#symptomatic maybe but even then is this really your best example

[tyrannuspitch]

now i am not going to say that there are not conservative elements to many projects within the mcu or to The MCU as a whole. but if you are writing a post about the american cultural shift to the far right and the very first item on your list of warning signs of fascism is (a childish nickname for) the mcu, i do highly recommend touching grass.

[osakanone]

"You got married at some point" "Sure" "Do you remember it?" "Probably" "Yes, but do you? Like if I asked you when it happened, or where you were, could you tell me?" "No, but I can logically deduce that since I remember grieving over a dead husband, I did at some point get married to have a husband and that's probably the person I got married to"

It means playing detective with your own life, every day to mask it.

In my own personal experience, this is closer to how memory loss actual functions: You experience a collapse of connecting context so the emotional cue remains but the origin of the cue is obfuscated.

It goes beyond transience memory loss, which is just naturally forgetting stuff over time which tends to be temporary and becomes a real origin of cognitive impairment.

Imagine knowing you should or shouldn't do something, but having no idea why, and when you try to remember, there's just this deep feeling of dread or that a horrible thing is going to happen to you in the future.

This emotional state actually has a symptomatic name -- "sense of impending doom".

The brain works by finding contexts, and stitching them together with justifications based on your own internal states. When you reason or think, this happens in a recursive loop until you have the level of precision or fidelity or detail you need -- like a render-pass when someone is painting.

This is something everybody does and almost nobody is consciously aware of it, until you've had an experience (be it through trauma, disruption, etc) which makes you aware of the process happening - and even then, you aren't always aware of it.

When I experience memory loss at least, what happens is the gap that the justification has to string together is too big and so my confidence in the result drops. You can think of it as "not having enough slack in the rope" which limits the size of the web I'm able to form with certain experiences, memories or contexts.

This means I can't go as deeply into an experience as others may, or may entirely forget it even happened. Sure I can still hear emotionally "the sound" made on the other side but I can't go there and see what's making that noise.

Stress shortens the amount of rope I get. Prompts, reminders, and friends can help me cross gaps I can't cross alone.

But its enough to disrupt my natural functioning.

A good example is I can't contextualize how time functions properly.

Every moment in the past feels equally far away from me, whether it is from a long time ago, or a short time ago. I don't have the knot-work in my rope to string those feelings and those experiences together.

When this comes up in the context of say, social appropriateness (eg, if its ok to do something when the social statute-of-limitations has expired, or when something has taken too long to do, etc) that's an immediate fail on my part.

Everything feels like it happened 100 years ago. Everything feels like it happened yesterday.

The closest to approximating this I can get is listening to music, which can take me back to a different time and help me remember things connected to the context of the music itself.

In more abstract tasks, like remembering specific days, I either have haunting levels of unwanted clarity, or someone painfully reminds me of something really important that I have absoloutely no awareness of.

Spontaneously I'll talk about something I was involved in quite recently, or that's ongoing and people involved will look around at me like I'm a crazy person.

I then have to stop and think.

That thing happened in the early 2000's.

It made history. It changed an entire generation. It saved lives, and it disrupted a major cult. It mutated into a political organism, that in retrospect, probably ruined an entire generation of men, which wasn't our intention at all.

And I'm talking about it like its a dinky pet project website, which is at best a curiosity and a place to post silly pictures.

And now my friends who I've known for maybe five or six years are looking at me like they've just seen an actual unicorn.

And then I look around, glancing at the hallway wondering where my husband is.

And then I feel there's no ring on my finger.

I look at my right hand, the paralyzed finger.

I remember I slammed a knife into the kitchen counter out of saturation, pleading with him to stop abusing his medication.

My hand shot down the knife, but my grip didn't loosen. The inertia cut the tendon in my right hand's pinkie finger, rendering the final joint completely unusable.

Then I remember he died three months after that of an overdose.

And that, I only know about things like this because I obsessively journal, to try and make up for how at the end of my rope I am.

Pausing, looking at the text-field, I remember this probably isn't socially appropriate to share this.

I write a few more lines.

I'll say what I'm writing is just well researched fiction. That whoever's reading this doesn't need to feel bad about something which I'll insist, did not happen.

I tell myself I'll delete the post in a few days, maybe a few weeks for the sake of privacy, marking it accordingly.

And now I'll click reblog.

Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

Critical thinking is important externally but also internally, especially in terms of illness where it becomes very hard to be objective. I use this in addition to my medications and I find it very helpful for grounding myself through... let’s call it symptomatic thinking.

Example, if we’re sick or in pain, that can make it difficult to think clearly. It takes a lot of effort but critical thinking can help us maintain our relationships with our loved ones, understand our triggers, and keep us open to possible solutions that may help.

Or, when we’re depressed maybe we might think that our best friend is lying that they like us. If we use critical thinking to examine the idea our depression gave us, we can arm ourselves to battle back against that because depression is a liar (or maybe that friend is faking it - seems less likely but we’ve still armed ourselves with reaching a decision based on evidence, instead of an assumption). 

Another example could be psychosis. I have auditory and visual hallucinations combined with paranoia. Critical thinking arms me to fight back against the paranoia aspect so I have a better shot of maintaining my usual logic instead of going ‘upside down’. And it helps reassure me that the hallucinations are just that. I gather my evidence, apply it to the logic I do my best to remember, and 9 times out of 10 that really helps me crawl my way back. 

Similarly, don’t allow mental illness to convince you to distrust your best external sources of information - yourself, your loved ones, and your medical professionals. If a week ago you were secure that your best friends affection was mutual and nothing since then has changed besides how you’re feeling internally, week ago you is probably right and you right now is probably struggling and may need help. And if your best friend says they love you, and the evidence supports that, it’s important to believe them. It can be really hard, but that effort is worth it.

Our loved ones can also assist us via vibe checks, or even our pet friends if we have them too! If my cats don’t care about that ghoulish decapitated head in the window, that’s a reliable information source that I’m fine to not care about it too, beyond making a note to talk about it to a doctor. (Mine are very canny about windows after all!)

[wordsnstuff]

hello! just want to ask if you have any tips to avoid romanticizing mental illness in stories? thank you!

I’m not well-versed in writing about mental illness (yet), but I am one of the many who suffer from one or two of them and I can say from my personal experience as a reader, it really sucks to see in romance specifically when someone’s depression or anxiety is “cured” by a new relationship. I think romanticization of mental illness comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of what mental illness actually feels like, day after day, year after year. 

What writers (especially neurotypical writers) need to make sure they get across when writing about a character with mental illness is that it’s not a temporary condition and it isn’t singularly symptomatic. Depression, for example is usually depicted from one of two extremes: “sometimes I get really sad and people don’t want to be around me because of it” or “I’m so depressed that I can’t get out of bed and I’m acting completely irrationally”, which are both completely accurate and do happen to most of us at least a couple times while suffering with the illness, but the thing that many depictions miss are the parts in between. They may not be as outwardly “entertaining”, but they’re important and completely misunderstood by most of the world. 

Depression is not only feeling sad or tired all the time. It’s feeling numb. It’s feeling completely indifferent to whether or not you turn in your homework or meet your deadline because either your motivation tap has completely run dry or your mind is telling you that ultimately it doesn’t matter whether you do it because nobody cares. It’s a cold, ever-present feeling of emptiness that after a few months or years, you don’t even notice anymore because you can barely remember what it felt like to feel general happiness or content. Yeah, the really rough days suck and it’s important to validate them as a true obstacle in normal function, but depression, whether chronic or generalized, has real, physical effects on both your mind and your body. For one, many have to take medication to balance out their serotonin levels because they feel physically exhausted all the time, or they feel headaches, dizziness, depersonalization, etc.

When you’re writing a mentally ill character, you can’t write a healthy person who gets sad sometimes. When your character has depression, they will have days where they’re sluggish, their speech is lazy, they have headaches from stress caused by nothing, and maybe they’ll be a bit out of it because they can’t focus on any one single sensation because nothing is dominating over the feeling of complete nothingness. 

It’s deep, and complicated, and completely unique to every individual who lives with it and you need to take all of that into account when you approach it in fiction, because people learn from stories and internalize what you tell them about real-life topics. People trust authors to do their due diligence and represent real-life situations accurately to the best of their ability, and mental health is an important one to consider. 

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[momo-de-avis]

Hey Ana! Can I ask you something? How would you describe the people in Portugal? I know it might be a generalization, but what do you think are the good and bad traits ? Hope you have a lovely day!

Hello friend!

Let me see.

The good traits. The portuguese can be very warm people. Mostly it obviously depends WHERE you are (I’m of the opinion northerners tend to be a lot warmer). We love sharing our culture, our cuisine, our good things. It makes us very welcoming. It borders on the “won’t shut up about his own country” but it’s all well intentioned.

Adding to that, I can assure you a portuguese person is someone to ask for directions. Well, I guess it depends where you are, but there are certain cities where asking “where is the train station” ends with an invitation to come over and have some cozido, cause why not. It’s stupid easy to befriend us lmao

I know we talk a lot about “desemerdanço” (which literally translates to “unshit yourself) but it really is outstanding. I don’t know, we have an ability to get out of situations by the most unconventional ways possible. It makes up for some pretty funny stuff.

I don’t know if this would be considered an actual positive trait but I’m just so used to this (and being like this) it’s sort of neutral-slash-homely to me. But we’re loud af, jesus christ. But the thing is, the louder we express ourselves, the better the feeling. We’re pretty aggressive on affection too. It’s pretty funny because several times in the past, while in another country with friends, I’ve had people from that country ask me and my friend if we’re angry at each other because we’re just so aggressive with each other, but it’s not like we’re insulting. The portuguese are the kind to slap you in the back and yell “I LOVE YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT” and it’s heartwarming. 

The WORST trait, and I have a suspicion this list is going to be longer than the above one, is that we’re awfully pessimistic. It pisses me off, but we’re cranky old shits who won’t accept the better outcome, and worst of all, a lot of us have this attitude that I can best describe as “if my neighbour has a better car than me, I don’t want a better car than him, I want him to have a worst car”. It’s insane. To give you an example, which is stupid but once I was talking to a guy about this and we concluded it’s symptomatic of our pessimism, the show “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”? Do you know how they translated it here? Not the exact same sentence but in portuguese. Actually, the title they picked translates to “it never rains in Philadelphia”. It’s like, even when the title of something is worded as something positive, we gotta turn it around and make it a “eh, it could be better, but alas” sentiment. It boggles me why they picked that title.

I think we are a people of commodity. Things could be absolute shit, but the portuguese just won’t pick up their butts and do something about it. You know the Bystander Effect, the thing coined after Kitty Genovese’s death, which has been debunked? They should do it with just portuguese people. Everyone’s crying “CALL AN AMBULANCE”, you’re uncle is there saying “I know a guy who did this once, I can tell how it is” but won’t do it yourself. There are 55 old ladies at the window, watching but doing nothing. The accident is the talk of the town, but nobody will help. It’s really bizarre, and alas I am guilty of it because I was brought up this way. I feel like the younger generations are starting to change that, with Gen Z e millennials, but it’s a slow change.

Aaaaand unfortunately, as a whole, we’re still pretty backwards. There is a long way to go in terms of becoming a progressive country, no matter what we try to sell to tourists. One might think we are progressive, if you visit Lisbon. But however a small country, it’s got a lot more to it than just Lisbon, and trust, that’s where the problem lies.

There’s also something I always tell about us. It’s that we don’t find solutions, we find temporary cover-ups. It’s the busted pipe analogy (though I say ‘analogy’, but this shit REALLY HAPPENED): you bust a pipe, and there’s a small hole in it. The rational option is to call a professional to have the pipe replaced. It’s a possible splurge of money, but you know that if you don’t do that right now, you’re at risk of flooding your house and have a bigger issue.

The portuguese, however???? Fuck that, why am I gonna call a plumber when uncle Zé is a handyman??? What’s he gonna do? He’s gonna fucking duct-tape the hole in the pipe. In a month, it’s gonna burst again, and someone’s gotta replace the duct-tape. And we’ll do this for years, yes years, until some day that duct-tape will give in to its own lifespan, the hole in the pipe will turn into a gigantic tear, and your house is going to flood. Dead ass this happened in my family, and I was called an idiot for daring to suggest calling a plumber and replacing the pipe cause why should we, it works just fine as it is!

This is all that comes to mind. Maybe my tuga followers can chime in with their own opinions, but I hope this helps.

Have a wonderful day too, friend!!!!

[sepublic]

Something that I do think is very delicate and very good work the Owl House crew is doing is balancing the thematics of when characters actually mess up versus surviving and being scared. Amity is a good example. Amity bulling Willow and the burning of her memories - very bad, with problems happening and the narrative tags her on that. It is distinctly shown as bad. Her not fighting her parents - carefully neutral. It's not a good thing but it's not a moral failing.

I think that same treatment might have also happened with Lilith actually. Her cursing Eda, nearly killing Luz and general not being a good person? When did she actually succeed at anything this season? But her attempting to hide her betrayal from Belos? Lilith is a coward so it's not a good thing - but in contrast to how that fed into Eda's curse and everything else... Nothing additional is added on to events for the cowardice. Just the already present ramifications of the betrayal Nothing more

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           It ties into yet another major theme of this show; About how the system can be incredibly skewed towards people, and sets individuals and groups at each other’s throats just to survive! Indeed, a lot of people ARE forced, or at least encouraged and enabled, to do terrible things just to get through in life… Lilith did claim that she and Eda came from humble beginnings- And given how presitigious the Emperor’s Coven is framed, membership there could be seen as a means of escaping poverty for some!

           Of course, individual accountability, as I’ve said before- It IS a thing, and even if you had reasons and the system was definitely enabling you… You’re still guilty, and one must acknowledge this! Amity acknowledges, maturely, that she was too harsh to Willow… But unfortunately, she’s a bit too harsh when she blames herself for not outright defying her parents, like she’s not a little kid who’s desperately trying to survive abuse!

           It leads into this question of where you draw the line, of someone just trying to survive and doing the most reasonable, pragmatic thing… And when even if they WERE doing what was best for them, they still screwed someone over and hurt them? Even if someone were to cross that line… Well, it doesn’t ALWAYS have to be impossible to fix things, or at least make them better! We see that with Lilith…

           And it gets to this theme of addressing the systemic cause and root of an issue! That sure, these people are still to blame… But in the end, punishing them isn’t productive, and while getting them to change their behavior helps; More people are gonna keep doing bad things if the system is still around! That in the end, it’s everybody’s top priority to dismantle an inherently oppressive and corrupt system! THAT is the main target, that’s the source of it all; And once you take it out, you can properly focus on mending those who HAVE been hurt and/or encouraged by the system… Without having to worry about more issues coming, further down the line.

           It’s kind of like how Luz is someone who gets to the ‘root’ (ba-dum tsss) of the issue between Amity and Willow, instead of just letting Amity speedrun through the damage and going back to how things adversarially, or at least neutrally and painfully, were- Luz says NO, we’re discussing why you and Willow severed ties, and for both your sakes, we’re confronting this! Even if you won’t be friends again, it’s still going to be better than what’s been going on beforehand… And it’ll probably mean that you won’t hurt other people for similar reasons, and Willow herself won’t be in as much pain!

           In contrast, Lilith is a character who doesn’t tackle the root cause of an issue… She instead focuses on symptomatic things because that’s easier for her! She doesn’t really consider why she cursed Eda, or at least tackle the cause of this, her own insecurity… Instead, Lilith just keeps deprecating herself! She doesn’t consider the root cause of Eda being distant with her, Lilith just focuses on the fact that Eda IS and tries to incentivize her sister to join the Emperor’s Coven, without actually reflecting on her support for such a corrupt group!

           But as you said; While Lilith is definitely to blame for a LOT, the Coven System isn’t exactly helping issues either, and laid the foundations for her sins. And sometimes, the way the system is set up… You can’twin, it’s a lose-lose scenario. No matter which Magic Track you choose, you’re still losing most of your magic; If you choose to be a Wild Witch and embrace free magic and individuality, you’re also persecuted! And if you join the Emperor’s Coven, you become a corrupt enforcer and a covenscout!

           The most people can do is just… Lose as little as possible. Minimize losses. That’s what Luz and the others did in the Season Finale, right? Because in the end… They lost a lot of things! They lost Luz’s way back home and her contact with her mother… They lost all of Eda’s magic, and most of Lilith’s! Luz says it herself, she lost… But then, she may as well ensure that while her own losses are minimized, Belos’ are maximized. If Luz can’t win, she may as well try to take the system down with her. Sometimes you can’t always ask for more, sometimes you just have to hold onto what you have, and appreciate it… And Luz is someone who already does this anyway, so it hurts to see this happen to her!

           With Lilith, it’s a bit more karmic as she still needed to address her support of Belos and his corruption; But even then, it’s worth noting that openly defying the Emperor himself has a lot of consequences that she’s intimately aware of. Even if you’re critical of someone for doing bad things to survive, in the end, sometimes you just don’t want them to keep them suffering… Because wasn’t suffering the reason why so many people did so many terrible things? Tearing down what others have or gained isn’t productive, but building things up IS…

           Of course, sometimes- The only thing to do is tear down! Specifically, the corrupt system that caused all of this… Whether Belos gets to survive and change for the better is irrelevant for now, because the Coven System hasto go! There is no keeping it around, and maybe there IS making it better, as Lilith may have aimed to do… But really, the only way to improve upon the Coven System is to delete it entirely, or reform it well past recognition!

           In the end, it’s for the best of a person to tackle their own issues; But sometimes, you just can’t bear to be too harsh or critical on them, for not being their absolute best! Sometimes a person not hurting others is enough… And it’s why people like Luz, who are so productive, can help people! Luz recognizes a problem and KNOWS it’s bad and treats it as such, and is intent on keeping it from ever happening again… But she also recognizes that holding a grudge isn’t necessarily going to make things better!

          Sometimes you have to focus on what you DID manage to at least do, or not do (such as not hurting someone). Give yourself some space to breathe, because even if what happened was bad, you need to at least give yourself a little credit because you’re just trying to survive in a system that’s skewed against you! And once you’ve caught your breath… As we see with encouragement from people like Luz; THEN you can focus on improving things! Every little step and bit of progress helps, don’t be TOO critical for not immediately fixing things, or doing what others have done.

          As long as you make the intent and effort to be better or at least stop doing worse, and then work from there… It’s good. Because sometimes, you can’t make things better, and can’t improve on them, nor hold onto what you already have… Sometimes, all you can do, as seen with Amity and how she handled Willow in the past- Is try to minimize your losses. And know that while what happened is bad, it’s important not to be too critical of oneself, and to ultimately focus energy into eventually fixing things, or at least finding an opportunity to do so… Or again, managing to salvage and protect what you DO have; Which is imperative for Amity, as she really needed to learn to at least protect her own sense of self-worth.

           Sometimes, all you can ask of yourself or a person, is to survive… And while what happened was indeed objectively bad, maybe the person themselves isn’t too terrible… Or at least, there’s room for understanding, and using that understanding to tackle the root cause of the issue, even if that understanding won’t necessarily lead to forgiveness. Mostly, it’s better to just focus on what productive things you can do- And when the chance comes to make things better, as seen with Lilith, or Amity… You better take it, because you don’t know if another chance is ever coming around!

          You’d better take that chance, if you really DO feel bad about what happened, even if you did ‘have no other choice’, because that means instead of beating yourself up or trying to reset what can’t be undone, you’re instead focused on preventing more incidents and tragedies from coming! And in the end… Is that not enough, or at least all you can do? Just as Eda can’t repair or undo her trauma in life, nor seize that education she deserved… The least she can do is ensure that people like Luz at least get to have that missed opportunity!

          If you can’t help yourself, you may as well help somebody else…! Eda or the Bat Queen can’t erase what was done to them, but they can at least pave the road so others later down the line can have something better, and never experience what they had to suffer. It’s just how Luz is someone who can’t undo her past ostracization from society; But she can work to change the system so that nobody else has to feel alone, nor left out! It’s because she went through terrible things that she’s so insistent on others being excluded from such experiences, and it goes to show how Luz really DID learn from what happened- Even if she shouldn’t have gone through it to begin with! Really, you just gotta work with what you have, even if it’s not ideal.

[nerdyylionn]

A Hidden Gem within a Hidden Gem

    It is known only to a few what’s her name. No one knows who she is when her name is stated. Only a few people know her by her name. However, when her face is shown, people immediately recognize her as the scary old lady of the Philippine Cinema. She is the icon of 1990s horror cinema and is regarded as the Filipino Horror Icon. She appeared in numerous films especially in the genre of horror and has been renowned by directors Peque Gallaga and the like.  She is Lilia Cuntapay, yet up to this day, her name is still unfamiliar. That’s the main core of the Mockumentary Drama, Six Degrees from Lilia Cuntapay which delves into the life of one of the most recognizable faces which people do not know the name of.

    The film’s messages are scattered all throughout the runtime of the film. It’s hard to pinpoint which one is which but nevertheless, when you realize it, it is grounded, real and true. Even though it is a mockumentary, the film’s messages could still be classified into perceived meanings of the film.      

     The referential meaning of the film is that Lilia Cuntapay, the real life Filipino Horror Icon of the 90s, gets to star into her Documentary as she prepares her speech for an upcoming award. Initially, when looking at first, the referential meaning of the film is no different from the film’s actual premise. However, since it’s a scripted documentary, which is known as a mockumentary, they integrated the real life identity and status of Lilia Cuntapay and even made her her own character of the film. This choice of the Director and writers could confuse the audience but it’s letting the audience participate on the film’s story by letting them question if it was real or not  

      The explicit meaning of the film is that an old actress, who has been into this career for almost 30 years, has been finally recognized by the film industry by nominating her as Best Actress. Her affirmation of her recognition may have wavered when she lost but it was confirmed in the end when her co-actress, and many other renowned artists truly recognized her importance. It could be simple and cheesy but this message gives hope to every person who pursued their passion for a long time.

      The implicit meaning of the film is that a person nearing her twilight years, has pursued a craft that didn’t pay off in the long run. It lets her question if her efforts were really worth it in the end when every person in her craft doesn’t seem to remember her. The implied meaning is bitter and sad and really questions if the decisions you made were right and that in the end, did it really matter? It also delves in a little of an existential crisis, which is more apparent in people during their twilight years. For me, this is quite opposite to the positive explicit message that the film gives.        

     The symptomatic meaning here is money and fame are ultimately what flings you into your status. No amount of hard work can amount to something if the society you live in values money and fame instead of real talent. This ideology is long present, many people who could have ultimately done something better were replaced or beaten by people who have a renowned history or have large amounts of wealth in their names. This ideology is named Plutocracy.

      The film tackles a lot of themes and weaves it into the plot naturally. The way it approaches its next beat is quite new and refreshing. It’s almost as if you don’t know what to expect to happen in a realistic life based film other than what to expect in a big-budget film. It makes you think how was this planned and how it worked in the end.  Thus, the film will be evaluated based on its realism, morality, coherence, complexity and originality and whether this film was good or not, objectively and by preference, on whether it’s plot and techniques worked in the end result.

      In realism, I think the film was very grounded in reality even though it’s scripted. It shows you the real conditions of every low income earner or underrated artist that wasn’t priced enough for their craft. Every scene and event are realistic as it gets, knowing that’s how people will react this way based on their attitudes and personality. The prime example of this is how people below the middle class react when they are inside Starbucks and look at the products which the establishment offers. Of course, people like Lilia would question why a caffeinated-product is so expensive when you only get to drink it once. She reacted that way because its price is outlandish for her. So for me, it’s very realistic.

     On morality, the wisdom and lesson it offers is quite touching. It’s quite resonant throughout the film, because even though Lilia was on the bitter end of her craft, she chose to stay positive and kind. Even though her living conditions were rough, she didn’t blame her life for being this way, the film showed that she just keeps doing what she loves and where she excels, which is acting. She’s also friendly to the people around her, casually talking to people in their streets, asking their help if ever needed, and they’re welcome whenever she hosts a celebration. So in morality, this film showed contrast by showing kindness and warmth into the hard cold conditions of poverty.

     In coherence, the film’s style is a mockumentary that mimics real life situations and is coupled with real interviews, so there are some scenes that come out of nowhere, for example, Lilia’s apparent imagination of her proclaiming her speech. However, every scene serves its purpose, which is to build the character of Lilia when she’s faced with different situations and ultimately, the last scene of the film in the Awarding Night. Not a single scene was wasted, and everything that was told was consistent. For example, her recurring imagination speech is there to prepare us for the last scene. Another one, is the consistency on how much she values everyone as she jots down their names on her speech cheat sheet to be able to thank them one by one. So yes, the film’s story might not be straightforward but it’s understandable thus, this film was very coherent.      

     In complexity, as said before, there are bits of real life interview shown as the plot of the mockumentary progresses forward. And as said before, these scenes help build the character of the protagonist, Lilia Cuntapay. It’s like the story is the character of Lilia, it was structured with different layers. On the surface, she's hopeful, grateful, and kind. Getting deeper, she’s ambitious and also craves recognition as she displays around her posters, as she hands out her t-shirts and takes pictures with everyone else. She also gets sad and lonely when her TV Patrol interview doesn't get featured and whenever she asks if someone was looking for her by asking her friend who’s her contact number. But the part that really got me is when she called her niece/ “doktora”, to tell her that her visa got approved. Her niece was overjoyed that she’s finally be able to be with them, but Lilia’s expression on this side of the phone shows sadness and regret, that seems to tell you that maybe at this moment, she contemplated that her years of work was for nothing and this chance of getting abroad might be her last chance on getting truly happy. And all of that detail in just a single scene. So that’s why in the area of complexity, it’s yes, it was complex enough because they’ve carefully crafted the character of Lilia as real and full of life. And since Lilia is like the film herself, the film was very much complex.

      In originality, on surface level, the film’s mode of storytelling is not original, mockumentary has already been used in different platforms and was used by comedy mostly. However, adding pieces of real life elements into the mockumentary progresses its message forward. It is also refreshing to see where the plot will take you and how ultimately led to its ending. This film doesn’t also use the tropes and conventions most Philippine cinema uses and it’s got an indie feeling so it feels liberating. So in terms of originality, it’s very original since we do not see this kind of film in Philippine Cinema, which is plagued with many brainless comedy and repetitive romance movies.

       The film, Six degrees from Lilia Cuntapay is a film about an old actress that few only know by her name. The film itself, and how Lilia Cuntapay is framed in it is like myself to the film, I do not know a single thing about it. However, as the film showed her face, a sense of familiarity and recognition sparked at me as I saw her. In the first few minutes of the film, the film has already engaged me with this sudden change and just like how I reacted in the first few minutes would also be my lasting impression of the film. It caught me off guard of how it was that good. I thought that there would be lengthy and boring moments of the film but every scene has its purposes and was never boring. All of that detail was built up until to the very last moment. And that ending could have been conventional, to just end it there, but it took it up a notch and jumped a little and had the perfect ending for the film. Just like much before I watched this film, I did not know who really was Lilia Cuntapay and I didn’t care much, but because of this film, it made me truly appreciate her and her big influence on the Philippine Cinema and Media in general. It’s not also her, but also all the actors who have big ambitions that the industry doesn’t recognize. And all people that work hard continuously for their passion despite the long unforgiving grueling years that befalls them. This film for me, is an unexpected find that turned out to be great, like Lilia herself, when her efforts are recognized in Shake Rattle III.  And these unexpected finds, these hidden treasures, are what sticks to me because I didn’t expect to enjoy this much and I didn’t expect to appreciate it this much for how the film turned out. For me, Six degrees from Lilia Cuntapay was very good. It made me care, laugh and be touched by the character of Lilia, and Lilia herself, whom I did not know by name and only recognized by face. And that’s why I also loved this film, because Six degrees from Lilia Cuntapay is a hidden gem that made me discover, appreciate and love another hidden gem, which is Lilia herself, the Queen of Philippine Horror.

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Hello! So I've got a problem with like, my thought process I guess you could say. I think it's because of my mom, but honestly I don't really know. I get paranoid really easily over the smallest to the most overly drastic and dramatic things. For example, my girlfriend likes to drink alcohol, and while my morals are against alcohol, I'd never stop her from drinking, and she likes to go with her best friend maybe 2-3 times a month (🍥 part 1)

And while I know that's not an amount that could do extreme damage to her body, I'm always terrified of something going wrong. And another example would be like, I could make a minor mistake, and I'll be terrified that I've angered or upset my girlfriend, and I would sometimes refuse to stop talking about a problem until it's resolved in fear that I would lose her before I can and the last thing we do together is argue (like in super dramatic movies) (🍥 part 2)

I know it's EXTREMELY toxic of me, and is very self-destructive. And I know it's a combination of my anxiety, insecurity, and paranoia. Heck, I don't even think it's my mom's fault. She used to tell me smaller things, like I needed to stop eating rice or else I could get diabetes (it runs in the family) but I think the small things like that built up, along with dramatic movies that always tugged at my emotions, that made me paranoid. (🍥 part 3)

Anyway, I kind of got off topic giving you some bg info. What I wanted to ask is, what advice would you recommend to stop or at least lessen such a terrible thought process? Therapy isn't an option for me, so I was hoping you'd have another possibility for me. I probably sound super crazy and unstable, but honestly this stuff doesn't affect me too often. It just fluctuates every now and then. But I'd appreciate the advice. Thank you listening to my craziness! (🍥 part 4/4)

Hello! I sent an ask a couple days ago that consisted of 4 parts, and a 🍥 emoji, and I didn't realize that it was claimed already! So I was wondering if I were able to claim 🍓💕? Thanks so much for what you do!

You don’t sound crazy or unstable, and you don’t sound like a toxic person - you sound like a person with symptoms of anxiety. And whilst it’s good to recognise when your behaviours might be harmful to yourself and to others, it’s not helpful to anyone for you to beat yourself up and be self-deprecating. You’re not crazy - you’re experiencing symptoms. I think that’s the first thing worth trying to do: be more aware of the language you use to describe yourself and try and adjust it to be a little more fair and a little kinder to yourself. If you wouldn’t talk about a close friend that way, try not to talk about yourself that way. 

I always recommend seeking medical help if you’re able to - I appreciate that therapy isn’t an option, but if you’re able to see your GP that might at least give you some support. For example, if your doctor has a record that you’ve been having these difficulties, it can be easier to get support in things like getting a sick note or extenuating circumstances or additional accommodations if you need something like that for school/work etc. You could also potentially access medication even if therapy isn’t an option. There are a bunch of effective anti-anxiety meds on the market that you might find helpful if you’re able to access them. For instance, I’m on beta blockers that I take as and when I need them if I’m feeling particularly anxious, and they can reduce the physical symptoms of anxiety (like trembling/fast heart rate/feeling nauseous, etc.) which can make anxiety spikes a little easier to cope with. If this or any other type of anxiety medication is of interest to you, and you have the means to visit your family doctor to talk to them about it, that’s another potential treatment option if you can’t access therapy. 

Another thing worth trying is to attempt to keep track of your triggers. There are a lot of really great mood tracking apps (I use Daylio personally) that you can use to identify how you’ve been feeling on a particular day, and what you did. Being mindful of what you’re doing and how it’s making you feel, and examining if you can identify a cause of your anxiety spikes can be really helpful in the long run, because it helps you identify behaviours that make your anxiety better or worse, and allows you to change the way you act and avoid any triggers you identify. Similarly, you can also identify coping mechanisms you’ve tried, and examine whether they’re healthy or unhealthy, and how effective they are. 

Also I know this is really cliché, but some super accessible things that a lot of people do to cope with anxiety are things like mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and breathing exercises. Stuff like full-body mind scans and progressive muscle relaxation are really easy to do, and there are dozens of apps and youtube videos and stuff out there that can guide you through exercises that you can use if you’re feeling particularly paranoid, and they can help to calm your physical symptoms and sort of reset your thought practice. Of course they don’t work for everyone, and they aren’t a cure, but they can be a really helpful coping mechanism.

If you’re not able to access therapy in person, there are still a lot of resources you can use. If cost is a factor, there are a lot of lower-cost online therapy options, as well as free support services like online counselling (i.e. 7cupsoftea) and anxiety helplines/hotlines that allow you to speak to an adviser over the phone or via instant messenger, which might be helpful if you find yourself particularly panicky and need someone to talk you down. 

As well as that, there are a lot of online resources to help you cope longer term. Mental health charity websites can often be a good place to start looking to research potential treatment options and coping mechanisms. A lot of CBT worksheets are available online for you to work through by yourself - even if you don’t have a therapist to go through them with, you can still do those exercises. If you google something like ‘CBT anxiety workbook’ or ‘CBT anxiety exercises’ you should come up with a ton of resources that you can flick through and see if you can identify any that you think might be helpful. Stuff like making a table to record details of your anxiety spikes can be really helpful (these usually involve details such as: when it happened, what was happening at the time, why you think it happened, how bad was your anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10, what actions did you take to try and calm those feelings, how effective were those actions, how bad was your anxiety on the same scale after taking those actions) in terms of identifying patterns in your behaviour, and what helps and what makes it worse. The physical act of writing everything down makes you more aware of and more likely to examine your own thought processes and behavioural patterns, and also allows you to identify patterns you may not have seen before. Another CBT exercise I’ve read about that can help with feelings of anxiety in the moment is a likelihood exercise - asking yourself what your anxiety/paranoia thinks will happen, estimating how many times you’ve thought that would happen, thinking about how many times it’s actually happened in reality, and comparing that, can help you rationalise those fears. 

Other similar techniques include:

Doing some sort of vigorous activity to clear the anxiety from your body - short periods of exercise, house/yard work like vacuuming, turning up some loud music and having a dance

Making a list of soothing activities (i.e. having a hot drink, taking a shower, washing your face, wrapping yourself up in a blanket, etc.) and picking one when you’re feeling shaky to help self-soothe

Trying to get some mental distance from your worries by finding something else to focus on to interrupt those spirals - try and make it something productive and/or enjoyable. Doing something productive, even if it’s really simple like gathering up dirty laundry, gives you a task to focus on and can help you feel like you’ve accomplished something. 

Setting aside daily ‘worry clearing time,’ in which you write down the things you’re worried about. If these worries arise outside of that time, try to tell yourself ‘I’ll worry about that later, but not now.’ 

In combination with the above, you can make an action plan of what you would do if any of your worries happen, so you feel more secure and prepared. 

Some people find it helpful when they’re identifying their worries because they can them see the ones that they have no control over, or that aren’t actually that big a deal, and decide to set them aside and prioritise other things. 

Try not to avoid your anxiety, or the things you don’t want to do because of it. Acknowledging it as something that you’re experiencing but that is separate from yourself - a external entity or force inside your head, can be helpful. When you start to feel anxious, some people actually address their anxiety and talk to it like it’s a person - this can help to separate it from your own personality and help you forgive yourself for being symptomatic. 

Research unhealthy coping mechanisms so you can identify them. Things like over-reassurance (asking for a bit of reassurance from a friend/family member/partner is fine, but if you’re doing it all the time or need to repeat themselves because you don’t believe them at first), stress eating, avoidance, and substance use are some common ones. 

I’ll slap a big caveat on this and point out that I’m not a therapist or a medical professional, so take all of this with a pinch of salt and make sure to do your own research - I’m just passing along things I’ve read/heard from others. 

I hope that’s helpful, and I wish you all the best in your road to recovery 💕

Followers: if anyone else has any tips for this anon or experience you’d like to share, feel free to do so!

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The most effective method to Choose A SEO Agency

Picking a SEO office can be a troublesome and overwhelming prospect. With such huge numbers of organizations out there, how would you know the great from the terrible when you're attempting to work out how to pick a SEO office?

Website design enhancement is a profoundly unpredictable promoting discipline that traverses a wide scope of ranges of abilities. Finding an office that has the imperative information, aptitudes, approach and a style of record the executives that gels with you and your group is basic in guaranteeing your valuable advertising spending plan is being put to the best use.

Locate the correct accomplice and you can expect powerful SEO battles to help drive your business forward and anticipate a long and fruitful association with your organization. Pick an inappropriate one, and long stretches of dissatisfaction and disappointment may anticipate.

So how would you pick the privilege SEO organization for your business? Utilize the quicklinks underneath to hop to the applicable segments

Trust Signals

It's difficult to envision connecting any SEO organization without first looking at their site, so it's likely a decent spot to begin. A key angle to be vigilant for is trust signals. Trust sign are those key markers that not just approve the way this is an authentic business yet in addition a certified business that conveys extraordinary outcomes and encounters for their customers. In any case, know that a portion of these sign can be anything but difficult to counterfeit so be careful in your appraisal of them and nobody sign ought to be taken in segregation.

Contextual analyses or Portfolio of Work

An extraordinary SEO office will be pleased to show off their work as well as edgy that you perceive how glad they are of their work. Of course, no SEO organization is regularly going to be quick to show off anything other than their most prominent triumphs yet an arrangement of work or late contextual analyses (you can locate our own here) are an incredible pointer of an organization that realizes how to convey.

Contextual investigations ought to incorporate the customer's destinations, the outcomes accomplished against these and some sign with regards to the time span it took. In a perfect world, those contextual investigations ought to likewise incorporate or be connected to audits or tributes from that customer to help them.

Be careful about contextual analyses that do exclude the name of the organization. Anybody can create a contextual analysis so if it's not ascribed to a particular organization wonder why that is.

Surveys and Testimonials

When picking a SEO organization, there's no preferable certainty developer over direct audits and tributes from their past or existing customers. Once more, a customer that is pleased with their work and have extraordinary associations with customers will be sharp for you to see this kind of data, so they ought to be shown unmistakably on location. (look at our contextual investigations here)

Tributes ought to be preferably be ascribed to a particular individual, at a particular association to demonstrate their credibility. Surveys ought to come in all the time and preferably through an outsider audit stage like Trust Pilot or Reviews.co.uk. (investigate our surveys here)

Verify whether the surveys and tributes look genuine and are for a particular station or the office all in all, as certain audits may not be pertinent to SEO.

Grants

The advanced showcasing world has a practically interminable number of honor functions and classes. For certain organizations, this is their sacred goal and you'll see them entering, designated and now and again winning industry grants that will no uncertainty be gladly shown in the footer of their site. What you may not comprehend about the honors business is that it is a compensation to play game.

These honors aren't simply distributed to the most elite, you should pay to enter, so while they are an incredible marker of industry acknowledgment, an organization that decides not to participate in these could even now be an extraordinary office for you.

In the event that any organization positions themselves as an honor victor, approach them about what it is really going after, you can comprehend whether it has any bearing on the work they may accomplish for you.

Their Own Content Marketing

Substance is a center segment of any SEO venture, truth be told, it's a piece of the motivation behind why this piece has been composed. Along these lines, set aside the effort to investigate the substance your planned offices are making for themselves. Is the substance of high caliber? Is it refreshed normally? Does it show up for hunts identified with the point it's about? What arrangements do they use? Would comparative kinds of substance be an enhancement for the substance you are presently creating? These are largely contemplations to accept when you're attempting to measure the nature of their yield.

There is a well-known adage that goes "the shoemakers child has no shoes." And that can be symptomatic of SEO organizations. They are so caught up with creating incredible substance for customers that their very own substance advertising drops to the base of the need list.

An office delivering gigantic volumes of substance isn't consequently superior to anything one who produces one piece a month so attempt to make a decision on quality as opposed to amount. (You can look at our blog here)

Natural Visibility of Their Own Site

In the event that you're explicitly searching for a SEO organization, at that point you'd trust that they could convey a sensible degree of natural perceivability for their very own site, Afterall, the confirmation is in the pudding. Nonetheless, a site that positions well doesn't consequently mean they are an extraordinary office. Relationship especially does not rise to causation in this example. I am aware of a few offices that rival our very own website that are utilizing fairly obscure strategies to expand their perceivability, some of which straightforwardly go against Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

Along these lines, while you would trust that the best organizations would convey a degree of natural perceivability for themselves, there are incredible offices out there that basically can't contend in this vertical. They might be more up to date offices, littler offices, authority organizations that solitary arrangement with specific parts of SEO and they could be the ideal accomplice for your needs.

Rather than simply searching for wide expressions to see whether they show up naturally, likewise look how they deal with their quality for their very own image searches and whether they exploit all the hunt page results highlights accessible.

Instances of Companies They Work With

This trust sign is most likely the weakest one in the rundown and consequently the one to be taken with the greatest squeeze of salt. On advanced showcasing organization sites, you'll frequently observe other organization logos specked about. These organizations may well have worked with these organizations, in spite of the fact that it's anything but difficult to include a logo and expectation nobody checks, they give no sign with regards to the work they accomplished for these organizations.

Is it safe to say that it was for SEO or would it say it was another channel? Maybe it was an irregular consultancy piece and you're truly searching for an office that works with enormous customers on longer retainer ventures. Maybe the relationship finished awfully, you can't tell from a solitary logo.

When you address your waitlist of organizations, explicitly get some information about these customers they are partner themselves with to discover what they did and whether they are as yet working with them.

In this way, you found two or three organizations you think may work and you've experienced their site to discover what they do and whether you feel they are reliable. The subsequent stage is to get in touch with them to start the way toward narrowing down your potential choices. This beginning period is an incredible chance to begin burrowing somewhat more profound.

Staff Experience

While it's simple for an organization to profess to have been around for a considerable length of time or even decades, the main thing is the degree of experience of the group that you're entrusting your SEO as well. Try not to be timid to get some information about the experience of the group and your potential record director or group taking a shot at your record.

You need to realize your record won't be doled out to a lesser individual from the group who will be left to learn at work. Everybody must begin some place however you need to ensure you have the ideal individuals from the office taking a shot at your benefit.

Most organizations will have a 'Meet the Team' page or comparative. Invest some energy perusing these, perusing the profiles and getting the opportunity to comprehend which individuals you may lean toward for you.

Do They Use Outsourcing?

While you're discussing their staff and the individuals possibly taking a shot at your record, get some information about their strategy on redistributing? Sooner or later, I picture a great deal of offices have had a need to re-appropriate work because of the volume of work, understaffing or basically tight due dates grouped together. Redistributing shouldn't be viewed as a grimy word. Yet, what is significant is the place is that work being re-appropriated to?

An organization with a little system of profoundly talented and exceptionally trust consultants can at present convey incredible work and you'll presumably never differentiate between the redistributed work and the work done in-house. In any case, an office that utilizations shoddy outside work, from individuals that perhaps don't have English as a first language would be fairly concerning.

Be sure to get some information about whether the office will possibly utilize outsourcers and assuming this is the case, how would they deal with this procedure and guarantee principles are kept up.

Part Experience and Client Size

Think about not just the customers they work with and the size of these organizations yet in addition the divisions planned offices have specific involvement in. While you may not wish o work with an organization that additionally works with an immediate contender, there might be some critical advantage to working with an office that as of now has ability and learning of your part.

This may not generally be as far as immediate work with a customer. There might be individuals from staff that have a specific intrigue or energy for what you do and that could offer included worth that you may not get with different organizations.

You may likewise need to consider the size of customers they work with. Would you like to be the greatest fish in their customer lake or do you wan

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Analysis

It was our team meeting to discuss our morphological analysis that really shaped this phase for me and set me on my particular path. We discussed the mechanics of the analysis itself and then ended up breaking it out into components to compare. Some components had shapes you could get your hands around, like hardware, and some had no borders at all. I ended up investigating audience, uses, and mindfulness techniques.

In general, I tend toward the “collector” role in information-gathering – I like focus and filtering out – but this has truly been a divergent-thinking phase for me. The Big Questions left me feeling a little bit adrift on a sea of more questions, which is totally fine but not something I’m used to in my day-to-day. I used analysis techniques that I don’t usually get to for work projects, like lateral thinking and creating an idea dump. I started with different populations that might be affected by our problem – which turned out to be everyone – and moved on to situations in which these groups might be seeking a concrete solution, and the web started to grow.

Once you start digging into different states of the brain and body and how they affect human performance, you come across all manner of needs. Nelson and Warren had a great amount of success finding different technology, hardware, and software applications for our problem, which served to open up the problem further (in a good way). Nelson is also plugged into various tradeshows and conferences, and he was able to source material about future and burgeoning tech that we could review. Inspired by this research and also by our class discussion, I began thinking about the problem from the perspective of different personal and professional needs. I also read article after blog after paper about different mindfulness techniques, which confirmed our assumption that different mental states and their effect is really something humans are seeking to understand and even control.

Reading about mindfulness was, ironically, a little bit of an exercise in frustration. I didn’t actually end up using any of it in my morphological analysis because it would have been a true force-fit situation (and maybe I’m not there yet? Something to work on). For example, one method was called the Raisin technique. You consider a raisin, holding it in the palm of your hand, as if you have never seen one before. You observe how it looks, feels, smells. You become so consumed with the raisin that you actually can not think or worry or wonder about anything else. I can see how this is almost a form of meditation: it’s calming, it relaxes inner critics. However, we’re looking at situations where we actually need the individual to maintain focus on the task at hand. Substitute out the raisin for, say, a human heart and the observer for a cardiothoracic surgeon and it becomes difficult to drown out the pressures of time and actual life-and-death nature of the situation.

One technique I would like to try that I haven’t yet is the origin story technique. We’ve come across mentions of human evolution and why we have certain physiological reactions to situations, but I’d like to really understand it. Isn’t it fascinating that the nerves you feel before a date or presentation have some sort of origin in early humans? Why? Do nerves actually make us better performers? Or, take distraction. What neurological incentives occur or exist to distract us when it’s in our best interest to be extra-focused? 

As I mentioned, every question spawns five more, which I think is symptomatic of a good mess. 

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A Wrinkle in Time or Can Giant Oprah Winfrey be my Fairy Godmother Please?

As soon as I heard about A Wrinkle in Time, I was very excited about it. The first ever live action movie with a budget of over $100 million to be directed by a black woman (Ava DuVernay), and it’s a science fantasy adventure starring a black teenage girl who’s a scientist - what more could you want? The costume and set design were both out of this world, pun very much intended, and I thought that most of the characters were three dimensional, well thought out and had meaningful interactions with each other. The plot, however, left something to be desired, as I felt it was a little all over the place and had a tendency to trail off in places. Admittedly, I have not read the novel, so this could be a problem with adaptation rather than writing.

*A Wrinkle In Time spoilers follow*

A Wrinkle in Time is predominantly the story of Meg Murry (Storm Reid), a young, teenage girl who is angry and disillusioned at the mysterious disappearance of her father, Dr. Alexander Murry (Chris Pine). The very first time we see Meg she is a child, enjoying and engaged in a science experiment with her father. She continues to be portrayed as a scientist throughout the film, explaining apparently magical phenomena, such as flying, using scientific terminology, as well as practically employing principles to save herself and her friends; for example, using strong winds to slingshot them to safety. S.T.E.M. fields are still overwhelmingly dominated by men that it’s so important for a children’s film, that many young girls will hopefully watch, to exemplify a black, teenage, female scientist as a role model.

Science aside, Meg sets a good example in a number of other ways. As an understandable consequence of feeling abandoned by her father - as well as being inexplicably bullied by other girls at her school because of his disappearance and a string of awful teachers talking about her behind her back, telling her that she’s not living up to her potential - Meg has very low self esteem at the start of the film. She aggressively rebuffs a compliment about her hair from her friend Calvin (Levi Miller) and she has trouble tessering - the means by which the characters travel instantaneously through the universe - because she does not entirely want to appear as herself again on the other side. Furthermore, Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) constantly and loudly professes her disappointment and lack of faith in Meg. At the end, this is presented as a sort of tough love and that Mrs. Whatsit really did believe in Meg all along, but a grown woman continually putting down an already troubled teenage girl gave parts of the film a weird tone that I did not enjoy.

However, Meg’s character develops, which is crucial for a young, female audience to see. This is partly shown through positive interactions between female characters; for example, Meg tells the Mrs., “The three of you are beautiful,” and one of them replies, “Thank you, and so are you.” This might seem banal, but to just blatantly show women positively supporting each other in a way that children will understand is vital. So often in Hollywood, women are portrayed as rivals, especially where looks and beauty are concerned, so to attempt to normalise women giving each other compliments and accepting them in return is so important. Continuing with this theme, A Wrinkle in Time firmly cements Meg’s rise in self esteem by showing her to accept a compliment about her hair later on in the film - she is beginning to like herself more without having changed how she looks at all.

This isn’t just limited to the physical, Meg comes to terms with her own faults, thanks to the originally seemingly ill-intentioned gift of honest self appraisal from Mrs. Whatsit, and realises that yes, they are a part of her, but they do not define her. Meg’s winning move against the evil entity of the film, the IT (David Oleyowo) is to boldly declare, “You should love me because I deserve to be loved.” She finally appreciates her own self-worth and has confidence in her many abilities. This is finally confirmed by Meg opening the portal that takes her and her brother, Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), safely home - she is content with who she will be on the other side. It is so important to leave the audience with no doubt that Meg is comfortable, confident and happy with herself as a person - whilst not depicting her as being unattainably perfect, she is aware of and at peace with her flaws - because much of that audience will be young girls. I think this film has succeeded by portraying and praising this development and extolling a teenage girl who believes in herself.

Although Meg is the main character in A Wrinkle in Time, she is surrounded by many other wonderful female role models. Most predominant is her mother, Dr. Kate Murry (Gugu Mbatha Raw). Kate is presented as a scientist with equal standing to her husband, which is wonderful in and of itself, seeing as he is a white man and they usually dominate this field. In fact, Kate is seen as more respectable, as Alex is tutted off stage for his wild theories, but the same audience seems more willing to listen to her. When Alex goes off on a tirade after being rejected by the reputable scientific community, Kate offers him some sage advice, “In order to be great, it isn't enough to just be right, you have to actually be great, and we are. So why can’t you just help them along?” Not only is she a rational scientist, but an empathetic and practical person. Furthermore, Alex gives Kate all the credit for the science behind his journey; “Your calculations gave us the universe.” On top of all of this, she copes as a single mother for years and never gives up on her absentee husband, despite all the rumours about him. Kate is a very admirable woman, capable scientist and caring mother who provides a solid, realistic role model amidst all the fantasy.

More ostentatious exemplars take the form of the three Mrs.; the aforementioned Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey) and Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling). This trio comprises of one white woman, one black woman and one woman of Indian descent, so that’s a move in the right direction as far as representation is concerned. These women are self-proclaimed warriors in the name of light who display a variety of incredible powers such as physical transformation, bestowing magical gifts and being able to traverse the universe using only their own will power. Other than Mrs. Whatsit’s previously stated slights, the three are constantly encouraging, and do everything in their power to help the children on their quest. Even Mrs. Whatsit is positive to other women, declaring Kate as, “dazzling”. Speaking of which, the three women look completely magnificent; they have a variety of costume changes throughout the film, all of which serve to make them look regal, majestic and powerful. Another striking visual choice was to make Mrs. Which massive - I don’t mean fat or muscly, just like three times the size of a normal human. This simple manoeuvre immediately imbues her character with an innate sense of grandeur, prestige and strength. As far as their names are concerned, we never find out who they are married to; no husbands are ever mentioned, so can we infer that they are all married to each other? I hope so, because a triad of resplendent lesbian lovers who are warriors for the forces of good in the universe is just about the coolest role model I can think of for a children’s film.

One final named female character remains, Veronica (Rowan Blanchard). She is maybe the ringleader of the - to it’s credit, surprisingly ethnically diverse - group of girls who are bullying Meg for the baffling reason that her father is missing. Veronica doesn’t factor much into the film, except that she mirrors Meg’s journey of self-love and acceptance. She is a bully at the the beginning, but we gain a glimpse into her personal life and see that this could be because she is self-conscious perhaps to the point of an eating disorder - she has written all of the foods she won’t allow herself to eat on her mirror. However, at the end of the film she is starting to become more friendly towards Meg, and we can only hope towards herself too. Veronica is symptomatic of what I believe to be so important about the female characters in A Wrinkle in Time; she is on a journey of development and self acceptance.

Overall, there is a great variety of wonderful female characters in A Wrinkle in Time. They are diverse not only in looks, but also in personality, and between them display a remarkable list of laudable traits including curiosity, scientific aptitude, bravery, confidence, magical powers, determination and the ability to love - their friends, family and, perhaps most importantly, themselves. What is arguably most crucial about these characters, especially Meg, is that they were not presented as being unbelievably flawless from the start, but as real human women who develop, interact positively with each other and become stronger as the film progresses. It doesn’t matter to me that the story was sort of nonsense, I think A Wrinkle in Time has triumphed if it gets these messages of self-love and belief to a wide audience of children.  

And now for some asides:

Wow, Chris Pine can grow a beard really far up his cheeks, that was an important revelation.

Creepy, homogenous suburbia was one of the best portrayals of hell ever.

I think Charles Wallace as a baddie was one of my all-time favourite villains, his fashion was definitely on point at least.

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Submission about postnatal depression

So this is quite long but I need to get it all off my chest. About a year and a half ago I gave birth to my son. He was born 13 weeks early and had to stay in hospital for 3 months. During that time I’m pretty sure I had postnatal depression and I definitely had ptsd. Every time I seen a pregnant lady I would cry. Even on tv or randomly in the street. While we were in hospital one of the NICU parents told me about a Facebook page for parents of premature babies and it helped me so so much to have these people to talk to and who were going through the same thing. While we were in the hospital my partners sister got pregnant and it just ruined me. Everything I had kept bottled up just came to the surface and I was in bits. I would post on the Facebook page (thinking it was a closed group no one could see the posts) about how much it upset me and my feelings were validated which made me feel better. Turns out people on my Facebook, including my partners family could see it all. I’d stopped posting stuff after my son got out of hospital but a few months later my partners sisters baby was stillborn and he found out everything I had posted about how upset I was with her being pregnant and that I resented her. His other sister had screenshotted it and showed his whole family. They were all extremely angry with me and his sister hasn’t spoke to me since. They all acted like it was my fault the baby had passed away and I can understand why they are so upset completely. My partner threatened to leave me every day and he told all my friends of 9 years what had happened and they’ve not spoken to me either since. I have completely isolated myself. I talk to only my mum and my partner and sometimes can go days without talking to another adult. The day after the baby passed away I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. I wasn’t allowed to talk about my pregnancy at all or enjoy it without being made to feel guilty. She was also very early and nearly passed away after the first night but she made it and came home 2 months ago. His sisters have not spoke to me or asked how she is and neither have any of my friends. I’m incredibly lonely and can’t leave the house without being with someone else because I don’t drive and going out with 2 babies is impossible so I’m stuck indoors for days on end. I definitely still have ptsd and have depressive episodes that can last for days and have found out his sister is pregnant again. I’ve had suicidal thoughts but I really love my children and they are the only things keeping me here. My partner really hates me but said he won’t leave because of the kids.

Hey lovely,

Pauline and Caitlin have decided to write a collaborative answer for your submission, we hope that’s okay! We’re so sorry to hear that you’ve been through so much, anybody can see how difficult this has been for you and we’re really proud of you for reaching out to us, and for getting through it, that shows that you’re much stronger than you realise.

While the things you’ve been through do sound like they are symptomatic of postnatal depression and PTSD, we are not professionals and cannot diagnose you, and we would advise you not to try and diagnose yourself, either. If you are still struggling as it sounds like you are, we would strongly advise you to reach out to your GP, your midwife or health visitor or postnatal clinic about how you’ve been feeling, as you don’t have to go through this alone and nor should you. We are here for you, and there are plenty of people in your life who will care and want to help, if you’re able to reach out. Please also know that it’s not in any way your fault that your baby was premature, or that you found it really difficult when you first became a mother. You’re not letting your children down by feeling this way, they still love you as their kind mummy who looks after them, and despite how he may act, you’re not letting your partner down, either. You’re not letting anybody down, you’re clearly quite poorly and we believe you should be focusing on getting yourself better rather than blaming yourself for something that is not your fault.

Something we want to stress is that you are absolutely not to blame for your partner’s sister’s baby being stillborn!! The feelings you had when you just found out she was pregnant were understandable, as you’d just gone through such a difficult experience. Those feelings needed to be dealt with in some way, and it’s wonderful you had such a support group where you could vent and release those feelings. Struggling with her pregnancy didn’t mean that you wanted her pregnancy to end so badly. You might have wanted her to not be pregnant at the time, as it was so intensively difficult for you, but that still doesn’t equal wishing for her baby to be stillborn. And even if that thought had occurred, that still wouldn’t mean you were to blame! Blaming you would imply that it was in your ability to control whether her baby was born stillborn or not, and that simply isn’t the case. We truly hope this is something you can keep in mind, and that this will start to feel true for you sooner rather than later. You do not deserve to struggle with these feelings of guilt, as you were not responsible in any way.

We agree with you that it’s understandable your partner’s sister and her family was upset. However, that doesn’t mean that we think they were right in putting the blame on you! What could possibly have happened, is that they (although most likely especially your partner’s sister) used blaming you as a way to cope with their grief. When dealing with death, it can feel very much out of our control, which can be hard to accept. As humans, we will always try to gain back this feeling of control. By blaming you, this meant that the control was at least in someone’s hands, opposed to the way it was before where nobody was in control of it all happening. While their initial reaction might have been a coping mechanism for their grief, it still really wasn’t fair to put the blame on you, and that’s something they should have realised and apologised for when the emotions had reduced a little and they were able to think clearly / rationally again.

It wasn’t okay for your partner to tell this all to your friends. That wasn’t his call to make, as your friendship didn’t have anything to do with everything that happened. We’re always all for being open and honest in friendships (and any relationships really), but it wasn’t your partner’s decision to make; it was yours. You were friends for a long time, so there was also a big chance if you could have told them about everything that happened, they’d have been more understanding. Right now they only heard one side of the story and this side was told while a lot of anger was still playing up, so it might not have been the most neutral perspective of what happened. I don’t know whether at the time you tried to explain to your friends your side of the story. If you did and they still decided to ignore you, I’m so sorry. You do not deserve that at all! If you didn’t explain it all to them yet, maybe this is something you could try still? It’s completely up to you to decide whether you want to do this, but we think it might be worth a shot! If it doesn’t change the situation, then you’re still in the same position as you are now. You’ve got nothing to lose really!

For your partner we think the same applies as to your partner’s sister. His initial reaction understandably was to be upset, but after having calmed down and realising you weren’t to blame, it should have been a topic of conversation, rather than to keep a stiff head and treat you so harshly. Being in a serious relationship means to be there for each other in good and bad times and in our opinion this includes at least trying to look at things through your partner’s perspective, which is something he lacked to do. You really deserved more support, both from your partner and your friends!

We understand that everything you’ve gone through has caused you to feel like isolation was a good option, and we understand why you’ve isolated yourself. But sometimes it feels like isolation is our only option, when in reality it only complicates our struggles and causes us to feel a lot worse. Which seems to be what’s happened to you too. Isolation seemed to be the best option, but now you feel incredibly lonely and you don’t have a support network anymore. This is something to work on!

Sweetheart we would really recommend that you look for local sources of support who you can speak to when you’re low on a regular basis, or if you’re heading into crisis. This support can come from a variety of sources. For example you could reach out to your former friends, explain what has happened in as much or little detail as you feel comfortable, and ask them for their support. However we completely understand if you feel that you can’t forgive your former friends for leaving you when you needed them most as how they treated you is very hurtful, so of course only do what you feel comfortable doing! You could also reach out to charities that help mothers dealing with postnatal depression, or even your healthcare visitor/equivalent to you locally. You could join a group for mothers who have been through similar things, or even just a social club for mums with young children. Alternatively you could try and reach out to a mental health professional, who can help you to understand your feelings and work on more long term coping mechanisms. This could also involve getting professional help for suicidal ideation, PTSD (like symptoms) and depressive episodes. This is important because it will help you to make the most of your children growing up, and help you to not feel so guilty about everything you’ve been through. If you’re able to successfully tackle suicidal ideation then this will be a huge step in improving your mental health, as well as give you piece of mind and prove to yourself how strong you are and that you’re able to overcome all of this.

Since your partner will stay with you for the children, we really think it’s important to work on improving your relationship. That’s why relationship therapy might be a good option! This is something you’d both have to be open for though, which your partner might not be. A reason that might potentially persuade him into going through with it, is that even though you two are together now to not make the children go through their parents splitting up, being together isn’t always better for the children. Children pick up on a lot, and there’s a possibility they’ve noticed the tense atmosphere between you two. Basically, if your partner doesn’t want to get into relationship therapy for the two of you, see if he wants to do it for the sake of your children. Hopefully that will help!

We’re so happy to hear that your children are a reason for you to not act on your suicidal ideation and to instead keep fighting. It however is important to increase the amount of reasons to stay, as having more and more reasons to stay can also help reduce the suicidal ideation a little. And we’d really wish for you to not experience such strong suicidal ideation anymore but for those feelings to lessen and lessen until they’re away completely. We have a page listing a lot of reasons to stay that you can find here. We’d recommend you to use this page for inspiration, but to make your own personal list with reasons to stay, rather than to read only through the page and leave it at that. You can use our printables to make your personal list with reasons to stay.

All in all, we truly hope that you can get some support and help real soon! You truly don’t deserve to be going through all of this, and even less to be going through all of this on your own! Feel free to let us know if there’s anything else we can help out with.

Sometimes what seems impossible, is just hard.

Lots of love, Caitlin and Pauline

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Large class sizes during the coronavirus pandemic are a triple whammy

Mathematical fashions may also help determine class sizes and configurations to attenuate disruptions and faculty closures. (Shutterstock)

Formulating college and childcare centre reopening plans in North America this fall has been a frightening activity, as each the pandemic and our scientific information of COVID-19 proceed to unfold rapidly.

For college kids attending in individual, there are lots of questions to think about: How necessary is the cleansing and disinfecting of surfaces? Which age of scholars ought to use masks, and when? What’s the greatest method to cohorting? How massive ought to class sizes be?

Information of how COVID-19 spreads has improved for the reason that pandemic began, however as reopening plans have been being developed, we acknowledged a necessity to research outbreak eventualities in colleges and childcare centres. With our mixed background in mathematical modelling, epidemiology, environmental sciences and childhood training, we tackled the query of sophistication sizes.

We developed a mathematical mannequin of outbreaks in houses and lecture rooms. The mannequin made a really stunning prediction: as class sizes go up, the unfavourable impacts of COVID-19 go up exponentially quicker.

A granular method

We opted for an “individual-based” mannequin the place distinct people (adults and kids) are allowed to work together based on specified guidelines. This extremely granular method permits us to see the consequences of social groupings and particular person traits on private outcomes like missed college days.

Utilizing age and family dimension data obtained from Canadian census knowledge, we constructed small populations with childhood training centres and related households consisting of a number of adults and a number of kids. Our mannequin is actually a simulated digital world of faculties and houses.

Illustration of simulated houses (high) and a childcare centre (backside) within the mannequin. ‘A’ represents dad or mum, ‘T’ represents instructor, circles are kids and numbers symbolize classroom assignments of kids. (Chris Bauch), Writer supplied

Kids have been allotted to lecture rooms randomly or by grouping siblings collectively. We thought of childcare centre eventualities with pupil/educator ratios of seven:3, 8:2 and 15:2. We additionally thought of main college eventualities with pupil/educator ratios of 8:1, 15:1 and 30:1. College students may attend class day by day or alternate between in-person instruction one week and on-line studying the following week.

Influencing components

Then we ran our pc simulation of COVID-19 outbreaks on this setting. We assumed that when a symptomatic case of COVID-19 seems in a classroom that it could then be closed for 14 days.

However modelling the influence of sophistication sizes on outbreaks is hard.

Faculties have been closed throughout a lot of the primary wave and so — maybe unsurprisingly — school-aged kids didn’t account for a good portion of circumstances throughout this era. As well as, kids usually tend to be asymptomatic and due to this fact not reported as having COVID-19. A number of different components may affect each the danger and dimension of outbreaks.

So how can we predict what outbreaks in colleges may seem like, on condition that colleges haven’t been open in Ontario since March 2020? Since we don’t know the entire proper enter values to make use of, we took an method of “uncertainty evaluation,” a cornerstone of scientific inquiry — admitting that you just have no idea every little thing.

This method meant that we’d change the mannequin inputs and research how these have an effect on the predictions. For instance, we distinguished between a “excessive transmission” assumption, the place the virus can unfold rapidly, and a “low transmission” assumption, the place the virus unfold is being slowed by means of masks, disinfection and bodily distancing.

Triple whammy

Throughout the entire permutations utilized in our uncertainty evaluation, we have been shocked to seek out that when class dimension doubled, the variety of circumstances and student-days misplaced to closure greater than doubled. Pupil-days are calculated by multiplying the variety of closure days by the variety of college students affected, and with every class dimension doubling, they went up by components of two to 5.

Affect of sophistication dimension on COVID-19 circumstances (high) and misplaced student-days of instruction (backside), for the low transmission mannequin situation. (Chris Bauch), Writer supplied

Once we elevated the transmission fee, it modified the overall variety of circumstances, however the relative variety of circumstances or student-days misplaced to closure between the assorted class dimension eventualities didn’t change a lot: bigger lessons have been all the time comparatively worse than smaller lessons, and by about the identical issue of two to 5.

We describe this as a “triple whammy.” First, when class sizes are bigger, the possibilities are greater that one of many kids will check constructive. Second, when that baby does check constructive and the category is closed, closure of a bigger class impacts extra kids. Third, by the point the case is recognized, the coed might need been transmitting the virus for a number of days, or another person within the class could have been asymptomatic and transmitting for a lot of days. This third level is essential — it’s more and more clear that SARS-CoV-2 might be unfold by aerosol particles.

Different penalties

The worst situation, by a large margin, was the 30:1 ratio within the main college setting. Switching to a 15:1 ratio with alternating weekly cohorts (15:1A) diminished the variety of circumstances and student-days misplaced to closure by an element of round 4. And regardless that greater pupil/educator ratios permit extra college students to get in-person instruction, additionally they trigger extra disruptions attributable to extra frequent want to shut lecture rooms when a case is recognized.

As well as, there are more likely to be vital psychological, social and psychological well being penalties for folks and kids when colleges and childcare centres shut. And since outbreaks can occur at any time, working dad and mom could should be pulled from their work with little or no advance discover.

Learn extra: The right way to assist your baby address the transition again to highschool throughout COVID-19

Transferring ahead

Faculties and childcare centres have already reopened. Some districts have been allowed to go along with a most well-liked mannequin that allows smaller class sizes, and it is a step in the precise course.

There are additionally many examples of how college districts can cut back class dimension at minimal price. For example, kindergarten lessons with two lecturers may cut up into two teams, one in all which makes use of the library, gymnasium or spends extra time outdoor in actions.

Learn extra: COVID-19 and colleges reopening: Now’s the time to embrace out of doors training

If widespread college closure happens once more this fall, we advise that re-reopening plans pay shut consideration to the facet of sophistication dimension. Whereas the danger of outbreaks won’t ever be zero even with small lessons, it could be prudent for sophistication sizes to be decrease, so these disruptions have an effect on the fewest variety of kids and households attainable. Within the meantime, for folks and caregivers, one of the best factor to do is have sincere and open conversations round how closures will seem like of their household, together with preparations for work and baby care.

The maths tells us that faculty or classroom closures can be a actuality for a lot of college districts this fall.

Chris Bauch receives funding from The Ontario Ministry of Faculties and Universities and the Pure Sciences and Engineering Analysis Council of Canada for COVID-19 analysis.

Dillon Thomas Browne receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Analysis Council and Canadian Basis for Innovation.

Madhur Anand receives funding from the Pure Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.

Brendon Phillips doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or organisation that will profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their educational appointment.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/large-class-sizes-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-are-a-triple-whammy/ via https://growthnews.in

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