@bad_pseudonym I just read the email. I'm like...what the fuck? Is this real? What brilliant staffer thought "let's email the DOE's all-borrowers-of-all-time list to stump for votes".
I don't remember opting into receiving political bs from the DOE.
@JD_Blythe 6. But what's made the biggest difference is learning to listen to and reparent my inner child: https://t.co/6Ce60uoP1X
For me, the progress has come working with a therapist. I hope this helps!
@JD_Blythe 4. Be kind and listen. "Hey. I hear you're upset I made a mistake on [thing]. But, it's ok to make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. So we can let it go."
5. Call it out to another person I trust. "Man, today I just keep getting this negative self-talk that I'm a charlatan.."
@JD_Blythe 2. Talk back. Everything from "thanks for your opinion, not helpful" to getting angry and "shut up! Shut up and stop bothering me."
3. Present evidence. "You're so fucking stupid" -> "No, I'm not. The definition of stupid is [definition] and I'm not like that because of [reason]
@JD_Blythe Negative self talk. Yep. Basically runs constantly in the background. I've spent ten years working on it. What works for me:
1. It sounds dumb. I resisted it for years. But I stand in front of a mirror, look myself in the eye and say "I am a good and worthwhile person."
@aaronwshanks Or if Community has to happen elsewhere (Discord, Paizo Forums, etc).
In my current space (book publishing), folks use social media for awareness, driving interested fans toward their community channels (tends to be an email newsletter, or a Facebook group)
@aaronwshanks Oooo damn. This has been on my mind A LOT whilst I've been on vacation. I suppose, theoretically, they've got different goals: IE, social media -> discovery and community -> engagement.
There's a part of me that wonders if community can be created on Social Media
Welp. I've got a 9 year-old clad in a towel collapsed on the stairs swearing he'll never get vaccinated because he's afraid of needles and a 6 year-old singing "Fuck fuck fuck, fuck fuck fuck" to the tune of Jinglebells.
This is real life.
@EmmaCandon Oh daaaaang! I grew up next door to Aaron Allston! I would talk his ear off about Star Wars basically any time I saw him. It wasn't until wayyyyyyy later that I realized the corpus of his work...he was just the quiet, nice guy with Bob Ross hair who occasionally gave me books
@EmmaCandon I have so many questions.
To what extent did you get to create the narrative and world? How did you, the folks from Kamekazi Douga, and the Star Wars folks work together? Do you have any upcoming events?
It's been 19 years since I last bought a Star Wars book (Rebel Stand, 2002). @EmmaCandon and @kotaro_c thanks for rekindling the mystery and awe of exploring a galaxy far far away. Ronin is the setting and world I didn't know I needed but now can't live without.