#kyra's ramblings, basically [Disclaimer: always obsessed with some viking dude so follow at your own risk] - I'm normal at @syninmystik + my art is at @synindoodles
Hej! My name is Kyra and welcome to my mess of a fan/personal blog - I post mainly about The Last Kingdom and Vikings, with some other unrelated stuff so yeah follow at your own risk :p
But despite the mess, here's my attempt to tidy things up a bit;
Artworks
You can find/filter all my drawings under >this< tag (or you can follow/check out my art blog aka @synindoodles)
Wanna buy prints? >Here< you can find all my drawings in high quality + different options to purchase them (;
Additionally, you can find (some) of the people or pics I want to draw tagged as #synin's to do list
Edits
Tagged as #my edits
Tagged as #my gifs
If you're into Travis Fimmel, you can also follow my sideblog @fimmeltravis where I post even more of my edits and gifs along with @ptheviking (;
Writing
Recently started posting my silly writing too so here's a rather deserted masterlist I did where you can find the only thing I've written and shared so far
Anyway, I don't want to make this post any longer that it needs to be, so feel free to send in as ask about myself or my art or whatever :p
You can also find me here: art instagram | art blog | gaming blog | side blog
One thing that worries me about the use of AI is whether or not it can worsen people's dementia and alzheimer's in the future. When my grandmother was first diagnosed, we got her math activity books. Now, my grandmother never had a formal education, but we did our best to keep her sharp, get her to do math and writing activity books, sudokus, playing board games that required some level of strategizing with her. Her family is prone to alzheimer's and dementia (both her siblings had it and deteriorated very very very quickly, which yeah, scares the shit out of me being her granddaughter) but she was the one whose mind lasted the longest, she only passed away two years ago, at 88, ten whole years after her initial diagnosis and sure, she had forgotten things, recipes and where she put her glasses and appointments, but she never forgot any of us, ten whole years in, she still remembered us. Now, this may have been luck, but doctors always said the constant mental work + companionship + medicine helped her a lot. So I'm thinking, these people who are now relying on AI for everything, from email-writing to thinking what's for dinner to casual conversations, I've even seen people rely on it to calculate what time they should leave their house if they need to be at a place at a specific time and their commute lasts X number of minutes. As if that's not... the simplest math operation possible? You shouldn't even need a calculator for that!!! Idk I don't know how long it'll take us to see the effects of this + exposure to brain-rotting short form content that is completely meaningless + people addicted to right-wing conspiracy style media. Idk I'm very worried. Please, read, read complicated books! Take up a book on philosophy and try to decipher it and make your own opinions on it, please buy a maths activity book and relearn how to do math, please get a hobby that involves lots of thinking and concentrating. PLEASE!!!
As a neurologist, I’ll give you the pretty name for it: cognitive reserve.
The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.
As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.
We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.
Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?
Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.
TLDR: Yes. From the knowledge we have today, AI will increase the number and severity of dementia cases.
A brand new website to host and archive over +40k images, behind the scenes videos and much more from my beloved Vikings!
Yes, I know it's 2026 and that the Vikings fandom is pretty much dead, but for the sake of all those stragglers like me still enjoying this show, I made this website.
For those that may not be aware, FarFarAwaySite (a website full of HQ stills from many shows, Vikings among them) was recently terminated, which means all their high quality images are now gone.
However, a kind soul sent me their archived files from not only FarFarAwaySite but many more sources, so I thought it would be a good idea to share them with all the fellow fans!
/ Vikings Vault /
*This page is a work in progress and I'll keep on updating it, but until I can find the missing content and be done organizing everything I already have, I've decided to post it anyway c:
*Most if not all of the files were once in a website called vikings-fan.com, which means some of the files will have their watermark, but since this is basically a resurrected/redesigned version of that page, it's not really an issue. You can read more about this new online archive below the cut!
The page has a very simple layout, just navigate through the sections to find what you're looking for and you'll find everything sorted out in several categories.
1a. Stills; as the name suggests, here you can find all the episode stills. They're categorized by season and by episode, just select whatever season and episode you wish to see content from and it will take you there: if you like a picture just click it and you'll see the full size version! / warning: this is quite a heavy category so if it takes a while to load or seems empty please be patient! /
1b. Behind The Scenes; another self-explanatory section. Pictures are sorted by season only but there's one more sub-category named "Unsorted", here you can choose an actor/character and see all the bts pics of them or, if you don't want to choose a single person, you can either choose the "group pics" category or "others/extras/crew". / I only created specific categories for those characters that I had the most pictures from, so please don't be offended if I left your favorite out :c /
1c. Interviews & Videos; here you will find cast interviews, some behind the scene videos, promotional trailers and extras! All videos have a little thumbnail, but if you click on either the images or the text description, you'll be taken to the video! / warning: for some strange reason the videos get downloaded when you try to watch them, so beware :c They're very small in size though, so it shouldn't be an issue to download them! /
1d. Photoshoots; sorted by events, so far I've only added photoshoots done for comic cons.
1e. Events; under construction, sorry!
2. The sections and each category inside of them are almost complete, I do want to add some more videos and properly link relevant pages/videos/sources, but as I have no more space in my pc at the moment, sadly I won't be able to get the missing files yet :c
3. Some of the promotional images aren't in the website yet, but I'll be posting them through @vikingsvault , so if you'd like give me a follow there and that way you won't miss the posts c:
4. Last but not least, this page was done mainly by @synindoodles , so a big shoutout goes to her for helping me build the page while I sorted everything out!
I'm almost done watching Yellowstone after forever and only now I'm realizing my gay ass watched 5 fucking seasons of Sons of Anarchy with horses just for Bella (my wife) Hadid to show up for like 10 minutes at most 🫠
I love that people can use characters from shows to roleplay but I'm saddened to discover I was too late to create a Ragnar rp blog just to gatekeep him from everyone lol
