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He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.
Wow thanks everyone ;v;
Mini lore snippet lol: at first I just doodled the cat alone in the middle of a page, but I loved him so much I just turned the page and drew the whole thing. He's so great.
I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon
Being in fandom spaces is so surreal-
Bc once your age hits a 'serious' number, you start to think - "damn, I should probably stop geeking and get more serious." But then you scroll and see a 34y/o woman writing fics after driving her kids to school, a 40y/o dude making fanart of his fav super heroes and you realize - "nah, I'm actually good"
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Happy five years to Dracula Daily, and safe travels to our dear friend, Jonathan!
yes they do teach media literacy in school but I'm pretty sure "read this book in the next month or run the risk of public humiliation" is what most people remember english class for for good reason.
Anyway, I'm glad this post got attention because I think that the "actually you were a Bad Kid if you didn't learn Media Literacy" only hurts people but at the same time, you do need to, like, learn to read.
The Qualifiers: Frankly I think the idea that "Media Literacy" is One Thing is bad in complicated and interesting ways. Frequently I see the argument used as a bludgeon to silence interpretations of a text that the speaker dislikes. At the same time, I think there is a mode of analysis that can be said to "lack Media Literacy".
The Goal: In general, I think we should understand analysis as a skill and a skill that should be practiced. In particular, we must remember that the reason you lack skill in analyzing texts is because it is in the interests of power that you are incapable of critically analyzing media, and thus less capable of criticizing power and organizing against it.
The Theory:
First, uh, what do we want to learn, exactly? The critical understanding here is that sentences have multiple meanings on multiple levels. They have implicit and explicit meanings. The difference between "what happened in the video" and "what is everyone in the video feeling" and "why is the video funny" and "why was the video made". All of these pieces of information can be extracted from a text, and the way to do that is practice.
The underlying and most critical piece of wisdom to keep in mind here is: Every choice that an author makes is a choice they had to make. Which decisions they made at each turning point can tell us about them. Each word in a headline was chosen intentionally and passed through several hands. The decision of when to start and stop the video had to be made. What's cropped out of the photo, or not cropped out of the photo, was done on purpose. This may sound overwhelming. It is!!! It's really overwhelming. The only way to not be overwhelmed is to practice.
The Practice:
Read. Read and talk about what you read. Read and then pause and ask yourself questions out loud. Go back and reread something you read before and point out things you didn't notice the first time and ask yourself why you didn't notice them and how you could have noticed them. And, if you can't read, write. Put yourself in the author's shoes. Learn about the medium. Listen to other people talk about things you've read (and ask yourself questions about what they're saying and why). But how do we read?
I have a small collection of strategies to learn how to read more that I'm proud of and have succeeded for me and others, in particular here are three favorites of mine:
1. Make reading a social activity. Join a book club. Start a book club. Read out loud with friends. Read in silence with friends. Find a friend who read it already and text them your reactions as you read it (they'll almost certainly love you if you do this). Post about your thoughts as you have them and share your thoughts with friends.
2. Schedule time to read. I recommend 30 minutes a day to start, though I usually do an hour. This is in my opinion best for classics and books that are more difficult to get through, but also works for most texts if you're struggling with boredom. If 30 minutes is too long, start at 5 minutes and add one minute every day. When you're done reading, I highly recommend channeling the energy built up while reading into other creative tasks, or even into talking about what you read.
3. Make reading more casual. A lot of my friends struggle not just because they can't make time to read or because reading is too low energy, but because they actively lack reading skills at the level of "it's difficult to focus on the words for a long time". In this case, read fanfiction! Read extremely low energy things! Read things that are just dumb fun! Read until you reach a point that reading is easy, even if that takes years. And let yourself enjoy the process. Like, find a collection of hundreds of stories published online with a tag you like or curated by someone who you trust and just start trying them one by one (this is surprisingly easy to do). I do recommend pushing yourself to spend a certain amount of time on this every day (even if it's as little as five minutes), but the goal is low stress and to work on building up basic skills, so I recommend structuring this requirement as just recording every time you succeed so you can build pride in your progress. The reason I recommend piling a large list of fanfiction is so that you can be able to drop things you don't like. So you can entirely avoid the "I need to read this for an assignment even though it's awful and I hate this" headspace. But ideally it should be a collection that will have things that you'll truly love, so things will hook you and carry you to read them. Good luck! It's hard but worth it.
Anyway, hope this helps.
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i always forget religious posts like this are dead serious because starting out with the phrase “i knew my flesh was evil” is so incredibly funny to me
I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are
Not deterred by the closed door
Working as a group
Protecting their identities
Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction
Getting away at the end
These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere
The church of scientology is on tumblr and they are sending me anon asks telling me that they can't even commit to reporting a post
dislike how many mental health posts on here are just "you've never done anything wrong in your life ever and they were evil for that"
maybe you did do something wrong. maybe you hurt someone. maybe you have said awful things. maybe you were just as bad as them. maybe. but what matters is that you move on. you have to try. you have to wake up and be kinder. you have to learn and listen and grow. maybe you did do something wrong but that doesn't mean you have to keep doing that. as long as you are alive, you can change
That's because this is Silmarillion
dont care + didnt ask + you know nothing of Javert + I was born inside a jail + I was born with scum like you + I am from the gutter too
Can't quite cope with how much this looks like me and my dad
It begins
Photo credit to the exceeding bemused sound technician we bribed with two cans of Carlsberg to permit us access to his gazebo.
Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.
If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.
Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.
Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?
If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.
Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.
okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.
So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.
