u/Spiritual_Pie_8298

Hello! I've been interested in stories set in the future for years, regardless of genre or form (novels, radio plays, TV series, games, etc.). However, until now, I've mainly devoured contemporary cultural works dedicated to this topic and hadn't really considered how long people have been creating stories set in (their) future times. But, since I'm running out of ideas for what to read or watch on this topic, today I spontaneously wondered: are there any fairy tales or legends that focus on depicting the (relative) future? I'm specifically referring to stories told by people over many hundreds of years. Do we have any stories that indicate that in the old times, people even wondered what would happen in the next few decades or even centuries? I'd be grateful for any answers!

Hello! I've been interested in stories set in the future for years, regardless of genre or form (novels, radio plays, TV series, games, etc.). However, until now, I've mainly devoured contemporary cultural works dedicated to this topic and hadn't really considered how long people have been creating stories set in (their) future times. But, since I'm running out of ideas for what to read or watch on this topic, today I spontaneously wondered: do mythologies, which are, incidentally, the oldest stories known to humanity, also contain any visions/stories set in the future? And if they do exist, do they only take the form of prophecy or do they also have a plot and characters? I'd be grateful for your ideas!

I always though that my problems stem from the self-isolation my anxiety pushed me into. I suffer from anxiety since I was a toddler, but it was untreated/treated poorly up until very recently. I first went to the psychologist being around 12-years-old, because before every time my mom tried to get help for me it would end with them saying that I am a smart child, there is no need for therapy and I will, eventually grow out of anxiety. Then every therapy ended within a few weeks/months and my anxiety went to the point that I stopped leaving the house completly around 10 years ago and wasn't ouside ever since. I also was homeschooled since the 4th grade, because of my pannic attacks and severe bullying I faced because of them. I then tried to go to shool again a few times but it always ended up the same - with me becoming a victim of the severe violence. I was sure that it's the fault of my anxiety and then, I was sure that I struggle to understand how society works because I was isolated from it for, practically my whole life.

But recently my therapist suggested me to get tested for autism and ADHD. I hesitate, but I started to real a lot about it and... well, it's the first time I've seen a name given for things I feel all the time. I reminded that I once said, when I was a child "I know there is something wrong with me, but it probably was not discovered yet and will start to be diagnosed only when I'll be an adult". And here I am, predicting the future.

I am terryfied. I hoped that when I'll win with my anxiety, I'll start to live a normal life, get a job, make friends, start a family... now I am so scared that even without the anxiety I'll never be independent. And I feel devastated. It's like my whole, carefully planned future become unreachable. I feel like my whole future is being reduced to a label, explaining why everyone hates on me and lonely, depressing life which is worse than death for me. I have no idea how to deal with this fear, I am sad, scared, ashamed and feel like nothing can change it. I understood long time ago that in society you are not perceived by what you think about yourself but how others see you. And who I'll be after the diagnosis? In the eyes of 99.9% people I'll just be an intellectual disability not even a person, just that. If it only would be possible I'd NEVER share that with anyone, but I know I'll have to if I'd ever get better and try to start the independent life. Because, well your employer has to know and a potential partner has to know too - not telling your partner that you're mentally ill would give them the easy way not just for the legal divorce but for church divorce too. I feel stuck and trapped, I feel I'll always stay at the lowest bottom of the society, around the people I am scared of and don't want to have anything in common with. I literally feel like I have no future. I would gladly now put myself in a group home and just stop caring, but letting all my plans and goals go feels like dying alive. I am crying all the time for the past two days, because even the absolute minimum I wanted from life which would be to publish novels is going to become unreachable - no publisher would ever be interested in a book written by the intellectually disabled person and no readers would read it if they'd know, deeming it stupid right away. I feel terrible and terrible and have no words to decribe how devastated I am right now. I now decided to never get evaluated and just still try to go on, like she would never ask me for that. But I am afraid it would ruin my life even further. I always wanted to have children, but if the diagnosis would turn out to be true, I know it would be highly unethical for me to reproduce, knowing that my children can also have those diseases. I don't want to produce babies that will fall at the bottom of the society right after being born - it is better for them to never exist. But I, in fact never wanted a career, I wanted to be a mother and it makes me even more depressed. I feel like a trash and don't know how to deal with it anymore. Is quitting everything and just going to a group home the only solution?

Hi! I've noticed this problem last week. Suddenly Google started to only show results from the place where I live. Even if I searched something in the foreign language and clearly stated that I am looking for things realted with that country, there were always results only form the city I live and nothing beyond that. I was trying to stop it for many days now - I denied access to my location to all programs on my computer, cleared cookies, catche, search history (although I never look for anything related with my location), I disabled the location history and tracking, but today when I tried to search something about the climate in a certain area I've only got weather frorecast sites from MY EXACT LOCATION. I've already though to delete my Google account entirely, but now I know it makes no sense, because even when I try to use Google WITHOUT account, IT STILL SEES MY LOCATION. I am already scared to open my computer. It stops seeing my location only with the VPN on, but then I can't access many websites that are only possible to access in my country which I use frequently. Is there any other way to stop this?

Let me start by saying that I'm a perfectionist who loves routine and order in my work, but can never maintain them. Because of this, I always feel like what I write isn't good enough. At the same time, I can't write just for the sake of writing, and ever since I started writing almost 30 years ago, I've done it solely with the thought of publishing someday, and I feel that if I didn't manage to publish, I'd simply give up writing altogether. The process itself has never been enjoyable for me, perhaps because I can't be systematic about it, and writing one thing for nearly 10 years is incredibly frustrating - and any attempts to develop a habit end in forcing myself, rapid burnout, and even longer breaks between chapters. Only a written, finished piece gives me satisfaction, but of the over 50 things I've written over those 30 years, I've only completed, like two or three, so I get very little satisfaction. Perhaps this problem could be solved by writing shorter texts, but unfortunately, all my ideas always concern projects where it's simply impossible to write more concisely. My latest project, with the plot shortened as much as possible, will have to have at least 300 chapters in 4 volumes – since December 2018, I've only written five - only around 30 pages each. Any attempt to shorten this text even further would mean removing all the side plots, 95% of the characters, and leaving only the main plot, which would transform my text from a solid historical novel with in-depth research into some cheap romance story set in the old times to make it more interesting. I don't have the energy anymore - I've tried to quit writing several times, but I always come back. I've calculated that if I sat down to write every day and wrote three to six pages, I could finish this novel in five years – at my current pace, it would take 480 years minimum. I'm exhausted and don't know what to do. I've tried to change my mindset, read and watch more about the era, but nothing changes. I simply have a writer's block most of the time. Do you think I should quit writing, or is there still any hope that I'll get my act together and be able to write consistently like others?

I've just heard that there may be a hypothesis in which the Osiris was the actual king of Egypt (or part of it) during the pre-writing period and the story of his just rule and tragic death was transmitted orally until it was associated with fertility and ressurrection and turned into a myth. Is it actual hypothesis of the people who know what they are talking about or a pseudoscience? I am interested in history, but don't know much about Egyptian one and I don't want to believe in weird and sensational stories.

Hi! I am now watching a show called "The White Queen". I have one episode left and I enjoyed it so much - both me and my Mom, because she's really interested in the Tudors since she way young and knows much more about it than I do. We both know that there are also two sequels ("The White Princess", and "The Spanish Princess") and we plan to watch them next. We literally watched a part of the 1st season of the latter back in the 2021, not knowing it is a whole series and enjoyed it a lot. We also watched "The Other Boleyn Girl" and liked that movie too. The only Tudor show we didn't like was the miniseries "Anne Boleyn" - it was quite boring and watching felt like being thrown into the middle of the show when there are some unspoken agreements between the characters we should know but missed. I feel it was created mainly for the British audience who is familiar with the story. We didn't make it through the first episode because of that. I wanted to watch "The Tudors" some time ago, but the only site that offers them dubbed in my language (I don't watch in English, prefer to do it my native language for obvious reasons) do not have all the episodes available. We are waiting for them to be completed. Are there any interesting shows or movies about the English royalty of the early reinessance, in general or I already watched/heard of everything? Would be grateful for any reccommendations.

Hi! I would like to ask you to reccommned me some period dramas set in the countries above. I was here before asking you toreccoomend me some from Asia and Latin America and I was flooded with the shows I geniunely loved, so I am giving it a try again.

I actually do not recall watching any Australian (or from he region) period drama yet and I am excited to try to understand the history of this country (and area) better.

Any ideas?

Hi! I am a history lover who also enjoys watching historical drama. I discovered them just few years ago, despite being interested in history since 2010, so i don't know a lot of them yet. But 2.5 years ago I fell in love in Europen historical shows (I am from Europe myself) as they not shy away from dark and difficult topics and usually portray the past times with a lot of empathy towards the characters.

Not long ago I've found and watched movies called "Tulip Fever" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and miniseries "The Miniaturist', who are, apparently all set in the 17th century Netherlands, but were made in the UK, not the country they are set. Ana because of that and that I don't know the detalis yet about the Dutch history except the most common information I can't tell how accurate they were and I would like to avoid "learning the wrong history" as I, colloquially say. I live pretty close to your country (only one other country separates us) and I, literally have aunt and cousin living in Netherlands, so the culture isn't toally alien to me, but still I would be really interested in watching shows or movies made by the Dutch people about your own history.

It can be any time period from the oldest (early medieval, I guess) to the most recent (I mean 20th century) and the show/movie can as well be aired this year as in the 60s or 30s, just make it be set in the older time period than this it was filmed in. I would just want to see some Dutch history on my notebook screen. Any reccommendations?

Hi! I know about this show for quite a while, but didn't find English subtitles to it and never even expected it to be found in my native language, but recently it turned out that there is a version of it with the subtitles in my native language. The matter is it is a paid version - normally, I wouldn't be able to watch it, because I don't have a bank account, so I can't watch anything that can only be accessed this way, but this show has available SMS subscrpition which I am able to do. But it is pretty expensive this way and I don't know if it is worth the money. Would anyone who watched it tell me if it is worth watching? Did you like it? The aesthetics are awesome, but experience taught me that they don't always go with the interesting story. Anyone?