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fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

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Hubble Watches an Intergalactic Dance by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

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Krazvalt

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Chat, I’ll be honest I think the hrt just made me more gay than I already was

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sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry

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Set up a laser appt for my face :))) (thankfully at a much much much cheaper price than the first place I looked at 😵‍💫)

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It wasn't meant to be.

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The Wyrm's Garden

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ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

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Amy, the baby antelope.

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

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extremely fucked up that the only way out is through

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Gonna be fr grown adult queers should know better than to engage in crazy fear mongering telling other people it’s over and we’re all gonna be sent to camps and lose our rights and be criminalized and whatever like hey how about don’t tell a group of people with unbelievably high suicide rates that there’s no hope and life is over

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You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".

Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.

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The Pleiades

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Finally, here's a gloss of the version in my conlang. I am not really familiar with the formatting of glosses yet, so please bear with me!

Na Ongalē ōka na Wi Kochachnolhōmu The Bear and the Two PL-Travellers Wi korūlsi utara chachnolō, sūla ach Ongalē kunga kungaura jēhūmfa lhen kalna chastalō. Two PL-man together travel-PST, when(CONJ) a Bear they they-GEN path on suddenly meet-PST. Achura kungaāle ach tywētū namla pītu wēlhīlō ōka chija na kotywētūpīra namla sīrikalō. One-GEN they-DAT a tree into quickly climb-PST and he-REFL the PL-branch in conceal-PST. Na omē, se chat wīkturōkema karā nak melō, na romōto lhen lhūnā pewelō, The other, who he attack-FUTPASS must COMP see-PST, the ground on flat fall-PST, ōka sūla na Ongalē wēlhīlō ōka chatcha chatura uja lhēk nīntēlō, ōka chatcha tanlā elhelō, and when the Bear climb-PST and he-ACC he-GEN snout with feel-PST, and he-ACC all over smell-PST, se chatura lhichpacha rūpōlō, ōka na susēwāmeura tomnun nōm chat pīlālō tāpnalō. he he-GEN breath-ACC hold-PST, and the death-GEN appearance as much as he could-PST feign-PST. Na Ongalē chatāle mēte rōkelō, rynāta chat ach susēnu kitam nīntē ȳkū. The Bear he-DAT soon leave-PST, because he a dead body touch not. Sūla chat pepnet rōkenulō, na omē kochachnolhōmu na tywētū ura ngūmēlō, When(CONJ) he quite go-PSTPRF, the other Traveler the tree from descend-PST, okā chat seura amilnūp na ongalē chatura hynewāme namla tīmwitanulō somo fachpitu lhohālō. and he he-GEN friend the Bear he-GEN ear in whisper-PSTPRF what(COMP) playfully ask-PST. "Chat siāle na sunpatōr ālelō," chatura amilnūp ētāpse lō. "He I-DAT this advice give-PST," he-GEN friend reply-PST. "Ach amiltūpāle lhēk se fecha na tīlhanura etamakanaāle lhen lhūpnanu menaȳkū chachnoani." "A friend-DAT with who you-ACC the danger-GEN approach-DAT at deserts never travel-IMP."

This is still very early development, but I wanted to share what my new conlang looks/sounds like so far. This is a translation of a story from Aesop's Fables. This language doesn't have a name yet, but it's most striking feature that differentiates it from English (and all of the other European languages I am familiar with) is that it is a head-final language. For example, it uses postpositions rather than prepositions.

A few romanization notes:

A macron over a vowel denotes a long vowel (held roughly 2x longer than an unmarked vowel)

ch represents the voiceless velar fricative

lh represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative

f represents the voiceless bilabial fricative

Vowels next to each other represent a hiatus, not a diphthong

All other letters correspond to the letters used in IPA

I have not totally decided on stressed syllables yet (partially because phonemic vowel length is still somewhat unfamiliar to me)

This is a proto-language, and I intend to simulate both phonological and grammatical evolution to result in a naturalistic 'modern' version. Anyways, here's The Bear and The Two Travellers translated into my conlang!

Na Ongalē ōka na Wi Kochachnolhōmu Wi korūlsi utara chachnolō, sūla ach Ongalē kunga kungaura jēhūmfa lhen kalna chastalō. Achura kungaāle ach tywētū namla pītu wēlhīlō ōka chija na kotywētūpīra namla sīrikalō. Na omē, se chat wīkturōkema karā nak melō, na romōto lhen lhūnā pewelō, ōka sūla na Ongalē wēlhīlō ōka chatcha chatura uja lhēk nīntēlō, ōka chatcha tanlā elhelō, se chatura lhichpacha rūpōlō, ōka na susēwāmeura tomnun nōm chat pīlālō tāpnalō. Na Ongalē chatāle mēte rōkelō, rynāta chat ach susēnu kitam nīntē ȳkū. Sūla chat pepnet rōkenulō, na omē kochachnolhōmu na tywētū ura ngūmēlō, okā chat seura amilnūp na ongalē chatura hynewāme namla tīmwitanulō somo fachpitu lhohālō. "Chat siāle na sunpatōr ālelō," chatura amilnūp ētāpse lō. "Ach amiltūpāle lhēk se fecha na tīlhanura etamakanaāle lhen lhūpnanu menaȳkū chachnoani."

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Also here's the original fable in English:

The Bear and the Two Travellers

Two men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. "He gave me this advice," his companion replied. "Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger."

This is still very early development, but I wanted to share what my new conlang looks/sounds like so far. This is a translation of a story from Aesop's Fables. This language doesn't have a name yet, but it's most striking feature that differentiates it from English (and all of the other European languages I am familiar with) is that it is a head-final language. For example, it uses postpositions rather than prepositions.

A few romanization notes:

A macron over a vowel denotes a long vowel (held roughly 2x longer than an unmarked vowel)

ch represents the voiceless velar fricative

lh represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative

f represents the voiceless bilabial fricative

Vowels next to each other represent a hiatus, not a diphthong

All other letters correspond to the letters used in IPA

I have not totally decided on stressed syllables yet (partially because phonemic vowel length is still somewhat unfamiliar to me)

This is a proto-language, and I intend to simulate both phonological and grammatical evolution to result in a naturalistic 'modern' version. Anyways, here's The Bear and The Two Travellers translated into my conlang!

Na Ongalē ōka na Wi Kochachnolhōmu Wi korūlsi utara chachnolō, sūla ach Ongalē kunga kungaura jēhūmfa lhen kalna chastalō. Achura kungaāle ach tywētū namla pītu wēlhīlō ōka chija na kotywētūpīra namla sīrikalō. Na omē, se chat wīkturōkema karā nak melō, na romōto lhen lhūnā pewelō, ōka sūla na Ongalē wēlhīlō ōka chatcha chatura uja lhēk nīntēlō, ōka chatcha tanlā elhelō, se chatura lhichpacha rūpōlō, ōka na susēwāmeura tomnun nōm chat pīlālō tāpnalō. Na Ongalē chatāle mēte rōkelō, rynāta chat ach susēnu kitam nīntē ȳkū. Sūla chat pepnet rōkenulō, na omē kochachnolhōmu na tywētū ura ngūmēlō, okā chat seura amilnūp na ongalē chatura hynewāme namla tīmwitanulō somo fachpitu lhohālō. "Chat siāle na sunpatōr ālelō," chatura amilnūp ētāpse lō. "Ach amiltūpāle lhēk se fecha na tīlhanura etamakanaāle lhen lhūpnanu menaȳkū chachnoani."