davids-harbour:

prokopetz:

What y’all think ‘gifted child’ discourse is saying: I used to be special and now I’m not and that makes me sad.

What ‘gifted child’ discourse is ACTUALLY saying: The way many educational systems treat children who’ve been identified as ‘gifted’ is actively harmful in that it a. obliges kids to give up socialising with their same-age peers in favour of constantly courting the approval of adult ‘mentors’ who mostly don’t give a shit about them, b. demands that they tie their entire identity to a set of standards that’s not merely unsustainable, but intentionally so, because its unstated purpose is to weed out the “unworthy” rather than to provide useful goals for self-improvement, and c. denies them opportunities to learn useful life skills in favour of training them up in an excruciatingly narrow academic skill-set that’s basically useless outside of an institutional career path that the vast majority of them will never be allowed to pursue.

searching-for-repentance:

takineko:

libertybill:

Amazing.

The creators of ideas are in such a privileged situation that they see choices of food as a luxury. They can’t even imagine a situation where the price of foods are an issue for someone.

Tax the poor for fuggin uhhhh *spins a wheel* eating.

Well you see, clearly the best option for the poor is to just not eat. Because, you know. Healthy living.

fedini:

courfeyclause:

wings-for-castiel:

headmeetsdesk:

radioactivemoose:

so for some reason hershey’s thinks that golden apples would be great to sell as valentine’s candy

so i got one and wrote this on top:

and left it on a table in the studio

less than five minutes later people were fighting about it

my plan has thus far been a success

I love you

you do realize this is how the trojan war started right

this is definitely how the college au of the iliad starts

anti-jack-kline:

I can only sympathize. While I have shipped others before, destiel was my OTP of OTPs. Now it’s such a poor mirage of what it used to be – honestly you can barely tell they’re even friends in canon, these days. At least we have each other and the memories of what used to be. 

(me @ myself and everyone else who feels the same way). 

lovelyardie:

dankmemesreasonforliving:

GRAD SCHOOL DOT J P G