porqueria

“I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being.”

“Douglas Adams was asked many times why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed, including that 42 is 101010 in binary code, that light refracts off water by 42 degrees to create a rainbow, that light requires 10−42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton.[7] Adams rejected them all. On 3 November 1993, he gave an answer[8] on alt.fan.douglas-adams:

LIKE there’s this whole thing in this book about how your brain grows stronger and healthier by practicing responding to stress in healthy ways, because if a stressor is predictable and you feel a sense of control over it, you habituate and stop reacting to it, but if it’s random and unpredictable you have the opposite response and become sensitized, so your reaction actually gets more and more extreme. (if you hear a loud noise at predictable intervals you’ll soon stop noticing or reacting, but if you hear it at random intervals you’ll become sensitive to it and anxious.) so one way to help people who have adverse reactions to reminders of trauma is to give them control over how they’re reminded of the trauma, because it helps the brain practice responding to stress in a safe way so you can habituate to the stress response.

chavela actually did talk about her relationship with frida very explicitly! she even lived in frida’s house for an extended period of time. here’s some things they said/wrote about each other:

I’m not saying people are misusing it. I’m saying that the original meaning of the term originates in the social sciences. If your only exposure to the term is via fiction or “this is a good location to cast spells”, which is the only context I ever see it used on Tumblr (despite heavy discussion of sociological and anthropological topics), you’re going to be awfully confused when you read about teenagers and undocumented immigrants and unsentenced suspects and LGBTQ people occupying a liminal place. They’re not in an abandoned bus station or on the threshold of Elfhame, they’re straddling or stuck between identities/social roles in ways that make them vulnerable and poorly-defined.

I have got your back. Here are those damn sources