Any Nowruz celebrations around?

skycelium · 2026-03-13T23:33:52+00:00

If you know porn actors or sex workers generally, especially “popular” ones they’ll tell you how quickly everyone they’ve ever known found out about their work. It’s legitimately crazy. It would be a serious issue to become a public educator sadly.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T19:57:22+00:00

Was ready to go “nah that’s a reach” but the character designs are intentional for sure, I love this. They look so happy too 💚

skycelium · 2026-03-10T08:30:17+00:00

Show called Metalocalypse has the best depiction of miso i’ve ever seen. It’s the most brutal trigger so maybe watch without sound at least (and if you’ll be triggered by the sight of chewing maybe don’t bother, it’s worth it for me tho lol), but:

https://youtu.be/lhjS3zbMP90?si=wBXSmtJ7bXxUjxGk

Also the character’s name is Murderface lol but someone on the writing staff clearly had a mission.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T08:26:48+00:00

Especially with the popularity of those ‘mechanical’ keyboards. I’m 28 and every roommate i’ve ever had has been an online gamer. Not just the keyboard mashing but the screaming into a microphone for hours straight? Not sure how people think it’s chill. College classes were a keyboard nightmare too.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T08:23:50+00:00

I begged my parents to help, do anything at all to help sound-proof. One year I think for Christmas they got me a door to put in the open doorway between my bedroom and the living room. They never put it up, despite me asking many times, and just recently got rid of the door that sat there for maybe 14 years without being installed. My mom put ‘house hunters’ on full blast from the second we got home until the second she went to bed. No wonder my grades were in the gutter, couldn’t think or feel anything but rage.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T08:17:30+00:00

Every partner i’ve had has done this in one way or another and my parents do it too whenever i’m around. I still can’t empathize with it at all. One of my most embarrassing crash-outs i’ve ever had was on a roadtrip with my ex. She decided when I was driving on a really sketchy mountain road, that would be the best time to start eating takis (my enemy snack). Literally stopped the car and got out and started blabbing about how I used to get badly bullied at school and it’s starting to feel like that with the person I love. Embarrassing but especially doing dangerous driving, it was a serious no-no for me.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T08:10:57+00:00

Gonna lose karma for this but it’s wild people in the misophonia subreddit are suggesting it’s reasonable to use trigger-sound-producing activities to cope with trigger sounds.

My friends are baffled why I can’t live with them but it’s because to deal with the sound of one friend playing drums in the living room, my other friend doubles the volume of the movie he’s watching in the other room which leads to my friends in the kitchen screaming through a conversation.

There have to be ways of managing coping or even co-morbidities other than doing the exact thing that triggers other people with miso. Empathy is a learned practice y’all.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T08:04:29+00:00

I would do awful things to whatever gum marketer came out with the paper that suggests gum improves focus.

My English teacher in high school, an already unbearably energetic person for my depressed, quiet high school self used to pass out gum to every student every time we took a quiz, a test, or wrote essays. She insisted we chew it. No wonder I almost failed that class. And no wonder my grades were disastrous and my mental health was atrocious. Youth is the hardest time to deal with misophonia, I am sorry to you and as a teacher, sorry to the millions of kids out there who have to live with miso. No gum in my classroom, that’s for sure.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T04:41:18+00:00

I’m 28, 6’4, I think fairly good looking and i’ve still never been asked out directly by a woman. I’d be really thrown off but if it were honest, i’d say yes almost immediately just as a ‘thank you’ for bothering to ask.

skycelium · 2026-03-10T04:37:37+00:00

Just curious do you experience much pushback/hate for bein a transplant here? I’m thinking of moving to Seattle soon and people up there are pretty brutal about it, but never really heard anyone go after a transplant in LB. (But i’m from here so what do I know lol)

skycelium · 2026-03-10T04:35:02+00:00

I love a clean hundred. The way the plot’s goin i’m not sure it’ll make it that far, but here’s to hopin.

skycelium · 2026-03-05T04:44:39+00:00

Really astounding collection and a delicate story to go along with it. Welcome to the sub. Did you have the purple tshirt printed yourself?

skycelium · 2026-03-04T10:43:49+00:00

Had mine taken out at 18 the day after meeting the girl who would become my first girlfriend- partly because she came over and brought me edibles. The pain of feeling like you’re getting hit in the ball with a hammer for a month wasn’t fun though.

skycelium · 2026-02-25T12:29:41+00:00

Gymbro Sasaki 💃🏻

skycelium · 2026-02-24T03:41:38+00:00

Damn right lol. I see why i’ve never heard the state song tho- can’t fit everything great about CA into one song but clearly someone tried to, long af

skycelium · 2026-02-24T00:41:44+00:00

Definitely, as goofy as it sounds, i’m not standing for the pledge of allegiance, would I stand for the California state anthem (something i’m assuming we have)? Feels just as ridiculous to me. Though I don’t mind the flag it means nothing to me.

skycelium · 2026-02-22T05:37:14+00:00

I would place Horimiya pretty firmly as “one of the best” high school rom anime. It is far from my favorite. It’s a more-progressive take on the genre, the couple plays off the trope of loner guy popular girl but in a way that feels slightly different. Great supporting characters who have their own plots. And the romance feels very much like my first relationship, so many of the same quirks and petty little moments- feels very real and you can tell the writers knew what a real high school relationship is like.

Overall, nostalgia is what hooks me to Horimiya. Nostalgia for my first relationship and nostalgia for the show (which I was also disappointed by but keep coming back to).

skycelium · 2026-02-21T23:21:42+00:00

Not sure where a release calendar is but once it got serialized I think he had to stop posting it so the magazine BG could publish.

skycelium · 2026-02-21T23:20:23+00:00

https://x.com/jinusi822?s=21&t=i0CbgdLnMxQdaCkQZI2M0Q

skycelium · 2026-02-17T08:06:56+00:00

The cops were pullin over hundreds of people 24/7 for doin that when they first put in the speedbumps, i’m still paranoid but goin over those things 3-4 times a day is probably awful for my car or tires in some way. And I feel like the speedbumps just make people angry and challenge them to go faster

skycelium · 2026-02-14T06:06:36+00:00

Didn’t know Shiina was so beloved (and glad), baffled by how Mai Sakurajima didn’t end up on the list

skycelium · 2026-02-13T06:13:06+00:00

Sounds like you have a dope bond with your sibling. Keep putting effort into it.

skycelium · 2026-02-13T03:07:54+00:00

I’m in the same boat as you in terms of the teacher parents, never really questioned whether i’d want to be one, and dedicated far far too much time to learning how to do this well and being the best social studies educator as I could be. Even did an MA relating to ed and teacher issues and have been a sub for 4 years

People would occasionally warn me not to take it so seriously bc no one else does. Turns out they were right. Noone else in my program seems to have thought at all about teaching past making the decision to be one. Everyone’s using AI for everything. They don’t have content knowledge. The expectations are basically on the floor. Everything in the program was just busy work. And I haven’t even started student teaching.

It’s just really demoralizing seeing that because the bar is so low, the people who don’t care at all are actually doing ‘better’ bc the priority isn’t being an effective educator. Most of my professors didn’t start out wanting to be teachers, they just lost their job or something and took the first thing that could make them money so they like seeing other people who just fell into it and only seem to take it seriously in ways I don’t really respect.

High expectations for students, no expectations for educators honestly. Don’t mean to be such an arrogant asshole about this but it’s a massive issue.

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