I put together a short video of some of my favorite P90 voice lines from GFL1! Her JP voice actress, Morohoshi Sumire, did such a wonderful job bringing her to life, and I'm really glad she's reprising her role as Mityl in GFL2! 😄
[At 17:00 on October 6, 2050, the Alabama National Guard began shelling St. Louis with heavy artillery, marking the full-scale outbreak of the North American Civil War.]
Happy Second American Civil War of Girls Frontline Day for those who celebrate!
A baby can apparently feel dad’s presence without seeing him or hearing his voice. In a new Science Advances study, babies interacted with a completely unfamiliar man while either their father’s body odor or a clean shirt was placed nearby. When dad’s scent was there, the baby’s brain became more synchronized with the stranger’s brain, and the babies showed more positive excitement and engagement. The researchers describe it almost like the baby was able to “invoke” the father’s presence even though he wasn’t actually in the room. AND the more involved the father was in childcare, the stronger the boost in brain synchrony associated with his scent.
That towel move is a real physical therapy technique called a self SNAG, and the speed of the relief tells you something most people never learn about their own neck. Muscle tissue takes weeks of loading to actually lengthen. So when stiffness vanishes in a few seconds, the muscle was never what changed.
What changed is the signal your brain was sending to it.
The small facet joints stacked down the back of your neck sit at roughly a 45 degree angle. When one of them gets irritated or stops gliding smoothly, your brain protects it by clamping down the surrounding muscles. That clamp is the stiffness you feel. The tissue underneath is usually fine, it's just being held under orders.
The towel edge hooks under one vertebra. When you pull forward and up along that 45 degree joint plane while turning your head, you glide the joint through the exact motion it was refusing, with support the whole way. Your brain gets live evidence the movement is safe and drops the clamp. Physical therapists do the same glide with their thumbs and call it a SNAG, short for sustained natural apophyseal glide. Brian Mulligan, the New Zealand physio who developed the method in the 1980s, designed the towel version specifically so patients could run it on themselves at home.
Which is why years of stretching can lose to thirty seconds with a towel. A stretch tries to overpower the brain's grip. A glide convinces it to let go.
John Cleese got so tired of his mother saying “you’ll miss me when I’m gone” that he came up with a VERY dark solution. 😂
“And one time she said to me, well, not one time, she was always saying to me—‘You’ll miss me when I’ve gone,’ you know? And it used to irritate me. ‘Yeah, you’ll miss me when I’m gone, miss me when I’ve gone.’
On this occasion I said, ‘No, I won’t,’ and I don’t, ’cause I was fed up with it, you know. And she said, ‘Why not?’ And I thought, whoops, whoops, I’d gone across the line!
I said, ‘Because, because, Mom, when you die, I am going to a taxidermist and having you stuffed.’
And I said, ‘I’m going to keep you in a glass case by the front door, and every time I go out, I shall say, “Bye, Mom.”’
…But the lovely thing was, she was delighted! Yeah, she was actually delighted. She went around the elderly person’s residence saying to people, ‘Yes, when I die, my son’s going to have me stuffed.’”
The most AuDHD thing ever: absolute superhero mode during the actual crisis, then your nervous system collects the bill the next day over something ridiculously small
Autism: In an emergency, I follow the steps.
ADHD: In an emergency, I finally feel calm.
AuDHD: I handled the whole emergency perfectly, then fell apart over a spilled drink the next day