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periwinklegirls · 3 years

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4 walls ❀ album booklet © functionlove l edit with credit l translations by functionlove

Victoria: You’ve waited for over again again, haven’t you? During a year there have been many things and changes... So this comeback is more special. Amber~ Sunyoung-ah~ Soojungie~ While preparing this album we came up with lots of idea, seeing the members practice with so much passion, it only seems like practicing during debut times.. I’m really thankful and thankful. The people I’m always thankful to~ Thank you to Lee Sooman teacher, president Kim Youngmin, vice-president Han Semin, vice-president Nam Soyoung, director Jung Changhwan~ Company oppas and unnies~ Kyungchang oppa who always works the hardest, Wonkyun oppa, Hojun-sshi, Hyunjun-sshi, Jinook oppa who’s like a brother~ Sungsoo oppa, Junghee unnie, Dayang unnie~ Kenzie unnie, Hwanghyun oppa, Jinhwan oppa~ The composers and writers who give us good songs, staff unnies and dongsaengs, sunbaenims~ Hwaiting to Yunho oppa, Donghae oppa and Eunhyuk oppa who enlisted not too long ago!! Hoobaes~ Thanks to them too~ And to Hyunhee unnie and Areum unnie who are always in my heart~ Sangmi unnie, Miseon unnie who take care of me~ My friend 0ok-ie~ Secretive man Hojun oppa, Million Pieces~ Ballas king, my friend Kyuhyun~ f(x) fans, thank you for always waiting for us, this album won’t disappoint you, right? keke (...) Thank U~ Luna: First of all, I would like to give thanks to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ for making everything happen. I wish everyone could be happier through this album! To my dear fans, thank you all so much for the support. I love you guys. Krystal: Every individual thinks of time a certain way but to you fans and me, 1 year felt like a long time; thank you for always being in the same place, I will also always be in the same place. Amber: God for giving me everything. My family Dad, Mom, Jackie & Jackjack. The best friends who’ve stuck with me for so long. YASS Tiffany, Pineapple Scott, Drunkface Solomon, Polar Bear Kim, “sorry for not listening to you, teacher” Caroline, Horse Leon, Toilet Riley, Squirtle Aoe, Zombie Buddy Min, Goldfish Amy, Go Woori-nim, my bread dongsaeng Minah, MengJia MengJia MengJia, Mr. Seany Sean Alexander, Sexiest Vocals Ever Gen Neo, Ryan Yoo, My Kangaroo Mentor Rome, lil bro Jackson, and OG Danny Shin & Sleepy Brian, Coreanos Kitchen Fam Richard, Gene, and James, OMG fam Paul and Roger, love you guys! Kyungchang oppa ke, Wonkyun oppa, Hojun oppa, Hyunjun oppa, Red God, best oppa Sungsoo oppa, Drunbutt David :), Junghee unnie, Dayang unnie, Mina unnie, Bbang Jinook oppa, Ku Kisa oppa^^ We’ve worked very hard, right?? keke Our members~ Fianlly kekeke and our dear fans. I’ve said it a lot but there is something I keep having to say. We wouldn’t be here without you, always always thank you!!! Julian and Gongju I love you!

#f(x)#victoria #luna #krystal #amber #klav #p:scan #p:album #f:functionlove

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thegloober · 6 years

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A Message To My Younger Self

I regret. I regret a lot. I wish I could have been different.

I wish I could be 17 again and know these rules.

There’s nothing wrong with regret. There’s nothing wrong with wondering how your life would have been different and better.

This is what I wish I knew:

A) DON’T DEPEND ON OTHERS FOR YOUR HAPPINESS

If you outsource your self-esteem, you’ll never be happy.

I outsourced my self-esteem to girlfriends. It was hard enough for them to handle their own self-esteem, let alone mine.

I outsourced my self-esteem to professors, thinking a good grade would make my life better. It didn’t.

Later I outsourced my self-esteem to bosses, thinking a promotion would make my life better. It didn’t.

I outsourced my self-esteem to anyone who had the power to “choose me” – publishers, TV, investors, customers.

I could’ve spent that energy developing the skills to choose myself. There is ALWAYS a back door to dreams.

When I depended on others for my own happiness I ended up trying too hard to make OTHER people happy. If they are happy, I thought, they will make me happy.

A waste of time and effort. People only cared when it was their own self-interest. I am fine with that now.

B) DON’T READ NEWS

I can’t even remember the news from when I was 17 but I always read three newspapers a day and every magazine.

Read books instead. The news when I was 17 was that Reagan was trading drugs for hostages and that Michael Jackson was going to release another album.

Knowing this has had zero effect on my life. I should have read another book about history, or a biography, or a good piece of fiction.

When you read a book, you absorb some of the 10,000 hours of expertise the author poured into the creation of that book.

When you read a news article, you are fooled into caring about something that will have zero consequence on your life.

News is about shock. Not about knowledge.

C) WAKE UP ASKING… “WHAT IF…?”

For instance, “What if I didn’t go to college and instead I wrote a book or learned how to program and started making money instead of borrowing it?”

Or, if you want to go to Harvard but were rejected: “What if I just showed up for classes there and nobody realized I wasn’t an actual student?”

“What if I took a job and started learning skills instead of arguing with my college girlfriend?”

“What if I stopped waiting to begin my life and started pursuing the things I love?”

When you start with “What if?” you start with Questions instead of Answers.

17 year olds don’t have Answers but I always thought I did. Start with Questions instead.

“What if…?” let’s you build a bridge between reality now and the desires you want.

“What if…?” let’s you step outside the path that parents, teachers, friends, society have planned for you and allows you to find your own path.

“What if..?” let’s you admit you are stupid but open-minded enough to be curious and explore the entire universe.

(Exercise: Ask 30 “what if” questions about your life. Like: What if I could make my own TV show and put it on YouTube. Or…What if I could be a professional sports anchor… what 100 steps would build that bridge? Or…What if I could invent my own cryptocurrency? What would make it unique? and so on.)

D) DON’T ARGUE

I would argue with my dad about Nicaraguan politics.

Who the heck cares now? And what change did I create by arguing? I thought I knew everything and so did he. So we wasted mindless hours arguing about something stupid and now he’s dead.

I would argue in classes about poetry or philosophy instead of learning for myself what life was like in the real world.

I would argue about the economics of poverty with other people who knew nothing about either.

Poetry is found by doing what you love, by scraping a knee when you fall, by lifting yourself up even when you’re dirty and bloody and tired and you have to start all over.

Philosophy is found when you find the edges of the comfort zone of life and make your first attempts to step outside of it.

Poverty is found when you do everything you can to succeed and you fail and you take ownership of your mistakes and you start again.

Opportunity is found not in the middle of an argument that has no outcome on life, but in the places that are least crowded, where you are exploring and finding out who you uniquely are.

E) EXERCISE THE CREATIVE MUSCLE

Nobody wants you to be creative:

“Ideas are a dime a dozen.”

“Ideas are not a business.”

“Execution is everything.”

Creativity is a muscle. You can’t have good ideas if you don’t exercise that muscle.

Every day I write down 10 ideas. Not because they are good. But because they are bad and I want to be better every day than the day before.

This morning I wrote down 10 ideas for books I could write.

Good books? No. (“The History of The World in Tweets from 2010–2018” is an example).

It’s probably the thousandth time I’ve written down book ideas. Another 2,000 times I’ve written down business ideas. Another 3,000 times I’ve written down ideas for others.

It doesn’t matter.

If I’m better at idea generation than everyone else then I will find the places that are least crowded.

F) THE BEST INVESTMENT IS IN YOURSELF… BUT DIVERSIFY

When I was 17 I had no skills. I was the high school chess champ in my state but that’s it.

When I was 23 I still had no skills and that was after college and graduate school.

When I was 26 I still had no skills and that was after a few jobs.

I finally found something.

I found “awe”.

I thought the internet was awesome. I was in awe of it’s potential. I wrote down all the things the internet could do.

So I learned skills: I learned how to program a computer (even though when I was 21 I had majored in computer science and then I went to graduate school in computer science, it was all theoretical and I never did anything that required a real skill).

But diversify your skills. Diversify the things that give you awe.

Read a lot to find the things that fascinate you.

Write down ideas every day.

Develop a skill that makes money NOW (like computer programming). Develop more than one of these if you can.

Develop skills for the future (like writing, communicating, speaking, entertaining).

I’m 50 now. I’ve invested in myself. I have skills.

But still every day I have to learn. I have to maintain. I have to keep up. I have to practice. I have to exercise.

Exercise: Start with these books. Read them:

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Antifragile by Nassim Taleb (and The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness by him)

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Sapiens by Yuval Harari

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (a collection of short stories, not a religious book)

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley (and The Evolution of Everything by him)

Bold by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Peak by K. Anders Ericsson

The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer (along with The Untethered Soul by him)

Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor

Mastery by Robert Greene

Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

War of Art by Steven Pressfield (and Turning Pro)

Post Office by Charles Bukowski

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

Maus by Art Spiegelman

On Writing by Stephen King

How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson (and his book Where Good Ideas Come From)

Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (and Practicing the Power of Now by him)

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

What I Talk About When I talk about Running by Haruki Murakami

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner

The New Evolution Diet by Art De Vany

Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks

Socrates by Paul Johnson

Small Victories by Anne Lamott

Meet Your Happy Chemicals by Loretta Breuning

G) LEARN WHAT MONEY IS

Money is not about having a higher income. Or about pleasing others. Or about the economy.

The economy is for everyone else. And it’s almost impossible to get rich on income.

Money is not about investing or spending or luxury or even freedom.

Money is about arbitrage. Seeing value where other people don’t. This takes practice.

You can practice by learning a money game like poker.

Get really good at poker and you learn about people, probability, statistics, selling, arbitrage, decision making, money management, emotional control, entertainment, creativity.

Games are a safe way to practice hunting. Games are a safe way to learn about money.

I wish I had learned poker at 17 instead of at 30. Then I wouldn’t have lost all my money at 30. Much safer to lose all your money at 17 before you have two kids and a mortgage.

H) PLUS, MINUS, EQUAL

To learn anything you need a:

PLUS: a mentor (real or virtual or books) to study and emulate and learn from.

EQUALS: people who are striving with you that you can compare notes with.

MINUS: You can’t learn something unless you can explain it to a three year old. Always try to explain what you are learning.

I) THE GOOGLE RULE

Google knows nothing.

If I go to Google and want to learn about “computer programming”, Google will say, “I know nothing but here are the ten best places you can go based on my extensive research.”

Then, when I want to learn about “motorcycles” the first place I will go is Google.

Google is worth almost a trillion dollars.

Because:

They are the source of information but not the actual information. They tell you where to go.

They give credit to everyone else. They don’t say “We know”, they say “These people know and they are GREAT.”

If you use the Google Rule you’ll have more value every day.

(The first Google home page)

J) THE 1% RULE

Whatever gives you AWE, improve 1% per day at.

1% per day, compounded, equals 3800% per year.

3800% per year will make you the best in the world at everything you are interested in.

Lose 1% per day (by relying on others, by depending on institutions to help, by arguing and trying to convince people, by following society’s rules instead of your own), will mean in a year you are 3% the person you were at the beginning of the year.

(The most important rule in this post).

K) LOVE EVERYONE AS IF THEY WERE YOUR DAUGHTER

Everyone is going through a world of s*8t. All the time.

Treat everyone the way you would treat a daughter.

Love their faults and flaws. Don’t try and change them. Be sensitive to their sadness. Listen to them. Hold them if they need it. Don’t control them.

They want to be happy. Just like you.

You don’t need to love God or society or even yourself.

Just love everyone as if they were your daughter.

That’s enough advice for myself at 17.

I regret a lot of things.

It’s ok to regret.

I’m fine with where I am in life. Doesn’t mean I can’t wish I had been a little more wise when I was younger.

Is my advice good?

I don’t know. I’m not going to argue with my 17 year old self if he disagrees with me.

He was pretty stupid. He was pretty gross. He was pretty insecure and selfish and lonely.

If I had just followed a tiny bit of this advice, maybe I wouldn’t have been so lonely for so long.

What if…?

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jennathearcher · 6 years

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So thanks Facebook memories for reminding me of the time I essentially did a Tumblr ask meme on Facebook a year before I actually joined Tumblr XD This was SIX YEARS AGO HOLY JEEZ and some of the resulting concepts are actually pretty solid so might have to revisit them :P

NEW WRITING CHALLENGE

One of my friends, message me the title of a Florence + the Machine song, and I'll write a synopsis for a film based on that song, (If I haven't heard the song, I'll give it a listen) as well as a fan casting for it. Enjoy. :)

"Dog Days Are Over"

Erika Conrad is a socially awkward teenager just trying to make it through her senior year of high school alive. Her grades are super high; however, her social life needs improvement, her love life is nonexistent, and she only talks to about five people at school. And none of them are Adam Preston, her crush. Then, her life drastically changes when her guardian angel, Zero, arrives on Earth to help Erika take the initiative to make this the greatest senior year ever; with a little help from his magic. Will it work, or will it all go awry?

Fan Cast:

Erika Conrad: Lily Collins

Zero: James McAvoy

Stephen Conrad (Erika's dad): Jonny Lee Miller

Beth Conrad (Erika's mom): Ginnifer Goodwin

Anna Conrad: (Erika's sister): Willow Shields

Adam Preston: Alexander Ludwig

Erika's friends

Jamie Anderson: Michael Cera

Kylie Dion: Rooney Mara

Alfie Brandon: Caleb Landry Jones

Jennie Michaels: Jaimie Alexander

John Sampson: Steven R. McQueen

Victoria Eisenberg (Erika's teacher): Emmy Rossum

"Cosmic Love"

Bridget King was always different. But when she meets the mysterious Shane Blaze, he brings her some shocking news: Bridget is a Stargazer, someone with the ability to read the future in the stars. And she may be the last of her kind. Shane himself has powers: he is a Listener, a person who can track any individual by their heartbeat. Now, Bridget must go with Shane to the Hollow, a place where humans gifted with special abilities can go as a safe place to master their powers. Together, Bridget and Shane must learn to control their abilities, while keeping each other safe from the Watchers, creatures that take human shape, and wish to exterminate people with special powers.

Fan Cast:

Bridget King: Britt Robertson

Shane Blaze: Alexander Skarsgard

Katrina Robinson (Bridget's friend): Kat Graham

Scott Wilson (Shane's cousin): Chord Overstreet

Head Watcher: David Tennant

Andromeda (Bridget's mentor): Katie McGrath

Orion (Shane's mentor): Joshua Dallas

"Remain Nameless"

Faye Donahue once had a happy life: A husband she loved with all her heart, a beautiful daughter, siblings who would do anything to help her. But all of that changed on one fateful day. Now, Faye Donahue is dead. In her place is a woman with no name, a woman on the run...a woman on the hunt for revenge. Now, she must seek out the man who killed her family, and avenge their deaths. But first, she has to avoid the pesky, yet intriguing, sniper who's trailing her...

Fan Cast:

Faye Donahue: Angelina Jolie

Michael Donahue (Faye's husband): Mark Wahlberg

Davis Williams / The Sniper: Jeremy Renner

Sarah Donahue (Faye's daughter): Mackenzie Foy

Jacob French (Faye's brother): Taylor Kitsch

Annabelle French (Faye's sister): Rose Byrne

Roger Carlos (The murderer): Craig Parkinson

"Lover to Lover"

Chelsea MacGuiness is what her friends like a call a "relationship-aholic." She has had more short-lived relationships than anyone can keep track of; and all because of that first love that slipped away from her. However, when that first love suddenly strolls back into her life, Chelsea must put her quitting days behind her so that the one that got away doesn't get away again.

Fan Cast:

Chelsea MacGuiness: Amy Adams

Frederick Cranston (love interest): Matt Bomer

Michelle Newman (Chelsea's best friend): Emma Stone

Tracy Hartley (Chelsea's rival): Kristen Bell

David Graves (Chelsea's ex): Elijah Wood

"What the Water Gave Me"

Bethany Hollis was seventeen when she tried to drown herself. Her sister saved her life, and Beth found that the water not only gave her life back to her, it also gave her something else: A new sense of pride, a sense of faith in her family, and new love for life and the world and everything in it. Now a grown woman, Beth sets out to help troubled teens like she once was, before they get to that dark place. Along the way, she meets one young girl who causes her life to change again...

Fan Cast:

Bethany Hollis: Anne Hathaway

Chandra Hollis (Beth's sister): Emily Blunt

Young Bethany: Alexa Vega

Young Chandra: Christie Burke

Tabitha Willis (Beth's patient): Mae Whitman

Geraldine Willis (Tabby's mother): Joanna Lumley

"Bird Song"

Nora Wood has always had a wild streak, especially when she's angry. So when she goes too far when her brother threatens to reveal her secrets, what can she do? Get away with murder, of course. The problem comes when the guilt becomes too much for her, and she's forced to either confess or go to any lengths necessary to shake her guilt...

Fan Cast:

Nora Wood: Nina Dobrev

Bailey Wood (Nora's brother): Thomas Dekker

Lila Davies (Nora's attourney): Charlize Theron

Chuck Barton (Nora's partner-in-crime): Ian Somerhalder

#ooc #long post #hence the cut

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