Undercover Unicorn

[pastel-charm-14]

ways to stay unbothered

left out? actually try and engage with other people, join clubs to make more friends and don't beg other people.

feeling sick? make sure to drink plenty of water and get sleep, rest your head from any screens and just meditate.

left on read? it's not a big deal, just don't make yourself available to them anymore, it will make them value you more.

feeling ugly? appreciate yourself and know that you're the most amazing person ever, your beauty doesn't define who you are.

lacking confidence? don't care about what others say about you and be bold. keep your head up high and focus on yourself.

hungry? try and eat something new today and be creative. try and be healthier and go for smoothies as a drink with your meal.

they don't like you? who cares, it's their loss <3

[thezenangel]

youtube channels to motivate you this semester

♡ abao in tokyo - study with me’s & playlists

♡ advika singh - study & productivity vlogs

♡ allie c. - medical school vlogs

♡ carrot td - study with me’s

♡ celine - study with me’s

♡ deaana - medical school, study with me’s, stationary, etc.

♡ dear mimi - study vlogs

♡ dia - medical student vlogs

♡ dr. rachel southard, do - medical school & residency vlogs & talks

♡ emily feng - medical school vlogs

♡ emilystudying - dental school & study vlogs

♡ emma grace - nursing school vlogs

♡ emmalilyn - study with me’s

♡ ginny - study vlogs

♡ hyobin - medical student vlogs

♡ leighton sanders - nursing vlogs

♡ lucky penny - study with me’s

♡ lunardazes. - uni study vlogs

♡ madi’s nursing journey - nursing school & nursing vlogs

♡ mango oatmilk - study with me’s

♡ maria silva - study & hospital interning vlogs

♡ merve - study with me’s

♡ mishujo - study & productive vlogs

♡ nada - study & productivity vlogs

♡ ray hon - study with me’s

♡ sab yang - medical school & study vlogs

♡ sean study - study with me’s

♡ sierra lyn - nursing vlogs

♡ studymd - study with me’s

♡ study to success - stationary, study with me’s, study hacks, etc.

♡ tani study - study with me’s

♡ yours truly, chloe - study vlogs

♡ yulma - study with me’s

[shanastoryteller]

wish there was a non rude way to be like “I understand your criticism, I don’t even necessarily disagree with it, but I am doing these things on purpose, because I like them and I want to, and therefore your opinion has no value, because you might think me painting a room entirely pink is tacky, but I did it on purpose”

[unyanizedcatboys]

[simplysparrow14]

I truly feel like The Boy and The Heron is Miyazaki’s apology letter to his son Goro.

Not in a “your my precious son and I love you so much, here a movie to make you for my failures” kind of way

but in a “I’ve built this incredible empire and legacy that’s given magic to millions of people, and in that time you’ve lived in that same world, and so naturally it’s expected that you’d take it over in my place, but I know that you’ll never succeed me or that you’ll be able to recreate the magic. This magical world will die with me, this company will die with me, and that’s okay. You don’t have to be me.”

[mcpirita]

Semi-motivational quotes from Hayao Miyazaki

[cafffine]

my prof just explained on the syllabus that he’s included more points in the class than we needed to pass, so we could skip up like?? 20 small assignments/quizzes/participation!! and still get a very high grade!!

the idea was that we could focus on assignments that played to our strengths - only do the participation stuff if we like to talk out loud - only do the quizzes/readings if we want to do the class remotely - only do online discussions if we like to talk and share opinions but struggle with anxiety in class ect.

and that’s cool enough but then he pulled up DnD character sheets with drawings he’d done of these hypothetical student player classes and how our various accessibility needs could be gamified to ‘max out’ different aspects of the class to get high grades and like!!!!!

hell yeah!!!! let’s treat accessibility in higher education not just as a necessity but as the fun, engaging, and creative aspect of learning that it is!!! I love this!!

EDIT: For proper credit or further questions about his system please find my professor on twitter @/kurtishanlon

[vanyamired]

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

[questbedhead]

My new, totally uneducated guess for why humans tell stories is to keep them from getting bored and cranky while following a gazelle for four hours. No deeper mystery or meaning. Some folk needed a distraction while they tried to catch dinner so they just made some shit up. The end.

[technicallyoneofakind]

The equivalent of listening and singing to songs on your way home so you don't fall asleep at the wheel.

[questbedhead]

For millennia upon millenia, humans have had to yell creatively to keep on task 

[awaytoday]

theres a theory that the reason there are so many characters in folk tales who weave/spin is because weavers/spinners were bored while they were doing the repetitve work that doesnt require much brian power for experienced workers. e.g. the greek fates, rumpelstiltskin, sleeping beauty pricking her finger on a spindle.

so the weavers/spinners were telling stories to pass the time and then they were like 'yo but what if WE were in it.'

also interesting that making up a story as you tell it is called 'spinning a tale'

[nicolauda]

in Australian Aboriginal English, telling a story is also called "yarning."

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

going back to the singing bit, there’s a LONG history of work songs--both singing and whistling--being used by agricultural societies, hunters, sailors, etc. These songs could be used as a form of communication and time-keeping, but often also resulted in longer narrative songs involving folk tales & motifs. 

Most surviving work songs are only a few centuries old (such as Yankee Doodle, believe it or not, which probably started out as a 15th cent Dutch harvest song), but the practice itself is probably much, much older. As in, earliest-agrarian-societies old. As in, hunters-and-gatherers old.

Interestingly, singing predates language (and may have contributed to the development of language), and probably predates Homo Sapiens--our hominid ancestors may have been singing and whistling for millions of years before our species even existed! But as language developed, you better believe we hit upon the kickass combo of song-as-a-form-of-storytelling, and have been using it ever since to keep ourselves entertained during work and leisure hours.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

We learned to Sing before we learned to Talk.

I’m just gonna sit and think about that for a minute

[fuzzynecromancer]

I'm gonna need a citation on that "singing predates language" thing because like, how would we know?

[feyosha]

I was there

[questbedhead]

My new, totally uneducated guess for why humans tell stories is to keep them from getting bored and cranky while following a gazelle for four hours. No deeper mystery or meaning. Some folk needed a distraction while they tried to catch dinner so they just made some shit up. The end.

[technicallyoneofakind]

The equivalent of listening and singing to songs on your way home so you don't fall asleep at the wheel.

[questbedhead]

For millennia upon millenia, humans have had to yell creatively to keep on task 

[awaytoday]

theres a theory that the reason there are so many characters in folk tales who weave/spin is because weavers/spinners were bored while they were doing the repetitve work that doesnt require much brian power for experienced workers. e.g. the greek fates, rumpelstiltskin, sleeping beauty pricking her finger on a spindle.

so the weavers/spinners were telling stories to pass the time and then they were like 'yo but what if WE were in it.'

also interesting that making up a story as you tell it is called 'spinning a tale'

[nicolauda]

in Australian Aboriginal English, telling a story is also called "yarning."

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

going back to the singing bit, there’s a LONG history of work songs--both singing and whistling--being used by agricultural societies, hunters, sailors, etc. These songs could be used as a form of communication and time-keeping, but often also resulted in longer narrative songs involving folk tales & motifs. 

Most surviving work songs are only a few centuries old (such as Yankee Doodle, believe it or not, which probably started out as a 15th cent Dutch harvest song), but the practice itself is probably much, much older. As in, earliest-agrarian-societies old. As in, hunters-and-gatherers old.

Interestingly, singing predates language (and may have contributed to the development of language), and probably predates Homo Sapiens--our hominid ancestors may have been singing and whistling for millions of years before our species even existed! But as language developed, you better believe we hit upon the kickass combo of song-as-a-form-of-storytelling, and have been using it ever since to keep ourselves entertained during work and leisure hours.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

We learned to Sing before we learned to Talk.

I’m just gonna sit and think about that for a minute

[fuzzynecromancer]

I'm gonna need a citation on that "singing predates language" thing because like, how would we know?

[feyosha]

I was there

[hauntaur]

This is money cat. He only appears every 1,383,986,917,198,001 posts. If you repost this in 30 seconds he will bring u good wealth and fortune.

[brandwhorestarscream]

if this doesn’t work mr cat were gonna fight >:c

[foxbirdy]

A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.

Prints & PDF

[happyheidi]

𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

[catchymemes]

[doomedbythenarrator]

coming of age horror films in which the monster and the girl are somehow one

mine // the vvitch (2016) // alexa thorn // joan macleod // hatching / pahanhautoja (2022) // chelsea g summers // ashe vernon // carrie (1976) // amber sparks // venetta octavia // cat people (1942) // richard powers // angela carter // raw (2016) // rebecca harkins-cross

[only-tiktoks]

[fieldbears]

Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.

[vivienvalentino]

My Place: Florence Welch

[aconissa]

WE READ TO KNOW WE ARE NOT ALONE – C.S. LEWIS

i. Alan Bennett, The History Boys ii. Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Lecture iii. James Baldwin, ‘The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are’, Life Magazine iv. Ada Limón, ‘Trust Poetry: Ada Limón Interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc’, BOMB v. Audre Lorde, ‘Poetry Is Not A Luxury’ vi. Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?