#weekly journals

[ishadash92]

My weekly journal: July 2nd week unleashed

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com (Emotive, Thoughtful, Relatable) Sometimes things work in your favour, and sometimes they don’t. It’s not you who decides, nor do things work the way you want them to. It’s the highest virtual being up there who manages things quite well. It’s working fine, by the way! We lose people; sometimes sticking with them isn’t a good choice either. Do yourself a favour…

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[humandrift]

Offline is the New Luxury

What deserves our finite attention? Weekly Journals 26.06.2026-11.07.2026

Remember who you are psychedelic slutty indie hippy girl

[ishadash92]

My weekly journal: September's last weeks & October's weeks unleashed

Photo by Taryn Elliott on Pexels.com (Connection, Conversation, Laughter) It’s about travelling and packing, gathering the scattered pieces of life as I move between places, unsure of what tomorrow might bring. Packing becomes an act of choosing — what to carry with me, what to leave behind. In those quiet moments, the simplest tasks feel like rituals, reminders of how fleeting time is. Then,…

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[ishadash92]

My weekly journal: August last & September 1st week unleashed

(Serene, Soulful, Autumn) It was a silent Wednesday evening in summer, where I felt as if the earth had just stopped — or at least it felt that way. Or perhaps, I wished time would stop. I was taking a moment to express my gratitude. I needed to express my feelings about how much home meant to me, how beautiful the weather was, and how much peace I was surrounded by. Everything is passing by…

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[ishadash92]

My weekly journal: February last week unleashed

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com (I shed some tears, I faced criticism, I smiled abundantly) Taking books to the bookstore is a funny affair, and reading your own book within its confines is an entirely new establishment of self-identification. 😂😂 I shed tears for our beloved ‘Chandler Bing’, penned a final note for the farewell, and ‘FRIENDS’ isn’t the same anymore; this realization…

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[jlbrand]

Week 5: Social Media, How do we define it?

When discussing social media we don’t think about what it is? how we define it? or even how it came to be. Most of us were born into the Digital Age, we just accepted and learned what we had in front of us.

Social Media and Social Networks are they? and How do we categorize it? How does the internet play part of the bigger picture? 

The internet which is the main community that gives us access to these other media and platforms to connect with others. The internet was originally designed for scientists (specifically computer science dept. scientists) to communicate across the US (Hiltzik,1999). 

Earlier in the millennium online communities became most popular. Online communities were built with the coming of the internet and brought people together to discuss and share data to enhance their research and to share those successes and failures. 

Then, these online communities started developing into larger groups that discussed more than data, but now they were recommending and giving opinions. Along the lines of text, the strangers in front of the computer screen became a colleague and a friend. The online communities became social networks that developed into social media. 

The reason the social networks became larger and stronger because of its ability to share, gather and diffuse data among groups.  Having all these individuals sharing data attracted more people with the same interests. We are beings of communication in need to connect to a larger network. It makes us feel connected to a higher power even if its just a system of computer networks. 

What do you think about the internet? Do you still have the same views of social media and social networks? What changed? 

[thegreatithy]

Integrating into the Homestuck Fandom... Or How I Slowly Descended into the Well of Madness

Update 1: So... It turns out that I am actually familiar with this. Me and a friend had actually read some of this back in high school. Or more accurately we read Problem Sleuth which was made by the same guy (Andrew Hussie) and is essentially the exact same story as of right now. I will be the first to admit that I do not understand Homestuck or what it has created. My girlfriend, who is just as perplexed by it but understands what it has created a little more tried to explain it but I can't say that she helped my understanding at all.

I also refuse to make judgements on something I don't understand and I am curious enough to delve into a story that, from what I have been told is awesome and hilarious but has created a fandom that has been known to be very unforgiving to newbies such as myself.

First before I start, I cannot commit to daily updates on this. I can commit to weekly ones, however. Expect weekly updates from me every Monday... Probably... I will at least let you all know what is happening. Every week I will be reading as much as I can in Homestuck and recording my thoughts as someone who isn't completely in the dark about it (like I said, I did read a bit almost 7 years ago) but is essentially completely new to Homestuck.

There there is no page counts from what I can see (someone might correct me on this) but at the end of each update I will post the URL of where I got to so everyone can know where I am in the series of events.

Lastly, I will be staying completely fair and keep an open mind regarding the humour, art and writing style. I am no visual artist so I am in no position to critique drawings and I am aware that it is all done using MS Paint. However, I am a writer and I am in a position to critique humour and story structure. If I remember correctly from reading Problem Sleuth, my thoughts on this will not be popular among fans but I am open to being wrong.

Without further ado, let us start!

Ok, from what I have read so far, this starts in the EXACT same manner as Problem Sleuth. Can Hussie not write unique openings? I had such a case of deja vu that I actually went back and perused the beginning of Problem Sleuth. Yup. The exact same. Starts with a man (boy) standing in the middle of a room and the first thing they both do is "Retrieve Arms". Ok, sorry the boy has to choose a name first, but since he doesn't end up doing that, the first thing he DOES is retrieve his arms. I will say that the style is interesting at least. Kinda has the feel of a choose your own adventure story but without the choice. You have to click on what they do next and they attempt to do it. The descriptions on what happens is where you get the humour from.

Well speaking of humour... Actually I will get on that soon.

So far everything seems very... umm... simple I guess. Not much is happening but at the same time everything is a little absurd. He has an inventory that is called a Captchalog... Yeah I won't remember that past this update. But anyway, for whatever reason he can only hold things using this Captchalog and whenever he picks up too much, he automatically drops the last thing in his inventory. Yeah get used to variations on that joke because it ain't going anywhere anytime soon... It's been going on right up until I stopped reading so... Many pages? I dunno there is no page count. At least 100.

I also don't quite understand the world they live in as of right now. It is similar to our world but a little more absurd. Programming seems to be popular among the kids here and pretty much all they talk about is programming. There is nothing wrong with that at least. It helps build the world and the logic it runs on which is exactly what the story should be doing at this point. Hussie doesn't ease you into either, he goes into it like you live there too and should already understand the absurdities. That is also fine. The main character, John, is kind of an idiot so you learn as he does. Though I don't think I want to live in this world based on what I've seen so far. The inventory system sucks.

Like I said before, I can't critique visual art. The story seems to move well using the MS Paint art at least. It is nowhere near the best art I've ever seen (shout out to One Punch Man!) but it works at least and I am impressed at the pages that are animated. I do find some of them a bit annoying though. Some of them serve as a punch line and those are funny but those are the minority. The majority of the animated pages are pointless and don't add anything to the story.

Overall, it is too soon to have any coherent thoughts on this story. It is almost painful to say that 100+ pages (NO. PAGE. COUNT!) is nowhere near enough to make judgements on Homestuck or even come close to understanding why it is popular. I promise that future updates will be more cohesive than this one was as I will be able to delve into more specific elements of what is happening. I will be looking at structure, humour, and art style primarily but I will also look at logic (this seems like it will be an important factor here) and characters as they become... well characters... John is essentially a blank slate as of right now. And the person who talks to him on the computer is also a blank slate. There is nothing to them right now. But I do hope that something does come of them.

Where I am! If you want to read along with me, I started at the beginning and stopped here. There are no page counts so good luck!

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