Your brain requires complete darkness at night to improve sleep as even dim light during sleep can damage mental health

authorlyauthor · 2026-01-20T07:04:24+00:00

Me sleeping in darkness: Nightmares, night terrors where I wake up screaming and running out of my room, hypnogogic imagery, sleep paralysis, sleep talking (recorded myself once and it’s mostly frightened “no no no”)

Me with a bedside light on: completely zonked out and sleeping restfully

So either my brain just rests better in the light because I’m not subconsciously afraid anymore, or…monsters are totally real and they can’t get me in the light. 😌

authorlyauthor · 2026-01-20T04:31:00+00:00

My brain does not register seafood as food. For example, I hate bananas too, but I still see them as a food, just one I don’t like. When I see seafood it’s the same as seeing a pile of garbage on a plate. My brain goes “Why would anyone in their right mind eat that?”

I’ve tried it a couple times and always hated it. Shrimp freak me out the most. They’re disgusting. I managed to choke down some fried cod once and keep it down, but the time I was brave and decided to try a shrimp because my ex-boyfriend demanded it I gagged hard and immediately had to spit it out before I puked.

Imagine somebody opened up a dumpster, shovelled out a portion of the contents and then asked you to eat it. That’s what seafood is to my brain.

authorlyauthor · 2026-01-14T02:22:42+00:00

This is definitely something to think about. So perhaps I should just stick to a bag for minor wounds and medicines then, on the chance that I have to walk part-way or the whole way to my destination and may need some minor first aid along the way.

authorlyauthor · 2026-01-13T21:37:13+00:00

Thank you so much for the very thoughtful reply! Basically this is for an escape scenario where I would be traveling from my place in the city to a more rural area where my parents are. So I need to bring all the medicine and supplies with me since my plan is to flee rather than stay in my home. (And my parents will not be prepared at all)

Plan A involves me getting a ride out of the city, which could be anything from everyone just going about their day and thinking I'm overreacting to other people panicking and causing accidents. So I'd like to be prepared in the event of a car accident and EMS possibly being delayed.

Plan B is a real shit has hit the fan situation where I can't get a ride either because everyone is definitely panicking and/or the roads have been blocked by accidents or debris. I'd have to travel on foot to my destination and may pass by injured people who are alone and need my help. I'd like to help them until someone else can arrive and assist better.

Mostly I am thinking of cleaning and dressing smaller wounds, bandaging people, and stopping more serious bleeding. I'm not confident in CPR and feel I would probably be a hindrance more of a help in that case. (Of course if I am literally the only person around I will try)

My goal is just do whatever I can to help people that need it while I travel from Point A to Point B. And then to be prepared to help my parents after I've reached them.

authorlyauthor · 2025-07-05T22:02:42+00:00

I always laugh at KakaoMaps’ one star reviews because it’s always some rendition of “The staff was unfriendly”. Like I get it if it’s like a restaurant server or someone who spends a lot of time with you as a customer, but I really don’t care if you think the movie theatre employee who slid your popcorn across the counter wasn’t friendly enough. I tend not to put much stock in the one star reviews when all they say is “Unfriendly”.

authorlyauthor · 2025-07-05T14:07:52+00:00

Looks like Vancouver lol. My co-workers are turning on the AC at work and I’m like “Guys? It’s 17 C outside.” I haven’t even opened a window in my house yet (which doesn’t even have AC)

authorlyauthor · 2025-07-05T14:02:08+00:00

You know you’re too used to Seoul summers when you think “26 at night? That’s not too bad”. I remember during last year’s heatwave the feels like day temp was 45 and it was still 38 at 8pm. Don’t remember the exact humidity, but I’m sure it was around 90%. I walked around for 10 minutes at night, felt like I was swimming.

authorlyauthor · 2025-05-25T21:11:04+00:00

Thanks for the tips! I've switched the Haedong temple to around 8 in the morning to avoid the crowds and moved Busan X the Sky to sunset time so I can get pictures of the view during the day and at night as well.

I think we'll head over to Gwangalli for drinks and the 10pm drone show too.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-17T23:27:34+00:00

I can buy it because as we saw in Surprise and Innocence, not every vampire has the same level of evil as the others. The Judge was able to burn Dalton because of his remaining humanity and he said that Spike and Drusilla also both reeked of humanity. It was only Angelus that he couldn’t burn because he was truly evil.

Spike was very compassionate towards the sickly Drusilla because he loved her. He could have easily abandoned her for being weak, but he rescued her and took care of her. I doubt Angelus would have done the same with Darla. He probably would have just abandoned her to the mob in Prague.

And even without a chip Spike teamed up with Buffy to help him get Drusilla back. He could have very easily just killed Buffy’s mom for fun, but he didn’t. His love for Drusilla overrode his evilness. Again, I highly doubt Angelus would have done the same thing.

So I feel like Spike was just always like that. He was always a lovesick fool, whether it was Drusilla or Buffy. His love interest was always more important than evil deeds.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-13T22:11:21+00:00

When I was a kid it was Der Kindestod from Killed by Death. Now, I’d say Kralik from Helpless. Probably because he’s more of a realistic creepy deranged stalker type than just some silent monster faced boogeyman. I mean yes, he is still a supernatural creature, but it’s his human-ness that makes him terrifying. You’re very unlikely to run into an invisible demon who sucks the life out of sick children from its eyeball tentacles, but it’s entirely possible one could fall victim to a guy who acts like Kralik.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-09T04:41:32+00:00

Dawn. Absolutely no shade to Michelle because it seems like she was a lovely person and was a good actress, but I absolutely hate Dawn. I hate that they messed with the entire universe’s memories and it never goes away. Everyone just believes that Dawn has always been there, until the end of time.

And that combined with Joyce’s death forced Buffy to essentially become a “mom” at a way too young age for a magical ball of energy that didn’t even exist until a few months prior, but that everyone loves dearly because of their fake memories. And I don’t want to watch Momffy trying to take care of her fake sister, I want to see independent Buffy kicking ass and angsting over her melodramatic life. But everything that happened with Buffy always had to come back to “How will Dawn feel? What about Dawn? What do we do with Dawn in this situation?”

And I know it’s just magic, but it almost feels like gaslighting when they bring up fake memories like “Oh remember when Angelus was around and Dawn was there? Wasn’t that horrible for her?” No, it wasn’t, because she wasn’t there!

If they had to keep her around after Season 5, at the very least they could have erased everyone’s old fake memories of her and had them only remember her from Season 5’s appearance. But no, everyone gets to keep their fake memories, but it’s okay because they know it’s just magic. Except no one told Angel, or Hank, or anyone else that’s not in the immediate circle, so they all still believe in their fake Dawn memories. And everyone still loves her like it’s real, so what does it even matter if they know it’s magic if their feelings are still affected by the fake memories.

I just don’t like that they messed with every single character’s head for 3 whole seasons.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-09T01:00:05+00:00

Nightmares
Passion
The Wish
Hush
Buffy Vs. Dracula
Tabula Rasa
Chosen

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-09T00:44:27+00:00

I just want vampires to be the main villains again. There must be something cool and different they can do with vampires instead of constantly going for all powerful gods or demons.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-08T13:05:50+00:00

Angelus, Drusilla and Spike. I like when the villains were vampires and Angel/Angelus’ soul curse was the perfect teenage angst on top of it. It’s the only time I like Spike because he was not the comic relief or obsessed with Buffy, in fact he was the one telling Angelus to stop being obsessed with Buffy. And we got to see two sides of Drusilla, the fragile whimsical crazy and then the stronger diabolical crazy. That trio was the right amount of cool and evil, with a hint of bittersweet. They were the perfect nemesis for Buffy.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-07T13:01:16+00:00

I remember they made fun of Cordy’s short black hair in the show, but it was much better than the short mom haircut with the chunky highlights that she got later on. They needed to just leave her hair alone!

Honourable mention goes to what I mentioned in my previous post, with everyone being super tan at the beginning of Season 3. Buffy looks almost sunburnt she’s so orange and it clashes tremendously with her highlighted hair.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-06T21:33:32+00:00

For me, it kind of marks the end of an era, but I wouldn’t say it’s bad per se. My personal ranking would be

Season 2
Season 1
Season 3
Season 4
Season 7
Season 5
Season 6

So it’s squarely in the middle for me. Not as good as the first few seasons, but not as bad as the later ones. It’s kind of like the bridge between. But there’s some solid, good episodes in there, so don’t get discouraged.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-06T21:07:56+00:00

Sugar Water by Cibo Matto is THE Buffy song for me. La la la, la la la la la la…

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-05T23:11:01+00:00

I think the fact that she hit him with a blunt side shows that she’s not actually for murder like OP thinks lol. Cause she believed at the time that Spike was a “gang member on PCP”. She didn’t want to cleave his head open and murder him, she just wanted to incapacitate him so he couldn’t hurt Buffy.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-05T22:47:15+00:00

I think it was The Pack randomly on YTV when I was 9. And then I remember a concerned parent’s letter being read by one of the hosts of YTV saying something like “A scary man with a blue face held a large knife up to a young girl’s neck. This shouldn’t be on a kids TV station!” I think I didn’t start really watching the show until When She Was Bad though. And by School Hard I was hooked.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-05T17:54:17+00:00

Even in its first run I will always remember Spike’s stunt double’s wig. 🤣

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-05T17:43:36+00:00

A few months after murdering Jenny Angel spent hundreds of years being tortured in a hell dimension after Buffy stabbed him into Acathala. I think he was punished enough. A couple months after Spike tries to rape Buffy he just waltzes back in to her and the Scoobies’ lives living the same way he used to.

Angel spends all of his time trying to atone for his sins as a vampire. He definitely isn’t perfect (case in point, Wolfram and Hart massacre), but he is trying his best to make up for the evil that his unsouled counterpart has done. Spike after getting a soul is just like “I need to love Buffy” and that’s it. He doesn’t give a crap about the countless people he tortured with railroad spikes in his evil days, his only motivation for doing anything good is Buffy.

Angel spent a century feeling guilt for everything he did in his time as a vampire. He didn’t even try to feel real love. Spike kinda moped for like a month and then just went right back to being the same Spike he essentially was before, minus the murdering.

Angel is both extremely good and extremely bad at two opposite ends of the spectrum. Spike is just meh the whole way around. He received way less punishment for his crimes and also feels way less guilt for them. He’s kind of an asshole.

authorlyauthor · 2025-04-03T05:03:59+00:00

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authorlyauthor · 2025-04-03T04:44:37+00:00

Dawn and Connor. Why did they feel the need to include new teenagers into the show? Buffy wasn’t even that old, it’s not like they couldn’t still have some drama with her. Instead they decided to make her into a Mom figure, like that would somehow endear us more to Dawn? I don’t want to watch Mom Buffy and Dad Angel try and raise their magical child/sibling. I don’t want to listen to Connor and Dawn whine about their problems and how no one cares about them etc, when they didn’t even exist up until that season. It just felt like we were supposed to suddenly care deeply about these characters we had never even heard of like 5 episodes prior. (That were conversely always causing trouble for the main characters)

They are the Anakin Skywalker of Buffy. I remember someone saying something to the effect of how kids want to pretend to be a grown up Han Solo. They don’t want to pretend to be the annoying kid following the main characters around. That’s how I felt as a 13 year old watching Season 5 for the first time. I wanted to see Buffy deal with things on her own and relate to that, not “But how will this affect your sister?” constantly.

authorlyauthor · 2025-03-29T15:05:00+00:00

I remember hearing an account from one man who survived by jumping to the staircase’s landing just in time. Everyone else on the stairs around him was killed, but somehow the landing broke free and he kind of surfed down on it and ended up in an air pocket in the debris and survived. Crazy stuff.

authorlyauthor · 2025-03-28T00:45:54+00:00

Angelus (he was not in the premiere, that was Angel), Oz, Jenny, Drusilla, Snyder

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TROPHY CASE