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would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#re-reading [listening} to the King of Attolia #{Costis my beloved} #reading Redwall with mom for the first time

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🍊 The Orange by Wendy Cope

🌅 Illustrated by Peeta Mellark

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As with the horse poll, please regard these options as sliders. The extent to which each one deviates from 1/6th of the total will determine the amount that canine aspect deviates from the "average."

I will draw the dog we make. :)

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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

#say it again #save tag

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this book will never not be insane to me

#oh a Star Wars thing to lay on the floor about #ANAKIN YOU WERE OFFERED EVERYTHING YOU WERE GIVEN EXAMPLES #YOU HAD FULL ABILITY TO CHOOSE BETTER #there is no fate there is only choice #and nothing we can do can take the choice to choose wrongly out of other people’s hands #Star Wars

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I see a lot of people who tell young people–especially young people who are heading into college–that they should “do what they love.” And they’re right. You should do what you love.

But there’s a world of difference between doing what you love for you, and doing what you love for a paycheck. 

I went to undergrad for graphic design and 3-D design–art and more art, I usually say–and I loved it. You know what I didn’t love? Trying to collect my fees from clients. Trying to meet unrealistic, over-simplified or over-specific briefs from people who didn’t know what they were talking about. Coming home, having worked creatively all day, with no creative juice left for the things I wanted to do.

You know what I would tell you instead? Do something that you can be interested in, with people you like.

You don’t have to love it. Loving your work can be a lot, and it often means you have to live in your job 24/7. Some people can do that. Not everyone can, or should.  But if you can find work that’s interesting enough that it doesn’t feel tedious, and people you can enjoy spending your 9-5 with, and you can make money, that’s great! It means you can do the things you love for you.

I’m in law school now. It’s interesting work, and difficult, and I like doing it. I like how complicated it gets, and I like the stories it tells. But I don’t come home and read law journals for fun. I come home, and I sculpt, and I draw, and I paint, and I read. I do these things for me.

And I love it. 

#save tag

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Look at my girlllll

#isn’t she a beauty? #zlart #mermaid #my oc #she’s not named yet #behold the only shirt I ever draw

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i am 1800s friend for real i think

#what blurring the line between romantic and platonic does to a person #it cheapens and instills instability into both #save tag

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PRACTICE URGE SURFING

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big things we shouldn’t take for granted:

• waking up in the morning

• getting to and from places safely

• having a decent/good relationship with your parents

• your loved ones being alive and safe

• your pets being healthy and alive

• having decent/good mental health

• having good friends who check up on you

• living in a safe neighborhood

• being able to buy the things you want

• having a stable job

• being in good health

• being in a loving relationship

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tundras are soooo pretty aand beautiful to look at smears of best ever colors on flat and muted greens and yellows.... hard agree with los campesinos like yes take a body to tundra for real......

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#journal #phone #stickers #(not stuck) #two moonstones #a shallow tiny bowl for used teabags #two ceramic drink coasters with a cobalt blue drinking glass of water on one of them #(the other one is for mugs) #three containers of lotion #small cleenex box #plant #my two rings #a Star Wars ring box #two glass cylinders with cork stoppers #the taller one has gel pens dip pens two paintbrushes a black two-sided marker and a used stick of cinnamon in it #(the other one is for bug catching) #a used sprinkles jar (for pencil shavings) #mechanical pencil another pen and refill lead #colored speech bubble sticky notes #Burt’s Bees peppermint lip balm #also the wooden surface has several rings in it from hot mugs #heck yeah I like this post

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#star wars #awesome art

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'why r you smiling at your phone' cool girls from tumblr interacting with me mind ur business

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there is so much intimacy in creating something together

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You know what I’m not a fan of?

Parenting advice that assumes the child does not intentionally misbehave.  That it’s all curiosity, or they don’t know what they’re doing.

If you’ve ever worked with kids, you know that’s not true.  I’m not saying they know one hundred percent of the time that what they’re doing is wrong, or that misbehavior can’t be a result of curiosity.  I am saying that they’re a lot more aware of what they’re doing than it seems some people give them credit for.

It can’t even all be blamed on the parents.  You can have good parents with kids who still intentionally misbehave.

oh, and the line “babies can’t manipulate their parents.”  There is an age range of babyhood where, no, a baby isn’t trying to manipulate their parents.  However, I have seen my youngest nephew at six months deciding that when mom ate, he HAD to eat, and if she slept, he NEEDED her attention, despite being fine only seconds before.  And I know it was intentional, because he knew he had his mom wrapped around his finger and one word from his dad would quiet him and he would sulk.  (Both his parents, by the way, have studied child development. I promise you their parenting style is not one of ignorance.)

Just because kids don’t have the mind of adults and don’t know everything adults know, that doesn’t mean they aren’t capable or immune to intentional misbehaving or manipulation.  Parent advice, especially on this site, has to be taken with a grain of salt.  Kids are their own persons with their own thought processes and personalities.  There isn’t a one size fits all solution to parent/raise them (not even in the same family!) and honestly, sometimes some of the nicest looking ways of parenting is rather ineffective.

As a disclaimer, I’m not saying kids are little devils who are just seeking to be bad.  But I guess I feel like sometimes I come across parenting advice on here that doesn’t seem to understand the plight of parenthood and makes kids out to be all one way.