Nikolai

Keep track of the tree species around you, what differentiates one species from another, small facts about the trees, and — if you're a nerd — remember the history of the trees itself (such as when they first were founded or how they got to that area). Use this as trivia to people you meet. You could do this with pretty much anything, but I specify trees because no one thinks about them.

Look up a topic you find boring and watch, at the very least, a 5 minute video on the topic. Write down 5 bullet points (regardless of video length). Reflect on why you find it boring and write a paragraph about it. You might find out it's not as boring as you think.

10 bullet points about your day but the bullet points can only be 10 words long. You can also change the number on this, if you want. 30 words make 30 bullet points.

Complete the wordle, write down the definition, memorize how to spell it, speak it, and what it means. Challenge yourself to try and use that word at least once that day, even if its a pun with friends or silly Tumblr post.

Lie down on the ground (or bed) for 5 to 10 minutes, write what you felt and why. If you disliked doing it write down that you did and use 5 bullet points to figure put why. Try and change that. This is basically reflective meditation.

While you're eating breakfast set a timer for 3 minutes and write down as many words as you can, when the timers up make those words into anagrams.

Learn how to write with your non-dominant hand although don't just stop with writing. Use it to brush your teeth, and grab objects with. Train yourself to be ambidextrous, it's a neat thing people can be.

Intimidate an animal once a day in the mirror to embarrass yourself. You get cool points if it's your theriotype.

Speaking of animals, try and find an animal you've never heard of before and write down facts about it like the first suggestions. Random trivia is a life line when you're in the trenches of conversation with a new person.

Do exactly one singular exercise a day. One squat, one lunge, one pushup, etc. Optionally raise the amount by one; If you do this for a week, raise it by one to get to 7 squats a day, 7 lunges a day, 7 pushups, etc.

Make a purposefully bad kandi bracelet, blindfold yourself if you have to, and give it to someone you really care about without comment.

Speak to at least one person a day, either it's a compliment, small talk about the weather, or if you're lost on what to do go to a random person and make up a scenario to speak with someone. Ask someone in the book store where a book genre is even though you know where it is, ask where they got the shirt or pants and put on the tone and voice that you really like them; not all lying is evil, plus if you admit later on (when you become friends or close acquaintance) that you were lying they'll probably just laugh about it and/or go "I knew".

Research a religion you've heard about in passing but have no knowledge of, write down 10 bullet points on what you like about it and what you don't. Use the 'what I like' bullets in your day to day life and reflect on what you don't like about it and write a paragraph about it. You don't need to be religious to take some concepts in religion and use them day to day, a lot of the stuff is meditation and wellness with a different view. You could learn something.

Buy a sticker sheet of expressions and put one sticker on a calendar a day. Write one word under it on why that's why you feel that way. Make it vague on purpose. Try and condense your day down to one word and one emotion. Track, when the month's up, what emotion you felt the most and what you were doing in a journal. Keep doing what makes you happy and filter out what makes you feel bad. Write a small paragraph on how you remember feeling and use 5 bullet points to track what you want to do next month. Being emotionally detached from yourself and surroundings brews extreme apathy, in my experience, try and combat any emotional detachment you experience.

Put up fliers around the neighbor you're in for a "public hangout" and list 10 things for people to bring, location, and a way to contact you. See if it works. Do this weekly (if you can or you feel up for it) and change what the topic is every time. From a cookout at the local park, to a spelling bee at the library, to visiting the local pottery place to make your own stuff. You have the power to do that!

When/if you buy canned soda check to see if there's any that are empty (or barely full) without being opened or damaged/leaking. You'll know immediately, even if you're not a collector, because of how light it feels. Unopened soda cans that are in pretty good condition are rare and a fun collection to have, I have two so far.

Write 5 bullet points on things you like about yourself from "I have healthy hair" to "My ass fat as fuck". If you can't write 5 bullet points think harder and reflect on this other than a blanket statement of "insecurity". Are you avoiding truth? Are you scared to admit you're good at something cause it makes you come across as "egotistical"? Do you think you're ugly because "that's just how you are" or is it societal expectations you've internalized and put upon your own shoulders? Dissect your own thoughts with bullet points, make it you goal that day to write down 5 things you like about yourself. Do this daily, you might start to find out you're pretty fucking cool (and always have been).

If you consider yourself a boring person I suggest trying to challenge why you think so. Is it because you're not a multimillionaire that can go to whatever country in the world? Is it because you see people online that have — what you assume to be — more exciting lives? Do you think people only have fun or can be interesting if they're doing certain things? Write down 10 things you currently do for fun and go find community about it. You read books? A lot of people do. Doing things alone long enough can make you feel insane, next time you wanna read go do it with a friend that also reads (or 'force' a non-reader friend to join you lol).

Write a paragraph about the thing to your left or right (not both) and why you have it and what it means to you. Get creative and overthink, it's more fun that way, especially if it's a random piece of trash. Why is that trash still there? Do you avoid trashing it because it's blended into the background? Does it remind you of something? Why?

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

the shame that hits you when you walk around your messy, cluttered room, knowing you don’t yet have the motivation or hyperfocus to clean it, even though you want to.

the shame that hits you when you retell a story for the thousandth time and the person you’re talking to gets bored or annoyed or confused by it, cuz you couldn’t remember you had told it before.

the shame that hits you when you ask someone to repeat what they’re saying multiple times because you keep forgetting or you just can’t hear them.

the shame that hits you when you forget something super important after you leave for a trip, and you ask to go back for it.

the shame that hits you when you know you’re overanalyzing something someone said to you, but it still hurts.

the shame that hits you when you snap at people who are just talking to you while you’re hyperfocused.

the shame that hits you when you realize you don’t remember jackshit about your life, you don’t have any memories, and you wonder what it was all like.

the shame that hits you when someone asks you to just shut up or sit still after you were just expressing your emotions, your happiness even, but were just a little too loud about it.

Which is an interesting thing to say about a character that spends the first third of T1 looking out for people who don't like him, while ignoring his own discomfort, then spends a chunk of TDW protecting a woman who doesn't like him and who has slapped him across the face, then ends up being the ONLY person taking up the responsibility of restoring a half-destroyed city that Thor left behind to be with his gf, then helps and in fact saves people who didn't gaf about him AND a brother who tortured and left him to die (because Grandmaster WOULD kill him) like 30 minutes ago, a girl who threw bottles at his head, and his former enemy, all without expecting a mere "thanks" in return. Oh, he also spends a good portion of all of his screentime, from T1 to LS, giving people pep talks, and basically being their therapist.

I do find it fascinating how quick people are to call someone who doesn't simply suck up and tolerate the abuse and mistreatment in silence self-centered. Because yeah, he complains about the way he is treated. A lot. Guess why? Because the way he is treated is never changed, and you would rather call him selfish and annoying for not shutting up rather than blame the people who won't stop mistreating him.