If ur arabic ur great If ur arabic and muslim ur great If ur arabic and queer ur great If ur arabic and muslim and queer ur great I know it seems hard to believe but you’re not bad you’re not awful

oh good

reblog this with what comes up in your tags when you type gay

Reblog to help Eef kill a nazi via shot put 

lgbt people reblog with your sexuality and all the colors of converse you’ve owned

strong stoic man with sad past: *adopts child*

me every single time:

ladies, your 4th, 10th and last recently used emojis. These are your character’s only personality traits in a film written by a man. reblog and put your results in the tags the tags with your res

this is a social experiment, reblog in the tags where you live, your first language and what you call this

reblog this and in the tags, write the band that comes to mind first when you think back to being 13 years old

i literally hate it here

You know what? I hate him. Absolute rage.

anyway attack on titan is nazi propaganda and i dont trust ppl who like it, and as a Jew™ and general decent person i have the fucking right to say i hate snk and fans of it on my own blog

Midoriya: Aoyama, are you with us?

Aoyama: Physically, oui. Mentally? I’m in a renaissance painting wearing a silk dress and looking wistfully into the distance

Midoriya: Is that a yes or are you trying to freak us out?

Quick note about today’s Unus Annus video: 

Hi, my name is Av, and seeing Ethan’s genuine fear and shame and stress in this video has re-engaged my anger with the American public school system. (Specifying because it produced both Ethan and I, and I haven’t been to school anywhere else to see how things line up in other places.)

Those shakes that he got, the blanking out and the test anxiety even though he wasn’t under any pressure? Yeah, that’s an EXTREMELY common learned response this education system creates in people around math, even those that don’t have any sort of reading or educational impediment. There is so much pressure put on children in this country to perform well, immediately and with no assistance when it comes to math, and so much weight placed on being immediately good at it as an indicator of both intelligence and personal worth, that genuinely bright, engaged kids come out of our schools beaten down, anxious, and absolutely convinced that they’re stupid for not living up.

Prior to my current major, I was actually in STEM! I was majoring in theoretical physics, and almost across the board, the response from people involved some version of a fearful shudder combined with “There’s so much math in that though, don’t you hate it?? That’s too smart for me, I could never understand that.” Except then when I would explain theories, they understood things perfectly. When I used to tutor friends and help out with math assignments, they would seem so sheepish and rueful, and admit feeling incredibly stupid, until I just sat down with them and explained how the calculations worked, the tricks I had learned, etc. And there was always this sense of awed confusion, both at how quickly they actually could learn math, and at the mere concept of someone being patient with them and not judging their entire character based on how little I had to put into their understanding of the math. 

Kids in this country have been done so dirty and so wrong by the public education system in a thousand little ways, but this is one of the worst, because not only does it rob people of their curiosity, and their ability to give themselves credit for the ways they ARE smart because they’ve been taught that their intelligence isn’t the “correct” sort, but it also creates a cliff from which the fall is inevitable for students who do catch on without the assistance that they deserve. The crash that nearly all “gifted” students face when they eventually, at some point, collide with something they don’t immediately understand is harsh and debilitating, because children rewarded for not needing to ask for help and not needing to study never learn how to do those things, so when they DO need help or DO need to study, they can’t do it! So people burn out of fields for which they are genuinely passionate (as I did, in some ways) because our education system is designed at every turn to crush that passion out of people. (in a lot of ways it is designed to send poor people of color to prison and poor white folks to work retail, but that’s a separate essay.)

The tl;dr here is if you feel the way Ethan does about math, you are not alone. Not simply because we’re seeing Ethan go through it, but because it is a nearly universal experience in American public schools to be traumatized by math that we’re almost never actually taught how to do, unless we manage to scrape through into upper level graduate work, and even then its simply assumed that you already know how to do the work. I just want everyone reading this that feels that way to know it isn’t your fault, you’re not stupid, and that your ability to do math without a calculator (as if life is one long no-notes algebra test or smth) does not determine your worth, one way or the other.

reblog and put in the tags what's your phone wallpaper

Hi! Sorry about this, as I know you get a lot of these, but I was looking for a fic where Izuku gets through middle school by having a few different rules on how to blend in and not aggravate bakugou and stuff (rule no.1, dont look in peoples eyes, 2., dont talk unless spoken to etc) I honestly don't remember much else about the fic which is why it's so frustrating. Thank you!!

Ooh interesting