Therapy Bard

Alyssa, 25, she/her

[theonlyaardvark]

Picreq Tag Game!

make yourself with this picrew

Heres me!

Now time for the tags!

@themostrandommoon @mer-acle @mustard-in-a-bottle @iminruinz @the-one-and-only-piper-offical @cean0w @thebestducknamedwatermelonn and anyone who wants to join!

[mer-acle]

mee

thank you to @mustard-in-a-bottle for the double tag

npt: @fangirlmenace , @themostrandommoon , @animehaircolors , @aceyjujube , @figureitoutinthemorning , @grape-jucie-dog , @justanotherrandomposter , @luskaandsissi , @sarnai4 , @dyingroses , @wickeddisney55 , @katecatloverofficials , @moo-llenium

[therapybard]

Genuine attempt to accurately make myself

[aropride]

it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

[aropride]

i think one thing that's been really helpful in keeping myself from using it is thinking about Why i have to do the specific assignments i have. like what is the actual goal. like some assignments the goal isn't "share a story about parenting styles in ur personal life" so much as it is "show you understand the concept of parenting styles thru a story". or it's not "how do hormones impact teenagers' decision making abilities" it's "can you understand, reword, synthesize, and explain the information in the text and videos to explain how hormones impact teenagers' decision making abilities". and looking at it as "this assignment is asking me to read some words and then understand and explain them, which is a skill i want to have" rather than "i have to answer these stupid questions that seem really obvious because all my professors want me to die forever" has helped. especially in a world where everyone uses chatgpt i want to know how to read with my own brain

[rubiatinctorum]

I think of Bloom's Taxonomy with this kind of thing :3c It helps me get past the stage of "ugh you KNOW i know this though, why do i have to do this?" Because, remembering is the lowest form on the triangle, and by that, it's like the simplest. Everything higher needs the previous skills. Kind of a cool chart for what OP described above, the understanding, the rewording, synthesizing, all these other skills that are being checked besides knowing/remembering.

(I personally can't fathom why someone would go to college to outsource even the most basic steps of learning to a predictive slop machine, even as someone who skipped more assignments than I should have in my first years of uni. To me, it seems like they're wasting their 10 minutes and at the end the true work of the assignment isn't even done bc the prof wouldn't like. know if they're meeting the content or taxonomy level goals???? but what do i know)

[theroundbartable]

Reblogging this. Remind me in five years when I'm a teacher that I need to be mindful of what and how I teach.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

I'm doing group work in many of my courses and recently my group partner came up to me and said "you've inspired me to stop using chatgpt, I want to understand how it works" and I've never felt more proud of being mediocre at assignments

[therapybard]

Fight I'm having now as someone who wants to fully understand everything I learn in my classes and not fuck up the environment/feed the AI bubble, but also gets overwhelmed easily and wants to cry looking at the all the work I need to do every week.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

claim your star

*this is not to shame anybody. if you used to use chatgpt in the past but have stopped, kudos to you, this post still includes you. if you are still using chatgpt, then I guess I can’t stop you — but if you ever decide to stop using it in the future, you may then claim your star too

[jesmeraki]

"Just look at me...not with your eyes, but theirs."

"I can't."

(click on drawing for better resolution)

[akaanmo]

i think i just witnessed a miracle

[fractiousrvt]

There is always hope

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[miamignonette]

“maybe men wouldn’t fall down the alt right pipeline so easily if feminists were nicer” yesss women famously got our rights by saying “pretty please? 🥺 with a cherry on top? 🥺🥺🥺” and the men were really nice and said “omg yes of course 🫰🏻”

[thollandss-deactivated20231215]

reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺

[cheryls-blossomed]

I cannot begin to stress how important Alysa Liu is to a sport like figure skating. This is a sport that is rife with abuse and that has silenced women and has forced them to do as they’re told in order to win medals. This is a sport where authoritative figures exercise an immense amount of control over athletes from their childhoods.

Alysa left the sport because of burn out. Because of what she went through. When she came back, she said that she’d skate to whatever music that she wanted. That she’d be in charge of her training schedule. That she’d be able to take a very active role in choreographing her programs and choosing her costumes. Her entire comeback has been about her taking authority over her career. She is in charge of her own career, as it should be. As it should always be.

And she is now the Olympic Champion. Her trajectory is proof that an athlete taking control of their training, of their joy, and of their competitive career is absolutely paramount to success in sport.

[suzie-guru]

[theonlyaardvark]

gang, what do u guys think of me?

@themostrandommoon @mustard-in-a-bottle @mer-acle

U guys are like some of my only friends I need to know

[mer-acle]

Hmmm

I'd say sunlight :3

What about me, gang?

(open moot tag I wanna know)

[therapybard]

Starlight

[therapybard]

I'm starting to think I should expand on this since it's kinda weird to just have the one word. IDK Something about a dark abyss that's mostly blackness, but your eyes are drawn to the sparks of light that make it all worth it. That's sort of the vibes of your fanfiction.

[suzie-guru]

[theonlyaardvark]

gang, what do u guys think of me?

@themostrandommoon @mustard-in-a-bottle @mer-acle

U guys are like some of my only friends I need to know

[mer-acle]

Hmmm

I'd say sunlight :3

What about me, gang?

(open moot tag I wanna know)

[therapybard]

Starlight

[therapybard]

Help! I physically cannot force myself to write even though I love my story and want to get an update out. But I'm also in my final week for this college semester and REALLY want to rest. ahhhhhh

[ithinkthereforeidread]

— “suddenly it’s december”, margaux paul

[obsessedinsomniac]

Fuck you actually fuck you

[tarydarrington]

hello, old friend.

[figureitoutinthemorning]

You get into an argument with your friend. Things get heated. You both say the absolute worst things you can to each other, and you’re still yelling down the phone when you realise he’s already hung up. Fine. Whatever! Who needs him, anyway? You switch your phone off and go to sleep.

You wake up the next morning feeling vaguely guilty about it all. You pick up your phone, intending to send a quick ‘sorry about that, can we talk?’ message, only to discover sixteen increasingly alarming updates on your friend’s social media, followed by the most terrifying voicemail you’ve heard in your life.

The only reasonable solution, as far as you can tell, is to fight your dad.

You are Athena from Epic the Musical.

[partlysmith]

Spin the wheel. This is now your highest stat.

How fucked are you?

This owns

Pretty good actually

I can make this work

Not thrilled...

This sucks

My life is over

Voting ended onNov 14, 2025

[frozenwolftemplar]

To anyone who thinks that four years is a looonnngg time to wait for KPop Demon Hunters 2: yes. You're right. It is a long time. But consider:

Zootopia 2 comes out this month; it's been nine years since the first Zootopia.

Moana 2 came out last year, eight years after the first one.

Wreck it Ralph was 2012; Ralph went on the break the Internet in 2018 after a hiatus of seven years.

In 2013 when I literally couldn't think or talk about anything but Frozen, there was absolutely zero concrete talk of a sequel; Frozen 2 wasn't confirmed until 2015 and released in 2019. Seven years. (admittedly with fun stuff in between).

In the grand scheme of animated movies, four years is the fast track.