#orion anon

[loonylycant]

hi its transmasc madeleine cookie anon just wanted to say hi and i hope you enjoy your next 24 hours :D - orion anon (ive decided this is my name now <3)

O HI SORRY I WAS IN SCHOOL THAnk YOU AND YOU TOO!!

[notesbyash]

heyyo! how was your day?

i was wondering if you have advice for me — there are tons of courses online that are free for people to take, and i’ve been itching to take some, but here’s the thing: i am interested in too much, and i have too little time. i long to study literature and arts, but political science and economics also caught my eye. then again, there are a lot of content on chemistry and biology online. mycology sounds fun too.

your blog has been one of the ones i’ve genuinely loved on this site, and i’ve been mustering up the courage to ask this. i hope i’m not being too much! take care of yourself :]]

Hello Anon! I’ve had a lovely day thus far despite the looming threat of a final exam in a just few hours, how about you?

So… too much to learn, too little time? I’ll admit, I feel the same way you do. There’s dozens of courses out there that I’d love to take and the amount of information that’s so easily accessible is wonderfully overwhelming.

I could tell you to write out a list of everything that you’re (currently) interested in, rank them from most to least interesting (or alternatively, most to least useful for your major/career path), and work your way down finishing them course by course, but that’s advice that I myself would never take. It would be nice to, but I know I wouldn't.

Instead, what I’ll pass along is what’s actually worked for me. Pick whichever one is your favorite (at least at the moment) and just jump in. If you get bored with it, skip ahead a bit in the class to the parts that are interesting. If you’re still bored, or don't feel like to skipping ahead, hop over to something else.

The thing with independent learning - provided you’re not trying to make a career or the likes out of it because if so I’d have different advice - is that you’re probably just learning it because it’s fun. So, start by learning the fun parts! There’s nothing stopping you from picking some random research paper because the title looks cool and just reading it. If you run into issues with technical verbiage, you can look it up and basically study backwards until you understand it. If you think a course looks interesting, there’s nothing stopping you from picking it up for now and abandoning it halfway through because you got bored. I have done this far too many times.

Sporadic learning like this does come with drawbacks of course. It leaves you with gaps in your knowledge. It doesn’t guarantee a solid foundation on which to build knowledge. It often takes longer. It’s very self-reliant in terms of how much you learn. But, in my opinion, it’s much more fun. You get to learn what you want, how you want, when you want. For me, that’s good enough; all I’m looking to do here is keep life interesting. To hell with basic biology, I just want to learn about cephalopods, you know?

Hopefully that advice was a little helpful, or even just comprehensible. This was honestly such a sweet message to receive and you should never worry about being too much. My ask box is always open, as are my messages if you just want to chat! Take care of yourself too :)

[actor-mark]

Well this should be chaos.

Hello again mark!

-Orion

Hey! Hows it going! How have you been?

[ask-the-dif-host]

*Orion tips xir head.* What is this... Braille you speak of? We have blind people, but telepathic implants make the disability obsolete.

(I can’t believe I spelled braille wrong RIP)

“Ah, well, Braille is a sort of language for those who cannot see.” The Host stands up to grab a book from his library, opening it to show Orion. “Since we do not have telepathic implants here, those like the Host must read using their fingers. You see these small dots? The Host can get words simply from a specific pattern of dots. He could teach you some, if you would like.”

[actor-mark]

Heya mark! It’s actually been quite a while. Great to see you again though, hope you have a fun Halloween and watch out for anti, I’m pretty sure he gets some sort of power high on Halloween or some crap...

By the way- I decided to change my name finally so I’m no longer Virgil, just call me Orion

~Orion anon

OH! Virgil- ..er.. Orion! It’s fantastic to see you my friend! How are you! Happy Heist day! ahaha Ah yes... the glitch. Don’t worry he wants nothing to do with me this year, got his eyes set on something else, apparently the magician is gaining power. If anything the glitch will come crawling to me when he gets an ass whooping.  Still, that CLOAK I gave him should help at least.  anyways- enough about the stinky gremlin, how are you!? Are you coming to the party!?

[chocoenvy]

i'm about to flood your inbox with Sara content >:)

-Orion

GOOD. PLEASE AND THANK YOU

[loonylycant]

Oh yeah! I have a few opinions (kinda /neg but not really) on Herb's, but I am head over heels for Sparling and Mint Choco's but they're all so cool!! We're also going for Cocoa because we think her skill would help us a lot with the levels in episode 9 where the Wafflebots knock you back ;-;

uhhhh yeah let’s not talk abt his:/

YES THEY LOOK SO COOL I GOT SPARKLING COOKIE’S COSTUME BUT I DONT HAVE THE COOKIE

[loonylycant]

Oh gosh yeah, hope you have fun then! We got Frost Queen today and we're hoarding gems and cookie cutters so we can do a bunch of pulls later (right now we have enough for ~119 total pulls) but totally agree with the daily gift thing. Its just the acknowledgement of "Hey we've only talked in Tumblr asks but I know you're here so have this gift of usually coins"

OH COOL I GOT FROST QUEEN I THINK TWO WEEKS AGO SHES VERY STRONG DHHDJS

rn I’m saving for lilac cookie. Still. BUT I HAVE 18/20 so two more left to go:)

AND DID YOU GUYS SEE THE NEW COSTUMES??!