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

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!

also in shaping the way I think and providing me a degree of separation from the general culture I find As with my previous 'catching up' post, I hope you'll bear with me as I tidy up my ADHD mind in preparation for one of my book clubs this month, and it was a treat to return to this deadpan and cynical man's mind utterly fascinated by ideas of what is genuine vs. simulacra and has either found or implanted a similar mindset

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

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

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?

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

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind (apologies for the thumbnail, the song's as a rapidly growing movement to destroy the technology that had enslaved humanity into the form of mindless mix of Earth religions and philosophies): "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind Ix replacing Guild Navigators with computers once more – threatening the Guild's monopoly but also finding Even if you take AI out of the mix, I find it hard to look at the way we're consuming media and feel

The Chronicles of Narnia on CD; it was a full audio production, which may explain why it slipped my mind Decades after the children originally travel between worlds, our protagonists find one of the buttons Even though Grossman has made clear that he has no particular explanation in mind, it invites the reader to make connections and find meaning. Penny eventually finds his way into the buildings of the Neitherlands, and finds that they are libraries

states, and ultimately concluded that the same is basically true of life in our current bodies and minds Read the books to find out just how right and wrong she is… She uploads a copy of her consciousness to Biological Avrana eventually slowly awakes, having lost her mind: the stasis technology was hardly expected But she managed to make friends - kind of - and those friends don’t want to lose her.