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imho omega-3 supplements, eating like an athlete in injury recovery (so much protein and fiber) and gentle cardio every day has made a huge difference in my post-COVID and post-concussion recoveries

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I know u ended up officiating that wedding

I've seen it three times now and I think it's solid, got narrative structure, the right amount of self-caricature, carefully not misogynistic. A better IP blockbuster than the Barbie movie

cuz being a cloud is IN 🌧️

Life! Family, tooth pain, plumbing disasters. I'm close to the edge, in a gentle sustained way. Like glamping near the cliff I have mapped well in the last years. 🏕️ Love being in therapy again. I wanna dish about the therapist I did NOT keep, whose polycule I learned way too much about in 2 sessions

Sizzling, surreal, to be charged w so much imminent radical change not at all yet set in motion. To not WANT the seismic changes, but need them. To not know what the final picture will look like, OR even know if I CAN solve it successfully. But all this roil does get me closer. ⚡️🌊

One of those games where u need to slide the puzzle pieces around to cohere an image. Thank u poptoptoys.com for my visual metaphor

Right now my life feels intensely like one of these 🧩🖼️. I'm mentally assembling it 24/7 and failing and starting over which makes it hard to focus on other stuff like Emails. Or sometimes Emails and Teaching and Dishes are blessed temporary relief!

Well, wait. Sick gift, the fight finds you. 💣

It's perfect, just needs a realistic cow

What a privilege it is to finally be able to read my own book.

I really hope I can translate this into actionable steps-- possibly thru my concurrent journey of handstand technique upgrades which have the potential to unlock oceans-deep resources of nuanced ab engagement 🤞

Like. It's hard to state how much this is like suddenly getting to read a lengthy dry Wikipedia article about ur childhood abuser or the shadowy demon from ur chronic nightmares. Lights on. Oh it had a name this whole time. (And: why didn't any fucking doctor ever tell me 🙃🔪)

W/ a lot of slow focused work I am finally getting a good grade in interoception 🧑‍🎓🫁 & today I suddenly could translate the decades-long sensation of my Tiac Knee Pain-- the mysterious, powerful, consistent companion of my entire adulthood-- into patellar instability. OK! Damn!

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thank u for hosting this little symposium, I personally agree w this lens

this was a helpful read for me, ty!

Haha yes I was literally thinking about the Canadian Shack challenge with this example! Or "Five Things That Aren't True" and how that turned into contemporary "5 + 1." The prose styles of this era had more crossover with pro sff than romance, despite the sexual/romance content, imo.

which as you note 100% is in a feedback loop with pro romance, both in trope-forward marketing techniques and general aspects of literary craft. Fic used to be SO much more stylistically diverse before it was so centrally located! This is bittersweet to me

Yes, completely! And yes haha I was around for the transition from mailing lists and individually hosted websites to LJ so I have a long perspective. Something I've been very interested in too is what I see as a trans-fandom flattening of prose styles/plot structures which I call "AO3 house style"

Thank you babe 🥺💖

oof I hope you can get to the dentist in a way that works out for past present and future R... not to be the ghost of toothache future but I'm having major 🦷🔧💸 done today myself

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I really appreciated this piece - thank you for thoughtfully weaving together so many strands! I've observed the same demographic and cultural shifts and been mystified in a "I guess kids these days are different" 🤷 but the way you tied it into contemporary information practices makes sense 🥲

Ur range 💕💕

For 10+ years hs has been synonymous with the sensation of further damaging the tendons of my triceps & wrist. It feels electric and sleepy-safe to touch the wire without pain. ⚡️🌷☁️ I told my coach I can only see my 🤸 ex in public cafes, with her as a chaperone. Trust is its own transformative gift.

Having a body: brutal, sustaining, a a strange loop of death and growth. 🪞🔨🪦🎈 This week I absorbed a new medical emergency which requires surgery I associate with senescence not middle age. And also a lesson with my coach that navigated my broken handstand thru 🪨 and 🧜‍♀️ to a painless, virtuosic line.

I ask you to pin me to the wall and count each butterfly scale. Put me in a locket on your chain.

Anyway I truly did not expect to be convinced but I am. 😳🔭 Shrimp emotions about re-narrativizing so much of my childhood. Lot to chew on. Also I told my (adhd) irl bff about this & she was like, huh someone making notes about ur old diary entries must be hard drugs for ur personality type. Uh yes 🙈

update: they are reading thru my teenage years (which I personally find too cringey to revisit so am extra touched by their interest) and were like "... is it ok if I make u a spreadsheet organizing all the examples of stuff I'm seeing that supports a potential adhd diagnosis?" I love love!!!!

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