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kafus · 3 months

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my friend who passed away was the friend who got me that event pichu exclusive to IRL movie theaters in south korea that i mentioned a while back. his name was Riku

he passed away in the early morning of the 22nd (21st in my timezone). he was in his early 20s and had just moved out on his own and it was way too soon for him to go. just a week or two ago i was watching the kaika and vwp gensho concerts with him at 4 in the morning. he was around literally everyday - me and my friends found out about his death so soon because we were concerned that he was gone for just one day, and on the second day we reached out to one of his IRL friends to find out where he was. he was often in the hospital so i was hoping he was just afk for a particularly long time in the hospital and he would send a picture of his iv drip and the ceiling like he always did. i could not have imagined this would be the time he didn't make it. it is going to be weird not hearing from him literally everyday like i have been for the past 2-3 years. i am really struggling with this, i have had friends pass away but never any this close to me. i'm trying to keep myself together for his sake

leave it to me to process strong emotions through pokemon i guess but i loaded up SV to give the pichu the best friends ribbon so it says "the Great Friend" when sent out. i can't nickname it due to the fateful encounter flag but i've given him the name Anemo in my mind at least since our main shared interest that we met over was Kamitsubaki, and his favorite singer was Isekaijoucho, and the flower things in her hair are called Anemos (short for Anemones) and i thought naming him in a small way after something he loved and an interest we shared would benice

i also did a nuzlocke a while back where i had some special rulings to do with naming all my encounters after my friends from the friend group me and riku were in - the pokemon everyone got assigned were random and decided by spinning a wheel, and riku ended up being my flygon that came to the E4 and everything

i wasn't planning on ribbon mastering any pokemon from that playthrough, but now i really want to RM this flygon specifically. transfer him up and take him with me yknow

riku was not a pokemon fan in particular, but it was something we shared/bonded over - he used to ping me whenever he saw art of any kamitsubaki character with pokemon, and he went out of his way to celebrate that interest with me, even thru our language barrier

his favorite musician of all time was Kanzaki Iori, and some months ago he put out a call for fans to send him pictures he could use in the youtube videos for some cover songs he was doing. riku submitted photos, and on two occasions his photos were actually included - we didn't share pictures of ourselves or our real life often, so these were some of his rare photos of his real life presence

i can't stop listening to these. i cannot imagine how many times he listened to them himself. he was so happy about his photos being in these videos

i'll make a more proper memorial post at a later time (i want to draw something dedicated to him) but i just sort of wanted to ramble about this to get some thoughts out of my head in a public space. riku didn't have a ton of people in his IRL life and we were just friends over the internet but i want him to be remembered and i want my feelings today to be saved somewhere. eventually it'll get easier but for now it's still really raw

#kiki was here #kiki.txt #death tw

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tsukidotcom · 4 years

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Haikyuu HC to COVID-19 (Karasuno edition)

This is horrible 💀 im just so bored so I made whatever this mess is KFJSJDMSK enjoy

Hinata Shouyou

huh? isn’t it just the flu?

“No, hinata. People have died from it-“

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH-

goes bananas

whenever someone sneezes or coughs, his soul leaves his body as he runs away to sanitize/wash his hands for a miserably long time.

eats an expired can of peaches thinking it’s his last resort

lowkey happy school is closed because homework sucks

but also highkey hates it because now all volleyball tournaments are closed

then gets all angry when he realizes he’d have to do online school???!!?? like wtf he got jipped.

thinks they could still do volleyball if they did online calls cus if the school can do it,, then vOLLEYBALL CAN

will probably miss half of the class calls from oversleeping/forgetting anyway.

sheepishly ask yamaguchi, yachi or tsukishima for help on assignments/notes. (he will NEVA ask kageyama. he’s always in competition with him here!)

still practices volleyball 24/7 in his backyard or room (maybe even with his baby sister??)

He’s really good at practicing all by himself from practicing all alone in middle school—

but will probably go crazy being alone all the time with his family. he just wants to play volleyball with the team again.

looks up “what to do when you’re bored” or “what to do at home while in quarantine” on youtube

Kageyama Tobio

probably says he’s immune to the corona because he’s just better than everyone else

doesn’t really think it’s real until school shut down because of it

When he sees that corona is airborne he wont know what that means so he’d probably think it’s produced by air itself?? which makes him think air is trying to kill the human race?? and will be so confused as to why it decided to pop up now???

DESPISES online school. He had enough trouble understanding it from the gecko, so now he has to learn it basically all by hiMSELF?!?

And no way is he just gona email the teacher for help. If he does it’s gonna be only once in his lifetime. Anymore than that he thinks he’s doin too much. He doesn’t want his teachers thinking he’s dumb 😭

he says literally nothing during the calls he just tries to pay attention? and fails because he’s on a computer. in his room. alone. he’s bound to daze off or stare at a pen for 5 minutes.

Obvi still practices volleyball. Very much misses it. At least Hinata had his sibling to practice with him. tobio is a lone wolf in his household.

When his mom goes out to get groceries he gives her one of those doctor masks so she doesn’t catch corona.

Few moments later through the internet he realizes that corona is smaller than air molecules so if you can breathe through something you could still get it so he struggles for an hour thinking he just killed his mother

When his mom is back he keeps his distance in case she’s carrying the plague

omg did she just cough or am i imagining things no she definitely coughed she has corona oh oh god

In reality she was just clearing her throat.

is lowkey worrying about everyone and how they are 🥺 (yes, maybe even hinata).

thinks he’s science smart by calling it covid-19 than corona.

Asahi Azumane

He just worries about everyones health

like he just imagines the worst case scenario’s and starts to get really worried if people got it. Always checks on everyone and asks if they’re feeling any symptoms of corona ❤️

He’s either not gonna get it or he gets it and dies there’s no inbetween

but he’s jesus himself so theres no way he nor anyone in his bloodline can get it

is very happy to know that dogs can’t get it.

Takes online school seriously and tries his best

And is honestly so sad school just ended??? even if it’s temporary, he could be learning, playing volleyball, and going about his day instead of staying in a cage. he’s a third year so—how would graduation even go..?

always is up to date on the news !! and notifies everyone if anything important is added/changed.

Always tells everyone to stay safe! Whether through text or before ending a call.

only buys a lot of toilet paper from the fear of there being no toilet paper in stock since evERYONE IS BUYING IT-

Starts to try new hobbies that he put off for the longest time cus quarentine is rlly getting to him.

Is all out a family guy so he doesn’t mind the extra time with his family.

Nishinoya Yu

OAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOA

420 blazin’

thinks going outside means you’re instantly gonna die from corona attacking your white blood cells (????)

but also probably doesnt care as he goes outside like everyday to run around and get rid of energy (and to practice volleyball, of course).

also why is it called white blood cells when blood is red ☠️ smh

Buys 101611018320129 bags of chips because that’s his comfort food

yay more gaming time!!!

Noya🐒: Tanaka do u wana play minecraft 2getr latr?

Tanaka🍌: HELL YEAH!!

doesn’t shower for three days straight because screw personal hygiene!! No more school!!! Can do whatever he wanted!! It’s basically summer!!!

until he’s forced to do online school.

Is def the class clown. Probably somehow kicks the teacher out of the call through a little bit of hacking.

“alright guys so i’ll be you’re substitute teacher for the day-“

tbh acts the same as he would in school. maybe a little more rebellious because, i mean, what is the teacher gonna do? send him to DETENTION? call his mOMMY?

Calls/spams literally everyone in his contacts because he’s so bored and lonely. Answer him!! Y’all will be on facetime for hours!!

He’s fun to facetime.

Will call you a loser if you don’t have an apple iPhone because then he can’t facetime you and facetiming is one of his favorite things to do to pass time (besides gaming)

HE A TRUE GAMER

Okay but he lowkey still tries at school for the sake of his grades and his future ;-; maybe calls asahi or sugawara for help??

always looks up his homework on the internet to see if he can get an answer key or something (he did that anyway even before corona but)

will do one subject for 3 hours thinking he’s finally done with everythinf till he realizes he has like 4 other subjects and needs to do those too.

Sending memes all the time

Tsukishima Kei

oh, what about corona again?

honestly could give NO fucks??. like ABSOLUTELY ZERO. nonxistent.

doesn’t even remember it’s still happening half the time.

is surprisingly very knowledgeable about corona.

he’s just smart and sciency¿ so he understands the ins and outs of corona like how it works and how its spread.

so if you tRULY want any update or background info on the corona virius, ask Tsukishima.

bitch don’t touch me you have rabies.

doesn’t care that he’s obligated to stay at home because he would have stayed either way. he very much likes being alone.

might go a little crazy cooped up in his room so he’ll hang with his brother/family or go outside before he says ‘okay that’s enough’ and goes back to his room.

isolation? oh okay *puts on headphones*

he rlly gonna be rocking it out in his room cus he can listen to music all day any day

developes a really bad sleep schedule since he had no way to get rid of the energy he got rid of at school.

still a huge tease so he says everyone has the corona virius.

is never online on social media which means he’s never up to date with his frIENDS. Doesn’t have a clue what those dipshits are doing and could care less (besides yamaguchi,, they probably facetime or call thru skype or something).

I bet the whole volleyball squad has a groupchat and honestly he puts all notifs on mute cus his phone keep goin DING DING DING DI DING ID DID IDKNG DING DIG

Brother: Omg why are you getting so many text messages?

Tsukki: Shut up

if he is online on the gc and he texts it would be simple replies like “Hi” “Okay.” “No.” “Goodbye.” and then he’s gone for another week

every first year is begging on their knees for tsukishima to give the answers or help them out and he obviously says: go do the hw yourselves idiots

besides yamaguchi!!!! again!! cus theyre gay for each other

maybe practices once in awhile with his brother or alone in his backyard but he doesn’t care

Tanaka Ryuunosuke

buys 101817 pounds of toilet paper because everyone else is? but not because of the same reason as asahi. he thinks toilet paper is the cure to corona.

GO STUPID AAAAAAAAA GO CRAZY AAAAAAAAAAA-

probably has a part time job at a grocery store so he still has to go to work 😭 i dont even know how he could have a job in the first place he’s probably always late-

still gamin with noya of course

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM IM PLAYING MINECRAFTT

also buys like all the junk food thats in stock. and since he works at the grocery store he gets a ton of coupons and deals.

texts Kiyoko everyday goodmorning ❤️❤️❤️ and goodnight 😘😘 texts just to be left on read.

“i love it when she ignores me !!!”

scrolls through tiktoks for 1000 hours to pass time

School Is For Losers!!

similar to noya, he thought it was basicaly summer until he realized they were gonna be doing online school. literally had a fit and said he didnt wanna do jack squAt

Laughs so hard when nishinoya somehow kicks the teacher out of the call he’s like laughing so loud and hard he starts crying

all of the sudden has a better view on school

gets excited when he sees nishinoya on the call

makes funny and ugly ass faces when the teacher isn’t looking. everyone laughs and the teacher’s like 🤨

probably uses the green screen effect so he can change hus background (somehow) and accidentally misclicks a file so a girl wit a bikini becomes his background for .5 seconds before changing it to a cursed meme:

doesn’t get half the shit the teacher is talking about

but it’s okay because the half he doesn’t get is the other half noya gets

and the half noya doesnt get is the orher half tanaka gets

they’re two peas in a pod 🥰

until they try explaining it to each other and suddenly get confused?? mental malfunction ¿?

yeah im SMART!!!

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m -

a -

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Daichi Sawamura

quite calm about the whole coronavirus

like he knows it is serious and understands how it is spread but he’s still calm about it??

tells everyone to sanitize and wash hands on a regular. and social distancing!!

honestly still wakes up like he does on normal school days and does all his academics just fine.

he even does gym activities (besides volleyball) for 30 minutes to an hour!!!! he be running on that treadmil! getting stronk!

does each subject on his own for 20-40 min each day. he’s really good at self discipline

makes sure sugawara and asahi are up to date on school work and will gladly help.

sadly can’t help the first years (and probably second years) because that info is deep in his brain and basically forgot how to do it after a year or two of not using it.

VERY VERY VERY sad that volleyball nationals are cut off. this is his last year and for it to be??? gone??? just because of some flu?!?! hates it.

he wishes school to go back and still has hope that school will go back to normal in a couple of weeks (even though it’s a slim chance).

asks the teacher questions whenever he has questions. He’s also vv considerate so he’ll ask questions he knows the answer to but asks them for anyone who’s confused ab it/wants to ask but is too shy. (literally i lov daichi sm)

Eats a healthy amount of everything

asks asahi for any updates on corona even though he’s quite up to date himself. he just wanna make sure he didn’t miss anything.

also doesn’t mind being around his family. he’ll do more chores around the house to help his parents out :> he’s literally perfect wtf

def does worry about everyone in the volleyball gc and anyone else he has contact with. Will also email classmates and ask if they’re doing all right. Even away from volleyball he’s a team player ☺️✌️

Is happy for the rest of the day when asahi tells him dogs can’t get corona.

Yamaguchi Tadashi

oaoaiquqhdkoaiaagadjsiwi?

doesn’t know what to believe anymore

keeps in touch with everyone!! always online 24/7 on social media, vball gc, you name it.

Literally everyone is acting so normal why are people so calm am i the only one worrying about this and the worlds future like this year has been really bad so far for not just me but the whole nation actually the entire world honestly like war almost broke out in january and now this corona stuff is really buttering my crissont the wrong way-

Even though tsukishima literally gives No Fucks, yamaguchi is the complete opposite.

like tsukki and yamaguchi call on skype and eVERY TIME yamaguchi starts with ‘how have you been? do you feel sick at all? have you drank enough water today?’ and so on

“What are you even worrying about?”

“Well...what if you get the corona virius?... it can be deadly, you know!! Thousands of people have died from it!!! The fact school is shutting down and people are panicking is making me feel like i should be panicking-“

Tsukki will then snarkily reassure him it’s fine and people their age are the least likely to get it bad.

Yamaguchi will feel a little better afterwords

“Thank you, Tsukki!”

Tsukki will ‘tch’ it off

Even though he gets really good grades he has triuble finding motivation to do any school work?? doing school work in his own home? 😐

His home was kinda a place he can chill whereas school is a place he can be fully focused

but now his home is ALSO school??!!?

Luckily he understands the work, at least.

When he sees tsukishima on the call, too, he instantly says hello.

“Tsukki!! Hey!! 😁”

“Shut up.”

“Gomen, Tsukki.”

Yeah. Even when they aren’t at school, he’s still the same as always.

He takes extra care of his family and always stays in touch with other relatives. Especially grandpa and grandma. THE SECOND he learned elderly people are at more risk you bet your ass he’s calling them making sure they’re okay. He checks up on them everyday now.

He peobably practices volleyball a little, too. He’s more focused on schoolwork though.

Sugawara Koushi

Have you guys ate dinner yet? 🥺

obviously checking up on everyone

he would fail as a mother if he didn’t.

Actually reads in his free time?? He finally has time on his hands to read these books so.... here we are!

Wakes up at a scheduled time everyday (minus weekends. Maybe sleeps for an extra hour or so).

He dresses in pjs rather than actual clothes because he’s not going anywhere with this social distancing thing.

Always tries to lighten the mood when all the students are on the online call. Maybe crack some joke or innocently play around with the effects.

He still pays close attention in class and does quite well on his own. No help from his parents! He can do everything on his own! He a big boi!

Does homework really well, too. Probably does extra work or more work than needed just because it makes him feel good afterwords.

Honestly i can see him cooking in his free time. If he doesnt feel like reading or scrolling mindlessly through his phone, he gonna cook.

Will make the best cookies in the universe.

HAS A HECK OF A SWEET TOOTH. NOT A DAY GOES BY WITHOUT HIM GETTING HIS PRETTY HANDS ON SUM TREAT

Honestly isn’t too good with exercise so he might gain a few pounds or grow the smallest chub 🥺🥺🥺 he would be so cute omfg.

is realy involved with his family!! they play a board/card game every friday night and have the best time.

if he has a dog, cat, or literally any animal you know he’s gona be hanging with them since he has more time.

Still! Playing! Volleyball! I mean by now every boy is practicing at least a little bit. He would probably be in his backyard playing volleyball with his family. Theyy’d set up a net and everythin! They’re all rookies at it but he still cherishes the moments with them.

It’s honestly still practice. Better than nothing

He talks about how his family plays volleyball and everyone is so jealous like 😭😭 makes him more grateful hearing half the volleyball team saying they have to practice alone.

Watching youtube videos of random videos/vines making him giggling.

“Hey, Dachi, look at this video.”

IS A SWEETHEART STFU !!!

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nonbinaryresource · 5 years

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pls forgive me if i mistakenly word something incorrectly/use the wrong term bc i’m still learning, but i’m questioning if i’m nb and i need some help.. i’ve never really felt like a girl, but i’m definitely not a boy either. i’m biologically female and i use she/her pronouns and don’t really want to change that and i also present myself somewhat femininely thru my style. is nb the correct term for me? or is there maybe another term that would fit me better?

Hi, there!

Since you’re new, I’d like to talk about terminology a little bit. This isn’t to scold you, just to share more perspective!

So “biologically female” can be useful for some people and if someone prefers to use that for themself, that should absolutely be respected. But it isn’t a term that should just be applied generally to everyone! I am nonbinary, therefore I am biologically nonbinary. There’s a lot of misguided effort in saying “biologically [gender]”, especially when it’s by cis folk and/or being applied as a blanket statement to all trans/nb people. Basically, unless someone is personally using it for themself, I consider it a sneaky way of misgendering trans people. It comes from the idea of the “sex =/=gender” split, which is supposed to help people new to the trans identity understand what trans means more easily.

Trans simply means ‘does not identify only and wholly as the gender they were assigned at birth’ (whereas cis means ‘identifying only and wholly as the gender they were assigned at birth’). Because the way we assign gender is... pretty simple and subjective. Doctors take a look at a baby’s outer reproductive genitalia, assign a gender based on that, and call it a day. Only it gets even more complicated when you include intersex people in the conversation. Intersex is a broad category we use for people with variations in their sexual anatomy that don’t match up with the binary anatomies of either external or internal genitalia and what typically goes along with each of those. These conditions can be anything from an extra chromosome to ambiguous physical genitalia to more. A lot of intersex conditions aren’t even visible at birth, so babies like this are marked as they appear to the doctor and may only find out at an older age that they are intersex if/when a health condition pops up. And intersex babies whose condition is visible? ...They are often mutilated: surgically made to appear as if they only have external or internal sexual genitalia. I think this is one of the clearest examples of just how subjective and simplistic the system that we use to assign people gender is, which is why “biologically [gender]” isn’t broadly useful.

Because a long time ago someone decided to take a rather simplistic view of gender and randomly assign people one of two genders based on random criteria, which happened to be visible genitalia. And we used this determination to separate people into two categories of social class and treat them differently because of this. When someone says “male” or “female” or “man” or “woman”, people have the same connotation regardless. So trying to separate sex from gender as two different concepts... well, it isn’t the greatest idea, as that means erasing a meaning/connotation people have for one of those terms and redefining it. It is much easier - and more accurate - to instead expand our understanding. As well, a method such as this, where you could understand that I have [x] set of genitalia and [x] set of chromosomes and am nonbinary regardless of all of that would result in much better healthcare because it would actually give doctors relevant information about my body and health, rather than relying on assumptions based on if I check an “M” or “F” box.

So if you find defining yourself as “biologically female” as useful, that’s fine and don’t let me stop you from defining your own experience! I know a few nonbinary people who find the “sex =/= gender” split useful for defining their experience and how they figured out they were nonbinary. But as a general rule, it’s just a description to not use in an umbrella way.

If you already knew that, sorry for being redundant! But since you said you were still learning, I thought it might be useful. ^^

So let’s move more onto your question. I’m just going to repeat it here, since it could have gotten a little lost after my explanation:

i’ve never really felt like a girl, but i’m definitely not a boy either. i’m biologically female and i use she/her pronouns and don’t really want to change that and i also present myself somewhat femininely thru my style. is nb the correct term for me? or is there maybe another term that would fit me better?

So, as noted earlier, trans simply means ‘does not wholly or only identify as the gender you were assigned at birth’. More specifically for nonbinary, we can define this as: ‘not identifying wholly or only as the gender you were assigned at birth AND not identifying only or wholly as man or woman’. Note that this says nothing about your genitalia, pronouns, name, presentation, expression, or anything else superficial. Because all that stuff doesn’t have to define your gender! So you were assigned female at birth, dress femininely, use she/her pronouns, and don’t mind being read as a woman? You can totally still be nonbinary! There is no bar or test that you have to pass for your identity to be valid! All you have to do is identify as nonbinary!

As you have touched on in your ask, gender really comes down to how you feel. There’s two posts I want to suggest here where a couple other people go over what gender “is”. They’re good reads and when trying to figure out what the heck gender feels like, it’s always good to be able to get multiple perspectives to see if you can find one that’s helpful for you! They are “What is Gender? What Does it Feel Like?” by askanonbinary and “Gender is Art” by wedontcareaboutyourbinary. I’m not great at explaining open and subjective concepts like this, but for me, gender is an innate feeling of who you are. It’s a connection you make, either (or multiply) with a label(s), others, and/or yourself. It is something internal that can have external influences and expressions.

So when you say “i’ve never really felt like a girl, but i’m definitely not a boy either.” - this sounds like your gender!!! And, as we saw defined above, you don’t feel wholly and only like a girl or a boy, so it sounds like you do fall under the label of nonbinary!

That being said, I want to touch on “is nb the correct term for me?” and the answer is... that’s totally up to you! I really like how I saw nbandproud put it: “Gender is Not A Diagnosis”. There is no formula for determining your identity (although I know many of us would find it easier if there were!). You can’t just check off a list of feelings, expression, etc., and get a simple output that defines who you are. We describe our gender with a label, and labels are, first and foremost, for ourself. They are to help us describe how we feel and communicate this to others. And there is absolutely an important part of this that has to do with human emotion and connection. Two people could potentially have the same exact gender feels, yet could decide to use two separate labels for how they feel because that’s the term they connected with and decided to use. And neither of them would be wrong for doing so! That would be like me calling someone beautiful and another person arguing with me that the someone is actually gorgeous. We are using two words with similar meaning but used the word we felt at the time. Neither of us are wrong that ‘someone’ is beautiful or gorgeous. We simply used different words for it.

So only you can decide if nonbinary is the correct term for you. Often, the best way to decide this is to use the label for yourself for a while! How long that while is can be up to you. It’s fine if a while is months or years long!!! It took me a matter of several years to fall in love with the term nonbinary - and even longer to fall harder in love with genderqueer. I simply wasn’t sure and struggled with accepting myself for that time, but in the end, those are the labels I’ve landed on (at least for now - it can always change in the future). Using the term doesn’t mean you have to come out, either. You can just use it privately. Think of yourself in regards to being nonbinary. Draw nonbinary people. Write nonbinary characters. See if the label fits you or if there’s always a disconnect with it. Experiment and decide if nonbinary is the correct term for you!

As perhaps implied above with my own identity, nonbinary doesn’t have to be the only correct term for you if that’s how you feel. You can use as many or as few labels as you want. You can use nonbinary as a specific and/or general term. You can use as specific or as general a term as you want - you can use a general term and an ultra specific one. It’s your identity: whatever you feel fits is the correct term for you!

I can suggest some more terms if you’re interested in hearing more, but there are a whoooooole lot of identities that could generally be described as “neither girl nor boy”. One of the more well-known terms I can throw based on this out would be agender: lack of a gender. If you are interested, I would suggest just flipping through some glossaries. Here are a few of my suggestions:

http://genderfluidsupport.tumblr.com/genderhttp://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Gender_Identitieshttps://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Main_Page

Then, of course, there’s whole lexicon blogs meant to help spread and share and celebrate terms that people are coming up with everyday. Blogs like @genderlist, @beyond-mogai-pride-flags, and @imoga-pride.

I will warn you that these blogs can be overwhelming, especially if you’re desperate for that One Perfect Term(TM). They’re a lot to go through because there’s a lot of different ways people can feel and feel about their gender! If you find them overwhelming, take a break! You don’t have to have that One Perfect Term(TM). I don’t! And I am finally comfortable in the fact that I simply don’t understand my gender enough nor am I able to so specifically pin it down that it can be described with a term and simple definition. So if you get overwhelmed, take a break, give yourself some self-care, and go back to reading later. Questioning can takes years, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Now... have a kitten for getting through all that text! And feel free to ask as many questions as you need!

[gif of a tiny white kitten getting its paw gently squeezed by someone with long, painted nails. the kitten places its other paw on the finger, sandwiching them in a teeny hug, laying its head down, and closing its eyes in complete peace]

~Tera

#mod tera #long post #questioning #identity #labels #terminology #biologically gender #sex and gender #Anonymous

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stevetwisp · 6 years

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I love all your vids analysing mlp!! A thing I've been thinking about while watching the earlier seasons is how much the characters and the show formula has evolved. Any thoughts on that?

oh yA YA I GOT LOTS O THOUGHTS ON THAT!!

thesis: both versions of the show have it’s strengths but ultimately season 8 is built for a different audience than season 1 was originally built for

my personal feelings on this vary as my little pony, as a whole, ignoring the context that it exists in, my little pony is an evolving show, where it’s genre evolves with the age and roles of it’s protagonists which is really exciting !!! the only other story that comes to mind when thinking about this is adventure time and then probably harry potter, i’m sure there are more out there.

but my little pony is special because it wasn’t always intended this way. and while part of me is like, it’s very cool i like the idea of a story that can blossom from humble beginnings and into a full fledged story with nuance and meaning

the other part is frustrated with the role that fandom played in the ultimate warping of the show.

now i just want to say, “pandering” or “fanservice” in these cases at least, it’s not necessarily a bad thing and it’s not always a bad thingbut it does feel like… bringing in an outside element when trying to conduct an experiment.the experiment is now contaminated and we’ll never know where the show would have ended up without that outside influence and there’s a bit of a sadness in losing the trail we could have gone down.

ok with that said

there is no stronger season (there are weaker seasons, im looking at u s4), but season 1 isn’t inherently better or vice versa, because they aren’t really comparable.season 8 is no longer the same show subscribing to the same “laws” that season 1 abides byhow can we compare the friendship lessons, when we’re learning different lessons completely?

it’s why i like to describe the show as a spectrum that goes from dealing with close interpersonal relationships, broadening all the way out to how your actions reflect into the society around you- while also broadening the types of characters you might interact with. (which is why i believe the later seasons especially season 8, are SO interested in mental illness and how it functions against other characters)

which is really interesting because! … well, you know i’ll use myself as an example and if you relate to this well then you’ll see what i mean

now i got into MLP because it was cute, the songs were nice and the art was incredible. but there was something so calming about having the moral laid out simply for you at the end of the episode. and not only that but these morals also dealt with relatable issues, you know, disagreements with friends, having more good things than can go around, etc. etc.

and i personally became drawn to this as a sort of guide to life. the MLP universe is soft and inviting and if i can take these lessons to heart, maybe i can make MY world soft and inviting too.

so now you’ve got a bit of a fandom who are consuming this media in hopes that it will teach you something new about dealing with that unsavoury world outside your door. and while the show flounders a bit with it’s new found audience (IM LOOKING AT U SEASON 4)

by the time starlight comes in, this new form of the show now has a true audience surrogate and now the show has taken a decisive turn into where it wants to be. show morals become a little more grey, we around recounting old lessons but from different points of view, we’re broadening the scope in which to look at the show.

we are moving from internal relationships to external relationships as it grows with the needs of the audience.

i think it’s interesting how we start watching the show thru twilight’s eyes, she’s the main character and we relate to her and as we go thru the seasons we grow up with her, but the show is gentle with us at this stage, we are still so youngso when starlight comes in, we now have to be aware of our faults and the impact we have on others, this character we looked up to, twilight, has now become a literal teacherguiding us through our everyday as we struggle to overcome our past mistakes and move into a new generation

and the best part about this is that they approach it from the point of view of, well, what if you have something that can really hold you backwhether it’s where your from or how your brain is wired, they don’t try and tell you that YOUR the problem, they simply try and install you with the tools to cope and the knowledge to prepare you for the future.

they are aware that the audience watching right now FEEL like they are the villain. whether it’s because your one of those fans, or whether it’s because you live in a place where you can’t be yourselfthey take that idea and they tell you, it’s okay if you think you are bad. we know that all it takes is a friend to change things for the better.

this is quite a ramble so i’ll wrap it up here but;the early seasons of my little pony are so SO important, it’s a formula that i think works extremely well, it’s accessible for almost all audiences and i truly want to push the idea of making children’s (and even adult’s) television way more educational than they currently are.

it’s sad that the show doesn’t subscribe to this formula anymore, but in abandoning the formula they allowed for the story to grow and change outside of it’s assigned box and that’s something to really celebrate! art is about it’s evolution through the years and my little pony is a fantastic example of that and it’s impact on people.

i’m excited to move into this era of long form story driven animation but i’d be lying if i said i didn’t hope that someone out there is still working to forge a new kind of story experience based on the formula of bottled episodes.

edit: also i will be uploading a new video soon i wanna get one or two done before i move and then after that i wanna do them weekly once we’re settled

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Hey mädch! How was your day hun? I'm still awake :( I think I know why I stay up all night. I already have trouble sleeping properly but I think I stay up all night to talk to my best friend. I have been friends with her for almost ten years now and she's the closest person to me. I love her so much. She recently moved to usa so we're in very different timezones now. I stay up all night to talk to her :( we just text back and forth about books we like, anime we like, and just random stuff all the time and it's so nice.

I don't really have anyone else to talk to about anything. I only have her. But sometimes I feel like she doesn't love me as much as I love her. To me, she's like a sister and she's family. But when I text her with things like "hey this horrible thing happened today" (with details of that horrible thing) she just replies with something like "rip lol" and just really dismissive of my feelings sometimes. I don't know if I'm just being overly sensitive but some of her replies don't sit right with me. I am so sorry I overshared!! - 🐼anon

Hey mädch! Good luck on that exam tomorrow! I love you! I think you'll do fabulously my love!! And I hope the second assignment will take you less time! I love you!!! Also please don't worry about replying to that previous ask I sent! Study well! Eat well! Take care of yourself! OR ELSE! - 🐼anon

hey angel i'm really sorry this is late !!!! i was just studying for my exam and i was so tired last night ;____; i hope u had a good day :( i know u have trouble sleeping and i'm really sorry ,,, i wish i could do more to help :( but i'm going to be honest hun, i love that you have a best friend and that you are able to talk to her, i think that's really sweet of you . however i think no matter how close you are to someone, you should already prioritize your health over anything else you know? like, i have a best friend who has a hectic work schedule and no matter how badly i want to talk to her, i know our schedules dont add up most of the time and by the small chances they do, then i talk to her ;_____; if this girl is your true true friend, she wouldn't mind you prioritizing your health over staying up late just to talk to her? i know its really sweet that you do that, you are a really good friend <3 but i also think its important to know that your friends are there for u whether u talk to them everyday or not, and i think sacrificing your sleep schedule to talk to her is hard :( i hope you will be able to be happy and sleep adequately

and :( i'm sorry she's so dismissive like that, it can be so hard bc all you want to do is vent to your friend who u trust with things that are really troubling to you, and then they kinda just throw it in your face like that, and it's hard :( i've dealt with that before too :( i would say my biggest advice is to communicate that to her, like "hey sometimes it doesn't seem like you're there for me when i tell you my struggles . do you feel that way too?" i think communication is the #1 in keeping a friendship esp when it's all digital now, so being transparent with your feelings i say would be your best bet <3 i don't think you are being overly sensitive at all bc we all deserve someone who will treat us just the same as we treat others ,,,, i'm sorry you're going thru this hun :( i hope things will be able to fix themselves out soon !!! take care <3

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Hey everyone new to my tumblr and welcoming ppl to follow me at p_p_t_s_world

Hey ppl from Instagram Facebook etc.... its phai here welcome to my page just a new beginning to a new chapter of my life with a world full of questions and a future book coming out I'm writing about myself and my dreams and signs and questions I have about topics like life,conspiracy theories,and UFOs, Gov hidden assignments, and the paranormal...I will have a Instagram page as well to link to ppl to here ...also my page is about my friends or random ppl that want to tell a story or theory or a solution to the problems, questions and answers they have or tell themselves if they are alone...we struggle to get thru everyday life with meanings hidden messages and signs and etc that we can't answer and could answer some...so feel free to add on to my story or make post of your story on my page...because remember you got to be heard too I am not the only one with the special gift my mind has...THANK YOU

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watching the sun set from my front porch as another day turns to night....sometimes I have to find peace in the simplicities of life itself when there is no peace found in my own life....sometimes I wish I had simpler dreams instead of the ones I have that I cant seem to reach that leave me filling unsatisfied and disappointed every day I wake up not rich n famous...but then I look at the b.s. famous and rich people go thru after they get what they pursue and sometimes I can't even tell if its worth chasing anymore....sometimes I just want to be anybody but myself...I feel isolated and alone like nobody really understands me or what I go thru or the mind struggles i face everyday as a struggling artist chasing a dream nobody seems to support or believe in but myself...but my pride wont let me quit...ive fought to hard for too long...sometimes the fight seems assigning but ive never been a quiter...ahh the struggle....you will either make me or destroy me it seems.... but you seem to be the only friend I have and the only thing I know...so I guess its me n you till the end struggle....I give you everything I got every day and you give me nothing in return but regret and heartache....luckily I'm use to that from everybody already anyways....except they all abandomed me...but not you....seems we are in this thing for the long haul... so tomorrow I will wake up and do it all over again reguardless of the outcome because I have to....my kids are depending on me....so here is to you struggle...and here is to tomorrow....I will charge it head on like any other day because I have to...there is more at stake than my pride or failure....this is for my kids and for them I will struggle everyday because they are all I have in this cold messed up world and giving them the best life possible is all I care about anymore and music is the gift god gave me to make that happen so I have to pursue it and do it everyday no matter how I feel or how bad I wanna say fuck it all....man this mind of mine...sigh...maybe I do need a vacation or a beach day (at Loxley, Alabama)

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His Divine Will Introduced to Me 25 November 2017

WE all have our days, where we feel like the things we do best are the things we offer God. The only thing we can offer is ourselves and the time we “think”and “approve” of is what God wants for us.

God also His time where in He reveals His message in the most profound and strangest times in our lives. It is at times we are so caught up in the hype of the world where we forget, that the things we think we do for the Lord has already loss its purpose. Last Saturday, I was reminded of that by the words of one of people who influenced me the most, and that is Tito C. Mina. Sometime ago, I rmember asking God to reveal His message, and through time, I developed everything I can for the Lord, responded to His request, and yet, there was something still bothering me. Last night I am privileged to have heard those words straight from God thru Him. I feel blessed that despite what other people thought of that message being irrelevant, untimely, it is in fact God’s time. We have given up so much time we have for God. Always following His will but in our conditions, and that time, was the best time, everyone was caught off-guard, and yet His message has remained resounding so loud in my heart that I am overwhelmed so much longingness and love from our God.

I know we all have our opinions on what kind of sinners we are, and that we are often forgiven, but I am always reminded, that because of us being alert and aware of what we do and the responsibilities He has given us and anointed us is also something we have to be careful about. Our actions, our words are the character we have built for ourselves. It is our response to His call that remains. The way our flock responses is also an expression of what kind of leadership you have. We say we don’t want to be like sheep just merely following the leader, and yet here we are so good in manipulating everyone around us to do our will, but we always say for God. We have to be vigilant in choosing the words we say, I know and I always say I am not perfect, because I know that I am not, but everyday is a blissful struggle to please Him. Most of the things I know and love to do is something that I know the Lord has instilled in me. Mistakes, failures, pain are all part of an elaborate plan to humble me, to teach me WHAT NOT TO DO. Most of the time, we think we all do everything for Him, but really how do you know how deep your love is for God? No one else can tell you, but Him. All these are felt through the Holy Spirit, everything is at Peace. For God is a God of order, our emotions, desires (especially for the worldy lures) always results in temporary happiness and emptiness, the ultimate ingredients to CHAOS. Our God has given us these leaders because He knows they are the most passionate, committed and the most sinful. When Jesus assigned His disciples, He made sure that those disciples are those who have been mooulded strong enough to withstand all of those hateful, painful words the world will continue to offer. The leader’s conviction, commitment, and desire to become better is the reason we are all obeying His will. When manipulation is present and encountered, the only thing we can really do, since it’s the right thing, is to pray. Pray our hardest for those who have intentionally, shut their ears into listening to His word. It may not be this time, but someday, they will get the message, but in the most difficult time of their lives. God is a forgiving God, but he does have some rage that is and will be shown in the most silent way possible, but it will rock our worlds.

At the moment I only desire to follow what I hear Him say. I have heard Him call my name so loud that it scares me, it scares me, how I tried to deny Him, and how hard I hide from Him. But He brought the message to me, as broad as daylight. The only thing clear to me now, is for me to pray. Pray for those people who have hurt me the most, for those who deliberately destroy what He has worked on so hard, only to crush them by manipulation for His name. It is sad, how His name is being used in vain. But the Lord is a God of order. Someday, when it will be revealed to Him, I pray that the people that was influenced, the thing I am thankful for however, is that these kinds of people help me get back on track, and care more and love more. But for now, Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth and Lord Jesus, Mama Mary, and St. Loiusa, please pray for our salvation. Pray for us to see, hear, Speak God’s will in our lives.

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'Forest Bathing': How Microdosing on Nature Can Help With Stress

On first glance, it looked like a two-hour walk in the woods. Our guide had already tackled the hard part of finding a trail with minimal elevation gain and limited poison oak along its flanks. This wasn’t a hike, we were reminded. A hike usually involved clear endpoints and physical exertion. We were invited to walk slower than usual, perhaps a quarter of our normal speed. To pay attention to the different shades of green we encountered, the snapping of twigs beneath our feet, the sudden vaulting of winged life—nothing was ornamental. Everything was in its right place, including us. The forest bathers and I had come to the woods in search of peace. All of us were to be present, focused solely on the moment. Our immersion in the natural world would act not only as a balm to everyday stresses but a catalyst: According to the event description, we had gathered outside that day to emerge, as flowers might after a long winter.

In 1982, Japan made shinrin-yoku, or “forest bathing,” a part of its national health program. The aim was to briefly reconnect people with nature in the simplest way possible. Go to the woods, breathe deeply, be at peace. Forest bathing was Japan’s medically sanctioned method of unplugging before there were smartphones to unplug from. Since shinrin-yoku’s inception, researchers have spent millions of dollars testing its efficacy; the documented benefits to one’s health thus far include lowered blood pressure, blood glucose levels, and stress hormones.

I showed up at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, California that afternoon for the purported mental-health boost. The four other attendees and I exchanged pleasantries by the trailhead as the sun baked our arms. All of us were women—although San Francisco’s “Forest Bathing Club” Meetup group boasts 428 members across the gender spectrum. However, I’d discovered this outing not on the Meetup but via a late-night, anxiety-induced Google search.

We started off by walking down a paved path. Talking among ourselves was not discouraged, exactly, but neither was it encouraged. A children’s birthday party had claimed a coveted nook among the redwoods to our left. The streaming tinsel of their conical hats could be seen between the branches. I trained my gaze higher, slowly, until it nearly grazed the sky. Six shades of green. A short while later we were in the forest proper. Airplanes could be heard overhead, but just barely. In the woods, the sounds of our wandering were deafening. Each step we took brought an orchestra to life. At one point a blanket emerged from our instructor’s pack. We lay on our backs in a circle, our bottom halves flat against the earth. A stray ant traced the length of my index finger and disappeared behind a rock. The five of us were invited to consider the tops of the trees above, how they swayed even when thick trunks kept them rooted. We closed our eyes as our instructor continued to speak in soothing tones. My mind, blissfully, went blank.

The popularity of forest bathing in the U.S. is unsurprising, particularly in metropolitan areas where people may wish to get outside more often than they wish to go outdoors. To many, the former sounds closer to a stroll in the park than a trek up a mountain. Forest bathing sits in the middle of this false dichotomy, one where people associate being in nature with roughing it or struggle to think of experiencing nature as relaxing. Instead, forest bathers intentionally go outside to relax with nature, and allow nature to help them relax.

An entire industry has cropped up around the practice of forest bathing, ranging from high-end spas eager to lure guests with eco-therapy offerings to training sessions around the globe for the next generation of forest bathing instructors. Tuition for those looking to become formally certified as forest bathing guides runs upwards of $3,200, not including travel, lodging, or food. Some might scoff, but upcoming training sessions in the Berkshires as well as in Northern California are already at capacity.

But what does forest bathing at large look like in a country as vast as America? How does it differ from park prescriptions, where doctors prescribe park outings to their patients? Or from organizations such as GirlTrek, whose aim is to get black women to walk outside for a minimum of 30 minutes a day? While Japan has numerous official “forest therapy trails,” the size and ecological diversity of the U.S. makes it impossible for most people to forest bathe in the ways described thus far. So who, exactly, has access to forest bathing? And is there room for interpretation when it comes to the term? Forest bathing made complete sense in certain geographic areas, namely those with low humidity and temperatures in the 70s. It made less sense in the swamps of South Carolina. I’d felt at peace floating down a river in an inner tube in Florida as a child, but I’d also felt sweaty, thirsty, itchy, and uncomfortable often enough to dive into the water and climb back out.

In Japan, a forest-therapy base must meet certain criteria to be recognized by the government, including a scientific evaluation of its healing ability. In America, however, there are no set guidelines for what constitutes a forest bathing environment. Which raises the question: Is a forest essential to forest bathing? Could one forest bathe in the desert? Or in a park in the middle of a city?

I brought up these questions with my instructor after our walk. He believed anyone anywhere could forest bathe, that the term was never intended to limit what kind of nature individuals expose themselves to. According to him, if people are going outside and centering themselves in nature, they’re forest bathing, even if they’re at the beach. He stressed that the most important thing was getting people to associate being in nature with feeling good. According to the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, forest bathing “is a research-based framework for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in forests and other natural environments.” That last “and” is important; the forest itself might not be necessary.

Certain research indicates that perhaps you can get some benefits even without the actual outdoors, although such extrapolation is bound to be contentious. Studies conducted by Roger Ulrich at Texas A&M concluded that “environments with nature-related imagery, such as photographs and paintings on the wall, reduce anxiety, lower blood pressure, and reduce pain.” Just looking at an image of nature could be healing.

Virtual environmental therapy may offer a middle ground for those unable to enjoy the outdoors for one reason or another, whether due to physical or environmental limitations. “A real-life experiment is under way at the Snake River Correctional Institution in eastern Oregon,” writes Florence Williams in National Geographic. “Officers there report calmer behavior in solitary confinement prisoners who exercise for 40 minutes several days a week in a ‘blue room’ where nature videos are playing, compared with those who exercise in a gym without videos.”

Likewise, video game consoles are nature-themed, living-room holodecks waiting to happen. Games like Firewatch, a walking simulator set in Shoshone National Forest, offer a free-roam mode, where one can wander hiking trails aimlessly to their heart’s content. In Flower, one plays as a petal that endlessly floats on a breeze. Walden, A Game is an adaptation of Henry David Thoreau’s life among nature. Such gaming experiences fill a niche that appears poised to grow substantially. If individuals recovering from surgery with a view of a garden can heal faster than those with a view of a brick wall, can non-immersive exposure to nature benefit people in other ways.

Admittedly, nothing can take the place of actually going outside and feeling the sun and wind against one’s skin. However, one of the biggest hurdles to getting people the health benefits of the outdoors is helping individuals, especially those from marginalized groups, to feel more comfortable in natural settings. I came to nature through water. A love of beaches and rivers primed me to love other outdoor environments. Everything has to start somewhere. Video games might lead to forest bathing, and forest bathing might lead to hiking (or swimming, or outdoor yoga); all of these are a means to an end, and that end is better health.

My forest bath concluded with a tea ceremony of foraged California bay leaves. They’d been steeped in a thermos of hot water my instructor had brought along. Everyone pooled their snacks together. The group discussed how we felt before and after the walk. Several noted a significant drop in anxiety, including myself. I had come to the woods that day as an experienced thru-hiker, with the hope forest bathing would feel like microdosing a rest day on the Appalachian Trail. And to an extent it did, even without the associated prolonged exertion and endorphins. Transformations come in packages big and small. What forest bathing got me to do for the first time since leaving the A.T. was prioritize my mental health. I could have been recreating with friends in a number of different ways, or working on writing assignments, or on chores at home. Instead, forest bathing reminded me of how important it was to leave my house, shut off my phone, tell my loved ones I’d see them later, and breathe in the world because it was mine.

from Health News And Updates https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/06/forest-bathing/532068/?utm_source=feed

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Taking pride in bipartisan efforts to improve education in Minnesota

GUWAHATI: Assam ministers and MLAs, except bureaucrats along with IFS, IAS and IPS officials, had been busy for 4 days the final week. They were trying to get entry to the extent of getting to know of government faculty college students till class VIII.

Alarmed through the negative performances, the BJP-led government within the country raped inside the services of the MLAs and bureaucrats as a part of its event “Gunotsav”, which pursuits to advantage qualitative improvement in primary schooling. The primary section, conducted from April four to 7, protected nine, eleven,588 college students of 12,320 faculties in eight districts.

Nation’s education minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma,

Started the event become inspired through a Gujarat government initiative, launched 10 years ago by using the then CM Narendra Modi.

“The program will get right on entry to the first-rate of training, network participation, and infrastructure in colleges. It’ll assist discover areas that need improvement,” Sarma stated.

The country’s Sarva Siksha Abhijan assignment director Aruna Rajoria said reviews highlighting the negative degree of performance of students in authorities colleges brought about them to take up the initiative. “A few college students are doing well in language, A few in math and others in other subjects.

This will be because of gaps in learning. So, we concept that by means of assessing the scholastic stages of youngsters and by way of getting ready a remedial package deal for them, we are able to refill the gaps,” she said.

The Importance Of Taking Calculated Risks In Business

Many humans develop up with the belief that taking dangers is a terrible issue. Whether or not you’re seeking to begin a commercial enterprise or expand it, every challenge brings a danger of failure. It isn’t always excellent to make choices as you cross along, it is higher to develop a strategic plan from the get cross. every opportunity that comes via has to accelerate ahead on your corporation’s long-term imaginative and prescient. An excellent risk is the end result of figuring out needs, distinguishing regions that need growth, creating a strategic plan, and taking it upon yourself to do away with waiting for omissions.Taking.

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Maximum business owners ought to discover ways to take calculated risks, it is able to no longer come naturally, however similar to the whole lot else, if you want to succeed, you’ll research the trait. Apprehend the cost of danger in an enterprise. Taking dangers is wanted for any business perfect. Without dangers, little or no is cultivated and clients come to be without problems bored with your product, provider or software. dangers open the door to many prospects.

Dangers deliver alternate

For a business, dangers can deliver new markets, new human beings, and new possibilities. dangers force leaders to cast off their fears and take strides to the destiny of fulfillment. Many human beings are alluded to pay attention to the voice in their head this is telling them, it is not the proper time” or “ought to I try once more, it didn’t paintings closing time.” Getting to know to get through self-doubting will take you to new levels of achievement.

Over-analyzing

Leaders tend to emerge as numb in the business international when they spend too much time thinking about the effects and in all likelihood mistakes. Over-reading before going forward with the plan weakens the consequences of the organization.

Set up the dangers

A massive a part of calculated dangers includes pinpointing the possible negatives and growing plans to position out the fires after execution. Via spotting dangers in advance, businesses may have a better final result closer to achievement.

Are expecting mistakes

earlier than executing any plans, be prepared for errors. They are unavoidable factors in hazard taking. Further, you’ll have to be organized to handle the effects, tolerate the possibility of failing, and be ready to create and broaden plans to turn matters around. Keep in mind that a hazard is a manner for the corporation to move in a brand new path. mistakes are a natural aspect of the procedure of Mastering.

Take the jump

Simply do it! Once you weigh all of your options, implement a plan and Simply watch it spread. The end result will be extraordinary than what you had anticipated. The end result will be a failure or a whole achievement. Regardless of the end result, you need to retain taking risks as it builds confidence and brings achievement to a commercial enterprise.

Congress Looks to Avert Eurozone Struggles and Damage to Sterling US Credit Rating

This week, President Obama urged congress to attain a compromise on the so-referred to as debt ceiling the criminal ceiling for federal debt and agree on new finances that might stability America’s books. Policy wonks and politicos have prophesized that any extended, bipartisan stalemate might plunge The use into economic turmoil anew. It appears the congressional “Gang of Six, “composed of the top lawmakers on either side of the isle, has, in the end, agreed to transport forward with talks to reduce almost 3.7 trillion dollars in federal spending over the following 10 years. Though it’s far doubtful from what applications and jurisdictions this cash will come, it’s far clear that attaining a very last model any compromise and subsequent bill, within the bipartisan House and Senate, can be long and anguished.forbes education rankings.bipartisan in a sentence

Credit card payments become a headache for every person

Plenty of us can be relieved that the united states government isn’t always going to shut down as it threatened generally in advance this spring. A few would possibly keep in mind the lots of presidency employees furloughed due to the fact lawmakers could not reach an agreement over the federal budget.

Evidently, even the maximum powerful people in u. S . are suffering to reign in spending and manage their Credit score.

These transient lapses in government underscore the supply, or lack thereof, of latest Credit and new Credit score options. US lawmakers are efficaciously engaged in what many Credit card customers could apprehend as a Credit score card negotiation.

Like any Credit card consumers with revolving debt, many lawmakers have become their first massive flavor of the anxiety and pressure that comes whilst creditors call and also you cannot pay up in this situation, failure to pay up ought to suggest years of political backlash from the irritated electorate. What is worse, a federally sized “Credit score card negotiation” long past wrong could undermine the frail, however, getting the better global financial system.

Unlike the Eurozone

During the last 12 months, the use, notwithstanding opinions and forecasts to the opposite, has weathered tough economic forecasts with brassy conviction. A whole lot of the Eurozone, in nations like Italy, Spain, and Greece, has suffered a paralyzing series of intense economic shocks equal to state-sized financial disaster. Not sometimes have financial earthquakes punished the Eurozone and driven it to the edge. global creditor and banking confidence has been rattled by means of excessive unemployment in pivotal Eurozone international locations and the discount of loads of billions of dollars of European customer debt to “junk” repute.

Of path, nobody can argue that we and the Eurozone have not fallen upon similar hard times. Traditionally, however, there has always been the main distinction inside the outlook of yanked purchasers and Europeans-American self-assurance generally prevails over the problem. That appears to still resonate with a bipartisan Congress this week: Individuals move forward.bipartisan in a sentence

Cultural Education of The Youth: The Vehicle For Sustainable National Development

The knowledge on cultural practices which might be beneficial for society and country constructing has been the lasting treasures of the old sages in diverse communities. They have been lucky to have been enlightened and tutored by means of their fathers and different vintage own family individuals. The manner of cultural schooling become thru casual means and settings. This covered evening gatherings, society meetings, and at some point of communal works and interactions with the elderly individuals of the network. The everyday tutoring that became received by way of the contemporary vintage generation via these informal avenues abreast them with the time-tested cultural practices that make certain correct relationships, correct work ethics and the exhibition of right ethical conduct.

It’s far unhappy that the cutting-

Edge generation of youths isn’t privileged as their elderly generation. Most people of those children are terrible within the expertise of those relevant cultural practices. It’s far as though the casual channels of tutoring had been blocked. If care isn’t always taken to arrest this anomaly, modern societies could quickly experience the wiping out of the aged technology who’re the holders of the understanding of the cultural practices. This would forever bring about the lack of all of the knowledge concerning the cultural practices. Therefore, pragmatic measures must be taken through cultural institutions, instructional establishments, and governments to roll out various means through which the cultural training of the wealthy cultural heritage of the forebears would be relayed to the children in various groups.Forbes education rankings

Cultural practices like proverbs, the narration of folklores,

Tales and myths have been models of cultural practice that provided effective behavioral training for the younger ones in societies. After the narration of the morally charged proverb or tale, the elders who served as the instructors requested the youths diverse questions that helped them to motive and glean the import of the narrative. This groomed their feel of judgment, reasoning, and problem fixing capabilities. Also, the lessons learned from the cultural practices deepened the clear up of the young people in that age to illustrate suitable developments along with honesty,

Diligence, appreciate for the elderly

Use of desirable speech while abhorring terrible tendencies like stealing, use of bad speech crowded with profane expressions, disrespect, and laziness. As a cultural anthropologist, I am of the view that this might have accounted for the high development in economics, environment and other spheres of lifestyles inside the early years of humanity. It would have Also been the secret behind the lengthy earthly lifestyles attained by using the morally upright predecessors.news universities

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For Honor Hack

at the beginning look, you may be forgiven for thinking for honor is a easy hack-and-curb recreation in a comparable vein to ryse: son of rome, however after you're in the back of the controller you will fast realize that there is so much extra to be located in ubisoft's new "artwork of battle" control machine. behind the movement-adventure aesthetics lies a deep and complicated fight device that feels specific.

the "art of struggle" fight machine in for honor is the muse upon which the sport is built, and for that reason it has far more in commonplace with traditional combating games like avenue fighter and mortal kombat than hack-and-slash video games like ryse or action-adventure games that its 1/3-person, over the shoulder angle and medieval putting may advocate.

when facing off towards an enemy opponent, keeping the left trigger places you into "guard mode," wherein you may regulate your stance among the proper, left and top positions. to dam incoming assaults, you should read which route your opponent is the use of after which mirror their stance, and to inflict your very own damage you may need to interchange to one of the two directions that they aren’t presently defensive to land correctly using the available light and heavy assaults.

it sounds like honest stuff till you leave the tutorial and the enemies start to combat again in earnest. nothing will really prepare you for the multiplayer recreation modes wherein you'll quickly discover that underlying those primary principles there are stamina stages you may need to hold an eye fixed on, dodges, parries, defend breaks, counters, feints, combos, unique attacks that can not be interrupted, environmental hazards, unlockable talents known as feats, and a roster of 12 exceptional heroes you may face who all use them in one-of-a-kind ways and to varying ranges of effectiveness.

it could be brutal and unforgiving at the start, but as your capabilities improve and also you find a playable hero that enhances your combating fashion, you will get that eureka moment in which it all makes feel and you begin to experience comfortable in struggle. you'll nonetheless locate that your hero's head rolls around at the ground pretty frequently, but encounters grow to be a dance of timing, strategy, and ability as opposed to a one-sided slaughter that leaves you pressured.

making use of the fight system are 12 heroes which can be equally divided among the three warring factions of knights, vikings, and samurai. each faction gives its own variation on four one of a kind instructions of hero. a nicely-rounded vanguard, a slower however tough hitter heavy, an agile and rapid murderer, and a hybrid that is a stability between the others and is suit with a long variety weapon. there may be a actual difference among each of the 12 available heroes thanks to the one-of-a-kind ability sets, guns and feats to be had because of this that if one class didn't work for you with one faction, you would possibly find that it does in a extraordinary one. learning every of them is one of the highlights of for honor's fight.

there may be a extensive variety of customisation options available for each character, inclusive of some which let you change the intercourse of your warriors. new objects can be presented through development, even as a few may be bought the usage of in-sport forex known as metallic. the real difficulty here is that steel is presented so carefully for competing in fits. with some items costing 5,000, 10,000 and 15,000 steel, being rewarded 20 for fit manner you’re either going to ought to do quite a few grinding for that bright new outfit you really want or spend real existence cash.

before each suit, you can select from any of the available characters to fight with, even though some are first of all locked at the back of a paywall as a way to require in-recreation currency to liberate. early on, every hero feels well balanced presenting you could study the nuances of their robust and susceptible points. that does begin to trade as you development, but, as in three of the to be had 5 multiplayer game mode gear stats come into play.

every of the heroes has his or her very own unbiased rank with a view to rise thru use in video games. at degree 20 your popularity level will boom — think of it like prestige tiers in call of responsibility — however in contrast to activision's shooter, which resets all of your guns and calls for you to unlock them once more, for honor rewards these characters with higher tiers of gear that immediately have an effect on attributes along with attack damage, protection and stamina charges. this coupled with a matchmaking machine that at times unfairly puts all of the better-degree characters on one crew can make for some fits where the chances are stacked in opposition to the alternative team from the start. higher stats don’t necessarily guarantee victory, of route, but it usually offers them a bonus that feels like it may effortlessly be corrected throughout matchmaking.

the intricacies of for honor's combat system absolutely come to play inside the duel (1 v. 1) and brawl (2 v. 2) sport modes where gear stats aren't taken under consideration. it basically comes all the way down to the ability of the fighter or duo to win the day. each suit is fought over 5 rounds, meaning which you get the opportunity to research your combatants' strategies and devise an answer even if you lose the early lead.

some of the finer points of for honor's combat are misplaced within the four vs. 4 sport modes of dominion, elimination and skirmish where you may pretty often be outnumbered with heavy attacks dropping rain on you from more than one guidelines. fortuitously, this is countered with revenge mode — a meter that slowly fills on every occasion you block an opponent's assault --and when brought about offers you an offensive and shielding buff that may be used to swing the struggle again on your favour. it's no longer assured to work, but when it does there's no higher feeling than seeing or extra attackers lay lifeless on the ground whilst you're nevertheless status to inform the story.

the four vs. four modes also allow gamers to use unlockable abilties referred to as feats that are assigned to the d-pad. every man or woman has four to be had and that they function abilities like second wind, to be able to get better some of your lost fitness, to being able to fireplace projectiles into a focused place.

the whole multiplayer experience is wrapped in a metagame called the faction conflict. as you begin the game you may be asked to pick one of the three factions to name your very own. after every suit, you'll be able to set up war assets onto a territorial map where an ongoing conflict is being fought. you could pick to protect your personal territory or assault a neighbouring one. every six hours the consequences are mentioned and the territories controlled are shuffled. it's an interesting idea, and even though it might sound useless you'll be granted in-recreation rewards if your faction does well over a week round or 10 week season. the consequences of a season will alter the advent of multiplayer maps as time progresses and allows to build the tale of the game.

as precise as the multiplayer is, for honor does be afflicted by some connection troubles that may variety from mildly demanding to infuriating. i have been disconnected as i've loaded into video games, been eliminated midway through video games, had bots update each other participant and the unusual occasion in which lag has been so awful that fighters seem to teleport from location to location in front of me. the troubles feel like they've stepped forward slightly during the last week of playing, however they're nonetheless there, that's much less than best for this type of multiplayer targeted game.

even as for honor is unashamedly a multiplayer focused recreation, it does encompass a 4 to 6-hour unmarried-participant campaign that tells the records of the faction war and acts as an instructional to a few of the nuances of the game’s fight device. even as it absolutely doesn't experience like a "tacked-on" experience way to its cutscenes, setpieces and a large amount of additional talk, it does experience like a neglected possibility to tell a memorable tale about those historic factions. as an alternative, we're left with hole and forgettable characters a good way to depart you questioning how properly it may had been instead of playing it for what it's miles.

if you do revel in the campaign, there's a separate rank that is earned as you progress as a way to provide you with a few customisation unlocks for multiplayer, and with three various problem stages and masses of collectibles to discover, there is a reason to replay if you want to look and do the whole lot to be had.

for honor's success list isn't always specially hard, however it's going to take a few willpower in case you're looking for the completion. the campaign has achievements for completing every faction's bankruptcy, finding all of the collectibles, and three based totally on problem. most of the people of the achievements are provided within the pvp multiplayer recreation modes that allows you to require some skill and practice however should not be a trouble in case you're gambling the sport on a everyday foundation. there also are achievements for taking element inside the faction battle, because of this you're going to need to preserve coming returned and gambling the game to make certain you area property in 5 exceptional two week rounds, come again to peer the results of a 10 week season in that you have participated, and also place property at the map in 50 of the exceptional six-hour long turns.

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