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The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

Ganbare is pretty damn chaste. It's what a lot of people claim to want. It has been held up as a beloved story in the community for years. And folks treat the person who made it like this. Folks who claim that the more "wholesome" anime is "better" think harassing the real person who made the thing in the first place is a great idea and aligns so well with the "wholesome" "ideal".

Syundei has health problems that make it harder to work, and that's why volume 3 of Ganbare hasn't released yet. And now this stuff, in a time Syundei should have been happily celebrating a great achievement.

Plenty of folks are new to BL and the anime is likely their first step in the genre, and that's fine, everyone has to start somewhere. But rather than insisting you know everything about the genre and what it is or should be (which many people have done with both this and The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter and Heated Rivalry and basically every recent popular m/m thing) and seeing something you don't like and insisting it shouldn't exist, maybe avoid it and look for other things. Not all art is for you. There is plenty out there for you to try if you like instead of harassing one person who makes stuff you don't.

This isn't the first time Syundei has nuked her accounts, so she might be back. But things are a bit different in 2026 than they were in ~2019. Obviously toxicity existed then, but it's been particularly vitriolic lately.

I'm not sure how to send words of support to Syundei. Contacting Seven Seas, who publishes some of her works in English, to ask that they communicate words of encouragement might help. Maybe, if you haven't already, buy a copy of Syundei's books to support her:

Go For It, Nakamura-kun!! Volume 1 and Volume 2

Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart

Fans have also started a tag to post supportive messages on twitter.

credit @ privatej07 on tiktok (if they are on tumblr… thank u) 🥹

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