Memes, Metaphors and Magic

When You're a Tired AF Unicorn, Picking Battles, and Seeking Community Memes with Katie Mey

• Taran Cardone • Episode 14

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Memes: 

  • Tired AF Chihuahua in Unicorn Costume Meme - "Okay, well, the first one I sent it has a picture of an angry disgruntled chihuahua type dog in a costume. It's a unicorn costume with a bright purple horn and across the top of the Instagram photo it says when you're a magical majestic creature with secret powers but you're... tired af but, yeah, that one appeared multiple times."
  • Pick Your Battles Meme - "It's like a conversation between two accounts or like a reply to an initial post from one account. The initial poster is @thequeerwithoutfear is the handle and it says 'Pick your battles, pick... pick fewer battles than that. Put some battles back. That's too many.' And then Miss Voltairine, which going back to philosophy, replied and said, 'Me, frantically trying to hold on to my armload of battles, battles falling out of my pockets: NO I need ALL these battles.'"

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Metaphors:

  • PROVIDING FEEDBACK IS A PROCESS OF PUTTING THINGS ON A TABLE AND LOOKING AT THEM.
  • LIFE IS A STRUGGLE. / ARGUMENT IS COMBAT/WAR/STRUGGLE.
  • REGULATING ANGER IS REGULATING AIR IN AN INFLATED TIRE.
  • LIFE IS THEATER. / LIFE IS DRAG. / HUMANS ARE ACTORS IN THE THEATER OF LIFE.
  • LIFE IS BOTH/AND. / ALL OF LIFE IS INTERCONNECTED AND MAKES SENSE WITHIN THE WHOLE. 
  • Underlying, or primary, metaphors:
    • KNOWING/UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING.
    • CONSIDERING IS LOOKING AT.
    • UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING.
    • CONSIDERING IS WEIGHING.
    • ALTERNATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS OF AN ENTITY ARE SIDES OF AN OBJECT.
    • DIFFICULTIES ARE OPPONENTS.
    • OBJECTING IS ATTACKING.
    • INTENSITY OF EMOTION IS HEAT.
    • BEING IN CONTROL IS BEING ABOVE.
    • SOCIAL STATUS IS VERTICAL ELEVATION.
    • MORE IS UP.
    • LESS IS DOWN.
    • EXISTENCE IS VISIBILITY.
    • (LOGICAL) ORGANIZATION IS PHYSICAL STRUCTURE.
    • INTERRELATEDNESS IS PHYSICAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS. 
    • SIMILARITY IS ALIGNMENT.


Magic:

  • 7 Lifepath Number (Numerology)
  • 8 Expression Number (Numerology)
  • Connectedness® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
  • Ideation® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
  • Harmony® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
  • Woo® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
  • Relator® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)
  • Sun in Scorpio (Astrology)
  • Moon in Aquarius (Astrology)


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