茂靈賽高

Love Big.

Compliment often.

Expose the Greatness in everyone you meet.

Hold no unsaid expectations against anyone.

Forgive easily.

Tell the kid how cool their toy/picture/story/rock is-and watch the light flood their eyes.

If you hold anger against someone/if they said something that hurt you, talk about it in a healthy way.

When it comes to unsolicited wisdom, the very least you can do is listen and think about it, you don’t have to agree, but give yourself the option to learn and grow.

Purge bitterness from your bones, it makes you older faster and clogs your joints.

SMELL ALL THE CANDLES IN THE STORE; cake-scented candles never ruined anyone’s day.

Tell yourself one thing you love about yourself every day, to start, and more will follow: Toes, I love that you balance me; calves, I love that you’re strong; thighs, I love your power, etc.

Laughter is a healing balm.

Do not lie to yourself, acknowledge the power of you.

If you suffer, all you have to do is survive; AND THEN give yourself permission to thrive.

Do not be afraid to be extraordinary; in your craft, in your hugs, in your words.

I wish you the best of luck.

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Check it there is going to be a full moon. If there is not, go in as normal. You will be okay.

If there will be a full moon, it is essential to follow this guide.

Get lots of sleep the day before.

Bring a fully charged phone, snacks, and water. Do not bring any flavored drink. The spirits will turn it to water, anyway.

About an hour before work, drive to your nearest Church. Do not walk or take the bus. If you must, ignore anyone who tries to talk to you on the way. They will be spirits trying to learn more about you.

Enter the Church and put some holy water on your hand. This will not do particularly anything, but it is nice to have some reassurance.

If there is an old man in the pews, ask him for his greatest piece of advice. If he ignores you, and he will, ask him again. He will tell you to be careful at work tonight. Make sure to thank him for his time, he will appreciate your manners.

Drive to work. Be a bit early, the spirits will not expect you to be early.

If you know your co-worker(s) well, ask them for gum. If they give you mint, back away slowly and continue working as normal. They are a spirit in disguise. Any other flavor, tell them to leave early. Do not take no for an answer.

If you do not know your co-worker(s) well, do not get too attached. They will be dead before 11pm. Do not feel guilty, there is nothing you can do.

Keep an eye on the clock. Do not walk or talk loudly, it can hear you. Do not wonder about what “it” is, you wouldn’t be able to fathom it anyway.

Once the clock hits 11 pm, the lights will go off. Do not worry, they will go back on soon.

When they come back on, your co-workers will be gone. Do not cry. The spirits will not pity you. There will be 3 customers left. 2 are spirits, one is real. You should help the real customer escape, he will give you something you need. However, you cannot leave with them. It will not allow you to.

Approach the first customer. Ask him if he needs any help. Slowly tap your foot while talking with them. If they cover their ears, apologize. They are a spirit. Spirits hate foot tapping. They will not hurt you, at least for now. Repeat until you find the real customer.

Tell the real customer that Bob sent you. He will know what you mean. He will begin to exit the store with his items in hand, unpaid for. Remind him that he must pay. He will glance at you, then begin walking out again. Do not worry, he will have paid you. You will find out what he gave you soon.

Now, you will be alone with the two spirit customers. Relax for a little bit, the worst is yet to come. Drink your water, but not too much. You don’t know what the spirits could have put in there.

Once the clock hits midnight, the lights will shut off again. Except this time they will not come back on. Leave the register, go to the back of the store. You will see a bottle of water that is upside down. Take it and drink it, for that is not water. You will be able to see better now.

Items from the shelves will begin to fall over. Pick them back up. You are, after all, working the night shift. If items from the fridges begin to fall, the spirits are extra angry. You must have wronged them. I told you to follow the guide exactly. I am sorry. Death is not what you should fear. What will happen to you is much worse than death.

If the fridges stay intact, you are safe for now. Do not talk or yell. Do not bother calling the police. Call your mom. Mother knows best. She will pick up. Although, it will not be your mom. Nevertheless, listen to her. She will tell you how to contact the spirits. I cannot share that information with you.

Use her instructions and contact the spirits. Ask them to spare you. They will say no. That is expected.

Spirits do not spare people willingly. They take trades, however. It is not easy to trade with a spirit. They only accept souls. People are only born with one soul, their own.

Put your hand in your right pocket. You will feel something indescribable. Do not pull it out. It is what the real customer paid you with, a soul. Do not feel bad, he has many.

Contact the spirits using the method from before. If you do not remember how there is nothing you can do. I am sorry. Your fate is sealed.

Tell the spirits you have a trade. Take the soul out of your pocket, and hold it up above your head. You will feel your legs begin to weaken. You will fall to your knees, and eventually you will pass out. You will wake up with the soul gone and the lights back on. Continue working as normal, the spirits have spared you.

Do not speak of this event to anyone, the spirits will not take kindly to that. They will appreciate your silence. Make sure to call your mom and thank her. She will not have any idea what you are talking about, but she will appreciate the gesture.

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草东没有派对 No Party for Cao Dong - 大风吹 Strong Wind Blows

大风吹着谁 谁就倒楣 Whoever the strong wind blows, will be unlucky 每个人都想当鬼 都一样的下贱 Everyone wants to be a ghost, they’re all equally despicable

哭啊 喊啊 叫你妈妈带你去买玩具啊 Cry, Shout, Beg your mom to bring you to buy toys 快 快拿到学校炫耀吧 孩子 交点朋友吧 Hurry, bring it to school to show off, Kid, Make some friends, will you? 哎呀呀 你看你手上拿的是什么啊 Oh, look at what you’re holding in your hands 那东西我们早就不屑啦 哈哈哈 哈 We stopped caring about it long ago, haha haha

一样又醉了 一样又掉眼泪 Drunk again, Crying again 一样的屈辱 一样的感觉 The same humiliation, the same feeling 怪罪给时间 它给了起点 Blame it on time, it started this 怪罪给时间 它给了终点 Blame it one time, it ended this

breadsticks:

Of bread.

Laziness=You don't want to do a task, so you choose not to, and you're fine with that. You either dont care if it gets done or you figure someone else will do it.

Procrastination=You want to do the task, but you put it off because it seems difficult/boring/time consuming.

Executive dysfunction=You want to do the task, and intend to at that very moment. There is no significant reason not to, but you can't because your brain is having difficulty transitioning between activities.

The key difference, he points out, is that if you experience guilt or shame from not doing it, then it's NOT laziness, because those feelings indicate, on some level, a desire to complete the task.

anti-shippers know this on some level, but in general they’re not here to compromise with shippers or find reasonable, peaceful ways to have nuanced discussions about how maturity works and the potential danger of age gap relationships. they’re here to win the skeleton war ship war discourse war.

and online wars - especially on current social media, where every response rebroadcasts the conversation to your followers and theirs (and a search tag, generally), short, punchy, loaded statements get the most spread and make the most impact.

for example:

PSA: adults dating minors are PREDATORY and adult/minor relationships are ILLEGAL

so REMEMBER: if you ship adult/minor ships you’re a pedophile apologist :)

#don’t be a sick fuck #down with pedophilia 2k18

is a much more powerful post than

PSA: adults dating minors are sometimes predators! and adult/minor relationships are illegal unless they’re within a couple of years of each other! (the laws vary from state to state and country to country!)

so remember: if you ship adult/minor ships you should check that it follows romeo and juliet laws because you could potentially confuse kids in fandom into thinking adults are always safe to date!

#safe shipping 2k18 #protect children

the second post is more accurate, nuanced, and honest, while retaining anti-shipping sentiments that ships should follow certain morality rules. In essentials it doesn’t say anything different from the post above it.

but post 1 is a slogan.*   the righteous anger and triumph and decisiveness it communicates is empowering if you agree with it, disheartening if you don’t. it’s easy to remember: adult/minor ships are predatory. adult/minor shippers are pedophile apologists. words like ‘predatory’ and ‘pedophile’ are powerful, too. they stick with you.

post 1 is the kind of post that gets everyone to slam the reblog button - to agree or to disagree, it doesn’t matter. It still gets spread. the black and white treatment of an issue that has a lot of nuance is incendiary, polarizing, and powerful, and opponents of its ideology are forced to waste energy on correcting statements the OP already knows aren’t entirely true.

nuance is for chumps that care about intellectual honesty and truthfulness. propaganda is what wins you the war.

As you are exposed to something frequently, you become acclimatized to it. It stops eliciting disgust. This happens with everything from gore to porn.

There has been research after research showing that fictional depictions don’t lower empathy for real victims or decrease the perceived severity of the crime, but it does lower disgust reactions at fictional depictions of it.

To antis, this lack of disgust is the normalization they are fighting against, because disgust is how you know something is wrong. If you no longer feel disgust, your morality is compromised.

That’s what I mean when I say antis resemble Puritan Christian morality. Christianity has so many conflicting instructions regarding morality, and many areas where it’s flat-out vague. And yet they know exactly what is good and natural, and what is horrifying and sinful.

How? It’s disgusting.

“Media violence does not reduce viewer empathy” - Texas A&M

“Situational aggression and collaboration” - University of Gothenburg

Examining desensitization using facial electromyography:Violent videogames, gender, and affective responding https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563216302461

Failure to Demonstrate That Playing Violent Video Games Diminishes Prosocial Behavior https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700923/

There are also articles like this which interview researchers and discuss how desensitization and learning is context specific: that is, media can desensitize you to media, but is much less likely to desensitize you to the real life equivalents, because our brains respond very differently to media and reality.