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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. I would come home and I would see the red light flashing on my answering machine, and instead of being thrilled to hear from my friends, I would think, “What a lot of people that is to have to call back.” Or I would decide I should have lunch, and then I would think, but I’d have to get the food out and put it on a plate and cut it up and chew it and swallow it, and it felt to me like the Stations of the Cross.

And one of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it’s ridiculous. You know it’s ridiculous while you’re experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages and eat lunch and organize themselves to take a shower and go out the front door and that it’s not a big deal, and yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

Andrew Solomon, Depression – The Secret We Share, TED talks (via feigenbaumsworld)

This is exactly it.

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One time the thing that made me notice my depression was a coworker giving me a book of recipes with wine pairings (context: I cook professionally, and at the time, I developed the menus at this restaurant), and my first thought was, “What an asshole. Now I have to read that.”

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thesafesthands:

rrueplumet:

that moment in the first avenger when bucky shoots that guy and steve turns around and salutes him makes me laugh bc, like, i will be the first to admit i know nothing about military strategy, but i feel like you probably shouldn’t so blatantly give away your sniper’s location like that

like, was that moment immediately followed by bucky scrambling to his feet like ‘goddamnit steve HOW MANY TIMES’ and takin off into the woods while hydra goons fired at him,, like thank you, captain america, for that, i was hoping to make this more complicated than necessary

#oh MY GOD

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thepioden:

xsmallwondersx:

gothartwin:

thepioden:

sadgaywerewolf:

thepioden:

autisticshepard:

thepioden:

bagera69:

acaranalogy:

thepioden:

Ravenclaws probably have, overall as a house, the worst grades in the school tbh. 

i feel as though ravenclaws would have driven Hermione Granger up a wall they neVER DO THEIR HOMEWORK??? I though this was the smart house???? and Ravenclaws are like yeah kay but GET THIS DID YOU KNOW AN ANIMAGUS – but potions homework – who even CARES about potions right now I’m researching this COOLER THING uncouple the idea of ‘smart’ with the idea of ‘good at school’

I bet for the professors teaching Ravenclaws is like herding cats away from empty boxes.

Older Ravenclaws have finely honed the art of asking just the right argumentative questions to direct their teacher onto an entire-class-session-long tangent about something entirely irrelevant to the course material. 

Can you imagine Ravenclaws trying to overhaul the entire school system with Muggle ideas. Trying to figure out how to best teach people, more concerned with how people learn than what they’re learning.

“Why do we force people to learn things they aren’t interested in, we should create our own curriculum.”

“We should figure out everyone’s learning styles.”

“We need smaller class sizes.”

“No, no, wait, guys, what if we eliminated grades entirely.”

Yeah, Ravenclaws would drive Hermione up the wall.

“Fire the whole staff and start over.”

“Present more opportunities for seventh-year independent research!”

“Why hasn’t anyone made magically modified calculators yet?”

“Why are we still using quills and parchment when pencils exist? Please explain.”

“I don’t want to enter the work force directly after school, what are my options for higher education? Is there magical university?”

“I don’t feel confident in my professor’s qualifications because she’s teaching me astrology but doesn’t know any facts about space beyond about the year 1764.”

Muggleborn Ravenclaws forming rogue study groups to teach other students chemistry and algebra and English literature, just imagine. 

“They call this the astronomy tower but we’re learning about the effects of Venus when it’s in the fourth house and the professor doesn’t believe Neptune is a planet I am really concerned.”

“Okay but what’s the oxidation state of Mandrake root in pepperup potion?”

“But can you apply differential calculus to arithmancy or not?“ 

“The portrayal of the witches in Macbeth has some pretty troubling implications, also, I don’t think their potion would have actually done anything.”

I can’t not reblog this holy frick

And as a Hufflepuff, I happily take notes for them in class, cause they always have the best talks and let me listen in.

You’re a good egg.

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sweepsheep:

thot-pic:

YO ON SOME ANIME SHIT THIS DOPE AF!!!!

Some loser: Wrestling is fake
Me: Explain THIS
Loser: Holy shit

This is how cruiserweight wrestlers fight and it’s absolutely awesome.
Actually, Luchadors fight this way as well.
You can find plenty of this in old WCW matches.

@zombielynx21

It’s “fake” in the sense that every match is pre-planned and choreographed. They aren’t “fights” in the original sense of “throw two people in a ring and have them beat each other up until the loser faints”. Definitely not. The ending is already determined by the story the company has written for the characters the wrestlers are portraying.

Is the skill fake? No. Is the blood fake? No – though often wrestlers do have tricks to make it look extra bloody. Are they really hitting each other? …. usually. And these guys (and GIRLS) DO get injured during shows, and sometimes, tragically, they die during stunts. 

It’s “fake” in some sense, but it’s no more fake than a choreographed gymnastics show. You wouldn’t call a gymnast’s show “fake” because they had a planned routine!!

That’s really well put. Some of the hits are fake, or executed in such a way as to cause minimal real physical harm, but they’re still getting hit.

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