HOW CAN WE OPEN UP SPACE FOR OTHERS TO REST WELL?
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You listening? Okay. Basically? There's this guy named "William" That moved from England to a town called "Hurricane" with his wife and three kids that meets this guy named Henry And the two of them form a friendship and open up a diner and pizzeria called "Fredbear's Family Diner" Now the money is tight So to save on cash, he and Henry come up with these animatronic mascots that can be cranked open to work as suits. Seems pretty smart, right? WRONG, DUMMY! See, if the springlocks get loose on these suits they turn back into animatronics and crush the person in them Anyway gettin ahead of myself here. Basically this William guy's bad news. See, one day Henry's daughter Charli is havin a birthday party at the diner the other kids are mean, though, and they lock her outside. What does William do when he sees this? He fricken drags her out into the alley and kills her! That's what he does! Now, Henry built this safety puppet to watch over his daughter. But the puppet was stuck inside a box while this was happening. When the puppet gets out, it goes outside to try and protect her. But it's rainin so the fricken animatronic breaks down too. So what happens is that Charli's spirit actually inhabits the animatronic puppet. And buddy? That is just the tip of the iceberg. See William's older son Michael is a real jerk to his younger son Evan. On Evan's birthday in 1983, they go to the diner and Michael actually shoves Evan into Fredbear's mouth! Fricken crazy, right? So the springlocks fail and Fredbear chomps Evan's head. Putting him into a coma and then killing him a few weeks later. This here is the breaking point for William. The guy starts putting on the Spring Bonnie suit and luring kids into the back room. Once he gets them back there, he fricken kills them. He does this five times before getting caught. Thing is, though, nobody can find the bodies so William gets let off the hook. As it turns out, he hides the bodies inside of the animatronics. Now Charli, since her spirit is inside the puppet, She starts putting the kids' spirits into the animatronics they were stuffed in. so right now, the puppet Chica the chicken Bonnie the Bunny Freddy Fazbear Foxy the Pirate An unused Golden Freddy Fazbear and the original Fredbear all have the ghosts of children in them. After this missin children incident, William gets fired from his own company. That doesn't stop him, though. His new solo company Afton Robotics Start work for this new company called Circus Baby's Pizza World There, William starts makin these robots that are designed to kill kids. Crazy, right? Well, as it turns out, William figured out how to be immortal. See, when kids die, they produce this material called remnant You can basically use this remnant stuff to keep your soul inside of somethin. William figures this out after killin those first five kids. So now he starts tryin to use it for his own good. Problem is, even though his younger son is dead and his older son is moved out William still has his daughter Elizabeth with him William makes this really cool animatronic called Circus Baby who can dance, sing, make ice cream, and do a whole bunch of other cool stuff. When his daughter Elizabeth gets too close to Baby, Her child capturing mechanism activates. So now that two of William's 3 kids are dead by his own hand, William pretty much loses it here. He kills his wife and puts her into another machine called Belora. All this doesn't last very long though. See, Circus Baby's Pizza World closed before it even had the chance to open. Now William is all alone and on the loose. Now it's 1987 There's a new fazbear pizza in a new location. They have all the old suits with the dead kids in em in the back room But now they've got these new animatronics that are not only safer but also have facial recognition software to detect criminals. This is all in case William comes back, y'see. So anyway, since none of the springlock suits are at this location, William instead uses the golden freddy suit since it's broken, unused, and mostly empty. He kills another five kids, which go into toy freddy toy bonnie toy chica toy foxy, which we call "the mangle" and balloon boy. Oh, I should mention: Charli's here again too, for some reason. Unlike the rest of the 1983 animatronics, which are unused in the back, Charli's puppet is still used by the prize counter. So anyway, this is the SECOND missing children incident. Now the place gets closed down, but before they do that, they have one last party on November the 13th, 1987 I fricken lose my frontal lobe to mangle and die a few weeks later, but that's not important. What's important here is that the new restaurant closed down. So now it's some time after 1987. William somehow gets a message out to his son Michael that his sister and mom and trapped inside some animatronics at the new closed down Circus Baby's Pizza World and that he needs to set them free. Since the whole building is automated, they think that he's an employee. So Michael works at the building for a week while the building is attempting to reopen until he gets tricked by the animatronics into getting scooped. See, what happens is that, during the week, all the robots in the facility tear themselves apart and reform themselves into a giant mass called "Ennard." Ennard brings Michael to the scooper where he gets injected with remnant. Then his organs get scooped out and Ennard uses him as a skin suit in order to escape the facility. After the robots escape and Michael is reanimated as a walkin corpse, he vows to find his father and end all this suffering. The first place he tries is the new Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that opens in 1993. This reopening is the original location of Fredbear's family diner, and uses the original cast of Freddy, Foxy, Chica, and Bonnie. They even refit golden Freddy, but they never use him. Since Michael was blacklisted after getting his brother killed, He uses a fake name, Mike Schmidt, to get a job at the new place. However, after a week of working, with all the animatronics trying to kill him, thinking that he's his father, he gets fired and the place shuts down. Michael wouldn't find his father until 2023 with "Fazbear Fright," but before that happens, we need to talk about what happened to William. See, William DOES come back to the original location. He knows that the kids are all alive inside the animatronics, and he can't have that, so he goes to the building after it's been shut down to try and dismantle them. See, all Fazbear locations include a hidden room that is off the map and invisible to animatronics for storage, also for springlock failure victims to bleed out so that the children don't see. William hides in this room, coming out to dismantle the animatronics until he tears down all five of them. However, once he does this, the ghosts manifest and attack William, forcing him to hide inside a spring bonnie suit that's been rotting in the room since 1983. He puts it on and laughs at them, but then the springlocks fail and he gets crushed. Since William has been injecting himself with remnant for years, he comes back to life after getting crushed by the suit, but he doesn't have any will of his own, being locked in the room until 2023. In 2023, an amusement park opens up a scary attraction called "Fazbear Fright" which uses a bunch of old Fazbear artifacts from the old locations as a horror attraction. They find this old Spring Bonnie suit in the hidden room and transport him to Fazbear Fright, where Michael is working! This is the moment he's been waitin for! After a week of working at the location, Michael uses the faulty wiring in the building as an excuse to set fire to it, Killing William once and for all and freeing the remaining trapped souls, who have also been haunting Michael for the week he was working there, or so he thought. As it turns out, William survives the fire, rebuilds himself with the leftover parts that were inside the building, and escapes to kill some more. Now we have the puppet, Ennard, and William all off on their own in the world. Ennard gets tired of Elizabeth controlling them, so they kick Elizabeth out, and she rebuilds herself as a new version of Baby, Now called "Scrap Baby." Ennard then dons a new mask and calls themselves molten Freddy, who also happens to have the spirits of the five children from the toy animatronics in it now. This is where Henry steps in. Once Henry learns of the suffering that has been happening, He devises a plan to bring the animatronics all together in one place so he can destroy and free them all, and creates an animatronic called "Lefty," which he uses to capture his daughter. When Michael finds out about all this, he goes to the new fake "Pizzeria" and brings all of the animatronics back together. Once they're all there, Henry locks the building and burns it all down with him and Michael still in it, freeing the remaining souls of: Elizabeth, Charli, William's wife, and the remaining children inside of Molten Freddy. After this, William's soul is sent to Hell, where the souls of the children he tortured get to torture HIM for all eternity. ...or so they think. See, some time before being killed, William uses his genius to scratch his consciousness and memories into binary code onto some of the electrical components of some animatronics. The problem with Henry's plan is that Fazbear Entertainment wasn't all in his own hands, and was actually still running as its own company at this point. See, some time during the events of the games, An anonymous game developer was hired by Fazbear Entertainment to create the fnaf games as a way of making the real stories seem like fiction. After that, they then hired a different company called "Silver Parasol games" to create the "Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience" to make it seem as if the previous games were rogue and to double discredit the real stories of the children getting killed. The problem, though, is that Fazbear Entertainment provided Silver Parasol with some computer chips to scan in in order to make the animatronics more realistic. When they do this, William's consciousness code is brought into the game, basically bringing him back to life in the video game. During development, this robot William, called "Glitchtrap," programs itself to be able to take over a tester's body, essentially bringing William Afton back to life. William is first able to control a developer named "Jeremy," but he decided Jeremy isn't a good candidate, so he controls Jeremy and makes him kill himself using a guillotine paper slicer. Glitchtrap tries to control the unnamed player of the game but the player manages to defeat him and lock him away. However, before this happens, Glitchtrap finds a host named "Vanessa," and decides to use her. After the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, as well as an added Halloween DLC, Fazbear Entertainment then commissions the creation of a giant mall called Fazbear Mega Pizzaplex. During the time that the Mega Pizzaplex was running, multiple animatronics were switched around and the tragedies started again. But before we go into the events that transpired there, we have to talk more about Vanessa and another individual known as "Patient 46." Patient 46 appears to be a tech savvy genius, but is also at the same time a child, according to how they are treated and referred to by the various therapists that we hear their sessions from. While it is clear that Patient 46 and Vanessa are two different people, it is unknown for certain who patient 46 is. What IS known is that patient 46 spends a lot of time at the Pizzaplex before the events of Security Breach and helps reprogram the system, Implying that they are working with "Vanny," Vanessa's alter ego while under the control of William. What else is known is that patient 46 lied about whatever happened to their family. The 16th tape reveals that they actually had a great childhood. Vanessa is also known to have had a terrible father named "Bill" according to tape 3. Apparently Vanessa's dad forced her to lie during a custody hearing between him and her mother leading to her mother doing something afterwards, likely committing suicide. Anyway, the events preceeding Security Breach include at least 9 more missing people, likely all children, as well as multiple missing therapists who were likely killed by Vanny. At some point, Bonnie the Bunny is replaced by a new animatronic named Montgomery Gator. This happens following a night where Bonnie went down to Monty's golf course and then was unseen afterwards. Many speculate that Monty may have killed Bonnie or dismantled him in order to make his way into the main cast but we do not know for sure. What we do know, however, is that Monty took over Bonnie's role in the main cast. Roxanne Wolf, another new animatronic, also took over Foxy's role, but there is no given explanation for this. One night, after most of the animatronics have been reprogrammed, Glamrock Freddy, the newest version of Freddy Fazbear, malfunctions and shuts down on stage. When he wakes up, he learns that he was put into low power mode, likely freeing him from the reprogramming Patient 46 did to everyone else. ALSO when he wakes up, a boy named Gregory reveals himself to be hiding inside his chest cavity. Gregory is a homeless orphan of unknown relation to anyone else during the events of Security Breach. Some have speculated that Patient 46 is Gregory, But there seems to be lore differences between the two characters that conflict. Others believer that Gregory is an animatronic himself, as his hair and eyes are noticeably different to Vanessa, and the book "Tales from the Pizzaplex" includes an animatronic that looks like a human child and is about the same size as Gregory. What more, Gregory's vision seems to distort at times, implying that his eyes are cameras that are receiving interference. However, none of this is known for sure. Gregory and Glamrock Freddy find that the Mega Pizzaplex is built on top of the fake restaurant that was used to lure William Afton in years prior. Vanny, using Vanessa's body, Located William's corpse and reanimated him using a recharge station stolen from the Pizzaplex. William plans to control all of the animatronics in the Pizzaplex remotely and begin to kill children again but Gregory and Freddy stop him. The last we see of William Afton is him being grabbed by the spirits of the recently killed 9 people inside of a large machine known as "The Blob." The game canonically ends with Gregory and Freddy escaping the Pizzaplex and relaxing on a hill. It is likely that, with the destruction of the Pizzaplex, Vanessa is freed from Vanny, but we do not know for sure. And this is where our story ends for now. Eventually there will be more DLC and updates for Security Breach, but until that happens, This has been the entire Five Nights at Freddy's Game Lore.
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reading
just taking time to draw something for yourself, especially something freaky
Genuine acceptance, forgiveness, and patience for every human
Self acceptance
Donald trump, elon musk, capitalism, israel, cybertrucks, joe rogan, straight marriages, police getting paid well, proper vaccines, pepe, cobson hwabag, ywnbaw
and im captainsparklez
A dog fish
10 million dollars
Niggerfaggot
Cozy bed
TEA
Lesbians
long-distance facetime check ins with my beloveds
peace, space, quiet
a cuddle
please rest with me
scratch boxes
pizza
a beautiful kind woman by my side
room to think
yummy food
take a nap
acupuncture!
Hot drinks
Proof of Aliens
cuddles
the end of capitalism
meaningful community and freedom from the constant fear of not making enough money to survive
miraculous ladybug
more love in the world
ultrakill
poopie
Being on call with my darling
Truth
pillow
hi
little cats
Being able to curl up into bed without a worry.
cat
To get my finances in order
dance
a cuddle
being with the forest
weighted blankie
No phone day. I am tired
water
rest more
safety
compromising on tasks because I can't give 100% to everything
chocolate
5 stretch breaks!
good book before bed
Chillhop
Drinking water, breathing, unplugging from activities that require lots of energy, sunlight, listening to music, sleeping.
calm, clean spaces to just be
more water
hello everyone
I am extremely sick, rest is a cute word for what I really require, which is an environment devoid of al stimulation
coma for 6 years
mindfulness and the present
Watch kitten videos before bed
quiet
time
Sleep!
radical acceptance of fear
remember that there is always someone out there who likes you
hello :) i send positive energy to everybody here. please take care of yourself
go for a walk
sleep, water, solitude
Hi Annie
naps. lot of them
better social systes
drink water and hang out with your friends
hello darkness my old friend
making pasta
Hi, I’m R. How R you ?
walking with cows
kindness, sunlight
sleep
Sorry for saying it twice, I thought the bottom was where the new stuff came out. Haha, silly old me. but your question (Sorry, my b key is broken so I have to copy and paste it, which means no capital b) I think is the knowledge to lie back and feel 'That was a good day'. Thats just my cup of tea though!
Hellooooooo!
in the sack (bed)
being with someone free of pressure
Having lots of breaks!
listen to the recent pretty sick album!
Chilling at work when there's no customers <3
Zzz
amor
Remembering energy needs rest, rehearsing awareness for my body to divulge from a self-image of a floating voice.
hi
you gotta listen to the tribe called quest album low end theory. trust me do it
Need sleep
forgiving ourselves for past mistakes :)
Transcendental meditation
unclench your stomach
fantasizing
big belly breaths
less time outside of my body
yoga, stretching, and rain sounds <3
ssshhhhhhhhhhh
darkness
peg me daddy im horny
masturbate and self pleasure
less mental load
more vacation time
skincare
silêncio
love
rest
WE NEED MORE SUN DURNING THE DAY AND MORE DARKNESS AT NIGHT
stillness
cats (:
Spaces like this one
Staring at the wall
skincare routine!
turning phone off
Doing nothing
darkness and quietude
calling my partner <3
Going to get some KFC. I haven't eaten it in a while. I'm excited
tea
sleepzzzzzz
close your eyes
dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner
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I want to rest
we are resting here together
collective rest
rest
rest
magical tea with friends
good sunny morning walk
a warm bed
Lay down
Clean the kitchen. Brush the teeth. Kiss Ana.
I love that almost everything at 4S this year is recorded. It's allowed me to pop on bluetooth speakers and do a heap of carework for myself and my house while I'm listening. So far I've made bread, muffins, multiple dinners, and a pie. I've also planted garlic, folded laundry, dishes, and landscaping. This kind of work is a nice mix with the heavy thinking of the conference, and feels good in my body. I like leaving the conference feeling more full than drained, and with both my head and fridge stuffed.
sitting in the sun with a cup of tea and looking into the sky
model saying no, taking your time, not doing things
Sometimes I dream about unfinished work, how do I turn off this alarm within myself? I'm only ever motivated by deadlines but I also want it "off" sometimes. I wonder if this needs some sort of "forgetting" or how detaching could work. Or we might dream together. Attaching to a collective to detach from what we think of as personal priorities.
i can find rest when i relax into contradiction, when i let myself trust that I don't have to figure everything out and it's okay to feel sad, angry, frustrated, scared, anxious etc. and i can just let those feelings in and not resolve them
yoga..
establish a sleep co-op (shouting out the name of a recently drafted short story by eli clare)
a dark room, no artificial light at the wrong time (e.g. from mobile phone or PC) that supresses my melatonin...
to give ourselves permission to rest. to eradicate the word lazy on rest-days
a deep internal peace, which is so difficult to find.
rain sound
insisting upon slowness
surrounding myself with sounds of the earth and music
knowing others are ok, and that they're looking out for things while I rest
all day sleeping, web series episode, News ppaper
lie on the floor next to someone, and listen to philip glass together
A lot of laughter, sleep, hugs, greenery, experienced with others, & at least 3 days a week to "do nothing"
Soothing relations with friends and strangers
being able to breathe
A community that rests together.
listen attentively
embodied presence
contact! touch! finding easeful ways to communicate our physically desires, platonic or not
patience and love
lots and lots of water
take a nap with a dog
Tea and candles, letting go of the things I cannot change
to forgive others and ourselves
acknowledging the humanity in each other, closely
touching dirt
redistribution of wealth, enabling collective ownership of space
by not sending voice message
a good massage
let the forests breathe
abolish the police
I need to know that my loved ones are resting well too.
let's work for each other's wellbeing rather than to uphold oppressive systems
little cats
money for the masses
trust
stretching
sleep a lot
chocolate
Zzzzzzzzz
how r u
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The work of caring for societies starts with caring for ourselves and each other. Rest is as essential to our communities as it is to our bodily health, and it is under constant threat from neoliberal pressures that demands constant work in order to justify individual life. Meaningful rest intervenes in that current: it offers a necessary break, however short-lived, from the daily rhetoric that says you need to work, earn money, do do do despite a global pandemic – climate crisis – ongoing systemic oppression based on race, class, and immigration status – economic downturns – mass unemployment – housing precarity – hyper police state – mental health needs – illness - and so on...
Finding rest may involve building communities of care that nurture shared moments of leisure, listening, and togetherness. It may mean taking a day off from work if possible, or asking others for help, or creating ways to recharge. (Sometimes, finding rest may mean noticing how the ways you move through the world may make you complicit in systems of oppression.) And, we need not work alone – we can do this together, in solidarity.
Rest is a necessary aspect of life and a collective responsibility. Each of us has a role in ensuring that all of us have space, time and invitation to rest. And, our needs and access to rest vary based on intergenerational as well as day-to-day circumstances. Folks may be facing everything from midnight worries to family demands, health challenges, insufficient income, housing precarity, and any number of stressors compounded by intersecting and often systemic injustices. Let's meet each other where we are, tune into each others' needs for rest, and seek ways to make rest possible for everyone.
We hope this portal serves as a nudge and a nest for rest in this very moment, as we are, together.
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16 people are resting together in this moment
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We are honored to share stories, books, articles, conversations, memories, and somatic impressions that have provided valuable inspiration in developing a collective rest practice. We celebrate alternative modes of inquiry from anecdotal storytelling, movement research, and other media and practices alongside more academically typical books and articles, acknowledging the complex and very human traditions of rest that inspire us.
Passionflower is a nervine. Make tea with its vines to help support your nervous system, release tension and induce good sleep
“One of the few memories I have before migrating across the pacific was resting in my grandparent’s house. I would spend whole afternoons in the south-facing room, lying on my back as one or two of the mothers or family friends gossiped while rhythmically patting my stomach with their knowing hands, worn from decades of chores. Nowadays it’s become a healing memory I revisit often to remind my body what it feels like to be held communally, outside of capitalistic expectations.”
“Rest is Resistance.” The Nap Ministry by Tricia Hershey
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Daily eye massages we would do in elementary school
“Every evening, after coming home from work, my mom would drop all her bags onto the couch and then go upstairs to take off her bra and work clothes. She wouldn’t talk to anyone until she had changed into her comfortable clothes. I would usually follow her to her room and I can still see her there, standing next to her bed, doubling her arm back behind her body to unsnap her bra, and then pulling it off through the armpit holes of her shirt and flinging it onto the floor. Later in the evening, she would always tell us she was going to bed, but her light would stay on for an hour or two while she would read. Propped up with a few weirdly shaped pillows, with her book resting on her thighs. My dad would fall asleep next to her with the light on, while she continued to read. Often I would curl in next to her, with my own book, and we would read together until 11 pm or midnight even. Then she’d turn the light off and kiss me on the farhead. My mom always told me that she learned to read so much from her mother. So, I’m realizing, reading is my body’s rest lineage.”
Statements Towards the Establishment of a Proof-of-Rest Protocol by Emilie M. Reed
Drinking a glass of hot milk then immediately take a shot of vodka!
Love Letters 2 Your Body by Malcolm-x Betts
The Right To Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
“The Refusal of Work” by Deleuze, Marx and Politics
Make tea with valerian or catnip, herbal sedatives good for calming the nervous system and sleep
“My dad would work long hours in construction with low wages as a non-English speaker. When he came home, he would shower and get set up to work on these big bright spacious oil paintings that I have to this day. I like to think it was his way of resting the soul”
"Dreaming as Sustained Thinking", and Social Dreaming Matrix practices, by G. Gordon Lawrence
The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams ed. by Deidre Barrett and Patrick McNamara (includes many entries on historical and contemporary cross-cultural collective sleep / dreaming traditions)
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
“My 93 year old grandma falls asleep wherever and whenever she wants. After waking up, mid afternoon, after dinner… everybody respects that her aging body needs rest. When I’m there, I nap with her. We relax together and fall asleep sometimes on the couch, her bed, or the comfy chairs in her living room. She snores and I laugh, until I’m snoring too. There’s no alarm clock. We have all the time in the world.”
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You’re here.
Settle into a cozy place for a bit—a bed or couch or floor.
Maybe lie down outside with your shoes off.
Find something small and substantial for this moment.
Or take a bath, a walk... we'll be right here when you're back.
Take a moment to acknowledge how that feels in your body, to be here.
Find the lowest part of your body.
Breathe into it feeling. Hereness.
Thaw out the parts of your body that have been most in contact with your digital devices. Maybe you wiggle your fingers or roll your eyes.
Let float all the information you have been holding.
Loosen your mind.
What senses have been longing for you to check in? Move your tongue, touch the material around you, hold your heart for a bit.
Breathe into it again.
Breathing is what keeps us alive.
So that we can do the good and important work together.
And rest is part of that work too.
Ease yourself in.
Make love to rest.
Sometimes, our exhaustion is our loneliness.
But we do not have to be alone in our exhaustion.
When we rest we tell ourselves that we love ourselves, and that we deserve care.
We love you, yes you, and you deserve care.
Are there things you do to unwind and surrender into trusted arms?
Are there things you wish others would do for you in order to rest?
To lull you into remembering the ways you already know rest?
Murmur these strategies.
Tell rest your secrets.
Make this space your wishing well, held by all the other bodies beaming in...
holding you just as you are.
We got each other.
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virtual care lab is an open assemblage of people exploring presence, connection and collaboration in digital contexts. We hold creative exchanges of joy, grief, breath, ideas, resources, and expansive forms of community care. Our projects have included many unconventional virtual gatherings, focused discussions, participatory performances, and online portals that celebrate experimentalism and invite people to explore risky or raw ideas, question things, get real, and reinvent identities, myths and protocols for ourselves, together.
We created this collective rest portal as part of the 2021 4S Annual Meeting. We will hold a public gathering on Fri, Oct 9 to practice resting with each other through meditation and social dreaming.
Portal contributors: Alice Yuan Zhang, Sara Victoria Suárez, Elenie Chung, hannah rubin, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Marcus Brittain Fleming.
This mini-site is designed and developed by Alice Yuan Zhang.