Siren Tycho

• 2020-12-05

  lands-end-ada:

  Moon Mood Journal

  I’ve created this 188 page fillable workbook to help you make friends with the twelve faces of the moon as it moves through the astrological signs. 

  Includes a guide to common astrological terms, journaling prompts to help you understand the moon’s influence on your moods, and illustrations by the author.
  

  Buy the PDF on Ko-Fi!

• 2020-06-25

  

  No idea what’s going on in this painting, but “size difference pygmalion selfcest mermaid” is definitely my next AO3 search.

• 2020-03-28

  moonlit-tulip:

  There’s this failure mode that my dreams occasionally fall into.
  

  A dream starts out as an ordinary interesting dream wherein things are happening. At some point, something forces me half-awake; the two most common culprits are either having slept for long enough that I’m out of sleep debt, or getting overheated by a fever in the middle of the night, but it’s occasionally prompted by other things too. Instead of waking up the rest of the way, though, I keep on dreaming while half-awake, just with much less brainpower behind the dream’s creative processes.

  At that point, a handful of major ideas and images from the dream up to that point get tossed together and looped: instead of things happening, I just get repeated scenes of those same few ideas and images, over and over with no interesting variation whatsoever. Eventually, subjectively after a pretty long time (but not necessarily really after so long, since that sort of half-awake state massively skews my perception of time), the experience becomes sufficiently unpleasantly boring that I muster the motivation to force myself more fully awake in order to avoid continuing to experience it, at which point it ends (as long as I don’t try to go back to sleep too soon afterwards, in which case it sometimes resumes).
  

  Is this a thing that other people have any experience with? I don’t recall having ever heard someone else describe anything along these lines, but it’s an interesting (if somewhat unpleasant) brain-state that I’d be curious to learn about others’ experiences with if they do exist.
  

  I get something like this quite often, and it doesn’t have to come from a dream-state. Many times I’ll just wake up from a dead sleep (or be unable to fully fall asleep) with anything from some words to a fragmentary line of nonverbal reasoning looping through my head ad nauseum. I often find that I have to fully wake up and leave the bed to go get a glass of water, read something, etc to fully kick it out.

  Subjectively, I’ve started to have less of this since I started seriously investing in unconscious/subconscious listening techniques (I do a lot of tarot reading, and whether you take a materialist or supernatural view of how it works you end up leaning on intuition a lot to make it work) but really any number of factors could have changed it. My theory is glitches like this are something or another trying to become linear-rational thought out of the wordless sea of intuition that seems to underpin what’s probably-horribly-incorrectly called the prefrontal mind, but hitting an edge condition that keeps it from gelling–or it’s just noise getting trapped in that system, perfectly balanced so as not to develop or decay.

  It does seem related for me to sleep disturbance or stress, and is much worse when I have a fever. N=1 but maybe some of that is useful?

• 2020-03-19

  

  Never not reblog.

  (via salacious-sci-fi)

  Source: qaradise

• 2020-03-17

  Escapist Tags

  lands-end-ada:

  While everyone is cooped up, let’s share some of our favorite distractions. Bonus points for answers that involve things that are free and/or commonly found at home.

  🎬- Movie/TV/YouTube:  I have been watching Lucifer on Netflix and looking up patio gardening videos on YouTube. 

  🧶- Craft/Hobby: My state recently passed a no plastic bags law, and I always forget to bring a reusable bag, so I’m turning old t-shirts into reusable bags to leave in the car. Because that’s what a Prius trunk is for, right? Toting compost and reusable bags around?

  📖- Story: I like to read fluffy stories before bed to help me fall asleep. Lately, I’ve been reading through the Anne of Green Gables series (free on Project Gutenberg). 

  🍲- Recipe/Snack: I have been devouring this black bean dip. 

  🏋️‍♀️- Exercise: The BodBot app (Android) has been a life-saver while I’ve cooped up. You tell it your time limitations and the equipment you have (”none” is an option, thank goodness!), and it puts together an exercise routine for you. I am pretty sure there is a free trial, and think there is a similar IOS app called FitBot?   

  🎲- Game: The Pyramid Spread by Mary Greer is like solitaire for Tarot readers and can be turned into a 2-person/team game by asking questions of each other instead of the cards. Keep it light, and it’s a lot of fun. (Unless you’re scorpionic, in which case, the game automatically morphs into truth or dare. Obviously.) 

  🎧- Music: I’ve been listening to a lot of Lana Del Rey (because seriously) but I should probably be listening to S.J. Tucker’s album Wonders, which is inspired by The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairy Land in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente and never fails to inspire me to dance around, which is also, you know, exercise.

  🎨- Art: Collage! Because junk mail delivery never ends.

  🏖- De-stressor: Guided meditation videos on YouTube. I feel peace or I collapse in a fit of giggles. Either way, win!

  Tagged: @sorensfw, @grimnirslee, @arcanecalligrapher, @gcufrictionalcoefficient, @strange-lights-and-stardust, @maddiviner, @thebasildruid, @thepatchworkcrow, @harvestmoonborn, @centerpointwitch, @sewceress, @elusiveimp, @the-odd-aardvadillo, you! 

  You know the drill: answer and tag. 

  While everyone is cooped up, let’s share some of our favorite distractions. Bonus points for answers that involve things that are free and/or commonly found at home.

  🎬- Movie/TV/YouTube:  Binging Lucifer to curb my ST: Picard withdrawal I CAN’T WAIT A WHOLE WEEK BETWEEN EPS I’M ONLY HUMAN

  🧶- Craft/Hobby: Does painting my nails count? Also there’s my perennial programming project BlackMirror.

  📖- Story: Too busy writing to read lately…

  🍲- Recipe/Snack: DoorDash, category `Pizza`.

  🏋️‍♀️- Exercise: 

  

  🎲- Game: Minecraft when @lands-end-ada​ is around. When she’s not, Enter the Gungeon is a wonderful bullet-hell roguelite with a delightfully brutal difficulty curve.

  🎧- Music: I’ve been listening to a lot of The Black Mages, because there’s no better heavy-metal remix of Final Fantasy Music than that made by the original composer. Yes it’s worth listening through all twelve minutes of Dancing Mad…

  If you’d rather make love than war, DJ S3rl is the horniest musician on youtube and thus one of my favorites.

  🎨- Art: Is Redstone wiring an art? Actually I’ve been drawing a tiny bit on and off, and it’s fun if I don’t try to be good at it.

  🏖- De-stressor: HELLO DETECTIVE!

  

  Originally posted by thesoapmademedoit1

  Tagging @arcanecalligrapher​ @azdoine​ @squidholme​ @gcufrictionalcoefficient​ @changelingrain​ @gzer0x​ @lesbian-bard​ @sethtalon​ @lessbong​

• 2020-02-10

  

  aura-lee:

  picsthatmakeyougohmm:

  hmmm

  You squeeze by me on the train and all you hear is “ᵇᵒᶦⁿᵍᵍᵍᵍᵍᵍᵍᵍThhhhdDdDdDdDdDd”

  (via delsomebody)

• 2020-02-04

  arcanecalligrapher:

  prokopetz:

  I’ve never understood why edgy Star Trek fans always fixate on the Transporter of Death. Like, you’re willing to accept faster than light travel, psychokinesis, non-mass-conserving shapeshifters, and Wesley Crusher surviving to adulthood, but a means of teleportation that preserves continuity of consciousness is where your suspension of disbelief tops out?
  

  It’s that particular flavor of teleportation — complete disassembly of your body into its component atoms and reassembly at the destination — and that it’s happening in a reductionist setting. If it was in a world where souls were verifiably real, that’d be one thing, but that’s not the Trekverse. If it ran on a means of folding space to shove you through a temporary tiny wormhole, or colocation of the underlying space, that would make heaps more sense. Additionally, it would mesh better with the ability to teleport to places that don’t have a receiving pad. And the difficulty of transwarp beaming.
  

  Okay new headcanon: the Trekiverse only thinks it’s a reductionist setting. Actually souls exist and 38% of Q’s supercilious smirk is him imagining at all times the look on Geordi’s face when he inevitably through his close friendship with Data becomes the one to realize this.

  (via arcanecalligrapher)

• 2020-01-22

  thigh-high-senpai:

  reblog this post if you are a succubus, support succubi or think underworld ladies are just really nifty

  (via ashelias-lewd-sideblog)

• 2020-01-14

  thebootydiaries:

  Me: *stares into the void*

  The Void: *stares back*

  Me: *winks*

  The Void: *blushes*

  (via lesbian-bard)

• 2020-01-13

  ashelias-lewd-sideblog:

  scrolling through my desktop to clear it off a little bit, as one does, when these two screenshots happen to show up in order: