#and i mean obviously there’s a lot more to actual HEALTH than pure physical performance but that just makes it all even more ridiculous

[mumblesplash]

the crazy thing about our cultural obsession with selling a particular aesthetic as the one true indicator of Fitness is that one day you are going to meet the most supernaturally athletic person you’ll ever see in your entire life and they are going to look like Just Some Guy

[hatsukeii]

Okay I know I’ve reposted something of the sort but I’m just fucking annoyed now so I’m doing it myself.

STOP FUCKING OVERSEXUALISING SAN IM SO FED UP WITH IT IM DONE IM DONE IM DONE IM SO ABSOLUTELY FUCKING FINISHED WITH SOME FANS PURELY LOOKING TO HIM FOR FETISHISATION OR TO SATIFY THEIR THIRST THOUGHTS PLEASE IM BEGGING AT THIS POINT

I know I haven’t been in the fandom for long and yes I’ve definitely said things that go into the category of hard stan (cough on my knees for no one but he’s an exception type stuff but nothing more than that considering I am very much a minor) but does that equate to me seeing San as a sex object? NO, NO, AND NO.

San has been my favourite since I checked Ateez out, and if not for his stunning performance and killer looks I’m gonna be honest I wouldn’t have actually looked more into the group, I genuinely thank him for bringing me into the fandom and introducing me to eight very talented and interesting people. San himself is extremely good looking, very charismatic, and is obviously one of the more emotional and sensitive members of the group. It’s what makes him so endearing, the way he nudges people with his head as a sign of wanting affection, or how he’s always the first to bring comfort to other members, he’s a living human being with actual emotions and issues that people seem to look past very often.

Now what really makes me disappointed is the way some stans don’t realise how uncomfortable and insecure they can make San just by doing stuff like zooming in on body parts for thirst posts or commenting on nothing but his body whenever the slightest bit is exposed. I’ve been into them for less than a month and even I know that he gets very insecure at times, he wants people to like him for him, wants to be the best performer you could see, and it eats him up whenever he doubts himself. All selfish stans care about is their own lewd thoughts and needs that just have to be satisfied by, I don’t know, someone with a killer set of abs and a handsome face. I don’t know if you guys are slow in the fucking head, but I’ll break it down for you. If you would not like to be talked about in a purely physical and sexual context, the idol would not like to be talked about in a physical and sexual context either.

And since you know me I’m a writer on Tumblr I’ve obviously tried looking for fanfiction and what do you know it’s pages amongst pages of pure filthy smut. Now I’m not saying you can’t write that, erotica is a means of expressing art in the form of writing and that is valid, but coming from someone who doesn’t enjoy erotica who has skimmed through some of these posts I just gotta say it has made me very uncomfortable, but that’s a very personal issue, I’m just putting that out there to prove how he’s constantly being sexualised by people, well meaning or not.

I’m someone who goes through waves of very bad insecurity and sadness and to have to watch someone I admire put up with shit like this with the addition of people actively making it worse and him very obviously feeling upset and uncomfortable about it pains me to an extent. Yes, fireworks promotion had him looking very very good in revealing clothing, but do you not see how uneasy he is constantly trying to hide his abdomen, or holding things against his torso? Please stop doing this to him. He’s so much more than just the guy who dances like a demon or the guy who wore a backless shirt to MAMA or the hot dude doing body waves in a crop top or yada yada yada. He’s Choi San, someone who’s worked very hard and gone through a lot to get to where he is both in the idol scene and in the mental scene. Hell I’d go as far as to say that he probably still struggles with his own mental health regarding body image and self worth, and obnoxious fucking fans are not helping at all.

And if I see any comments that go along the lines of “but he’s so hot in the crop top I have to zoom it🥺🥺🥺” or “he’s wearing barely nothing on top he was asking for it” I hate you just keep that in mind. I don’t want to hear you say you’re a fan of Ateez, because you obviously aren’t. Get off my page, unfollow me, I don’t care. I don’t want you here.

Ok n e ways stream deja vu and eternal sunshine

[veryvincible]

Ive seen a few blogs talking about Tony Stark with OCD and I was wondering what your thoughts on it were? I know it's not canon but would it be an okay headcanon?

Oh, goodness. This is a doozy.

First of all, I do want to give the obligatory "any headcanon is okay" when it comes to stuff like this, because some people do pick up comfort characters that aren't exactly like them and then use headcanons to push their characterization around until they become a more efficient catharsis vessel, and there's really nothing wrong with that in a space where characters are pushed around all the time anyway. Your headcanons are yours, and you interact with media how it best suits you. Just don't go talking like this is The Way The Character Absolutely Definitely Is, because not only is that misleading, but also it's kind of stepping on other people who need different headcanons for other reasons.

Now that that's out of the way.

You've come to the right place! I have actually been diagnosed with OCD and have been dealing with it now for a long, long while; funnily enough, the OCD is what led me to worry about the OCD, which is what led me to research the OCD in-depth for many, many years. Not to brag or anything. B) Like, literally not to brag, because it's a mental illness. Anyway, jokes aside.

I'm going to go by the DSM-5 and personal experience with the diagnostic process for now. I know some people have their gripes with the DSM, but it's what we're going with.

Before that, though, I do want to lay some things down here. Though it's not outlined by the DSM exactly, it's common among mental health professionals and people with OCD to categorize different symptoms based on causes of OCD. Because OCD is inherently ego-dystonic, your intrusive thoughts are going to attack whatever it is you care about most-- people with primarily contaminant symptoms might fear illness, people with primarily aggressive symptoms might fear hurting others, etc. There's no standard for what these categories are, really. Different places teach different things, and some people disregard them entirely. But it's good to know they're out there, some examples being contaminant and aggressive OCD as mentioned before, as well as pathologic doubt/completeness, religion, self-control, and superstition. There are more, less, or different categories depending on where you look, so we can just leave that there.

Now, onto the actual diagnostic criteria.

In order to be diagnosed with OCD, you need the presence of obsessions OR compulsions, OR both. So, you kind of don't need the whole set to have OCD, though it's argued that some people view "primarily obsessive" and "primarily compulsive" types of OCD as... plain old OCD. "Pure O OCD" especially has been criticized, as its based entirely on the concept of compulsions being in one's head as opposed to external, which then raises the question of whether or not we're defining mental illness by the sufferers or the observers. Regardless, this is what the current DSM says: obsessions, compulsions, or both.

They must be time-consuming (>1hr/day), cause clinically significant distress, or cause impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning. So, could you be considered OCD if you're perfectly functional to the outside world but dysfunctional psychologically? Yes! Could you be considered OCD if you're mostly okay with the compulsions (often seen in people who believe their compulsions are rational responses to rational fears), but you can't function in day-to-day life? Yes! OCD is defined by how it affects you, and there are so, so many ways that it can do that.

The symptoms of OCD can't be caused by physiological effects of substance abuse or other medical conditions.

The disturbance cannot be better explained by the symptoms of another disorder (i.e. if excessive worries are better explained by an anxiety disorder, you're more likely to be diagnosed with something along the lines of GAD; if your difficulty discarding possessions is more in line with a hoarding disorders, you're more likely to be diagnosed with a hoarding disorder). One thing I would like to mention here is that this is often where the DSM breaks down when it comes to practice rather than theory. I'd like to specifically outline the example under this segment of the DSM that refers to "guilty ruminations, as in major depressive disorder". By these guidelines, would you be able to have both MDD and OCD if your OCD has mostly intrusive symptoms?

Well, yes, actually. There's a lot of discourse surrounding it, but here's the thing. Diagnosis is something meant to put you into a category so you can either seek treatment or get accommodations. For mental illnesses, physical illnesses... anything. This is it. I myself have both MDD and OCD, and part of why this is, is because there's an overlap between symptoms... but that's all it is. An overlap, borderlining comorbidity. And there are plenty of people who have similar diagnoses.

You'll see why I'm bringing this up in a second.

Let's go back to the diagnostic criteria and take it one-by-one.

Obsessions are defined by (1) and (2):

Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize hem with some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a compulsion).

Does Tony experience obsessions? Well, he very well could.

There used to be a criterion in the now-outdated DSM-IV that outlined obsessions could NOT be "simply excessive worries about real-life problems." But in the DSM-5, this was dropped. So, an obsession, by current standards, most certainly can be defined as an excessive worry about real-life problems.

Whether or not Tony's worry is excessive is debatable. We're all aware of Clint's sentiment in New Avengers that basically boils the team's state of being down to "we're extraordinary people, so we have extraordinary problems." Tony's worries are extraordinary, but... are they excessive?

I could go either way on this argument. Due to Tony's massive influence and his feelings of responsibility, we can all see why these worries might be considered realistic and average. But it's those feelings of responsibility that would make a better argument for "excessiveness"; he has taken the stance quite a few times that he's been "the only one who could see what needed to be done", or something akin to that, at least. It's not just that he has serious problems and he's concerned about serious solutions. It's that he feels such a sense of responsibility and guilt that every single problem on the planet happens to be a problem he's obligated to consider by his own standards, and if he doesn't consider those problems, he's an awful garbage man. Again, by his own standards.

One could also easily argue that he could fall prey to both aggressive-type obsessions and pathologic doubt-type obsessions, given that he's terrified of hurting people or causing harm unknowingly and that he's never 100% sure of himself, always "almost certain", and often looking to others (like Happy in Civil War, for example) to vent and try to half-validate himself as someone who really is doing the right thing.

These very obviously cause him distress, and one could argue that his Atlas-like anxiety with regards to keeping the world afloat is a huge factor in his mental cycle of thinking he's not doing enough, which means he's not enough, which means he deserves to die, which means he actually should die if he's not doing anything right, which means he has to try really, really hard to do things right, but he'll never do everything he needs to do, so he's not doing enough, so he's not enough, so he deserves to die.

And the alcoholism could easily come into play here, being a default coping mechanism for almost anything he'd encountered, obsessive or otherwise.

Now for compulsions.

Compulsions are defined by (1) and (2):

Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive.

So, we're going back to the obsessions outlined earlier. One thing I neglected to mention there was what he's referred to as one of his biggest fears, and I neglected to mention it because of how it ties into potential compulsions.

He's mentioned that someone "taking over his brain" is possibly the worst thing that could happen to him, given that he is a man with incredible influence and incredible intelligence and if his mind falls into the wrong hands, it could have (and has had) disastrous consequences. We see a lot of Tony trying to protect his mind as a result, always having backups, always having alternatives, always having contingency plans. This could also be considered a response to an obsession with regards to “mental contamination”, which makes sense.

It's similar with the responsibility-induced anxiety; he made how many AIs, now? He quite literally can't let himself die. He needs to be up, awake, present, alive. He needs to continue doing The Right Thing. We see the same sorts of behaviors even when he's alive and kicking-- he's often in his lab into the late hours of the night. He canonically works multiple jobs at his company. He runs around holding babies around the world, for God's sake. He believes everything deserves to be cared for, loved, and he believes he has to be the one to love it, and so he does, taking up so much of his time and so much of his energy every single day in a desperate attempt to make sure he's done all he can.

This is a man whose every day life could be considered scheduled compulsions if you really wanted it to be, one after the other, in a never-ending cycle of behaviors that he canonically won't ever be satisfied with.

Tony certainly could have obsessions. He certainly could have compulsions. He certainly could have OCD.

It's worth it to mention that self-blame, even for the smallest little details, is extremely common in people with OCD, and... That's also a very Tony thing, isn't it?

All that to say...

Do I think he does?

Well, not... really. I mean, I don't very, very strongly believe that he doesn't. And a lot of neurodivergent people have created incredibly thorough explanations as to why a character not intended to be one way might still be that way-- not even as a headcanon, but quite literally, they just are that way. This is especially common among characters coded (intentionally or otherwise) to have things like autism and ADHD. Whether or not a character "has" something is difficult to decipher, but if you can outline all the symptoms and you can't come up with any other explanation for them, then, well... You've got a neurodivergent character on your hands.

But that's the thing. You certainly can explain Tony's feelings and decisions with a diagnosis of MDD and alcohol abuse. You can. Plenty of people don't really want to, especially with some more toxic beliefs in the mental health community that regard less stigmatized illnesses as somehow also less severe or less validating, and regards MDD as "just depression" in a way that more stigmatized illnesses aren't. 

I don't feel terribly represented in Tony as someone with OCD-- I feel represented with almost every aspect of his struggles with mental health, but I rarely ever read through comics going, "there! There's my OCD thing!" Which isn't to say that it's never happened on a subconscious level, because... I mean, illness bleeds into every aspect of you. It's terribly difficult to find where one part of you ends and the other begins when there's so much overlap. But personally, Tony having OCD isn’t something that I really consider when I read or write (which is part of why I like having Ty Stone around so much-- I can pin a bunch of shit on him that I think Tony doesn’t have, and then I get to write everything I want while still keeping things true to the way I see them).

There are other sufferers of OCD who must certainly relate to Tony, and probably exclusively go "There's my OCD thing!" while reading his comics. I can see why.

So, again.

Do I think he has OCD? Eh. Not really my thing. But I think canon does what canon does, mental illnesses have plenty of overlap, and he meets the criteria enough that if you were to say he had both MDD and OCD, I wouldn't feel any reason to argue, especially if you’re saying it to better relate to him.

[ticktickblog]

Stop Being the Last-Minute Person

Everything You Need to Know about Procrastination

Understanding procrastination

Usually, we think of procrastination as a bad habit, but this might not be the case. Research by Burka and Yuen, authors of Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now, have found that procrastination is not a bad habit, but a psychological syndrome caused by one’s fear. In other words, procrastination is not purely a problem of time management. Instead, it concerns people's inner fears, expectations, doubts and pressures. 

There might be some people, like myself before, who’d always leave their tasks to the very last minute before the deadlines and look forward to a suddenly-bursted extraordinary performance, or a very best luck ever. Some even say the closer the DDLs are, the more productive they are.

So, is the deadline really a force to drive us forward in a positive way?

My answer is negative, although from the surface it may seem harmless to some people, and can to some extent be converted to motivator. However, deep inside, procrastination brings more harms than good for most of us.

Consequence of procrastination

1. On top of all the damages caused by procrastination: mental sufferings. Even though relaxing first brings instant joy, it’ll soon be replaced by overwhelmingly negative feelings: e.g. anxiety thinking, nagging pain, a guilt of not starting earlier, and etc. Not hard to imagine how painful it is to be trapped into this situation for a long period of time.

2. From the view regarding one’s physical health, there’s also detrimental consequence. Chasing DDLs usually means overworking at a late point. For example, burning the night oil in a row. If this continues as a habit, it will threaten one’s physical health as well.  

3. There might be consequences to other people as well, because people who procrastinate a lot may be bad at time management. For example, being late for a date because they’ve not started dressing up earlier, or being unable to submit a task on time because they’ve wasted a lot of time thinking. These could then make them easy to not be trusted by others, and people around them may also sometimes feel disappointed.  

Then, what at root drives us to procrastinate? What makes people consciously or unconsciously choose to procrastinate?

Reasons for procrastination

1. Excessive perfectionism

People who are perfectionists normally have very high standards to themselves and to the work they do. Therefore, they easily fall into the fear of not being able to reach these standards, or making mistakes on the way which will lead to undesirable results. By not getting started, the mistakes/failures will not happen, which means at this procrastinating point at least, they don’t have to worry too much. 

Also, many perfectionists may waste too much time thinking how to do instead of actually doing. They choose to wait till a perfect plan is ready. However, in fact there is neither a flawless plan nor a perfect outcome. Plus, it’s extremely hard for excessive perfectionists to be fully satisfied with what they’ve achieved no matter how good it is. 

2. The rewards are too far away. 

Studies have shown that the farther the due date is, the less binding force it may execute on us, and the easier it is for us to feel unmotivated to start. Compared to gaining rewards from a not-so-recent future, instant gratification is obviously much easier. 

This might be the very reason why many people choose to enjoy first and do later. For example, if the deadline for an assignment is 2 weeks from now, then spending 2 days watching a new series on Netflix doesn’t seem like a big deal. 

3. Fear of difficulty

Reason for this fear is we know the goal is too big and require hard work. Sometimes when we are given a big task, e.g. dissertation, we might be very likely to feel overwhelmed, not knowing where to start or how. The motivation then downgrades to 0. Similarly, when a monthly personal KPI has been given, even just thinking of it brings a lot of headache already, let alone start doing. 

4. Lack of awareness and skills of time management

Sad but true, I know:(  

For these ones, getting so used to an unstructured work/study style makes it even harder not to procrastinate. Never thinking of organizing or not knowing how, is a big hindrance to their productivity. But, it’s totally fine if you just enjoy the flow and do not worry about getting things done. However, for these who crave progression and success, then tackling procrastination and learning how to manage your time and organize things well is extremely important. Let TickTick help with that 🙌

5. Dislike of taking orders

As some of you might feel relatable, deadlines and dues are set usually by other people, either our professors or team leaders, to the tasks assigned. For those who have strong self-awareness and do not want to be tasked by others, they consciously or subconsciously resort to procrastination as a way to resist the order. Meanwhile, they try to declare some autonomy and freedom by refusing to do things at this moment and ignoring them till later.

Ways to fight against procrastination

The most painful part of procrastination is not working on the task, it is starting the work. Therefore, to beat procrastination, is actually to find out ways to get us started. 

Where to start

1. Set a realistic goal and fairly evaluate your ability

Make sure your goal is inspiring but also attainable, based on the evaluation of your ability now and its potential to grow, plus the time and effort needed in achieving your goal. 

For example, if I have three free weekends this month, then I probably establish a goal: finishing reading a book this month. Many procrastinators are too optimistic about their ability in the future and underestimate the time needed to complete the task. When deadlines approach, it’s just frightening and frustrating. 

2. Divide the goal into more achievable ones

If the goal seems too big to reach, then cut it into smaller pieces to reduce the fear of a sudden commitment. 

Going back to that book-reading example, to finish reading a book in a month, I may divide the task into reading ¼  every week, and then 10 pages each for working days and 20 pages each for unscheduled weekends. Compared to 1 book, 10 pages just sounds like a breeze. 

3. Trim the unnecessary and only keep the priorities

According to Pareto Principle, 20% of the things in life can determine 80% of the results. Therefore, when facing multiple tasks, sort them out based on urgency, importance, necessity and other indicators. Next, take the lead in dealing with high-priority things. This method can effectively help us abandon those low-value and insignificant activities, and rationally allocate limited time and energy for the maximum return.

4. Start from a small task 

Some may argue that starting from a hard task is better for time management. However, for a lagging person like myself before, starting is the most difficult part as I said. Therefore, an easy task can first “allure” me to start, and when finishing this, the rest of my day is then kept in a feeling-productive momentum.

Long-run strategies

1. Increase incentive mechanism 

The best way to do that is to bond the completion of a certain task with an instant reward. For example, if I finish writing my blog draft today, I’d be rewarded with 30 mins to play with my dog. If reading through all literature within scheduled time when writing a dissertation, I’ll treat myself with a big meal or an outing day. In this way, before each task starts, motivation will replace stress to activate your enthusiasm.

P.s. Please remember, what the reward for is always your hard work and progress, not the results.

2. Reduce the task aversion from a mental side: 

Go deeper into the given task and find/develop some parts you feel passionate about from it. If you’ve found out the joy of doing things, then a task will not be a task anymore, but a daily trivial, something like teeth-brushing. Those who work out consistently no matter how busy he/she is, are actually regarding working-out as a daily activity. This sounds a little bit like self-brainwashing, but believe me, it brings positive results in the long run.

Other possible solutions

1. Make use of visual tools 

Write the daily tasks down for enhanced execution force: Some research has found out that writing down your to-do tasks makes it easier for you to really complete it.

Check it done for enhanced encouragement: When I see the visual hints, e.g. a visual tick, like the logo of TickTick, that tells me I’ve achieved something, it is like an energy transferred into my body. Not only visually, it’s a mental encouragement I’ve got from the process.  

2. Create a co-supervising system

By inviting a friend/colleague to co-supervise each other, it may help you two to both keep on the right track. Also, in this co-supervision scheme, competitive people will hate to lose. By losing here actually means your friend finished her task while you didn’t. A positive competition vibe is formed here to probably give you a little gentle push.

Final words

Like what Mark Twain said,“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”. Although it’s not easy to completely beat procrastination, it’s still good to be less-procrastinated. Now is always better than later, stop being the last-minute person and get started now!

[anononiagent]

@gammadile Alright, gotta respond to you here, buddy. Glad somebody other than just the people who already agree with me read the post, and I’m not just shouting into an echo chamber (you other pro-gun guys go ahead and reblog it, but it’s the anti-gun people who obviously need to see it).

First off, it seems you completely misunderstood the first point. Firstly, you’re still set in the idea that a gun or even an AR-15 specifically is meant for the sole purpose of killing people. This is false. Aside from self-defense against humans, guns can be used by civilians for the purposes of self-defense against dangerous wildlife, for hunting, for competition, and for just shooting off at a range because that’s fun to do. And an AR-15 works for all of those. It just has certain “tactical”-style features that appeal to a certain consumer base. Some people like those features, some people don’t.

In a pure functional sense, an AR-15 fires no faster than any other semi-auto gun, be it a rifle, pistol, or what have you. Any semi-automatic weapon will fire as fast as the shooter is physically able to disengage and reengage the trigger. Where the hell the media has been getting that the AR-15 somehow fires faster than other semi-auto weapons, I have no fucking idea, but unless a gun has an absurdly long cyclic rate a semi-automatic weapon for the most part is going to fire as fast as the operator can hope to shoot it. Of course, clean, crisp, good quality triggers will generally improve a shooter’s ability to disengage and reengage a trigger mechanism more quickly, but it’s not like AR-15s or other “assault weapons” inherently have better triggers than other guns. There are plenty of AR-15s out there with awful triggers and plenty of non-assault style weapons with excellent triggers.

As for “slower, weaker, manual guns” being adequate for self defense, this honestly makes my head hurt. On the barest, most technical of levels, you are not wrong, but this is also technically not related to the discussion at hand. First, let’s address “weaker”. I specifically state in my post that stopping power is tied primarily to the cartridge, not the gun. I also stated that the most common cartridge used in AR-15s and other assault weapons is 5.56x45mm NATO, which is by no means unique to that platform. And neither are any of the other cartridges used by assault weapons: not .300 Blackout, not 6.8mm Remington SPC, certainly not .308 Winchester, the list goes on. And there are also a whole laundry list of weapons which do not meet the qualifications for an assault weapon at all which are chambered for absurdly powerful and/or long range cartridges, like .338 Lapua Magnum or 6.5mm Creedmore. So, that point is completely unrelated since the power of the weapon has nothing to do with being an “assault weapon”.

As for “slower, manual guns”, I assume you mean non-self-loading weapons like bolt-actions, lever-actions, and pump-actions. Firstly I would like to kindly inform you that it is no longer the late 19th century, but more importantly I’d like to note that there are plenty of non-assault weapons which are semi-automatic. So, this makes that point irrelevant as you don’t need an assault weapon in order to have a semi-automatic weapon.

But as for what you meant, which is that you don’t need a bunch of tactical features to defend yourself, again, this is technically true. But why would you not want those features in a situation like that, when every last fraction of a second can mean the difference between life and death for not just you, but potentially everyone around you? Every moment longer you take to draw your weapon and get a bead on your target is another moment that your target has to potentially shoot or otherwise inflict harm upon you or another innocent person nearby. That is why military and police weapons use these features, because these tiny, tiny split seconds are critical, and drawing every last bit of performance out of the operator of the firearm is what they’re meant to do. You don’t need them to perform well, but they do make you perform better, and arguably this matters quite a bit more when you are trying to save lives than when you are just trying to indiscriminately take them.

Moving onto your response to my second point, it is yet again true that if guns are restricted, while not all criminals will stop having access to guns, less will. However, there is a significant price that is paid for this. If there is a shooting, people are now much less effectively able to defend themselves in that critical time between when the attacker opens fire and when first responders arrive. In the US, more criminals have guns, but you can also choose to have a gun too and not rely upon other people for your own safety. In most of Europe, there may be less criminals with guns, but you’re leaving a lot more up to chance.

As for the children’s lives being worth more gun control, this is gonna sound awful at face value, but I’m gonna have to say no. Sure, you turn on the news and it may look like the country is on fire and people are running around shooting up everything, but they’re intentionally presenting you with a skewed perception of reality because that’s either what gets the ratings up, it’s part of the narrative they’re trying to push, or some combination of the two. When you actually look at cold, hard statistics, the world isn’t as shitty of a place as people seem to want to think that it is. They also show that there are a lot of things harming children a whole lot more than guns that we aren’t doing a whole lot about. Shit like childhood obesity, shitty mental health awareness and poor access to mental health treatment (remember from my main post that in 2013 the number of suicides by firearm was roughly double the number of homicides by firearm), drug abuse, which after all these years of hamfistedly trying to combat is, surprise surprise, still a massive problem; the list goes on and on. We as a nation have a lot of bigger shit to fix for the sake of protecting our kids before anyone has any real right to go around telling responsible gun owners to give up their rights for the sake of the children if you ask me.

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Day 6: A Bittersweet End ⚗️🍫💃🏼

I’m unaware of whether or not the others in the group felt like this, but I knew that as soon as we woke up in the first hotel for the second time, we were basically at the end of our trip. It truly was a bittersweet morning, which as you will come to find out, is appropriate regarding the things we did that day. But not to get ahead of myself, I think it is important at this point to stop and talk about how I really was feeling.

Note: if you don’t want to read a purely emotion-driven section of the blog, and just want to get to the next thing we did, skip ahead until you see the next note.

I should start off by saying that I’m going to be completely honest here. But it is also important to know that just because I’m going to say what I’m about to say, doesn’t mean that I HATED this trip, or anything of the sort, really. This is just truly how I was feeling at this point in time.

I was ready to go home.

This could have been for a number of reasons, and none of them involved hating anything we did or any part of the culture. I think it was just the combination of the following things: 

Exhaustion

Homesickness for...

A bed I knew

Food I knew I liked (and that wouldn’t make my stomach do flips)

Wanting to see my friends

Having the ability to talk to family more

I’m sure there are more reasons that what I just told you, but those are the ones that come to mind at this point in time. Now these are truly the only parts of the trip that caused me any kind of unhappiness. I didn’t mind the early mornings, I didn’t mind eating granola bars or anything of the sort for a meal, and each activity we did was immensely enjoyable. It was just that I am not someone who travels, especially that far away from home. I have been outside of the country before, but not for nearly as long as this trip was, and never without my family (they wouldn’t have been much help, they don’t know any Spanish). It was just an overwhelming experience overall. I mean, it was shocking to learn that they don’t flush toilet paper. Yeah, read into that if you’re curious, I’ll spare you the details right now.

But I woke up, and I felt like I was physically and mentally ready to go home. I was extremely sad when we left, but it was time for me. It had been a lot of commotion all at once, and it just took a toll on me.

Here’s the part I want to address that’s a little bit more gossipy than opinion. Every single other person that went on the trip gave me some kind of nasty look when I expressed that out loud. Everyone acted like they had some kind of complex where they were offended that I said I was ready to go because “this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and how could you want to leave a beautiful place like this and how did you not enjoy everything?” and yadda yadda yadda.

Look and listen.

I NEVER said that the country wasn’t beautiful.

I NEVER said that I didn’t enjoy something we did.

I will NEVER take for granted that I had the opportunity to go to this place.

But, here’s the truth of the matter. Every single one of those people were lying. At least to some degree. As most of you who will read this know, we are currently dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, and I sit writing this at home instead of up in my dorm room where I feel I should be. I bring this up because whether people are willing to admit it or not, getting to see your family and stay at home more is both a blessing and a curse. Obviously, I wish I had a sense of routine, but this is the best it’s going to be at the moment. But there’s a bigger point here I want to mention.

Had our group gone to Peru not even two weeks later than we did, we would have be stuck there. Peru closed its borders not long after we landed in the United States. We could still be there had we not gone when we did.

And everyone in the group said something along the lines of “well, there are worse places to get stuck!” or “I wouldn’t mind spending another week here!”

Yes you would have.

I don’t doubt that you loved the trip and would have loved to spend time there, but eventually you would have wanted to go home. See your family. Get back to normalcy. Most of them probably wanted to go home the same day I did, and just did not want to admit it.

So my bottom line in this (really long, sorry about that) rant is this; IT IS OKAY TO WANT TO GO HOME TOWARD THE END OF A VACATION OR SCHOOL TRIP. There is no shame in it. We get burned out experiencing an entirely new way of life, that’s just part of being human, should we choose to exercise the adventurous sides of ourselves. And this doesn’t mean you didn’t enjoy yourself, or aren’t looking forward to what is still to come.

Trust me - you are not alone in this feeling.

Note: skippers, you can continue reading below.

Our day began with a relatively longer hike up to a section of Cusco that we had not been to prior. We made our way up to a shaman who was going to teach us about how the Inka people practiced medicine. This included learning about and participating in rituals that used various plants that held specific energies and powers for healing purposes. The overall benefit of these practices are the strength, health, and abundance that is required in order to live in harmony with others, as well as with the universe.

As sad as I am to admit it, I was so engrossed in what the shaman was teaching and showing us that I did not take any notes during the process. However, there are a few things that I remember doing that I will detail below.

One practice was using an herb rubbed all over the body and in the hair to help people who are feeling ill in some way (one girl in our group happened to be having some kind of stomach issue that morning, so she volunteered to be a part of it). 

Then we did one involving an egg, and I actually participated in that. Basically, you lay down on the ground, and the shaman rubs an egg all over your body while you lay in different positions, and then once they finish, you walk out of the room and the shaman cracks the egg. The person who participates is not allowed to see the egg in any capacity, so I to this day don’t know what my egg looked like when it was cracked. However, our shaman, who knows no English whatsoever, knew that I fell three times on one hike. No one told her that. And she got that all from an egg.

Needless to say, she rubbed a different herb over me to help me get rid of the negative energy I was holding on to from that day, and I actually felt lighter afterwards. Like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. And I was extremely grateful for that.

It is also important to point out that shaman has a negative connotation for people who are highly religious. This was not some kind of voodoo practice. This is a type of medicine that uses herbs that do not get ingested into the body, a way of not using manufactured medicine. So, even if you are someone highly religious, don’t feel like this is something you cannot participate in.

Once we left the shaman, we had a few hours to ourselves to find some lunch and do any more shopping we felt like doing before our next event. I honestly don’t remember what I did with the group I was with, but I do remember having some kind of street food for lunch that was essentially rolled up bread with a sweet filling, and piping hot. I for the life of me cannot remember what it is called, but it was very filling. And yummy.

The next thing we did was also very yummy, and that was a visit to the Choco Museo, or chocolate museum. Here, we got to participate in a chocolate making lesson, and even make our own chocolate! The lesson consisted of demonstrations on how to peel and roast cacao beans, and how the bean gets transformed and used in different ratios for different kinds of chocolate. Then, we got to choose whether we wanted to make our own chocolate with dark, milk, or white chocolate, we got to choose our molds, and even what we put in the chocolate. It is important to know, though, if you ever see Peruvian chocolate in a store or visit Peru, know that their chocolate is not like ours. Our dark chocolate is their milk chocolate, and our milk chocolate is too sweet for them. If you see a Peruvian chocolate bar that is more than maybe 60% dark, be warned that it will have hardly any sweetness to it.

It was enjoyable to see everyone’s faces when they bit into the samples and the bitterness hit their tastebuds.

Click here to be taken to the Mini Chocolate Workshop page of the Cusco ChocoMuseo that we participated in.

Now, the workshop isn’t all that long, but we spent a decent amount of time there, and afterwards, we had a little bit of time to go back to the hotel and get “gussied up,” or at least the best we could do. Our evening consisted of two events that were very nice ways to round out our trip. The first was a performance at the local center for folkloric art, and then we got to have a late evening dinner at an extremely nice restaurant.

Let’s start with the performance.

The Center for Folkloric Art is a big, beautiful building toward the center of Cusco that is the home of traditional dance and history lessons about the people who lived in Cusco many, many years ago. The performance lasts about an hour, and consists of nearly ten (10) or so performances, all with different costumes that were traditional, colorful, and stunning to look at. All the words sung during the dances were done in Quechua, and they told different stories about parts of Inka life.

Finally, after these wonderful performances, it was time for us to (finally; it was nearly 8:00pm when we finished up there) eat dinner, and we had reserved a spot at this extremely high end restaurant called the Tunupa Restaurant. This place was absolutely stunning, and extremely high end. We got there and we were given individually bottled waters in glass containers, as well as pisco sour, the local popular cocktail. Then we got to have buffet-style food, and it was absolutely delicious. I don’t remember everything that was there (because there was SO MUCH food), but I can at least show you my particular plate.

We also got to listen to beautiful live music (I, again, cannot get the video to upload in a proper format), and just bask in the beautiful restaurant for our last night.

It was quite an emotional evening, because after we all ate and got to sit down and think about everything that went on throughout the week, people began to realize that we were heading home the next day.

We got to listen to our guide a little bit more, and he told us that we will not get to see it, but our presence in Cusco will have helped tremendously, and he thanked us for being such a fun group (we have kept in touch with him - he’s doing great, it’s just that there is no tourism now so the money is tight).

After dinner, we made our way back to the hotel, my roommate and I packed up most of our belongings, and we prepared for one last trek and then twenty-four (24) more hours of flights.

We would be home in less than two (2) days.

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Olivia Puckett as Zoe Murphy

Here, I’m gonna analyze and describe Olivia Puckett’s performance as Zoe Murphy, and the ways in which it differed from Laura Dreyfuss’s. Enjoy!

First of all, Olivia Puckett is a blessing to us all. I love her so much (have you seen her Instagram stories?!) you all have no idea. She was so sweet, so good.

I’ll start from the beginning. Instantly, right as she entered during “Anybody Have a Map” her differences with Laura Dreyfuss were evident. She slouched in her chair, her foot giggling under the table. Also, with Connor, her dialogue was lighter, in a way. She delivered the “He’s definitely high” line almost jokingly, like she was just this younger sister poking fun at her brother. It wasn’t disapproving and harsh the way Laura’s delivery felt.

Even while they were exchanging “Fuck you��s!” they seemed more like siblings messing around than two extremely damaged teenagers taking out their anger on each other. It honestly felt like a normal sibling relationship. She wasn’t even yelling, and neither was Mike Faist. It wasn’t mean or anything. It was. Good.

Even when she marched off the stage, proclaiming that she’d leave without Connor if he doesn’t spead up, I felt as though she wouldn’t leave without him. Like that was yet another joke. No big deal. Like she’d wait in the driveway for him to come, and maybe give him a bit of a hard time about it all later, but that they’d laugh about it next week or something.

Then, she met Evan. She rushed over to him in the middle of WTAW, and he instantly recoiled, his shoulders turning inwards, his eyes on the ground, his hands twitching. She seemed genuinely concerned. Her voice was low, and she seemed to purposefully stay away from him, almost fearful of scaring him, while simultaneously wanting to be closer.

When she called Connor “a psychopath,” it sounded like she was angry with Connor for pushing Evan, who obviously didn’t deserve anything, but wasn’t disgusted or hateful. She didn’t sound like she hated Connor. Or even really disliked him. Just has a stereotypical teenage sibling relationship that’s a bit edgy.

When she walked away-- “Okay...Jose…” --she turned around and looked back at Evan before leaving, almost fondly. It almost gave me the impression that this crush was requited, and perhaps had been for some time. That Evan’s love for Zoe wasn’t one-sided, that Zoe didn’t grow into liking Evan throughout the musical, but actually, in fact, liked him before it even began.

She entered, again, before “For Forever” and I could see a physical change that occurred in her during the 10 minutes or so she was off-stage. I could almost see her lose Connor, in that entrance. As she noticed Evan’s presence, she didn’t ask “Why is he here” like “Why is this weird kid in our house” but more like “Why is Evan, who I talked to in the hallway a few days ago, here?”

Throughout the dinner before “For Forever,” she did this leg jiggle again. Which was. So fascinating. She had these particular ticks, ones which almost mirrored Evan’s. They seemed like two pieces of the same pie, in their own peculiar way. Simply, if Olivia Puckett announces one day that Zoe Murphy has a minor anxiety disorder, I would believe her in a heartbeat.

When she retorted about good times with Connor, saying that “There were no good times!” she didn’t sound like a possibly abused sibling. She sounded almost angry with herself, as though she was wondering why she didn’t notice something was wrong with Connor, as though she wished she’d tried harder. She didn’t sound like someone who was wronged and was furious, she sounded like someone who was remembering her entire childhood and trying to pinpoint where everything went wrong.

Laura’s Zoe seemed like a young person who suddenly lost control over seemingly everything in her life, someone who was almost drowning. Olivia’s Zoe seemed like a young person who had just temporarily misplaced control, someone who was floating just above the water’s surface.

During “Requiem,” Olivia cried, actually cried, which is something Laura definitely did not do. 

The whole “You were not the monster that I knew” thing was much less believable. But the “You’ve given me my brother back. Thank you.” thing at the end of “You Will Be Found” was so. much. more. believable.

I really felt for Olivia’s Zoe. “Requiem” was when I started crying fully during this performance, rather than during “You Will Be Found” (which normally what gets me). I felt her loss so deeply and profoundly, like she was taking the whole audience on this journey with her.

She truly seemed to mourn Connor, to have loved her brother. She seemed so devastated during “If I Could Tell Her” that she never got to tell Connor what she thought. 

It was just a different kind of loss.

As well, her relationship with Evan was so vastly different. She seemed to be more interested in him specifically and less interested in his connection with her brother. At the end of “You Will Be Found” when she kissed Evan the second time, she kept a hand on his when he pulled away. When he kissed her back, she wrapped her arms around him and like hug-kissed him. In the boot, with Laura Dreyfuss, Evan leaned Zoe into her back on the bed. 

The opposite happened here, with Zoe really taking control of their kissing, pushing Evan into the bed.

Also, during “Only Us” she put a hand on either side of Evan’s face and held him so softly when she sang “We can’t compete with all that” rather than motioning with one hand (see: Laura and Ben’s performance of “Only Us” on Seth Meyers). There was a part where she sat on Evan’s bed and Evan kneeled before her, and she held both of his hands between hers.

They held hands whenever they were together after that, honestly. During “Only Us,” Zoe normally kisses Evan once, at the very end of the song. Here, Olivia kissed Ben three (3) times. Twice while singing and once at the end of the song.

I cannot over-exaggerate the softness in her eyes when she looked at him. In all honestly, y’all, I felt myself really loving their relationship, which isn’t something I did beforehand. 

With Laura’s Zoe, I never would recommend Zoe and Evan being together for their own health. With Olivia’s Zoe, if they had met under different circumstances, if Evan hadn’t lied, I firmly believe that they could’ve had a healthy and happy relationship.

And the kegger skit!!! OMG!! She did the same dorky voice that Evan did with “til your mom gets home” when she said “in three hours!!” and they laughed. They laughed a lot.

It was so interesting to see almost Ben’s reactions as an actor to what Olivia was giving him. This was only the second time they’d ever done the show together in those characters, and it must’ve been so unusual to what he had been doing for the past hundred or so performances.

Zoe was so sweet? And? So strong? And never once mean to Evan? With Olivia, the whole “you don’t have to keep saying sorry….I was a little impressed, you ruined it” thing wasn’t as weird? It didn’t feel uncomfortable. It felt like: Zoe liked soft Evan, who apologizes all the time, she just wanted him to be comfortable enough around her to not feel like he had to apologize, rather than wanting him to change.

She felt like a young girl, who had suffered an immense loss, who was coping as best as she possibly could. She wasn’t some semi-popular girl who Evan liked purely because he thought she was hot (neither, of course, is Laura’s Zoe, or any form of Zoe, in fact). She was a multi-dimensional person who existed in her own right outside of anyone else. There was no room to see her as anyone else.

When she found out about Evan’s lie, it was almost more devastating. 

I would have believed her if she had said she loved Evan. 

Laura’s Zoe was angry and possibly depressed. She was desperate to grab a hold onto anything in her life, her life which was quickly spiraling out of control before her eyes. There, Evan seemed like the perfect person to grab onto, someone that was malleable and almost willing to be controlled.

Olivia’s Zoe felt in-control, like she knew what she was doing and knew where she would be in ten years, she just wasn’t there quite yet.

She obviously loved Connor and was mourning his death, but there didn’t seem to be as much guilt involved.

In her final scene, where she met Evan at the orchard, she, like Evan, seemed to have also gone through a metamorphosis. She seemed to have grown so much, and she held her head higher, too, just like Evan. To me, Zoe is a lead character, sharing the female lead title with Heidi Hansen, rather than a supporting character.

I love Laura Dreyfuss with my entire heart and soul, and her Zoe was a very particular character as well. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact differences between her Zoe and Olivia’s Zoe, because they are both truly incredible. Both woman are powerhouses of whom I will forever be in awe. Both portrayals make Zoe a fascinating, dynamic, complex, female character, one that is much, much more than a love interest or plot point. She, in some aspects, feels like the beating heart of the show. It’s hard to put my connection with her into words.

Again, like I said with Michael Lee Brown’s Jared vs. Will Roland’s Jared, neither performance was better. Both are heart-wrenching and powerful and conveyed a message to the audience, reached out and grabbed our hearts in their hands. Both are incredible. Just very, very different.

Essentially, Olivia Puckett’s performance was incredible. Unbelievable actually. Any desire to not want to see the understudies is pointless and wrong, let me tell you. This entire cast and entire crew are the most talented people I’ve ever seen.

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Harry Styles Vocal Health on SNL

Hello!  So first and foremost I wan to put out there how much I love Harry and his voice.  Dear god it’s SO COOL and unique.  I love how when he’s in good vocal health he has all these different textures to it- the gruffness of his chest voice, the purity of his falsetto, the power of his belt.  When the studio version of SOTT came out I couldn’t sing his praises enough.  His voice sounded SO HEALTHY.  He was making such good choices!!!  Everything was relaxed and well supported.  He let the song build naturally.  He MUST have gotten some solid vocal training over his break because that isn’t something that can just happen over night.  I was very impressed and very proud.  I was also a bit nervous to see if these changes would hold when he started performing live....and.....it looks like I had good reason to be nervous.  

Here’s the thing. There are a few reasons I’m so hard on Harry in particular when it comes to poor technique. First, compared to the other guys, his technique is the only one that’s actually physically DAMAGING.  Could the other guys benefit from proper training?  Sure.  Of course.  Every singer can.  Even those who have been singing for years still should train on a regular basis.  But the other boys’ bad habits are just that- bad habits.  They aren’t going to do long term damage, not the way Harry’s are.    The second reason is BECAUSE I know he can do (AND HAS DONE!!!!!) so much better!!   I know he’s CAPABLE of so much more and so yeah, I’m hard on him because of that. And finally, I know exactly what he’s doing physically and exactly what’s going through his mind because I have the same exact bad habits and I can see him using the same exact thought process as to why he slips into these again.

Harry is the Ultimate Performer. He wants nothing more than to put on a good show for everyone, even if that means sacrificing his own vocal health.  Now, that’s isn’t a HUGE problem...until it KEEPS happening.  Which is what happened with OTRA.  And possibly might be happening now, although that remains to be seen.  One performance of one song slips into an entire show of this slips into two shows of this slips into the entire tour and wham, you’ve got nodes.  I think the biggest problem with Harry’s performance last night is he doesn’t trust the material or HIMSELF to sell it the way it is.  He feels he needs to overcompensate and big Big and Bold right from the start and that song is not built to be sung that way.  He started at a level that he couldn’t sustain throughout the entire thing and had nowhere to go.  That’s when he ran into trouble.  

As soon as he opened his mouth, I knew it wasn’t going to go well.  Don’t get me wrong, he sounds fantastic in the beginning...but like I said, there was nothing for him to build upon because he already started it at too high a height. His voice sounded raspy to me too, raspier than usual.  That can be caused by a few things- he could have been dehydrated (you can’t sing right if you don’t pee white!), he could have been tired (we know he’s a morning person and that show is pretty late for him), he could have strained his voice at the concert the night before, he could have over rehearsed, he could have smoked a bit.  I don’t know what the cause was, but he didn’t start off the evening in the best vocal health, especially for a song that’s very difficult to sing.  I also think he KNEW that so again, he tried to overcompensate for that by pushing.  

There is so much tension throughout his whole body, particular his shoulders on up.  I’m sure a lot of that is due to nerves.  I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again: the SNL stage is one of the hardest venues for artists to play.  There’s something particularly rough about it.  He’s also always had problems tensing up his face when he sings, but it what was particularly striking to me was that he did it during the falsetto parts.  That should have been EASY for him to sing.  That’s something light and relaxed.  Almost a break from the tension of the rest of the song...and yet he looks like he was in pain.  Which makes me wonder if he WAS in pain.  it’s hard to tell, but it almost seems like the second time he does it he pushes it more to a mix than a pure falsetto. 

It’s notable to me how relaxed the second syllable of  “bullets” around 2:44-2:48 is compared to the rest.  THAT is what the whole thing should have sounded like.  it’s relaxed and he’s got a great vibratto on it that comes straight from the diaphragm there- compare that to how tight “bullets” are the second time he sings it in that phrase at 2:58ish-3:04.  Why did you change what you were doing, sir??? In fact, to me it seemed like he KNEW it sounded good the first time and did his cute li’l dance and then came back to it feeling like “yeah I got this...” and then tightened right back up again.  because he didn’t trust himself.  

Thennnnnn the bridge happens.  And this is what i mean by he had nowhere to go.  THIS should have been his first belt it out moment.  but he pushed too hard too quickly and his voice just...wasn’t there.  It was tired.  The first scoop up to the first “we” was off key because of it and I think he knew it which made it even worse and MORE tense to the point where he just didn’t have the vocal agility to flip into his fasletto again for “learn”.  And then we’ve got the “it’s just what we know” which was just a poor choice.  I have a feeling he nailed that MULTIPLE times in rehearsals and mannnnn if he was in good vocal health how killer would that have sounded!??!!?  But instead, we got what’s called harmonic distortion which is SUPER VERY YIKESY AND A BIG SIGN OF HOLYSHITYOU’REDOINGDAMAGE (i sincerely hope he has an appointment with an ENT this week and gets scoped to check that out).   This was another instance of him trying to put on a great show and overcompensate for what he probably felt was lackluster vocals (which for the record WERE NOT THAT BAD.  I’m picking it apart because...well, it’s what I do.  and i don’t think I would have had too much of a problem if it weren’t for the super damaging choices he ended up making).  

From there he’s thinking “Oh shit that was bad...I REALLY fucked up...better step up my game and make the end better!” and once again tries to overcompensate and push a voice that’s already been pushed to the brink.  there just wasn’t more in there for it to give.  He couldn’t sustain it.  He had already given everything that there was go to give.  

When it comes to ESNY, it was a much better performance.  I think it’s partially due to the fact that it’s an easier song to sing and partially due to the fact that he was playing guitar so he wasn’t as much in his head (Side note: CAN YOU BELIEVE HE FINALLY BLESSED US WITH HIS GUITAR SKILLS?????).  His belty part towards the end wasn’t as good as it could have been, but I think that’s just due to the fact that his voice was kinda shot and that’s the best it was going to be.  It wasn’t TERRIBLE and obviously it could have been better, but I am curious to hear the studio version to see if there’s more belting that he just wasn’t comfortable with last night.  I could have done without the facial affectations because it just adds more tension and tension is bad, kiddos  But I think it’s a stylistic choice and I’m trying to pick my battles here.  Additionally, as we’ve seen in gif form his li’l neck vein was popping out so yeah he was tensing up pretty good there...but again, it wasn’t as terrible as it could have been since the song itself isn’t as taxing vocally.  

All in all, the performances were great, especially if you’re not as picky as I am. I know this was his first time singing live in well over a year and SNL is high stress and it’s his first time out there ALONE.  I’m curious to see what happens on Graham Norton and if he improves his technique. I’m also really curious to see how he’ll be on tour as well. I do wonder if he’ll lower the key of SOTT so it’s not as taxing.  No one would really notice and it would make things a little easier on him. It’s just frustrating because I know he has it in him to do it well.  We’ve HEARD him do it well.  But he just doesn’t trust himself enough to do that and that kind of breaks my heart a little.  Thankfully, he’s young and has time to learn.  He can still break these habits and make new, healthier ones and learn to trust himself more.

BUDDY.  YOU GOT THIS.  YOU HAVE AN AMAZING VOICE.  YOU ARE A FANTASTIC SONGWRITER.  YOU HAVE GREAT TECHNIQUE WHEN YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO IT.  YOU ARE A KILLER SHOWMAN WITH A TON OF CHARISMA.  PLEASE TRUST THESE THINGS AND STOP PUSHING YOURSELF BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU DAMAGE ANYTHING.  

Love,

B <3 

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The World of Grimoires Part III: Grimoire Styles

I’ve talked about choosing your supplies and the physical (or not so physical!) book itself. Now, let’s discuss some of the options you’ve got for structuring, organizing, and keeping your grimoire updated. I’ve experimented with most, but not all, of these styles over the years, and I’ve talked to witches who made each of them work. They all do work, but each requires a different sort of person. Which one is right for you? Only you can answer that! Even if none of these styles sound useful to you, you can always create a new and different way of doing things uniquely tailored to you!

Daily Journal

A daily journal is, of course, just that - a journal that you write in roughly once a day or so. Lots of people keep journals for all kinds of reasons, but here, I’m referring to keeping one centered around your magical practice. Each night, you might reflect on the experiences of the day and write your thoughts, as well as recording any magical work you might have done, spells, rituals, as well as anything important you’ve learned.

Such an exercise of unwinding one’s mental spirals at the end of each day onto paper can be extremely cathartic, and the task of writing daily entries can become a grounding and centering ritual in and of itself. I’ve known witches who kept daily journals and integrated their writing time into other witchcraft-related activities such as ritual bathing and meditation.

This style of grimoire is ideal for those of us who like to have tangible records of our self-development, as well as of our maturation processes and general thoughts. This can be both a blessing and a curse, though - if you keep such a grimoire, be prepared to look back on some of your writing years later and cringe at what you didn’t understand or thought you knew.

Another issue arises simply from the level of discipline and regularity required to keep up with daily journaling activities. If your schedule is very erratic, it may be difficult to find time to write, and also an easily forgotten task. Even for those with a more predictable lifestyle, it does require some discipline and motivation to maintain. I personally don’t consider a daily journal to be incredibly difficult (at least, not compared to some of the other grimoire styles I’ll discuss). 

Still, I can think of many situations in which it would quickly become quite a problem to keep journaling. Health issues like depression or arthritis might make writing daily almost impossible for some people. The bottom line is that everyone is different, and if this style isn’t working for you, or doesn’t feel right, examine why. If it’s purely a lack of discipline, goal-setting can help, but for those of us with health issues or other concerns interfering, this style might not be the best approach.

When I was in my first semester of college, I began my first attempt at a true daily journal of my witchcraft practices. I’ll admit that with class and work, I didn’t always write every single day, but I gave it my best. I would sit and think for a bit, then write down my reflections for the day as a retrospective in the evenings, or whenever I was preparing for bed. It really didn’t differ much from the journals non-witches might keep, except that the subject matter was always at least tangentially related to the Craft and my experience of it.

Not all of my grimoires have survived over the years, but the one mentioned above, did. Looking back at it now, it contains precious little by way of practical information (such as correspondences, etc); the bulk of it describes my journey into college from a magical perspective. The picture below is one of the few entries I made in it that I’m comfortable sharing here - much of what I wrote was intensely personal. 

It was related to magick and witchcraft and certainly aided my development, but was still more to do with me myself than with any studying of magick I’d been doing at the time. I’ve learned a lot rereading what I wrote during this period, and while I left off keeping a daily journal-style grimoire during my second year of college, I’m still glad I kept one at that particular stage in my life.

Magical Diaries

The term “magical diary” was popularized by Aleister Crowley. As part of his work in founding the magical order known as A.’.A.’., he urged his students to keep a regular record of all rituals and magical exercises performed. He even provided examples of the exact format he himself found most advantageous, and you can see such an example in his short text, John St.John, which I’ll quote a brief passage from below.

12.0. Have finished bath and massage, during which I continued steadily but quite gently, “not by a strain laborious and hurtful but with stability void of movement,” willing the Presence of Adonai.

12.5. I ordered a dozen oysters and a beefsteak, and now (12.10) find myself wishing for an apple chewed and swallowed by deglutition, as the Hatha Yogis do.

The distaste for food has already begun.

12.12. Impressions already failing to connect.

I was getting into Asana and thinking “I record this fact,” when I saw a jockey being weighed. {12}

12.12. I thought of recording my own weight which I had not taken.

Good!

12.13. Pranayama [10 seconds to breath in, 20 seconds to

12.24. breathe out, 30 seconds to hold in the breath.] Fairly good; made me sweat again thoroughly. Stopped not from fatigue but from lunch.

[Odd memoranda during lunch.

Insist on pupils writing down their whole day; the play as well as the work. “By this means they will become ashamed, and prate no longer of 'beasts.'”]

I am now well away on the ascetic current, devising all sorts of privations and thoroughly enjoying the idea.

12.55. Having finished a most enjoyable lunch, will drink coffee and smoke, and try and get a little sleep. Thus to break up sleep into two shifts.

2.18. A nice sleep. Woke refreshed.

John St. John is chiefly the diary of a ceremonial magician and student of Thelema, and thus a lot of the words and practices mentioned within it might be unfamiliar to the modern non-ceremonial witch. I quote it, though, to emphasize the level of detail. 

Notice how the author (Crowley himself, in one of his many ritual guises) has recorded almost every activity he performs during this period of time, from eating and smoking to ritual activities. This may seem excessive to a lot of us (it certainly did to me, at first), but even today, many ritual magicians, especially Thelemic aspirants to the A.’.A.’., keep such detailed diaries.

This type of diary is well-suited to practitioners of all sorts (including witches) who both have the fastidious nature to record all this and a reason to do it, such as undergoing a so-called “magical retirement:” spending a few days or weeks free from most obligations and focusing on magick. I realize that for the everyday practitioner, this level of detail may seem nigh impossible, but I myself thought so, too, prior to actually beginning such a record in December 2013.

It was difficult at first, but gradually became second nature. I recorded it all in a binder full of paper, arranged chronologically with tabs for each month, and noted all details of my mental state and activities. Had things not gone bad with my teacher at the time, I probably would have given the magical diary over to him to review, as is traditional and expected in these situations. As I said, though, things went badly between us, and some other people involved, so I ended up not doing that. Thankfully, too - that diary had a lot of private information in it, and who knows what could’ve been done with it!

Keeping this kind of journal is not for everyone, obviously. If you decide to give it a go, more power to you, but I strongly suggest only showing it to those you trust. In a situation where you’re officially studying under someone and they request to see it, you should already be in a position where you trust them. If not, I would recommend working with someone else or going it alone.

Oddly enough, while this format is traditional for Thelemites and other magical practitioners, I also find this method incredibly helpful if you’re going through any sort of mental distress or coping with mental illness. I realize many mental illnesses make keeping a detailed diary difficult, but if you can manage it, just charting your moods with that level of intensity can be very useful, even if you only do it for a week or so. I know that when I was doing it, I noticed patterns that helped me develop coping strategies better, and it made me more aware of how deeply affected I am by sleep interruptions and other similar issues.

Commonplace Books

A “commonplace” book is sort of like a written scrapbook, where the writer records snippets of things they’ve read, thoughts, and general observations in a very loose format. Wikipedia has a good article on the phenomenon, and notes that they were common in Early Modern Europe among the philosophically- minded as a way of compiling information and thoughts in both long and short forms. 

Nowadays, the format is as popular as ever, though not everyone has heard the term. Many seem to erroneously think, as well, that commonplace books only contain quotations, when in reality they can include your personal musings, outlines for writing, or really anything else you want. There’s no real system to it, either - it can be as freeform, or structured, as you want.

This has been one of my favorite methods for recording information for many years. I began my first commonplace book as a young teenager, just prior to becoming involved in magick. My AP English teacher at the time introduced me to the concept, and I’d read about it, oddly enough, in a Lemony Snicket book, as well. If you’ve read A Series of Unfortunate Events, you’ll know that several characters keep them. 

My early commonplace books were almost entirely focused on philosophy, particularly Rationalism and Empiricism, which was my favorite subject at the time. I don’t know why, but the English teacher I mentioned was fairly obsessed with philosophy and had us reading Voltaire instead of Moby Dick or whatever else normally would have been on the slate. As I got more serious about my Tarot studies, and began to delve into magick, notes on that naturally flowed into my commonplace book, and gradually took over until I had a sort of commonplace book of shadows on my hands.

I currently keep a commonplace book in an orange Moleskine journal, and it’s mostly where I go to outline articles I’m writing for my blog, and sections for my book. In fact, as I type this, I’m looking over at the page where I’ve an outline for this very article. Other pages include notes from my reading of Donald Tyson’s books, and notes on the Thelemic Holy Books. I date every entry into this book, small and at the top of the page, so that I’ll know exactly when I was working on a particular outline, article, or reading a certain book. I find this extremely useful as a writer, and I can’t recommend this format more if you’re interested in writing anything.

As to Craft, though (because this article is about grimoires, remember?) if you choose to use a commonplace book as a grimoire, it’s useful to not only include dates in the notebook, but also title each section with a few words on it’s focus. You might write, “1/12/17 Notes on Soul Flight” at the top of the page, just to give you an idea of where you are each day. I also have taken to leaving pages blank at the beginning of the notebook and filling in each section or topic in a table of contents, as well. I really wish I had done this with my older commonplace books, as it can be difficult to find what I’m looking for in those these days.

Spellbooks

Some witches just keep a notebook, either alone or in tandem with another for records, for spells and magical information. By this, I mean that these books dispense with anything resembling a diary format and are instead just organized around topics. A typical spellbook-style grimoire might include a section for prosperity, one for love, one on astroloy, and so on and so forth. These are incredibly hard to organize unless you’re using a binder system where pages are removable, because it’s hard to set up sections and you never know just how big one section will become.

The summer before I went away to college, I set up just such a grimoire, using pages I’d typed and printed, organized, and threw into a three-ring binder. I included some spells and rituals I’d found online, as well as a section devoted to pertinent excerpts from occult texts I found meaningful. It was relatively impersonal, which is probably why I ultimately ended up giving it to a friend. Still, for the period of time when I kept it, I found it rather useful and easy to update, organize, etc. I couldn’t imagine having done it in a traditional notebook, and highly recommend a binder format if you decide to go in this direction.

Nowadays, I do have a small-ish notebook where I exclusively record spells. As you can see below, I illustrate it as lavishly as I personally can, but I only include spells here, not correspondences or other magical information. I have a separate, similar book which details magical information and spells exclusively related to hedgecraft, and I call this, lovingly, my Book of Thorns. Both are useful, but I couldn’t imagine them in the same notebook, so maybe for spellbooks, it’s best to separate them by topic, or use the aforementioned binder technique.

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I continued with the versions that worked and started getting coverage in influential coffee blogs, which boosted sales and brought new followers on social media.Who is your target demographic?Our customers are looking for an easier coffee experience and realizing that coffee doesn’t have to be complicated to make in order to taste great. Coffee should be easily available wherever they are, be it at home, in the office, or on a camping trip. We want to make coffee easy to purchase and make, without sacrificing the quality and taste. As a direct to consumer brand, we see how more people are going online to look for coffee products that fit these criteria. Our target demographic is naturally people that fall into this category.People that are buying Waka Coffee are also more conscious about health and wellness, and they are changing their diets accordingly. Coffee already has many antioxidants, but we also see how some customers are also using coffee as the base for other functional drinks. For example, people now mix MCT oil, collagen, vitamins, and even CBD into their coffee. Instant coffee is a great option if you like to mix different ingredients together, as they all simply dissolve in water and can be consumed on the go.While we understand where the question is coming from, we are still surprised by how many people ask us whether “instant coffee is real coffee?” Which the answer is obviously yes! Instant coffee is made from brewed coffee that was converted into powdered coffee by extracting the liquid of the coffee bean. This can be done in two ways: spray drying or freeze drying. The instant coffee granules are easily dissolved when mixed with water to create a great cup of coffee, instantly. Contradictory to some myths, instant coffee is made of pure coffee beans. Our instant coffee, for example, is made from 100% Arabica beans and freeze dried to preserve the original aroma and flavors of the beans, which makes it taste better than the traditional brands you are familiar with.What have you learned since creating the business?Being an entrepreneur is never easy. It was especially difficult because I did not have prior experience in the coffee industry. I had to navigate health permits, suppliers, packaging, and many more issues that I was encountering for the first time. In addition, like I mentioned instant coffee is often perceived as a low-quality product, which requires a lot of consumer education as well.As with regular coffee, the taste all depends on the beans’ quality and type. But because of this perception, we constantly have to explain to prospective customers why our instant coffee is different and why instant coffee can actually taste good! Fortunately, nowadays we have many professional reviewers and customers that love and support our brand.To overcome these challenges I use my marketing skills. I have a degree in Digital Marketing and worked in the marketing industry, which helped me understand the fundamentals of creating engaging content, acquiring customers, performing analytics, developing paid and owned marketing strategies. I also see social media marketing from both perspectives — as a brand and as an “influencer” that promote other brands’ products. While most of our traffic comes from organic SEO efforts, we also acquire many customers from social media, specifically Instagram. It requires a lot of work and persistence. I also have a personal Instagram account dedicated to food and lifestyle content, which I use to promote both Waka Coffee and other brands. We create new content almost everyday on our socials. In addition, we invest heavily on our robust Coffee Life blog and weekly coffee newsletter.My main advice to new entrepreneurs is to save more money. Most businesses require a good cash flow and intensive marketing spend. You need a lot of money to grow your company, develop new products, advertise, distribute, etc. We are trying to bootstrap as much as possible and minimize our expenses while maintaining our growth. Not an easy task, especially being fully self funded.How do you protect yourself from competition?Waka Coffee was created to change the perception of instant coffee and bring it back to its glory days. Yes, once upon a time it was popular in the US as well. We do this by offering a quality and easy to make coffee experience. Our instant coffee is made from 100% Arabica beans, which are the same coffee beans used to make your delicious latte at the coffee shop. The Arabica advantage gives our instant coffee a richer, more complex flavor. It is also processed differently. Traditional brands opt for a mass spray drying process that sacrifices taste for speed and cost. Our instant coffee is made using a freeze-drying method that preserves the coffee’s authentic aroma and depth of flavor.We don’t focus as much about the competition, but how we execute on our goals instead. Even if there are similar products out there, there are no similar companies out there. We believe that the assortment of our products, our vision, mission, customer focused approach and social goal is what makes us unique. We invest a lot in our brand and as another way to protect it, we have our brand name and slogan trademarked in addition to owning many high valuable domain names.What apps help you run your business efficiently?As a digital native brand, we of course need to have a good ecommerce platform. Like many other online brands, we chose to have our website on Shopify and very satisfied with this decision. With Shopify, we can easily manage various aspects of our business and integrate other platforms and services to it, which saves us valuable time. We also love reading feedback from our website and Amazon customers and use YotPo and Feedback Genius to collect these valuable reviews. These tools are very easy to launch and manage, so I highly recommend using them if you are just starting out.What are your goals for the future?Our goal is to expand our line of products and be the “go to” brand for quality instant coffee and tea. We are very particular about the quality of products we are choosing to sell, their packaging, and also always donating a portion of our profits to clean water initiatives, which makes us very different than the traditional brands out there.We are now working on introducing new coffee products, opening new online sales channels, investing more in our business wholesale accounts (quality instant coffee for your business program), and providing the best customer support for our valuable customers and subscribers. We hope to introduce at least one more type of instant coffee this year (single origin, Arabica, freeze dried), launch flavored instant coffee and additional instant tea options next year.I see the company focusing on online sales in the near future and once we have enough data and the financial means to support it, start exploring other physical sales outlets. Waka isn’t a fit for any retailer and we will be very cautious about our offline strategy when the time comes. If you ask me about the possibility of Waka being acquired in the future, I think it is highly likely if we continue in the same growth pace we have demonstrated in the past. The sales of traditional instant coffee brands are declining, while the category overall is increasing year over year. They will have to think of potential acquisitions to protect their place in the category. In addition, the fact that most of our sales are done online gives us so much insight into our customer base and allows us more easily introduce new products to fit their needs.If you enjoyed this interview, the original is here.