boost: Wisdom on Dreamwidth

Thank Punk for myNoise.net!

runpunkrun conveniently summarizes their DW activity every week with Weekend Update
https://runpunkrun.dreamwidth.org/tag/weekend+update
It’s always good reading. runpunkrun introduced me to a fabulous ambient soundscape service called https://myNoise.net.

Great background in This Place Has No Atmosphere
https://runpunkrun.dreamwidth.org/703791.html
and Weekend Updates often include a nifty new sound generator. Subscribe and enjoy!

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AO3 Savior And You: how to block out fics you don't want to see

beatrice_otter shares how the AO3 Savior userscript lets you optimize your fan experience
https://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/402175.html

Maybe you have a lot of triggers. Maybe you don't ever want to read a #/problematic fic. Maybe (like me) you just have eclectic tastes and are polyfannish and like to go tag surfing, but are tired of wading through stuff you're never going to want to read to get to the stuff that you find interesting.

Never fear, there is a tool for you! https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3579-ao3-savior has your back! (Disclaimer: I'm not the dev, just someone who has been happily using AO3 Savior for years.)

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How To Handle A Plague

Thanks to rydra_wong for linking to gaudior, a psychotherapist who is 12 posts in to a series on How To Handle a Plague

One of the most upsetting things about this pandemic is that it is so far out of our experience. This hasn't happened since 1918, and this particular this, with the Zoom and the "social distancing" and the being able to hear people's last words half a world away in real time? This has never happened before. And we have no idea how to do it well.

But a thing that I keep noticing, and seems worth pointing out, is that everyone has some fairly familiar ways of being in pain, and those are what we end up with around this. If you hate yourself, you probably spend the plague thinking about how awful you are for not doing more to prevent it, and how badly you're dealing with it. If you're anxious, you're probably terrified right now, of getting sick, of someone you love getting sick, etc. If you're super-driven, you're probably overworking right now. If you normally dissociate, you're, like, fine right now, you guess, but for some weird reason you can't seem to get off the couch?

from How to Handle A Plague, 9) New cause, old pain.

There’s also practical wisdom in How To Handle a Plague, Bonus Link: Unfogging your Glasses

Find them all at
https://gaudior.dreamwidth.org/