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[mythesisjournal002]

Thesis moodboard when you have ADHD

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

Hey so I’ve mentioned this a lot of times on my main blog, but I wanted to put this out over here since it is Hallow’s Eve. I always give out little tchotchkes on Halloween along with candy. This year, I’ve completely switched over to 100% doohickeys and doodads— think mechanical pencils, shaped erasers, little notebooks, squishes, vampire teeth and spiders rings and all. It started years ago in college when I signed up for a dorm Halloween event where kids from an area that was too dangerous to really trick or treat through got bussed in to trick or treat at our dorm. I bought some candy and dollar store Halloween themed stuff with what i had. And you know what the kids went ape shit over?

Motherfucking. Mechanical. PENCILS!!

These kids could not get enough of them. They literally went “PENCILS??!” I had never seen kids get so hyped up for pencils lmao. They were the first things to go. Candy is fleeting; the little pencils you can bring to school to flex are eternal, until you inevitably lose one of the refill parts and then they aren’t but listen, in that one moment they are infinite. And its nice thinking that maybe some kids who don’t always have access to school supplies not only get them, but get them in fun shapes and designs.

Anyway. I recommend people to give out fun stuff like this not just because kids seem to genuinely enjoy them, but also because there’s this thing called the Teal Pumpkin Project here in America. You can put out a teal pumpkin to show that you are giving away non-candy items and sign your address up so parents of children with allergies know that there are houses their kids can safely and happily trick or treat at! It’s a win-win! Plus, if you accidentally bought too much, it’s not like candy— just pack it away, pencils and fidget spinners will be good next year, too! :)

[leclerc-s]

all i'm hearing is that a lestappen/maxiel podium is possible this weekend

[salty-an-disco]

(Explore) OK, but what was that about the end of the world?

You’re a lot more chatty than my previous assignment.

It seems like you can only reply when I give you a prompt, of sorts, though… OK, that’s not too bad, I can work with that.

What was the question, again? Oh, right, the end of the world! So lethal, and disastrous, and yet, so vague it’s a bit difficult to visualize, isn’t it?

Is it a literal and bloody ending, with meteors falling from the sky and everything on fire? Or is it more of a metaphorical end to the world as we know it? Is an ending ever truly an end? When you finish a book—or a game!—and carry with you the memory of its story, did it really reach an end, or is it now being carried with you?

Such a simple question, with no simple answers. Seems like we’ll only know what this ‘end of the world’ entails once we begin the story proper.

Unless, of course, you’d like to keep using your prompts to chat. I don’t mind it all that much, to be honest, I quite like getting the chance to simply talk—my last assigment would often interrupt my monologues, hmph—but I’m also curious to see this story I’ve been dropped in. Aren’t you?

[theborzoiarebackintown]

I’m legit OBSESSED with this puppy

[steveyockey]

There’s this ridiculous thing that I think is a big part of a lot of pre-egg-crack trans journeys and certainly was for me: “Just because I hate being a man and wish I could be a woman, or a totally different person, doesn’t make me trans, because I’m not already transitioned.” Which is absurd, but you invent ways to protect yourself from what will be a trauma. You’ve learned through subliminal and not-so-subliminal codes that your family or your friends or your culture are telling you, “Don’t blow up your life like that.” Repression, in this really sad way, is a survival mechanism. I don’t know that I would be alive if I had my egg crack in 1998 in my childhood bedroom. That would have been too dangerous a thing to realize about myself then.

[Making] the film was a very raw and scary journey toward becoming comfortable with myself as an artist. I always thought of myself as a “professional fan”: someone who could get really excited about other people’s art, but, for whatever reason, the idea of making my own art always felt shameful. The process of working on the film and saying to myself, “Yes, I’m trans, and I need to transition to have the life I need to live,” are all one thing. It happened while I was writing the script, and that is the shame I’m unpacking in this movie. When Casey first talks to JLB, she says, “For a lot of people, I know the change that you go through when you take the World’s Fair Challenge is a really big change, like you turn into a clown or an evil vampire”—these simple genre metaphors that we see in body horror movies. But Casey says about herself, “It’s not like that for me. It’s making me different. It’s making me bad.” And the word “bad” is a really important key to the film, because it’s not as simple as Casey role-playing the person she wishes she could be. She is expressing a part of herself that has a level of catharsis and autonomy denied to her in her IRL life, but she’s not at a stage yet where she can explore that outside of fiction and detangle that from feelings of disgust at herself.

Jane Schoenbrun speaking to Sam Bodrojan for Filmmaker, “Portal to Portal: Jane Schoenbrun on We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” April 14, 2022.

[poorlittleyaoyao]

In light of the newest JGY discourse, I once again want to make a post about how so much character interpretation in the absence of description is in how you picture the character’s inflection /expression/ body language in your head when you’re reading, and/or how you interpret that inflection/ expression/body language when there is a description of it. People generally understand this for plays because every production is its own slightly different canon, but they forget about for books, and I think differences in visualization contribute to the wide range of interpretations people hold of events in the novel that can be supported with text citations.

(And even when you’re seeing/hearing something happen onscreen, you can still interpret body inflection/ expression/ body language differently depending on your own experiences but that’s a whole other situation.)

[kangals]

Your puppy fever was a little to contagious!

Contacted a breeder and getting a Belgian sheepdog soon, since it will be our first puppy (and dog), I was wondering if you have any tips that maybe are not usually found when researching and come from experience.

Looking forward to my own snout fluffer!!

!! congrats on your (future) baby! I’m mostly just stumbling my way through life with the thought process of “this will probably work out fine” so I don’t know that I have too many puppy tips I can give you haha. I can say, from working in vetmed, to try to make sure your puppy gets used to crates and restraint young! it makes such a huge difference when a dog is losing its shit and hard for staff to handle vs a dog that is tolerant (or at least not freaking out), and herding breeds can be very sensitive to that. like I completely forgot to desensitize Stellina to collar/harness grabs as a puppy and didn’t realize until one day someone tried and she panicked - oops. So with Kep we’ve just done some simple “I am tugging your collar haha silly here’s a treat” and he’s already ambivalent about it. So I think it’s all pretty standard stuff like that! Genuinely I am just kind of doing whatever and assuming that people have had dogs for ages so I probably won’t be screwing up irrevocably 🤷‍♀️

im not very knowledgeable about Belgian sheepdogs (besides thinking they’re very pretty and I would probably try to own a tervuren if I was more brave/competent) but @groenendaze and @herdybunch may have some pointers for you! I am just a little idiot with my easy herding-lite companion breed 😅

[cata-strophes]

Niki with the Mwah Pallette and F1

She :)

[kingkatsuki]

Kirishima would be that oversharer boyfriend that literally texts you about everything. Like you’re just sitting down to eat and he’s texting you about how he just did the biggest poop in the agency toilets and now he’s embarrassed cause it stinks😭

[chirpsythismorning]

theyll never be any breakdown between mike and jonathan bc jonathan doesn’t GAF about mike, especially when he is the cause of Wills pain. mike will never be Will, will never comes out to anyone, will never be nothing more than a boring character resumed to a love interest and a bad friend, will never be as queercoded as Will. tired of yall praising the shit out of him bc he’s played by your fav when he’s just an boring asshole

Clearly you’re scared they will explore it, otherwise you wouldn’t be getting worked up all bitter in my asks anon lolol

[boltgunkiller-archive]

i love blaintana as a friend duo so much.. it’s not really shown in canon but damn 🤭 i srsly can’t get enough of them being friends who just do not get along but do not play about each other

[marisatomay]

literally tom cruise is a great actor, are all the scripts of his movies as great as his ability to perform? no. of course not. but to act like he doesn't make even a shit script a mildly watchable is ridiculous

this falls under what i call the Cocktail Effect

[zombiepillar]

IM NOT MAKING DHMIS CONTENT ANYMORE!!!!!!!

either stay for the stuff I actually ENJOY making or leave.

Its truly saddens me when all my VERY ANCIENT DHMIS stuff gets liked but my actual original stuff and Venba stuff (which BTW needs more fans and content) gets overlooked.

Give my actual stuff a chance, I promise you it’s good. Also play Venba my fixated little caterpillar brain NEEDS the extra content

[zytes]

what camera do you use?

I learned on a Canon T3 and currently use a Canon T6, an inexpensive DSLR that’s several years out of date - it isn’t exactly professional gear and I usually avoid talking to self-labelled photographers about my equipment because it’s quite insufferable listening to 50 year-old hobbyists tell me that I *need* a mirrorless camera for the Nth time; they’re like $4000 tho, so even if I could afford that I’d be too scared to use it in the ways that I like to use mine.

I think the T7 or T7i is the more current model, and it runs around $500-700 brand new in a basic starter set with two lenses and a soft case. In addition to the lenses that came with the camera body, I also occasionally use a half-dozen different plastic lomography lenses that I bought in a set from a thrift store many years ago — they take sorta shit photos, and are a little inconvenient to use, but they’re really unique; plastic lenses are super underrated imo. The only other accessory I use is a $20 aftermarket battery pack that doubles the battery life and extends the body of the camera to make it fit more comfortably in my hands. Using inexpensive gear has allowed me to be much more adventurous while I’m shooting without fear for rain or snow or dirt - although I do occasionally have to digitally remove water spots and other small shadows that make it into photos whenever my lens is a little scuzzy.

^ the lomo lenses I mentioned, extremely cool vibe but literally held together with tape.

[breadedbutter]

Quick thing I need to rant about:

I just found a YT short explains why they don’t like Buddy Daddies, (as a side note they haven’t even watched the series), however I’m going to drop the comment I made on that video over here because I need people to just stop comparing them. :

As a person who has both watched this [Buddy Daddies] and has read the SxF manga. I personally belive you should actually give it a shot. Buddy Daddies doesn’t have a lot of action but it’s a lot more grounded and believeable. Plus In an interview the creator said he wasn’t inspired by SxF, but instead by his own personal experience with kids and his coworkers experience with children. In conclusion: Watch the anime and then make your judgement