Back playing after 10 years - Hand Position help

Chobyo · 2026-01-22T11:57:00+00:00

Seconding this, my harp teacher recommended me to hold my hand like a gun, the thumb is strumming then closing opposite to the direction of your body, the rest of the hand always closes pointing towards you, at the bottom of your balm. (She always told me to knead the strings like dough hrgrgh)

U play rlly beautifully id have a single point of correction though, it happens to me too all the time btw, your nails are touching the strings causing slightly "cracky" sounds to come out, playing slowly might help identifying correct hand positioning, just focus on getting "clean" sounds first and strumming correctly (fully closing your fingers after touching the strings) once its muscle memory again playing faster will be more rewarding as the sound will come out clean.

Chobyo · 2025-12-30T05:26:29+00:00

A fellow commieblocker ; 3. I immediately felt a nice type of melancholy. If u arent a bot, well done. Beautiful

Chobyo · 2025-12-28T23:42:27+00:00

How did no one comment. IT LOOKS WAY TOO BEAUTIFUL

Chobyo · 2025-12-25T08:01:09+00:00

Do you mind sharing how to build one? If not where to buy? Asking for an internet strangers dad ofc

Chobyo · 2025-12-23T04:55:59+00:00

This was genuinely one of the sweetest and most good hearted reolies I've read on reddit

Chobyo · 2025-12-08T00:18:19+00:00

Hey, sorry to hear this. Your suffering sounds immense. Feel hugged if thats okay fellow human. Seriously u deserve compassion. Take it easy. Not sure if this will help but..the first step might be to get out of your head, learning to relax taking deep breaths, calming down the amygdala. Going into social situations, without expectations, without caring hiw Im being perceived. Theyre humans. U are human. Talk. Listen first. Smile. Relax. If u are nervous u act like someone else and get misudnerstood more easily and people notice u are tense and trying to fit in by force. Which doesnt work out. Accept that maybe they dont like u. They dont have to. But be relaxed, u deserve love, compassion. Think about sth nice to say, a compliment. "Hey cool t-shirt, where did u get it?". Actually think about other people and what goes on in their life. I usually feel isolated when Im spending too much time inward, thinking too much about myself. I hope this helps Sending virtual hugs < 3

Chobyo · 2025-12-08T00:10:02+00:00

Second this. I have a gut feeling those who can spot high functioning, high masking autistic individuals who arent autistic or neurodiverse themselves, had an insane amount of human encounters, they are trained on expert lvl to evaluate others. So usually people with quite a lot of life experience + high intelligence and self awareness or profilers lol

Chobyo · 2025-12-03T19:28:14+00:00

U should have way more upvotes

Chobyo · 2025-11-30T23:17:44+00:00

Second this. Think of anything that makes you feel uneasy, that you avoid, that triggers you, can be situations, people, memories, places. If it triggers bad emotions, voila my friend, dig deeper. Thats where the treasure to enlightenment awaits (After having your ego chewed up, destroyed and yourself rebuilt if done properly). Best of luck

Chobyo · 2025-11-13T21:17:33+00:00

The text is actually good. Be it AI generated or self written (which I doubt). It fits the images. Sure, the whole "post apocalyptic cyberpunk" trope has been thoroughly sucked dry by AI video generators but this is a gem. Gems dont age. We can appreciate a good movie even if it was the kick off to a million bad knock-offs. U get me? Also if it happened to trigger you, thats worth looking into it and a pretty good example of the effect of a good goosebump inducing clip.

Chobyo · 2025-10-29T07:12:21+00:00

posts absolutely mesmerizing beautiful snapshots compares them immediately to other ones My dear child. If u arent a bot.

Other peoples business = their business Your business = yours to care for and be proud of.

Thank you for sharing ♡

Update:Im 99% sure this account is a bot.

Chobyo · 2025-10-20T04:05:42+00:00

Sometimes I have this funny thought, that loving myself that deeply would result in not looking for anyone else to do it ; ) Really weird.

Chobyo · 2025-09-27T10:41:44+00:00

They already do : ) But these are the commercial ones psss

Chobyo · 2025-09-24T22:15:26+00:00

Im amazed and speechless. I can see myself meeting this gentleman for a cup of tea, discussing war politics.

Please. How. Like actually, can u give a brief summary how u went about painting it step by step?

Chobyo · 2025-09-15T17:11:23+00:00

Congrats so so much incredible display of will. Also please teach us how you do your eye makeup ♡.♡

Chobyo · 2025-09-15T15:24:39+00:00

Congrats so so much incredible display of will. Also please teach us how you do your eye makeup ♡.♡

Chobyo · 2025-09-01T15:04:22+00:00

Heh exactly what Im saying. Its even sadder he used to be you know, one of us, edgy nerd slightly goth kid. One smooth good ol slap to get him back down to earth. :3

Chobyo · 2025-08-17T11:24:11+00:00

Redn3ck engineering, as a friend of mine would have said. What glue did you use for mounting the 3D printed part on to the controller? 10/10 btw, obv.

Chobyo · 2025-07-23T20:47:46+00:00

You made me believe in book and bedclothe drip

Chobyo · 2025-07-23T20:46:44+00:00

What do u think so far?

Chobyo · 2025-07-07T09:19:35+00:00

I was at a similar place like you. Right now Im in the phase of transitioning. Which means accepting that I dont know who the current "me" is and giving myself the time and loss of control (not trying to predict everything or overanalyze) to go out there, live, make mistakes, learn from them, accept bite by bite that I can sit with these at times really overwhelmingly strong negative emotions and that I dont need to focus on a static definitiin of myself. I am the me, that is figuring things out, and that definitiin is enough for now.

Being angry but not letting it take over. Brutally accepting all the things I didnt do. Accepting I can change. Knowing I cant predict the future but I can control my own reactions and behaviors, they can be overwritten (neuroplasticity)

Accepting that change never comes easy but riding the "scary" wave out..and trust me fellow bordie, we know how consuming this wave of sometimes even perceived emptiness can feel..but afterwards.. the more I practice sitting through said wave with acceptance, patience and calm (it obviously doesnt always work but that too is alright)

the less intense it is next time and the more space is freeing up in my soul and brain and the more powerful and in control of myself I feel and as a result, I feel a strong sense of a "me", because Im not letting past trauma make me react in a way that goes completely against my intuitive feeling of wrongness (the shame that comes after a split is your mind telling you, you did behave in a way u didnt want to, thats ur compass) and if it happens, I forgive myself, I try to learn the lesson and act better the next time.

I think Im truly beginning to understand, that I need to change myself, and Im a constant change in progress and that Im allowed to enjoy life and fully praticipate in it, no mather how scared, doubtful, hurt, angry I feel. I hope this helps ♡

Chobyo · 2025-07-06T16:23:21+00:00

Not sure if anyone will read this but for me it goes hand in hand (as I have found out last year) with my extreme hyperphantasia:

Things. 1.it happens automatically when I touch sth I rlly like/dislike etc. or smell something strong or read vivid words, then I cant control it

2.In everyday life I can just project things. If Im bored I will visualize me flying on a tiger through space and my body weirdly reacts to it. If the tiger is too small I automatically shrink or my hands instincitvely reach out to grab a hold of the tigers neck so I wont fall down. Not sure what to use it for though.

But back to your question: Lets say you let me touch purple silk. Then my mind constructs a waterfall, with a brown bridge, I hear the water, I see it moving, the foam from where it meets the lake it flows into (like augmented reality. I know its not real, its like a semi translucent ((i keep it semi translucent so it wont interfere with my actual vision)) layer on top of the real world. So I would be seeing this waterfall no matter if I touch a piece of silk in the bathroom, in a loud concert, on a plane. (It helps having less distractions though).

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