If This World Is Real, Although I Will Not Insist That It Is,

i don’t know what version of hell we’re living in but it’s definitely the funniest

Julian and Tavvy

Another power move of the 2020

You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you. You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

To the one person who still didn't understand,

AN A MINUS IS NOT A BAD GRADE. AND WE ARE ALL AWARE OF THAT.

The kids who are talking about their problems here are LITERALLY gifted or topper kids.

The problem is with expectations. They're not saying that the A minus itself shattered them. They're saying the weight of all the standards and expectations are heavy as is, and that A minus breaks their back.

Teachers expect from us to push ourselves us to do our best. Our parents support us and send us to school to study and do our best. Our classmates and friends help us when in doubt. That's the supposed norm.

But there are people out there who have more expectations hanging off of them. Whose teachers expect them to understand more than they teach, whose parents do not seem to understand how a kid who scored well in 1st grade isnt doing so well in 10th grade, whose classmates congratulate themselves when they do better than them.

Now is it clearer?

There Is One In Each Classroom

Merlin bbc Episode Covers [from 2016 to 2019]

“If there is a life after this one,“ he said, "let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.” “There will be other lives.” Jem held his hand out, and for a moment they clasped hands, as they had done during their parabatai ritual, reaching across twin rings of fire, to interlace their fingers with each other. “The world is a wheel,” he said. “When we rise or fall, we do it together.” Will tightened his grip on Jem’s hand. “Well, then,” he said, through a tight throat, “since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.” Jem smiled at him, that smile that had always, even on Will’s blackest days, eased his mind. “I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.”

— Will Herondale and Jem Carstairs (Clockwork Princess)

Dru took a deep breath. “Okay,” she said. “Just us now. Just Blackthorns.” Everyone went still.

The Blackthorn family by @cassandraclare