#but the basic principle applies

[general-sleepy]

Watching older exploitation movies is a perilous experience, because you can be having a grand old time and then suddenly, holy shit I think they actually stabbed that mouse.

[itsoverfeeling]

sometimes ppl say they suck at essays and then we talk and they know how to make an opinion and argue their point and I'm like. actually I think you could make amazing essays, take my hand let me show you

[smoralcoral]

Going to have a BAD TAKE(tm) and say that, "why don't you go and make your own work, then!" should be a valid response to criticism

Like some of you are going, "this [piece of media] would be FIXED if they did [wildly different, niche interpretation of that piece of media that aligns specifically with what I think would be cool]" and... no it wouldn't!!! That's just fanfiction at that point!!! Go write your own thing!

[silverislander]

probably a bad thing that when i sat down yesterday to look at upcoming local events and such to make a list of things to do/look forward to i instead just wound up feeling completely apathetic + defeated to the point of tears (not for the first time either)

[kintatsujo]

Honestly A Link to the Past is still the platonic ideal of a puzzle based action adventure to me because it successfully takes every dungeon item in the game and applies it to the main world, and while none of the bonus items are necessary to finishing the game they're all still very nice to have

Like, it's just very neatly planned and comfortably curled in on itself, I don't know.

I'm not saying it's the best a game like it could possibly be but it's definitely a benchmark to aim for that can help you make a genuinely good game

[overclockedopossum]

Yeah geez

"Humanizing: [...] so that behavior is on me."

This is just an excuse to hate disabled people. The whole point of diagnosis is to understand how people experience the world differently, which is vital when it comes to invisible disabilities.

Without diagnosis, people like me who have invisibile disabilities are just shit. They act wrong because they're shit. They can't do things because they're shit. They can't handle situations because they're shit.

There are some symptoms that you can explain without diagnosis if people have time to be patient with you but when it comes to things like RSD it's vital evidence that you're not just being a dick for the sake of being a dick.

I don't personally have RSD. But if someone does, a situation where they "blow up" is one that really fucking sucks for them. They are having an extremely bad time. The condition is a vulnerability to an extremely intense Bad Feeling in situations that most people are fine with, and the disabled person is likely already putting an absolute fuckload of effort into trying to manage that.

If a NT person has a bad interaction with someone who has RSD because of the RSD, it isn't the disabled person to blame. It's the RSD to blame and both people share the fact that they had a bad time as a result.

And you know what it does to understand that? It actually humanises the disabled person.

Sick list of symptoms bro. Now try humanizing your behavior instead of pathologizing it.

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So. Storytime for guerilla gardeners and solarpunk enthusiasts. This story comes to me 3rd hand but I believe the basic shape of it is true, even if details may be off.

So there’s this guy who lives in my parents’ town. Wanted to have a pocket farm but lives on an urban lot in a small city instead because y’know jobs and stuff. He could definitely get a few raised beds in the backyard but nothing all that impressive and the front yard is on a very busy road with the expectation that it’ll look reasonably traditional (plus planting food by busy roads isn’t always a good idea).

However

After he’s lived there for a while, he realizes his neighbors are all older people who maybe have more challenges taking care of their yards than they used to. So he goes to his next door neighbor and offers a deal: I’ll mow and maintain your front yard for free if you let me knock down the fences between our backyards and plant them both with food. And you’ll get a cut of the produce.

Presumably the neighbor already knew and trusted this guy because he said yes. So he starts mowing and maintaining his and his neighbor’s front yards and planting food in their now-shared backyards. After a season or two this goes well enough that the next neighbor down the street asks if he can be in on this too.

So now there’s 3 front yards to mow and three backyards full of produce. And it keeps going from there. Dude gets a rider lawnmower and does everyone’s front yards, and meanwhile he’s maintaining an entire block’s worth of produce in the back. His yields got so high that he was able to start offering boxes of produce outside of the block’s residents too. This is how I heard of him: my parents’ next door neighbors were picking up a regular box of produce from him.

I love a couple of things about this story:

Offering to maintain people’s front yards for them allows baby boomers to feed their thirst for keeping up appearances while still getting food production into the neighborhood

As homeowners age offering services like this is legitimately good community building

BLOCK-LONG POCKET FARM

These exact circumstances might not be replicable everywhere, but I love thinking about how these principles could be applied.

[brilliant-soul]

Home renovations would go against Jordans Principle in a very obvious way. If you were to require accessibility renovations to your home to LIVE, you're denied

Canada won't even publish any 'proof' on misuse of funds and I'm not sure if I believe there is a problem. It's all too convenient

Its important now to remember history. All Canada wants it to have no rights and no legal obligations towards native people. They've tried it before with the Indian Act and it didn't work, now they're doing it with smaller pieces of legislation

Canada has announced sweeping changes to a program designed to ensure First Nations kids get the care and supports they need, when they need them. That includes barring funding approvals under Jordan's Principle for home renovations, sporting events, international travel, non-medical supports or school-related requests unless required to ensure equality with kids who are not First Nations. The changes come almost a year after the federal government argued before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that requests were being made for a swath of non-urgent things including modelling headshots, gaming consoles, bicycles and a zip line kit. The CHRT said last month it was "quite concerned" about that problem, while noting some seemingly unusual requests could be made for good reason, including a fridge used to keep medication cold for a child in Walpole Island.

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[sheeezu]

What to do if you have not shifted for +++years

(Most of my anons were along the lines of this same issue, I want to make a common post for them. I won't be telling you "you're already there" or "persist" I'm going to have a heart to heart conversation with your mental health in mind, this will be a long post)

First and foremost I have to say, this post is very heavily opinion-based. Alright, I'll divide it into topics, and two categories: before shifting and during shifting.

Before Shifting.

Determining the laws of your reality.

This is where you've got to do most of the work. (Don't worry, it won't be 7 hour subliminal listening sessions) now let's present a very important note: I don't know who you are. But most importantly I don't know what you believe in. Shifting isn't a known set of rules, Shifting doesn't have a single method, it does not have a wikihow page. Everything that exist is because of you. Therefore there are differences in my reality and yours. What you believe in is acting out in reality. LITERALLY.

So first you need to ask yourself some questions, with full honesty, oh and don't apply the thoughts you have by certain reprogramming affirmations, don't force yourself just because you have to persist.

"What am I?" What do you believe you are? Currently, are you a soul, a human? Or you something greater, seek within yourself to answer what you believe.

"What is reality?" How is everything working around you? Why are you here.

"Who is in control?" Who makes you shift. Who or what makes everything happen.

"How to shift?" Self explanatory. If you write with utmost truth on what you think shifting is like and when and how it happens; you'll basically have the code of how reality works for you.

Relax.

After you've gathered your research sheets. Take a breath, since you've got all the answers you need. Now, close your eyes, whenever you like. Imagine a serene atmosphere, for example, sharp sunlight falling on your skin, warming you up, or the rain droplets drowning your senses, as you run across a forest. Tell yourself, "this is what shifting is" , and "I've shifted." That's all it is. You feel some you get some.

Some important realizations,

• Time is not linear.

• Failure is a perception.

• You're not beneath anyone.

• You don't need to prove yourself to anyone.

• you'll survive, you'll be alright.

Don't. Kidnap. Yourself.

The title sounds weird, but it is regarding heavily applying the principle of assuming until you have it, to EVERYTHING. Idc if people come after me. I don't want anyone to suffer by stamping their foreheads with "persist!" Even if it works. I love loa, until it crosses over into toxic positively. Don't just put yourself in a coffin; don't become a prisoner to your thoughts! Don't make it feel like there's an angry witch in your mind, who will scream at you if something goes wrong, the problem is! Something might go wrong and you'd end up highlighting the idea that you are being forced to assume against something. Don't feel forced. Simple. (You can still use loa, if you like)

Declutter your mind.

I said it before. and @ilovecatfr explained this here, there's so much in your mind. I can tell. Each and everyone has their own unique spin on shifting. That's great and they put out advice to help people, similarly you... also have it within you. Afterall, these bloggers, big well written and decorated posts are the projection of your assumptions. I'd like to say, majority of the bloggers are kindhearted with the aim to help others. Although for some, you being desperate in their asks is an ego boost, nothing is wrong with feeling good about yourself for your knowledge, but you the person at the other end of this screen, are not a pawn, not just another anon, alright? you know how to shift, look back at what your answers were to the questions.

Control your emotions towards this reality.

I've always wanted to discuss this. Emotions are the puppeteers of this show. They're a grounding mechanism of any reality. If you feel something deeply, you're angry at circumstances you form an attachment to this reality, it keeps you here. Think about what happens to a person when they get disassociation. Similarly belief + emotional investment = reality. Its a code. I can confidently say anyone who has not shifted (... not targeting anyone, genuinely trying my best to help; ty ty back to the text) is because they're giving too much emotional importance to this reality. This can be in the form of stressing that you have not shifted, being worried that you're not in your dr, putting much focus on the "What ifs" of if you wake back in this reality.

But we can't just go BLANK. we're still humans who feel deeply (for now huehue) so what's the solution to this non-issue? Direct these feelings towards your destination, your intended reality! This would mean feeling like your dr self, if you're experiencing negative emotions you can last second convert them to any scenario related to your dr, emotional investment there pays well, here? It just wastes time.

Don't let feelings get the best of you and keep you here; you're their creator after all.

(Optional) Create a homey dr.

This comes from personal experiences. If I don't mention this I won't be completely open with each one of you. I shifted through intense love and reverence for my home. I knew that each and every second spent in this reality led up to me shifting to my home.

So for ease later on when you can't decide between drs, it'll be comforting to have a reality you can call home and choose over and over again.

Rewire.

This is where you come back to what you answered to the questions. Do you like your response? A human is living in a reality, and your answers are the universal law there. Will they have an easy time with shifting? If you think so, then choose to not do any "rewiring" and act upon the answers you wrote, shifting in accordance to them as they have become the pillars of your reality. If you think the person's reality's laws regarding shifting are complicated, then you can choose to rewire them. This can be a simple manifestation. As it has no basis in the 3D yet, you will manifest it within seconds. You can either write it down, listen to a subliminal, or simply think of the new beliefs in your head (eg "I shift in seconds") and let go. Stop.

(Severely optional) strive for spiritual awakenings

*shrugs* I thought I should mention based on personal experience.

During shifting.

Confuse your logical brain

You don't have to give it validation. Instead, just make it unable to predict the next move of it creator. Its built to look at everything with skepticism.. but it has nothing when you don't give it the chance. For example, the anti method by @hrrtshape is the best example. I like that you can do this, pre-method like a little warm up. (You can also manifest to not think logically)

Know your game

To act like you're in a battle field is not the way to shift. You don't have to give the actual practice of shifting much or any importance. You know how to shift, then why is there a need to have plan B's and checking your own environment? You are the commander in front, you're the one switching the reality, your reality is not the one switching.

Senses shift last

Explained by @stilljuststardust here.

Be blind and deaf to each and everything other than your intended reality

...and be so obsessed with your intended reality. Live out entire days, you're there, no, time is not passing by, the previous reality has disappeared by your hyperfixation on your intended reality. Ever done that exercise where you stare at a dot for so long, everything around it disappears? Well then, EXACTLY. Make it dissapear. Make it dissappear by not giving it any more of your energy. ....how I shifted. This is based upon being your dr self, that's snatches away the spotlight from this current reality.

Keep yourself comfortable

All of you are experienced enough to know, you don't need to lay in the starfish position. But remove the unnecessary thought that if you dare move your finger you might mess up the whole attempt (This is a subconsciousness belief) here's how to not worry about your 3D: again, senses shift last, Your current reality = intended reality.

It is about breaking free from human functions

Your software is set to being an earthly human. This is why acting like your current reality (the noises from the environment, physical annoyances) are from your intended reality, helps. This allows you to trick your human brain and move forward. The more you try to make sense of shifting, the more less it'll make sense. You don't have to know everything about shifting. The point is to be awfully natural about it. Just like how you wake up in this current reality without any requirement. You don't overthink it, then why overthink shifting.

Hope I cleared everything, I spent 5 hours on this post. If anything is not clear, please send in an ask, I am 100% avaliable to answer anything amiss.

Now let's see how much time I take to actually make this post aesthetically pleasing, so people don't have to bleach their eyes or ruin their blogs with this.

Dedicated to @lilyblairkinda who gave me this idea, once.

[grunge-mermaid]

I understand that iPhones can be tricky to learn when it’s your first smartphone at 70 years old

I understand that it’s not that intuitive when you’ve only had it for a week vs your family members who have had iPhones/smartphones in general for almost as long as they’ve existed

I understand that the apple ecosystem is vastly different from a windows or android ecosystem

What I don’t understand is how someone who has used personal computers more than half their life, who still knows & uses DOS commands, who is not tech illiterate (maybe not tech-ing at university level but certainly not illiterate) cannot understand that Basic Troubleshooting Principles apply to all devices

*how* you actually resolve the problem will be different of course but the flow chart is more or less the same. Follow the same steps, apply some critical thinking, do some trial and error

[tomble-by]

a quick reminder for hermitblr/trafficblr to please tag your ship content properly.

it's basic respect to make sure ships can be easily avoided; not just for content creators who might stumble across them but your fellow fans who simply don't want to see it.

the catch all tags are #hermitshipping and #trafficshipping respectively. also many duos have a separate ship name for more specific filtering so please keep them separate and don't crosstag.

some examples off the top of my head:

treebark vs renchanting

gempearl vs shinyduo

scarian vs desert duo

if you're unsure, a lot of ship names follow general ship name principles [aka smushing names together] (mumscarian, grumbo, smalletho, etc) while duo names are silly and tend to apply to an existing alliance (the buttercups, waffle duo, boat boys, etc). there isn't a universal naming system though so i recommend checking the tags yourself.

and as always remember the wise words of the one and only zombiecleo:

[overclockedopossum]

You know who I REALLY hate? People who refer to different generations with international model numbers. "BMW E36", "Porsche 996" type shit.

[attyrocious]

hey can i talk about a stupidly specific detail of law's design i love so much

its the spots on his hat (applies to anything he owns that has spots tbf) this is why i cannot get behind people who hate drawing his hat. you know how the spots form a band at the bottom of his hat? on a flat surface it looks like this, right?

if you bend that flat surface, the band of spots curve with it, so even without the outline of that surface i drew, it still suggests a shape. a viewer's mind fills the rest

so using that principle on law's hat, you can basically use it to sculpt the shape of his hat from nothing

i get a lot of comments saying i use negative space really well and like.. yeah, law's design really lends itself to a lot of negative space composition. thats why ive been stuck here for 2 years now

anyway happy drawing

[stackslip]

most of all i'm tired to see a group of people who talk big game about ableism and how much it affects them then immediately turn around and base a solid 75 to 80% of their arguments against a new technology (that to some is genuinely an assistive technology! like it or not!) on the idea of the Natural Brain And Natural Body that is Pure and Good, and how their brains and souls are perfect and unrotten bc they're not idiot stupid r*tard brain-damaged baby losers who need help for BASIC tasks such as

applying for a job

communicating in a more efficient/socially acceptable/gramatically correct manner

summarizing texts or ideas in easy and simple to understand language

breaking down basic tasks to easier and more manageable ones

tasks that are soooo easy any baby could do it, and anyone who can't on their own is just a stupid stupid brain-rotten baby /s

idk maybe it's because i actually spend time with people with cognitive/intellectual disabilities or learning disabilities, as well as refugees and second language speakers who are incredibly disadvantaged in their interactions in the west, that i can't take this rhetoric anymore; especially from people who talk a big game about how the barriers they face because of their autism/adhd/anxiety and chronic illness, but then turn around and point and laugh and talk nastily about folks who for some reason or another struggle with communication, executive function, understanding/comprehension (whether in reading or writing or simple cognition of the thing at hand) and more.

you don't have to use genAI, sure. genAI like all current technologies can also be incredibly harmful to disabled people and mirrors the same systemic ableism and racism that exist. that's without going into data/privacy and how chatgpt and LLMs use them! but that's not the conversation from Principled Anti AI Posters. no, the conversation is that a disabled person who used midjourney or even a self-written genAI art program is a lazy bastard who's probably fat and languishing in a basement somewhere, and anyone who's used it to write an email or translate something is some disgusting baby loser with a rotten brain. and shockingly none of this rhetoric has translated into actionable actions against the tech industry or a better understanding of capitalism, nvm compassion for disabled people who aren't aspie supremacist adjacent losers--instead it's just resulted in harassment campaigns and 20 something year olds sobbing because they believe their future and art as a whole is destroyed forever and doomed. so really, how effective is your anti "brain rotting" genAI posting, or is it just cope because you refuse to acknowledge the grim reality and what could--should be done?

[tchiyya]

It's really simple, actually.

If you want to stand against antisemitism — actually stand against it, not just claim you do — you need to listen to Jews and believe us when we talk about our issues and community. You need to seek out the mainstream, consensus views of the Jewish community regarding:

Jewish history

Jewish culture

Judaism and Jewish religious beliefs and practices

Jewish identity

Jewish pain and trauma

The meaning of Jewish words and texts

What counts as antisemitism

When people are being antisemitic

Boundaries and what counts as cultural appropriation

What is respectful engagement from outsiders

Who we consider community leaders and legitimate spokespersons for the community

Etc.

You need to seek out this information, you need to verify it carefully to make sure it isn't a fringe opinion, but has majority community buy-in and support.

And then you need to trust us to be the experts on our own identity, community, and experiences.

When other people inevitably come out of the woodwork to tell us that they know better and/or that their token Jewish "friend" who just happens to agree with them is totally more Jewish than all the other Jews, your best work is to shut them down, tell them they need to listen to Jews about Jewish issues, and then ideally either give them resources written by Jews or pass the mic. If you can't do that, repeat what you have learned and verified, and then make sure to note that this is coming from Jewish sources, who they should be listening to.

These are basic expectations for how to interact with marginalized communities, and you need to apply these principles to Jews, a tiny persecuted ethnoreligious group, the way you would to any other tiny marginalized group.

It shouldn't be hard, but so many people who supposedly care about social justice and marginalized groups fail to do this to the point that it's more shocking when someone does actually do this for us.

[daylightstring]

i manifested a new house for my family and some revelations about the law.

i’m honestly super emotional even typing this because housing has always been a huge issue for my family, but not anymore. it’s finally resolved.

basically, our lease for the house we’d been living in for five years was ending. now, i don’t want to take full credit for this manifestation because my dad worked incredibly hard to make this happen too. in my family, my dad is the only provider since my mum has her own mental health struggles, and me and my brother are focused on our studies. because of that, getting a loan for a good house was really difficult. but knowing the law, i decided to start affirming and visualising every time the topic came up, no matter what was happening in the 3d. i kept telling myself the house is already ours, only moving boxes is left. even when my parents were stressing about it, i stayed in my own reality internally.

luckily, once i started persisting, my parents found a really decent house in our area that was still within our budget. i kept affirming that the house was already ours, that all that was left was moving boxes. and guess what? we got the call that the house is officially ours. it’s a modern, four-bedroom house with a huge backyard. it’s beautiful.

this is probably my first really ‘big’ manifestation and it’s helped me understand the law on a whole new level. i had already studied the law a lot and understood the basics from reading source material, but actually living it through something life-changing hit differently.

when i kept repeating to myself that the house is already ours, that moving boxes is the only thing left, i realised this mindset is exactly what makes manifestations happen. nero knowledge, my favourite manifestation creator, always says that once you’re no longer dependent on seeing change in the outside world, that’s when it happens. whatever it is you want, you have to claim it with unbelievable conviction, so much so that even if you didn’t get it, you would still feel like you have it. that’s the level of certainty it takes. brazen impudence. refusing to accept ‘no’ as an answer from reality.

identity is everything. i hate to say it, but you need a strong self-concept to experience true life-changing shifts. that’s the real principle behind the law that every successful, enviable person has lived by. i know this because i tried to manifest a new house two years ago when i was deep in anxiety and depression, and it didn’t happen. my identity back then was someone terrified she wouldn’t get what she wanted, and the universe, being a mirror, simply reflected that.

stop identifying with labels that do nothing but hurt you. i understand trauma. i’ve lived it too. but you can’t spend your life staring at your wounds. you’re strong. you want to change. i know you do because you’re here, reading this, waiting for that big “aha” moment that will fix everything. but it’s not going to come from the outside. it will only come from you, when you apply the law and choose a new identity. like neville said…there is no one to change but self.

you have to stop caring in the wrong way. when i say ‘stop caring’, i don’t mean stop wanting your desires, i mean stop being so attached to the idea that once you have it, everything will change. there is no ‘after’. it’s happening now. right now. soak into that feeling, claim it, and live from it.