#Cognitive Rest

[snakesong]

I wanna finish watching Sherlock so bad but alas I'm on cognitive rest for the foreseeable future.

Time to listen to those same 4 tracks from the s2 OST on repeat until my brain heals enough for me to watch TV.

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

Something so important to me is Haymitch sobering up at the end of Katniss and Peeta’s game so he could be the advocate he never had at the end of his. He had Effie of course, and she fought tooth and nail for him but she could never understand what it’s like. He made sure those kids never had a reason to doubt their humanity. While he was put in a cage for the capitol to gawk at, and stuck wondering if he should be chained like a wild animal he made sure Katniss and Peeta wouldn’t feel that way. The Capitol went from treating the tributes like wild animals to treating them like pets. Just because they weren’t being kept in cattle cars or cages anymore doesn’t make what they’re doing any better even though it might seem that way and Haymitch could recognize the damage that might still be done in the aftermath of the games. He prevented them from surgically altering Katniss to make her more easily digestible for the Capitol, and from what we know about the Capitol, they don’t need permission for anything, Haymitch had to be on his guard, keeping track of exactly what they were doing and how they were treating the kids under his protection in order to keep them safe. He was behind the scenes at every interview or public appearance, making sure that everything went well. He knows the Snow in a way they don’t, he knows how vulnerable surviving the game leaves you and he wasn’t willing to leave them unguarded.

[likeabxrdinflight]

tired of early 20-somethings acting like harry potter was never good or had no value in its day like shut the fuck up half of you weren't even there when it peaked

[diaryofanenchantedprincess]

What would it feel like to trust that your exhaustion is wisdom, not weakness? What if you believed- truly believed- that deep rest is also part of getting your life on track?

[art-for-a-reason]

The Electric State

Just watched The Electric State on Netflix. Not going to say too much about it, but I think the critics completely and utterly missed the point(s) of this movie. It was poignant and topical and well written. It was also fun and interesting. It did not spoon-feed the viewer, however, and there were times when I was like, "is this an AI apologist vehicle?" To which I can definitively answer, "No." Just view it through the lens of what we as a nation are going through right now, and it'll find the appropriate spots to settle.

[15-lizards]

do you think the big 3 (rhaella, johanna, unnamed princess of dorne [she is loreza TO ME!]) matched their outfits. they’re bffs in my heart. and maybe they kissed sometimes.

Loreza now canon George told me in a dream <3 And yes big Homoerotic Codependent Friendships were happening in the red keep in the 270s AC this is real and true. Rhaella and Johanna always coordinated in their Tudor gowns and Princess of Dorne wore her sari and they never went anywhere without the others :) Rhaella in her red and black, Johanna in red and gold, and Loreza in yellow, red, and orange they were the Warm Color Sisters and sometimes when they were comforting Rhaella they would do super normal female friendship things that then required prayer at the sept.

[sunsetzer]

It's truly amazing what having an unkind boss does to your psyche. I still have dreams where I'm chastised for not being good enough at my job and replaced with someone else, and it's been over a year since I got a new manager.

[compassionmattersmost]

The Art of Pacing: Managing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Skillful Means

There is a rhythm to living with chronic illness, one that requires a kind of surrender. Those who walk the path with myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome soon learn that pacing is not merely a strategy—it becomes an art form, a way of listening, of harmonizing with the body’s quiet whispers before they become cries. To pace oneself is to acknowledge the body’s finite energy, to…

[blinkbones]

i didnt really like the last scene of Primal (s2) but thematically it makes perfect sense and i can't be mad at it. Primal, besides being a visual delight of cartoonized gore & character design, is a story about the continuation of life. The second season could not make it more clear, with the emphasis put on the egg-laying scene, managing to imbue the long close-up of a cloaca with a sense of poetic wonder; and even more so, with the darwin episode, in which charles darwin explains primal theory before getting to play action hero. (this episode was honestly so shameless about having fun; it's a gem). This episode being the only one with dialogue that most of the audience would understand, as well as the only one breaking away from the main story, highlights its importance and makes it almost a demonstration of the series as a whole: one that openly chucks historical accuracy to the side to play with the concept of violence as a means of survival. what it doesn't mention, however, is the subsidiary theme of the importance of "family", aka the group one belongs to. It shines through with the main duo, and of course with the subplots of the giant and the vikings. With all this in mind, I can't argue against the thematic coherence and near necessity of the final sex scene--i may not have liked it, but it fits in with the narrative. As the caveman slowly dies from the wounds inflicted by the only being that could beat him (a godlike avenger), mira gazes at his paintings and gets a sense of his loneliness. They have travelled far together and while she may have found her village again, her previous lover is long dead. In many ways, they belong to one another and are "family" already (with the lizards too, of course). It's true that the scene, while quick, does not shy away in a classic fade-to-black--i'd call it off-puttingly intimate--but the series is very adult; it spreads intestines over just about every episode. And most of all, it's not grotesque or ridiculous--it's a tender rekindling of hope, symbolized by the dinosaur-riding daughter in the last images.

[sillimancer]

yknow when my therapist closed last week's session with a "so next week is the election please talk to me before considering dying" talk I kinda brushed it off but now it's two days away and there it is, that funny feeling once again.

[teachanarchy]

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

[captorcorp]

every other week i start romanticizing getting a phd in my special interest and then have to beat my brain back with a stick like 'your burnout is bad enough already when you don't have that much to do and get paid better'

[kirbyddd]

ok that was a new one

[crunchybees]

goal setting for projectors:

instead of setting goals for physical, external things and burning yourself out or beating yourself up because you gave up before the finish line, try to set goals for ways of being. we've all come across something interesting that has improved the way we live, whether its for efficiency, health, understanding, or literally anything that makes life more enjoyable for us. i say, work on those things that will make your personal life better. i am a splenic projector, and recently i have found success in improving my bodily health. this has been in the works for several years (im also heavily saturn ruled and saturn rules the channel connecting to my throat center!). it started with a simple intention -i want to be healthier. but there was a lot of trying with no sticking to it. the main issue was that i could not find the right type of excercise. projectors are really iffy with excercise - we cant do it too often or too much or we get tired, and splenic projectors can get sick. i also did not have any generator to excercise with! and wow, trying to consistently exercise by yourself as a projector feels like seppuku. i have my heart and root centers defined so i could do any routine i had for about a month or so but after that i just completely lost interest and ended up feeling bad about it. like damn why cant i do that? well. thats just not how i work and thats okay. at that time i had a lot of other stuff going on, stuff that was more important than gainz, like going through the motions of being a high schooler who lives in her aunts crumbling basement. and yes i was trying to excercise in this crumbling basement - me, with taste cognition, crazy. so it wasnt the right time. but now it is. now i do have the energy to focus on directly improving myself and my life. it all started when i graduated. i immediately had a weight lifted off of my chest and i could function properly. well rested and able to focus on whatever came my way. i am a 1/3 profile as well, which means that the way i reach these goals is by first doing research (1 line), and then using my authority to choose what to take into my life and go through that trial and error process with (3 line). so from the beginning, i knew that the three things i wanted to work on, the three things that i knew were the most important, were sleep, food, and excercise. so here comes the research. and sometimes its unintentional. i didnt google search "poisons in food". but the state of food in the us led me to wonder what exactly these ingredients are doing, what effect are they having on my body? also saw stuff on twitter that triggered me to do research. i just get twinges to look further sometimes. and i saw a documentary last year about the effects of sugar and its substitutes. over time the knowledge builds up. i became pescatarian. i know what the nutritional content of almost every food i eat is. i found a partner to go to the gym with, just about once a week (i have wet kitchens environment as well). im still finding a good way for me to do reps and sets, cardio and strength, without me being absolutely obliterated by the end, but i am pretty close to finding that sweet spot. and rest has been so, so important to me over these last few months. ive been putting my foot down and saying NO if im tired, if i know something will wear me out. and my bed... after a long time of sleeping on a futon i now sleep on a beautiful cloud that begs me to stay. this is an indicator of success to me, as a projector. i didnt have a tangible thing that told me ive completed my goal. and its still not over - there is much, much more to life. but now i am able to take on the responsibilities and benefits that come with being this type of person and knowing this type of knowledge. master what you know is good for you. what benefits you, will benefit anyone who seeks your guidance. youre the one who is teaching people right from wrong here. youre the one giving them the map youve drawn from the lessons youve learned.

[telogen]

ur 20s are all about reclaiming all of the new wave music that your dumb potato bitch father ruined for u from age 0-14