The future you is so proud of you, because you kept going. They are looking back at you with love and wishing they could go back and tell you all the good things that have happened since. 🌸
omg
This has been in my queue for months.
I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
scary how many people genuinely don’t realize, or even think about, the fact that mainstream media/news outlets stand to gain literally nothing from telling the truth
It's that time again folks!
The pandemic has made men’s mental health and suicide prevention even more relevant. Join the cause to help save lives, and learn why this will be the most important Mo you’ll ever grow.
Deep breath, confession time: I’ve never participated in Movember. The annual charity event when guys grow out their moustaches in November to help raise funds and awareness for men’s health—specifically, mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer—has been around for 17 years. So why haven’t I taken the dive?
I’ve always been what you might call “follicaly challenged.” When I try to let the peach fuzz grow, I end up looking like a child cosplaying as an adult. Poorly. But this year, I’m swallowing my pride and going all in on Movember. Something is different, and I think you can guess what. We’re all stuck apart, and many of us are alone. It sucks. A lot. And for many people—a lot of men—it sucks more than you might realize.
“Men’s health in general is a challenge,” says Mark Hedstrom, US Executive Director for Movember, “but when you look at something like suicide rates amongst men, it’s an even more unique challenge.”
According to the CDC, Hedstrom says, roughly 48,000 Americans take their lives each year—with 75 percent of them being men.
“Quite frankly, it's going to be exacerbated in this year,” Hedstrom says. “You’re starting to see some numbers move in the wrong direction.”
Movember has the ambitious goal of reducing the suicide rate among men 25 percent by 2030, and they need help from guys like you (and me) to make that happen. How? You can donate or you can sign up to grow a Mo and raise funds. There are also virtual trivia nights, workplace competitions, opportunities to host meet-ups, and more. You can learn about all the ways you can get involved at movember.com. One additional way you can participate is Move for Movember, a challenge to commit to walking or running 60 miles over 30 days—one for each of the 60 men lost each day globally to suicide.
With the money raised by its global community, Movember funds groundbreaking medical research, innovative cancer tests and treatments, and game-changing mental health interventions—more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, and counting. Along the way, millions have joined the movement.
Just to be sure I’m doing everything I can to live up to that standard—and finally grow a proper moustache—I tapped Movember’s resident expert Chadwick Wilson for a few tips. I’ll heed his wisdom, and I hope you will, too. Especially if it’s your (gulp) first time.
Start with a baby face
The true first step is to make your support official and sign up on movember.com. Only officially registered moustaches can change the face of men’s health.
Now, you might be tempted to just start letting that upper lip fuzz grow right now—but hold off. Movember is all about how much you can grow in November, and you want to start off completely even.
“The first thing you should do is you should shave,” says Wilson. “We like to start off Movember 1st completely clean-shaven, nothing on the face, whether that's you using a razor at your home or going to the barbershop and getting a straight razor shave.”
Decide what you want to grow
Not all Mo’s are created (more like cultivated) equal. “On the website, we have a little list of moustaches, such as The Trucker, The Regent, and The Connoisseur,” Wilson says. “I enjoy The Trucker, which is pretty much The Handlebar Moustache. That’s the most important: grow what looks good on you and what's going to get people talking to you and complimenting your moustache.”
After all, Movember is all about sparking conversation about men’s health by getting your Mo noticed. Which brings us to...
Power through that first week or two
“If you've never done it before, you’ve just got to let it happen,” says Wilson. Great. “The first week’s a little rough—you don’t know if it’s going to come in quite like you want it, but just put the work in, and keep it neat by shaving around it. They’re great conversation starters. It gets people asking, ‘Oh, why’d you do that to your face?’ And that opens up the conversation to talk about men’s health awareness.”
Maintain, maintain, maintain
"You just have to push through and once the two weeks get there, you really have some hair to play with and to mess with,” Wilson says. He recommends making sure to trim the Mo so that it doesn’t cover your upper lip—and use scissors as well as a trimmer to help you maintain.
“The scissors are going to be used to cut out the long, out of control hairs,” he says. “And the trimmers are really important to actually shape the moustache. I'm growing The Trucker, so I'll be using the trimmer to keep it in that shape. We’re not big on other parts of hair touching your moustache, because then it becomes a goatee or some weird hybrid beard. We’re going for that pure Movember moustache.”
Well, we’ll have to see about “pure.” See you all November 1.
i think actually the key to successfully doing tumblr (and especially doing fandom on tumblr) is realising that your blog is your little house and you can post about whatever you like there. once you realise you are just living in and decorating your very own silly little online house you start focusing on what makes you happy rather than constantly performing for & compromising your tastes for & placing all your self worth on little scraps of clout, and you will be a lot happier for it
hoes mad that they’re part of a sexually dimorphic species and that they can’t become biologically “non-binary” cuz it don’t exist bruh
Who You Are: A Message To All Men
NOTE: the last time I posted this Tumblrs mobile setup didn’t work right so imma try this again.
- YOU are strong.
- YOU are brave.
- YOU are capable.
- YOU are part of the Lord’s most valuable creation.
- YOU have ability.
- YOU have potential.
- YOU have gifts given to you by the Lord.
- YOU have talents to share with the world.
- YOU are a writer, an athlete,an inventor, an artist, a musician a technician,and these talents will change people.
And these talents will change people!
- YOU have joy to spread.
- YOU have jokes to tell, kind words to give,and wisdom to bestow, and that joy will change people.
- YOU are full of more amazing qualities, traits,and virtues than you could ever imagine, given to you by the Lord who loves you, WHO LOVES YOU,
WHO LOVES YOU no matter who you are!
Whether you’re the big man on campus, or the small guy in the back of the library, whether you like swinging baseball bats, or you like swing dancing, whether you’re the fastest or the slowest,the tallest or the shortest, the skinniest or you could lose a few pounds,whether you’re captain of the team or last one picked, whether your dad could beat up his dad or you never had anyone in your life who could fill that role,whether you’re the champion of champions or you feel like the loser of losers.
Regardless
of who you may think you are, the reality is is that you have a responsibility,because you have a power inside of you,a power that was formed before the beginning of time in a secret place by the God of the universe.
There is a man inside of you, inside of each and every one of you, that is waiting to burst forth and change the world:
A man that loves,encourages, comforts, shares, teaches, laughs, cries, and who builds up those around him.That man is where your strength lies.
That man is where your potential lies, and that man is where your gifts, talent, courage,ability, and joy lies, and your responsibility as a son of God is to find that man and to set that man free.
And when he is set free, he will bring change to our broken world.
You will bring change to our broken world.
And any voices in your head that are trying to tell you differently are from the enemy, and the next time you hear them, this is what you say. You say,
“Nuh-uh, not me Satan. I am a son of the living God, treasured, entrusted, and loved above all things by the creator of all things for the glory of Him who is greater than all things.
I AM AWESOME!” AND DON’T YOU EVER FORGET IT.
This is who you are. #MANuary
The future you is so proud of you, because you kept going. They are looking back at you with love and wishing they could go back and tell you all the good things that have happened since. 🌸
Anonymous asked:
hello! i'm only starting to learn japanese and i'm finding it hard to know where i should start with the kanji. do you really have to learn kanji separately and memorize both their pronunciations or can you just learn the kanji in the vocabulary?
jibunstudies answered:
omg no! don’t stress yourself out like that anon!!
okay, i’m going to be real with the japanese language learning community: you all are doing waaaaaaaay too much when it comes to kanji.
there. i said it.
learning kanji does not have to be a headache!
i spent the first 6 months of my japanese learning “career” (for lack of a better word) trying to figure out the best way to learn kanji because every website and book was like “here’s the kunyomi, here’s the onyomi, now learn them both” but the fine print of that learning method says “you’re going to f*cking struggle”
but then i started realizing that kanji i read all of the time, i didn’t even “properly” study like those articles said. i didn’t know the kunyomi and onyomi for 行 for ages, but i knew it was read いく in 行く and こう in words like 旅行 and 直行. because i learned those words in context and on their own.
a few months after i came to japan, i started asking japanese people how they learned kanji and every single one of them answered the same way: they learn through vocabulary. i once asked my boyfriend how he learned kanji in grade school, and he said that they were basically given a kanji, and then they were given a list of vocabulary that included that kanji. they then memorized the vocabulary and grew to know the kunyomi and onyomi readings.
which, spoiler: kunyomi and onyomi is not always an accurate measure. lots of compounds use the kunyomi, some of them add dakuten (as in ちゅうごく instead of ちゅうこく in 中国), and others add っ (as in ちょっこう instead of ちょこう in 直行). this really isn’t something you can just magically guess.
but it’s important to remember that everyone learns differently. i don’t learn individual kanji – i learn kanji within various vocabulary words. i make sure to get as much exposure to the various ways a single kanji can appear within a larger compound, so 高 is not just a single kanji, but it is 高い and 高校生 and 高価.
i do, however, think it’s important to understand the meaning of a kanji. this can help you decipher the meaning of a word you don’t know yet. for example, 高価 (こうか) means “high price.” 高 means high and 価 means price. knowing their meaning individually can help decipher the meaning.
in this way you can argue that yes, knowing the individual readings of these two kanji makes guessing the reading of this word easier, but 価 can also be read “ke"! you can’t guarantee an accurate reading all of the time, but with more and more exposure to individual kanji, you will be able to tell.
which brings me to my main point: learning kanji is an individual experience. i, personally, think that learning onyomi and kunyomi readings for 2,000+ jouyou kanji is a HUGE WASTE OF TIME, but there are a lot of people out there that do this methodically and know lots and lots of kanji and vocabulary. i, personally, need kanji in a larger vocabulary word in order for it to stick, and my brain just catalogues the various readings away. that’s how my brain works and learns, but it’s not how everyone else works and learns.
it’s important to find what works for you.
that being said, if you’re just starting out i highly recommend Jakka. it’s a website meant for japanese grade school teachers and has tons of grade school kanji material broken up into their appropriate grades. japanese school children are expected to learn and master a certain amount of kanji + vocabulary each grade level, so if you’d really like to learn like a child, learn like the school children do! (the website is in japanese but fairly simple to navigate.)
i hope this helps a little anon! and remember that learning kanji isn’t a race. if it takes you awhile to learn them, don’t worry. everyone learns languages differently.
Yo if you’re a boy with mental illness, a boy with disabilities, a boy who is/was an abuse victim, a boy who has an ED, a boy with trauma, I need you to know that you are not a burden, that you don’t need to “harden up”, that you are very brave, and that you shouldn’t just have to “get over it”.
*SLAMS THAT MOTHERFUCKING REBLOG BUTTON*
*Breaks the motherfucking reblog button*
as OP… the notes on this make feel so happy!!! keep spreading the word, everyone! let boys know that they are strong.
I’m a trans man and I got to see the change in people being like ‘Oh you poor thing I hope you’re coping ok’ to ‘Just get over it, man up’ which has literally been said to me.
Men, you’re allowed to suffer. You’re allowed to seek help to heal. Let yourself have these emotions you’re feeling, they’re as natural as anything else.
This is a really good addition. Men, I love you. You’re gonna be okay and you are allowed to cry, be angry, smile, love. You are allowed to feel, you are allowed to struggle, you are allowed to get help.
men, you are not less manly for having emotions and you are allowed to show them. there’s not something “wrong with you.” you are all awesome and i give you my virtual huggles💗
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