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University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh

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my snowflake opinion is that subtitles should always be on by default, and their incorporation should be considered an essential part of the design process tbh

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for like a decade I kept getting the advice of "don't ruminate" but also "sit with your emotions" and I was like What The Fuck Does That Even Mean. until someone finally explained it in a way that makes sense:

so there's the emotional part of your brain ("I'm embarrased") and then there's the storytelling part ("all my friends hate me and I'm a piece of shit"). when people say "don't ruminate" what they mean is don't feed the storytelling part

you tend to the emotion ("I'm feeling x. why am I feeling that? how do I move forward given that information? what's something nice I can do for myself right now to cope with this?") but you treat the storytelling part like a little goblin that's trying to be as unhelpful to this whole process as possible. this doesn't shut the storytelling goblin up completely, but it keeps it from causing so much chaos and over time it stops talking so damn much

it's basically like if you were trying to comfort a friend. you'd validate their emotions, but you wouldn't sit there and let them call themself a piece of shit. do that for yourself

sharing this in case someone else is also like Why Didn't Someone Just Say That

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when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

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bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

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Hey bitches. Let’s fuck Monday hard

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fuck i’m trying to catch all these flies but they think my vinegar is stupid. i have honey also but that’s for me i can’t give them any of that

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It's a simple command really.

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I miss tv in the 2010s every day. You could put anything on air and get a 22 episode order and a five season run. Once Upon a Time was on and it basically spit in your face and told you that Olaf the snowman was Emma's second great uncle twice removed and you just accepted it. Golden age of the silver screen

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i really like that unlockable cosmetics, emotes, etc. are conveyed to your sky kid in the form of knowledge observed from spirits of the people who lived before you. it’s a very sweet and thematic touch to the game and also makes the sky kid a mimic who doesn’t even necessarily understand what it is they are copying, they just do it because they saw someone else do it and they were just born yesterday. here is a stance the sky kid can copy off a soldier who was for real wounded:

here is a look your child can adopt after interacting with an old man:

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Grey wolves By: Tierbilder Okapia From: The Order of Wolves 1976

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My friend sent me this with a "this made me think of you."

I feel so seen.

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a vengeful spectre. those who approach her notice her resemblance to a beloved knight who lost her life to the sea.

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“My story has so much gay rep in it!” Awesome. How are you treating your female characters btw