Dreamland- feel free to stay

i think i want to share with my f-list, because it is really amazing and touching and i cant sleep (FUCK)

it's a youtube vid, and dw doesnt seem to like it, please either check it out at youtube
or on my lj


hope you are all doing well,
happy september!

so, at the moment i am just swamped... i cant believe my university started two weeks ago, because i already had 5 tests. the amount of things i have to study is just wow... i feel like i never ever learned anything before *first degree is falling from the walls*

but besides that all there were also some fandom-related thoughts on my mind; some of them through stuff happening to others, some of them through my own thinking.

my main concern in fandom is that negative comments are an absolute no-go. to me as a non-native this is not helpful. because it will not allow me to get better. if nobody points out what i am doing wrong in their mind, how will i learn it?
luckily for me i have an amazing beta who really whips me into place when i go off, and do something totally normal in my laguage to english.
of course if you only get negative comments then that sucks, but those people still went though the effort to read your fic till the end, and then told you all the things that they though could be done better, or just didnt work in that form you were writing - is that truly bad? because in reality chances are that the majority still liked what you were doing generally.
i find it more "hurtful" in a way that people consume your stuff, but do not give you any sort of feedback - because now i sit here, stare at the statisics and am just like: what did i do wrong? why is nobody telling me what isn't working? how horrible is it?
truth is- most likely i make it way more horrible in my mind then the readers actually think about it. for them it might just be some minor things, or the overall style not working out, but because of "fandom rules" criticism is no longer allowed... and i just wonder how much talent we are wasting by lying at each other or by keeping silent...
but because i am not so good at expressing what i really mean, here is an amazing creator, giving his opinion on negative comments and trolls- with whom i wholeheartedly agree:

"" (Watch on YouTube)

but of course i am also very much interested in your opinion - anything goes! i wont take it personal!

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this is just a mirror, the original post is on lj more of the people i know are active there, but feel free to comment where you like ;)

so, due to me having to watch what I eat I started to be very interested in the food - topic and man was I surprised about what I was able to find.

first I must say I life in an awesome country, where vegetables and fruits are not only grown with high standard and lots of control against bad insecticides (yeah but too have the bee disappearing problem so yes some insecticides and fertilizers are used obviously) and also we do import vegetables and fruits growin in the big food plants in italy and spain- which all leads to the fact that here in austria one can afford to buy and eat vegetables and fruit, which makes a difference for the people living here at large, and me in particularly since my brain needs fresh food

secondly I found out that in america- the big us, the land where dreams come true, most people can't afford to buy fresh food as shown in the 2012 movie Food, INC by robert keller talking about how food for the us is made and put to the marked- here is a vid of an interview he did about the movie

so after I watched that I tried to find other studies about food and if there are other and I found this awesome vids on youtube I would like to share with you:

1. this a documentary about how food influences health
this is a series, it has different parts but you should go and check it out, because some of the things you learn are actually awesome!!!

2. The Food that make Billions it is a movie about how morning cereals changed the morning habits of people in the uk and world wide, its a slow documentary but a good one, because:
its interesting to watch because you see how one side is proud of what is happening and the other is worried, and thinking about the future and just for them but for all of us,
this movie made me think about my own habits a lot
and it also makes it a little bit more understanding how food on the free market works, and tells you thing you most probably never heard before
ps: i was irritated because the first to songs in the choco wheels part- the first is from the XX and the second from MGMT it both times they hit my fav songs of the bands - thanks for that mind-link I did not need!

3.The Secrets of Sugar
to add up variety the last one I present you here with another documentary from canada, and its about to tell you about sugar and where you find it and what it does
I must confess this made me quite happy to know that I switched my eating habits and even bake my own bread and so I am in control of the sugar intake I have

so that was a part of what I found about how wrong food has a very negative impact on our bodies, if you are interesting check out youtube and go from there, there is a lot to know about food - names to know if you are interested in reading you should start with the name and the stuff from Michael Pollan he is just awesome- I promise!

but I also found out about other studies about food that were done or are being done, I want to talk about its about the research beeing done by Bernard Gesch he reported about how healthy food lightens our mood and makes us less aggressive, re reports from studies done in prisons how healthy food made for them to a somewhat better life.
and I think thats it what is important


so what did I learn after throwing myself into a little (very small and tiny) food research:

1. our food, what we eat is a war going on between small farmers and big concerns, between healthy for the environment and us and profit profit porofit


2. even if you have the feeling that you have no choice, there is a choice and you choose to make it when you buy preprepared food or when you buy fresh ingredients


3. food works in our body in all of our body, i myself know this by experience, and so we have to be aware of what we eat and especially of how much we eat of that what we are eating


4. the how much is the most important part ever! its ok to eat cake, its ok to like chocolate, but the quantities in which we eat those things is what really matters when it comes down to our health


5. food is about feeling good, feeling healthy and when you ask people that you know and who eat preprepared food regularly most of them don't say: "yes, my food makes me feel good and healthy" they are more answering int he lines of: "no, it does not make me really feel good, but its tasty enough and fast and I don't have to do to much, so I save time", but I ask myself in these days, is it really good for us to save time at our food intake time, or could we not save time by being less on the internet,on social sites, game sites ect?

at the end everyone must decide for them self or wait till your docs make the decisions for them
btw if you think cooking is very time consuming and undoable in this time of age here is a nice site that helped me when I did not know what to cook: SortedFood they are really good and everything is made fresh and easy done at home

so hopefully you can take something from this entry away too, i did that just for fun, and with very limited time, but i think what we eat is a topic we all should get involved rather today than tomorrow