couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name:

I’m still laughing like poor Dr. Bruce Banner really could not catch a single break for all of Infinity War….first he crashes into some weird ass wizard hideout….then Hulk decides to be a bitch…..he thought Thor was dead for a whole day, then he thought Tony was dead….he had to get caught up on 2 years worth of drama in like fifteen minutes…Rhodey tricked him into embarrassing himself in front of the fucking king of Wakanda….then a sixteen year old ended his entire life with one polite sentence….he face planted on the battle field and was judged so hard we didn’t see him for like another half hour….not a single one of his degrees could help him with any of these situations so he was probably internally like ‘I drove myself into student debt for this’ half the film…like really….Bruce and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day….

lynati:

sheabutterbitch:

evil-faery:

sheabutterbitch:

A long time ago I took a course on the sociology of marriage and my professor said “With compromise, you both lose. As a couple, you must collaborate on the best possible outcome.” Ever since, I never prioritize compromise in a relationship, only collaboration.

this seems like a great concept and all but. what does it actually mean?

Compromise is typically thought of as a 50/50 split amongst partner’s needs. They’re both left partially unsatisfied, but this dissatisfaction is deemed acceptable because it is ‘equal.’ However, with additional effort, many problems may be solved through collaboration; keywords: additional effort.

In collaborating, one may try to make the conflict more complex in order to expand the possible positive outcomes. This requires trust in both parties, empathy, and consideration for one another’s needs.

The objective should shift from getting what you want and ‘keeping things quiet’ to making sure your partner feels heard and considered (as they should do with you). Essentially, you must trust that your partner has your happiness in mind, and you must have theirs, instead of fighting for your own best interest.

For further explanation, Google “compromise vs collaboration.”

Another way of putting it is that collaboration is about learning to work together so both sides find a way to get what they want / ultimately feel satisfied, while compromise is predicated on the assumption that there’s no way for both sides to get what they want, and instead asks that both sides be satisfied only by the fact that neither of them is really getting what they want.

lacommunarde:

combeferre:

I won’t accept “Enjolras DIIIIED for NOOOOOTHING he was SOOO YOUNG” when Victor Hugo wrote a novel that inspired two dudes to write a musical where Enjolras’s featured song has been used as a protest song across the world for decades now

“Enjolras died for nothing” – forty years later, due to the outpouring of support around Les Miserables, the Third Republic would be formed and support would be strong enough to get in to stay until the Fourth Republic.

“Enjolras died for nothing” – people read the barricade section of Les Miserables on the barricades of the Paris Commune during the Bloody Week to give them bravery and dignity after in became clear they were likely to die. (And l’Internationale was written by a surviving, jailed Communard, so how many Revolutions, Leftist and Labor Movements, etc have used l’Internationale as their song? written by one of the Communards who read the barricade scene with tears in their eyes for bravery when fighting on the barricades)

“Enjolras died for nothing” – students read Les Miserables in mai ‘68

“Enjolras died for nothing” – the letters at the formation of the UN quote Les Miserables and at least one of them in Tamiment Library and Robert F Wagner Labor Archives quotes Enjolras’ “Horizon that is Visible from the Top of the Barricade” speech.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

the-everything-man:

bog-dweller-official:

cathugging:

cathugging:

Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet

sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix

Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh

Adapt. Survive.

this is the single most inspiring piece of information I have yet to come across in all my moments in this world