low stakes talks

Created 8 July 2024. I have had lots of practice giving talks that have no real importance to an audience of people I already know and feel relaxed around. Here are some other things I could and would do a presentation about in a similarly low-stakes setting!

"i have a good amount of experience with this"

• getting into webdev for total beginners
• designing powerpoints
• dialect shifts / speaking americanese
• internet stranger danger (basic online safety/privacy)
• doing art commissions
  • or anything digital art-related, but only if we assume i am talking to youths
• language learning...?
• being INSANE about your ANIMAL CROSSING ISLAND

"i feel really strongly about this"

• EMAILING IS GOOD AND FUN!!! PLEASE BRING BACK EMAIL AS A METHOD OF PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE!!!
  • related: death to instant messaging: never message me again
• yuri is bernadetta's BEST paired ending and here is why
• throwing a punch is hot
• run a blog!
• the web outside of social media (please explore it)
• (I promise these are not the only things I feel strongly about)

lists and rankings

• organization tools i have used
• extremely subjective modern cartoon opinions
• fucked-up/transgressive book recs
• pandemic things i did from least to most deranged
• stuff i spent big money on and how worth it they were
• musical songs that fuck
• something something tumblr sexymen
• oof ouch the passage of time: media that activates my chronophobia

it just would be fun

• let's make a gym leader sona! ^__^
• what makes a hot pokemon
• please watch big mouth it's actually quite funny
• the gijinka test: how does your brand hold up?
  • Context: I thought about doing this at my old job where you had to do a company-wide brown bag presentation like twice a year. I decided against it, as I'd have to 1) reveal that I was the kind of person who knew the word "gijinka" and 2) show art of gijinkas to business people.

And here are some things I've already given presentations on:

• Everything from my DTL post
• Your College App Timeline (this was specifically re: applying in the US)
• Finding smaller communities on the web