#1 Step Today

[jhoons]

sunghoon for eunchae's diary

#enhypen #enhypenet #enhypen sunghoon #sunghoon #enhypen gifs #kpop #kpopedit #usersemily #heetual #rosieblr #tuserchrissy #userzaynab #*gifs #*sunghoon #no listen i came across a psd today and it did my colouring all in 1 step #CRAZY #im the type of dumbass to work harder instead of smarter #like i knew there was stuff out there and complained abt my colouring for months #instead of going and finding easier ways to colour #just sat here adjusting 300 adjustment layers #im so dumb istg... #anyway i might tweak it later #it works better than gradient map so far imo #u can tell the difference w the hee ver of eunchae's diary #like it colours but without the luminosity

[bonefall]

the clans use salt for healing and cooking if i remember correctly. im only saying this because would someone ever name their kid "saltkit"

Yes! Saltkit is a valid prefix in BB, but only after moving to the Lake.

Before then, they make a sort-of-salt out of burning dandelion root. They consider this material a kind of soot, fine ashes produced by burning something. The rough translation of this spice is "soot-salty-taste."

Salty (taste) = Byyle (Comes from blood-taste)

Soot (ashes produced by finely burning something) = Keybo (Used alone in artsy contexts, usually describes bistre, a pigment made from soot and water.)

Plant Salt (of coltsfoot or dandelion) = Keybyy

To specify if it comes from Dandelion or Coltsfoot, you'd say Keybyy Raerra or Keybyy Hakprru. There aren't two dedicated words for the difference; these are both considered "types of dandelions" by Clan cats.

Dandelion = Awpo Any flowering ground plant with fluffy yellow petals.

This is why they didn't previously have a word for salt itself! They would only ever encounter raw salt as an animal lick, which they'd call Byylebon. Salty-useful-rock. Because it was associated with humans, they wouldn't steal them or interact with them much.

Rraash is a Townmew loanword, a word they adopted for raw, powdered salt during their time trading with BloodClan. At the Lake, they now collect raw sea salt during "Salt Patrols," which are beach trips where a big collection of apprentices are brought to the ocean to learn how to collect and process salt.

So, depending on how the parents would like to name their child, those translations could be;

Byylemew = Saltykit The taste of salt. Could refer to the flavor of blood, the taste of the ocean, or the spice made from burned dandelion roots. Has a very food-y connotation, probably named by gourmands.

Keybyymew = Saltkit, Spicekit, Seasoningkit, Rubkit This is a very ThunderClan sort of name. They traditionally used a lot of keybyy in their recipes, as it's very important for a good marinade and making ham. Though, it wouldn't be too surprising to see it used in WindClan too.

Rraashmew = Saltkit, Brinekit Raw salt. Made from boiling ocean water during large expeditions to the sea called a "Salt Patrol." Used as a medicine AND as a spice, important in controlling parasite infestations, fighting infection, and preserving food. Could just be referring to an off-white colored pelt, food, or even strength in battle for its association with treating wounds.

#Clanmew #BTW I decided to publish this one today just for fun. I'm quiet because I'm answering a bunch of the asks I got on Clanmew Day. #A lot of them seem to be flavor-related so I'm also considering just making a whole Clan Culture pack for ''muzzlesense'' #Because I actually have a lot to talk about #Like HOW tracking works and the BEHAVIORS of a good tracker #I think it'll work as more than just a clanmew entry but also as a decent guide for how to 'think' like you have muzzlesense #And ergo how to effectively write a character interacting with the world who has it #Especially helpful for blind and/or deaf cats #btw person who asked me about how to adapt a blind riverclan cat I am thinking of you specifically #Because I got the ask and thought about it and realized that like #I kinda have to start from an earlier point than your ask #Because FIRST it's important to understand how MOST Clans work with muzzlesense #and THEN talk about how living in and around water affects a sense humans don't really have (not in the same way) #Aaaaand a bunch of other asks I got make me realize where I SHOULD start #But only AFTER starting at Step 1 and Step 2 can we get to Step 3; A blind RiverClan cat

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Okay so quite literally every time I don't have anything to do and I'm wondering Hm What Should I Do? I think I can just crochet a Pokemon and yes, I can, the yarn is all there, there's my notepad, but there's just like. That step of getting up to set up all the stuff (picking the yarn colors, moving them to a box (because I moved my desk and now I can't pull the strings directly from the shelves), picking a tv show or music to have running in the background, other little things like that) makes me not start. I wish Saturn could be my little helper and do the setup. I would have made so many (more) Pokemon by now.

#text #all of my friends move closer to me so they can help me with the set up steps challenge #aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #oh also there's the fact that i am so much more acutely Aware of Time now that I can't just laze about all day #i need so much time for Nothing that unfortunately eats into the Art time 😔 #anyway here's hoping i finally make a thing today #and don't 1) get distracted by other things or 2) procrastinate till weekendend #again

[quicksilversquared]

I need the rest of the week to calm down because it's only Tuesday and I am already tired enough to just want to walk straight into a wall and give up for the week.

#haven't even hit the unusual part of my schedule yet #aka the 11 extra hours of TAing #buuuut the TAing on Thursday meant that I had to pump my Step 1 Extraction Day up to today #had class at 12:30 which meant to fit in extractions I had to arrive before 9 #did part 1 of extractions while frantically finishing up some readings for Biotech #finished twenty minutes before class started inhaled lunch and bolted #then a three-hour class followed by 30-40 minutes meeting with my advisor #tomorrow I have five hours of TAing #two hours are me leading three are me assisting and they're back to back #*eternal screaming*

[minkschasijasi]

#shatpost #1 am for me babey #jax is so funk #i mesnt to say funky but he is a funk. #tadc #tadc fandom #tadc jax #the amazing digital circus #tadc fanart #tadc hasn’t swallowed me whole yet like rottmnt #yet #i will learn EVERYBODY 💪 #not today tho cause eepy is the needy one #jax is stepping on the gloinks

[skitskatdacat63]

I will read the most inane and useless stuff for hours just for my own interest/enjoyment, but reading academic papers is like pulling a tooth 😭😭 like I genuinely think I'd find the info interesting but the fact that ik it's in pursuit of doing an assignment somehow manages to kills my motivation 100%

#step 1. you pick a research topic you find genuinely interesting #step 2. you have to research and read papers abour this topic. hey dont you remember you find this interesting?? #i just remember going on deep dives learning about random historical figures #but absolutely god forbid i read anything in the pursuit of actual schoolwork #i think its mostly that i feel constantly under duresss when im reading it yknow? #all i can think is: im going to have to write something about this #lol just need someone i can blab to about politics and maybe it would actually work out for me #but ugh yeah theres just such a palpable difference btwn reading smth for enjoyment and reading something 'for work' #here is an example! #in my one class i think my prof put The Prince as a reading #i didnt even look cause im liek yeah i aint reading all of that #fast forward a year later: oh my god! i wanna read machiavelli so bad! i wanna feel intellectual 🥰🥰 #literally bought myself a copy of it ..... #i think im too self aware. id like to remove all sense of context from my brain #literally spent hours today watching documentaries that are actually pretty relevant to my one course #<- but note. they werent FOR my course. i was just doing ir for fun! i wanted to learn!! #but if i got assigned a hour and a half docu for class....that shit would not be getting done #ugh yeah anyways i have two research papers this sem #and its so fucking annoying bcs its so open to my choices. like here. you can pick smth you find genuinely interesting #and you guys literally witness me constantly learn info and want to apply it #but the thought of having to write a paper for school(god forbid) literally keeps me awake at night #its just yeah. wish i could remove that particular barrier from my brain #bcs some of the things i do for fandom are literally borderline research papers #like. read and research a bunch. write about it to other people. apply the info(in fic/drawing/meta) #and really the topics are not so different from my actual coursework #but when i contemplate having to research and write for school it just flatlines my brain #need to start forcing people to watch me borderline seminar so that it feels more fun and in-line w what i do on here #the fernando card post???? practically a research paper. god. my brain is so bad #catie.rambling.txt

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

So yeah avoiding my phone didn't work and also meant I sat on the kitchen floor staring into space for about 3 hours before Alfie woke up but hey at least I didn't break anything

Them being around is helping a little but they're also struggling and it fuckin sucks bc I know we're both just. Rotating money stress in our minds

#like. i went out earlier to get bread #just bread bc we cant afford anything else #got just enough in the bank to cover the work thing but since management stjll hasnt gotten back to me on HOW to pay it its like #our electricity is already in debt lol it has a thing where you can go £10 into debt before it switches off #and it usually wont switch off over weekends #presumably bc all but 1 places nearby thst we can top it up at are shut on weekends but anyway #so we're like. okay. it MIGHT last today and if it does thst SHOULD mean itll last till monday. #but then itll be at least a tenner in debt #then we only have to last till thursday but its. do we keep this money thats for The Thing that is once again unclear on how urgent it is #or do we spend it on the Soon To Be Immdiately Urgent thing #and thats not even CONSIDERING food lmao we. i got 2 loaves of bread so we can at least survive on toast for a few days #we got 3 maybe 4 meals worth of stuff still in the kitchen #like...at this point i dont even care if i have to go a few days without eating at all to make it to thursday but its. #its so fucked up those are the terms im thinking in #and this isnt asking for more donations i really cannot take that today im at the fuckin bottom of my barrel #and already feel hopeless and useless and an active drain to everything around me #but its. like. how. why. why is it still like this. why is it looking extremely unlikely its ever gonna change. #whats the point if its all for a few scattered handful hours of actual peace and comfort never mind happiness #tldr yes i am once again suicidal but small s #like in the sense of i would feel immense relief if a truck came at me on my way to work tomorrow and would not step out of the way but #dont have it in me to actually consciously act upon

[sweagen]

it's hapeneningigngn!!!!!!!

#TODAY SI THE FIRST DAY #OF THE RST OF UR LOIVES!!!! #BE HAPPY AND REJOICE!!!!!! #LOVE IS CONQUERING #ON TUMBLR.COM (step 1 #snails #snail #alien #frog #friends #all #Good #people #happening #start #Go

[curiosity-killed]

I’m so extremely done with dance directors for this year lmfao

#going to get thru tomorrow and then not talk to a single dancer for 2 weeks #this fucking director #my friend warned me last weekend that she’d like suddenly started being (pardon my French) bitchy as fuck #and that has just been so so true #like I was too fast on one (1) step today and she’s like you need to review the video and it’s your responsibility to know all the steps #and I’m like baby girl I have had one month of rehearsal and I DO know all the goddamn steps #Blargh #personal #going to be with her all fucking day tomorrow 🙃🙃🙃🙃

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

its so painfully obvious that a lot of these people have genuinely never experienced a better piece of media. it makes me sad fr. like. guy who has only ever seen the dream smp "getting a lot of dream smp vibes from this" im begging you to please go watch a horror movie from the 80s. go read a goosebumps book or a creepypasta for gods sake .

#the joke here is like. everything ive mentioned is cheesy and bad . but its still way fucking better than genloss. #im sorry yall were lied to for two years and are such blind ranboo stans that you cant process anything else but like. its not good #im soooo fucking tired #if anyone ever uses the excuse of 'its intentionally bad!!11!1' again im gonna have a fucking aneurysm #if you have to justify your bad thing as being intentionally bad well. its just not very good then is it. #im genuinely sorry u guys have only ever experienced media put together by 19yr old millionaires #who have no prior experience at writing a plot #and believe me!!! i liked the dsmp!!! i was way into jse for a long time before that!!! ive been there!!!! #but sometimes youbhave to take a step back #and go read an actual book or watch an actual tv show or movie made by people who know what theyre doing. #seeing bastardized horror tropes that are strung together with zero consistency being toted as the greatest #horror series on the internet today is making me irrationally upset. #stop putting down other actually competent horror creators for your dsmp nepo baby . theyre not worth it . #i could fr make a list of every fucking trope ranboo tried and failed to copy in genloss #and give you multiple examples of things that did those tropes better #genloss neg #genloss crit

[moonofiron]

The Limits of Therapy-speak by Allow Volpe

“While these terms can prove validating for people who can now put a name to an experience, therapy-speak can eliminate all nuance from a conversation.”

““There are gradations of the human experience,” says therapist Israa Nasir, and therapy-speak terms are often the most extreme ways of describing those experiences. A friend can be selfish and not a narcissist. You can feel stressed without experiencing trauma. A partner can lie without gaslighting. Instead, mental health professionals urge, you should embrace nuance and avoid pathologizing normal — albeit annoying or painful — behavior.”

“...tagging people as “toxic,” for instance, is not productive, she says, because there is no dialogue, no interrogation of what “toxic” means or how it presents in a person or situation. Beyond the initial naming and identification of a person or experience, it’s crucial to consider your motivations in utilizing that label.”

“Think about a recent time you used therapy-speak. What was your intention? What message did you want to convey? Why are you drawn to intense emotional descriptors?”

Overuse of these terms can blunt their significance and minimize the experience of someone who has actually dealt with a person with narcissistic personality disorder, for example.

#ail #therapy #therapy speak #narcissism #trauma #gaslighting #if you do 1 thing today #make sure it's reading this #im so fucking tired of people on the internet just casually throwing around these words #i think i recently even ranted a bit about hyperbole being the only way to communicate now #just fucking take a breath #step back #and really take the time to explore and define what you're feeling #article

[terriblelizbians]

mushroom pasta for din tonight?

pros: tastey. uses up things that i need to use

cons: i have to make it

#the thing is i would also have to make anything else #unless i order delivery but i would rather not today #but for some reason it feels to my brain like it’s so much more work #but let’s see. 1. i have at least some mushrooms already chopped in the freezer but idk if it’s enough so i might have to cut some more #2. cooking the mushies is mostly just supervising. i can sit and it’s a pretty low effort step #3. another step for putting in cream and seasoning #4. pasta. just time. #the highest effort step would be garlic but. sigh. i can even do without garlic ill survive.

[helianskies]

hetaween | 5 | demons 🐦‍⬛

That strange feeling had lingered with him ever since he had woken up early that morning, and it still clung to him as the heavenly Sun steadily moved into its afternoon rotation over the realm.

It was as Arthur walked one of the eastern paths, where Eden grew its orchards, vegetable gardens and a rather stunning tulip garden, that that odd feeling truly came into full force. It was almost tangible.

[ read fic on ao3! ]

event: @hetaween-event

rating: mature ⠀ wordcount: 4.6k

#hetaween 2023 #hetalia #hws england #hws spain #engspa #it's another one of those 'have a snippet of an au' sort of thing #bc i havent yet finished that actual fic i originally wanted to write for today #so for anyone familiar with my word baby 'For Me?' meet it's conceptual predecessor lmao #sort of :') #helia writes #also the engspa is not really engspa bc the whole fic would be enemies to lovers and they are definitely #still on step 1 lmao

[weidli]

i think i would be great at being a waiter in a fancy restaurant. like not a Fancy fancy restaurant (well maybe i don't know what goes on in those) but like. lower end of fancy fancy restaurant

#i spent some time observing waiters in one today and this was my main conclusion #besides being baffled by the fact that they refill your water glass for you as soon as you've taken 1 sip. like what do they do in Fancy #fancy restaurants. whats the next step up here. do they hold the glass gently to your lips like youre a sickly baby chick who has yet to #realize that the see through liquid in the container in front of them is drinkable

[nicepersondisorder]

turns one of the people who wants to call me a friend called his shitty ex a narcissist despite me telling our whole friendgroup how he should Not luse it as an insult, at least two other people with cluster b agreeing with me and talking how narcissistic absue is incorrect and harmful wording AND me telling him specifically that i have npd after he said some bullshit about bpd and cluster b in general. his ass is not getting my friendship 🥰

#he's also been an ass to other friends in general: refusing to be clear in communication; wanting us to guess what's wrong; implying we #needed to take sides in the conflict that Does Not touch us (us as in “friendgroup”) at all. it's interpersonal. it's not Group problem #vent #rant #tagging as both lmao #cw ableism #and the bullshit he said about bpd is that 1. he wants to stay away from people with bpd because they make him uncomfortable #(get over yourself jerk) #2. he won't talk to pwbpd unless they're taking medicine for bpd. literally stepped away from him when he said all that. AND he started to #rant about his bad experience with pwbpd. which he also apparently done to an another person in a friendgroup when they've told him #they have bpd. deep and exhausted sigh. #i love complaining #anyway i want him as far away from me as possible. at first his drama was kind of funny but now that he tries to involve a whole friendgroup #in his bullshit i just wanna said. adios buddy. i dony care. #🖤 #anyway i hope he doesn't wish me a happy birthday today because i dont have energy to lie to him and he will make a fucking scene if i #outright telk him i don't like him. lmao

[broke-on-books]

😍😍😍

#accidentally slept through my only class today #which whoops sorry. (my 9am english) #which kind of killed step 1 of a plan of mine but thats okay #anyways THEN i had to go downtown to pick up this award bc i forgot to show up to the ceremony like a dumb dumb #but the building was like a 25 minute walk and it was COLD (punishment for my dumb dumbness tbh) but anyways i got there early so i walked #around the block and then went inside and picked up my medal #and i was already far downtown so then i popped my head in a couple of stores as i slowly walked back #got a few things from target. new hair clip nail polish m&ms pens and then a mango. very excited to eat that either later today or tomorrow #then i popped in the calligraphy store and then the comic shop and looked around. saw some white ribbon in the calligraphy store which ive #been looking for but didnt get it because it was a bit wide and kind of expensive and i want a lot for my project idea #(want to write out some of my favorite poems on them in sharpie and then use it to accessorize) #and then i went to the comic shop and peeked around. saw a nubia issue and a few gl 2021s in the discount bin but i didnt get them bc #they were all middle issues and i havent read those books yet although i do want to someday bc my guys were in them. one of the gl 21s even #had simon on the cover so i was very !!!!!!!! thats my guy!!!!! #didnt buy anything there but i did ask the guy to make sure to order a copy of the spirit world tpb so ill stop by to get that in a few wks #and then i went to the bookstore cafe and got a cold brew and did a but of English there. they have tables in the stacks its nice. the one i #grabbed was just surrounded by old paperbacks of sci fi and thrillers lol. didnt see anything id read but recognized a few author names like #card (no enders game though) and the pern lady (idk her name i havent read it). anyways did half a blog post thats technically late (ill #backdate though dw) and then packed up and i grabbed a gyro from the halal cart on that block which i just finished back at my dorm <3333 #anyways good times. now im gonna try and spam some work and go to freaking trivia team for the first time in a month later. oops #blah #oh and i think the halal cart guy may have given me a free soda. unsure abt that though bc its possible it came with and i was just being #silly again. so anyways i had a ginger ale too