#and sixth grade

[oldshrewsburyian]

Dear college students,

I really hope that I, your spinster aunt of Tumblr, am not the first person to tell you this, but: please use your university library services. You are paying for them. They are there for you. Moreover, your professors are operating on the assumption that you will use them as necessary.

When I say "library services" I mean not only physical books that will help you with research, but the usually more extensive eBook collections ditto. Novels you've been meaning to get around to and can't afford to buy. Even (quaintly?) DVDs for your entertainment. And perhaps most significantly of all, interlibrary loan.

I'm going to reiterate interlibrary loan in its own paragraph because a student complained to me recently that publishers were "literally incentivizing piracy" by not pricing academic monographs for purchase by college students and my reaction is best summed up as: ????? Publishers typically price scholarly monographs in the pious hope of not losing money on them. Everyone complains about the ones priced at $300, and a lot of them are priced around $30-50. They are priced for purchase by libraries and specialists. And they are priced for purchase by libraries precisely so that libraries can make them accessible to college students. Anyway, use interlibrary loan, good grief.

TL;DR: the library is there for you, that is what it is for, please behave accordingly.

#spinster aunt of tumblr #libraries #academic libraries #studyblr #college #also i took my survey class to the library this week and none of them had heard of boolean operators #did they all miss fourth grade #and sixth grade #and then never get asked to write a research paper ever #i am baffled #this particular student didn't want to pay more than $10 for a book but that's a different issue

[lynx-224]

thinking abt the fact that the gods send literal sixth graders out to do their bidding and for some reason it works

#this is obviously abt percy jackson #just like thjnk abt it #sixth grade me would’ve talked so much that my quest mates would’ve abandoned me in the woods #like i kid u not #sixth grade me was a force to be reckoned with #but i actually could not order subway by myself so how am i supposed to retrieve a whole lightning bolt #anyway #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #riordanverse #lynx talks

[angelxd-3303]

I promise I have more Mario stuff in the works, I just need to get the mouse in my brain to stop squealing about Nimona for five minutes.

#traditional art #nimona #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #why'd they have to give Bal such adorable puppy eyes?? #GoldenHeart: golden retriever x black cat #Bal and Nimona bonk heads as a form of greeting change my mind #nevermind you can't #i haven't drawn a red cat since my cringe warrior cats phase in sixth grade lmao #i hc that Nimona and Ambrosius didn't really get along well until someone said something crappy to Bal and they both tried to throw hands #literally bonded over protecting their boy #Bal has no idea how to deal with his bf and feral child that's also older than him ready to fight at all times

[a-lonely-tatertot]

Nimona is the perfect rep for weird little middle school girls with no concept of gender and a taste for blood

#nimona #no fr tho watching this like wow this was how sixth/seventh grade me was #i love that for her actually #sorry im gonna be normal abou tthis move (lies) #its one am i should sleep #tater rambles

[insomniac-arrest]

My kitten was playing and just pounced on his own shadow

He hasn’t heard about the cave bro

#he’s going to be so embarrassed when he does sixth grade English

[stealingyourbones]

#bones submissions #prompt art #written by: #gremlin-bot #thank you for the meme grem love u <3 #i made that drawing in sixth grade and had NO idea they kept it #they sent it to me for my birthday as a keepsake from their house and #i felt like I was dreaming when I took this out of the box

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Remember when we would read Percy Jackson and the characters were the same age as you? Now we watch the show and we feel so old looking at these kids, who we were once that age of

Also Persassy came back, so yay

#the show brought be back to sixth grade #or was it fifth grade #i dont remember #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #pjo hoo toa tsats #pjo show #pjo series #pjo hoo toa #pjo #persassy

[urcatwrites]

to back up my previous claim let’s play a game called SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

#jegulus #ao3 fanfic #harry potter #james potter #jegulus fanfiction #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo hoo toa #leo valdez #james fleamont potter #regulus kinnie #keith x lance #klance #leo x nico #nico di angelo #nico x leo #guys please don’t judge me for the leo x nico it’s something that i discovered in sixth grade and i cant grow out of it

[uncanny-tranny]

A big argument against asexuality and aromaticism is the idea that you can be too young to know. I remember people being so put out by the idea of somebody under eighteen identifying as aro or ace, and they made it known how they thought it was bad.

However... I really don't agree with that outlook. I knew something was up with me when my friends were developing a "normal" identity in the eyes of amatonormativity, and I was under eighteen. Mind you, I didn't have words to express how I felt, so I was in a perpetual state of feeling pressure to be "one of the normals." It made my life miserable because I was being dishonest to myself and cloaking who I was behind a layer of shame.

My point is that... when you know, you tend to know. Sure, your identity might change, but is that more important than making sure you are comfortable in yourself? Would you rather feel the way I did at my age hearing about my allo friends? Because it was unbearable, and I don't wish that on anybody.

#ace #asexual #aro #aromantic #lgbt #lgbtq #i guess i can see where people are coming from... but a lot of people who say this don't seem to be aro and/or ace #and it's like... okay you can ask how people can *know* they're aro and/or ace at a young age but it seems rather pointless to me #like... i feel the same way about being aroace as i did when i was in sixth grade having the same feelings so... #...i guess people are really under the impression that secretly *everybody* is allo and they just need to be proven they are #i'm here to say how wrong that is. allo is natural and so is aro/ace #anyway if somebody outgrows being aro and/or ace then: GOOD FOR THEM /gen /nm #i WANT people to understand their own sexuality and romantic feelings. i WANT people to be honest with themselves #and if that means they stop IDing as aro or ace or allo then so be it!!!!!

[front-facing-pokemon]

#something-something emo middle evolutions?? this has the same vibe as sobble to drizzile #where they used to be Something Else (in this case‚ a little shit—in sobble's case‚ a sad little thing) and now they have hair over one eye #which. is the default emo look #i remember in like. sixth grade i think. i had a friend who was much more of a tumblrina than i was. at the time. and i always thought of #said friend as the pinnacle of emo. and they kinda nagged me for it and eventually a teacher overheard a conversation we were having #about it and made me apologize. she gave me this whole thing to recite about like “i'm sorry i said that that's not what friends do” and #i think the entire time both of us were like. okay this is unnecessary. elementary and high school really were just #they just. they really were. weren't they #morgrem #none of that was about morgrem?? hello

[willemdafinky]

The New Frontier meeting Clementine

#twdg #the walking dead game #the walking dead telltale #new frontier #twdg clementine #clementine is so short in s3 #literal baby #she should be in sixth grade

[egosweetheart]

hey. death note is my favorite anime.

#death note #L #light yagami #ryuk #death note fanart #a post #has been since sixth grade #these fuckers rewired my brain

[sp0o0kylights]

Gareth didn’t know who had “almost running over a bloodied and very clearly drugged survivor of--if said survivor could be believed-- a mall fire” on their 1985 bingo card, but he’d like a fucking word.

Particularly considering Steve Harrington kept panicking anytime either he or Eddie even hinted at taking him to a hospital.

Instead he insisted, like some kind of bad action movie hero, that he was “perfectly fine” and that it was “not nearly as bad as it looked.”

Both of which might have been believable had he not twice gotten distracted by Gareth’s drums (sitting next to them both, on account of Corroded Coffin having played at the Hideout that night) asking rambling questions that constantly outed him as being high as hell.

Nevermind the fact that Gareth kept finding more blood.

“Really, it’s--mm.” Steve said, wincing as Gareth found yet another wound. “Not bad.”

“I don’t know how a fire even did this.” Gareth shot back, trying to figure out what stain he needed to press on without taking Steve’s shirt off.

Harrington raised a hand. “Service elevator.” He identified.

He made a whooshing noise, following his hand as it dropped back to his chest. “Slammed right into the floor.”

Gareth winced.

“There was a lot of shit in that elevator besides us.” Steve added, and it was moments like this where Gareth could almost believe the guy was sober, until Harrington followed it up with yet another rant about Russians and Russian Truth Serum.

Right as Gareth found another wet spot.

“Fuck the speed limit, Harrington’s bleeding out on me back here!" Gareth called, voice loud and frantic. 

Sure that might have been dramatic but then, so were Steve’s injuries. 

"Sorry babe." Brown eyes, pupils blown wide from drugs stared up at him with an easy smile, at odds with his beaten face.

In a tone so unimpressed, a middle school teacher would have envied him, Gareth said; "That is not my name."

Harrington didn't even blink. "I know. It's Gareth."

That took him aback.

"I really don't know how to feel about you knowing that." He admitted, half to keep Steve talking, and half as a distraction when he finally figured out which wound needed pressure the most (and then pressed on it.) 

Apparently whatever the hell made up “Russian truth serum” was some strong shit, because in a tone so utterly honest (and thus entirely unlike the Steve Harrington that had ruled Hawkins High halls) Harrington said; "Good things, I hope."

Then winked.

What the fuck.

"Eddie drive faster!" Gareth yelled over his shoulder. “I think he’s dying!”

(He wasn’t, but given the flirting, Gareth wasn’t taking any chances.)

#have a thing #this would be #gareth/steve/eddie #with strong #gareth/steve #in this section #is there a shipname for that yet lol #anyway this isnt connected to anything I found it in my WIPs #steves jock flirting skills #tw blood #tw wounds #tw drugs #or #tw drugged #I guess? #whatever #as always anytime I pair gary with the elder teens #I just age him up #and hold him back a year #I usually make him repeat sixth grade lol #rip buddy just be happy I dont do to you what I do to Steve

[bowie-star]

hey mom, why do i miss the people who hurt me?

#warriors #warrior cats #sunbeam #berryheart #a starless clan #based on that scene in Sky where berrybeart is being a total fuckwad and sunbeam just looks at her and #remembers that this cat is her mother and that she gave her badger rides and soothed her and took care of her #yeah #something about moms through their daughters eyes #nobody will ever get closer to understanding them than their daughters #and nobody will ever be farther away #anyways #vent art on ms paint at 12 am?? what is this sixth grade

[asexual-juliet]

when will god let me stop caring about keeper of the lost cities

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #started reading in sixth grade all my friends fell off during freshman year of high school and i am fully a sophomore in college #shannon please set me free

[lilaccatholic]

Everyone's getting so heated over evolution right now that I kinda want to say I believe in some secret, third thing for kicks and giggles. Get real gnostic on 'em.

Oh? You believe in evolution? And you believe in creationism? Well *I*, the most learned of individuals, believe that we are actually yet still in our larval stage as a species and will only be able to enter the kingdom of heaven when we grow the exoskeletons which will make it so our flesh can handle the gaze of God, like a REAL Christian

#sorry sorry but both sides of this have been SO funny to me as someone whose take on it generally is 'eh it's probably evolution but if God #said it isn't someday i won't hardly be mad about it' #it's so funny to me because people are basically recreating the same arguments that took place in sixth grade science class #except you're using bigger words and i'm very proud of the language development boys and girls! #well done superstars! #now how about we focus on sharing and talking respectfully about our neighbors next hmm?