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If you have more than one thing you struggle with, pick the one that causes you the most problems day to day.

technically, motor initiation is not a form of executive dysfunction. this is because cognitive psychologists don't think about motor behavior as part of the same continuum as cognitive dysfunction, and the "executive" in "executive function" is all about performing cognitive tasks. Specifically, these are skills that are conceptualized as top-down "cognitive control" abilities that help us obtain our goals without letting those goals get eroded by pesky environmental or internal influences. Executive function is fuzzily defined in the academic literature at the best of times--much less the way we discuss it in popular media and social media!--but that much everyone seems to agree on.

And that means that motor initiation is.... not an executive dysfunction! Because motor initiation isn't cognitive.

For this reason, motor initiation is pretty much the exclusive domain of Parkison's researchers. which is fascinating to me, because a lot of aspects of decisionmaking happen in the striatum, and the striatum moves seamlessly from integrating information in the ventral striatum for decisionmaking right up into the dorsal striatum, which handles--you guessed it!--motor movements and initiations.

however, I am going to gently push back on the motor thing, because I think that there's something getting missed here: if there isn't a motor dimension, then deciding to do the thing should be immediately followed by physically moving in the direction of the task without requiring a buildup of willpower to move the body at all. I'm being really persnickety here about task initiation / motor initiation because the point of decision--the point at which you go, okay, here's what we're doing next--is the last strictly cognitive point on the continuum from "having a desire to do X" to "physically doing X with my body." Most people do not have to build up a critical mass of willpower to self-initiate movement and transition to a new task. You know who does, though?

(Refers to an anecdote about a patient with Parkinson's who couldn't move their hands no matter how hard they tried—but if you tossed a ball at them, they could catch it. Which did a lot to clue researchers in to the idea that we have more than one way to motivate behaviour. It got talked about a lot when the ADHD community was figuring out body doubling as a concept.)

I think splitting off motor initiation might be a deeply useful concept here. I personally have noticed that my own problems with motor initiation can't be solved with cognitive strategies.

Specifically, to get off my ass and moving, I need to stop thinking, especially about the task I'm planning. It takes a minute of very concentrated focus on my body, putting my feet on the ground and going to the place I need to work in.

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Huntr/x has been doing this gimmick for years where they'll put on a performance and some actors dressed up like demons will "interrupt" it or get into some choreo fights on stage and stuff. If you're a fan you know, the demons usually symbolize things like industry corruption, Mira's struggle with her family, Rumi being in the closet, etc, and there's lots of hints and secret messages to the fans in what they're wearing or how they show up. Check out huntresx5evah on blsky they've got an extensive examination of the "demons" over the years and what the messages to the fans are.

In the concert before Golden was released, the demons were dressed like flight attendants. That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was.

But then the live performance got cancelled. It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues, so that was probably not planned. They needed to buy time for her to recover, so, enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons, they release ONE single, do a bunch of b-tier variety shows for a week, nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there, keeping the hype and energy up until Rumi can get her throat polyps removed and furthering the routine where Huntr/x are supposed to be secret demon hunters and the Saja Boys are supposed to be secret demons.

Then the whole thing culminates in the Golden live performance at the idol awards, the big act with Huntr/x fake "break up" and the subsequent theatrics to make it up to fans for failing the first Golden performance. Huntr/x takes their obligation to fans very seriously, I've no doubt that they all felt terrible about having to cancel, so a free show was the obvious recourse to try and make it up to people. And they pulled out all the stops!

the saja boys were originally a real band, but you know how the kpop industry can be - the pressure, the strictness of the lifestyle, the debt it puts its stars in for the training no matter how famous they are - so my theory is that the saja boys were a group who realised they wanted out before their debut for personal reasons (no judgement ofc), reasons im betting are along the lines of not getting to make the music they want to, the roles their producers forced them into, and possibly the pressure of fame itself.

huntrix somehow heard about this, and made a deal with the boys: play as props for their upcoming stunt, and they would pay off the saja boys' debts so they could leave the industry without any problems. the boys agreed.

everything played out like op said. saja boys, a band of hyper-stereotypical stars, drop one hit single (possibly the one intended to be their original debut song) do some variety shows to build hype, and take the idol awards when huntrix "break up" on stage. then to "cheer everyone up" saja boys stage a surprise concert, one where theyre dressed in outfits completely different to their usual pastel style, and sing a song absolutely ROASTING the kpop industry and the concept of idols as a whole, encouraging the fans to give them their souls (and looking hot as fuck doing it may i add).

then rumi interrupts with huntrix's leitmotif, the "we are hunters voices strong" clip, and the rest of the show plays out as we saw with the boys playing the role of demonic forces representing the pressures of the industry (esp considering rumi's scarring/tattoos and the beauty standards kpop stars are held to), and then the saja boys vanish off the face off the goddamn earth. no social media updates, fan club collapses, no sign of them even irl.

sounds like saja boys managed to do the impossible and get out of the industry scot-free, all by sacrificing One Week and getting to play a song of their own at an absolutely packed concert. im personally betting that sooner or later we'll be hearing some songs suspiciously like "your idol" coming out from some indie band sooner or later, if the boys even choose to stay together after this.