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kittehkats

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Drool on my friend. Drool on.

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charlesoberonn

lakevida

nightcore has been invented for the sixth or seventh time

peetum

don’t ducking at me and it’s the shell

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emilybeemartin

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

emilybeemartin

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

mavaris

But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?

emilybeemartin

My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.

A few months later

All hail the High Warden of Gondor.

Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.

elodieunderglass

I’m going to wear this on my head like a raccoon and show everyone

russianwholesomeness

your-future-robot-overlord:
“princesstigerbelle:
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“Ground control to major tom…
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So long space cowboy
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Cyan was not The Imposter
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PSA FROM YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD REDHEAD THIS SUMMER

hello there! do YOU have SKIN???

do YOU leave your HOME and expose that lovely skin to the SUN???

do I have the product for YOU:

this!!!! shit!!!!! D E L I G H T F U L

As a Lifelong Bonafide Redhead(TM) I have put maybe every single kind of sunblock on my body. I hate the texture, I hate that even on my pasty white skin it still streaks, I hate the mess, but you know what I hate more than literally all that?

SUN BURN.

Elizavecca Milky Piggy Sunblock?? NO TEXTURE. N O N E.

Elizavecca Milky Piggy Sunblock?? NO STREAKS!!!

Elizavecca Milky Piggy Sunblock?? NO. MESS.

DOES IT WORK THO??

1000000000000000000/10

Listen. When this arrives you're going to be like. "It's so small!!" Listen. Listen. I have been using the same stick for two (Alaskan) summers now and it is still going strong. Also this means it fits anywhere and will not spill.

The singular downside? You are going to feel like you're putting deodorant on your face solely due to the shape of the packaging. It is!!!! worth it!!!!

leupagus

Holy shit guys I just got my sunblock stick yesterday and I used it all day yesterday AND today and goddamn if it isn't the most effective fucking thing I've ever used. BRB buying a half-dozen of these bad boys just to like, hand out to friends. (Also the box is INCREDIBLY cute, 10/10 not only would recommend but am recommending.)

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garbanzes

trucy always has a few tricks up her ~~sleeve~~ hat aka good luck edgeworth aka
here's my contribution to the lion lilies zine!!! (@dadworthzine) if you missed preorders, keep an eye out for the leftover sales coming up!

miles edgeworth

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Kelly Rowland Texting Nelly Via Microsoft Excel And Then Getting Annoyed When He Doesn’t Text Back (2002)

dduane

sphyrne:
“reread the truth! definitely one of my fave discworld books!!
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i mourn

i appear to have missed all the aa zines

i want to write for one

someday perhaps!

moping

wrightworthzine

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neurosciencestuff

Sleep Phase Can Reduce Anxiety in People with PTSD

A new study shows that sleep spindles, brief bursts of brain activity occurring during one phase of sleep and captured by EEG, may regulate anxiety in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The study shines a light on the role of spindles in alleviating anxiety in PTSD as well as confirms their established role in the transfer of new information to longer-term memory storage. The findings challenge recent work by other researchers that has indicated spindles may heighten intrusive and violent thoughts in people with PTSD.

The final draft of the preprint publishes in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging on May 3, 2023.

“These findings may be meaningful not only for people with PTSD, but possibly for those with anxiety disorders,” said senior author Anne Richards, MD, MPH, of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. “There are non-invasive ways that might harness the benefits of this sleep stage to provide relief from symptoms.“

The researchers enrolled 45 participants who had all experienced combat or noncombat trauma; approximately half had moderate symptoms of PTSD and the other half had milder symptoms or were asymptomatic. The researchers studied the spindles during non-rapid eye movement 2 (NREM2) sleep, the phase of sleep when they mainly occur, which comprises about 50% of total sleep.

Violent Images Used to Test Brain Processing

In the study, participants attended a “stress visit” in which they were shown images of violent scenes, such as accidents, war violence, and human and animal injury or mutilation, prior to a lab-monitored nap that took place about two hours later.

Anxiety surveys were conducted immediately after exposure to the images as well as after the nap when recall of the images was tested. The researchers also compared anxiety levels in the stress visit to those in a control visit without exposure to these images.

The researchers found that spindle rate frequency was higher during the stress visit than during the control visit. “This provides compelling evidence that stress was a contributing factor in spindle-specific sleep rhythm changes,” said first author Nikhilesh Natraj, PhD, of the UCSF Department of Neurology, the Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Notably, in participants with greater PTSD symptoms, the increased spindle frequency after stress exposure reduced anxiety post-nap.

Sleeping Meds, Electrical Stimulation May Promote Sleep Spindles

In the study, naps took place shortly after exposure to violent images – raising a question about whether sleep occurring days or weeks after trauma will have the same therapeutic effect. The researchers think this is likely, and point to interventions that could trigger the spindles associated with NREM2 sleep and benefit patients with stress and anxiety disorders.

Prescription drugs, like Ambien, are one option that should be studied further, “but a big question is whether the spindles induced by medications can also bring about the full set of brain processes associated with naturally occurring spindles,” said Richards.

Electrical brain stimulation is another area for more study, researchers said. “Transcranial electrical stimulation in which small currents are passed through the scalp to boost spindle rhythms or so-called targeted memory reactivation, which involves a cue, like an odor or sound used during an experimental session and replayed during sleep may also induce spindles,” said Natraj.

“In lieu of such inventions, sleep hygiene is definitely a zero-cost and easy way to ensure we are entering sleep phases in an appropriate fashion, thereby maximizing the benefit of spindles in the immediate aftermath of a stressful episode,” he said.

The researchers’ next project is to study the role of spindles in the consolidation and replay of intrusive and violent memories many weeks after trauma exposure.

Source: ucsf.edu PTSD sleep anxiety sleep spindles neuroscience science

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PSA FROM YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD REDHEAD THIS SUMMER

⚖️ COVER REVEAL⚖️

Want a better look at part of our awesome cover? You got it. Take a look at the front cover done by the incredible @/Worvies (Twitter) 👀

You can see the cover in its entirety by preordering a physical or digital copy of the zine!

Preorders open until November 15th.

Sleep Phase Can Reduce Anxiety in People with PTSD