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A much needed bubble bath and self-pamper time
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1. Do your best. Really. Put your best foot forward and set your mind to your work.
2. Focus. Yes, it’s difficult to lock your phone and stop checking social media every seven minutes, but what will be more difficult is making up for lower grades next semester. If you work better and focus more in a group studying environment, then go for it. If you work better and focus more on your own, sit on your own. Don’t half-ass studying and drag it out over the day; sit down for a certain amount of time and be committed to full-ass one thing.
3. Ask questions. If you don’t understand something, ask a friend. Ask someone online. Ask a teacher. Yes, it can be intimidating, and yes, sometimes it’s scary to come across as dumb for not understanding a concept, but in the end, not knowing only hurts you.
4. Collaborate. If a classmate is good at physics and you excel in literature, work together. The best way to learn and remember something is to teach; take turns instructing each other. And things are better with a friend, anyways.
5. Take breaks. Don’t push yourself to the point of breaking. When you’re tired, when you need to rest, rest. Have a snack. Watch a TV show. Go for a walk. Call a friend. Just remember that a break is just that- a break. Not the rest of the day off.
6. Get some sleep. It’s important, and in the end, so worth it. If you really can’t afford it, sleep smart. Take power naps. Set alarms.
7. Remember that grades are not everything. These numbers and scores do not define your worth. You are so much more than that C- on your calculus final. You have so much ahead of you. A less-than-ideal grade is not the end of the world. I promise. What is meant to be will be- things will work out in the end.
seven pieces of advice going into finals week. // a.g. (via exoticwild)
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this made me so happy
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credits to @shreyadoodles
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10 Love Poems Disguised as Tattoos
ONE. He says Stay so I anchor myself to the earth of his backyard like a dog with a choke chain. He says stop, beg, heel, roll over. He says Open. Somewhere far away, the damsel in distress escapes. The dragon’s eggs hatch, the tongues of flame spear the prince and send him to the pits of hell where he belongs. Somewhere far away, the princess doesn’t need a crown in order for men to hold themselves back from touching her.
TWO. All my baby teeth look like something leaving. Molars chipped like coffee mugs, incisors worn down to the gold edges. Each one an apology cupped in my palm for the child’s mouth I used to have that could pick words like violets and understand which ones to press between pages and which ones to let wilt and fall away.
THREE. The first time we made love we didn’t leave behind blood; we left behind shrapnel. I was detonating long before you knew me; I was a postcard from a city where half the inhabitants sleep alone.
FOUR. The woman in the airport gives you a bouquet of free plane tickets, to be used with any airline in the world, any destination, roundtrip or one-way. Months later you will slip them unused beneath my door, a kind of welcome mat reserved for the barely-living and the nearly-always-nostalgic. You will have no idea how I once longed to be the one you’d reach for if the plane went down.
FIVE. The only tattoo I’ve ever planned on getting is the one encircling my shoulder that reads, I don’t understand why I’m here. And I don’t. Get the tattoo, or understand, I mean.
SIX. Sometimes when he says it’s just cranberry juice it’s actually wine. Sometimes you wake to his body rising over yours like a horizon brimming with storm clouds. Sometimes you pretend to be asleep, and for the entire year after insomnia will follow you like the last stray dog you couldn’t bear to kick out. The one with the ribs showing.
SEVEN. As a child I thought the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were reserved for people who fell in love with nooses. Not flowers.
EIGHT. The only thing that kept him from killing you was the dusty roadside cross he passed every day on the way to work. He didn’t want anyone else to worship your body the way he did.
NINE. Sometimes I close my eyes while driving the way married men slip their wedding rings beneath the pillow before they’re about to sleep with a woman they’ve only just met.
TEN. The most beautiful thing anyone has ever told you is that the Eighth World Wonder will be the only one you’ve never envisioned yourself ending your life on.
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Am I the only one that finds it weird that I can transfer data from my brain to someone else’s by opening my mouth and pushing air with vibrations in their direction.
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[pre-gifs] “…So, she [Paris Hilton] was a very wealthy woman, [initially] not that well known and then she gets to mega-stardom. How? The sex tape. Which was made by her boyfriend at the time, who was married, and thirteen years her senior. She sued to try and stop it [the tape’s circulation] and she couldn’t and it became the best selling sex tape for two years on the porn market.”
Dr. Gail Dines addressing porn culture and rape culture’s intersecting roles in patriarchy
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The Guardian - #timetotalk: Is social media helping people talk about mental health?
On Time to Talk day, when everyone is encouraged to take five minutes to talk about mental health, we ask whether the likes of YouTube and Tumblr are helping or hindering conversations about mental illness
More people than ever before are talking about mental health online.
Whether through blogs, videos or tweets, candid conversations about mental illness can be found across the spectrum of social networks we interact with on day-to-day basis. According to a survey by Time to Change, released for Time to Talk Day, 47% of people aged 21 and under said they find it easiest to talk about their mental health problems online (compared with 49% who said face to face and 4% who said over the phone).
Mental health charities have long known the benefits of social media. Mind has its own social network called Elefriends, Time to Change regularly hosts blogs on its site and, just last week, a new platform for videos on mental health called It Gets Brighter was launched.
Popular YouTubers, regular features in mainstream culture, are also involved. Zoe Sugg, or Zoella, is now a digital ambassador for Mind after her frank discussions about anxiety and panic attacks on her enormously popular channel, normally featuring slice-of-life videos and make up tutorials.
On a day when everyone is encouraged to take five minutes to talk about mental health, we spoke to two YouTubers and the followers of Let’s Talk Mental Health, the Guardian’s mental health blog, about the benefits and pitfalls of social media has had on spreading awareness of mental health.
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Having vlogged for nine years, Rebecca Brown, or Beckie0 to her 246,898 subscribers, is no stranger to speaking to people on the internet. Her vlogs cover a range of subjects in her day-to-day life, from moving back home after graduating from film school to the things she has in her bag.
She also talks openly about depression and a condition called trichotillomania, an impulse-control disorder where a person feels compelled to pull out their hair. One of her most popular videos, a time lapse of a photo every day for six and a half years, shows the effects of this complex condition. Last week, the video hit 10m views, showing just how popular videos about mental health can be on YouTube.
For Brown, it’s meant extra attention and sometimes extra pressure. She runs a trichotillomania-themed YouTube channel called TrichJournal alongside her more general one, as well as Tumblr and Twitter accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers between them.
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“When I first started vlogging, I was talking to around 20 people at most. In the last year, it’s shot up quite a lot – at one point I gained around 100,000 in about two months,” she said.
Internet fame has its pitfalls, particularly when you’re dealing with mental health issues as well. In the past, Brown has inevitably encountered cruel commenters, with one going as far as harassing her on a daily basis.
While Brown recognises social media has helped more people to talk, she doesn’t feel the stigma around mental health has been eradicated as of yet.
“I don’t feel like anything has changed. In general, it’s all very well talking about things, but real change is what we really need. We need a lot of change in how mental health is treated, for example. The system just can’t cater for everyone right now.
“It’s very popular right now for politicians to talk about mental health but not much has changed yet.”
Having shared so much, Brown feels she often feels she has to hold back when things are difficult in her personal life. She said: “Some people say, take a vacation - but of course, you can’t take a vacation from the internet!
“Two things tend to happen: one, I find I can’t talk about it and two, I sometimes trigger myself. So I’ll sit down to make a video and then I’ll start thinking about everything and suddenly I’ve been there for hours.”
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For now, she feels she needs to hit a balance between what she does and doesn’t share.
“I do still say, I’ve had a bad day, but I don’t tend to go into as much detail as I used to,” she said. “Generally, I’ll put a bad tweet up and then follow it up with something a bit more positive if I can.
“But, I do think it’s so, so important for people to talk to someone, anyone – and you don’t have to set up a YouTube channel to do it. If you feel like you’re struggling, you shouldn’t bottle it up.
“We’re never going to be able to deal with things if you don’t at least talk about it.”
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Dissatisfied with the on and off therapy she received between the ages of 15 and 20, Laura Lejeune, now 21, began looking for an alternative to professional help she feels let her down.
“Turning up to therapy felt very shameful, one of my psychiatrists wouldn’t even say ’self harm’ she’d just do a motion with her hands to suggest it which made me even more embarrassed by what I was trying to deal with,” she said.
“I soon came to despise the idea of professional help and started to search for answers elsewhere.”
Those answers came from YouTube, where Lejeune found the upfront and uncensored approaches of the site’s mental health community refreshing and helpful, to the point she was watching them religiously before school.
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“I can remember being 14 and thinking ‘Wow, I wish I had the guts that these women have.’”
Five years later, her own videos have 6m views between them and her channel has a total of 76,000 subscribers. Her videos cover a range of mental health related topics (including) and often feature other YouTubers. Lejeune also regularly discusses her own mental health candidly.
She also creates a series based around mental health misconceptions, which has 19 episodes so far and at least another 12 on the way. Lejeune thinks YouTube is a useful place to debunk common misconceptions about mental health.
“People generally like the idea of choice. It’s much more effective to upload a video for a user to choose to click on as they’re more likely to listen if it was their decision.
“Trying to educate people in the ‘real world’ by just talking at them is very different because they can sometimes feel that you’re preaching or ‘shoving it down their throats.’”
Like Brown, Lejeune also feels the pressure to remain a role model to her subscribers and often receives more messages than she can keep an eye on.
“I just have to keep in mind that I shouldn’t set myself on fire to keep others warm, I must put on my own oxygen mask before helping others with theirs.
“I’m often described as being ‘selfless’ but in all honestly, I’m really not. I put myself first, I always have done. If I’m not in the right frame of mind, I fix that before helping others.”
While Lejeune thinks social media has “definitely” helped people to talk about mental health, she still gets a bulk of messages from people who feel they can’t be open about their issues.
“I do get quite a lot of messages from people who are yet to come out about their struggles because there’s still a stigma surrounding the issue. I plan to continue fighting against the stigma and make the issue easier to address without having to mimic self harm through hand gestures like my psychiatrist did years back!”
Let’s Talk Mental Health
When it comes to mental health on Tumblr, there are two sides to the network. There is a darker side in which mental health is almost glamorised and can be difficult to navigate while someone is attempting to recover. But there is a more positive side, where self-care and awareness is the name of the game and users look out for one another and support each other where possible. Some users even dedicate their blogs to providing advice and resources.
Tumblr itself has also moved to target the more negative side, with warnings popping up with helpful resources when anyone searches specific hashtags to do with self harm, eating disorders or suicide and a proactive policy on blogs promoting self-harm.
For more mental health resources, Click Here to access the Serious Mental Illness Blog
Click Here to access original SMI Blog content
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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy and the Pleiades
Image credit: Joseph Brimacombe
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Being gay is natural? Okay.
You have three islands. Divide them into groups of one. The straight island, the gay island, and the lesbian island. The straight island is going to reproduce and keep going strong for millions of generations to come. The gay and lesbian islands will both wipe out in not even one century. This isn’t just about religion or morals, it’s just simple common sense. Being gay is unnatural, and not just because God said so, but because you yourself wouldn’t even be born without a REAL natural man and woman. And no, there is no such thing as a lesbian bone marrow “thing” to have children. That’s a biased fact that came from a lesbian scientist who has false opinions. If it’s not a real penis or vagina, then it’s fucking false and you’re just opinionated by dumb facts. I’m done here. Read over what I said and if you still think that being gay is normal and natural, then I hope you achieve some common sense one day. Bye
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Pascal KNOWS. Rapunzel never breaks her promises. She would have stayed with Gothel forever.
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