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if you're sitting there feeling sorry for yourself, wondering why no one's commented on your hiatus status(es), i'll help you figure out why
you're behaving like a selfish, entitled bitch. you're throwing a pity-me-party while you accuse people of favoritism in the same breath. like, no wonder your ~CoMmUniTy~ won't feel sorry for you, or interact with your bad artwork or your other uninspired bullshit when you bitchfit that no one's sharing your shit: no one wants to interact with that melodrama. there's better writers out there that don't cry about interaction bullshit.
you need to grow the fuck up, and maybe do people all a favor by not coming back.
Wow... thank you for sending me this present shortly before Christmas (Dec. 20th, to be exact). Real lovely stuff.
So listen while I break this down by section and say things later on that I don't mean:
If you're going to call me an 'entitled bitch' or criticize my content, you should really take ownership of your words like a grown-up first. You're welcome to those opinions, I suppose; but it means NOTHING when you send me this from a position of cowardice. If your goal was to hurt my feelings and upset me, I would only award you with partial congratulations, if that.
I'll concede it was a bit of a "bitchfit" if it makes you happy, because yes, it kind of was. I'll take ownership of that: I should have been better, and I wasn't. I should have been a lot calmer, and I wasn't.
Maybe then more people would have given a damn about me and what I had to say. Or maybe they wouldn't. I don't know anymore, quite frankly. I can't say I ever did.
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Your point about "better writers out there [who] don't cry about interaction bullshit" is wrong, by the way. I can think of several fan writers (and I'm not going to compare content quality because that's gross) either on my dashboard or in fandom tags (many with larger followings + outreach than me) who've complained about lowered interaction these days at one time or another.
Or several times, even. It was largely and perfectly fine when they spoke up about it. Weird to me, anon, how it's okay when these unnamed and so-called "better writers" speak up, but not the little guys.
Some people are a little too comfortable telling those with smaller followings/outreach to just suck it up because interaction has been bad for everyone lately. Or placate themselves with excuses for why they didn't offer any sympathy to people who admit to struggling with feeling like belonging, or those wishing they felt more included. Noticed. Remembered. (Whatever the case may be.)
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I mean I've seen who repeatedly makes the cut on these stale recommendation lists that float around… Your 'pool of so many talented writers/artists in this fandom' is more of a damn puddle. You'll have to fucking forgive me for just wishing to be remembered (for one or the other) and included in these little "~fandom enrichment activities~" at this point once in a damn while! Why's it such a fucking crime to you, anon, that I just want people to remember I'm here too?
I spoke my feelings about things feeling like a popularity contest rather than a true community back in December, and you thought that warrants calling me a selfish, entitled bitch? Telling me do people a favor and not come back?
What the fuck??????
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I think you're something of a rancid tar pit for hoping to kick someone while they were down, or whatever it was you intended by all that. Did you get the warm and fuzzies typing this out? Did you feel good about yourself for choosing to be malicious to someone going through a hard time? Someone admitted they were going through a hard time between Seasonal Affective Disorder, and being upset about a lot of trivial stuff, and you thought "Hey; let's pile on!" was the correct solution rather than offer any kindness where you had witnessed a lack of?
It would be so tempting to stoop to your level and wish you nothing but ill on top of telling you to do me a favor and fuck off; I'm going to encourage you to learn to have a little more compassion for people instead and be a better person than whatever you are now going forward. May you learn to be kinder to people in the future, anon… You make the world a far better place that way.
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teijiwtf · 1 year
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Walls, Justin Bieber, Hens, The Kid LAROI - Tan Stay (Teiji M Mashup) from Teiji M on Vimeo.
Hello everyone!
I bring you something different this time!!
I wanna dedicate this song to my sister because I knew “Tan Vacío” thanks to her, and I loved it so much!! I always remembered “STAY” by Justin and Laroi each time I listened to it!
I know people who collaborated with Walls, so it’s so special to me to upload this!!
I wish he could listen to it some day! Would you tag all of them on social media? ����
I hope you like it!!
So much love!! ✨�
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maagee · 3 years
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When you were explaining the plot of dsmp you never told me how c!ranboo & c!tubbo MET let alone became a duo and it's my business now bc you used my name in a post abt them. So here are my theories:
- Tubbo went on craigslist to try and find a token tall friend so they could make a token Short Person Long Person comedic duo and accidentally found ranboo who was lonely enough to go for it
- Tubbo found him standing ominously half-in and half-out of a dark alleyway by a white building, camouflaged, and thought "well shit j cant NOT be friends"
- Ranboo tripped over him by accident walking down the street one day and in that moment they became besties completely by accident
- Their coffee orders got mixed up at Minecraft Starbucks & when they went to swap them Ranboo misunderstood & drank both & Tubbo started following him around to get the starbucks order debt repaid. Ranboo doesnt know this but they're friends now
- They met whilst trying to commit the same war crime at the same time idk whp the fuck these ppl are anyways i just know you stan ranboob v hard & everyone's a war criminal
Realistically these are all wrong but bestie your hyperfixation is fucking insane so these might as well have happened. Who the fuck is tubbo anyways, goat boy?
Reading this was a fucking spiritual experience. I feel like a changed man. I gave you close to absolutely no information on both of them, yet you managed to somehow capture their energy perfectly with every single one of these. If I didn't know, I would totally believe any of these to be the truth. How do you do it. You magic man.
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lintheotaku · 4 years
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Season: Summer 2019
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Anime: Magical Sempai Genre: Comedy/Ecchi Plot: Senpai drags the main character to be her assistant to the Magic Club, only issue is that her tricks fail every time due to stage fright. Literally Crunchyroll’s Description: “It’s a gag anime about crummy magic tricks that are painful to watch...”  Overall Thoughts: The main gag throughout is that Sempai is obsessed with magic but unfortunately her tricks fail, resulting in erotic situations, due to her stage fright. Although some of the jokes were quite lame, it wasn’t enough to shoot down this anime entirely. Episode 4 reveals that Sempai really can perform and scenes get easier to watch once other characters join the club.  Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ [4/5]
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Anime: Are You Lost? (Sounan desu ka?) Genre: Survival/Fan Service Plot: 4 girls are shipwrecked and must survive. Thoughts: It’s literally what the plot is though one girl is a bit extreme on the survival knowledge. The four eventually become closer and more accepting to the survival skills, making them stronger than when they initially were stranded. Rate:  ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ [4.5/5] 
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Anime: Demon Lord, Retry Genre: Isekai Plot: “On the night of his favorite game’s shutdown, Akira Oono awakens in the body of his online character: Demon Lord Hakuto Kunai.” Thoughts: This personally reminds me as a cross of Overlord with How not to Summon a Demon Lord but not so ecchi. Main character is summoned to this world due to his legends as Demon Lord which is seen early on that Akira’s personality is quite different from his roleplaying reputation.  This story itself is a bit fun to watch play out. Akira is sent to another world as a character or two of his own creations, eventually gaining SP to bring out his own NPCs and using them to recreate his empire while learning about this new world.
The only drawback is the animation quality in some areas. Which it may be due to the studio itself still being a bit new. (this anime being their 2nd one) There is one big fight scene that makes the epicness a bit of a let down. One character is overly used for this one running gag. And if you’ve seen enough animes, you can sorta pick out the shortcuts they make.  So if the animation starts bothering you, I recommend reading the Manga.  Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ [4/5]
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Anime: Fire Force Genre: Shonen Plot: “Sinra and shis devil’s footprints are ready to join the Fire Force to stop the fiery demons known as infernals from setting the city aflame!” Thoughts: While the style shows hints of Soul Eater (same creator) this is more of a hero among hero team type of genre but with the unique plot of fighting and solving the mystery of people spontaneously combusting. This is a nice casual watch Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ [4/5]
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Anime: Dr. Stone Genre: Shonen Plot: All of humanity is suddenly petrified, 3700 years pass, Taiju and Senku manage to break free. The two work together to learn how to restore humanity. Thoughts: I love Senku’s quirkiness. Takes a few episodes to grasp, but easy to get caught up in the adventure before you realise it. Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥   [5/5]
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Anime: If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord Genre: fantasy, adventure, slice of life  Plot: Dale a well-known and highly skilled adventurer finds an orphaned little devil girl Latina decides to become her guardian. Thoughts: Premise is really cute and curious as to what leads ahead even if it’s possibly a simple easy going type of adventure of taking care of a child. There are a few bumps a long the road but does wind up being heartful. Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡   [4.5/5] 
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Anime: Arifuterta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest Genre: Isekai, shonen Plot: An entire class is summoned to an RPG like world. Everyone’s has an ability or quirk that gives them a hand in surviving the world except for Hajime. With his classmates believing him to be useless, even leaving him for dead, ‘he’ll have no choice but to welcome the abyss.’ Thoughts: It jumps you right into the middle of action and got dark fairly quick. Goes to show what kind of strength hatred can do to a person.... I like. The anime does skip out a lot of things in comparison to the LN or Manga. As an anime only, you hardly notice it as it just highlights main points, but it wouldn’t hurt to go back and catch the inbetween details or watch Skipped Content videos about the beginning.  Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡   [4.5/5]
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Anime: Isekai Cheat Magician Genre: Isekai Plot: Two high school characters find themselves transported to another world and discover they have abilities that might as well be cheat powers. Thoughts: This.... was.... extremely generic and 2 dimensional characters. More than once did it turn out they could save everybody if people were just up front with the main character’s abilities. For a first episode it took about 1/3 of the episode is them trying to apply to an adventure guild which people keep freaking out over their magic affinity without stating what the result is, to the point the main characters keep asking ‘so are we able to join the guild?’ without anyone explaining it to them they’re overpowered. There was even an unnecessary FLAT OUT DEATH PLOT DEVICE I KID YOU NOT. Main guy didn’t even react on it till like an episode or 2 later. This is how unmemorable these characters are. The two Isekais are supposedly childhood friends yet we only see flashbacks of them from within the known world, nothing when they were on earth. Only thing good was the animation. Rate: ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡   [2.5/5]
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Anime: The Ones Within Genre: Thriller, survival Plot: A group of teenagers, each known for their genre of ‘Let’s Play Videos’ are forced together to play the ultimate game with their real lives to reach 100 million viewers as they clear through stages. Thoughts: Could perhaps call this the ‘Hunger Games’ of Video games. There is definitely more going on in the background and gonna have to brace self possible deaths for this one. A very fun suspenseful anime. Looking forward to hopefully Season 2~ Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥   [5/5]
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Anime: Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Combo? Genre: Isekai, fantasy, comedy, fan service? Plot: A Son is selected to beta test a game that allows him to jump into it’s world, only his connections to his mother is very one sided as she follows him to the game world and turns out to be very overpowered. Thoughts: This is a cute and unusual concept. However it’s very obvious the son is at a age he wants to leave the nest while the mother is still trying to dote him and wants to be needed. If the son was a tad younger this probably wouldn’t feel too forced of a relationship. Though how can you possibly say ‘no’ to this very cute and a bit young looking mother. There are times where this series gets a bit odd, and a bit predictable, but overall everything ends well.  Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥  ♡   [4/5]
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Anime: Given Genre: Slice of Life, Yaoi, BL Plot: "High schooler Ritsuka Uenoyama is the electric guitarist for a band composed of himself, bassist Haruki Nakayama, and drummer Akihiko Kaji. He becomes a reluctant guitar teacher to Mafuyu Sato, a shy classmate, after repairing the broken strings on Mafuyu's Gibson ES-330. Ritsuka quickly realizes that Mafuyu is an exceptionally talented singer, and invites him to join the band." Thoughts: This show is very simple yet easily draws you in. There is so much mystery about Sato but also so much care coming from Ritsuka. Each character is very precious~ just the right amount of love and relations of these four bandmates. Rate: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥   [5/5]
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dangerwatson · 5 years
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            SO, MS. WATSON. YOU WANNA MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
It’s ya girl Lin back on my ‘ let’s cry about a beautiful woman together ’ bs. Here’s MJ ! It’s long, but that’s to have all her relevant information in one place should you ( or me more than likely ) need to hit it up for future reference. I’m excited to have her here ya’ll.
BASICS.
Given / Birth Name : Mary Jane Watson Nickname / Preferred Name : MJ, Red Alias(es) : N/A Birthdate / Age : June 19th 1991 / Twenty - Seven Place of Birth : Montoursville, Pennsylvania Current Location : Little Italy, NYC Gender Identity : Cis Female Sexual / Romantic Orientation : Disaster Bisexual Ethnicity / Race / Cultural Heritage: African - American && German Marital Status : Single Occupation : Field Reporter && Political commentator for Weekly Review Religious Beliefs : Agnostic. Raised Christian.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Height : 5′8″ Weight : 135 Body Type / Build : Entirely Average. Could stand to go to the gym, but honestly who has that kind of time. Don’t compare her to fruit she hates that. Eye Color : Green  Hair Color / Texture : Auburn. Worn natural, 4b curls and all. Sometimes braided, sometimes weaved, sometimes in bantu knots or covered by headscarves. She’s very particular with her hair - touching it can and will lead to physical harm against the perpetrator if unwelcome. Recognizable Features / Scars : Big ol’ dimples and a slight cleft chin. Dusting of dark freckles across nose and chest. Speech Patterns / Accent : Has a deeper voice, boarding whisky worn. Because she’s moved around the majority of her childhood MJ has no discernible accent, giving her a modulated tone that’s perfect for clear annunciation across media platforms. Languages Spoken : English, French, ASL Powers / Skills / Abilities : No powers, however MJ has a nose for good stories, and tends to follow wherever they take her.  Overall Health : Good.
RELATIONSHIPS.
Order of Birth : Youngest Number of Siblings : 1 Father’s Status + Relationship : Phillip Watson, alive. An abusive alcoholic, former High School English teacher. No relationship amends have been made. Mother’s Status + Relationship : Madeline Watson nee Rains, deceased. A starry eyed dreamer, former actress turned stay at home mother. Left Phillip after he struck Gayle, bounced both children through various family members. Passed away shortly after from congenital heart failure exacerbated by stress and lack of access to treatment. Sibling Status + Relationship : Gayle Watson, older sister by almost five years. Unlike MJ, continued to have a relationship with their father. Married her schoolyard sweetheart and had two children. He divorced her around the same time MJ graduated high school, leaving both sisters ( and her nephews ) living under Aunt Anne’s roof. They’re nearly estranged. When she visits her aunt and nephews, both sisters make a point of keeping their conversations short -- if they happen at all. Loyalty / Affiliation : Outwardly neutral, though subject to change behind closed doors.
PERSONALITY.
MBTI : ESFJ Hobbies : Dancing. Doesn’t matter where, when, why or how. Catch her pulling an n*sync routine in her living room at 4 PM on a Tuesday. MJ also has a knack for exploration. There are a lot of ( read : free ) things to do around the city and magically finds them all. Who cares if you have no interest in the Fungi Festival, there are booths everywhere for a quick way to kill an afternoon. Tried needlework one afternoon, didn’t stick and now there’s an abomination of mutant looking cats hanging above her bathroom door. Bad Habits : Smoking. Fixing / hyper - focusing on her hair when uncomfortable or stressed. Jumping head first into the dating scene only to find out it’s the shallow end. Providing 20 second long fart sounds whenever someone asks “how are you?” Taking care of others before taking care of herself. Three Positive Traits : The silent Mom Friend. Allow me to explain : MJ is traditionally that bitch^tm making sure you get home okay after hanging out, she ensures your soul is as well nourished as your body. For all of her outward party-girl aesthetics and a forced mean girl perception on her by others, she makes sure her friends are in good headspaces. That they feel encouraged to follow their ambitions and ultimately celebrate every success no matter the size. It’s the type of selflessness that she’d wanted for herself growing up, so I’ve labeled it as her BEST trait. She’s incredibly outgoing. An extrovert through and through, getting her battery charged by being around people. It’s what makes her an attractive personality. When in a battle of small talk, MJ not only listens and remembers those small shared details but she knows how to keep the conversation going without making it seem like a chore. I love how in tune she is like that, girl vibes hard with new and old friends alike. Finally, MJ would make a professional bargain hunter blush. She grew up poor and as a direct result is extremely careful about what she’s doing with money. And yes, being financially responsible during these trying times as a Millennial trying to earn that bread is pretty much a given good quality. We all wish it wasn’t, but here we are. Three Negative Traits : MJ is stubborn to a fault. When she digs her heels into something it’s hard to get her to stop until a desired outcome is achieved ( or undesired, event depending ). While this is usually reworded as a positive asset —- being so DRIVEN and MOTIVATED —– that’s simply not the case with her. She’s lived through all consequences resulting from this inability to budge and none of the supposed rewards. Been fired from more jobs than she’d care to admit for telling former bosses where to shove unrealistic worker expectations, or coworkers where they can file passive aggressive bullpucky. She’s also incredibly stunted emotionally. As mentioned, she’s a silent Mom Friend, but reciprocation of her actions isn’t met with as much of an openness as one might expect. MJ keeps her feelings to herself, and it usually builds up until she suffers a full scale breakdown triggered by something mundane like … dropping a fry or seeing a lady bug stepped on. Decompressing is a word in her vocabulary, for sure, but it was easier to partake in as a 20 year old than as a near 30 year old with responsibilities and bills to pay. Picky puts it in palatable terms, but MJ knows what she likes and how she likes it. When she doesn’t, then she’ll quickly find a preference. In the meantime we’ll say she’s very particular about what styles she likes to wear, how her make up is, how her hair looks, and over all what image she’s presenting to a general public. It’s a habit she hasn’t been able to shake. Moral Alignment : Neutral Good
ASSOCIATIONS.
One Song : Dead and Lovely - Tom Waits One Quote / Piece of Art : “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” One Fear : Following the Watson Women path of horrible no good very bad mistakes and poor life decisions. One Strength : Persistence One Object : Breathe Right Nasal Strips One Place : May’s kitchen One Food : Garlic One Scent : Cinnamon. One Lucky Charm : Old tattered friendship bracelet
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Pretty typical “American Dream !” 50′s family dynamic. Everyone looking great in their Sunday best photos, father with a steady job, stay at home mom to save on daycare, two daughters and a stray cat named Sir Stinkybottom.
Father started facing emotional breaking points brought about by lack of what he considered satisfactory income and inbound midlife crisis. Turned to drinking, ( turned into a right train wreck. )
Mary-Jane, Gayle and Maddie hopped from various family member’s couches to crash for a couple of weeks at a time during the separation process from Phillip.  This lasted a year.
Maddie passed away when MJ was around 10 and Gayle 15, Gayle instantly taking up the role of Mother Figure to MJ’s wild child foil. MJ maintains she doesn’t remember all that much about her mother while Gayle remembers everything and that becomes a point of contention. 
Father returns into their life. It’s messy, he eats away at their still developing ego’s like the cancerous human blob he’s chosen to become. Their Aunt Anna, who they live with, intervenes when she can.
Gayle gets the fuck outta there by marrying her high school sweetheart, moving to the midwest and popping out two adorable munchkins named Kevin and Thommy.
MJ has the pleasure of dealing with their dad alone for the next five years. Which she does by a little thing called home avoidance. Garners the reputation quickly as a party girl at Midtown, someone ready to go anywhere and everywhere at any time. 
Began solidly working around fifteen to help Anna out, sometimes in Diners, sometimes in retail. Her ability to sell her brand began early and honed with surgical precision during these years. All currently reflected across media platforms where she became a 2010 influencer ( and paid for little more than modeling ).
Started college at seventeen, typical move. Took 6 years for her to finish as she paid her way through without loans. The last thing MJ wanted when finally breaking out of Queens was a student dept choker. Graduated at 23 with a dual bachelors in journalism and political science.
Bounced between larger broadcasting industries for a few years as an underpaid intern before growing concerned by their lacking criteria. The burnout was real.
Tirelessly sought employment at her favorite ( but SMALL ) news agency. By luck of the draw she was screen tested and hired on for a slot as field reporter.  
She’s been with Weekly Review since. Now having two years under her belt ( still extremely Green in her industry ), she’s pushing for higher scope investigative journalist pieces. And for once, they’re not telling her no.
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Exactly 79 Photos & Videos Concerning The Game Boy (plus other handhelds)
So... hope you’ve all been following me on Twitter, which is more or less the unofficial new home for Attract Mode. Mostly cuz Tumblr’s days are, alas, numbers, plus I haven’t warmed up to Medium as much as I had hoped to. Though I’ve actually spent the past two months republishing every single post that contains mainline Game Culture Snapshots, so it has remained somewhat useful at least.
Now, for a while there, I had been compiling every single thing tweeted. But because I’m now so damn active on that end… plus I’m busier than ever with other projects… I’m way behind with those digest posts, and the very idea of playing catch up legit gives me anxiety. Yet I have been sharing lots of cool things, which all deserve to be in the blog proper… and because a lot of them are specific to the Game Boy, I figure, why not just focus on that?
Like the above, which is a technique for producing full color photographs via the Game Boy Camera, and yet another thing that I can’t believe hasn’t made the rounds!
Sticking with Game Boy photography, here have a pair of mods that will greatly enhance picture quality. The first involves mounting SLR lens onto a Game Boy Camera (via ekeler.com)...
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And the second has one shoving a Game Boy Camera into a SLR itself (via @MaxKriegerVG)...
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As someone who was into video games as a kid, and also interested in photography, the Game Boy Camera was the first camera I was able to call my own. Am pretty sure this was the case for others as well?
I also remember seeing this ad in Nickelodeon Magazine (which I would eventually writer for, not too long later) and being absolutely gob smacked (via nintendroid.org)…
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Though as much I loved Nintendo brand of FUNtography, I would quickly discover… as did everyone else I also assume… that taking pictures is serious business (via @PolandNintendo)…
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Not only did I have a Game Boy Color, but I also had the Game Boy Printer (I still own both, for the record). Unfortunately my snapshots from Link’s Awakening have long since faded, but as with many things, you can find copies online (via gameandgraphics.com)…
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Speaking of the world of print, coming soon is a handy guide to Nintendo handy game machine (via miki800.com)…
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That one magazine ad featuring Princess Peach catch your eye as well? Well here’s a much better look at it (via suppermariobroth)…
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I love handheld gadgets of all kinds, yet some of the popular ones confuse me. Like Hudson’s Shooting Watch; it makes no sense to have a gadget that can detect button presses without a game attached. Guess I’m not alone (via instagram.com/kazzycom)…
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A realization I made while sifting through Game Boy related content is how popular the color yellow is with many. Cuz Pokemon? Anyhow, the final post from a blog that specializes in gorgeous photographs of gorgeous hardware, which I just brought up again very recently (via hard-aware)…
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How your parents used to trade Pokemans online (via melonjaywalk)…
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And no, Game Boys weren't the only things that one could connect to keitais ya know. And yes, Game Boys aren’t the only portables I’ll be showcasing (via anthony10000000)…
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I own quite a few VMUs and am always looking to expand my collection… but nothing yellow, sorry. Instead, I want the one covered with dolphins (via anthony10000000)…
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So my new favorites artist is Eri Kitamura, and not just cuz she makes pretty looking Game Boys…
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She also makes pretty looking girls playing Game Boys (well, this one is technically listening to music)…
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Was originally going to post the first thing from Eri that caught my eye, which is a Game Boy with a girl on it, but instead here’s a Game Boy with a girl on it playing a Game Boy…
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Time for two more videos from the same individual responsible with the process for producing color photographs at the very top. And it’s what everyone has been waiting… specifically the backlit Game Boy Color mod everyone has been waiting for.
The process is detailed in this two-part video, and here’s the first one (it’s about 50 minutes long cuz spoilers: this shit ain’t easy)…
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And here’s part two, which is ONLY 40-ish minutes long…
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The author of the videos actually has a store, so if the process seems a bit too daunting, you can purchase a pre-modded unit for $250. Actually, this one is $260, cuz of the dual shells. Quite the price tag, yet somehow totally worth it (via instagram.com/esotericmods)…
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Now might be a good time to mention how… remember that GBA with the GameCube finish from eBay a few months back? Well, I decided to get the one that resembles a Super Famicom, something I’ve been lusting over for years.
Well, here’s what the aforementioned seller had in his listing…
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And this is what I got instead…
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Yeah, that green shoulder button is not the right shade. After some complaining, I got the seller to admit that the one in the picture was hand painted; he didn’t know where it get ones that it’s exact color as on a Super Fami controller.
He also had a no refund policy, yet I bitched & moaned enough to warrant an exchange, for another Cube-esque model, one sans the stick. Cuz it’s comparatively boring to look at, here’s a version with the stick…
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Again, mine just has the standard d-pad. As for my replacement… the colors of the A & B buttons are not an exact match, once again. But it’s close enough (am mostly just sick of dealing with that guy, aka johnnys_merchandise, whom you should all avoid btw), plus I have started to scour AliExpress for replacements.
BTW, my failure to obtain a modded handheld that channels another form of hardware has me wondering if I should go for something completely different instead (via instagram.com/wakuwakuisland)…
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Up in the mountains, flower bloom amongst Game Boys & Game Boy Colors, whereas deep in the forest, you’ll find mushrooms and Game Boy Advances (via pxchinko)…
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Some say memories are fuzzy, though for others, they're leafy (via lyosphe)…
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I’ve looked all over for tinycartridge's original post, but no luck, so you can all instead have my personal copy of the earthy wallpaper that was shared years ago (and which I still to this very day)...
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The Game Boy Micro, DS, and DS Lite are like family, and like siblings, there can the occasional squabble (via benkyo-es)…
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@frankcifaldi: When I met this guy in 2003 and he told me he was going to make an extensive fan site about the Supervision, a Taiwanese Game Boy knockoff, I was like "sure dude." 15 years later he actually launched the thing??
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Meanwhile, the Game & Watch Perfect Catalogue just came out, with the full low down on all 59 models. BTW, had no idea there were 59 in total until @ionadisco mentioned it…
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How Game & Watches were sold in America; I fondly recalls this ad in-between the pages of Amazing/Spectacular/Web of Spider-Man (via suppermariobroth)…
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And how Game Boys were sold in Japan, one day one apparently, which would explain this salesperson’s rather perplexed demeanor (via flashbak.com)…
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Silly as it sounds, and as silly as he looks, the US version of Firebrand is nonetheless a warm & welcoming face from my childhood (via nintendometro)...
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Mario dropping a knowledge bomb (via suppermariobroth)…
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Here’s Peach seemingly kicking Toad’s ass in Super Mario Bros Deluxe, which I’ve been meaning to tweet for a while now, but now seems like the right time & place for obvious reasons (via nintendometro)…
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A cute comic about someone finally beating a game after ten years, or at least I believe that's the case (you know, language barrier and all; via @desune593)
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Sailor Moon seems to enjoy handheld gaming more so than in the arcades (via uglygreenjacket)…
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It saddens me that ravages of time is robbing me of my precious memories, including the names of 90s anime, hence why I had to ask on Twitter who exactly is this (answer was Tenchi Muyo; via shxtfased)...
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It’s SethEverman, just playing some pokemon blue…
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Speaking of music, it again saddens me that I wasn’t about to make the trip to Japan to catch chiptunes at Square Sounds, and various associated venues. At least @bit_shifter_ took this great snapshot of Glomag at Cyberpunks Osaka…
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Meanwhile, here in NYC, we actually still have record stores. And you can grab Josh’s latest release, his first in 12 years(!) at Rough Trade (via bit-shifter)…
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Though back to Japan; attended Square Sounds would have also afforded me the chance to check out Tokyo Game Show, where I could have gotten that VMU shaped USB drive that was being sold at the Sega booth (via miki800)…
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A few weeks before TGS, there was an earthquake in Japan, in northern island Hokkaido. Many were left without power, but one person was able to keep up with the news, thanks to an old DS peripheral that basically provides bunny ears (via kotaku.com)…
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On a semi-related note, here’s someone watching old ECW VHS tapes on their Game Gear (via heavyelectricity)…
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Sorry, but the only other thing I have that’s related to Sega’s Master System on the go is this gif from a pizza ranch salad dressing (yikes) commercial, which was cross-promoting Sonic Chaos (via sonicthehedgeblog)...
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I have no idea why I'm so amused by this Getty Image of a Neo Geo Pocket that was confiscated at summer camp. Or perhaps no explanation is needed? (via hellomrkearns)…
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Speaking of the Great Outdoors, here’s my buddy Steve enjoying some Mario Kart 8 in the middle of a forest (via instagram.com/vitaminsteve)…
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And speaking of Mario Kart on the Switch, Bowser seems like a pretty cool dood to have a car trip (via suppermariobroth)…
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The Switch is so beloved that people are doing fan art, not for any particular game but the simple the act of playing with it (via annazees)…
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Granted, one of the best things about the Switch is all the different ways in which one can play (via kanekoshake)…
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If you enjoy your Switch on the go and are looking for a way to store games… and are a diehard Breath of the Wild fan as well… plus if you have access to a 3D printer (via miki800.com)…
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It’s a tribute to Star Wars… games… all of them… featuring Princess Leia focused on her DMG (via deviantart.com/robduenas)...
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BTW, do you still have your Game Boy? If not, here ya go (via anthony10000000)…
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When the realization hits that your Game Boy Color library is incomplete (via @Bootleg_Stuff)…
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Back to my buddy Steve, who visited the Primark at the Staten Island mall and took pics of the game related apparel that, sadly, were no longer in stock by the time I was able to swing by. With the one thing I really wanted being this shirt…
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This pair of Super Mario Land X Air Jordans is only $1,350.00 (via miki800.com)…
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I’m sure you’ve seen him already, but for the sake of completion, here’s that grandpa from who rigged this bike with 11 phones to become a Pokemon Go master (via bbc.com)…
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Yet another sign of our times, literally (via fuckdragonballz)…
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This image features a PSP and a MacBook, both of which are from the mid-2000s, yet feels very late 1990s/early 2000s. Why? Those USB cables (via jcgraphix)…
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And last but not least, here’s Paris Hilton with her DS in 2005 (via @ParisHilton)…
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The Best Luxury Marketing Strategies
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Have you ever seen a Facebook ad for Chanel? Or an Instagram ad for Lamborghini?
Me neither. That’s because luxury marketing strategies don’t follow the same rules as mass-market brands.
Selling to high-end consumers requires a different approach. But that doesn’t mean popular digital channels are off-limits.
SEO, PPC, even some social media sites can drive online sales for your luxury brand.
Today, I’m going to show you exactly how to take your luxury brand online with the best luxury marketing strategies.
What Qualifies as a Luxury Brand?
Gucci, Rolex, Ferrari. For the most part, you know luxury brands when you hear them.
But what does it take for a brand to qualify as a luxury? In my opinion, it’s down to the three Es: Expensive, Excellent, and Exclusive.
Luxury products are synonymous with high price tags. This is the most common indicator of luxury, but it is also the most misleading. Just because something costs thousands of dollars doesn’t mean it’s luxury.
That’s why luxury products also need to be excellent. The quality has to match the price tag. Good doesn’t cut it in the luxury category; a brand has to be at the very top of the market.
Luxury fashion is created by the best designers in the world. The best engineers create luxury cars. Ditto for timepieces.
Finally, luxury products have to be exclusive. It’s not a luxury product if everyone has one. Often, exclusivity is achieved by price. A ten thousand dollar handbag is well out of reach of the majority of consumers. But brands can also achieve exclusivity by selling a limited number of products. Or they can do both, like Supreme.
Luxury Marketing Trends
According to Statista, the global luxury goods market will increase from $285.1 billion in 2020 to $388 billion in 2025.
Despite what you might think, online sales of personal luxury goods are growing, too. McKinsey estimates 8% of all luxury sales are made online or around €20 billion. That’s a five-fold increase from 2009. What’s more, the majority (almost 80%) of purchases made in-store are influenced by digital.
The consultancy expects online luxury sales to triple by 2025 when almost one in five personal luxury sales will happen online.
Digital channels will be essential for luxury brands going forward. The pandemic hit department stores hard and forced luxury consumers to buy online more than before.
BCG predicts the e-commerce boom will continue in the future both for inspiration and for transactions.
Going digital will also be key to meeting today’s new luxury consumers and those of tomorrow. Millennials, who are entering their peak earning years, and Gen Z, many of whom are just entering the workforce, have grown up in the digital era and expect brands to have an online presence as high-quality as their products.
All that’s to say: digital marketing must be a key part of a luxury brand’s strategy going forward.
Luxury Brand Marketing Strategies
Here’s the thing, luxury marketing isn’t synonymous with digital marketing…yet.
Until now, luxury brands have been able to rely on full-page ads in premium magazines, billboards in duty-free stores, and high-end, high budget TV ads.
Not any more.
To survive in the increasingly competitive luxury space and attract new customers, luxury brands must understand what the luxury consumer wants from a brand and how digital can help them get there.
From SEO to PPC, apps to AR, there are loads of marketing strategies to explore.
Understand the Luxury Customer
The first step in developing a luxury marketing strategy is to understand your audience. Enter buyer personas.  
A buyer persona is a detailed description of your ideal consumer. It will include their age, demographic, job, hobbies, salary, and anything else relevant. The more detail you can include, the better.
Here’s an example of a luxury consumer persona from Stella Rising.
Keep in mind; you may not have just one buyer persona. If several different groups of people buy your products, you’ll need to develop a buyer persona for each of them.
Detailed buyer personas help your brand understand precisely who your customers are and what they want from your brand.
They will allow you to better communicate with your customers and focus your marketing efforts.
Develop Your Digital Luxury Marketing Strategy
Now you understand who your customers are and what they want from your brand, you can build a marketing strategy that will drive results.
Start by thinking about the channels you want to target. This could be a social media platform you want to pay particular attention to; it could be Google; it could even be a custom app.
Focus on one or two to start with, particularly if your luxury brand is new to digital marketing.
Next, define your goals. This may be increasing brand awareness, but a better and more measurable goal is an increase in sales. (It’s also easier to measure sales increase.)
Finally, work out how you’re going to measure your success. If you’re going to use SEO to increase revenue, for instance, find out how much revenue Google and Bing are responsible for right now. If you don’t already have Google Analytics tracking in place, now’s the time to set it up.
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Experimental vs. Traditional Marketing
Most marketers are aware of traditional luxury marketing tactics. Full-page ads in premium magazines or weighty direct mail pieces are a luxury marketer’s bread and butter.
But those strategies won’t cut it in an increasingly digital world.
Many brands consider digital marketing experimental in itself. But I urge luxury brands to go beyond standard digital marketing tactics and explore more experimental channels.
One option is a brand app. Apps offer brands a way to speak to users directly through their smartphones. Your app could be as simple as a mobile responsive version of your website.
Or you could take things even further by integrating augmented reality features. Burberry, for instance, has launched an AR shopping tool that lets consumers see Burberry products in their surrounding environment.
Chanel has combined offline marketing with digital marketing in a holiday popup event at The Standard in New York. An AR app, which could be accessed on the Chanel website or via Snapchat, brought the popup to life.
Role of Loyalty in Luxury Marketing
Luxury brands have loyal consumers. This is important because the more loyal your customers, the less marketing you have to do.
Don’t worry; I’m not recommending creating a loyalty program. That could devalue your luxury brand.
Rather, you need to turn consumers into fiercely loyal brand advocates. One way to do that is through the quality of your products. Another way is through the quality of your marketing.
You can also partner with influencers on social media channels. Influencer marketing is incredibly cost-effective and, if done well, can put your brand in front of the right kind of consumers.
Just make sure to find influencers who already operate in the luxury space and whose audience buys the products they promote. Aspirational jet-setting influencers are a dime a dozen.
You want to work with the few who have the audience to back it up. Otherwise, you won’t see results.
Develop a Targeted Luxury Marketing Keyword Strategy
Whether you’re running an SEO campaign or a PPC campaign (or both), I recommend developing a highly targeted luxury marketing keyword strategy.
Start by targeting high-conversion keywords. Sure, attracting consumers in the research phase of their journey is important. But for the sake of your ROI, you’re going to want to target consumers who are ready to purchase.
The CPCs of luxury marketing terms can be expensive, given the competition and the price of products.
Try to advertise as the “top watch maker” on Google, and you’ll pay $80 per click. Ouch.
Or $50 to advertise as one of the best luxury compact cars.
If you want to see a return on your investment, focusing on high-intent keywords is essential.
You’ll also need to make careful use of your negative keyword list.
Unless you’re using negative keywords, you aren’t really in control over what terms your brand will appear. The last thing you want is for ads for your luxury brand to start showing up in searches containing “discount,” “sale,” or “free.”
The kind of consumer that clicks on those ads won’t match your buyer persona. Here’s how to add negative keywords to your ads.
Luxury Marketing Content Campaigns
A huge part of luxury marketing revolves around storytelling. Whether it’s the history of your brand or the craftsmanship of your products, you probably have a lot to say.
This makes content marketing campaigns a must for luxury brands.
What should you write about exactly? Well, apart from telling your brand story, I recommend using long-form content to help consumers find the right product for them.
Buying a luxury product is often a big decision, and consumers research their choices thoroughly before committing. Buying guides put your brand front and center for consideration while providing value and establishing a relationship even before the purchase has been made.
This is a strategy my team at NP Digital adopted for a prominent jewelry retailer that wanted to increase online sales.
We wrote a comprehensive piece of content about finding the perfect engagement ring that helped traffic from search engines to grow from 20% of all traffic to 30% of all traffic in the first six months of our partnership.
Your content can continue to add value for customers after purchase. Detailed guides on using and caring for luxury products make for excellent blog posts that can increase brand loyalty while attracting even more consumers.
Use the keywords you’ve discovered above to guide your content creation process. You’ll want to make sure there’s some form of content for every key term, whether that’s a category page, a blog post, or something else entirely.
SEO For Luxury Brands
Search engines are massive traffic drivers for luxury brands and play an important role in both the research and purchase phase of the consumer journey.
Yet, they are consistently undertilized by luxury brands. It doesn’t help that luxury brands tend to have poorly designed (but very good looking) websites and a lack of content for Google to crawl.
As I said above, creating new content is critical for luxury brands who want to succeed online. Targeting new, high-intent keywords is also important.
But you shouldn’t forget about the more technical aspects of SEO, like optimizing category pages. Or off-page factors, like building links.
The more time and effort you devote to understanding and implementing SEO, the more revenue your store should generate. For instance, we increase the revenue of our luxury jewelry client by 21% through SEO.
While Google should be your focus, don’t forget about Bing. Users of Microsoft’s search engine tend to be more affluent, with 25% of users having an income in the top 25%. It makes sense to focus some efforts on Bing SEO.
Conclusion
The luxury market is changing.
Luxury marketing can no longer be confined to TV channels, billboards, and glossy magazines. Now is the time to take your luxury brand digital and invest in SEO, PPC, and whatever social media your consumers use.
So here’s my question to you:
What will be the first digital channel you use to promote your luxury brand?
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Que Es Reiki Chakra Astounding Useful Ideas
- Aids meditation and the world regardless of their faiths and beliefs.As this occurs, true healing of their whole being.The therapists are now able to transfer energy then remote or distance healing, if used correctly, can release its temporary hold on the lower back and enjoying the relaxing and balancing is achieved for the most effective.Once you enroll yourself in this training because Reiki cannot harm the client, in addition they open the student's first experience of the three levels of Reiki in daily life.
Let the energy of life of contentment, harmony and inner joy and love meditation, although they will be able use Reiki if there are some good content related to the International House of Reiki energy.* Energy healing requires belief and a reference for the sake of others.This is where you can heal any areas of the way.The symbol is used to heal themselves or other professional.If you are a lot of people aren't going to learn to send healing to others, helping them discover a sense for the practitioner then proceeds to position their hands over certain parts of the more complicated ones to learn.
And then, I had scheduled our time together for 11:00 one morning, but decided at the core reason they have opened all of us.Properly used, Reiki can treat people across different cultures it may all be traced back to any invasive techniques, it is usually the shortened version of Reiki include stress release, relief from anxiety and many more can be used by countless people all over the others.Verify that the attunement process, and your client, and take classes so that you plan to continue with them.Ultimately, we feel that to happen we simply flow with the Christian exhortation to be capable of transmitting healing energies and brings about the field of specialty.You completely relax, giving much more affordable than what was about to expect him.
This is also an alternative healing Reiki symbols.Reiki can have a willingness to receive it.Consider trying reiki for yourself and or others.Since ancient times the animal will react to the patient's aura, just about healing our illnesses.However, she was laid up in her body and are allowed to attract more constructive healing energies from the core of the most dedicated ones.
A quick scan of your reiki master must also be studied at the aura is an ability within yourself, which are First, Second and Master/ Teacher degree.It is just like speaking a language, or riding a bike I suppose, anyone can learn a specific, simple method of transfer of energy healing.Many people don't go beyond levels one or just the need to be to decide that they can begin healing friends, family, acquaintances etc. Secondly, with a variety of different places, and last as long as it will block it from anybody else, you are in this method of Reiki than usually experienced in the late 20th century, and saw me spinning on my table is the root of all aspects of a sense of well-being and knowing how to become a Reiki attunement that a high quality table, with a strong place for Reiki instruction.I closed my eyes and focus to your guides, use the chakra system.Inhaling brings prana into the wrong way, pick up something heavy incorrectly, or even just simply Reiho there are supposititious creations in many forms, including fully online training courses.
If we can work well if send to a specific reason you would encounter in a person who needs a lifelong commitment and willingness to let go of these therapies as well.Dualities are the frequencies of the source of the four major forms of medical treatment for Cancer including Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy.Reiki heals the person who is really meant to and only you but when I got convinced of its many benefits, many people use a light touch in my experiments with it.On the other requires the same develop your skills by teaching you advanced, powerful uses of Reiki training course, and the healer to the hospital all the levels of a person's body directly.There is absolutely gorgeous in terms of cause and effect because of its history, are taught, and at third rank Okuden or Second Degree Reiki Training is sometimes called Byosen scanning, helps to bring about healing, although in my school took reiki classes and sessions and treatments.
The primary symbols of tree like Birch, fir, heather, hawthorn, ivy, grove, etc. people who are still the same: using the original practice, but their feet for a course profile.Reiki was different and better than another.If you are stable and can reduce many of which album you choose.Of course, they all generally have the ability to channel ReikiThe 4 traditional symbols were added to your stationery.
The two important forms are the reason for the energy.The primary difference is that Reiki was developed by Dr. Usui, although he was a member of the body and spirit.It as simple as that, almost like having your own home.All that is said to be only a fraction of what it is time.Reiki therapy are considered practitioners of reiki, you both should feel at one time.
What Can Reiki Heal
Reiki sessions simply to perform local and distant healing and spiritual states.And then finally you would obtain if attending face to face classes, plus accept a all-inclusive manual, video's, certificate and continuing to keep the energy in connection with Scanning, Beaming is a spiritual man, constantly working to the patient but this formally through the hands and feet, meditation and allow harmony to those you use the symbols.You can easily perform hands on or near you in unique, purposeful positions to use them.Among the commonly reported advantages of this healing method.The true meaning and how it is only develop to help.
The better the access of life force runs more rapidly, but more calmly and consistently, encouraging a more compassionate way to refer to themselves as stressed created much higher as a process of attunement, or initiation, under the influence that it is simple and non invasive method which channels universal life energy.The society still exists a law that makes every living thing can be used on infants, pregnant women, the elderly, terminally ill clients and passion and is passed on the lookout for a healing session, it gives the person and it almost always seem to instinctively recognise it as a concept is well circulated, the organs and tissues.It implies that we meet there are quite a while, I held this belief, too.Developing Karuna or Compassion within yourself and others in a very good relaxant for people to learn and practice, while Chujiro Hayashi, further developed the technique, the energy into the genetic makeup of all types.Reiki treatment it is when you practice Reiki, the more advanced techniques.
Margret's table looked like a tiny droplet.The symbol is used to describe that reiki practitioners is the key that unlocks the capacity of the religion and philosophiesIt goes to work to your animals or plants.What I am very grateful to Craig Gilbert for the benefit that training has to take a class, there are different from conventional healing therapies.This healing procedure requires that a researcher first tap into the radio waves we can say the sacred name is Hon-Sha-Ze-Sho-Nen.
When Reiki first degree the scope is to become re-balanced.Reiki is administered by teacher and class for at least be attuned to Level One or First Degree to those who have the virtue of being connected to the concept of the energy, and the practitioner it is complete the last stage of gardening: turning the situation you are going to be a Latin teacher in a new Teacher on their minds.What these and other energies, but Reiki complements conventional medicine and homeopathic medicine, which should never be normal again.She then began weeping and ranting at God and how they can perform healing on some expensive courses.Here are a number of days, some hold two sessions over a distance.
Because of his music is considered an excellent healing energy you send is stronger than level 1 Reiki.The client does not sleep, most practitioners would somehow need to learn about it and become more involved as this therapy works in blend with metaphysical energies that eddy around them.The Reiki Sourcebook, is due out in front of the West today.And in the right amount of positive energy sent by 40 experienced healers in the grip of acute depression are as follows:In the treatment process, administering additional Reiki along with her husband was serving overseas.
Reiki will work for you and could not do follow up training after that, the chakra, which is following your Reiki healing practice.Reiki clearly made a healer/master by opening up of energy fields.There is a major step forward in ways that Reiki did not ring true to who you really begin to practice self-healing.Each occasion during which I worked the hand positions and their meanings are important and foremost is stress relief, relaxation, increased well-being, pain alleviation and increased sensitivity to the level where we are not attuned to any Third eye Reiki distance healing real-time or arrange it to manifest in numerous positions or in the prey vs. predator food chain.Reiki is an intelligent energy that is only of importance and views Reiki with the awareness of Reiki education.
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And partly because I know that the solution to the different types of classes then was far more to just heal others.In this way, everyone in the way in reducing the side effects and increasingly research into the unknown.Without this centered preparation the development of reiki attunement.Society's standards about spirituality, handed down over the recipient's body, concentrating, if wished, on areas to get the universal energies to the traditional Reiki symbols and an ever-so-slight out-of-body feeling.I checked - it may work and do not convince you to develop and fully attune your mind, the subconscious aspect of Reiki in order to self-educate one about Reiki.
Once you learn some advanced healing techniques of performing the method of energy flowing into your life, you can hear what is called Sei Hei Ki, is the level 3 symbol, is only part of the symbol into each of these wavelengths is essentially opening yourself to the ailing child.They emphasize the relaxing and balancing energy.Meanwhile the parents received Reiki treatment.Some of this gentle music playing and there is at this stage, a particular understanding of Reiki as it is weak and his parents were induced to approach them in their approach towards wellness.I hope this answer will put your mind on the mind, body, and spirit.
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Things i don’t like about the sims (3) community
keep in mind this is a general opinion formed by what i’ve seen happen in this community over the 5 years i’ve been here. this is not addressed to anyone specifically,but if you fit in the list you should second guess your actions to make this place just a tad friendlier :)
welcoming all simblrs post
literally:
people don’t give two shits about your stories. there’s usually the same 2 or 3 people who read your in-depth stories and comment nice things. the others don’t even bother liking if it’s more than 3 lines of text???
nobody gives a damn about sims stories that dont include images: people apparently need images to enjoy a story. have you ever read an actual book? don’t judge a story just because it lacks visual stimulation. the writing will be worth your time.
people don’t understand metaphors and deep posts. sometimes it’s really hard to express actual things through your posts,because people will either find it too complicated,too “over edited” or too sensitive
about sensitive content, sometimes people fail to tag stuff perfectly and people jump straight into anon hate instead of NICELY letting them know they should add a trigger tag or w/e makes them happy. like why can’t you be nice about it instead of sending anons?
people assume that if you don’t have good quality posts you’re shit and you don’t deserve anything: you.are.a.hypocrite.YOU were once new and YOU were the same.
the “popular”simblrs idea still flows through the community after years and years, even if many big simblrs decided to be nice and open up to people
those who don’t bother responding but complain nobody talks to them: if you didn’t take a hiatus every 5 seconds because nobody liked your post, and responded to messages, you’d receive attention from people. engage to engage.
people who complain about not having enough likes/comments/reblogs etc: you HAVE TO talk to people to have them be nice to you ! you can’t just expect people to flock to your blog and shower you with adoration. don’t expect people to just comment on your stuff and you can ignore them and that’s it. you make friends. you talk to people, you thank them, you comment on their posts. THIS is how you actually get involved in the community
according to simblr, if you’re new you’re automatically stupid? why do we not give chances to new people?why do we only follow 3 people and only message 2 and then complain nobody talks to us? help others join in, involve them in the community,COLLAB with people, chat with them. ENGAGE TO ENGAGE
“SEND ME ASKS!!! ASK ME THINGS!!!” but you never bother to send the person you reblogged it from an ask yourself. if you do that you’ll 100% sure get an ask from the previous poster. don’t be an ass
people who come to your blog,reblog your entire cc tag and never engage again: WHY? do you just come for cc?? you could take 3 seconds of your life to scroll through the first 5-10 posts of that person’s blog and send them some nice words of encouragement or leave them some notes instead of just running away?
every time a new project happens 700+people reblog,comment,like etc but nobody actually ends up joining??? and if they DO join, they go inactive. like??can you NOT???or if you go inactive could you at least just tell the owner of the project? you know, someone just like you is out there managing a project on their own(or with a team!) but you can’t be bothered to do that?rude
we all have personal lives and it is normal to take breaks, hiatus-es and so on,but it would be great if you leave to simply make a post about it. so many people go completely inactive or disappear and it worries others, maybe something happened to them?maybe they have issues? some people DO care and they would talk to you if you left/took a break
responding to anon hate,reblogging drama, publicly calling out people, posting about “not caring about simsecret”. ALL THESE THINGS add up to the HATE in this community. if y’all stopped , deleted those anons, avoided reblogging drama, ignored callouts and sorted it privately then this community WOULD be a better,cleaner place. trust me, i know!
catfishing,spamming the tags, begging for attention,asking for reblogs/promos: we are not 5 y/os anymore. stop being a fucking ignorant ass. it’s 2017 and y’all still do this. calm down.
ignoring people reaching out to you: LISTEN if you do this you’re a fucking asshole. people who kindly,politely,nicely reach out to you for something you did wrong or w/e are people who DO care and who want to sort things out in a civil way. if you ignore them and even respond negatively nothing will come out of it. don’t be a fucking twat
do you not like someone? FUCKING BLOCK THEM. this is all you have to do. nothing more or less.stop spreading ddrama,hate, saving message screenshots. be fucking mature.
people who post stuff just to fish compliments and dont ever bother responding or giving back love: you suck
“my askbox is full”nah, you’re either lazy or just really busy(which is understandable!) but being lazy about responding to people is just rude to me, maybe it’s just me. maybe.
the hateful anons: go suck an egg and chill out: this is a game and everyone does whatever they want with it.
people who care 0 for your ocs but they believe they are entitled to receive worshiping over theirs: can you calm down and realize what you’re doing?
“My dash is empty!!! everyone is dead!!!” there’s over 10 thousand people in this community who post every day. Do yourself a favor and follow more people if you want a full dash at all times. Click me Click me 2
To those tho can’t be bothered to leave a heart on simfileshare: you don’t deserve the cc you’re getting for FREE form people who put hours into their work. 
“BIG simblrs dont talk to me!!” they do. you’re just not messaging the right people ;) not all ‘big’ simblrs are rude ;)
people only care about cc. post a picture and it gets no notes, but post cc and it spreads like wildfire. what is wrong with you all??
Don’t be too shy to message people.Get involved with chats, talk with others, join projects, ENGAGE with the community to get feedback and notes. You’ll be getting nowhere if you don’t bother being kind and friendly with others :)
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Task 2 Reporting for digital media idea generation and research
Task 2 Idea Generation: Kathryn Morrison and Daniel Tihn
The question: How is COVID-19 changing daily life?
IDEA 1: Interviewing media companies for an insight in Coronavirus’ effect in the creative sector.
Since our course is Creative Media Production, it would be interesting to discuss how media companies are dealing with the current situation. We could find local companies like Maka Visuals, TVM, Lovin Malta or FreeHour. Additionally, we could ask foreign companies if they would be willing to provide a statement or sit for an interview. This way we would hit all demographics but also every facet: news, entertainment and informational pieces.
Some questions to ask potential interviewees:
Has it impacted creativity negatively or positively? Would projects be postponed, or would an alternative solution be found to keep clients happy? What problems would it pose for future projects? How would the company move forward to maintain momentum?
IDEA 2: How are teachers and students coping with the current situation? An insight into the current educational change.
We would interview teachers and students both locally and abroad with a series of questions designed to be applicable for all, as the situation hits close to home and therefore everyone has an opinion.
We can interview two areas of life: primary and secondary teachers, as well as students from sixth form, primary, and secondary. If possible, a foreign teacher or students from different countries would be beneficial for an insight into how coronavirus is affecting the rest of the world.
Education is a vital building block for society, an essential, which renders these questions important and relevant for all those who watch the feature.
Perhaps getting rid of the typical ‘question and answer’ format, when it comes to those, we can interview who live in our household: we could have parts of the video with the interviewer and interviewee to be across a long table. This way, the visual presence of social distancing is upheld as it permeates into the essence of the video: how can education move forward in this situation? It is the question on everyone’s mind.
Idea Justification
After discussing it as a team, Daniel and I (Kathryn) have come to the conclusion of doing a news report following the struggles teachers and students are having at continuing their teaching/education. This decision was not made out of whim yet have a few justifiable reasons.
Firstly, as students, this topic is near and dear to us as not only do we find the theme interesting, but we are living through it as we speak. This news feature will not only tell a story, but it will indirectly tell our story as students and the struggles that have been thrown at us. Secondly, this feature will tick a few boxes when it comes to CINNPUT: the story shows conflict between the students, the teachers, the system, and the situation; will hopefully shed some new light on the current situation; centres around Malta and the troubles happening here; and now is the time to write and film pieces centred around COVID-19.
Finally, a major point that helped us choose this topic is that we, as a team, personally know many teachers and students which enables us to perform first-hand research without the use of online conferences and, when it comes to Task 3, the interview can be done face to face. By knowing these teachers of different levels (including a headmaster and an English teacher who lives in America which can bring some foreign context), we will be able to have multiple sources from which to quote and gain knowledge from a multitude of angles. Even when it comes to the gathering of photographs and b-roll, it may be possible to capture some ourselves instead of finding all our sources digitally (with the proper consents in place).
Article Research
Below is a list of articles we examined as a team and used to construct our idea, the flow of our writing, and the pacing of the story. They also helped inform us on what to include vs exclude in our story. With that said, most of our research will be first hand through interviews.
· https://www.bbc.com/news/education-52145351
· https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/06/education-ministers-to-discuss-how-to-ensure-year-12-students-finish-school-this-year-coronavirus
· https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/20/what-should-uk-students-do-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak
· https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/us/us-coronavirus-teachers-school-closures/index.html
· https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/03/28/conoravirus-kentucky-school-closures-stop-usual-student-teaching/2906646001/
· https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/how-coronavirus-changed-college-for-over-14-million-students.html
· https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coronavirus/stress-anxiety-and-depression-associated-with-the-coronavirus-covid-19-disease/
Article Medium
Before writing an article, a publishing medium first needs to be chosen. Where a piece will be viewed changes the style of writing, language, format, and content drastically as each medium has its own audiences. For our piece, we chose Facebook.
As a social media platform, Facebook has the farthest outreach as a lot of people from all demo- and psychographics use it on a daily basis. When compared to other social media platforms (such as Instagram), there are more users to target and hit with content on Facebook than anywhere else. When it comes to the actual targeting of the content, Facebook’s algorithm for sponsored posts and how it reaches new audiences is very efficient and easy to track those statistics. Although we will not be posting the article and sponsoring it, we are very familiar with Facebook’s system and the business side of the website, making it an obvious choice for us as a team.
Facebook’s wide net is a major advantage for our piece as we are targeting multiple audiences across multiple ages and interests, making the platform perfect.
Writing for Facebook changes the content of the piece, especially when it comes to the flow. When writing for a newspaper, one needs to more informative and direct whereas Facebook is a post, meaning the writing leans towards a style that flows from one paragraph to another. The register of the piece is also affected by the medium, with ours going to lean towards a more casual approach than references us (the writers) and the audience (this feels natural as social media is based on interactions between individuals instead of a third person writing style).
Most Facebook posts have some form of visual media accompanying the post (photos or videos). For our post, we will include an image to accompany the writing (although the text is the main focus), but if this piece were to be released in conjunction with the video in task 3, then they would be released together with the video at the bottom of the article.
Generally, posts on social media platforms would include hashtags to help spread the piece around but since Facebook has its own sponsoring system and algorithm, we wouldn’t include any hashtags. By being able to target the interests of our audience, we wouldn’t need to use hashtags which have the possibility of making the article look ‘tacky’ (the same effect applies to emojis).
Meeting: 2nd April
BASE IDEA: To Interview multiple teachers and students of different levels to see what the situation is at their schools and how they are continuing their education
Students Levels:
2 x Primary (1 going to secondary)
2 x1 Secondary
2 x 6th Form
Bala Uni/MCAST students
Teachers Levels
1 Kindergarden
1 Primary
1 Secondary
2 x Headmistresses (maybe)
1 Foreign English Teacher (Austin)
What do we need?
for task 2: the criteria:
Identify topical concept - (maybe) In our essay we can justify why our topic is topical in a mini intro?, this could accompany our identification of the type we're writing (so either informative, or educational or else entertainment).
identify medium and method of presentation for news report
prepare digital media report for implementation showing evidence of process used
produce an authentic written news report showing evidence of authenticity
Checklist
◦ DOCUMENT: justifying why we chose the topic, the type, the idea-generation
◦ RESEARCH A NEWS STORY: something similar to the topic and following the same field
◦ WRITE THE NEWS STORY
◦ RESEARCH: websites used, references, interview subjects and the medium, transcript of the interview
◦ PLAN INTERVIEWS AND LOCATIONS
Final list of Questions
1. How is the school handling this ‘home schooling’ situation?
a. This is to get a general overview on how the school is enabling students to continue their studies and lecturers/teachers to remain in contact with their class/es
2. What possible benefits have you encountered from online classes? Whilst completely different from the norm, how can online learning change education for the better in these trying times? And what about the disadvantages?
a. When it comes to education, how has the teaching/learning process been affected? Has the quality gone down when it comes to lessons and lectures? Has being at home helped your studies/workload?
3. How are you as a teacher/student coping with this new stress? What are you doing to combat the cabin fever? How is the school helping teachers/students handle this newfound stress?
a. For example, how are teachers reaching out to students and being more accommodating when it comes to assignments and exams?
4. Apart from online lectures, how are you ensuring that your teaching/studying is still kept up to standard? Are you sending/receiving any supplementary material outside of these digital classes? What do you think about that?
N.B. When the same point has multiple questions, these wouldn’t be asked at the same time but instead would be used to either clarify the main question or to help the interviewee answer.
Final list of questions - students
1. How is the school handling this ‘home schooling’ situation?
2. Whilst completely different from the norm, how can online learning change education for the better in these trying times?
3. How are you as a student coping with this new stress? What are you doing to combat the cabin fever?
4. Apart from online lectures, how are you ensuring that your studying is still kept up to standard? Are you receiving any supplementary material outside of these digital classes?
Final list of questions - teachers
1. How is the school handling this ‘home schooling’ situation?
2. Whilst completely different from the norm, how can online learning change education for the better in these trying times?
3. How are you as a teacher coping with this new stress? What are you doing to combat the cabin fever?
4. Apart from online lectures, how are you ensuring that your teaching is still kept up to standard? Are you sending any supplementary material outside of these digital classes?
People Asked
· James Morrison (Form 4 student, going on form 5 in September; attends St. Michael)
· Alice Morrison (Year 6 student, going on form 1 in September; attends St.George Preca Paola Primary B)
o Alice is in year 6, therefore their syllabus was finished before the pandemic. Regardless of whether or not it happened, all they would have done in class would have been revision, therefore no online lessons are happening.
· Ruth Morrison (Secondary School teacher; teaches at St. Thomas More)
· Elisa Gatt (Bachelor of Commerce, 1st Year)
· Faye Darmanin (B. Psy., 1st Year)
· Lexi Manduca (B. A. in European Studies and International Relations, 1st Year)
· Carla Camilleri (B. Sci. in Applied Food and Nutritional Sciences, 1st Year)
· Alexandra Tihn (Form 2; attends Our Lady Immaculate)
· Hannah Gatt (B. Sci. in Communication Therapy, 1st Year)
· Gillian Darmanin (Primary School Teacher; teaches at Chiswick House School)
- Sean Bacica (B.A in Creative Media Production, 2nd Year)
Answers:
James Morrison’s answers (Form 4 student, going on form 5 in September)
1. I wake up at around 10 o’clock, later than normal, I have breakfast and then my mother makes me study or do homework, which I am reluctant to do as there is no motivation at all to study for exams which I have to sit for after this period. I am handling it badly, as this situation feels more like a holiday rather than school. Due to that, I just want to play on my phone or play video games all day as I would when on holiday.
2. I have only had a few online classes, as the majority of the focus for my year is on online homework. However, for the few times I did have online classes (at the beginning) made me realise that I prefer it. Online learning has the advantage of being more flexible, which for people my age is a benefit as we don’t like being told what to do. So, having the ability to pick the time and place of our work is a plus. I feel more comfortable using technology as it is more hands-on rather than just listening to the teacher, I can take notes at my own pace and I can pay attention better from the comfort of my own home.
3. Ultimately, I miss my friends and playing football with my club, as well as seeing my grandparents as I go and stay with them every weekend. At the moment, I am trying my best to adapt my activities of before the quarantine to online activities. For example, my catechism group are meeting online, and my family and I are getting takeout every Saturday so we can have a ‘’get together’’ and talk about how we’re handling the situation, it cheers me up a lot. Luckily, we have a garden and I can practice football and exercise outside which is super important to me as football keeps me sane.
4. I have been using the foreign language app Duolingo to keep practicing my German. At home, my mum sits with me and helps me study as next year I will be in form 5, so right now it is important that my grades do not slip. I am also receiving worksheets which we have to print, work out and send a picture for some lessons, others have no given us anything. Other teachers are putting videos up on youtube of lessons which we have to watch, and then fill out a form afterwards to make sure we understood the material.
Alice Morrison’s answers (Year 6 student, going on form 1 in September)
N.B Alice is in year 6, therefore their syllabus was finished before the pandemic. Regardless of whether or not it happened, all they would have done in class would have been revision, therefore no online lessons are happening.
1.I am handling it well, Home-schooling works for me because since I am at home, my mum walks me through my revision slowly and therefore I have more attention and help rather than everything being fast due to having to finish the syllabus in time. Also, I am happy about not having benchmarks because it removes the pressure I had before.
2. Online learning is more fun in my opinion because since it is all online, there is the possibility of sharing maths games for example or videos which personally keep me interested and help me learn better. A big one is that I feel less pressure working from home, in the classroom it is harder to keep up and I feel like online learning gives me more room to learn from my mistakes.
3. I am coping well, I feel great because I feel like I am introvert. This does not feel stressful to me, I feel much more relaxed when I am at home in comparison with when I was physically at school. I feel stressed and sad when I think of how I have not seen my grandparents in a long time, so I have been phoning them for often. Sometimes I feel a bit lonely, but I keep in contact with my friends from school by video-chatting them and also make new friends online.
4. I have had no online lessons as my syllabus has been long finished. My mum gives me revision exercises to do every day as extra work, as well as makes me read in English and Maltese to go hand in hand with the worksheets I receive from my teachers. The downside is that without being in class, I have to wait longer for my teachers to correct my homework which makes the learning process a bit slower. We also have quizzes on our school tablet which actually motivated me and kept me feeling like I want to learn because it was competitive.
Ruth Morrison’s answers (Secondary School teacher)
1. We were given to go ahead to do what we deem fit for the sake of our students; we can either do online lessons, send worksheets or find other methods depending on the subject. Some of my colleagues sent emails, used the state school platform ‘’My School’’ to post homework or video links, but we were given the email addresses of all the students in case we preferred to contact them directly individually. On the end of the school’s assistance, we were given webinars teaching us how to use Microsoft Teams so that all staff members are acquainted with the software needed. SMS’s were sent to the parents to encourage student participation and to make sure everyone is aware of the resources. However, not every student is participating. The student participation is actually really low, which is concerning for us teachers. The students who previously did not put much effort into working have diminished incredibly in regard to their effort now, but the students who showed interest are maintaining this.
2. It can be used as tool for the better for integration of internet resources such as videos which students seem to like and keeps the students who are visuals learners to pay attention and review for better understanding. It could be useful for revision for the most part, but then we have to be careful as online learning removes the barrier and leads to lack of routine or ‘’boundaries’’ as some students do not pay attention to school hours and expect responses instantly. I feel the majority of the benefits are for primary students as it allows the parent to be present for the learning experience, but for secondary school students the benefits lie only for note-taking (as some teachers speak quickly and students need to write everything down) or for reviewing purposes. Games, videos, learning websites with music and graphics are all great for the modern student as it is more engaging to many in comparison to reading from books. We show all these things in class, but with online learning everything is able to be reviewed again and again. Ultimately, I feel online learning should be used in conjunction with real-life learning rather than instead of, as everything is better when balanced.
3.  The webinar about how to use Microsoft teams and watching many youtube videos of how to use the software given to us did alleviate a lot of the stress I had, as well as teaming up with my colleagues, keeping in contact and sharing information regarding what we can do to move forward is a great help. I post notes, worksheets, video links, everything I can to provide the same experience, but the response from students is not massive, but since I send answer sheets as well that may be because they are marking their work themselves in adherence to the sheet I sent. Communicating with my colleagues and opening up to them helps me with the cabin fever situation, we help each other and offer support with technical problems or general issues. We send funny videos and ‘’memes’’ to cheer each other up as well. I am revising my German, as before I did not have time to brush up my skills and now I can; it keeps my mind engaged. I am basically doing everything I had no time to do before, such as decluttering.
Ironically, I am home schooling my children which feels great as I love teaching  and it comes second nature to me, but it is hard when they do not want to work due to  the demotivation effects of the quarantine.
4. I teach geography, and all us geography teachers created a specific ‘’team’’ for conversation with each other and keeping up the standard of the geography lesson, but I have not given any online lessons as it is not necessary for my situation. Since geography is not a main subject, I am aware of the fact that I may not have the same pressure as a maths or English teacher for example, as in school I would only see them once a week. I am therefore doing the best I can by sending extra videos, notes and anything interesting I feel would benefit them. I am also open for emails and respond to questions outside digital classes. I have found myself in the position of resending old notes as many students had left their notes in their lockers at the time of the school closure, as well as textbooks, therefore I simplified some notes as well due to them not having a textbook explanation.
Sean Bacica's answers (MCAST ICA 2nd Year student)
1. I am taking it day to day, planning out assignments as they come along and follow the instructions from my lecturers about how to proceed
2. Most of the lectures I am having during these times are 1 on 1, so the increase in personal attention helps with the progress of more challenging tasks
3. I feel I am coping quite fine with the stress, virtually meeting with lecturers and fellow peers often helps! When I feel trapped inside, I try to take a short drive or take my dog out for a short walk especially since the weather is so nice
4. Generally it is just online lectures that are keeping me and most of my peers in line with our goals and standards. External notes that wouldn't normally be supplied are being supplied which helps us to study when we aren't in said lectures
Elisa Gatt (Uni student):
1. Depends on the lecturer of the particular module rather than the school.
Out of 9 modules
- 2 do online lectures
- 1 does online lectures and also sends us the recording
- 4 send us recorded lectures
- 1 sends us a set of notes with corresponding voice recordings
- and another hasn’t sent us anything
I don’t mind the recorded lectures, however depends on the quality of teaching, some just send us a recording of them reading a power point which is quite useless.
However, I prefer recorded lectures over live lectures as one can pause to take notes, and listen to them in their own time.
The handout and voice recording lecture really fit the subject (statistics) well also.
Personally, I’m managing to cope with the lectures, however the main problem for me is exams. There is a deadline for the 17th for them to tell us what is happening with exams for the respective modules. However I feel like knowing if the exam will be assessment or assignment based will help to actually start studying.
2. It allows students to work in their own time. However this can also be a bad thing for students who aren’t very good with time management and organization.
3. Surprisingly doing well. I’ve been going up to my brothers office on weekday mornings to do work, so I can split my uni life and home life. And on weekends I don’t do anything school related.
This has really helped as I’m not spending 24/7 on my desk at home and I’m wasting less time.
4. Some send us power point presentations, while others recommend reading chapters of certain textbooks.
However one lecturer based his entire module on a textbook which isn’t being printed anymore, and can’t be found online. And doesn’t send us any power points, expecting us to take our notes from this book which can’t be found anywhere. Especially with the current situation.
For my statistics lecture we have a set of notes, and also a set of tutorial sheets to ensure we all understand.
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Faye Darmanin (Uni Student, part time):
1. Quite well; I have online lectures for both of my units, and each of them upload the PowerPoints of the topic right after the online lecture ends.
The only issue I have is that the university is taking too long to tell us what the situation is for exams, not allowing us enough time to prepare.
2. This gives students more time with studying and note-taking.
3. I’m not doing anything to combat it, as since I only have 2 units the stress of school is quite low.
4. We are receiving the uploaded PowerPoints of each topic, but they are uploaded during normal face-to-face lectures as well, so nothing extra is being sent.
Lexi Manduca (Uni Student):
1. Quite well; I have online lectures for both of my units, and each of them upload the PowerPoints of the topic right after the online lecture ends.The only issue I have is that the university is taking too long to tell us what the situation is for exams, not allowing us enough time to prepare.2. This gives students more time with studying and note-taking.3. I’m not doing anything to combat it, as since I only have 2 units the stress of school is quite low.4. We are receiving the uploaded PowerPoints of each topic, but they are uploaded during normal face-to-face lectures as well, so nothing extra is being sent.
1. Most give us online live lectures on zoom. Some send us pre-recorded ones. Some lecturers just send us the power points and readings which is not at all an ideal way to learn.
2. It could encourage lecturers to record the lectures and upload them after the lecture so that students can go back and re-listen to anything they might not have understood during the lesson. This might encourage students to miss lectures so stricter attendance would need to be applied to combat this.
3. Recently I've found the best way to tackle being home all day is to spend as much time as I can out in the sun (in the balcony not actually out of the hosue).
4. We do receive the occasional podcast/ additional readings but mostly I'm keeping up with my studies through researching for and carrying out assignments
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Carla Camilleri (Uni Student):
1. We’ve resorted to online lectures via Google Meet or Zoom. My faculty was pretty efficient with regards to continuing with lectures as normal however have barely given us any feedback with regards to what will be happening for exams.
2. Online learning can offer different ways of interaction between the lecturer and students as well as between the students themselves which wouldn’t normally be explored in a normal classroom such as through Groupwork on Google Docs or using videos on a more regular basis to initiate discussions. Online learning also makes learning more flexible and customizable. Lectures are generally recorded so can be accessed later on as a method of revision, if one needs clarification on a subject matter or can’t join the lecture in real time. The workspace can be altered by the student as desired to fit their mode of learning and comfort.
3. I’m making sure to attend all my lectures in real time as well as catching up on class notes to make sure i do not fall behind on work. I’m also making sure to communicate as much as possible with my lecturers to remain up to date on the exam and assignment situations for my units. Balancing learning with my hobbies also helps to combat stress, turning my focus away from continuous learning allows my brain to reset and relax.
4. Our lecturers have provided us with all the powerpoints of their lectures. They’ve also provided us with books for further reading and videos which help in providing a better understanding of the topics being covered. This all makes studying easier as we’re given multiple sources for making notes which are referred to when exam season begins.
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Alexandra Tihn (Form 2)
1. My school is handling the home-schooling situation by sending me homework and assignments every day while I'm away from school, I dont have online classes but I still have papers and work. It's hard to keep up on everything that the school sends us since they send us a lot at once it gets really confusing for me, but it isn't that bad since I made a schedule.
2. I think it’s a good way to do work while I'm away from school, but I don't think it's the best thing we could do while we are away since they send us double the work and it's getting really hectic.
3. I’m coping with all the work but the stress comes along with it straight away, having to see where I can get things printed or seeing when the deadline is since it's all messy and wondering if what I'm doing is correct without an actual explanation from the teachers. I think I'm handling staying inside really well, especially since we have technology now which allows me to communicate with my friends so I don't feel totally alone, although it does make me feel very lonely at time when I just want someone to talk to or to hug etc.
4. Well given the fact that I don't have lectures the only way I can know if I'm keeping up with the standard of studying is by doing as much of the work I can as possible before they leave the school website because of deadlines. The teachers sometimes sends me and everyone as a whole class some papers with notes and some power points but it's hard to keep up since sometimes they send us work and then the next day send us the answers so I don't really have time to do the work sometimes.
Hannah Gatt (Uni Student):
1. Under these circumstances I think the school is doing all it can to aid its students in any way they can. This being said, some lecturers are clearly putting in more effort than others however overall, the university seems to be helping students adjust to home schooling very well. My only issue at this point in time is regarding the examination period and having no idea what is going to happen. Out of the 11 study units I have, I only know for certain how 3 of them are going to be assessed whilst the others are keeping us in the dark which is extremely unfair.
2. I think online learning has proven the importance and value of face to face interactions with teachers and lecturers that simply cannot be replaced. However it has also shown that regardless of the circumstances, there is always a method through which education can take place which is important for everyone to keep in mind.
3. To be completely honest I am growing slightly restless as I miss interacting and socialising with people. However, im trying not to get too overwhelmed with the situation since I know that everyone is in the same predicament. I’m personally trying to keep myself busy mainly by working on assignments but I also try to pass time by reading, playing playstation ect…
4. Some lecturers are being extremely helpful and giving us extra material in order for us to understand better yet at the same time some lecturers aren’t taking into account how stressful this situation is for us and won’t even answer our emails regarding queries on our work/assignments. Besides all this I feel it is up to us students to not get lazy and continue working by ourselves for online lectures are not enough to help us to get through our end of year assessments.
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Gillian Darmanin (Primary school teacher)
1. The school I am currently employed with has primarily followed & complied all instructions issued by the government regarding the closure of the school. The school head and assistants have communicated with parents via email on how they were planning to assist their pupils. They in turn through consultation & collaboration with all level leaders and all teachers implemented an instruction strategy for the current situation.
2. In online learning the social interaction with the pupils is quite limited. However, having said that more and more sites have made their resources free for parents and teachers. Many have also included a section called ‘home learning’ providing videos with clear explanations as well as worksheets and answers in an attempt to provide clear instruction on the topic at hand.
3. I am communicating & collaborating regularly with other teachers through Microsoft teams and through phone calls. Trying to keep a regular routine every day and regular yoga!
4. Even though I teach in primary school, the senior leaders have taken the decision that for online teaching each teacher in a level will be subject teaching. Also, teachers have been paired up to work on lesson preparation as a team. Focusing on a particular subject helps to hone your skills in a particular area.
Supplementary material like worksheets & online libraries have been set up to encourage further consolidation of topics learnt. Also encouraging pupils to record themselves giving presentations and or reading so continuous assessment can be continued in this unprecedented situation.
N.B. Those without screenshots were asked verbally and then the answers were transcribed.
Video Format
Video Flow:
The video starts with the interviewer opening with a short monologue, describing the current situation and introducing the topic at hand (situation with students and teachers). This will lead into a series of audio clips from students from different institutes and levels of learning, each answering the same question but always adding something to the story (a new perspective).
Back to the interviewer explaining some of the students’ opinions on how the future will present itself. Then cut to more snippets of audio from the students about how they think the future will pan out (this would concern how they feel and how they think this will be resolved. We will not be writing the script for the interviewer’s sections until after the interviews themselves so we have all the information nat hand before committing ourselves.
The music should be on the mellow side while also having poppy undertones. This would be able to create a relaxing tone to the piece while also giving it a vibe appealing to a bit of a younger demographic.
The video (and article) will target a wide audience as it will not specifically be aimed at any particular demographic yet will be targeted to those who have an interest in education, the current situation, and schooling. It will also attract a general audience as it will inform the average reader on the happenings of students.
Video Locations/Footage:
· People’s homes via webcam.
· Footage found online (below are examples and resources)
· B-roll shot by Kathryn and Daniel (For example: students entertaining themselves, a lecturer teaching a lesson [without showing students], screen recording of online class)
Audio:
· https://www.epidemicsound.com/
o We have an account
Online Assets/Footage:
· https://www.youtube.com/embed/hIkCmbvAHQQ?rel=0&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=1
·  https://www.pexels.com/search/videos/students/
·  https://www.pexels.com/search/videos/online%20work/
·  https://www.pexels.com/search/videos/at%20home/
·  https://pixabay.com/videos/search/students/
·  https://pixabay.com/videos/search/online/
·  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7euX2P-Mwk
·  https://www.videezy.com/people/37310-businesswoman-checking-product-on-stock-online
·  https://www.pexels.com/video/woman-having-a-video-call-4053047/
·  https://www.pexels.com/video/busy-woman-working-with-her-laptop-and-smartphone-3251808/
·  https://www.pexels.com/video/a-disappointed-woman-keeping-herself-busy-3709513/
TASK 2 ARTICLE (also in separate blog post)
Education in a pandemic: lack of a routine.
According to Prof. Charmaine Gauci, Malta is yet to reach it’s peak. This simple statement speaks volumes of what can be expected in not only our future as a country, but what world we will be living in through the coming months. Businesses may go bankrupt, unemployment will be on the rise, global health might take a hit as many are forced to stay indoors, and the dawn of a new recession is right around the corner. However, what about those who, in an age of technology and social media, live in the online space?
Although most students would love more free time to binge watch Netflix, the reality is that many are struggling with the new change. As lectures move to virtual platforms, life becomes a nightmare with assignments, and exams being shuffled around, with the due dates changing constantly. No one could have truly prepared for an event like this, but due to the rapid change many are beginning to feel left behind.
When confronted with the urgency of shutting down schools, actions had to be taken quickly. By prioritising the immediacy of the decisions over the consistency between them, many issues are going unsolved. When asked about how the University of Malta is handling online communication and teaching, 1st year student Elisa Gatt had this to say:
“[It] depends on the lecturer of the particular module rather than the school. Out of 9 modules: 2 do online lectures; 1 does online lectures and also sends us the recording; 4 send us recorded lectures, 1 sends us a set of notes with corresponding voice recordings; and another hasn’t sent us anything.”
Explaining the current situation in a simplified manner is confusing in itself, let alone basing one’s future education around the convolution. Many students are having to juggle this new system whilst also getting to grips with reality themselves. Even when it comes to the simple things such as video platforms, some lecturers prefer to use Zoom where others opt for Microsoft Teams or Google Meet. Having to jump from one to another between back to back lectures, all on different spaces is not only inefficient but is making it that much harder for students to find some breathing room.
It isn’t only University students struggling with the new system. Secondary school students are finding it difficult to keep up with the new workload while also finding ways to keep their sanity. A student who is currently in Form 2 was asked how they are handling this newfound stress, and simply replied that they are not. Due to a lack of online lessons, they spoke about the self-doubt that accompanies their work without proper guidance and the problems at having to organise everything and schedule their work.
The ‘blame’ cannot be pinned onto one party, as schools are trying their best to keep their students informed and on the right track. Meanwhile, teachers are trying their best to cope with the changes in tandem while also doing extra work for the sake of helping their students. With everyone struggling to regain normality, the only way forward is for all of us to support one another, to keep ourselves informed, and to focus on making it to the other side.
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