#and maybe they can help someone else

[1-ufo]

While I’m in a diary mode at the moment and this came up in a conversation I’m having:

I don’t know when I had this revelation. Sometime when I was young that I play back to myself a lot to help with mental health.

Try not to be hard on yourself when something embarrasses you. Whenever I did something really embarassing one of the first thoughts that always pops into my head after it was, well everyone else definitely feels better about themselves having witnessed that and probably a little less alone about it as well. I’ve always felt okay baring my flaws warts and all mostly in effort to connect? For other people to feel less alone mostly? Idk why. I don’t know how I got that lesson or whatever that is so ingrained in me like it’s supposed to be common knowledge or something because it wasn’t taught to me especially by my parents.

Vulnerability from others always helped me to open up about my own vulnerabilities the ability to let an embarrassing moment fall off your back is powerful. Not that I can always let go of some past regrets (certainly not) I still have mental health struggles like anyone.

But I was in such a hurry one day that I walked right off of a loading dock with books and note books in my arms. Completely unaware that it was there. Fell six feet in a total face plant books and papers and notebooks flying everywhere. In front of a whole line of people catching the bus to campus…. And it was one of those moments that I couldn’t even let bother me at all.

All I remember from that moment was: well everyone here feels better about themselves now and that’s a noble enough thing to earn at my expense and move on about it with some scraped hands and knees and chin. Be glad it wasn’t worse and I didn’t break any bones. I don’t know why that line of thinking works for me. I don’t know if it’s wise or if it’s a weird coping mechanism but… whatever.

[raven-master]

Only 5% of college students with ADHD graduate. A statistic that's disheartening on my good days and terrifying on my bad ones. Still, I know that I (and many others!) have so, so much to offer in my field of work once I get past all the hurdles of getting a higher education.

Hang in there, fellow ADHD students, I see you and I love you.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

if 9&10 were "dont wander off", and 11&12 were "the doctor lies", 13s rule #1 is "dont question me"

"have we not had a good time together" shes pointing yaz to the rule that yaz very well knows is there: we can travel if you dont ask me any difficult questions. yaz knows this is the rule - "because you ask too many questions", "this team structure isnt flat" - but she also was the one to invite the doctor into her home so im pretty sure she also knows shes not gonna kicked out that easily. she has some leeway. which she has been using between revolution and flux, which is why the doctor reminds her of the rules

i dont think she'd kick her out though. she wouldnt. i think it's just that the more you break the rule, the more unpleasant she becomes to be around, and eventually youre gonna walk out on your own. she doesnt want you to, she'd rather you stay and dont ask questions. but if youre gonna try to ask questions anyway, i think thats whats gonna happen

and yaz must think so too. because she does back off. because she doesnt want that to happen either. and it does anyway

[maeamian]

Actually research skills are hard to learn especially unsupervised so maybe telling people to just "Go figure it out" especially if you already know they've been failed academically in other ways, might actually be a great way to just send them to a PragerU video on the topic.

[designernishiki]

it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now

[perilegs]

i know astrology is fake but i'm not too keen on how a lot of people on this website seem to be clowning on it as a hobby a bit too hard. i swear the woman who thinks it's neat how she and her friends with the same sun sign are all similar isn't trying to say that you are who you are born as and there is nothing you can do to change it. it's a hobby. an interest. what happened to finding meaning and joy in the small things. does it affect you if someone enjoys tarot reading or crystals. does it make you upset someone has interests that they enjoy.

[calmlb]

Soukoku Height Difference —Reference

for any fic writers or artists who need it, here’s a reference for skk’s height difference at 15, 16 (according to dead apple), & 22

[thatonepikminperson]

CREATORS OF PIKMIN, I HAVE A CHALLENGE FOR YOU!

That means anyone who creates content for Pikmin, the text posters, the artists, the writers, GET OVER HERE! I HAS AN IDEA THAT MIGHT BE COOL!

It's not a competition, it's just a for fun art challenge! (And by art, I mean art as a subject, which means you can do anything relating to the topic!) If you wanna do it, great, if not, that's cool too!

The challenge is... draw yourself, an OC, or a castaway as a leafling! Or, if the OC or castaway is already a leafling, show us them cured! (Or if you just want to draw yourself as a captain lol)

You can also write about the oc/castaway/yourself and how they maybe landed on PNF-404 or how they became a leafling!

Or you can just be like 'lol I would have died on pnf-404 day 1' that's cool too! (And a bit funny. And sad, have more confidence in yourself!)

You can give these leaflings/captains your favorite Pikmin, or treasure, or fruit, or whatever you want! Just have fun!

Here's mine! (Me as a leafling)

[aftgphoenix]

So you guys know how sometimes teams will do team-building exercises like pouring buckets of water into a bucket behind you while blindfolded or something like that? Imagine Jean not realizing what’s happening until it’s too late.

Jeremy knows he doesn’t like pools but I don’t think he realizes the depths of Jean’s fear of water (and definitely doesn’t know about the water boarding). Add a blindfold and you have a recipe for disaster!

[sciderman]

Hi, I would love to ask more in the "ask blog", I just need to know, what are the current events that are going on?

Are they still on the plot on St Valentin, or is the theme with Harry the main conflict?

the main theme in the blog is whatever you ask about ! that do be how it works

[ghostlyheart]

as we approach the start of a new semester i'm sending all the compassion and empathy in the world to students who struggle with procrastination and what I affectionately like to call the Shame Monster that goes along with it. it sucks to always be treading water and feeling like a fraud to yourself and others, especially when it's something you truly care about. if you're always thinking "why can everyone else be responsible and organized but not me," your brain is overgeneralizing. you're not the only person to experience being overwhelmed and stuck. and even IF everyone else balanced their life perfectly, that wouldn't make you a bad person for struggling. if you care about something but keep avoiding it and don't understand why, there is probably more going than you realize. if your physical and mental health are being neglected, then you're never going to be able to accomplish what you want to do because you don't have any gas in the tank. it took me crashing and failing last semester for me to finally admit to myself that i was suffering from some SERIOUS burnout. i had this whole plan for research i was going to do over the summer and all these opportunities i wanted to take advantage of that i couldn't do because i was neglecting to take care of myself. the worst thing my anxious brain told me could ever happen did happen and i'm still alive. i hope that doesn't happen to you, but know you can recover and come back better. also: it's okay to stop wanting what you thought you wanted, or to take a different path than the one you were "supposed" to. don't do things because you think other people expect you to, or because you think it's too late to change your mind. that isn't sustainable. your college experience is for YOU, not for other people. you can do this!

[stagefoureddiediaz]

To use the word Hell was such a choice - like there was no need to use it - Tim could of just saud ‘who he is’ or some such.

But no he chose to use the word hell.

Hell as in heaven and hell. As in religion. As in we’ve been setting up an arc where Eddie has to reckon with his catholic faith (lapsed). That reckoning is a key part of who he is and his religion has always told him that gay = going to hell.

So Eddie figuring out who the hell he is means Eddie having to figure out what hell actually looks like to him and if that version of hell is better or worse than the version of hell Catholicism has created.

[dinoswordsb]

Idk how people can think the world is simple or boring like I had isopods and they had favorite foods like if even pillbugs arguably one of the most simple organisms that we can perceive have differences in their tiny tiny heads. Something is going on right. Like there's so much to look at in the world and notice and remember so much beauty thats so easy to overlook and makes it all the more special. I kept snails and I could tell a handful of them apart because they had different personalities. I just think thats so beautiful. This is a reminder to myself above all but there are things in the world worth looking at and remembering. Just look a little closer. There's joy even in the simplest of it all

[autisticlee]

sometimes people who struggle like to make jokes or find positives about their condition that causes them to struggle so they can escape the constant negative and struggle. sometimes autistic people will say things like "the 'tism" or use the "autism creature" or say their autism helped them have a *positive trait* to feel better about their struggles. because living your life only focusing on the struggles and negatives is depressing and makes it hard to want to live, even if those struggle take up 100% of your life and you can't actually escape them. sometimes any little seemingly positive thing can help a lot.

but there's so many other autistic people that hate when we do that and call it "reducing autism to a cute trendy thing" and say it takes away from *their* struggles and is bad and shouldn't be used. maybe *you* want to only focus on your struggles, but some people can't live in constant negative and need some positive or to find ways to make their condition more positive so they can feel better about living with their struggles. life is hard. I take anything I can get.

I cant get jobs. I can't make and keep friends. I can't get help and support for doing "normal" things so sometimes I go weeks without being able to shower and without eating more than a bowl of cereal a day. most times can't even do things I like. struggle to communicate. have meltdowns. i'll never be able to live independently. I struggle a lot. but instead of sitting here always depressed and having no motivation to live, i'd rather try to joke about "my 'tism is acting up again" when i'm struggling (just an example. don't think I ever actually used the 'tism thing but i saw others use it) or say "i'm just being a creature" when I need to stay in my dark room because everything is too much and I personally find it cute to be a little creature meant in a positive way. i'm not actually downplaying mine or anyone else's struggles. I still acknowledge them and that silly jokes dont make them go away. i'm not trying to be trendy. i'm not doing any of the things people say we do by making silly little jokes. i'm using the silly little jokes to convince myself life can be a little more than pointless, painful garbage all the time.

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[aposteat]

Theres something super fucked up about JW who have a ton of power pretending they don't have any power but I can't quite put my thoughts into words

Like I think about the GB wanting the members to believe they are the lowest of everyone BC god said so. Or elders saying you shouldn't be mean to them BC they are servants to you and it would be cruel for you to make their job harder

But like these are the guys who, in one way or another, are implementing harm

Ive been thinking about it again now that the NZ case study on JW has been released again and it kind of emphasises how much they wanted the court to believe they couldn't investigate them BC they 'don't have that power over children' or whatever

Maybe it's the way it's hard to criticize someone or come up w solutions for something that noone believes in happening BC "those guys literally don't have the power to do that"

Or maybe it's something else I'm not completely sure but it's been bothering me

[percabeth4life]

Thanks for the updates! I don’t want to spread misinformation so I’ll go ahead and delete the post.

I'm glad to help.

I do think playing with the possibilities of reincarnation is a lot of fun mind you, I play with it in my fics too. It just doesn't have much mythological support lol. There may be some philosophical support of course, but I'm not the *most* educated on all the various philosophers of Ancient Greece, haven't made them a focus yet beyond what I studied in rhetoric.

I do wanna talk to your professor sometime cause I'm wondering what his sources are for the Achilles stuff and Thetis mythology. I know the Metis myth fits what he claims of Thetis but no source I've read on Thetis mentions the prophecy the way he mentioned it.

Anyways, I do hope you have fun with your fic idea? I mean, idk if you plan to write it lol but if you do that would be an interesting play. I do enjoy playing with reincarnation (my fav is Pallas reincarnating as Percy).