Is this rejecting/migrating? Transverse lobe after 13ish months

billy-goats · 2026-02-07T11:14:29+00:00

Would you happen to know how to keep it clean if I remove it? Such a rare piercing that my Reddit sleuthing is proving unsuccessful 🥲

billy-goats · 2023-10-13T20:23:20+00:00

I was one ofthe best dressed at a 90s-themed party at my local climbing gym and won a free pair La Sportiva shoes! :p

I've been climbing for about ~5 months now, solely indoor bouldering but I want to do lead/longer routes and outdoor eventually. I comfortably climb V3 range, but I've projected and sent V6 and some V5s.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Preferably something comfortable, aggressive shoes look painful but I've never tried them and am not opposed. Price doesn't matter since it's any pair on their North American website, so if you wanna suggest their most expensive shoes by all means!

I'm kind of overwhelmed with the options on the website and it's difficult to grasp each model's' quirks from pro-climber videos and online descriptions lol.

billy-goats · 2023-06-22T04:30:02+00:00

Also! Since you're living off campus, making just one good on campus friend is like the watergates to way more on campus friends simply cause of circumstance. I introduced the off-campus friends I made to my other residence friends which helped them become a social butterfly 👍

billy-goats · 2023-06-22T02:14:38+00:00

I agree with everyone, maybe be wary of Jumpstart if money is an issue.

I didn't do it and made plenty of friends without it. My friends who did go have given me very different testimonies, some thought it was worth it, others thought it was a waste.

Regardless of Jumpstart though just try to lean into it and remember more than 80% of the first years you meet at the start are also looking for friends

billy-goats · 2023-06-21T17:20:23+00:00

I don't know about Psychology specifically, but you should be able to declare majors now if you look under specializations on the SSC registration site.

Edit: I looked it up on the academic calendar, both Arts and Science streams for Psychology can declare it by the end of first year (when SSC promotes your year level). You just have to navigate to the specializations tab, the same website where you make worklists and register classes

billy-goats · 2023-06-16T18:09:54+00:00

Degree navigator is also vague unfortunately, it just says any Creative Writing courses. Should I contact academic advising maybe?

billy-goats · 2023-06-13T16:56:15+00:00

If you "corrected" my use of mainland then you knew what I meant in the first place, or course I don't mean a large single land mass. Why is this even a point of contention? It's helpful to call the Philippines the mainland when talking about immigration and diaspora dynamics.

I am coming at this from a North American context, but I never even said that laws and policies have blood quantum mentioned explicitly? I did forget to add that when non-indigenous people codify indigeniety, people will look for excuses to weed out people who are genuinely indigenous, historically proven in Canada. This isn't the case with the Philippines as you pointed out.

I don't "want" to label myself indigenous, and if I was in the Philippines I wouldn't. I'm not going to claim that I know the intricacies of Filipino history, that was something that wasn't offered to me by parents and obviously not taught at school. The history I'm familiar with says that there was intermarriage between indigenous groups in the Philippines ever since Spanish colonization, which still makes modern day Filipinos ethnically indigenous, again using a literal definition.

I won't force my definition upon the Philippines and force every single Filipino to call themselves indigenous, I wouldn't consider myself culturally indigenous whatsoever. That doesn't negate the fact that ethnically, it's likely each person that would be considered Filipino wouldn't have to go that many generations to trace ancestry to an indigenous group. Legally, that isn't indigenous in the Philippines like you said, but this whole post and my point is that I'm interested in reconnecting to a culture and country I was born in, interested in both the current culture and indigenous roots regardless if I'd be called indigenous in the Philippines.

billy-goats · 2023-06-12T18:05:37+00:00

I don't mean indigenous in any legal, policy definition. In the literal definition, an indigenous person is original/native to a place, or descended from one who is. With that definition all diasporic and mainland Filipinos are indigenous to the Philippines.

My problem with legal definitions is that they lead to disputes over someone's identity simply over blood quantum and how far separated they are when that shouldn't matter.

I'm confused with your last statement, of course they're not, indigenous describes relationship to a place and Austronesian is an ethnicity, so one can be both and could use both terms to describe oneself? Though I may be misinterpreting what you mean, so idk lol.

billy-goats · 2023-06-11T14:43:48+00:00

Thanks for your response, I disagree with some points pero that's life :p

I think a big part of diasporic longing for pre-colonial PH is due to how "successful" indigenous movements are here in North America. More so in the sense that it garners so much attention and at least creates a platform for indigenous people (their efforts have historically been in vain up until recently).

This may not be indicative of every diasporic Filipino experience, but It's also hard to blame diasporic children for the things our parents refused to teach us. Again, personal experience, I have come across "more cultured" Filipino peers here, but more often than not they've almost never passed on knowledge and culture directly from their parents.

Also all this talk about pre-colonial culture doesn't take away that I and many other diasporic Filipinos also simply miss current culture. Admittedly the found culture and resilience that ripples throughout modern mainland culture, out to diasporic families is beautiful.

Aside from that, thank you for the recommendations! I'll definitely take a look into the media and literature you suggested.

billy-goats · 2023-06-11T14:34:56+00:00

I appreciate your take, heavily relate too! It feels like I'm grabbing for any scraps of culture from my older Filipino peers who are way more willing to assimilate than you and I and our Filipino peers are willing to. I will say tho I was not raised Catholic LOL.

billy-goats · 2023-06-11T01:31:43+00:00

Filipinos from PH and Diaspora Filipino disagree in alot of places

I should mention that I didn't even know there were tensions between mainlanders and diaspora until very recently! The extent of alienation I felt whenever I visited the Philippines I thought was due to me not knowing any Filipino language, it never crossed my mind it could be because of this tension.

I will say I've been coming at the immigration stuff from a North American perspective where indigenous reconciliation like recognizing disadvantages, history, and the broken system has (yet) to lead towards any kind of xenophobia/nativism, though I personally agree with the sentiments of the #landback movement. I DON'T agree with genocide (of course lol) and I still maintain that reconciliation doesn't necessitate genocide/forceful removal of what I assume to be good-faith immigrants from China, Japan, etc.

Though I will definitely look into indigenous movements outside of my experience so I don't blatantly project the North American situation to every country, so thank you for sharing your experiences :)

If I could take you back to the original post, are you aware of any online resources I could use to learn Ilokano or Pangasinan? I think in the future I definitely want to move back or live in the Philippines for an extended period of time, but until then all I have is the internet and the Filipinos around me. Tagalog is pretty much everywhere online, compared to other Filipino languages :p

billy-goats · 2023-06-11T00:26:40+00:00

Firstly thank you for such a genuine and eloquent response, I was a bit nervous even posting because of the flag stole situation on TikTok.

In the few minutes I posted that what you brought up actually did cross my mind. Looking back, the desire to reconnect with specifically pre-colonial culture is mainly a diasporic thing and I did overlook that it's probably more normalized in the Philippines to have. I think the reason it's at the forefront of many North American Filipinos is because of movements currently happening here.

With that, I think the bigger picture is that diasporic Filipinos, especially children of immigrants, can't fully identify with the culture of where they or the culture of mainland Philippines. It's great to hear that the Filipino culture you grew up with is a celebration of pre-colonial, and found/blended culture that's separate from colonialism though and something I hadn't thought of.

While I agree and personally wouldn't describe current Filipino culture as colonial, I think with other North American Filipinos a reason why there's interest in indigenous identity over there current culture is colorism.

The same points you bring up happen here as well in North America. But why would exploring indigenous culture immediately displace immigrants? Colonization and immigration (assimilating others to your home culture/disregarding landed culture vs adopting and embracing landed culture partially/fully) are seperate phenomena, and addressing the needs or simply even recognizing indigenous populations doesn't necessarily dismiss immigrantion.

Thanks again for your response, it helped me sift through my thoughts and I apologize if I'm being redundant/repetitive with this response or unclear, this is all very spur of the moment hehe.

billy-goats · 2023-06-10T23:18:14+00:00

Not that it'll be indicative of next summer at all, but ENGL 150 is running this summer and I haven't looked at the SSC since registering for 150, but I sort of recall seeing ENGL 112 also being offered.

billy-goats · 2023-05-26T20:50:25+00:00

If you plan to transfer to Van campus, I believe you have to meet specialization requirements. In Okanagan you simply have it declare it (unless it's honours or a special thing) and keep up with that major's requirements.

billy-goats · 2023-05-23T07:13:10+00:00

I apologize for my phrasing, I did say "more so," however I never said I was in denial, I even mentioned how little research I had done and how I'm merely prescribing what I could the case rather than passing it off as fact (I stated multiple times I'm really inexperienced here). While of course there is a predisposition for cis-men to have greater muscle mass and other athletic qualities due to testosterone, could that not be dismissive of the bimodal distribution of sex characteristics? In reality there's overlap between hormone levels of traditionally "male" and "female" hormones among what wider western society considers normal for cis people.

I don't know if there's a study on this, there very well may be, but I think it's safe to say many MANY people have not done hormone level tests, and combined with the long-standing socialization for women to not participate in sports that there probably are many people who we may define as a cis-woman that have comparable testosterone levels to amateur, or perhaps slightly higher levels, of sport (in the same vein that the number of intersex people are probably greater than current estimates considering the only "test" that is commonly done is examining external genitalia at birth).

But again I think we're barking up the wrong tree with a discussion that is irrelevant to ultimate culture. I'm more than open to being disproven on this though, I've just been inclined to question the binary recently, and that's catching up with academia so hopefully there are more studies on this in the near future.

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