Little Bit Boring

Roll for initiative

[taptrial2]

i think in the pokemon world they would say "it's so snover" and "we're so baxcalibur". my mind is so twisted and fucked up you couldnt possibly hope to understand..............................

[toskarin]

"none of these words are in the bible" you're not even reading the secret part of the bible. with all my posts in it

[yaoist]

-- Joseph Smith

[elexuscal]

"it's concerning if university students are genuinely struggling to read full adult-level books for class" and "don't overstate the reporting of a single news article" and "if this shift is genuinely real, it's reflective of broad curriculum changes in lower education levels, probably at least in part due to remote schooling during COVID, and doesn't mean the new generation is being willfully Stupid and Vapid" and "when reading for personal pleasure people should read whatever they like without shame" and "reading from a broad variety of genres, styles, and authorial backgrounds will improve your understanding of both literature and the real world" and "actively mocking people for their tastes in books does not encourage them to become more adventurous you're just being mean" and also "but seriously adult books are not just boringly pretentious nothingburgers padded with pointless sex scenes, and claiming they are just shows how little you've read" all can and should co-exist.

[h-bd]

this is all a great offense to kim dokja who is a real person and alive

[cometcrystal]

they dont even seem happy its like theyre just fucking with her out of obligation

[shosta]

[bearie]

[2wo-knav3s]

[omegasmileyface]

realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"

[omegasmileyface]

well. did it bored 👍

[omegasmileyface]

DO IT SCARED. DO IT BAD. DO IT BORED. DO IT HALFWAY. DO IT WRONG. DO IT EMBARRASSED. DO IT UGLY. DO IT LATE. DO IT DIFFERENT. but by god do it <3!!

[ltleflrt]

When I was a kid I read a ton of books that were definitely not appropriate for my age. One of two things would happen:

I was too inexperienced to understand what I was reading, and it had no effect on me.

I understood what I was reading, and I leveled up.

[prokopetz]

Bocchi the Rock! fangame that opens with Kikuri Hiroi waking up alone and apocalyptically hung over in a trashed hotel suite with no memory of the preceding 72 hours. There are at least three separate ways to game over without ever leaving the starting room, one of which involves trying to retrieve your bra from the ceiling fan, flubbing the skill check, and dying instantly.

[102ki]

always brother

[egirlbutternubs]

No i didn't "forget to pack a toothbrush and a phone charger" its called on site procurement. Solid snake does it too

[what-even-is-thiss]

As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”

[bewareofitalics]

I think I may have solved a mystery that I didn’t even know was one.

So. In Peter Pan, the novel, this is the first mention of Captain Hook:

“Who is captain now?” “Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word. “Jas. Hook?” “Ay.” Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook’s reputation. “He was Blackbeard’s bo’sun,” John whispered huskily. “He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid.”

Later, we learn this:

Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.

“Barbecue” is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Jas. is short for James, but in “Captain Hook at Eton,” he’s also called Jacobus. The biblical figure Jacob was renamed Israel.

Blackbeard’s historical boatswain, and also a character in Treasure Island, was Israel Hands.

I’m just saying, if I got a hand chopped off and my last name was Hands… I might want to change it.

[redwhale]

'Lost' letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson's mutual affection

Newly examined correspondence shows deep respect between Peter Pan and Treasure Island authors, who never met

Many kudos to OP, I’m still processing Captain Hook = Israel Hands. Because of this post, I stumbled upon this 2020 article. It is a fascinating and bittersweet read about Barrie, Stevenson, and the Peter Pan+Treasure Island connections.

Now, the letters of JM Barrie to Robert Louis Stevenson – presumed to be lost by several key Barrie biographers for over 70 years - will be published for the first time in a forthcoming book. The letters reveal how ardently the young Barrie both adored and admired Stevenson, who was an older and more established writer. A year into their friendship, which was initiated by Stevenson, Barrie wrote to him: “To be blunt I have discovered (have suspected it for some time) that I love you, and if you had been a woman…” He leaves the sentence unfinished.

and

Barrie has a real desire to incorporate Stevenson and his affection for Stevenson in his works, he believes. “I think what Barrie is saying is: if I can never meet Stevenson, because he has unfortunately died, then I want to create the opportunity for our characters to meet.

“I think he liked that idea that they could occupy the same world, and could potentially bump into each other.”

[naidje]

[thatpreciousthing]

[necromancelena]

I think you should be able to absorb bathroom graffiti to learn new powers like with those walls in the tombs in skyrim

[bowsersex2]

[bashirs]

[ ID: A screenshotted Discord notification from "Rubbies (xX-HaMiLtOn_HaTeRs-Xx)". It reads, "Bara men? Art. Did michealangelo get his posts flagged when he sculpted those guys like that? No. He got a turtle named after him." /End ID. ]

[ot3]

Im sure there are plenty of genuinely caring and professional chiropractors who Just Happen To be practicing Victorian bone seances just like there are probably plenty of negligent physical therapists who don't really give a shit about their patients and want to get paid. In the same way there are well intentioned or badly intentioned people in any field. But if you just put the disciplines side by side and compare what they do, how they do it, and what longterm treatment goals look like in both, there is an extreeeemely clear winner

[ot3]

every time someone mentions they are seeing a chiropractor i just have to sit here like this trying not to tell them they shuold be seeing a physical therapist instead

[felisorablue]

i mean. if i knew where to find a decent Pt without going broke, i'd jump on that

but my chiro is cool, i like her. her work doesn't fix everything but it does help with some things.

there's value in both, its not so black and white as "chiro bad, pt good".

....but yeah if people have recommendations on how to find a pt lmk

[ot3]

it actually is as black and white as "chiro bad" because chiro has a much higher than acceptable risk of causing further or even permanent harm. There's plenty of literature there about what chiropractic alignment can do to your body but here's a pretty illustrative quote from a 2007 paper;

In case reports or case series, more than 200 patients were suspected to have been seriously harmed. The most common serious adverse effects were due to vertebral artery dissections. The two prospective reports suggested that relatively mild adverse effects occur in 30% to 61% of all patients. The case-control studies suggested a causal relationship between spinal manipulation and the adverse effect. The survey data indicated that even serious adverse effects are rarely reported in the medical literature.

Pt visits may be more expensive than chiropractic, but when you go to physical therapy you get taught exercises to target and strengthen the problem areas of your body that you're supposed to continue at home. Even if you only go once or twice, you have a means of moving forward that can help keep your body comfortable without the need for further visits, which is less money in the long run. If you want to compliment these exercises with hands on work but don't want to pay for more pt, a well targeted deep tissue massage by someone who knows what they're doing is very comparable to the hands on treatment I've received for my neck and back during physical therapy.

A physical therapist wants to treat you thorougly enough that you no longer need to attend physical therapy ever again. A chiropractor wants to, at best, treat your symptoms as they come up because their practice is not physically capable of addressing underlying issues that cause the discomfort you're feeling.

Finding a good pt is the same as finding any other good professional. Just search around and read reviews. It's really worth it if you're experiencing enough pain to pay for semi regular chiropractic adjustment