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In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

It’s very honest. It’s very clear. It’s very kind. It presents you with a lot of information and a lot of understanding and lets you take it all in like the autonomous human you are, and make decisions from an informed place. It goes over the reality of suicide attempts, pain involved, likelihoods of survival, after effects of attempts, and how to get help if you want it after reading all of that and learning about the reality of suicide attempts.

You can read it for free here: https://qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever_Decision.pdf

the concept of star-eating microbes causing a crisis and the solution being the introduction of space wolves to space yellowstone to control the space elk population. i love a good trophic cascade

dr ryland grace immediately pitching "turn the spaceship into a giant centrifuge to generate gravity" and then not balancing his actual centrifuge later on

the entire "life is reason" scene really

grace forgetting to open the mystery alien container in a fume hood AND immediately sticking his nose in it. if we did this in chemistry lab we were executed on the spot

academia drama being one of the cornerstones of grace's character

grace switching through every spectrum setting on the microscope to try to see into the astrophages and not being able to (relatable)

also: the astrophage dying and grace going "ohhh it died..." (very relatable)

grace having his not-scientist buddy Carl to give him frank solutions when he's overthinking. yes, often the solution is just to put the box in another box

copious duct tape usage

just sticking a filter into the path of the petrova line to collect astrophage goop

eva going "so it's alive" when grace tells them the astrophage are moving, and him being like "WELL ok that could be for a lot of reasons" in the tone of someone who doesn't even know where to start explaining why that's a hasty assumption

grace referring to the first new astrophage as his and carl's baby multiple times (HIGHLY relatable)

EXACTLY 10 years ago today, Mr. Shane Madej sauntered into the skeptic’s chair and made his first appearance on Buzzfeed Unsolved! Though not officially The Ghoul Boys yet (their first ghost hunt together wouldn’t be until that October), this episode marked the start of a decade(!) of demon-berating, cryptid-hunting, fear-facing tomfoolery. 

Whether you’ve been here since the completely legitimate acquisition of Goat Man’s Bridge or are just taking your first stroll around the Boo Bunker, thank you for your enthusiasm, your curiosity, and your heart. It truly means the world. 💚👻

(bonus: Ryan wearing this same shirt last week #musty)

matcha originated in China about 1200 years ago, açaí has been consumed by Indigenous communities in the Amazon for centuries, and Dubai chocolate was invented by combining chocolate with knafeh, an 1100 year old SWANA snack.

western (usually white but seemingly not in this case) people love to call nonwhite foods suddenly becoming popular in western mainstream culture "industry plants" as if they haven't always existed.

Interpersonal

Chronic people-pleaser who quietly resents everyone they've pleased

Can't apologize without immediately over-explaining or justifying

Confuses control for care (over-plans other people's lives "for their own good")

Ghosts conflict instead of having the conversation

Weaponizes humor to deflect anything real

Self-perception

Preemptively self-deprecating so no one else gets the chance

Secretly competitive with people they claim to admire

Can't accept help without feeling indebted

Mistakes stubbornness for integrity

Needs to be the one who "figured it out first"

Practical/Behavioral

Hoards small grudges but forgets big ones

Terrible at endings — leaves things (relationships, jobs, books) unfinished rather than face closure

Compulsive over-preparer who panics without a plan B, C, and D

Says yes to everything, then quietly sabotages the thing they didn't want to do

Nostalgic to a fault — idealizes the past to avoid dealing with the present

Sharper/nastier ones

Enjoys being needed more than being loved

Tests people's loyalty in ways they never admit to

Generous publicly, stingy privately

Believes their own myth a little too much

“this isn’t true because the ex-friendship that traumatized me ended explosively after they were mad at me and never told me why” that’s not good. they shouldn’t be doing that

“i don’t think this is true because my current friend group is constantly icing me out until i figure out what ive done to upset them and properly apologized without being told” hey thats not good. they should not be doing that