It Is Okay If You Do Not Do Better Tomorrow Than You Did Today. It Is Okay If You Do Worse Tomorrow Than

one of the most important lesson I teach to all the kids I tutor is to work out *why* they got a question wrong, because the reason means how we deal with it is completely different.

got it wrong because you didn't know how to do it? cool, let me teach you this method!

got it wrong because you didn't understand what the question was asking? cool, let's go through how to read exam questions and figure out exactly what they want.

got it wrong because you didn't check for arithmetic errors, or you didn't catch them? cool, let's go through how to check your work correctly.

and it really annoys them sometimes, because they want to just move on, but when they start doing this our seasons move so much faster, because if they got something wrong they can tell me why and we can fix it rather than me trying to figure it out. yeah, it takes a while, but asking why mistakes are made is really important!

one of the most annoying things about corporate culture is that everything needs a "solution". if one person makes the smallest mistake we gather like 12 people in a room and talk about our "plan to make sure this doesn't happen again". a plan?? someone set a support ticket status wrong and we need a plan? ok here is my plan, we remind them what the correct status is and we immediately move on. but no we have to be """solutions-focused""". ridiculous. its for managers who have nothing to do all day and need to justify their 200k a year salary. how about you FOCUS on leaving my team alone buddy.

So I think I figured out what Fifteen's problem is. Not as a flaw in the writing, mind. A flaw in the character.

Every New Who Doctor has been a reaction to the trauma of the Time War.

Nine raged

Ten ran

Eleven repressed

Twelve wallowed

Thirteen regressed

Fourteen finally admitted he had a problem and sought help.

And Fifteen, I'm certain now, relapses.

Fifteen started out doing great. All his trauma processed. Ready to face the world. And maybe at first it worked (though sadly we didn't get to see his many offscreen adventures with Ruby). But like... you don't stay better. You have to work at it. And he's very much not doing that.

There's a brittleness to his good cheer. Be it the gods of chaos, the loss of a lover, or his first real confrontation with racism, he doesn't deal with adversity very well. He breaks down, he hides, he acts like everything's fine. It's not fine though. He's not okay. He might've dealt with his problems, but he didn't equip himself with the tools needed to deal with new problems.

He's gonna crack eventually. We can already see it happening.

Written twelve and a bit pages of fiction and have failed to finish one four page report oops

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Leia and Cassie say wash your hands and stay inside and also that they are enjoying exploring the outside world

i am making garlic bread for dinner and this is what I’m going to look like

garlic bread.

here's the thing I generally love living in a coastal city, the Mediterranean is gorgeous

HOWEVER sometimes we get weeks of humidity and it's actually awful, especially as we don't have ac :( the trams in particular are... unpleasant

for WHY must it be warm and humid outside

i feel fucking STICKY

okay I just saw guys and dolls last night, but like this is perfect!!!

Tess as Adelaide (has been waiting 14 years to get married, which mirrors her and Joel's long relationship with no actual communication of what they are)

Joel as Nathan (loves Tess, but also loves his job which just happens to be highly illegal)

Tommy as Sky (ex highly illegal job, learns to do better after he meets Maria, would think flying from New York to Havana for dinner with a woman he'd met earlier that day was a good idea)

And Maria as Sarah (actually put together, learns to chill out when she meets Tommy)

ugh it'd be perfect thank you for putting this is my head!!!!

broadway theatre x tlou au where all the cast is part of les mis or something

Potatoes! 🥔

some of my faves recently!

for science, I second bobbybroccoli! Loads of very cool science videos

for (pre-)history: Dan Davis History (amazing, fairly European focused as that's his specialty), Stefan Milo (more science-y side of archaeology, pretty gloabl), and Milo Rossi, for American (including lots of indigenous) history and pseudoscience

for religion/history, esoterica is great. I don't have the background to even begin to understand some of the videos, but those I can get into are incredible, it's a channel devoted to non-dogmatic early abrahamic religious history (think origins of the abrahamic god, the two part (so far) series on Yahweh is awesome). Presents detailed academic research in an approachable way, and I really like the religious history without the trappings of religious dogma as part of it.

some other faves;

for tv analysis, Harbo Wholmes is amazing for doctor who analysis (and is doing an episode by episode analysis for the current season)

for philosophy, philosophytube is great and generally well explained

hi do you have long video essay recommendations

sure, ill give you some channels

but: they wont be anyone you havent heard of before, only some of them make truly long content, many will cover different topics, and i cannot necessarily attest to the true quality of all of the content or the creators- i tend to put on long videos to work to, and dont pay particularly close attention to them. these are really just people that pop up in my recommended often

im not ever on an active hunt for niche creators on youtube. maybe i should be

green means i like this persons work particularity. like i actually pay attention when its on

Quinton Reviews

Sagan Hawkes

Dream Jelly

Big Joel

Izzzyzzz

hbomberguy

minaxa

Paper Will

GermanPeter

Civvie 11

Decino

LGR

PatMac

Richter Overtime

RetroGamingNow

Defunctland

Darling Dollz

LSuperSonicQ

i also recommend old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries or even some of the stuff History Channel uploads (old eps of Ancient Aliens and whatnot) if youre just looking for some background noise. fair warning for those, though, in that theyre both old and sensational by nature. im sure you know that, but i wouldnt sleep right if i didnt offer the disclaimer

ill add more channels if i can find or think of any

i found a post once with some good specific videos linked on it, ill see if i cant find it again for you