#unique life experience

[blog-avisionfantastic]

Unique Life Experiences

This is the second in our series of blogs where we look at how we go about “Learning About The Whole Person”.

When producing Video Biographies what is most important to us is to allow the viewers to get to know the whole person, the essence of who they are, and of course, the life they have led.

With their kind permission, one of our clients has allowed us to share several excerpts from the "Unique Life Experiences" chapter of the Video Biography that we produced for her and her family.

[gobstoppr]

Tetris Fanart.

I've been playing tetris while listening to horror podcasts. and yeah

[urfavcrime]

dsmp is still SO insane to me. still not completely convinced it wasn't a social experiment. it is something that can never be replicated again due to the really specific circumstances that attributed to it's creation and popularity

[otrtbs]

crazy thing abt mothers that’s not unique to my mother but guts me every time is the whole “oh, i’m so sorry you have my [insert trait she hates about herself here] :( :( :(” ,,,,,and then something in you crumbles bc wdym when you say we have the same smile and then you turn around and say you hate your smile in the same breath??? and then also wonder why your. daughter. who used to show all her teeth in every photo never does anymore ????

[ed-recoverry]

Shoutout to people with trauma that is uncommon.

Shoutout to people with trauma that little people have experienced.

Shoutout to people who have had trauma from multiple sources, making their experience unique.

Shoutout to people with trauma who struggle to find anyone who went through what they went through.

[jackdaniel69nice]

the fact that tokoyami could be considered one of the more important members of 1-A and we still got JACK SHIT about his backstory is so wild to me

like you have this whole idea of him cherishing the relationships he has so deeply to the point of an emotional breakdown whenever someone he cares about gets hurt and you DONT TELL US WHY???

like this boy is so incredibly hard on himself despite improving faster than the majority of his peers and WE DONT KNOW WHY???

my delusional ass was WAITING. for THREE YEARS. and we got nothing. the disappointment i felt was just immeasurable.

My god you are so right. It IS really disappointing. I honestly had no expectations for tokoyami backstory because I had always thought of him as a background character when I got into mha in 2017-2019. The story was still new then but when I returned last year there was so much more tokoyami had become. He plays an absolutely vital role but is treated as a supporting character. We knew him long before hawks but he was obviously pushed aside in favor of the winged hero. There is so much subtle writing about tokoyami especially him potentially having hurt or even killed people in the past. Dark Shadow is such an interesting quirk and character but they are never truly addressed for their insane power.

I would like to think tokoyami would have gotten his own character arc eventually if the ending hadn’t been so rushed for whatever reason. It would have probably been a very large undertaking and I can see how it wouldn’t have been able to fit into the tight schedule. He’s not even mentioned in the epilogue, only seen, despite clearly being one of the strongest characters and would at least be top 10.

I’m so sorry anon that your dreams were crushed. I hope my silly headcanons and stories bring you some closure, I do try to stay as close to canon as possible. Although I am aware my personal experiences and feelings certainly influence my ideas without me realizing. Perhaps you could drop in my dms at some point so we can share thoughts :)

[windsweptinred]

Have you ever stopped and given real thought as to why you like a character? I mean really thought about it. Beyond, they're my precious baby girl, I wish to die melted into a puddle of goo at their gorgeous feet. (Both valid points mind.) But do it, pick a most beloved blorbo and really think why something about them calls to you so much. You with all your own unique life experiences and perseptions. Why them?

There's some profound self realisation waiting right there.

[jojo-schmo]

I made myself a personal playlist with the fnaf songs I like (because wow I’ve missed out on like five years of bangers and need to catch up!!). I thought I would make myself a playlist cover with my precious Helpy bear to inspire even more joy from it!! He stole/borrowed DJ Music Man’s headphones. :3

[kodyzzz]

while society emphasises success and competitiveness, our reality often involves a significant absence of drive and motivation. it’s hard to explain to others why we don't care about climbing the ladder when they’re racing to the top. it’s even harder to explain to ourselves, I think

I still distinctly remember my German teacher starting a whole ass rant when I told her I had no dreams or goals in life lol

i think I talked about this previously, it’s not that we don’t understand the importance of those achievements; more so that the internal drive to pursue them is missing. there's a lot of pressure put on us, since our society is fixated on success and competitiveness, and I think it should be mentioned that underachievement ≠ inadequacy

I read that the best thing to do is setting those personal goals for yourself and ticking them off when accomplished to get that sense of purpose. but honestly, has that worked out for anyone?

I heard that working with a good therapist who understands szpd can be helpful. I heard that support groups are apparently a thing, too

but I think the best thing is to work towards acceptance. no drugs can fix us, no amount of therapy will either so, at some point, we'll have to learn to live with who we are. being different doesn't mean we're worse, or our lives lesser. but we first have to accept that we aren't like other people, and I don't think we should hold ourselves up to the same standards if we don't want to, either

[insomniaticvoids]

Taps the sign just because someone is aromantic or asexual doesn't mean they don't enjoy sex or doing things deemed romantic. I just means the attraction they experience is little to none depending on the person.

Many people still have preferences and many also just don't like people in that way entirely. There is no lived experience that fits all. But it's important to understand that a person can be aro or ace or aroace and be gay they can be bi even without experiencing one form or the other or even both. Cause guess what there isn't only one form of.love and attraction isn't the only indicator of decision making shocking.

It's like eating a piece of cake you don't need that cake but it sounds nice so you have it. You have a preference but don't love cake but you may uave some on occasion. That's how I would describe loosely my relation with people I don't have that attraction but it's nice and the actions done are chill. I just wouldn't obsess or go out of my way to seek that cake it's just cake. I'm not going to go head over heels for it. This does apply both in the case of romantic and/or sexual relationships mind you.

[shr0mwzrd]

I'm convinced by the way y'all are acting about it that these alleged AFAB transfems don't exist outside your brains - like all y'all are just vaguing and pearl clutching without mentioning or linking to a single instance of this alleged atrocity. Even if they did exist, just block them and be normal for fucks sake. I'm so fucking tired of seeing these same bullshit takes over and over, especially from nominally leftist queers...do better

[samarecharm]

i love makoto so much but fanon does her so much better (the good parts of the fandom) because in the game her character is so lack luster. they butchered her confidant it is so borning and not even about her. they made her a cop. A COP. they pushed this "canon waifu" role onto her (before sumire came along and did it Even Worse). and it SUCKS because SHE IS SO MUCH MORE!!! SHE IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!! SHE COULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER!!! the way i feel about canon makoto is the same way i feel about the canon ryuji events post komoshida where he's horribly mistreated and used purely as comic relief: i ignore them <3 my game now <3 never happened <3 my ocs <3

You are so right. I generally apply this to all characters in p5 bc the game does such a shit job of staying consistent with character arcs and personalities. Theres a desperate need to throw in perverse jokes at the expense of female characters and a need to show that the police (as a whole) are reliable people who are not influenced by things like money and power; only the BAD cops do that. Not to mention this obvious fatphobia and homophobia but i feel likes thats a given.

But back to Makoto. Shes a victim of bad writing just like everyone else. Ryuji during the kamoshida arc was fighting with self loathing and genuine anxiety, and aside from the like. One comment on Panthers outfit in the metaverse, hes more than well behaved. All of that is shelved as soon as Kamoshida is gone and replaced with him being weird comic relief (and the focus of alot of sexual jokes that were nonexistent in the beginning of the game). Anns arc about self love and empowerment is completely dropped as soon as the nasty bad guy is put away (so that its good to be weird about her w the Good Guys). Makoto loses her a chunk of her personality to be the mature waifu which is INSANE to me bc shes like. Not okay or normal at all 😭😭😭 she THINKS shes responsible and so does everyone else on her team, but its an act! She doesnt know shit! And she doesnt know that she doesnt know shit bc shes respectful and adults dont care about anything as long as u respect them!

Its very telling that for literally every single thief (and goro), you can see the exact moment the writers gave up on adding anything of worth to their characters outside of the social links. Its like they didnt know what to even do w the characters at their disposal after their main arcs were complete. No mention of friends hanging out without you, no mention of having group hangouts. Everyone is treated as a core, important member of the friend group DURING their arc, but outside of it, they are acquaintances at best. Theres nothing in the game that convinces you that these guys are legitimately friends who care for each other and do Friend Things. And i describe it like that bc there IS a game that treats them all as friends, and its strikers! Strikers/Scramble genuinely feels like the game p5 wanted to be; a road trip w your team where they stay up at night talking to each other and hanging out and doing things together that dont necessarily include you, the player. Its refreshing and lovely but it sucks that u get that kind of attention to detail in a ‘spinoff’ title

[wayti-blog]

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

Osho

[astrolavas]

it's sound weird, but i have headcanon that Hunter didn't go hexside, because he too old to shool(according to my feelings, at the end of the he is 16-17 y.o (except for the post-credits scene), and at that age it is already too late to go to school):p

i mean, well- in my opinion he rather certainly did go to hexside, since one of the things he'd said during his TTT monologue was "i'd like to attend hexside like a normal student and play flyer derby with my friends" and all of his "wishes" were supposed to sort of foreshadow his goals and his future (carving palismen, studying wild magic, etc etc) so i feel like it's safe to say he succeeded in becoming a hexside student as well. we also know he attended grom with the rest of his friend group, and like- since he's 16 before the timeskip (no canon certainty whether he's recently turned 16 or is going on 17 already though, but like... around 16 canonically) that means he'd get at least 1 year of school, but most likely 2+.

my personal headcanon is that he went to hexside for around 2 years (full or not quite, depending on when the school year starts in the boiling isles and how long it lasts; possibly even 3), and during that time he picked up a mentorship/apprenticeship at del's palisman carving shop, and after he graduated from hexside he started carving palismen professionally with the clawthornes (i like to think that he also takes some courses at eda's wild magic university in his spare time, simply cuz . funny uni hexsquad shenanigans)

[lesbiancolumbo]

when you crack open a new novel and like ten pages in you can just smell the "i'm a life-long new yorker and graduated from iowa writers workshop!" in the author's bio

[londonfoginacup]

Hello! I really love your fics, thank you so much for blessing us with all that goodness!! I was wondering, why did you choose londonderrytea/ladylondonderry as your pseuds? Sorry, I'm very curious!!

Ahahahhaha hiiiii anon hello!!

The answer is actually going to be VERY DISAPPOINTING I THINK!! And you look at me with this face: 😒 and point and whisper things like “nerd!” and “dork!”

But alright—

In creating an Internet persona, this was 2014ish and I had created “Londonfoginacup” on a whim when I had meant this to be an aesthetic blog (“what’s an aesthetic handle? Well the city of London, gifs of rolling fog, and gifs of steam coming out of a cup, it’s perfect”)

But I had been looking for a name that suited me more— Londonfoginacup doesn’t evoke a NAME so much as it does maybe an odd BOOK TITLE.

Coincidentally this was a time when I was desperate to become more British because one direction is British, and so I had been frequenting tea stores. I also had been WAY over steeping my English breakfast because I didn’t realise you needed to take the tea bag out, and so was accustoming myself to a particularly bitter taste, but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that I stumbled on a tea called Lady Londonderry tea.

It has STRAWBERRY IN IT, ANON.

It’s a lovely tea. No one near me sells it anymore.

ANYWAY this coincided with my becoming familiar with Derry, Londonderry, because Radio’s Big Weekend was held there in 2013. So the name stuck in my mind because it had TWO connections to me now! Plus, it sounds like a name, since it starts with Lady.

As a side note I did google it at the time and found that there was an Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart who was the Marchioness of Londonderry, and an influential society member between WWI and WWII, and I quite liked the look of her. So I decided that yes, I shall simply impersonate her. Seriously you should read her wiki she’s rather neat.

SO, it is because of those three facts that I thought, yes! This is who I shall be from now on!

…and then I found out that I could not change my tumblr url because someone YEARS AGO STOLE IT 🙂‍↕️ which is what led to me instead calling my main londonderrytea. Close enough. ah well. Someday… perhaps…

Anyway if you can get your hands on some lady Londonderry tea it’s quite delicious