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[deadambitionsociety]

WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY TO REMEMBER THAT ANYONE WHO ISN'T CIS OR HET IS QUEER AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT LABEL YOU CHOOSE.

[pomegranate-hearted]

16.11.2021

only one exam left and i’m up to my ears in analytic philosophy. it’s definitely one of the most difficult philosophy modules i’ve taken, but that makes coming to understand it all the more rewarding! wishing everyone busy with exams the best!

🎧: use me like you used to // vlad holiday

[greelin]

“i don’t understand how you just get so much stuff done under pressure and like don’t freak out” i just go into autopilot bro like i genuinely do not know what happens in high volume situations. i let my body deal with that shit. not for me

[greelin]

if you completely block off a whole portion of your mind you’ll find that it is actually quite peaceful and you can move very fast, almost ungodly so, and achieve a lot while feeling absolutely nothing

[greelin]

i have been informed that this is not how normal people process and handle stress.… . dam that shit’s crazy. sorry y’all have to deal with it in like a rational healthy way

[findingfeather]

So for the record as both a long-term user of this feature and someone who had what I’m about to talk about happen to her: 

If you rely on this too much you are at ever increasing risk of it not working anymore, very abruptly, at a really horribly inconvenient time. 

You are also at risk of it working less and less over time when you have no other coping mechanisms in place. 

And finally even if it continue to work, you are doing continual damage to your ability to handle non-crisis situations! And increasing the chance that you will start unconsciously turning everything into a crisis. 

All three of these options are Sub-Optimal, to say the least. 

(this is because this method is essentially harnessing the dissociative capacity of the brain for moments of extreme trauma more or less At Will except the will involved amounts to convincing your amygdala to let go of the right juices by convincing it that the tiger is in fact right there. It can be a superpower! But it’s also, well. Risky. If you find yourself literally doing it for everything, be aware that it’s kind of like running an engine at max at all times without ever really replenishing the oil. Eventually you will start burning shit.) 

[punkinspicelattes]

I think there’s potentially one more option that occurs if you’re *especially* good at this, and it’s that your threshold for “crisis” unconsciously becomes higher and higher.

Oh, you wrote that paper in a week no problem? Now it’s not a crisis until three days before.

That worked okay? Now it’s not a crisis until the day before.

That worked out too? Hey, now the crisis point isn’t until *the day of*.

This is how I ended up writing a 30 page PhD level literature review in 12 hours—and presenting on it the next day—during finals week. And you know what? That sucked! It almost just didn’t happen!

Because at some point, your brain is going to just believe nothing is a crisis anymore. It fails to recognize pain. And pain is important, because it’s a sign that something has gone deeply, deeply wrong. If you believe that nothing is a crisis, *you will not know you’re in a crisis situation until you’ve fallen off the cliff of what is possible*. You will not recognize the pressure you’re under until it’s crushing you, and possibly not even then.

And this doesn’t just affect your work or school; you don’t recognize these signs in your relationships either, and it primes you to be able to take whatever others may do to you. It’s not even that it lowers your self esteem and makes you believe that you deserve it—you literally just cannot recognize when situations are harmful anymore. Have you ever told someone a “funny” story from childhood and they look at you and reply “holy shit, I’m sorry you went through that?” Yeah, that’s your whole life now.

If this sounds dire, it’s because it is. Do NOT let yourself get to this point if you can.

[findingfeather]

Excellent addition.

[notebookist]

half a year ago, i was considering making a life change that was, frankly, absolutely terrifying to me.

i gave up on being premed in my sophomore year of undergrad for a variety of reasons, the main one being feelings of inadequacy. i never considered the path i'd have to take until it was staring me in the face, and i abandoned my goals out of fear.

fast forward through two years of undergrad, a pandemic graduation, my first adult™ job in the medical field, and a complete re-evaluation of my priorities and what i'm capable of, and... i am proud to say that i am back on a premed track.

this time around, i have a much better idea of what steps i must take, how hard i must work, and how long the path will be. i won't say i'm not afraid anymore. challenging myself is scary. but i've made it this far, and i have so much farther to go.

i'm documenting my non-traditional premed journey, starting with my applications to postbaccalaureate premedical programs. i'd love to hear your stories as well. let's freaking do this thing!

[chrxyw]

do you enjoy writing letters?

[somerabbitholes]

setting deadlines in terms of word count has truly changed my life

[justanotherrjournal]

hi! so I’ve had this 2019 planner that I bought for absolutely no reason and I just couldn’t stand that it was empty so I made it into a moodboards/scrapbook/brain dump journal inspired by hf Twitter #justforfun

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[apricitystudies]

10.07.2021 // it stormed last night, and today is equally rainy and cold. it’s 26°C, i’m wearing a jacket i love but never get to wear because it’s usually too warm, and i spent the morning reading (and crying over) the anthropocene reviewed. life is good.

[studylustre]

a spontaneous sunday bake: cherry pie with fresh cherries from our local greengrocer 🍒🥧

[coffee-and-rose]

Productive day in my life #1

• wrote my to do list for the day

Today my motivation ist quite low. I‘m trying my best to get things done and even though I have timeblocked my week, I try to be gentle on myself.

I really wanted to try out energy management. I still need to do some research on it. Do you want me to share my experience?

• edited my pictures for Tumblr

• finally at 10 am I start working on my Uni stuff

I have finally finished working through the material the professor gave us. It took me so long to understand. Well now, it's almost 12 pm and it is time for my lunch break.

• 1 pm I started working on my uni work

• 4 pm it is time for my coffee break and I called my parents

• after that I read 1.5 hours

I have gotten myself a library card and I was using it's ebook service. I really fell in love. I have so many book in my list and I tried to make it a habit to read at least 30 minutes everyday

[shelterandwarningpodcast]

our episode with @KaylaAncrum is finally out!! we recorded this in february and im so glad you finally get to hear it!! we talk about monsters, morality, and of course, her new book Darling. listen here:

@shelterandwarning

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[shelterandwarningpodcast]

our episode with @KaylaAncrum is finally out!! we recorded this in february and im so glad you finally get to hear it!! we talk about monsters, morality, and of course, her new book Darling. listen here: https://linktr.ee/shelterandwarning

[chloe--studies]

biology cornell notes 🌻🌼🌺

super happy with how these turned out, and they're so helpful too!

[shelterandwarningpodcast]

have you seen that post about how gen z will likely have a cult boom? would you like it explained? the new episode of the shelter & warning podcast (listen here!) goes in-depth, along with tips on what to do if you find yourself in a cult and a profile of the california witch killers, which shows how religion can be manipulated. need more convincing? here’s the (absolutely gorgeous) episode art: 

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[frokk]

dark academia but it’s online school

- waking up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, even though you don’t actually need to

- staying up late to read or paint because you don’t have to get up early

- handwriting assignments that should be typed and submitted digitally

- having a coffee cup with you, rather than a thermos because you don’t have to take it anywhere

- still getting ready and dressed so that you can feel focused on your work in the mornings

- emailing your teachers to see if they have any extra reading related to the topic

- turning in all of the assignments for the week earlier than the rest of your class because you wanted to finish them early

- not doing any assignments for the week because you were too interested in researching about different planets or the deep sea

[shelterandwarningpodcast]

ATTENTION CALLING ALL

gays

monsterfuckers

true crime fans

people who hate capitalism

people who are procrastinating their homework

y'all should listen to the shelter & warning podcast! our next episode about the Mothman comes out march 13th!!

[shelterandwarningpodcast]

any guesses for the 3rd episode of the Shelter & Warning podcast? listen next week to see if you're right! https://t.co/vxVQiO85mT