Sara
You’ve been so focused on self-improvement that you’ve forgotten what it feels like to be inspired.
Co-star, from my “year ahead” report.
Creativity and Sunlight
“If you feel like you owe me something, then repay me with a question.”
Olga Marie to you in FGO
Perhaps even more important, says NIN sleep scientist Eus van Someren, interrupted REM is strongly linked to disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety. If two people experience the same level of trauma, a good sleeper is probably less likely to develop PTSD than someone with disturbed sleep, he says. Those with disturbed s
... See morefrom Up All Night? You May Have Actually Been Asleep by Francine Russo
Truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn’t a matter of resolving to “do something remarkable” with them. In fact, it entails precisely the opposite: refusing to hold them to an abstract and overdemanding standard of remarkableness, against which they can only ever be found wanting, and taking them instead on their own
... See morefrom Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
If you were to glance out one day and see a row of mushroom clouds rising on the horizon, you would know at once that what you were seeing, remarkable as it was, was intrinsically not worth remarking. No use running to tell anyone. Significant as it was, it did not matter a whit. For what is significance? It is significance for people. No people, n
... See morefrom Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
- The events in Tsukihime take place in Misaki Town. Chronologically, the end of the story of Tsukihime takes place around the beginning of Fate/Stay Night. It shares many similarities with Kara no Kyoukai, and the two were also subtly connected.
from r/fatestaynight - /r/Fatestaynight's Official Viewing Order Guide v2
The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
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> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signalSunlight and Creativity
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L. M. Sacasas
Solving a crisis by escalation seems not to have gone out of fashion. It signals, of course, a failure of imagination, but also an institutional imperative. What can an institution possibly offer you except more of itself? For example, the one remedy for the problems it has unleashed that Facebook cannot contemplate is suspending oper... See more - My suggestion is that art appreciation is another kind of striving activity. We aim at getting correct judgements about art, but getting correct judgements isn’t the actual point. If correctness were our real purpose, then we should do all we can to get the right answers—which would often involve deferring to experts. But such deference would miss ... See more
from Art Is a Game