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brin-bellway:

captainneverever:

Now that you’ve downloaded your blog and are waiting for the next step, what next?

Help out the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine) scrape tumblr for all the blogs!

Check out tracker.archiveteam.org/tumblr to see the progress so far.

The ArchiveTeamWarrior needs an internet connection and some space on your device. They want to save as much as they can.

(Clarification: the Internet Archive is not *running* this project–ArchiveTeam is a separate entity–but they *will* be hosting the results.)

(hat-tip @sophia-epistemia)

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brin-bellway:

(This post is inspired by @industrialbruise‘s post here on pollution hyposensitivity, but is not itself a roleplay post.)

Does anyone else reading this get the thing where after touching something you suspect to be germy, the part of your body that touched it feels a little tingly? Like your brain’s way of setting a reminder to be careful what that bit touches until you get a chance to clean it.

(I saw the bit about “it’s kind of like. everybody else has a whole section of their brain devoted to ‘is this clean’ and i’m just tryin to process it along with everything else”, and I thought god, I think I might actually *have* that section, it’s the one in charge of that tingling thing.)

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brin-bellway:

I’ve been wondering this on and off, and I figured I might as well get around to asking:

Are other people’s imaginations shut down or impaired when they’re sick?

Mine is: I pretty much don’t have visualised fantasies at all when I’m sick, and what fantasies I do have are much fewer in number and much less vivid. I can think of possible explanations that lead to both “this is a very common experience” (maybe it’s part of the cognitive issues that come with the brain’s convalescence mode) and “this is a very rare experience” (maybe it’s my brain’s way of resolving the conflict in the instinctive How to Respond to Illness code between “get lots of rest” and “avoid getting pregnant”, forcing a loss of libido by rendering me incapable of sexual fantasies (and, as a side effect, non-sexual fantasies)).

Anyone know how common imagination impairments are when sick? Failing that, anyone have anecdotal experience about whether this happens to them?

Still curious about this.

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