Moments of Permanence - The Untamed is teaching me how my brain works

From: sqbr Date: December 23rd, 2019 05:28 am (UTC) (Link)

This was interesting! I have more thoughts but my brain is too sleepy to articulate them. Also, yay for GrandMaster of Demonic Cultivation/The Untamed! Be careful with the book, especially the extras, they can get pretty triggery.

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From: sami Date: December 23rd, 2019 11:56 am (UTC) (Link)

Currently today I worked out that - having had a really awful month, and struggling with a high baseline anxiety level - I need not to be reading it because reading things I haven't read before is stressful.

Like, today I was slogging through a reeeaaally long backstory flashback and it just didn't interest me that much, and I find reading boring things extremely stressful, but because I haven't read it before, I couldn't just skip to the good bits like I do with fiction books I'm rereading, and I noticed it spiked my stress levels through the roof.

So I'm going back to reading it more occasionally, and only when I'm feeling solid.

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