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Sincerely, Me

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Hello all! I'm Lara Flynn S. Gonzaga, but I prefer being called Flynn . I'm 19 years old and currently residing in Taytay, Rizal. At present, I am a grade 12 graduating Senior High School student studying under iACADEMY's Graphic Illustration program. As of April 2022, I'm a proud intern at Rocketsheep Studios and illustrator for Love, Girls online zine! Interests and Hobbies I enjoy art in all of its forms and aspire to try every art form I can! My most distinct artistic hobbies are drawing, make-up, knitting, and crocheting. I also enjoy analyzing artworks for their histories and meanings. I briefly had a passion for musical theatre and music in general, though my unfortunate singing voice made me simply enjoy the art form as a viewer; thankfully, I don't need to sing when I try playing various musical instruments such as the ukulele! My hobbies outside of the arts include cooking for my friends, playing video games, collecting tarot cards and plushies, being out
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A PSA From Our Friends in Bikini Bottom

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Throughout the course of the lockdown, we've been following certain guidelines set by the IATF and other health-focused organizations. After years of the pandemic though, it seems that things are loosening up! Some public places even allow young kids and vaccinations for their age groups are also starting to roll out. Since they were mainly indoors, they might not be as aware of the protocols as much as we older folk are. Regardless of age, we should still all be reminded of what to do our own safety. Luckily, our friends from Bikini Bottom were kind enough to film a short PSA for our younger friends but honestly? Anyone of any age could learn a thing or two from this! In case the attached video isn't available, here's an alternative link that Mr. Krabs kindly provided!
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Before You Break Free: 7 Outdoor Activity Principles

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With COVID restrictions finally becoming more lenient due to the amount of vaccinated Filipinos, more and more outdoor recreation spots are starting to open up again. With this in mind, people should be reminded of basic etiquette once they step foot in the great outdoors again whether they were seasoned pros before the new normal or absolute newbies that want to enjoy nature after being inside for so long. While the date that this blog entry was posted is April Fools, etiquette is never a joke. Thankfully, I've had a little help from the absolute icon Ariana Venti to collate and research the 7 outdoor principles seen below!
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Putting the "Bud" in Budol: A Wireless Buds Tech Review!

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Hello all! I'm back with another post but we're mixing things up a little bit this week: I'll be doing a vlog on one of my best Lazada tech budols thus far! Without spoiling my vlog's content too much, I'd really like to say how useful this product has been to me, especially since I currently live in a small condo unit with my mother and uncle; they have their own devices and tasks which can distract me a lot from my classes or even when I just want to relax. I'm used to blasting music or using speakers for calls in my own space in our former house since I had more room for privacy, though I had to adjust drastically. The featured product really helped me through this drastic life change and I hope you'd like my review of it! Excuse my guest stars Jollibee and Djungelskog, they're a bit too shy to speak on the camera. Just a footnote, though! I'm by no means an audiophile (despite enjoying a lot of YouTubers that are certified audiophiles) but these
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The Climax of Coping: The Harms of Porn Dependency

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Just to say it from the get-go: there is absolutely nothing wrong with pornography. It may be a very taboo topic for some people but the discussions surrounding it are very necessary and relevant, especially in our day and age. While pornography and sex education, in general, isn't 100% normalized, the current era of humanity we're living through is the most liberal yet and makes discussions on this previously taboo topic more accessible than ever. In a local context, the Philippines is still trudging through conservative or even "outdated" views on a lot of things, though pornography and sex education is certainly one of them. The lack of discussions surrounding these in the Philippines has caused a significant amount of teenage pregnancies (Gita-Carlos, 2021), among other issues rooted in our country's conservative nature. However, I'll be focusing on the pornography aspect of this issue for this blog post since sex education is a more general view on the to
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The Power in Knowing and Knowing Your Power

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In an era of endless content quite literally at our fingertips, how do we discern what's not knowledge? To quote Bo Burnham's song, Welcome to the Internet , the internet is "a little bit of everything all of the time." There are millions of exchanges happening online at any given time and we cannot possibly fact-check or ensure that everything available isn't misleading or malicious. To cut to the chase, what really is knowledge? How does something get labeled as knowledge? F or me, I would consider knowledge to be anything that gives a person insight on a certain issue that is occurring that can be proved in a tangible way. While this seems very textbook-sounding, I believe that considering information with no ill-intent as knowledge can lead to many loopholes or is too vague a statement to properly distinguish between knowledge and information. Knowledge, for me, can also be statements that provide positive and meaningful contributions to any exchange being do
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