#leftshift talks

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love how mratyn says that he's going to give a silent treatment to everyone cause he's angry, but captain looks at him for 15 seconds and he immediately abandons this idea and starts venting

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honestly, i love how treebarkers went from scrambling for crumbs to having full loaves of bread chucked at us at regular intervals. and now the only thing we can do is hope not to choke on them.

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tried making patchwork/quilting thingy. so happy with how this decorative pillowcase turned out)))

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i've been stuck in the academic writing limbo for two weeks and i was suffering, but now grian is back to posting hermitcraft again and my life suddenly feels a little bit less miserable lol

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so just before starting my uni I bought a second-hand gaming laptop and i haven't really played much games on it at all for various reasons.

however, the best thing about this purchase turned out to be the gaming mouse that was an addition to the laptop.

I rerouted the additional gaming buttons on the side of the mouse to the copy and paste functions and it really has been a game changer for my workflow for the uni work.

the only problem is now when i use computers at my uni my thumb just automatically goes to push the button that doesn't exist there lol

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sometimes i don't actually have time or i'm just not in the mood to watch any of the hermits for couple of weeks. and i think, oh well, i guess it's about time i moved on to something else.

and then i find myself spending a whole evening catching up with everything that happened and remembering why i love it so much. it's honestly so nice to have something so comforting.

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i just love seeing russian language being used in fics written in english. because the probability finding some hilarious mistakes is always really high. and not that i blame the writers. like, it is a hard language to implement into your work without having a good grasp on it as a whole.

the single most common mistake that I've encountered is adjectives that are used in the wrong gender, especially when it happens with the terms of endearment (which often are just substantivised adjectives in russian). also sometimes you will see a term of endearment that is clearly just translated "too literally" into russian, so that it just doesn't really make sense. (my personal pet peeve is "honey" translated as "мёд", which i can see being cute, however it would have to be extremely specific situation or a couple that is really into bees or honey as a food item for it to make sense lol).

there is something so amusing about reading a deeply emotional love confession for it to just end with an incorrectly used term of endearment. but once again not really the writers' fault, i just find it really funny. it is difficult, especially if your native language doesn't really have things like grammatical category of gender for adjectives.

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i feel it in my bones, as soon as i hand in my academic coursework i will rewatch martyns limlife pov. and maybe scotts too if i have time before the new season.

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academic writing hell 2: electric boogaloo, or i procrastinated it so hard that now i need it finished basically yesterday lol

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one of the uni professors keeps mispronouncing my name it's kinda annoying.

because it's not even a hard to pronounce or uncommon name here. but if my professor speaks english she always pronounces my name wrong.

like, come on stop pretending to talk in RP, my name is very easily transcribed into English, it doesn't need to be pronounced differently

well at least i have only two classes with her left.

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going to uni to get my degree made me into even a bigger nerd. because now i'm not just rambling about stuff I find fascinating. no, now I have scientific vocabulary and knowledge to do that. which makes my ramblings so much more boring and convoluted for people outside of my field, but i'm truly happy

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looked through my photos from like 5 years ago. and i can't understand, why was I so convinced that I was ugly. Like, I look cute in those photos, but I vividly remember how much I disliked taking pictures of myself or just in general always thought I looked awful. And nowadays I look so drastically different and I can't quite believe that i never considered myself good-looking back then.

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sometimes i get so unreasonably annoyed at a very popular thing in a fandom, so i have to remind myself that if i really didn't want to see it anymore i should just block the tag

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that moment when you realise it's not just the case of "oh i really enjoyed this show" at this point but unfortunately it's your next hyperfixation.

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my parents when they get mad at me for displaying the exact same tendencies and behaviours that they've been instilling and encouraging since my childhood 🤡🤝🤡

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when every kind of upcoming social interaction/situation makes you choose between going into it without knowing how it should play out and feeling anxious, stressed and scared the whole time or looking up how it supposed to go on the internet and then unavoidably panicking when it doesn't happen exactly how it was described/you thought it would go.

like, I just want to be normal so badly but my brain refuses to handle those situations normally. and i feel so stupid all the time and every interaction feels like torture or a super hard exam i will inevitably fail.