risingoflights:

unofficiallydisney:

This makes me so happy

There’s a very good, clear message here that is surprisingly hard to articulate. You go, dragon. You go.

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thedruidsforest:

The Druid’s Forest Giveaway!

It’s about that time again! As a follower appreciation for gaining 30,00 thousand followers (I have no idea how I managed that, but I am extraordinarily grateful), I’ll be doing another giveaway! Here’s what you will win!

1st Place:

• Celtic-style journal with wooden pencil
  
• Rose Garden loose leaf black tea from our local tea shoppe! (My personal favorite, it’s honestly so good)
  
• A package of joop scented incense
  
• A green aventurine ring from my shop
  
• A pentacle charm, also from my shop
  
• Rose petals, garden calendula, and garden lemon verbena
  
• Tumbled flourite, howlite, sodalite, moonstone, moss agate, and a quartz point
  
• Wire-wrapped green aventurine and moonstone pendants
  
• Oaken Heart from my shop
  
• A creativity charm bottle, not yet listen in my shop!
  
• White, green, and pink chime candles

2nd & 3rd Place:

• A free 3-card tarot reading, hand written by me and mailed out!
  

Rules:

• This giveaway is for my followers to show my appreciation, so you must be one in order to win!
  
• Do NOT tag this as giveaway! If you do, you won’t win.
• Purchases from my shop are not required (although extremely appreciated), but please at least visit my shop!
• Use coupon code GIVEAWAY316 for 20% off any purchase, until March 1st!
• I’ll be shipping internationally because I care more about you all than my wallet
• Like and reblog as many times as you wish, both count!
• Winner is randomly chosen through a random number generator
• Winner will be messaged and will have up to one week to respond before a new one is chosen
• Giveaway ends on March 1st, 2016
• This giveaway is NOT affiliated with tumblr

Have fun my lovelies! :)

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haleystudies:

This is a matter very close to my heart. I have bipolar I disorder and ADHD as a result of bipolar. There aren’t many big posts about studying with mental illnesses so I figured I would compile a huge list of tips and posts! I’m going to be making a video about this very soon. I hope for all of you struggling that this can help or at least remind you that mental health is more important than school sometimes. Take care of yourself in any way you can. lets get started…

Studying with Mental Illness

• Take things slowly. Don’t be afraid to take a week doing one assignment. Making sure that you can focus on assignments can be draining so breaking them down day by day can truly help you. Make a task list with each portion of an assignment mapped out so that you can see exactly what you need to do. I know that i get overwhelmed very easily and seeing smaller things is less daunting then having a list full of HUGE things like research papers and midterms. Seeing it as “write paragraph one” or “review unit one vocab” makes everything less scary. 
  
• Nothing has to be pretty. Notes don’t, papers don’t have to be perfect, study guides don’t need to be colorful and cute. What really matters is getting things done. My mom always tells me “even an F is better than a zero” which is so true. Turning things in late is not shameful because you are still turning it in. You still did it and that is something to be proud of. 
  
• Study somewhere other than your room or your house. Make sure there are people there. Surrounding yourself with others will allow you to feel less isolated and sometimes more motivated to do things. You can’t take naps when you’re at a Panera or Starbucks either. People can be motivating, they can remind you that you are not alone, they can hold you accountable for what you have to do. Get out of your bed where you can sit and stare at the wall and go to a coffee shop or the library where other people are doing work. This always helps me get on track. 
  
• Study in short bursts. Don’t wear yourself out with work. Find out when your concentration peaks and go with that. I usually work the best around 2pm so I have to make sure that I have eaten and showered before then so that I can capture that time to focus on my studies. 
  
• Don’t beat yourself up. Studying just takes a lot more effort other days when depression hits you the worst. There might be days when you can barely get yourself out of bed but know that you do have the ability to succeed and that depression just has to suck sometimes. 
  
• Get yourself out of bed. Shower. Change your clothes. Read a single page. Look at only one thing you have to do so you aren’t overwhelmed. That is something to be proud of and know that I am proud of what you did!
• Study in a routine style. Let yourself have a routine that you can fall into. Try pomodoros or study games, Create a routine that you can stick to
• If you don’t feel like doing anything… work for 5 minutes. You may feel more motivated or up, or you will at least be able to say that you have done something. 
• HYDRATE. I’m really awful at drinking a lot of water, but it helps so much with both anxiety and depression. Water keeps you moving and awake. SO drink that H2O guys
  

Helpful Links

Staying Sane on Campus

Tips to stay mentally and emotionally healthy while you study

How to school when mentally Ill

Depression

Studying with Depression

Depression study tips

Studying through Depression

6 Tips To Get Motivated When You’re Feeling Depressed

Five Ways To Deal With Depression During Exams

Anxiety

Anxiety in Grad school

Dealing with Stress and Anxiety

Studying with Anxiety

Get Ready for School If You Suffer From Anxiety

Living & Studying with Anxiety

ADHD

How to succeed with ADHD

10 Study tips for ADHD students

I couldn’t find any resources about OCD, BPD, PTSD, or bipolar for that fact so keep on the lookout for any additions to this post if I find anything more! If all else fails, just google things. That always helps me. Message me personally if you have any questions about my struggles or need some specific advice! I love you all so much and I am so proud of you!! xx Haley

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Castle s07e23

HERE EVERYONE HAVE SOME GREAT ADVICE FROM RICHARD CASTLE

I hope this’ll be true for me too, because lately I’ve been feeling like I’m going nowhere with whatever I’m doing.

Moments like these are why I like Castle.

I love castle!

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they-better-be-mysterious:

queenquong:

gingerpermission:

standbyyourmantis:

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myowndeliverance:

necclibrary:

YES.

I once saw someone point out something I hadn’t really considered before- libraries are one of the only places that are warm and dry where you can stay for long periods of time if you have no money. If you’re someone with nowhere to go during the daytime, they provide a safe environment in which to keep a roof over your head for a while- and all while you can access information.

So yes. This.

It’s weird…libraries almost feel /wrong/ now. It’s like I walk in and think “This is great…where do I put my money?”

I used to work on a campus library and if you want someplace to put your money, so to speak, make sure you put books back in the designated areas. I know you think you’re being helpful by reshelving, but even if you pull something out to read a couple paragraphs just stick it in the basket for things you didn’t want. I don’t care if you know EXACTLY where you are. In academic libraries (at least in Texas) our funding was determined by how many books people looked at. So we got additional funding based on books not being reshelved. If there’s a designated shelf/basket for things you don’t want, stick things in it!

What @standbyyourmantis said about not reshelving is true for public libraries, too. Our funding is dictated largely by how ‘used’ we are, so we scan all the items that are laying about as In House Use. That, tied with Reference Count and Door Counter numbers (we have to manually put in the time we take for references) to prove we’re providing a needed service.
We also have to count the number of people who come for our programs, which not only helps funding but shows that the programming/services are needed, as well.
So, basically, if you want to feel like you’re making sure we’re getting paid and staying around, keep these in mind.

I didn’t know that’s why you’re not supposed to reshelf!

Oh my gosh! Not reshelving books is super important and everyone needs to know this.

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crazybutperfectlysane:

So I was rereading Harry Potter, when I came across this and thought- what if instead of Cedric Diggory, Cassius Warrington had been chosen to compete in the Triwizard Tournament?

Imagine Dumbledore calling out the name of the Hogwarts champion and it isn’t a Gryffindor, or a Ravenclaw, or even a Hufflepuff, but it’s a Slytherin. A student from a House most people hate.

Imagine Cassius Warrington getting up, and three out of four Houses are booing at him and shouting things like “NO!” or, “We can’t have a Slytherin champion!” or demanding a retry. But he’s a Slytherin- he’s been dealing with this shit since he got sorted, so he keeps his head high and joins the other champions.

Imagine Harry trying to catch Warrington alone because he doesn’t really want to associate with Slytherins (plus Malfoy has this tendency of being around the guy ALL THE TIME since he got chosen), but at the same time he’s also fair enough not to want him to walk into the first task unprepared.

Imagine Warrington walking over to Harry a few months later, and Ron and Hermione both jump into a protective stance, wands out, but instead of attacking Harry he just tells him to stick the egg underwater. (Because Slytherins don’t forget those who helped them out).

Imagine Warrington and Harry helping each other out in the labyrinth.

Imagine Harry being devastated when Peter kills Warrington- because Voldemort doesn’t care what house they’re form, a spare is a spare.

Imagine the uproar that causes among the Slytherins, because some of their parents really are Death Eaters and they know what really happened.

Imagine Slytherins fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts and shouting “This is for Cassius!”

Imagine Harry returning with Warrington’s body, and the crowd realizes what’s happened, but Warrington’s parents don’t show up. There’s no one to mourn him, to cradle him in their arms and cry for their son. The Slytherins know why. His parents were Death Eaters, too.

Imagine Slytherins reaching out, asking for help from classmates from other houses. They’re terrified, truly terrified because the being their parents claimed would never hurt them because they’re pureblood, they realize that he does not care.

Imagine Slytherins in the 5th book sneaking off to join Dumbledore’s Army, to learn more about who Voldemort is without their parents acting as a filter. 

Imagine the shock when they’re told what he’s really done.

Imagine that a few talented Slytherins went with Harry and the others into the Ministry of Magic. The others are a bit wary but they prove themselves as friends.

Imagine them being confronted by Lucius Malfoy in the the Hall of Prophecy, and when the Death Eaters descend, they know that any one of them could be their parents.

Imagine the shocked gasp of a Death Eater as they realize their own child, a pureblood, is standing defiantly with Harry Potter. They choke back a cry. They can’t let their child know that they were about to duel to the death.

Imagine a DA Slytherin facing off against their own Death Eater parent. That they make the decision to let their child defeat them, because in that moment, they realize that they love their child more than they fear Voldemort. They go down, mask unveiled, and the Slytherin kid has to be dragged from the fight before he gets killed.

Imagine Book 6 Slytherins getting more friendly and cooperative with the other houses. Two years of Voldemort terrorizing the muggle and Wizarding world, two years where their parents just up and leave some days, cringing from the pain in their arm, two years after the death of the first Slytherin pureblood, Cassius Warrington, killed by Voldemort’s right-hand man, and they’re slowly hitting the breaking point.

Imagine Slytherin kids keeping tabs on their parents, sending the information to Harry, who shares it with the Order of the Phoenix, and hoping that their parents won’t be killed.

Imagine Book 7 Slytherins low-key rebelling against the new oppressive Hogwarts staff.

Imagine the final siege on Hogwarts, where Slytherins stand proudly by their fellow houses, knowing full-well they could be fighting their own parents. Some Slytherins know their parents were in the fighting. They hope to find them first and sneak them away. Their fellow students understand. Professor McGonagall allows 7th Year Slytherin, Pansy Parkinson, to duel a death eater in her stead; her father is under that veil. She knows it.

Imagine the aftermath of the battle; every house suffered loses. Slytherin students crying over the deaths of friends they made in every house.

Imagine a Cassius Warrington statue made in his honor, the first Slytherin to fight and die nobly with Harry Potter, the boy who lived, in the face of ultimate evil. He was a true Slytherin, and it’s in his name that Slytherin children and their families have cut all ties with the Death Eaters, denounced Voldemort, and are finally living in peace.

#i do enjoy cedric #but this would have been immensely wonderful in many ways (via batty4u)

Imagine a story in which Harry wasn’t in love with his fellow champion’s girlfriend, but after her boyfriend’s death just hugs her so long, so hard, and says “he wanted to win for you. You should know–you should know he won, he did it for you” and gives her the best hug and shoulder he knows how to be because her parents aren’t there either and she must know why.

Imagine Harry staring over her head at everyone else until Hermione steps up–it doesn’t take long, but it takes long enough that when she does all eyes are on her as a source of motion–and says “we’re never going to forget this. They’re not going to get away with it” and the girlfriend just latches onto Hermione and everyone is in wands-out stance convinced she’s about to attack the shit out of Hermione, and then the girlfriend stares into her eyes and says “do you promise me” and Hermione just gives her this super-firm nod and says “I promise” and the girlfriend just collapses on her, sobbing. 

Imagine Dumbledore trying to give some flowery speech about inter-wizard solidarity while glossing over why, because Slytherins have always been a touchy subject, and Ron gets to his feet and says “Professor, I need to say something important” and Dumbledore is so surprised he just cedes the floor, and Ron–after that awkward moment when he realizes everyone is staring at him–says he didn’t know Warrington particularly, but he knows how Warrington and Harry played. That each was always cheering on the other. Both wanted to win, but neither was willing to undercut the other by underhanded means. He finishes up saying “I think–I think it’s important everyone should know he died being what a champion should be. Because he could have abandoned Harry and instead he stood up with him to play the game the honest way, and he died for it. And–and Slytherin House should be proud, and we should all be proud, because Warrington was a good bloke.” He sits back down all flustered because he didn’t actually stand up meaning to make a speech. And then Pansy Parkinson stands up before Dumbledore can take back control of the room and says “I want to tell Weasley thank you.” And all of Slytherin House raises a glass–to Warrington, to Weasley, to Potter–and the other houses follow suit. Many years later, Wizarding scholars will say that was the moment Voldemort truly lost.

Imagine later that summer. Harry gets several owls on his birthday, all unsigned. The birds are plump and pretentious and well-cared-for. He will never know which Slytherins sent him their treasures: parchments with hexes developed by the Death Eaters; a strange locket that will only open if he whispers a special spell but that always shows him the picture he most needs to see; a page torn from a potions book that, brewed properly, will allow him extra time to summon a Patronus by giving him a few crucial seconds not just of happiness but of bliss. It doesn’t matter. Harry knows these gifts not as birthday gifts but for what they really are, and he treasures the locket and copies out the potion to send to Hermione and Mrs. Weasley, and when first summoned by the Order of the Phoenix he marches straight up to Dumbledore with the hexes and says “I can’t tell you where I got these, Professor. But they’re in use by the Death Eaters and I think you should have them.” Months later, Sirius will recognize the spell Bellatrix shoots at him, and will dive out of the way just in the nick of time.

The final battle. Everyone is there. Sirius somehow ends up herding a group of Slytherins. They all stare at him and he at them, across a centuries-old divide Voldemort has only succeeded in deepening. Then he remembers the hexes. Harry’s locket, now tucked under Sirius’ shirt because Harry’s friends are with him in this battle but most of Sirius’ are dead. The moment that happiness potion saved Remus’ life, his very soul. Snape’s final words to Harry, finally seen not as mockery but real true advice. What Harry said Voldemort said–his first words in his new form. They are kids, and they are sharing the same kind of hurt he once wouldn’t admit to, watching his mother burn his name off the family tree. “When we go in there, it’s going to be hell,” he tells the Slytherins. “Some of you are probably going to die. I might go down too, and if I do I want your best curser in the front. But I want you all to remember one thing. There are no spares.”  Later retellings of the battle never fail to mention the moment a group of angry, screaming teens burst into the Great Hall, wearing their green and silver as the badge of honor it should be, shouting NO SPARES, NO SPARES at the tops of their voices in between hexes and curses and the occasional physical punch. When Hermione is present, she always interrupts the storyteller to be sure everyone knows about the moment Blaise Zabini shoved her to the floor, dropped on top of her, fired off three curses in rapid succession and said “stay alive, Granger, we need you” before jumping back to his feet and vanishing into the melee–how, for all anyone knows, those may have been his last words, and she will not let his sacrifice go unnoted. 

The aftermath. Malfoy holds out a hand to Sirius, badly injured on the floor. Sirius asks how Malfoy is willing to trust him. Malfoy nods at his chest. “You’ve got my godfather’s locket,” he says, and when Sirius and Harry finally speak after the battle Harry gives his full agreement to the very first thing out of  Sirius’ mouth. They give the locket to Malfoy. Sirius grits his teeth and closes his eyes and opens them and says “He probably saved my life, giving Harry that.” He doesn’t say thank you. Malfoy hears it anyway.

The school reopens under a single banner: the four Houses united. The House rivalry is reduced to just that–a competition in fun–with those deep divides slowly healing to scars, and eventually away to nothing at all.

Imagine it.

When we stand, we stand united as one

And then there would be no hope for any uprising of evil, no users of the dark arts would dare to attack. There would be no neglected Slytherins turning to a darker cause. The unity Cassius Warrington’s death caused would come to save the world, time and time again, as would-be-Voldemorts find no followers. No children will ever have to fight their parents, or family. There would always be peace. 

oh christ somebody added to it and now i’m a soggy emotional wreck

I’m crying because this is what slytherins should have been and truly are

who the hell decided this is okay i am so upset it’s absolutely perfect

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tilly-and-her-books:

YES ANOTHER BOOK GIVEAWAY (because we all love them) 

This one however, is a little different from what i normally do. I wanted to give this giveaway a little personal touch so…

• There will be one winner who will receive one hardback (or paperback if that’s what you prefer) book of their choice. 
  
• The winner can choose to have the book in brand new condition, completely untouched or to have me annotate the book. So I’ll add notes, comments, highlight and basically rave about all the great things. 
  
• This giveaway will end March 31st 2016. 
  
• You don’t have to be following me but I’m pretty cool so you might want to
  
• Likes and reblogs count but be wary of your followers!
  
• No giveaway blogs.
  
• The winner will be picked via random number generator 
• Smile and remember you’re a great person :)

Also feel free to check out my other social media (yah I’m totally promoting myself, whatcha gonna do about it, punk?)

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geek-studio:

It’s time for the 2nd Bookworm Giveaway!

We had one of these two years ago and it was a huge hit so here it is again. A little improved :)

There will be TWO winners!

PRIZES
Each winner will get:
- one Amazon Fire Tablet
- tons of ebooks!

Books Included:

• Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
• Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
• Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan
• Divergent series - Veronica Roth
• Game of Thrones series (The Songs of Ice and Fire) George R.R. Martin
• Narnia series - C.S. Lewis
• Maze Runner series - James Dashner
• Mortal Instruments series - Cassandra Clare
• Odd Thomas series - Dean Koontz
• Torchwood book series
• Alex Rider series - Anthony Horowitz
• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
• Paper Towns - John Green
• Looking for Alaska - John Green
• Heat series - Richard Castle
• Ender’s Game Saga - Orson Scott Card
• The Chemical Gardens trilogy - Lauren DeStefano
• Dresden Files series - Jim Butcher
• Howl’s Moving Castle series - Diana Wynne Jones
• Chrestomanci series - Diana Wynne Jones
• Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
• Graceling Realm series - Kristin Cashore
• Summer Falls - Amelia Williams
• The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery
• Storm series - Richard Castle
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
• Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
• Neil Gaiman collection
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams
• The Hollows series - Kim Harrison
• Sunshine - Robin McKinley
• The Black Jewels trilogy - Anne Bishop
• Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
• The Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind
• David Gemmel collection
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobsky
• Warm Bodies - Issac Marion
• The Young Wizards series - Diane Duane
• Stephen King Collection
• Dangerous Women - George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
• The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
• The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snickett
• The Cirque du Freak series - Darren Shan
• The Demonata series - Darren Shan
• The Ranger’s Apprentice series - John Flanagan
• Virals Series - Kathy Reichs
• Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel
• Reboot - Amy Tintera
• Vampire Queen Series - Joey Hill
• Nature of Desire Series - Joey Hill
• Guild Hunter Series - Nalini Singh
• Psy Changling Series - Nalini Singh
• Valdemar Series’ - Mercedes Lackey
• Mercedes Lackey Collection
• His Dark Materials Series - Philip Pullman
• Temeraire Series - Naomi Novik
• Safehold Series - David Weber
• Chronicles of Vladimir Todd - Heather Brewer
• Song of the Lioness Quartet - Tamora Pierce
• Hollow Earth - John & Carole Barrowman
• Chaos Walking Series - Patrick Ness
• 1984 - George Orwell
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Matched Trilogy - Ally Condie
• Alice in Wonderland Series - Lewis Carroll
• Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
• Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks

The Rules:

• You must be following Geek Studio
• Each reblog is an entry so you can reblog as many times as you want. Don’t spam though. That’s mean to your followers :) Likes count as well.
• Likes count.
• No giveaway only blogs!
• Worldwide shipping so everyone can enter.
• The giveaway ends on February 28th, 2016 @ 2pm EST
• Check the FAQ’s before asking questions :)

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