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whipt up a bit o' sumfin inspirin fer you lot

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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

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The Great Ace Attorney project ✨

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The 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is obviously not without its flaws: its production was not only hell for the actors but it was also, frankly, dangerous, and in retrospect it was definitely not the sort of film Nintendo wanted to attach their flagship franchise to. But much more so than the 2023 film the film understood that film and video games are two completely different mediums and that gameplay as it is shown in a video game is mostly a contrivance to grant players agency over the action. You can't make a film about an Italian man jumping on turtles and driving go-karts because jumping on turtles and driving go-karts are simply means of utilizing the language of video games towards telling the story. A video game movie that simply translates the act of gameplay (down to a progression of "levels") into film simply turns the player into a spectator: the interactivity lost the viewer is reduced to a passive recipient for what would undoubtedly be a fun set piece to play but does not serve any major narrative function,

The bank robber on the phone with the hostage negotiator: Please just send the SWAT team in to kill us all

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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this too shall pass

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Screw canon they’re all bisexual (to me)

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you can think someone's an idiot and not hate them. anyone who doesn't understand this has never had a coworker

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

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samling av skumma ted gärdestad lyrics

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Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

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Det är ju faktiskt i april som man luras

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i just spilled coffee (with oat milk) over the entire couch. just thought everyone should know that

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Yeeaah I recognise that my response probably was a bit unexpected. XD Hopefully it didn't freak you out too much. It's just that you are one of those people on tumblr that I've regularly but randomly started thinking about over the years and gone, "man, Isaac really was so cool and nice and had so many interesting things to say, I hope he's doing well".

And on that note, I'm glad you are doing sort of well? Things seem to be going in the right direction at least, based on what I can tell from your reply. And hope for the future is always good!! I had a pretty awful period of my life that started in spring of 2022 and (at least in practice) ended last summer, but I am really only just now starting to come back from it tbh. Sometimes these things take time. You just gotta find a way to actually live life even in the middle of all that stress. Be mindful and all that, y'know.

As for my work, there's a lot I can't really talk about in a tumblr post. 😅 But I'd be happy to tell you more in a DM! I can say a few things here though. Maybe you remember that I studied law? If you don't, that's fine. But basically I had no idea in which particular field of law I wanted to work (and I even really didn't know I wanted to study law until I applied, I thought I wanted to be a musician or writer when I was younger, but then my experiences with studying music in high school sort of ruined it for me and made me want to do something radically different).

The very last class I took in uni was a class in IT law, which I found really fun and interesting. There was another student in that class who was taking her law degree on the side while working, and she was starting up an IT law department in her workplace. After a presentation I made in class one day she went up to me and asked whether I wanted to come work with her. Since I am honest to a fault, I said something along the lines of, "I would love to, but just so you know, I have zero work experience and also I am probably autistic". She was like, "you gotta start somewhere!" - and then she hired me, and it turned out great. I'm still working with her today actually (7 years later!), although in a different constellation. And yeah it does have good benefits. Though my work situation in particular is a bit of a special case, so I don't know how helpful it would be for you to hear more about it. But again, we can talk more about this in a DM if you want. I'd be happy to tell you more there! ^_^

Ooh, I think I remember you being a research assistant, actually? It sounds like you do very important work! I know very little (if anything) about that field so please imagine me looking at the image above with eyes as big as saucers, going "it's a corn-cob guy with a diamond hat :O". Respectfully, of course!! I am in awe of science-doers.

But I can understand the issues about payment vs. how much skill it takes. Do you have any ideas about what you might want to do instead? Do you want to do something in the same exact field, or branch out?

Btw I went through the absolutely horrible chore of trying to search through my blog for the instances where I tagged you. I probably missed some but here are two (though the first one isn't really a tag game at all): (1) (2)

Some times, although they are few and far between, I feel like I'm actually making a difference with my work. Like something I do has an appreciable, positive effect on people's lives. It doesn't have to be big, just something that has an effect in practice; not just paper pushing, but an actual impact on how things are done in the industry. It always gets me when that happens, and I'm so glad I'm in a place where that is possible for me. I'm so glad I can do good in my own way.