Whenever I Take A Long Car Ride I End Up Exhausted Afterwards, And I'm Always Like "why Am I So Tired?

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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My BIL playing Alien: Dark Descent: man, it sucks because even if you kill the xenomorphs they have acidic blood that still damages your guys, so even if you kill them it's like...you're dead but you're still mean

Me: I realize this is sci fi, but I wonder how creatures with acidic blood would actually work

My sister: I mean, there are creatures that are acid resistant

BIL: they're just based as fuck


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6 months ago

In spite of it all, choose to do good. Choose to be kind. Choose to grow. Choose to be the change you want to see.

A country is its people, not its leaders.

Don't let this major setback blind you: it's not hopeless. You can still make a difference going forward.

Never forget that you matter.

Be the kind of hopeful that has fangs.

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4 months ago

i love finding poetry in the mundane, and yesterday i stumbled upon something that just hits that spot

So, my partner has an old phone- It served them for many years now, but it has one issue: Charging it is hard. Their current charger is hanging on by a thread (literally), and can barely do its job. The phone and the charger came together: They've never used another charger for said phone.

Now, they've tried to replace the charging cord several times. But it doesn't matter how much they've searched what damned specific charger the phone uses, none of them work. They finally decided to bring it to a phone shop and ask what should they use.

The guy at the shop looked at the phone for a bit, and explained: "The port itself is broken. The charger you have works with this phone because they've mutually broken each other into the same shape, in a way that no other charger is shaped. The port itself has corroded in a way that only accepts the charger that shaped it like that in the first place."

And while this is of course a frustrating situation for my partner, I feel like there's a metaphor here. I could write a goddamn story about this. These two half-broken old things have been together for so long they've destroyed each other in a way that keeps them from working with anything else. They've hurt each other in a way that barely keeps them functioning together, and have been rendered useless with literally anything else.

This too is toxic yuri to me-


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1 year ago
Was For ShuAke Week Of 2023
Was For ShuAke Week Of 2023
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Was For ShuAke Week Of 2023

was for ShuAke Week of 2023 <3


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6 months ago

Okay, I know I've already talked briefly about how I think the perception of Kichijoji changes for Joker after 11/20 in a different post, but today has me thinking; how does it change for Akechi?

Are the colors dimmer for him too, both in vibrancy and in light? Does he find himself walking around and looking through shops as if he's passing time while someone's still on the train? Does he automatically go to stand by Penguin Sniper before remembering that there's no one who will meet him? Does he go to the Jazz Jin and feel like it's too quiet?

Does Muhen ask him about the boy he would come with? Does he fumble for an answer? Does he keep thinking of a conversation topic and looking up, only to see an empty chair? Is the realization so terrifying that he goes home and works too late, sustained by anxiety and the worst coffee he's had in months?

Does it extend beyond Kichijoji? When going on Momentos runs just to blow off steam, does raising his gun remind him of a boy in an arcade, or one sitting in an interrogation room? When he sees Sae at work, does he think of how her sister reacted to the news? After school, does he find himself almost taking the train to Yongen-Jaya? When putting on his gloves, does he get the urge to pull the right one just a bit tighter?

Is it hard for him to look down at his desk from an certain angle? Do certain voices in public catch his attention? Does he see a Shujin uniform and panic? During interviews where they ask the audience for input, does he keep preparing himself for a mini debate?

Does he look up that boy's parents, trying to find their contacts so he can tell them that their son is dead? Does he find the original court case that resulted in a probation and realize that Shido had been to thank for yet another thing? Does he buy or steal cheap liquor from any store he can, pouring it down the drain just to drown out the smell of coffee that hangs on everything he owns by now? Does he think back to every conversation they've ever had, playing his rival's words over and over again in his head to search for some signal that he knew this was coming and he knew how to get out?

Does everything look dimmer to him, too? Does life just feel more bland?

(When he realizes that Joker is alive, is the tiniest part of him relieved? Does he crush that part of him, or does he ignore it? Do the lights in the studio look just a little more vibrant? Does he even realize any of this before it's too late, bleeding on the other side of a bulkhead door? Does he?)


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2 years ago
Everyone Be Quiet !!!! He's Sending Email

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8 months ago
A Trans Akechi Comic Focusing On Gender Dysphoria
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3 years ago
Clockwork / Sad Kids
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1 month ago

the intention behind it all

[postcanon domestic shuake].....

The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All
The Intention Behind It All

.. .. i've returned and it IS scary

this one ended up becoming something deeply personal to me please don't mind that (or do)....

anyway shuake apartment and my favourite panels

The Intention Behind It All

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