euphoriafish

Picking this blog habit up again

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:27:48 GMT

Hello! I’m here whether anyone follows me or not because I love long form blog writing. I miss having an Internet forum to dialogue about popular culture with people. Blogging helps me identify my feelings and choose my reactions in a way that social media doesn’t. Today I was looking at a friend’s Facebook page and her bio had just a quote that was something like,

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My Pocket Maple Story profile is so awesome it should be my profile everywhere

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 04:21:11 GMT

I keep trying to let go of my video gaming self to make more room for my social and filmmaker and researcher and artist selves. My rule for me currently is to play real games only after 7pm but then I go too long so scratch that, I only play games after 6PM and I had to do something first. I do allow myself feeding digital fish in Splash and potentially checking irradiated people in Fallout Shelter before then since they can be kept to less than 20 minutes, but I think forum checking is really the better break time and I should do that more.

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Male feminists

Tue, 10 Mar 2015 04:19:33 GMT

I believe the term "male feminist" is necessary because if male feminists just call themselves feminists in an anonymous environment online, they will be presumed female and that actually hurts the feminist movement because if feminists are thought only female that opens the door for the "angry woman" stereotype to continue. Male feminists are sometimes annoying to me if they are trying to be THE BEST feminist or win the internet by being a male feminist without just checking their privilege and pushing for equality like you do if you are truly a feminist. But they do deserve a small badge of honor for standing up for social progression and bringing attention to the fact that they are not the same as archaically minded dudes they may look like. I attend to assume it less necessary for younger people and more necessary for baby boomers and greatest generationers. But most of all on the internet where if you don't say exactly what you believe people will assume everyone thinks like they do in small groups that don't know they're not up to date.

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In Which We Provide One Sweet Home For Kitties

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:49:15 GMT

For the past few months, our neighborhood has been invaded by two kittens. One tabby-n-white and one grey soft tabby, both female, would sit out on my car every day and go into our across the street neighbors' garage at night. As the weather got colder and colder, it wasn't enough to be on the car anymore (they wanted inside it...when I was going somewhere) and it wasn't enough to say hello in the driveway (they wanted to wind round my legs and crutches all the way to the front door which they would enter as I was trying to manage my bag or Mom brought groceries in).

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Waiting on the Sexism to Change While Paying My Dues

Wed, 28 May 2014 04:39:26 GMT

Reading Hollywood Reporter, I came across reaction punditry on the recent UCSB shooting and defense of a movie that had nothing to do with the shooting. Ugh at this in all directions. Please hear me out because I'm going to play both sides and search for my own opinion.

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Clearing Some Head Noise About Race and Disability

Wed, 14 May 2014 18:23:15 GMT

It seems a Herculean task to write about civil rights issues properly when you've just started writing, even if you've been thinking about the issues and whether or not you have something to contribute to the conversation for quite some time. I published this blog publicly here in hopes that it would start a discussion first with people who are my friends, particularly my friends who are black but really everyone because I'm shyly not phoning you all equally these days. I get up and drag myself to breakfast and to writing, and then at the end of the day I should be socializing but there was something I didn't do and then I drag myself to bed. I'm going to keep editing these thoughts and re-posting them until my friends start calling me out and then when I settle it with my friends and reach a plateau on educating myself, I'll publish it on my Blogger blog and then try to get it published professionally so I can get called out by total strangers for leaving something out.

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On Stress and My Coping Mechanisms

Thu, 01 May 2014 23:42:57 GMT

A friend was stressed out and crowdsourcing ideas to deal with it today and I remembered all these strategies I enjoy explaining to people. I have found myself offering this advice before, so I decided to blog it here under a "ProTips" tag where it's easy to pass on to others when the message bears repeating. I am not the pro who originated this advice and it's probably not my system either-- it's from friend advice and many articles/books I read. Your milage may vary, I've never heard back on how well these tips work for other people, but that I've aggregated them into a process that works for me mostly says some of them probably work sometimes for some people. Here's what I do:

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Happy Easter!

Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:56:44 GMT

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The Heart-Shaped Void That is Too Many Goals in Too Little Time With No Accounting For Success

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:03:25 GMT

I subscribe to Kristine Oller's mailing list because I bought her Networking Bootcamp recordings a few years back. Her networking advice really changed my approach to networking and learning from others, and I still listen to her positive, encouraging vocal inflection once a week or so in the short videos from her mailing list. This lady has a voice like dew drops on cotton candy that is so soothing because she BELIEVES. IN YOU, even.

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A Side Note on Why Dreamwidth Instead of LiveJournal

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:05:00 GMT

Why we left LJ;

* It's really unnerving to get daily friend requests from stranger journals written entirely in a foreign language.
* Memes and other lazy blogging migrated to Facebook.
* Baby boomer journalists or comedians started making us feel bad about the personal and vulnerable nature of sites like LiveJournal and MySpace, saying we post TMI and are too whiny.

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Ten Things to Kick Off the New Blog

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:19:30 GMT

I couldn't stand not having a diary anymore and the sting of "It's not the saaaaame!" has officially worn off of Dreamwidth for me. This is a beautiful blogging community and I want to like it.

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