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one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

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Studying is easy with a cat around 🐱

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Some days you have to study in bed as a compromise, because otherwise you wouldn’t study at all.

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I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.

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nothing to be ashamed of

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Rabbis from the US and Israel marched towards the Erez crossing carrying symbolic aid for Gaza and calling to end the war. The police blocked them a few hundred meters from the border, and arrested 7 protesters. source

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If you wait until you're "better" or "good enough" to start treating yourself like you deserve to be happy, you'll die waiting. By the way. 💚

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ANYWAY, REDEMPTION ARCS AREN’T ABOUT WHO “DESERVES” ONE.

THAT’S THE POINT.

ANYBODY AT ANY TIME CAN STOP DOING BAD THINGS AND DECIDE THEY WANT TO BE BETTER.

YOU ALSO DON’T HAVE TO FORGIVE THEM IF YOU DON’T WANT TO.

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If you go to the park at 3 in the morning the cops make a whole production out of it but what the fuck else am I supposed to do at 3 in the morning?

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Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it's called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes

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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

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How to Love and Care for Yourself More

1. Interrupt the denigrating, negative self talk.

2. Don’t beat yourself up when you get something wrong.

3. Give yourself credit for the ways you’ve changed and grown.

4. Say something good about yourself every day.

5. Refuse to fixate on the things that could go wrong.

6. Believe that you are worthy of unconditional love.