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[vandijkwrites]

sorry if you've already answered this 700 times, in which case totally feel free to ignore. but how do you lengthen your attention span? is it as simple as watching/reading progressively longer things?

First of, I am by no means an expert, but I'm happy to help as much as I can! There are a lot of great articles, books, and podcasts on the topic if you want any further info.

The most important thing to realize is why are attention spans are getting worse:

Information overload and distractions make it difficult to focus. (Ex. social media and text notification going off while you are doing other tasks)

Intentional multitasking gets your brain used to doing more than one thing at once so it becomes very difficult to make it do only one thing (Ex. having the tv on in the background while doing other tasks)

Consuming a lot of media focused on having minimal downtime and immediate gratification decreases our patience and ability to do slower tasks (Ex. watching a lot of action packed movies and short TikToks)

Getting constant small hits of dopamine from social media decreases our ability to do tasks that don't give us dopamine hits (Ex. getting likes from a post or messages from friends)

The solutions to most of these come down to two things: (1) Do only one thing at a time (2) Limit distractions from that task (3) Reduce immediate gratification

So some example of ways to do that would be:

Read a book without your phone being on hand to distract you.

Watch TV without multitasking.

Reduce time on social media, especially social media focused on short videos.

Spend a day or part of a day without technology.

Spend time with friends without looking at your phone.

Watch slow-form content like unedited lecture or panel videos where people are just speaking at their normal pace without cutting pauses.

Listen to music albums all the way through instead of shuffling and skipping.

Eat meals without multitasking (ie mindful eating)

Make yourself a cup of tea and sit on a park bench or by the window and watch some birds.

People-watch at the coffee shop.

Write long emails or letters to friends and family instead of short texts.

Call and have a conversation with a loved one without multitasking.

Meditate.

Take a walk and enjoy nature.

Don't scroll through your phone while waiting in a line.

Read long posts when you come across them on your dashboard.

Have an ebook on your phone to read whenever you would normally scroll through social media.

Don't go on your phone/online for a certain amount of time before bed.

If you are having trouble doing these things, try to do one tasks but increase the stimuli of that task. For example, read a book while listening to the audiobook at the same time. Or listen to music while watching a lyric video. These are great baby steps!

Another great baby step is (like you said in your question) doing things for progressively longer amounts of time! Set a timer for a certain number of minutes and then read without distraction for that amount of time. That way it won't feel like it is never ending and you can track your progress.

Obviously not all of these will be for everyone and some of these are too hard for people with ADHD or serious attention issues, but they are a good place to start!

I hope that helps 💕

[cienie-isengardu]

Hello! I stumbled across your post about various unique species in Star Wars, and I was wondering what you meant by Ahsoka having more human eyes in TCW?

Hi there!

Before TCW, we had Togruta species represented by Shaak Ti and Ashla (young padawan from AotC) and Raana Tey, shown on screen and tie-in material and their eyes looked like that:

First and the middle rows: Shaak Ti from AotC dictionary, concept art & Dark Horse comics from the Star Wars Jedi series and Clone Wars Adventures. The bottom row: screenshot from AotC and image from wookiepedia. Below, Shaak Ti on the cover art mentioned before comics, Raana Tey from KotOR comics series (2006) and an exemplary representative of the Togruta species from one of the sourcebook:

Some official source material noted the black eyes as distinguish trait of this species. Like "Who's who in the Jedi Order" (Insider 62, 2002)

Life as a Jedi was a struggle for Shaak Ti, a striking Jedi with red skin, black eyes, and a blur of patterns on her cranial horns and long head-tails.

or Ultimate Alien Anthology (2003)

[...] A pair of darker-striped head-tails (similar to Twi'lek lekku) frame an oval face set with black, penetrating eyes and grayish lips.

The early concept art for Ahsoka in fact included the typical Togruta's eyes!

source for the left top and bottom pictures

source for the right top picture

I think the idea behind changing Ahsoka's typical Togruta eyes to human-like was about making it easier for younger viewers to connect with her as character, as this makes her, visually speaking, more human than alien.

Whatever the reasoning was, we ended not only with Ahsoka having big blue eyes

but also Shaak Ti's movie appearance was changed to resemble TCW Ahsoka

and so was the Togruta species as a whole

(which I think contribute to their appearance in The Old Republic MMORPG that was launched after TCW).

This is what I meant when I mentioned how The Clone Wars changed Ahsoka's alien eyes for typical human ones.

[digital-nova]

hey, sooo

could you make one about a whumpee who is a drug addicted and caretaker is trying to make them sober forcefully

bonus points if they have to be restrained

this one was tricky, but your wish is my command anon

Addiction whump prompts

Caretaker(s) having to restrain Whumpee in a bath, needing to shower them with cold water to lower their withdrawal-induced fever. (I get my bonus points muahaha)

Whumpee being forced into a rehab centre and hating Caretaker for it. They refuse to see them when they come to visit.

Whumpee being in pain from something unrelated to their withdrawal and Caretaker refusing them painkillers, no matter how much they cry and beg. (Bonus points if Whumpee is faking it to get the meds.)

Caretaker needing to go out for a little while, so they chain Whumpee to their bed to prevent them from going out and relapsing.

Caretaker weening Whumpee off the substance by giving them small amounts, less and less each day. It’s bearable until the dosage gets low enough for the withdrawal to start kicking in.

Caretaker houses Whumpee to help them get clean. They wake up one day to find they’ve disappeared, along with several of Caretaker’s most expensive belongings.

Whumpee attacking Caretaker for throwing away the last of their supply.

Whumpee refuses help (or perhaps help isn’t available) so Caretaker locks them in their room alone and forces them to go cold turkey.

[archeo-starwars]

You wouldn't happen to have an extensive layout dissection of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant? Or even a list of all notable and obscure sections of the Jedi Temple? OR or even labelled areas that are public and reserved for only temple residents. Both from canon and legends, please and thank you!!!

The best I managed to find comes from Star Wars Complete Locations - you may check out the whole archived version here. The “zoom in” option is pretty good for reading details. Below the pages (I suppose the best is to open them in new tab for better reading):

As for the list of locations, I recommend wookiepedia's list. Plenty of data, both for Legends and New Canon.

Additional sources worth to check out:

Jedi Temple Locations & Jedi Temple History - both published as official material on star wars.com in regard to prequels and New Canon sources. Pictures and references to various places inside Temple.

Star Wars.com's The Clone Wars episode guide + videoclips from the series, like

A) Jedi Archives Tour (the entrance to one of the most restricted areas of the temple: The Holocron Vault).

Jedi Archives Tour - Star Wars: The Clone Wars

When Ahsoka is taken off active duty and charged with guarding the Jedi Archives, Jocasta Nu shows her the entrance to one of the most restr

B) Layout of Jedi Temple Library (source)

C) Jedi Temple funeral room + environment illustration by Tara Rueping (source)

Old Data Bank for Jedi Temple

HoloNews mentioning "a mob of 20 university students attempted to infiltrate the Jedi Temple" and "managing to get as far as the Second Atrium Lobby"

Star Wars Battlefront (2) game wiki provides some map and location description

and if you have time (and patience) you can watch gameplay from 501st Legion's mission in Jedi Temple for reference, like this one

The wookiepedia's articles should give enough good idea of the rooms, their location and functions, but I'm adding a few source pages:

STAR WARS: FACT FILES #36 provides a lot informations what and where was inside the Temple and some general data about visitors, security, Grand Balcony, Grand Corridor & Towers. Not all is super specific, but worth checking out for sure.

The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia mentions this:

and for Jedi Temple entry:

As for the named locations that are public or reserved for only temple residents, there is definitely a division like that, however I'm not sure if this issue was very well explained. The source gives us some ideas, like for example, Jedi Archives have data accessible only for Jedi with rank of Master or higher (thus most likely separated areas to study). At the same time, Fact Files #25 says that Jedi Archives offers an "excellent resources to researchers, including star-map hologram consoles", but also an access to entire scientific and historical knowledge of the Republic

so non-Jedi were allowed to use Jedi Library/Archives for their own research and work-related needs. We also must remember that the Jedi Order had various scientific branches, including archaeology, exploring unknown regions, and medicine, so logically thinking Jedi worked with other, non-Jedi specialists of many fields.

We also know from various sources, that politicians and important guests were invited for various occasions. We could see in Republic comics series that Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and senator Ask Aak were allowed to listen to Jedi reporting before High Council about his last battle

or attending Jedi Funeral like Duchess Satine and Padme Amidala did for the (fake) Obi-Wan's one or just visiting as a friend/comrade-in-arm

I would need to make more research about this issue as there is plenty tie-in material to Jedi Temple on Coruscant that would take a lot time to study, but at this moment, I think the best is assume how far a non-Jedi may walk into Temple will depend greatly who is that person and what is nature of their business with Jedi.

At the same time, Purge: Seconds to Die has this line "Clone Troopers? This deep in the Temple? Not permitted."

The Jedi was in Archives herself, so it is worth to take into account that clones could have more limited access to Temple than the average guest before war did. At the same time, clone troopers could make a report before Yoda and Mace Windu/High Council, as was presented by Star Wars Tales (Honor Bound):

so it is not like they were outright forbidden to enter the temple either.

Hope it will help!

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