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[gasterofficial]

could you explain how horrortale is ableist? i had no idea, and i'm shocked that it falls into those horrible characterisation :(

but if you don't want to, that's totally chill too! you don't owe some anon anything lmao ^-^

since I've had a couple people ask, I'm going to provide a slightly more in-depth explanation of why horrortale is ableist. content warnings for everything below the cut: ableism (obviously), discussion of graphic gore, unsettling content, and flagrant mischaracterization of sans undertale.

alright, so before we even talk about sans or alphys there's the whole issue of the treatment of physical and mental disorders (specifically psychosis) as a source of horror. this is an issue with the horror genre in general of course, so it comes as no surprise to see it in horrortale, but I really had higher hopes for the creator to not fall into those same tropes. i don't really want to read back through the comic to pick out all of the examples throughout, but like half of the main characters are at some point referred to as deranged, crazy, insane, or psycho and therefore "shouldn't be trusted." this is just classic "mentally ill/neurodivergent = scary!!!" and isn't just lazy horror but actively perpetuates harmful stereotypes. also this one is less egregious but papyrus is supposed to be scary just because he has yellow and crooked teeth??? bad dental hygiene = horror now. i feel like this is also ableist or classist or SOMETHING but i don't even want to try to define it past it being silly and dumb so. moving on.

ok so. sans himself. the entire conceit of sans's character in horrortale is that undyne smashes his head in because she's mad at him for not using his spooky magic eye to attempt to save the CORE from a power outage, and then after that he "suffers mood swings and delusions" that make him ~SPOOKY~ because obviously mood swings and psychosis make you an evil murderer who wants to torture children.

(image transcription: *His increasing psychosis makes him difficult to trust.)

(image transcription: *You're dead. A deranged goat mom made a twisted promise with a psychotic and it ended up with a bone up your throat.)

Both of the above images are in reference to sans, and the second one not only refers to sans as "a psychotic" but also calls toriel deranged. double ableism win!

Painting psychotic people or people who suffer from mood disorders as evil murderers isn't even as bad as it gets, either! Let me introduce you to the shitshow that is how this au treats alphys.

In this story, after undyne smashes sans's head in she takes his magical eye and gives it to alphys, who uses it to get the core back up and running, thereby saving the ENTIRE UNDERGROUND from magical starvation. thought to be dead, sans survives the beating through some sort of magical connection to his eye and immediately goes to find alphys and retrieve the eye. the literal instant he finds her he uses bone attacks to destroy the entire fucking CORE, takes his eye back, and then attacks alphys before leaving.

Let's just ignore how little sense sans's actions make both in terms of the storyline and his character, and take a look at what happens when others finally make it to the CORE and find alphys after sans is through with her:

yep. that's right. he leaves alphys ""lobotomized"" (this is the description the author used, though this is not at all what an actual lobotomy is) with her brain exposed, which somehow causes her to morph into quite possibly the worst stereotype of an insane mentally disabled person that i've ever seen!!! a stereotype of mental disability which we are explicitly meant to interpret as horror!!!

and yet, despite all of this, the creator and the majority of the fans who participated in a creator-run poll consider alphys to be the villain of the story, there is no follow-up of any sort on what happens to alphys, and sans receives no consequences for his actions.

so yeah, that is why i’m not a fan of horrortale sans and horrortale as a whole.

[popculturebuffet]

Uncle Scrooge by Don Rosa:  The Isle at the Edge of Time (Thank You Comission For Rosie Isla)

Hello all you happy people! Today’s review is a bit special as it’s the result of another review. See I had trouble finding a translation of the subject of last weeks’ mother’s day special, Family Ties. 

No not that one. I have Paramount+. I can watch all the Family Ties I want and that’s a fact that i’m pleased as punch about. 

No it was the story 80 is Prachtig, called Family Ties in the copy used, Della’s first major comics appearance and one that explains what happened to her in the classic continuity, one that clearly served as the foundation for her far more fleshed out 2017 versions personality and backstory. It also had Pinocchio in it for some reason, and spent most of it’s large run time on a meta comedy plot that had nothing to do with the reason anyone wanted to read this story in the first place.

But despite being a vitally important story, it never got an english translation, something that baffled me till I read the story and found cameos of the racist indigenous stereotypes from Peter Pan. In 2014. You may commence booing. Even with how weird the story was I simply couldn’t find the story googling it and the Della tag is too vast and deep to go spelunking in.

So what’s all this have to do? Simple I put out a post last month when neither I nor Kev, who wanted to comission it as part of Moons, Millionares and Mothers, my coverage of all three season 2 Ducktales story arcs, could find a copy and offered a review to whoever found it.  Weeks passed I got nothing.. then in the 11th hour I got a break as the lovely @rosieisla​ found a translation that was on this very site, one she seemed to have helped with. As a result I could do the review and as a man of my word, offered it up despite her clearly having not seen that part of the post and simply having done this to be nice. Still she gladly took up the offer and offered me my pick of two stories: The Carl Barks Story Back to Long Ago or this one. 

As for WHY I picked this one Back To Long Ago didn’t seem bad, i’m just not a fan of “The Cast is put in the past as their own ancestors” type deals. Or in some cases put the cast as people from that time period. It’s just not for me and is most often done in TV where it can get really goofy, Beverly Hills 90210 being a prime example of this, though Girl Meets World was no slouch in being embarassing... that being said I really need to finish that show and miss it. 

So yeah when put up against a story with two intresting hooks and FLINTHEART GLOMGOLD, even if i’ts not the version that’s my boy, it was no contest. So what are these hooks you ask? Well join me under the cut and find out. 

We open with a weird stylistic choice: This story has a narrator complete with caption boxes. Now for those of you familiar with comics or pastiches of comics in tv and film, this probably dosen’t seem like a big deal. It was a common thing in comics from their inception to 90′s to have caption boxes, big boxes of text narrating the action to help move things along faster. It did start to fade out by the 80′s and was gone by the end of the 90′s for the most part, replaced instead with first person narration. It’s the kind of thing you’d see most often in the Golden and Silver Ages, with stuff like tihs

It’s not a BAD device, it’s good old cheesy and bombastic fun and some writers did get clever with it.. like that time Chris Claremont used the narration to yell at a greiving cyclops after he lost a teammate early in his long and storied run on the uncanny x-men. 

This is a objectively weird scene that’s still somehow effective by the by. On the one hand it does come off as Chris Claremont essentally bullying Cyclops who already feels guilty for a death that was not in fact his fault as Thunderbird was told the plane he was attacking with fleeing villian Count Nefaria was about to explode and refused to listen.. and that they needed to get rid of either him or Wolverine as both served the same purpose and chose the non-white guy. 

On the other htough it comes off just as much as Scott beating himself up in his grief and anger over the event and his perceived failings as a leader. It’s good stuff and shows why this run caught on as this was only three issues in. Also the rest of the issue features the X-Men fighting a giant cyclopian demon that Cyclops accidently freed in his rage by destroying the stone thing keeping him imprisoned. No really here’s the cover

Huh so tha’ts what Nifty’s dad looks like. Neat. Also I REALLY hope we get the X-Men fighting aliens or demons in the MCU. Unlike the XCU the MCU isn’t alergic to getting batshit.. and for the record Deadpool and New Mutants are the exception, not the rule.

My point that I swear I do have is that this was common practice for most comics.. but never really for Disney Duck comics. It popped up ocasionally, like with Scrooge’s introduction, but Barks and those after him never really used them that much. Sure they’d have caption boxes for flasbacks and what not but Barks and Co geninely only used this sort of thing to set up a story. The most i’ve seen it in a duck comic is life and times and even then i’ts usually only used for gags or to set up the passage of time, as the story IS covering decades and thus often needed to have montages to show time passing, and in the case of chapter 11, had to cover decades in the span of a single chapter, so it’s not like they had many other options. So even Rosa as a personal quirk didn’t really use these often. 

Rosa used this specifically because he felt the plot was complicated by the use of the international date line. As for what it is, it’s essentially a line marking calender dates from one side of the hemisphere to the others. To use the offical defentition from the National Ocean Service I found via a quick google:

“The International Date Line, established in 1884, passes through the mid-Pacific Ocean and roughly follows a 180 degrees longitude north-south line on the Earth. It is located halfway round the world from the prime meridian—the zero degrees longitude established in Greenwich, England, in 1852.

The International Date Line functions as a “line of demarcation” separating two consecutive calendar dates. When you cross the date line, you become a time traveler of sorts! Cross to the west and it’s one day later; cross back and you’ve “gone back in time."

Despite its name, the International Date Line has no legal international status and countries are free to choose the dates that they observe. While the date line generally runs north to south from pole to pole, it zigzags around political borders such as eastern Russia and Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.”

Rosa felt this made the story complicated.... and that... really isn’t remotely true. The narration is mostly used for gagas and really dosen’t clarify anything. it’s mostly used well in the opening.. but the actual explinations for the date line are clear enough in the story that even if I hadn’t looked the thing up, I still would’ve got it and i’m sure a kid would’ve too. It just feels like a weird thing to ruminate on, especially because he’s got actual things to make up for: while to his credit the native american characters he cribbed from carl barks are sympathetic, their culture respected and treated decently and used for a green aseop, their dialouge is stitled and sterotypical something he dosen’t even comment on (And these trades ewren’t THAT long ago) 

And of course it dosen’t help that he dosen’t even comment on using a common device in american superhero boooks.. in the same volume where he ONCE again makes an unwanted and outdated diatribe about superhero comics. I’ll probably cover the Super Snooper Strikes again so I can throughly tear this apart but higlights include: Calling superhero comics “Unwanted” just because he dosen’t like them personally, when people like me would disagree and they’ve lasted through a LOT of highs and lows, outdately saying they took over the American market as the only suitable comics which while true for a TIME,but by 2015 when this book was printed is laughably out of date, as non superhero works like The Walking Dead, Saga, and Scott Pilgrim were massively popular, one of my faviorite comics that is entirely slice of life and would go on to bea huge hit, Giant Days, re-debuted that very year. He also has the fucking gal to insult The Uncanny X-Men by name and I swear to god I did not know this when I made those references earlier, but as you probably guessed REALLY god me livid. 

And this is just on his COMMENTS on the story I can’t imagine just how bad the content itself is and having read the first few pages which come off as Rosa using Donald to essentially do an “old man yells at cloud rant” about superhero comics, I really don’t want to. Might make htis a patreon exclusive or again would do it on comissoin. You all make the call.... the point is I don’t likes his elitist bullshit about superhero comics, and this is clearly something that gets my hackles up as I just spent a good two paragraphs of an entirely unrealted review yelling at the guy for it. I don’t like when he does this and this authors notes entirley felt like an excuse. I GET the dark age of comics were bad, they REALLY were that bad, but I will NEVER accept painting an enitre genre as bad just because one work in it is bad. And I wont accept it from someone who himself writes about an often throughly unlikeable anti-hero for a living.  Scrooge may not have a gun on his gun on his gun or get to stabbing or have pouches, but he DOES finacially abuse his nephew, scoff at people’s personal troubles, and often refuse to use his wealth to help others in general. So yeah in conclusion Rosa really needs to say less about this subject. 

Okay so where were we.. right the story hadn’t even started yet. Jesus. 

Okay so our story begins with the narrator. Whose going on about time and what not. The main point of this speech about time is that it’s night in Duckburg and Scrooge is going to bed as, even being the workhorse that he is, he can’t keep going 24 hours. While he’s snoozing though something major happens and it’s the hook that made me pick this story along with the international dateline one.. an island rises thanks to volcanic erruption.. and the lava is GOLD. That’s just pure unabashed classic Duck Stuff: a mysterious treasure or phenominon of gold bound to bring scrooge in. 

But Scrooge isn’t stupid: the sun comes up and the world still spins while he sleeps, so he set up a satalite to monitor for this sort of thing. The thing naturally goes nuts.. and even more naturally breaks down becasue Scrooge bought cheap parts. A nice gag and a fully in character way to bring our antagonist into the picture, as the Satellite of Loaded falls in the middle of South Africa... right on the property of my boy Flintheart Glomgold. 

This is something Rosa brought up in his commentary for the story i’d never thought about. It turns out Glomgold being a citzen of Duckburg WASN’T an invention of the original Ducktales but the comics: some overseas had understandably moved him from his home country of South Africa. Him bieing in the same town as Scrooge instead of half a world away allows for easier setups and more intresting ones.

Rosa however being obdient to Barks Version of things, ketp Glomgold in South Africa like barks did, which was an .. ifffy decision given Apartheid had JUST ended at the time of this story. Not so much in the reboot as not only had apartheid been long gone by the time of the reboot, but that’s more fair. Still we do get some gorgeous vistas as a result as Glomgold’s minon goes to look at it and finds it’s from McDuck Mining company... Glomgold’s reaction is obvious. 

So on that note we cut to Scrooge rushing to Donalds house and forcing him awake and not telling him anything at first. Look his Ducktales Counterpart straight up kidnapped his donald in my last review, I’d call this a win. He also tries to dress Donald while explaning both his panic to find the crashed satlitle and what it found: the golden island. The end result of him dressing donald is worth a chuckle

So after Donald puts his shirt and little hat on our heroes get rollin rollin rollin what keep rollin rollin rollin who to Manilla. On the plane we get the scene I mentioned: The boys make a quip about Scrooge having lost a day and the group go over the international date line. It’s a fun little scene especially Donald trying to get paid early at the end. Classic scrooge and donald stuff without the abusive undertones some of their classic stuff has. 

Meanwhile Glomgold works out the data and finds out about the gold island, and his excitement accidently wakes a giraffe outside.. welll it was nice knowing him, Giraffes are the deadliest species known to man.. here’s an educational video t back that up....

So at Manilla Airport, Scrooge finds out abotu the south african crash, figuring he’ll get a laugh out of glomgold being there ... only for Donald to spot the Jet. Scrooge figures this can’t be anything good... now come on man maybe he’s just promoting his energy drink. 

As super sayin god super sayian as my witness, I will never get tired of Ultra Instinct Glomgold here. 

Scrooge isn’t so nice about that though and figures he better find out if Glomgold knows about the island and bribes one of the fueling crew for his uniform. He sucesssfully eavesdrops on Glomgold talking to his pilot, finding out from him exactly WHERE the island is. He ends up hilariously botching the mission though: when getting ready to leave Glomgold complains abotu the price of gas and that naturally causes Scrooge, just as cheap, to join in... and Glomgold to find out it’s Scrooge. The two wrestle outside the plane but before this can progress to a game of Naked Robber an airport security guy comes up and Scrooge cleverly claims that Glomgold’s plane has an infestiation, requring it to be quanrantined and allowing Scrooge to jet on.. thoguh not with an actual jet. With Glomgold seemingly dispatched, he can afford to save some money and take his time with a seaplane and I know just the man for the job. 

Oh nope looks like he’s busy. So one time related rambles later we meet Keoki, their asian pilot from the tiny island of Wookawooka.. and no that’s not a real place i checked... and no Fozzy dosen’t own it his check bounced. That being said it is a very well done represntation of someone from a smaller country: he’s doing this job to try and bring money back home, but being a seaplane captain just isn’t enough and his island is dying. Scrooge naturally is about as sympathetic as you’d expect, having apparently never even heard of the idea of a bonus when Huey, Dewey or Louie suggests it. 

Even less suprising is that Glomgold streaks by in his Jet:turns out Manilla was already overun with the bugs Scrooge claimed and Donald rubs it in that had Scrooge got a JET this wouldn’t of been an issue. 

So Glomgold easily beats them there, and to add insult and actualy injury to a cash based one, our heroes get blasted by golden lava on the way in and crash. Should’ve gotten launchpad... got the crashing professional. Keoki is dispondent as this means his people are doomed. He also dosen’t know waht staking a claim is when Scrooge mentions it and the boys bring him up to speed with the poor guy saying he wish he could for WookaWooka. Donald also makes a valid point about how greedy and heartlress scrooge can be.. and really billiionares in general.

No no YOUR the Grouch who refuses to have one drop of emapthy. Donald’s just pissed at your general selfish and terrible behavior. 

Glomgold glomgloats and has seemingly won... but naturally that rant that seemed extranious at the time about the date line comes into play: turns out the Island is on it, and since glomgold put his marker int he west, Scrooge simply puts his in the east which is a whole day before. Now GRANTED there’s nor eal legal prescendice for the intetaoinal date line itself , as noted above... but there’s enough witnesses in Scrooge’s favor that it simply does not matter anyway. Scrooge SEEMINGLY wins.

But Huey, Dewey Or Louie instead backs another claim: Keoki’s from earlier. While it was made in gest, he and the others along with Donald back it as witnsses instad. WookaWooka is saved and SCrogoe ends the story yelling at the narrator.

Final Thoughts: Don Rosa.. did not like this story, feeling it wasn’t one of his best and apologizing for it. I however.. really loved it. It’s not PERFECT: the narration feels not entirely necessary and the gag isn’t as funny as he thinks, though the payoff of scrooge saying “it’s time for this story to end” is fucking hilarous. I also feel it’s a bit too compressed: the story is only 16 pages and was only THAT long because Rosa added a few for exposition, a worthy addition. This feels like one of his 30 page adventure stories but slightly crammed into half the length. I also feel the golden island bit was BADLY underused as it’s such a cool setting but barely shows up in the story. 

But despite that.. it’s still a fun story: as is standard for Rosa the art is gorgeous and the humor is great. And unlike some stories where Rosa casually ignores how terrible scrooge is, here it’s his own greed and hubris that do him in: had he actually agreed to help Keoki, the boys likey would’ve let him keep the island but his own cold refusual to be a human being does him in, just as his cheapness nearly did. Flintheart is also decent here.. not the deepest foe but frankly most classical duck antagonists really aren’t all that fleshed out, and we still get some good bits with him. The dateline bit, while telegraphing that it will be important, as I said REALLY isn’t that hard to understand. All in all while i’ll agree with Rosa this isn’t his BEST, it’s still a really damn good story and one he shoudln’t be ashamed of. 

Tommorow: Green Eggs and ham is back for some train shenanigans! Kay. 

Saturday: The Tom Retrospective returns for it’s last detour! Eclipsa and Moon team up to stop meteora but grapple with diffrent wants: One to save her daughter.. the other to stop waht she clearly sees as an out of control monster. The result.. will only lead to tragedy and a hell of a two parter. 

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[yamlog]

before february comes

ok so like, it is one thing to know about smth hurtful when it has just happened but it is A COMPLETELY OTHER THING ALTOGETHER to be asked about it by someone who for some reason, thought that you knew all along all these months WHEN YOU DIDN’T. and why would i? did i not say many many times that i am NOT going to keep up? i am actively avoiding, i am keeping my feed clean and free from distractions, i NEVER look at my explore page except to follow very specific hashtags. i have been PROTECTING my peace of mind and sanity with all my energy and effort for like, what, 1.5 years. for good reason. and then to be asked (borderline informed) something so PREPOSTEROUS. do you know how sick i felt when i heard? i was trying to work and it became impossible because my brain was so confused i started feeling nauseas. i had to skip dinner and immediately take action instead of letting that horrible feeling burrow deeper into my chest. i didn’t even have to see anything in person. people sent me screenshots, telling me that they will look at it on my behalf and i shouldn’t go and see. and that’s not even the worst thing. the worst thing is all the consolation messages that came from SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE later on, coming out and confessing and saying they knew and they suspected but they didn’t want to tell me because they knew i’d be shocked and disgusted and upset and they wanted to protect me from the news because i was trying to pass practicum. and i love them for that, i really do. my friends really just do want the best for me and they are not willing to start a war or actively do anything, but they do care enough to message me in private to share their thoughts on the matter. i got so many ‘i saw her story and i was so surprised,” “it’s such a shady thing to do,” and “what is she trying to prove.” then of course there were people who were very critical of the presentation and how it seems deliberately designed to mislead. and when i clarified, it just made everyone even more confused. ‘huh, if not dating then why she post as if they were’ ‘need to tag meh’ ‘she tag for who to see’ ‘is she trying to show off got a guy wait for her to end work and take many pictures of her on their dates? and then must tag the guy so everyone can see who it is even though he’s not inside?’ ‘how come her username is like a copy of your tinycl0ud’ (lmao i wish i knew the answer to this one but at this point is anyone surprised? no.) ‘is it she want his dick’ ‘dating or not dating it’s very obvious she has interest’ etc etc

so here are MY thoughts, after having talked to practically everyone in my life about it. my thoughts reflect most of what others think. i am trying to be conscious of the fact that i’m still too emotional to really formulate my own opinion, and so of course it is easier to mirror and receive the opinions of those around me. but i think until i can finish processing, i am okay with received feelings.

number one: indignation. because Yes, why the fuck even do this? sg is so fucking big and full of other men. if you want a bf or new friends it’s so easy to find. must go after your ex-friend’s ex-partner? the rest of the sg don’t have men isit? you won’t be happy unless you get to experience that which you have always envied in me isit? you tag, knowing full well that people in MY life still follow and EVERYONE knows what he looks like and who he is. so what is the fucking intention? to show that someone finds you attractive enough to take photos of you? you know, quite a few people have pointed out to me the fact that i used to be the frequent subject of his phone camera (i am grateful but i have also thankfully moved on), and that maybe you have always envied it, and now that it’s your turn you’re revelling. ppl take picture of you like you always wanted, ok good for you, but must tag to make sure everyone knows exactly who did it? so everyone knows you hang out? or maybe date? because who else would wait for you to end your shift and buy you drinks but someone you’re romantically involved with. and you tag so everyone knows it’s a guy, and it’s THAT particular guy. gross and pathetic. which brings me to the next point.

number two: disdain and disgust. why hanker after someone’s ex?? i really don’t get it. was it because on my private twitter i said that i enjoyed myself and he treated me well, so now she has it in her head that she wants the same treatment? a normal human being doesn’t do that. in fact, i have read her tweets about how much she enjoyed having sex with the guy from tinder she had a fling with, with very lengthy descriptions of his dick size and texture, and not once did i feel the need to go and experience it for myself. because there’s this thing called girl code, on top of basic human decency. normal people DON’T hanker after their friends’ exes, even after friendship ends. MORE THAN ONE EX TOO. normal people also don’t tweet stupid shit like ‘every time julian took public transport and waited outside studio i felt so envious because ___ never did that for me, even though he had a motorcycle and could go anywhere, which makes me wonder if i’m not worth being loved.’ LIKE UM OK HOW IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME FEEL, reading something so MANIPULATIVE AND GUILT-TRIPPY ON TWITTER DOT COM. julian wasn’t a great ex (or even a great person) but he did occasionally do nice things, and you romanticise the ONE thing to the point of comparing it with your own lacking relationship?? red flag. and then when i have another ex, you hanker after what he represents once again, which is good treatment. well idk what to say but people i date generally treat me well sometimes. and the common factor here is obviously me. so even if you date the same guys i date it doesn’t mean?? u will be treated the same way?????? just a thought. it is truly extremely pathetic to hang onto hope that this Perfect Idealised Boyfriend On A Pedestal could someday be yours if you just wait long enough. you waited 2 years for your RC ex and he still dumped you for a virginal year 1. i hate him on your behalf, and never in a million years would i consider wanting him, no matter how attractive or charismatic he is. simply because, even though i hate you, i will NOT touch your exes that I KNOW FULL WELL have hurt you. 

number three: anger. i don’t hate people. not really. like i don’t think i’ve ever hated anyone enough to wish they’d die a horrible and gruesome death. but the past two days i have felt anger so big it felt like my entire chest was on fire and if i screamed it would come out like a blowtorch. i wanted to take my new ceramic knife and saw off her fingers one by one and then grate her stupid ugly nose off. that was for a moment, and the moment has passed. but i don’t think the hatred will. i can very confidently say that, at least for the next two weeks or so, i will hate her enough to risk damnation. because she IS fucking despicable. and now i guess everyone knows it too. 

there was a moment when i wondered why i was so stricken. i spoke to a friend to try to figure it out. i asked her, why am i so bothered. is it because if he dates her after dumping me it means that she’s better than me and that’s what i can’t stand? or is it because he actively makes time to meet her but not me, so on some level he actually does prefer her to me? then my friend said that she doesn’t think that’s the case, and that he probably can meet her PRECISELY because he doesn’t have romantic feelings and he won’t get entangled. additionally, she also reminded me that just because one man, even my ex that i loved deeper than anyone else, chooses her over me, it doesn’t mean his opinion is god’s opinion (or even a wise/informed one) and therefore it is fallacious to jump to the conclusion that he is right and that she IS better or that she has ‘won’. i added to that and said that yes, people are not prizes to begin with anyway. and yes, one man’s judgment does not determine my worth. another friend just said, very bluntly, that his initial thought was ‘let the trash take the trash out’. im still not okay with someone i still love being called trash because like, hello my feelings, but i understand his sentiments lah. 

no matter how i rationalise it, i guess it does hurt that he’d spend time with her but not once try to spend time with me. i’d make all the time, i honestly would. and i have endless reserves of care and attention and i feel like over time my capacity just increases, even with the new job and the new charges. but i also know that i never had any power in this relationship. i can’t make the first move, i can’t ask for anything, i will never call the shots because it’s imbalanced from the beginning. so if he doesn’t care to meet me but cares enough about HER to meet HER then what can i do? nothing. just accept it like a horrible itchy clothing tag giving you a rash but u can’t exactly strip down bc ur in public. maybe over time he will start to think that she is right for him, she can make him happy, she is his soulmate. she will have won, my friends’ predictions will be right, i will have been wrong about his character, and once again there will be nothing i can do. 

maybe it’s better that he cares so little for me he doesn’t even want to see me at all. because i don’t think my feelings have gone away. it’s magnetic. like an orbital pull. and i know that if i get a little bit i will just want all of it. it was hard enough to pull away the last time and pretend i had to go and pretend i was fine. so if he doesn’t want me in his orbit, maybe it’s actually god’s blessing in disguise and god is trying to tell me that it’s better to be untethered in space than it is to be attached to someone who doesn’t even love me. better to be unhappy on my own than believe i’m happy with someone who doesn’t want me right??? 

serenity prayer: grant me the serenity to accept that which i cannot change, the courage to change that which i can, and the wisdom to tell the difference.

[stoweboyd]

How I Keep Track

Since I am launching a series called Keeping Track -- exploring how busy, creative people stay on top of their goals, commitments, plans, and schedules -- it makes sense to start with my own fumbling attempts in that area.

First, let me start by offering a confession: while I use a number of tools and techniques I am an admitted imperfectionist, and as such I'm not necessarily an exemplar of getting things done, except as the poster child for scruffy messoholics who can manage to do a fairly good job of keeping track, despite everything.

I aspire to keeping track in the three obvious dimensions: the future, past, and present.

The Future: Calendar and Journal

I am fairly scrupulous with Google Calendar, penciling in possible travel and events in the far future -- I put a question mark on provisional, or penciled in, appointments. Things that are more concrete, like what I am planning for the next several weeks have no question marks.

And near-term events are also likely to be included in my work management tool of choice, these days, called Flow (getflow.com). Within Flow I maintain 'two sets of books': projects like this Work Futures website, or client projects like my work with Traction, which I lay out in a more or less conventional way, using Flow's project and task management capabilities to track deadlines and task requirements, and capture descriptions and interaction with other coworkers.

This is not an in-depth review of Flow -- although I plan one -- but in passing let me note that it has several features that make it highly attractive to me. Flow supports markdown formatting in task and project descriptions, which I have a strong preference for. And projects and tasks have individual links that can be used in imaginative ways, cross-linking things outside of the silos of projects.

I also have shifted my idea spinning, planning, and goal setting into Flow, and out of document managers. Sometimes these ideas start as comments or just a sentence in a project description or a task note, and sometimes I start with the definition of a project -- like this Keeping Track series -- and the ideas and plan are captured there from the start.

When working with others on these future-oriented activities I rely on Flow's task comment threads heavily (and lament that project descriptions lack comments). Note the same affordances are used in present-oriented activities, too.

The Present: Journaling

Flow's fluidity plays a large role in the second 'set of books'. I am strongly committed to journaling my work on a daily basis, and by extension, on a weekly and monthly basis as well. Within Flow I manage a project called '2017', and a series of tasks, one for each day. Months are represented   by labels in the task list.  

Every day (Mostly. Remember that I am an imperfectionist!) I open or create a task associated with today's date, like '2017-12-01'. I use a special rule for weekend, collapsing Saturday and Sunday together like '2017-12-02 - 03'. I might have created a day's (or weekend's) task earlier than the day itself, because I may have known in advance that I'd be doing something on that day. For example, on Friday I decided I'd write this Keeping Track post on the weekend, so I added that as a subtask to the '2017-12-02 - 03' task. (Yes, Flow supports subtasks, but only one level deep, alas.) Each morning, I consider the items already added to the day's task list, perhaps adding others, and move them into a priority order.

The two sets of books comes into play each morning. For example, I planned to do some work today on a Traction initiative, and so I added a subtask about that. If it's significant enough, Flow's cross-linking allows the daily item to reference the Traction project or a task in it, or alternatively, to link from the project to the various activities undertaken on a day to day basis and captured in the journal entries.

Here's a screenshot of the '2017' project on the left opened to '2017-12-02 -03' (under the '2017-12' section label), and the subtask 'Note kumu.io to Erick' selected and checked off. Note the line of text in the description says 'for the emerging tech map project', which includes a link to the emergent tech map project'.

This obsessive attention to the activities of each day, for me, takes the place of writing in an analog journal by hand. I often (but not religiously) end my day by reflecting on what transpired, capturing thoughts and observations in the daily task description. I also move or copy subtasks that had not been accomplished to the next day or later days, relying on Flow's drag and drop interface.

The Past: Recollection

I rely on journaling in several ways.

First, I use it to channel my daily activities, to prioritize, and memorialize task work, as discussed above.

Second, I rely on journaling for the benefits of clarifying and capturing my thinking about what I accomplished or didn't, rather than retrieving that information later.

However, I do go back to my notes captured in the tasks that represent actions taken, meetings held, and calls made. That's the third use case.  In fact, I create journal entries for calls and meetings, like '2017-12-01 Betty Wong call' rather than in a Google or Dropbox Paper doc, as I did for years prior to adopting Flow. And during the call or meeting, I take notes in the task description, and often create subtasks for follow-on actions that arise during the call. In may cases I move those subtasks, like 'follow up with Betty Wong with proposal', into a project that is related, typically named by the corresponding company or project name, like "acme' or 'milan february conference'. And I frequently revisit the notes from the calls and meetings.

I use a number of other tools for recollection. I rely heavily on saved.io, a simple bookmarking tool, to manage an archive of links and associated notes. Saved.io is very lightweight, and has a beautifully simple UX: you simply add 'saved.io/' in front of the URL in your browser, and it captures the URL and allows you to edit the note field, including tags (tags appear to be slightly broken in the tool at present, although you can search for them). Even better, you can add a category before the 'saved.io/', like 'work.saved.io/' and the link will be added to the 'work' category in the tool. Saved.io lacks social capabilities, so it is really just for personal use.

I also use the Chrome plug-in Toby to deal with tab overload in the browser. I often get to a point where I have dozens of tabs open in several browsers windows, and rather than keep them open indefinitely, or bookmark the various pages one by one in saved.io, I use Toby to save sets, like all the tabs in a single window, so that I can reopen them later. (I am looking at GhostBrowserwhich takes these ideas even further.)

I seldom delete email immediately after reading it and dealing with it. I generally archive it, and cull old emails in large batches at the end of the year from a year (I recently deleted 2012, for example), or delete all email from with a particular sender, like The New Yorker, or companies that have gone out of business.

I also rely on a Chrome plug-in called Better History to search through my browser history for things I didn't bookmark but should have.

My stoweboyd.com blog has transitioned over the years to acting as a writer's daybook, where I capture images, quotes, links, and report others works. I create short form posts there on a variety of subjects, ranging from politics and economics to culture and poetry. Much of my long form writing started as a short-term piece on stoweboyd.com.

The Big Picture

I am a media hound and inveterate tool head, so it may be that what seems sensible to me may be a bit of overkill for others. Nonetheless, I subscribe to the principles that the unexamined life isn't worth living, and much of what I do is the outgrowth of failure: failing to find bits and pieces that I scribbled somewhere, dates buried in emails, and great ideas forgotten in a file somewhere. I confess that my way of keeping track is as much a shell protecting me from myself and my bad memory as a means to more cleanly organize to productively face the world. My approach is as much an umbrella as a bicycle.

[optomstudies]

#optomstudies here with a post about university studying! I’ve been reading many study tips masterposts in the community, but some of these won’t work that well for university. So here are 3 tips for adapting to uni study!

Loose leaf? Notebook? Neither! (but if you must choose between the two, I recommend hole-punched loose leaf - easy to file :D) There is just no time, especially once you get to your higher years, that you will be able to write paper notes especially considering the level of detail that you are required to learn things to get good marks. 

When I was studying therapeutics, lectures were more like an essay crammed into 60-80 ppt slides! Using 10pt Calibri, 1.15 spacing, custom 1cm margins - I still had 12 pages for a 2 hour lecture (see below)

Two lectures / week, for 12 weeks! Although this was the most-content heavy subject, my other courses were still way too time consuming to write notes for. Sadly, you can’t summarise much, because MCQs pick at details.  

As for laptops, cheap netbooks are only ~$300, but I’d recommend these really great student laptops. 

And yet, you have to wonder why #studyblr doesn’t have more digital notes? Isn’t every studyblr the owner of a computer as a tumblr user? I’m trying to encourage everyone to feel more confident about posting their digital notes as part of the “#studyblrs get real” tag (see here), so if you have some great typed study notes, please tag me with #optomstudies and I’ll be happy to reblog you!

Read through your lecture slides so that you have a basic grasp of the topic before classes. If you have any readings assigned, do them too. This means that you’ll

go in knowing what concepts you need clarified

revise one more time (remember the forgetting curve?)

be much better placed to answer questions and participate in class discussions (get those participation marks!! ;))

find it easier to follow along with much more complicated topics than you’ve experienced in high school!

remember a lot more of the topic when you come back to revise later on!

Yes, I know, studyblr blasphemy right? But this is what you do when strapped for time. Particularly with biological/chemical sciences, lecturers will have basically summarised what you need to know on the slides. 

Before your lectures, read through the slides (should take about 30 minutes for a 2 hour lecture) and mark/circle anything you don’t understand - then when you get to the lecture, jot down a clarification in your own words based on the professor’s explanation. Eventually, you’ll find that you have studied the topic well enough to not need your own footnotes. 

It takes a little experience to know which professors have slides you can study off (tip: it’s usually the ones where you don’t have to write down much) but it’s totally worth the time you save!

Additional Clarification

Firstly, you need to be able to know which subjects you need to make study notes and which ones you can just study off the lecture slides.

The therapeutics notes were my study notes, not my lecture notes. I just whacked a colour scheme onto the headings since I’m a visual learner. For that subject, the prof just uploaded her ppt files onto moodle. It took me and my classmates 4-5 hours to go through the content, because the recording was written in the notes beneath the slide itself (see below)

See here, if you just take away the colour scheme, it’s literally just dot points and insert needed pictures from the lecture slide afterwards.

Usually if it’s an in-class lecture, I’ll do exactly what I described in my original post. I’ll annotate on the lecture slides themselves. Either print the slides out and handwrite, or use Adobe Acrobat to add comments.

^ Binocular vision was one of those subjects where I would write notes afterwards, because there’s a lot of explanation during the lectures.

WHAT IF I DON’T GET SLIDES BEFORE CLASS?

There’s two ways that I think both merit a mention.

Summarise from the slides projected on to the screen and the professor’s words as you go. 

Pro: quick way to make notes, no need to rewrite much

Con: can miss details from what professor is saying if copying down from slides too much.

Write down only a slide number, and then focus on only what the professor says about the content. 

Pro: don’t miss any information, less stressful because there’s only one source of information (the prof) instead of two (the prof and the slides)

Con: need to integrate information later at home in study notes/lecture slides, and if you misnumber the slides during class it can get confusing. 

Personally I prefer the second, because for me, not missing information is more important than the time I save. The second one is better for professors who are the type to add in more information to what’s already on the slide, rather than just going through each of the dot points, i.e. professors who use slides as a simple outline, rather than a complete guide to lecturing. Do what suits your style, and what suits the class speed/format.

Hope this has been an informative post about the differences between university and high school studying! Please follow me for weekly study tips, study pics and now kpop vocab lists!

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What do copywriters do, and why do businesses need them?

Yikes, gotta get this one right.

So, you want to know what us writers do all day? Well, when we’re not out fighting crime, solving rubix cubes blindfolded or providing the office eye candy, I’d like to to think we’re quite a useful bunch for a business to have around.

This article will focus on a copywriter’s core responsibilities, and what value they bring to the company table. It will also clarify, once and for all, the difference between copywriters and content writers.

Let’s just hope it reads well.

Copywriters play a vital role in your digital marketing efforts….I promise

The difference between copywriters and content writers

Two roles, both alike in dignity, in your digital marketing team, where we lay our scene.

While quoting Shakespeare is the most cliche thing you can do in an article about writing, this new and improved opener from Romeo and Juliet has two important takeaways:

Copywriters and content writers are not the same thing.

Their contributions are equally important to your digital marketing efforts.

Let’s unpack these ideas a bit further.

While the terms ‘copywriter’ and ‘content writer’ are often used interchangeably, the types of writing they produce perform different functions:

Copywriters: These folk are primed to pitch your brand directly to your target audience. They’re experts in finding that killer verbal jingle that will sell your service, product or idea. As well as traditional advertising media such as billboards and TV commercials, these are the people behind your social media ads and marketing emails.

Content writers: Content writers generally sit much further up the sales funnel. Their content emphasises thought leadership – positioning your brand as an industry authority and drawing prospects to the next stage of the buyer journey.

Thus far I’ve spoken about the roles as if they’re performed by different people. While for some businesses this may be true, in reality it’s likely one writer wearing different hats (varied headwear is another copywriter role prerequisite).

This article is about copywriters, so we’ll take the job description above and leave content writing for another day.

Readers are more discerning about the #content they consume than ever. With that in mind, here are the top Australian #marketing #blogs that can help in 2019. https://t.co/zZPurwuUZY pic.twitter.com/ciqOXHe3M5

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 10 March 2019

What do copywriters do?

Consumers only see the fruits of a copywriter’s labour – powerful, promotional content that seeks to prompt the reader into taking an action.

However, there’s a lot more to this than simply putting digital pen to paper. A good piece of writing is likely to have gone through the following steps before it appears before your eyeballs:

1. Strategic brainstorming

In order to create a message that resonates with your target audience, a copywriter needs to know who this is. Ideally, your content strategists will have created user personas that provide crucial targeting info such as ages, genders, interests and pain points.

Equally important is your brand style guide. This is a copywriter’s instruction manual, detailing essential editorial building blocks such as tone, style and reliable citation sources.

As we’ll see a little later, this isn’t a one-way street – the process comes full circle, meaning that copywriters can play an important part in informing future strategic decisions.

2. Subject research

At first glance, research may seem to be more the domain of your two-ebooks-a-week content writers. However, the ability to amass and distill relevant source information is equally important for copywriters.

This is especially true if your business offering is complex. In this instance, getting to grips with new products or services is likely to involve a lot of reading, and perhaps even interviews.

Some copywriters take this a step further and move into the realms of technical writing. These expert wordsmiths specialise in taking particularly jargon-heavy or technical subjects, and making them accessible to all.

The days of quantity over quality in terms of #socialmedia posting are over. Today, your content needs to hit the mark every time. Here’s why. https://t.co/qwxWMfziox pic.twitter.com/2J1lHjIPcw

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 25 February 2019

3. Copy editing

A great way to sort the sheep from the goats when recruiting a copywriter is to ask what editing experience they have.

This is important for two reasons:

Self-editing – Your copy needs to be flawless. Grammatical gaffes, myriad misspellings and clunky constructions distract from your message, preventing it hitting home. If your copywriter has editing experience, they’re likely to be more critical of their own work, making for higher quality output.

Peer editing – Importantly, editing experience doesn’t mean experience as ‘an editor’. Not all businesses can justify having one senior editor, but having writers who can reliably check each other’s output is invaluable when it comes to efficient production.

4. Sourcing imagery

Depending on your departmental setup, your writers may have responsibility for sourcing on brief imagery to accompany their scribblings.

Why does your business need a copywriter?

So, what material difference will someone with these skills make to your business. There are a number of reasons why a copywriter can be a real asset to just about any company:

1. Creating a powerful brand image

The way your brand presents itself can have a huge impact on your bottom line. In fact, one-third of consumers say that trust in brand influences their choice of retailers, according to PwC.

Your copywriters have a huge part to play here. Trusty style guide in hand, their writing should speak the language of your consumers, both in terms of the words they choose, and the topics they address.

The term ‘brand style guide’ is bandied around a lot in #marketing circles, but what do they contain, and why does your company need one? https://t.co/yFxVohBM8Z pic.twitter.com/k5X5m9JHCZ

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 8 March 2019

2. SEO wizardry

While pleasing your target audience is goal number one, your copywriter will always have one eye on impressing the internet’s master of ceremonies – Google.

Why does this matter? Well, according to the Australian Postal Corporation, Aussies spent $213 billion on online goods in 2017, an increase of 18.7 per cent from the previous year. However, with so many companies vying for the top slots on search engine results pages (SERPs), good writing alone won’t cut it. A seasoned copywriter will possess a number of tricks to rub the algorithm the right way, and help your business cut through the noise.

When it comes to SEO, a copywriter help can by:

Stress testing keywords: While your strategy team will have defined priority keywords using tools such as Google Console, your copywriter can take these insights a step further. They can analyse competition on keywords for individual pieces by examining SERPs and seeing where the best balance between relevance and competition lies.

Including the necessary HTML tags: As intelligent as Google’s crawlers are, they’re not human. Take images and videos as examples – without the appropriate tags a bot can tell that these elements are present, but that’s about it. A copywriter can signpost these features to Google so that they contribute value to your content from an SEO perspective.

Optimising your formatting: Your writers can glean information from existing SERPs that will help your content rank. For example, taking information from Google’s ‘People Also Asked’ box and building it into your subtitles will increase the value from a user perspective, and therefore in SEO terms as well.

Keywords may sound like an SEO blast from the past, but used in the right way they can still be effective. Let’s deep dive into keywords in 2019. https://t.co/8nNlk6uUPl pic.twitter.com/vFsoQ5iQ11

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 8 December 2018

3. Helping to build out strategy

As mentioned, copywriters play more of a role in digital planning than simply following advice from content strategists.

They can help influence the direction of future campaign strategies as a result of one of their core responsibilities – research.

Those hours spent picking through endless SERPs mean that we writers have a deep understanding of digital marketing trends within a given industry. Crucially from a strategic standpoint, this means we know:

How our content is doing: If we’re continually searching industry related terms and our own work is never popping up, something is wrong. This could indicate that keyword research is off the mark, or that a change in style is needed to capture imaginations.

Where the gaps are: By looking at our work next to that of industry competition, writers are perfectly positioned to find gaps in the available content. Exploiting these value vacuums is the stuff of strategy dreams, helping to build the idea of your brand as an authority voice that consumers can trust.

Phew, that was stressful. How did I do?

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Finding Optimum Value From Your Reading

There's no secret that there's a tonne of information out there and you probably have a shed-load of it coming down on you every day through post, email, RSS subscriptions, phone calls and any other channels you're connected to. But as so many commentators are saying at the moment, information is worth literally nothing if you can't or don't act on it. Information overload happens when you've got so much stuff coming in that you can't see the wood for the trees and end up not doing anything about any of it. That's silly when there's so much helpful content around. With a little common sense and a decent system, you can squeeze every drop of utility out of your subscriptions without breaking a sweat or completely rededicating your life to your RSS reader. Here's a few pointers based on the way I do things. Be Selective Of course, this goes without saying and besides, everyone has already said it, so I won't dwell on it. You don't have to subscribe to every feed that could potentially be useful and you don't have to read every incoming article. My current preference is to subscribe to every blog or site that looks good and give it about a month's trial. If after that time it turns out to be a dud or bombards me with more than I can take (Lifehacker anyone?), I'll simply cut it. Once a feed has concreted itself in my subs list, I'll scan the titles and only read the ones that look interesting. Enough said. Leave a Comment Often, the first thing I do when I hit on a gem of an article is leave a comment. Sometimes it's just to let the author know that I appreciated their work, but more often it helps to formulate my own thoughts on whatever contribution they have made. This can be an incredibly good way of working out what you want to get from the article or where it fits into your life/work/brain. It can take as little as two minutes to type out a thoughtful response to a good article and you've invested that time in quickly mentally summarising the main ideas and clarifying, to yourself, what it means to you. It's like a little revision note on the subject matter of the article. If you're lucky, you'll start a conversation based on your interpretation of the topic and will gain the insight and feedback of others, which can lead to even greater personal clarity and appreciation of the original material. Now isn't that a better reason for commenting than the shameless, self-promoting, cut-and-paste "Thanks for the great article. I have been thinking a lot about this topic.", that weight-loss blogs leave all over the net. Share The next thing I like to do is share the article with members of the communities I am involved with. Why? Firstly, because if liked it, then chances are that people I'm connected to might like it as well. So, I'll tweet about it, digg it, stumble it or share it in Google Reader. It's another hats-off to the author and a considerate and useful way to get involved in the online communities relevant to you. But there are selfish reasons too. By clicking on a button to share, I am confirming to myself my interest in the article and desire to do something with it. If I tell people about some great tips to achieve x that I have read, I'd be a fool not to follow them myself, wouldn't I? That's a little more self-motivation to gain some benefit from a great article. Also, following on from the theme of starting a conversation, if you start some buzz around a topic, you're more likely to get input from others which can enhance your and their understanding of the subject even further. Batch What? Batch? The chances are that whilst you're reading your feeds, your not going to be in a position to act immediately on something you've read, and even if you are, it might be better to leave it until later. Maybe you're on the train or on someone else's computer, or maybe you're just absorbed in reading and don't want to interrupt your relaxed thought train with a 10K power run or total re-conceptualisation of your company's marketing strategy. Whatever the reason, you're probably going to have to somehow mark or file the articles away for later reference and action. Then, you can 'batch up' the points that relate to the same topic (e.g., marketing) and action them at a time which is both suitable and maximises their impact (e.g., when you've got a pen and a copy of the marketing strategy plan in front of you). Sounds logical, doesn't it? When you cherished this post in addition to you want to receive details about Value Investing Singapore i implore you to visit our own page. My way of doing this is with the organised clipping service Evernote, but really you could use any kind of system which allows you to take a copy of the article, tag or categorise it, and file it away for later use. I use a simple system: I clip articles to be actioned and tag them with a couple of words to indicate what they are about (personal development, marketing, running) and then put them into a special folder (category) called 'To Be Actioned'. Simple. When I'm in action mode, I'll go to my 'To Be Actioned' folder and filter down by the tag or tags that relate to what I'm working on at that moment. The Bottom Line There's no point reading great content if you don't make it work for you. Sometimes an article can prompt a simple tweak in your workflow, sometimes a major lifestyle overhaul. Either way, you should set yourself up for maximising value. Remember: select, comment, share, organise, store and action. It might take a five-minute time investment for each article, so that's a good way to filter your focused reading. Think to yourself, "Am I willing to invest five minutes to extract whatever value this article is offering me?". If the answer is 'Yes', then go for it. If the answer is 'No', then it's probably not worth reading. Unless it's for fun, of course.  

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