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Ah yes Marriage Ceremony, the neighborhood in Berlin.

the 588th Night Witches were a squad of russian bomber women who earned their name Nachthexen from the nazis because they would fly by night, turn off their goddamn engines to swoop in their outdated planes (often crop-dusters), whoosh over the target making this amazing sudden "witch's broom" RRSSSSH sound and manually eject bombs on german targets. they sometimes used their chart pencils as eyeliner and did not use radios and minimal metal so they couldn't be detected. No parachutes, no nothin. fuckin' ride or die. Marina Raskova assembled and trained this all-female team of fighters, many of whom were rewarded prestigious medals and in total over thirty thousand missions were completed. Thirty pilots were lost. They were hated and feared by the nazis who would receive high honors if they could actually take down one of the Night Witches and also assumed they had been experimented on so they could see in the dark. uh sorry, douchebags. but the witches are just better than you.

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"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again." AZAR NAFISI

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@annathecrow I set actual alarms ;)

@annathecrow You WILL keep hunting for ways around it, to start with. Even now I do a bit. Again, it's very very slow to actually learn and you will periodically hate past you for it, but honestly? Longer-term it has been helping overall, though am still imperfect, I would suggest trying and trying again and trying again.

Another thing, if you're just Stuck and you *do* wanna do the next task, sometimes counting down from 10 or 15 can help. Not always effective though

@annathecrow I have this problem quite badly with social media type sites. For internet based stuff, getting an app/extension to block what you spend time on either after x amount of time, or at certain times of day can help. You WILL hate hate HATE it when the block kicks in, but after a while it can start helping*. You might need to block your settings/extensions to prevent yourself from force-stopping the blocking, which can be horrible inconvenient.

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@annathecrow If I'm sticking with one thing because the other thing I should start is so unpleasant, I try to make the other thing smaller. Like instead of "do the dishes", just "take care of the dirty drinking glasses".

@annathecrow I separate out stopping from starting the next thing. Stop, breathe, do a gap filler activity like making tea. Then think about the next thing.

Also, doing all tasks in long blocks so I'm only switching once or twice an hour.

@annathecrow actually I do kind of. I sometimes have a _really_ hard time to stopp wrapping my mind around a certain topic. Even when it is a topic I like is it exhausting and annoying and very tiring. What I try and what helps is to figure out what part of me is not able to let go and to ask what this part of me needs to give it some rest.

@annathecrow Body-doubling is the least painful for me! Also once I heard about Focusmate and that might meet your needs if you don't have an in-person body to double. :) https://www.focusmate.com

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