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Lifehacks for Music
Music lovers, get together! Until I discovered written magic, music and entertainment was my life. I ate, slept and breathed my last. The only problem with this is often the popularity of music in your life, and it is often a big problem.
TikTok, booktok, and Fantasy
The fantasy novel has a long successful history; however, when print sales dropped in 2012, the online sales flourished, paving a new way for self-publishing. Despite the fluctuating sales, fantasy continues to carry with it a strong fan-base that only adds to story-building worlds. In Australia, the fantasy publishing industry is looked down upon as a “popular” literary genre, separating it from the realistic “literature” that wins awards and promotes prestige. Across the entire publishing industry, fantasy produces strong fandom, creates potential for seriality and has the ability to move fluidly between multiple modes of publishing, especially with the emergence of TikTok and the booktok hashtag.
Issie AmeliaPublished 3 years ago in LifehackThreading the Needle
Someone referred to this World as "Beautiful Chaos", and I tend to agree, because there's undaunted freedom within Chaos, who can direct or restrain it?, but there are some who dare to try. All I have to do is turn on the World News or check my Google Feed to assess the turmoil. We've recently gained some "breathing room", no pun intended, from the Co-vid 19 Pandemic, only to be accosted by this new strain or variant on the horizon, and there's this huge push for everyone to get vaccinated, not to mention other Natural Disasters wrought by Mother Nature, with flooding and Tropical Storms popping up all over the Globe, as Human Beings respond to the unrest of life on the Planet, staging Protests in rebellion to World Systems that continue to disappoint.
Nollie McCainPublished 3 years ago in LifehackDancing it out
Do you remember the moment in your life when you saw your favorite show for the first time? For me, the first time I saw ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ was like a theoretical awakening. I was 14, visiting my aunt at her house in Phoenix Arizona. It was scalding hot outside, and I had nothing to do. My aunt had to go to work, but she showed me her DVD box sets of seasons 1-3 of Grey’s Anatomy and told me I could watch them if I wanted to.
Allison KellerPublished 3 years ago in LifehackOur Values Are in Our Exceptions
Very few things in human existence are explained by absolutes. We live in a multi-hued world defined by nearly infinite shades of grey, yet when things get scary or hard, we frantically search for easy, black-and-white explanations and answers to our problems. We want things to be right or wrong. When we can’t fix those problems, unshaded absolutes make it easy to blame someone else — someone on the opposite side of our side. And they make it easy to believe that simple solutions are the answers to complex problems, or that one reason alone is the cause of a problem.
Maria Shimizu ChristensenPublished 3 years ago in LifehackOur Monster Friend
I couldn’t breathe. Gasping for air, I looked to my team, no one could help me. We were all laughing so hard we had to escape, run from each other to catch a breath. None of us had laughed this hard before. Some were doubled over, others were rolling on the ground. We watched Roxie ride Baby Cheezle, spinning in circles with huge puppet arms pumping to the music. It was the funniest thing we’d ever seen. That’s when I knew puppets were my life's work.
Tyler NachoPublished 3 years ago in LifehackLetting go of the past entering the unknown
Gemini - you may want to play, talk and hang out during your birth month but since this year is a little bit different, its time to let everything and everyone play their role as we move into a new world. We aren’t so used to the deep-thinking Water and light flowing Air combination, but this gives us a brief taste of 2022. It’s Gemini season from May 20th to June 20th, meaning this month is full of intense emotions, healing and surprises. Dream bigger than you have ever dreamed before, go with the flow and let go of that old thinking. Be confident in the unknown!
Lubeina SangalangPublished 3 years ago in LifehackWords With Friends, Tom Waits , Repairman Jack and The Adversary Cycle
My last few posts have been more focussed on single item although this is more about where I am at the moment. I had been playing Scrabble on Facebook with a few friends but it became less stable to the point of often not being able to play , and so I went back to Words With Friends which I had left about eight years back due to the number of pop up adverts that stopped me from playing, or at least slowed it down.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 3 years ago in LifehackWhen You Run Into A Celebrity Don't Ask For A Selfie
I was recently watching an Instagram video of actor Leslie Jordan as he walked his friend’s dog on Hollywood boulevard. If you are not yet familiar with him, he has been on the scene for many years appearing on Will and Grace, and other television shows. The pandemic has also been very good to him as he has been one of the few people that have been winning in it.
Happiness is...
Spring is resale season in my neighborhood, reaching an exceedingly high watermark in 2016. My best friend Natalie and I had been running interference each time we saw garage and estate sales popping up around us, because our husbands had been bitten by the shopping bug. Those days, there was just no telling what they would show up with after one of their mid-day forays through our departed neighbors’ former treasures.
Spillda RadnerPublished 3 years ago in LifehackThe Afterhour-so goes the perfect end to a weekend
You know the dilemma: After visiting the club, you don’t feel like going to sleep (and for various reasons you probably couldn’t anyway), so you move on to come down to a buddy’s place with some friends. This can be the relaxed end to a good night’s sleep-or a torturous morning. To make sure it’s not a horrible experience, we’ve put together some useful tips for you. So don’t say you didn’t know better afterward.
AddictiveWritingsPublished 3 years ago in LifehackEverything i know about organization i learned from Leonidas
When one thinks of the Spartans, the nearly mythological citizens of the Greek city-state of soldiers and six-packs. Organisation and a clutter-free life are not the first things that comes to mind. One thinks instead of interlocking shields, of years of training, of kicking Persians into large pits. Still, before the term "Spartan" was a by-word for fitness, fighting and the 300. It was a byword for frugality and was often paired with words like "spartan living." The meaning of the word is still:
Band as a BusinessPublished 3 years ago in Lifehack