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watch/read a character driven movie/book

personally, that lights a fire under my ass sometimes. i find character driven and plot driven media both have their places, but the former has helped me a lot in terms of self-exploration. the artsier/more eccentric, the better imo.

@deardoveswings

Jan 13, 2025

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Short-Form Reading

I think a lot of us want to be able to read longer material, but our attention spans are fried for various reasons. For me, it was the fatal combo of doing a reading-intensive college degree that ate away at my time + social media brainrot + a high level of anxiety that makes me feel generally restless and unfocused. I used to be a huge reader, so I've tried jumping right back into reading long novels multiple times. This hasn't seemed to work in any lasting way. I've had more luck recently with starting small. Even if you set your goal as: "I want to read something longer than tweets or social media posts," it's progress! Zines, articles, Substack posts, anything just a little bit longer that your brain can latch deeper into will help rebuild your attention. Short story collections and novellas have also been helpful for me, especially if you pick a topic or genre that you're really interested in. I'm still on some forms of social media, so I haven't gone cold-turkey. But I do feel like incorporating longer-form material again, even mixed in with scrolling, has helped my brain so much already. It's refreshing to hand-select what I want to read and give my attention to, instead of letting an algorithm serve me topics. I didn't realize how much depth I was missing in exchange for the breadth of the internet!

@gforce2001

Jan 19, 2025

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reading great fiction

It's an escape but also not an escape Entertaining and stirring but doesn't leave me spiritually hungover

@mattshawsome

Jan 22, 2025

Top Recs from @FFH

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finding who you are in the world

i love being alone. i know who i am when i'm alone and i love myself when i'm alone. when i'm around people it's easy to forget and i get lost and aimless. how do you share parts of yourself without feeling overexposed? even just sharing creative work makes me feel like it's not mine any more and makes me doubt the part of myself that went into making it. but i also feel so stagnant when i'm not putting anything out into the world. where is the balance? how do you deal with this?

@FFH

Feb 24, 2025

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knowing a sample

@FFH

Mar 3, 2025

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Horses

insane that you can literally drive a horse like a car? who even thought of that? why are the horses ok with this? crazy

@FFH

Feb 25, 2025