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[civissleepy]

My favorite online spaces <3

sometimes we just need a comfy youtube channel or a cute website!

my top three youtube channels:

dobochobo : literally one of the most comforting online spaces ever! not only are the vids soo cute, but the community is so kind as well <3

linh truong : i watch their vids whenever i need to be productive, and it works 100% of the time. 10/10, will always recommend

allisonpaiges : currently on hiatus but an absolute all-time favorite youtuber! i rewatch for book recs all the time, and the most comforting energy.

two of my favorite websites:

Word for Thought : soo cute, gets updated very frequently, and has links to a lot of other resources that i like to go back to!

A Soft Murmur : so much fun, and a great way to stop procrastinating, bc who doesn't want to study to their own sound mixes? makes it easy to be creative without being overwhelming!

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BANTER.JPG ★ LN4

pairing: lando norris x reader (she/they)

summary: Lando creates his jpg account because of you, and as two highly competitive people, banter about who has the best .jpg account follows along.

or this request

notes: i loved the faceclaim because i already followed their content, follow @/withlovelinh on instagram and youtube, their content is amazing <3

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lando.jpg First day with a camera. yourname.jpg is the real trendsetter, thank you baby <3

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yourname.jpg Hey lando.jpg here’s a selfie and some awesome pics as a warm welcome xx

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lando.jpg Hi yourname.jpg here’s a BETTER selfie and Singapore

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yourname.jpg Oh? Here’s this ADORABLE cat pic and a STUNNING tree

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lando.jpg That’s manipulation AKA cheating. Have a drink and admire my skills <3

REEL • yourname.jpg

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yourname.jpg Skill? What about cinematography? I can do it all

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lando.jpg Not the best at that, but I know how to drive fast cars.

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yourname.jpg Driving fast cars won’t do anything against him! Give up, love.

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lando.jpg While I’m alive and sharing my life with you, I won’t ever give up… But I ESPECIALLY won’t give up with these INSANE photographic skills.

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yourname.jpg Talking much, no?

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lando.jpg You win

lando.jpg I give up

yourname.jpg that’s what i thought

lando.jpg baby answer my calls

lando.jpg Jesus christ

daniel3.jpg you good mate? 🤨

lando.jpg NO DANIEL NO

daniel3.jpg damn okay

[carlottampw]

Video inspiration

In doing research my main inspirations for my video were Linh Truong and the Vogue 73 question videos. I like the style of Vogue’s videos as they use pre-planned prompt questions to allow the viewer to understand more of the professional and personal life of the interviewee; my plan is to incorporate this style of interview for my video. This will allow me to express all the information I want in a format that feels professional but relaxed, which is how I want to present myself to employers. Linh Truong (withlovelinh) has for a long time been an editing inspiration to me, her use of colour, animation and typography make the videos of her ordinary life fun and enchanting.  My goal is to incorporate editing style with the format of the vogue interviews in order to express my personality through every aspect of the video, including editing. I’d like to challenge myself by including new editing techniques I have never tried before.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDivkE8Ckgk14fu1XChEp7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=544DTGHIBM0

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✨Favorite AAPI Creators✨

Linh Truong is an AAPI Advocate and youtuber that I have followed for a number of years, love how she uses her platforms to promote different issues of the world with spreading the message and stories of her own experiences. In the descriptions of all her videos are different resources and information on so many issues its been an amazing source for me personally. As an artist she has a great "it's okay to not be okay" poster but my favorite is this bag below its perfect for laundry and farmers market because its giant!

YouTube - Linh Truong

Tiktok - linht_roller

Twitch - linhtroller

Instagram - withlovelinh

Alyssa D. Silos has made some of the most adorable self defense products that I have ever seen. Currently the site tinyprotectors.com is where she provides her, Emergency alarms, Keychains, Stun Gun, etc. On her self named twitter she shows all her designs including new furniture designs that gives you the Animal Crossing vibes. Her creations in self defense encourages many to stay alert while keeping it fun and adorable. Below is a past design of her keychain line and its like having a work of protective art with real world applications.

Website - tinyprotectors.com

Twitter - Alythuh

Tiktok - Alythuh

Sharing the creations of some of the women on the AAPI Community is important in this day and age so that absolutely no creative mind is censored, shut down, or discreated due to racial or gender discrimination. I encourage everyone to check out these ladies platforms to see the effort they put into their art and follow their career endeavors.

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doodle of Linh Truong from youtube!

[roanofarc]

there is a very specific brand of east asian instagram/youtube girl style and i’m so tempted to adopt it for some fucking reason. not sure when i decided i was a Trendy Girl but here we are

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linh truong’s (https://www.instagram.com/withlovelinh/) bedroom

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[girlaboutcampus]

How I optimised my social media for my mental health

cw: this blog post contains references to food, fitness and dieting culture. 

A few years ago I was working for a chain bookstore over the festive period, mostly on the tills serving customers and occasionally dealing with enquiries and shelving. There was blissfully minimal phone answering too. Bookshops tend to stay pretty busy after Christmas with sales, folks coming in to buy something to read in their remaining time off and to buy dieting books. When I clocked in to take my shift on Boxing Day, there had already been a table of dieting and fitness bibles set up, all on two-for-one deals. Whilst I’m sure this table was set up on corporate instruction, it left a bad taste in my mouth. Bookshops are by no means safe spaces- they’re a place you should go to look for material that challenges and stretches your beliefs, as well as things to help you relax.  However, I don’t think they’re a place you go to be judged for your lifestyle, especially if you’re just on the way up to grab a muffin and latte with friends in the cafe. In many ways, this is the experience of being on social media in microcosm.

This summer, I had a bit of a meltdown, which I’ve talked about a little before. Without university to occupy me, I became obsessed with going to the gym. When I didn’t see results as quickly as I had in the past, I started to hyperfocus on my appearance and weight. It quickly became clear that I’d got myself into a dark place, so I started going to see one of the counsellors at my university (which is an enormous privilege you should make the most of if you also have access to it). It became clear to me, in talking to my counsellor, that a lot of my problem was down to the space I had curated for myself on social media. The fitness board I maintained on Pinterest meant that the algorithm was constantly generating unattainable bodies, diet foods and problematic motivational statements. From following some of my younger brother’s school friends on Instagram, I began to feel bad about not having the body shape of a teenager anymore. I decided to clear a whole day to go through all my social media and make it as much of a hospitable space for my mental health as possible. I should be clear at this point that this might not necessarily work for you, though I found it to be incredibly helpful. I’m sharing in the hope that it might make a little difference for someone else. I’ll start with the easier social networks and work my way up to the big guns. 

Facebook

This one might be more difficult for you depending on how much use you get out of Facebook. Personally, I use it mostly for keeping up with events, messaging friends and updating family members. One thing you can do if you only use it for the latter two is delete the Facebook app and just keep Messenger, that way you have to be on an actual computer to check facebook. If you don’t want to delete the app, then start to take advantage of the mute button. You can go through the hassle of sitting going through your whole friend list, removing people you no longer talk to, see, or are interested in keeping up with (you can let go of some people from school at this point, face it). However, I find that the experience of unfriending people can actually make me feel more anxious. 

The best thing I do- and this one isn’t something you can necessarily do in one day- is mute or unfriend as I scroll down my feed. If someone I once met in a job I had four years ago starts posting offensive and ill-informed political memes to my feed, that’s their time to go. If a friend’s mum posts a lot of things about her New Year’s diet, she’s going to get muted for the time being. If a friend posts a photo of her super cute baby, that’s getting a big heart react- give me more of that good shit. A big part of all of this stuff is trying to train your algorithm to show you the stuff you want, even if it fights back. 

Twitter

First huge bit of advice- block all the bigoted reactionaries. That’s your Piers Morgans, Katie Hopkinses, Julia Hartley-Brewerses and that girl who worships guns. This isn’t me openly advocating shutting yourself out of political discourse, or creating some kind of political echo chamber for yourself.  It’s just starving people who thrive on outrage of the attention they crave. I don’t care if you have a witty rebuttal. They don’t deserve your attention, views or clicks. Try to find professional journalists, politicians, and pundits whose expertise you can trust and who conduct themselves ethically and responsibly, rather than trying to just get clicks for their work. Also, read whole articles and think pieces rather than just the headlines. Headlines are often written to stir up outrage over something that just isn’t outrageous.

 Find tweeters who make you laugh, make good art and whose voices you’d like to amplify. 

Instagram (and Tumblr) 

Now we’re getting into the heavy lifters. It seems to me that the more image-dense the platform, the worse it can be for your mental health, especially if your mental health is tied up in your body image. Instagram and Tumblr might be the platforms to be most cutthroat with. What you decide to do with this one is really deeply personal, but I would suggest going with your gut and unfollowing and muting anything that makes you feel less than, no matter how nice the person running it seems. My first call was to unfollow more or less everyone who’s ever breathed in the general vicinity of a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. A lot of these models seem to be lovely women, but their lifestyles and bodies are the definitions of unattainable. The one exception I make to this rule is Chrissy Teigen because her content is all about earnestly enjoying food, family and travel. Plus, she doesn’t take herself too seriously. Instagram also has a useful feature that allows you to mute stories, posts or both at your own discretion. That way if there’s someone you follow who posts great travel photos but is always talking about weight loss in their stories, you can filter out that content and keep what you like. I found that, personally, having fewer bodies in my line of sight is for the best. I like to maximise the presence of delicious food, cute animals and uplifting messages I follow. Here are some favourites:

Nigella Lawson

Shila and Eddie the Pomeranians

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Hannah Witton

Demi Adejuyigbe

Pinterest

This is the daddy of all the image-based platforms. Whilst probably the least popular of all the platforms listed here, it probably has the most potential to do harm. Don’t get me wrong, I love Pinterest. It is one of the most easily spaces online and the fact that it is image focused means that there is very little text involved, so it’s an ocean of calm compared to a platform like Twitter. However, it also has what might possibly be the most reactive algorithm of any platform. This is broadly a helpful tool, allowing you to locate the exact material you’re looking for, but it can really double down on any harmful material you put into it. It’s the internet’s worst enabler. In this sense, spring cleaning it is work. I got rid of my fitspo board and replaced it with one more focused on self-care. This didn’t mean getting rid of all my fitness-focused stuff- I still pin specific exercise routines- but I don’t pin #bodygoals stuff now.  A very important part of changing this is being conscientious of what I am choosing to repin. Specifically, I have to ask myself 

“Do I really like this hair/ makeup/ clothing, or do I just want to look like the model?”

If the answer is no, I will ask Pinterest to remove it from my feed. Pinterest also has a zero-tolerance policy for content that encourages eating disorders and self-harm so you can report anything like that. Whilst Pinterest will continue to show you things after you have deleted the boards you can, over time, train it to show you more of the things you want to see. I’ve finally got it to a point where I’m seeing things that make me feel bad far less frequently. 

All of this is work and requires a conscious effort from yourself to remove things that are harmful before they get to you. This system isn’t perfect and you will continue to see garbage some of the time. It is still possible to optimise what you’re seeing in order to feel less anxious and down on yourself. Do keep in mind, that it’s just a small part of your life and that if you are genuinely concerned about your mental health to talk to a professional if that is something you are able to access. Also, this isn’t an alternative to minimising your screentime, which we should probably all try to do a little more. 

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