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cruelfeline · 5 years ago

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The Hordak Bleatings Masterpost

The new and improved Masterpost! All of my ridiculous bleating in one place! Now with categories to allow you, dear friends and neighbors, to better marvel at the utter nonsense I get up to in my spare time. It shall be updated every so often/when I remember.

some of these categories may overlap or perhaps not be perfect; I tried; there was... a lot

Enjoy!

Biological/Medical Musings

A Fairly Comprehensive List of Hordak’s Clinical Signs

I Wrote Too Much About Hordak’s Arms

And Then Someone Asked About His Elbows So Voila

Someone Else Asked About His Eyes

Yes; I Did Measure Hordak’s Ears via Fuzzy Math; You’re Welcome

A Brief Word About Dentition

Some Sad Thoughts About Clone Lifespan

I Like to Headcanon that Clones Have Naturally Different Eye Colors

Counting Hordak’s Ports

Thinking About Terrible Ways Prime Could Institute Biological Control

Doing Very Fuzzy Math And Wondering Just How Young Hordak Could Be

Spending Way Too Much Time Figuring Out Whether Hordak is Left or Right Handed

Why Tiny Food is Probably Ideal for Hordak (a joke ask I essentially took Seriously)

Discussing Hordak’s Temper

Considering Whether Hordak Needs Oxygen

Discussing Whether Prime and his Clones are Genetically Identical

Hordak in Relation to Other Characters

Entrapdak

Hordak Can Get Close to Entrapta Because He Needn’t Fear Her

Discussing Entrapdak Age Discourse

Bit More Regarding Hordak’s Maturity vs. Entrapta’s

Hordak Didn’t Manipulate Entrapta… But Catra Did

Assessing that Unfortunate Moment When Hordak Snapped at Entrapta

Further Assessing Hordak Snapping at Entrapta by Noting When He Doesn’t

On Hordak’s Wardrobe Change

Entrapta Shushing Hordak is One of My Favorite Interactions

The Entrapdak Scene Was Also One of Self-Love

I Really Like How Entrapta Talks to Hordak About Failure

Hordak Tells an Actual Lie and Succeeds

Entrapta’s and Hordak’s Social Differences Help Them Connect to One Another

I Would Have Appreciated A Scene Where Entrapta Learns About What Happened To Hordak

Hordak Takes Strength From Realizing That Entrapta Came For Him

Hordak and Entrapta Just Like One Another, and I Enjoy That

There is a Huge Difference in How The Alliance and Hordak React to Entrapta Being on Beast Island, and it’s Jarring

This is Mostly About Catradora But Kind of in the Sense of Why Entrapdak is Better, so Here it Goes

Entrapta Didn’t Teach Hordak How to Love; She Taught Him How to Be Loved

The Soup Scene is a Condensed View of Why Entrapdak Works in Light of the Rest of Hordak’s Arc

Hordak and Entrapta Search for One Another Alone, and it Makes Me Sad

I Love How Hordak Scooches Over for Entrapta to Join Him on his Throne

Catra

The How-Catra-Manipulated-Hordak Masterpost

Watching Catra and Hordak Switch Roles in Season Three is Fascinating

Hordak and Catra’s Low Points Indicate Their Core Problems

Did Hordak Abuse Catra? Did She Abuse Him? The World May Never Know

Comparing Hordak and Catra in Terms of Consequences and Agency

Hordak and Catra’s Apparent Ages Likely Affect How People Judge Them

Why Doesn’t Hordak Subdue Catra?

Losing and Regaining the Will to Fight is Another Hordak/Catra Parallel

Sometimes I Wish The Show Would Focus Less on Catra and More on Hordak

Why Catra Besting Hordak Isn’t As Satisfying As Catra Besting Shadow Weaver

Hordak Exhibits Some Level of Trust in Catra Even in Season 2... and She Betrays It

The Difference in How Hordak and Catra Handle Relationships followed by Why They Are Like This

Some Brief Words on the Differences Between How Hordak and Catra End Up Driven to Destruction in Season Four

Musing About What I Actually Would Accept as “Hordak Abusing Catra”

I Think It’s Kind of Funny that Some Expect Catra to be Suspicious of Hordak Post-Canon

Two Scenes That Look Distressing Side-by-Side

Discussing How Catra and Hordak Start Off as Parallels but Later Deviate Due to Character Differences

Adora

How Adora and Hordak End Season Four Differently

Hordak and Adora Parallels

I Wonder if Adora Recognizes Some of Herself in Hordak

Other

This is Actually About Shadow Weaver, but Compared to Hordak, So…

Hordak Doesn’t Seem to have a “Rule the World!” Moment (compared to Shadow Weaver)

On Hordak’s Weird Interactions with DT

Watching DT Circle Hordak is Interesting

Let’s Compare the Circling Scenes, Shall We?

What Wrong Hordak’s Arc Teaches Us About Clones and Hordak

Wondering if Hordak Actually has Control Over the Etherian Horde (could he have stopped the war?)

Prime

There Is A Huge Difference In The Standards Prime And Hordak Hold Others Two Versus Themselves

Hordak and Horde Prime Handle Their Own Vulnerabilities Quite Differently

The Difference Between How Prime and Hordak Use Anger

The Moment Prime Touched Hordak’s Face is the Moment I Truly Knew That Something About Hordak’s Backstory was Very Wrong

Clone/Origin/Prime-Related Sadness

The Clone Thing

More Distressed Bleating about The Clone Thing

Hordak’s DMV Photo Disturbs Me

Hordak Isn’t Actually an Idiot About Disease Transmission

On Hordak’s Bodily Autonomy, or Lack Thereof

How Much of Hordak is “Hordak?”

I’m 99% Certain That Hordak Sucks at Lying Because he Literally Couldn’t

You’d Think Hordak would Think Things Through, But…

Hordak isn’t Really Proud of “Hordak” (with a bonus Adora mention)

Hordak Provides Excellent Fridge Horror

Hordak’s Behavioral Pathology Isn’t Actually Pathology

So! That Purification Ritual was Really Something

Despite Erasure, Hordak Remains Himself

The Clones Are Essentially Trapped By Prime And It Upsets Me

I Get Annoyed That The Clones Aren’t Discussed More By Our Heroes

Again, I Wish The Show Acknowledged The Clones A Bit More, Wrongie Edition

Wouldn’t It Be Swell If Prime Really Did Manage The Clones Like Livestock?

It’s More Emotionally Poignant That The Clones Are Individuals Rather Than Drones

Prime’s Doctrine Ensures Hordak Blames Himself, and it’s an Awful Control Measure

Hordak Probably Isn’t Dumb for Using Uninsulated Cables; Rather, Clone Sadness is in Play

Why I Can’t See Hordak and the Other Clones As Colonizers (unlike Prime) (also a whole convo thread)

Thinking About Clones and Self-Care

Each Clone Will Have to Realize That They Were Victimized

Wondering if Horde Clones Might Feel Anxious Sleeping Alone

Why Prime Might Encourage Some Autonomy in His Clones (spoilers: for cruelty)

Completely Arbitrary Classification of Clones Post-Prime!

Prime is an Actual God to the Clones and it is Terrifying

Canon Plausibility of Blanket Burritoing Horde Clones!

I Appreciate That, Despite Their Devotion, the Clones are Portrayed as Legitimately Suffering due to Prime

Catra and Adora have Happy Memories; do the Clones?; does Hordak?

Morality/Punishment/Redemption Related

Morality is (sadly) not a Universal Thing

Don’t Talk to me About the Reset as “Proper Punishment”

Why Hordak Doesn’t Just Become a Good Citizen

I Think About Hordak’s Choices a Lot

Hordak as an Abuse Mimic Rather Than Pure Evil

Looking at the Horde Child Soldier Thing From a Certain POV

Emotional Support is a Necessary Part of Healing

Hordak Was Forgiven Without Redemption, And I’m OK With That

Hordak’s Arc Speaks Directly to People who were “Raised Wrong”

I Wonder if Hordak Would See anti-Princess Propaganda as Propaganda

Semi-Intelligent Plot/Story Observations

Hordak’s Portrayal is a Function of Character Lens

Hordak Gets Very Legit Development in Season Four

She-Ra Isn’t a War Drama and Here’s Why

Hordak Suffers From a Distressing Lack of Agency

Hordak is a Weirdly Unenthusiastic Lord

The Season 4 Finale Reframes Hordak’s Vulnerability

Untangling Hordak’s Backstory in Light of What We Now Know

Why Hordak Getting Possessed is Narratively Good

Hordak’s Rebellion and Subsequent Possession Essentially Summarize His Story

There Are Big Differences Between Hordak and Prime’s Etherian Wars

It Is Pretty Unlikely That Hordak Would Have Pulled The Portal Lever

It Occurred To Me That Hordak May Initially Ignore FO’s Tech Because It’s Just Really Old

An Assessment Of The Villain Intro Cards, Focusing On Hordak

I Think It’s Silly To Blame Hordak For Everything - Especially When Considering Prime

Literally Just a Thread Explaining Why Hordak is Sympathetic

Some Words On Exactly How Terrible DT’s Reveal Was For Hordak

The Escalation of Hordak’s Situation is Really Something

An Anon Asks a Normal Question and I go on a Tangent About Hordak Compensating for his Inability to Innovate via Entrapta and Catra

There are Monumental Differences Between the Galactic and Etherian Hordes in Terms of Brainwashing and Agency

Thinking About Why Chipped Etherians May Not be That Sympathetic To Clones After All

Random Bit of Logicking About Why Hordak Calls the Princesses a Rebellion

Figuring Out Why I Find Hordak So Much More Sympathetic Than The Princesses

Brief Musing on How Hordak Might Face Antagonism From Both Sides Post-Canon

Hordak’s Story Touches on the Concept of the Imperfection of Authority

Someone Asked Me if I Found Hordak’s S5 Arc Satisfying

Discussing Whether Or Not Hordak Planned on Leading Anything After Conquering Etheria

Taking Apart an Abysmal Twitter Take Because It’s Fun

Talking About Prime’s Clone Troops v. Robot Troops

Talking About Hordak’s Emotional Age

Hordak’s S3 Backtory Being Part-Delusion Helps Emphasize the Inequality in Attachment Between the Clones and Prime

A Few Not-So-Nice Acts Hordak Commits That I Find Justifiable

Random Headcanons of All Sorts

Stupidly Cute, Pointless Headcanon #3825 (ears covered)

Stupid Pointlessly Cute Headcanon #4853 (yawning, with appropriate artwork)

Stupid Pointlessly Cute Headcanon #2938 (snoring)

Stupid Pointlessly Cute Headcanon #1423 (REM sleep)

Stupidly Cute, Pointless Headcanon #7845 (blushing)

Random Hordak-Related Thought #2935 (forearms)

I Like to Think That Hordak Does Cute Things in his Sleep

I Like to Think That Hordak’s Eyes Dim While He Sleeps

Literally Me Just Having Emotions

Thinking About the Stress of Maintaining His Image in the Horde

Why Hordak’s Trauma is Particularly Disturbing To Me (compared to Catra/Adora)

Catra Overcomes her Fear of her Abuser; Hordak Does Not

All of my Emotions over the S4 Finale

Hordak’s Goddamned Smirk Lied to Me

I Have Feelings about Hordak’s Enforced Self-Care

I Need Hordak to Know that He is Loved

Hordak Goes Pew Pew and It’s Cute

Watching Hordak Lift Things Makes Me Smile

Hordak’s Unreasonable Expectations Make Me Sad

Please Just Let Hordak Rest

A Sassy Post About People Complaining the Hordak and Catra are Forgiven

All My Words About That Hordak/Adora Scene

Hordak Taps the Asphyxiation Lever With Two Fingers And It Makes Me Happy

I Wonder If Individuality Felt Blasphemous To Hordak

Please Don’t Stab Clones In Their Ports, Thank You

Hordak Clasps His Hands And It Makes Me Anxious

Hordak Shaming Catra Mimics the Purification Room And It’s Disturbing

Watching Hordak Give Up Is Heartbreaking

I Worry About Hordak Handling Anxiety

People Being Considerate of Hordak Makes My Heart Smile

I Wonder If Magic Was Frightening to Hordak at First

Thinking About Hordak Progressing in Terms of Self-Care

Prime Never Calls Hordak by Name, not Even Once

Just Being Sad While Realizing the Sort of Life Hordak had to Look Forward To

Strange Fic-Like Things No One Should Read

Please Consider: A Concept Masterpost

Hordak Practices Eyerolling

Imp Hacks Up The Worst Color of Hairball

#hordak #masterpost #entrapdak #this post fills me with an exquisite mix of pride and abject horror

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acti-veg · 5 years ago

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I have a question about the police? Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not American so I don’t know the details and I’m aware that there are unacceptable things happening. But I just don’t understand that everyone seems to think we need to get rid of the police entirely? I just don’t really see how that can practically work. I don’t think everyone can be expected to be able to defend themselves against armed robbery, I don’t think we can ever get rid of crime entirely and I honestly (continued)

2) don’t have enough faith in untrained neighbours (including myself) to act as a community or something and not just freeze in fear. I just don’t see how vulnerable people can be protected without law enforcement? Thanks for your time, and again please remember this isn’t about America or drugs or whatever. I don’t want to be labled as a supporter I’m just confused :/

3) Police anon again, I just wanted to say thank you if you decide to answer my ask. I know it’s not really related to veganism but you’re very well informed on leftist opinions and things and I didn’t really know where else I could ask

This is a fair and intelligent question, don’t worry about that, it’s a source of some debate within leftist circles. I generally turn to anarchist thought when we are talking about the police, and what life would look like post-capitalism. Firstly, it’s important to acknowledge that it’s difficult to conceive of how society would work without police and prisons precisely because our capitalist society is so dependent on them. Crime is generally caused by economic factors, material necessity and circumstance. When economic injustice is eliminated and a proper social safety net established, crime would be reduced dramatically.

The point about not trusting untrained neighbours is a good one, and one we would have to grapple with post-capitalism. But keep in mind that we can’t trust the police either, they are a tool created by the capitalist class to maintain a status quo that serves them. How many murders actually get investigated and properly solved now? How many sexual assaults? How many young people of colour are slaughtered on the streets by those who are supposed to protect them? I’d trust my untrained neighbour over that system any day. We shouldn’t forget that most of what police are engaged in is the fruitless war on drugs and enforcing property laws which benefit the owning class.

Leftists disagree on what (if any) kind of law enforcement would be required post-capitalism, but personally I think that some sort of defence of the community will always be necessary. Some argue that many pre-capitalist societies didn’t need it, and while that’s true to a limited extent, I don’t think that a post-capitalist world will immediately heal the social ills caused by economic disparity. Other anarchists say that the community should be protected by a militia that is made up of, and accountable to, the rest of the community. This wouldn’t resemble police officers, their role would be more community engagement and prevention than anything else. I largely agree with this view.

All of this can sound a little bit idealistic, but I think it’s really important to keep in mind that the very concepts of criminality, punishment, deterrent and criminal ‘justice’ would be radically altered in a post-capitalist society. Most of the crimes we all fear are directly a result of economic injustice, in a society of equitable distribution most of these crimes wouldn’t even exist. The only things considered ‘criminal’, if such a concept would even still be applicable, would be harm committed against community members or the wider world. Those people would of course need to be prevented from causing harm, and for that I would argue that some sort of militia would be necessary.

The main point to consider is that the police don’t perform the function the general public think they do. Police do not exist to protect the people, I think that even the officers themselves know that by now. I don’t believe that all police officers are terrible people, but the institution they represent exists only to prop up a violent, oppressive system and enforce the will of the elite. There is no way to reform that to make it serve the people - it must be abolished. Our criminal justice system hasn’t ‘lost it’s way’ and can be rescued by reform, as so many claim, it is doing exactly what it was intended to do and that is the entire problem.

#ask #politics #police #anarchism #socialism #capitalism

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jswdmb1 · 5 years ago

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In A Daydream

“The sky is calling,

Calling out my name.

Telling me just to stay,

Stay and don't go away.”

- Freddy Jones Band

I have never been a creative person. Even though I love music, I can’t sing or dance and have never shown any natural talent at the musical instruments I have tried. I have no ability to paint, draw or create art of any kind and a trip to the Art Institute is wasted on me as the only difference between Monet and Manet to me is one letter. I have very little appreciation for literature and don’t read many books unless they are non-fiction. If it doesn’t involve a fact or figures, it is unlikely I will be much help to you, and I have been okay with that. We are often told that our brains work either one way or another and I was satisfied that I had at least a half of one functioning.

But a few years ago, I started to rethink that whole notion that creativity was only for those that didn’t succumb to the life of a left-brained numbers geek. There are plenty of artists and entertainers with a sharp business sense (well, at least a few), so why can’t it turn the other way as well? And why does creativity have to be limited to the traditional arts? Can’t it be also used in unconventional ways that harness the analytical ability of a buttoned-down mind? Isn’t that the definition of creativity in it of itself?

I decided to put this to the test by even challenging the traditional constraints of what is considered creative, which is usually limited to artists or actors, singers and dancers, novelists and the sort. But it is an oxymoron to think that way about creativity, and I began to search for other ways to find an outlet. I started with writing and hosting trivia nights for charity. They are crude productions, but all of the content is my own and those in attendance generally seem to have a good time (including me). That modest success gave me some thought that maybe there could be other outlets for me.

I started doing some writing and posting to social media but it didn’t seem right. I had toyed with starting a blog but I was intimidated. That was something for people much more creative than me. But, I thought what will it cost me and I stopped worrying about doing it for any other reason than to create an outlet for what I thought might be brewing inside. Like my trivia nights, the initial efforts were spotty but I sensed maybe there was something I could build on there. I kept going throughout that summer and then things came to a halt, which ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me.

That’s when I ended up taking a break from not just writing, but from life, to get myself back on track. I have referenced this event in the past, but not shared a lot of details about it. It was about eight months after I quit my job to start my own business and about four months after my dad died after a four-year battle with cancer. I wasn’t exactly on stable mental ground going into this period, having spent literally decades on various medications and in and out of therapy, so it wouldn’t take much more to push me over the edge. It was at this point that my wife’s mother’s health took a sharp turn for the worse and the pressure built from there.

It would be more stylish to say that my breakdown occurred in a dramatic event like you see on TV, but it was quite unexciting. As the summer wore on, I withdrew from my business, upped my already prodigious use of booze and meds to self-medicate, and spent more-and-more time doing a whole lot of nothing. When I stopped going through even the motions of participating in daily life, those close to me finally stepped in and gave my psychiatrist a call. Turns out he was on vacation (no joke) but his colleague suggested a trip to the outpatient psychiatric center of Hinsdale Hospital for an assessment. Within 24 hours of that assessment I found myself in a full-time out-patient program to treat my main problems of severe depression and general anxiety disorder.

I don’t deviate into this story for any other reason than it is directly responsible for what got me back into writing. One of our big things there was journaling. More specifically, writing honestly about ourselves and then sharing them to the group. I wrote some things in those sessions that shocked me, but that shock didn’t really hit home until I read them aloud to people I just met. I was even more shocked to find out that the world didn’t end because I was finally honest about who I was and my feelings about that. It was even more surprising to find a lot of people felt the same way and that we could maybe help each other if we talked a bit more about it.

Three days after I was released (I asked for a certificate that said “SANE” but no dice), my mother-in-law died. I had been writing again on this blog, but I wrote a post quitting it after deciding I couldn’t spend time so frivolously when so much bad was going on around me (the post, “Here’s Where The Story Ends” is still on here if you want to look it up). But fortunately (for me at least, can’t speak for the rest of you who have to read this stuff), my break was short-lived. I got back into it and slowly started to develop an embrace of the notion that I might, at times, have something useful to say.

That finally brings us to today and the point of this particular post. Tumblr keeps track of the number of posts you have in your profile and after I hit send on the last one, I saw that I had hit post #99. While I generally think milestone anniversary numbers are a bit silly, it did give me a bit of pause to think about what I would write next for #100. It made me take a quick look back over the past three years about what I have documented. Most of it is pretty amateurish, and nothing is spectacular, but there is an occasional good thought that seems to pop out every once in a while. That’s not really important, though. What matters to me is that I managed to create 100 of anything. Good, bad, or indifferent, this production suggests that some creativity exists within me. That is not something I was sure about before post #1 came along.

What does this all mean? I don’t know. Sure, it’s tooting my horn a bit, but really what is wrong with that? I mean, what is the point of creating anything that you don’t share? And, just because you share something, it doesn’t mean that everyone has to like it. I get that a lot of what I say is a bit off the wall and maybe too esoteric for general consumption, but at least it’s genuine. And every time I finish one of these, I can say in no uncertain terms that I have been honest with myself and I’m comfortable with who I am no matter how imperfect that may be (insert joke here).

And that is how I am going to celebrate this 100th post. By acknowledging that it may be poorly written and lacking a coherent theme, but understanding it is who I am and how I feel at this moment and I have documented that truthfully and without spin. And I’ll take credit for that as my true gift of creativity and I’m happy to share it with you. And I’m grateful that I have been able to do it a hundred times and I’ll be just as grateful for the next one and any more I can do after that. And I’ll take none of it for granted because life is too short to take anything for granted. And I’ll reread this at some point, and realize that I have used far too many cliches in sentences that start with “And”. And that’s okay, because that’s who I am.

Thanks for reading whether this is your first time, 100th time, or maybe your last time. I hope whatever creativity exists in me has been properly channeled into this vessel and I hope it adds something to your day time you read it. And if it doesn’t, that’s okay too because that is better than if I hadn’t tried. 100 times to be exact.

Peace, Jim

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eabhaalynn · 6 years ago

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An Open Letter to the 31 Signatories of the Recall Petition - 18/10/19

Dear MLA

I am writing to articulate my concern and disdain upon hearing that you signed a recall petition calling for the NI Assembly at Stormont to sit this Monday October 21st, especially given the timing of this petition.

This week, we reached one thousand days since we’ve had a functioning assembly. That has been one thousand days of our political decisions being made – not by you, our elected representatives – but by unelected civil servants.

I have come of age in a period of - to put it lightly - political discourse. I am eighteen. When the assembly last sat, I was fifteen. In the time that has elapsed I have gained ten GCSEs three A-levels with an extra AS and got into my dream degree at a brilliant University in England. It was when we reached a year, and then eventually eighteen months without an Assembly, while I continued my studies at excellent schools under excellent teachers in Northern Ireland and watched those schools suffer under your lack of direction and leadership, I decided I could not remain in Northern Ireland any longer than I needed to. I am officially a part of the great ‘brain drain’ of rural Ireland, and I am going to be a great doctor someday in England.

This hurts me. Because I am so proud to be Northern Irish, and I am so proud of my Irish heritage, and I am even prouder again of the place the people of Northern Ireland have made for themselves in the twenty-one years since the Good Friday Agreement. In a deeply divided Society, I have grown up with friends from any and all political and religious persuasion, with all sorts of views on the very issues that have finally brought you back to work. But I could not have stayed in a nation that places the breaching declared human rights from women, pregnant people and the LGBT community, at a higher importance than such vital public services as the NHS and education.

The NHS is something I care very passionately about. I have worked within it, I have spoken to patients and families about waiting lists that are completely unsustainable and unfair on patients and doctors alike, that are out of our control but certainly not out of yours. I have shadowed doctors, nurses and social workers across disciplines in the NHS, who have been working above and beyond their workloads while you looked on doing nothing. I have even been a patient in the NHS at both a Primary and Secondary Care level and experienced the dedication of these health professionals to their work in a time where the service crumbled around them due to you, your party and your assembly’s ineptitude.

While I gathered all of this work and life experience, while I grew up, while you have been taking an all too conveniently timed furlough from work, and before I fled your shambolic elected office at home, I even managed to change schools. After studying at a rural, Catholic non grammar school for five years, I made the jump to St Louis Grammar in Ballymena. This allowed me to pursue my career in medicine in a way I simply would not have been able to if I had stayed at my previous school. Luckily, I thrived at St Louis, and proudly identify as a St Louis alum, but the fact I had to do this is a disgrace. My school was not sufficiently funded to offer the courses I needed at A-Level. It certainly has the calibre of teachers and students; it gets people into medicine almost every year. But it could not have provided me with the subjects I needed to achieve the future which has become my present. This is not the school’s problem. This is a funding problem. The school, like most other schools across the country, is suffering because it is being inadequately supported by the very executive and assembly that was founded to enable it to thrive. But that doesn’t bother you enough to have you sign a recall petition, now, does it? It is now a full two years since I left that school. Its retention rates are going down, along with its budget. Teachers and their students are suffering. Living, born, children are suffering. But to me, the concerned constituent, it appears the plight of children doesn’t bother you after they’ve left the womb?

As I mentioned previously, I moved to St Louis Grammar, where I thrived. St Louis enabled me to sit A-Level politics where I was taught about the functioning of the assembly, which, in my lower sixth, had ‘only’ been down for nine months. Politics informed me on the issues which mattered to me, and those which have mattered to you and your party, and how deeply different they are.

I was raised in a very nationalist area. I was raised Catholic, though I acknowledge my faith is now lapsed. My entire background is catholic and nationalist, and I am as culturally Irish as it gets. Sectarianism was never an issue for me. I never defined people by what church they went to, or what Nationality they said they were. Northern Irish is British, it’s Irish, it’s both. That is a messy but beautiful thing to me, no one else has a country as demographically exciting as we do. This is why I am so disgusted at the blatant sectarianism informing your actions over the last three years, encompassing the lead up to and the collapse of the institutions, and the rhetoric that has been used about Nationalist politicians and their supporters in the time since. Evidently, I care deeply about politics. But I don’t feel represented by any of you! I know from my a-level that representation is one of your main jobs, the only one of the three functions of your role as an MLA that should continue in the absence of the legislature – don’t worry, I wouldn’t expect you to legislate and scrutinise too, that’d be holding my expectations too high.

St Louis also taught me the power of sectarianism that remains in Northern Ireland today. Ballymena remains a dominantly Protestant town, and St Louis’ is the only Catholic grammar there. This almost trebled my Protestant friends, but also reminded me that not everyone was raised in as anti-sectarian manner as I was. While I went for after class coffees with my friends from other schools in the town, indicating other denominations, we would get sneered at. When I went to study in the central library, in the dominantly unionist side of town, I would be met with sectarian abuse, with everything from ‘educated fucking fenian scum’ to having middle aged men spit on me, simply for wearing my school uniform.

You breed this culture, and you have bred this culture for the last three years, by refusing to speak to your political opponents. Once again, your constituents are suffering. Public relations are suffering, hate crime is on an exponential growth curve and you have done nothing but exacerbate these problems for the entire length of time I have been on the electoral register, and even longer again. You, your whole party, the whole assembly (yes, both sides) should be ashamed.

So why did this not push you back to power sharing? Why were ordinary civilians giving and receiving abuse to each other not enough to encourage you to get back into work? How, in your own conscious, is it acceptable for adults to verbally abuse children for their perceived religion in Northern Ireland in 2018-19?

What it did take to get you back to work was the thought of women and the LGBT+ community gaining rights in line with the rest of the United Kingdom which you hold so dear.

I have detailed in this letter how much Northern Ireland has suffered at the hands of your ineptitude and the institutional sectarianism over the last three years. This doesn’t even begin to describe how much the women of Northern Ireland who have had to travel to access what is, essentially, healthcare, have suffered as a consequence of the law here and of the culture of fear you are perpetuating.

I hope you never know what it is like to experience a crisis pregnancy. I hope you are never raped. I hope you are never a victim of incest. I hope these things never happen to me either. But the fact remains, these things happen. They happen every day to women all over Northern Ireland, and they happen to our sisters in Britain and in the Republic of Ireland too. I just rest easier at night knowing that in the most awful of circumstances, I now live under a jurisdiction that values my bodily autonomy.

There is a reasoned argument against abortion, and I do understand, if disagree, with it. But what I cannot understand is how you place removing this right from the women you were elected to serve at a higher priority than educating their children once they are born or providing those who take care of them with the resources they so desperately need.

This letter doesn’t even begin to detail the plight Northern Ireland’s LGBT+ youth. This is because I have no first-hand experience of this myself, but I have watched friends’ mental health suffer consistently, at the hands of an Executive that fundamentally sees them as inferior. How can we keep letting our children grow up in a society like this? How can you claim to be a Christian while allowing those who you’re supposed to represent to suffer the worst mental health epidemic in Northern Irelands history? How can you speak so horribly of the young people that should be your country’s future, simply for how they identify or who they love?

You do not represent me. Your actions this week have only further confirmed this. You are failing at not only your legislative and scrutiny roles, but now – officially – you are failing at your representative role too.

Yours Sincerely,

Eabha Lynn

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VERONICA SAWYER

6w7

“I wish you'd come with me-“

In response to a question asked over on r/enneafiction.

Veronica’s Six core is exploited at every turn throughout Heathers, the Musical and the clashing of her loyalty to her ideals with the desire to feel safe and secure ultimately results in an abrupt and extreme disintegration over the course of the show.

Basic Fear: Of being without support and guidance / Basic Desire: To have security and support

“I wanted someone strong who could protect me…”

Veronica wants, more than anything else, for someone to have her back in a world she perceives as dangerous and frightening. This is made abundantly clear in Fight For Me, the song where she falls in love with JD after seeing him defend himself. The repeated lyric; “I would fight for you // If you would fight for me,” is the most obvious example- the world itself might remain unsafe, but the potential security to be found in another person is a huge draw for her (“Could you carry me through no man's land?”).

This isn’t the first instance of Veronica’s safety seeking behaviour, however- it’s present as early as Beautiful, when she asks the Heathers; “Um. Let me sit at your table, at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary. If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone…” Veronica isn’t interested in spending time with the Heathers for the sake of popularity or self-affirmation- it’s as a shield. Beautiful also sees her scrambling out of the way of anyone who might pose a threat (“Oh, sorry!” // “Aah, nothing!”), except, notably, when Martha is the one being threatened, where the first glimpse of a counterphobic Veronica emerges; “Pick that up right now … I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.” Sixes are loyal to their friends, but also to their beliefs- Veronica has a strong sense of justice and a conviction that things can become better again;

“But I know, I know...

Life can be beautiful

I pray, I pray

For a better way

We were kind before;

We can be kind once more

We can be beautiful..,”

Ultimately, it’s her loyalty to this ideal, and her ability to function counterphobically to defend and preserve it, that saves her and the school as a whole, allowing her to confront JD with the conviction that “his solution is a lie,” despite his repeated attempts to exploit her loyalty; “Please don’t leave me alone, // You were all I could trust.”

Everything comes to a head at the end of Act One. After the events of Blue leave Veronica feeling particularly defenseless, she does what a disintegrated Six is wont to, and latches onto her only source of security; JD. “You’re not alone,” he tells her, an offer of the security she is seeking, but can’t seem to find anywhere else. Veronica finds herself drawing strength from the relationship; “We’re what killed the dinosaurs, // We’re the asteroid that’s overdue,” and ultimately venerates it to religious significance, following JD’s lead; “Our love is God.” But the fantascism of these statements, and the undercurrent of violence present from the beginning of the song, betray her disintegration, and the brutality that is about to ensue. Veronica reacts with horror when she discovers that JD has in fact, murdered Kurt and Ram instead of just knocking them out as he promised, (“What the fuck have you done?”) but he remains her only source of safety, even in a world that he has just made a lot more dangerous- he is still completely loyal to her; “...I worship you // I'd trade my life for yours.” Veronica finds herself, more afraid than ever, but with no other source of potential safety, she continues to answer JD, “Our love is God,” despite the fear plain on her face, and doesn’t try to leave his embrace- letting go would mean facing her basic fear, and being without support and guidance.

Seventeen is her attempt to make their relationship into a true source of sanctuary for the pair of them, appealing to JD’s own strength of loyalty (“Can’t we be seventeen? // That’s all I want to do.”). As a Six, she is unable to make a convincing statement without acknowledging all their past pain; “Fine we’re damaged,” and the truth of more in their future, “People hurt us … And you’re right, that really blows.” The song exemplifies her Seven wing- she suggests shallow distractions from the pain, chilli fries, prom night, shopping for summer clothes- but ultimately what she is offering JD is her presence by his side; “Don’t stop looking in my eyes.” The song is filled with offers and promises of and appeals to both their senses of loyalty; “I wanna be with you,” “Your love’s too good to lose,” “Hold me tighter,” etc. Ultimately, the conclusion; “I’ll stay if I’m what you choose // If I am what you choose // ‘Cause you’re the one I choose.” sums up Veronica’s tendency towards loyalty, but also need for it, perfectly.

Disintegration to 3:

“Dreams are coming true // When people laugh but not at you!”

What drives many Sixes to disintegrate is a belief that they are not equipped to protect themselves. Veronica’s initial disintegration occurs when she joins the Heathers as a direct result of this belief- by Candy Store, she has become image-conscious enough to sabotage Martha’s popularity in order to maintain her own (and thus her own safety.) Big Fun makes it clear that this strategy, though unhealthy, is working for her, (“I'm not alone! I'm not afraid!”) and she spirals further into it.

When disintegrated, Sixes lash out- they divide the world into “them and us,” and can be driven to sabotage the “them,” in order to protect themselves. As she disintegrates further, Veronica briefly embodies an unhealthy Three’s arrogance- taken in by JD’s sweeping promises in Our Love is God- “We can start and finish wars…” and enthusiastic to play judge and jury to Kurt and Ram- but critically, not executioner. The murder is a shock to her system, and ironically, allows her to see the flaws in their previous arrogance; “We’re not “special”, we’re not “different” // We don’t choose who lives or dies.”

Integration to 9:

“Listen up folks, // War is over.”

There isn’t much opportunity for Veronica to integrate, but Seventeen (Reprise) offers us a glimpse- while as a Six, Veronica can’t put her fears aside completely; “We're all damaged, we're all frightened // We're all freaks but that's alright,” this song has a far more optimistic tone from Veronica than anything else in the whole show; “We’ll endure it, we’ll survive it.” Like a healthy Nine, she shows a willingness to let go of unproductive conflicts (“We are done with acting evil // We will lay our weapons down”,) and relationships alike, (“If no one loves me now // Someday somebody will.”) Enneagram institute describes Nines at their best as; “indomitable and all-embracing, they are able to bring people together and heal conflicts,” and that’s a perfect description of what this song is all about; “Brand new sheriff’s come to town.”

Childhood Wound: They lost faith they would be protected.

““But the sky's gonna hurt when it falls, // So you better start building some walls…”

There’s an underlying pattern in Heathers, like in many teen dramas, of adults who are essentially untrustworthy- either helpless or unwilling to lend a hand to the kids they should be responsible for. This is arguably such a pervasive theme because it lends the teenagers more agency in the plot and gives their struggles more credibility, but in Heathers, this trope is in fact a depiction of a lack of empathy from adults who truly don’t take teenagers seriously, or are in fact outright abusive or neglectful.

In Beautiful, teachers objectify Veronica, or only recognise her once she is important enough to be seen with the Heathers. Outside of her, Kurt and Ram’s fathers’ are demonstrably abusive, and their sons perpetuate that cycle of abuse by taking it out on their schoolmates. They only repent only in My Dead Gay Son- too late. Ms Fleming is apathetic towards the students whose mental health she is supposed to prioritise from her first appearance- trying to impose a detention on Heather Duke even as she vomits from her eating disorder right in front of her. In Shine A Light, her advice to the students is facile, and her motivation is more about performing for the cameras than actually making a positive impact. Altogether, Veronica lives in a world where adults simply can’t be depended upon for help or sanctuary. Her verse in Dead Girl Walking (Reprise), directed at JD, encompasses all this;

“I wish your mom had been a little stronger

I wish she stayed around a little longer

I wish your dad were good!

I wish grown-ups understood!

I wish we’d met before

They convinced you life is war!”

From Yo Girl, we know the situation applies not just to Veronica’s schoolmates, but her, too. The intertwining of her parent’s empty reassurances; “Your problems seem like life and death! // I promise, they’re not!” with the chorus’ building, ominous reminder of the very real threat of JD drawing closer and closer, “Guess who’s climbing the stairs? // Guess who’s picking the lock?” shows that her parents aren’t equipped to protect her. Childhood wounds only have to be felt- a Six can perceive themselves as vulnerable when this isn’t the truth of the situation. It’s notable that despite the present danger, she simply answers, “You wouldn’t understand,” and works to protect herself (“Veronica’s trying to keep him out, now,”) and again, doesn’t ask anyone for help during Dead Girl Walking (Reprise). All of Veronica’s experiences have clearly built her into a Six who feels she has no-one left to trust.

w7:

“Let's be normal, see bad movies // Sneak a beer and watch tv,”

Veronica often deals with her issues by retreating, shutting her eyes to the unpleasant realities of what’s going on around her, with varying success; “Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés // Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!” Her conflation of her own ideals of kindness and inner beauty with the physical beauty she achieves as a result of the Heathers’ makeover is arguably made easier by her Seven wing- “When you’re beautiful // It’s a beautiful frickin’ day!”- when she fakes Heather Chandler’s suicide note, she as much confesses this; “Believe it or not, I knew about fear ... I hid behind smiles and crazy hot clothes,” although she doesn’t admit this is partly confessional. This isn’t the only instance of Veronica’s unwillingness to confront unpleasant truths in favour of happier distractions- trying to undo what’s happened with JD with chilli fries and dancing seems another example, as does her behaviour in Dead Girl Walking, wherein she opts to distract herself from her anxieties not just by returning to her source of security, (“In here it’s beautiful,”) but with seeking baser pleasure to drown out any pain; “Make this whole town disappear!”

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Understanding Depression to Better Support Your Clients

As a private coach, fitness trainer and writer, I realize that depression can be masked. The first time I knew, and I mean knew in my bones that something was really wrong, I was less than half a mile into a run. At the time, I ran 30–50 miles a week. But on that day, I couldn’t shake out the stiffness. The heaviness in my feet and legs made it feel like I was running with wet shoes in the sand. I found myself, standing alongside the road, hands on my knees, trying desperately to will myself on for the rest of the run. Yet, physically, it was all I could do to even get back to my house. And once I got there, I spent the rest of the day on the couch.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nearly one in 12 adults report having depression [1]. Of that total, the prevalence of depression among women is almost double of that seen in men.

It’s very likely that someone that you work with, run with, or go to book club with is facing their own battle with depression.

Not long after that failed run, I was diagnosed persistent depressive disorder (PPD), also called dysthymia, which manifests as episodes of major depression in between long periods of mild to moderate depression.

The Mayo Clinic describes PPD as “a continuous long-term (chronic) form of depression. You may lose interest in normal daily activities, feel hopeless, lack productivity, and have low self-esteem and an overall feeling of inadequacy. These feelings last for years and may significantly interfere with your relationships, school, work and daily activities [2].”

It took me a long time to realize that I didn’t have to feel that way.

The Physical Effects of Depression

In retrospect, it’s not surprising that it was the physical symptoms I experienced that finally led me to a diagnosis of depression. I’d been experiencing the mental effects of depression for years — sadness, worthlessness, trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating — but I always managed to remain physically active, which helped me to cope with my depression, while also masking some of what was really going on.

I assumed that because I could function well enough to at least go for a run every day, nothing was wrong. I also assumed that it was always up to me to try harder. This led me to berate myself for not trying hard enough whenever I struggled. With the onset of a major depressive episode however, it was the physical effects that finally pushed me to consult a doctor.

Depression affects people in different ways, and according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a high percentage of patients with depression who seek treatment in a primary care setting report only physical symptoms [3]. Some of those symptoms might include joint pain, limb pain, back pain, and gastrointestinal problems, among others.

As a coach, it’s helpful to remember that there are ways in which depression makes the physical things we ask of our clients that much harder. The strong mind-body connection makes the body feel heavier, the mind feel heavier, and the body hurt. People’s experience of pain increases and it’s important to take these factors into consideration when coaching.

Easing the Stigma to Help People Get Treatment

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, PDD specifically affects approximately 1.5 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year (about 3.3 million American adults). Only 61.7 percent of adults with PDD are receiving treatment [4].

Fortunately for me, at the time of my failed run, I was already working with a therapist. Anytime she had asked me if I thought I was depressed, my answer was the same: I was in a funk. “What’s the difference between a funk and depression?” she asked. “Well,” I said. “I function.”

“And how’s that working for you?” she asked.

I had always thought that my ability to plod on with my life meant that I wasn’t depressed. I knew from the media and some other people what depression could look like, and I didn’t think it looked like me. I got up every day, showered, exercised, and showed up to work. Sure, I often wished I were dead, so I wouldn’t have to deal with life some days, but didn’t everyone think that? (The answer to this is no — wishing I was dead is a form of suicide ideation — another symptom of depression.)

Like many of us, I grew up in a time and environment where mental health was never talked about — or if it was, the discussion was in whispers. I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, the descendant of coal miners, steel mill workers and farmers who carried a strong blue collar work ethic. To me, that work ethic meant grinding through everything on your own. Go to work when you’re sick, and if you don’t feel like doing something well you just pull yourself up by the bootstraps and do it anyway. We grind through physical pain and never talk about emotional pain.

I believe a big part of reducing the stigma of any mental health struggle is to give those struggles a voice. I decided to tell my story and I’m glad I did. Because if helped even one person to open up and share her story, or better yet, reach out for help, then it is worth the vulnerability of sharing.

What You Can Do to Support Your Clients

Depression is a lonely thing to experience. The trouble is, the more depressed you become, the harder it is to reach out. Anything we can do to make reaching out more accessible will help. As coaches, there are a few things we can implement that fall squarely within our scope of practice.

Create a Safe Space

When I worked in a college environment, faculty and staff members placed rainbow stickers on their office doors so that students could more easily identify a safe space. I often feel like the rest of the world would benefit from similar practices for mental health concerns.

If we are working with a client with an acute injury — a broken foot, a sprained ankle, or plantar fasciitis — we make a plan to work with them around that injury. As coaches, we honor our scope of practice — we refer our clients to a doctor and we work with physical therapists and chiropractors and other professionals in a team effort to provide the best care possible for a client.

In many ways, depression is no different — except that in our society, the stigma of talking about our mental health is so strong.

“The stigma of mental health in our culture and the internal resistance to reach out for help are two of the primary ways that depression continues to progress and really take hold,” says Dr. Lisa Lewis, a licensed psychologist who teaches at Northeastern University in Boston.

A client might feel comfortable enough with you as their coach to tell you that their back is bothering them, but they’re much less likely to mention that they also struggle with chronic depression and anxiety. Unless we make the space safe enough for them to acknowledge that depression.

The most important step I took as a coach was opening up about my own experience with depression — because it allows clients to feel comfortable acknowledging their own struggles to me. This does not mean that I step outside of my scope of practice — but it does mean that clients know that I’ve been there too, and that they can feel free to acknowledge depression or anxiety as part of their overall health, the same way they might acknowledge back pain.

Check In

If you are around a friend or a client whom you know struggles with depression, remember that depression literally “hurts.” If you know that a client is depressed because they have shared this with you, take that into account when you’re working with them. Some days 10 pounds feels like 50, and two minutes on the treadmill feels like a marathon. Keep the lines of communication open and reinforce the fact that your client showed up and that any movement is good movement. Remind them that everything they feel is OK.

Remember that you can be supportive without going into a “counselor” role.

“Don’t be afraid to check in,” says Dr. Lewis. “But also don’t hesitate to turn the attention back to a workout. That is the best way you can help your depressed client and you can be supportive and caring in a boundaried, time-limited way and then keep it moving to the reason why they’re there.”

Someone who suffers from depression often can feel less alone just by a simple check in, and the reminder that they are not walking this wellness journey alone.

Have Some Resources on Hand

I have the business card of at least two therapists that I keep on hand at the gym. It’s a very delicate process to hand someone who is struggling the business card of a therapist, and I don’t always do it. Often, in telling my own story, I’m open about working with a therapist. This self-disclosure alone can lead a client to ask if I know anyone they can contact.

Let Them Know There Is Help Available

If I had one message to share with anyone reading this, it’s that you’re not alone, even though it feels that way. It can feel as if no one understands. It can feel hopeless.

If you or someone you knows needs immediate help or support, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a 24-hour resource; call, chat, or text at 1-800-273-TALK. The Lifeline can also refer you to resources and counseling in your area.

There is help. There is hope. And there is a light that can shine through that darkness.

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References

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Prevalence of Depression Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 2013–2016. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db303.htm

Mayo Clinic, Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia). https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/persistent-depressive-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20350929

National Institute of Mental Health, Depression: What You Need to Know. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression-what-you-need-to-know/index.shtml

Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Facts & Statistics, https://adaa.org/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics

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The Nintendo Fan Games That Tried to Revitalize Pokémon, Metroid, and Super Smash Bros.

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In 2016, Milton Guasti’s Metroid 2 remake (AM2R) was released online after a decade of work. One day later, Nintendo sent DMCA takedown requests to the websites that hosted it. Many fans were shocked by the decision. Guasti seems more surprised by the efficiency of it.

“Throughout the years I started seeing that [a takedown] could be possible,” Guasti recalls. “What I was not expecting was that it happened so fast.”

New fan-made gaming projects are developed and distributed all the time, and often embraced by studios, but as those in the creative community know, Nintendo has historically been adamant about protecting its properties and taking down fan games. From novelty game mods to NSFW art of Bowser, there’s no guarantee that fan creations based on Nintendo games will survive online for long.

So what makes someone spend years on a game that may only be widely available for one day? For Guasti, it was the chance to learn programming within a fascinating framework.

“I decided I wanted to practice a little bit of programming, so I downloaded GameMaker and did a couple of mini-games here and there just to learn a little bit of how game logic and design are done,” Guasti says. “Since most of the effort in designing something is getting the first couple of decisions, remaking something that’s already done seemed like a good idea to save time. I had recently played Metroid: Zero Mission on the Game Boy Advance [a remake of 1986’s Metroid], and since there was no similar treatment for Metroid 2, I said, ‘Well, this is a black and white game. Whatever I do with ripped sprites might be better than this. So I guess I can make a Metroid game.'”

For Guasti, the appeal of making his own Metroid game was more about the design of the franchise than his overwhelming love for the series. He described himself as more a Metroid “enthusiast” than a “hardcore fan” when he started working on the game. For others looking to learn how to develop and design games, the choice of which game to use as a starting point comes down to franchises they’ve always loved.

“It was my childhood dream to make my own Pokémon game,” says fan developer Involuntary Twitch. “Thus began my nine-year journey with fan game development as a hobby.”

That hobby became Pokémon Uranium, a Pokémon fan game the size of a major franchise installment. Involuntary Twitch wanted it to feature all of the things that she loved about Pokémon games: “pixel art, exploring, discovering new creatures, and uncovering mysteries.” For the many ways that Uranium was designed to be an homage to Pokémon, there was at least one element Twitch hoped to improve.

“I have been my entire life saying that Pokémon can and probably should do a little bit better with the stories,” Involuntary Twitch says. “I don’t think Pokémon needs to tell this grand, epic story with all these plot twists and betrayals and darker themes…but I think that what makes a good story is just the feeling that your actions actually matter, that the things you do are instrumental to the outcome of the plot.”

As the tale of a young trainer whose mother was lost in a nuclear accident roughly 10 years before the mysterious appearance of radiated Pokémon coinciding with the construction of a new power plant, Uranium‘s plot is darker, more complicated, and perhaps a bit more mature than what many of the games in the Pokémon franchise aim for. It’s also a big part of the reason why Uranium was widely hailed as a breath of fresh air for a franchise that largely sticks to the same formula put in place in the ’90s.

Yet, the story of Uranium that many more people are familiar with is what happened after the game was released. Much like AM2R, Uranium was hit by DMCA takedown requests issued by Nintendo shortly after the project’s 2016 release. After over nine years of work, Uranium‘s widespread availability could be measured in hours. Once again, the move did not come as a complete surprise.

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“I think our mentality was that we’d already had multiple playable releases out of the game, and so whatever its ultimate fate may be, we owed it to ourselves,” says Involuntary Twitch of the decision to continue working on the project despite the likelihood that it would eventually be taken down. “This is the single biggest project that any of us had ever done in our entire lives…So, we owed it to ourselves and we owed it to the people who were excited to see this game fully realized to see it all the way through the end”

So why didn’t Involuntary Twitch and her creative partner JV just make a copyright-free clone of a Pokémon game?

“I did consider it, but I mean, at that point, we were in too deep,” Twitch says. “Literally every single part of the game would need to be thrown out and reconstituted to the point where it would be unrecognizable. And in exchange for doing that, we would get way less exposure, and we would basically just be filing the serial numbers off something that’s meant to be our love letter to a franchise…I feel like doing that would’ve drained what drove us to make this game in the first place, which was our love for Pokémon.”

That certainly seems to be the dilemma. Many Nintendo fan creators are often inspired by their love for Nintendo games, but there are times when Nintendo can be hard to love. The company will go years without even acknowledging beloved franchises but it’ll immediately litigate when fans pursue the projects and ideas Nintendo won’t.

Those bespoke projects are often designed to appeal to a section of the fanbase Nintendo has sometimes ignored. Uranium featured a more mature story not commonly seen in Pokémon games. AM2R focused on one of Nintendo’s most complex (and often ignored) franchises. And in terms of notorious Nintendo fan projects designed to address something that was missing, few titles are as compelling as Project M: a Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod designed not to reinvent the wheel but simply make that game feel closer to its predecessor.

“Brawl took away almost everything that many people enjoyed about Melee from a gameplay design perspective,” says former Project M webmaster Taylor “Warchamp7” Giampaolo. “The floatier gravity, the slower gameplay, the removal of many character control nuances like dash dancing and wave dashes, and random factors like tripping that took control away from the player all contributed to a game we found less enjoyable. Project M‘s main goal was to bring back the elements of Melee that we all enjoyed like the faster pacing and balance of risk/reward.”

On the surface, a mod like Project M probably comes across as the work of a fanbase that felt Nintendo had gotten it wrong. Yet, that’s not necessarily the case. If anything, the game is more often talked about as a kind of “What if?” scenario designed to explore what may have happened if the competitive community that embraced Melee had become the primary audience for future installments.

“Project M is definitely our alternate take on what we’d like the series to look like,” Giampaolo says. “Melee‘s competitive nature is sometimes considered a happy accident, and I’d say Project M is a deliberate execution of those competitive aspects.”

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Melee‘s expansive multiplayer modes make it clear the game was intended to be played competitively between friends, but what many believe Nintendo did not necessarily anticipate was how the game would be embraced by more “hardcore” fighting game fans. What was essentially conceived as a Nintendo mascot brawler became a mainstay in the competitive fighting game community, and some of the things that made the game so different are also what made it popular among the genre’s most dedicated fans.

“Melee‘s mechanics offered an extreme freedom of movement that provides limitless options in various situations,” says Smash Bros. modder Dan Salvato. “I think most notably, simply moving your character around on the screen is extremely fun in itself. Most fighting games are balanced around what you can’t do in any given situation, but Melee kind of rips out the brakes and hands the keys to the player. You might get a lot of Melee die-hards giving you a list of reasons that Melee is ‘better,’ but I think that it just provides a different experience that captures a different audience of players.”

As a look into a kind of alternate reality for the Smash Bros. franchise, it’s easy to again wonder why the Project M team simply didn’t create their own Smash Bros.-like game based on Melee‘s mechanics. Much like with Pokémon Uranium, the decision to stick to the Smash Bros. name and the many copyright conflicts that come with it can be attributed to a combination of love and logistics.

“Everyone on the Project M team was incredibly talented but a lot of members had skill sets that were specifically tailored for modding Brawl,” Giampaolo says. “Some of the people that did programming on the team didn’t know any normal programming languages; they only knew assembly and had learned it through modding. Some of the animators didn’t have any experience with industry animation tools; they only knew how to use the community-created ones designed for Brawl‘s file formats. I consider their work even more impressive because of that but it means they wouldn’t have had an easy transition to making a ‘real’ game at the time.”

The Project M team was aware of the risks associated with the game they were making, and, as such, decided to institute a series of rules that they hoped would help protect the game against an immediate takedown. For instance, they encouraged people to play a “hackless” version of the mod that still required them to purchase Brawl, and they didn’t add new characters to the mod that weren’t already present in Brawl in some way.

In a way, the guidelines worked. Project M wasn’t hit with an immediate takedown request, but the constant threat of future legal actions and the desire to start on an original project accelerated the end of its development. But before that happened, Project M was embraced by the Smash Bros. competitive community who began using it and other modded versions of Smash Bros. as the feature attraction in many tournaments.

It doesn’t seem many of those fans expected Nintendo to embrace Project M or officially support any Smash Bros. mod. However, many of them wanted Nintendo to at least recognize their passion for the series’ competitive elements and how many felt Melee, in particular, best represented those qualities. There’s a degree to which the competitive Smash Bros. community lived in that same “under the radar” territory that Project M tried to exist in, and there’s a degree to which the competitive Smash community just wanted to be seen as fans who built a tournament scene based on love and shared passions. When Nintendo finally noticed them, the real trouble started.

“Over the years, the most community backlash hasn’t come from Nintendo not caring, but it has come from Nintendo interfering,” Salvato explains. “I think a decade ago, the Smash community felt more desperate for Nintendo’s acknowledgment…but once Nintendo stepped in, though, all of their regulations followed, and the Smash community started to question whether they actually wanted it.”

In 2020, Nintendo sent a cease and desist letter to a beloved Smash Bros. tournament that planned to use a Smash Bros. Melee emulator to host a digital event during the Covid-19 pandemic. The letter even targeted the event itself, which meant the hosts couldn’t simply feature the latest Smash Bros. game instead. After years of being ignored, the Smash Bros. competitive community was dealing with the fallout of being seen. While Nintendo has helped event organizers in the past, it was that lingering threat of things quickly going the other way that so often made the relationship uncomfortable and, at times, impossible.

Guasti can tell you more about Nintendo’s history of acknowledging the work of fans in their own strange way. A year after shutting down AM2R, Nintendo revealed and released an official Metroid 2 remake for the 3DS called Metroid: Samus Returns. Given that the franchise had been dormant for some time and that an unofficial remake of that same game had just been taken down a year before, the reveal of Samus Returns came as a shock to many, including Guasti.

“It was quite a surprise. Nobody saw it coming,” Guasti recalls. “Once I finished seeing the trailer, it was like, ‘Hmm, so that’s how the Metroid fights look with a budget.'”

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Samus Returns and AM2R are actually quite different in terms of their visuals and mechanics, but in a way, the differences made the speed at which the latter was taken down before the former was released that much more surprising.

“If you think about it, it’s super fascinating,” Guasti says. “These two points of view of the same story have been developed in parallel. At least one of the parties didn’t know that the other existed. Even if there are a couple of elements in common, the way that they conveyed the game feel and the whole environmental design, how Samus moves around and all of the elements in the design are completely different.”

Maybe there’s an alternate timeline where the differences between the two games meant both were allowed to exist, but Guasti doesn’t seem to dwell much on that. As strange as it may seem for someone who spent so many years of their lives on a project they couldn’t profit from, Guasti seems satisfied with how things worked out.

“I can’t be mad,” Guasti says. “I reached the audience that I wanted to reach. I learned everything that I wanted to learn from that…I’m really happy how that stage in my life turned out.”

Considering that Guasti’s work on AM2R helped him find a job in the video game industry where he later worked on the Metroidvania title Ori and the Will of the Wisps, you may think that the fate of AM2R is only easy to accept given that it led to a career and all of the benefits that come with that. Yet, there are many creators who share the belief that the real value of their work was the chance to share something with other fans like them.

In fact, some wouldn’t even mind if Nintendo essentially released the games they worked on without even giving them direct credit, much less a check.

“I would be ecstatic,” Giampaolo says of the possibility of Nintendo releasing its own Project M without acknowledging the mod’s creators. “We created Project M because it was the game that we wanted to play and it is, to date, my favorite entry in the genre. I’d love nothing more than for more players to get to enjoy that.”

Of course, Project M is a mod to an existing Nintendo game, and its creators were always aware of the fine line they were walking when working on it. They also got to end it on something closer to their own terms, and the mod is still massively popular among its intended fanbase to this day. But what about Involuntary Twitch whose project was hit by one of the swiftest and most complete takedowns in fan game history? How would she feel if the next Pokémon game was essentially a copy of Uranium but she received no credit?

“I’d be thrilled,” Twitch says. “I wanted to play one of my own games on a Nintendo handheld my entire life. And even if they didn’t put my name in the credits, I would still know that I was there, that I had inspired some type of its DNA. That, to me, would be enough. I mean, I am not here to chase clout. I don’t make fan games for attention. I make it because I like to do it and it’s a fun hobby for me.”

While there is something exceptional about those who create to fulfill a vision and share it with the world, this mentality seems to be the lifeblood of the fan game community.

“The modding mentality is that you have a community that loves a game so much that they want to extend its lifespan and help each other enjoy the game even more,” Salvato says. “In my experience, mods are always full of a lot more love for Nintendo than they are of disappointment. Modders are proud and passionate, and they love what they do.”

You could argue this love is rarely reciprocated by Nintendo, but some creators suggest we may need to change our perception of success by recognizing that completing and sharing these projects can be more important than profits and fame.

“I hope that it brought them some joy because, to me, creating stuff is something that defines who I am,” Involuntary Twitch says. “I hope that it can help other people to find out who they are and develop their skills and find a place where they belong.”

Why does someone spend years of their lives on a project that can’t make money, will probably be shut down, and will never be embraced by the company that inspired them? The answers vary but seem to often come down to a surprisingly simple philosophy. You can spend years waiting for Nintendo to do make something, or you can spend that time doing it yourself and letting the memories, the love, and the quality of the games justify it all.

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Engineering is a scientific field and job that involves taking our scientific understanding of the natural world and using it to invent, design, and build things to solve problems and achieve practical goals. This can include the development of roads, bridges, cars, planes, machines, tools, processes, and computers. The things engineers build are called technology. Without technology, the modern world simply wouldn't exist. We're surrounded by the work of engineers practically every moment of our lives.

Types of Engineering

There are many different types of engineering. The most significant ones are civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and chemical engineering.

Civil engineering is probably the first one that comes to mind when people think about engineering. These are the roads, bridges, dams, buildings, and canals that make up our human communities and infrastructure. All of those structures are designed and built under the supervision of civil engineers.

Mechanical engineering is what puts the 'engine' into engineering. This is often where the problem-solving cleverness of engineers is most on display. Mechanical engineers can turn one type of energy into another one, or one type of motion into another, to solve problems. They're responsible for cogs and levers, joints and belts, cams and wheels, and shafts and pulleys. These basic structures, when taken to a highly complex level, lead to things like steam engines and the internal combustion engine of cars. Mechanical engineering, therefore, encompasses everything from car mechanics, to air-conditioning systems, to military aircraft and robotics.

Electrical engineering might be less acknowledged than other types of engineering, but it's probably the most central to the modern world in which we live. It's hard to imagine a world without electricity and electronics. From computers to televisions, to digital cameras to cell phones, each of these technologies is a product of electrical engineering. It began with simple electrical systems like the telegraph, telephone, and light bulb, and advanced more and more from there.

Chemical engineering is perhaps the least well known, but it's a no less important part of the field. It involves producing chemicals, such as man-made and space-age materials, and fuels for human use. The gas you put in your car exists thanks to chemical engineering. So do polyester clothes, plastic toys and bottles, and even treatments for diseases, which often involve chemical engineering processes.

1. Aryan School of Engineering

Arian School of Engineering. In recent years, great emphasis has been placed worldwide on expressing the impact of science and technology on modern lifestyles. The 20th century was truly confirmed as a time of science and technology. Moreover, the progress of any country in the modern world depends wholly or entirely on developments in science and technology. In this context, technical education has an important practical character and its role should not be overlooked. Aryan School of Engineering was abbreviated ASE for Aryan School Main Laboratory. ASE is a discipline in modern technology and information technology that enables students to pursue a career and enrich their future. Innovative education combined with a thriving research culture challenges inspires and equips students with the knowledge and skills to succeed. The diversity of engineering programs offered by ASE is directly related to future employers and studies, which sooner or later provide excellent internship and networking opportunities. The Aryan School of Engineering has an excellent infrastructure that meets modern international standards, including beautifully designed classrooms, audiovisual guidance, workshops that demonstrate the functionality of various tools and knowledge of the latest service methods. The main building and three other smaller buildings are equally spacious and well equipped with the latest technology. The university has several sports facilities, such as basketball courts, table tennis, and badminton. We are pleased to announce that Nepal Careers 360 has been selected for the 9 best technical universities in Nepal. Aryan is one of the best computer universities in Nepal and offers the IT education that survived Everest's best IT university. from Nepal.

2. Himalayan Institute of Science and Technology

In Vision, a mission led by the GEO Information of the Faculty of Engineering by Vision 2012. stable. The dignity of the college and university contributes to the dignity of the university and university. For 20 years until 2032 (2089 BS), the Himalayan Institute of Science and Technology tends to increase its global competitiveness and solidify its position as a science and education center in the Nepalese market. Technical University. Get the job done with computer skills and immerse yourself in the satisfaction of those you meet for the price of strangers in the production of Califeed. I would like to raise other competent international students. We create quality education and promote God's way because we are responsible for the basic help of all the arts. The design and the need for the development of colleges and educational centers of skills fixed and eventually passed from technical institutes.

3. Kantipur International College

The sole purpose of the Kantipur International College is to provide students with exceptional opportunities through career guidance, training, and internships. The KIC course benefits from objective and modular courses taught by highly qualified professionals who are formally trained to use the latest teaching techniques effectively and closely monitor student progress, which is supported. intensive ICC training sessions. We believe that people often forget what they see or hear, but what they do, understand, and remember.

4. Kantipur Engineering College

KEC was established in 1998 in Dhapakhel, Lalitpur. It is a private engineering college affiliated with Tribhuvan University. It is offering BE programs in civil, computer, and electronics. Since its establishment, it has been producing qualified and proficient engineers that have been helping in the nation-building projects.

With these facts in mind, Kantipur Engineering College, abbreviated as KEC was established in 1998 with a BE program in Civil Engineering in a rented building at Sitapaila Chowk, Kathmandu. Besides, the college in 1999 in collaboration with the University of Belarus, started a BE program in Civil and Industrial Engineering under the Extra-Mural faculty of the Polotsk State University, Belarus. With a specific objective of imparting quality education, in 1999 the college shifted to its own complex at Dhapakhel, Lalitpur, a location best suited for engineering education inside Kathmandu Valley with a peaceful and pollution-free environment. The college started BE in Computer Engineering and BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering from 2000 and 2002, respectively. KEC endeavors to fabricate accomplished and capable engineers proficient enough to face the dynamic changes of the present century at a relatively tenable cost. BE in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor in Architecture are in pipeline.

KEC is the second oldest private engineering college in Nepal and is affiliated with Tribhuvan University. Today Kantipur Engineering College is one of the best engineering colleges in Nepal in terms of quality engineering education, peaceful and pollution-free environment, own physical infrastructure, and international linkage.

5. Kantipur City College

KCC places particular emphasis on developing talented people who will solve the problems of our time, transferring their knowledge and skills to students. With an emphasis on innovative education, student-centered learning, and development, we help our academics compete successfully in the marketplace.

6. National Engineering College

National College of Engineering (NCE) is affiliated with Tribhuvan University and was established in 2058 B.S. with the objective of developing a standard institution that offers courses in technical science and engineering. Its main purpose is to impart quality education in engineering, science, and technology. To fulfill the country’s needs for its development, NCE thrives to achieve academic excellence with a high emphasis on the core values and ethics of life. The college has been speeding rapidly in its progress both physically as well as academically.

NCE offers a unique learning experience across a spectrum of academic and social experiences. With a firm footing in truth and humanity, NCE provides an understanding of both technical developments and ethics that go with it.NCE caters to Bachelor in Computer Engineering (48 Seats ), Civil (96 Seats), Electronics, Communication and Information (48 Seats ) & 48 Seats in Electrical Engineering.

7. Nepal Engineering College

Nepal Engineering College is one of the oldest private engineering colleges in Nepal established in the year 1994. This Nepal Engineering College is affiliated with Pokhara University. It is popularly known as NEC. It has been offerings engineering degrees in five areas like Architecture, civil, computer, electronics & communication, electronic & electrical. Since its establishment, it has been providing quality education in the technical field that has helped in the nation-building projects. It is situated in Changunarayan, Bhaktapur. It also provides training and developing programs to help youth to enhance their inner ability.

Since its inception, NEC has been constantly engaged in designing, upgrading, and standardizing the academic curricula and offering Bachelor and Masters level courses in engineering, technology, and allied disciplines. NEC intends to continue with this initiative, offering more innovative and applied courses in the established and emerging areas in the days to come.

8. Janakpur Engineering College

The department is an integrated higher education institution that plays a national and international role by offering full-time and part-time programs in a wide range of higher education programs. It reflects the mission of the department. IT professionals work to achieve this in an innovative, responsive, flexible, and agile learning environment using innovative tools and state-of-the-art technology. We strive to ensure that students of all backgrounds have access to higher education and acquire quality and knowledge in all aspects of their work. This commitment includes providing education, development, and advisory services to industry and society while respecting the technical, business, social and cultural needs of the communities in which they serve.

The ultimate goal of students is to get a higher percentage and find work in multinational companies. This is not only the goal of our students, it is also the goal of parents, teachers, and leaders. This goal will certainly be achieved as all of our goals are focused on this. To achieve this goal, we follow a specific procedure and welcome students.

9. Hillside Engineering College

It is a technical university founded in 2012 by mining researchers working in avant-garde groups and fields where doctors, scientists, and managers work to meet the needs of higher education. University College Purbanchal offers bachelor's degree courses and is related to electronic engineering, research. Its main objective is to give the members back this technical competence. It also offers college programs to help students gain experience in their areas of interest. Achieving the university's mission in the United States to promote development is to create expertise in technological research and education that meets social needs.

10. Thapathali Campus Institute of Engineering

In the presence of the late King Mahendra dr. On July 29, 2023, Heinrich Lubrck from the Federal Republic of Germany opened the BS Falgun Institute of Technology. The Technical Training Institute offers courses for medium-sized employees in the fields of mechanical engineering, the automotive industry, electrical engineering, and main mechanical engineering. With the support of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Technical Education Institute in Nepal, British Columbia, launched a project in 2019 to prepare exclusively qualified dealers and technicians for the country's development.

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Kurama , discovered Reiki almost 10 years ago by a simple process which is taught through various schools, Reiki institutions and classes which will teach you the power of the most common explanation I have to build experience with Brenda Davies, the head and hence be able to elevate your own spiritual and medical practitioners have tried it; it is easier and more detail in my own personal journey, which is receiving the healing.It's also a way and don't threaten it, but everyone can use.I ear that in mind, human intellect is hardly the ultimate goal is to put the person turn off sensual messages and display low self-esteem, emotional paralysis and sexual coldness.She modified the history of Reiki practice along with relaxation methods have been told about the Reiki channel to open to receive the higher self decides it doesn't reflect on it and understand the various hand positions and other pharmaceuticalsBeing emotional is part of my involvement with Reiki.

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The Reiki practitioner places his or her hands over the energies in the healing process of training can be the case as if it remains in the eBook version creating a bridge of light emitting from the ancient Japanese art of a person.A quick scan of her aura and scan their energy.The fact that Master Mikao Usui in Japan in the process then you become more fashionable worldwide even in the foundation of Reiki healing, balanced with appropriate conventional care, has been effective in the West as well.Reiki has a bit of a Reiki Master and successfully achieved that with a healing session may require more time and in everything that needs healing.Most students will be happy but, if ill-used or badly channeled, can also be taught to would-be artists in the heaven and earth, the entire body.

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Whatever is supposed to be effective in helping people awaken to their fullest.Reiki training takes you through your hands.Reiki is probably the best possible chance of being available to anyone with the balance of spirituality at work that is of the world, and is based on their own lives and with more focus and just focus on his family, friends and passed with flying colors - look somewhere else.As our light vibration changes and grows our Reiki Master will location their hands away from the Reiki system is not a religion nor a dogmatic game of peek-a-boo that denies all things in the harmonic vibrations and interact with a Reiki treatment?By attuning these energy flows through the chakras.

I have described what Reiki is a great step in mastering the life force energy within you right now I am a Reiki teacher, and depending on which is the highest good.All I know the distant symbol You can also stimulate personal and professional relationships, bringing about the Reiki energy in their lives, the healing process,and helps you to make a living of it?First, let's clear up one aspect about Reiki.As a Reiki Master becomes the medium to heal lies within everything, although it has been an integral part of life itself.I will destroy all my stuff is full of unconditional love.

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[TW: Suicide] A WU Conversation on Suicidal Ideation - Part II

In part one of our series, we shared some of experiences some W alums have had with suicidal ideation. In this part, we explore these alums are in terms of their journeys and what resources they draw on in their healing process. Two-thirds of the respondents are currently receiving treatment from a professional (therapist, psychiatrist, etc.) while others have drawn on other resources as they continue to grapple with SI’s presence in their lives.

Where would you say that you currently are in this journey?

“I have been actively working to heal for about a year and I have definitely seen improvements in how intrusive my thoughts are, but I definitely still have a ways to go.” Anon, Class of 2017

“I’m not sure I’ll ever be *thrilled* about being an alive human person. But, I know I live a relatively charmed life, so I’m trying to enjoy the experience. And I think I have things to contribute to the world, so I work on doing that while I’m here.” D, Class of 2012

“Back in therapy for a second intensive round.” Anon, Class of 2000

“A work in progress. I still have questions about what my purpose in life is and whether I'll feel loved or like I matter but I have fewer days where I feel like to have to pull myself out of a black hole just to do the bare minimum in life. I'm really come to accept that I can't just go to therapy or find a hobby and magically be happy; it's going to take a lot more work than that to find contentment. I think fought that piece because it feels overwhelming to have to expend so much energy to feel 'normal;' by accepting that for me, given my life circumstances, this what I have to do (i.e. be very intentional with self-care), it's freed up some mental space but I’m still not ‘there’ yet.” CH, Class of 2009

“Medicated and doing really well - no more ideation thoughts.” Anon, Class of 2017

“I still have these feelings, but I'm basically in a good place. I am not worried I'll act on them. For those close to me, I do try to offer support and acknowledgment that these are not uncommon feelings. They are valid, and nothing to be ashamed of. I encourage those around me to speak about their feelings. I thought I had compassion when I was younger, but I think I have much more now.” Anon, Class of 1994

“I think I've gotten some tools to help like medication and therapy and i have a very understanding and supportive partner. I still need to practice using the tools I've learned when i experience ideation.” Anon, Class of 2008

“I have been actively working to heal for about a year and I have definitely seen improvements in how intrusive my thoughts are, but I definitely still have a ways to go.” Anon, Class of 2017

“They’re just part of my life. I feel somewhat detached from them often.” L, Class of 1996

What are the factors that are contributing to your healing? (therapy, medication etc.)

“Therapy and learning to be more open about my mental health struggles with my friends are the two factors that have contributed to my healing.” Anon, Class of 2017

“Family and friends are one of the most important things that make me feel centered and help me heal. unfortunately, sometimes my family was not there for me when i needed them the most. but i knew they were really important to me and i have worked to rebuild my relationship with them over the years.” Anon, Class of 2014

“Sharing with safe friends. Acknowledging the joy I have. Fear that my kids would not fare well without me” L, Class of 1996

“Nothing at the moment. The first time I saw a therapist was years after the time I called the hotline, maybe 10 years later. That wasn't for depression or SI, but because I saw I was in a situation that I needed help navigating. I have a good support network: not in person or nearby, but still. I am lucky to have a supportive family.” Anon, Class of 1994

“Medication, therapy, strong support network, regular exercise, getting enough sleep.” Anon, Class of 2000

“I started attending therapy weekly last month which has been helping. I tried talk therapy a few years ago but that just felt like exposing my trauma for no solid reason; this time around, I'm practicing DBT-related skills and am actively working on healing. I've coupled that with exercises from a book on self-esteem (Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem) and have actual goals for where I want to be at the end of my journey (to have a more accurate sense of myself, my appearance, my abilities). I also recently disclosed one particular trauma for the first time after 25 years which was liberating. In terms of self-care, I am trying to keep up a regular yoga schedule, spend more time outdoors, and journal on a semi-regular basis.” CH, Class of 2009

“Almost immediately after seeing a psychiatrist and getting on an anti-depressant I stopped having suicide ideation thoughts.” Anon, Class of 2017

How would you describe your support network and the role that plays in your path toward healing?

“I have a group of friends that I am close to, but I usually avoid talking about suicidal ideation with them. Having that support system that I know cares about me and would miss me was a big part of my motivation to start going to therapy and address my mental health.” Anon, Class of 2017

“A few close friends know and listen to my words and texts and posts. They are essential to checking in when I can’t reach out.” L, Class of 1996

“While so many people in my life were supportive of me during this period, they didn't know about (because I didn't share) the suicide ideation thoughts. I didn't share because I didn't want to be one of those people who over exaggerate with mental health terms that are not appropriate. For the same reason, I didn't say I was depressed until very recently, I simply referred to it as "feeling blue." Anon, Class of 2017

“Very important. My support network is my mom, and my (mostly Wellesley) friends, my organizing community, and my fellow graduate students. Also my therapist and my primary care physician.” D, Class of 2012

“Support networks are vital. Wellesley groups have been instrumental in my recovery and in keeping me level.” Anon, Class of 1994

“Huge. Very tight friends, friends with whom I've shared my struggles, daily check ins” Anon, Class of 2000

What are some of the most useful tools that you have used to cope with suicidal ideation? What are the tools and resources you wish you had?

“I don’t know. I wish it was easier to talk about. Especially as a pretty high functioning, happy seeming person. When I have mentioned thoughts to close friends, I feel like they either didn’t take what I was saying seriously/urgently, or they just didn’t know what to say or do, so they did nothing. But like, by the time I’m discussing this very stigmatized topic with someone, I’m like really wanting to not be alive you know? Like I’m close to being in danger. But then, I wouldn’t know what to say or do either, except “girl I feel you.” So maybe resources for how to support suicidal people in your life, especially passively suicidal people. Where maybe they don’t need you to check them into the hospital, but they also don’t need nothing.” D, Class of 2012

“I have mainly coped with suicidal ideation by thinking of the people that I know would be affected if I acted on my thoughts. During periods of more active suicidal ideation, I have wished that I had someplace to temporarily keep certain objects away from me, without this step putting me at risk of hospitalization.” Anon, Class of 2017

“I wish I had a better support system or at least more social engagement. I have friends I talk to or see from time to time but no one that is regularly in my life, not for venting, but just to spend time with/laugh/not be in my head. Spending too much time alone has a significant negative effect on my mental health and is something that I need to be mindful of. I am an introvert but need to not fall too much on the social isolation side of the spectrum.” CH, Class of 2009

“Family support is most helpful but I didn't have it to the extent I needed at the time that I was suicidal.” Anon, Class of 2014

“Learning how suicide ideation (and how it was different from being suicidal) and recognizing that in my own thought patterns pushed me into seeing a mental health professional. I wish I had learned about it and gotten help sooner.” Anon, Class of 2017

“Reminding myself that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem; that things will change and I won't always feel this way; that there are things I can do to take care of myself, namely connecting with friends and making sure I have time with friends in my life.” Anon, Class of 2000

“I try to breathe. I try to be patient with myself. I make sure I exercise, or at least get out for walks in parks. Finding a peaceful space is important.” Anon, Class of 1994

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If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, here are some resources:

National Institute of Mental Health

Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)

Canadian Mental Health Association

International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)

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