Can Somebody Please Tell Me Why The Fuck My Tumblr Recommends Stay The Same For 7 Days Straight?

So basically what we see here is Aziraphale getting a chance to ask Crowley out and Crowley sitting with the face like "it's about fucking time you do"

I love the fact that Aziraphale's mug has wings. Attention to details my friends

I wish I'd started picking up hobbies before my social anxiety started because now I can't even learn to ride a bike or rollerscate because I MIGHT FALL OVER IN PUBLIC AND DIE OF EMBARRASSMENT

Don't mind me, I'm just going to blithely watch Parks and Rec to avoid the blatant lack of functionality in parts of real life

I want to say something

Harry Potter was my shelter. I used to read and re-read the series over and over again as a means to escape reality, to escape my thoughts. When I was about 12, I started having problems with my mental health. My anxiety, social anxiety in particular, was crippling. So I was reading Harry Potter on an endless loop, obsessing to the point where I couldn't let myself go to sleep without reading at least a page from whatever book I was re-reading at the moment (yeah, I know it's bad). So the series was my escape, and it will forever have a special place in my heart.

BUT

I'm grown up now, and J. K. Rowling spouting that shit causes so much pain. Seriously, can this woman own up to her shit and just... I don't know... Shut it? Like, permanently?

Also, the series is full of harmful things which are subtle enough you don't notice them as a kid and they settle down deep inside of you and influence your view of the world (a race BORN to be slaves, antisemitic stereotypes, lack of diversity, etc) and if anyone wants to trash-talk the books with me I'm always ready.

To conclude, fuck J. K.

Let's just collectively rewrite the series

I rode a bike today

For the first time of my life. And it felt so great! Wonderful. The minute I figured out how to keep the balance, the minute I gained control of the handlebar, I realised that nothing can stop me from gaining control of my life as well. So as the wind was blowing my hair away from my face, I headed to the end of the path. And I don't care how ridiculously dramatic this may sound, but this was one of the joyest moments of my life

I'm doing a project on Salem Witch Trials and this is very helpful! Thank you for citing sources

SALEM WITCH TRIALS

ALRIGHT SO ONE OF MY SPEECHES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING ACTUALLY COVERED THE POSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIAL. We’ll start with those facts! It was written in the form of the speech where I had to verbally site everything. I rewrote most of it so there are missing page numbers.

-Laura

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS

Cause I:The possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by ergot poisoning.

During the Salem Witch Trials, the girls who started the event claimed to see apparitions, experience pricking sensations and seizures, and paralysis.

Josh Clark in his article, “Were the American colonists drugged during the Salem witchcraft trial?”, discusses a type of ergot poisoning, “Convulsive ergotism attacks the central nervous system, causing mania, psychosis, hallucinations, paralysis and prickling sensations. It was these symptoms that [are reminiscent] of those exhibited by Elizabeth Parris – especially the mania.”

As you can see in the diagram below, ergot is the black part of the piece of wheat. Josh Clark goes on to say that “the [ergot] contains isoergine – the main ingredient in the drug LSD.”

Cause II: The possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by boredom.

Life in Salem 1692 was very different. The Puritan life was a strict one and children were expected to behave as adults. Boys also had more freedom outside of the home than girls did.

Rosalyn Schanzer in her book, Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, describes how the girls would have been spending their harsh winter. The girls might have spent the unusually harsh winter knitting socks, boiling laundry, sweeping ashes off the floor, ladling porridge, making pies or puddings, making yarn, mending clothing and upholstery, and of course, there would always be time for reading the bible and saying prayers.

The strict lifestyle did not allow the girls to express themselves. Perhaps, it is not unreasonable to think they might have enjoyed the attention they gained from being inflicted. 

Discovery Education’s Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind The Hysteria discusses the possibility of the accusations being an outlet for attention, “It is no wonder that the young girls were… captivated by Tituba’s magical stories and fortune-telling games… activities [that] were strictly forbidden…fear and guilt… may have been one reason for their hysterical behavior. And at a time when young girls were forbidden to act out or express themselves, it is easy to see why they were so enraptured by the attention they received when they became ‘bewitched.’”

Cause III:  The Possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by Religious Hysteria. 

The town of Salem was a struggling one. A good portion of the town were farmers and there was much of the dark wilderness or the great unknown to fear. It would be as if your hometown or a portion of it was suddenly cut off from contact to the outside world. Sermons of brimstone and fire certainly did not help either.

In her New Yorker article, “The Witches of Salem”, Stacy Schiff describes the danger Massachusetts had experienced around the time of the Witch trials, “[In 1676] King Philip’s War… [had] obliterated a third of New England’s towns, pulverized its economy, and claimed ten per cent of the adult male population. Every Bay Colony resident lost a friend or a relative; all knew of a dismemberment or an abduction. By 1692, another Indian war had begun to take shape… The frontier had recently moved to within fifty miles of Salem.”

With a harsh winter and the threat of danger near, it is easy to see why the town might have been paralyzed with fear and sought religious explanation to their problems.

Works Cited

Blumberg, Jess. “A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials.” Smithsonian        Magazine. Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2007. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

Clark, Josh. “Were the American Colonists Drugged during the Salem Witchcraft Trial?” HowStuffWorks. InfoSpace Holdings LLC, 18 Jan. 2008. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

“Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind The Hysteria." Salem Witch Trials - Learning Adventures. Discovery Education, n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

Schanzer, Rosalyn. Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2011. Print

Schiff, Stacy. "The Witches of Salem." The New Yorker. Condé Nast, 31 Aug. 2015. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.

Justin sitting on the couch with Clay and Jessica and saying "i love you guys" in that ridiculous tone is everything

How do you call a sexuality when most of the time when you see an attractive person you feel too tired to be attracted to them?

The ending of season 2 made me so pissed - did she seriously just come to screw her ex husband who cheated on her and left her because she felt lonely? And mind you, she had a fiancé at the time, sooo... Writers, what is le fuck ?

yeah, I like romance. but you know what? I like women realizing their value and leaving trash men 1000x more