Hey, were you the one who uploaded the FlintHamilton compilation and if so do you still have it? I'm dying to see it again.
I’ve uploaded a smaller copy, since I don’t have space for the larger one. I recommend downloading a copy: I’m not planning on deleting it but, if I do run out of space, it’s not likely to stay.
That version was around 10GB, so I didn’t have the space to keep it on the drive. However I did use VLC to convert that version, reducing it to 749MB. I’ve uploaded this now. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BelhwmAXpmCoY3kXnQ_IdiBolcooFf8t/view?usp=sharing
I couldn’t see any difference in the pre-conversion and post-conversion videos - perhaps it’s lost some super high quality my screen cant even show, perhaps I’m just bad at noticing this stuff. Either way, I think people should still find it watchable.
To be clear: I did not create this compliation, all thanks go to @thomas-hamilton.
I don’t know what young or new LGBTQIA++ person needs to see this, but queer is a wonderful word. It’s not a bad word, it’s not a slur, and you don’t need to be afraid to use it or scared of it.
It’s a word for when we don’t quite know what we are. Or when what we know about ourselves is complicated, and we need a quick explanation. Or when we don’t need to share more. Or sometimes it’s just the best fit.
It’s the word where everyone is welcome, it’s the word for building a community. It’s a word for thinking, a word for doing, a word. Queer is the community y’all.
Queer is the word that protected me for decades as I figured out who I was and still protects me when I want to speak and be seen without being forced to come out in specificity to random strangers.
Queer is the word that never makes me feel left out. The acronym says “you’re less important, you’re an afterthought, you’re a throwaway plus sign”. Queer says “you belong here”.
having both anxiety and depression is like that post about washing your meds down with redbull. you’d like to think that the constant fear of failure caused by your anxiety would cancel out the lack of motivation you feel thanks to your depression, but no. they are both working so very much and you cannot stop it.
one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.
DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.
One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.” I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.
But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting. Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible. Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible. Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.
Thoughts, mostly LeoFiat storyline based, as I watched episode 10.
I actually quite like that Fiat never lied to Tharn? He didn't correct him, but he didn't claim they'd had sex/that Tharn was too late/etc.
Sure, he might have been too scared, but he didn't try from the off. Or try to set Tharn's lack of trust off: the pen was an accident, and I'm 99.999999999999999999999% sure from Leo. The social media... he seemed to be trying to get Type to date him by acting like they were already dating. Same with the kiss.
They're not okay, but they're a different category of wrong? He was trying to get Type to pick him instead of Tharn, not trick Tharn into giving up Type.
Also: HOW BAD ARE YOUR ABANDONMENT ISSUES THAT YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE YOU'VE LOST LEO?
He took the missing pen as a sign didn't he? My not-actually-superstitious sister's necklace from her fiance broke when he was in surgery and she felt sure it was a sign (while aware that it wasn't). (He was fine.) As far as I can tell superstition in Thailand in general is greater than superstition in the UK... Fiat absolutely believes the pen going missing means something. The only thing worse would be something happening to the necklace.
Techno is SUCH a mood sometimes. XD
Champ concluding that the best resolution was to make everyone happy. I love him for that.
#4 coming through again.
"I can't say it" WHY NOT??? It's not like the situation could get worse. (That particular situation, not the world in general: that was not a dare 2021.)
"Because I don't want to lose him". Right. Idiot.
WILL YOU TRANSLATE LEO'S LINES FOR GOD'S SAKE!!! 3rd time!!! 2nd time I got from context but... [cry]
Love big brother Type. And Gulf is SO PRETTY!!!
Also: much better option than the book spoilers I've seen.
Tries to remember that, partly thanks to Llong, a LOT of his exes cheated on him. Because, mostly, I'm on Type's side. Disbelief and anger that you don't trust him when he tells you the truth!
Go Thanya! rofl
Phu's about as efficient a cleaner as I am.
Looking for Thorn since he'd the only one of the 3 he'd allow himself to lose it with: must protect the other 2.
Well boys, at least you tried. Type's being a fool all on his own on this one.
Ok, I am scared... I don't want to be scared, but with some of the things... I'm scared...
Ok? This is not the first time this has occurred to him?
I don't understand the "I can't live alone" mentality, but I can absolutely see that Fiat has it.
Ok. NOW I'M FUCKING TERRIFIED.
WORDS WOULD WORK!!! THIS IS NOT REQUIRED!!! AND IF WORDS WOULD NOT WORK, THIS WOULD BE A MILLION TIMES WORSE!!! PLEASE REFILM THIS SHOW!!! [cry]
Not started part 4 but if it goes like I'm currently thinking... oh god, I'm going to be sick.
Ermmm... "oh thank god, he's threatening to injure his knee" is not a thought I expected to be having today. Or ever.
I know it's the leather but that totally sounded like a fart... didn't really fit the atmosphere that.
... That was a badly written digression. Maybe a few more lines with Type persuing the "why not find someone single" angle would have helped.
Oh, so he really did start sleeping with others with a forefront intention of making Leo jealous. I figured it was giving up on Leo and trying to move on (with a little voice that never quite died hoping he'd be jealous).
But yes. Basketball means Leo is official. "Basketball is all I have"... And a necklace, and a pen, and a promise, and living together, and sleeping IN THE SAME BED. That's just the stuff that is literally impossible to miss.
I'm glad Champ's looking awkward af. And how long are they planning to draw this out?
Well, that appeared to be important. Pity I only know what the lyrics said.
Oh, I've been paying so much attention to Cir I ONLY JUST REALISED THAT WAS HIM, not some random they dragged in.
Yeah Phu, how dare you trust Cir? Of course he's offended by that! [roll eyes]
“No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.” I’ve had the misfortune of encountering some people who really, really, really need this drilling into their skulls.
I have always hated phrases that suggested my trauma made me strong or that there was purpose to my trauma. That somehow.. I wouldn’t be strong or resilient or kind or wonderful without the trauma. That I had to break and hurt to be decent.
quest to Erebor day 18. the dwarves get bored and decide to have a ‘nicest beard’ contest. as the only non-bearded party member they decide Bilbo has to be the judge as he’s the only one able to be impartial.
unbeknownst to them Bilbo judges the Hobbiton pie-making contest AND best garden contest AND pumpkin growing contest every year. he spends 3 hours judging all their beards on various metrics including length, softness and fanciness. by the time he declares Balin the winner they’re all kind of tired of it.
when ppl outside the party question him on it he’s like ‘Mr Baggins said mine was the nicest and he judges the Hobbit best garden contest EVERY YEAR’.
no-one outside the party knows what the Hobbiton best garden contest is so they assume it’s something very important & that Mr Baggins must be someone important & influential in his own country, to be able to make those sorts of judgements, and are suitably impressed.
somebody asks Bilbo about it and he answers, truthfully, that it’s one of the most important events of the Hobbiton social calendar and they’re like ah… that does sound important
The best garden contest is perhaps the most ruthless, cut-throat, and vicious contest in hobbitish culture. Families have been fractured, blood-feuds sworn, and casseroles thrown out to feed the pigs instead of eaten. It is Very Serious Business and Big Folk may sigh and shake their heads, but when it comes to gardening, it has been known for a Hobbit to take a tea-kettle and beat a goblin to death with it for daring uproot their award winning roses (that said Hobbit might have been Bilbo’s younges aunt, a Brandybuck now by marriage, was completely beside the point). You do not mess with the Gardening Contest, and more importantly, you don’t get caught messing with the contest either.
This is why Sam was able to walk all the way to Mordor with Frodo. Frodo may be the Ring Bearer ™ but Samwise Gamgee has won The Best Garden Competition 3 times in a row and Sauron himself is nowhere near as tough as that
Toddlers are so pure. She doesn’t understand that we help her with certain things because she’s little. She thinks that everyone just helps each other like that. So she tries to blow on my food and cut it up for me and tries to help me put on my shoes.
i was giving little wagon rides to a baby around the backyard one day and all of a sudden she hops off and slaps the seat of the wagon telling me to get on because it was my turn and i was like no it’s ok im too heavy and she was like NO ITS UR TURN and kept tugging on my hand so i would sit down. eventually i got on and it was just a little 2 year old trying so hard to push me around on a wagon not understanding why it wouldn’t budge but still so determined to let me have my turn lol
I don’t think I’d realised how many casual compliments we pay to our toddler until she started casually complimenting us back, because experience has taught her that’s How Social Interaction Is Done, and there’s nothing quite like a very earnest three-year-old solemnly and sincerely informing you that you look wonderful and smell nice to make you feel really good about yourself
I tell her she’s my best girl. She tells me I’m her best auntie. Then we both feel good about the world!
my little cousin is 3 and she stands there and goes “you’re doing it!” whenever i’m like, making food for us, or doing the laundry, or pushing her in a stroller up a hill. she is the most encouraging sweetheart.
My son tells me in a very maternal voice during dinner, “Eat your beans, Mami,” and “It’s good, Mami?”
Small children reflect the love and care you show them. He tells me all the time, randomly, “I love you,” because I am always reminding him I love him. Children are magic.