#lessons from your experiences

[self-motivationmedia]

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[ct-hardcase]

one thing I have noticed in the last few years of discourse about star wars canon is the attitude from some parts of fandom, where when people go "hey, I don't like this problematic aspect of canon/I don't like that this canon significantly contradicts the other", others will respond, stating that star wars is a tapestry of stories, and that it's fine, actually, because you can just take the parts you want and/or to just cobble one's own canon together from whatever.

this isn't bad advice per se, and if that's someone's preferred way of interpreting canon or dealing with discrepancies, I'm genuinely happy they reached that solution (hell, I even do it myself sometimes—rey mind-tricking finn and poe in the tros novelization is something I absolutely choose to ignore on account of it being ooc and not in the movie), but the majority of the time, I like treating canon as a puzzle that I can put together, and when some of the pieces simply can't fit right, or if there's blatant disrespect to the other stories in the tapestry (hi, caleb in tbb), I don't think it's wrong to be pissed at that and expect the corporate entity managing the product to do better.

[torchickentacos]

The pokemon anime subreddit fascinates and frustrates me on equally deep levels

[figofswords]

the post grad why did i get an art degree what am i even doing what do i want in life where am i going crisis has finally hit i want to. lie down in the dirt. or something

[arolesbianism]

I’ve been shaky and sick all day which of course means it’s the perfect time to draw a scuffed Juliet Library of Ruina sprite

[rigelmejo]

I asked someone who's learned English through school and then just watching/playing English stuff, and who is now learning Spanish by DreamingSpanish content and watching stuff for native speakers, how I should determine if something is understandable enough for me to learn from.

He said as long as I enjoy it. It doesn't matter how much I understand.

I usually use stuff I can understand the "main idea" of. So I can guess more details from context, and figure more of the language out from the parts I understand. In videos with a lot of visuals this is easy - most shows have a "main idea" you can follow from visuals, even if you barely understand any words. Cartoons its even easier to follow the main idea of the plot, and some details, from visuals. With audiobooks and novels, it is doable for me to follow the main idea plot going on IF I have read the story before, IF I remember the plot to some degree, and IF I know some words in the language (enough key words to determine where I am in the plot I remember).

With podcasts, and conversations that have no visuals, its harder to understand the main idea. If I don't know enough words they're saying then I simply DONT know what they're talking about, and don't know if they're saying something ABOUT something (if they like it, hate it, think its educational, harmful? Watched it as a child? What the something even is? Nothing). If I don't know enough of the words they're saying, I catch isolated phrases and words like "city" and "blue" and "people fear" and have no idea what those words are being used to say as an IDEA.

However. I am a stubborn person lol. Just because I can't understand the podcast or conversation, doesn't mean I don't enjoy it! I enjoy trying to see how much I can understand over time lol.

I think the guy's advice probably meant "if it's too hard to understand, you won't enjoy it, so if you enjoy things you probably understand them enough." So I am going to apply what he said to stuff I can understand the main idea of...

He could have genuinely meant ANYTHING I enjoy.

And I think as a beginner, when youre building up your tolerance for ambiguity and ability to understand things even without every detail, its important to not give up on something just because it "feels hard." Lots of stuff that feels too hard, IS stuff you learned the words to read or listen to, you just havent practiced actually reading/listening to those things with no tools to help you. So you think you can't understand a lot of stuff that you actually can understand, after some practice simply doing the act of reading/listening with no tools.

For the sake of me not accidentally wasting 200 hours of my time though (because I AM stubborn lol) I will not suddenly try to listen to ErHa audiobook until I finish or the Sha Po Lang audiobook. While theoretically I actually think I could understand maybe 50% of the individual words I'd hear, no way could I follow the plot for at least a few dpzen hours. If I started a podcast, I absolutely feel Like Id be wasting my time...

On the other hand. I am stubborn. I'm kind of tempted to know if I listened to a science podcast ENOUGH, it would start clicking and i'd understand. Yes i'm an animal who doesn't respect reasonable plans ToT

Anyway i guess time will tell on what i do.

I think the Smart easier plan for me, is to keep doing audiobooks ive read before, and visual cartoons and stuff. I think the "loves testing things" part of me is tempted to do something intense...

[self-motivationmedia]

“Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.” ~ Andrei Tarkovsky

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[cbuttonduo]

everytime i hear stories about people not feeling comfortable in their marching band sections it just makes me so sad. like i remember someone telling me that their SECTION LEADER??? would make fun of how they march almost everyday. SECTION LEADER. are you kidding me. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE LEADERSHIP. ITS IN YOUR TITLE. ugh whatever. but its like? help them????? instead of making fun of them????? the thing about band is that every person is working together to make the performance. if someone is struggling you should offer help, or else it takes away from the quality of your section and the band as a whole. you are only hurting the band, even more so you are hurting another player. mamy such cases. peace and love

[nova-moon13]

[abrahamvanhelsings]

somewhat baffling to ask for a small alarm clock as a gift and receive what appear to be circular knitting needles when i am not a regular knitting person and i have not expressed the desire to become such

[blackvahana]

i am really never going to understand why people post "shifting antis dni" in the astral projection tag. "here practice that constantly gets appropriated by us and used as a weird justification for a new set of beliefs that aren't really based in the same reality you work with, and that also gets completely misunderstood by our community because we don't care to understand what you do and just pretend we know it's what we do like christians saying other religions worship the christian god, have a post! Also dni if you don't like our practice that has nothing to do with the one whose tag we just shoved this into"

if you're not astral projecting don't put shit in the ap tag. if you don't even know the difference between AP and RS I dont think your opinion holds enough weight to counter the pushback against flooding a separate practice's tag with "if you dont like the practice I'm talking about in your tags dni"

[obstinaterixatrix]

spent an hour calling an ex-coworker to be like HEY YOU WERE GOING THROUGH SOMETHING CRAZY!!!! THIS IS CRAZY!!!!!!

[shuublebunny]

Y'all friendly reminder that men are dumb and you shouldn't feel the need to take accountability or apologize for their dumbassery. ESPECIALLY if their dumbassery made you uncomfortable and got you into trouble for something you didn't do

[self-motivationmedia]

You are not your emotions, you simply experience them. You are not anger, you experience anger. ~ In Awe

[ensoleils]

biggest lesson of post grad is that things are equally likely to never work out, as work out

[quotelr]

Don’t wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours.

Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road