#learnign systems

[theconfusedartist]

I just saw that someone replied on my "Before Penn Station" fic on ff.net and!!! they're one of my favorite protocreed authors!!! I'm so stoked!

Also they mentioned that there was a lot of information and things going on that wasn't quite explained as well as a sudden shift in PoV which---hehe

I'm so! Glad! They pointed that out!!!

Bc it would be a sudden PoV shift if you only consider Desmond to be the only one who is telling the story. I mean. I can't spoil too much because a lot of that gets explained in the Prototype game era of the fic, which is its own act but. The fact that they pointed it out is so!!!!!!!

As a writer, it feels so good when I put a line that stands out and makes the reader scratch their heads. yes yes yes

[blackdeathfan5]

the ten rules of banning adam to cause the apcolyse and mark yourselves false idol by the shower temma 42 of the game.

the tren rule of plagerism learnign from balg who stiill cant add me back till they @ themagicianacrians@gmail.com anyways. the first rule is if it is too high quliaty and stolen no mater what you ocunt as a theif of the plagerist when a coypright system or a clause on cardoe is in play with a fictional charracters, named called balg did supper. The history is unless you can win over this plagerist we will just loose the wok if you arent tied to holcouast ever with your plagerisms or its updates. or native america, called wendys eats supoer, or dekoda is a wendigo.

The udpate to this is removing highqulaity and letting them use your email at each toehr. This is so inasnae it might work that fails tilly our a bitch online and loose your acount. it works. you make new one. or go to torture porn. youtube honours spirit world. most companies wont secretly this level unless contacts in eyes.

reviews are down!

the end.

[imraespace]

headphones anon are tou a history warrior too because my history teacher genuinely makes me either yay i love history or what the hell am i learning why did that happen wait why did that happen HOW DID THAT AFFECT THAT WAIT WHO THE HELL IS THAT WHO IS WHO WHYA THE DUICKKCLHALAB IS HAPPENING

i also dont pay attention and scroll on my phone the entire period because all my history teacher does is hate on germans but randomly starts speaking german and the fiat money system because we hate america!!!! HELP HE LEGIT SAID THAT ONCE BUT ANYWYAS

I hate hsitoey i have a physics exam like two days in a row so im tweaking out but im doijg ok in the subject liek im def doing better than most ppl but also im afraid my science teacher is gonna pull up with a 180 and start talkign like YUP SO WE’RE LEARNIGN THIS NOW AND URE ON UR OWN AND GO DIE IN A HOLE. so im tweaking out bc we havent learnt another concept either and i saw it ont he review whatever guys whatEVER LITERALLT WHATEVER.

i need to sneeze

achoo

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HELP? odd teacher you have....

[the-firebird69]

And we can use this it's a basic shape and he says you need a wide body in the rear and the front is already flared for some reason. And it is kind of fun he says the back looks cool but it's just a window and you'd rather have it with annual bloomer angled louver. There is a mid drive car and it is older and smaller and it would work. This needs some work and we do say it does. Does. The front end is pretty low but it's not low enough and he says the magic words and we'd like to try it there's a way to retrofit but that's a lot of work so we're looking at this as a kick car to revive and he wants to do it and he wants to do it in our shop with their people in a combined effort the same name and everything. The rear would be different I'm just like a cow that goes on the back it doesn't go much lower you keep the tail lights the same but they are positioned differently and flush of course in the middle looks a lot cooler the back has the look but it's indented and it's the louver look of the Ferrari you still have the sides similar That's the size of the louver the whole panel would be indented and it's going to be where the engine goes shortly

- We're going to include features from the John Cena car that are ours and we reserve the right to and we need information. The induction system for the mid engine but they're all gonna have it some of it will be a blank panel we also will include the fairing system for the side you'll see it on the Cena it's not really going to be a slow on the front end as well. It will look like a regular sports car or a super car it won't have the mega car look but we will redesign and modernize and yeah the rear end needs to be kicked out quite a bit in the front a little more and it's gonna be awesome and it will look every bit as awesome as top line Ferrari or Lamborghini and better it'll be part muscle car.

We need to clarify that this will be on the VW and he spoke with his son and daughter in law he thinks he got it from before he says he does have it and knows what the math is he tested it so we're talking about something else but it's a great day.

he did say it is a learnign experience nad that he is better at it and each day and his father says we learn that way his wife too had the same experience learne and tested loved it now are into it a lot.

he stated "this may be how i get the vw gulf car" and it is true we do see it and tons say it this might. and we see why yes. to make it grow. and a few do that this way. for money. power and wealth and to take ships. bja is one and not too aggressive. john r is. and says it he is driving my car took it. and we say it. and macs o too. ok and mac daddy. too.

we use this chassis below

This is the Pontiac GTO. 350 horsepower. they made it for about 10 years And it is a wonderful vehicle no it sucks it's very slow for for that amount of horsepower it doesn't even feel fast it clogs up real quick and our car would come with exhaust it is a perfect wheelbase and with and they make a whole bunch of other ones grand am that they're practically the same chassis we can probably use the same mold but really could change it a little and use all the same parts the idea on the Volkswagen is different you're not touching the interior. The idea here would be the same not even the seats only emblems and things like that and accessories will come with a basic package. But you see that it's not really that complicated but on this car you would have to remove the panels and the roof and we'd probably start with a one piece which would look a little bit like the Cena car without the glass and such would be a standard super car look on the front but yeah it would look very very very incredible. We're thinking of doing it we're going to try and get it going and we are looking for people to sponsor. There are so many There are so many of these cars and they were fast but not fast enough on the front end is low enough they don't disturb it and after time we will use the cradle idea and we'll probably make a bunch with the cradle for ourselves and offer it probably make most of us with the cradle say 50 miles an hour faster and handles twice as good but this vehicle will handle it it would there's no comparison between this car and what the Bradley GT two will be there's none there's also not a smaller version this is the size of Bradley GT2 which is AC2 we're gonna go ahead and start this is a great idea and he did it by working with us in brainstorming with all of us as a team his son and daughter in law and some others even Alicia is in there somewhere so we're gonna get going on this

the below will be the new planton panels to be the new porche you see

this is the look slightly different but close. and it is a 1991 911 porche. and tons love it we love it. and a 130hp vw bug 97-2007 wiht our plant on panels will go from 160 and after to 225mph tons want it we hear good.

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we helped a lot Hera Zues all of us did Savage Oppress us too Nuada Arrianna and me Alicia and no dave did not well mb a bit likes it.

me too heped have the car ready no

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[unskilledpoint]

is unskilled system coded

not particularly? like i can TOTALLY see where one could get this concept but its not that. in fact i think itd be kind of an insult to systems if i were to say they were (because unskilled HATES the voices. which would be fine, if their arc was about, say learnign to ACCEPT said voices. but from the perspective of myself looking at my plans its not about that. but of course plans can change, and i could alter them so that they are more representative of system.)

at its core, unskilleds arc is about CHANGE. its about how much people change, to the point where the you or i of ten years of ago is completely unrecognizable to the you or i of today. of course, because unskilled is a fictional character i can ramp up this theme of change up to a thousand by having them be an immortal whos changed so much they developed completely alternate lives. even so the motifs are still VERY much present.

if you wanna do like, character analysis, then take note how much they resent the idea of change in their conversation with Prof and their general attitude about their previous lives in their previous conversation with Cat [though note thats FAR FAR toned down since they dont want to scare cat away from them + that was before the voices/their own retrospection got harsher and harsher.]

[middleofaverage]

Good digital products are not (only) due to technology

Product management is on my mind. I wish it were more on the mind of the digital learning world. Good product management is in that simple yet lots of work category...silver bullets miss the mark.

For a variety of reasons the theme of product management is on my mind these days. A range of conversations and threads of work have drawn me to it and held me there. In my experience product management is poorly understood in the learning world. There is a strong tendency to equate products with systems. Compounding this problem, we are often stuck thinking of content publishing and online…

[cultofthepigeon]

im not actually pissed off but the dramatic part of my soul is about the fact that from kindergarten to senior year i went to multiple remedial classes, tutors, and various learning aides cause i struggled in school and i dead ass would explain to teachers “i know that the test and work sheets are covered in doodles but sometimes i have to take these mini breaks between thinking hard and then ill get back to it but i always finish em see!” and not a single god damn person said “maybe theres something Learningly Disabled about this creature”. years of parents, tutors, and teachers telling me and each other that what i needed to do was Slow Down and saying i had problems with wanting to get tests and shit over with so i could go read/doodle like Bruh

[fair-lead]

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[cicidraws]

ive been dealing with abuse for a while from my dad, and its gotten worse the last year almost everyday being a fight, and him not learnign a single time despite him claiming hes sorry, then the next hour he acts like i can just forget about the horrible things he says and does. but now itsgotten so bad, hes ignoring everyhting i do now. hes ignoring texts even tho we live together (blocking my number even), the air feels colder than its ever been, i feel emptier than ive ever felt, im very tired and alone. and the one place i could go, there was a recent stomach flu there, and is miles away in another state so i just cant leave. i have nowhere to go, no support system right now, my therapy and psychiatry is halted rn bc of insurance not doing what they need to do to see if i caneven have medicaid, its just all shit. i have nothing. im tired.

[thetinypsychologist]

STARTING A STUDYBLR

So since I’ve restarted / rebranded my blog, I feel like I’d be able to give some advice on starting a studyblr.

WHAT IS A STUDYBLR?

Studying + Tumblr. It’s a community of people documenting their academic journies as well as supporting and motivating each other and posting study tips! There are many reasons to have one, such as holding yourself accountable for studying, support from the community, motivating yourself, finding new and effective ways to learn, as well as admiring all the beautiful notes out there!

MAIN BLOG OR SIDE BLOG?

There are pros and cons to both. If you’re wanting to have a completely new account, follow people and interact via your studyblr etc, then opt for a main. If you’re happy to continue on one account, then create a side blog. However, when you use a secondary blog for your studyblr, it will follow as your main account. Personally, I made mine a main blog because I don’t have another Tumblr account, and preferred following people off my main account anyway. You can find more information on the differences here.

PICKING A URL, ICON, THEME ETC.

URL: Most people just put their user name as (their name)studies. However you can be more creative if you want! Incorporate your interests, your subject major, etc. I chose @thetinypsychologist because I study psychology and I’m short!

Icons: Some people choose random pictures for their icons, but some people make their own on Adobe Photoshop, Canva or other applications. You could also commission people to make an icon!  Check out @annistudio icons here.

Theme:  Choose a mobile theme and desktop theme. Choose a colour scheme to fit your account and a header image if you want one. If your studyblr has mostly photos, multicolumn/grid themes work best but if you have text posts as well, I’d recommend a single column theme for easy reading. Great theme-makers include @theme-hunter @sorrism @skythemes @shudesigns @pohroro @stardusthms

BLOGS TO FOLLOW

A few of my favourites are: @emmastudies @alimastudies @studymlk @studyquill @likeimstudying @legallystudies @studyign @studypetals @universtudy @universi-tea @eintsein @studyspisces @weststudies @munibahstudies @revisign @anthropologie-s @archedemia @learnign @piscestudying

And me :-) @thetinypsychologist

ACTUALLY POSTING:

Set up a navigation system: Decide whether you’re going to tag your posts and set up a filing system. You can look at my navigation page here for inspiration. You might also decide to make extra pages like faq, social media, study playlists etc.

Write an Introductory Post: Tell people who you are, what you’re studying, your interests etc. Tagging your favourite studyblrs / inspiration will get your blog out there!

What to post: Study tips, what you’re currently working on, planner / bujo inspo, masterposts, big blog posts, 100 days of productivity challenge etc.

Hashtags:  Popular hashtags to add to your posts are #studyspo #studyblr #studyspiration #whatsonmydesk #whatsonmytable #studying #studymotivation #stationary. Some studyblrs track tags such as #heysareena #elkstudies etc.

GETTING FOLLOWERS

Most people gain followers after posting a really aesthetic post or a helpful masterpost. Equally, interacting with other studyblrs also helps get your blog out there. More content leads to more followers so if you know you’re going to be busy, use the queue option. Also excessively tag your posts (see above).

TIPS

Post regularly

Make friends and reblog posts

You don’t need a fancy camera for pictures! Just use your phone. 

You also don’t need fancy stationery 

Believe in yourself!

[system-of-a-feather]

Entropy System’s System Pride Day Questions

So I finally got around to watching that video and felt it was a pretty good and interesting set of questions and felt I would go ahead and answer them in terms of our system so those that follow can get a little more knowledge about us and our experiences. This is all answered by Riku - the current host of this system. Plus I lost track of time and totally didn’t notice System Pride Day coming up so lets just have this be belated System Pride Day post

How old was the body when the host discovered they were part of a system?

That depends really which host we are talking about. I am currently the third long term host that this system has had and I can’t personally speak for the two hosts before me since I don’t know how aware they were of the situations that were going on. Personally, I didn’t know about the presence of other alters (even as a protector since I normalized everything odd about it somehow?) until I was about 13 or 14 when a certain incident kind of freaked me out since I co-fronted clearly for the first time and didn’t know why I couldn’t control my body. From there Aderis kind of made herself prominent and pretty well known and it kind of moved from there. With that being said, I didn’t know anything of Dissociative Identity Disorder or that it was an actual disorder with a basis in trauma until I was 16 or 17 years old. Prior to that I alternated between thinking it was “normal”, “imaginary friends”, “intense and out of hand roleplaying”, and “just my imagination.”

How many members do you have / are you aware of?

We are well aware of seven members existing currently. According to Ray, we have a fragment that is dormant that most of us don’t know about but isn’t particularly much of a current worry. There might be others, but to our current knowledge, we are seven.

Do you attend formal therapy? Have you in the past?

I am currently seeing a trauma / dissociative disorder specialist and have been seeing him for about a year and a half now. I have been in the mental health system for about four years now and saw a different therapist prior. (I’ve also bounced around between therapists for short periods of time, seen three psychiatrists, and been in group therapy)

How many misdiagnosis have you had?

I wouldn’t say I’ve had any major misdiagnosis in the past as much as “inaccurate” diagnosises in the sense they weren’t “wrong” but they danced around the issue / were more technical or were hard to confirm and have been brought into question. I have been diagnosed with OCD and Aspergers in the past however, lately it seems more likely that OCD is more “OCD tendencies” and is under debate, and Aspergers - when I saw an Autism specialist - was hard to pinpoint whether or not I had learned a lot of traits from my two family members that have it or if I had it and coped pretty well. The other thing that has been brought up with my current therapist is if the autistic traits are more centralized in some alters more than others.

I’ve also been diagnosed with what I like to call “understatement” diagnosises where they are right, but don’t really fall under the DSM-V’s typical line of “the disturbance is not better explained by another mental disorder” such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Do you have a proper diagnosis?

Yep. My current therapist diagnosed me sometime last year. 

My previous therapist - the one that specialized in autism and not dissociative / trauma disorders - did bring up the concern almost immediately though when I first started therapy because apparently one of the first issues you talk about casually being “I’m majorly depressed because my online self is way better than me and handles life way better and I just suck so I should just stop existing so we can have a better life” while also not knowing what dissociation is apparently quickly pings off concern.

Hilariously that therapist ended up dismissing it and so I did as well until my current therapist was like “Uh, I’m pretty sure you have DID.”

What is one situation that you are really proud of your system’s teamwork?

One situation? Man there are a lot, but I think I really am just proud of how well all of us have pulled together to manage living away from home at college and shit. Plus running this blog, but mostly college and juggling that, self care, recovery, goals, money, and a social life all at once.

What is the biggest hurdle you’ve overcome so far as a system?

I would probably say figuring out how to function, communicate, trust, and organize ourselves - especially how we relate to other people in our life and who to decide to let in our lives and who to not. We used to have a lot of issues with codependency and systems having drastically different opinions of people in our life so coming to figure out a way to mutually respect one another and trust each other’s judgements and understand where one of us might be biased / incorrect / swayed by trauma, extreme personality traits, or lack of insight and assigning responsibility / a order of respect / trust on topics to each alter. Really just getting our life in order and learnign to properly respect the experience, opinions, and individual knowledge of each part was probably the hardest for us.

Is your goal final fusion or functional multiplicity?

We are currently striving for functional multiplicity. If final fusion does occur down the line naturally, we aren’t 100% opposed to it, but honestly as we are, we are pretty comfortable and adjusted to living life as a team. We don’t really see the need to have to fuse unless it helps or unless a part feels like they would prefer / function better integrated with another part that agrees. We aren’t against fusion, but also we don’t see too much of the point.

Do you feel that each of you and your alters each deserve happiness, safety, and acceptance?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

I would also like to extend that to pretty much anyone who has a single molecule or more of carbon in their body (save for some objectively horrible people as exceptions).

But I really do try to help and hope that everyone in my system, and anyone in systems reading this, can get the happiness, safety, and acceptance that they deserve to have since no one deserves to live with anything less

We all are working hard to make this life work out so I feel its the least we deserve. It’s the least you deserve.

[ifightmywarswithfingerguns]

People say life teaches you the hardest lessons of all and you shoudl learn from those lessons. (insert qupte herer) However, I feel that it isn't life teaching you it is you, you tech yourself these things because they're your experiences and only you can decide how you feel and how you want to live your life. Yes, these are always outside influences. Up the unlimited decisions are always made.by you and you're the one who has to live with said decisions. No one else I the world knows what you want and no one else but you knows how you feel. So why shouldn't the person who is with yo the most by the one who lobes you the most? Life is full of old but I feel the most important love one should feel is the love for themselves. How much you love yourself depends on how you perceive yourself and who you think you are. If you base your self perception on the feelings of others you'll always be unsure of who you are because you are differ t and hold different meanings for different people. Your mother sees a different person than your best friend and you teacher may know more about you than the. Other combined but only you know who you all. Who you are is. On prized of all these things, it is the whole picture not just the pieces taken by different people.

A lot of this perception takes place in our own minds because how we see ourselves is reflected in all of our actions, someone who feels poorly about themselves may nto stand as straight or walk with a certain swager as soemone else who is confident in themselves. And in today's world with the ever constant attack on your girls in the media I find it more difficult to find girls who can honestly say they lvoe themselves and take pride in how intelligent, beautiful, and witty they are. If you ask a woman if they are aware of their beauty they shy away and find 50 things ":wrong" with themselves within twenty seconds because they have a list in their heads of their flaws. It is alwyas there when we're out buying clothes or watching a movie there is a pressure to look, act, and dress adn certian way to be considered attractive. Go to the store and pick up a tabloid and i gaurentee you'll see it plastered everywhere of "how to loose weiht, makeup tips to look better, and hwo to get/please a man." We are tarught that it is our goal to confomr to what the male gaze desrires fom us adn become that no matter how unrealistic. I vividly rememebr thinking if i read all the magazines and dress like them and looked like them aht boys owuld like me and i would be completley happy with every aspect of my life. Thankfully that never happened because I am a different person nwo and how I fel about myself is how every girl/woman shold feel about herself and that is loved. Every woman should love herself for all that shee is because all the media we see isn't real and none of it will ever make you happy with yourself. The media is made that way to make you spend money trying to look like these women who are photoshopped or diet and starve themelves in order to look the wway they do. It is a vicious cycle but it is on ethat can be broken. So that little girls don't grow up and skip meals because it'll make tem prettier. So they grow up to be women who own thier bodies prudly and aren't afraid to say "yes, i am beautiful.". I love body positivity and sein women lvoe thier bodesi no matter how much hair, fat, or stretch marks they have on them. I also love seing women complimenting each other instead of competing to be the prettiest in the room to gain male attention. There is so much propoganda tearing women down that it is empowring and heatwarming to see them wake up and shun the idea that they should be anythin other than what they are. That they should o to extremes to "fit in". Quit frankyl if you don't love yourself of rall that you are you will never be happy ith how you look there will alwyas be somethin ot be fixed. As soon as oyu stop lookin on the ouside for balidatio your life will imporve and your confidence wil improve because if you build youself up with the compliments from men thier criticisms will tear you down. So you become your own bricks abd rebuild yourself and your self image to one taht you like. So you take a look inside yourself and hwo you are to amke taht person better and make thsat person one who loves themelf. 

I am so adament about htis because I was trapped in the world of pandering to the male gze and constnaly fhanign my appreacne to get them to like me which  nveer worked or bsing my self confience on how others saw me and i was miserable. I was depressed, suicidial, and quite frankly i ahted myself and my body image. I still  struggle with my body image because it has been engraved into my brain dn way of thiking of hwo i hsould look adn i have to stop myself form thinmkin gthat way. I am admaent about his becaue i wasted years of my life and destroyed my body for a peive of mind i never got. I am a recovering annorexic and although it has been four years since i "quit" it has never left me. It is an ever looming shadow on my life because it is a constant thing when you have it. I was always counting calories and doing anything not to eat to avoid gaining weight. I exercised excessivly and i remember almost passing out at every workout session i would go to because i hadn't eaten htat day. I had a system of going three days without eating and on the third day maintaing a one-thousand calorie limit. It was toture but i was losing weiht and i gauged the weight by how easily you could see my bones. I pradiesd myself everytime i could see them a little bit more. I cursed myself whenever I did eat on the third day calling myself names like fat, worthless, and weak. Not only di di curse myself i punished myself for eating so much with mroe exercise or waiting an extra day to eat. I thin that was the biggest struglle of all, eating. Every bite felt like i was getting fatter and it was as trule ot force myself to eat a single bite. Every swallow felt like it was stuck in my throat and like i should go vomit ot keep it from getting ot my stomach. it was an awful feeling in multiple asy but mainly becase i love food i love eating and tastin things but i oculdn't llow myself the one htin i lvoed. An incidnet i had where i felt the weakest were When my mother made my favorite mamwhich which i love to death but i couldn't brin myself to eat it even though th esmell was intoxicating. So i went o bed with no dinner that night to get up in the morning and get ready for shcool. I wasso desperate for it i got a spoon adn just tastd it. It was loruious they savyory and salty i even chewed it a little bit but i could not le tmyself swallow it. So i we tot eh sink and spat it out and even went as far as to wsh ti task out my mouth because i couldn't even swallow that it woud be cheating. It was constant and thw rost part was i ot compliments on ym weiht loss. The compliments pushed me to continue even further because i knew it was working. I thrived off of the compliment sbecause it meant my heard work was paying off. Adn you don't get that kind ofprasie from reovery you get digusted looks like " you really let youserlf go". Or irls would be nasty in school like the usually are and i heard comment on haw faat i've gotten and horrible giggles from these gaggles of girls. Recovery is one of ht e toughtest things I ever had to go through and i had to go through it alone because no one knew about it. I coudn't let anyone know about my anorexica and peopel to this day don't know abut it because i kpeti tso well hidden. Although my eatin habits are back and i'm at a normal weigh tnow i still feel the thoughts creep up on me. i still ahe htoughts of "wow you're fat" and i have to tell myelf "yes, i have fat but i'm happy and fat is not a negative thing ot be. Fat is not a person or a noun it is an adjective to describe something and shoudn't define my entie person and how i fel abiout myself. i have fat and taht is kay and the more i accept that the happier i am with myself and the tiem i spent worryign about hwo i looked turned into learnign about why i felt that way and learnig more about myself and the wordl aroudn em. In the years since my recovery I have become mroe eduacted and acepting and aware of the world around me and I feel better for it. I feel mroe empathethic adn it gives me hope fora brihter future where i can be even better than the prson taht i am nw. I always want to learnadn grow ad I hope to ive that experince to someon eelse via my time in college and far after. I want ot encourage women to love themselves and every part of them becaue they desreve to. Because no one should have to go through what i went thorugh and because these girls are worth much mre than thier measurments. They are doctors htey are mothers they are terachers and daughters firefighers senators and presidnets. Women are amazing and capable creatures who deserve to feel some self love  and that is not soomething life will teach you. that is something you ahve to teaf. to love yousrelf deeply and with no bounds. The love the should feel for thiemselves should equal the ones they read about in reomance novels  unconditional.  It took some a long time to get where I am in loving self and who I am and I even falter sometimes when I overheard mean comments and I start to think badly of myself. I have to physically and mentally stop myself and dispute whatever it is that was said about me because I can't let myself jnternalize it. If I internalize it Nd take their opinion a truth I begin to be,I e it and become self deprecating. And now that I am in a better place i still see. Y peers whose still I the negative space that I was in and I even hear my mother and sister picking at their bodies and h Ow they wish they were different or skinnier. And I want to explain how it is a via thing to search for and to try to be. Skinny and healthy do no correlate nor does skinny and happy. It is a long process to love yourself. It is a daily regime of stopping negTive behaviors and correcting them. Small comments like oh I'm so fat or I couldnstandtk lose weight wear your self sped teem. It's about stopping yourself from those thoughts and placing them with I'm amazing and wonderful. Another thing is a denoting compliments 9/10 women will deny any compliments as if they aren't true but accepting them is accepting yourself and agreeing that ueah I am cute or adorable or whatever it is. I never wit any girls to go through the struggle that I went through especially. Yniece. These little things these Mir agrees ions add up over time and really affect how you see yourself and it starts at a young age. Children can be cruel especially she it comes to weight and Eve. Adults are cruel. I remember as a child it was a joke in the family how fat I was but it really stuck with me as I grew up that this I show people see me and bow people see me matters. And I've learned that it doesn't that it is how I see myself and how I h

[erika---k]

we have similar statistics to germany, but a bit lower. Around 40% get a high school degree (and half of that via "proper" high school and the other half by doing an additional program to an apprenticeship). I guess it's to do statistics if everything has the same name

Yeah, it's just difficult to compare. I suppose in the Swedish system the students who choose a program preparing for a trade have more theoretical education than students who just start an apprenticeship after leaving school after grade 9 or 10 in other countries, where it's just focused on learnign for that job.

But you still can't compare it to a school leaving exam after grade 12/13 in other countries that gives you full access to study at universities.

If you want to really compare the numbers you would have to take the number of every Swedish "student examen" no matter which program and the German number of all students with an "Abitur" plus everyone who got a middle school exam and finished an apprenticesship and/ or trade school afterwards... That would probably be comparable then.

[rainy-rose]

HAPPY STS!!! Are there any cultural references that highly influence your writing?

Hullo and happy STS! thank you for the ask ^^ 

Silver Serpent takes place in a fantasy version of Scotland and Ireland, but it gets influences from a bunch of other countries.

Romania: 

Vincent in half Romanian, his car is a Dacia Duster

- food - he cooks a lot of Romanian dishes, a veganized version of them, but still Romanian

- music - not traditional Romanian music, but he listenes to Romanian rock bands and has shared/introduced people to them 

- language - if he goes home for a while he gets a bit stuck on some words for a while, most of his curses, mumbled as they are, are Romanian ones, sometimes he uses Romanian version of words intentionally because he likes it more Elise always gets confused by it, Takeru has gotten used to it and doesn;t even ask what he means anymore, but uses Romanian words he has learned in response

Japan:

Takeru and his cousin Rika are both Japanese

- allll the bowing! Takeru might be the lider of the criminology department but he still bows when he gets to the office - just a bit for his inferiors, 45 degrees bow for his supperiors

- language - Rika and Takeru talk in Japanese with each other and banter in it. Since he is not that talkative in general, he uses informal Japanese and short forms, Rika uses keigo (formal Japanese) just to annoy him

- Akumu - part of Takeru and Rika’s ancestral magic, he is a  powerful youkai - japanese spirit - that sort of lives inside them

- food - altough they both have learned and are accustomed to different European quisines, they prefer Japanese food

- Hiei - Takeru’s companion a peregrine falcon, he is named after Takeru’s favorite anime character and mine as well but shhhhhh  the demon Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho. Takeru might or might not still have a poster on his wall with Hiei and Kurama

- music - Takeru listens to mostly Jrock/Visual kei bands

Irish/Scottish

- Elise’s (born and raised in Ireland) first style of dance was Irish stepdance and she integrates parts of it when she dances (contemporary dancer)  

- Eimear - she is a banshee and has been with the O’Duinns for at least 600 years

- language - Elise has learned and is fluent in Irish, Osgar is fluent in Gaelic, Vincent is slowly getting a Scottish accent, Takeru tried learnign Gaelic at some point, Tarioush speaks with a mixed accent (Scottish, Irish and Egyptian Arabic)

- whiskey - mostly in the form of banter: Elise and Tarioush against Osgar

- food - Osgar and Tarioush take turns in making dishes that partake to the cultures they greu up in

- celtic christianity - no longer activelly practiced, but the O’Duinn belief system has roots in it

Nathair - spirit of a great snake, legends place him during the picts era

- catholicism - not actually practiced, but Buach leans towards it from time to time 

- Irish fiddle - Eimear and Valen’s instrument of choice, mostly EImear, Valen would borrow hers

There are also some Algerian, Nowegian, Egyptian and Muslim influences expressed through Tarioush (ex muslim - deconverted starting with the age of 14, born in Egypt to a very strict and conservative family, moved to Ireland at the age of 7) and Ingrid ( practicing muslim, half Algerian haf Norwegian) but I need to learn a bit more about those cultures before I feel comfortable talking about how they are part of the story. 

[sanehamov]

Google street view as art

An article picked my interest mentioning how google street view can be considered an art nowadays. various photographers have been collecting pictures they have taken from the street view and making an art out of them.

one article i found interesting is by Vice mentioning an artist called Jason Isolini. the particular work concerns the incident which occured on may 18 2018 where a person was killed by an autonomous car. Isolini used to create 360 images for businesses who would then insert the file in the maps. Everyone with a business account can do so. After that Isolini started to pursue his artistic interestis. In this case he inserted a sort of a memorial on the place of the incident. HE claims he wanted to put some history into otherwisely empty mapping system. the objects we see such as a plastic thank you bag and a stock image of a smiley are supposed to create a sense of abandonement- the one you feel when leaving behind a shopping cart on an online website. he was trying to portray what E Herzberg felt when she was crossing the street although in my opinion there is no way of knowing that. another one of his pieces can be found in a certain amazon fullfilment center. in the 360 view we can see hotdogs, a flying stadium , hamburgers... in this work he wanted to point out one of amazon's ideas- to fly over stadiums with drones which would deliver food.

The one work which kept constatnly appearing was Jon Rafman's nine eyes. The title refers to the amount of cameras on the google car. there is a siple question rising up from this activity. Is a screenshot of a documentation of an environment taken by a certain corporation considered a photogrpahy? I do not feel to have the skills to discuss this issue, however I wanted to point it out.

Inspired by the medium I have created two works.

One is a video mosaic of various places i have 'been' to. it is supposed to in a way, imitate a traveller's journal. In the past people used to write extensive reports about the new places they have been to. they were taking notes, included drawings. However now I find I can look up the place beforehand, which directly decreases my sense of alianation and excitement when I arrive. With google street view i can see the streets of a town on the other part of the planet, learnign about the different culture while sitting in my home. all of the experiences I have had can be experienced by the viewer, except for the decision as to where to go. the form of the mosaic and the contrast in between the various videos only highlights the possibilities this medium brings.

The second piece is called 'Hoaxventure'. When I was a child I have been fascinated by various 'real' photos of strange creatures found on the internet. Then I found out photoshop exists. Originally I wanted to create a sort of a comicbook-video story however I feel the story part heavily lacks behind and does not properly fit into the medium. given that i Have made the Hoax part the main focus. I 'went' to Vlkolinec an old village in Slovakia also a part of the UNESCO heritage. There are still many old houses seen in this village, the one thing remotely modern being the cars parked on the streets. into on of the clips I have insterted a photo of a Vila (fairy) a typical creature of slavic mythology  . I originally wanted to do this with multiple places in different parts in the world however I felt like I did not have the proper knowledge of neither the place nor the culture to do so.

https://medium.com/@arvindpdmn/making-art-from-google-maps-20d741282c5b https://www.businessinsider.com/google-street-view-photos-artist-jon-rafman-2016-9#and-heres-pluto-having-a-grand-time-12 jon rafman the nine eyes. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-art-helps-police-officers-pay-attention-details https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3nedw/this-artist-hacking-google-to-create-surreal-street-view-art

[findteenpenpals]

Hello everybody !

Soo .. My name is Ana , I am 13, I am a virgo and I live in Romania. I can speak English and a bit of French. I am open about everything and I mean it. I hate school , not learning but like the system .Also I kinda like politics (boring I know ) and talking about thing going on in the World. So my interest are : -reading. -watchimg TV shows. Now I am watching Game of Thrones , but I have seen 13rw, Riverdale ,TVD, PLL and AHS . Oh also I like Grey”s Anatomy and Chicago Med. -music. I listen to Panic! at the Disco , Twenty One Pilots , My Chemical Romance , Troye Siavn , Halsey , Melanie Martinez, some old songs and also random songs. -watching YouTube. I Watch Dan and Phil (major fangirl here, or should I say Phangirl ), Shane Dawson , Superwoman,Tyler Oakley , Troye Sivan , PJ, Zoella , Marzia , Tati Westbrook and some others. -talking about feminism ,religions, LGBTQ+ and how I sai polictics. -make-up. I am obsessed with make-up and I am learnign how to apply it properly . -CATS . I LOVE THEM. I love animals in general. My favorite color is black. I like memes . I like reading ad fanfiction. My favorite ice-cream flavouri is chocolate. Ok enough rambling about myself. So I am looking for somebody close Who is up for FaceTime or Skype calls ,someone Who texts first too (ALSO I AM SUPER SHY AND AWKWARD AT FIRST ). I do not care about your age, gender, sexual orietnation , race and others , but no homophobes,transphobes ,racist or sexist asses,because we will not get along. So yeah feel free to message me @cotton8candy . S