emma @ emma @beehaw.org

New here, looking for my home on the fediverse. Interests include tradition

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Has fond memories of the Yahoo Answers Etiquette section.

Back when I had a two bed flat I used to joke about hosting political escapees from the US. Best I can offer now is space in the back garden for a tent. The council insists on calling these cottages "amenities housing", but that only works if you consider a walk in shower because there isn't enough room for a tub an amenity [lolsob]

If you can manage a visa though, I'll be your nana. Can you cook? I gave up on account of the number of pots I was ruining.

Might try a month's sub to Netflix for some Korean drama this winter. Will keep this in mind if I do. Thanks.

Thank you for the suggestion. This is another reason to get a better computer :)

Thank you, I will give this a go :)

This does sound very good. I'll need something better than the weak laptop I'm using just now. Something to think about. Thanks for the suggestion.

ok, i understand more about how it is with you now. The hyper empathy must make watching most things difficult.

I've been watching a short 8 hour Thai drama about gay men, relationships and letting go. It's beautifully done, simple and very real. Only have an hour left and I'm rationing it out so I don't finish too quickly. Don't know if it would be ok for you, the awkward bits don't last too long and the characters support each other through it all. Moonlight Chicken, on youtube.

Ad blockers are my best disability accommodation. The things they do with ads to capture attention f with my brain. I'm really going to struggle if this happens. And I'm dependent on the internet for so many things, from groceries to prescriptions to people.

Something with environmentalist and sustainability goals and principles rather than forms of destruction. I don't want to kill things or chop down trees or blow stuff up. The world is difficult and I am tired.

Hello again 🙂

I've watched EAW since you had mentioned it. Did you finish it? I also struggled to get through a lot of episodes, especially the shouty courtroom bits and the speed and pitch of WYW's voice when she was info dumping or agitated. The lead actress did an amazing job of inhabiting the character. It was just hard for me cause of my own broken neurologicals.

When you wrote "how much drama it has", could it have been related to that sort of thing? I'm not autistic but there can be similarities in things like sensory overload.

Bifocals that I don't get on with. Then a downturn in my health which affected my concentration. Only upside to middle age is that my eyes have changed such that I can read without glasses now so that's what I do.

Narrow, literalist readings of Jewish writings collected in the Ketuvim (Writings) section of the Tanakh (Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim) fit that.

There wasn't a hard distinction between learning and leisure like we pretend there is today. A story could have a kernel of historical truth, or perhaps a lot, or none at all; convey important truths about society, the world and our place in it; and be told dramatically to capture attention (ie entertaining) so listeners pay attention to those truths and remember them in difficult situations.

Jewish tradition is to look for 4 levels of meaning in a text, including allegorical and hidden meanings as well as the general plot. Even those who believe the surface level as literally true spend most of their time working with interpretation, what lessons we can learn from the stories.

Then along comes a Greek proselytiser who insisted the particular salvation religion he followed was literally True and therefore better than other salvation religions. And that literalness got read back into a different people's texts, came to be seen by most of the world as the only way to read them and here we are today.

Tiger and Rose is mostly awkward situations. Countless twists and turns but everything comes out of something before. I haven't seen EAW yet.

Just feel the feelings then.

30+ years into coping with these things, my most effective and main strategies are good sleep practices; nutritional (making sure I eat regularly and healthily, supplements because my body doesn't process enough from food, and minimizing things like sugar and caffeine); trying to minimize stresses (some are easy, like caffeine, others not, like the state of world and society); and recognising when i need radical rest. As in really not doing much of anything, which is boring AF.

Sitting at a bus stop near a stop light. Police car stops at the light. My brain's first reaction is to think we should hijack it. Cause GTA of course.

I didn't even play that much. It was just a good game to fail at. Spectacularly. Its police cars were especially useful in that regard.

i like traditional musics from around the world so when i fancy something new i start with wikipedia articles on instruments i like and rabbit hole through links to get terms and countries and things to put into search strings on youtube. One day i started with tar (precursor for both sitar and guitar) and ended up grooving to Philippine boat lutes, which are brilliant. https://piped.simpleprivacy.fr/watch?v=K7hYfnG7mJM

Trad musicians tend to play in several groups so that's another source of rabbit holes to explore. And just keeping an eye out for interesting things other people post. Mostly individual clips but sometimes happen into treasure troves like at the start of the first lockdown when someone I followed on Twitter posted about Met Opera in NYC streaming a different opera each day for free. It was a great opportunity to learn about a new-to-me type of music so I grabbed it, thinking it would be a couple of weeks at most. A year and a half later they finally stopped and I was an addict :)

Also libraries. Libraries can be fantastic for exploring new musicians and types of music.

Even when algorithms are good, there's still a lot more out there waiting for listeners ❤️

Not going to tell you what I think of Clarkson then :)

I gave up on UK & European telly awhile back. Got into Asian drama earlier this year. They tend to go deep with all emotions, highs and lows. Different set of cliches and conventions too. I'm rewatching a Chinese screwball comedy called The Romance of Tiger and Rose, where a young screenwriter gets stuck in the story and historical world she's created but things don't go to plan and, like all good screwball comedies, she talks her way into and out of much mayhem. Gender roles are reversed in the city she's made up and that's used well for social commentary. The new one is from So Korea, the title is translated into English as "King The Land." I don't know much about it.

I studied and practiced Buddhism when I was younger and through that learned how to identify when emotions were real emotions and when the feelings were physical. If I was feeling low and assigned reasons to it, it would last longer than if I recognised it as primarily physical. "Not putting content into it" is the phrase I used. With middle age though, no real support, a life of chronic illness, and how. much. is going on in the world these days, there's a lot of content.

I hear you.

It's been a long time but I'm sure we were able to mulch our leaves with the push mower once the blades had been properly sharpened. (Where I live now there's an unfortunate deficit of leaves (you could always try posting some of your excess to Scotland ;) and in between I was four floors up without a garden). A bit large if you don't otherwise need a mower though but going for a walk across the grass is some of the easier garden work.

I've seen videos of people making contraptions involving things like rotary saw blades and hand cranks but that's way far beyond me. I do like watching clever gardening videos though, especially in January when it feels like winter will never end.

Good luck finding a solution.

My guitars were part of another life. I had to give up playing in order to continue working and even now I struggle with hand pain and that sort of fine motor control. But thanks for the compliment on my visual pun.