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doctorsiren · 5 months ago

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Consider: I repackage another ace attorney au (split phoenix au) into mp100 for the sillies

#doctorsiren #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #shigeo kageyama #mp100 fanart #mp100 au #split reigen au #digital art #my art #procreate #see split mob would be verrrry easy to do and I will do it once squib and lily finish the show #but split reigen is also very easy bc bro literally said that thing about how everyone has another side to themselves #so here we have Arataka. the one who is lonely and depressed and smokes #and then we have Reigen. the one who is confident and a businessman and charismatic.#he always tries to portray himself as Reigen 😭#he has a sucker in the third drawing bc he’s still not allowed to smoke in the office #also I think Arataka would say the manga thing:#‘I was never particularly proficient in anything and I wasn’t curious about anything’#and Reigen would say the anime thing:#‘I did everything efficiently and I was filled with curiosity about everything’#and so Reigen is who he wants to truly be but he has to come to terms and work on solving the problems of Arataka hello I am insane #I love pulling characters apart into two silly little versions and making them face each other externally :3 #aw man Reigen got all the ADHD while Arataka was left with the depression 😭/silly

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toskarin · 1 month ago

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miss Toskarin you’re not convincing me that Skyrim was the ruin of all western rpgs. In fact you’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

#I liked oblivion well enough but it's got a lot of Very Serious problems that were never solved and instead festered forward into genre norm #although technically if you want to get more specific here #the problems that I complain most often about now actually started under the surface of morrowind's development #and intensified with the reception to tribunal #and then caught on fire with the lessons learned from bloodmoon (which is proto-oblivion in a lot of ways)#as with so many things the damage was more in the wrong lessons being learned from games with scrappy development cycles #and how those became incredibly toxic when applied as the standard for development rather than a freak accident of planning #consider how oblivion passively fucking up your character was a solution to people trying to play off-build in morrowind #and how skyrim being incredibly easy was a solution to oblivion's level-rotting #and how both of these solutions are solving a symptom by removing friction without replacing it #which is further incentivised because the game now has fewer features that would turn off someone who would otherwise not play an rpg

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rileys-battlecats · 2 months ago

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girl help I started writing down oc thoughts and have started contemplating the logistics of how a city carved into the walls of a ravine would have access to fresh water

#rye.txt #MaVst #'you should do some worldbuilding' I said to myself #'it'll be easy' i said #'just write down the little thoughts you've had floating around'#I AM A FOOL #there are so many bullet points in this fuckign document #and they're all devoted to the minutiae of how the city I have in my mind would function #how the very terrain would influence the culture #couldn't just do a normal city on flat terrain noooo I had to include homes carved into rock #anyway im pretending im upset but this is so much fun #I loveee getting to think about how tiny details all affect each other and influence the greater whole #it's like problem solving but I get to make the solutions as fun and fantastical as I want #if my ocs are my silly little dolls to play pretend with #then the worldbuilding is like getting to build the doll house #which is just as fun imo #anyway im gonna give the capital city an abandoned under-city that's no longer habitable now that the original royal family is #no longer in power #it used to be lit with the light magic of the ruler that was amplified by the crown #but now it's almost impossible to navigate and so big that your torch is liable to burn out before you can explore much at all #and without a light source it's completely pitch black darkness #<- see stuff like this is so fun to think about and I can just slap it onto my world because it's cool

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cosmermaid · 2 months ago

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PSA for educators-

You will not be able to teach your students the faults of AI just by repeating talking points about how it's bad.

You are going to have to USE AI in order to understand where the faults are. Yes, that means spending time playing with ChatGPT and Character.AI or whatever other AI happens to be in vogue with the kids. AI is a learning algorithm, which means it is constantly shifting its behavior. Some of its flaws get patched only for new issues to arise. However, once you get to know the machine, it becomes easier and easier to trip it up.

People are more likely to believe AI is faulty and can't be used as a research source after they see it fail repeatedly. And in order to make it fail in front of others, you will have to know how to use it and tease it.

Don't worry about environmental impact. There's a lot of nonsense claims about AI using five gallons of water per prompt or other scary sounding numbers which is just not true. Most AIs can be run on the processing power of an average gaming PC, there's already hobbyists who have open source AIs installed directly on their machines and get it to work with their usual processing power.

Educating people is far more important than using a little electricity to gain some knowledge.

#psa #anti-ai #I was fascinated with character.ai when it first came out because it was something I wanted when I was a teen but the tech didn't exist #I programmed some characters and bullied that machine into submission for months #It was fun too #and now I can quickly get ChatGPT to shit itself in front of my coworkers who think it's smart enough to solve their problems #I also have a VERY easy time clocking AI written emails #Sometimes just knowing something is all it takes to see the bullshit #so make yourself familiar

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stainedglassthreads · 11 months ago

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So Dungeons and Daddies Season 2 is really just taking the average coming-of-age story and making it to every horrifying extreme, huh.

It is that moment in which you realize your parents don't know what they're doing any better than you do, and people present it like it's something comforting, but it's just even more terrifying because there really, really is no right answer. It's realizing that no, love isn't enough, sometimes you love your family and it just made everything worse. Everyone who came before you fucked things up even when they were trying to make things better, and unfucking everything just seems impossible, but not even trying is such a depressing option, and one your kids will never be able to forgive you for.

I have many feelings on this.

#i want to make a joke about how this is just like me. an adult #being made to solve extremely easy problems that other adults shouldn't have any issue with #but which feel insurmountable on an equal level with what these poor kids are going through #but it feels like it's kinda about that too #there's how scary acts with her 'no one will ever ever ever understand what i'm going through' thing #and then. well. hyperbole is a very ancient art indeed #anyways i just got to the point where these kids had some very good reasons to team up with willie fucking stampler of all people #even when they KNEW he sucked #and it all just smacked in the face like a dead fish #god i wish i could make stories as complicated and fucked at this #but i keep dithering between grimdark and happy ending #anyways. uh #dndads #dungeons and daddies #it's a great podcast. go watch it #if you liked eeaao ESPECIALLY watch it

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not-poignant · 10 months ago

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hiiii! have you considered releasing tradewinds as a single purchase through a site like gumroad?

Hi anon!

So the reason Tradewinds was shelved and not published like 8 years ago, is because I couldn't find an Aboriginal sensitivity reader willing to read m/m with disturbing themes. I had sensitivity readers for the other side of things (like Matan and his heritage), but I kept either not finding anyone, or the one person I found took my $200 USD deposit and vanished and never spoke to me / responded to any of my emails.

As a result, I was uncomfortable distributing it anywhere broadly, even though I was relatively confident the novel isn't offensive, because I just don't know 100%.

I am a lot more confident releasing it via subscription as an exclusive novel, because the people who pay for subscription are often folks who are a) already used to my style of writing and b) generally know what to expect from me, vs. cold audiences who don't. I'm kind of kicking myself that I didn't realise that Tradewinds would make a great exclusive/paywalled release for subscription, because it means it's only ever going to find a very narrow bandwidth of readers.

Basically if I could release it for single purchase - as basically an ebook - I would have released it like 8 years ago, anon. And the reason I have actually released it this specific way is down to the fact that I'm just not really confident offering it for broader distribution.

That might change one day, if I happen to stumble across a sensitivity reader who is okay with my style of writing, who is reputable + has references (i.e. so I know I won't lose a fair chunk of money in the process, because that burned me pretty badly, not gonna lie). But until then, having Tradewinds be limited is the only way I'm comfortable releasing it at all.

Folks are more than welcome to sign up for one month, download the book (and read any other early access they want) and then leave. They can even just put 'I only wanted one thing and now I have it' in the exit survey so I know what they were there for if they want. Then it's still a single purchase (with some early access extras), and they still access the downloadable file. :)

#asks and answers #tradewinds #merchantverse #tradewinds was shelved not because i think it's a bad book #but because i wasn't comfortable going to broad distribution without a very specific kind of sensitivity reader #it was actually meant to be the series i started publishing with #long before perth shifters existed #and then i realised that through writing a highly diverse cast #i might have actually really hurt the future of the series #and had to shelve the whole thing and all the worldbuilding #i really don't regret tradewinds at all #i like the book and i love the characters #but yeah it was complicated #what i thought would be an 'easy' problem to solve was really difficult in part because #'sensitivity readers' is a very USA concept and certainly was back then #and a lot of the folks i enquired with who did offer sensitivity reading on Aboriginal Australian matters #didn't read m/m or didn't want to read anything problematic / with any disturbing themes #which i can understand #but literally reduced my pool to '0 plus that one person who took $200 USD from me at a time when i had to skip medical appts because of it #i'm sure it would be better now #but i'm also happy to offer a novel to folks who sign up to the patreon / ream account #since that is my main and primary income

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fluffypotatey · 5 months ago

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YOU'RE RIGHT WHAT IF THIS IS A TWISTED IRONY OF GETTING WHAT YOU WANT. MACAQUE HAS THE POWER TO KILL WUKONG OR MK FOR REAL THIS TIME??? but he doesn't want to. what if he's forced again. what if this power has the potential to destroy him to be removed/stopped from affecting others?

….so about Wukong’s death flags— *gunshots*

#‘Fluffy they’re not going to kill swk’ BUT THEY DID TRY TO #AND RHEY KNOW THEY CANT #NOT AT THE VERY BEGINNING #this is Sun Wukong the Monkey King we’re talking about. he can’t just die willy-nilly! no no no!#but he is in the mentor role #and he is also a character who knows too much #something no character wishes to be bc that means you’re a problem to the plot #now how does one solve this? well the easy answer is killing them off. but as said before: this is Sun Wukong #so they incapacitate him —> he is conveniently not in town. he is stuck in power draining webs. he used up all his power to break a seal #etc etc so on and so forth #and then you have SWK talking about how long he’s lived and they show his exhaustion and his wistfulness for the past and such #and then we have the story edging closer to the underworld #and then we are in the underworld and they can’t touch him bc he crossed off his name.#and then we have Macky an old friend of swk turned enemy turned semi-ally for MK’s sake #he starts off the show wanting to use SWK’s power to kill SWK #he fails obvi but still #then we learn that he made a deal with LBD that she’ll free him and yada yada such as life and power if he frees her (which he doesn’t)#but still #two times we see Macky’s crave power and seek revenge on SWK (lbd uses his anger at swk as motivation with the deal)#THEN WE HAVE S5 ANS FHE WEIRD WAY MACKY’S MAGIC REACTS TO NINE HEADS AND THEN WE END WITH MACKY ACQUIRING IT???#what is the magic? idk some chaos magic that Nine Heads uses that mess with reality and such #So #interesting layout we have here 👀#lmk #asks #lmk s5 #lmk season 5 #lmk s5 spoilers #lmk season 5 spoilers #lmk spoilers

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joelletwo · 6 months ago

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now it is incredibly late to be saying this but god the month-long hiring process has sucked kjsdf turns out thats the perfect amount of time for the excitement-anxiety to wear off and then the hopeful responsible problem-solving forward-thinking optimism to wear off and then the "fuck it" dissociation to wear off and whatever other defensive layers i had up between me and "huh maybe itd be easier if i died than to get a new job to do badly at" to wear off lol whoops. please. please. please. its literally gonna be fine once i actually get started and get in the swing of it. i JUST have to survive a few more miserable days <- NOT IN DANGER. just fucking miserable

#ILL WANT TO BE ALIVE IN LIKE A MONTH KSJHFG i promise i promise i promise.#bwahhhhh. compounding factors: i still have very few details about important things. see which of those i can solve on monday.#and. i will have one coworker lol. and ill be with her fulltime while im Getting Oriented. just me and her in a small office for #eight hour shifts. thats so much time i can make someone hate me right out the gate. thats also a temporary problem kjsfg #please. god. the actual work of this job is fucking easy street im looking forward to that so much. please dont let me fail at the #starting hurdle just due to the autism and the depression.#and please dont let me fuck up in front of nice older country southern ladies.

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aroaessidhe · 1 year ago

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2023 reads / storygraph

The Absinthe Underground

YA La Belle Époque inspired gaslamp fantasy adventure

follows two girls steal posters to pay their rent, when they’re caught stealing one by the subject of the art: a woman who owns an exclusive underground club, who hires them to do a quest into Fae to steal some jewels that would free her

sapphic

#The Absinthe Underground #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #I was super hyped for this book bc cover is beautiful and it promised lots of things i love but......execution does not live up to concept #For one the cover (plus the ‘romantasy’ pitch) reads as NA/Adult to me - but this is definitely on the younger end of YA.#The writing is very simple with a lot of telling not showing and I think the marketing does it a disservice. more of a quest than a heist #It is definitely fast paced and easy to read and it’s sweet and fun!#It just has no real stakes or depth and I really think it had the potential for that.#arc formatting was a bit shit also. it's out now though #also just as an aside i saw the author on tiktok talking about how writing f/f in 3rd person hard because they both have she pronouns #so she split it into 2 POVs……..both povs are still in 3rd person??????#what are you talking about that doesn’t solve the problem (and also is it really that big of a problem.)

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youngpettyqueen · 8 months ago

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I love this argument that Julian and Garak are having about Earth vs Cardassia political styles and I especially love that Garak is like. shocked at how impassioned he is about this topic

#star trek: ds9 #a stitch in time #julian bashir #elim garak #this is JUICY #this is fascinating #fascinating fascinating fascinating #like. yes of course Julian is all for Earth democracy and he wants Cardassia to follow in that #but more importantly he wants GARAK to follow in that #he keeps trying to convince Garak to come to Earth!! and this is established as being a recurring thing #and I love that Garak is VERY resistant to this #obviously the way this is presented is clouded by Garak's own annoyance but this does track with Julian as a character #where he thinks he has the solution and he's confident about it but he doesnt have all the context #so of course he thinks democracy would solve Cardassia's political problems #and sure yes Cardassia at this point does very much need a change in its political systems #but the way Julian explains it- as written in this section- comes across as incredibly condescending #and I LOOOOOVE that Garak is pissed about it!!#because while I think Garak sees that things on Cardassia need to change- what would Julian know about it?#what would Julian TRULY know?#so hearing him confidently explain that the answer is Earth and Federation-style democracy #like it's just that easy #no wonder he gets pissed!#because he cares! he cares about Cardassia and his people so much it hurts!#and being reminded of this takes him by surprise!#especially that he's mad at Julian of all people #I love this insight into how he views him and Julian as having drifted apart #I did not read it like that in the show itself #god I cant wait to rewatch with this in mind

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wren-kitchens · 2 months ago

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yk when you can feel yourself starting to stop caring about stuff you love and you are White Knuckling through it because no I Will still love this so fucking help me

#could be a vent but really i’m just kinda vibing #oh also turns out I do Not have adhd #which is kinda good and kinda bad #kinda good because like. well at least we've checked off one of the 'well what if it's this' list #kinda bad because it means that my problems will probably have to be solved individually which. mmm I cbaa #i’m gonna cause like what else am i gonna do #but like man I just wish I had One Big Problem that was causing all these stupid little problems #and if adhd was that One Big Problem then I could just have medication and stuff and I could get better #but nope HFKDH I gotta sort through each stupid little problem individually #i’m also kinda stumped cause I don't think it's depression and I now know it's not adhd so like. well now what #it'd better not fucking be autism or stress or burnout or whatever #I want an easily medicated problem thank you very much #we (family) think that I should probably try antidepressants #specifically because both my dad and his mum and my mum are all on antidepressants #my dad and me have like. fundamentally identical symptoms #and apparently antidepressants really help with those symptoms #so yk i’m holding onto that hope lmao #I will now tag this as vent maybe cause I am yapping #i’m not upset though so like. idk ill tag it just in case #but i’m more annoyed than anything else LHFKD #like mannn #why can’t mental health be easy for like. one time #cmon #wren wrambles #vent #rant #it's both tbh

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ereborne · 7 months ago

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Song of the Day: May 10

"The Ghosts of Beverly Drive” by Death Cab for Cutie

#song of the day #lovely rain today and exactly the right amount of cool and windy to get the smell of it in my room #spent my morning performing excel magic tricks for a /very/ appreciative audience I must say #one of my coworkers is very much in demand for help with identifying poorly-labeled fields in our oldest query structures #she's been around for a million billion years and can glance at a column and effortlessly expand its useless acronym title #I tapped her for a question and she was answering me on what I did not realize was an open zoom call in the conference room by her office #and then when she finished answering me she asked me for help with an excel formula in exchange #and I helped her (an easy fix. she is /not/ good at logic structures. always goes for OR when she needs AND and vice versa)#and then I was teasing her and said how she didn't have to hold onto her questions until she had something to barter with #that I like fixing things and I'll help for free #and then her laptop was physically wrenched around by another coworker farther down the table #(not as disorienting as actually being grabbed by the head and bodily turned but even over zoom it was still an Experience)#and the accosting coworker asked if that went for everybody. could anyone ask me for excel formula fixing help. please /please/#and I was like yes? can't guarantee I can do anything but sure? how much help could you need?#y'all I gotta say. like battling an enthusiastic and especially unthreatening hydra. chibi excel hydra.#it was incredibly satisfying after so many days of intense frustration to have problems I could so easily solve and for such grateful folks #and some of their formulas were pretty fun to set up. always love the little glimpses of behind-the-scenes in special exceptions #any time you put in conditional formatting for if a single specific person's ID is in the 'comment entered by' cell #there's a story there #anyway I heard so many people say 'I don't know why' this morning and then it was such a perfect cool gray day #I've been humming Ghosts of Beverly Drive all evening #'I don't know why I don't know why / I return to the scenes of these crimes #where the hedgerows slowly wind / through the ghosts of Beverly Drive'

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lesbianlenas · 1 year ago

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applying for an apartment was. tbh. the worst experience of my life….if i don’t get accepted for this apartment i will kms so aggressively the whole world will explode just from my forceful energy alone…..

#michelle speaks #mostly it was bad bc of my dad lmfao but i also it has been the thing i have been having my anxiety nervous breakdowns over for months #and when that happens i cope by avoiding so i end up in a cycle where it’s like avoid the problem to not stress -> stress bc problem isn’t #solved -> avoid problem to reduce stress etc etc. so having to deal w the thing that was making me stressed is not easy for me 😩#like i physically could not get myself to finish the application yesterday bc i was so distressed lmfao. i did today tho just fine #if i am just able to get this apartment i will have one month of my life where i don’t have anything to stress abt at all.#wouldn’t that be beautiful for me ❤️ that hasn’t happened since like 2013 lmfao.#anyway i had to pay almost SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS just to apply. LMFAO. LIKE? are you INSANE??????#that should quite honestly be illegal. how can you make someone pay that much money when u might not even give them the apartment?#like that is CRAZY. i hate living in this world so much……i did NOT let my dad see that bc he would have EXPLODED lmfaooooo #so yeah landlords are evil but i have to go to law school so. LIFE!#at the VERY least that money should come out of ur first month of rent if u get a lease. like? just crazy fr……

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ban-joey · 1 year ago

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sending laser beams to my professor with my mind. kenneth you said midterm grades would b up by this afternoon. it is officially TONIGHT and guess what? kenneth i would love to not be clenching my teeth in my sleep tonight. kenneth i will be sending you a bill in the mail. yes i know its probably a TAs responsibility but i blame you personally. i hate school

#i dont im having a lot of fun (genuinely) but it is often pretty stressful #did find out there are a few folks adjacent to my program doing zoonoses & climate change research so im very excited to chat w them next w #possibly directing my thesis towards one health. social epi gradually becoming less interesting #plus i think my strengths do lie in applying epi to biological concepts so. one health works there #my brain continually trying to get back to lyme disease :( sometimes i really do miss the east coast tbh!#not lying actually i think the number one thing i miss is the amt of vector borne disease research LMFAO #i do unfortunately kind of have a crush on a classmate so that's fine but whatever. grad school. men are nice to me and i lose my mind ig #need to go make out w a hot trans person i think that would solve my problems rn #but also it's nice to be so excited about someone deciding to sit next to me in every class :)#like wow how isolated have i been the last 3 years to be so delighted by like. active signs i have Officially Made Friends.#even if he does live like a block away from my dad and jokes every goddamn day like 'so i saw your dad yesterday' no you DIDNT shut UP #idk yesterday he sat right next to me in a class he usually sits w other people in and it sort of sent my brain off the edge and now im jus #yeah. sitting with this one. it's fine like it's normal. but wowie i do think it's my first time having a Big Ol Crush since (redacted)#a little scary for my animal brain i think but it's okay!#im 25 in like 3 ish weeks and i still get embarrassed about this stuff somehow? stupid.#he's just really nice and always really fun to talk to! i think i had to officially Sit With Myself today bc epi is doing a holiday party #and there's a baking contest and we were talking abt it in class and i was indecisive abt whether i want to participate #and he like fully cut me off and was like oh you should bake something so i can have some :)#and. well fuck now i have to lmao. IM SO EASY IT'S SO EMBARRASSING #good evening everyone. guess this is my journal now. anyway ken rice you owe me twenty dollars and i aim to COLLECT

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victory-cookies · 9 months ago

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in a shocking turn of events, not only did my uncle actually follow through and both give me his ds games and his 3DSXL he. he also gave me his switch

#I told him that was not necessary and that my family already has a switch and he was like ‘too bad it’s in the bag it’s yours now!’#which like. jfc.#don’t get me wrong. I was planning on getting my own switch when I move out bc I don’t think my dad will let me take the family one #so that solves that problem for me #but also like good lord. that thing is still worth a decent chunk of change #like a beat up ds and a few games? Like $100 on marketplace (and that is still very kind!)#but a switch? That thing could still go for like three hundred easy!#but he was adamant that it was mine #so. that’s cool

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reverie-starlight · 1 year ago

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guys I’m so relieved, I got amazing news today related to school I feel like I can finally breathe omfg

#reverie rambles #I mean there’s another problem I have to solve bc nothing is ever easy it seems #but I’m so relieved that my main stressor is resolvable #and very much doable for me #I still have a chance !!!!!!

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