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But if you want to do something and you make room to try it, you’ll find yourself well underway before excited about new topics is the sheer amount of stories currently taking up space in the back of my mind its brethren in this section, The Hyperion Cantos has a special place in my heart for its unique, mind-bending The Masquerade and The Locked Tomb  are never far from the forefront of my mind, and could always show Teixcalaan and The Serpent Gates exist side-by-side in my mind for being strange, queer, women-focused

Anno Dracula and other tales have the souls, minds and memories of victims drained by the vampire through To operate without it is to lose reason and mindfulness, driving forward on primal need without a care Both of these ideas ultimately reflect the fragility of our own minds and personalities. As I concluded in my transhumanism series (check it out for more details), mindfulness is key to maintaining Ultimately, I think the theme of reflections can once again tie into our self-perception, mindfulness

In addition to training and keen minds, the Antimemetics Division leverages drugs to enhance the memory It is a mind-virus you contract the moment you think of it, and the book pulls no punches in demonstrating Believe it or not , my first instinct was mindfulness: that we're better off perceiving and tending to

A mindless predator lurking beneath a superficially sophisticated surface. I find these scenes horrifying as allusions to gaslighting, where the vampire denies anything is wrong even while absorbing the very lives, minds and souls of their victims. Probably none of the 19th-century authors had climate change in mind, but vampires can easily be taken Impeccable acting throughout, and from the same brilliant mind as The Haunting of Hill House and The

You can find the issue here  if you’re interested in giving it a read. Rather than go line-by-line through the song's lyrics – find them here – I'll examine the story and While this could be because he's finding a healthy middle ground between absolute obedience and full It's the continence of bishops with their choirboys en-suite " from ' Kaisarion ' immediately comes to mind times I've discussed these false dichotomies (and just most of my posts I suppose), I'll suggest that mindfulness

The Gordian Hive, under Headmaster Felix Faust , seek to unlock the potential of the human mind, to eventually These factions are therefore fighting for the hearts and minds of humanity, to decide the future of our They're also fighting for the gifted mind and good will of J.E.D.D. Should we go into the mind, or out among the stars? I love this stuff to bits, I hope you find it fascinating too!

around here (and everywhere) lately, so I want to take a moment to write about a silly pleasure of mine First up has to be Alestorm, whose co-founder is also the mind behind Gloryhammer. religion and war, though there's very rarely any narrative to a song, let alone an album – which is kind It's the kind of simple enjoyment you can only get when you strip away any and all complexity and just it's okay to enjoy a silly rock ballad from time to time, but to recognize and be (you guessed it) mindful

content warning : I'm going existential today, so if for any reason you're not in the not in the right mindset It came to me, as many of my topics do, by way of my ADHD mind noticing a pattern. each of the songs I'll discuss in this series, but I've also grown to take a deeper message and even find 'Raining Stars' Strangely, lodged in my mind alongside these (and similar apocalyptic) songs is Tinder's into bliss // Snowing fire and raining stars And I hope you can already feel a little of the relief I find

I've recently come to learn that it's not just ADHD (though I think it is an aggravating factor): our minds Find a cheap e-reader second hand if you prefer the format, or use your local library if not. you're on audio or physical books, consider putting your phone out of easy reach so that you can't mindlessly find its way back into them. puzzling and whatnot with ADHD, try adding some music or a light show in the background to keep your mind

What can we learn by going inside the mind of vampires and looking outward? proposed to by three suitors on the same day early in the novel, it's easy to see Lucy as the 'bimbo' to Mina Helsing sees Lucy only as a helpless victim and object of scientific interest, and it never enters his mind What effect does the passage of time have on undead minds?

Today I continue to fixate on, and try to wrap my mind around, the mindset of Trump supporters. released while I was reading The Books of Babel , and repeated listens have firmly linked the two in my mind is the 'apparition') of plenty of living and dead autocrats (the term 'Reich' certainly calls one to mind

I love stories about places with minds and demeanours of their own. Yeager's Negative Space , but a recent book club on the novel has it fresh in my mind. I've said it a thousand times, but I probably still need to hear it more than you do: mindfulness can