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Darlings! I have a new poem out today at The Deadlands! I am really excited for you to read it”Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness,” and I hope you like it!!!

Can’t Fucking Sleep Disorder

Can’t Fucking Wake Up Disorder

What Is A Focus

Oops I Did It* Again (*Spent Thirteen Hours On Youtube And Forgot To Eat Or Drink)

The World Is Too Noise Today

All My Friends Hate Me (I Deduced This From A Three Word Text)

I Forgot About [thing] Literally As Soon As I Turned Around

I’m Listening To Music On Full Blast And I Can’t Hear It Because The Person Next To Me Is Humming Quietly

I’m Listening To Music As Quietly As I Can But I Still Can’t Hear The Person Next To Me

My Mouth Is A Desert

Time To Watch The Same 10 Seconds Of A TV Show 30 Times In A Row Because I Keep Missing Something Important And It Went By Too Fast

Time To Watch All 100+ Episodes Of This TV Show I Haven’t Thought About In Years In The Span Of Roughly A Week

Chug That Waterbottle!

I Can Hear Someone Audibly Stimming In The Next Room (Because None Of Us Are Neurotypical) But It’s 2 AM So Do I Aggravate My RSD And Tell Them To Go To Fkin Bed Even Though I Know How Painful Not Stimming Can Be Or Do I Let Them Stim, Take The Hit, And Not Sleep At All Tonight? (Reprise) [DUBSTEP REMIX]

Stop Shoving My Head With No Warning When I’ve Repeatedly Asked You To Stop, And Stop Telling Me “That’s Tough” When I Get Mad (the experimental scream metal track)

Squeeze The Serotonin Out Of This Song (By Listening To It On Loop For Days On End Until It Becomes Unbearable)

and don’t forget the collaborative album with anxiety and depression: Three Ring Circus

Ring 1: If I Don’t Go Do Something Productive I’m A Worthless Human Being

Ring 2: If I’m A Worthless Human Being Why Should I Go Do Something Productive?

Ring 3: I Am In “Doing Things” Mode Regardless But I Can’t Choose What Things I Do, HELP!

This $18 Bill Went To Collections (Because I Forgot To Pay It For 6 Months)

If I’m Only 15 Minutes Late I Count It As A Victory

How Can They Be Careless Errors When I Care So Much But It Doesn’t Help

I Already Forgot What This One Was Going To Be

I Ran Out Of My Meds To Help Me Remember Things And Then Forgot To Refill Them For Three Weeks 

No We Aren’t All A Little ADHD These Days Because of Twitter

I’m Too Smart To Be This Stupid (12″ Remix)

I’m Sure That Show Is Good But Let’s Be Honest I Still Have Things In My Netflix Queue From 2009 I’m Never Going To Actually Watch It

When Did It Get To Be 4AM?

I Haven’t Read My Mail Since The Obama Administration

Sir, This is My Emotional Support Fidget

I Have At Least 20 Lists Of Things That I Want To Do But I Never Get Around To Doing Them Even Though I Defenetly Have The Time

My Daily Planner Includes Entries Such As “Eat” And “Shower” Because I Will Defenetly Forget Those (Especialy If I Forget To Look At Said Planner)

Obsesse Over Something After Having Only A Glimps Of It And Go Down A Rabit Hole Looking For It For Hours And When I Can’t Find It Be Upset For 3 Minuts Before Moving On (repeat this every few weeks, maybe for something different)

I Can Only Pay Attention If I Am Distracted (also known as You Can Have 60% Of My Attention But If you Demand 100 You Will Get 0)

I Can Only Binge Because If I Stope Watching Somwthing I Immediatly Loose Interest Even If I Stoped In The Middle Of An Episode (which is not to be confused with I Am Obsessed With This But I Want To Binge Because I Would Rather Wait 3 Months Than Wait A Week But That Was A Year Ago And Now It’s Too Late)

like 99.9999% of people have that little excess ink when you use a highlighter its so normal i cant even

dont beat yourself up over slightly wonky lines??? you can fix it later just dont dont dont

handwriting doesnt even matter if its legible write legibly aesthetic doesnt even matter tbh

your notes!!!! are fine!!!!! 99% chance that if you put effort into them someone will compliment you

not unrelated there was this girl w these amazing!!! physics notes and she was like ohh but they’re not as aesthetic as yours and its like??? bro??? im reading your notes right now what does this say about mine lmao

sometimes bullet journals are overrated

sometimes expensive planners are overrated

dont drop a ton of money on a notebook if you have tested out the paper with your main stationery because you’ll  r e g r e t

testing paper!!!! is so important like knowing what you’re writing on makes a difference 

but also who gives its just paper?? if it doesnt matter that much to you dont sweat it just use what makes you feel comfortable

everybody has their own preferences like i prefer light grey dots or maybe a grid if i have to but nO! BLACK! LINES!!!! but i have friends who love those notebooks with heavy lines bc it makes them feel grounded its all about doing what you love

legit buying mildliners doesnt even matter that much dont bother they’re overpriced like 999999% of the time

muji !!!! is lowkey overrated dont buy overpriced products bc its Not Worth It its like a nicer jp target no not really but also completely

forget ab the name brands bc that doesn’t even matter!!!! if you like what you’re using then use it !!! if your method is efficient then use it!!!! and if you’re really trying to develop an aesthetic it’ll come to you through what you already have

like ofc its ok to look at other people for inspo and stuff just your aesthetic is your own!!! its like a tree !! every single tree is different!!! but they’re all still wonderful right??? so let your aesthetic grow!!!!

I want to try and reblog more posts especially original content that have less than 500 notes

PLEASE reblog if you’re a small studyblr or your original content doesn’t get the exposure you want it to, and tag this post with your OC tag

(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language) 

ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties 

alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings 

amantium irae amoris integratio est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love 

ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short 

aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses 

dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope 

ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty 

exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad

experiential docet - experience teaches 

helluo librorum - a glutton for books (bookworm) 

in libras libertas - in books, freedom 

littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts 

mens regnum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself 

mirabile dictu - wonderful to say 

nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part 

omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now 

poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made 

qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it 

saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be 

sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still 

si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war 

struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears 

sub rosa - under the rose 

trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise

urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble 

the president of guinea built/is building infrastructure and school and wells all over the country and is decreasing youth unemployment exponentially

the president of cote d’ivoire made school mandatory of children ages 6-16 and banned plastic bags while also building ultra modern trasportation infrastructure

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“Traditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a man’s wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]”

Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks). 

We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff that’s needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations. 

The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.

And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:

Red Cross scandals tarnish relief efforts

‘Breathtaking’ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

I didn’t know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, that’s something we, the people, should hear about and we don’t.

Most the time, when people say “oh FEMA or something sent people right?” re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them. 

If there’s a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up it’s ass, help is offered and most the time– shit, it gets there! But then the feds do something really fucking dirty. They insist they were the help, if it’s talked about at all. 

They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a fireman’s a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth. 

We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while ago– not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheer “this is horrible and we’re helping” and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and people’s important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace. 

What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves to “but our people can handle it because we’re the best at handling things” and then they move on before the idea it’s out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impact– by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to the “eh, we can handle it and everyone else out there– they need our help because they’re not so good at handling disasters like we are.” People who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of community– we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information. So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because they’re considered unimportant.  Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that they’ll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if it’s in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually they’re rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless aren’t important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.

So, when we do get help for any of the above, it’s possible that most people may have no idea about what’s happened, let alone that help’s been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vague– the news don’t care to give the nitty gritty. You’ll know something happened and people are suffering and “gee, isn’t it good you’re not them” and then now the weather.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina 

…global citizens are hard to monger fear and distrust and xenophobia and nationalism with. They’re hard to control with propaganda and hate. They’re hard to keep ignorant and docile and saying “this is fine” while the empire burns.

The US Govt does not want global citizens. It does not want to be part of a global community where there is equal exchange and mutual support. Doing so risks having to acknowledge that for a lot of our history, America’s been a pretty lousy member of that global community. So instead of fixing that, the govt lies and the media repeats the lie unquestioning. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

they talk at an understandable pace!!! what a miracle!!!!

a ton of key vocabulary

and interesting slang words

good for familiarising yourself with the french school system

and french culture in general

its real helpful to hear native french speakers talk for your pronunciation 

short, bite size clips to keep you entertained

@skamfrtranslated does english and french subs

use the english ones if you’re a beginner or just feeling lazy

french ones if you’re feeling more confident

none if you’re really brave

bonus: engaging plot and hella cool characters!

this is the perfect grade of good luck