still here i guess...

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Do you see how we are conflating one's personal experience with the intentions of a story that nothing in the book itself suggests was created to address this experience at all?

Using critical thinking skills also means being able to make abstraction of one's subjective feelings to analyse the matter at hand. If you are unable to do this, you may live your whole life in a reactive state, constantly on the defensive even when there is no threat to your person at all.

This may make you paranoid, aggressive, and unreasonable. It may also make you self-righteous and self-pitying at the detriment of your ability to express empathy/sympathy and relate to other people, which is isolating. It may make it very difficult for you to have productive conversations with other people because being constantly stuck in a fight or flight response may make you self-centered, so you will not be able to relate to other people, understand them, or feel understood. Again, very isolating.

Critical thinking skills are important not just for media analysis, but also everyday life! They make you a more reasonable, empathetic, comprehensive person, and help you connect with other people. This is why it's important to challenge yourself with the media you consume. Not All of The Time, certainly not Everytime you consume media, but at least from time to time.

Go at your own pace and give yourself the right to examine your thoughts and your feelings objectively so that they don't rule your entire life and prevent you from richer and more fulfilling experiences. You can take a break whenever you feel overwhelmed. You can decide a specific piece of media is too challenging for you and that you simply aren't learning from it or don't care for what you're learning from it, and put it aside for a time or forever.

“Single Use Clothing Sasuke” is a complex, multi-layered theory borne of the complex, multi-layered minds of my flatmates. It essentially boils down to the idea that Every Single Thing sasuke wears from the day of the uchiha massacre to the day he leaves the village are entirely different yet identical versions of the same two outfits. He only wears them once and then throws them out.

The idea behind this is based on the implications that a) sasuke lives alone in the uchiha compound which is intended to be lived in by hundreds of people, b) he was not cared or provided for in any way by the village adults after the massacre, and c) there are entire city blocks of empty uchiha houses full of free shit just sitting there, ESPECIALLY clothing.

Theory is as follows: sasuke, clearly unable to do his own laundry because he’s 12 and a moron, spends four years of his life using the abandoned clothes that previously belonged to the children in the uchiha clan as disposable clothing and there’s a landfill in Konoha somewhere just full of black playsuits.

I come bearing the gift of piracy as an early Easter present! Welcome to the most recent (at the time of writing) version of Adobe Photoshop, which was released on March 27th of 2025. As per usual, have a peek at the note below, as it's there to help avoid the most common issue.

Authenticity popup? In case you get a message that says Photoshop needs to be licensed, or it will uninstall itself otherwise, please have a look at this fix! (Always uninstall previous Photoshop installations prior to installing a new one)

Step 1: Download the file from my Google Drive, or Mega.nz Step 2: When done downloading, unzip it (Windows can do it for you, but I personally use a program called 7ZIP) anywhere on your PC, even your desktop works fine, and yes, you can delete it when you're done with all of these steps. Step 3: Go into the unzipped folder, click 'Setup', and Photoshop's usual installation window will pop up. Install it as per your preferences (if you aren’t too tech-savvy, don’t worry, you can leave the default installation options as they are and all will be fine). Step 4: Hit 'Launch', and well— enjoy your copy of Photoshop! (Step 5: I would absolutely love you if you could spare a reblog of this post, which is not even for my own sake, but for anyone else who might be looking to obtain a copy of Photoshop!)

If in the unlikely event that you do run into any sort of issue of any kind, my DMs and askbox are always here for you, so don’t be shy, I promise I’ll welcome you with chocolate and fruit.