers, Glorie. If we use grandfathers for dudes, Killiam. Either of which I would be okay with, honestly.

Glorie Killiam Starbuck. I’m wearing space armor and holding a laser crossbow on the cover of a dime novel from 1967. 

….Millet.

Estal? Esthal? (h would be silent, Esther and Michal)

or if a boy… Elchard

Estal is kind of like the fantasy novel twisted version of Estelle, so cool.

But Elchard.

Maybe what they’re called instead of full names? 

Elk. Elck? Deli? 

Well, good thing I’m a girl. And also that my parents are sane.

Donnis or Phyla?? Donbert or Robald???

Patrizabeth? Elicia? That’s not so bad. For a boy… I’m realizing I’m not entirely sure what my maternal grandfather’s name was. Steven, I think, or perhaps George. Really, none of Peteven, Georger, or Stever appeals. Peorge? Glad my parents left the family references for middle names.

Januliet??? If a boy, Jameseph.

I kind of like both of those and they’re actually less weird than what I actually got, and slightly more androgynous, so cool.

…or Josames or Julane, but those are less good so no.

(Yes, all four of my grandparents started with J. My maternal grandparents also shared the same middle initial; grandma got a kick out of monogramming shared possessions like bath towels.)

Millie + Frieda = Millifred. Which I wouldn’t *want* but is a name!

Shirleysue. No, no, Shirlzanney! (Shirley and Suzanne.)

It’s terrible but entertaining.

Paulana, or Analine! And if I was a boy I’d be Brack or Jantz.

Rather amusingly I have my grandmothers’ names as my first and middle names. …Smushing them would have been a bit of a mess, though.

Let’s see…Evelynn (usually shortened to Lynne), and Barbara. So Lynnbara or Barbrelynn?

If I were a boy, I’d be picking from Edward and Maxwell, which gives me Edwell or Maxward.