Cactus Codex

I can get behind this.

WHAT IS HAPPENING

HUSH YOU

AAAAAAHHH

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Where even a small color value change incites blind and pointless rage amongst the people.

Come on guys.

summer-of-the-shinx:

profsycamore:

perhapsmorepersonalperhapsnot:

carrying—my—crosses:

coolguyhat:

American school system

just so you know, the ‘gifted area’ isn’t much fun either

I saw your tags and I would really like to comment with personal story if you don’t mind.

The gifted area really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The children all look like they’re smiling, sure, but let’s be real— they go home and stress and cry. 

I was a “gifted and talented” kid, and it was far from this. My whole life, things were harder because I was expected to be better. I was expected to be reading higher-level books, but the school didn’t allow me to read higher-level books because it was “unfair” to the other students. Teachers subconsciously graded me harder than other students, even on things I was not “gifted” in, like math (a subject in which I have always struggled). We had extra homework and extra tests. In my program, we were removed from regular classes once a week to learn bonus material. Not only were we expected to learn the bonus material, but we were expected to make up the missed material and pass the tests on it; only no one was there to teach us the material we missed, because we were expected to already know it. It was pounded into my brain every day of my life from the moment I started school that I had to be perfect, and if I wasn’t perfect it was the result of some character flaw. If an average student got a B, it was cause for celebration, but if I got an A I was simply meeting expectations. If an average student got a D, it was sad and they needed extra help and it was the teachers fault for not helping them; if I got a B or a C, it was the end of the world and clearly there was something wrong with me. I was slacking, or goofing off, or expecting the teachers to just “hand” the A to me because I was “special”. 

I skipped a grade because I was “gifted.” When I tell people of this, they assume I must be a “genius.” You don’t know how many times I’ve heard people tell me, “Wow, you must be really smart or something. You’re a genius.”

Fast forward to college. I was told I should go to Yale or Harvard. But I didn’t want to. I wanted to go to college somewhere where I could learn but also enjoy myself. People make fun of me for my choice of school because someone as “gifted” as me could have “done so much better.”

This “genius” can’t pass Intro to Biology 1010, because no one ever taught her proper studying techniques—they just assumed she already knew. This “genius” cries herself to sleep over a B in an difficult science class. This genius faces crippling anxiety because she knows she’ll never measure up to people’s expectations of her. This “genius” sometimes cuts herself because the pressure to be perfect is too much for her. This “genius” feels like throwing herself off a building if she gets anything less than a B, because she’s been taught her whole life that if she doesn’t get perfect grades it is some sort of character flaw; she must be a worthless idiot.

I don’t know what it’s like to be in the “Nothing Special” area but being gifted is no walk in the park as the cartoon suggests. We both face challenges; they are different challenges, but they are both challenges.

This is so accurate.

“It was pounded into my brain every day of my life from the moment I started school that I had to be perfect, and if I wasn’t perfect it was the result of some character flaw.” god thank you

Holy shit, all of this. ALL OF IT.

(Source: thehellofitall, via meme-asaurus-blog)

insaneponythread:

What I really wonder about is AB’s bow. Is it nailed to her head?

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Or the bow is a seal on her powers, like that one girl from Touhou. She’s actually a draconequus, who Celestia sealed into pony form and gave to the Apple Family to raise in the hope that one day they could use her power for good. The reason she doesn’t have a CM is because she’s technically not a pony. Scoots and Sweetie Belle don’t have CMs because Apple Bloom’s dormant Reality Warper tendencies are preventing them; she doesn’t want them to get cutie marks before she does.

(via its-am-chan)

Yep.

*panicked squeaking*

Where’d you here this? I know there’s no casualties, but I’m getting that that the shooter is still at large.

The shooting in Paramus is unnerving me more than it should. o-o’

askseriousrainbow:

Welp, hit another milestone, and I said I wouldn’t be doing another anthro, so enjoy “Poker Night at Serious Rainbow’s”! Obviously I couldn’t fit everyone in, so I just put 8 of my friend’s characters in. It was hard picking which 8. It was like having a MySpace account back in the day. (I’m joking, I’ve never had a MySpace account.)

From left to right: Serious, Sam Rose, Gypsy Doodle (NSFW-ish), Vivo Fortissimo (NSFW-ish), Fractured Loyalty, Wiggles, Post Crusade!Sweetie Belle, Tungsten Brumby, and Discord Sparkle.

-SR

SB: This deck doesn’t have a number 1! Just a stupid A! I hate this game…

((Woo! Congrats on 2K, Serious!))

theblackwidower:

Gordon Ramsey not being an asshole? This feels like it’s from a bizarre parallel universe where red means go, up is down, and George W. Bush was competent!

Where is this from!?

I believe it’s from Masterchef Junior, which features child competitors.

(Source: gordonramsaygifs)

hehe it’s 1:14 again