Szeth's Facepalm

Hi guys!! As many of you know, Elf (@Cruciatus_heart) is sadly unable to be on the shard anymore. However, we've decided to make a thread so she can still talk and communicate with you guys! She'll have occasional insights and updates that I will post here, and I can relay any messages from you all to her. First off, she's really happy because she's winning a prize for English, since she got the highest marks out of the whole tenth grade!! She's super proud of herself and really wanted to share with the shard, which is what prompted this thread :D So if you ever have anything to tell her, just drop it here. She misses all of you a lot!!

I mean.... i think if you've come up with it you shouldn't worry about whether someone else did it first. Every single piece of music is going to sound a little similar to another one, some more so, some less, and that's fine. If you came up with it on your own and didn't plagiarize, i wouldn't worry. Can't help on the tech part, sorry

Kk Graphic novels and comic books lose me sometimes but i'll give it a try.

Man y'all are seriously making me want to check it out I can only watch anime at my cousin's house and right now i'm very slowly working my way through Kaguya-sama: Love is War, but when i'm done i'll try to convince them we should watch this cause it seems epic.

AHHH I just watched it I'm sobbing y'all

Oh my gosh i just finished it Absolutely transcendent Thank you guys SO MUCH for inspiring me to listen to that absolutely gorgeous piece of art. Seeing it in person is on my bucket list now :D I'd have more to say about it but i have to blow dry my dog who just got a bath lol

YES!!!! The cast looks SOOOO great (Walker Scobell especially omg) and the teaser- those cabins- it looks AMAZING!!!! I watch the teaser when i'm sad. I'm so excited!! it seems like the people making it really care about the series. I have very high hopes :D Hehe i'm gonna go watch the teaser again, thanks for reminding me

Guys I just started the Hadestown soundtrack, I'm only on the third song but it's SO PRETTY :0 was no one gonna tell me how beautiful this musical sounded omg. Like, it's not the most sing-along-able but it's so cool and pretty. I love it :D

Oh i just realized i never put this here: https://www.duolingo.com/profile/dogecoin42069708?via=share_profile Anyone wanna be duo friends :D

That is the same anniversary as the final episode of The Magnus Archives Lul Edit: i'm sorry, that was so random, idk why i posted that ;-;

Samesies :D

Lmao sorry for freaking out Idk why i did that All the waking up early has driven me insane, clearly Anyway Uh What is this thread again? Oh, duolingo. Doomie and i won our friendquest :D Also, look:

YOU GUYS ARE LITERALLY SO LUCKY OMG IT'S NOT FAIR HOW COME YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE TO SUFFER LIKE THE REST OF US Edit: sorry, that was... aggressive ;-;

Yeah when does it start? Mine starts at 6:05 ;-: (i have not gone in a month and I feel bad cause my teacher's super nice but ya know. Sometimes u gotta slep.)

Hehe doomie and i are doing a duo friendquest together

I'm gonna nope out of here cause this is the Sanderson fan website and i did not sign up for a convo like this when i made an account. Adios fellers (And no one wanted to try to find common ground with me about york peppermint patties )

Thank you guys so much for the hugs and advice :) I did a mostly good job getting homework done today using @Telrao's method, so I'll try really hard to keep that up till the end of the school year. Y'all are the best

Thomas Jefferson's coming hoooooome!!

this school year has been very hard for me for a lot of reasons that i don't want to get into, and suddenly it's taken a serious toll. i was doing ok but now i'm not. i get so stressed all the time and i get bad stomach aches, which pretty much never happened till recently, and i'm so tired all the time because i have bad time management skills and i have to stay up late doing homework. i just have no idea how i am going to make it through the last 6 or 7 weeks of school, i feel like i've been driving a car since the school year started-- not particularly well, but progressively better and manageably-- but now i am suddenly out of gas and i literally don't know how i will make it to the end of the road because i am out of fricking gas and i can't move, i can't fricking lift my hands to take notes in biology class, and all i wanna do is just cry in bed all day. hugs (and advice?) appreciated :(

*weakly raises fist into air* Yes We can do it *cri*

Cinnamon we will suffer together ;-; My mom got mad at me so now i will probably have to wait even longer ;-; I'm gonna end up crying before i even watch it ;-;

You are making very broad generalizations. I know plenty of people- men, women, whatever- with those attributes who i would certainly not label as any of the things you have mentioned. The main reason someone would label another person as "toxic, or sexist, or misogynistic" is if they behave in the manner that that label suggests. Any of the behaviors and attributes you have described are fine as you have described them, but when they get to an extreme, that's when they become bad. I've seen those behaviors go out of control with my own eyes and it's not pretty. Obviously having mental fortitude does not automatically make you manipulative, but if you use it to be manipulative, then, well, there you go. Physical strength and capability for violence is fine, cool, even (not to necessarily to me but I know there are people with other valid perspectives on that front), but when you start to glorify violence and enjoy it, it's no longer something helping you to better yourself. Stoicism is good when it allows you to be mature and not over indulge in negative emotions, but when it gets to the point where you can't properly experience them, that's just going to make it harder for yourself. Self-reliance is a wonderful trait, but if you never trust or rely on others, you'll probably start to feel alienated and burned out. So yeah, these are fine- even great- attributes, but only at a reasonable level. It's when they get out of control that the people exhibiting them can appear to be "toxic, or sexist, or misogynistic". Also, these are all fine attributes to strive for in yourself, in moderation, as stated, but why should other men have to adhere to them as well? Why do you think there should be a standard for what attributes you should strive for if you're a man in the first place? What makes them all necessary masculine attributes?

Uh, yes??? For me he's tied with Jasnah, but he usually comes out on top. I love him!!

Lmao who just repped this I do not remember it at all and i laughed at it for like a minute @whoever repped this, thank you very much Edit: wait what this is active again?? I didn't notice when i posted that lol

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