a bit of everything

hypnosis, hockey, punk rock, and other stuff .. “In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits...” —John C. Lilly

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Doing your best" means "doing what you can without harming your mental and physical health" not "doing something with no regards for your own limits."

[assignedmale]

So apparently this is a thing now. (Also, be aware that purposefully saying “the Ukraine” is a reference to the belief that Ukraine is nothing but a region of Russia and is considered to be a dog whistle.)

[hypnophibian]

The more things change, the more they stay the same..

[arihi]

Amazon Content from EMCSA

If you’ve ever posted to the EMCSA, there’s what people are assuming to be a bot that’s just compiled a ton of EMCSA stories into a TON of stories they’ve stolen and listed on Amazon for profit. As the stories clearly aren’t theirs, apparently you have to be a right holder or agent to send a report, so the authors themselves have to do it. You have to click into each ‘book’ to see all the stories that are there. I’ve seen stuff from Kallie, Hypnotic Harlequin, Jukebox, Doc, and no doubt tons of other authors in the community, but I just can’t remember every and all story titles.

It definitely takes a bit of time but if you’re worried, you can check it out and report any compilation that’s using your story without permission in hopes Amazon takes the bundle of reports that are happening right now and bans them outright soon.

[arihi]

Hey! I realized I didn’t want every author ever to have to do what I did and go through all 127 links painstakingly, so I made a Google Doc.

I’ve pasted the text of the stories included under each link. I do see stories with media references and what looks to be fanfiction included in these stories, so it’s possible they’ve taken from more than EMCSA.

Anyway - just wanted to boost this for authors who are affected. The google doc has everything pasted out in text for easy ctrl+f, or just so you don’t have to click every single one generally.

[quillogirl]

So, for the Tumblr-verse: Hi. I'm now in charge of Beguiled hypnosis conference. We're having some issues with the beguiled official Tumblr account, so in the meantime - please feel free to @ me.

Tickets are on sale here: https://beguiled.ticketleap.com/conference2022/

We've updated our site: http://beguiledcon.org

Accepting presentation submissions: http://pretalx.com/back2reality

Accepting volunteers too! https://forms.gle/cHRSjYkz2B2njhNc8

[hypnoobiwan]

New look, New edition

This cover was done by violentlyCurly (https://violentlycurly.com), and I'm so happy with the way it turned out!

The ebook edition should be available within 24 hours (of 2/21/2022 at 3pm Eastern time), and that includes making the updates available to all previous purchasers of the Kindle edition. I'll get it to Smashwords today as well. The print edition will take a bit longer because I'm having problems with Amazon, but hopefully within 48 hours or so that'll be straight too.

[hypnophibian]

Woooo!!!!

[girlactionfigure]

Judith Love Cohen, NASA engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss, let him know she finished the problem and then gave birth to Jack Black.…and yes, they are both Jewish.

 Source: @humanityincontext and Humans of Judaism.

Rabbi Yisroel Bernath

[sweettist]

[exitwound]

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

[milmoarts]

Ducky Barnes

This can be found as a sticker and shirt design here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/MilmosArt/shop?asc=u

[girlactionfigure]

#DidYouKnow: The Incredible Hulk #256 (the issue dated February 1981) features Israeli superhero Sabra, whose alter ego Ruth Ben-Sera is an Israeli police officer. 

Ruth was moved to a special kibbutz run by the government as a child when her superpowers were discovered. Sabra wears a thick cape with paralyzing energy quills which she can fire. 

The text explains that a “sabra” is a native born Israeli whose name is derived from the prickly-pear fruit which has a sweet interior and “a spiny outer surface to protect it from its enemies.” This issue’s storyline deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Hulk commenting “Hulk came looking for peace—but there is no peace here” and Sabra reawakening her own sense of humanity.

From the amazing private collection of David Matlow. 

Humans of JNF

[ancient-rome-au]

opinion on the dacians?

Honesty, I don't know enough about them to have a strong opinion. The one thing I can comment on is that the draco military standard (adopted by the Romans from the Dacians) is neat AF.

[hypnophibian]

Is that ....a broomstick handle?

[jaubaius]

Dogs: “Omg that’s crazy! Be careful, jump like this! I’m scared!”

Cat: “So bored!!”

[charmedhypno]

Charmed2022 has kicked off the Pre-Con and we're on her second set of classes! Tomorrow the rest of the classes start and it'll be a bunch of fun for sure.

[catilinas]

Help who are blorbus & tumblrinus

titus blorbus plinkonensis and quintus aemilius tumblrinus are roman senators that i made up, w lots of input from @breitzbachbea and borrowing the name tumblrinus from @kallistoi. you can read all the hashtag lore in chronological order here, although watch out some of it is in the replies and not the body of the posts. most of the biographical information is here and here and here. absolutely crucial part is that they kiss

[ancient-rome-au]

Good gods above and below…. how did I miss this entire discourse?! Screw touching grass, I’m logging the fuck back on. I have so much posting to catch up on.

[kimchicuddles]

Thank you patreon.com/kimchicuddles text reads: Recently I’ve been wanting to fall in love, and it felt like a door had cracked open in my heart. So I started looking for someone to help me open it, because it seemed like the door was a bit jammed. But eventually I realized it wasn’t a door to my heart. It was a door to a vault of grief I’d locked up a long time ago. And what I’d been wanting to fall in love with was the part of me that I’d locked up with it.

[catilinas]

tumblr university is OUT tumblr monastery is IN brother tumblrinus is painstakingly copying out the most interesting prev tags on a manuscript of vergil until the abbot calls him out for not making his proto-gothic script accessible enough and also for his heresies

[zoya-nazyalenskys-archive]

now that tumblr's banned the english language we should all just start communicating in our native languages, getting to decipher what everything means will be half the fun

rip to the monolingual english speakers though yall will be missed

[hypnophibian]

Хорошаяа идея :D