Doing this re #introduction post for newcomers here 😊
Hi! I'm Becky! 🤗
I draw Helicopter Death (see my profile pic), who's been my pet character since grade 3, I love to #paint, I sometimes write #essays when I think of them and I love doing #research, especially on #bipolar but also on other topics which cross my mind.
I live with bipolar and I think #adhd, so I post about that a lot, and other mental health things. I also post a lot about my kids and random things I think are cool or interesting. Likely sometimes politics. Maybe some lgbtq+ (I'm bi and demi)...
I know things about #memory and #psychopathology too, as those are very interesting areas for me and I've done seminars when I was in undergrad (plus I started grad school in clinical psychology but I never finished)
Adjacently, I'm married to @silverwizard so sometimes I talk about tech stuff too, if a topic comes up between us that sits with me
Nice to meet you all 😊
Hi! I'm Becky! 🤗
I draw Helicopter Death (see my profile pic), who's been my pet character since grade 3, I love to #paint, I sometimes write #essays when I think of them and I love doing #research, especially on #bipolar but also on other topics which cross my mind.
I live with bipolar and I think #adhd, so I post about that a lot, and other mental health things. I also post a lot about my kids and random things I think are cool or interesting. Likely sometimes politics. Maybe some lgbtq+ (I'm bi and demi)...
I know things about #memory and #psychopathology too, as those are very interesting areas for me and I've done seminars when I was in undergrad (plus I started grad school in clinical psychology but I never finished)
Adjacently, I'm married to @silverwizard so sometimes I talk about tech stuff too, if a topic comes up between us that sits with me
Nice to meet you all 😊
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I'm really interested in learning how to use music software. I've tried a bit on my own, and I'm really useless at it, but if anyone knows a patreon or people who actually teach these kind of skills, please let me know because I am possibly quite interested
Thinking on this post @silverwizard looking for someone to make sea shanties and so I've got music on my mind
Thinking on this post @silverwizard looking for someone to make sea shanties and so I've got music on my mind
Your mixer likely will work as an interface if the USB lets you connect to a computer. DAWs come in all price ranges and configurations. If you are a student or teacher there are big discounts. For example Protools studio is $99 if you are a student. If you have a Mac, you probably already have Garage Band for free. Logic Pro also is Mac oriented but costs a couple of hundred dollars. Once you get a DAW, I am more than happy to give you a quick tutorial.
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I really appreciate that offer, and I might actually take you up on it. It's incredibly kind ❤️, I just need to figure out what we have/can get. Thank you tho! Truly!!
Shæ: "this is a big jet plane, it's got a jet on it!"
Sean: "I don't think that would fly in real life"
Shæ: "It would! It has a handle to help you fly it!!"
Sean: "I don't think that would fly in real life"
Shæ: "It would! It has a handle to help you fly it!!"
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"Chill Capybara" A psychedelic rainbow capybara! 
What more could you ask for? The world could use more chill right now. Acrylic painting on wood panel, 2022
Art Prints: https://rebeccawangart.com/featured/chill-capybara-rebecca-wang.html
Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/117663171
Available as a holographic sticker and more in my Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/rebeccawangart?search_query=capybara
#capybara #art #MastoArt #psychedelicart #TraditionalArt #rebeccawangart #acrylicpainting #AnimalArt
What more could you ask for? The world could use more chill right now. Acrylic painting on wood panel, 2022Art Prints: https://rebeccawangart.com/featured/chill-capybara-rebecca-wang.html
Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/117663171
Available as a holographic sticker and more in my Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/rebeccawangart?search_query=capybara
#capybara #art #MastoArt #psychedelicart #TraditionalArt #rebeccawangart #acrylicpainting #AnimalArt
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More old mechs! I’ve also included my initial pencil thumbnail and an alternative colour shift. #mechsketch #DigitalArt #2D #SciFi
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I adore music and play it constanty to survive
But Shæ is very sensitive to noise so I play it low most of the time.... but importantly, he doesn't dance much or sing along much
So yesterday when he started swaying to music on a patio restaurant I took notes
I played him Jazz today. He said he loves it! I think he likes Jazz!! More music I can play for him!!
Ro is the opposite, he loves music
But Shæ is very sensitive to noise so I play it low most of the time.... but importantly, he doesn't dance much or sing along much
So yesterday when he started swaying to music on a patio restaurant I took notes
I played him Jazz today. He said he loves it! I think he likes Jazz!! More music I can play for him!!
Ro is the opposite, he loves music
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My kid said today
"Mummy, I want us to make cookies"
Well, needless to say, there was no arm bending about it
...
But now I have soo many cookies and I need to stop eating them
"Mummy, I want us to make cookies"
Well, needless to say, there was no arm bending about it
...
But now I have soo many cookies and I need to stop eating them
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Robot and roses 🌱 one of my „botanical bots“
Art prints and stickers available in my shop https://www.johannaforster.com/shop
#art #illustration #rose #nature #robot #procreate #painting #drawing #artprocess #sticker #mastodonart
#art #illustration #rose #nature #robot #procreate #painting #drawing #artprocess #sticker #mastodonart
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For the last few month my mother in law has taken my kids to the park for 3h to give me opportunities to do other things
Most days I clean frantically in that time
Today I have an appointment an hour and 15min later but right now I feel like doing absolutely nothing
So I texted my partner: "Gosh I feel like just not being productive"
His response: "You can be"
Just a gentle reminders for others like me in the world.....
You can... just not be productive sometimes.... it's okay.... you deserve rest sometimes too ❤️
Most days I clean frantically in that time
Today I have an appointment an hour and 15min later but right now I feel like doing absolutely nothing
So I texted my partner: "Gosh I feel like just not being productive"
His response: "You can be"
Just a gentle reminders for others like me in the world.....
You can... just not be productive sometimes.... it's okay.... you deserve rest sometimes too ❤️
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I honestly think it's really important to rest but hard to dismantle the messaging from society that we must constantly go. I hope your wife gets rest tho!! She deserves it!!
think working from home during the pandemic was the worst thing for her. She has such a hard time disconnecting from work when it is always right there. Now she works a "hybrid" schedule, which I think is the worst of both worlds for her. As someone who has worked from home for 25 years, I'm pretty good at disconnecting.
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I love making playdough with the kids, because you can do any colour trivially (at least with the food colouring we have 😅) and it makes so much! We were out of cream of tartar but the internet tells me vinegar works well in replacement 
2 bowls of playdough - bright purple and green
2 bowls of playdough - bright purple and green
How do people figure out what new people to follow on here.... at this point I've relied solely on
-recommendations from @silverwizard
-people who followed me
-recommendations from @silverwizard
-people who followed me
"they" say you can follow your local timeline and also follow hashtags you are interested in and check out folks who make posts that interest you. That's usually how I do it.
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On this page: https://convenient.email/search?tag=photography, click either the "Follow" link (on vier) or the Plus button (on frio).
Indeed! you can click on all the links of this post of yours: https://convenient.email/display/2c704a81-5263-63c2-b755-a2b195161310
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Have you never used hashtags links before? It's a straightforward way of finding related content, however it requires people to have some discipline tagging their posts.
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See the top tip on this page for more about following hashtags: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/
How To Use Mastodon and the Fediverse: Advanced Tips | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Part of it (a large part) is that she's on an instance of 4 people).
She's also on friendica where we have Community timeline and various forms of your follows. But her Community tab is all hackers because her instance is mostly me.
She's also on friendica where we have Community timeline and various forms of your follows. But her Community tab is all hackers because her instance is mostly me.
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Ha! Yeah, for the Local timeline to work well, you need to find an instance that shares some of your passions. Luckily, it seems to be easy enough to change your "home" instance. And this site helps pick one:
https://instances.social/
https://instances.social/
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I appreciate that! Although, I am inclined to stay where I am... @silverwizard is my partner so I trust him as my admin more than anyone :)
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I have a very technical feed
I don't consider myself to know nothing, but nothing makes me feel like I know nothing more than being surrounded by technicality 😂
I find this amusing, I mpre so find it super cool! I do not feel sad about it!!
I don't consider myself to know nothing, but nothing makes me feel like I know nothing more than being surrounded by technicality 😂
I find this amusing, I mpre so find it super cool! I do not feel sad about it!!
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Thinking about this because it feels like a thing that I should communicate.... but I can get pretty bad social anxiety so if I like your post but don't respond, it could very well be because I'm panicking in one way or another, but often about "being too much"....
Not exactly sure where this expectation of yours comes from, but nobody I know expects people to comment after they liked a post.
A naked like is a perfectly fine social media reaction, nobody I know would take ombrage if a comment doesn’t follow. Sure, a comment is nice, but not everybody has something relevant to add and it’s fine.
A naked like is a perfectly fine social media reaction, nobody I know would take ombrage if a comment doesn’t follow. Sure, a comment is nice, but not everybody has something relevant to add and it’s fine.
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I think that tells me all this is all in my head. I think I just worry a lot on social media, more so than in real life even
I think that tells me all this is all in my head. I think I just worry a lot on social media, more so than in real life even
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Giving out these tubs of cotton candy this year so as not to use chocolate. Hope the kiddos love it.... my dream is to be the house in the neighborhood with the best candy and Sean's is to have big sized candy that's he feels it's a cool thing as part of the infosec community
40 tubs of different flavoured cotton candy
I didn't want to say anything not to ruin your moment, but I was pretty sure 40 tubs would be a little light. I guess your plans for neighborhood candy domination needs some refining for next year.
You are both very cute nerds, but also basing your predicted attendance on 2020-2021 numbers was risky.
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Finally all set up for Halloween and these pumpkins are done! Only took me an hour and a half 😅
One pic of a car, one of a spider web with a dangling spider beside, one of a pumpkin and the last is a silhouette of a cat's face
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Thinking about a conversation with @silverwizard the other day where we chatted about how useful (and just nice!) It is that I know my fediverse instance admin personally (because he's it) because I don’t have to think about the trust issue or my admin doing something that I might not agree with.... it's a safe space
This was in a larger conversation about decentralization and community
This was in a larger conversation about decentralization and community
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I am the kind of person who knows enough to know they know nothing about computers and yet I want a full set up to include little connected computer hubs all around the house with a plug inable "lapdesk" with a full clacky keyboard and a nice monitor and mouse so you can bring a full complete desktop setup around like a laptop
Is it too much to ask to be able to bring my lapdesk computer to my future school and sync the files to home (yes, yes it is... but @silverwizard had some thoughts and I think it might actually work 😶😶)
Thinking about ttrpgs again and how I never had "dnd damage" because I played for the first time years and years after starting to game. I'm highly influenced by fate (my first system) but I'm so violence adverse that sometimes I feel like playing with me is difficult. I don’t seek out physical combat, in fact I often play characters that will do anything to avoid a fist fight... this can make it very difficult to fit into group dynamics when everyone else has a "violence first" dnd attitude...
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To be clear, this is probably because I've never had to have a violence-first attitude in gaming and because I as a person am quite sensitive to violence
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Asking an older toddler a question do be like
Me: "do you want blankets or sheets?" (For making a fort)
Shæ: "I want paint! And glue! And glitter!"
Like I have a plan because parenting but.... i still don't know about the sheets or blankets question
Me: "do you want blankets or sheets?" (For making a fort)
Shæ: "I want paint! And glue! And glitter!"
Like I have a plan because parenting but.... i still don't know about the sheets or blankets question
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Perfect rainy day activity to get sheets from the second hand store and decorate them with paint and glitter and other things, I think. We just need to make sure we get lots of glow in the dark materials
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Anyone else know tfw you want to do a house task like 100x more than another house task but you must do the second task first so you feel paralyzed because the second task is hitting my executive dysfunction marker...
Just me? Ah, yeah :/
Just me? Ah, yeah :/
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MedTech VCs should at least know what the word holistic means and how it is differentiated from natural
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Any sentence containing the words "VCs should at least know" is, probabilistically speaking, just setting you up for disappointment.
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I spend every holiday dinner getting told how good at their jobs VCs are! The fact that my lack of faith is correct is *worse*.
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I mean, their job is "make a lot of bets at on-average-favorable odds", and (especially in environments where there's a lot of money sloshing around to buy companies at post-VC stages) it's not hard to be good at that without actually knowing anything useful.
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There are absolutely no requirement for becoming VC except money. The complete antithesis of meritocracy. Which they also are wrong about.
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I know
I really should be less involved in VC culture - but my life kinda makes it impossible to be
I really should be less involved in VC culture - but my life kinda makes it impossible to be
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My full name is Rebecca
I said to Sean, "you have recently decided to call me by my full name"
Sean: "Robecca. It's now our sons name"
Me: "poor Rowan"
I said to Sean, "you have recently decided to call me by my full name"
Sean: "Robecca. It's now our sons name"
Me: "poor Rowan"
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Duly noted. I also have a weird repulsion to being called my full birth name. Possibly because it was used by teachers to call me out in class.
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@Jonathan Lamothe (he/him) just watched your video on cold brew coffee.... thinking this method might be exactly what I need in my life 😄 as my cold brew pitcher just shattered
Away to the dollar store (in the morning)!
Away to the dollar store (in the morning)!
Throughout the pandemic, my sister's fam and I have been novid together, but now she has covid 😔
Slowly everyone I know except us has been hit at least once 😔
Slowly everyone I know except us has been hit at least once 😔
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Thinking about that time I worked for a family babysitting their small child. I was just thinking of maybe confiding in then my mental illness because I hate to keep that hidden and I tend to share it earlier rather than later if I feel like maybe I can.
Anyway, the mother decided to confide in me first how they had a previous babysitter who they got along with really well until she told them she had bipolar. Then they were nervous she would be dangerous when she took care of their kid, and were relieved when she quit soon after.
Needless to say, this ended up being another mark on the page of Wait To Confide for me because uh, ablism is not fun and I don’t need it directed to me.
It makes me think sometimes. I think about stigma and ablism but I also think of my power of being able to hide it all. That I have an invisible disability. Nobody ever guesses. There has been exactly 1 person who said he'd wondered: my thesis advisor in clinical psych for my undergrad thesid because of my intensity of interest in my area of research (bipolar).
Anyway, the mother decided to confide in me first how they had a previous babysitter who they got along with really well until she told them she had bipolar. Then they were nervous she would be dangerous when she took care of their kid, and were relieved when she quit soon after.
Needless to say, this ended up being another mark on the page of Wait To Confide for me because uh, ablism is not fun and I don’t need it directed to me.
It makes me think sometimes. I think about stigma and ablism but I also think of my power of being able to hide it all. That I have an invisible disability. Nobody ever guesses. There has been exactly 1 person who said he'd wondered: my thesis advisor in clinical psych for my undergrad thesid because of my intensity of interest in my area of research (bipolar).
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Feeling frustration at the lack of like, care and understanding some of my family have when I interact with them.
My grandmother's funeral was supposed to be tomorrow. I foumd out 2 weeks ago from my sister. Now it's been posponed, I found out today by asking specifically the person in the know (aka my uncle)
My grandmother's funeral was supposed to be tomorrow. I foumd out 2 weeks ago from my sister. Now it's been posponed, I found out today by asking specifically the person in the know (aka my uncle)
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It's a 2h drive and Sean had already taken time off work to come with me. Plus we have two littles
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When will covid be ovvveerr??
(I'll fight you if you tell me it's already over)
(I'll fight you if you tell me it's already over)
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At this rate, never, we'll start celebrating the apparition of the new strain in the Fall like we used to do with the Harvest because of the regularity.
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I'm looking forward to giving out these mid sized tubs of cotton candy for Halloween in all sorts of different flavours. My goal is to have the best candy on the block and I hope this is what the kiddos want. I usually base it on what I'd want too, and I definitely would have been so excited by a cotton candy tub ❤️😄
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Started Strattera (nonstimulant adhd med) a few weeks ago and finally starting to process the world around me is an interesting thing. I never knew what it was like to not have my thoughts all like a jumbled mess before and today I'm starting to actually be able to think about situations from a perspective that isn't immediate and I gotta say... it feels very unusual but quite nice and the more I get used to it the more I like being able to think clearly.
I've been anxious to talk about it because I don’t have the formal dx and so I still feel unsure claiming it as my space too, but the medication is certainly not doing nothing
I've been anxious to talk about it because I don’t have the formal dx and so I still feel unsure claiming it as my space too, but the medication is certainly not doing nothing
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So my dad is probably going to be homeless soon. He's very paranoid (in the clinical sense) and won't let us help him and is afraid I'm going to kidnap him if I ever drive even somewhat close to city edges of the place he lives. He won't even tell us what's going on, I found out thru other means
I don’t even know what to do. I'm so scared I'm going to wake up one day and he'll have disappeared into oblivion and I'll have no way to find him, because it's already a challenge to find him
The only other people who care are just as powerless as me & Sean: my sister and his brother
My grandmother spent actual years fueling his paranoia about all of us and this is where it's led and it's hard not to be upset about it, even though she's gone now
I just don’t even know what to do
I don’t even know what to do. I'm so scared I'm going to wake up one day and he'll have disappeared into oblivion and I'll have no way to find him, because it's already a challenge to find him
The only other people who care are just as powerless as me & Sean: my sister and his brother
My grandmother spent actual years fueling his paranoia about all of us and this is where it's led and it's hard not to be upset about it, even though she's gone now
I just don’t even know what to do
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Yeah, that makes sense, although she was as much affected as he was. I think I'll need to spend some time working thru my feelings around it. I'm one of those, find solace in myself in forgiveness in others types
Yeah, that makes sense, although she was as much affected as he was. I think I'll need to spend some time working thru my feelings around it. I'm one of those, find solace in myself in forgiveness in others types
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I should say, I know it's not like that for everyone, but forgiveness does work for me.
I'd never push other people it. I understand other people's journeys are their own. I'm not going to preach it. It works differently and some people do some pretty awful things that don't warrent that kind of response.
I'm not about to forgive the various organizations and people that took advantage of my grandmother in her later years, for example.. but I might need to forgive her for my own peace. I might not, we'll see. I'm still working thru it
I'd never push other people it. I understand other people's journeys are their own. I'm not going to preach it. It works differently and some people do some pretty awful things that don't warrent that kind of response.
I'm not about to forgive the various organizations and people that took advantage of my grandmother in her later years, for example.. but I might need to forgive her for my own peace. I might not, we'll see. I'm still working thru it
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Okay, it's been about a week since I made some intense connections between some of my past traumas and while I don’t feel like all my weird stressors around everything that changed are gone, I feel like that sense of connection and contentment within myself for myself has returned, so that's extremely encouraging.
It was an incredibly rough month beforehand, so I'm extremely grateful to be internally more peaceful and not so turbulent
One thing I feel like I know know about trauma recovery is that it really gets to the worst point right before it turns around
It was an incredibly rough month beforehand, so I'm extremely grateful to be internally more peaceful and not so turbulent
One thing I feel like I know know about trauma recovery is that it really gets to the worst point right before it turns around
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Thinking about how we have to vote in our community elections for mayor and other community elected members coming up soon and the language being used by some terfs to hide what they're really doing from the public in order to get elected...
Oh they just want "child appropriate school material" by banning lgbtq+ books from classrooms
Like just say you want to ban books if you really think it's a problem for children, but I know you understand exactly what you're doing and the legitimate backlash you'll recieve if you're honest about what you're doing so you hide behind a face to get the thing you want so you can hurt people
Oh they just want "child appropriate school material" by banning lgbtq+ books from classrooms
Like just say you want to ban books if you really think it's a problem for children, but I know you understand exactly what you're doing and the legitimate backlash you'll recieve if you're honest about what you're doing so you hide behind a face to get the thing you want so you can hurt people
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This morning I had my hair pulled for some undetermined number of hours while I tried to sleep
Then I woke up to start the day by taking both kids to their vaccine appointments
Now they're both feeling it and I'm exhausted so countdown to having another adult help commences
Problem is, while I was having every hair yanked out of my head, he was having his head repeatedly kicked by a tiny toddler.... so......
Not sure these vaxes were a great idea for today 😓
Then I woke up to start the day by taking both kids to their vaccine appointments
Now they're both feeling it and I'm exhausted so countdown to having another adult help commences
Problem is, while I was having every hair yanked out of my head, he was having his head repeatedly kicked by a tiny toddler.... so......
Not sure these vaxes were a great idea for today 😓
This morning I am annoyed
I went to my mum's outdoor 60th birthday party and she had invited her wheelchair bound friend to the party. It was in the back garden with a very narrow pathway to the party and they (my mum's friend and her mum, also my mum's friend) wanted to get past this awkward part that was too narrow because of the concrete stairs to the house.
So my brother and I stick around to help. He suggests he lift the very heavy wheelchair in which the person in the wheelchair and her mum both say that it's too heavy and they'd rather not try. To which my brother starts inspecting the wheelchair and goes to touch it multiple times, at which point I said, each time, "you can't touch it, you need to ask first" (he did actually touch it once, I think)
Which like should be common knowledge, I thought was common knowledge. Like, in the vein of, you wouldn't touch someone's purse without asking why would you touch their wheelchair (obviously this is an imperfect example because wheelchairs are not just like purses etc).
After they were past this tricky point, my brother, gives me this absolutely furious-with-me look and storms off to calm down. I hate it. But I feel incredibly strongly about consent, and it is actually an important thing... :(
I went to my mum's outdoor 60th birthday party and she had invited her wheelchair bound friend to the party. It was in the back garden with a very narrow pathway to the party and they (my mum's friend and her mum, also my mum's friend) wanted to get past this awkward part that was too narrow because of the concrete stairs to the house.
So my brother and I stick around to help. He suggests he lift the very heavy wheelchair in which the person in the wheelchair and her mum both say that it's too heavy and they'd rather not try. To which my brother starts inspecting the wheelchair and goes to touch it multiple times, at which point I said, each time, "you can't touch it, you need to ask first" (he did actually touch it once, I think)
Which like should be common knowledge, I thought was common knowledge. Like, in the vein of, you wouldn't touch someone's purse without asking why would you touch their wheelchair (obviously this is an imperfect example because wheelchairs are not just like purses etc).
After they were past this tricky point, my brother, gives me this absolutely furious-with-me look and storms off to calm down. I hate it. But I feel incredibly strongly about consent, and it is actually an important thing... :(
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It’s like touching someone’s leg, so the purse comparaison indeed doesn’t really work. This is also why the expression “wheelchair bound” doesn’t make much sense. A wheelchair is liberating rather than limiting or confining. Prefer “using a wheelchair”.
I recognize the irony of pointing this out as a comment to a story about someone who got upset to be pointed out their behavior regarding disability wasn’t welcome, but I felt it was important other people knew about this expression.
I recognize the irony of pointing this out as a comment to a story about someone who got upset to be pointed out their behavior regarding disability wasn’t welcome, but I felt it was important other people knew about this expression.
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No, thank you for pointing it out, I think it's important and I can always learn and improve on my language ❤️
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Working through trauma really makes you feel internally turbulent in a way that is really complicated to express
One day I'll feel internally stable again and I look forward to it... I feel lucky and thankful that I have some idea what it's supposed to look and feel like ❤️
I should do some art expression tonight 😊, and consider what audiobooks might be fun
One day I'll feel internally stable again and I look forward to it... I feel lucky and thankful that I have some idea what it's supposed to look and feel like ❤️
I should do some art expression tonight 😊, and consider what audiobooks might be fun
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In grade 8, I dressed up as Jessica Fletcher when asked to dress up as my favourite tv show character for school
We're rewatching Murder, She Wrote again, and feeling like not much has changed in my preferences, apparently
We're rewatching Murder, She Wrote again, and feeling like not much has changed in my preferences, apparently
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Just finished dropping off one of Shæ's favourite toddler books (and my personal favourite), Little Blue Truck, to 9 different little free libraries in the area 😊❤️ #BuildingCommunity #LittleFreeLibrary
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This is the logical explanation but it made little sense to me. Did you buy them specifically to drop them off or did you just have 9 copies lying around?
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Oh, yeah, I suppose I didn't explain very well
A few weeks ago we went around to these little free libraries and chose some books for Shæ to read, but most of them had few, if any, toddler books. So I chose my favourite toddler book that Shæ also loved and bought a bunch of copies for the sole purpose of putting in the little free libraries for other toddler parents
Today, they arrived and I brought the kids with me to deliver them
A few weeks ago we went around to these little free libraries and chose some books for Shæ to read, but most of them had few, if any, toddler books. So I chose my favourite toddler book that Shæ also loved and bought a bunch of copies for the sole purpose of putting in the little free libraries for other toddler parents
Today, they arrived and I brought the kids with me to deliver them
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@silverwizard just reminded me of that d&d campaign I was in where an owlbear attacked and I fed it a bunch of goodberries so it wasn't hungry anymore and so was happy and stopped attacking because I was playing an animal loving druid.... but then the same thing happened with rats, and a giant squid... and just kept happening because the gm just kept motivating our enemies with hunger... eventually he stopped but it happened more times than I expected that goodberry just worked
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The worst part was the gm was progressively more frustrated every time it happened but I'm pretty sure it was a default reaction to make hunger the motivation...
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That GM also loved set piece fights as the big moment.
So having a cool fight with an octopus in the sewer was 100% a thing he thought was cool. But then we just gave the octopus a goodberry and moved on.
So having a cool fight with an octopus in the sewer was 100% a thing he thought was cool. But then we just gave the octopus a goodberry and moved on.
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Last Sunday:
DM: You see a great elk in the clearing you need to hunt, do you set traps or try to shoot it from where you are?
Me: I use my paladin power to abjure it, making it frightened, and then I walk to it and plunge my great-sword between his eyes.
Thankfully the DM was delighted by my “solution”, DnD is stupid but fun when you take it as a puzzle board game.
DM: You see a great elk in the clearing you need to hunt, do you set traps or try to shoot it from where you are?
Me: I use my paladin power to abjure it, making it frightened, and then I walk to it and plunge my great-sword between his eyes.
Thankfully the DM was delighted by my “solution”, DnD is stupid but fun when you take it as a puzzle board game.
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We needed a great elk heart (among other things) to allow a druid ghost to prepare a potion to heal a treant!
It was force majeure!
It was force majeure!
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I 100% agree, but I have only ever really done ttrpg with Sean and that's always been his approach
Plus my first game was fate, which fits that so well imo
Plus my first game was fate, which fits that so well imo
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A part of me feels like I shouldn't have to be stressed to talk to certain friends of mine because they want to hang out more and don't necessarily understand my 'extreme' caution around covid because of my children.
I want to be clear that I've been careful in who I've let in and these are all people who I appreciate greatly and have no interest in not having in my life, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, I'm just a bit tired of the anxiety I get from expressing my needs around it
I feel like most people have moved on because their circumstances are different and they don't necessarily understand why I haven't yet
I want to be clear that I've been careful in who I've let in and these are all people who I appreciate greatly and have no interest in not having in my life, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, I'm just a bit tired of the anxiety I get from expressing my needs around it
I feel like most people have moved on because their circumstances are different and they don't necessarily understand why I haven't yet
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