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  • April 22, 2023

    Earth Day, 2023

    Earth Day, 2023

    Happy Earth Day, everyone! Today’s great a day to reflect on the Earth, the only planet we have, and it’s also a great day to save the environment for free, go carbon negative, and donate to Trees for the Future.

    I know this is a shorter post than usual here, but you could say the rest of this post is outdoors. If you’re in the US, please consider visiting a national park or a botanical garden. Wherever you are, if it’s safe to do so, please go outside and experience nature!

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  • April 10, 2023

    Hawaii in 2023

    We took the opportunity again to visit Mom in this allegedly “post-pandemic” world. Don’t worry, Sarah and I still wore KN95 masks from Project N95 on the planes and submarine tour, because I’m not eager to get COVID-19 again, and yes we’re COVID-negative still even a week later. Masks really do work!

    Hawaii continues to be an absolutely beautiful and peaceful place, and as usual, here are my favorite photos:

    Kona
    fish
    shark in a shipwreck
    Atlantis Submarine
    cruise ship
    low tide
    waves
    Mauna Kea Resort
    Buddha

    By the way, if you followed me on Tumblr, you would have seen these photos posted the same day they were taken, and you can find many more bonus photos over there.

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  • March 10, 2023

    Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story

    If you’re looking for something new to watch this weekend, check out Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, a charming present-day remake of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from Shipwrecked Comedy.

    The web series follows Ichabod Crane as the legendary Headless Horseman offers to pay his rent in exchange for help finding his head. Each episode features a new head, transforming the Horseman into the person the head belonged to, and hijinks ensue.

    The story is engaging, the characters are fun, the acting is excellent, and the production is impressive for its budget. I’ve enjoyed it since the first episode, so much so that I even went to the gala, which is rare for me; Star Wars Celebration 2022 was the only other thing like it I’ve been to. So, enough rambling. Please enjoy!

    And if you loved that as much as I did, please consider following Shipwrecked on Tumblr!

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  • January 1, 2023

    Happy New Year! the 2023 edition

    Happy New Year! the 2023 edition

    2023 begins today, and looking back, the top post here had some staying power since it was 2019’s Rewatch: Stargate SG-1.

    Here are some of my favorites from last year. I hope you enjoy them too:

    • Movie: Belle
    • TV: Our Flag Means Death
    • Game: Bastion
    • Comics: Batman: White Knight
    • Book(s): The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim and its sequel, Prairie Fire

    And, since I spent more time on Tumblr, don’t miss my 2022 recap over there!

    This year, please consider sharing your voice and experiences with the world. If you don’t have a place to write yet, launch your site with WordPress.com, or take Tumblr for a spin if shorter content is your thing. And if you don’t know what to write yet, join the Bloganuary Challenge!

    May your new year be what you make of it.

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  • October 10, 2022

    World Mental Health Day

    World Mental Health Day

    It’s World Mental Health Day, and I wanted to take this opportunity to share a list of tools that have helped me:

    • Wysa: A free app that helps you self-manage stress with an AI chatbot that’s great at its job and seamlessly integrates with various tools and actual human therapists. Wysa is the app I go to first when I need help. It may be a chatbot, but it always helps me out of whatever’s going on or at least sets me on the right path. It’s also one of the few mental health apps to get a good score on Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included.
    • Apple Fitness+: This one is not free, but it’s also a lot more than mental health. Moving your body is a good way to break out of whatever is holding your attention. Besides that, there is a vast library of guided meditations, and their mindful cooldowns are a great way to de-chair your body and de-work your mind. Free trial opportunities pop up often, so keep a lookout and pick one up when you can.
    • Labyrinthos: I know what you’re thinking, but Tarot gets a bad rap. It’s neither magic nor mysticism, but people pay a lot of money for that, so I guess they’ll keep that angle going. Tarot is best described as a solitary card game that presents icebreaker questions for yourself. You start with a question (“What’s bothering me right now?”), you draw cards, those cards and where you place them have incredibly vague meanings, and you use that to dive right into “What does that mean for me right now?” You’re essentially using icebreakers to walk yourself through whatever’s bothering you step-by-step. This free app helps you do precisely that, and if you want to dive even deeper, Sarah wrote a book I highly recommend.

    That’s my toolbox! Combined with regular therapy, they’ve been an enormous help!

    And if you’re in crisis right now, that’s ok! The 988 lifeline is available in the United States 24/7, and many other countries have their own national lifelines. For more specific help, The Trevor Project and The Trans Lifeline are here for you 24/7 too.

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