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impostorsshow · 7 months ago

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I just saw your Kagerou Daze story post and I love it but like at the same time what’s the deal with the lady(?) in the corner just… Chiling

First of all there was someone on a ladder behind Walt and I don't think most people decide to draw someone for him but I wanted to

Second of all, Prince [the lady] was one of the most important characters in my old story. I used to have the old notes about the entire thing that had some personality descriptions on my old laptop, but I don't have the files anymore. I do have my old notebook where I drew some of them, but all I have on Prince, and most characters aside from my own memory is this page

And also, most of these characters were girls since I am trans, so Prince was unique by being a boy, so i genderswapped him into a her to keep that uniqueness. The entire page is transcribed with some extra info in the alt description

Kagerou Daze story used to go by copyverse and I only realized when i searched through this book for information for the ask. A few things is that Jessica and Latte?? Holy shit I didn't know her name was latte I've been searching for that name for forever, latte has been referred to as Flora for all of my posts, but they were apart of this multiverse thing mostly as a cameo, like when a Mario trophy shows up in solid snake or whatever - if you wanna know about any of these other fuckers listed I have at least a few paragraphs of information on all of them but anyway Prince

I don't know where the idea came from, but creating a royal au isn't exactly anything super creative. I think Prince had a sister so ig it would be a brother now, and the royal families hair is bleached blonde to make them appear more regal. She was supposed to be a bit stuck up and with way too big of an ego, but a good heart and was one of the main good guys when the climax of the story went down. She ruled over a seaside town, with the castle resting on a cliff that overlooked the ports of the town on the beach. I also think horseback riding was one of her hobbies, but I can't remember tooooo much else?? She had an extreme distaste for most of the characters and only really got along with Ori, the resident of Pastverse and Kit-Kat, and despite being on neutral terms with Red decided to side against them due to the way he treated those under him.

Prince is also one of the few people who actually had parents, and said parents show up frequently. Uh, in hindsight with me having extreme familial issues uh. It lines up that most of these universes have dead parents and highschoolers [originally middle schoolers since I was in 8th grade] living on their own. I think the last two universes on the list in the picture has parents, and Kit-Kat was heavily based off of the animated version of Sabrina the Teenage Witch so her parents were alive, she just never saw them like at all also I decided to put on that show cause i finally remembered what the name of it was and it is actually still entertaining to watch

I'm fully distracted now so this is all your getting from this post have a good day

Edit, Sabrina actually lives with her lesbian parents the only memory I had of this show was the movie Sabrina; Friends Forever

#talk talks #original ranch dip #yeah fuck it #copyverse

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zeeroweenies · 4 years ago

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imagine not seeing jock megumi for a year (after they graduate) he sees reader in public and she’s all glowed the fuck up, got her own crib now and all ! do you think he would try and talk to her or fw her again? (maybe he’s still even dating that one bitch)

(i’m losing my shit at ‘that one bitch’ LMAOO)

Oh, Megumi my love 😔 jock!megumi sees you for the first time in a year when you just so conveniently move into the same off campus apartment complex that he lives in too.

Megumi thinks you look so beautiful, so different than when he last saw you. He doesn’t even approach you at first, he’s too scared to say anything, maybe he’s afraid of how you’ll react. The two of you didn’t exactly end on the best terms after graduation. He even goes as far as changing his class schedule so he doesn’t end up running into you on accident.

Bad luck for him cause you end up spilling your coffee on him one morning when you accidentally run into him walking out the door. You frantically try to clean him off sputtering apologies and his heart is racing when you look up at him, eyes locking onto one another’s for the first time in a year. His heart nearly explodes when you smile up at him, surprised that you didn’t just curse his ass out and walk off.

Eventually the two of you rekindle what you had in high school but not on a sexual or romantic level since you stated that you strictly wanted your relationship to be platonic. Megumi doesn’t like it, but he’d do anything to even be in your vicinity again. He really misses you, and he even regrets putting you through what he did that previous year.

He kicked his girlfriend’s ass straight to the curb when you told him you wanted to be friends again, he wasn’t about to let anyone jeopardize you two’s relationship, not even himself.

The two of you chop it up about things that you’ve missed in the past year in each other’s lives, Megumi went on to play football and learned you’re majoring in engineering at the campus near his. Y’all two spend a lot of time together, late night drives and midnight trips to Target almost replicates what you had in high school and he feels content.

As time progresses he can’t help but fall in love with you all over again. Your smile, touch and presence is too strong for him not to. He wants something more, he’d do anything to be with you forever, so on one of your “dates” he leans in for a kiss, relishing in feeling your lips against his after so long.

When he’s inside you again for the first time, you feel so different. Almost as if you’re tighter. Your bodies move so in sync, he’d never felt more connected with you than in that very moment.

It takes some time and a change in his behavior before you can finally allow yourself to be vulnerable with Megumi again, but you want to take things to the next level. And you do, only because he’s changed. Not just for you, but for himself too.

He’s so grateful that you forgave him despite how much he fucked you over, he honestly wouldn’t blame you if you never even wanted to talk to him again. But you gave him another chance and now you two are together again, but not in the way it was before.

Now here you two were a year later, happy and in a healthy relationship after you thought everything had went to shit. He communicates with you, shows you off, and he isn’t afraid to be vulnerable with you.

And now that he’s got you, he’s not letting you go. He’s not gonna mess things up this time around. <3

#🍓.anon #🍓.jjkthirst #this was only supposed to be a paragraph chile #why can’t my love life be like the cheesy fanfics🥺

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nightswithkookmin · 4 years ago

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You need to back up your ON break up theory with more than just fake subs and vague statements about 'claiming behavior'.

During the period you allege they were broken up, Jimin pulled Jungkook in a hug on run behind, Jungkook called Jimin sexy at a press conference, Jimin and jungkook did that whole 'how does it feel to be in the same unit'/'time to change' flirty thing, Jimin grabbed Jungkook by the lapels... and more. Begging pardon but if they were grieving the loss of their romantic relationship while trying to be professional colleagues and pals.... isnt that sort of insensitive? Like I know you admitting you might have read it wrong and have changed your view in light of new footage might be a blow to your ego, but I don't think you are thinking rationally when you insist on this break up theory. It's sad because I found so much meaning and connection in some of the stuff you have written, particularly pertaining to internalized homophobia, racism, mysogynoir and bts changing over time to become more enlightened, but your devotion to this ONE theory, and defensiveness whenever it is (rightly imo) challenged makes me wary of your theories in general, which might be extremely unfair to you, as a thinker. Your log is really funny and great in a lot of ways so i cant really quit you.

Ahhhh it's been a while I got one of these...

Hello, how you doing! Lol. Silver is that you?

Chilee, it's the name calling for me.

Ego, irrational, charlatan, Tuktukker- I'm desensitized to such ad hominems at this point. You don't throw words like these around and expect me to sit at the table and talk. Imma yeet myself out real fast. Lol.

There's just something different, wholesome almost, about this post though. Sounds constructive I think. Or maybe it's because I just woke. Chilee. Lol.

It doesn't feel at all like you are attacking me. It's strange...

You're gaslighting though but it's fine. I've built a resistance to that from years and years of dealing with my abductors or family. Potato potahto.

I often put my sanity before other's insanity which is why I don't indulge posts such as these and I'm not sorry about that. I mean is this an Ask or Submission? I don't- what am I supposed to say? What is the call to action?

Sigh.

If I come across as defensive sometimes, 10 out of 10, it's probably because the person on the other end is being offensive. Straight up. Cause and effect, the science don't lie.

You don't expect me to not defend when I'm being attacked. That's just tacky.

I don't think there's anything wrong with challenging views and notions because at the very least, that's about the exchange of ideas and I welcome it.

I set the limits at the racial slurs, the mocking tones, the emotionally charged rants meant to disparage me and my entire ancestry rather than argue a point, the interference with my personal life and business all because I hold a different view on a topic, the doxing, gaslighting, the bad mouthing, spreading lies about me, turning my friends against me, stripping away my rights and copyrights, harassing people who enjoy my work among- other things.

I usually exercise my right to self preservation in these instances- imma block, delete, ignore, forward or clap back. Word. Lol.

I'm sorry, but if you have to attack the individuality of a person to argue your point, you've lost the argument and you never had one to begin with.

Take for instance, the bit you wrote about me taking a blow to 'my ego' - do you see the problem with that?

What has holding a view different from yours on a particular subject got to do with the ego?

Do you mean to say the only way I can hold an opinion different from yours on a matter is if I were hubristic?

Are you projecting? What's happening? Lol

And if I call you out for this, I'm defensive? Way to add gaslighting to your bigotry and intolerance of opinions that don't align with yours. No offense.

I give myself permission to hold unpopular views. I give myself permission to think differently from others. I give myself permission to see what I see and believe what I believe and form an opinion on what I see and believe divorced from others' views and based on my own understanding of the workings of this world or in this case Jikook.

No amount of name calling will change this fact. We see things from different perspectives after all.

You need to back your ON break up theory with more than just fake subs and vague claims about claiming behavior.

Lol. Fake subs? You mean the Hajima bit from the On comeback special I put in my video? Interesting.

I think I see what you mean about my break up theory and I agree to some extent. Like, come up here with charts and paragraphs and excel spreadsheets on why I think Jikook were broken up?

I would be happy to do that kind of analysis.

I think the problem for me here is, I feel tasked to convince rather than to share my opinion on the matter or even expand on my theories for discourse sakes and that makes me really uncomfortable.

Not to psychoanalyze you, but I feel when you ask this of me you are not just asking me to divulge my thoughts on a topic but to disabuse you of your own biases surrounding the topic.

I don't think this is about my opinion at all. I think it's about your own beliefs about Jikook. And there's nothing wrong with that. If you believe in something you need to stand for it. Just don't mind if others do same and don't call them names for doing so. Because if you do mind, then that's bigotry.

The fact is my opinion contradicts your beliefs about Jikook and you either want to punish me for it hence the slurs, are in denial, or you want to believe my point of view- can't really tell.

I think there is a limit in general to how far I can prove Jikook in anyway and that has nothing to do with lack of evidence, my ego or my rationality. And yes, I often shroud my beliefs in vague expressions because I don't want to set myself up or open myself up to legal suits. I can only prove Jikook to a point and nothing beyond my belief. Beyond that, I would be skating on thin ice and making bighit a tad richer.

During the period you allege they were broken up, Jimin pulled JK in a hug, grabbed Jungkook by his lapel, JK called Jimin sexy, they did the flirty challenge...

So if I understand you correctly, all these is what makes Jikook a couple to you and indicate they are dating?

Alright then.

Hobi calls Jimin sexy all the time. BTS calls eachother sexy all the time. I don't think that's a sign they are in a polyamory.

Jungkook plays with his hyungs' dick and ass and talks about falling for them most times. I don't think that makes him gay or in a relationship with any of them.

Lemme just cut to the chase. I've reached my photo limits. I have said a countless times now, that I don't view skinship and all these interactions you've pointed out as indication two people are dating- especially not two Koreans working within the homoerotically charged space of Kpop.

And I have given out a few of the metrics I use in considering whether any ship in BTS is real over the course of my blogs- intimacy, exclusive behaviors such as and not limited to claiming eachother and exercising certain rights and authorities over eachother and against the group, stress trails as a result of keeping their relationship a secret, the microaggressions, breaching the fourth wall and others.

I think what this comes down to is differences in perspectives on a fundamental level. Not egos.

I don't see the things you see as the signs Jikook are real and dating, as signs Jikook are real and dating. If I did, I would be seeing every ship in BTS as real but I don't.

And you consider the metrics I use in ascertaining Jikook as vague something something. I think we are at an impasse.

But explain the bit about 'insensitive' to me please. I would love to engage in that discourse. Why would it be insensitive for two exes to act cordially with eachother within a workplace in the aftermath of a breakup?

Then the bit about grieving...

So grieving is one of your metrics for accessing whether or not two people are broken up?

That's interesting. I mean I don't disagree but I also don't think Jikook are gonna come to work with oversized pajamas, dark shades, boxes of tissues and a blanket slung over their shoulders because of a broken heart... it's 2020 not Manila. They've grown, are learning and getting better at dealing with their emotions on camera because, as Suga pointed out, they are aware the least bit of tension translates to the screens.

I mean Jimin said it himself in his 2020 interview, he's learned to react less intensely to certain things. And sometimes, he tries to downplay certain things. He tries to perform Jikook when Jikook are not in a great place. It's only in recent times, On era, where JK has opted out and not gone along with it.

I think he does that and uses their shared 'Jikook agenda' and performances of Jikook as a means to fix things or break the ice between them at least.

But clearly Jk wasn't having it that day as he kept putting up boundaries with Jimin throughout that Run episode- unless of course you are disputing this as well on the grounds Jimin dragged his ass into a hug. Chilee.

I think most people wouldn't have felt there was something off with Jikook in that On period at all had it not been for Run 116. It's similar to how, had it not been for Jimin's birthday saga, the Esquire shoot behind scenes and Grammy reaction video, no one would have felt there was something going on between Jikook in the October timeline.

I think we would have seen and felt the less interactions and professionalism between them in the aftermath of it but for the most parts, moments like the couch scene in the Grammy reaction video wouldn't have made sense to any of us especially as we had just witnessed JK in the ON:E concert rushing to comfort and console JM when he was tearing up at the end of the concert.

At least when he pushed JM into a ditch somewhere in the dark in Soop we know he had been drinking and they were playing competitive sports. Even with that he still showed some concern when Jimin fell and injured himself afterwards.

I think we would all be wondering if Jikook were fanservice at that point, a fanservice relationship where JK only consoled Jimin when he cried infront of thousands of people at concerts and nibbled his ear while he was at it.

And I think we would be on opposite sides of the argument: me, arguing Jikook were experiencing a hiccup in their relationship and you, rationalizing that moment with anything from 'JK don't have to be at JM's beck and call' 'he is an introvert who is shy to show affections publicly' to even something about the weather.

But I would have looked at this moment from the October pop up video behind scenes and assumed JK was mad at Jimin for something JM had done and had done something in retaliation and was now feeling sorry he did.

And I would have based it off of this moment, or a countless similar ones from around On era or the previous eras where JK had done this exact same thing- frozen in place and staring at Jimin in the middle of a shoot or interview after sliding his hands down Tae's chest, clung on to the others unnecessarily to get a reaction out of JM.

Would I have been right? It really doesn't matter to me as long as it makes sense to me. I ship Jikook in a way that makes sense to me. Jikook are gay, in a gay relationship with each other and are human like anyone of us- that makes sense to me. Whether I am right or wrong.... who cares and why does it matter?

Personally, I think the only person grieving in that period was JK not JM and I don't think he grieved for long before he switched off his humanity and went stone cold tit for tat terminator on JM and BTS's ass. Lol. He had JM looking all kinds of subdued in that era. Lmho.

People grieve in various ways. In my opinion. For Jimin, I feel he puts on a strong facade most times when he has to film during such times and lately I feel he masks his emotions with anger.

Jk masks his pain with anger too sometimes but I feel in recent times, he is leaning more towards indifference. I think he tries not to be as affected by certain things as compared to the early half of 2020...

But I understand what you mean when you talk about grieve. I think for me rather than look for physical evidence of grief like a sad face, a tear drop dripping down a face, I love for vulnerability in them.

JK's is easy to tell because he tends to open himself up to others such as Tae or Jin or Hobi- and I don't mean like his interactions with them. I mean he leans on them for moral or emotional support.

In the Holiday remix video where he was hiding behind Jin, I felt he was feeling very vulnerable and exposed after that intense moment with Jimin.

It's what he does when he is feeling vulnerable. He turns to others especially Jimin and if Jimin is the cause of his vulnerability he turns away from him like he did within On era or even in Run 116.

When he is in a good place with Jimin, often he is closed off to the others. Jimin does the opposite. He shuts himself up entirely from the group. I don't think he likes to go through his pain by himself.

I've always found that bit fascinating about them. Jk opens himself to people when he is at his lowest while JM closes himself off when he is at his worst.

It played out in their rainy day fight as well. In JK's vulnerability, that's when he let Jimin in, lowering his walls while JM on the other hand closed himself off to him.

Can you give me more than they were together in that period because they played with eachother's lapels?

You don't think I'm thinking rationally when I insist on my theory? Uhmmm... okay? What is rational in this case?

Listen, I recieve a lot of hate for my 'irrational thoughts and opinions' out in these streets. I've lost potentially great friendship on this platform because of it. As I type this, there is someone in someone else's DMs persuading them not to read and engage with my posts because I'm extremely evil I think Jikook break up from time to time in their relationship.

If I genuinely believed in the slightest least or had the least doubt that Jikook were together in that period I would change my mind on the topic- damn my pride and ego. It simply isn't worth the hustle.

If it helps your sanity, please stop reading my blogs. My blogs are not for everyone. It makes some people happy, it makes some people mad and some people experience both.

My gratification is in sharing my thoughts and chronicling Jikook's journey for my own appeasement and support of Jikook. I owe it to them as a believer and a supporter to humanize them as much as possible.

I do not seek to convert others, change minds, or convince anyone of my opinions or to disabuse anyone of theirs.

Let's just agree to disagree on the matter please. Or if you can drop the ad hominems, I would be more than happy to go back and forth with you on this very topic. It's actually shaping out to be one of my favorite Jikook eras. I love me some terminator JK. Lol.

Signed,

GOLDY

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twistedcharismaaa · 3 years ago

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1, 4, 5. 🥰

@blackburnbook 🌹

1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

At the moment, I find myself jumping between Silk Dreams, Lost & Found, and a new story.

Lost & Found - Summary: You’re living a suffocating life and you finally find breath in Masego.

The progress for Lost & Found is coming along. That particular story writes itself. I am often the canvas allowing it to paint me 😂. It can be frustrating. But at the end of the day, I love the results. I’m trying to complete the next chapter but I’m not sure what angle I would like to approach it from. What I love most about this project is the romance 😍

Silk Dreams - Summary: The Creation of Sego ...

Silk Dreams chile 🤦🏽‍♀️. She needs prayer 💀. I have worked on that. But I think I’m getting too in my head about it. That story is supposed to be my experimental story. I’m supposed to switch things up and make it fun. Kinda shake things up from the norm. I think I honestly need help with development for that story. So far, what I love most about this story is the DRAMA! 😂

My new story is still untitled at the moment. But w/ this I’m playing around with the idea of femininity and empowerment …. Mmm.. and maybe a bit of sexuality. That is heavily underdeveloped.

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

This is from my short story titled “Happy Birthday”. I’m proud of this paragraph because I feel as if my writing began to shift. My actual writing voice. You know how artists say they are trying to find their sound? Well, yeah. That was me but the writing version lol. When I wrote this, I felt empty, sad, and alone. And I feel proud of myself for releasing all those complicated emotions and turning them into something visual … something beautiful. This story is open to wide interpretation. This is one of the pieces that make you think. 💙

“He was searching for something deeper - something that he couldn’t easily put into words. Something that felt beyond him as if it was physically unattainable. Spiritual maybe? It was utterly inescapable, continuously plaguing his mind night after night gnawing at his thoughts like blackened crows. Imprisoned, forced to consume this feeling in his drinks, in his food, in his literature, and in his music as if he was endlessly damned. He screamed his frustrations to deafened ears and mourned to the blind. The only friend he knew was loneliness and he wished to know more - to be more. Something more than a shipwrecked mess but, as time passed he settled into bitterness as if they were silk sheets. Completely comfortable in being uncomfortable.”

5. What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?

Crazily enough, I relate to all my characters in some way. But to be quite honest, there was a time that I related to LaKeith from “Create With Me”. In my head, he was awkward, sweet, misunderstood, passionate, lonely - and so many different things. I saw myself in that light and shaped that into his personality. (I hope that conveyed).

Thank you for asking 🥰✨

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shye-safety · 3 years ago

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To enjoy the trip, you need the company of a switch socket

Traveling is supposed to be a happy thing, and only those who have walked can understand the state of mind that "has crossed the mountains and the sea, and also passed through the sea of people". But "like to travel" and "enjoy travel" are two different concepts. If you just wander around the sights and see the flowers, it is a so-called trip, and you have completed the mission of "getting here". Why would you like it? If you can sit down and read a book, have a cup of coffee, find a suitable angle to take a photo during the journey, and integrate into the local life and experience different travel pleasures, the feeling will be completely different.

Nowadays, many TV programs have also started "slow life" variety shows. Among them, the exotic "Chinese Restaurant" and "Flowers and Boys" are programs that have always been paid attention to. Shooting in a foreign country allows us to better understand the customs of foreign countries, and we are full of yearning for foreign countries. Many people will be affected by the show and choose to travel locally and feel different foreign customs.

However, traveling abroad cannot be solved by the phrase "just go". The strategy should be prepared in advance; the precautions should be read several times; the conversion sockets can also be purchased in advance...

Switch socket? Many friends who have gone abroad for the first time feel quite unfamiliar with this item. If you are a variety show lover, you should remember that there is a paragraph in "Sister Huayang": During a trip in Morocco, one night they were going to make a hot pot. When the second sister Zhang Xinyi took the pot brought from China to boil water, he found that the plug could not be used. Use it locally! The "omnipotent" sister Lin Chiling immediately took out the portable plug converter and easily solved this problem. The conversion socket is to convert the plug of an electrical appliance into another form of use. It is mostly used when the plugs and sockets of the two countries are not common and do not have the function of converting voltage.

So, here is a reminder to everyone, you still need to prepare a conversion socket when traveling abroad. In the program, Lin Chiling’s sister uses Wanpu’s multi-function conversion socket 007 model.: It contains plug standards in many countries and is suitable for British standard, American standard, Australian standard, European standard socket type sockets, a total of more than 150 countries, You can easily travel all over the world with just a multi-function adapter.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002885413755.html?spm=5261.ProductManageOnline.0.0.39c84edfkdYUFO

#converter #Travel abroad #Power plug #Portable

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gratefulunicornmadre · 6 years ago

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Why GratefulUnicornMadre?

Seems that my first ‘real post’ about this adventure should offer a little context and provide some referents for a few of the items that may occasionally come up in this blog. I am GratefulUnicornMadre for the following reasons: I had the good fortune to attend a 1-day conference hosted by the Greater Good Science Center (UC Berkeley) in November 2017 focused on instilling gratitude in the workplace (thank you, WCSD SEL Coordinator, for seeing the value of this topic!). Hands down BEST conference I’ve ever attended, but I think largely b/c the folks who self-select to such an event likely share recognition around the power of gratitude and its relationship to happiness/positivity. Being surrounded by others who can speak both personally and professionally to the significant impact embracing this simple ethos can have/has had was inspiring! So, I aspire to incorporate gratitude into daily life ... thus, grateful as a part of my handle ... and, is why I will choose to highlight aspects of this experience/our lives that prompt appreciation, gratitude, and thanks!

Closely connected to the first descriptor is the ‘symbol’ that my school colleagues of the past couple years have come to know as representative of ‘considering the lens through which we interpret situations, events, experiences and life.�� We watched the Shawn Achor/Happiness Advantage TedTalk more times than anyone probably wanted to (except me!) ... in which he recounts a story about his sister falling off a bunk bed & how before she could scream in pain, he helped to reframe this event by suggesting that no human being could have landed on all 4’s that way ... she must be a unicorn! ... & how this quickly shifted her interpretation/experience of the event. We challenged each other to ‘be the unicorn’ through intentionally bringing a lens of positivity to our work in a very tough school community. While that was the selected theme for the 2016-17 school year, it evolved and remained a beacon reminder for hope, positivity, and bringing the lens of optimism and common goals to our work. And, while I was never the little girl who was fascinated by unicorns (if I had fallen off a bunk bed, someone would have had to quickly tell me that if I landed on all 4’s, I must be a professional football player on the line about to go into my 3-point stance!), I now own unicorn leggings and socks and T-shirts and a necklace among many other novelty items, some of which remain at the school as quasi-mascots and others that are retained by or passed around the staff. The unicorn lives!

How are unicorns and gratitude closely connected as was suggested in the previous paragraph? Turns out that one of the ‘practices’ Shawn Achor (and lots of other positive psychologists) identifies in the Happiness Advantage is taking the time to be grateful every day ... gratitude is one variable that leads to being a happier (and, ultimately, more successful) person. So, I take the first two parts of my handle from The Greater Good Science Center & Shawn Achor, appreciating the aspects that overlap.

Connected to the second descriptor is my selection of madre. Turns out that ‘unicorn moms’ are a thing (again, about which, I would likely NEVER have stumbled upon, but was brought to me by a close colleague & friend at school). And, when I looked up the definition of a unicorn mom & I read more references about them (and their kind hearts and fierce souls!), I decided that this pretty accurately reflects my identity, so am proud to join the ranks of other unicorn moms out there. (The only unicorn themed items that I have actually purchased for myself are a couple unicorn mom shirts!). One of the best parts of this adventure for me is that I have more time to focus on being a madre. I have always felt stretched in ways that translate to me not feeling like I was doing my best with anything ... being a friend, being an educator, being someone who takes time for herself, being a wife, being a leader, or being a mom. Many demands that I am/was not always good at balancing ... so, I am excited to have a year where I get to invest a lot more energy into being a madre. Thus, I chose madre to associate with unicorn moms & to reflect my greater commitment to mothering my boys (and, well, I’m in Chile so here I am a madre rather than a mom).

Yes, this is really supposed to be about our family’s adventure living in Chile for a year, so let’s get on with it already ...

#GreaterGoodScienceCenter UCBerkeley WCSD SEL ShawnAchor HappinessAdvantage TedTalks unicornmom

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oyevans · 7 years ago

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No but really someone needs to explain tamales to me I think we have a pastry/bakery type thing it’s corn mush and cheese and cinnamon but I think tamales are savory I DONT UNDERSTAND MEXICAN FOOD I HAD MY FIRST ENCHILADA IN GERMANY JUST LET ME DROWN IN POTATOES IN MY LANDLOCKED MOTHERLAND

so I started writing you a whole paragraph and accidentally refreshed the page. anyways, tamales are made from a “corn-based dough,” according to google. aka masa. The most common kinds of tamales that I’ve seen are the ones made with mole (those were my favorite when i was younger) and chile and pollo so they do tend to be more savory but don’t have to be. my mom said she’s had one’s that are just masa but pineapple or strawberry, so they can be sweet. mexican food tends to be either very spicy (which i hate since spicy food gives me chest pains, but the tamales i ate in the last few days are worth it) or very sweet. my mom usually makes the chile and pollo ones (green chile made from tomatillos among other things), but she also makes them with cheese para quesadillas and ones with only masa (apparently they’re called tamales sordos). you spread the masa on the tamales/corn leaves/husk, then put whatever you’re going to put in the tamale on there, wrap it close, then put them in an olla and place the heat on for a few hours. like i’ve helped my mom make them a few times when i was younger, but i still want to learn how to do it properly. like my mom does make them a lot (about every month or so). like the ones i’ve had recently are the first i’ve had in over two years (i’m not supposed to have spicy food because it makes me have chest pain, but it was worth it).

this was long. anyways, yeah, james is going to have tamales.

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mjbookreviews · 7 years ago

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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Tfw you find a book that soars into your Top 3 All-Time Favorites (aka the first book I actually read this summer)

This novel was recommended to me by a professor last year, and, unsure whether I would like it, I put it aside. What a mistake. Do yourself a favor: drop what you’re doing and read this book right now. Allende’s novel, published in 1982, is nearly 500 pages of breathtakingly wonderful story-telling, beautiful prose, and incredibly complex characters. I suppose I should have known I would love it considering that it incorporates elements of magical realism and follows three generations of women, and magical realism and stories of strong women are basically my favorite things ever in literature. We all make mistakes sometimes.

The novel mainly focuses on Clara, Blanca, and Alba, the three luminous women that bring the magic, strength, and love to the story. Clara Trueba, née del Valle (giving her wealthy, aristocratic roots), is the magical core of the family; she is a clairvoyant and can communicate with spirits. She predicts the death of her older sister Rosa and then predicts her marriage to Rosa’s fiancé, Esteban Trueba. But she cannot predict the suffering (and occasionally, the moments of joy) that comes with this marriage.

Trueba is an interesting character, so complexly detailed and odious, but so central to the story that he is even given his own narrative space, his account (perhaps unreliable) of events popping up throughout the chapters with a plaintive tone as an old man. He first loves Rosa and then Clara for their beauty; he has “uncontrollable” fits of rage that lead to violent outbursts; he believes the peasants that work his country property, Tres Marias, should be treated like children; he rapes the women that work for him and visits a prostitute while he is married to Clara; and he helps bring to power the regime that ultimately undoes his family. His only redeeming grace is his love for his granddaughter Alba. I had little sympathy for the character, but Allende captures him perfectly.

Clara and Esteban have three children together: twin boys, Jaime and Nicholas, and a girl, Blanca. They build a home in the city and Clara fills it with a maze of rooms and strange visitors and noisy spirits. And every summer, the family goes to Tres Marias for an escape from city life. Here Blanca meets and immediately singles out as her soulmate Pedro Tercero Garcia. Their love story is a sweet childhood romance later complicated by class and politics. And eventually, Alba is the product of their love.

Like her mother, Alba falls for a communist who opposes her grandfather’s conservative politics, and the end of the novel is dominated by the consequences of Esteban’s (and the other wealthy bourgeois men like him) actions to overthrow the elected Socialist president in a military coup. The actual country is never named in the book, though it’s clearly in South America. (Side note: according to Wikipedia, it’s supposed to mirror Chile’s history.) I found the lack of nominal specificity to not be a problem at all; it is as if Allende is creating her own magic and folklore this way, but it’s also kind of fun to guess the parallels. Allende does this with some characters as well, such as “the Poet,” who, thanks to the epigraph, I took to be Neruda.

Allende weaves through the events brilliantly as the novel hurtles toward its cataclysmic ending, every character roaming in and out of the narrative until their story line is complete. Similarly to Alba’s musings near the end of the novel, I found that the characters’ lives came across the page as “a jigsaw puzzle in which each piece [had] a specific place.” This is also a novel obsessed with the cyclical nature of life. Not a spoiler, but the novel’s first and last line are the same, the story coming full circle. Alba reflects on the ways in which actions and reactions have shaped her family, speculating that perhaps “the space of a single life… [passes] so quickly that we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.” It’s a bit depressing to think that the tragic as well as the joyful will keep happening over and over with each new generation, but Alba also offers some hope that she can find a way to break this cycle.

The novel’s focus is family and relationships, but these three women, especially Clara and Alba, are defined by so much more than their love lives or their last names. I wanted the story to keep going, to hear about every generation to come, but Isabelle Allende has crafted such a magnificent piece of work that I can be content. Clara’s last words in the novel also make up potentially my favorite line to appear on paper: “You have a lot to do, so stop feeling sorry for yourself, drink some water, and start writing.” A perfect mantra for any writer. The actual context in which these words are spoken is heartbreaking and nauseating, but that characterizes so much of the story: as the paragraphs flow, the beautiful and profound mix effortlessly with the ugly and quotidian, as it so often happens in life.

Next up: Tenth of December by George Saunders

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Income Inequality For Older Americans Among Highest in the World – What This Means for Healthcare

Old-age inequality among current retirees in the U.S. is already greater than in ever OECD country except Chile and Mexico, revealed in Preventing Ageing Unequally from the OECD.

Key findings from the report are that:

Inequalities in education, health, employment and income start building up from early ages

At all ages, people in bad health work less and earn less. Over a career, bad health reduces lifetime earnings of low-educated men by 33%, while the loss is only 17% for highly-educated men

Gender inequality in old age, however, is likely to remain substantial: annual pension payments to the over-65s today are about 27% lower for women on average, and old-age poverty is much higher among women than men.

For economists, income inequality is expressed as the Gini coefficient: the greater the value of the Gini coefficient, the higher the inequality in a nation. In the U.S., the Gini coefficient has been rising from one American generation to the next since 1920, shown in the second chart.

Health problems are a big reason contributing to increasing inequality. Americans are unhealthier than health citizens in other countries, particularly people earning lower incomes. “Disabilities, depression and obesity are widespread” in this group of people, the OECD observes. Over 1 in 3 Americans is obese, more than in any other OECD country.

To address this challenge, OECD offers three recommendations:

Prevent inequality before it grows over time, providing good childcare, early childhood education, cover healthcare early in a person’s life, and expanding youth work opportunities

Mitigate inequalities when they arise, through job services to get unemployed people back to work, targeting population health programs, and hiring older workers

Cope with older-age inequalities, like addressing women’s pension adequacy, ensuring affordable quality home care, and providing support for caregivers who perform high-value tasks for little to no economic benefit.

Here is a link to the OECD’s US report on income inequality in aging.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “Health problems and employment disadvantages reinforce each other,” leading to more unhealthy poorer people, OECD warns. Policies can address the challenge of getting and keeping people healthy and in employment as long as possible, which boosts retirement incomes and mitigates poverty risks and “unequal aging.”

At this very moment, for example, the Children’s Health Insurance Program has yet to be re-authorized by the U.S. Congress. This program, founded in a bi-partisan way by Senators Edward Kennedy (Democrat) and Orrin Hatch (Republican), ensures that kids in America get access to health care — the kind of basic healthcare that the OECD asserts helps to prepare a citizenry for education and work, to contribute to society as full members (and taxpayers).

Other public policies can be designed to “bake” health into them, from food and transportation to housing and environmental standards. All of these social determinants influence health from birth.

Digital technologies can also help to support people’s social and health care in aging, and can address disparities and gaps in care. Dr. Joe Kvedar’s new book features innovations on the Internet of Healthy Things for aging and longevity. Remote health monitoring is gaining clinical-economic evidence to support people managing chronic conditions to live and age well at home, not in institutions — bringing down the total cost of care over the life-cycle and also enhance quality of life in one’s beloved surroundings. Intel’s announcement today in partnership with Flex in development of a Health Application Platform addresses this market, especially for remote health monitoring and the HealthIoT [I’ll be posting more on that in tomorrow’s Health Populi].

See Laurie Orlov’s Aging in Place Technology Watch, published, yesterday on the importance of “monitoring the person AND the place.” Here is her last paragraph which nails the design challenge:

“How about monitoring person and the place? While each solution categories by itself may useful, each is incomplete. On the body technologies should link to on-the-server hubs of useful health information for families and providers. In the (patient and care recipient) rooms, add the up-and-about wearables capturing and serving data that can follow the discharged patients into their homes and connect with any sensors placed there. Anomalies of behavior like falling or lack of motion are essential. Printed discharge instructions must be replaced with voice-first technologies that answer a person’s key questions: “Which pills am I supposed to take with food?” “What should I do if my heart starts skipping beats?” “When is the ride pickup for my follow-up appointment?” “Please ask my son to call me – now.” We’re not there yet in terms of what older adults need – and it’s not for lack of technology. And it is a shame.”

Here’s a great infographic published in concert with the Connected Health Conference, Dr. Kvedar’s longtime meet-up addressing digital health, now part of HIMSS and the Personal Connected Health Alliance.

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Income Inequality Among Older Americans Among Highest in the World – What This Means for Healthcare

Old-age inequality among current retirees in the U.S. is already greater than in ever OECD country except Chile and Mexico, revealed in Preventing Ageing Unequally from the OECD.

Key findings from the report are that:

Inequalities in education, health, employment and income start building up from early ages

At all ages, people in bad health work less and earn less. Over a career, bad health reduces lifetime earnings of low-educated men by 33%, while the loss is only 17% for highly-educated men

To address this challenge, OECD offers three recommendations:

Prevent inequality before it grows over time, providing good childcare, early childhood education, cover healthcare early in a person’s life, and expanding youth work opportunities

Mitigate inequalities when they arise, through job services to get unemployed people back to work, targeting population health programs, and hiring older workers

Here is a link to the OECD’s US report on income inequality in aging.

Digital technologies can also help to support people’s social and health care in aging, and can address disparities and gaps in care. Dr. Joe Kvedar’s new book features innovations on the Internet of Healthy Things for aging and longevity. Remote health monitoring is gaining clinical-economic evidence to support people managing chronic conditions to live and age well at home, not in institutions — bringing down the total cost of care over the life-cycle and also enhance quality of life in one’s beloved surroundings. Intel’s announcement today in partnership with Flex in development of the Health Application Platform addresses this market [I’ll be posting more on that in tomorrow’s Health Populi].

See Laurie Orlov’s Aging in Place Technology Watch, published, yesterday on the importance of “monitoring the person AND the place.” Here is her last paragraph which nails the design challenge:

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Income Inequality Among Older Americans Among Highest in the World – What This Means for Healthcare

Old-age inequality among current retirees in the U.S. is already greater than in ever OECD country except Chile and Mexico, revealed in Preventing Ageing Unequally from the OECD.

Key findings from the report are that:

Inequalities in education, health, employment and income start building up from early ages

At all ages, people in bad health work less and earn less. Over a career, bad health reduces lifetime earnings of low-educated men by 33%, while the loss is only 17% for highly-educated men

For economists, income inequality is expressed as the Gini coefficient: the greater the value of the Gini coefficient, the higher the inequaity in a nation. In the U.S., the Gini coefficient has been rising from one American generation to the next since 1920, shown in the second chart.

To address this challenge, OECD offers three recommendations:

Prevent inequality before it grows over time, providing good childcare, early childhood education, cover healthcare early in a person’s life, and expanding youth work opportuitieis

Mitigate inequalities when they arise, through job services to get unemployed people back to work, targeting populatoin health programs, and hiring older workers

Cope with older-age inequalities, like addressing women’s pension adequacy, ensuring affordable quality home care, and provding support for caregivers who perform high-value tasks for little to no economic benefit.

Here is a link to the OECD’s US report on income inequality in aging.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “Health problems and employment disadvantages reinforce each other,” leading to more unhealthy poorer people, OECD warns. Policies can address the challenge of getting and ekeeping people healthy and in employment as long as possible, which boosts reitremetn incomes and mitigates poverty risks and “unequal aging.”

At this very moment, for example, the Children’s Health Insurance Program has yet to be re-authorized by the U.S. Congress. This program, founded in a bi-partisan way by Senators Edward Kennedy (Democrat) and Orrin Hatch (Republican), ensures that kids in America get access to health crea — the kind of basic healthcare that hte OECD asserts helps to prepare a citizenry for education and work, to contribute to society as full members (and taxpayers).

Digital technologies can also help to support people’s social and health care in aging, and can address disparities and gaps in care. Dr. Joe Kvedar’s new book features innovations on the the Internet of Healthy Things for aging and longevity. Remote health monitoring is gaining clinical-economic evidence to support people managing chronic conditions to live and age well at home, not in institutions — bringing down the total cost of care over the life-cycle and also enhance quality of life in one’s beloved surroundings. Intel’s announcement today in partnership with Flex in development of the Health Application Platform addresses this market [I’ll be posting more on that in tomorrow’s Health Populi].

See Laurie Orlov’s Aging in Place Technology Watch, published, yesterday on the importance of “monitoring the person AND the place.” Here is her last paragraph which nails the design challenge:

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