I think people sell themselves short when it comes to hobbies too. Like think about what games, movies or even youtube videos you specifically enjoy engaging with. True Crime? First Person Shooters? Romantic fiction?

Take one of those, and then you can really guild it as a hobby by taking your interest across multiple mediums and talking about it with others. I was into city planning games and maps, and then i got into historical architecture and the history of towns, then started to actually explore this via photography, and it informed what i decided to study at university.

Therefore this one interest is tapped into via video games, research (reading + writing), photography, discussion with other people.

some people might not see or understand that as a valid hobby or interest, i don’t really give a fuck because it literally is and I know how much it connects across multiple things that i do and how much effort can go into it. when i feel like it, lol.

another example:

as for music, i just happened to have access to a piano in my childhood home and i was interested in seeing how good i could get without lessons - which leads to being made to take lessons, by your parents xD. I might have been lazy and left it there, i’m not as rigourous as other musicians, but because what i really enjoyed as a kid was videogames I got into trying to figure out some of that music by myself, and that reinvigorated my love of music and re-affirmed my own creative ability after the rigour of just learning from set pieces in books squashed it a little bit.

All music listed online tries to charge you money for looking at the sheet music so in order to better have access to new songs to play I started transcribing, and musescore made that easier. Now i can write my own stuff if i need to.

Photography and walking influenced one another and i got into them around the same time as covid so it was pretty easy, and then because i had access to walking it helped me get into fitness in other regards e.g running. (usually have to know where you’re gonna run before you run)

See - hobbies work in loops. It’s not about one thing you mind doing repetetively but something you’ll carry across multiple areas of life. You probably already have your hobbies, question is what’s the next step that relates to them? I would recommend getting into online discussions about your favourite shows. TVtropes is a good place to start

photography, video games, film review, writing, cooking + making preserves, reading, book reviews, walking, running, genealogy, listening to music, transcribing on musescore and playing music.

if that sounds like a lot bare in mind i tap into each one on an ad hoc basis rather than scheduling it out. the only ones i technically do regularly is walking, music and video games, like most people.

also going to art galleries + theatre 👍

Well they’re not doing it in honour of Lord Jesus (i think), they’re doing it because they’re hardasses who tried to ban all alcohol in the past, after having significant societal problems with it, and they’re not giving up.

My notes:

• kind of good for really lonely people on christmas, who might be tempted to drink their sorrows away?
• but obviously christianity is effectively a pro booze religion as you said, and this might interfere with many people’s christmas plans.
• e.g What if you go to a family christmas dinner and everyone assumed someone else would bring alcohol? Alcohol really is an importamt part of christmas; egg nog, blood of jesus, casually drunk.
• if said people have to start planning around the day of dry sales, won’t they start stockpiling extra alcohol at christmas “so they don’t run out, like last time” ?
• said people then feel compelled to drink more alcohol to make SURE they get through all that they stockpiled
• more drunk drivers that holy night, or extra string hangovers the next day - woohoo!!!

See also: same issue occurs for those lonely alcoholic folk. They’ll be doosmday prepping for christmas in various parts of the USA because they’re cinvinced they’ll need it to cope. Homeless people might need it for warmth

Silent night…

• Not a movie but There’s been a lois lane cartoon show: My Adventures with Superman

• Megamind, though he is a super-person, is unpowered and develops his tech in response to a superpowered person. Suoer interesting movie!!!

One thing i honestly like about this site is that we don’t talk about “incels” much.

I’ll just concile myself by saying she meant punk fashion sense. She loves punk fashion sense but also loves the government and would never ever ever rebel against it. Her dad’s a policeman and her mom’s a school principal.

edit: CONSOLE. i get so many english words wrong recently.

Anacyclosis

Never thought about this before but in what way is she a punk if she isn’t rebelling against at least one thing?

It’s fine, i’m not here to start arguments.

So to answer your questions:

• Yes it’s proven that MJ invited kids over for sleepovers.
• It was so well known that he did this that the media was reporting on it frequently and he went to court for it -~~ presumably it wasn’t proven that he molested them because AFAIK he never went to jail or anything. ~~
• But as you said, the issue is that he shouldn’t have been creating those situations in the first place, because:
• 1), it’s creepy enough ny default,
• 2. kids shouldn’t be taken away from trusted adults fo stay over with celebrities,
• 3. MJ is aware thst this is wring and puts him in a highkply precarious legal position.

You’d therefore assume that he was doing this in the hopes thst he might one day get away with mokesting a child, or that he wss doing it as the first part of grooming them to become his close friends and from there who knows.

It’s a dereliction of “responsibility” as a celebrity and as an adult to essentially provide access to yourself as a visitor attraction for kids. Public meetings with fans (conventions, signings, concerts) and answering fan mail is fine.

I’m surprised it didn’t go worse. I do like his music though and i appreciate he had a poor childhood himself which contributes to making these poor judgements.

(I believe MJ comes up in Epsteins Emails, either because epstein celebrates him, or because he’s a visitor to the island. Probably the former, there’s not much outcry about it. I’ll look for a source for that.)

No i just made the post about dead celebrities despite thinking about madonna. I already decided not to yap to the pereon in question about madonna being a creep, and the conversation in questiin happened a year or so ago but i remembered it and made a post inspired by it

It actually looks amazing. Did a kid really draw that?

Yeah, my thoughts. Cancel culture makes people forget this. Not everyone is a mini hitler (i.e won’t change)

🥶🥶

It does look good and stylish

Look, lady, whatever you’re selling, I ain’t buying, yo.

Well, my name is Skyler White, yo.

My husband is Walter White, yo.

Uh, huh.

He told me everything.

Seriously?

That’s right.

And just so you know… My brother-in-law is a DEA agent. And I will not hesitate to call him. Not if I have to.

Understood?

This is your one and only warning. Do not sell marijuana to my husband.

Okay.

I mean it.Don’t call our house again. You stay away from him, or you’ll be one sorry individual. You got me?

I think so, yeah.

No more marijuana.

I can dig it.

You can dig it.Wonderful. Not that it’s any of my business, but you might wanna consider a different line of work.

Okay.

The Tavernacle (pokes fun at the mormon Tabernacle)

We’re not (i was thinking of madonna), but speaking of MJ:

I’m so annoyed that internet discussion seemed to go back and forth on whether his interactions with kids were wrong, before finally settling on the conclusion they were, in the wake of Epstein + the MJ movie being released. People would make up very elaborate explanations for why he was having kids over and why it was okay, and you’d get absolutely piled on for not supporting that explanation.

For me personally my mom already told me he was bad before i started using the internet, so I’ve probably gone through more gaslighting with MJ than over any other issue - kids i went to school with were arguing with me over it at like 9 years old. I didn’t know the full reason yet.

Just such a clear issue

Cool!