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But basically, if you feel kinda brainfogged all the time, or have trouble remembering stuff, or feel like the world is imaginary or really far away, or like you're never really present in the world around you... that might be dissociation.

These are all super broad, overgeneralized overviews. How things actually feel or manifest can be really individual.

Dissociative identity is another form, where your mind splits into different parts as a way of compartmentalizing trauma. (Note -- not all multiple systems are traumagenic, but it's probably the most common cause.)

For people not aware that this is going on, it usually presents as sudden dramatic shifts of mood or affect. Different parts not sharing memory is also common, so you might have blocks of missing time.

There's a few main forms.

Dissociation most broadly feels like you're separated from the world, or like events are happening to somebody else. For me, it's like looking at the world through a periscope.

Derealization is feeling like you or the world isn't real. For me it feels like reality is a painting, or imaginary, or somehow not there.

Depersonalization is feeling like your actions and your consciousness are separated, like your body is an automaton and you're just watching.

Since a lot of people don't know about it, I'm gonna talk briefly about dissociation.

Dissociation is a feeling of being separated from the world or from yourself. It comes in a lot of different flavors that are all related but manifest in distinct ways.

It's actually really common. Dissociation usually arises in response to trauma, especially long-lasting or repeating bad situations in childhood. Basically, the mind protects itself by distancing itself from traumatic circumstances.

Ahah. Today I learned that the first draft of Ancillary Justice was written for NaNoWriMo :D

@green Yessss it's called Provenance and comes out in October. Dunno if it's part of the same story, but it's in the same universe.

@green I 💜 Ancillary so hard and I can't wait for her new book to drop.

@green ...which is kind of too bad since I thought the premise was actually really cool :(

@green Instantly "NOPE GET THESE AWAY FROM ME FOREVER"

@green Okay, that's really good.

@green AUGH SAME.

@green IMO a lot of the time an author is writing a sexist/gross unreliable narrator, it's because they *do* actually have those attitudes but want some amount of plausible deniability.

Unless it's clear that it's being portrayed as a Bad Thing. Sometimes even then.

Okay y'all
Favorite names for spaceship?
(*not* counting Culture ship names, because those are all fantastic).

@TipsyTentacle@witches.town Also, Kira / Sexy Evil Lesbian Alternate Universe Kira

@TipsyTentacle@witches.town Star Trek DS9, Kira Nerys / Jadzia Dax.

@green pls post if you find the answer since that sounds *rad*.

Okay I like Stardew Valley a lot but the inclusion of fishing and the target goal of catching various specific kinds of fish was a mistake. Doing the same thing over and over and hoping the RNG is beneficent isn't very fun.

@KoBunny @neonNeptunian @mawr Yessss I reliably choose to go to Nori Presto over closer options because it really is just better.

But what if: a game where if you were too aggressively trying to put Friendship Coins into someone they'd get uncomfortable and try to get you to stop because that's actually super creepy.