reblog this and in the tags, write the band that comes to mind first when you think back to being 13 years old
I did Titania too for funsies♥
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Padme’s Villa Retreat gown, circa 1956! I wanted to keep this relatively soft and simple, so it took a few passes to finally nail down a design- I know it’s a lot of people’s favorite, so it deserved the special treatment ;) This will definitely have to be an April postcard at my patreon, so check that out, if you’ve been enjoying this project, reimagining the prequels in a modern setting using 1977 as a fixed point!
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made a positive meme for u
Okay, but legit, this works. Like, it really, really does work.
This is the most important mental health advice
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
- According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”
- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.
It’s years before anyone explains it to him.
People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.
The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That's a word, it's his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they're putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.
It's fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.
Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.
Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).
And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.
The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down.
Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city.
And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families.
There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride.
I am absolutely sick and tired of people finding new ways to label and categorize women’s bodies. The justification is always “oh I just want to HELP women dress to flatter their shape and feel more confident!” but in practice it’s a flimsy excuse to obsessively and destructively hyperanalyze ourselves and others
There’s like three categorization systems that are genuinely helpful and the rest are basically just excuses to control people.
The warm(greenish veins)/neutral(blue veins)/cool(purple-y veins) categorization of skin tones is nice because it takes into account more than just how light or dark you are and therefore is useful for makeup designers and artists in achieving realistic and diverse color matches to skin.
Classifying skin based on hydration and sensitivity (oily/dry/combination) is also useful because it means that people are less likely to get a rash/be left feeling dirty from products that were designed for someone else (my friend’s hair was literally thinning before I made him switch to a deep moisture shampoo, conditioner, and body wash because his body barely produces oils).
And the (1-4,a-c) classification system for hair types/curl patterns is also really useful for hairstylists/cosmetic brands/people because the hair follicles are actually structured differently and respond differently to factors like humidity, skin hydration, and styling techniques.
All the categorizations about body/face shape are about highlighting “desirable” features and minimizing the “undesirable” ones. This is usually done to make people’s features align with a specific set of popular features. The criteria for most of these systems is based on loose relationships between a set of features as opposed to the actual variations in a given feature. Which means that anyone who has an unusual or a particularly unpopular combination (or is a dude) of features left out AND that designers don’t have a standardized reference for making diverse clothes.
i dont understand people’s perception of friendship anymore. do you only want to get to know people on a surface level? just for cute instagrammable moments?
do you not care deeply about them and understand that they are complex human beings who experience a range of emotions?
your friend being vulnerable with you is not trauma dumping. you don’t have to be a grief counselor to be there for your friend while they cry about a loved one dying. or just a rough time they’re having.
i mean, do you only have deep discussions with a therapist and not friends or family? if so, that’s weird tbfh and not utilizing therapy properly.
it’s all so incredibly bizarre to me. everyone’s always talking about yearning and loneliness, but if a friend starts to cry about their dying grandma it’s like, “oop, girly i dont have the Headspace for that. here’s my discount code for betterhelp.com” weirdo shit tbh
The attitude that you’re talking about seems to come from people who are still in the process learning how to set appropriate boundaries. Generally, they’re coming from a space where they had been giving more to friends/family than they got back and are just now learning that its ok to say no and haven’t quite figured out when to say yes. Some people aren’t ready for a deeper relationship. This is an especially common attitude among influencers because of the nature of being in the public eye (they don’t want/need an emotional relationship with all their fans).
People do still have deep meaningful friendships. What’s missing from the attitude you’ve described is the realization that not all moments of vulnerability are inherently traumatic. Learning how to be a good friend is about communicating your needs, when to ask for help, and knowing who to go to for what.
For example, I don’t talk to my friend Z when I’m in physical pain because he’s highly physically empathetic and has trauma from a childhood illness. If I talk to him about my aching joints, I would force him to relive something much worse than my actual issue. My friend C is emotionally empathetic and struggles with a lot of the same mental illnesses I do. If I talk to C when I’m upset (especially about anxiety or depression), we feed on each other’s emotions and both end up having panic attacks.
Z has the same mental illnesses but doesn’t get triggered by my emotions so I can talk to him and get sound advice on how to handle things. C gives good relationship advice and understands what its like to NB so we talk about that. When I’m in physical pain I talk to my boyfriend who doesn’t have chronic pain but who knows how to help because his mom does.
