i feel like there’s this huge unfulfilled niche in the Dark Academia thing (kill your darlings, the secret history, dead poets society etc) for stories about women???? like can we have rakish girls quoting sappho and anxious genius poet girls, bespectacled, frantically tapping away at typewriters? wild girls trying to start literary movements and being dragged down by their own hubris? innocent girls discovering love and sex and angela carter? cute girls in 60s looking school uniforms investigating ~mysterious happenings~? going to class the next day hungover and exchanging knowing glances? can we just have. the thing
Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.
Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.
Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.
Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.
Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.
I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.
Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.
But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.
Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.
Where do you live? What language did your great grand parents speak? What are you afraid of?
Reblog and add your answers in the tags
Game of Thrones: Quotes of the Realm - Created by WeareYAWN
i was trying to find the two pugs that featured in Desolation of Smaug so searched “pugs in The Hobbit” oh boy did i get more than i bargained for
DOG WIZARD
THAT’S WHAT PILBO PUGGINS HATES
The Pug of the Rings
The second piece in my Winged series — sequel to “Ascent of Man”.
This is “Descent of Man”
Ballpoint on Moleskine
15.5x10.5”
22K Gold Leaf & Shell Gold
send help
what Icarus imagined:
- Apollo has a smile like the sun; lips soft and loving;
the warmth that welcomes spring buds; beautiful, brilliant, bright;- tasting immortality; too little; golden ichor, golden everything;
the stuff of legends- wings that are light; lifted up by life;
- kind breezes caressing feathers;
- a sky big enough for mortal dreams
what Icarus saw:
- Apollo has a smile like the sun; teeth harsh and unforgiving;
the heat that orders summer famines; burning, blazing, bright;- tasting immortality; too much; charred veins, charred everything;
the stuff of fables- wings that are light; weighed down by wax;
- cruel gales consuming feathers;
- a sky too small for godly dreams
── hey icarus, was it worth the fall? | fio huang
APPS
- All the apps listed are free to download (iOS). However, those that are not bolded offer in-app purchases and may require you to upgrade to premium or pay extra to access everything. Bolded = completely free.
- Duolingo
- Mango Languages
- iTunes U (search “French” and browse courses)
- WordReference (dictionary)
- Quizlet (search for specific topics, such as “French Greetings”)
- MosaLingua
- Memrise
- busuu
- Learn French by MindSnacks
- Learn French by Brainscape
- Penyo Pal (made for kids)
- Babbel (only one free lesson for each course)
- FluentU
- Conjugaison
- Tigercards (go to “Course Bank” next to the “+” button)
- French by Nemo
- Radio France
- Radios France (not the same as Radio France)
- News in Slow French
WEBSITES
- Some of these websites are not aesthetically pleasing, but they get the job done.
- Carnegie Mellon Elementary French I
- Carnegie Mellon Elementary French II
- Français Interactif
- Tex’s French Grammar
- BBC French
- Ma France
- Lingvist
- Livemocha
- french.about.com
- TV5Monde (click “Émissions” to watch TV shows in French)
- Apprendre Le Français Avec TV5Monde
- Talk in French
- 7 jours sur la planète (video news)
- BrainPOP in French
- Games for Language
- The French Experiment
- Bonjour
- Informal French and French Slang Tutorial
- ielanguages.com
- Language Guide
- Polymath
- MyLanguages
- FrenchSpanishOnline
- To Learn French
- french-online.de
- Enhancing French Skills
- QC French
- French Vocabulary for Beginners
- “Glue” Words
VERBS + CONJUGATION
- How To Conjugate French Verbs
- Reverso Conjugator
- Conjugationfr
- Conjuguemos Conjugation Activities
- verb2verbe
TEXTBOOKS/WORKBOOKS/BOOKS/DICTIONARIES
- Barron’s 501 French Verbs
- French-English Bilingual Dictionary
- McGraw-Hill Tune Up Your French
- Collins French with Paul Noble
- Modern French Grammar
- Modern French Grammar Workbook
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Fench on Your Own
- French Demystified
- Beginning French for the Utterly Confused
- Learn French the Fast and Fun Way
- Horizons
- Easy French Step-by-Step
- Practice Makes Perfect French Vocabulary
- Practice Makes Perfect Complete French Grammar
- Collins Easy Learning French Grammar
- Liberté: A First-Year French Textbook
- French Learning Package
- Rosetta Stone French Level 1
- Rosetta Stone French Level 2
- Rosetta Stone French Level 3
- Bon Voyage Level 1
- Textbook
- Workbook
- Listening Activities (under red book)
- Practice Quizzes
- Bon Voyage Level 2
- Textbook
- Workbook
- Listening Activities (under green book)
- Practice Quizzes
- Bon Voyage Level 3
- Textbook
- Workbook
- No Listening Activities :(
- Practice Quizzes
- French from Wikibooks
- French Children’s Stories (such as goldilocks and little red riding hood)
- Children’s Books Forever
GET STARTED
i figured i would never be 100% content with this masterpost because i keep finding new things i want to add, so i’m just going to post it now and update it every now and then! bonne chance!! :)
love, @studenting (previously @thestudiousstudent)
Just a collection of a few personality tests! Most of them are more psychological or geared toward assisting in self-improvement or pointing out aptitude, but I sprinkled a few fun ones at the end just for kicks.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Arguably the most well-known and commonly used system of typing personality, MBTI is based on the way the human mind processes and reacts to other people and the world around them. I highly recommend that you look into cognitive functions afterwards to verify your type, as online testing can often be incorrect.
If you’ve ever seen those weird number combinations floating around tumblr (7w8, 6w5), you’ve encountered it before. There are nine main types, although you will end up having a “wing”, which is your second, complementary type.
This one’s probably the oldest, first coming into common use in the 5th century to type people based on–get this–people’s body fluids. Since then, we obviously know that people’s personalities are not based on biological makeup, but the typology itself still can be useful.
As the one agreed upon my most of psychological academia, this test is the one you should take if you’re going for scientific accuracy. It holds that there are only five completely distinct personality traits in people, which can be mixed on different levels to make every other personality trait.
Mainly used for self-help or aptitude, Multiple Intelligences tests the area where you’re smart, whether it be socially, linguistically or spatially, to name a few.
For all of you students wondering what to do for university, this one might be helpful for you! It tests your interests and aptitude in six different career areas and will give you a three-letter code of your top scoring areas.
Sure, it’s from Dungeons and Dragons, but it’s actually pretty interesting. There are two sets of alignments, the first being lawful, neutral, and chaotic, and the next being good, neutral, and evil. You’ll end up getting a combination of one from each set (e.g. chaotic good, neutral evil).
This one’s not as well-known, but worth taking nevertheless. It tests the way you show love or affection (platonic, romantic or otherwise) to people around you.
Just what it says on the tin. Basically, how self-confident are you?
If you’re a Harry Potter fan, chances are you’ve already taken this test: it sorts you into one of four Hogwarts houses. The most accurate test is at Pottermore, but I know some people are loathe to make an account just for a test, so the link above is satisfactory enough.
Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale
Yes, this test exists. There is actually a quantifiable amount of nerdiness you can have, and this test will show you exactly how much of it is in you.
i really wish platonic relationships were more important. i’m tired of losing friendships because i’m less important than their significant other. i hate that i’m automatically not as close to my friends because i’m not the person they’re dating/sleeping with. and i hate how whenever i complain about it the response is “you’ll find someone too someday!” like no I shouldn’t have to “find someone” to feel loved and important, maybe we should stop promoting investing all your time and effort and physical and emotional intimacy into one romantic/sexual partner idk
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