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One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)

respectissexy

I love doing notes for therapist-posting on tumblr because I get tags like this.

sycamorality

turns out i have a lot of opinions on subtitles

sycamorality

theres a youtuber ive watched before he ever hit 1k. hell, before he hit 800. he had subtitles on his first video. manual ones, not auto-generated ones. IF HE CAN DO THAT THEN SO CAN SOME FUCKASS WITH THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF SUBSCRIBERS. OR AT LEAST FUCKING PAY SOMEONE TO DO THE SUBTITLES

sycamorality

and i hate the autogenerated subtitles so much. if the person swears or says a slur and it isnt censored, DONT CENSOR IT IN THE SUBTITLES. if its censored in speech, then censor it in subtitles. but if someone says a slur outright, no censoring? put it in the damn subtitles, i dont care, subtitles are for telling you what someone says

sycamorality

if your guy says "motherfucking bitch" then the subtitles should not say "motherf*cking b*tch", "mother******* b*****" or void forbid "[_] [_]" like youtube's autogenerated subtitles do. your subtitles should be saying "motherfucking bitch", UNLESS the guy's speech was censored like motherf[dolphin noise] b[dolphin noise], then you subtitles say "motherf[dolphin noise] b[dolphin noise]"

sycamorality

youtube's autogenerated subtitles are maybe some of the most ableist and infantilising ones ever and i think im gonna kill someone

targetedknowledge

fisutiddies

hoovesandfloorpaws

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

<3 Proper way to help these lil buddies on their way <3

jenjen4280

If you’re in the habit of helping small creatures, as I am, here’s how for snail. Prob also applicable for aquatic snails.

hometoursandotherstuff

crazy-pages

Sometimes you try to write one research paper and your subjects inform you that you will be writing an entirely different one.

phantomsofyourformerself

girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

sourdough-seal

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

orbitalmirror

"how did you get into writing" girl i've been tormented by the visions since i was eight years old

lyricwritesprose

In case anyone is asking this, though, the most basic steps to writing fiction are:

Have a daydream

But write it down

I mean, there's a lot more to it when you get into technique and making it clear and that sort of thing, but those two steps are where it starts.

dragon-in-a-fez

complimented a cashier on her turtle pin this morning and she said "oh thanks, I am a little bit of a Turtle Person" with the carefully contained energy of Cookie Monster telling you he's mildly fond of chocolate chips

I hope she and the multiple tons of turtle merch she definitely has at home are having a wonderful day

wtf-drawing

i love this metaphor so much i drew it

awesome

taking notes

fishy

johnjacobjinglehymerschmidtt

derinthescarletpescatarian

My "100% Australian wool" is "made in China". They shipped this stuff halfway around the world, spun it, dyed it, then shipped it back. Every time I see shit like this I'm reminded of how absurd it is that worldwide wage inequality makes this the most cost effective solution.

derinthescarletpescatarian

My country produces so much wool. It's one of our main industries. There is no practical reason why it's better to build the factories for cleaning and spinning and dying that wool in other countries, except to take advantage of worse environmental regulations and worse wages and worker's rights. In practical material terms it makes far, far more sense to build those facilities as close to the sheep farms as is practical, taking into account factory emissions, population (factories need workers) and storage options. This shit was dragged over the ocean twice for the sole specific reason of making it somewhat cheaper for me and letting four or five different types of middlemen pocket the money that was effectively stolen from the Chinese factory workers.

memewhore

slowedclover4

This will haunt my nightmares.

andmaybegayer

Squelch! Squelch is the technical shorthand for noise gating. Your antenna will constantly pick up ambient noise, which is useless and annoying to listen to all day while you wait for a call. Squelch tells the radio to mute the speakers if the overall power of the signal coming through is below a certain level. You twiddle your squelch until it just cuts out ambient noise, and when someone tries to talk to you the extra power from their signal will go above your squelch setting and it'll unmute so you can hear whoever's calling you.