#mind garden

[thorette]

Did I live in a haunted house

With tiles cracking like eggshells

Photos on the wall, watching me tiptoe

Up the hallway that grows longer and longer

Hoping I can get to my room before I hear screaming

Ducking to avoid the menacing blow

Promising myself that the house I build when I’m older won’t be haunted

[wanderingmindthoughts]

currently reading "building a second brain", as part of my efforts towards this blog but also in general in my life -my phd is demanding a lot of knowledge-organization skills that I don't really have. I want to use this blog as an organization tool about my thougths and beliefs, but I'm still hesitant on how personal I want to get. like, I'm okay sharing philosophical concepts and developing them, but I don't think I want to publicly think about my trauma and personal relationships. I would love to use this for my academic stuff, but I guess I can get into trouble about sharing research before it's published -so it may be prudent to use some kind of private note-taking tool for that (I'm considering logseq)

[alixdelin]

(via Gridllr)

The Mind Garden ahad @wiresandtrees

[spidertroupeart]

My boyfriend and I's stupid conversation about hot dogs ft. company

[littlebird7]

Hey! I write on AO3, come check it out!

Adrien walked into his dorm room, the room was small, but it felt cozy and warm. Two adjectives that could never have described his room in his father’s manor house. He put his suitcase down on the unclaimed bed, his room mate was gone at the moment and Adrien felt a bit of relief that he could get settled before meeting anyone. He put his bag down next to his suitcase and saw a lump that wasn’t usually there. He ran his hand through his blond hair, scratching his scalp repeatedly. Odd.

He felt inside the bag and pulled out a hexagonal box embossed with chinese-looking emblems and a crest of some kind that was foreign to him. He opened the box and a bright light came out and blinded him. He crossed his arms over his eyes and looked on in awe! Magic! Magic was real!

“Hello,” the tiny black creature zoomed out of the box and looked around Adrien’s room, it went into his suitcase and searched through all of his roommate’s things before settling on his bed, “where is the cheese?” the creature whined at him. “I NEED cheese in order to live!��� Adrien blinked, he hadn’t moved, the creature was fascinating and hadn’t exactly been easy to talk to as it had wandered through the small dorm.

“Hi, little black… ummmm, what are you?” Adrien didn’t want to be rude, he didn’t know what kind of powers a creature like this one possessed.

“I’m a kwami, you know, a magical being that can turn you into a superhero!” the Kwami puffed out his chest and smiled wide. His whiskers bounced and he looked so pleased with himself that Adrien laughed.

“Nice to meet you, Kwami, how exactly do you turn me into a superhero?” Adrien was intrigued. Why would he need to become a superhero and who had given him this kwami?

“Well, all you need to do is put the ring on and say ‘Plagg, claws out’ and you turn into a superhero!” Adrien’s eyes shone with excitement as he reached for the ring in the box now completely ignoring Plagg. The Kwami started to get a little nervous, “But there are some things I need to tell you before you…”

“Plagg, claws out!” Plagg’s words were downed out by Adrien’s demand to the kwami. A green light washed over him and he was swathed in black leather, his face had a mask and his hair was messier than usual, wait, he had something on his head. He reached up to feel and felt velvety soft cat ears. He loved the new look. He felt something on his back and grabbed it, it was a staff. There were several buttons on it, in the shape of a cat’s paw. He pressed one and the staff grew, taking up the whole room. “Crap!” Adrien said, and pressed the button again, hoping it would reverse the effects. Luckily it did. “I better try this outside!” he opened up a window and hopped outside, pressing the button again (it was a toe bean), this time the staff expanded a great deal more--launching him into the air. The whoosh of the wind in his face cooled off some of his excitement and he arrived at the top of a building.

This was the perfect place to press all the buttons on his staff. He pressed the middle toe bean button, (to the right of the button which extended the staff) and it turned his staff into a phone. A red light glowed on the screen, it was getting closer. He wondered what it was? He pressed the last toe bean buttons and a user's guide appeared. Interesting. He’d read through it later. Finally, he was ready to press the palm?, sole?, paw-bean? in the center of paw print. This one split his staff in two. Cool!

He used one half to track the red dot on his phone and the other half he extended and put between two buildings. He began to walk across it looking at his cat-phone the whole time, the red dot grew closer until it appeared right on top of him. He looked up only to be met with a red blur that zoomed right into him. He found himself tangled hopelessly in wires and his whole body was pressed against something soft. He opened his eyes and saw that he was face to face with a girl, and they were kissing! It was obviously an accident, but he backed away immediately. Both his face and the red blur’s face instantly turned beet red.

“So sorry miss, I didn’t mean to kiss you! Not that I didn’t like it, but you I didn’t mean for it to happen.”

“I’m so sorry, I just got these powers a few minutes ago and didn’t mean to crash into you!”

Neither of them heard the other, as they both spat their words out at the same time. Adrien laughed and cleared his throat.

“It’s okay, it looks like we’ve been teamed up, did you get a chinese styled box with some jewelry in it?

“Yeah, I did. Did you see who gave it to you?”

“Nope,” Adrien popped the p, he felt freer than he had in a long time. “I was hoping you had, mine just appeared in my bag.” he backed his head away as far as he could get to better look at her. “What should I call you? M’Lady?” Yes, that was so smooth! He mentally congratulated himself.

“Uhhh, good question, perhaps Ladybug?” She was looking at him a little oddly. “Smooth?” the question came out of her mouth and he looked confused. Is he flirting with me? Adrien’s eyes popped wide open. That wasn’t my thought! Now Ladybug’s mouth was open.

“Can you hear my thoughts?” he asked her, slightly awed.

“I guess I can, Mr. Smooth.” she teased him. “It appears that you can also hear mine?” His face went red as he nodded and he did his best to clear all of the thoughts from his mind. “What is your name?” His eyes are so green!

“Why yes, my eyes are green, Ladybug.” he smirked at her. She liked him! A ripple of delight coursed through him and he heard a scoff.

“I do not!” She untangled them and he got his staff back together. “What is your name? Green eyes?” She batted her lashes at him, mockingly.

“Well, ummm,” he looked himself over and remembered his cat ears on top of his head, “Chat Noir?”

“Okay, Chat Noir. Our partnership is…quite unique. We’ll have to be professional in our THOUGHTS as well as our words.” Damn,this will be hard! That thought was doubly enforced in his mind, it reverberated off all of the walls of his head like they had both said it aloud. Had they thought the same thing at the same time? “I guess so.” Ladybug said aloud. This would take some getting used to. They thought again at the same time. Ladybug laughed and so did he.

“I wonder if it’s like a distance thing? Or maybe only when we’re suited up?” Gosh I hope so. Her thoughts leaked into his brain.

“I guess only time will tell.”

There was an explosion of sound and color across the city, and they heard the screams and cries of civilians. They took one look at eachother and launched into the sky to investigate. This must be the reason we have our miraculous. Chat Noir sent out the thought to Ladybug who was further away from him than they had been before. She turned and looked at him. I guess so Chat, let’s go help, people need us! The distance didn’t seem to matter yet. I wonder if/when it will. Stop distracting me, I’m trying to understand what’s happening! Ladybug yelled into his mind. He looked at the scene they had arrived at and his jaw nearly hit the floor.

A large stone monster was wreaking havoc on the city of Paris. It was huge! It has something in its fist, look! LB was talking to him. Can you help me, you know what your powers are, right? His face blazed and he felt a wave of embarrassment roll over him. Ummm, I have a guide book, but didn’t get to read it yet. The girl looked at him and rolled her eyes. Better get started Buttercup! I’ll try to engage it, see if I can talk it down, but my Kwami said that your superpowers are important and opposite of mine. She told me I’d need your help because we’re an Alpha pair, I think she said? She gave him a pointed look as she swung her yo-yo string on the Eiffel Tower. READ! She commanded, and then she was gone.

He flipped open the cat-phone reading as quickly as he could. I’ll be there for you as soon as I can M’Lady. He felt warmth and happiness radiate from her. She’s so awesome. You better start reading! Yes M’Lady! He opened the page and speed read.

[hinamie]

playing around w slightly different hair renders

[birdy-babe]

I wonder if Verosika seemed so annoyed bc she knows he never acted like that for her. I wonder if in this moment she knew Blitz was serious. Because he never acted this way for anyone, at least before Stolas

[go-star-sailor]

waiter waiter more transfem wirt pleasee

[uraniumsuite]

MARVIN TRILOGY (I WATCHED IN TROUSERS TODAY)

individual photos under the cut + without the pop ups from me

without commentary

in trousers!!

march of the falsettos

falsettoland

[arriayuon]

oh my god help they've successfully infiltrated my brain , some doodles of dork goobers at your service

[thorette]

Becoming a parent after having a narcissistic parent #3:

Before you have kids, you’re afraid of

NOT being kind

NOT being a good parent

NOT being able to break the cycle.

However, these fears are evidence of self awareness, which leads to recognition and knowledge. With these tools, change is possible YET only if you value yourself and have the confidence that you are better than where you came from.

[wanderingmindthoughts]

Welcome to my mind garden

A mind garden is a place to plant, grow and create new ideas. A lot of people do this in one way or another -by taking notes, revising them, organising them and mixing them together in new and interesting ways. This means that this place will be inhabited first by half-formed thoughts and raw, stream-of-mind rants about topics that pique my interest; but over time I will edit, prune and link together all my little notes as they develop. Hopefully, over time they will develop into solid, interconnected theories that reflect the structure of my mind.

There will probably also be a lot of silly stuff.

There are several options for making a digital mind garden, like jekyll and TiddlyWiki (and more), but I decided to try and turn a tumblrblog into a garden. Firstly, because I already have an account, and also beause I really didn't want to fiddle with learning a new system.

So this blog's purpose is to record, archive and link together my thoughts but hey, it *is* on the internet. does that mean that it is open to being reblogged, commented? YES, it does. this is me willingly making the choice to think and learn in public. while this garden is fully submitted to my own personal goals, if I wanted no one to read along ang give me feedback, I wouldn't have posted it online (so long you do so with respect)

[lenateliier]

Maomao in various hanfu #1: Garden Party Outfit

[maureen2musings]

Inkberrow

clivenichols

[smile-files]

mommy let you use her ipad, you were barely two

and it did all the things we designed it to do

now look at you, look at you!

(objectober 2024 day 10: internet)

[vivienvalentino]

cm men + running