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thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight
amir khusrow (1253–1325 CE)
This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:
He only visits once a year, I splurge big on him when he’s here, His kisses make my tastebuds tango. Who, bitch, your man? Nah, bitch, a mango.
Every line in this video is iconic
I would watch this drama
I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.
Give yourself the treat before you start. I'm serious. And ideally during the task and afterwards too.
Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.
"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.
You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.
(Also read How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis)
I give my students a LOT of techniques for starting writing when it feels overwhelming or daunting, but one of them is exactly this: dopamine load BEFOREHAND. It may sound weird to people on tumblr dot com, but a lot of people seriously struggle with executive dysfunction when it comes to writing literally anything, to the extent that it can cause such symptoms as panic, depression, and AI chatbot use.
I usually suggest this technique as a "Reverse Pomodoro." In the original Pomodoro, you work for 25 minutes and then take a break for 5 minutes (the times vary, but that's the essential ratio). People with executive dysfunction often find this insurmountable, and they get even more frustrated, and then the task seems even more difficult. So instead, flip those times.
FIRST, spend 25 minutes doing something energizing and engaging that you like to do. Not scrolling social media passively, not watching tv, not napping. Try something like colouring, doing yoga, running/walking around the block, talking about your favourite tv show with someone in real time, playing with the dog or cat, making and eating a lovely sandwich, hula hooping, something active. Having a little treat absolutely falls in this category!
(on the subject of little treats: refusing yourself food until you do work is for fucking Puritans and you can be kinder to yourself)
Then, after 25 minutes (or however long it takes to eat the sandwich or finish the yoga routine, it doesn't have to be exact), spend 5 minutes writing (or doing whatever you're struggling to start). Most people can coax themselves into doing something they find difficult for five minutes, if they have already filled up the joy/energy/engagement bucket. You can put a timer on for the 5 minutes if you want, or if you find that annoying, just work for as long as you like.
The other key is: don't push yourself to keep going when you're frustrated or tired—that will just reinforce the negative belief that you already have, which tells you that this task is painful to do, and needs to be avoided. If you've commonly had to force yourself to do this kind of task, that's likely part of why you think of it as painful and have trouble starting it now. Also, you should just, at a basic level, try not to put yourself in pain for the sake of productivity. So just do it till the good feelings run out. Then start hula hooping or colouring again for another 25 minutes. When the tank's refilled, try another 5 minutes of work, if you can. Adjust times to taste.
Not every technique works for everyone, but I've seen this one work for many students who are genuinely and seriously disabled by executive dysfunction. And many people find themselves getting more and more excited and engaged in the "difficult" task—because the good feelings from the hula hooping carry over, and because they're suddenly able to do the task without feeling pain, and feel accomplishment without feeling pain.
“do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less despair” still living in my head rent free
The Thirteen Principles of Bagel Faith
Recently a non-Jewish friend asked for my opinions about bagels. Thus have I endeavored below to record the fundamental truths of my religion. Other Jews with differing regional and culinary minhags are welcome to make their own post.
BEST BAGEL FLAVORS: (in no particular order) sesame, poppyseed, onion, garlic, egg. Consider the toppings you're choosing as well.
THE EVERYTHING BAGEL: Like pumpkin spice, a creative flavor somewhat overexposed. A reliable choice if you fear the bagel is mediocre, as the spice combination may mask other flaws.
CINNAMON RAISIN/BLUEBERRY/SWEET BAGELS: Foolish. Cinnamon raisin bread already exists, why sully a bagel with it?
'RAINBOW' BAGELS: Marketing trick.
CREAM CHEESE FLAVORS: Plain, scallion, or vegetable only. Lox spreads are inevitably a mistake, because if the fish were good quality, they wouldn't waste it on a mix-in. Strawberry cream cheese is for children. Other flavors are for apostates and heretics.
DEPTH OF THE 'SCHMEAR': Not thicker than the height of one bagel half, or the length of your thumbnail.
LOX: Of course, if it's fresh. If the deli calls it "Nova" or "Gravlox", you're in good hands. (Whitefish: yes. Herring: better on crackers.)
CAPERS: Yes, if assembling the works (lox, tomato, red onion...)
TO TOAST OR NOT TO TOAST? Contextual. Toasting a freshly-baked bagel is a sin. Toasting a stale or sub-par bagel is a necessity.
SUPERMARKET BAGELS: Pointless. Just buy a loaf of bread instead.
SUPERMARKET CREAM CHEESE: Perfectly reasonable, but if you're catering an event you will save the stress of broken plastic knives if you buy whipped instead of block.
NEW YORK BAGELS: You can find excellent bagels outside of New York and you can certainly have disappointing bagels in New York, but the best bagels in NYC are better than anywhere else. Sorry.
MONTREAL BAGELS: A separate food group to be evaluated on its own terms, as deep-dish pizza is to thin-crust margherita. When in Montreal, I did not enjoy mine but that was an error of perspective, not of the bagel. I hope to visit again someday and correct this.
Bonus: a good bialy is much harder to find, but better than a bagel.
Tough but fair....... I do hope you can reevaluate the Montreal bage' because you're right it's not like the ones in NY and should be evaluated differently
genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.
via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:
people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for
No because it makes me so pissed off when people are all like "oh, I wouldn't want to be immortal, being immortal would suck, it would be so boring."
CLEARLY YOU'VE NEVER TOUCHED A HOBBY IN YOUR LIFE
I mean, you could spend six lifetimes sewing ALONE. Then after that there's quilting (2 lifetimes) and weaving (12) and spinning thread (10) and tablet weaving (at least one) and leather work (15)!
Gold work embroidery takes up AT LEAST five lifetimes to even learn and probably another 12 to get bored with, if not more.
That's not even mentioning other fields! Become a brain surgeon over three lifetimes! Learn carpentry and make an entire castle out of wood! Learn stonemasonry and make another castle! Learn to make tapestries!
SPEND 50 LIFETIMES READING EVERY SINGLE BOOK TO EVER EXIST
Become an archaeologist and starts learning more about the past!
Advocate for climate change!
Climb every mountain in the world and then explore the whole ocean! Get invested in space travel!
And that's not even TOUCHING if you're a writer. If you are then write a thousand books on a thousand different topics, and then write another thousand all about the same one. Write poetry for gods' sake.
Get on a boat and learn how to sail, and then sail around the world and make a new friend every place you go. Visit every country and every people and learn everything you can.
Spend 300 years breeding crows strictly for intelligence and then teach them language. I do not care, just DO SOMETHING.
Christ alive, there's a WHOLE WORLD out there, and we humans can never get to all of it.
So if you ever become immortal, LIVE. EXPERIENCE the world, don't just lament that you're different.
GO DO THINGS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WON'T GET THE TIME.
Tahani in The Good Place
music is literally so songs as fuck and dont you forget it
i am 100% convinced that mobile phone/ social media bans for under 16s are an attempt to remove kids and teens from public life. this is not protecting kids this is locking them in houses with no escape from their abusers. the world is so hostile to teenagers rn
Sometimes as a European you play an American game and even though you speak fluent English and culturally there's not too much different you can Tell you're missing some kind of cultural context
I had no fucking clue what a mormon was when I played the New Vegas DLCs
This post is not an invitation for you all to explain mormonism to me I am fine not knowing about this
I can't put this in tags like a normal person because apparently Tumblr no longer lets you do long tags which is dumb and I hate it but ok. Long time ago when I was but a wee 14 years old kid living in a sleepy town in Northern Ukraine, one day my bestie told me: hey, have you heard about this new English speaking club at the city library? They say it's run by two guys that came here on a mission all the way from America. And I was like: what mission? And she told me they were supposed to be Mormons. I didn't believe her. I was convinced she was fucking with me because at the time I didn't think that Mormons were real. I honestly thought they were fictional and only existed as a gag in South Park. And then a couple of days later those two missioners actually showed up to our English class to promote their little conversion club. Those poor men stood in front of a bunch of 14 years old and told us they were Mormon and several of my classmates said: wait, Mormon? Like in South Park?, and from their pained expressions you could clearly tell that it wasn't the first time they had been asked that here.
Wisdom if I’ve ever seen it
Enemies to taco truckers, marinated and slow roasted, 500 words.
People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.
crossfaded somewhere between "there has to be more to life than this" and "every mundane thing is beautiful when you're with people you love"
I tried makeup for a while in college but I could tell it was actually making my dysphoria *worse* because I'd feel alright about myself but then take it off at the end of the day and I'd see my face without makeup and suddenly be hit by how ugly I felt without it and I was like oh. this doesn't seem healthy. so I swore it off and threw it all out and now my bare face doesn't really bother me anymore. I want to feel good about myself at all hours of the day, actually
Oh yeah this isn't even really a trans thing, this is a woman thing.
"Trans women are women!" say make-up companies, your equal opportunity source for corporate-backed dysphoria
