Update on me, update on the site
7 Dec. 2024 23:12
Dreamwidth doesn't let me add my blog posts onto here automatically anymore, so I'm going to have to go oldschool and just write these manually onto here. No biggie. I'll add a few of my old blog posts below - but I didn't even write that many, to be honest.
But that's why I haven't updated in a while - None of my blog posts have been shared on here! I have so much to say. Lately, for the website, I've been working on, mainly, the stamps sections and my OCs' profiles. I've been thinking of making duplicate pages in Portuguese just an exercise so I don't lose my Portuguese... I'm quite bad at it. We'll see if I ever get to doing that.
My arm hurts a lot, the time I'm writing this. I have always had a problem of hitting or biting myself if I get really stressed out. But it's never been this bad. It's been a few hours and my face is full of red spots and my arm has 3 big, swollen purpley bruises on them... Oops. It hurts a lot. But please don't worry. I'm okay now. It's just a bit distressing feeling and seeing those lumps, haha... But, please, again - don't worry about me. Like I've always had this hitting problem I've also always had a problem of being very positive. I'm already laughing the whole thing off. It's quite silly. Let's hope I have long sleeved shirts on Monday!
I'd love to talk more about my mental state but I worry about oversharing on the Internet. I do it too often. There's no reasons you internet strangers should know about any aspect of my life, really. I should only let you in on the nice, fluffy parts. Not the... hard, purple, and swollen bits, hehe.
Children's TV series
29 May. 2024 15:23
I was reminiscing on some old children's cartoons I used to watch back when I was very small... Things like Maisy, Postman Pat (or Carteiro Paulo as I know him), Chapi Chapo, Backyardigans, Pocoyo, Blues Clues, Bob the Builder (...Bob o Construtor), even to some extent Petit Ours Brun, but that was more my brother... Of course I also watched more recent shows like Phineas and Ferb or those Disney Channel sitcoms, but I was mainly thinking about the littler ones. The ones I'd watch when I was a younger child. It was such a lovely time...
I don't have a child or any younger family members I spend lots of time with but from what I see when I switch through the TV channels, I see that children's shows nowadays are much brighter and louder than what I used to watch... A lot of parents don't even watch TV with their kids anymore, instead opting for Youtube shorts and Tiktok and stuff like that. I don't know if it's just cuz it's new to me but I really don't think that's healthy. My mom told me that around the time she had my brother she was shocked, just like I was, at little kids watching TV, so maybe it's like that. But... I don't know. I don't think kids should be watching such bright, loud, short, overstimulating videos like those seen on social media. I don't think it's good for their brains. The childrens show I used to watch were all quite calm and quiet... Well, Backyardigans and Phineas and Ferb less so but that was also later on in my childhood. I'm thinking of Maisy and Postman Pat, those really young kids' shows. I was born too late for Mr Rogers but from what I've seen he was also a very great man... It's all slow-paced, gentle, educational...
One time my Youtube account got hacked by some very religious Christian Spanish-speaking father. I knew he was a father because when I saw my history I'd see a bunch of videos about Christian music in Spanish and then, maybe a bit hyperbolically, hundreds of Shorts about some very scary characters from that one video game that all the kids like now. And I remember once at a Benfica game, a football game, the kid in front of me was just the whole time glued to his phone watching those 'Skibidi Toilet' videos. I saw him click on a video, watch about 20 seconds of it, switch to another app, play a game for about 10 seconds, go click on another video, 5 seconds, another video, game... I almost couldn't focus on the match cuz I was so concerned for this kid. Maybe my parents thought the same thing when I'd play on my 3DS all the time. Or play Angry Birds all the time. But I dunno... It's the thing about attention spans. That's what's scaring me most... It's a topic that interests me a lot. I've seen, so many times, such young children, sometimes even babies, sitting in their strollers and glued to their mom or dad's phone (who knows... maybe it's THEIR phone! I've seen it!) and scrolling endlessly, blank stare, the phone's just about a centimeter away from their poor little eyes. It's not the kid's fault at all.
I'm fine with the use of IPads as long as they've only got educational games installed on it; for a short period of time I even had my own little IPad type thing, I believe it was a different brand, but the tablet only had a few apps on it. All about drawing and colouring. If I ever used my dad's phone it was either something like Angry Birds, or I was drawing... There were times where I'd venture out into the wild of the Internet on my mom's computer and I found things I found disgusting. 3D animations of Rainbow Dash and Applejack making out... Rainbow Dash getting her wings chainsawed off... I remember, actually, when I ran to my mom about the Appledash kissing video thing, she recently told me that she actually felt a lot of relief when I reacted so terribly to it. I was crying and in so much fear. She said that it's good I was so scared of it, because that meant that the worst I'd seen on the Internet was 3D kissing animations... I guess she was right. I did see some horrible things but that was later on.
I know there's shows like Bluey that a lot of kids really like and that makes me very happy. I actually watched some Bluey episodes myself and they were very good. I hope more shows like this come out, and I hope that the kids watch them instead of their Youtube Kids videos... That platform is very unsafe. There's a whole Elsagate 2.0 going on... Anyways. Bluey is a very good show and I actually did cry while watching it once because it was so reminiscent of something I would've watched as a kid. Peppa Pig but better. If I was born in the 2020s I'd probably be the biggest Bluey fan ever. I don't know what my family members do with their kids but I hope they all put them on Bluey. There's even a Portuguese dub now. Come on, guys!!
