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fall out boy: a primer

dionysae:

take this to your grave (2003)

grand theft autumn/where is your boy —this song put them on the map. dubbed the national anthem of the fall out boy fanbase. i dare you to listen to it without thinking about how much your middle-school self needed to hear this.

chicago is so two years ago —dealing w/ the pains of outgrowing your hometown and the imprint it leaves on you whether you want it to or not. we all have love/hate relationships with our childhoods. we’re always orbiting that center of gravity. 

the pros and cons of breathing —quintessential teen angst, with that special flavor of nastiness that only young people have. who do you hate more, them or yourself? the answer is yes.

essential video viewing: saturday, dead on arrival

from under the cork tree (2005)

dance, dance —the love song you always wished you could shout at your crush across a crowded party. patrick stump says it’s the best thing he’s ever done. i hope he’s referring to the video.

sugar, we’re going down —you know this song. you may not know that you know this song, but you know it. i don’t care how old you are, you sing along.

i’ve got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth (summer song) —pay attention to these lyrics because they hold clues to what keeps pete wentz up at night. the kids are fucked up. we will all be forgotten one day. and there’s nothing he can do but watch himself fall apart.

essential video viewing: a little less sixteen candles, a little more “touch me”

infinity on high (2007)

this ain’t a scene, it’s an arms race —continues to explore the dissonance of what they are to themselves and what they are to fans. they are the therapists, the dealers, doling out solutions when they look in the mirror and have none for themselves.

hum hallelujah —pete has said that jeff buckley’s “hallelujah” saved his life. kids grow up, promises are broken, and sometimes that’s all you’ve got.

thnks fr th mmrs —one of the greatest fuck-you—and-another-thing songs ever written. takes the time to reflect on the memories before deciding yeah. fuck you.

essential video viewing: the take’s over, the break’s over

folie à deux (2008)

i don’t care —required by law to be sung at the top of your lungs, preferably while standing on something that wasn’t meant to be stood on. if you like your fuck-offs violent, this is it.

what a catch, donnie —a raw ballad about the pain of being who you are, when none of it matters in the end. it’s okay to cry. you are so loved. (you may notice that one band member is nowhere to be found. remember, the captain goes down with the ship.)

(coffee’s for closers) —if the album had a theme song this would be it. everything’s falling apart and you’re onstage, burning under the lights, screaming into a microphone like it’ll save you from yourself. everything you love you will destroy.

essential video viewing: america’s suitehearts, headfirst slide into cooperstown on a bad bet

save rock and roll (2013)

my songs know what you did in the dark (light em up) —they dropped this song without warning after five years of radio silence, and it exploded. the symbolism is blazing clear: this is not your middle-school emo scene. they are back, they are on fire, and they are coming for you.

the phoenix —this album is a handbook of calls-to-arms and none better than this one. the kids are all grown up, with flames and teeth, rising from the ashes of what they used to be. listen to this before a competition. you will win.

where did the party go? —as he gets older, pete’s preoccupation with youth only gets stronger. listen carefully. the kids may be grown up, but at what cost?

essential video viewing: the entire young blood chronicles. do it. take fifty minutes of your time and just fucking do it all in one go.

american beauty/american psycho (2015)

jet pack blues —inspired by a scene in pacific rim. there’s someone waiting for you, to save you and make everything all right. maybe they exist. maybe it’s you. maybe they’re waiting for you, if you could just find your way back to them. maybe it’s all in your head.

uma thurman —the pop-rock munsters-sampling windows-down radio-blasting dance jam of the summer. except it’s winter. whatever. (and yes, it’s still vicious.)

the kids aren’t alright —pete wentz at his pete wentz-iest. songs like this are why fall out boy is so often the band of the outcasts and misfits and hurting. nobody’s all right but maybe you don’t have to be. fall out boy is right there with you.

essential video viewing: centuries, american beauty/american psycho

miscellaneous favorites

tell that mick he just made my list of things to do today (tttyg)
7 minutes in heaven (atavan halen) (cork tree)
sophomore slump or comeback of the year (cork tree)
snitches and talkers get stitches and walkers (cork tree)
golden (infinity)
bang the doldrums (infinity)
g.i.n.a.s.f.s. (infinity)
disloyal order of water buffaloes (folie)
27 (folie)
20 dollar nose bleed (folie)
west coast smoker (folie)
young volcanoes (save rar)
alone together (save rar)
just one yesterday (save rar)
irresistible (ab/ap)
novocaine (ab/ap)
twin skeletons (hotel in nyc) (ab/ap)

How to Grow the Fuck Up: Guides to Life

witchyroses:

reclaimingbitch:

howtogrowthefuckup:

I know it can be a nightmare to dig through our tags and see all those asks and not the guides. So here is a handy-dandy list of all our “official” posts (plus a list of relevant asks at the end).

Apartments/Houses/Moving

Education

Finances

Job Hunting

Life Skills

Miscellaneous

Relationships

Travel & Vehicles


Other Blog Features

Asks I’ll Probably Need to Refer People to Later

[Note: This post will be updated as new guides are written, please click here to see the full, updated post.]

Because no one taught me dick, here you go.

Wow thx

dieaerzte:

SO you want to learn german! Then this is the post for you! I’ve compiled a list of resources for learning german, either through self study or to supplement formal classes. There are a lot of resources out there for self study of german, and it can be overwhelming, so I’ve tried to present some in an organized way here. I’ve got a lot of stuff here, so feel free to reblog it as a link.

A bit about me: I’m an american who had little german background, just grandparents who spoke it sparingly around me, and a while I ago I started self studying german. Through self study I was able to get to around A2/B1 level of the CEFR (the equivalent of a couple of years in a high school course or a semester or two of a college course) in about a month or so. And you can too!!!!! This list is resources that have been helpful to me, resources I’ve been recommended by other people, or one’s i’ve found through the internet.

*Note: I’ve take the liberty of only providing resources that are easily accessible through the internet or free. If I included books this list would be endless and cluttered. 

SOME GENERAL TIPS: 

1. Use german as a tool for communication from day 1. For me that’s been speaking to native german speakers in german, and simple things like setting my phone to german to force me to use it.

2. Immerse yourself in media. Watching movies and TV shows, reading articles and books, listening to music in german – all of those things are invaluable to your comprehension skills and will help you even more than you’ll realize.

3. Spend time on it daily. Even if you want to be casual with it, make it 15 minutes of practice a day. You’re going to get the most out of it if you are practicing on a consistent basis – this way you’re less likely to forget important skills.

LESSONS/BASICS – WESENTLICHE

Duolingo- Duolingo is one of the most popular free language instruction websites. It’s set up very intuitively and gives a really good basic overview of the language. If you finish the german course on duolingo and supplement it with other learning resources, you’ll be well into A2 level in no time and set up to expand into broader horizons.  – My suggestion with Duolingo is to not only do the exercises, but read the discussion on questions or lessons you don’t understand, and try your hand at translation with the Immersion tab.

Busuu– Similar to duolingo, but a bit more expansive and also a bit of money. I haven’t used it but know a couple of people who have with a lot of success. Like Duolingo, this is mostly helpful for getting vocabulary down as opposed to grammar, I find that grammar rules aren’t very clearly explained in each lesson.

Deutsch Interkativ – Put together by Deutsche Welle, who does great work in german instruction. A very helpful and extensive course, just not as game-like and fun as duolingo or busuu.

German Basic – University of Cambridge – An introductory basics course put together by the University of Cambridge. Very well done but doesn’t go past much other than basics.

GRAMMAR – GRAMMATIK

University of Michigan Grammar/Dartmouth Grammar – Once you feel you’ve gotten the basics and a good amount vocabulary down, or if you need to go check some grammar rules, you can take a look through these sites. Concise overview of german grammar with plenty of examples and exercises. 

German Very Easy – This site has resources for a lot of different areas of german, but I find the grammar section to be the most useful. Nice simple overview of german grammar in english. 

Linguee – This site, while technically a dictionary, is extremely useful for grammar and sentence structure. You can type in words or phrases and get real life examples of how to structure them grammatically or use them in context.

Verbix – Conjugation reference.

Mein Deutschbuch – Very comprehensive look at german grammar, but all in german. This can be an extremely useful resource because of general tip number 1 up there, but obviously difficult to use. Tackle it once you’re getting more confident in your german skills!

DICTIONARIES – WÖRTERBÜCHER

Google Translate – to be used sparingly! helpful for checking sentences that you’ve written in german or finding out the meaning of words quickly

Pons.de – My favorite online dictionary. Not only does pons have many different meanings for german vocabulary words, but has slang terms, idioms, and grammatic examples.

Duden – Official german dictionary. Like Mein Deutschbuch up there, it’s all in german so can be a great exercise to use it, but not if you’re just starting out.

BLOGS / VLOGS

Your Daily German – Blog with detailed posts about grammar/vocab/structure/idioms/etc in English. Very informative and fun to read!

Deutsch für euch – Excellent video series for german beginners. She starts out very simple and basically provides an instructional course throughout the video series, getting more advanced with each episode – there are quite a few episodes! It’s helpful to actually watch and hear someone explaining things.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION – HÖRVERSTEHEN

Slow German – Podcast and blog with short episodes about a certain topic in english. She speaks slowly and provides transcripts of the audio.

Extr@ Auf Deutsch – Cheesy sitcom for german learners. The german used is fairly simple and it’s important to watch it with german subtitles – not english! This is true of any german media you watch. English subtitles defeat the purpose. You may feel confused at first, but you learn a lot through context – and this TV series helps make sure you do that. Starts simple, gradually more complicated.

Jojo sucht das Glück – Series for german learners done by Deutsche Welle, similar to Extr@, however much more involved. With each episode there’s grammatical and comprehension exercises, and a transcript of each episode is provided. Starts simple, gets fairly quickly more difficult.

Slow German News – More Deutsche Welle (their whole site is worth exploring). German news reports read slowly for comprehension. You learn about current events while practicing your listening skills!

IMMERSION 

Tumblr – may seem silly, but if you want to practice reading in german and learn slang terms, following german blogs on tumblr can be pretty helpful, and you can get a daily dose of german while you’re browsing your dashboard.

German Radio – Listening to german-language music is fun, and also helps with your pronunciation, idioms, listening comprehension, etc. You can tune into german radio stations or you can go on youtube and search for german music you might like. (I won’t put suggestions here but I listen to a lot of german language music so if you DO want specific suggestions, send me a message!)

Films/TV Shows (Fernsehserie) – Finding films and TV shows that are in german isn’t too hard to do. There are plenty of lists out there on the web, and of course if you need specific suggestions come send me a message. Again, don’t watch these with english subtitles on. You may think it’s more helpful to you but it isn’t. If you think you don’t understand what’s going on – don’t worry about it. You understand more than you think you do.

I have more resources but I’ll have to save them for another post. If any of you have things that you’ve used to help you learn german that you want to add please feel free to reblog and add stuff!!!!!!!! or ask questions on how to use any of this 🙂 Viel Glück!!!

datingdisastersofaqueergirl:

Hello tumblr.

I’ve noticed that a lot of y’all are really into the hit Netflix show Orange is the New Black. Now, I’m not going to bore you with any prison abolitionist rant here. I just have a request.

You know how Miss Claudette doesn’t get letters? How Tricia says that her friends used to write her a lot in the beginning but tapered off? How Piper mentions that the only mail she got that week was a card from her grandma? Well these are all fairly accurate things for real prisoners.

If you love this show and your heart hurts for them, that’s fine. Just please consider taking the time to get a prisoner penpal.

There are hundreds of lists of prisoners who need penpals. One of the best resources in the world is black and pink’s database of queer and trans prisoners. That’s at:

http://www.blackandpink.org/pen-pals/

I could go on and on about how important this is, but if you’ve watched OITNB, you should already know. Please consider sharing just a few minutes of your life every month with someone who could really use it.

daintyfuck:

daintyfuck:

urie:

why is tumblr’s block system so shitty. when i block someone i want them to never be able to look at my blog again. i want a real block system like now that i’ve blocked you, whenever you think about my url your computer bursts into flames and the hand of god comes down to hit you

there’s a creepblocker script here, with which you can block urls & ips from viewing your blog page 

it’s come to my attention that i’ve wrongfully linked everyone to the script itself rather than the original source post, both written by lordnybbler. i want to apologize to lordnybbler for my mistake and to let everyone know to please donate to her if you are using her script. the donate button is at the top right of her blog. 

Hey, school’s hard

female-antagonist:

grubby—garbage-queen:

lazyriverlily:

I want to help

CHEMISTRY

– THIS – website will balance your chemistry equations and tell you what reaction type occurred – GREAT for homework!

ALGEBRA

– THIS – website will solve your algebra problems and will explain how it got the answer – it’s really good if you’re stuck on a type of problem and don’t know how to solve it!

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