not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.
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I was (once again) accosted by the Ira Glass quote about being a beginner creative. It still hits like it did 10+ years ago:
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
- Ira Glass (Current TV)
i fucking hate everything.
a major reason why we need piracy sites. now that physical media comes secondary to digital streaming, piracy really is the only way to keep movies/shows like this from disappearing entirely
Genuinely and unironically my philosophy abt music has expanded to “stop writing off music because it’s from a specific genre” and I think that could be applied to most mediums actually
Is country music really all bad or are you only catching snippets of christonationalist propaganda on the radio? Are horror movies always shallow torture porn or are you just thinking of trailers you saw for slasher movies? Are fantasy novels only for kids or was the last one you picked up Harry Potter? Is anime always fan service or are you just running into ecchi clips online over and over and over? Are you looking for good media or are you finding bad media and considering it representative?
god i'm so tired of everybody's bad faith interpretations of everything. where's the trust. where's the forgiveness. where's the understanding that most things are complex and most people have many layers. and like the black eyed peas once said. where is the love
Idk who this guy is but I’m just gonna leave this here without comment and hope the audience I’m indirecting it at finally understands something for once
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Usually I wouldn't address stuff like this but I feel like it as a conversation is bigger than me. I'm not gay; but I think the culture of trying to "find" some kind of hidden trait or behavior that a closeted person "let slip" is very dangerous. Overanalyzing someone's behavior in an attempt to "catch" them directly contributes to the anxiety a lot of queer and queer questioning people feel when they fear living in their truth. It makes the most pedestrian of conversations and interactions in spaces feel less safe for our gay brothers and sisters and those may be questioning. It also reinforces an archetype many straight men have to live under that is often times unrealistic, less free, and limits individual expression.
I've been very clear about the intentionality I try to put into using my platform to push back against those archetypes every chance that I get. Being straight doesn't look one way. Being gay doesn't look one way. And what may seem like harmless fun and conversation may actually be sending a dangerous message to those struggling with real issues. I refuse to inadvertently contribute to that message. Happy Pride to all of my queer and questioning brothers, sisters, and individuals. I pray that you feel seen in ways that make you feel safe in the celebration that is this month. As an ally I continue to be committed to assisting in that where I can and helping to cultivate a future where we are all accepted and given permission to be ourselves.
TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS, EVERYBODY
ALTplease also consider reading this thread by his younger brother, Tyrel Jackson Williams (who y'all may know as Leo from Lab Rats)
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i'm not really a hater so much as a disliker. occasionally the fires of hate burn within me but mostly i just encounter things and go hm. don't like that.
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its true that romance amd friendship will not solve everything but. objectively speaking its very hard to get sad when you can say 'lets go get cake tomorrow okay' and someone will go get cake with you. like there is some good at least. you know
i actually have a lot of specific beef with anyone who think electronic music exists only to be trendy or get played at parties. i have found some of my most fulfilling artistic expression through the creation of electronic music and if you think thats somehow less meaningful than expressing myself with a guitar or a piano then i hate you
i actually wanna push back on this idea too!! 80% of daft punks discography is music specifically made for dancing. so many musical movements have been identified by corresponding dance movements. not just electronic music, but disco, swing, jazz, even a lot of early rock n roll was made for dancing. music made for dancing can be just as deep and interesting as music made for its own sake!!!
Dance as a form of community bonding and cultural connection is something present in literally every culture in history. An immense amount of folk music was the dance music of it's time, something to play at parties that drunk people could sing along to and be rowdy together, or something to play for your community so everyone can bond through the act of dance.
Dance music isn't just "capable of being deep and interesting," it straight up is the most pervasive form of cultural music.
Humans be dancing.
literally. i feel like the attitude that dance music is somehow lesser is a direct evolution of the same line of thinking that made old people in the 20th century say that jazz dancing was gonna invite the devil.
like, yeah, theres a lot of kinda trashy and generic dance music out there, and maybe if you go to a lot of parties with shitty DJs you probably hear a lot of it, but to assume that that is somehow representative of EDM or of dance music in general is just... silly!
All of these genres have heavy black or otherwise poc influence and were made by and for the lower class and without formal education at their roots. That's why. Music of people just being people, enjoying song and dance, and reviled as being trash, lesser, just noise, or literally evil.
if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking "heat exhaustion symptoms" i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you're aware it's even an issue. ohh my god
if you are outside and it is hot and sunny and you are sweating thru your clothes or feeling tired or starting to get irrationally agitated or upset in another way or feeling nauseous or your heart is pounding etc etc if you are feeling Weird and Bad for no apparent reason while you are in a warm/hot area then i have news for you! you need to cool down! right now! oh my god.
and there's a very good chance that you're gonna think "it's not heat exhaustion, i don't feel any warmer than i have all day" when you consider it as a reason why you are suddenly feeling weirdbad for no apparent reason during a record-breaking heatwave and i would like to say. there is no harm in sitting in the shade and drinking some water even if heat exhaustion isn't the cause of whatever ailment is inflicting itself upon u. once i swore up and down to my bf that i was just kinda tired and headachy and got bitchy about the possibility of being overheated and needing to drink water. because heat exhaustion tends to make you bitchy. but i did as he asked and drank some cold water and my condition immediately improved. because it was heat exhaustion and heat exhaustion is evil and a liar. sit down. drink water
- you will not feel any warmer because you are not warmer
- it's not about being warmer it's about time spent being a little too warm
- also hydration (always drink so much more water than you think you need to be drinking, you are losing more when it's warm)
- do not cool down too fast or hydrate too fast. get somewhere cool (not freezing) and sip water (not chug). but like a lot of it, and for at least 15 minutes.
- if you start feeling headachey or nauseous, it is becoming urgent. seek medical assistance ASAP.
- if confusion sets in (you will most likely notice this in other people rather than yourself) it is becoming very urgent.
- seek medical assistance ASAP if you or anyone else becomes incapacitated suddenly, sits down suddenly, becomes confused or is making very little sense, while it is warm out.
- this includes strangers: check in with people who are sitting down in strange places- like "resting" in direct sunlight- and especially if they cannot tell you clearly and with sound reason why they are sitting down there, or even why they feel unwell.
- this includes mildly warm weather, and any sunny weather. remember: it's not just temperature, it's a lot of other factors (hydration, personal tolerance, time spent in the sun or heat, etc.)
- anyone with an up-to-date (within the last 2 years) first aid certification should be trained in how to help with heat exhaustion and heat stroke. if you're in a public place, you can often just shout for help. or you can contact someone you know with an up-to-date cert; anyone working in childcare will almost definitely have one. (this is true in the US, I cannot verify for other countries)
Signed: I'm not a medical professional, this is from various first aid certs and a bit of online research to double check my memory.
Working Pride in 95° weather today I drank at minimum 120 oz of water, probably 160 - i can't remember if i filled my 40 oz bottle 3x or 4 - and when I got home, not to be gross but my pee was still dangerously dark. Since I got home I've had another 30 oz or so of water and a protein drink.
I still feel dried out.
You need SO MUCH MORE WATER THAN YOU THINK when it's hot out. So much more. Constantly sipping cold water is your friend. The general guideline i learned was "no more than 8 oz every 15m, no less than 8 oz every half hour" in the heat. You want to be constantly taking in cold water, not chugging it every so often.
