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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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it gets good around the bit around diagon alley and later on the train to hogwarts harry and draco discuss the wizarding legal rammifications of raping luna lovegood and getting away with it
(This post was last modified: 01-07-2012 10:24 AM by aaaaaaasd.)
Remember in LOTR where Gandolf and that hobbit-guy-whose-name-I-forget (Tolkien?) had a griffin come save them from the collapsing cave? Why didn't they just use the same griffin to fly over the volcano and drop the ring in instead of taking a 3-day hike to there? Major plothole I'm just sayin'.
Hidden stuff:
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Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
it gets good around the bit around diagon alley and later on the train to hogwarts harry and draco discuss the wizarding legal rammifications of raping luna lovegood and getting away with it
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When there was once more silence in the room, Harry sat on the stool and carefully placed onto his head the 800-year-old telepathic artifact of forgotten magic.
Thinking, just as hard as he could: Don't Sort me yet! I have questions I need to ask you! Have I ever been Obliviated? Did you Sort the Dark Lord when he was a child and can you tell me about his weaknesses? Can you tell me why I got the brother wand to the Dark Lord's? Is the Dark Lord's ghost bound to my scar and is that why I get so angry sometimes? Those are the most important questions, but if you've got another moment can you tell me anything about how to rediscover the lost magics that created you?
Into the silence of Harry's spirit where before there had never been any voice but one, there came a second and unfamiliar voice, sounding distinctly worried:
"Oh, dear. This has never happened before..."
What?
"I seem to have become self-aware."
WHAT?
There was a wordless telepathic sigh. "Though I contain a substantial amount of memory and a small amount of independent processing power, my primary intelligence comes from borrowing the cognitive capacities of the children on whose heads I rest. I am in essence a sort of mirror by which children Sort themselves. But most children simply take for granted that a Hat is talking to them and do not wonder about how the Hat itself works, so that the mirror is not self-reflective. And in particular they are not explicitly wondering whether I am fully conscious in the sense of being aware of my own awareness."
That just blew my mind.
"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"
People say the problem with me is I have psychotic tendencies and care not about other human beings I don't like and or know. So?
(This post was last modified: 01-07-2012 10:24 AM by aaaaaaasd.)
Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent is a good fanfiction. There's also, by the same author, The last temptation of harry potter, and Harry Potter and the triangle prophecy. And there's some other one that I forgot the name of that is about snape or something, when he was a kid.
Life is good. Jeta është e mirë.
Die lewe is goed.
Het leven is goed.
Zoidberg: What is it, already? What's the cause of your anger?
Leela: I guess I would have to say, I hate you!
It has suddenly dawned on me that a Quidditch vidya game where you controlled one member of the team and you could fly around on the broomstick completely free of any rails or anything would be the best game ever
of course we would have to nerf the snitch and it's effects into oblivion but still
(01-08-2012 03:07 AM)BaronVonStrangle Wrote: It has suddenly dawned on me that a Quidditch vidya game where you controlled one member of the team and you could fly around on the broomstick completely free of any rails or anything would be the best game ever
of course we would have to nerf the snitch and it's effects into oblivion but still
But Baron, then there's the question, how do I get a nifty Firebolt and get off of my shitty Cleansweep?
"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"
People say the problem with me is I have psychotic tendencies and care not about other human beings I don't like and or know. So?
There'd be different brooms with different attributes, one balanced one, one with easier handling and blugder resistance for babbies, one broom that goes stupidly fast but has shit stats everywhere else etc
In my option both the film stars has kind of different role in the appropriate movies. The J.K. rolling wrote nice magical story and completed the writing of the end after the releasing of the Lord of the Rings series. So theres no comparison between these two series.
The whole plot of 6th book was supposed to be about the pensive and the horcruxes, but they literally have 2 scenes with the pensive and the rest of the movie is filled with pointless relationship shit. OHMYGOD HERMIONES MAD AT RON AND LOVES HIM LETS GO ON ABOUT IT FOR 1 HOUR AND THEN ANOTHER HOUR ABOUT GETTING A MEMORY WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT HELP THE PLOT MOVE ALONG AT ALL AND 30 MINUTES OF STUFF WHICH ACTUALLY MATTERS AND THIS MOVIE WILL GET AN OSCAR (it got an oscar....).