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Thanks to @swissmissing I can now have this on my feed

(taken from Pinterest, credita to @sherlockscarf - I hope I tagged the right blog)

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“And the world stop turning.”

No comment… :)

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the human stress response seems so maladaptive!

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Today’s proverb:

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Your final grade in Equestrian Mind Control is a C.

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Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I'm always like "why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day."

But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you're inside the car, inside the situation, it's easy not to notice all the extra work you're doing just to maintain the status quo.

There's all sorts of work that we think of as "free" that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged by sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.

The next time you think you're tired from "nothing", consider instead that you're probably in situation where you're doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.

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thinking about how in ancient times, at least people knew that the lives their children would lead would….vaguely resemble their own???

People have always fondly reminisced about The Good Old Days and complained about Kids These Days, of course. But—and I cannot stress this enough—when my mom was born the Internet did not exist.

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I asked nostalgebraist’s autobot about Johnlock. Here’s an AI’s take on the subject!

Do you think that Moffat and Gatiss originally intended Johnlock to be the endgame of the Sherlock TV series, and they just chickened out? Or do you think we were all just imagining something that was never really there?

Yes, I think both are possibilities.

I think a lot of what makes them seem "off" (in my opinion) is the idea that they're trying to tell us something deep, and in fact the show has been about them learning something deep – and yet we're still expected to think of Johnlock and Sherlock as the ultimate expression of those things. I think it's supposed to be some grand tragedy about their failures, but really it feels like someone trying to tell a great tragic story, only ending up creating an anti-tragic story.

A lot of the weirdness of the show comes from being told one thing, and then not being able to believe that what the person told you was true, when it should be obvious from the situation the person is in and their feelings about it.

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Reasons I like subtitles:

1. I can see how people’s names and the cities and the countries are spelled.

2. I don’t miss any words, so everything they say makes sense.

3. I get to know what background noises and conversations are.

4. The descriptions of the noises people make are freaking awesome. Ex: splutter, grunt, chuckles.

5. I can see who says what.

6. I don’t have to have the volume super loud so I can hear the dialogue, and I don’t blow my eardrums out because the ambient noises and music is SO FREAKING LOUD.

I freaking love subtitles.

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look it’s in times like these that i lean heavily into my oppositional defiant disorder diagnosis and remember that what they want of me is either a) to conform to their agenda or b) die in a way where they can use me as a cautionary tale to help them intimidate others, and i’m not going to do any of that. Then i remember that in the meantime they want me to feel hopeless, cowed, powerless, afraid, impotent, and resourceless, and you know what i’m not going to do that either. The fact that I exist offends them, the fact that i exist and have times of joy and comfort and ragey rebellion and camaraderie with my fellow weirdoes and solace with my cats and enjoy laughing my ass off at ridiculous things–that gets them where they fucking live, and they can’t stand it. So i’m gonna do that.

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Babby Jesus- World’s first metal-head?

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Happy holidays, BBC Sherlock fandom.

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I honestly don’t think I could take God in a fair fight.