#teach yourself first

[fairsweetlonging]

feel like we don't talk enough about the fact that shen qingqiu was fully prepared to die in the invasion of cang qiong to save his disciples, and not just in terms of without-a-cure. when he challenged sha hualing to a palm strike, he expected to die, his exact thoughts were "with this one strike, he'd ensure there were no winners", and he went in expecting his body to self destruct before liu qingge showed up.

it's such an important piece of characterization because shen yuan is often ranting in his head about "surviving at any cost" and "cheating his way out of it", but when he's actually faced with any kind of danger, his very first reaction is to protect the people around him with his life, without hesitation.

[livwifeofkarl]

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[mercury088]

H-high heels... painted nails...

[blakbonnet]

his earnest whimsy is everything

[lunarharp]

idle leftovers...i drew the dream from my last post

[sam-montembeault]

Hey so I did actually make a little primer for any of you interested in learning about hockey :) It covers the basic rules and pretty much goes in order of the bare minimum you'd need to know to understand what's going on. It does not include propaganda for convincing you to watch hockey. There's a final section I'll keep expanding on that's just personal enjoyment, and maybe I'll put propaganda there, but the actual meat focused on explaining how to watch the game is all completed and hopefully actually useful :)!

[corellianhounds]

One of my favorite things to see in sw media is non-Force sensitives grabbing a lightsaber and just going to town. I don’t want them to be revealed to secretly have been a Force user or secretly a Jedi or ANYTHING, I don’t care or even WANT for them to be an experienced fighter at all, I want some average shmuck to grab a lightsaber whether they know whoever dropped it or not and just start whaling on people or torch-cutting a door open or welding one shut or stuffing their homie inside a dead tauntaun. Experienced sword masters are impressive but sometimes it’s just more interesting and better for the story seeing how a novice approaches the situation

[wyrddogs]

Was day-of secretary and a tracklayer for the terv club tracking test this weekend. Not beating the allegations about dog people being insane-- we were out for hours in wind and rain and cold, walking through mud and knee-high sticks. Tracking is fun.

This was my first official TD track that I've laid (previously I laid an alt track that wasn't used), and laying it went well! I've been out there laying track so much that the TD actually was pretty easy. I felt confident putting it down this morning.

The person who ran my track was embarrassingly unprepared and it was actively painful watching her run. Didn't even make it to the first turn. As a courtesy we let them finish the track as a training exercise with the tracklayer on hand for advice. Helping her finish was painful. I genuinely don't know how she certified.

Anyway, here is what I learned:

I am an idiot.

I had been pretending that each of my steps was 12 inches/1 foot for convenience sake, and a TD track is 500 yards max, which equals 1500 feet, which means that to be ready for a TD track I would want Kermit to be able to track a 1500 foott/step track.

My steps are not 12 inches.

The TD track that I laid with the direction of the judges was 550 of my steps.

The most recent track that I laid for Kermit was 950 of my steps.

I have also been laying tracks over much trickier ground. Like. I think we have been doing TDX-level terrain in some cases.

Oops.

So yeah the TD that I laid today, Kermit would have killed. He would have found it so easy.

I slunk over to the local tracking guru like haha remember how you said you'd certify us, are you still interested? And she gave me this YES YOU IDIOT look. She had given me a hard time about not entering Kermit in today's test and uh. yeah. Oops.

So we're meeting with her to certify on Wednesday, and the next test closes on Thursday. I got on my knees and begged the test secretary (a terv club member lol, she was like YES DO IT) so I'm just gonna fucking. go for it.

I have been double-laying our turns and still planting hot dogs after but I've also been doing really hard tracks so. Either we certify Wednesday or we learn what we need to work on. Either way, it will be a valuable experience.

Just gotta get on my knees and beg my boss for the time off next.

Wish us luck!

[000marie198]

Kinda a hot take but adults get so caught up in their perspective of the world sometimes that they often simply forget that you can't teach children complex evils of the society and have to start at little things where their mind can pick it up.

They are kids, you try to teach them the complex philosophy of unfairness of something and they'll misunderstand. They shouldn't be forced to your level of thinking, you have to get down to theirs

[jackalhadrurusluvr]

anyone else up feeling like they’ll never have a place in this world

[grace4867]

hey again pt 1 i ran outta tags lol

[chicago-geniza]

Wait so I was thinking about the restored Hans Holbein Anne of Cleves portrait on the train as one does and about how bright the blue background is and did he select that shade because it was associated with the Virgin Mary? Like I know blue was associated with her in the medieval and early modern periods but I've been looking at a lot of Renaissance art lately and it's precisely the same shade that, e.g., Fra Angelico uses for Mary's raiment

[bimsha]

does it ever hits you, out of nowhere, what it would be like if you actually love yourself? ive always feared those who have the confidence to conquer their demons and face the world with ragged scars still burning against their skin, and sometimes it does make me wonder, what if i start to love the girl i see in the mirror and embrace everything i am? what if, instead of thinking of death i start thinking about what i will make for dinner? what if i actually try all the things ive been wanting to do? what if i shed the burdens off my shoulder and take the day as it comes? what if i do it all? try doing it all? slowly, gradually, what if i get better? what if i start liking the stories i write? what if i accept compliments without discarding them as people being fake to my face? what if i actually reach out for help without wallowing in my own self regrets? for a moment all these what ifs seemed achievable and im convinced i can somehow go there and then im back there again, doom scrolling through instagram. im back there again, piling pills under my bed, searching toxins in the internet. im back there and im hating myself again, im thinking of death as its my second nature. and my wholehearted beliefs that i could be better crumbles to dust, my veins are burning with the desire to leave, to end it all but lords have mercy i would like to see the other side through these mountains of regret, sometimes i look at another person and the questions echo back from my soul, but why don't they teach us this in school, why don't they just tell us, to love yourself is the greatest virtue.

[dirtsnifffer]

omaidens has such a good art style and premise but is such a depressing read in terms of how everything is handled it really sucks. if it's actually in any way realistic to japanese high school girls experiences it sucks and is sad. which is why the very light-hearted comedic tone thats applied both to very mundane cases of teens going through puberty and actually literally being groomed/molested by adults is so fucking jarring and off-putting

[gender-euphowrya]

i seriously don't get how any country can call itself a democracy without having classes dedicated to teaching how politics work in its schools