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devonellington · 1 year
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Tues. Nov. 1, 2022: Pens Up for National Novel Writing Month
Tues. Nov. 1, 2022: Pens Up for National Novel Writing Month
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 Waxing Moon Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter, Uranus, Mars Retrograde Day of the Dead Cloudy and cool Happy First Day of National Novel Writing Month! Whether you’re doing Traditional Nano (starting a new project today with the goal of 50K) or working on an ongoing project, I wish you joy in the process. You’ll learn a lot. If you need help or support, give a shout over on…
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stuckinapril · 6 months
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hi this may sound silly but re: your post about loving to study, and mentioning someone treating it like a game, how do you get into that mindset? like as in how do you start to really enjoy it? don't get me wrong i love learning, but the more monotonous parts of studying specifically make it harder to do. any tips?
not silly at all! to me studying is literally a sport just like any other. it takes time and patience and practice to build stamina for it. i set timers and try to cram as much as i possibly can (one of my favorite apps for this is forest), literally all my bedroom walls are tacked top to bottom with sticky notes pertaining to study concepts and questions and reminders, i make myself quizzes, i reward myself w things based on how much i study (if i get x amount done, i will allow myself to do y), i crunch flash cards on the treadmill, i play jazz instrumentals on sunny winter mornings while i study, i dress up and put on my favorite perfume and lip gloss and pretend i'm one of my favorite studious characters going through my notes, sometimes i will pace around w my textbook in hand if i get restless, i switch my environments a lot (you will literally catch me studying at a beach if it means i'm focused there and getting things done), i make sure my workspace is pretty and organized and inviting, i make cute study moodboards and have a lot of motivational quotes on hand, i interleave subjects so that i don't get bored studying something for long blocks of time, i have a list of what my goals are and will sometimes have them on my desk so that whenever i'm demotivated i remind myself why this matters to me to begin w, i follow discipline over motivation (having a study routine is so vital!!!! i live by my calendar), and last but not least i have a huge appreciation for what i'm studying and try not to fall into the trap of "this is boring." instead i actually try to engage critically w the material and give it the love it deserves.
also!!! challenge has always attracted me--if i don't understand a topic well i gravitate towards it more, bc it genuinely bothers me not to be able to do something proficiently (very likely my mom's neurotic influence). that disposition goes hand in hand w the skill set needed for effective studying.
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nisa-aslan · 1 month
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18.03.2024
3 things I am grateful for
A good health
Tom, my cat🐱
Lovely friends
3 things I wish for
A lover
A new and clean apartment flat in a different neighborhood
Being loved
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agirlwithglam · 2 days
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My best and favourite recommended resource for glow ups, self improvement, wellness, etc. :
BLOSSLY.
Ive been checking out the 30-day glow up challenge and it looks AMAZING. I definitely recommend that you check it out!!
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🎀30 Day Glow Up Challenge 🎀 - day ten
♡ Mindset : when I dress amazing I feel amazinggg and that’s how I felt today and I felt so confident. I unplugged from my phone and really enjoyed my spa day with my friend. I wanted to be in the moment and forget my responsibility and stressors and it made the day even better.
♡ Health : I practiced 80/20 eating today I ate a very good breakfast because I knew I’d be eating out. I ate sushi and noodle combo for lunch at the spa it was so goodddd I loved the taste and portion size it was enough not to much not to little. The only sad part is I did not enjoy the hot pot. The scent was throwing me off and the flavor of the food. The food looked amazing and my friend enjoyed it but I feel my period threw me off the scent and flavor of the food. I ended up ordering out once I got home because I didn’t eat anything at the hot pot and I ordered halal ate some and got full fast so I gave the rest of my food to my brother. The only thing I would have fixed is ordering out because it is so late.
♡ Self Care : today was my self care dayyyy!!!! I had such an amazing time. It was so relaxing and I got the body scrub my skin feels so soft! I used the saunas and it felt so good and peaceful I had great conversation with my friend and women who were also at the spa. The food was good. The only think I didn’t like was that it’s somewhat of a nude spa and that was uncomfortable for me and the spa is smaller I rated it a 6.5/10
♡ Experience : I felt so social today I spoke to random women in the spa they were so nice. I’m learning to be more vulnerable with people and my friend and I had an amazing conversation and it was a little frightening but pushing myself out of my comfort zone was worth it.
Sorry babes I missed day nine but tell me how you’re doing babes I would love to know my inbox and requests are open<33333
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galarfiend · 2 years
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visiting laventon
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aibidil · 11 months
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if you have a doctor’s note, your health insurance should pay the grocery delivery fee
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thesaintelectric · 5 months
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im getting to floor 100 of skull caverns if it fucking kills me (i have reset the day multiple times already)
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yourbestamericangorl · 7 months
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I gained back all the weight I lost over the summer and if I’m not skinny coquette ballerina tumblr th!nspo by my birthday I will kms 😍.
I have done week long fasts before but this is my first time doing a month long one which is why I wanna log on here everyday to stay accountable (p.s if anyone has tips for extended fasts PLEASE lmk)
I’ll also be hitting the Jim everyday cuz my dad signed me up for it and I feel like I’m wasting his money if I don’t go 😔💪🏻 I’m aiming to burn 200-500 everyday depending on how much will to live I have at the time
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devonellington · 2 years
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Wed. Oct. 19, 2022: Rearranging Words
Wed. Oct. 19, 2022: Rearranging Words
image courtesy of Willi Heidelbach via pixabay.com Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Waning Moon Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter, Uranus Retrograde Partly cloudy, foggy, and cold Yesterday wasn’t as much of a words-on-paper as I hoped, but I still got a good deal done. I need to shift my idea of “productivity” and allow myself to be happy with what I get done, instead of obsessing on what I don’t…
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dreamlogic · 1 year
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when father wakes you up and you are so so so sleepy
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nisa-aslan · 1 month
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20.03.2024
3 things I am grateful for
Sunny spring days🍃🌸
A good health and my whole healthy body🧘🏻‍♀️🧿
Coffee dates w/ my mom☕️
3 things I wish for
Getting accepted by ICRA for my master's degree🤞🏻
Getting accepted for an internship by TUBITAK STAR programme in 2025👩🏻‍🔬
Raising my CGPA above 3.00🤓
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tiny-tk · 7 months
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. :+* day 12: what’s your favorite video game?
when i’m little, roblox !! i love kidcore/dreamcore explorer maps so much, here’s a few favourites !! all r free to play :3
note: all the maps are sfw but some have scenes with horror / gore imagery n themes of horror and especially derealisation !! especially lots of eye imagery. could b triggering so please be careful little ones ^^
that being said, this one (angel’s sensory room) is fully safe of potentially triggering content ^^
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actualsunflower · 1 year
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You're not even a professional artist or modder. It doesn't matter if people love your art freelancers aren't as valuable in the community.
Forgot to answer this one as response to you saying I dont make enough money to matter- Listen Never Once did I say I was a professional at ANYTHING regarding art or modding. Ive done a couple big projects that I was paid for, and Ive joined organized events, but professionals actually go to school for this shit and get degrees. In fact I regularly mention how I'm literally just doing whatever the fuck and hoping it works. Like I could not make that any more obvious in any post I have ever made, I am literally always saying 'I'm just doing shit until it works, I have no idea, I'm just doing whatever,'
And look anon. This fucking community wouldn't exist without freelancers and hobby artists and modders. Fandom as a WHOLE wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for us. Go ahead lets just all get rid of freelancers and ppl who do this for enjoyment and see how fast everything disappears
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the-jellydex · 11 months
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The Vancouver Aquarium
Recently, I had the privilege and honour of visiting the Vancouver Aquarium!! It was very nice, and I'd like to give my honest review :)
Jellyfish Exhibit Rating:
Diversity - 7/10 - Only limited to Rhizostomeae and Semaeostomeae jellyfish (no combs or hydrozoans), but they get extra points for showing the rare "Stalked Jellyfish"
Presentation - 7/10 - Most exhibits had more jellyfish per square meter than normal so it was very pretty. One seemed kind of sad though.
Learning - 10/10 - Accurate information paired with engaging visuals, along with dedicated and knowledgeable staff. Here's a shout out to Noah I love him so much 🙏🙏
can we also appreciate how at every opportunity they get, the staff will thank the indigenous nations by name (there are multiple) that have owned and taken care of the land that the aquarium resides in? I respected that a lot haha.
So to start... I believe we entered at an auspicious day (even though it wasn't the weekend, when the jelly touchpool tanks are open)
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That's right!! A local school was visiting the aquarium at the same time we were ^-^!! How exciting is that? I felt so much nostalgia haha... I wish I could've done something like this in elementary school ;w;
OK, so going into the aquarium I was already very excited, and seeing this made me gasp !! :>
(unfortunately, I spooked my mother, so um. Yeah)
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Unfortunately they 1) Do not currently show the Phacellophora camtschatica in the aquarium and 2) call it the "Fried Egg Jelly" (actually, it's not too big of a deal but I prefer to call it the "Egg Yolk Jelly" since the Mediterranean Jelly resembles a fried egg.
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Hey, did you know that the Association of Zoos and Aquariums recently released a jellyfish care guide? I ended up quoting it when I talked to one of the staff, hehe
Now, most of their exhibits are divided by world region- but the jellyfish (as with most exhibits it seems) are grouped into one... except for the Papua Jellyfish, which is the first tank placed in the Tropical Exhibits.
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It's verrrry large (larger than any rhizostomid exhibit I've seen) and there are many, many jellyfish! Unfortunately the strong light and deep blue background made it pretty difficult to get good individual pictures (all of mine came out blurry :<), but they were so cute and small.
The jellies often bumped into the ground, and one was swirling around on the bottom, unable to get back into the flow (perhaps it was in-between the two circular currents?). Anyways something told me that this exhibit wasn't as well-looked after as the other ones :<
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I did see a couple of really broken ones (sorry for the bad lighting, but here was a jellyfish that had most of its bell ripped up), and it just broke my heart. Most of the jellyfish were in fine condition, though, so I think it's just the normal ripped bells and appendages that you can find in any jellyfish exhibit.
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Curiously enough, however, this exhibit shows information cards for three different jellies when in reality there is only one species (The "Spotted Jellyfish") in the tank. I'll explain my theory why later when I get to them.
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JELLYFISH HALL!!! There are many glowing sea nettles hanging from the ceiling, along with two life-sized lion's mane jellyfish!! :). The lion's manes also glow in different colours.
Also, if you notice, there's a very large crowd gathered in front of the sea nettle exhibit- and that's because I was INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY lucky to stop by RIGHT when they were doing a live jellyfish feeding. I cannot even begin to articulate how fortunate I was to accidentally stumble upon this.
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Anyway, here's the obligatory jelly card haha :)
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Here is speaker Noah, a 3rd year in his Marine Conservation degree showing us how amazing jellyfish are. I appreciate him a lot he gave me a lot of good information, which I'll just list down here:
The liquid inside of the measuring cup is in fact Jellyfish Food!
Usually, they are fed Artemis sp. naupili (sea monkeys, as he said it, or brine shrimp), but there were some other goodies added into the mix as well- like squid and herring.
This was all mixed in with a bit of gelatin- as sea nettles prefer to eat their food in bigger chunks.
These sea nettles are not fed with moon jellyfish- though the AZA Jellyfish Handbook does recommend to do that since sea nettles are medusivoric, and require jellyfish in their diet to grow properly. Apparently, the gelatin acts as an adequate substitute ^-^!!
Also Noah knows about the Monterey Bay Aquarium let's give him a round of applause ^-^!!! He said i should go there but. Well. I already did :3.
I could've went into more detail about the Cnidocyte explanation, but I'm probably not the best person to be teaching total beginners and children about jellyfish because I'd be way too technical (I was literally the only person in the crowd who was cheering lmao).
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Here's a screenshot of the feeding video I took! (I'll upload the full feeding video if there's popular demand for it haha)
Anyways, after that excitement... it was time to look at the rest of the jellies.
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This was the sign in front of the moon jelly exhibit. I just thought it was interesting to see what the aquarium defined as "Jellyfish" (this definition can vary from aquarium to aquarium) Here, we can see that the Vancouver Aquarium considers Comb Jellies, Molluscs, and Salps as jellyfish. (this is more inclusive than my own personal definition- which excludes molluscs haha)
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There was a bigger tank (that I did not take a full picture of... stupid Donut) that did include the Mediterranean and Australian Spotted jelly. They actually looked... a lot bigger in person than I thought, haha.
Now, I think the reason why these jellies were not roomed with the Papua jellies was because while they were originally a part of the exhibit, the two jellies actually outgrew the tank became too big to room with the small Papua jellies. These were housed in a tank that was about as big (if not bigger) than the Papua jelly tank- and there were not as many jellies per square meter in here.
Still weird that they kept the information cards about the jellies though... I guess it would've been too unsightly to remove?
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Ok, I also forgot to take a full view picture of this exhibit but don't be fooled by the pretty jellyfish. This exhibit was kind of... lacking, imo. I can only really describe it with a diagram of sorts.
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This is a circular tank, but I'm guessing there were two opposing currents on either side. All of the sea nettles had migrated to the right current, making that half look too crowded and the other side completely empty. It didn't help that when all of the jellyfish were on the very shaded bottom, the entire tank was dark :(.
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// Can we just say that them mentioning one of the Japanese names of the jellyfish is AWESOME? I've only seen this on the japanese wikipedia haha- though there was no mention of "Ninjas," only in military warfare in the Sengoku Period by Sanada Nobushige. Well. I'll correct my statement if it ends up being wrong later.
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Quick break to visit my hero, Mackenzie Neale :). I'm a big fan of your work!!
Alright, now to visit the Moon jelly exhibit (it was honestly one of the most densely packed tanks I had ever seen- very impressive :>)
I made an instagram reel going over the sexual dimorphism of moon jellies- maybe I'll post it on here if I feel like it haha :3
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^^ They have more infographics like this but this is the only one I took a picture of... awe :<.
OK, so with all of the main jellyfish out of the way... now started the hardest part of my journey: Finding the elusive, rare Staurozan (Stalked) jellyfish. These are so rare, apparently they're difficult for even scientists to get their hands on. I absolutely had to see them for myself.
Unfortunately... I kept running around in circles trying to find it (I had asked a staff member earlier where the exhibit was... but I forgot lol. I ended up having to ask two more people. It's tucked away in an unmarked Polar exhibit btw :>!!
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Here was the gift shop I ended up visiting, there was a Japanese Sea nettle with a heart on it- awww
Anyways, I promise, after like 20 minutes of searching... I finally found the polar exhibits!!
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They had (one) hydrozoan jellyfish here... and it was a picture. An unnamed picture. For the record, it's called the "Battering Ram Jellyfish," according to Lisa-Ann Gershwin. It's a part of the Narcomedusae group, which have similarly positioned tentacles.
And now, in another fit of I did a dumb... I didn't take a picture of the two wall tanks... because the Vancouver Aquarium HAD to be confusing with them for some reason :/
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this is the tank on the left! It has the Stalked Jellyfish card......... but the tank itself has NO Stalked Jellyfish...? I had NO idea why and it's driving me mad.
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This tank was to the RIGHT of the tank with the card (ie. A TOTALLY SEPARATE TANK), BUT THESE ONES WERE THE ONES THAT HAD STAUROZOA?????... I have no words.
I actually ended up noticing them first because of their weird "firework-like" structure was different from the other corals, but I didn't know if they were actually staurozoa until I saw the card. Anyways, very confusing, but definitely the most magical and rewarding experience you could have in the aquarium. I'll leave out the directions to find this place so if anyone decides to visit the aquarium, they can just look for the staurozoa themselves :>
... and finally, that ends our jelly tour of the Vancouver Aquarium. Before you head home, though, why not pick up a cute little eco-friendly jelly plush on your way out?
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She's a beauty, that's for sure!
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isdalinarhot · 9 months
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when i read elantris i was going to school full time still. but i was commuting so i didnt have a meal plan. but i had an 8:30 am class and a 2:30 pm class (and on mondays a 6:30 pm class that went until 8:30 pm. pro tip to college students that follow me: don't do this) so i was at school through lunch. but at that time i was going to be moving out of my parents' house in like, a month, so i was saving up money to buy, like, ikea furniture and shit, so i couldn't just go out to eat five days a week. all this is to say, i was not eating lunch most days during that period of my life. so when raoden was like oh my god im so hungry it hurts oh my god im suffering oh my god i would do anything for food please please please i was like *ate breakfast 8 hours ago and will not get to eat for another 3 hours voice* ME TOO MAN. immersive experience
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