do you ever think about how voldemort was 72 when he died? like, this dude spent his whole life trying to figure out immortality. as a wizard he’d probably have made it to 200 if he just ate healthy, got regular exercise, had wizard doctor checkups, whatever.
and like, the philosopher’s stone existed! no-drawbacks immortality was already a thing, they established this in the first book, nicholas flammel and his wife had been using it for centuries and by all accounts being pretty decent people and not fucked up psycho murder snakes so maybe tom riddle could have just asked very nicely to use it for a little bit, like, before he did a bunch of evil shit??
instead, no. he goes and decides the solution to dying is to turn into like nightmare snake hitler, start two civil wars, and croak at an age some muggles don’t even retire at.
out of all the aspects of millennial-bashing, i think the one that most confuses me is the “millennials all got trophies as a kid, so now they’re all self-centered narcissists” theory
like— kids are pretty smart, y’all. they can see that every kid on the team gets a trophy and is told they did a good job; they can also see that not every kid on the team deserves a trophy, and not everyone did do a good job
the logical conclusion to draw from this is not “i’m great and i deserve praise”— it’s “no matter how mediocre i am, people will still praise me to make me feel better, so i can’t trust any compliments or accolades i receive”
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
where did this whole “ugh millennials think their so-so work is super great” thing even come from it is a goddamn mystery
what fucking kills me is, yeah, maybe we got the trophies, but who gave them out
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
It’s also what I observed happening as a singing teacher: the older kids literally would not believe a positive word I said until I had proved I would tell them they screwed up/had done badly/etc. I did so in as useful a way as possible (“So this passage. We really need to work on this passage. A lot. This passage is not good yet.”), but with almost every adolescent I taught I had to prove I would give them straight-up criticism before they would parse my praise as anything other than meaningless “the grownups always do this” noise.
I strongly agree with all of this, but this is only one of the two possible extremes. There’s another problematic one, the opposite reaction to gratuitous praise, which is the literal belief in its worth, and not only blindness but denial of one’s shortcomings.
And this is not exclusive to millenials, this started way back in 1969 with the self-esteem movement, and it creates absolutely ridiculous personalities that truly believe they are the best at everything and deserve no criticism whatsoever.
Both extremes are terrible. As usual, the balance is in the middle, and we’ve been blown to the sides for decades now.
A true opinion is better than fake praise, for everyone involved, no matter what.
silver-tongues-blog asked: Did you know that if the titanic hit the iceberg head on, it owuld have been fine. Only the front chamber would have been flooded instead of a majority of the middle chambers which lead to its sinking.
Yeah, they actually tried to avoid it, causing the ice to carve the side of the thing open, flooding most of the ship, causing it sink and sink fast.
I’m pretty sure that time travel runs on stable time loop rules where everyone who went back in time to stop the titanic sinking are the ones who convinced the captain to attempt to avoid, thus causing it to sink
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knock, knock.
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who’s there?
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omelette.
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omelette who?
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omelette you close the door slowly and forget this pun ever happened.
askclaylex-deactivated20161221 asked: Ooooo you play KOTOR and Skyrim? If its okay to ask, whats your class/karma in KOTOR and whats your race/class in Skyrim?
I was neutral in KOTOR and a rogue in skyrim. However since I got skyrim on PC i guess I’m a death eater since I got the avada kedavera mod and it is so OP
