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floral-hex Ā· 3 months ago
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tl;dr: some science dorks poorly wrote a book about an interesting study but Iā€™m too tired and grumpy to read it, much to my therapistā€™s chagrin
told my counselor I only read around 30 pages of a book he lent me to read for therapy. Iā€™ve just been so overwhelmed with moving and depression and I just donā€™t feel like sitting down in my free time to read a book I donā€™t really have any interest in. Feels shitty, like Iā€™m making excuses. I guess they are excuses. Thatā€™s not really a bad word, just a word that usually has negative connotations. Whatever, anyway, he kept telling me ā€œthereā€™s also an audiobook.ā€ THEN LEND ME THE AUDIOBOOK! Iā€™m not gonna pirate this book! I dont want to go sign up for a library card right now(I mean, yeah, I need to, justā€¦ ya knowā€¦ takes a chunk of time I donā€™t feel like dedicating right now). Justā€¦ blegh. Definitely an insignificant problem in the grand scheme of things, but still annoying and still makes me feel like a failure.
Itā€™s an interesting book, but the way itā€™s written feels soā€¦ basic. Like reading a high school english paper. I dunno, it just reads very amateurish. Really cool info and quotes, but just packaged so blandly. By-the-numbers sentence structures, like a student learning how to compose their first essay. ā€œAnd then this happened. And then this happened. And thenā€¦ā€ filler filler filler filler. Not that filler is bad, you gotta connect the info in a congruent way, but this is asbestos level filler! Youā€™re padding it out with bad stuff! Itā€™s making me sick! I told my therapist it was bland and he said ā€œwell, itā€™s a published study, soā€¦ā€™ā€ and did that face like ā€œwhat did you expect?ā€ Listen, itā€™s not presented as a standard study! If it was just the facts with no flavor, I could understand that, Iā€™d honestly like that a lot, but this book is presented as a self-help book wrapped in a (to me) very interesting story about the lives of multiple generations of seemingly random people, from adolescents to old age, and what theyā€™ve learned about happiness along the way. You can make nonfiction books engaging, my dude! Youā€™ve got this cool, generations long study on what it means to be happy, youā€™ve got a goldmine of compelling quotes and stories, and they still write a book that reads like a middle school text book! Bland flavor! Like plain mayonnaise! Thereā€™s no zazz! They needed to hire a ghost zazzer!
Also, not a fan of self help books. No matter how helpful, my brain just always lumps them into the category reserved for being told ā€œjust go for a walk,ā€ ā€œtry to think positive.ā€ Yeah, all good info, but it never clicks with me. Like the the quote, ā€œthereā€™s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.ā€ My therapist even says I donā€™t react to being told this stuff, that i actually have to experience it and learn it first hand. But stillā€¦ he hands me a 300 page self help book šŸ˜• ah well, whateverā€¦
Anyway, Iā€™m probably wrong in my review and Iā€™m a fraud and secretly, unknowingly, actually hate books šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø
#this is a long vent about a dumb book my therapist wants me to read#be prepared for that if youā€™re going to read this post#you will gain no new knowledge and you will not have used your time wisely#lots of complaining here#whining aboutā€¦ books šŸ˜‘#not real problems#Iā€™m supposed to be moving boxes right now#Iā€™m very frustrated with life right now and am just redirecting said frustration and not this dumb book#you can ignore this#text#itā€™s my brotherā€™s 19th bday today and I feel shitty bc I didnā€™t go out to eat with them#bc Iā€™m all sweaty and angry at myself and itā€™s expensive and I didnā€™t want to rush to shower and get ready#and it would have been loud and Iā€™m hard of hearing so I would have just been sitting there staring off and feeling awkward#and and and now I just feel shitty for not going and spending time with him#I should have sucked it up and went just to be around everyone#but I felt so defeated trying to move boxes beforehand and I was angry and shitty and didnā€™t want subject anyone to being around me#I could have had gumbo. GUMBO! šŸ˜¢#i feel so shitty. Iā€™m such a bad brother. I feel so weak and useless and I just take up space.#so now Iā€™m sitting here. Iā€™ve been sitting here. just feeling bad. marinating in my own toxicity#my toxic juices!#damnā€¦ dangā€¦ dumbā€¦#the real vent is in the tags#sorry. Iā€™d written most of the post + tags. then sat down later and added all these other sad tags#this isnā€™t important
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egophiliac Ā· 1 month ago
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buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK
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#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#(the origin of halloween huh) (oooh)#why yes i did wake up way too early to watch the stream and will have no memory of drawing this later#anyway THE MAGIC BOOK IS BACK TO EAT US ONCE AGAIN!!!!#this does make things make a lot more sense if it doesn't have to. y'know. actually take place in the established world#like how jack and sally are apparently just gonna be THERE as themselves WHY NOT#i'm certainly not complaining mind you#scully looks like he's gonna be super adorable and i love him already#spooky scary skeleman who just goes :O a lot and is excited for halloween#he seems like he might actually be more of a fusion of jack and sally? or maybe i'm just reading too much into it#still getting jazzy vibes off of him though. is not scully j graves an incredible jazz musician name.#does this open up the possibility that the last time we went into the book there was a sexy anime boy stitch just offscreen the whole time#...maybe some things are best left uncontemplated#god everyone in this event looks fantastic i'm so glad i saved up some keys after all#a little sad that there's no lilia but you know what the fact that a halloweentown malleus exists is still pretty dang good#and sebek's hat is SO tall#the biggest hat for the loudest boy#i hope oogie is here too i need him and jamil to meet#i need jamil to be faced with a guy who's just a bunch of bugs standing on each other's shoulders in a trenchcoat#i am not coherent right now i just needed to get this out before i go pass out again
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poorly-drawn-mdzs Ā· 4 months ago
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Heh...Literally nothing personal, kid.
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tubbytarchia Ā· 2 months ago
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mroddmod Ā· 7 months ago
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little scrapped comic bc it felt a bit ooc to me in hindsight
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vaxxman Ā· 9 months ago
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whats so fun about the vaccinator (vacc slander)?
You come to my blog and disrespect me like that.
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Have some vaccinator propaganda.
Some textless panels that I enjoyed drawing and rambling about the vaccinator medigun under the cut.
Surprise, it's only medic.
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I am not saying the vaccinator is not absolutely broken, I 100% feel dirty using it against a badly coordinated team, hence I wouldn't mind if it received a nerf in the future.
A lot of people analyse the vaccinator as only useful against a badly coordinated enemy team, but I think it's much better as a weapon for when your own team sucks ass has bad synergy, since any form of uber is pretty much wasted on everyone (if you can even build enough charge). To compensate for everyone's mistakes, just make sure they stay alive long enough to capture points and push the cart. Everyone will automatically stay with you, and soon you'll have a nice meat shield of 4 people swarming around you. You know it's working, when there's suddenly 3 demoknights and a spy after you.
I love micromanaging my resistance bubbles, and I love micromanaging my team without them noticing that I'm doing it. Pressing the R-button to rotate through resistances feels like such a much more engaging contribution to the battles your patients are fighting.
Vaccinator is busted, but absolutely not boring.
And to close this rambling, here's my fav video about the vaccinator:
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kitamars Ā· 2 years ago
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vashwood week day 3: scars
the only thing you left me
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rhyme-thinks-stuff Ā· 1 month ago
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on one hand it's really nice that more people are learning about Aplatonic people and are being inclusive of them in their aspec posts. i do feel happy knowing that more people are likely to know about it, and people are being accepting
on the other had i really wish that more posts at the top of the tag were SPECIFICALLY about Aplatonisism. rather than most of the top posts being about A-spec identities in general
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toskarin Ā· 15 days ago
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miss Toskarin youā€™re not convincing me that Skyrim was the ruin of all western rpgs. In fact youā€™re convincing me that the issues began with oblivion.
I'd better be careful or else I might convince you of my less loudly-held beliefs
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lynxalon Ā· 2 months ago
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i've seen a fair bit of... pessimism about dorym lately, esp with the ep107, for example wondering if dorian's opposing views on the gods making orym fall out of love, and i have to say. i very highly doubt it, ur fr talking about the man who has held on to will for so long, holding onto will's family and affectionately calling this *his* family too because that didn't stop when will died. i dont think falling out of love is an option or even a thought to orym.
that said, we know that orym has contingencies for if anyone in bells hells crosses the line into being a version of themselves they would despise, for anyone who jeopardizes their mission. his mission. i think, for the first time since knowing dorian, orym finally has a contingency for him. the longer dorian is back, the more orym sees how scarred he is by what's happened (understandable so) and knows that dorian is with bells hells all the way. but if he isn't...
#lynx speaks#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#dorym#dorian x orym#i'll be so fr i hardly interact with the cr fandom at large bc soooooo many people are deeply pessimistic#i want to have fun!!!!! i AM having fun#and then i come here and see the most bad faith takes in all of the world ever and its disheartening!#where's ur fucken JOY where's ur fucken WHIMSY#bells hells is one of the wackiest groups with crazy dynamics between them all and its enjoyable!#ur Allowed to enjoy the things u watch i prommy#and to that point! people keep complaining that bells hells r indecisive and there r too many opposing views muddying things etc etc#1. ofc there r a lot of views. the real world is like that too. opposing views is one of the best story elements to enrich ur made up world#2. whenever there is a Big Decisive moment many instantly go 'noooooo not like that!!! that's not what *i*wanted' (ex: the shard.)#the cast receiving backlash from fans every time they r decisive and do something objectively fucken cool and interesting#means that any time they Think about doing a Big Thing... it gets a little harder bc what if the fans hate it. again. should i even do this#separating fandom from cast is a bit more difficult for this form of media and the inherent close proximity or creators to audience#so. just. maybe some of us could chill and cool off just a little. and maybe examine why This Thing is so terrible to u. and remember.#it may be terrible to *u* but thats where it stops. the specific bad feelings u have r not always indicative of media being Bad.#sometimes it's just not ur cup of tea and i PROMMY that its okay if its not
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bardicious Ā· 2 months ago
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Honestly tired of the criticism SNW gets from specifically Tumblr (cause when I check reddit, they love it lots). Like, there are some nitpicky ass people here.
Imo, the Gorn are awesome (you saw them once in TOS, get over it!), Spock/Chapel make sense and were always plausible (Also Spock had his fair share of female love interests in TOS that he knew less than Christine), regarding the silly episodes where Spock gets turned "human" or the new one where the crew turns "vulcan" (In quotes because a. I don't think the intention is for them to be accurate representation of either race b. we all just gonna ignore all the silly ass episodes in TOS like they're not part of the series' bread and butter), the musical episode was literally the best musical episode in the entirety of the genre of rando show doing a musical episode.
Spock this Spock that, there's so many complaints about Spock as if the Menagerie didn't have ooc Spock. The complaints about not having enough screen time for this character or that, like, again, let's be real, this show is for people who specifically loved TOS, of course you're going to have lots of Spock, Chapel, Uhura and yes, Jim also (because he's beyond crucial to Star Trek's legacy), and yes, maybe there should be more Ortega and idk whoever that other pilot is, but you still have focus on Pike, Una, and La'an, which is pretty damn good for a show that only has 10 episodes a season.
Lovely to see that the show has a 98% from Rotten Tomatoes, and a 93% from Google Users, which imo, despite the wackos I've seen on this site, is what really matters and means the show is going to keep trucking along despite a minority of negativity.
My long winded way to say, I can't wait for season 3! ā¤ļø
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reds-skull Ā· 1 year ago
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TW FLASHING LIGHTS/EYE STRAIN (GIF)[if enough people request I'll post a version without the gif]
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PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 4 | PART 5 | PART 6
This part was really hard for me to plan, composition wise. Trying to make everything clear with all the action and smoke was fuckin hard lmao But I like how it turned out, and next part... well let's say it's the one I look forward to most >:)
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skunkes Ā· 3 months ago
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#a doodley#okkk 2022: the torture chamber....i only sparsely drew al and developed talon (he was borned...) bc my mind was occupied with other things.#2023: exiting torture chamber; it took me a tiny little bit to get back to drawing and ''interacting with'' al again but i did it even#though it was a reminder of the Bad bc he's my copium#summer 2023: i view and witness media and suddenly have like 5 fictional men i cant decide on which to focus... and september (talon month)#comes along so I decide to focus on Talon after not touching him much at all throughout the entire year#(forced this btw i did not wanna do it LOL i didnt even remember how to draw him)#september 2023 to now: talon has infiltrated the brain. but i want to swivel back to al#now: i've forgotten how to Talk to al (just like i did in beginning of 2023)#(and just like i forgot how to talk to talon for most of 2023)#so ive kind of just been replaying the smunker cow al daydreams from when they first met#so I can find my way back...retracing my steps#in doing so ive kind of also forgotten how to interact with talon but still havent gotten back to al#so rn my life is so boring without imaginary bf interactions. just the before sleep plot rehashing daydreams...#or sparse visions of em Sometimes#nobody in my brain rn just like the short period last yr and its distressing#what do i draw without a love obsession.....#how do i pass time without it....! so boring. idk what to do#i miss the me of several yrs ago when i was drawing 50 different aus with al....ive downgraded in skill and imagination and creativity#so bad since then. idk. idk. i hope they come back to me soon#maybe i shld just draw al a lot which is how i kickstarted caring abt talon again almost a yr ago ?#hoping i can get him to come back before my surgery i need my big sexy boy nurse for recovery#(complaining abt things usually fixes em for me so im hoping thats the case here)
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momentomori24 Ā· 1 month ago
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I have nothing intelligent to say nor have I watched this video but seeing Shadow in the thumbnail was very funny to me.
"Sonic the Hedgehog's Girlfriends" and then there's Shadow šŸ’€ Honestly, based. He's a pretty princess and more people should say it.
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tubbytarchia Ā· 8 months ago
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Sorry I'm still feeling dread about maid Jimmy. Poorly made comic thing under cut
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Sorry this is gonna take up space but I really wanted it to be viewed as intended and such... I put it under read-more though so no one can complain!!
My art block is as strong as ever and killing me but I'm feeling so emotional and dreadful about that last SOS episode still, I forced my way through it lol. Joel wasn't there when it went down (I'm so fucking glad), which made me think of this instead and uh yeah I'm. Fuck man I dont even care about SOS that much!!!! This has ruined me
The way Pix (didn't really do anything wrong btw) made Jimmy dig a hole because he owed him for saving his life, and then Sausage comes in "aha!!!" and obligates Jimmy to do something for him too, quickly disregarding any uncertainty on Jimmy's half and shifting it onto Jimmy with "You actually reminded me that you owe me" (paraphrasing) grrrrr. And tbf he did talk about dancing at that point, but later Jimmy was clearly made to believe that he'd only be serving drinks and then Sausage goes "you're serving YOURSELF!" GRRRRRRR sorry this is just minecraft I know I know. I'm reading to deep into it yaada yaada. But no fuck that I want Jimmy to be happy and not to be made feel like he owes people things even if they saved him, I don't want Jimmy to talk like he's about to cry, I don't want him to be talked down to, I don't want him to feel like he has no room to object and has to just listen to others or expect to be treated a certain way hardwired into his brain, I don't want his abrasiveness to be more of a sought reaction to bullying/teasing/etc rather than a sign of the confidence he used to have, he's been through enough!!!! I hate this why can't I just awooga at maid Jimmy. That'd make things so much easier. Alas the horrors
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revenantghost Ā· 1 month ago
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Alright. I really didn't want to make this post, but it's one week before the next Trigun "deluxe edition" drops (Oct. 8th), and Dark Horse hasn't addressed the plethora of printing and text issues despite the very loud response on social media and the reviews on storefronts. If you don't want them to keep making cheap cash grabs and want a quality release, consider canceling your order.
I know all of us who missed the first print run are desperate for this manga--me too! Of course you don't have to listen to me, I'm some just guy on the internet. It's just, to me, the corporate greed of this is upsetting. The basic ask is that they do a quality check and proofread. That's it. They already knew the peeling gold on most copies was an issue, and they had the rights to change the text to add ellipses and sfx/translation notes.
Regardless of any discount, it's $50 MSRP for this, and I just feel like Nightow and his work deserve better. I don't know if we'll ever get that with Dark Horse, but I would hate myself if I didn't try.
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