I’m fascinated by how the formatting of different social media sites affect how text is read.
For instance, a line break on Tumblr indicates a new idea.
But a reblog break indicates that time has passed.
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Not to sound like a 90s shallow prep, but how you dress can affect your self esteem, and putting energy into wearing things you actively like and projecting an ideal of yourself through fashion instead of seeing clothes as things you have to put on out of obligation helps.
It also can give you a sense of control over your appearance that you otherwise wouldn’t have lmao
this post is written in a humorous tone but this is the realest shit.
two years ago i wore baggy sweatpants and flip flops every day because i was depressed but then decided eh to hell with it and bought some black edgy emo clothes bc thats how i always wanted to dress but never got a chance to and it was only then that i realized that the sweatpants flip flops look was just keeping me in my depression funk. i didnt like the way i looked and i didnt identify with the clothes i was wearing and it only made me feel worse.
i then went through my entire wardrobe and got rid of everything that made me feel that way.
now i have multiple outfit possibilities requiring different levels of effort but on days where putting on clothes just seems like a project i just have to put on black jeans and a band t-shirt and i can still feel good about the way i look which is a really good way to start off my day.
i can not recommend this approach to clothing enough.
WFH for 3 years got me stuck in the same sweatpants flip-flop depression funk until the zooms stopped and I realized that no one can see me so I can wear whatever I want and even tho I still wear a lot of lounge wear (because fibro) and sandals (because florida) I now have CUTE comfy stuff I really love that matches and it really does make such a big difference to my mood and has also dropped a few barriers to leaving the house and while it hasn’t fixed my mental illness and I might never win a fashion award I really REALLY feel so much better about my appearance which helps
In jr high I tried so hard to be “normal” and “cool” but the harder I tried the more apparent it became that it wouldn’t work. I could do all the trendy clothes/makeup/hair I wanted, I wouldn’t ever be seen as “normal” (largely due to undiagnosed ADHD). One day I said to myself “If they’re going to treat me like a freak, I’ll show them a fucking freak” and just started doing whatever I wanted. I painted flowers on my face and dressed like a hippie, had a pair of jeans that were basically a belt and shreds, dyed my hair, got piercings, and started having a LOT of fun. I finally made friends. I found my people because I stopped trying to be someone I wasn’t. I’ve never gone back.
Now that I have a chronic illness, the way I dress and look is one of the very, very few things about my body I have control over and it’s very important to my health. It doesn’t matter if how you dress is trendy or not, it matters that it suitsyou personally.
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#that one post with the thing #I don’t tend to *think* of myself as having strong opinions about clothes because I’m not big on *beauty* or *decoration* #but actually I *am* very picky about clothes #last time I tried to thrift clothing #after combing through *so* much stuff #I managed to find…one job-interview dress and one pair of good sweatpants #(I don’t understand the whole sweatpants-as-lazy thing) #(sweatpants are just cold-weather clothing) #(how do the sweatpants-as-lazy people not overheat wearing sweatpants in the summer and freeze wearing not-sweatpants in the winter) #((…it may be relevant here that I can’t stand jeans)) #(anyway) #I gave up and went back to shopping at Lands’ End #(at least thrift stores are good for shoes) #(people try out hiking‚ buy gear for it‚ decide they don’t like hiking‚ and dump the boots) #(then I buy a $150 pair of boots for $35 and wear it around town for many years) #I do keep largely-separate house clothes and out clothes though #yeah‚ it’s a barrier to leaving the house‚ but I need a sanctuary #a place where things are (ideally) clean or (at minimum) sanitary #I don’t want to come home and sit on my couch with #the same pants I was wearing when I sat on a bus seat next to four sniffling people‚ you know? #and it lets me get more life out of clothes that are just a *little* too ragged to wear outside #I make no attempt to make my repairs pretty #tag rambles #clothing #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see
Okay no for real this whole idea of Goncharov is very funny but get your fuckin’ timeline right, okay.
Martin Scorsese had made exactly two movies by 1973, he didn’t have the cachet to make a big budget or even mid budget crime movie about the Naples mafia. Certainly not the greatest mafia movie ever made! Further, he hadn’t yet developed his filmmaking style, let alone his fascination with the criminal underworld, and The Godfather had just come out the year before, so there wasn’t even time to get used to the romantic portrayal of gangsters that Scorsese’s films would act as revisionist responses to! The conversation had barely even started yet!
And then there’s the actors: Robert De Niro was a working actor then, not a huge star — he’d been in a few movies by then, including three from noted trash sommelier Brian De Palma and one from even more noted trash auteur Roger Corman — and he actually worked with Scorsese and Keitel that same year in Mean Streets! He got some acclaim for that performance but it wasn’t like, Godfather level, y’know? Not in terms of fame or notice at least. And Pacino? Pacino’s first major role was The Godfather the previous year! That was his third film ever! He did Serpico in ‘73! He hadn’t even done Dog Day Afternoon yet! And he didn’t work with Scorsese until The Irishman, which came out in 2019!
Really, y’all, what you’re imagining, the movie you’re all spinning out of thin air here, probably came out in like, 1983, not ‘73. Probably in place of Scarface or something (which for my money would be an improvement). You’ve got De Niro post-Deer Hunter and Taxi Driver, he’s worked with Scorsese before, you’ve had two excellent Godfather films to build a mythology of the romantic gangster around for Scorsese to play with. You’ve got Pacino after shit like Serpico and Cruising, he’s in his prime. You’re still pre-Goodfellas for Scorsese, so he hasn’t gone sicko mode yet, but he’s done great movies that got noticed and he’d be able to pick up a budget and a production company to go to Naples. He’s worked with big studios, he’s got some clout. Now is the time for Goncharov!
But nooo, all this happened before you were born so it’s all vague and nebulous “before-times.” What’s the difference between 1973 and 1983? Who cares? Well I do! And now you know! History matters okay!! Learn ya history!!!
i think this is my favorite reconciliation of established goncharov lore with scorsese’s actual film career
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chekov’s cat: if you see a cat, it will probably be relevant later.
schroedinger’s gun: there’s no way to know if a gun is loaded or not until you physically inspect and check it yourself, so it’s safest to assume all guns are loaded.
#got a point there #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#love the decor fandom #wow that looks incredible #there’s a bunch of people in the notes saying they went here on school tours‚ and I wish that were me #and the wooden everything really gives it that extra cozy touch #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#Pokemon #music #puns #juxtaposition #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
This is just Gardiner’s sign list of Egyptian Hieroglyphics A1-B2 with a couple of repeats thrown in at the end. You’ve thrown a vocabulary list at us.
“Kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF CEASAR
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z S P Q R
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#(…this worked when I first saw it but then something broke with my Firefox fonts and now it’s a bunch of hexcode boxes) #((specifically Firefox: it works if I paste it into a notepad)) #(anyway) #language #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once #(P.S. I looked it up and apparently it’s some sort of interaction with the tracking protection) #(turning off ”block suspected fingerprinters” lets you see Unicode characters again)
Hey, I had a few questions about this as I was planning on getting it as a gift for a friend. I was wondering if it was a solid or adjustable band and how well it’d fit on a 6in wrist if you knew? Thank you if you get to this
It’s solid, you would need tools to adjust its size. It does not bend easily. I don’t know how big my wrist is but it’s pretty dang skinny. It’d probably be fine?
Both to @psych-is-the-name and to @vaspider – you’ve had your bracelets for 2-3 months now, would you mind telling me if the print is still intact (especially if you’ve worn it a lot)? I’m thinking of getting the bracelet, but not if the print is bad quality.
I have had mine for about 3 months now and it’s still in a perfect condition even with me banging it against metal machines in work all the time. The fact that it’s a solid piece of metal however doesn’t stop you from reshaping it a little. And yes, it takes aome serious effort, but i had squished mine using my hands alone to fit me better. It’s actually kind of funny how small that gap is now yet i can still put it on and off with ease.
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When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.
To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”
So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.
Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.
: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season.
It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.
We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back.
So yes, grow and produce different things from time to time, rotate them around your mind and exercise different mental muscles, take different things from your creative processes, yes– but also, give yourself a fallow spell now and again, and let the field of your mind grow things for itself to keep, to break down and save for later.
Positive mental health AND agriculture??!?
*slams reblog button*
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gun to my head if I had to write a story about Two-Face the premise would be that Harvey’s totally reformed, 100% in the clear, genuinely 0 interest in crime or murder, so he goes back to practicing law. but Two-Face is still there and ALSO practicing law so Harvey is like this upstanding lawyer working pro bono for various charities and nonprofits and what have you and then Two-Face is like a sleezy ambulance chaser taking out HUGE obnoxious billboards all over Gotham and recording the worst local commercials you have EVER seen. they share an office and work on alternating days. the POV character of this miniseries is the shared secretary who has to keep both of their schedules straight and the climax involves Harvey and Two-Face somehow legally being allowed to represent two different people who are suing each other
the bar exam, most places: (series of complicated questions)
the bar exam, Gotham:
1. how much interest in murder have you had in the past 13 days?
#Batman #story ideas I will never write #fanfic #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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