Last Week Tonight S03e24

me: i’m not sure about this outfit friend: you look fine let’s just go!! me:

Michoacán’s Monarch Butterfly sanctuary

Why when your parents are asleep you do James Bond shot to not wake them up but when you’re asleep they vacuum and talk extra loud and sing flocking spirituals and shot.

# this rick roll has become so meta… we are all used to being rick rolled but then tumblr started reverse rick rolling us, making it to where we expect to be rick rolled but the song doesnt play and we find ourselves strangely disappointed, a reverse rick roll, but then this audio post comes on my dash and i think ‘this is another reverse rick roll’, so i click on it expecting anything but never gonna give you up to play, expecting disappointment, and then it plays., i’ve been rick rolled because i was expecting a reverse rick roll, making this a reverse rick roll rick roll, im losing my fucking mind, how much further can this go (via urie)

I've been wanting to ask your advice for a while, and your drawing from when you were seven has made me finally act. I'm a dad with two daughters, ages 2 and 4, and they're starting to show interest in drawing. It's pretty typical scribbles like all kids. But do you have any suggestions for how to encourage them? Are there things I should look out for that could stifle or discourage them? What kind of encouragement, if any, did you get when you were younger? Thanks for whatever you can tell me!

I think the most practical thing you can do is draw with them. Or at least let them see that you also do creative things. It doesn’t have to be drawing. But work creatively alongside them so they can see you working, too. It makes whatever they’re doing seem more valuable if they see Dad doing it. My parents both did this, and they still do it—they show me their creative projects as much as I show them mine, and we talk about whatever progress we’ve made or obstacles we run into. I can always discuss my creativity with my parents because I know that they understand the process.

But also—and this one is trickier because it’s psychology…

Don’t praise your girls for their goodness. The tendency with girls is to constantly tell them things like, “You’re so smart. You’re so talented. You’re such a good girl.”

And when you do that, girls ends up believing that it’s part of their character. They believe that goodness is part of who they are, rather than something they can practice at, fail at, and improve at. They think they can’t change. 

That’s why, when girls get older, they’re more likely to give up. They’re more likely to be extra hard on themselves. Especially in the arts and sciences. Because nobody told them that the qualities that make them good aren’t innate but can in fact be improved upon.

So the message you want to send to your girls is that if they work hard, and if they practice, they can get better. The task might be difficult, but it’s acceptable to fail because the ability to improve is in them.

The message you don’t want to send is that they are innately good. Because they’ll believe it, and when failure comes their way, they’ll think it’s something that can’t fix. They’ll think, “This should have been easy. I should have succeeded. Because Dad told me I was smart and good.” 

And they’ll give up.

Also, OH MY GOD. Take them to look at art. Have art around. Let them try art. Let them meet artists. Make sure they see as much art as you can shove in their cute little faces. 

Hope that helps! Hugs to your girls. <3

god today i ID’d an old dude buyin booze and he pulled out a fake ID with an elvis pic, then laughed and pulled out a matching one but with curly from three stooges on it, and im like okay please and he finally pulled out his real license and his legal name was steve sinner

Which Large Theropod would have been the most well-suited for chasing down it's prey?

finished 7 deadly sins so i guess i really am gonna have to start watching naruto now ://

With a lot of the creators too once they had to move apps and tried making longer videos they no longer held up as that funny.

The reason vine was so good was because most of those videos would be mad unfunny if they were full length. “Because he fucking pushed me” would be titled Epic kid meltdown rage 2014 (Must see) and it would be 2 minutes long.

This is so pure. This is the American Dream. This is what dreams are made of.