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๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ .. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ .. ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐๏ธโฎ๏ธ
โข|| ๐๐ก๐๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ช๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐จ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ง๐๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐๐๐ช๐จ๐. ๐๐ฉโ๐จ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐จ๐๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐จ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐จ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ค๐ช๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐, ๐ฉ๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ง๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐จ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ค๐ง๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข ๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ซ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ฎ. ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ช๐ก๐ฉ, ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉโ๐จ ๐๐ง๐ช๐๐๐๐ก ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฃโ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ฃ ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฎ.
๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐จ๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐๐๐ก๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐จ, ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฎ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ง๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ช๐จ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค๐ค ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐. ๐๐ ๐ข๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐๐ก๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข. ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐ฉ๐จ, ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ง, ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐๐. ๐๐๐ฉโ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ก ๐๐ฉโ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค๐ค ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐จ๐ค๐ก๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐จ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ค๐ง๐ฉ.
- what time it is
- how long youโve been reading
- how many chapters youโve covered in the last 24 hours
- what you were late for because you were reading
- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep
- the emotional outbreaks youโre experiencing
- the inappropriate place youโre having said outbreak
- the general publicโs reaction to your outbreak
- how much phone battery you have left
Can't express how stress free being open minded is.
Some lesbians use he/him? Oh cool.
Some people have people inside their head and sometimes it's fictional chars? Sick your brains like a pirate ship they're all working to run.
Some people like being treated like a pet dog? Bark bark bro.
Being fat isn't unhealthy but a perfectly normal type of body to have? Kinda beautiful how different we can all be.
Something doesn't make any fucking sense? Cool an opportunity to learn. And even if I can't figure it out it's cool we still have mysteries today.
I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.
people always talk about leaving comments on ao3 like it's a nice thing to do, or the best way to encourage writers to keep writing, or overall like it's how you Do Your Part in fandom
and yeah, all those things are true, but having spent the past few months leaving enthusiastic comments on as many things as i can, i have a different perspective
you should leave comments on fics because it's fun
taking the time to stop and focus on what i like about a story has made me way more aware of what's going on in stories and what i like about them. there's bit more actual comprehension and appreciation and not just beaming content into my eyes to fill time
i like noticing cool little things in fics, or riffing on funny events. i've never been very good at speculating or picking apart characters, but sometimes something clicks and it rocks.
and of course it's pretty nice when you get a response and it's clear you've made another person happy
so yeah, you should leave comments for your own sake, too. it makes reading better!
heterochromia Chuuya and blind-in-one-eye Dazai you will always be famous to me
Bags of Sugar in Aid Shipment is Replaced with Bags of Sand
A lot of propaganda is not actually misinformation.
A lot of propaganda is not even half-truths.
A lot of propaganda actually is telling you the truth, but is feeding you a specific conclusion that the author wants you to draw from it.
This makes it a lot more robust, because if you go searching for sources to confirm the information, you'll find them!
So an important thing in evaluating information is not just "Is this true?" but also:
"Wait, does this lead inevitably to the conclusion this person is presenting? What other conclusions could I draw here? What other reasons for this piece of info could there be? How does this information fit into what I already know?"
"What are the motivations of the person who wrote or created this? Why did they want me to draw that conclusion? Do they themselves believe the conclusion they're drawing, or are they just trying to convince me? If they do believe it themself, why? If not, why are they trying to convince me? What's going on for them here?"
"What other pieces of information might I be missing? What am I extrapolating without noticing? What did this person deliberately leave out, or want me to ignore or gloss over? What other contexts and comparisons are applicable here?"
"How does this information with in with not only the specific conclusion that is presented, but with the author's overarching thesis? When I use it, how well does it fit into my thesis? When I take a step back, does this piece of information actually make any sense as supporting evidence for this person's thesis?"
Hopefully this is helpful, and can help your skills at evaluating information and arguments become more robust!
The world is less scary and chaotic if you lie down on the floor
Noticing different kinds of light (stars, candles, sunshine or city lights) can bring back the feeling of wonder and hope
If you canโt shower, washing your hands and face will help you feel better and cleaner
If you canโt clean anything else, changing and/or washing your bedsheets can do wonders
Fresh air and being outside in general can help with depersonalisation
Spending time around animals can help you recognise whatโs important and calm anxious thought cycles
Techniques for emotional regulation in children can really help adults too
Putting random asortment of food on a plate without creating an actual dish still counts as a meal
Drink something warm
Delete that app
Treat yourself as if you were a kid. Buy yourself a toy, play around, learn about cool new things
Fast paced life isnโt morally better and itโs not good for everyone
There is no good reason to keep yourself hungry
Singing to your full lung capacity can be a great way to let out built up emotion
Tension in the face can cause headaches. Try to massage your face regularly
Nothing is as important as your health
You are a whole person on your own, you donโt need someone else to be there to deserve love and attention. Your life can be full as long as you are present
You should cry things out whenever you feel like it
Slow walks are still movement and they do count
Itโs never as bad as you imagine it
Try changing your toothpaste flavor if you hate brushing your teeth
Anything can be a stim toy - one of my favourites is a heavy dragon necklace that has a complicated surfice. Itโs fun to touch and hold and itโs not even โactualโ stim toy
Procrastinating and feeling bad about it is true waste of time. Learn to truly rest. It takes the same amount of time but it is useful
Sometimes you have to force yourself to do the things that make you feel better
Donโt trust the thoughts you have after not sleeping for a while
Friendships donโt have to be forever to mean something
how to start reading again
from someone who was a voracious reader until high school and is now getting back into it in her twenties.
start with an old favourite. even though it felt a little silly, i re-read the harry potter series one christmas and it wiped away my worry that i wasn't capable of reading anymore. they are long books, but i was still able to get completely immersed and to read just as fast as i had years and years ago.
don't be afraid of "easier" books. before high school i was reading the french existentialists, but when getting back into reading, i picked up lucinda riley and sally rooney. not my favourite authors by far, but easier to read while not being totally terrible. i needed to remind myself that only choosing classics would not make me a better or smarter person. if a book requires a slower pace of reading to be understood, it's easier to just drop it, which is exactly what i wanted to avoid at first.
go for essays and short stories. no need to explain this one: the shorter the whole, the less daunting it is. i definitely avoided all books over 350 pages at first and stuck to essay collections until i suddenly devoured donna tartt's goldfinch.
remember it's okay not to finish. i was one of those people who finished every book they started, but not anymore! if i pick up a book at the library and after a few chapters realise i'd rather not read it, i just return it. (another good reason to use your local library! no money spent on books you might end up disliking.)
analyse โ or don't. some people enjoy reading more when they take notes or really stop to think about the contents. for me, at first, it was more important to build the habit of reading, and the thought of analysing what i read felt daunting. once i let go of that expectation, i realised i naturally analyse and process what i read anyway.
read when you would usually use your phone. just as i did when i was a child, i try to read when eating, in the bathroom, on public transport, right before sleeping. i even read when i walk, because that's normally a time i stare at my screen anyway. those few pages you read when you brush your teeth and wait for a friend very quickly stack up.
finish the chapter. if you have time, try to finish the part you're reading before closing the book. usually i find i actually don't want to stop reading once i get to the end of a chapter โ and if i do, it feels like a good place to pick up again later.
try different languages. i was quickly approaching a reading slump towards the end of my exchange year, until i realised i had only had access to books in english and that, despite my fluency, i was tired of the language. so as soon as i got back home i started picking up books in my native tongue, which made reading feel much easier and more fun again! after some nine months, i'm starting to read in english again without it feeling like a huge task.
forget what's popular. i thought social media would be a fun way to find interesting books to read, but i quickly grew frustrated after hating every single book i picked up on some influencer's recommendation. it's certainly more time-consuming to find new books on your own, but this way i don't despise every novel i pick up.
remember it isn't about quantity. the online book community's endless posts about reading 150 books each year or 6 books in a single day easily make us feel like we're slow, bad readers, but here's the thing: it does not matter at all how many books you read or what your reading pace is. we all lead different lives, just be proud of yourself for reading at all!
stop stressing about it. we all know why reading is important, and since the pandemic reading has become an even more popular hobby than it was before (which is wonderful!). however, there's no need to force yourself to be "a reader". pick up a book every now and then and keep reading if you enjoy it, but not reading regularly doesn't make you any less of a good person. i find the pressure to become "a person who reads" or to rediscover my inner bookworm only distances me from the very act of reading.
a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as Iโd believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, wonโt instantly destroy your professorโs opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh wonโt make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because theyโre not irreparably broken. what youโve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. donโt let imagined fragility lead you to giving up
IM SO OBSESSED WITH THEM
I turn 30 next month so hereโs what I learned in my 20s:
โdonโt work for startups, theyโre always one โinnovative ideaโ away adding โsell your kidneys on the black marketโ to your job description.
โkeeping a collection of basic OTC medicine on you will save your life one day. I recommend Advil, Imodium, and TUMS.
โthose little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money
โoverly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them
โyou can buy dehydrated mini marshmallows in bulk online and theyโre a godsend for hot cocoa
โpeople donโt care if you have fidget toys on your desk they just want to play with them
โtry to go to bed BEFORE the existential ennui kicks in
i like clicking buttons too but i am asking you to actually pay attention to things that matter even if you don't have a fun poll to engage with. it's ridiculous how inventive people have to get to entertain tumblr userbase enough for you to reblog fundraisers nowadays.
donate to mahmoud ( @ma7moudgaza2 ). his fundraiser slowed down significantly again, once the polls in the promo posts expired. he's currently at $19,794 USD raised of the temporary $20,000 goal. it is a verified, trusted campaign.
@buttercuparry @feluka @appsa tagging you for reach! thank you
More than 200,000 people are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip and are facing a real famine and mass extermination. Also, more than a million and a half people are facing the same famine in the southern Gaza Strip.Speak up for them, your voice can make a difference in this unjust world.
Also save my families within these families
Save my families who are suffering from famine here ๐๐
you're not an horrible person you are 15 years old
if you're feeling powerless right nowโand god knows I amโhere's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted
life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters
kyouka darling do you know the sun rises with you do you know you are loved
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I am Amina, a graphic designer and I know how to draw too, but the war has destroyed my dreams, my work and my ambitions, and I have nothing left. A good friend helped me draw these drawings for my campaign, and I hope that all humanitarian artists will help me because we are now going through an unprecedented famine. I hope that everyone who can help in my campaign will help, and anyone who can support me financially will help in my campaign. Any amount helps, even if it is small.
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when furudate wrote โtoday you happen to be the defeated. but what will you become tomorrow?โ and then โnothing would ever get started if they didn't first think, 'letโs give it a try.'โ and then โhe who climbs the ladder must begin at the bottomโ and then โweโre not limited to just one way of being greatโ and then โbeing weak means that there is room to growโ and then โdoes losing prove that you are weak? isnโt losing difficult for all of you? a challenge where, after ending up on your hands and knees, you must see if you can stand up again? if you stay on your hands and knees, that proves that you are weak.โ
Blue period ch 69 is very relatable :D
As an art student, Iโve had many similar thoughts :)
Types of Blorbo Thoughts:
Projection - This blorbo is just like me and therefore every single trait I have is now their traits as well
Incoherent - This blorbo constantly fills my head but if you asked me to describe why I liked them so much i wouldnโt be able to tell you
Music - Every single song I listen to reminds me of this blorbo
Horror - I love this character so much I want to put them through Horrors beyond their comprehension
All of the above - Hell on earth.
Types of Blorbo Thoughts:
Projection - This blorbo is just like me and therefore every single trait I have is now their traits as well
Incoherent - This blorbo constantly fills my head but if you asked me to describe why I liked them so much i wouldnโt be able to tell you
Music - Every single song I listen to reminds me of this blorbo
Horror - I love this character so much I want to put them through Horrors beyond their comprehension
All of the above - Hell on earth.
to me it feels quite obvious that rin still cares about sae quite a bit. quite literally almost all of rinโs football career has been built around his brother, from the beginning of it to the u-20 match.
in the beginning, it started with rin thinking that sae looked cool and wanting to watch with his big brother play. then people realized he was actually pretty good at football himself, so he decided to start playing with sae because, โwhy wouldnโt playing football with your brother be fun?โ this is when football was fun, it was mostly just hanging out with his big brother and eating ice cream together. we also donโt really know much about this time in rinโs life other than a few manga panels, so i donโt have much to say other than this is when got into football and he enjoyed it. i do feel like at first he mostly enjoyed it because he was playing with sae.
then, sae goes to spain, and this is when we first start to see changes in rinโs football. itโs in this stage that rinโs football both becomes about getting better and is when he first starts to enjoy it without sae. it becomes about getting good enough so that he can still walk with sae on the path to becoming the two best strikers in the world. itโs still enjoyable, but itโs mostly fun because he knows that sae is going to come back and theyโre going to be great together. saeโs going to come back and theyโll both have gotten better and football will be even more enjoyable.
then sae actually comes back, and itโs apparent that all is not well. their confrontation happens and the football that rin had built up in the time that sae was away crumbled around him. football was no longer about playing with his brother, that had been made abundantly clear to him by sae himself. i imagine that it takes a bit of time for rin to decide what to do with himself after that. we just get a fade to black in the manga after rin and saeโs confrontation in the manga, but we do know that it was in winter. i donโt know how seasons in japan work or when football season is, but i imagine that having rinโs and isagiโs big life changing moments happen on the same day would be kind of unlikely (but who knows, this is a sports manga and the timeline is blurry).
the next change to his football is likely when he gets the letter to blue lock. this is when football becomes a tool to use in the goal of proving sae wrong. proving that he did deserve to be part of saeโs life, and that sae was in the wrong for saying what he did. football was now about making sae feel like rin did with the added weight of guilt. making sae feel guilty about how he treated rin when he returned from spain. blue lock is just a way for him to streamline that process. the facility gives him access to top trainers and training facilities, as well as the opportunities he needs to get back at sae. this football isnโt about enjoyment or happiness or anything that the football he played before was about. this football was about his anger and his need for revenge, at the same time it was also about his want for his older brother back. his want for his brother to love him like he used to, to wrap him up in his arms and take him out for ice cream and sit by the ocean with him. this football was football filled with grief over the fact that his relationship with his brother will never be the same because he is not good enough.
then the u-20 match happens, and this marks yet another change to rinโs football. this is when sae manages to fully cement himself as a world class jerk in both my mind and in rinโs. after this match rin is pissed off, like he is mad mad. he takes some of that anger out on isagi because heโs a) the one that sae praised, and b) the one who walked up to rin who was clearly spitting mad and tried to have a conversation. but after the u-20 match, this is when rin starts to play football for himself. this is when rin lets go of playing for sae altogether, and i am so excited to see what that looks like. this is rin accepting that if saeโs going to be a jerk to him for the rest of his life then heโs not going to let him run it anymore. this is rin not letting go of all the bullshit that he went through with sae, but accepting that it happened and kind of moving on.
of course, this is all from rinโs perspective. iโd like to see what sae thinks of what went down between the two of them, itโs likely much different than how rin views it.
at the time that iโm writing this post (ch 231 of the manga is latest chapter) we havenโt seen any of our paris x gen pals since they chose their team, so that means we havenโt seen rin in a while. i feel like rinโs new play style will be extremely interesting to see (especially from isagiโs pov, itโs like that boy canโt not wax poetry about rin), especially since pxgโs mentor is julian loki. since heโs in the same age range as all of blue lock itโll be interesting to see how he handles the team.
and the u-20 match really good writing, in my opinion. it really expands on rin and saeโs relationship in way that hadnโt happened before and hasnโt happened since, at the time of this post, and that context is why i can even make this post.
hope that you enjoyed my ramblings about rin, i just think heโs neat