@memeticsisyphus @mauddweeb Sleeping beauty was pre- the cultural dominance of psychoanalytical memes which you can tell bc they didn't address the trauma of her being raised in the woods
it gets increasingly blatant as time goes on
Princess Renaissance, you can see everyone is talking through the constraints their parents put on them ("I'm sixteen, I'm not a child anymore") but characterization of all parties is still broadly sympathetic
Tangled is the "raised by narcissists" movie (and imo the last good one) where they start dipping into ripping off stereotypical ideas of trauma behavior
by encanto they're just straight up ripping off IFS like it's not even sort of subtle
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Claude (both Sonnet and Opus) is now smart enough to be a legitimately useful rubber duck for day to day tasks and getting unblocked.
I put info about my daily workload in my main prompt so now it pushes back if I give it a to-do list that looks like I'm trying to do too much
it told me to ignore the fact that I was tense and stuck this morning and just start my workout anyways because otherwise I'm training myself into anxiety. which is something I know but not something I remember when I'm actually tense and stuck
this is like a 10x boost to the thing I need when I'm thrashing and tired
how is third trimester simultaneously so emotionally volatile and also so fucking boring
I hate needing to sleep more than seven hours, I hate feeling physically limited, I hate being oversensitive and sore and tired, I hate having hormones, turn me into a computer, embodiment is a stupid fucking op
all I want is to be happy and energetic and feel reliably comfortable engaging with my kids and have total control over whether or not I'm being touched or having to listen to incredibly loud noises at any given moment
when I was seventeen a friend gave me a copy of the anarchist's cookbook and I was chatting w/my parents about it and my dad warned me that a lot of recipes in it were wrong and my mom was like "didn't you burn off your eyebrows playing around with that book"
one reason I didn't mess around with a lot of teenage rebellion stuff as a kid was that my parents did it first and I knew if I got caught they would make so much fun of me
imagine trying to be cool and edgy as a teenager and flying right under the bar your parents set in 1985
...that on one side you will have people who mostly know about tragedies involving state overreach, wrongful removal of children, false and punitive reports, etc...
...and on the other, you will have people who mostly know about cases of CPS refusing to investigate obvious abuse, repeated reunification with parents who should have lost their rights years ago, just some of the most heinous shit you can imagine
thinking about when my dad was teaching me to drive and had me do my route to school (12 miles away) three times: once at the speed limit, once at the speed limit, once 5-10 miles below, and once at 5-10 miles above
had me pay attention to how each drive felt and timed each one
he pointed out how often I had to slow down for other traffic while I was speeding, how focusing on speed, excessive caution, or perfect adherence to the speed limit changed my relationship to the flow of traffic, how much the time to my destination varied (not much), etc
he wanted me to internalize a couple of things:
- speeding to school wouldn't necessarily make me meaningfully less late if I was already late
I never attended CFAR but I internalized some of the practices after reading breakdowns of them and maybe this was a failure to transmit the lesson over text, but some of them really got into my psyche in a bad way
ex: murphyjitsu
Murphyjitsu is where you have a goal and you imagine precisely how you might fail at that goal until your plans are so fortified that failure would shock you
but it turns out that this kind of negative orientation towards goals is not effective at all for me
it's basically just envisioning failure over and over and over which the manifestation girlies will tell you is precisely how you summon failure