A Blue Rose Garden

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

Tips for Writing Emotional Breakdowns

✧  Crying isn’t pretty. It’s snot, blotchy faces, gasping for air, and red-rimmed eyes. Forget the single tear rolling down like in Hollywood.

✧  Anger often hides hurt. People lash out, slam doors, shout, not always because they’re just mad, but because they’re covering up fear or pain.

✧ Shaking is common. Stress dumps adrenaline into the system. Hands tremble, voices break, knees won’t stay steady.

✧ People go quiet, too. Not all breakdowns are screaming and sobbing. Some are dead silence, staring off, numb responses. Equally devastating.

✧ Exhaustion hits after. The “post-breakdown crash” is real ... headaches, sore eyes, complete emotional hangover. They’ll want to sleep for hours.

✧ Words get messy. Rambling, repeating the same sentence, stuttering, saying things they don’t mean. Emotions trip over themselves on the way out.

✧ Breathing changes. Short, shallow breaths, hiccupping gasps, or holding their breath without realizing. Sometimes it even feels like they’re choking.

✧ Embarrassment creeps in. Once the wave passes, a lot of people feel ashamed, apologizing or avoiding eye contact. Vulnerability often leaves guilt in its wake.

If your inclination for piracy is strictly or mostly for TV and movies, and as a way to replace streaming, the stremio startup guide is a must.

Ah! A tricky one, while I do have resources for this, this is perhaps the least catered-to sector of piracy.

-Some blu-ray rips do have audio description tracks available. In most of the websites listed on the r/piracy subreddit, torrents come with extensive metadata info. At first it may seem like a block of text you're not interested in (it lists things like resolution, codec, fps, channels, etc.) but somewhere in the wall of text there's the info on audio and subtitles channels. Unfortunately a file having more than one English track doesn't guarantee AD, more often than not they're director/actors' commentary.

-However and luckily for everyone who is an english speaker on this earth, there's a website called audiovault.net with an extensive library of AD audio files in English for a bunch of media. I didn't go too deep into it, just downloaded Star Trek III to test it out. The audio was exactly what it said on the tin, but to state the obvious, just audio. Which is convenient if you don't care about the visuals, but for those of you who do, or intend to watch with non-visually impaired folks, this is an obvious inconvenience. So I decided to sync it with my copy of the movie on VLC, following this guide then going to tools → track synchronization to tweak the timing a bit.

Now, personally, I couldn't for the life of me sync star trek III and I stared at it in defeat for minutes until I realized that the blu-ray cut of this movie is fairly different from the one in Paramount+, as the latter starts with a brief recap of the previous movie (which I would have noticed if I paid attention to the very detailed description instead of mindlessly trying to sync it). Sure enough, I pulled the Paramount+ version and it was a perfect match. Probably ripped directly from Paramount+ in the first place. So I tried combinations of web rips (instead of blu ray rips) with the audiovault audio files, and sure enough, they either match perfectly or only need minor tweaks. This gave me immeasurable joy.

TL;DR: if you're looking to synchronize visuals with audio files from audiovault, download web rips instead of blue ray rips. You may slightly sacrifice visual quality, but save yourself much time.

maybe you're an editor or you're into preservation and just want to have the actual files of your movies and shows on your disk or flash drive or whatever? then torrenting + plex is gonna be your ideal setup.

maybe you don't want to go through all that hustle, maybe you don't have the storage, you want to try something simpler, then sflix and similar streaming websites might be your cup of tea.

still want torrent quality without compromising your storage? streaming sites have too many ads? limited catalogues? stremio is probably your guy!