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welllpthisishappening · 3 years

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Okay, do not get me started on the whole attracted to Anderson thing because that could've gone so wrong on so many levels. Like that one part where he tells Juliette to get on her knees!??? I was scared shit out of mind that the author might go there but luckily did not.

And lmao to them just randomly making out. When I read that, I was like ARE YOU SERIOUS??? RIGHT NOW? WHEN THE WORLD'S ENDING???? You hornbags!! Although, I will say I am SUCKER for when one person takes another's hand and places it over their heart and says that their place/home is in there. Catch me crying over that trope forever😭😭😭So when Warner did and said that, I was like, okay you are excused for that inappropriate make out sesh.

God, Adam... I have never seen a character that was presented as a main be thrown so far off a cliff. I genuinely felt so bad for however many Adam stan's were left when Ignite Me came out because damn was he done dirty lol. I mean, I, like Warner, was just enjoying him ruin his relationship with Juliette but sheesh...could've left something for his fans

And I agree the Kenji and Juliette friendship did sorta happen overnight but I'm gonna take this one. I don't care. It's my favorite relationship in the series.

I hate that this books have me in such a tight choke hold. Honestly, the author shouldn't even bother with a plot (?) if she's gonna keep continuing the series. As long as Warner keeps calling Juliette "love/sweetheart" I will keep crawling back. But not without whining and groaning the entire way

You. You get it, anon. YOU GET IT. I told Justin about the Anderson thing (read: I tried to explain to Justin the plot of these books) and got to the part where Anderson made Juliette get on her knees and he was like—oh, no, did that happen??? IT DID. I cannot believe it did. Even if it did not go to where my very wide eyes were PETRIFIED it was going to go. That was...I mean, that was a lot. Also, he made her cut off her finger???

All that aside, though. In the last book, especially, did it seem like Anderson was just sort of—an idiot? Like they built him up to be this ultimate BAD GUY™ for all these books and then it felt like he was kind of bumbling around toward the end and he clearly wasn't the worst or top Supreme Commander (which, don't even get me started on what a ridiculous title that is) and then he just died. AGAIN. Did anyone double check, by the way? Because that didn't really ever seem to stick. Maybe that's why he lost some of his mystique. Coming back from the dead more than once ruins the illusion of absolute power, y'know?

And, uh, yeah. I mean, maybe making out sans-shirt as the world was ending was not a good idea, but, as previously discussed, I am still at least partially that girl who saw Twilight twice in one day and like my love for inherently problematic romances has not changed all that much in the last decade or so. I like 'em melodramatic and makin' out at horrible times!

Adam. ADAM. You're totally right, anon. He just fell off a cliff. It was such a strange thing to read because as I was reading I was like—what happened to this dude? And then turns out a bunch, but it's never really discussed and he just sort of drifts into the background only to come back in the epilogue and things are almost sorta ok? Weird. It's weird.

I too am also willing to overlook poor plotting in favor of Kenji and Juliette's top-tier friendship. More books should have platonic friendships!

My plans to spend real money from my real adult job when the novella comes out are only vaguely embarrassing. (Also, internet, if you want to hear me rant and ramble about more books: I'm in the process of updating my Goodreads. So, like, add me or whatever the kids say on that website. Are there kids on that website? Who knows. Not me, that's for sure.)

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justauthoring · 5 years

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Left All Alone (9/?)

Prompt: Could you please do a Justin Foley imagine where his sister got kicked out after he left so she’s been staying with Bryce because she doesn’t know about the tapes and he’s always been there for her and Justin and in the school fight scene, Bryce makes a comment about her which causes Justin to lose it? X

A/N: Justin chapter next?

Word Count: 2,268

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Scott had always thought you were cute. You were Justin’s cute little sister that he only ever saw if Justin was there too.

It had never been anything more than that. His teammates (cute) younger sister.

So, he’s not sure how he ended up here, on his couch, with you tightly held in his arms, your head resting against his chest. Your eyes were shut, chest rising and falling peacefully as you slept. Scott imagines this is the first night in a long while that you’ve actually had a decent sleep. Or rather he hopes. He might not know exactly what happened, what you’ve been through, but he has a pretty good idea and it makes him feel sick just to think about it. To think about how a person could do that to someone else. And how he could’ve been friends with that person.

Holding you in his arms now, this… destroyed and broken person in his arms and he’d been friends with the person who’d done this to you. Who ripped you apart inch from inch, stole pieces of you that made you whole until there was barely anything left. You were just a shadow left of who you’d once been and something that tears Scott apart, that makes him feel sick to his stomach; is that he never got to know the you before.

Even when you’d just been Justin’s younger sister, he barely knew you. The two of you had only spoken once or twice and even then, the conversations had been bleak. He didn’t know anything about the you you used to be.

All he knew was this. This version of you. And even if it didn’t mean you were any less valuable to him, because yes, in the short while he’s gotten closer to you, you’ve become someone very important to him. But… he wanted to know the real you. The you who would smile at whatever made you laugh, the you that would do whatever stupid thing that made you happy. He wanted to know what you did in your free time, what gave you happiness. What hobbies did you have? Did you enjoy sports? What was your favourite movie? Stuff like that.

He wanted to know stuff like that.

Letting his head fall back, Scott lets his eyes wander across the ceiling, stuck in his thoughts. It isn’t until his phone buzzes is he pulled from his own mind. He blinks, glancing around for his phone until he realizes it’s on the coffee table next to you. He briefly glances down at you, making sure you’re still asleep before carefully and slowly stretching his arm over you and grabbing his phone. He easily unlocks it, realizing he’d gotten a message from Zach. A few actually.

How’s Y/N? Jessica won’t stop pestering me to message you.

Then; not that i’m not concerned about Y/N. I am. It’s just…Anyways, is she okay?

Rolling his eyes, Scott quickly begins typing, knowing that if he doesn’t, Zach will continue to spam him with messages until he gets is answer. Y/N’s fine. She’s sleeping right now.

Zach replies almost instantly; are you coming to school today? Both of you?

I’m not sure. Her brother just got arrested, Zach.

We’re worried about her.

Sighing, Scott lets his head fall back. He knows Zach, Jessica and the rest are worried about you, just like they’re worried about everything that’s been going on. But he doesn’t want to pressure you into going to school. Not during a time like this.

Scott clicks his tongue, forgetting himself for a moment. The sudden movement and sound seems to be enough to stir you awake, because tilting his head down, Scott watches as your eyes slowly flicker open, blinking a few times before you moan out slightly, stretching. It’s clear that you don’t immediately recognize where you are, and it isn’t until you open your eyes, finding Scott’s already on you, do you. But, that doesn’t mean you remember how you’d gotten here.

Your eyes widen and you pull back, obviously panicked.

“Y/N! Y/N, it’s okay! It’s okay!”

Scott reaches for your arms but you pull back, slipping right off the couch. Scott watches with wide eyes as you all but fall to the ground with a yelp, a thud echoing as you try to catch yourself. You sit there for a moment, stunned, the both of you just staring at one another before Scott slowly speaks up. “I found you last night, remember? Took you home with me? I gave you my bed, but you…”

You nod, lowering your gaze. “No, no, I remember. Sorry. It’s just…”

Scott assumes your hesitance has something to do with Bryce. He doesn’t know how wrong he is.

Sitting up, Scott slides to the ground next to you. “You okay?”

You nod.

Silence surrounds the both of you once again. Scott takes this as his chance to get a good look at you. You look considerably less tired than you had before, and he considers that a small victory. But your eyes are still heavy and you still look pale and terrified. There’s this look in your eyes that just won’t leave, this absolutely terrified and petrified expression and Scott hates it. Because he doesn’t want you to be scared anymore.

And even if he knows it isn’t directly because of him, he wishes that he’d at least be enough to lessen that expression. Scott knows he’s only just really started to talk to you, but he wants you to trust him. Whole-heartedly. Because he won’t hurt you, not intentionally, and certainly not like how Bryce hurt you.

“Did you want to go into school today?”

You pause at his question, fiddling with your hands. “I don’t have any clothes. They’re at Bryce’s.”

Scott frowns, pausing. Then, an idea hits him; “we can go to Jessica’s. Ask to borrow some of hers.”

Your eyes widen at that. “Jessica… Jessica doesn’t want to see me, let alone let me borrow some of her clothes. I’ll just have to go to Bryce’s, grab them. At least some. I mean, he did buy them for me, so--”

Scott sets his hand over your own, stunning you to silence as you blink up at him. “You’re never going back to Bryce’s again.”

“Scott…--”

“It’s too dangerous.”

You frown, but don’t argue. You can’t, he’s right. Even if Bryce had been arrested yesterday, he had connections and powers and well, his father had never really liked you much anyway. “Well, Jessica won’t want to see me.”

“She’s worried about you.”

You scoff, rolling your eyes. “I highly doubt that.”

Scott frowns, furrowing his brows in wonder. “What makes you so sure she’s not? Isn’t she your friend?” It’s true. Scott had thought you two were friends. Mind you, he hasn’t seen either of you hang around one another in a while; but he does remember a time where the both of you had practically been inseparable. Scott had always wondered what had happened, but knew it hadn’t been his place to ask.

You hesitate, lips parting to say something, but falling short. Then, you just shrug; “she isn’t. Not anymore.”

“Anything you want to wear, you can.”

Biting your lip, you swallow thickly, glancing briefly at Jessica before your eyes flicker back over to her closet. You wring your hands together, hesitant to take a step forward. This just feels wrong. This feels different. You haven’t been at Jessica’s house since… since before she warned you to stay away from Bryce and you’d not only not listened to her, but gone to live with him. Gone to live with her rapist…

Jessica, after a moment of you just standing there, takes a step forward. “Y/N?”

You can’t explain it, you feel your body start to shake. Your fists clench, digging your nails into the palms of your hands as you clench your jaw, teeth grinding. You can’t… this… You can’t even look at Jessica without feeling immense guilt. What was wrong with you? Why hadn’t you listened to her when she warned you? If you had just listened to her, you wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t be like this…

Maybe, you’d be happy. Healthy. Stable. But instead, you’re just broken and your mind is fucked up and you’re fucked up because you just want it all to end.

And when you look at Jessica, you remember what had been. You remember the first time you met her, when Justin had introduced her as his girlfriend and for the first time, you genuinely liked one of his girlfriends. Because she’d been different. She hadn’t been stuck up or shallow. She hadn’t snided you, and instead, she’d just smiled at you, all bright and warm, and hugged you because she was--

“--so happy to finally meet you.”

You blink, stunned as this girl all but flings herself onto you. You have to catch your footing, stumbling back slightly as she wraps her arms firmly around you. In response, your eyes flicker past Jessica’s shoulders, to Justin who stands a bit behind the two of you, smiling nervously down at you. Your eyes scream confusion but he just shrugs, rubbing the back of his head.

Then, Jessica’s pulling back, grinning warmly down at you. “Justin practically talks about you all the time. I can’t get him to talk about anything else,” she jokes lightly, throwing a teasing look Justin’s way who just rolls his eyes. “So, yeah, it’s just really nice to meet you.”

You’re a little stunned by her... warmness. Justin’s few girlfriends in the past have been nothing crude to you. There was a few here and there that were a little better, but overall, just... terrible.

But Jessica... she seems so nice. You’ve never seen a smile so genuine, so bright and she just keeps gushing at you like you’re the greatest thing she’s seen all day. You don’t have many friends, let alone girls, so this kind of... behaviour is strange to you. You’re not used to it. Though, you definitely don’t mind it.

“It’s nice to meet you too,” you finally say, letting a small smile of your own curl onto your lips. “You’re very... bubbly.” You grimace once you say that. “I meant that in a nice way, by the way.”

You’re half afraid she’ll be insulted. Jessica just laughs, looping her arm through your own and pulling you along, leaving Justin behind. He doesn’t argue and when you turn your head over your shoulder to gaze at him in question, he’s just smiling fondly.

“I have a feeling you and me are going to be great friends.”

Jessica had been different. She’d been your friend.

And you’d betrayed her.

“Y/N!”

“I can’t,” you choke out, feeling your eyes water and your words get stuck in the back of your throat, You step back from her hand that she attempts to set on your shoulder, shaking your head violently as you step back from Jessica. Her eyes widen in reaction, lips parting as you let out a wretched sob. “I can’t do this. I… Not to you.”

And then Jessica’s brows furrow; “Y/N? What are you talking about?”

“Don’t you hate me?” You ask suddenly, startlingly Jessica as she blinks back at you. “I mean, jesus, I lived with the man who raped you! I slept with the man who raped you! If you don’t hate me, you should. Because i’m nothing but a terrible person. I’m a fucking… fucking whore who let Bryce touch her over and over and just let him…”

There’s a moment or two of stifling silence. Jessica, stood opposite to you, just stands there, lips left parted in surprise at your outburst. She isn’t sure what to say, she hadn’t expected that. All of that to leave your lips, to have you break down like that. Sure, she’d been worried about you because of all that had happened to you, but… this, she hadn’t expected. Never would’ve she expected this. And it isn’t just your words, the way they bring back terrible memories for Jessica that surprises her, stuns her into silence; it’s the fact that you could possibly think she could ever hate you.

“I don’t hate you.”

Sniffling, you wipe at your tears pathetically. “You should.”

Jessica takes a step forward, and you take one back, but Jessica’s quicker then you and before you know it, she’s pulling you into an embrace. You’re stiff against her, confused and baffled as she wraps her arms tightly around you. “I could never hate you, Y/N.” She whispers against the embrace, voice soft and compassionate. “But… Bryce--”

“What Bryce did to me is no different than what he did to you,” Jessica reminds, running her fingers through your hair in a soothing motion. “I know you felt like you had no choice, and that’s why you did what you did. And i’m sorry that you felt like you couldn’t come to me, that I pushed you away that day when I should’ve offered you to stay with me. I’m sorry you had to endure all of that alone.”

Jessica’s words hang in the air. Each passing moment, you seem to register them more and more, and with each second, you feel your resolve falling. Your shoulders slump and you feel the tears welling all over against as you bury your head in the crook of Jessica’s neck, moving to latch onto her as a sob wretches past your lips.

“It’s okay,” Jessica whispers, “it’s okay, Y/N. It’s okay. I’ve got you.”

Part 10?

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thesportssoundoff · 4 years

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“I’m not sure how to feel about this card but Jon Jones vs Dom Reyes is great shit.” UFC 247 Preview

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Feb 2nd

The UFC rolls into Houston, Texas for a very STRANGE card. It's had some injuries and pull outs that changed around its dynamic (imagine this show if Jimmie River vs Marlon Vera and OSP vs Ryan Spann) but it's got the bare minimum which is two title fights followed up by an underdcard with big dudes on it. That's basically all I ask for. It's definitely not the UFC's best offering but when you consider that they lost three good fights and had a PPV come up at the last minute? I've seen worse. I guess. Jon Jones vs Dominick Reyes and Valentina Shevchenko vs Kaitlyn Chookagian are basically your drawing cards anyways.

2020 Stat-O-Matic:

Debuting Fighters (2-2): Youssef Zalal, Austin Lingo, Kalinn Williams Main Event Exemption:

Short Notice Fighters (1-1): Kalinn Williams Main Event Exemption:

Second Fight (1-1): Antonio Arroyo, Journey Newsom, Domingo Pilarte, Miles Johns, Justin Tafa Main Event Exemption: Vs Debutantes:

Cage Corrosion (Fighters who have not fought within a year of the date of the fight) (5-0): Main Event Exemption (1-0):

Undefeated Fighters (2-1): Dominick Reyes, Miles Johns, Austin Lingo Main Event Exemption: Dominick Reyes

Fighters with at least four fights in the UFC with 0 wins over competition still in the organization (1-1): Trevin Giles Main Event Exemption:

Weight Class Jumpers (Fighters competing outside of the weight class of their last fight even if they’re returning BACK to their “normal weight class”) (1-1): Ilir Latifi Main Event Exemption ():

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- When @theanticool and @cerealsensei says something, I feel compelled to listen because if he's not right, he's able to put things together in a logical enough sense that it makes me consider things. So when both say that they think the end of the Jon Jones reign at 205 lbs is coming to an end, I feel compelled to consider it. It's hard to really judge just what Jon Jones is and we're entering Anderson Silva territory where Jones is the world's most blasse unbeatable fighter ever. He's in that pre-Chael Sonnen phase where Anderson just sleptwalked through fights and struggled to amuse himself for five rounds of blegh. So is Jones about to prove some mortality? I kinda don't know. The three guys to come close to giving Jones an L was a super athletic and long limbed Alexander Gustafsson, Daniel Cormier in both their first and second fight (fights he still lost decisively) and the Thiago Santos fight where Jones just...sort of fought. The right people are telling me Jones is vulnerable----but I'm just not seeing it. Perhaps I'll believe it WHEN I see it and perhaps Reyes is the dude to bring that out.

2- So what does Reyes do well? For starters, it's hard to think of a fighter Jones has faced in a bit who possesses genuine stopping power with his hands. Anthony Smith hits pretty damn hard but he's more of a master of accumulation, Thiago Santos can wipe dudes out with his legs but really only has one serious finish with his hands (Jan Blachowicz) while DC's punching power seems to come and go depending upon the situation. Gus has tremendous hand speed but his finishes in the UFC were mostly against the likes of guys like Jimi Manuwa and five rounds worth of abuse vs old man Teix. Reyes has power and if nothing else, that'll give him a shot to do things in those brief moments where Jones' defense lapses and his chin is out there to be touched. Also I've seen Reyes have to adjust gameplans and make a swap up as he did vs Volkan Oezdemir, even if you can debate whether it was enough to WIN the fight. Lastly? Reyes is well rounded enough as a wrestler, striker and grappler that he's not as one dimensional as some of Jones' other opponents and he's not broken down like Gus was. Also don't forget that Reyes is a young 30 years old and not with over 30+ fights like Anthony Smith and he's a natural LHW.

3- I wonder if Jones will feel more motivated to get as finish in this one given how much flak he took by not finishing a guy with torn ACLs in both legs?

4- What does the UFC want more; a Jones win to get him to move up to HW for a big summer show run OR a Reyes win to finally have a sellable rematch for Jones that doesn't involve the retiring Daniel Cormier?

5- Is a finish like the one that Valentina Shevchenko got vs Jessica Eye actually a bad thing? If you go through Shevchenko's UFC history; you've got a lot of pretty damn boring five round fights with the occasional "holy shit" finish. The Jessica Eye finish is the Holy Shit-iest of the Holy Shit finishes----but in the process, it created this somewhat unfair expectation that Shevchenko is capable of doping that all the time. She may be capable of that but she rarely if ever takes that risk. Part of it has to do with the fact that most women are so petrified of getting what Jessica Eye got that they wind up hanging out away from the firing range, opening the door for Shevchenko to leg kick with an occasional takedown on the back end to control women. It creates for boring ass fights but would we be more willing to accept a boring fight if we didn't know she was capable of highlight reel finishes as well?

6- Chookagian tends to be a hyperactive striker so chances are Val is going to take her down and finish her BUT Shevchenko is prone to bouts of inactivity mid round and so I wonder if Katlyn Chookagian has the capacity to steal a few rounds just by doing stuff when Valentina isn't doing anything.

7- Fair to say Mirsad Bektic is just going to be a top 10 filler name and not a real contender any time soon? He draws rising MMA manager and pro fighter Dan Ige on the main card.

8- A lot of people griping about HWs on the main card but this is a sport of size and the BIG BOYZ are here to throw fisticuffs!

9- What's Ilir Latifi's plan in the move up to HW? Is the goal to stop cutting weight and hope his sledgehammer power is able to travel with improved cardio on the back end?

10- Keep an eye on Miles Johns vs Mario Bautista. Got potential to be a wild scramble fight with subs aplenty.

11- Journey Newson had a pretty impressive debut as he overcome a really rough start to give Ricardo Ramos some trouble with his pressure game, length and boxing down the stretch of a loss on short notice. He draws Domingo Pilarte on the prelims and Pilarte is a wild fighter at 135 lbs who is coming off a disputed decision loss in HIS debut. Should be a really great fight on the ESPN+ portion of the prelims.

12- Do we pencil in Alex Morono for a bonus of some kind already?

#MMA #UFC #Fights #Jon Jones #Reyes #Shevchenko #Chookagian #Morono #Heavyweights

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ravenclaw-headcanons · 6 years

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Chapter Fourteen: Cornelius Fudge 30/06/18

If you want to participate in #hogwartsreread all the info can be found here

was genuinely expecting Hagrid to chime in after ‘mad and hairy’

I swear it’s only the first two movies I have this problem with

It’s been four months since Justin was petrified and nobody’s done shit about even increasing security what is this school?

Ooh another mandrake update: they’re having a (green) house party

Dean should have used a magic 8 ball to help pick his OWLs

Thinking about it, why have none of the victims died? Like I know they were petrified because they only saw the basilisk’s reflection but like, surely the point is the basilisk would then eat them? It keeps going on about ripping and tearing but it seems to just fuck off after petrifying its victims

How is it not hungry?

Also love that Harry hears the voice that he KNOWS is correlated with the attacks but decides to just go ahead and play quidditch anyway instead of idk warning someone

Um lee don’t be so house-ist

This is legit the first time they’ve used the cloak this book

WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST USE THAT INSTEAD OF SPENDING A MONTH BREWING POLYJUICE POTION???

Like okay they wouldn’t have been able to interrogate Malfoy but you’d probably find out just as much through eavesdropping

These kids don’t deserve an invisibility cloak with how poorly they use it

#hogwartsreread #harrypottersummer

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batterymonster2021 · 5 years

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

So in tuition, I used to be a government major, which means that I had to write quite a lot of papers. Now, when a ordinary student writes a paper, they might unfold the figure out slightly like this. So, you already know — (Laughter) you get started probably a little bit slowly, however you get enough finished in the first week that, with some heavier days later on, the whole lot will get achieved, things stay civil. (Laughter) And i might want to do that like that. That may be the plan. I’d have all of it in a position to head, however then, truely, the paper would come alongside, and then i would type of do that. (Laughter) And that might happen each single paper. However then came my ninety-web page senior thesis, a paper you are alleged to spend a 12 months on.And that i knew for a paper like that, my normal work float was not an alternative. It used to be means too huge a task. So I planned matters out, and that i determined I sort of needed to go whatever like this. That is how the yr would go. So i would begin off light, and i would bump it up in the core months, and then on the end, i’d kick it up into high equipment identical to a little staircase.How hard might it’s to walk up the stairs? No big deal, correct? But then, the funniest thing happened. These first few months? They came and went, and i could not fairly do stuff. So we had an exquisite new revised plan. (Laughter) after which — (Laughter) but then these center months genuinely glided by, and i failed to relatively write words, and so we were right here. And then two months was one month, which turned into two weeks.And at some point I aroused from sleep with three days unless the cut-off date, still now not having written a phrase, and so I did the one factor I could: I wrote 90 pages over seventy two hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters — humans will not be supposed to pull two all-nighters — sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and obtained it in simply on the deadline. I proposal that was once the tip of everything. But every week later I get a name, and it’s the institution. And so they say, "is that this Tim city?" and i say, "Yeah." they usually say, "We have got to speak about your thesis." and that i say, "good enough." and they say, "it’s the quality one we now have ever obvious." (Laughter) (Applause) That didn’t happen.(Laughter) It used to be an extraordinarily, very unhealthy thesis. (Laughter) I simply desired to enjoy that one second when all of you proposal, "This guy is powerful!" (Laughter) No, no, it used to be very, very dangerous. Anyway, at present i am a author-blogger guy. I write the blog Wait however Why. And a couple of years in the past, I determined to jot down about procrastination. My conduct has constantly puzzled the non-procrastinators round me, and that i wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the world what goes on within the heads of procrastinators, and why we’re the best way we’re. Now, I had a speculation that the brains of procrastinators have been really one of a kind than the brains of alternative individuals. And to experiment this, I discovered an MRI lab that sincerely let me scan both my mind and the mind of a tested non-procrastinator, so I might evaluate them. I simply introduced them right here to exhibit you today. I need you to take a look cautiously to look if which you could detect a difference. I know that if you’re no longer a informed brain educated, it can be not that obvious, but just take a look, good enough? So here’s the brain of a non-procrastinator.(Laughter) Now … Here’s my mind. (Laughter) there’s a difference. Both brains have a Rational choice-Maker in them, however the procrastinator’s mind also has an on the spot Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this imply for the procrastinator? Well, it method the whole thing’s high-quality until this occurs. So the Rational decision-Maker will make the rational selection to do whatever productive, but the Monkey does not like that plan, so he honestly takes the wheel, and he says, "simply, let’s learn the whole Wikipedia web page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, due to the fact that I simply remembered that that occurred. (Laughter) Then — (Laughter) Then we’ll go over to the fridge, to look if there’s whatever new in there since 10 minutes in the past.After that, we’ll go on a YouTube spiral that begins with movies of Richard Feynman talking about magnets and ends much, so much later with us gazing interviews with Justin Bieber’s mom. (Laughter) "All of that is going to take a at the same time, so we’re not going to quite have room on the agenda for any work today. Sorry!" (Sigh) Now, what’s going on here? The on the spot Gratification Monkey does now not appear like a man you need behind the wheel. He lives completely within the present second. He has no reminiscence of the prior, no knowledge of the long run, and he only cares about two things: easy and fun.Now, within the animal world, that works first-rate. If you are a dog and you spend your whole lifestyles doing nothing rather then handy and enjoyable things, you’re a gigantic success! (Laughter) And to the Monkey, people are just a further animal species. You ought to preserve well-slept, well-fed and propagating into the next iteration, which in tribal occasions might have worked adequate. But, if you haven’t noticed, now we’re not in tribal occasions. We’re in a sophisticated civilization, and the Monkey does no longer comprehend what that is. Which is why we now have a further guy in our brain, the Rational decision-Maker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can do. We can visualize the longer term. We are able to see the massive image. We can make lengthy-time period plans. And he needs to take all of that under consideration.And he wants to just have us do some thing makes sense to be doing right now. Now, frequently it is smart to be doing matters that are effortless and fun, like when you’re having dinner or going to bed or enjoying good-earned amusement time. That’s why there is an overlap. Oftentimes they agree. But other instances, it makes rather more feel to be doing things that are more difficult and no more fine, for the sake of the colossal photograph. And that’s when we’ve got a clash. And for the procrastinator, that conflict tends to finish a designated method at any time when, leaving him spending plenty of time in this orange zone, an convenient and fun situation that’s completely out of the is smart circle. I call it the dark Playground. (Laughter) Now, the dark Playground is a location that every one of you procrastinators in the market comprehend very well.It’s the place amusement activities occur now and then when entertainment pursuits should not speculated to be taking place. The enjoyable you’ve gotten in the dead of night Playground is not clearly enjoyable, because it can be utterly unearned, and the air is full of guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred — all of these good procrastinator feelings. And the question is, in this predicament, with the Monkey at the back of the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over right here to this blue zone, a much less pleasant place, but the place quite most important matters occur? Well, seems the procrastinator has a guardian angel, anybody who’s normally looking down on him and gazing over him in his darkest moments — anybody referred to as the Panic Monster. (Laughter) Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up every time a deadline gets too close or there is risk of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary end result. And importantly, he’s the only factor the Monkey is frightened of. Now, he grew to be very important in my existence pretty recently, due to the fact the individuals of TED reached out to me about six months ago and invited me to do a TED speak.(Laughter) Now, of path, I mentioned sure. It can be normally been a dream of mine to have performed a TED speak previously. (Laughter) (Applause) but in the core of all this pleasure, the Rational choice-Maker perceived to have anything else on his intellect. He used to be saying, "Are we clear on what we simply accredited? Can we get what’s going to be now taking place in the future one day? We need to sit down and work on this right now." And the Monkey said, "fully agree, however let’s simply open Google Earth and zoom in to the backside of India, like 200 ft above the bottom, and scroll up for 2 and a half hours til we get to the highest of the nation, so that it will get a greater feel for India." (Laughter) So that’s what we did that day.(Laughter) As six months changed into four after which two after which one, the men and women of TED determined to unlock the speakers. And i unfolded the website, and there was once my face staring proper again at me. And bet who aroused from sleep? (Laughter) So the Panic Monster begins shedding his intellect, and some seconds later, the entire process’s in mayhem. (Laughter) And the Monkey — recall, he is petrified of the Panic Monster — boom, he’s up the tree! And in the end, in the end, the Rational resolution-Maker can take the wheel and i will be able to begin working on the speak. Now, the Panic Monster explains all types of lovely insane procrastinator habits, like how someone like me might spend two weeks unable to start the hole sentence of a paper, and then miraculously to find the fantastic work ethic to stay up all night and write eight pages.And this entire challenge, with the three characters — this is the procrastinator’s procedure. It is no longer pretty, however finally, it works. That is what I decided to write about on the blog a few years ago. After I did, I was once amazed through the response. Actually thousands of emails got here in, from all one of a kind kinds of humans from far and wide the world, doing all one-of-a-kind sorts of matters. These are individuals who were nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and lots and tons of PhD students. (Laughter) they usually were all writing, saying the equal factor: "i’ve this crisis too." but what struck me was once the distinction between the sunshine tone of the put up and the heaviness of those emails.These men and women were writing with intense frustration about what procrastination had finished to their lives, about what this Monkey had performed to them. And that i suggestion about this, and that i mentioned, good, if the procrastinator’s approach works, then what is going on on? Why are all of those people in any such darkish situation? Good, it turns out that there’s two kinds of procrastination. The whole thing I’ve mentioned today, the examples I’ve given, all of them have deadlines. And when there may be deadlines, the effects of procrastination are contained to the quick time period in view that the Panic Monster will get involved. However there may be a second variety of procrastination that occurs in situations when there is not any deadline. So if you happen to desired a career the place you are a self-starter — some thing within the arts, some thing entrepreneurial — there isn’t a closing dates on these matters to start with, considering nothing’s going down, not except you’ve long past out and achieved the difficult work to get momentum, get things going. There is additionally all varieties of important things outside of your career that don’t contain any points in time, like seeing your family or exercising and taking care of your wellness, working in your relationship or getting out of a relationship that’s not working.Now if the procrastinator’s best mechanism of doing these tough things is the Panic Monster, that’s a challenge, in view that in all of those non-time limit occasions, the Panic Monster does not show up. He has nothing to get up for, so the results of procrastination, they’re no longer contained; they simply lengthen outward endlessly. And it’s this long-time period style of procrastination that is a lot less noticeable and far less mentioned than the funnier, brief-term deadline-based sort. It’s regularly suffered quietly and privately. And it can be the source of a big amount of lengthy-time period sadness, and regrets. And that i proposal, that is why these folks are emailing, and that’s why they are in the sort of bad location. It’s no longer that they’re cramming for some mission. It can be that lengthy-term procrastination has made them feel like a spectator, every now and then, of their possess lives. The frustration just isn’t that they couldn’t reap their desires; it can be that they weren’t even equipped to chasing them.So I learn these emails and that i had a little bit bit of an epiphany — that i don’t consider non-procrastinators exist. That is proper — I think all of you might be procrastinators. Now, you would not all be a large number, like some of us, (Laughter) and some of you may have a healthy relationship with points in time, however bear in mind: the Monkey’s sneakiest trick is when the time limits are not there. Now, I wish to show you one last thing. I name this a existence Calendar. That is one field for each week of a ninety-yr existence.That is no longer that many packing containers, certainly seeing that now we have already used a bunch of these. So I think we ought to all take an extended, tough look at that calendar. We need to think about what we’re fairly procrastinating on, seeing that all people is procrastinating on anything in lifestyles. We have to stay conscious of the on the spot Gratification Monkey. That’s a job for anybody. And considering there may be now not that many containers on there, it is a job that must probably at present. Good, possibly not in these days, however … (Laughter) you already know. Sometime soon. Thank you. (Applause) .

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ERNIE MACMILLAN ✖ SIXTH YEAR ✖ PUREBLOOD ✖ HUFFLEPUFF

Wand: Oak, Dragon Heartstring, 12″ Pet: None Clubs: Dumbledore’s Army, Prefect

A STRANGE HUNGER HAUNTED ME

At first glance, privileged and pompous would be the words used to describe Ernie, and when he was younger, they would be accurate. He would never say that he’d agreed with those who wanted to eradicate wizards who weren’t pure of blood, but being a pureblood was a comfortable status that he had no trouble resting on. It made being a first year a little less terrifying, so used to being at home with his mother and father, being spoiled and encouraged. It made friendships easier, giving him the confidence to reach out first, and it was easy for two years. He was confident, and unshakeable, and then suddenly there was a monster in the castle and he saw the real world repercussions of the idea of superiority about one’s heritage. Ernie’s whole world view was turned upside down. Prejudice about blood status had just felt like a theory, an obscure concept he’d never seen in real life.

After that, there was a change in Ernie. He was still pompous, but he wanted to think highly of himself because he’d deserved it, not because of how he’d been born. His grades had been good, but when his third year began, he threw himself into school, and from then on out, the only person he trailed behind was Hermione Granger. If she didn’t work just as hard as he did, he’d be more annoyed, but school was something he found he was talented at, and for once when Ernie gripped someone’s hand to greet them, he felt his firm grip and eye contact had been earned, not born.

THE LOOMING SHADOWS DANCED

Joining Dumbledore’s Army had been an easy decision, one that had been building from the moment he’d seen his best friend in the hospital wing, completely petrified simply because of his blood status. That, and he had a great amount of respect for Harry, someone who he envied in the sense that Harry had always been good, whereas Ernie himself had taken a little longer to get there. But it was better late than never, and so he answered the call to arms in the only way he knew how: eagerly, and making sure everyone knew he was doing so.

Now that the dust has settled, Ernie still wants to be a good person, and not just when people are looking. He often fears that his ally status, that his need to do something good, has come across as performative and not genuine. Ernie is a genuine person, if one is willing to look long enough, but it’s a little hard sometimes to convince others when he can’t stop puffing out his chest.

CONNECTIONS

JUSTIN FINCH-FLETCHLEY: Simply put, Justin is Ernie’s best friend. From their first day at Hogwarts, they’ve been an inseparable duo. Justin is patient, perhaps the first and only one to try and figure out what was underneath the haughty exterior. While he’d been terrified in second year, Ernie had been determined to stand up for Justin anyway, the first time he’d ever used his own privilege to protect someone else, and for that, he does credit Justin for that turning point in his life, for being someone worth standing up for.

HANNAH ABBOTT: Houses tend to be a bit cliquey, but Ernie is happy with the clique he’s inadvertently ended up with in his house, Hannah included. Besides Justin, she’s probably his closest friend. When Justin was in the hospital wing, she was the one he would go to, the one who had his back. She alone seemed to sense just how much Justin’s absence hurt him, even if Ernie didn’t show it himself.

SUSAN BONES: Though he’s not as close with Susan as he is with Hannah, she’s still one of Ernie’s dearest friends. She’s just someone he isn’t sure how to approach. She’s lost so much, more than he can comprehend, and that’s a part of war that Ernie still isn’t quite sure how to handle.

PERSONALITY

++; intelligent, protective, encouraging, determined

–; pompous, insecure, boastful, noncommittal

Ernie is currently not available.

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

So in institution, I was a executive predominant, this means that I had to write quite a few papers. Now, when a common student writes a paper, they could unfold the work out a little like this. So, you understand — (Laughter) you get started maybe just a little slowly, but you get enough accomplished in the first week that, with some heavier days in a while, the whole lot will get finished, things stay civil. (Laughter) And i would wish to do that like that.That often is the plan. I might have all of it able to head, but then, in reality, the paper would come alongside, and then i’d type of do that. (Laughter) And that might happen every single paper. However then came my ninety-web page senior thesis, a paper you are alleged to spend a year on. And that i knew for a paper like that, my typical work waft used to be not an choice. It was method too enormous a venture. So I deliberate matters out, and that i made up our minds I style of needed to go some thing like this. That is how the 12 months would go. So i would off gentle, and i might bump it up within the middle months, after which on the end, i would kick it up into high apparatus similar to slightly staircase. How hard might it’s to stroll up the stairs? No big deal, correct? However then, the funniest factor happened. Those first few months? They got here and went, and i could not really do stuff. So we had an tremendous new revised plan. (Laughter) after which — (Laughter) however then these middle months sincerely glided by, and i didn’t rather write phrases, and so we were right here.And then two months become one month, which was two weeks. And at some point I woke up with three days until the cut-off date, still no longer having written a phrase, and so I did the only factor I would: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters — humans aren’t supposed to pull two all-nighters — sprinted across campus, dove in gradual movement, and received it in simply on the cut-off date. I idea that was once the tip of the whole lot. However every week later I get a call, and it is the tuition. They usually say, "is that this Tim city?" and that i say, "Yeah." and so they say, "We ought to talk about your thesis." and that i say, "adequate." they usually say, "it is the fine one we’ve got ever seen." (Laughter) (Applause) That did not happen. (Laughter) It was a very, very bad thesis. (Laughter) I just wanted to revel in that one moment when all of you idea, "This man is robust!" (Laughter) No, no, it was once very, very bad. Anyway, today i am a author-blogger man. I write the web publication Wait however Why. And a couple of years in the past, I made up our minds to put in writing about procrastination.My behavior has always puzzled the non-procrastinators round me, and i desired to give an explanation for to the non-procrastinators of the arena what goes on within the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way in which we’re. Now, I had a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were truely one of a kind than the brains of alternative men and women. And to test this, I found an MRI lab that really let me scan both my mind and the brain of a proven non-procrastinator, so I would compare them. I definitely brought them here to exhibit you in these days. I would like you to take a appear carefully to see if you can discover a change.I know that if you are not a informed brain proficient, it can be not that apparent, however simply take a look, adequate? So here’s the mind of a non-procrastinator. (Laughter) Now … Here is my brain. (Laughter) there is a change. Both brains have a Rational determination-Maker in them, but the procrastinator’s brain also has an instantaneous Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this mean for the procrastinator? Good, it method everything’s fine except this occurs. So the Rational determination-Maker will make the rational choice to do whatever productive, however the Monkey would not like that plan, so he honestly takes the wheel, and he says, "genuinely, let’s read the entire Wikipedia web page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, when you consider that I simply remembered that that happened. (Laughter) Then — (Laughter) Then we will go over to the fridge, to look if there is some thing new in there on account that 10 minutes in the past. After that, we will go on a YouTube spiral that starts with videos of Richard Feynman speaking about magnets and ends a lot, so much later with us looking at interviews with Justin Bieber’s mom.(Laughter) "All of that is going to take a even as, so we’re now not going to really have room on the schedule for any work today. Sorry!" (Sigh) Now, what’s going on here? The instantaneous Gratification Monkey does now not look like a guy you want behind the wheel. He lives totally in the present second. He has no memory of the prior, no knowledge of the long run, and he only cares about two things: easy and enjoyable. Now, in the animal world, that works nice. If you are a canine and also you spend your entire existence doing nothing other than effortless and fun things, you are a enormous success! (Laughter) And to the Monkey, humans are just an additional animal species. You ought to hold good-slept, well-fed and propagating into the following generation, which in tribal times would have worked ok. However, if you have not observed, now we’re not in tribal occasions. We’re in a sophisticated civilization, and the Monkey does no longer recognize what that’s.Which is why we have now one other guy in our brain, the Rational resolution-Maker, who offers us the ability to do matters no other animal can do. We will visualize the long run. We will see the colossal image. We can make long-term plans. And he wishes to take all of that under consideration. And he wants to just have us do some thing is smart to be doing proper now.Now, sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that are convenient and enjoyable, like when you are having dinner or going to mattress or having fun with well-earned entertainment time. That’s why there may be an overlap. Regularly they agree. But other instances, it makes way more experience to be doing matters that are more difficult and no more exceptional, for the sake of the massive picture. And that is when we have now a clash. And for the procrastinator, that clash tends to finish a distinct approach at any time when, leaving him spending quite a lot of time on this orange zone, an easy and fun place that’s fully out of the is smart circle. I name it the darkish Playground. (Laughter) Now, the dark Playground is a place that every one of you procrastinators available in the market comprehend very good.It’s the place enjoyment routine happen now and then when amusement movements should not imagined to be happening. The fun you have got at the hours of darkness Playground isn’t honestly fun, when you consider that it can be fully unearned, and the air is full of guilt, dread, nervousness, self-hatred — all of those excellent procrastinator feelings. And the question is, in this challenge, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over right here to this blue zone, a less fine place, but where relatively principal matters occur? Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, anyone who’s continuously watching down on him and watching over him in his darkest moments — anyone called the Panic Monster.(Laughter) Now, the Panic Monster is dormant more often than not, however he abruptly wakes up each time a closing date will get too close or there may be danger of public embarrassment, a profession disaster or some other frightening outcome. And importantly, he is the only factor the Monkey is petrified of. Now, he grew to become very valuable in my lifestyles lovely lately, due to the fact that the folks of TED reached out to me about six months in the past and invited me to do a TED talk. (Laughter) Now, of direction, I mentioned yes. It can be constantly been a dream of mine to have carried out a TED talk in the past.(Laughter) (Applause) but within the middle of all this pleasure, the Rational choice-Maker looked as if it would have some thing else on his intellect. He used to be pronouncing, "Are we clear on what we simply permitted? Will we get what’s going to be now going down at some point in the future? We ought to sit down down and work on this right now." And the Monkey stated, "entirely agree, but let’s simply open Google Earth and zoom in to the bottom of India, like 200 feet above the bottom, and scroll up for two and a half hours til we get to the highest of the country, with the intention to get a greater suppose for India." (Laughter) So that’s what we did that day.(Laughter) As six months changed into 4 and then two after which one, the individuals of TED decided to free up the audio system. And i opened up the internet site, and there was my face staring right again at me. And guess who aroused from sleep? (Laughter) So the Panic Monster begins shedding his mind, and some seconds later, the entire system’s in mayhem. (Laughter) And the Monkey — keep in mind, he’s petrified of the Panic Monster — increase, he’s up the tree! And sooner or later, finally, the Rational choice-Maker can take the wheel and i will be able to start working on the talk. Now, the Panic Monster explains all sorts of pretty insane procrastinator habits, like how anyone like me might spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, after which miraculously to find the implausible work ethic to remain up all night and write eight pages. And this whole difficulty, with the three characters — this is the procrastinator’s procedure.It’s no longer pretty, however subsequently, it really works. This is what I decided to write about on the web publication a few years ago. When I did, I was once amazed by means of the response. Actually hundreds of emails came in, from all unique kinds of men and women from in all places the sector, doing all exceptional kinds of things. These are humans who were nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and tons and lots of PhD students. (Laughter) and they had been all writing, announcing the equal factor: "i have this challenge too." but what struck me was the contrast between the light tone of the submit and the heaviness of these emails. These humans had been writing with extreme frustration about what procrastination had carried out to their lives, about what this Monkey had completed to them. And i thought about this, and i mentioned, well, if the procrastinator’s method works, then what’s going on? Why are all of those men and women in this sort of dark place? Good, it turns out that there’s two kinds of procrastination. The whole thing I’ve talked about in these days, the examples I’ve given, they all have closing dates.And when there is time limits, the results of procrastination are contained to the brief time period given that the Panic Monster gets worried. However there may be a 2d kind of procrastination that happens in instances when there is no cut-off date. So when you wanted a profession the place you’re a self-starter — something in the arts, some thing entrepreneurial — there is no cut-off dates on these matters at first, for the reason that nothing’s happening, not except you could have long past out and executed the rough work to get momentum, get matters going. There’s additionally all forms of important things external of your profession that do not contain any deadlines, like seeing your family or exercising and taking care of your health, working in your relationship or getting out of a relationship that isn’t working. Now if the procrastinator’s best mechanism of doing these tough matters is the Panic Monster, that’s a challenge, for the reason that in all of those non-time limit circumstances, the Panic Monster doesn’t show up.He has nothing to get up for, so the effects of procrastination, they’re no longer contained; they simply lengthen outward without end. And it is this long-term form of procrastination that’s a lot less noticeable and much much less talked about than the funnier, quick-term closing date-based type. It is often suffered quietly and privately. And it can be the supply of a colossal quantity of lengthy-term disappointment, and regrets. And i idea, that is why these persons are emailing, and that is why they are in any such unhealthy location. It is not that they’re cramming for some undertaking. It can be that long-term procrastination has made them think like a spectator, from time to time, in their own lives. The frustration just isn’t that they could not attain their desires; it’s that they weren’t even in a position to begin chasing them.So I read these emails and that i had a bit bit of an epiphany — that i do not think non-procrastinators exist. That’s right — I consider all of you are procrastinators. Now, you would not all be a multitude, like a few of us, (Laughter) and some of you might have a healthful relationship with closing dates, however remember: the Monkey’s sneakiest trick is when the deadlines are not there. Now, I need to exhibit you one last thing. I call this a lifestyles Calendar. That’s one field for each week of a ninety-yr lifestyles. That is now not that many packing containers, especially since we’ve already used a bunch of those. So I believe we have got to all take a long, difficult seem at that calendar.We have to suppose about what we’re quite procrastinating on, since every body is procrastinating on something in lifestyles. We ought to stay conscious of the immediate Gratification Monkey. That is a job for anyone. And when you consider that there may be now not that many packing containers on there, it is a job that should customarily start in these days. Good, perhaps now not in these days, but … (Laughter) you understand. Someday soon. Thank you. (Applause) .

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

#procrastination #productivity #ted talk #ted talks #Tim Urban #work #writing

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

New Post has been published on https://hititem.kr/inside-the-mind-of-a-master-procrastinator-tim-urban-4/

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

#procrastination #productivity #ted talk #ted talks #Tim Urban #work #writing

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