#2018 retrospective

[sarakiz]

Maé-Bérénice Méité (FRA) - "Halo" (Jasmine Thompson Cover) / "Run the World (Girls)" by Beyoncé (chor. Benoît Richaud)

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018 - Women's Short Program

#mae berenice meite #Maé-Bérénice Méité #pyeongchang 2018 #figure skating #fskateedit #fskatingedit #fskate #dont mind me just on a pyc retrospective #trying my hand at larger gif sizes yewww #although its hard to make them less grainy but i did my best with these #i hope she has a wonderful season <3

[bethrnoora]

Baltray, Co. Louth, Ireland (2018)

#ok more 2018 photos. i guess im feelin a lil nostalgic #ireland #county louth #gothic #landscape photography #folk horror #just for the vibes yk #river boyne #my photos #only found out in retrospect that the body of water in the 2nd and 3rd was the boyne lmao

[rat-presenting]

why the fuck did I post the song I wrote when my first situationship and I broke up when I was 16 with the caption “big oof”

#2018 was. a time #kinda the weirdest time to be a teenager too #in retrospect it wasn’t even that serious and I could not play well enough to even play the song I wrote in the first place #liveblogging

[alternis]

the only thing about last reblog is some people do respond more strongly to negativity than positivity, which I can attest bc I went vegan overnight because i watched a youtube recipe video where the vegan host said, and I quote, "vegetarians are cowards" and I was just like. dqmn you're right ill stop eating eggs now

#also I got out of fanon batfam and actually read comics bc of people complaining about fanon #but the vegan thing is so funny in retrospect. I was already not eating any dairy products so it was actually simpler #to just be vegan than 'vegetarian but i can't have anything with milk or butter or cheese' lmao #god how many years has it been since I went full vegan. like at least since 2018 #I just vegetables. so much. bury me in butter beans

[sadaveniren]

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#re the last post about the house that sold i just find the timeline so funny in retrospect #how he basically fucked off back to london at the end of 2017 #and then bought a house for b to basically shut her up and get her to leave him alone #and he stopped hanging out with the clarks until 2020 when he was kinda forced back into interacting because of the lawsuit #just really funny imo #hindsight really does give us a better perspective #(obviously this is all speculation on my end i don't know anything blah blah blah) #but also... the house was meant to shut the clarks up and it sorta worked #louis didn't really mention bg much during 2018-2019

[zainmalik]

was scrolling through your blog and saw a p!atd reference that gave me whiplash just thought you should know

oh my god akssjsjsjskdjd i’m sorry, but i’m actually not

#i was obsessed with p!atd #i almost saw them in 2018 but i couldn’t get tickets in time #which. in retrospect. was a good thing #ask #answered #anonymous

[illustraction]

ALFRED HITCHCOCK Retrospective (2018) - RETROSPECTIVE FILM POSTERS (Part 5/10)

Alfred Hitchcock’s profile is as famous as his filmography. It is therefore natural his profile was chosen for the 2018 Retrospective of his oeuvre at the famed Babylon Theater in Berlin with its magnificent poster above

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: N/A

All our ALFRED HITCHCOCK posters are here

ALL OUR RETROSPECTIVE movie posters are here

If you like this entry, check the other 9 parts of this week’s Blog as well as our Blog Archives

All our NEW POSTERS are here

All our ON SALE posters are here

The poster above courtesy of ILLUSTRACTION GALLERY

#illustraction Gallery #illustraction #alfred hitchcock #retrospective #filmography #Babylon Theater #Berlin #movies #Movie Poster #film #vintage #2018

[tunglrsillyman]

phew nearly discourse blogged on main

#neb talks #dm if youre a mutual and wanna know what im talking abt but ive been thinking abt a very popular vocaloid producer and how many young #fans who only knew him from tiktok or surface level is worrying/Little Weird in retrospective as an old fan who saw A Certain Controversy #take place live in 2018

[murdoc]

each time i come on here i remember i nuked most my art from recent and cringe a little

#text #in retrospect i shouldve kept all my art on here but just killed my main twitter of all grllaz art #ive debated on reposting the stuff i still like but now that the bands more active i dont want ppl to assume i still like the band n follow #but u can licherally get to my art from highschool in like 2 pages.... and 2018 in 1.... #scratches head #maybe ill completely wipe my tags n restart...? #but.. all the stuff i didnt delete is so old.. i feel like deleting more is worse

[arvidsgarden]

thinking it was the old kiva where one forgot stuff and it got rained on, I wrote this at the inception of an idea for a novel about what all multilayered narratives are—the comparing of two versions of reality (or oneself). I always have been brutally honest with myself in literature. This is both my burden and my release.

And so it was with flabbergasted wonder after quite predictably, though unintentionally, leaving it on some bench one afternoon, that I saw old-style journaling mushroom as the most appealing pastime to an entire span of generations.

#I live good deeds #in retrospect #in the present I know not what I do #that is the paradox of art #also includes map to buried treasure #circa 2018 #and Good Mantra #stay calm and fabric

[dcbrierton]

I recently listened to series 1 of Susan Calman's Mrs Brightside, a podcast involving Calman talking with various comedians about depression. A topic not unrelated to *gestures broadly* whatever this is. (Gestures meant to encompass myself, my patient population, various friends and family, our societal moment as a whole...)

It's an interesting project, in part in that it is very open ended. Some episodes are the funny and upbeat conversations about mental health that Calman seems to have been looking for. Some episodes are awkward, involving guests who, having shown up for the recording, now don't really want to talk about depression and, being professional public speakers, can go on an entertaining tangent for quite a long time to avoid it. Sometimes Calman has been friends with a guest for years; other times she's speaking with someone she's just met.

It is also a podcast that was released several years ago and makes very frequent references to Hannah Gadsby's show Nanette. So at one point I just stopped listening to whatever episode I was on and rewatched Nanette instead.

It's a good pairing. More than just comedians + difficult topics, they're both works about how comedy serves the audience and the comedian, but especially the comedian. What it allows them to say, what it doesn't allow them to say. What it feels like to tell the comedy version of their story over on repeat, and whether or not they tell the non-comedy version to anyone at all.

#some thoughts on comedy circa 2018 #a world in which our collective mental health was in retrospect so good #yet also was not good #mrs brightside #nanette

[humblevictory]

#2018 #monica #lewinsky #metoo #retrospective #trauma #ptsd #healing #power #abuse

[shahrwrites]

* Batman #50 (2018)

Bruce Wayne, CEO of casually making your father-figure tear up.

[also that “I can’t do anything without you, really. I never could. Or will,” really hurts now in retrospect.]

#batman #batman comics #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #dc #dc comics #comics

[linghxr]

Advice I would give my past self about studying Chinese

Recently I've been reflecting on my Chinese learning journey and how far I've come. If I could go back in time, these are 10 things I would tell my past self. A few are specific to Chinese, but most can apply to any language

It will get so much easier to learn new characters. I remember feeling overwhelmed because learning new characters was a painful process. Now when I encounter a new character, I can remember it with relative ease—it’s just a new combination of familiar components.

Don't feel bad about having uneven development in different skills. My listening and reading are significantly stronger than my speaking and writing. It’s super common and nothing to be ashamed of.

The best way to get over being too embarrassed to speak is to experience some embarrassment and realize it’s not a big deal. I used to be so afraid of making mistakes that I would avoid speaking in class. It was only by being forced to speak that I got over it. I'm much better for it!

It’s impossible to learn everything, and time is limited. You have to prioritize. You probably don’t need to know how to say “pawnshop” in Chinese, and trying to jam your head full of 100 words you saw once won’t work. They won’t stick.

It will actually be harder to read pinyin than to read characters at some point. When I helped a friend with a script for her Chinese class, I really struggled because she had written it entirely in pinyin. I had to write out the characters to read without stumbling! I know characters are daunting for beginners, but trust me, you will get used to them.

If you haven’t practiced or learned something, of course you won’t be good at it. I remember feeling so frustrated trying to navigate Chinese websites for the first time. In retrospect, obviously, I was going to struggle with something completely new to me!

If something isn’t sticking, move on. Why waste time on a word that’s not clicking when you could be learning five new ones? It will only result in unnecessary frustration. So unless you need to know it for your class or a proficiency test, drop it and move on.

Don’t beat yourself up when you have trouble understanding music, literature, different accents, etc. These can be challenging even in your native language. Of course you’re going to struggle more in a new language.

It's worth it to pay attention to things like stroke order and tones from the start so you don't form bad habits. Don’t stress about get it perfect, but it’s easier to do it right the first time than to have to correct your bad habits in the future.

Instead of feeling overwhelmed by all that you don’t know, learn how to express yourself with what you do know. It’s truly its own skill that requires practice. After all, in life you can’t always stop and pull out a dictionary.

I started learning Chinese a really long time ago, but I became more serious about it in 2018, so 5 1/2 years ago. I'm very proud of how far I've come, but I still have a long way to go! I look forward to revisiting this post in another couple of years 😊

#my learning #chinese #mandarin #mandarin chinese #chinese language #studyblr #langblr #learning languages #language learning #chinese langblr #mandarin langblr #languageblr

[shepherds-of-haven]

Happy New Year, everyone! I thought it would be fun to do a little retrospective on the game's progress over the last year... Shepherds of Haven has grown so much from the little demo I posted in January 2018, and it continues to steadily build and flourish in so many different and exciting ways! Here's a look at just some of the things we accomplished in 2023!

I added 143,151 words to the game (2.5 main chapters, 8 new character interludes) in 2023: the equivalent of writing the longest Lord of the Rings book in one year! We also broke our huge 1 million word milestone—without including code—meaning Shepherds of Haven is now officially twice as long as War and Peace, and almost as long as the entire 7-book Harry Potter series... and all in a single game!

A lot goes into game creation behind the scenes, including the coordination and creation of visual assets for the game—like character cards, codex entries, maps, portraits, and backgrounds—fun stuff for the fans (like the MC info template we created), and songs for the official soundtrack. As the game creeps slowly and determinedly towards its initial completion, that also means learning new things as a solo developer to prepare for the future, like learning to build an official website, researching business and tax practices, and beginning to think about how to conduct testing, publishing, and marketing down the road. Much of what I enumerate here hasn't been made public yet and will continue to cook in the background for a while, but I'm very proud of the work I've gotten done this year and will be excited to unveil more in the future!

And of course, for even more Shepherds of Haven content, I've added and completed even more stories for our little library on Patreon (which also has sizable word count at this point): The Bridge of Bones (a Trouble and Riel murder mystery), O Happy Dagger (a dark adventure featuring Briony, Chase, and Red), and The Hunt (a wild tale involving Tallys, Halek, Shery, and new kinds of spirits, fey magic, and Elves) were all serial stories completed in 2023, while Some Kind of Virus is a cyberpunk zombie apocalypse AU that will continue to be updated with new chapters monthly.

A full list of the Shepherd short stories and serial novellas (with links) can be viewed here!

I hope you enjoyed this session of Shepherds of Haven Wrapped! Honestly, this doesn't actually cover everything I've been working on, but some things can't be packaged and listed out neatly, or otherwise won't seem very interesting to anyone else but me! 😂 As we inch through Chapter 9 and get more interludes done (only a few more main chapters to go), I'm hopeful that I'll also be able to find time to work on my next novel, but we'll see if the Shepherds schedule ends up ramping up or settling down as we work steadily towards finishing the main story!

One important thing before wrapping up is to acknowledge your guys' role in this wonderful, wild journey. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you for your invaluable contributions to the development of Shepherds of Haven. Whether you took the time to share links to the game, supported its growth on Discord or Patreon, left encouraging messages or asked interesting questions, reported bugs, or showcased your remarkable works of fanfiction or fanart, I am sincerely thankful for the unwavering support from this amazing community! Your collective efforts have played a pivotal role in shaping the world of the game into what it is today. Words cannot adequately convey my gratitude for your support, and I am truly blessed to have such a passionate community surrounding this project.

As we step into 2024, I am filled with anticipation for the developments awaiting Shepherds of Haven. Big things are on the horizon, and I am so excited to share these experiences with you! Thank you for being an integral part of this journey, and here's to the continued growth of our shared little world. Cheers to 2024—may it be a year filled with creativity, adventure, and joy! 🎊

#Shepherds of Haven #milestone #update #short story #short stories #Patreon #alpha build #alpha preview #year in review #wrapped #recap #2023 #master post #master list #happy new year #long #long post

[kirstydreaming]

Ariadna retrospective 2018-12-05

#Ariadna Majewska #feminine fashion #pantyhose #legs & heels #little black dress #pretty outfit #feminine inspiration #instagram #kirstydreaming