Sabotflaskology

Northern Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium californicum), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, NW United States

Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Maine, USA

but in my experience 95% of my hallucinations are getting spooked by very clearly hearing someone knocking on my door or calling my name from another room or hearing footsteps walking behind me which are "just" my brain recreating the horror of an abusive childhood

(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)

media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something

when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.

no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.

Dracula Shrew Crocidura dracula

It is found in Vietnam, Laos, and adjacent southern China, with possible range extension into Cambodia east of the Mekong River. Because it is so visually similar to the Southeast Asian shrew, it has historically been considered part of the same species complex and the range delineation between the two species is still being resolved. Recent genetic evidence strongly supports that the Dracula shrew is in fact a uniquely diverged species.

Before Princess Zelda, there was Pirate Queen Tetra!

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 532 - No Regrets (feat. Matt Hunter)

In which we wrap things up.

X-PLAINED:

Krakoa (mostly)

The True Secret History of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

The True Secret History of Matt Hunter

Live shows

The “WHAT”s

Audio production through transition

Adapting to long-distance recording

Proximity

Our retirement plans

The means of production

Our favorite voice effects

Sound design considerations for Dazzler’s shows

What we’ve learned from making Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Regrets

Where to find Matt online

Our evolving feelings about the X-Men

Stories we would’ve liked to have covered

The evolving podcasting landscape

X-Men analogues

Our theoretical Magic: The Gathering mechanics

What X-Men is really about

How to read like Jay and Miles

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