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countriesgame · 5 months

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Hello and welcome to this game!

Inspired by @thestategame I'm creating a version with countries.

I'm going to be collecting associations in the google forms so it's not just my opinions and then what associations come up the most are going to show up in the polls.

Every official country has already been posted and you can see the list of every poll on the blog right here:

Polls that are currently open

Closed polls

I am opening the blog to non-country places as well (including places that want independence and places that don't but are distinct enough to warrant a poll), and you can suggest places you'd like to see a poll here. Instructions on the form.

>>>>Tell me your associations with places here<<<<

Please notice that posting a poll is NOT an endorsement of these places' independence or anything. I am aware these places are not countries, I just don't feel like changing the url.

You can send anything you like as an association. Food, people, locations, art, characters, movies, concepts, adjectives.

I recognize that associations are going to end up being stereotypical and often that ends up being racist. Since I only have one (1) nationality I'm not an expert on knowing what is going to be considered offensive for every country and some lines are blurry. The same thing can be said for different countries and in one case be racist and in the other not really.

Taking that in consideration, I will allow anything to be submitted and decide in individual cases if something can be considered too offensive to enter the game. Am I going to be wrong? Probably many times.

But the point of making this kind of game is celebrating different countries and having a space when people can "well actually" about their own countries.

So if you see something about your country that does not represent it, it's an opportunity to come say why and correct people. Also you can say things that you think everyone SHOULD know about your country instead!

I just think it makes more sense to make it an educative moment than just having me not add anything that seems negative in the poll!

I try to check stuff that I'm not sure if it's true, but there are many countries and sometimes I get tired and forget. So if any option is wrong, inappropriate or just offensive you can tell me. I will edit the post to correct it (polls are not editable, but I can add an observation under it) or delete the entire poll and redo it in case of offensive associations.

I've been trying to contact people from the places before the poll, but not every place has volunteers. If you'd like to talk about your country, check to see if it's included in the next form! If your country's poll is already up or closed, you can still reblog and add it.

If you talked about a country in a post and would like me to reblog it, please mention me in the post or send me a message (ask or DM). Sometimes it gets lost in the notes or I'm not sure if the person wants me to reblog it.

Suggestions are welcomed!

Polls that are currently open

Closed polls

Suggest places

#reposting this because i fucked up and deleted the original one #and then couldn't edit anymore to add the new form

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izzy-b-hands · 9 months

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top 5 outfits you would like to put on izzy hands 👀

Ella!! Thank u and apologies for the late reply; I wound up letting this percolate over night bc I needed to Really Think on this one (aka I"d not thought overtly into this before and the Possibilities were all very good kdlsafdsajk) and then I took FOREVER yesterday putting together pics and AND THEN TUMBLR DELETED MOST OF IT ON ME LAST NIGHT and I had to take the rest of the night to mourn redoing the pics

But we're here now!!!!! finally!

Legally, I need Izzy in this outfit of Freddie's, at some point. They can fit it into the show whenever they think works best, but I do need This:

And I think you can see why 👀. (I'm gonna link the posts where I'm getting these pics from, this one links to this freddie pic, pls go check out the op blog and the blog I'm linking and give them some reblogs if u also love these pics)

2. Sticking with classic rock as a theme, there's this from Roger (aka I had so many from Roger and finally made myself choose just one lol):

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3. While we're on this theme, Brian, I need u to let Izzy borrow all of this:

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4. One of my fave fruity lil numbers from Marc:

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5. And this from Bob Geldof bc the orange sweater is big enough for sweater paws and. Grey Sweatpants. Very good combination:

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Elton John had some close runner up looks I almost put on this, I feel like should also be noted

#ask box things #I either need him showing skin or dressed like an eighties dad and apparently there's very little grey area on that lmao #u also all need to know that bob DOES in fact make sweater paws during the performance that pic is from and it's very adorable #u should all go watch the video of that show now. go do it #i'll wait for u guys #text and photo post #long post #sorry forgot to add that at first

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 3 years

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tuesday again 1/12/21

sometimes, one must retreat into a big pile of fictional settings. i didn’t do that this week but it’s the thought that counts

don’t want to keep up with the rest of my bullshit/want to be alerted specifically for tuesdayposts? follow @tuesday-again , where i will reblog each week’s post Once to archive it.

also i forgot to drop the 2021 tuesday again no problem playlist last week so here it is now if you want to follow along throughout the year

listening exoflash, by fever the ghost feat lealani. this is some dreamy-surreal alt electronica? alt electropop? i have significant hearing loss (TM) and so i think i am missing out on some of the melodies in the base bc i have lost that frequency range. like i can feel my headphones pulse but i can’t hear anything

do i know what the song is about? not a fuckin clue. do i like the mouthfeel of the lyrics? yes! rhyming intonation/incantation off each other charms me, bc i am a simple woman with simple tastes. there’s a very deliberate, enunciated delivery that i enjoy, again bc of the hearing loss. i do think some of the lyrics on genius are wrong (i hear “crown your enemies” in the first line instead of “prawn your enemies” for example) but i can’t really. back that up with anything

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reading y2k is back babey- this popular mechanics article is a good quick read of why a common fix back in ye olde 1999 is failing again. everything is a teetering pile of precariously balanced quick fixes relying on legacy code. i myself worked in COBOL more times than i want to think about in my undergrad career, often alongside the octogenarian profs who had written it. pop mech’s oral history of y2k is also extremely good.

the thing i came here to talk about is this autostraddle article on making a go-bag. it is more of a personal essay than a list of practical tips, but it does not fearmonger. this is the point of mutual aid: it is important it is to make sure the people and community around you are more resilient. mutual aid is not just running a cool decentralized thrift store so you can declutter, although that can be very helpful in many communities. if you are all better prepared for various flavors of disasters, your neighborhood or community or circle will come out of it better.

i’ve lived in hurricane zones almost my entire life, and i’ve had a go bag my entire life. i can see mine right now from my bed, i think they’re important things to have, and i would be happy to answer questions privately via ask or dm. the infographic above from the city of seattle is pretty decent- yours will probably be region-specific. new year, new check on all your safety measures. make sure your smoke alarm batteries and carbon monoxide batteries and go-bag are all topped up. test your fire extinguisher while you’re at it.

watching i was going to watch the first few eps of the new arsene lupin show on netflix and write a charming little thing about my personal history with detective stories, and then i had a less than ideal weekend. so i am making less work for myself and linking a food crime. i hate layered pasta dishes with a burning passion but i want to taste this. just to see. their faces at the end are SO good. thank u ms el-waylly

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playing one of the most exciting arcs of early january is my dear acquaintance @believerindaydreams becoming a fallout blog. now that i am relegated to an underpowered laptop while i wrangle getting my desktop fixed, i am back in new vegas bc it’s a ten-year-old game, it runs on fuckin anything. i had a truly bizarre configuration of mods on this thing we’ll see how well it plays with (checks notes) ignoring whatever the fuck i was doing in the main storyline and fucking around in Big MT.

making ending big things makes me anxious. and i am really nowhere near finishing this! i still have a lot of time left with it! at least an hour weaving in all the thread ends i didn’t bother with the first time around, some unknown dozens of hours backstitching various details and outlining the blue frame, and then the whole washing/pressing/framing rigamarole that (counting drying time) will take up a full day. i started this last summer, put it aside for weeks at a time, and it’s been with me in a very real way through a lot of bullshit.

part of the bad adhd brain is having difficulty forming and maintaining new routines- when i no longer have this to fall back on as part of my crafting routine i uhhhhh don’t really know what i’ll do. i don’t really have another Big Project lined up.

unlike knitting, where i find the act soothing and i knit as more of a process thing as opposed to an end-product thing, embroidery is very much a “i want the end product very badly” thing. and i can only have so much cross stitch displayed in my home. besides the smaller glitch version of this sampler, which is literally almost done and needs perhaps another hour of finishing before it gets washed/pressed/framed, i don’t have anything really on the docket. i want my own version of the “wretched hive” star wars sampler i made my sister, and i have a small pillow in the fun chromatic aberration font planned, but both of those have fewer complicated color changes and shifts and should stitch up fairly quickly.

i dunno. might go back to traditional embroidery for a bit- there’s an old project where i need to rip out a bunch of satin stitch and redo it in long-and-short BUT i also need to buy a whole bunch of new thread for that. might sew some more patches on my jacket for if i ever go outside again. i’m trying to get through the backlog of half-finished projects with shit i already have rather than ordering a bunch of shiny new things bc uhhh money.

#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem

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glysimachia-blog · 5 years

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general information : formerly faunahymn. so , if anything seems familiar , that’s why. gaea lysimachia is an original character and while she had originally been made for the ffvx verse , i decided to make her more general because i had certain people only that i wrote with in that verse. that and i have so many other verses , it was good for me to just make her indie and fandomless.

i. activity. i stress myself out a lot over getting things out on time and again, here i am, attempting to get my act together when it comes to activity. this blog is going to be queue - based and what that means for me is that most replies and asks will be thrown into my queue. update: because of how busy i am, i have decided that even things for my mains and my exclusives will be thrown into my queue. i haven’t decided how i am going to set up my cue but i am leaning toward posts at eight hour intervals: two text posts and one photo.

ii. discord. i primarily use discord to scream about things ( can also be read as plot ) and to share things with my writing partners. i write on there as well and have a number of discord - only muses. will i make a writing server? one day. for the moment, though, i prefer conversations to take place there rather than in tumblr ims. i will ask you for yours probably as soon as possible and will not be offended if you do the same.

iii. formatting. i will try to format to match the reply of my partner. starters and asks will be written in the small size with spacing. update: there is a possibility that i will be redoing my icons or at least making icons in different shapes, such as long and vertical. we will simply have to see.

iv. shipping. when i think of shipping, the first thing that comes to mind are romantic ships, though i totally understand it can cover other relationships as well. the fact is, gaea is in love with love. she falls easily and her loyalty has definitely gotten her in trouble. i will never force ship. i encourage people to send in romantic memes to test the waters. i’ve gotten to a point where i think we should all be free to admit what we want with no shame. if you ship it, come to me. or send in a meme. all relationships are important here, though. so all ideas are welcome.

v. content. you can definitely expect to find mature themes here. and probably triggering content consider i don’t have any triggers and i do love dark themes. triggers are formatted in tags as : ‘tw: ________‘ , ‘tw ________‘ and ‘ _______ tw.‘ i look at everyone’s rules before i contact them and look for triggers and do my best to keep everyone’s in mind. i may make a list of them as well. but if i end up missing something or forgetting something , please slap me across the face and let me know. i want everyone to be comfortable on their blogs. mature themes will also include smut , which i for the most part will not place beneath read mores.

update, june 9th: this blog contains mentions of and the discussion of forced prostitution, dub and noncon, domestic abuse, fucked up family dynamics ( not incest ), unsafe and unhealthy bdsm practices and depression / low self - esteem. again, my trigger warning formatting is above for you to blacklist what you need to.

vi. godmodding. partners that i feel comfortable with and who i feel know gaea are allowed to do whatever they want with gaea ( basically mains and ships ) and don’t need to ask. there’s a difference between godmodding and moving things along and sometimes it’s hard to know where you are. you can always ask if you have an idea in mind and want to make sure it’s okay. chances are likely you will also be told to do you , boo boo.

vii. memes. i have a problem. between my two archives, i have at least two hundred. i may bring some of them over here. you are always free to send any in. i’ll be honest with you if i can’t come up with anything. but i love doing starters based on memes and will never be upset when i get one ( unless it’s angst and that’s just because i’m a sensitive soul ). if you reblog a meme from me , please at least send on in. i’m very serious about this. if you don’t want to, at least reblog from the source. update: the game hasn’t changed; i still might bring some of those asks over. however, i’ve noticed the new trend to make asks into new posts and i am here for it.

vii. drama. new rule. i try very hard to keep my blog a safe space for myself and for others. i don’t reblog call - outs and i don’t get in the middle of things. i do, unfortunately, have my own little issues. nova ( @mysericordia ) and i used to write together but are no longer on speaking terms. once upon a time she said that gaea and her oc temp were too similar. she is now using bey as a face claim and i just want to be clear: i am not her. she is not me. i would never ask any of you to stop writing with her but just know there’s some tension there. i don’t have a monopoly on bey but to decide to change a face claim after years... to mine... there’s tension.

viii. mun. my name is djaq! twenty - five year old african american cis female, going by the pronouns she and her. i have a job working in a warehouse which means that between about 9:30am - 8:00pm it’s radio silence, unless i’m on my lunch break. i started writing when i was twelve on myspace and i’ve been doing it on different platforms since. i don’t have a big preference when it comes to genres, which is why i have so many verses. i look forward to talking to you! <3

credits, update june 9: base icons are from whimsies and evaccue on insanejournal ( kerry washington ), hilohello on insanejournal ( yara shahidi ), and allscalliepsds here on tumblr ( yara shahidi ). psd is mango from darkpsds and icon order is from silentxwillxfall. the incredible hollow ( @voitel /@crimsoninfinity ) made me icons and those are what i will be using from friday, may 31st on! my love myf ( @masterstrange ) gave me a psd to use for steve but i’ll be using it in some of my graphics and icons from now on as well. thanks so much, beeb!

#✿ *・ﾟ( ooc ) — ❝ dancing's not a crime unless you do it without me ❞#guidelines.

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haynr · 5 years

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all blog info below the cut,

apologies now to my mobile users

RULES

Before we interact you must…

have a properly displayed muse

have easily accessible posted information regarding your muse in a section or page

have easily accessible posted rules / guidelines in a section or page

for AU’s, you must have posted information regarding your muse within the fandom universe in its own section or page

make sure I am following you

cut threads

I Won’t

roleplay sex, generally. there may be a few exceptions, but keep the standard that i probably won’t. sexual content, perhaps, if all muns involved are over 18. If we do, it is with the understanding muses involved will be aged up appropriately.

tolerate any sexual advances toward myself ooc

roleplay inserts

always follow back, nor will I follow personals

tolerate pressuring, be it to rp in general or consistent pestering to answer threads

answer everything in my inbox. It’s not often I ignore asks, but I won’t answer something if it violates my rules. If I have difficulty answering something, I will privately message senders or make public inquires about anonymous messages.

follow everyone back / interact with everyone, even if you technically follow all my rules. i’m selective.

Please Don’t:

reblog meme asks. I don’t mind this so much, but it keeps things cleaner when they’re moved to a new post.

reblog inbox answers for non starter memes. examples would be mun opinions and the like but extend to headcanons and other writing. violators will be asked to delete the post and may be blocked.

reblog threads you are not a part of. warnings will be given to violating rp blogs, but personals will be instantly blocked.

reblog personal posts, especial images of myself. violators will be instantly blocked. this means anything tagged ooc.

force ships with me. I am a p easy going shipper, but I will be a bit more restrictive with Hayner. most of it has to do with his muse in general. he’s not thinking about romance atm. if it comes up in plot, great. if it doesn’t, you’re more than welcome to put it forward, but please do not expect me to go along with it. on that note, don’t expect me to always agree with your interpretations of my muse in ships. ideas and suggestions are fine, your own take is fine, but i cannot stress enough, please do not push hcs.

I am open to

multiple threads

duplicates of other muses (i do not rp duplicates of my own muse, but I usually have other muses in the fandom which I will be more than happy to interact with there, no twins etc)

shipping, though I will be highly selective, possibly exclusive. I will not instant ship, but I don’t mind developing our muses’ relationship privately over DMs.

mutli verse and/or polyshipping as befits all the muses and muns involved

rping toxic relationships of any sort, will be tagged accordingly and placed under cuts.

angst and/or triggering threads, though I would prefer to discuss the thread and tagging beforehand

crack threads

select AUs

ask/tagged initiated threads/starters but I ask for some warning if they are not from a meme or other prompt

responses of any length, so long as it is enough to reasonably work with for the pace of our thread

group threads

generally questionable plots. regardless of whether or not I approve of such practices ooc isn’t usually relevant. this is fictional, exploration of an idea– not a real-world execution of that idea. Feel free to DM for details.

Please Also Note:

I do not require length to be matched and may not always match partner’s length. I will respond as much as I feel I am able to or that I feel is necessary.

If my response is inadequate, difficult to respond to, or otherwise distasteful, FEEL FREE to ask me to redo my response.

Understand that my selectivity will depend on my comfort level and that I am not obligated to explain myself.

I tag all my threads as “thread”

I tag my partner’s url

if partner’s url changes, I will tag both old and new urls for the first response then only the new url going forward.

I generally tag triggers as “trigger tw”. same with general cw’s. i’m not the best with tagging, so let me know if I should watch for stuff in particular

my activity is generally a joke, but I’m constantly lurking, so feel free to drop a message

I am incredibly anxious. It doesn’t matter if we have late night conversations for like a month straight i will still be afraid to talk to you every. single. time. so always feel free to come whack me on the head or smth

while I can be very laid back / crack-ish, I do prefer to explore darker themes and my thread responses are much more serious than I come off as.

Blacklisted / Ask to Tag:

food

nsfw (for general safe scrolling, just let me know what your tag is since t simply wont show not safe for wombats content anymore)

“little space” related

“daddy,” “mommy,” etc

literally anything in this vein. in the vaguest, most removed sense. idc what you tag it. either let me know or just tag it “jade don’t look” whatever.

in fact feel free to tag any and all of these as just “jade don’t look” or some variant.

a/o/b related

anything pregnancy related

vivid depiction of sensory / memory alteration (particularly in images, but not excluded to)

unreality (also especially, but not limited to, images)

Of course I can’t require people tag these, but I will most likely not follow you if your post these regularly and do not have some warning which will be picked up by blacklist applications.

In regards to the sensory alteration, I mean things like seeing/hearing/etc things that aren’t there, mis-remembering or outright tampering with memory, etc. It’s kind of situation to situation on what gets me, but when it does it tends to hit me pretty hard. If you have any questions about it, fire away! [ example text post ]

On unreality, this somewhat relates to the above, I use this as a catch all phrase for images, vivid descriptions, and most especially videos/gifs of things that basically don’t behave or seem to behave as they should. Sometimes, I’ve seen these things tagged as “trippy” and the like, but they those posts tend to be too…idk how to put it. Extra? What tends to get me is when things are going fairly linear and then suddenly go for a loop. That’s not the greatest description, but here’s a few posts that have triggered me the worst that I’ve slowly gotten used to. There are also things which should seem fine or normal but aren’t. If anyone has a better description for this, by all means let me know! example posts [ one ] / [ two ] / [ three ] + a weird image that also gets me for some reason. hmvent is actually a blog I use to store things that trigger me so I can slowly get used to them or try and figure out what it is / why these things get to me.

META

Hayner is a young lad who resides in the sleepy Twilight Town. He is described as “impulsive and determined, and is always looking for a new adventure. He is bold to the point of recklessness…He gets bored easily during uneventful times… also easily angered/irked…thirsts for some kind of recognition…” During the events of KHII, he is 15, the same as Roxas/Sora. He has deep brown eyes, dirty blond hair and is a bit tall and, while still skinny, muscular for his age. He is the leader of his quartet trio including Pence, Olette and Roxas himself.

While he does have parents, he’s rather distant from them. While he does receive support from his folks, they were just never really there. Because of this, his loyalties lie greatly with his chosen family, his friends. He considers it his duty to help, lead and, if needed, protect them, even if he’d never admit as much even to himself. If any of his actions or ideas end up hurting someone he cares about, he takes it very much to heart, often beating himself up about it for weeks and weeks after.

Hayner, despite his hotheadedness and brashness, is a very observant leader. His tough guy act, while not entirely based on this, is partially to build himself up, make other less inclined to pick fights with him and his friends. Whether or not this works out, however, is certainly debatable. He also does his best to incorporate his friends’ wants and needs– or at least what he perceives these as– into his plans.

As oblivious as he may seem, he is quite mindful of the people around him. Whether it’s picking out the shady figure on that street corner or this one, or noticing some random kid’s not having a good day - he sees a lot of it, but often it doesn’t strike as a huge priority. He thinks things through a lot more than he’s credited for, but unfortunately, he doesn’t go through the whole process before starting his plan of action.

Hayner also isn’t exactly the most social person. He is outgoing and nice to people out of politeness and giving people the benefit of the doubt, but as a whole he’d much rather just stick with his friends. The only exception to this has been Sora, as he feels a “familiar vibe” about him, and therefore is also open to his circle of friends.

A couple more misc hcs below:

Is a very exceptional swordsman (at least with the training swords). However, his skills do not seem as outstanding compared to that of Roxas and other more major characters.

As much as he hates school, his best subject science. And although one would think he’d be a good athlete because he is competitive, he actually doesn’t have good PE grades because he doesn’t try if he doesn’t have to. The only way to get him to really participate is to make it a competition.

MORE WILL BE ADDED MARCH, 2019 TO INCLUDE SPOILERS FOR KH3

AU Info will be added shortly.

#mobile rules #about blog #psa

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inkofamethyst · 3 years

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August 25, 2021

See, there’s a part of me that doesn’t really want to go back to living on campus. That’s why I didn’t stay on Sunday. That’s why I’ve decided to extend my time at home to Friday instead of Wednesday (today). Because as much as I want to be back in a classroom again and as much as I want to try meeting new people again (because I wasn’t majorly successful my freshman year), I also know that going back means facing Covid more often than I have at home, facing the fact that I have to start really putting an effort toward making friends because I hadn’t before, not really, facing... other things, too.

My fears are irrational, I know this. I just don’t know how to get past them. My therapist says said I should explore the worst-case scenarios and come up with solutions for them. Maybe tomorrow (probably not, though).

I woke up at 5 am today, for some reason, and couldn’t get back to sleep. I think it’s partially because I took my good pillows to campus. Anyway, it means I’ve been exhausted throughout the day and getting tired earlier than normal, but that’s been a pattern for the last week as a whole. Perhaps I’ll forgo the pillow tonight.

I spent most of today sewing. I (almost entirely) finished the black circle skirt! It’s got copper buttons and snaps and a side closure placket thing that also acts as a pocket. It’s a tad tight, and that’s on my button placement, but it’s not terrible, and I don’t feel like redoing them right now. They certainly help enhance my figure (or, at least, with the help of the cotton drill interlining, hold ~me~ in for the illusion of a figure), though the waistband (2″ instead of my customary 1.5″) is a touch too wide for me (glad I tried it though!!).

I’ve also been working on the Black Snail Patterns waistcoat!! Honestly, if I knew what I was doing and had all the time to just sew, I could probably have finished it in, maybe, three days (plus a day to assemble the pattern and cut all the pieces). I’ve been relatively careful, and I’ve been following not only the written directions but also the blogged/vlogged experiences of other sewists online who have made either the same or similar garments. In this way, I’m able to either modify or entirely disregard some of the written instructions to suit my preferences. I’m about to head to bed, but I’m currently at the point where I’m padstitching the lapels (instead of just basting them, following the construction of others online). It was soothing at first, but my fingers hurt and I kind of just want to be done, you know? Alas, I still have 1.25 lapels to padstitch. The handsewing is, simply, tedious. But I expect that it will yield a better product in the end, so I must continue on through the bruised and bloodied fingertips.

Finally, I started Vol 3 of Dear White People on Netflix. Fun show! Explores the dysfunctionality within the Black community as opposed to just hating on white folk, as some had assumed it would. “Nigga I got clocks!” “I would prefer that you not use that word.” “Fine. Nigga I got timepieces.” Cracked me up.

Today I’m thankful for an extra two nights home. I’m also thankful (bonus thank!!) that my internship mentors from this summer want to continue working with me into the fall, and that I want to with them. I met with them today (over Zoom, of course), and we intend to collect a bit more data before submitting an abstract in a few weeks for a conference in the Spring. I’m going to really have to engage in some serious self-discipline and not put it off. Tbh, getting a ton of it done during the first week of classes when there isn’t much to do otherwise sounds like a wise decision to me.

God, I am so tired. I hope I get a good night’s rest tonight.

Two of my classes (physics, biochem) are up on Canvas. I’ve already started the rough bits related to developing my Notion homepage. I think I might let tumblr do the hard work for me of developing a color palette/aesthetic by using a photoset I’ve reblogged that has enough pictures for me to cover all of my classes and extracting a palette from it.

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marias-studyblr · 6 years

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Hey, i've been having this re-occurring problem for a while now. Whenever i make notes i suddenly feel obliged to make them turn out pretty and aesthetically pleasing. I keep wasintg my study time by scrapping sheets of paper because my notes dont look nice. I'm not a huge studyblr user, i have a side blog that i just visit once in a while, not very regularly. I know im wasting so much time and effort like this but i dont know how to stop.

Hi love!

Because you said it’s something that is starting recently, I’m going to assume it’s a problem triggered by the studyblr community or at least some studyblr blogs. I would try to unfollow blogs that are very driven to perfect sheets of notes.

If you feel like you need to just take a break from the studyblr community altogether go for it because the important thing at the moment should be focusing on how you can get over this and move on.

Once or if you feel prepared to come back, make sure you do with a new renewed mentality and not fall into the same mistake.

The keywords you have to keep repeating to yourself are: “Progress not perfection”. Progress, not perfection. Progress, not perfection.

And make a change in your head that makes you driven to learning in the most effective way and not trying to fit in a romanticized version of what you think studying should look like.

I think this is one of the problems studyblrs create, I’ve talked about this before: the illusion of a perfect study session, the illusion of perfect productivity, of a perfect student who never fails, who never writes a wrong word, whose notes look like printed paper.

When in reality the good-looking notes are a result of many tried pages, and it’s not pretty to show our mistakes, people don’t reblog that. That doesn’t mean we are all wrong and false, it means we like to display our successes and the best of us, BUT we have the responsibility to never pretend we’re something we’re not.

And I believe the majority of us has no problems in saying multiple times we are not perfect and no one should strive to reach an impossible perfection standard, up to the point you can’t cope with mistakes in your notes. (I’ve seen multiple posts about this around)

So the next time you make a mistake, instead of throwing the page away repeat to yourself Progress not perfection, Progress not perfection. Think about how some pages are going to look better than others, that’s just how it is. And also think about how much you have to study and how you are wasting your precious time redoing the same stupid page over and over again. Get mad at the situation. If you need to get up, go grab a glass of water. But don’t throw the page away no matter what.

I’m telling you what works for me, it’s always a pain in the ass but that’s how I get over it quickly. Just a disclaimer, I’m obviously in no way implying this is a solution to more serious problems such as OCD.

#answered #studyblr community #studyblr confession #studyblr #blog #notes #perfectionism #productivity

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g0dtier · 7 years

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So this is about a group who has taken liberties to excluse, harass, bully and slander people for the rest of the community. Lately something about this group has come to light (blatant aphobia) and I was asked to make a masterpost about some of the other things they have done.

Ok so y’all probably know Ursus (Clan-fuildarach and Sunbeam-Ursus), Blaise (Ophiotaurusfr and kaidonsfwsky) and Anemia (anemia-fr) from their aphobia by now, and if you didn’t, here’s a refresher:

All of these posts made in reference to this anon, who pointed out that any -sexual word refers to sex, not gender. Except for the last screenshot, which is Blaise’s old url reblogging a post saying to not reblog if “you think cishet aces are LGBT”.

After this came to light and I posted about it, several people have come forward about their experiences with these people, sending me screenshots and information about how they treat others. Some stories really shocked me, and I said I’d bring them to light because the people who were bullied didn’t dare to.

Ever since I said I would, their friend group has become more and more agitated (strange, considering they keep saying they never did anything wrong, so why are they this nervous?), and now one of them (Blaise) has started writing creepy sexual messages about me.

After I made a post about this, saying this made me incredibly uncomfortable because I have dealt with sexual intimidation and abuse before, Blaise followed that up with some namedrops on his blog about how much of a toddler I am, and some more sexual intimidation. How the hell you can first call someone a toddler and then follow up with more sexual harassment after reading how they’re a victim of sexual abuse is above me, to be honest.

So, in case that’s not enough for people to avoid this group, here are some experiences from other people with being bullied/excluded by them. This is just one story, but others will be linked at the bottom of this post.

One of the people who came up to me was CityofInoue. Some of you may remember this, but their friend (Oberion or 0berion-fr) was selling a gijinka with lore who fell into the “trap” trope, and she received some shit for it, after which a lot of drama happened, because they were attacked from one side saying it was transphobic, but also defended by nb/trans people saying it wasn’t transphobic. Oberion themselves apologized for treating a touchy subject like this carelessly.

In the end, the dragon with the trap art was put for sale by Oberion, who was now suicidal because of all the hate she got, and then bought by a trans person in order to keep people from spite-exalting it. Apparently, while not being part of the original incident, the vagueblogging crew weren’t satisfied with Oberion’s apology.

Ken (CityofInoue) said Oberion may have hurt people, but apologized and that she did not deserve the hate she got, which landed Ken a spot on the hate list with the Vagueblogging Crew. Several things happened after this.

Ken, who is genderfluid themselves, was accused of being a transphobe defender and apparently a pedophile apologist (??? this was completely random) by Pastel, aka Sweet-Puff, who, despite Ken’s friend being suicidal at this point and having apologized several times, still disregards her “fweelings”

After this, their group of friends started looking for reasons to hating Ken, all because Ken felt like their friend didn’t deserve all the hate for a mistake she made and apologized for. Ken received hate for several things after this:

Ken had previously gotten one of Diveremblem’s lore kids. The kid was from a mom who looked Indian and dad who looked a bit paler, and Ken tried to do something in between their skin colors. Ken themselves said this wasn’t great, they didn’t quite get the skin right and tried to sell the art to redo it. Pastel (Sweet-puff) contacted Ken, saying that if they didn’t want their dragon, Diver would take it back. No idea why Diver himself wasn’t around to say that, but y’know. Ken said they didn’t wanna send him back, as they still wanted to do stuff with the dragon. This was followed up by this post by Pastel:

Pastel and Blaise are blaming Ken for wanting to keep a lore dragon because Ken “doesnt do enough with them” and Pastel brings up whitewashing. Pastel could’ve confronted Ken about the whitewashing in the message where she told Ken to send the dragon back to Diver if they didn’t want him, as that message was prompted by the dragon’s art being for sale anyway. They ONLY started to complain about whitewashing after Ken refused to send their dragon back. After all this, Ken decided to exalt the dragon to be done with the drama.

Afterwards, the entire group went on to show how they have absolutely zero fucking concept of “this dragon isn’t yours anymore” and that this is their reaction to someone saying their friend didn’t deserve hate for a mistake, and then refusing to give back a dragon that is rightfully theirs:

Diver, a cis guy telling a NB person about who they should or shouldnt forgive for transphobia because he didnt get his dragon back

Pastel, calling Ken a giant piece of shit for not giving back a dragon

more Pastel, worried that she wasn’t vocal enough about her hatred for someone who didn’t give their dragon to its previous owner (Don’t worry Pastel, you absolutely weren’t being lowkey about this)

More Pastel, angry about someone not giving their dragon to the previous owner.

Ursus desperately trying to make this about the Ace discourse again, calling Ken a “dumb fujoshi bitch” for not wanting their friend to get hate for a mistake they apologized for and for not giving back a dragon to its previous owner

Anemia, fucking PMing Ken to ask for their lore kids back, because if Diver wanted his back Anemia needs theirs back as well.

Ken’s reply to Anemia’s message.

Anemia not being happy about the response

Anemia saying that not giving back dragons that arent theirs anymore is disrespectful to their lore

Anemia legit just....denying the existence of the dragons they gave to Ken

Anemia remaking the dragons they gave to Ken because they legit Cannot Stand(TM) the idea of Ken having dragons they bred, all because Ken refused to give Diver a dragon he bred and didn’t think their (bullied to the point of being suicidal) friend deserved hate for things they apologized for.

This is where THIS particular situation “ends”, or I’d like to say that, but last night, Ken recieved ANOTHER message by someone else asking for dragons back, indicating the Vagueblogging Crew are still spreading hate about them privately.

I have recieved other screenshots, they will be posted in a tag on my own blog, because I feel like this post has gone on long enough.

#Vagueblogging Crew

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