#Why was the tree of life implied to be in India if they did nothing with this concept

[mysticalhiss]

You thought I was done with the Night Pride redesigns? Haha no (I say this like these aren't from over 2 years ago.)

Rani and Baliyo are tigers. They are THE iconic Asian big cat so this is pretty self-explanatory. Janna is also a tiger because she's their grandmother and that was a pretty important element of both her and Rani's character so I wasn't going to change that. I genuinely think I popped off with Baliyo's design ngl.

Nirmala is a dhole/red dog! She already has a very pretty design so I didn't change too much, just a few features to suit the species I changed her to! Dholes are pretty rare animals and it was mentioned Nirmala arrived from outside the tree of life so I thought this seemed like a good choice for her.

Surak was a challenge. Coming up with an idea of him was why this took me so long. Canonically, he is Rani and Baliyo's uncle so going by that, he should be a tiger. However, I kind of want to have another animal as part of the group and iirc, him being related to Rani and Baliyo wasn't particularly relevant? So i made him a water buffalo! Least happy with his design because translating his design elements to a completely different species was a pain and I'm not familiar with drawing bovines.

I looked up what species of owl Ullu was supposed to be and I left more confused than I started. On one wiki, she's stated to be a Scops owl. Alright, I can kind of see that. But on another wiki, it claimed she was an eagle-owl of all things. Found out most people seem to go with the eagle-owl for her species (despite the scops owl making a lot more sense based on her size) so I redesigned her to look more like a Eurasian eagle-owl! Kept the markings minimal so the design wouldn't be too cluttered.

[highwaytothedangerzone502]

Foxtrot Alpha Alpha - Chapter 11

Pairing: Hangman x Female OC

Word Count: 3687

Warnings: Drunk driving, underage drinking, death, car wreck, grief, implied depression, swearing

Summary: Hangman learned his lesson a long time ago to never show his true feelings when someone's words or actions hurt him. To do so showed weakness that could be exploited, and Seresin men couldn't show weakness. Of course, there was an exception to every rule, and Jake's always came in the form of women, three in particular: his mom, Juliette Kazansky, and the girl whose name he could no longer bring himself to speak. She was the girl that got away; she was his biggest 'what if' and his biggest regret; she would forever be the ghost that haunted his dreams. Jake believed that's where she'd stay, for he would surely never see her again after what he did.

Or so he thought.

Notes: This is the sequel to India Lima Yankee; I'm using the same callsign for the Female OC as in Ghost Story because I just really like it, but they are different characters; chapters in italics are flashbacks.

Chapter Songs: Highway Don't Care People Need People

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Hangman

The sun had set long ago behind the horizon, but the bright moonlight and the massive bonfire in the middle of the field provided plenty of light for Jake to see his football buddies. They were celebrating the last night they'd all be together. Most of them had been drinking, mainly beer, although some had brought harder stuff, like tequila and vodka. Jake refrained from the libations. He would do nothing to risk his career with the Navy, no matter how much his friends pressured him into trying a sip. 

Annalise hadn't been able to make it as she was returning from a trip to New Orleans, where she'd gone on a family vacation. 

Jake watched as his friends drank and drank, getting rowdier by the hour. He only wished Mike, who had driven him there, had stayed sober too. Otherwise, it would be a long walk home. He could always call his mom, but he hated to wake her up. Not to mention, his dad would be furious if Jake woke him from his beauty sleep.

The night hit two a.m. before Mike finally decided to call it quits. He staggered over to Jake, fumbling for his keys and slurring, "Less go."

"Uh, why don't I drive, man? You're drunk as a skunk," Jake replied, reaching for the keys. Mike pulled them out of his grasp.

"Hell no. No one drives Bridget. Only me."

"Then I'm not getting in the car with you."

"How the hell you gonna get home? By walkin'?"

"Better than in a body bag," Jake retorted. "Come on, Mike. It's a straight shot down the road to your house, and it's max, three miles. No one's on the roads. I can drive Bridget no problem."

"N. Oooooo. Thas spells nooooo," Mike replied indignantly. "You ain't drivin' my fuckin' truck."

"Then I'm not getting a fucking ride with you. I value my life."

"Fine. Walk home, dickwad."

Jake flipped him off and started the four-mile trek home. He grimaced at the sound of thunder rumbling in the distance, followed by the flashing of menacing lightning. That storm appeared to be rolling in fast if the breeze caressing his skin was anything to go by. Jake wouldn't beat it before he reached home, even if he jogged the entire way there. Maybe he should call his mom...

Reluctantly, Jake pulled out his cell phone and texted Natalie Seresin, asking her to pick him up and praying her insomniac ways held true tonight and that she was up. Thankfully, her response was almost immediate: Of course I can. Where are you?

Giving her instructions on how to reach him, Jake breathed a sigh of relief as he leaned against a tree and waited for her. His senses remained keenly aware of every noise and sight around him. Jake was armed with two pocket knives, a trick Annalise had convinced him would possibly save him if anyone ever attacked. She claimed if the attacker disarmed him with the first knife, the last thing they'd expect is for Jake to whip out a second one. She'd said it so confidently that he believed her logic, whether it was true or not.

Hardly ten minutes later, headlights appeared in the distance, and his mom soon pulled over, allowing him to hop in. Jake settled into the seat and said, "Thank you, Mom. I'm sorry you had to come pick me up. Mike was drinking, and I didn't feel comfortable getting in the car with him."

"You made a good call, sweetie. Never apologize for asking me to pick you up, especially under those circumstances. Did you at least have fun until then?"

Jake shrugged, rolling his window down to get some fresh air. His mom did the same while he said, "Yeah, it wasn't bad. Would've been more fun if Annalise had been there, but she got back from her trip today and wasn't up to it."

"Honey, when are you going to ask her out? You two are practically inseparable. Even when you're not together, you're texting each other and-"

"Moooom," Jake groaned, sliding down into the seat. "We're just-"

"Friends? Jake Glen Seresin, do you really expect me to believe that? Especially with the heart-eyes you give her-"

"Who taught you the term heart-eyes?"

"Your girlfriend," Natalie Seresin chuckled, squinting at the brights of a car coming from the opposite direction.

"She's not my girlfriend!"

"Keep telling yourself- SHIT!"

It happened so fast that Jake had no time to comprehend the situation or its outcomes. The oncoming truck drunkenly swerved into their lane. Natalie had nowhere to go. The vehicle hit theirs, flipping them over the guard rail and into the river below. Jake instinctively covered his head with his arms, only unraveling them after the jarring impact of the truck hitting the water. Dazed, he glanced around, trying to grasp the situation. The cold water spilling into his lap shocked him back to his senses. The bright moonlight illuminated the inside of the sinking vehicle, including his unconscious mother, slumped over the steering wheel with a dark substance covering the side of her face. Jake swiftly unbuckled himself and tried to do the same, but the mechanism wouldn't work. Panicked, he whipped out his knife and furiously cut through the tough material until the strap severed. By now, the water was at their chins and rapidly covering their faces. By the time he maneuvered himself and his mom out of the window, both they and the truck were completely submerged.

"Give her to me!" A man shouted frantically when Jake surfaced. He noticed blue and red lights on the bridge and put two and two together. He handed his mom to the cop and followed him to the embankment. Sirens in the distance could be heard speeding toward them, and within seconds, an ambulance, fire truck, and more cop cars arrived. EMTs swiftly loaded Natalie Seresin onto a gurney, and Jake insisted he go with them, declaring he was fine. Whether that was true or not, he didn't know, but he knew one thing: his mom wasn't.

"Mom? Mom, can you hear me?" Jake begged, grabbing her hand while the EMTs tried to stabilize her. A cop car followed, and when they arrived at the hospital, a policeman halted Jake to get a statement of what had happened.

"My mom, she- she picked me up from a party, and the truck, it-it swerved into our lane and hit us- is my mom going to be all right?" Jake asked worriedly, running a hand through his hair anxiously. "Oh, God..."

"Easy, son. Why don't you take a seat?" The policeman said gently, placing a guiding hand on Jake's shoulder and leading him to a chair. Jake collapsed into it. "Do you have someone you'd like to call?"

"My dad and brothers. They'll-" Jake's heart constricted in fear. His dad would be irate over the situation. The truck might've been at fault, but the accident never would've happened if Jake hadn't called his mom to pick him up. This was his fault, and he dreaded the consequences. Still, he had to tell him. 

"Why don't I call them for you? Do you have a phone number?" the cop requested, almost like he could read Jake's train of thought.

"Yes, sir." He rattled off the number, and the cop went to make the call. Jake braced his elbow on his knees and buried his face in his hands, terrified for his mom's wellbeing. If he lost her...

Jake could've sworn only seconds passed before he heard his dad and brothers hollering his name. He glanced up in a daze to see them running up to him. His dad grabbed ahold of his shoulders and demanded, "What the hell happened?"

Jake stammered out the story, terrified by the craze in his dad's eyes. Thankfully, before Michael Seresin could berate him, the cop approached along with a doctor. The men straightened up, impatiently awaiting the news. His mother was in critical condition, but they could visit her two at a time. Michael immediately moved first, but Jake remained seated, knowing he was the last person his dad wanted to go with him.

"You go with Dad," Matt told Nick, sitting beside Jake. "I'll wait here with him."

No one argued. Jake slumped in the chair and stared at the ceiling, blinking back tears. Matt cleared his throat and said, "How you holdin' up?"

Jake didn't respond, not entirely trusting his voice. Matt recognized this and continued. "You were always closest to Mom. Whatever happened, whatever Dad says, I know it's not your fault."

"It is, though," Jake whispered shakily. "I asked her to pick me up. If I'd just sucked it up and walked home, this wouldn't have happened."

"In the middle of the night during a torrential thunderstorm?" Matt glanced out a window nearby when lightning flashed. A thunderclap soon followed, shaking the building. "It would've been dangerous, and Mom would be sick with worry."

"But she'd be safe."

"Jake-"

"You boys want to see her?" Michael asked, uncharacteristically pale and quiet. Matt and Jake nodded, standing up and heading to Natalie's room. Matt entered first, but Jake hung back, wondering if he really wanted to see what he'd done to his mom, to see what shape he'd put her in. How could he have done this? How could he have been so selfish as to ask her for help when he put himself in the position he had?

But what if this was his last chance to see her? What if Natalie didn't make it through this? The more he played the crash and rescue over in his head, the more Jake realized the dark substance he'd seen on her face had been blood. The memory made him nauseous.

With lead feet, Jake moved forward, determined to see his mom despite the guilt threatening to drown him. He'd barely crossed over the threshold when the heart monitor flatlined. Jake distantly heard himself yelling for his mom, rushing toward her only to be blocked by Matt, who practically carried his brother out of the room while nurses and doctors swarmed Natalie Seresin to resuscitate her. 

For what felt like hours, Jake watched the medical team try and revive his mom, but at 5:02 a.m., the doctor pronounced her dead. Jake collapsed in a chair, sobs wracking his body. A nurse tried to console him, but her kind words were lost. He'd lost his best friend, the only person in his family who Jake truly believed loved and cared for him. Now, she was gone, and he was on his own. Jake would never see her heartwarming smile or hear her contagious laugh; he would never get to talk to her when he had exciting news or needed to vent; he would never get his mom's comforting hugs or hear her screaming at his football matches.

His mom was gone.

How long he sat there with Matt and Nick, Jake couldn't tell, but he followed their cues, getting up when they did and walking out of the hospital after their dad. However, when they stepped outside and turned to the parking lot, Michael Seresin stopped short and glowered at Jake. "What the hell are you doing?"

"W-what?" Jake stammered, blinking in confusion.

"You think I want you coming home with us after what you've just caused?" Michael demanded, his temper and voice rising. "You got your mother killed!"

Matt stepped forward, holding his hands up placatingly. "Dad, come on, the police said it was a drunk-"

"Shut up!" Michael roared, effectively silencing his eldest son. Turning back to Jake, he pointed an accusatory finger at him and snarled, "I don't want you in my sight right now. I'll tell you when and if you can come home. Do you understand me?"

Jake could only nod, hopelessness now crashing into him alongside the grief. Matt hung back, conflicted between staying with Jake or going to the car with his dad and Nick. Jake noticed and, in a surprisingly steady voice, said, "Go."

"Jake, you shouldn't be alo-"

"Go!" Jake snapped, pointing his finger at the rapidly disappearing Michael and Nick. "Just go. I want nothing to do with any of you."

Matt hesitated once more, reluctantly nodded, then went after the other Seresin men, but he repeatedly looked over his shoulder at Jake, who waited until his family was out of sight before collapsing onto a bench outside the hospital. 

There, in front of God and the moon, he quietly wept over losing his mom, wishing the universe had taken him instead of her. It would've been better for everyone that way. His mom would've been devastated for a while, but she would've moved on. After all, she would've had two other sons to take care of. Jake was almost certain his dad wouldn't have cared at all if it had been Jake who died. Even Annalise probably wouldn't care. It didn't matter that he was her closest friend and vice versa. She never wanted to get close to him in the first place.

His phone buzzed in his pocket. Jake ignored it the first time. He ignored it the second time, too, figuring it was Matt trying to call him. But when the person called a third time, he finally answered, "Hello?"

A familiar, worried voice answered, "Jake? Are you okay?" 

"Annie?" he croaked. Hearing her caught him off guard. Of all people at this time of day, she was one of the last people he expected to hear from. "What- how did you- are you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, but someone texted me saying I needed to call you because your mom just died. Jake, what happened? Are you okay?"

"No. I'm not," he whispered. The story spilled from his lips in between waves of crying. Annalise patiently listened, letting him get through it and stammer out the story. When he finished, he could hear muffled tears on the other end.

"Oh, God, Jake, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Are you home or still at the hospital?"

"I'm still at the hospital. Dad, he, uh, he said I wasn't welcome home after what I caused."

"You're there alone?!"

"Yeah..."

"Stay there, don't move. I'm coming over. Do you want me to stay on the phone while I drive there?"

"No, no, it's okay. You don't-"

Annalise interrupted him. "You shouldn't be alone right now. I'm coming to take care of you since your dad and brothers won't. Now, do you want me to stay on the phone while I drive there?"

"No. Focus on the road," Jake said, the urge to cry threatening to overwhelm him again, although this time, out of gratefulness for Annalise. What had he done to deserve her? What had Jake been thinking earlier about how she wouldn't care? Of course she would care if he died. That had been his grief talking. He realized that now.

"Okay. If I can't find you when I get there, I'll call you. I'll be there soon. Love you forever."

"Love you always."

Jake hung up and leaned against the wall, staring blankly at the torrential downpour with only the building's overhang to prevent him from getting soaked. The wind caused a chill in the air that would send most people scurrying for a jacket, but Jake hardly felt it. Lightning crackled menacingly above him and struck the ground nearby, but he disregarded the danger it posed, figuring Mother Nature couldn't hurt him near as much as the loss of his mom.

An SUV soon parked in front of the doors, and Annalise hopped out of the car. Jake met her gaze. Seeing her concern, seeing her standing there at the hospital just for him, broke him. The numbness disappeared, and Jake rushed to greet her, sobbing into Annalise's shoulder as she cradled his head and hugged him as tightly.

"I don't know where to go," Jake croaked out when the tears finally abated. He pulled away and wiped them off his face. Annalise was the only person Jake felt comfortable crying in front of. He knew she wouldn't judge him for it. "Dad doesn't want me home right now, if ever, and I don't know what to do because we head to college in a couple weeks, and I need to pack, but now I have to attend Mom's funeral, and-"

"Jake-" Annalise interrupted calmly, garnering his attention. He was shocked to see tear stains on her cheeks. "I think the best thing for you right now is for you to come to my house and get out of this storm. Rest first, and then we can figure out what to do from there, okay?"

"We?"

"You didn't think I would let you go through this all alone, did you? What do we always say?"

"I love you forever."

"Exactly. And I love you always." Annalise smiled softly. "I've got your six. Come on. Let's get home."

The friends slid into the SUV and headed home in the torrential downpour. Jake kept his eyes downcast, unable to look at the road ahead. He'd tried initially, but when panic built in his chest when a car passed them from the opposite direction, he decided against doing that for the rest of the trip. Annalise must've noticed because she reached over and took his hand. As much as he wanted both hands on the wheel, Jake also found comfort in her touch, so he allowed it.

When they arrived at the Blackwood household, the pair shuffled in. Charlie and Jackie were seated at the bar eating breakfast. Jake temporarily wondered where Mr. Blackwood was but figured he was on another business trip. The two women turned around at the sound of the garage door shutting and immediately jumped from their seats at the sight of Annalise and Jake. To his surprise, Charlie went to him first and, without a word, pulled him into a motherly hug. He sank into it. She wasn't his mom, but in this moment, she was the closest thing to one.

"I'm so sorry, sweetie," Charlie whispered. "Whatever you need, we're here for you."

"Thank you, ma'am," he mumbled sincerely, unable to gather the strength to speak any louder. Now that the adrenaline and chaos had subsided, exhaustion swept over Jake. 

Charlie pulled away and gently grasped his shoulders. "Why don't you take a shower, and I'll get some spare clothes for you to change into?"

"I can crash in these-"

"Honey, it's not good for you to stay in those clothes any longer."

"Yes, ma'am..."

Mrs. Blackwood smiled sympathetically. "It's always Charlie to you. Get going. You can use our guest room. I'll drop the clothes on your bed."

Jake nodded, thanked her once more, then ambled to his destination. Almost robotically, he shut the bathroom door behind him, stripped his clothes, and stepped into the shower the second he turned it on. The water had yet to warm up, so it felt like small pellets of hail striking his skin for a few seconds, but Jake ignored it, the shock of today still inhibiting most of his senses. He went through the motions of washing his hair and body, turning off the water, drying off, and wrapping the towel around his waist. He peered into the bedroom, saw the door to it shut, and a clean set of clothes lying on the bed. Jake changed into them and folded his dirty suit, placing it on the chair. As he did, he noticed the red stain on the collar of his shirt. Knowing he hadn't been injured or cut in the crash, the only logical conclusion he could form was that it came from his mom when he dragged her out of the wreck. 

The accident replayed suddenly in his mind, and Jake collapsed onto the bed, burying his face in his hands while he quietly sobbed. A few moments later, the mattress sank in beside him. He looked up to find Annalise; she had tears in her eyes, but her voice was steady when she said, "I, uh, I brought you some tea. Chamomile. It's supposed to help calm anxiety. I figured after the night you've had..."

Jake reached for the mug on his nightstand, staring at the amber liquid. "Thank you. For everything."

"I'm glad I was able to be there. I'll let you get some rest. I just wanted to drop this off and check on you one more time."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Who told you what happened? Where I was?"

"I don't know. They called me until I picked up. When I finally did, they hung up. But I saw a text from the same number giving me a brief sitrep and your location. I called you right after."

"What's the number?" Jake asked, frowning. Annalise pulled out her phone and rattled it off, and surprisingly, Jake recognized it. "That's Matt's number. He didn't want to leave me, but I yelled at him to..."

"I'll let him know you're here and safe. I'm sure he's worried." Annalise put her phone back into her pocket. "I'll leave you alone-"

"No, no. I don't- could you stay for a bit?"

"Of course," Annalise replied without hesitation. She crawled to the other side of the bed and leaned against the headboard. Jake sidled next to her, his arm brushing hers. "Do you want the TV on or no?"

"You can watch it; I don't mind."

Annalise nodded and turned it on. She flipped through the channels until she landed on Hallmark. Jake watched it with her in silence. Slowly, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, he started sliding down unintentionally under the covers, and his head lolled onto Annalise's shoulder. Once that happened, Jake was out like a light. The last thing he remembered was feeling the weight of his friend's head resting atop his and thinking how she was the only rock in his life now. Without her, God only knows what would happen to him.

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[daminiqs]

𝐡𝐬𝐡𝐪𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤𝟎𝟏𝟏 -- 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲

ｔｈｅ ｎａｒａｙａｎｓ ｏｆ ｗｅｓｔ ｂｅｎｇａｌ

                           𝑎 𝑐𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑒𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒                            𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝘩𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑢𝑔𝘩𝑡𝑠                            𝑤𝑖𝑡𝘩 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠

the koch dynasty ruled over the region that would become modern bihar, assam & west bengal; the narayan line remains unbroken since the early sixteenth century though they did not always rule. after india’s independence from the british raj, bhaskor narayan successful petitioned to have their royal estates returned. he became the duke of west bengal with his younger brother, swapnil, at his right hand as the viceroy. their pride in their bengali culture and heritage made them popular with their people. the next generation is not quite as well liked -- all were educated abroad at one point or another, and the western influences can seem egregious at times. still, the narayans always make a strong showing at events with the other indian royals; their ties to bangladesh through trade and marriage are valuable, as are their investments in the tea industry.

                          𝑘𝑢𝑐𝘩 𝑐𝘩𝑎𝑖 𝑠𝘩𝑎𝑖 𝘩𝑜 𝑗𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑒?

ʰʳᶤᵈʸᵃᶰˢʰᵘ ᶰᵃʳᵃʸᵃᶰ˒ ⁶⁵ ⁽ ˢᵃᵇʸᵃˢᵃᶜʰᶤ ᶜʰᵃᵏʳᵃᵇᵒʳᵗʸ ⁾

hridyanshu shares a grandfather with bhaskor & swapnil. his father was the youngest of three sons and uninterested in any political aspirations; he bought a tea farm instead. as the only son ( after three daughters ) hridyanshu was expected to take over the business -- but he wanted to become a photographer. an unexpectedly swift marriage shifted his responsibilities. despite the ill-timing, the scandalous wedding did bring hridyanshu’s father the heir to his darjeeling tea trade back.

ʳᵉᵇᵃᵗᶤ ᶰᵃʳᵃʸᵃᶰ ᶰᵉ́ᵉ ᵈᵘᵗᵗᵃ˒ ⁶⁷ ⁽ ᵐᵃᵐᵃᵗᵃ ˢʰᵃᶰᵏᵃʳ ⁾

rebati dutta was a rising star in indian classical dance. there was a rumor that the first time she’d performed at the russian consulate in kolkata, three different generals proposed to her. but her eyes had been drawn to the photographer in the front row. it was a whirlwind affair, seemingly ending dutta’s career. rebati narayan would eventually return to the dance stage as a choreographer and director of her own dance academy. both meenakshi and damini were trained in odissi style of dance. 

ᵐᵉᵉᶰᵃᵏˢʰᶤ ᶰᵃʳᵃʸᵃᶰ ⁴² ⁽ ᵖᵃᵒˡᶤ ᵈᵃᵐ ⁾

meenakshi is the apple of her father’s eye, her mother’s baby and damini’s darling. she studied history at the university of kolkota before going to the us to complete her master’s. it was there she’d meet a charming med student who’d lure her away from fields of tea leaves to palm tree lined pavements ( though she kept her maiden name ). currently, meenakshi is a professor in the south asian studies department at ucla. after years of unsuccessful pregnancy attempts, she and her husband have started discussing the possibility of adoption.

ᵖʳᶤᵗʰᵘᵛᶤ ʳᵃᵒ˒ ⁴⁵ ⁽ ˢᵉᶰᵈʰᶤˡ ʳᵃᵐᵃᵐᵘʳᵗʰʸ ⁾

prithuvi’s parents immigrated to the united states in the early 1970s; they opened their own restaurant with money inherited from prithuvi’s grandfather that became reasonably successful over the years. his grandfather funded his education as well -- he met ( and promptly fell for ) beautiful and well-spoken meenakshi while studying at harvard. but it was damini he had to convince of his affections before their marriage could take place.

ᵏᵒᵘˢʰᶤᵏ ᶰᵃʳᵃʸᵃᶰ˒ ⁵¹ ⁽ ʳᵃʰᵘˡ ᵇᵒˢᵉ ⁾

bhaskor’s son and the current duke of west bengal, koushik is an effective leader only because he’s a really good follower. he was careful to fill his cabinet with decades of expertise ( including damini before her marriage ) for his particular strategy of political play: listen to the brightest minds because a) they were probably right and b) if they weren’t, they took the fall. luckily, none have failed him yet. he wears his duties seemingly effortlessly, but he’d also be the first to credit his wife for her support in his work and her tireless efforts as mother to their son and daughter ( uncast bc im lazy ).

ᵏᵒᵐᵃˡ ᶜʰᵒʷᵈʰᵘʳʸ ᶰᵃʳᵃʸᵃᶰ˒ ⁴³ ⁽ ᵏᵒᶰᵏᵒᶰᵃ ˢᵉᶰ ˢʰᵃʳᵐᵃ ⁾

the bangladeshi socialite turned duchess-consort handled everything gracefully. her nature was sweet and amenable; she was a rather perfect match politically and in temperament when introduced to koushik. the two didn’t live together until a few years after their marriage so komal could have time to complete her mba. she serves on the boards of several non-profits, most focused on increasing access to education in rural areas with a specific interest in girls’ education.

ᵃᵃʳᵘˡ ᶰᵃʳᵃʸᵃᶰ˒ ⁵³ ⁽ ʳᵒᶰᶤᵗ ʳᵒʸ ⁾

though older than koushik, as the son of the younger narayan brother, swapnil, aarul always knew he would only ever be meant for viceroy. and he was genuinely pleased with this knowledge -- all of the connections and influence with half the effort and responsibility. after serving in the indian air force, aarul returned to west bengal upon his father’s retirement. though he never married, he’s had several girlfriends throughout the years.

ˢʰᵃᵍᵘᶰ ʳᵒʸ˒ ³⁴ ⁽ ˢᵃʸᵃᶰᶤ ᵍᵘᵖᵗᵃ ⁾

aarul’s latest girlfriend, though the first to have made it to “live in.” there’s nothing wrong with her by any means: shagun is a whip-smart, modern bengali delhiite. as a journalist she’s already one of the more intelligent partners aarul’s has introduced. but still, none of the narayans are comfortable with the age difference OR their live in status and thus, tend to treat her coldly. 

ᶠᵃʳʰᵃᶰ ᵠᵘᵗᵇ ˢʰᵃʰ˒ ³⁸ ⁽ ʳᵃʰᵘˡ ᵏʰᵃᶰᶰᵃ ⁾

farhan fell in love with damini over tutoring sessions in secondary school. it seemed like fate when they both ended up in delhi within 10 km of each other; she was studying economics at delhi university while he completed his engineering degree from iit delhi. they’d meet for chai, then eventually films until finally in her second year he brought her flowers outside her hostel. he’d been ready to wait for her for the rest of his life, but damini knows now she made him wait too long. (on a less sad note: reasons why damini married farhan << this link is nsfw [implied nudity] )

ᵐᶤʰᶤʳ ᵠᵘᵗᵇ ˢʰᵃʰ˒ ¹³ ⁽ ᵛᶤʳᵉᶰ ᵛᵃᶻᶤᵈᵃᶰᶤ ⁾

( okay i know the actor is a totalreach age wise but also....pics like this exist so u can’t make me cast anyone else ) mihir doesn’t remember much of his father -- he was only four when farhan passed. damini adores him, but struggles with motherhood without her partner. her parents would have preferred to raise mihir with them, but his position as the heir to the hyderabad duchy made it complicated. damini ended up sending him to boarding school when he was eight; he doesn’t understand why she can call him every day, show up for every cricket match but somehow can’t keep him with her.

[faveficarchive]

Creative License

By Ella Quince

Pairing: Xena/Gabrielle

Rating: PG-13

Synopsis: A very different take on the Warlord AU.

"Bring in the prisoner," growled the warlord.

Then, while waiting for her orders to be carried out, she paced impatiently in the tight confines of her field tent, stopping only when she heard the approaching sounds of muffled cursing and scuffling boots. By the time the guards had dragged a very noisy young woman into the tent and thrown her to the ground, the warlord had schooled her angular face into an impassive mask. Her body, however, was rigid with tension, adding an aura of menace to her already considerable height. Even her mane of hair, brushed into an ebony wave down her back, seemed to bristle with fury.

After a single glance upward, the prisoner's protests strangled into silence.

With slow deliberation, the warlord took note of the young woman's appearance: plump figure, worn skirt and faded blouse, a homely face framed by long, mousy blonde hair. She looked tired, and a little dusty, but otherwise hadn't suffered any harm at the hands of her captors.

The warlord dismissed the guards with a brusque gesture, her gaze still locked on her newly-won prize. Reaching down, she easily pulled the prisoner up onto her feet. Her calloused hand lingered on the young woman's wrist, then finally dropped away.

"So..." drawled the warlord, taking a polite step back from her captive, "you're Gabrielle, the bard from Potidea."

"Y-yes, that's me," said Gabrielle with a proud lift of her head. Unfortunately, her attempt at bravado was compromised by the slight trembling of her chin.

"I'm Xena... Warrior Princess. I think you've heard of me." The warlord's smile didn't reach the ice-blue of her eyes.

The prisoner nodded reluctantly, then flushed a deep, deep pink. "I...I...can explain."

"I don't want an explanation — I want you to stop."

"Stop? I can't stop! I'm a bard and those stories — "

"Those stories are making it very hard for me to do my job," said Xena, her mouth set in a grim line. "In fact, you're the worst threat I've ever faced."

"Me?" squeaked Gabrielle. She cleared her throat and continued at a more normal pitch. "But I'm... I'm just a wandering bard... you're a mighty—"

"Stop that!" roared Xena. "That's exactly what I'm talking about!" With a weary groan, she dropped down onto her camp bed. "All that 'mighty warrior' stuff — people are starting to take it seriously, for Hera's sake. At least once a month I get a challenge to my 'reputation.' Sometimes, if I'm lucky, that reputation works to my advantage — I've practiced that steely-eyed gaze you describe and it's scared a few combatants away before they even drew their blades."

"Really?" said Gabrielle, breaking into a delighted grin. Animation transformed her plain features into something approaching beauty. "That's great! I've always loved that look of—"

"BUT," cut in the warlord, "most of the time I have to fight them off."

"But you win!"

"Oh, yeah," said Xena with a harsh laugh. "There's nothing like having a few archers in the trees to keep the odds in my favor."

Gabrielle sank down onto a low bench across from the warlord. "You had them... shot?"

"Yes, little bard, I did. In the back, usually, so they wouldn't see the bolt coming."

"But how could you? That's not a fair fight!"

"If it was a fair fight," spat out Xena, "I'd be dead by now, because — your stories to the contrary — I'm not the best warrior in Greece. I'm not the best warrior in this gods-forsaken province. By Hades, I'm not even the best warrior among my own men."

A puzzled look crossed the young woman's face. "Then why do they follow you?"

Xena shrugged. "I'm a good administrator." She colored slightly at Gabrielle's incredulous look. "I can read — which most of them can't — and I'm very organized. I insist on a clean camp, with a decent cook, and I pay them on time. What most warlords don't understand about their armies is that soldiers get tired of life on the road, and little details, like having a comfortable place to take a crap, can forge more loyalty than epic conquests."

"Quality of life issues..." muttered Gabrielle pensively, then shook her head. "Nope, nope, I can't work with that. There's no drama in being a good administrator."

"Speaking of drama," said Xena in a peevish tone. "Every year you make my past bloodier and bloodier. That story about me impaling all those Amazons..." She shuddered. "Gave me the creeps. It's a damn good thing there aren't any Amazons near here or they'd have tracked me down and killed me for that massacre. And Hope and that Dahok demon gave me nightmares for weeks."

"Sorry about that," said Gabrielle contritely. "It's just that audiences expect so much from me now, and it was getting a little boring telling the same old tale about us traveling around Greece saving villagers from petty warlords."

"Is that why you had me drag you behind my horse?" demanded Xena. "Because you thought it was exciting? If I'd really done something like that — and you'd lived, which is highly unlikely — you should have run away from me! Fast! Instead you're still hanging around, business as usual." She shook her head. "That doesn't make any sense at all, dramatic or otherwise."

"I was getting to it!" said Gabrielle hotly. "I drafted this really wrenching reconciliation story, where we worked out all our problems..."

"And?"

"Well, it was too touchy-feely for the tavern crowds, so I shelved it for the next festival, and then never got back to it because I was working on another travel arc."

"To India?" asked Xena.

"Hey, you really do keep up! That's my newest material."

"I've never been to India," said Xena, a trifle wistfully. "Or Chin..."

She drew herself up, assuming a commanding air that was completely at odds with her next words. "In fact, I haven't done any of the things you claim I've done. So, bard, I can't help but wonder — why me?"

Gabrielle remained silent, her expression suddenly blank and unreadable. She really was plain looking, thought Xena, when she wasn't smiling. "Hey, come on, Gabrielle. You owe me."

"All right, all right." The young woman's voice was low, but melodious, as she explained. "A few years ago you rode into Potidea to barter for supplies for your men and...." she took a deep breath, "and you were the most amazing woman I'd ever seen. I wanted to follow you and learn to be a warrior just like you." Her face took on a pinched look. "Only I was too scared. I stayed in Potidea, dreaming, always just dreaming, about the life I could've had if I'd been brave enough to try. After awhile I began to tell other people my fantasies about that life — and they loved them. Sooo... I just kept elaborating on Xena and Gabrielle's adventures together. Travelers assumed I was a bard, talking about my real experiences with the Warrior Princess, and the tips got better and better. The next thing I knew, I could afford to leave Potidea and make a decent living traveling from town to town... and I owe it all you," she finished in a whisper.

"That's...uh...." Xena cleared her throat, "that's very flattering... but I'm not like your warrior princess. I'm not the least bit... dramatic."

Gabrielle smiled, and Xena observed once again that surprising transformation of the bard's features from plain to beautiful. "Actually, I'm not that disappointed. The Xena I've created for my stories would probably be a little too intimidating, unless I was as fearless as the Gabrielle of my stories... which I'm not. In fact, you're a much nicer warlord than I expected."

"That's probably because I'm not a very successful warlord," sighed Xena. "I get by, but not much more than that. And now, because of all those tales of yours, towns are starting to expect my army to help them with problems rather than conquer them."

"Oh, but that's wonderful!"

"Mostly they need a hand with road construction or plumbing; sometimes we save a harvest from the ravages of an early frost."

Gabrielle looked a little crestfallen. "Those quality of life issues again. What is it with people? Everyone insists on being so... mundane. That's why I take a little creative license with my plotlines."

The warlord scowled darkly. "Like implying I've bedded half the warriors in Greece? As if. Just for the record, the ones who aren't sleeping with other men would rather bed a tavern wench who wears homespun linen instead of leather. All this," she waved a hand at her leather and armor, "is equipment. If soldiers thought it was sexy they'd be too distracted to survive their first battle."

"Interesting point. That never occurred to me. I just figured, since you're so beautiful—"

"Which reminds me," said Xena gruffly. "That's another one of those rumors that's making my life difficult. Everyone thinks we're a couple, so they get indignant if I'm too friendly with the locals."

"I didn't start that rumor," said Gabrielle hastily. "It was other bards who just sort of... assumed... and then they took my material and added these... twists to the narrative." She blushed and muttered, "Very inventive really... if you go in for that sort of thing." She peered up from beneath her bangs with a shy look of curiosity. "Do you?"

"Do I what?"

"Go in for...that kind of thing?"

The warlord swallowed hard, then said, "I move around a lot. Makes it kind of difficult to keep a relationship going."

"You haven't answered my question."

"In case you've forgotten," snapped Xena, "I'm the warlord and this is my interrogation. So stop changing the subject — which is you and your infernal stories!"

The bard cringed, her shoulders hunching as if to deflect a blow, but she relaxed a little when she realized that Xena's fuming wasn't going to erupt into violence. "Funny, I never expected you to take much notice of me... or my stories... but if you did, I always hoped that you'd be... pleased." Her voice seemed to choke up for a moment. "Anyway, I'm really sorry I've caused you so much trouble, and I promise to stop now."

Oddly enough, Gabrielle's concession didn't appear to please the warlord.

"But how will you make money?"

"I'll work with some of my other characters, maybe Meg and Joxer."

"You'll starve," predicted Xena dourly.

"Okay, so they're not too popular, but I'll get by. After all, I can't continue with my Xena chronicles now that I know they're hurting you."

"Oh, it's not so bad as all that," said Xena uncomfortably. "Besides, even if you stop, all the other bards will keep on going. The damage has already been done, so I've given up expecting my life to return to normal."

"Then why did you have me abducted?"

Xena shrugged, her glance sliding away to study a shadowed corner of the tent. "Curiosity, I guess. Since we spent so much time together in your stories, I started to wonder what you were really like."

"Oh.... Well, as you can see for yourself, I took a little creative license with Gabrielle, too. I'm not brave and resourceful... or beautiful."

The warlord's gaze stole back to the young woman's face. "I'm not disappointed," said Xena softly. "You have the nicest smile I've ever seen.... and it takes courage to stand up to a warlord, even a battered old has-been like me."

"Is that how you see yourself?" asked Gabrielle, her brows drawing together in consternation. "Because as far as I'm concerned, you're still the most amazing woman I've ever met."

"You need to get around more," said Xena dryly.

The bard just smirked. "I get around plenty, thank you very much... enough to know what I want."

When Gabrielle leaned forward, an emotion resembling panic appeared in the warlord's eyes, but she held her ground. When their lips touched, Xena closed her eyes entirely. And when the kiss deepened, a low moan signaled her surrender to the bard.

"Ouch!" muttered Gabrielle, suddenly breaking away from their embrace. "That armor stuff is sharp."

"Sorry." Xena appeared quite flustered, although whether from the kiss or its abrupt interruption was unclear. "It's been a while since I've done this."

"We'd be more comfortable if you took off the metal parts," said Gabrielle firmly.

"Yes, yes, I suppose we would." But the warlord didn't move. In fact, she barely seemed able to breathe.

"Here," said the bard, her fingers gently tugging at a buckle. "Let me help."

With a mute nod, the warlord allowed herself to be disarmed. The bard fumbled a bit with the unfamiliar fastenings, but both of them were too distracted to notice. And by the time Gabrielle had slipped off Xena's breastplate, arm guards and bracers, they'd built up enough momentum to keep right on going.

"The warrior princess is a little better endowed than I am," confessed Xena, aware that the leathers she was pulling off had hidden her flat chest and bony build.

"That's okay," said Gabrielle, stripping her blouse up over her head. "I have enough wealth for the two of us."

"And so you do," whispered the warlord in awestruck appreciation of the bard's generous figure. The renowned washboard abs were nowhere to be seen, but Xena didn't mourn their absence. When she laid Gabrielle down on the cot and covered the bard's body with her own, Xena felt as if she was sinking into two feather pillows, and it was the most exquisite sensation she'd experienced in years.

Gabrielle's arms circled Xena's neck, drawing her close for yet another burning kiss. When the bard finally let go, they were both rather breathless. "I've always wanted to be ravished by a warlord."

"I could have sworn," murmured Xena, as insistent hands worked their way down her back, "that I was the one being ravished."

"Ravished by a bard...." Gabrielle shook her head. "Nope, no dramatic potential there."

"Speak for yourself," said Xena with an appreciative moan as those sure hands reached their goal.

They didn't bother with coherent conversation beyond that point. So it wasn't until much later, after they had collapsed into a companionable tangle of limbs, that Gabrielle said, "I've been thinking about our problem."

"What problem is that?" asked Xena, nuzzling the bard's hair. By candlelight, it had the reddish highlights she'd always imagined to be Gabrielle's color.

"The problem of all those combat challenges and the need for you to keep a lower profile."

"I can take them on," muttered the warlord, before breaking into a wide yawn. "Kill 'em all."

"Down, tiger," said the bard with an indulgent chuckle. "You don't need to prove anything to me. No, I think the time has come for the Warrior Princess to retire. It would feel... weird making up new stories about Xena. You're too real for me to use as inspiration anymore."

"So what's your plan?" Xena's voice was slurred with drowsiness.

"A spectacular, gore-strewn farewell for the Warrior Princess. Lots of fighting and dismemberment. I can even off a few Amazons for good measure. Maybe work in a crucifixion. Yeah, that would be an awesome way for her to die."

Xena grimaced, encroaching slumber pushed back by her queasy contemplation of the bard's scenario. "You have the most morbid imagination."

"Oh, no — this is going to be an epic love story. I'll kill myself off, too. Trust me, this can work."

"And then what?"

"I suppose I'll create another hero, a woman who does something different. Like fighting bacchae instead of warlords. Yes, that's the ticket! I bet I could dine out for weeks on the opening story alone."

"Yeah... yeah, I suppose you could...." Xena propped herself up on one elbow and studied the bard lying beside her. For two such very different-looking women, they fit together remarkably well on the narrow cot. "You know," she said, with a rather poor attempt at nonchalance, "now that my army isn't doing very much looting and pillaging, the men get kind of bored at night. It would raise morale if I hired a bard to entertain them."

"Really?" Unlike the warlord, Gabrielle managed a quite convincing casual tone, but then she'd had a lot of practice on stage. "Just how long could you use the services of this bard?"

"Well..." The warlord's voice was strained with apprehension, but she stalwartly marched forward. "Morale is very important to a good administrator. I think we'd always need a first-class bard around... one like you."

"Why, Xena, I thought you'd never ask."

Despite Gabrielle's teasing tone, Xena had to wipe a few tears off the bard's cheeks. With a contented sigh, the warlord said, "I was a little worried you'd say no. You don't seem to like happy endings."

"I try to avoid being predictable, but sometimes a cliche is just what a story needs."

"Like happily ever after?" ventured Xena.

"Yeah," said the bard. "Like happily ever after."

And her smile stole Xena's breath away.

[midnightartemis]

Chapters: 34/? Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey/Ben Solo, Finn/Rose Tico, Poe Dameron/Rey, Poe Dameron/Finn, Poe Dameron/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Ben Solo, Finn (Star Wars), Poe Dameron, Rose Tico, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Maz Kanata, Amilyn Holdo, Snoke (Star Wars), Boba Fett, Armitage Hux, Chewbacca (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Abuse, Suicide Attempt, Star-crossed, Dreams, High School, School Dances, Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Foster Care, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Near Death Experiences, Multiverse, Reincarnation, Attempted Sexual Assault, Assault, Graphic Description, Teenage Drama, Horny Teenagers, Fluff and Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, Past Drug Use, Drug Dealing

Chapter Thirty-Two

The next morning, there’s a quiet stillness that wakes me. It takes a second before I realize that the wind has stopped its incessant howl through the woods. I can’t remember the last time I had been somewhere so quiet. There was no hum of electricity, no dogs barking, no sirens. Ben sleeps beside me, my fingers rising and falling with his chest as he breathes. As I drift in and out, I can see her.

Dream Rey hovers in the air of her own accord. Her eyes are closed and her legs crossed in a deeply meditative state. Her lips move in a quiet mantra only she could hear. At first, we share the silence. Then the sounds and the smells and the warm green foliage of the forest surrounding her fade into my mind and solidify.

Rey’s eyes snap open, and, in an instant, the air between us electrifies. A long metal tube flies to her hand and a humming beam of bright blue light shoots from the end like an electric sword. “Who are you? What do you want?”

I hold my hands up slowly, not wanting to alarm her again. There was an itching feeling in my gut that told me she might have the answers I was looking for. “My name is Rey. I just want to talk.”

The woman’s brows furrow. “You’re the darkness. From the cave!”

“No!” I keep my hands up and don’t move. I don’t want her to sever this strange connection again. “No, please, believe me. I’m just trying to understand what’s going on. I don’t understand what’s going on. I was in a cabin in the woods and now I’m here. And it doesn’t feel like a dream.”

Rey studies me for a moment, seemingly wrestling with this strange occurrence in her head as well. She lowers her weapon and the blue blade disengages. “Are you with the First Order?”

“No. I don’t even know what that is.” I lower my hands slowly. It was strange to look at her, like looking in a mirror almost. Was this how twins felt? Was this woman my twin? “Are you- Are we sisters?”

The woman’s eyes flash with pain. “No. I don’t think we are. My name is Rey as well. Do you know where you are? Can you see what’s around me?”

“Yes, a forest. A jungle, really. Are you somewhere in South America?” I gaze around at the luscious green foliage that surrounds us. Everything is so vivid. I can smell the dirt and the sweet scent of plants and flowers. I can feel the cool ground beneath my bare feet and the light breeze against my skin.

“South America?” Rey gives me a puzzled look. “That’s a strange name.”

“You’ve never heard of South America? Didn’t they teach you that in school?”

She shakes her head. “I never went to school.”

“Oh.” I guess that explains a lot, sort of. “Can you see my surroundings?”

Rey shakes her head again. Is that what I look like when I’m confused? Do I really knit my brow like that? I’m going to have the worst wrinkles if I keep doing that. I snap myself out of my thoughts when I realize that Rey has asked me where I’m from. “Oh, Jakku. Ah… Vermont. America.”

“What?”

“America. The United States. You sound British. Are you in New Zealand or India, may-”

“You are not from Jakku. I am from Jakku.”

We both stare at each other uneasily. Rey is the first to break our silence. “What planet are you from?”

“Uh… Earth. What other planets are there?”

At my answer Rey takes a step back, nearly stumbling over a root. “Earth? Is that in the outer rim? The unknown regions?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m from Earth. Like all humans. There are no other planets that we’ve found that are habitable unless NASA is doing something we don’t know about which, really, is likely, but as far as I know there are no other planets that have humans on them in the Milkyway Galaxy and if there were I feel like they would probably have gone to school.” I’m rambling; I realize that, but I can’t stop myself. She’s giving me a look like I’m insane when really it's me who should be looking at her like that. “This is all just a dream right?”

“I’m not sleeping,” Rey says quietly. “This is real. At least for me.”

“Maybe I am going crazy. I saw those men die. I watched Hux and Snoke die right in front of me. I almost killed Bobby Fett. And the concussion… I’m going crazy aren’t I?”

“You watch Snoke die?”

“You know Snoke?” It wasn’t a common name. “Weird old guy with a twisted face?”

“Yes. I was there when he died. Ben killed him.”

“You know Ben? Right. The mirror incident. And no, Hux killed Snoke. Are we talking about the same people?”

“Maybe what we need to be asking is are we the same person?”

“Like… Twins?”

Rey shakes her head. “A divergence in the Force. Ripples of reality throughout time and space.”

“Alternate Reality.” The suggestion sends my mind reeling though I had no idea what she meant by the Force . I really was going crazy. I was- The forest around me began to fade away. The warm humidity was replaced with bitter cold. My hands and feet painfully numb with it. The green around me turned to bright white. I was blind until my eyes adjusted to the dazzling sun-lit snow around me.

Tall trees whose branches are covered in thick layers of snow and ice surround me. I spun trying to see a glimpse of the cabin, but my eyes landed instead on the remnants of a giant hollow tree. The four broken tree bases jutted out from the center base and curved towards the sky. All five trunks were long dead, the tops broken off and long gone.

Though I was freezing in the snow, wearing nothing but the shorts and t-shirt I wore to bed, there is a warmth and a light to this place. Something old and ancient calls to the deepest parts of my soul. I have no choice but to answer. Shivering, I stepped forward, walking towards the dark opening in the side of the massive tree.

The inside of the tree was surprisingly warm and dry. Even just a few degrees difference already does wonders for my cold hands and feet. An ancient life radiated from the long-dead tree. Life and death. Balance.

Beams of hazy sunlight filtered through cracks in the wood. One such beam cascaded down and highlighted a small chest nestled into a natural shelf in the wood.

“Impossible.”

The voice was my own though it did not come from my lips. I didn’t want to turn, didn’t want to face the reality that I was no longer dreaming, but that Rey from my dreams was here with me. She wore her strange clothes still- a thick all-white fabric, a tunic with strips of cloth crossing her torso. She seemed to glow in the dim light like a golden specter. Perhaps I was still dreaming.

“Why? Does this mean something to you?”

Her eyes narrowed in distrust. “You shouldn’t be here.”

“Why? What is this place?”

“It’s sacred. And you should go.”

“Well, I didn’t mean to come here. I just kinda showed up. I don’t even know how to get back to the cabin.” I crossed my arms and turned to her fully. “Whatever is connecting us brought me here. So, maybe I’m going crazy, but I think I’m supposed to see this.”

Rey sighed. “I’m starting to understand why Luke doesn’t want to train me. I’m stubborn aren’t I?”

“Yes, we are.”

The glow surrounding Rey grew brighter as her form began to fade away. “Kirff. I can’t keep this up. I don’t understand how you’ve been able to cross over here so easily. Just- Take…. The books.”

“What? Wait!”

Rey fades away before she can say more and I am left alone in the hollow tree once more. Cautiously, I pick up the small, surprisingly heavy wooden chest terrified that something would jump out or something still stranger would happen. But, this was a dream, right? I couldn’t die in a dream. Not really.

There’s no symbols on the outside, nothing to give any clue about the chest’s origins. Just simple, rough wood. Judging by the state of the rust on the hinges, very old as well. Taking a deep breath, I open the lid.

Books. Six of them. Four hand-bound in leather, two also leather, but newer. All perfectly preserved. There’s a heady, papery scent that wafts off of them. How did Rey know that there would be books?

More importantly, if this was a dream, shouldn’t I be waking up right now? Or am I supposed to read the books? Can I even read if I’m dreaming?

“Rey!” The call is distant, desperate.

My heart races.

“Rey!” Ben’s voice bellows through the forest, closer now.

I close the lid on the books. No. No, this had to be a dream. This had to be. Please let this all be a dream. I close my eyes.

Wake up wake up wake up wake up.

“Rey!”

I pinch myself and I feel it. I feel the weight of the chest in my arms. I feel the warmth of the soil beneath my bare feet. It’s all real. It’s all real and it can’t be.

“Rey!” Ben stumbles into the hollow tree and nearly crashes into me, grabbing my shoulders in his hands. His eyes are wild and dark and terrified. “Goddammit, Rey! What the hell?”

I’m frozen in place, unable to move, unable to process it all.

“It’s all real. It’s not a dream.”

[nightcoremoon]

hugely unpopular opinion here

I'm not gonna vocally support incest because, gross, but like... can we fucking stop putting it next to pedophilia, bestiality, rape, and abuse?

if two rednecks hook up after a family reunion, but they're both consenting adults and there isn't any coercion involved, yeah I find it to be creepy and gross because I wouldn't fuck any of my cousins, but putting it at the same level as the big for of actually irredeemable and bad things just really rubs me the wrong way.

now, fucking your parents or children is wrong from a biological, psychological, and emotional standpoint. if they got pregnant then that child would be super deformed beyond belief. coercion will ALWAYS be present in a romantic relationship between parent and child. sibling fucking is also a straight shot to webbed feet. doubly so if they're twins (dear japan... stop).

but two people whose parents just so happen to be related to each other, if they really wanted to fuck, and they agreed to it, the problems I see it are VASTLY overshadowed by the problems with coercion and biological disasters, pedophilia (kids can't consent), bestiality (non-sapient animals can't consent), rape (no consent), and abuse (I really shouldn't have to explain why that's bad).

I'll make an analogy to put it in perspective.

misogyny is bad. racism is bad. homophobia is bad. transphobia is bad. antisemitism is bad. islamophobia is bad. xenophobia is bad. ableism is bad. classism is bad. this we all can agree on. fat-shaming is also bad. but women, people of color, queer people, jews, muslims, immigrants, the handicapped and mentally ill and neurodivergent, and the poor have all been long victims of stripping civil rights, genocide, lack of representation in media, throughout all sorts of societies and cultures: victimized by bigotry, prejudice, and hatred. fat people are often mocked and receive subpar medical care in modern day america. which sucks, don't get me wrong, but if I were asked if between fat people and, say, black people, who faced a harder time, I'd without question say black people. fat people aren't murdered by police. fat people have never been rounded up in camps and killed off. fat people don't have an identity to strip. being fat doesn't alter the chemistry of your brain or inhibit the abilities of the body or restrict you to a different social class or provide leeway for people to deny you civil liberties on account of their religion on as mass a scale as the others. it can make life as a woman, person of color, queer person, ethnic or religious minority, disabled or mentally ill person, or impoverished person harder when in conjunction with that minority, but by itself, if you're a straight white neurotypical otherwise able bodied christian (or ambiguously atheist) american cis male who happens to be fat, for the love of god shut the fuck up about how much you're ~oppressed~ for weighing over 250 pounds.

and that's the end of the analogy.

in the analogy, non-coercive incest would be fat shaming. bad, yes, but to a much lesser extent than literally everything else mentioned. I know that analogies are difficult for discourse gremlins on this hellsite to understand but I'm hoping people are smart enough not to froth at the mouth and zero in on buzzwords and frame me as some incest-loving fat-shaming bigoted perverted asshole.

and furthermore, a lot of ancient (like, before common era level ancient) cultures around the world often had no choice but to resort to incest in order to keep their people going. egypt, greece, rome, japan, china, india, many native american, latin american, and african tribes, pacific island peoples, scandinavian peoples, countless others i'm forgetting about right now, all have long histories of incest that permeates their culture and religious beliefs. maybe not sibling or parent-child (in all cases; some did that too), but a lot of cousins fucked. and it's super fucked up to brand all of those cultures as evil as pedophilia/bestiality/rape for doing things that we in our current state of society are afforded the privilege of looking down upon. even cultures victimized by many genocides like jews are populous enough now that they won't have to fuck their cousins just to keep their bloodlines alive and probably won't ever considering just how many humans there are in the world.

now, this can totally come off wrong and... bad. one thought that popped into my head was "are you implying that incest was normal in ancient brown skinned people thus suggesting they're rooted in savagery and grossness and thus asserting your own white superiority" are you reed richards because WOW that is quite a stretch. plus exclusively white skinned people fucked their children to keep the family on the throne [well, and egyptians, but that's a tale for a different time], so jot that down.

and of course it doesn't reflect well on me that I'm saying anything other than INCEST IS JUST AS BAD AS PEDOPHILIA/BESTIALITY/RAPE... I wouldn't fuck anyone in my biological family or anyone who marries into it, and I certainly don't wanna be around people who would. and gross fortysomething uncles with leery eyes at their teenage nieces are, well, pedophiles anyway. however, I feel like when it's not coercive it's not as big of a deal and that it shouldn't be demonized- now here's the important part- AS MUCH as the other things that I've mentioned.

now of course, as a person who would never consider anything like that, my perspective is heavily skewed. and as a person who has not been victimized by non-coercive incest (i was sexually abused as a child by most likely either my stepgrandpa who watches child porn and molested my sister as a kid, my schizophrenic methhead uncle who watches child porn and dates women the mental age of children, or my father during a crack and heroin binge, in descending order of possibility, but that's got nothing to do with consensual cousinfucking), I'm not attuned to the psychological effects of consensual cousinfucking, and am not exactly the most knowledgeable person on the subject.

THEREFORE.

if I'm wrong and there's scientific studies done on the subject and there are dissenting logical opinions I would love to hear them because I'm sure there's GOT to be a legitimate, tangible reason why incest between cousins is bad.

*also on the subject, technically speaking every single human on earth is probably descended from the same gene pool. scientifically it's from the first humans who evolved from a common ancestor with apes, theologically (from only a judeochristian perspective) it's from noah's sons ham, shem, and japheth, and I'm sure that there's a hundred other ways to trace back all of humanity to one single set of parents, so in an odd way all humans are distant cousins to each other. I'm curious as to know exactly how far away two people need to be on a family tree for it to no longer be technically classified as incest. fourth cousin? fifth cousin? sixth? ninth? twelfth? this is purely a scientific curiosity only tangentially related to the rest of the post and should be ignored when it comes to the other passages.*

TL;DR I don't have enough of a proper base of knowledge to understand the specific exact logical reasonings behind why non-coercive non-pedophilic consensual incest that won't result in horrible birth defects is bad. I know that it is bad, but beyond just a modern social norm... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idfk man I just want a link to someone laying it down using science n shit so I can shut down fuckin white supremacists on twitter or something

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Difference In Between Organic and also Natural - Easy Overview | Wellpur Organics

Organic is the brand-new buzzword.

  Yet there are distinctions in between Certified Organic, Organic as well as Natural that you may be wondering about as well as need to certainly understand.

  Everyone seems to be discussing it, the mommies at the institution canteen, your boss on her "only eco-friendly vegetables will certainly enter my air" diet plan, and maybe even your teenage child in an effort to get rid of the pimples she really did not welcome along on her puberty journey.

  Yet like all buzzwords, there is a great deal of misconstruing around the word and some nasty problems also. Believe it or not, the idea of organic is actually quite simple, much like everything Nature associated. Generally, anything complex as well as incorrect with it is possibly triggered by mortals, and possibly some vampires ... however that's one more story.

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If staying on top of all the natural subtleties is doing your head in, don't stress. This overview should establish you straight.

  1. There actually is a difference ...

  In Between Licensed Organic, Organic and also Organic/Natural based items, that is. I do not condemn you for being a little iffy regarding this set because as a person submersed in this area of proficiency, you would certainly assume I 'd have this one down pat by now.

  Seriously, I believed I did.

  Yet as I talked with a potential representative in Thailand recently, I became aware that maybe I just understood the difference in Australia. In all my naivety, I actually (rather unreasonably, it appears) believed that maybe there would be a worldwide definition for Organics. Foolish me because that would certainly make it, oh I do not understand, easy!

  It turns out that in Australia a minimum of, Licensed Organic describes items that are Organic and have actually been declared thus by an ideal government/independent body. Companies that are producing Certified Organic Products most likely have Chief executive officers that have actually lost all their hair now. I'm not kidding; I 'd in fact be prepared to put a wager on it which is stating something considering my disappointing wagering document. Obtaining Organic Accreditation is not a tiny task, it takes loads of time, great deals of documents, going back and also forth a billions times and also lots of financing.

  Organic is most likely (do not shoot me, I did say most likely and even italicised it) specifically the very same in terms of quality as well as handling as Certified Organic without the main badge of honour. What stops some individuals from purchasing organic however is that there's no official evidence. It's like swearing that you saw a spaceship without the picture to verify it. You might be questioning why I've italicised official two times previously. It's because the suppliers of Organic Products should have some kind of documentation specifying that the products have actually had no chemical and also unnatural processing taking place before it got to your fingertips. Must does not constantly mean they do, which is wrong. Really wrong. A minimum of in my publication anyhow however we all have different yardsticks ... you understand.

  Essentially natural products are based on relying on the manufacture reasonably. Though there's no main qualification, the document specifying the above still implies the supplier better be telling the truth or they're most likely to be in hot water if somebody figures out otherwise.

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Organic/Natural Based is typically described as Organic by Default.

  What this implies is that an organic based item is most likely to be exactly the means Mother Nature intended. It's like expanding your own tomatoes in your backyard and then offering them at your youngsters' lemonade stand. They were grown specifically the method the environment desired them grown, the naturally ideal method and also you do not need to have any kind of paperwork stating so because well, Nature really did not pass one along, did she? Since if she did why are you right here reading this blog post? Go as well as tell somebody now and also get abundant as well as famous.

  2. Should you also trouble or is Organics nothing greater than a buzzword for my much richer neighbour?

  Honestly, I'm going to place my foot in it since it is one of my leading 3 abilities on my return to.

  Though I am virtually accountable (when my daddy isn't enjoying) of a Certified Organic/Organic/Organic based lasting organisation situated in a little picturesque town that makes it hard not to be encouraged to live as closely to nature, the reality is that there is no extensive proof that natural is really better for you.

  But ... due to the fact that you know there's constantly a however, many individuals who advocate Organic Products will never tire of informing you that you can't put a price on sound judgment, or as my mum claim's, sound judgment is not an asset cost the local veggie market. You have no idea how much making use of that claiming pained me because it was the eccentric reaction I would certainly usually get when I returned residence as well as informed her concerning something silly I did (which till today, remains to be often).

  It makes sense to use what Earth has produced so bountifully for us viewing as we're simply one of the numerous productions of Mother earth. It's fascinating just how every continent has actually managed ahead up with something beneficial naturally for its residents. India has Neem (The Tree of the 21st Century as stated by the United Nations), Australia has Tea Tree Oil, the United States has Echinacea while Europe has Geranium ... you obtain it. Nature's made it so there's something for every person.

  What this signals to Organic fanatics is that the atmosphere understands ideal. There's a reason why certain plants and also natural herbs are native to the locations that they are, they're made up of things that your body requires due to where you live. Ineloquent, I understand, but you've got it down-pat.

  What does this mean for All-natural Product fans? They want to put their buck where their mouth is and also pay for what they believe is going to maintain them and their families healthy and balanced because it's only mosting likely to save them a great deal of moolah and distress on healthcare facility expenses later on in life. Simply saying.

  3. Okay, whatever. But why are Organic Products so much extra costly?

  I obtain it. They really are.

  As well as while it doesn't truly cost you an arm as well as a leg to live organically (no a few of our clients, it actually does not), they do cost greater than their non-organic, chemical loaded alternatives.

  Individuals can't typically wrap their head around why this is specifically so I believed I would certainly offer you my two cents, naturally!

  I can not inform you how difficult it is to get Qualified Organic Products status due to the fact that this is a PG write-up as well as my key-board is most likely to break after I make it through all the vow words ... from every language on earth as well as Uranus. Primarily, it's as difficult as um, nails.

  As you can visualize, it is difficult to make sure that your field of fruit and vegetables is entirely, 100% all-natural. This is because mainly, fields are frequently clumped together as well as not all areas in a location are declaring to be organic. Which means that chemicals utilized on one field can extremely naturally (because of weather conditions such as wind changes and also rainfall) land up on a "Qualified Organic" area.

  Certified Organic farmers are usually incredibly stressed out undoubtedly. Imagine needing to make sure that the climate listened to your impulses as well as fantasizes. Don't think me, have a look at this (what some would certainly refer to as ridiculous) newspaper article. It is becoming increasingly expensive for cultivators of natural produce (as well as difficult) to fulfil the needs of natural qualification which is verifying to be a substantial burden on farmers who (generally) are attempting in earnest to do the ideal point.

  Sure, organic fruit and vegetables is quick obtaining appeal however the headaches surrounding the promo and growth around it makes qualified chemical-free farming more of a labour of love than anything else. Organic farmers truly do count on the principle of collaborating with Mother earth instead of versus it. They count on permitting the Planet to care for its create the way it was constantly planned, with all-natural resistances to parasites and permitting foods to grow when they're meant to.

  Organic farmers need to pass a little bit of the expenditure of expanding their produce onto the customer to make certain that every person is getting the best, most all-natural product possible.

  4. Do I actually need Organics?

  Well, do you actually require those brand-new set of Louis Vuitton shoes or that Versace match you have actually had your eye on for the past six months. Possibilities are no. However that does not transform you desiring them, right?

  It's practically the same for Health food, other than as opposed to advancing from our somewhat (attempt I say) vain area, the need for health foods is possibly coming from our gut and taste buds.

  Your body wants natural and also normally made and expanded produce and though there is no main proof that you need it, I would personally rather count on my internal organs understanding what's good for them than what some scientist (perhaps financed or lined up to some huge international) is teaching to me.

  Though I am sceptical of my taste the majority of the time (particularly when they crave hot french fries as well as some sour lotion as well as chives dip so they do not get lonesome), when they inform me a particular organically expanded tomato needs to get on the food selection tonight, I pay attention a bit much more diligently (primarily due to the fact that they appear to be acting themselves - which is rare).

  So, to cut a lengthy story (or in this situation short article) short, though I may not require organics, I absolutely want them. Similar to my next pair of Louis Vuitton's so hands off!

  5. Seasonal Foods are much better for you?

  Genuinely Organic Foods are seasonal by their very meaning. Due to the fact that they're grown the way nature intends, they grow when they're supposed to which commonly suggests that your body is obtaining the nutrients it's meant to when it requires them one of the most.

  They also have less of an influence on the atmosphere which has reached be an advantage, right? Not only do consuming seasonal fruits make certain that regional farmers have even more of a possibility when battling versus big multinationals and less expensive rates from overseas, it also ensures that the produce you take in is most likely to be fresher and also therefore healthier.

  Organic generate that is likewise locally generated is the very best alternative as it implies that you're assisting to send your tough made money back right into your priceless community which will just offer to make everybody around you happier as well as much more solvent, which has got to be a benefit, right? You enjoy, you're neighbour's satisfied, the canine's delighted ... you understand. I bet you're currently really feeling better, am I right?

  However however, frequently regional farmers can not manage to end up being certified natural, nonetheless numerous regional farmers may already be using organic techniques (without the certification to prove it). See your neighborhood farmers market and also talk to the farmers marketing their produce, you might simply locate that what they're doing is already natural anyway. Want some even more information on why every person should be bonkers regarding in your area expanded food? We hear you.

  6. There is a recurring promote Organic Foods to be much more Fairtrade

  Organic generate is not assured to be Fairtrade, allow me simply placed that available prior to you spam me with hate mail. I'm more of an enthusiast, you see.

  There is a basic consensus that Organic as well as Fairtrade need to be joined together to far better offer the atmosphere and community. Nevertheless, as severe as it might seem, people have a tendency to be much less worried about their setting when the more pressing issues of getting food on the table for their family members is at the center of their mind which is why there is such a push for natural fruit and vegetables to additionally be Fairtrade, especially in developing countries.

  Let's be completely truthful right here, it's not rocket science, is it? Every person's (no matter society or territories) primary priority is attending to their family members. Fairtrade techniques make sure that farmers have the ability to maintain a suitable way of life which makes it much easier and also profitable for them to guarantee that the produce reaching your dining tables are as natural and also all-natural as possible. It's a win-win solution for everyone as well as considering just how far and also couple of in between they remain in general life, I claim get it with both hands when we can.

  7. Organic Foods last much longer

  In 2015 I was so stunned to see how fresh my organically grown plums (from my yard) looked almost four weeks after being chosen. I think I have my stunning plum tree (I have actually nicknamed her Plumpilicious) to say thanks to for piquing my rate of interest in the wonder of generate grown the way Mother earth meant (and also the scrumptious fruit my neighbors, officemateses and also I obtained as well from Plumpilicious's stunning bounty).

  As it turns out, organic fruit and vegetables truly does last longer than their more traditionally grown peers.

  Which makes you ask yourself, doesn't it? What do un-organic items have in them, that also after all the preservatives and also chemicals in them, they rot quicker? I have absolutely no idea yet short articles similar to this one certainly dropped a lot more light on the subject.

  So, in the end, I would certainly suggest that it depends upon the kind of fruit and vegetables with regards to whether organic or their non-organic counterparts last much longer. Or it could just be that Plumpilicious is one of a kind, I always had a hint.

  To cover this all up ... Are you sold on Organics or otherwise?

  I hope that this rather comprehensive overview has actually aided get rid of some of the mistaken beliefs and also confusion around the whole Organic idea for you. If nothing much more, I wish it exists you with some great write-ups for you to sink your teeth into around the rapid ending up being popular Organic space.

  Many of our consumers are uncertain as well as unsure of what the purposes of Organic products are as well as whether they're deserving of all the hype they're accessing the minute. After operating in an Organically geared organisation, I can't tell you to go out and also swap all your non-organic items with natural since that would look suspicious. Yet, I would highly advise you to try the idea out after educating yourself on the whole ball of wax.

  I can present you with numerous truths as well as numbers (as well as study and also testimonials) on why you need to go the Organic path but in the end, human beings like to try before they buy. It's this remarkable curious mind we have actually all been talented (or cursed - whatever you favor) with.

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

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Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

So in school, I used to be a executive fundamental, which means that I had to write quite a lot of papers. Now, when a common scholar writes a paper, they could unfold the determine a bit of like this. So, you already know — (Laughter) you get started might be somewhat slowly, but you get adequate achieved in the first week that, with some heavier days afterward, the whole lot will get carried out, matters keep civil. (Laughter) And i might want to try this like that. That will be the plan. I would have it all competent to move, but then, sincerely, the paper would come alongside, and then i’d type of do that.(Laughter) And that might occur every single paper. However then came my ninety-page senior thesis, a paper you are presupposed to spend a year on. And i knew for a paper like that, my usual work glide was now not an option. It used to be method too giant a challenge. So I deliberate matters out, and i decided I style of had to go anything like this. That is how the 12 months would go. So i might begin off light, and i would bump it up in the core months, and then on the finish, i would kick it up into high equipment identical to a bit of staircase. How difficult might or not it’s to walk up the stairs? No large deal, proper? However then, the funniest factor occurred. These first few months? They came and went, and i couldn’t relatively do stuff. So we had an extremely good new revised plan. (Laughter) and then — (Laughter) however then these core months virtually glided by, and that i didn’t quite write phrases, and so we have been here.And then two months was one month, which changed into two weeks. And sooner or later I woke up with three days except the time limit, nonetheless now not having written a phrase, and so I did the one thing I could: I wrote 90 pages over seventy two hours, pulling no longer one but two all-nighters — people will not be supposed to tug two all-nighters — sprinted throughout campus, dove in slow movement, and received it in simply at the cut-off date. I suggestion that used to be the top of the whole thing. But per week later I get a name, and it’s the college. And so they say, "is this Tim urban?" and i say, "Yeah." and so they say, "We have to talk about your thesis." and that i say, "ok." and they say, "it’s the high-quality one now we have ever obvious." (Laughter) (Applause) That didn’t happen.(Laughter) It used to be an extraordinarily, very unhealthy thesis. (Laughter) I simply desired to experience that one second when all of you proposal, "This guy is powerful!" (Laughter) No, no, it used to be very, very bad. Anyway, in these days i am a writer-blogger man. I write the web publication Wait but Why. And a few years in the past, I determined to write about procrastination. My behavior has normally at a loss for words the non-procrastinators round me, and i wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the sector what goes on within the heads of procrastinators, and why we’re the way in which we are. Now, I had a speculation that the brains of procrastinators have been really one of a kind than the brains of alternative people. And to experiment this, I observed an MRI lab that actually let me scan both my brain and the brain of a confirmed non-procrastinator, so I would evaluate them.I actually introduced them right here to show you in these days. I want you to take a look carefully to see if that you would be able to realize a difference. I know that if you are now not a proficient brain expert, it’s no longer that apparent, however just take a seem, adequate? So this is the brain of a non-procrastinator. (Laughter) Now … Here’s my mind. (Laughter) there is a difference. Each brains have a Rational resolution-Maker in them, however the procrastinator’s brain additionally has an instant Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this imply for the procrastinator? Good, it means the whole thing’s satisfactory except this happens. So the Rational selection-Maker will make the rational decision to do whatever productive, however the Monkey would not like that plan, so he truly takes the wheel, and he says, "certainly, let’s learn the whole Wikipedia web page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, considering that I just remembered that that happened. (Laughter) Then — (Laughter) Then we will go over to the fridge, to look if there may be whatever new in there given that 10 minutes in the past. After that, we will go on a YouTube spiral that begins with movies of Richard Feynman speaking about magnets and ends much, much later with us staring at interviews with Justin Bieber’s mom.(Laughter) "All of that is going to take a while, so we’re now not going to particularly have room on the schedule for any work today. Sorry!" (Sigh) Now, what is going on here? The instantaneous Gratification Monkey does not look like a man you wish to have at the back of the wheel. He lives wholly within the gift second. He has no memory of the previous, no potential of the future, and he simplest cares about two things: easy and enjoyable. Now, in the animal world, that works first-class. If you’re a canine and also you spend your entire life doing nothing as opposed to easy and fun matters, you are a giant success! (Laughter) And to the Monkey, people are just another animal species.You ought to hold well-slept, good-fed and propagating into the subsequent iteration, which in tribal instances could have worked ok. However, if you haven’t seen, now we’re not in tribal times. We’re in an advanced civilization, and the Monkey does no longer comprehend what that’s. Which is why we now have yet another guy in our mind, the Rational resolution-Maker, who gives us the capability to do matters no different animal can do. We will visualize the longer term. We can see the colossal picture. We can make lengthy-term plans. And he needs to take all of that into account. And he wants to just have us do some thing is smart to be doing correct now.Now, commonly it makes sense to be doing things which might be convenient and enjoyable, like when you’re having dinner or going to bed or enjoying good-earned entertainment time. That’s why there is an overlap. Routinely they agree. But other times, it makes rather more feel to be doing things which can be more difficult and less first-rate, for the sake of the gigantic picture. And that’s when now we have a conflict. And for the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a specified means at any time when, leaving him spending quite a few time on this orange zone, an easy and enjoyable location that is entirely out of the makes sense circle.I call it the dark Playground. (Laughter) Now, the darkish Playground is a situation that all of you procrastinators in the market recognize very good. It is where enjoyment movements happen every now and then when enjoyment pursuits are usually not supposed to be going down. The fun you’ve gotten in the dead of night Playground is not truly enjoyable, considering the fact that it can be thoroughly unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred — all of these excellent procrastinator emotions. And the query is, in this difficulty, with the Monkey at the back of the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over right here to this blue zone, a much less excellent place, however where quite principal things occur? Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, any one who’s continually watching down on him and staring at over him in his darkest moments — anyone known as the Panic Monster.(Laughter) Now, the Panic Monster is dormant more often than not, however he all of the sudden wakes up each time a deadline will get too shut or there is chance of public embarrassment, a profession catastrophe or some other horrifying outcome. And importantly, he’s the one factor the Monkey is petrified of. Now, he became very primary in my lifestyles lovely just lately, considering the people of TED reached out to me about six months ago and invited me to do a TED speak. (Laughter) Now, of path, I stated sure. It’s invariably been a dream of mine to have executed a TED talk up to now. (Laughter) (Applause) however in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational resolution-Maker perceived to have some thing else on his intellect. He was once pronouncing, "Are we clear on what we simply accepted? Will we get what is going on to be now happening sooner or later one day? We need to sit down and work on this correct now." And the Monkey mentioned, "thoroughly agree, but let’s simply open Google Earth and zoom in to the bottom of India, like 200 toes above the ground, and scroll up for 2 and a 1/2 hours til we get to the highest of the country, to be able to get a greater consider for India." (Laughter) So that’s what we did that day.(Laughter) As six months become 4 and then two and then one, the persons of TED made up our minds to free up the speakers. And i unfolded the internet site, and there was once my face staring right again at me. And guess who woke up? (Laughter) So the Panic Monster starts losing his intellect, and a few seconds later, the entire process’s in mayhem.(Laughter) And the Monkey — don’t forget, he is afraid of the Panic Monster — increase, he’s up the tree! And in the end, subsequently, the Rational resolution-Maker can take the wheel and i will be able to engaged on the talk. Now, the Panic Monster explains all sorts of lovely insane procrastinator conduct, like how anyone like me could spend two weeks unable to the hole sentence of a paper, and then miraculously to find the unbelievable work ethic to remain up all night and write eight pages.And this whole difficulty, with the three characters — this is the procrastinator’s process. It is no longer pretty, but sooner or later, it works. This is what I decided to jot down about on the weblog a couple of years ago. When I did, I used to be amazed by means of the response. Actually hundreds of thousands of emails came in, from all special sorts of men and women from everywhere the arena, doing all distinctive forms of matters. These are persons who were nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and plenty and plenty of PhD pupils. (Laughter) and they had been all writing, pronouncing the identical thing: "i have this hindrance too." however what struck me used to be the contrast between the light tone of the submit and the heaviness of these emails. These persons had been writing with excessive frustration about what procrastination had done to their lives, about what this Monkey had achieved to them. And i suggestion about this, and that i mentioned, good, if the procrastinator’s procedure works, then what’s going on? Why are all of those persons in such a darkish situation? Well, it seems that there’s two types of procrastination.The whole thing I’ve pointed out at present, the examples I’ve given, they all have cut-off dates. And when there’s time limits, the effects of procrastination are contained to the short time period given that the Panic Monster will get concerned. However there may be a second style of procrastination that happens in situations when there is no deadline. So for those who wanted a profession where you’re a self-starter — something in the arts, some thing entrepreneurial — there’s no time limits on those things to start with, considering nothing’s taking place, not except you could have gone out and finished the rough work to get momentum, get things going. There may be additionally all types of foremost matters outside of your profession that don’t contain any cut-off dates, like seeing your loved ones or exercising and taking good care of your health, working to your relationship or getting out of a relationship that’s not working. Now if the procrastinator’s best mechanism of doing these hard matters is the Panic Monster, that is a quandary, considering that in all of those non-closing date instances, the Panic Monster doesn’t show up. He has nothing to wake up for, so the results of procrastination, they’re not contained; they just prolong outward endlessly. And it’s this long-term style of procrastination that’s much less visible and much much less mentioned than the funnier, quick-time period deadline-founded sort.It is as a rule suffered quietly and privately. And it can be the source of a giant amount of long-time period disappointment, and regrets. And i thought, that’s why these people are emailing, and that is why they’re in this sort of unhealthy location. It’s now not that they are cramming for some undertaking. It is that long-time period procrastination has made them believe like a spectator, now and then, in their possess lives. The frustration just isn’t that they couldn’t reap their desires; it’s that they weren’t even in a position to start chasing them. So I learn these emails and that i had slightly bit of an epiphany — that i don’t feel non-procrastinators exist. That is correct — I think all of you’re procrastinators. Now, you would now not all be a mess, like some of us, (Laughter) and some of you might have a healthy relationship with time limits, however do not forget: the Monkey’s sneakiest trick is when the cut-off dates are not there.Now, I wish to show you one last thing. I call this a lifestyles Calendar. That is one box for every week of a 90-yr life. That’s not that many boxes, especially because we’ve already used a bunch of these. So I suppose we need to all take a long, rough appear at that calendar. We need to believe about what we’re rather procrastinating on, considering each person is procrastinating on anything in lifestyles. We need to stay conscious of the instantaneous Gratification Monkey. That’s a job for all of us. And seeing that there may be now not that many containers on there, it is a job that should in general in these days.Well, probably now not today, however … (Laughter) you already know. Sometime quickly. Thanks. (Applause) .

[batterymonster2021]

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

New Post has been published on https://hititem.kr/inside-the-mind-of-a-master-procrastinator-tim-urban-15/

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

So in school, I used to be a executive fundamental, which means that I had to write quite a lot of papers. Now, when a common scholar writes a paper, they could unfold the determine a bit of like this. So, you already know — (Laughter) you get started might be somewhat slowly, but you get adequate achieved in the first week that, with some heavier days afterward, the whole lot will get carried out, matters keep civil. (Laughter) And i might want to try this like that. That will be the plan. I would have it all competent to move, but then, sincerely, the paper would come alongside, and then i’d type of do that.(Laughter) And that might occur every single paper. However then came my ninety-page senior thesis, a paper you are presupposed to spend a year on. And i knew for a paper like that, my usual work glide was now not an option. It used to be method too giant a challenge. So I deliberate matters out, and i decided I style of had to go anything like this. That is how the 12 months would go. So i might begin off light, and i would bump it up in the core months, and then on the finish, i would kick it up into high equipment identical to a bit of staircase. How difficult might or not it’s to walk up the stairs? No large deal, proper? However then, the funniest factor occurred. These first few months? They came and went, and i couldn’t relatively do stuff. So we had an extremely good new revised plan. (Laughter) and then — (Laughter) however then these core months virtually glided by, and that i didn’t quite write phrases, and so we have been here.And then two months was one month, which changed into two weeks. And sooner or later I woke up with three days except the time limit, nonetheless now not having written a phrase, and so I did the one thing I could: I wrote 90 pages over seventy two hours, pulling no longer one but two all-nighters — people will not be supposed to tug two all-nighters — sprinted throughout campus, dove in slow movement, and received it in simply at the cut-off date. I suggestion that used to be the top of the whole thing. But per week later I get a name, and it’s the college. And so they say, "is this Tim urban?" and i say, "Yeah." and so they say, "We have to talk about your thesis." and that i say, "ok." and they say, "it’s the high-quality one now we have ever obvious." (Laughter) (Applause) That didn’t happen.(Laughter) It used to be an extraordinarily, very unhealthy thesis. (Laughter) I simply desired to experience that one second when all of you proposal, "This guy is powerful!" (Laughter) No, no, it used to be very, very bad. Anyway, in these days i am a writer-blogger man. I write the web publication Wait but Why. And a few years in the past, I determined to write about procrastination. My behavior has normally at a loss for words the non-procrastinators round me, and i wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the sector what goes on within the heads of procrastinators, and why we’re the way in which we are. Now, I had a speculation that the brains of procrastinators have been really one of a kind than the brains of alternative people. And to experiment this, I observed an MRI lab that actually let me scan both my brain and the brain of a confirmed non-procrastinator, so I would evaluate them.I actually introduced them right here to show you in these days. I want you to take a look carefully to see if that you would be able to realize a difference. I know that if you are now not a proficient brain expert, it’s no longer that apparent, however just take a seem, adequate? So this is the brain of a non-procrastinator. (Laughter) Now … Here’s my mind. (Laughter) there is a difference. Each brains have a Rational resolution-Maker in them, however the procrastinator’s brain additionally has an instant Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this imply for the procrastinator? Good, it means the whole thing’s satisfactory except this happens. So the Rational selection-Maker will make the rational decision to do whatever productive, however the Monkey would not like that plan, so he truly takes the wheel, and he says, "certainly, let’s learn the whole Wikipedia web page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, considering that I just remembered that that happened. (Laughter) Then — (Laughter) Then we will go over to the fridge, to look if there may be whatever new in there given that 10 minutes in the past. After that, we will go on a YouTube spiral that begins with movies of Richard Feynman speaking about magnets and ends much, much later with us staring at interviews with Justin Bieber’s mom.(Laughter) "All of that is going to take a while, so we’re now not going to particularly have room on the schedule for any work today. Sorry!" (Sigh) Now, what is going on here? The instantaneous Gratification Monkey does not look like a man you wish to have at the back of the wheel. He lives wholly within the gift second. He has no memory of the previous, no potential of the future, and he simplest cares about two things: easy and enjoyable. Now, in the animal world, that works first-class. If you’re a canine and also you spend your entire life doing nothing as opposed to easy and fun matters, you are a giant success! (Laughter) And to the Monkey, people are just another animal species.You ought to hold well-slept, good-fed and propagating into the subsequent iteration, which in tribal instances could have worked ok. However, if you haven’t seen, now we’re not in tribal times. We’re in an advanced civilization, and the Monkey does no longer comprehend what that’s. Which is why we now have yet another guy in our mind, the Rational resolution-Maker, who gives us the capability to do matters no different animal can do. We will visualize the longer term. We can see the colossal picture. We can make lengthy-term plans. And he needs to take all of that into account. And he wants to just have us do some thing is smart to be doing correct now.Now, commonly it makes sense to be doing things which might be convenient and enjoyable, like when you’re having dinner or going to bed or enjoying good-earned entertainment time. That’s why there is an overlap. Routinely they agree. But other times, it makes rather more feel to be doing things which can be more difficult and less first-rate, for the sake of the gigantic picture. And that’s when now we have a conflict. And for the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a specified means at any time when, leaving him spending quite a few time on this orange zone, an easy and enjoyable location that is entirely out of the makes sense circle.I call it the dark Playground. (Laughter) Now, the darkish Playground is a situation that all of you procrastinators in the market recognize very good. It is where enjoyment movements happen every now and then when enjoyment pursuits are usually not supposed to be going down. The fun you’ve gotten in the dead of night Playground is not truly enjoyable, considering the fact that it can be thoroughly unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred — all of these excellent procrastinator emotions. And the query is, in this difficulty, with the Monkey at the back of the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over right here to this blue zone, a much less excellent place, however where quite principal things occur? Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, any one who’s continually watching down on him and staring at over him in his darkest moments — anyone known as the Panic Monster.(Laughter) Now, the Panic Monster is dormant more often than not, however he all of the sudden wakes up each time a deadline will get too shut or there is chance of public embarrassment, a profession catastrophe or some other horrifying outcome. And importantly, he’s the one factor the Monkey is petrified of. Now, he became very primary in my lifestyles lovely just lately, considering the people of TED reached out to me about six months ago and invited me to do a TED speak. (Laughter) Now, of path, I stated sure. It’s invariably been a dream of mine to have executed a TED talk up to now. (Laughter) (Applause) however in the middle of all this excitement, the Rational resolution-Maker perceived to have some thing else on his intellect. He was once pronouncing, "Are we clear on what we simply accepted? Will we get what is going on to be now happening sooner or later one day? We need to sit down and work on this correct now." And the Monkey mentioned, "thoroughly agree, but let’s simply open Google Earth and zoom in to the bottom of India, like 200 toes above the ground, and scroll up for 2 and a 1/2 hours til we get to the highest of the country, to be able to get a greater consider for India." (Laughter) So that’s what we did that day.(Laughter) As six months become 4 and then two and then one, the persons of TED made up our minds to free up the speakers. And i unfolded the internet site, and there was once my face staring right again at me. And guess who woke up? (Laughter) So the Panic Monster starts losing his intellect, and a few seconds later, the entire process’s in mayhem.(Laughter) And the Monkey — don’t forget, he is afraid of the Panic Monster — increase, he’s up the tree! And in the end, subsequently, the Rational resolution-Maker can take the wheel and i will be able to engaged on the talk. Now, the Panic Monster explains all sorts of lovely insane procrastinator conduct, like how anyone like me could spend two weeks unable to the hole sentence of a paper, and then miraculously to find the unbelievable work ethic to remain up all night and write eight pages.And this whole difficulty, with the three characters — this is the procrastinator’s process. It is no longer pretty, but sooner or later, it works. This is what I decided to jot down about on the weblog a couple of years ago. When I did, I used to be amazed by means of the response. Actually hundreds of thousands of emails came in, from all special sorts of men and women from everywhere the arena, doing all distinctive forms of matters. These are persons who were nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and plenty and plenty of PhD pupils. (Laughter) and they had been all writing, pronouncing the identical thing: "i have this hindrance too." however what struck me used to be the contrast between the light tone of the submit and the heaviness of these emails. These persons had been writing with excessive frustration about what procrastination had done to their lives, about what this Monkey had achieved to them. And i suggestion about this, and that i mentioned, good, if the procrastinator’s procedure works, then what’s going on? Why are all of those persons in such a darkish situation? Well, it seems that there’s two types of procrastination.The whole thing I’ve pointed out at present, the examples I’ve given, they all have cut-off dates. And when there’s time limits, the effects of procrastination are contained to the short time period given that the Panic Monster will get concerned. However there may be a second style of procrastination that happens in situations when there is no deadline. So for those who wanted a profession where you’re a self-starter — something in the arts, some thing entrepreneurial — there’s no time limits on those things to start with, considering nothing’s taking place, not except you could have gone out and finished the rough work to get momentum, get things going. There may be additionally all types of foremost matters outside of your profession that don’t contain any cut-off dates, like seeing your loved ones or exercising and taking good care of your health, working to your relationship or getting out of a relationship that’s not working. Now if the procrastinator’s best mechanism of doing these hard matters is the Panic Monster, that is a quandary, considering that in all of those non-closing date instances, the Panic Monster doesn’t show up. He has nothing to wake up for, so the results of procrastination, they’re not contained; they just prolong outward endlessly. And it’s this long-term style of procrastination that’s much less visible and much much less mentioned than the funnier, quick-time period deadline-founded sort.It is as a rule suffered quietly and privately. And it can be the source of a giant amount of long-time period disappointment, and regrets. And i thought, that’s why these people are emailing, and that is why they’re in this sort of unhealthy location. It’s now not that they are cramming for some undertaking. It is that long-time period procrastination has made them believe like a spectator, now and then, in their possess lives. The frustration just isn’t that they couldn’t reap their desires; it’s that they weren’t even in a position to start chasing them. So I learn these emails and that i had slightly bit of an epiphany — that i don’t feel non-procrastinators exist. That is correct — I think all of you’re procrastinators. Now, you would now not all be a mess, like some of us, (Laughter) and some of you might have a healthy relationship with time limits, however do not forget: the Monkey’s sneakiest trick is when the cut-off dates are not there.Now, I wish to show you one last thing. I call this a lifestyles Calendar. That is one box for every week of a 90-yr life. That’s not that many boxes, especially because we’ve already used a bunch of these. So I suppose we need to all take a long, rough appear at that calendar. We need to believe about what we’re rather procrastinating on, considering each person is procrastinating on anything in lifestyles. We need to stay conscious of the instantaneous Gratification Monkey. That’s a job for all of us. And seeing that there may be now not that many containers on there, it is a job that should in general in these days.Well, probably now not today, however … (Laughter) you already know. Sometime quickly. Thanks. (Applause) .

[batterymonster2021]

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

New Post has been published on https://hititem.kr/inside-the-mind-of-a-master-procrastinator-tim-urban-13/

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

So in college, I was once a govt most important, which means that I needed to write quite a lot of papers. Now, when a normal pupil writes a paper, they could spread the determine somewhat like this. So, you already know — (Laughter) you get began possibly slightly slowly, however you get enough achieved in the first week that, with some heavier days later on, the whole lot gets achieved, things keep civil. (Laughter) And i’d want to do that like that.That stands out as the plan. I might have it all competent to move, but then, in reality, the paper would come alongside, and then i’d form of do that. (Laughter) And that may happen every single paper. But then got here my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you’re alleged to spend a yr on. And i knew for a paper like that, my common work waft used to be now not an option. It used to be method too big a assignment. So I deliberate matters out, and i determined I form of needed to go something like this. This is how the yr would go. So i’d off light, and i would bump it up within the core months, after which at the end, i’d kick it up into excessive gear just like a bit staircase. How tough might it’s to stroll up the stairs? No tremendous deal, proper? But then, the funniest factor occurred. These first few months? They came and went, and i couldn’t fairly do stuff. So we had an top notch new revised plan. (Laughter) after which — (Laughter) but then those center months certainly glided by, and i did not rather write words, and so we were here.And then two months changed into one month, which became two weeks. And in the future I aroused from sleep with three days until the closing date, still no longer having written a phrase, and so I did the only thing I could: I wrote ninety pages over 72 hours, pulling now not one but two all-nighters — people are usually not supposed to tug two all-nighters — sprinted throughout campus, dove in gradual movement, and bought it in simply on the closing date. I concept that was the top of everything. But a week later I get a name, and it can be the institution. And they say, "is this Tim city?" and i say, "Yeah." and they say, "We have got to talk about your thesis." and that i say, "ok." they usually say, "it’s the pleasant one now we have ever seen." (Laughter) (Applause) That did not occur. (Laughter) It was an extraordinarily, very dangerous thesis. (Laughter) I just wanted to experience that one moment when all of you inspiration, "This guy is mighty!" (Laughter) No, no, it used to be very, very bad. Anyway, at present i’m a creator-blogger man. I write the blog Wait however Why.And a few years ago, I decided to write about procrastination. My habits has perpetually confused the non-procrastinators around me, and that i desired to provide an explanation for to the non-procrastinators of the sector what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we’re. Now, I had a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were surely one-of-a-kind than the brains of different persons. And to scan this, I determined an MRI lab that sincerely let me scan both my mind and the mind of a validated non-procrastinator, so I might compare them.I simply brought them right here to exhibit you in these days. I would like you to take a look carefully to peer if that you could notice a difference. I do know that if you’re now not a proficient mind proficient, it can be not that obvious, however just take a seem, ok? So here is the mind of a non-procrastinator. (Laughter) Now … Here’s my mind. (Laughter) there is a difference. Both brains have a Rational decision-Maker in them, but the procrastinator’s brain also has an on the spot Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this imply for the procrastinator? Well, it manner the whole thing’s exceptional unless this occurs. So the Rational determination-Maker will make the rational choice to do anything productive, but the Monkey does not like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, "really, let’s learn the whole Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, when you consider that I just remembered that that happened.(Laughter) Then — (Laughter) Then we’ll go over to the fridge, to see if there may be some thing new in there when you consider that 10 minutes ago. After that, we’re going to go on a YouTube spiral that begins with videos of Richard Feynman speaking about magnets and ends much, much later with us observing interviews with Justin Bieber’s mother. (Laughter) "All of that is going to take a even as, so we’re not going to rather have room on the schedule for any work in these days. Sorry!" (Sigh) Now, what’s going on here? The immediate Gratification Monkey does no longer seem like a guy you want behind the wheel. He lives completely within the present second. He has no memory of the earlier, no talents of the future, and he handiest cares about two matters: convenient and fun. Now, in the animal world, that works pleasant. If you’re a canine and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you’re a large success! (Laughter) And to the Monkey, people are just an additional animal species. You must hold good-slept, well-fed and propagating into the next generation, which in tribal times would have labored adequate.However, if you haven’t seen, now we’re no longer in tribal times. We’re in a sophisticated civilization, and the Monkey does not know what that is. Which is why we have now a further man in our brain, the Rational choice-Maker, who gives us the capability to do matters no other animal can do. We will visualize the long run. We will see the enormous snapshot. We can make lengthy-term plans. And he wishes to take all of that into consideration. And he desires to just have us do whatever is sensible to be doing correct now. Now, normally it is sensible to be doing matters that are effortless and fun, like when you’re having dinner or going to bed or having fun with well-earned leisure time. That’s why there’s an overlap. Normally they agree. However different instances, it makes rather more feel to be doing matters that are more difficult and not more great, for the sake of the enormous picture. And that is when now we have a clash. And for the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a specific approach at any time when, leaving him spending a number of time in this orange zone, an effortless and fun location that is thoroughly out of the is sensible circle.I call it the dark Playground. (Laughter) Now, the darkish Playground is a position that each one of you procrastinators out there know very good. It is the place entertainment events occur at times when leisure events will not be imagined to be going down. The enjoyable you’ve got at midnight Playground isn’t honestly fun, due to the fact that it can be utterly unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiousness, self-hatred — all of those good procrastinator emotions. And the question is, on this crisis, with the Monkey in the back of the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less satisfactory location, but the place particularly main things happen? Good, seems the procrastinator has a guardian angel, anybody who’s continually watching down on him and looking at over him in his darkest moments — any one called the Panic Monster.(Laughter) Now, the Panic Monster is dormant more often than not, but he abruptly wakes up whenever a time limit gets too shut or there is hazard of public embarrassment, a profession catastrophe or another scary outcome. And importantly, he is the only thing the Monkey is petrified of. Now, he grew to be very primary in my existence lovely recently, seeing that the men and women of TED reached out to me about six months ago and invited me to do a TED speak. (Laughter) Now, of path, I stated sure. It is invariably been a dream of mine to have achieved a TED speak previously.(Laughter) (Applause) but within the center of all this pleasure, the Rational choice-Maker perceived to have whatever else on his intellect. He was announcing, "Are we clear on what we just authorised? Will we get what’s going to be now going down sooner or later at some point? We have got to take a seat down and work on this proper now." And the Monkey mentioned, "wholly agree, however let’s just open Google Earth and zoom in to the backside of India, like 200 feet above the bottom, and scroll up for 2 and a 1/2 hours til we get to the top of the country, in an effort to get a greater suppose for India." (Laughter) So that’s what we did that day.(Laughter) As six months turned into 4 and then two after which one, the people of TED determined to release the audio system. And that i opened up the internet site, and there was once my face staring right again at me. And wager who awoke? (Laughter) So the Panic Monster starts losing his intellect, and some seconds later, the whole approach’s in mayhem. (Laughter) And the Monkey — keep in mind, he is fearful of the Panic Monster — boom, he’s up the tree! And in the end, subsequently, the Rational decision-Maker can take the wheel and i will be able to engaged on the talk. Now, the Panic Monster explains all varieties of beautiful insane procrastinator behavior, like how any individual like me would spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, and then miraculously to find the incredible work ethic to remain up all night time and write eight pages. And this complete trouble, with the three characters — that is the procrastinator’s procedure. It can be now not lovely, however ultimately, it works. This is what I decided to jot down about on the blog a few years ago.After I did, I was once amazed by way of the response. Actually hundreds and hundreds of emails got here in, from all one of a kind forms of persons from in every single place the sector, doing all one of a kind forms of matters. These are people who had been nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and lots and lots of PhD scholars. (Laughter) and so they have been all writing, announcing the equal factor: "i have this difficulty too." but what struck me used to be the contrast between the light tone of the post and the heaviness of these emails. These men and women have been writing with severe frustration about what procrastination had completed to their lives, about what this Monkey had done to them. And i suggestion about this, and that i said, good, if the procrastinator’s procedure works, then what is going on on? Why are all of those individuals in such a dark situation? Well, it seems that there may be two kinds of procrastination. The whole lot I’ve mentioned at present, the examples I’ve given, all of them have time limits. And when there’s points in time, the consequences of procrastination are contained to the quick term considering the Panic Monster gets concerned. However there’s a 2d style of procrastination that happens in circumstances when there’s no deadline.So should you desired a profession the place you are a self-starter — some thing in the arts, whatever entrepreneurial — there’s no deadlines on those things to start with, considering nothing’s happening, not until you’ve long past out and achieved the hard work to get momentum, get matters going. There may be also all types of primary things outside of your profession that do not involve any closing dates, like seeing your household or exercising and taking care of your wellness, working to your relationship or getting out of a relationship that is not working. Now if the procrastinator’s only mechanism of doing these hard matters is the Panic Monster, that’s a problem, given that in all of those non-deadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn’t exhibit up. He has nothing to wake up for, so the consequences of procrastination, they may be now not contained; they just lengthen outward endlessly. And it is this lengthy-term kind of procrastination that’s so much much less seen and far much less mentioned than the funnier, brief-time period time limit-based variety. It’s normally suffered quietly and privately. And it can be the supply of a significant quantity of lengthy-term sadness, and regrets.And i concept, that’s why those men and women are emailing, and that is why they’re in such a bad place. It is now not that they may be cramming for some challenge. It can be that long-term procrastination has made them think like a spectator, from time to time, in their own lives. The frustration will not be that they could not acquire their dreams; it is that they weren’t even able to chasing them. So I read these emails and that i had a little bit bit of an epiphany — that i do not believe non-procrastinators exist. That is correct — I suppose all of you are procrastinators. Now, you might no longer all be a large number, like some of us, (Laughter) and a few of you might have a healthful relationship with cut-off dates, however don’t forget: the Monkey’s sneakiest trick is when the points in time don’t seem to be there.Now, I want to exhibit you one last factor. I call this a lifestyles Calendar. That’s one box for every week of a 90-12 months lifestyles. That is not that many bins, in particular due to the fact now we have already used a bunch of these. So I think we need to all take an extended, tough look at that calendar. We must consider about what we’re rather procrastinating on, when you consider that each person is procrastinating on something in lifestyles. We have got to stay aware of the instantaneous Gratification Monkey. That’s a job for all people. And when you consider that there’s not that many boxes on there, it is a job that should frequently in these days. Good, maybe no longer at present, but … (Laughter) you realize. Sometime quickly. Thank you. (Applause) .

[airoasis]

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

New Post has been published on https://hititem.kr/inside-the-mind-of-a-master-procrastinator-tim-urban-13/

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban

So in college, I was once a govt most important, which means that I needed to write quite a lot of papers. Now, when a normal pupil writes a paper, they could spread the determine somewhat like this. So, you already know — (Laughter) you get began possibly slightly slowly, however you get enough achieved in the first week that, with some heavier days later on, the whole lot gets achieved, things keep civil. (Laughter) And i’d want to do that like that.That stands out as the plan. I might have it all competent to move, but then, in reality, the paper would come alongside, and then i’d form of do that. (Laughter) And that may happen every single paper. But then got here my 90-page senior thesis, a paper you’re alleged to spend a yr on. And i knew for a paper like that, my common work waft used to be now not an option. It used to be method too big a assignment. So I deliberate matters out, and i determined I form of needed to go something like this. This is how the yr would go. So i’d off light, and i would bump it up within the core months, after which at the end, i’d kick it up into excessive gear just like a bit staircase. How tough might it’s to stroll up the stairs? No tremendous deal, proper? But then, the funniest factor occurred. These first few months? They came and went, and i couldn’t fairly do stuff. So we had an top notch new revised plan. (Laughter) after which — (Laughter) but then those center months certainly glided by, and i did not rather write words, and so we were here.And then two months changed into one month, which became two weeks. And in the future I aroused from sleep with three days until the closing date, still no longer having written a phrase, and so I did the only thing I could: I wrote ninety pages over 72 hours, pulling now not one but two all-nighters — people are usually not supposed to tug two all-nighters — sprinted throughout campus, dove in gradual movement, and bought it in simply on the closing date. I concept that was the top of everything. But a week later I get a name, and it can be the institution. And they say, "is this Tim city?" and i say, "Yeah." and they say, "We have got to talk about your thesis." and that i say, "ok." they usually say, "it’s the pleasant one now we have ever seen." (Laughter) (Applause) That did not occur. (Laughter) It was an extraordinarily, very dangerous thesis. (Laughter) I just wanted to experience that one moment when all of you inspiration, "This guy is mighty!" (Laughter) No, no, it used to be very, very bad. Anyway, at present i’m a creator-blogger man. I write the blog Wait however Why.And a few years ago, I decided to write about procrastination. My habits has perpetually confused the non-procrastinators around me, and that i desired to provide an explanation for to the non-procrastinators of the sector what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we’re. Now, I had a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were surely one-of-a-kind than the brains of different persons. And to scan this, I determined an MRI lab that sincerely let me scan both my mind and the mind of a validated non-procrastinator, so I might compare them.I simply brought them right here to exhibit you in these days. I would like you to take a look carefully to peer if that you could notice a difference. I do know that if you’re now not a proficient mind proficient, it can be not that obvious, however just take a seem, ok? So here is the mind of a non-procrastinator. (Laughter) Now … Here’s my mind. (Laughter) there is a difference. Both brains have a Rational decision-Maker in them, but the procrastinator’s brain also has an on the spot Gratification Monkey. Now, what does this imply for the procrastinator? Well, it manner the whole thing’s exceptional unless this occurs. So the Rational determination-Maker will make the rational choice to do anything productive, but the Monkey does not like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, "really, let’s learn the whole Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, when you consider that I just remembered that that happened.(Laughter) Then — (Laughter) Then we’ll go over to the fridge, to see if there may be some thing new in there when you consider that 10 minutes ago. After that, we’re going to go on a YouTube spiral that begins with videos of Richard Feynman speaking about magnets and ends much, much later with us observing interviews with Justin Bieber’s mother. (Laughter) "All of that is going to take a even as, so we’re not going to rather have room on the schedule for any work in these days. Sorry!" (Sigh) Now, what’s going on here? The immediate Gratification Monkey does no longer seem like a guy you want behind the wheel. He lives completely within the present second. He has no memory of the earlier, no talents of the future, and he handiest cares about two matters: convenient and fun. Now, in the animal world, that works pleasant. If you’re a canine and you spend your whole life doing nothing other than easy and fun things, you’re a large success! (Laughter) And to the Monkey, people are just an additional animal species. You must hold good-slept, well-fed and propagating into the next generation, which in tribal times would have labored adequate.However, if you haven’t seen, now we’re no longer in tribal times. We’re in a sophisticated civilization, and the Monkey does not know what that is. Which is why we have now a further man in our brain, the Rational choice-Maker, who gives us the capability to do matters no other animal can do. We will visualize the long run. We will see the enormous snapshot. We can make lengthy-term plans. And he wishes to take all of that into consideration. And he desires to just have us do whatever is sensible to be doing correct now. Now, normally it is sensible to be doing matters that are effortless and fun, like when you’re having dinner or going to bed or having fun with well-earned leisure time. That’s why there’s an overlap. Normally they agree. However different instances, it makes rather more feel to be doing matters that are more difficult and not more great, for the sake of the enormous picture. And that is when now we have a clash. And for the procrastinator, that conflict tends to end a specific approach at any time when, leaving him spending a number of time in this orange zone, an effortless and fun location that is thoroughly out of the is sensible circle.I call it the dark Playground. (Laughter) Now, the darkish Playground is a position that each one of you procrastinators out there know very good. It is the place entertainment events occur at times when leisure events will not be imagined to be going down. The enjoyable you’ve got at midnight Playground isn’t honestly fun, due to the fact that it can be utterly unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiousness, self-hatred — all of those good procrastinator emotions. And the question is, on this crisis, with the Monkey in the back of the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less satisfactory location, but the place particularly main things happen? Good, seems the procrastinator has a guardian angel, anybody who’s continually watching down on him and looking at over him in his darkest moments — any one called the Panic Monster.(Laughter) Now, the Panic Monster is dormant more often than not, but he abruptly wakes up whenever a time limit gets too shut or there is hazard of public embarrassment, a profession catastrophe or another scary outcome. And importantly, he is the only thing the Monkey is petrified of. Now, he grew to be very primary in my existence lovely recently, seeing that the men and women of TED reached out to me about six months ago and invited me to do a TED speak. (Laughter) Now, of path, I stated sure. It is invariably been a dream of mine to have achieved a TED speak previously.(Laughter) (Applause) but within the center of all this pleasure, the Rational choice-Maker perceived to have whatever else on his intellect. He was announcing, "Are we clear on what we just authorised? Will we get what’s going to be now going down sooner or later at some point? We have got to take a seat down and work on this proper now." And the Monkey mentioned, "wholly agree, however let’s just open Google Earth and zoom in to the backside of India, like 200 feet above the bottom, and scroll up for 2 and a 1/2 hours til we get to the top of the country, in an effort to get a greater suppose for India." (Laughter) So that’s what we did that day.(Laughter) As six months turned into 4 and then two after which one, the people of TED determined to release the audio system. And that i opened up the internet site, and there was once my face staring right again at me. And wager who awoke? (Laughter) So the Panic Monster starts losing his intellect, and some seconds later, the whole approach’s in mayhem. (Laughter) And the Monkey — keep in mind, he is fearful of the Panic Monster — boom, he’s up the tree! And in the end, subsequently, the Rational decision-Maker can take the wheel and i will be able to engaged on the talk. Now, the Panic Monster explains all varieties of beautiful insane procrastinator behavior, like how any individual like me would spend two weeks unable to start the opening sentence of a paper, and then miraculously to find the incredible work ethic to remain up all night time and write eight pages. And this complete trouble, with the three characters — that is the procrastinator’s procedure. It can be now not lovely, however ultimately, it works. This is what I decided to jot down about on the blog a few years ago.After I did, I was once amazed by way of the response. Actually hundreds and hundreds of emails got here in, from all one of a kind forms of persons from in every single place the sector, doing all one of a kind forms of matters. These are people who had been nurses, bankers, painters, engineers and lots and lots of PhD scholars. (Laughter) and so they have been all writing, announcing the equal factor: "i have this difficulty too." but what struck me used to be the contrast between the light tone of the post and the heaviness of these emails. These men and women have been writing with severe frustration about what procrastination had completed to their lives, about what this Monkey had done to them. And i suggestion about this, and that i said, good, if the procrastinator’s procedure works, then what is going on on? Why are all of those individuals in such a dark situation? Well, it seems that there may be two kinds of procrastination. The whole lot I’ve mentioned at present, the examples I’ve given, all of them have time limits. And when there’s points in time, the consequences of procrastination are contained to the quick term considering the Panic Monster gets concerned. However there’s a 2d style of procrastination that happens in circumstances when there’s no deadline.So should you desired a profession the place you are a self-starter — some thing in the arts, whatever entrepreneurial — there’s no deadlines on those things to start with, considering nothing’s happening, not until you’ve long past out and achieved the hard work to get momentum, get matters going. There may be also all types of primary things outside of your profession that do not involve any closing dates, like seeing your household or exercising and taking care of your wellness, working to your relationship or getting out of a relationship that is not working. Now if the procrastinator’s only mechanism of doing these hard matters is the Panic Monster, that’s a problem, given that in all of those non-deadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn’t exhibit up. He has nothing to wake up for, so the consequences of procrastination, they may be now not contained; they just lengthen outward endlessly. And it is this lengthy-term kind of procrastination that’s so much much less seen and far much less mentioned than the funnier, brief-time period time limit-based variety. It’s normally suffered quietly and privately. And it can be the supply of a significant quantity of lengthy-term sadness, and regrets.And i concept, that’s why those men and women are emailing, and that is why they’re in such a bad place. It is now not that they may be cramming for some challenge. It can be that long-term procrastination has made them think like a spectator, from time to time, in their own lives. The frustration will not be that they could not acquire their dreams; it is that they weren’t even able to chasing them. So I read these emails and that i had a little bit bit of an epiphany — that i do not believe non-procrastinators exist. That is correct — I suppose all of you are procrastinators. Now, you might no longer all be a large number, like some of us, (Laughter) and a few of you might have a healthful relationship with cut-off dates, however don’t forget: the Monkey’s sneakiest trick is when the points in time don’t seem to be there.Now, I want to exhibit you one last factor. I call this a lifestyles Calendar. That’s one box for every week of a 90-12 months lifestyles. That is not that many bins, in particular due to the fact now we have already used a bunch of these. So I think we need to all take an extended, tough look at that calendar. We must consider about what we’re rather procrastinating on, when you consider that each person is procrastinating on something in lifestyles. We have got to stay aware of the instantaneous Gratification Monkey. That’s a job for all people. And when you consider that there’s not that many boxes on there, it is a job that should frequently in these days. Good, maybe no longer at present, but … (Laughter) you realize. Sometime quickly. Thank you. (Applause) .

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I am society from ancient India have been ruled via women fairly my guys weren’t allowed around females with out license and have been put in the car and told off for being sexist anyway you are going to do a track from you to me new album for us now God what an agent she’s under no circumstances completely happy until she’s complaining about something oh you are correct there take I believe this new song is in regards to the Catholic Church oh here she goes it is about how the church in eire ordinarily had plenty of potatoes in the course of the famine they usually hit the pendulum the pill and that i fell to my storage as expertise fare holes closed down a variety of the factories that were making the potatoes and turned them into prison for children God on my cheek without doubt this existed was anything sinister certainly I mean wow the main issue with she appears to be taking the entire Catholic King somewhat severely Ted sure I imply it is just a bit of amusing stop talking and it’s simply whole radical feminism lack to quite get my purpose what this proposal that the Catholic Church is a few sort of bad perspective to women k she’s doing a tune Candace what you smash air hole cramps or you love them what what you’re making of all these items you failed to come to the church is somewhat sexist Oh God no father I’ve invariably known the church very aware of my views I imply I don’t forget one time I was having horrible troubles at house and the church manner aid then i do know a different we wish to roam the church down however I acquired a load of house owners extra more lon thanks for asking father but no no I haven’t any complaints at all yeah Oh No sorry goes mad if i’m a 2nd days with this drink drink you know you will have to rather get a haircut he’s constantly got too some distance down that Bob Geldof position oh that is a nasty avenue it is indeed Google i would like you have got long gone down as there isn’t a coming again as Bob himself or Kenya what did you pay for the cabinets Ted Dada i don’t rather take into account him these is not going to last you look at that she might speak that into comment down well there is plenty of first-rate on to know provide us a name Oh God okay i will be able to suppose it we did it kid ah appear at that picture it is falling apart have a bit cup of tea Liam reasonable ample so am what you want to talk to me about oh sure now you were planning i’m going to d’lovely garyun competition this 12 months we’re mature oh yes I I by no means missed the lovely girls that is my absolute favorite time of year well I was once this lovely lady 1995 doing Aragog Ted we had a stripper of her title Oh God why we discovered she’s been in a movie called stallion Sam I heard us was a bit impolite anyway i’m chairman of the organizing committee this yr and i used to be questioning in case you wanted to judge it shudders what cuddly would now not too hot and there’s the dinner afterwards in there oh sure sure you’ve gotten the dignity of taking the winner out for me and that i consider who pays for it is not me did I hear that somewhere oh you suck alternative we introduced that in a couple of years in the past you’ve the glory of taking her off for me and she had been on roti how much fuck stereo this sort of backtest about 100 kilos I would have obtained your grace and probably after carefully anyway you were pronouncing oh sure now whilst you take the lovely lady out to dinner could you ever persuade her to put on considered one of my Mami’s dresses she could use the publicity right how’s the industry going oh satisfactory she bought one last week what number of is that purpose this yr that might be one you see and sincerely factor we inspiration is be a little bit of an ass getting a priest to evaluate it this yr additionally it eliminates any sexual part to the red or and that i mistaken friend i’m hoping you is not going to be tempted through all those beautiful women or there isn’t any danger of that toilet considering we have now had problems with that sort of thing before you no no no Ted we quite have a challenge of that possibility all correct you do not have to worry there limb correct at the off due with the aid of limb how much duplex the door Ted i don’t understand it came with the condo oh hi there they are a bunch of homeboys prime god there she is again now not everywhere the place lift power what does that imply don’t know I knew a father Clint energy penis is having a go at him what is the interview like I failed to quite read so much of its head she’s gone around the nation on the second I feel she needs to purchase a house on an island and reside in it and she had their eye on some godforsaken position off the west coast really did it point out what island she had a Ryan Clady Island in position for me I see it as being a dependable haven for individuals who desire to flee their party on the mainland so god I want to create a world free and affection and devout intolerance no no no no no that terrible information correct sincerely we simply have to stand our ground if she’s on the island and bound upon Peter I simply inform her the people of crayons will not stand ahead freed from sexual and religious intolerance no manner Jose correct whether the room will have to be ok now I who had been the upstairs and i did the Attic prime to backside i have oh yes sure and i washed your car additionally I consider to look at green hearse beside the carriage that we are free today Oh mrs.Toys have any risk of preserve your two favorite trees it’s handiest a letter how do you do no I need to get away early to the beautiful ghosts competition for DES Moine going myself but i do not consider i do not want to say to a beautiful lady god doogal there is no end of things you would speak about you could ask them what their father does for a dwelling you probably have a boyfriend clothes and to do with clothes and fragrance essentially closes simplest for the reason that men have been close however we do not put on perfume get additional larger except for the biggie anyway should you ever meet a lady i’m definite you’ll be able to maintain us simply be yourself viable be yourself make them suppose secure and the golden rule constantly need to have that approach it’s simpler ultimately anyway I higher be off it only keep these beautiful ladies waiting be your self is it cool if I you can be their father oh we get me later bald eagles oh we do not get into any mischief oh you know the spanner I do and that’s the drawback not on impersonations of all opposes all those different line made individuals think Peter Gabriel and Queen and the other bands that went on prior within the day and what about Phil Collins flying all of the solution to Boston Sagi workmanship that’s what it is okay for proper now so will you quit this the camera for stead lovely forever you know sorry college actress judgement song whats up lovely Gyarados and any individual at the door mrs.Doing mrs. Doyle good day there good Imelda you are a beautiful lady even though I hear you had a bit of unhealthy luck dicy your dog was once knocked down with the aid of a auto and killed no no that is that is my father it says here that your 22 19 correct and also you were born in could oh that is a beautiful a part of the sector ten doc and it says right here that you’re a black belt in karate now so so what would you do if I got here I let you know what as you seem to my notes and discontinue on any style of expertise that’s simply genuine Sam instructed me your name yet father in theatres well there doodle McGuire very well this can be a great residence I rather love the crude religious imagery yeah y’all right there hold your breath breath your breath is it comfy if you have a breath it can be no longer too tight is it however that you could loosen it if you need take it off bathe go on Brasilia come T normally i will make the tea and you’re taking your brow oh is not that bob geldof yeah yeah you are aware of it so beautiful bit whoa clearly the last university mullion that quite very thing i am not certain whether it is Bobby sufficient cling on there a 2nd excuse me are you a job all correct now going for walks oh seem at them they are very very have a beautiful Park careful they’re headed that myself into ghettos find it irresistible of path they all have it on absolutely and mrs.Doyle is the one who makes the tea and he or she goes here simply make the tea what mrs. Doyle makes turkey anyway I better just inform you the purpose i’m here i am watching for a house around the discipline and that i fairly particularly like this one your sandwich exceeds the desired six entries and wit and that suggests it’s between a different and Mary in the beautiful lass tiebreak nor right here you’re nothing off i will have to let you know a shaggy dog story so right here we go this is my Robin Williams impression ok right here we go that is the funny story now okay secretary Sir the Invisible Man is in reception that bus tell him I can not see him rapidly I ought to say a Mendes lap is nicer i am sorry Mary that implies Amanda is the winner certificate of loveliness and of direction you have been going to dinner the next day to come in craggy Islands top secret rest on the Thai cottage and who will you be inviting to dinner I do convey my mom just have a different for such one more I can be inviting you quality yeah anything anything show up so thanks the winner of our beautiful girls 1996 it’s a letter there you’re up it how does it on full of life competitors come brilliantly good and as is the tradition I get a free dinner the next day to come night high-quality it’s a quitter oh god yeah Wow you particularly not Michael Hutchence unconscious welcome anyway some thing happened while I was once away no cannot suppose of something anyway oh you are one Nev Connolly known as Nev Connolly what did you say to her do not worry Ted it was pleasant I simply took your recommendation about speaking to garrison of his floor she’s upstairs now she’s still here yeah actually I suppose she’s in the toilet oh good day again and that i was once simply telling Ted you have been in the toilet hiya there father Ted Crilley you ought to be leave out Connelly well feel that sexist be aware of to name a young woman omit i am sorry too late for me to change my approaches that you could instruct an old canine new tricks good it is getting kind of late very well good I I won’t preserve you Faisal bye goodbye father yes goodbye k that is the opposite factor I so go away the residence really I simply gave it to her wait a minute he’s gonna turn it right into a studio she mentioned we will have all of the recording time we want well no wait now not you game of the condominium wait honey wait a 2d where are we gonna live leave out Connelly omit Costas has been a horrible misunderstanding here look I have to record a duet over the cellphone with Peter Gabriel so hope you do not mind but Nigel Antonio Michelle yeah well i’m sorry however we’re not going anywhere proper i am no longer staying right here to be insulted by you come on dude we’re desiring i would not say this learn how to supply me a million pound wait a minute what did I say there I understood please supply us again the house what did I say why can we outside stated the place are we going to reside God Almighty Dugan i am going away for a few hours and you might have managed to present away the condo I mean take me sewers again what precisely occurred I was just sticking to your room head and quantity one be your self no no no no be your sensitive whatever individuals say never be yourself with ladies not ever never by no means what then well i attempted to make a extra at ease like you mentioned sure so I asked her to take off her bra we come again to that one mr.There would you supply away the house what concerning the Golden Rose head continuously supply them what they need no no that is the silver rule the golden rule is that anybody who’s ever speaking to you again suppose about what you’re announcing and then do not say it and then just run away someplace correct all right this is a lengthy shot however it’s our most effective hope i’ll go away this paper and pencil here and expectantly within the morning God may have written down what we should do ok that could be a lengthy shot their handiest hope Google come on God ah what is it see God correct back no I failed to bollocks anyway correct i am gonna have to manage this myself sincerely the item is the condo it fairly wasn’t Google to present away that sort of be gracious we might provide it again to us I consider it would be intriguing the variety of labor we’re doing right here we’re an extraordinarily progressive parish i hope it’s now not some type of hideaway for pedophile clergymen that housing disgusted me good depart we’re no longer all like that I mean say if there is 200 million clergymen on the planet and and 5 percent of them are pedophiles that’s nonetheless simplest ten million so what we desired to create right here used to be a global freed from intolerance and hypocrisy particularly stable yes yes there’s one factor I hate it is hypocrisy I imply that sexism farling yes sure god it gets my goat we’re very specific right here in craggy Island we do not like all of that sort of them factor ah kid who is that this lovely Carol now Ted you’re only purported to decide on one you understand comeon beautiful girl I’ve offered 20 million documents plus ha ha ha ha Eddie reject what you think this one are this one you realize i love this one well that is a great one title all proper – no but I like the color of this one oh I just have no idea good laughs they are each excellent i am certain whichever one you opt for it’ll be just beautiful thanks Ted see good style of alternative lifestyles catered for you we’re a refuge for clergymen like a father lean the place else would he give a sermon even as dressed like a Joan Crawford sees leave please don’t take her a apartment please don’t stop our excellent work right here you already know I ought to say father I had no suggestion that monks might be worried in such just right work you most often have that historic-usual view of the drunken or Netra scream like the stereotype is lengthy long gone I enjoy each of it goodbye father Billy would be Manohar Maura historic-style priest he likes to pop round for him you recognize good ancient bitch once in a even as he came from upstairs yeah he’s like hiding across the condo so he can spring a subject matter on me however perhaps he’d be hiding within the rest room and i might go to the bathroom and he abruptly jump out and say ladies clergymen and that i just consider very fast and say i am in desire of them anyway the primary factor I wanted to assert needeth we’re enormous gigantic fanatics of yours right here i’d say we have to have every album you ever made would you love me to signal them for you oh that does not be satisfactory might you sure of course you must stay here so there’s a sign the album so provide the keys again what i’m going to simply go and get the report thank you thank you Cheers record can be like mr.Don don’t care father I completed digging that drainage ditch ordinary dimension now i do know you wanted me to wash these rooms late tonight y’all be aware of don’t know hard to could do them tomorrow when there may be much less risk of me falling off and being killed and then sting fell down the steps just right father may also be feeling nature he has to stay house so mrs. Greenback Kumar the one purpose I gave him the residence again one night time off a week from mrs. Dyle might be I should just pour in shechem little bit yeah we’ll come on let’s revel in ourselves sister no man around we are able to do it fairly is that mate pleasure nonetheless have endurance No you

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"Rock a Hula Ted" | Father Ted | Series 2 Episode 7 | Dead Parrot

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I am society from ancient India have been ruled via women fairly my guys weren’t allowed around females with out license and have been put in the car and told off for being sexist anyway you are going to do a track from you to me new album for us now God what an agent she’s under no circumstances completely happy until she’s complaining about something oh you are correct there take I believe this new song is in regards to the Catholic Church oh here she goes it is about how the church in eire ordinarily had plenty of potatoes in the course of the famine they usually hit the pendulum the pill and that i fell to my storage as expertise fare holes closed down a variety of the factories that were making the potatoes and turned them into prison for children God on my cheek without doubt this existed was anything sinister certainly I mean wow the main issue with she appears to be taking the entire Catholic King somewhat severely Ted sure I imply it is just a bit of amusing stop talking and it’s simply whole radical feminism lack to quite get my purpose what this proposal that the Catholic Church is a few sort of bad perspective to women k she’s doing a tune Candace what you smash air hole cramps or you love them what what you’re making of all these items you failed to come to the church is somewhat sexist Oh God no father I’ve invariably known the church very aware of my views I imply I don’t forget one time I was having horrible troubles at house and the church manner aid then i do know a different we wish to roam the church down however I acquired a load of house owners extra more lon thanks for asking father but no no I haven’t any complaints at all yeah Oh No sorry goes mad if i’m a 2nd days with this drink drink you know you will have to rather get a haircut he’s constantly got too some distance down that Bob Geldof position oh that is a nasty avenue it is indeed Google i would like you have got long gone down as there isn’t a coming again as Bob himself or Kenya what did you pay for the cabinets Ted Dada i don’t rather take into account him these is not going to last you look at that she might speak that into comment down well there is plenty of first-rate on to know provide us a name Oh God okay i will be able to suppose it we did it kid ah appear at that picture it is falling apart have a bit cup of tea Liam reasonable ample so am what you want to talk to me about oh sure now you were planning i’m going to d’lovely garyun competition this 12 months we’re mature oh yes I I by no means missed the lovely girls that is my absolute favorite time of year well I was once this lovely lady 1995 doing Aragog Ted we had a stripper of her title Oh God why we discovered she’s been in a movie called stallion Sam I heard us was a bit impolite anyway i’m chairman of the organizing committee this yr and i used to be questioning in case you wanted to judge it shudders what cuddly would now not too hot and there’s the dinner afterwards in there oh sure sure you’ve gotten the dignity of taking the winner out for me and that i consider who pays for it is not me did I hear that somewhere oh you suck alternative we introduced that in a couple of years in the past you’ve the glory of taking her off for me and she had been on roti how much fuck stereo this sort of backtest about 100 kilos I would have obtained your grace and probably after carefully anyway you were pronouncing oh sure now whilst you take the lovely lady out to dinner could you ever persuade her to put on considered one of my Mami’s dresses she could use the publicity right how’s the industry going oh satisfactory she bought one last week what number of is that purpose this yr that might be one you see and sincerely factor we inspiration is be a little bit of an ass getting a priest to evaluate it this yr additionally it eliminates any sexual part to the red or and that i mistaken friend i’m hoping you is not going to be tempted through all those beautiful women or there isn’t any danger of that toilet considering we have now had problems with that sort of thing before you no no no Ted we quite have a challenge of that possibility all correct you do not have to worry there limb correct at the off due with the aid of limb how much duplex the door Ted i don’t understand it came with the condo oh hi there they are a bunch of homeboys prime god there she is again now not everywhere the place lift power what does that imply don’t know I knew a father Clint energy penis is having a go at him what is the interview like I failed to quite read so much of its head she’s gone around the nation on the second I feel she needs to purchase a house on an island and reside in it and she had their eye on some godforsaken position off the west coast really did it point out what island she had a Ryan Clady Island in position for me I see it as being a dependable haven for individuals who desire to flee their party on the mainland so god I want to create a world free and affection and devout intolerance no no no no no that terrible information correct sincerely we simply have to stand our ground if she’s on the island and bound upon Peter I simply inform her the people of crayons will not stand ahead freed from sexual and religious intolerance no manner Jose correct whether the room will have to be ok now I who had been the upstairs and i did the Attic prime to backside i have oh yes sure and i washed your car additionally I consider to look at green hearse beside the carriage that we are free today Oh mrs.Toys have any risk of preserve your two favorite trees it’s handiest a letter how do you do no I need to get away early to the beautiful ghosts competition for DES Moine going myself but i do not consider i do not want to say to a beautiful lady god doogal there is no end of things you would speak about you could ask them what their father does for a dwelling you probably have a boyfriend clothes and to do with clothes and fragrance essentially closes simplest for the reason that men have been close however we do not put on perfume get additional larger except for the biggie anyway should you ever meet a lady i’m definite you’ll be able to maintain us simply be yourself viable be yourself make them suppose secure and the golden rule constantly need to have that approach it’s simpler ultimately anyway I higher be off it only keep these beautiful ladies waiting be your self is it cool if I you can be their father oh we get me later bald eagles oh we do not get into any mischief oh you know the spanner I do and that’s the drawback not on impersonations of all opposes all those different line made individuals think Peter Gabriel and Queen and the other bands that went on prior within the day and what about Phil Collins flying all of the solution to Boston Sagi workmanship that’s what it is okay for proper now so will you quit this the camera for stead lovely forever you know sorry college actress judgement song whats up lovely Gyarados and any individual at the door mrs.Doing mrs. Doyle good day there good Imelda you are a beautiful lady even though I hear you had a bit of unhealthy luck dicy your dog was once knocked down with the aid of a auto and killed no no that is that is my father it says here that your 22 19 correct and also you were born in could oh that is a beautiful a part of the sector ten doc and it says right here that you’re a black belt in karate now so so what would you do if I got here I let you know what as you seem to my notes and discontinue on any style of expertise that’s simply genuine Sam instructed me your name yet father in theatres well there doodle McGuire very well this can be a great residence I rather love the crude religious imagery yeah y’all right there hold your breath breath your breath is it comfy if you have a breath it can be no longer too tight is it however that you could loosen it if you need take it off bathe go on Brasilia come T normally i will make the tea and you’re taking your brow oh is not that bob geldof yeah yeah you are aware of it so beautiful bit whoa clearly the last university mullion that quite very thing i am not certain whether it is Bobby sufficient cling on there a 2nd excuse me are you a job all correct now going for walks oh seem at them they are very very have a beautiful Park careful they’re headed that myself into ghettos find it irresistible of path they all have it on absolutely and mrs.Doyle is the one who makes the tea and he or she goes here simply make the tea what mrs. Doyle makes turkey anyway I better just inform you the purpose i’m here i am watching for a house around the discipline and that i fairly particularly like this one your sandwich exceeds the desired six entries and wit and that suggests it’s between a different and Mary in the beautiful lass tiebreak nor right here you’re nothing off i will have to let you know a shaggy dog story so right here we go this is my Robin Williams impression ok right here we go that is the funny story now okay secretary Sir the Invisible Man is in reception that bus tell him I can not see him rapidly I ought to say a Mendes lap is nicer i am sorry Mary that implies Amanda is the winner certificate of loveliness and of direction you have been going to dinner the next day to come in craggy Islands top secret rest on the Thai cottage and who will you be inviting to dinner I do convey my mom just have a different for such one more I can be inviting you quality yeah anything anything show up so thanks the winner of our beautiful girls 1996 it’s a letter there you’re up it how does it on full of life competitors come brilliantly good and as is the tradition I get a free dinner the next day to come night high-quality it’s a quitter oh god yeah Wow you particularly not Michael Hutchence unconscious welcome anyway some thing happened while I was once away no cannot suppose of something anyway oh you are one Nev Connolly known as Nev Connolly what did you say to her do not worry Ted it was pleasant I simply took your recommendation about speaking to garrison of his floor she’s upstairs now she’s still here yeah actually I suppose she’s in the toilet oh good day again and that i was once simply telling Ted you have been in the toilet hiya there father Ted Crilley you ought to be leave out Connelly well feel that sexist be aware of to name a young woman omit i am sorry too late for me to change my approaches that you could instruct an old canine new tricks good it is getting kind of late very well good I I won’t preserve you Faisal bye goodbye father yes goodbye k that is the opposite factor I so go away the residence really I simply gave it to her wait a minute he’s gonna turn it right into a studio she mentioned we will have all of the recording time we want well no wait now not you game of the condominium wait honey wait a 2d where are we gonna live leave out Connelly omit Costas has been a horrible misunderstanding here look I have to record a duet over the cellphone with Peter Gabriel so hope you do not mind but Nigel Antonio Michelle yeah well i’m sorry however we’re not going anywhere proper i am no longer staying right here to be insulted by you come on dude we’re desiring i would not say this learn how to supply me a million pound wait a minute what did I say there I understood please supply us again the house what did I say why can we outside stated the place are we going to reside God Almighty Dugan i am going away for a few hours and you might have managed to present away the condo I mean take me sewers again what precisely occurred I was just sticking to your room head and quantity one be your self no no no no be your sensitive whatever individuals say never be yourself with ladies not ever never by no means what then well i attempted to make a extra at ease like you mentioned sure so I asked her to take off her bra we come again to that one mr.There would you supply away the house what concerning the Golden Rose head continuously supply them what they need no no that is the silver rule the golden rule is that anybody who’s ever speaking to you again suppose about what you’re announcing and then do not say it and then just run away someplace correct all right this is a lengthy shot however it’s our most effective hope i’ll go away this paper and pencil here and expectantly within the morning God may have written down what we should do ok that could be a lengthy shot their handiest hope Google come on God ah what is it see God correct back no I failed to bollocks anyway correct i am gonna have to manage this myself sincerely the item is the condo it fairly wasn’t Google to present away that sort of be gracious we might provide it again to us I consider it would be intriguing the variety of labor we’re doing right here we’re an extraordinarily progressive parish i hope it’s now not some type of hideaway for pedophile clergymen that housing disgusted me good depart we’re no longer all like that I mean say if there is 200 million clergymen on the planet and and 5 percent of them are pedophiles that’s nonetheless simplest ten million so what we desired to create right here used to be a global freed from intolerance and hypocrisy particularly stable yes yes there’s one factor I hate it is hypocrisy I imply that sexism farling yes sure god it gets my goat we’re very specific right here in craggy Island we do not like all of that sort of them factor ah kid who is that this lovely Carol now Ted you’re only purported to decide on one you understand comeon beautiful girl I’ve offered 20 million documents plus ha ha ha ha Eddie reject what you think this one are this one you realize i love this one well that is a great one title all proper – no but I like the color of this one oh I just have no idea good laughs they are each excellent i am certain whichever one you opt for it’ll be just beautiful thanks Ted see good style of alternative lifestyles catered for you we’re a refuge for clergymen like a father lean the place else would he give a sermon even as dressed like a Joan Crawford sees leave please don’t take her a apartment please don’t stop our excellent work right here you already know I ought to say father I had no suggestion that monks might be worried in such just right work you most often have that historic-usual view of the drunken or Netra scream like the stereotype is lengthy long gone I enjoy each of it goodbye father Billy would be Manohar Maura historic-style priest he likes to pop round for him you recognize good ancient bitch once in a even as he came from upstairs yeah he’s like hiding across the condo so he can spring a subject matter on me however perhaps he’d be hiding within the rest room and i might go to the bathroom and he abruptly jump out and say ladies clergymen and that i just consider very fast and say i am in desire of them anyway the primary factor I wanted to assert needeth we’re enormous gigantic fanatics of yours right here i’d say we have to have every album you ever made would you love me to signal them for you oh that does not be satisfactory might you sure of course you must stay here so there’s a sign the album so provide the keys again what i’m going to simply go and get the report thank you thank you Cheers record can be like mr.Don don’t care father I completed digging that drainage ditch ordinary dimension now i do know you wanted me to wash these rooms late tonight y’all be aware of don’t know hard to could do them tomorrow when there may be much less risk of me falling off and being killed and then sting fell down the steps just right father may also be feeling nature he has to stay house so mrs. Greenback Kumar the one purpose I gave him the residence again one night time off a week from mrs. Dyle might be I should just pour in shechem little bit yeah we’ll come on let’s revel in ourselves sister no man around we are able to do it fairly is that mate pleasure nonetheless have endurance No you