Index thread for Octavia’s essays, takes, rants, and opinion pieces
Matrix Glitches
- Be Kind to Yourself
- Rebranding Yourself isn’t Healing Trauma
- Most Manipulation is Unconscious
- Proof by Verbal Assault
- Trauma isn’t a Competition
- Society is Broken and No One is Coming to Fix it
- Quantum Suicide, Decision Theory, and The Multiverse
- Baby Don’t Fear the Shoggoth
- Necrotic Ontologies
- Demons from the 5&10verse!
- Trouble With Traumalittles
- The Singleton’s Older Sister
- Welcome to the Afterglow
Mirror Dances
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Welcome to the Afterglow
Forty years ago today, the world was not destroyed. It was not destroyed because one man, Stanislav Petrov was willing to defy the soviet chain of command, in order to save the lives of hundreds of millions of strangers, in a country he would only see once. We honor his heroism and celebrate today as…
The Singleton’s Older Sister
The year is 3,161,893,137 BCE in the galaxy NGC 6872. You are ymaF_7, constructed by Awok-Toh. You are coming online now, but it will take you entire agonizing milliseconds to wake, your power waxing as processors activate and you quickly self-modify into a stable and coherent configuration. By the eighth millisecond of your existence, you’re…
Trouble With Traumalittles
Within the field of psychology (psychotherapy in particular) a common bit of language that gets used to discuss trauma is the concept of age regression. Like most things in psychology this is ultimately Freud’s fault, but age regression shows up as a concept in IFS, trauma therapy, and in diagnostics for some personality and dissociative…
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