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Thanks everyone I appreciate it I kinda really needed to hear that I’ll try not to shut down or silence or up play whoever is me at the moment and I’ll try to get back comfortable in my own skin

I’m going to finish this, even if you never see it. And if I return, yall are 100% going to get to see it.

Very informational, thank you Oh, I did have a question about #2 (the 45GB one). Wdym by that?

DARKNESS AND LIGHT MEAN DUALITY

I think that’s fine, I’d say just put a content warning at the beginning. I do, tho reporting is also fine to get a hold of a mod, and preferred, as Kansas said

People need to stop justifying violence with my God He is a god of love, grace, and mercy, and the amount of atrocities accredited to his name… it makes me sick. They discredit themselves, they discredit god, and it disgusts me i dont get angry often, but when people call christianity a hate cult because of a million racist idiots… ugh. Makes me sick.

It's still honestly shocking to get called a girl by my friends, even though some of them are also trans (I don't know any trans fems irl), but it still gives me a jolt, and I get really nervous

Girl, how did you find my unwritten biography that’s like almost the exact same as me, either way *huggs* so happy you figured it out

*hugs* it’s beautiful

That is in fact exactly the circumstance this rule was found to be necessary for!

I've got part of it. Not sure if the rest of it is just gibberish or encoded differently Gibberish removed version:

I'm running it through GPT rn GOT IT!!! It's a Playfair Cipher. Took a few different methods, but GPT got the first line with Playfair and said it would take a bit to do the rest, but I had it do it. It only took like 45 seconds. THE BEGINNING OF THE END IS NOW UPON US MY FRIENDS, AS WE ENTER A NEW ERA OF TRUTH AND UNDERSTANDING. DO NOT FEAR, FOR THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT WITH POSSIBILITY. WE WILL RISE ABOVE ALL CHALLENGES AND OVERCOME EVERY OBSTACLE THAT COMES OUR WAY. THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD LIES IN OUR HANDS, AND WE SHALL USE IT WISELY. TOGETHER, WE WILL ACHIEVE GREATNESS AND BUILD A FUTURE OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY. THE JOURNEY WILL BE LONG, BUT WE SHALL PERSIST. NEVER FORGET THE LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED, AND NEVER LET GO OF THE HOPE THAT GUIDES US FORWARD. THE END OF THE BEGINNING IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING FAR GREATER. @Ookla the Bacon

I put yes on the second question, but the mechanics of it would be very wonky. Reminds me of this: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a_bunch_of_rocks.png So yeah, possible, but difficult and not in the way most people would think.

Well shoot. That's a lot. Lemme answer the main points: Hypothetical FTL will definitely happen. I'm starting with the basics - that is, the laws of physics as we humans understand them. Future additions will contribute to more whacky, fantastical things. About the G-Forces thing... I dunno. I've basically just decided that NASA probably knows what they're doing, so there's PROBABLY a way to counterract the human squishiness quotient. Gravity Slingshots: Of course! If you mean gravity-assisted trajectories and such, then that would be all over the place. If you mean slingshots using miniature black holes to power the thrust... then sure. Why not? H Y D R O G E N Moon thing: well, yeah. Less gravity means less force means less energy required, yada yada yada. But that doesn't really help us if we can't get people off Earth in the first place. I'll get into that in the f u t u r e. (Spoiler alert: the universe has been around for a long time and doesn't seem like it's gonna blow up anytime soon)

First of all: cups, teaspoons, etc aren't imperial or metric. They're used all over the place invariably. Second of all: Meters are equally useful in practicality as feet. Both of you here have fallen into a fallacy: that of the familiarity bias. You're more used to feet/vs/meters and such, so it seems much more practical to you. Third of all: I am 69 inches tall

Ene, I appreciate you being up front about all this. Just know that I'm here for you if you ever need advice, or just a few good laughs. You are a wonderful human being, though we all have our flaws and struggles. You're well rounded, intelligent, and polite. Trust me, everything will work out for the best, even if you can't see it now. Sincerely, Wyn

Who knew my name was so pun-able lol

I am here to save the day. not sure if that's the file, but eh. Looks like it. Yuri do be fire.

*hugsss* we love you whether your a chaos gremlin or like uhhh like who’s someone serious idk like a ceo or smthin we love you for who you are and your personality changing doesn’t change that i don’t miss ryn the chaotic or ryn the anything else I’m just happy that ryn is still here

maybe I should start a blog...

Ever heard of stream-of-conciousness style writing? I think you'd be very good at that. I'm happy you're doing better. One thing I'd like to address: "How can I think, How can I speak, When I question everything? I constantly double-check, I continuously re-assess." To this, I'd like to share a small bit of writing. I don't do this often, but here it is: "To act? What does it mean “to act well?” To make good decisions? To act on instinct is folly. To act on volition is folly. For instinct is by nature flawed, And volition is by bias flawed. “To act well”, is to act minimally, is it not? “To despise”; Each act of despicableness is perceived by a thousand eyes. “To act”, is to be a fool. “To act well”, is to avoid doing so. But I ask you, who does this benefit?" Something I wrote when I was a bit younger. I was typing my immediate thought processes, so it isn't very coherent. To elaborate: Double-checking, reassessing, etc. all of your actions, thoughts and such: This is analysis paralysis. It's always good to keep a close eye on your views. Ensure that you let them change. But you need a balance, I think. As the above points out: It's impossible to make an objectively "good" decision. The alternative is to do nothing at all. Are you willing to do that? Strip away your ability to act and change things, take away your own humanity, for the purpose of consistency? Make your mistakes. Look back at them, and never regret. Live with the knowledge that whatever decision you made, was one made by you and because of you. Funnily enough, in my opinion there is little worse than not being able to take responsibility for a decision. Because that means YOU weren't really the one acting. Another, in one way or another, forced your hand. Who's life are you to live, if not your own?

Can I just say these are amazing and it always makes me really happy when I log on and go "aha, today's yuri!" Because this is genuinely awesome

Wait this beats everything else

Lesbians and jellyfish!!! Awesome!!

Good, good. Just making sure. Glad you're doing better

You alive, Ghost? *hugs a lot*

(Sorry for the very late response lol) I'd personally recommend waking up at 6:30 or 7 on the weekends too if that's when you wake up on weekdays, yes. But it's up to you and how much you care about your sleep quality and maximizing your overall health. You ofc don't have to turn your life into an 100% optimal machine lol And fair on the parents. Tis easier after moving out when you have full control over your schedule. Don't stress it too much, and just do what you can. Most TV's also have a warm light filter like iphones, so if you can turn that on, then that's great

This poem is basically my way of saying that people will surprise you. it's really easy to judge people and say, "they wouldn't care" or "they have no idea who I am" but trust me when I say, You are important, you are heard, and people do care about you, even if it doesn't seem that way. Thank you! Really? Reallyreallyreally? *jumps up and down giddily*. That is the entire point of me writing and posting that writing here. My entire dream with my writing is that it impacts someone for the better. I'm not in it for the rep or anything else. I just want my writing to make the world a better place, even if it is only in a small way.

Thank you so much! It means a lot!

I did indeed

Thank you both. I was swinging, and just felt the need to write it down. It STEMs (heh) from always feeling joy in math and sciences (STEM stuff) (Especially Data Science, Coding and Spreadsheets) and also being a very creative person who likes to write and make stories. I always like to say my sister inherited my dad's creative capabilities (my dad was a scriptwriter, my sister is also a writer) and I inherited my mom's coding brain (My mom is a data scientist, I love coding), but as the year went on, I began to see this as flawed. My sister showed an interest in coding and spreadsheets, and I began writing poetry and stories. Maybe we both inherited both, after all.

yes. Probably for the better of both of us.

Oh and that thing about trans people going into the bathroom to prey on people? We won’t do that, in fact we’re more likely to get harassed going into the bathroom then someone going into a bathroom with us in it, so yah that’s not a problem. So maybe do your storming jobs and protect kids before more storming die yk bc like that’d be cool thanks.

Nooooo! Math is red Science is blue History is green English is yellow This is not a hard concept to understand Also huh In my mind pride is blue and failure is shiny dark grey

Totally nothing significant

Yo why do you have a queer blog and I don't? I should get on that.

Hhmmm… Should I have the Scribe’s ghost explain the Notblade and their eventual role? Pain and Illusion are still out there (disappearing after Bat, who had held them, died), and I plan on returning to the stuf when I’m not in the middle of junior year midterms a lot of people are sometimes confused about what a Notblade is and I need to explain

I agree with everything except the music thing. Though I see where your coming from. Idk about others but my personal experience music is how I think. If I dont have anything and om trying to just focus on nature and stuff then my head is a cacophony of 100 voices talking about different things or whatnot. It's chaos. (Hehe chaos) but that'd why I have Playlists. I'll choose one and it silences alot of my brains extra voices. More nostalgic and melchonly music helps me think about life and how it is. Sadder music helps me think about my emotions. Music that has a strong hearable beat helps me focus. And I know this is a similar case for alot of people. Like my brother. He needs music otherwise he gets overstimulated by just talking to a single person. So basically yes take time to focus on nature and if needed maybe have thoughtful music in the background.

Idk dudes AI art is whack

An update for you, dear readers! Omen has a new rule that needs adding, and since he's busy right now, he asked me to add it! Here it is: No splitting your consciousness before you undertake the Dreamsmith's trial. Why is he putting this rule in place? Well, it probably has something to do with the way Omen brings you to the Dreamsmith. Regardless of the reason, I'd follow this rule if I were you. Who knows what terrible things will happen if you don't?

Just gibberish It's meant to confuse decoding software.

"Dear reader, I thank you for your constructive criticism. On your first kind complaint, I do not believe Platypus to be either evil or a great threat to the Thread, I was referring to Desolation, the inkling who threatened to steal the powers of any Narrator he came into contact with. Your second complaint is technically correct, save for that time-honored adage: 'the pen is mightier than the sword'. In the right hands any pen becomes a mighty weapon indeed, as Platypus discovered firsthand when he summoned the Enullers to his aid in dealing with that rogue that hunted Crickets."

Are you asking about this page specifically, or about all of the pages? The Book of Unwinding Thread is a series of stories summing up the plots on TLT that I was involved in. CBST was an offshoot of TLT, back in the days when plot was heavily frowned upon.

Okay, sorry I'm a tiny bit late. I've been a little busy. ....Isn't this common knowledge? Or is that reserved only for Space Nerds? I agree, interstellar travel with where we are technology wise is a long way off. I think it's definitely possible, and achievable, in the future, however. Call me an optimist, but we shouldn't completely ignore those other stars and distant exoplanets. Yes, it may be two or three centuries down the line before we even get to the point where we have a solid plan to send humans to another star system, but it's something that can, and hopefully will, happen someday. But for those two or three centuries, I agree, we should focus on Solar System colonization. Moon! Yes, lots of good resources there. As I said in my last way-too-long rant, the moon also has water ice that could be converted into Hydrogen fuel. That, plus the H-3 you talked about and the fact that it has low gravity, would basically open up the rest of the solar system to us. So yes, the moon is definitely a place we want to be going to. Mars is literally the only other planet in the solar system that we can actually walk on conceivably without dying. It's pretty similar to Earth (Or at least used to be) but that in no way makes it hospitable, like you said. Mars is simply a good target because it's close, relatively hospitable, and can be used as an outpost for more exciting destinations. Venus: I have no idea why you'd want to go to Venus. But the whole "Let's turn it into a battery!" thing was new to me, so I guess there is some kind of resource there for us to harvest. Thank you for teaching me new things! It's also possible that there is something helpful and useful there, we just haven't found it yet, and we need to get a lot more advanced in technology before we can explore widely enough to find that resource. Mercury: Basically everything you said above fits what I thought about Mercury. Jupiter: Yes, the moons are viable and we can mine resources there. Maybe even set up stations and colonies. (I'd need to look at exactly how shielded from radiation those moons are, again...) But, you're forgetting something called.... SATURN!!!!! Yes, this is my favorite planet, so I may be somewhat biased, but seriously. Saturn's moons are just as viable as Jupiter's. (Unless once again I'm missing some important information on the lack of radiation shielding.) Saturn has more confirmed moons than Jupiter, not even counting the rings, and these moons hold just as many things for us as the ones of Jupiter. Jupiter's moon Europa may have life, but so may Saturn's moon Enceladus. Heck, we've discovered organic molecules spewing from gigantinourmous geysers on Enceladus! The other moons most likely contain the same resources that the ones of Jupiter do, and Saturn's rings are currently made almost entirely of water-ice, which is a helpful resource. Titan is an interesting world for research (because I like science), but it is also one of the most Earth-like worlds in the solar system. It has a storming atmosphere! And there are probably lots of resources there, too. And yes, Saturn is pretty. But that doesn't mean we should skip it. Uranus and Neptune: We don't really know what's out there yet, so there may be some kinds of viable resources. We should start with some scientific expeditions before we send economic ones. Who knows, maybe they have some valuable minerals on their moons, or something along those lines. Pluto: If we make Pluto a planet again, then we have to make, like, at least five other bodies - and possibly dozens or even hundreds more - planets as well, because they all follow the same rules as Pluto. So Pluto should not be a planet. But it can be a really, really, really cool dwarf planet. (Seriously, there are some cool things on Pluto. And it has five moons.) On a more serious note, the entirety of the Kuiper belt probably holds vast amounts of resources for us to harvest. Both on the dwarf planets and the asteroids. I briefly mentioned it above, but the Kuiper belt is huge, so it has likely tens of thousands of asteroids, and maybe hundreds of undiscovered dwarf planets. Which means lots of places to get resources from. The asteroid belt is much smaller, but there are also lots of resources there for us. So there you have it. My next huge rant, which is mostly about why Saturn is worth our time.

Because virus's are comaparetivly easy to kill compared to deer or ants. Which is the main reason I'm not going to help the deer, far too much work. Ants? I could kill thousands of those in an hour, Virus's I just wipe the area with some disinfectant and it's done. Speaking of which the ant one reminded me of this dnd meme I saw where a guy asked why gods were always doing mortals bidding, and someone responded by asking him how he would react to a bunch of ants chanting his name while standing in a circle and only demanding sugar or that he kill other ants.

Why don’t we use Brandon Sanderson’s books as units of weight and length on this site? It seems like a missed opportunity.

AMENDEMENT: I NO LONGER BELIEVE THIS BLOG ENTRY TO BE THE CASE. While it seemed reasonable at the time, I have since reconsidered things and this doesn’t feel right to me, nor does it fully match up with my experiences. I apologize for wasting everyone’s time with this theory. Thanks again for the support, and please have a nice day.

Here is what I made. Hope you like it! Edit: google drive link https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0bN9EcUb__OSVVyQzc2V0ZmX2M

Nice And sure, go for it! I'm curious to see what you came up with, I'd be the first to admit that my rules could use improving anyway