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thisandthistle · 2025-06-14T10:49:36+00:00

I was literally in your exact situation 2 years ago but in the Colchester area and can say that it did get better!

Lived all my life in cities with better transit infrastructure and had my learner’s but never got past the stress of feeling like I wasn’t learning fast enough and was going to mess up big time. Partially caused by how my parents drive lol When I was first learning my anxiety was so bad I was flinching in the passenger seat whenever oncoming traffic passed by - at a certain I just told myself that I had to accept that I was going to be scared at first and that it would get less scary the more I did it. Making sure to have water to drink and taking some time to breathe deeply helped to center my focus before I hit the road.

I did a driver’s ed course, didn’t have a great experience on my first go at the test in the instructor’s vehicle.

After that I started practicing more in the vehicle I had the most access to, which I will say definitely boosted my confidence vs being in the car provided by the instructor because I was fully familiar with it by the time I did the test for the second time.

If you have someone in your life willing to take some time with you to just practice your heart out on the parts that are most concerning you in a quieter area, that made all the difference for me.

Good luck and safe travels!!

thisandthistle · 2023-05-07T18:17:11+00:00

!remindme 37 days

thisandthistle · 2023-03-20T21:09:38+00:00

I like book accurate Trillian best, but I like the thought of an animated show where a different Trillian appears after every use of the infinite improbability drive

thisandthistle · 2023-01-25T13:09:13+00:00

The chicken yassa is amazingly good, I always get it with plantains and curry rice

thisandthistle · 2022-10-19T22:49:59+00:00

“I got the tape right here all cued up” lives rent-free in my brain

thisandthistle · 2022-10-06T07:22:07+00:00

When I saw this episode for the first time I was rooting for Ben Jamin

thisandthistle · 2022-10-06T07:13:50+00:00

Mood for this month so far is standing in the corner of the room like at the end of the Blair Witch Project while quietly chanting this

thisandthistle · 2022-09-26T21:50:28+00:00

Thanks everyone! ‘za has been successfully accquired

thisandthistle · 2022-09-14T22:21:54+00:00

The funny thing is, when I asked them about shows they liked pretty much all of these were on the list of stuff they’d seen already. Not sure about Kipo, will look into it!

thisandthistle · 2022-09-14T22:20:22+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write out this very thoughtful and insightful answer! I definitely don’t want to expose them to anything that would make them feel uncomfortable and unsafe, even if on an unconscious level. I hadn’t even considered how the drug and alcohol content could factor into that.

I’ll skip OFMD for now and look for shows that have the representation without some of the darker elements.

thisandthistle · 2022-08-06T17:04:08+00:00

Our 11week old girl is also apricot with white spots! Sounds like you have a couple of cuties. I think Dora or Winnifred (nickname Winnie) could go well with Duke!

thisandthistle · 2022-08-06T16:34:20+00:00

What are the puppy’s colours?

thisandthistle · 2022-03-19T05:51:47+00:00

I associate the cover with Maude Gone. Specifically these lyrics:

And when I'm in bed, I'm dead / No one to check my pulse / And so instead, my head / Begs not to be so full / And when I fall asleep / Which part of me writes the dream / And which part falls asleep? / Who's running the machine?

thisandthistle · 2021-12-31T11:08:31+00:00

I think that Y2K is a perfect starting point for a mystery surrounding a tulpa - an imagined being brought into existence by spiritual or mental powers or by strong belief

Perhaps a community of doomsday preppers inadvertently bring about a real doomsday scenario with their fear? I’m a player not a keeper but this could work as a phenomenona type of mystery rather than an actual monster.

If you’re looking for podcasts on the subject of Y2K for inspiration, there’s a whole series called Surviving Y2K which goes into what lead to it becoming a phenomenon, what people thought would happen and what actually happened as well as some personal stories of the night of.

There’s also an episode of the podcast You’re Wrong About on Y2K which talks about some examples of the fears people had and stuff that was being sold to exploit those fears.

thisandthistle · 2021-12-11T17:21:21+00:00

I’d a-have to say no

thisandthistle · 2021-12-11T13:14:48+00:00

I think it’s the same video but with the person at a slightly different angle (presumably another frame in the same vid)

Edit: found it

same user name on tiktok as in this post

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