#half of tumblr already know all of this

[distracteddaintydemon]

So. Let's say you have a problem, because you're repeatedly going to bed at 4 a.m. and you would rather go to bed at midnight, and you have no idea what to do about it because it's slipping on its own…. And you are by some miracle completely new to the subject and have not yet tested a million good tips on sleep hygiene and are looking for good advice to get started…

Then listen, I had and have a very similar problem and the answer is:

THERE IS NO ONE ANSWER, because the diurnal rhythm is made up of a mess of elements, and it's impossible to tell blindly which IN YOU are the main ones responsible for the shifting diurnal cycle.

Maybe it's about increased eveningness (i.e., you function best in the evening and it's a shame to go to bed when things are finally going well for you). Or it's about revenge bedtime procrastination (there's not enough time for everything during the day, so you try to catch up a little more and snatch some time for yourself before you "close the day" by going to bed). Then there are no simple solutions, you have to try to reorganize your day so that "your part of the day" starts earlier.

Maybe it's a matter of the actually-awake-moment slipping away, which entails delaying the rest of the day? Then you need to work on the quality of sleep. If you're continuously sleep-deprived, your body WILL fight for the extra sleep. Maybe you'll win but it'll be a pyrrhic victory. It's worth starting with such trivia as hydration, vitamin D supplementation, airing your room, finding the optimal temperature for sleeping. (If someone tells you that the ideal temperature for sleeping is 18°C and that's it, don't believe them, they're talking shit. People are different and there is no rule, for some everything above 19°C is heat, others below 22°C need socks and a bathrobe to sleep).

Maybe your diurnal rhythm is light-dependent? If you notice that you find it much easier to get up in the morning in summer than in winter, invest in a light alarm clock aka dawn simulator. WORTH EVERY MONEY YOU HAVE (as long as you're light-dependent, of course). I got one for Christmas and it took me 2 weeks to fall in love: getting up happens on its own and painlessly, it's easier to get through dark days, easier to fall asleep with the sunset simulator, basically a miracle machine.

Maybe you have trouble to fully wake up after getting up? Like "no matter what time I get up, I wake up at 11"? Then you can do lots of things to get well into the morning. Set the radio to turn on automatically in the morning, or turn on a puzzle game (the best ones are those with short levels, clear level endings and an expressive victory screen like fanfare confetti fireworks - this is legitimate and serious advice from a psychiatrist, tested on me). You can also make coffee in the evening for the next morning and put it next to your bed along with a candy bar (a small serving of quick calories -> increased activity right after waking up -> you are awake and highly active early in the morning -> your body registers that the activity period has already started and you go with the schedule).

Maybe you're having trouble getting yourself together for bed because your evening routine has too many elements? Simplify it. Don't make your bed in the morning, keep your evening and morning medications permanently by your bed, change into your pajamas right after dinner and put on your favorite robe or tracksuit and hangout like this all evening. Anything that ensures the decision "I already want to go to bed, I'll go to sleep" will require 0 mana points to implement. Going to bed is supposed to be a cantrip, never a spell. If the problem is getting away from the computer desk and into bed - then drown the advice about the "no-electronic bedroom". The moment you feel Quite Strongly Sleepy, already lying in bed with your laptop, all you need to do is close the laptop flap, put it on the floor next to the bed and rest your head against the pillow. If you feel Quite Strongly Sleepy while sitting at a desk in another room, you have to close the computer, rouse yourself a bit, get up, change rooms, change clothes, lie down and feel sleepy again, which can take any length of time. For some, that's a difference of more than 1.5 hours of sleep per night. That's a VERY large amount.

Maybe you're having trouble falling asleep because your day is insufficiently stimulating? And the "tired, I've been doing a lot and there's been a lot going on" clock shows that you still have plenty of activities to fit in, when the "fatigue, I've been up a long time" clock says it's time? If so, ask yourself when was the last time you felt a pleasant, healthy tiredness. Maybe you should start playing Pokemon Go and doing a 15-minute walk around town in the afternoon? Maybe you don't have enough contact with people and it's a good idea to call a friend every 2-3 days and chat for half an hour about things? Maybe you're doing the same thing over and over again at work with no sense of purpose and need something tangible and purposeful, like knitting a few rows or playing the guitar for ten minutes?

Maybe the delayed falling asleep is related to some health problem that "hides" under the stimuli of the day and comes out in all its glory when you lie down in a dark and quiet bedroom and try to relax and fall asleep? It could be anxiety and fear (been there), it could be allergic itching (also been there), it could be chronic pain (also been there). The immediate solution is to provide stimuli to drown things out - when I was in pain, I slept with the lights on and podcasts playing. The long-term solution is to agree with your doctor on evening medication - appropriate to your problem.

Or maybe you just don't have a sense of time and you're always surprised by how much time has passed since you last looked at the clock? In that case, consider a clock with a chime. Or a smartphone app of "hourly chime" type. It will be easier for you to mentally prepare how much time you have left for the various things you planned to do during the day if the chime clock reduces your time-judgment error to 1 hour.

TLDR: there is no single solution, because the diurnal cycle consists of many elements, track down the elements that in your case are the most important.

If you have no idea where to start, then start with hydration (make sure you drink a minimum of a liter of fluids a day and that you don't ignore thirst / dry mouth / strange taste in the mouth), and then embrace the light alarm clock.

[tuinendraws]

Nobody tell him.

[2sw]

hey guys. I don't mind people reposting my gifs on other sites to express their own love for sam, I love to see it actually, but please do not use mine for archive/gif accounts. thanks xx

[girlcockholmes]

THIS IS SO EVIL. if its from the same user then spam reblogs are something unique to this site and can be used for fun or to get a point across. but even worse is if that it targets the same post from different blogs. i follow the blogs i follow for a reason. i LIKE to see their posts. even if ive already seen it from someone else. because they could have something new to say. or i know who likes what. literally dont do this its the worst decision

[ladamania]

Prince Zuko - Buttons [x]

[ggreeeenheart]

Of all the things to give me a scare on Halloween, I really didn't expect My Boss to be one of them 😫😫😫

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

more goofy camping pics to come but for now enjoy my sheer glee at finding this huge chunk of CoW (chicken of the woods aka sulphur shelf) 🧡✨

[camgoloud]

look it’s not really that i wish i was in a relationship because the last couple of years which i have spent firmly and resolutely single after finally getting over the All That which went down between me and the last person i had any serious romantic interest in have been without question the happiest years of my life. and it’s also not really that i wish all of my friends WEREN’T in relationships because i want them to be happy et cetera et cetera. but this whole thing where both situations are happening at the same time (i.e. me: single; literally every one of them: not) does have me feeling a little. weird i guess.

[cavity-collector]

i genuinely need to be put down like a dog i cant do this anymore man holy shit

[shannonsketches]

Terrible news gang after the passing of Toriyama sensei my DBZ brainrot is back

[fandommusings]

I met 5 out of the 6 students on my Kindergarten self contained autistic support class and I gotta say I think I legitimately have been blessed with the best, sweetest, and MOSE ENTHUSIASTIC class ever!

[gauntletqueen]

I know not what sins I have committed to deserve such punishment, but my peace has been taken from me, for I am tormented by an endless cacophony of voices telling me the fun fact that Bocchie's VA did that screech unedited

[kyouka-supremacy]

Uhm..................

[magentagalaxies]

hi @liliana-von-k, thanks for the follow! i have answered this question before but i love talking about kids in the hall and my "origin story" with them so i'm happy to tell it again (jsyk it will be a long post bc i always have to tell the full story bc i love it so much)

basically my parents have both been kith fans since the 90s, so even before i had seen any of the show itself there were certain kith quotes that were just part of my family's vocabulary. the first sketch i watched was "these are the daves i know" when i was like 8 years old and i became obsessed with that song. i watched a few other sketches/the first few episodes from season one but i didn't truly get into kith until after their documentary "comedy punks" was released

see, my mom is a big documentary person so she was like "oh hey there's a new kids in the hall documentary! do you want to watch it?" and i just kind of shrugged and was like sure i'll be in the room while it's on, probably working on my own stuff or scrolling on my phone. but like not even five minutes in i was hooked. while i'd always enjoyed kids in the hall's comedy, something about hearing the very personal histories of how the troupe came together and survived for all these years was so affecting. i think it was scott specifically that really signaled to me that this show was something special, and the part where bruce talked about comforting scott while he had cancer by telling him how the rest of the troupe would die first was so powerful. honestly no individual movie has changed my life more than comedy punks did specifically bc it gave me that push to get into kith and approached it from such a human perspective, which definitely informed my approach to the rest of their work and them as people. i remember watching comedy punks for the first time and getting this strange feeling i couldn't pin down yet that was like this is important, not just referring to the show or the troupe, but like this feeling that i had just crossed a turning point in my life, and i remember feeling this pull towards toronto which seemed frivolous at the time but has been so heavily solidified as i'm now planning to move there in just over a year.

so i bingewatched all of the kids in the hall tv show in summer 2022, as well as brain candy, death comes to town, the amazon season, etc. basically as much kith stuff as i could find. but i needed more. so i started getting into side projects, which brought me to "mouth congress" (a queer-punk band scott thompson and paul bellini had in the early 80s that they've recently started putting out new music with again). i found a youtube channel with a bunch of recent live performance clips of the band and each video had like less than 10 views. so since i didn't have anyone to infodump about kith with irl (aside from my very patient mother lol) i started commenting on every video, complimenting the performances and pretending i was talking to a friend, confident no one would actually see it

after 2 weeks of this, turns out someone did see it. PAUL BELLINI HIMSELF. this led to a whole back-and-forth which eventually ended up with him emailing me a copy of the unreleased mouth congress documentary, i emailed back asking if he'd be interested in meeting on zoom (since i am a queer comedy writer myself so both he and scott are my biggest comedy inspirations), and yeah bellini is a delightful person to talk to and we very quickly became friends. i ended up offering to run mouth congress's social media, which can be found on both tumblr and instagram as @mouthcongress and posts both vintage videos from the 80s/90s and recent live clips. they're currently working on an album of entirely new material written in the past 2 years which is going to be released soon (we don't have a specific release date but the recording is completed and they've started filming music videos for it!! but i'm getting ahead of myself lmao)

a few months pass and mouth congress is set to perform at a new year's eve show at a local club in toronto. i'd never been to toronto before, never even left the united states, but paul says it would be so great to have me there and by some miracle my parents say yes to making the trip (they still can't believe this is happening either, since they were kith fans first!). the trip is wonderful, i immediately fall in love with the city, i get lunch with paul irl for the first time and get to have my very first face-to-face conversation with my number one comedy inspiration scott thompson. it's honestly a little awkward but in an adorable funny way. i also have my first legal drink at that show (bc canadian drinking age is lower than the us), specifically saying i want to have my first drink with buddy cole, which both scott and paul are very into

it's actually only a couple weeks until i'm in toronto again, because scott is debuting a new buddy cole show consisting of monologues that were all censored by amazon that he pitched during the revival season. this is my first time traveling a long distance without my family which my mom is anxious about so paul bellini lets me have him as my emergency contact. the show is amazing, i get to stay for the afterparty, and while i'm there i casually mention that i'm surprised no one has made a buddy cole documentary yet. like, this character has such a rich history even beyond the kids in the hall (which i can infodump about all day lmao) and is such an important staple of queer comedy that doesn't get the attention he deserves. the kith documentary is great, but where's my buddy cole documentary? paul accepts my pitch (that i didn't even realize i was pitching), passes along the idea to scott, and yeah now i'm legit directing a film with my number one comedy heroes and i haven't even graduated college yet. what the fuck. i expected this to be the type of thing i accomplish over 20 years into my career, not at twenty!! so yeah that's how the buddy cole documentary started. i'm still in preproduction on it but we're launching an indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for it in the next 2 weeks bc this has evolved into a full feature-length film with some incredible celebrity interviewees, both kith and otherwise.

anyway a few months later it's announced bruce mcculloch is bringing his one-man-show to the city i go to school in. not only that, but his theater is literally 2 blocks from campus. i ask paul if he'd give me bruce's contact so i can set up an interview for my school's newspaper, paul gives me bruce's assistant's email, and i set up a 30-minute zoom two weeks before bruce will be in town. the conversation honestly goes bizarrely well. like it's honestly surreal how close bruce and i got after only knowing each other for a half hour? he's such an easy person to talk to and literally by the end of that conversation he was already calling himself my mentor, asking about my comedy, and offering to let me meet him backstage after his show. which is exactly what i did, launching yet another incredible friendship-slash-mentorship with one of the kids in the hall.

bruce eventually signed on to executive produce the buddy cole documentary (alongside paul bellini), i've been up to toronto in january, april, june, august, and october this year (so essentially every 2 months, though it was slightly offset by going twice in january) and i'm planning on going up in december, every time not only do i find time to meet up with scott, paul, and bruce but they all deliberately try to reserve as much "jess time" as they can because i have a unique and powerful friendship with each of them, every time i finish a new creative project paul has to see it bc he loves how ambitious i am, i repeatedly wake up to texts scott sends me at 3am about the documentary and how excited he is to have me on tour with him to film it next year, bruce thinks it's hilarious he used to think i was "shy" bc i've gotten so comfortable going on infodumps and tangents about things i'm passionate about, and the three of them all feel like extended family. best of all, i actually have plans to graduate from college a semester early so that i can use the money (and time) i've saved to find a place in toronto and start making even more connections with the comedy community up there (also for the record: no i have not met mark, kevin, or dave yet. i know kevin is aware of my existence from bruce giving me a shoutout at a show they both did but that's about it. but i know i will interview all of them for my documentary)

so anyway that's how i got into kids in the hall. i know only the first 2 paragraphs answer your question, but at this point my love for this show has become so so intertwined with my relationships to bruce and scott and paul as humans that i don't really consider getting into kids in the hall and getting to know the kids in the hall as separate things in my life.

(also if you have any follow-up questions on anything mentioned feel free to reply or dm me, this goes for everyone else too!)

[cuteniaarts]

@katkastrofa: *writes a single throwaway line in one chapter of Lost and Found that is never referenced again*

Me, completely randomly and with no prompting: Alright, bet–

[chiimeramanticore]

ok im sorry i HAVE to ask what's with the armpit obsession on this site