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Touhou reisen X cuphead !!

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I’m constantly torn between the ‘be kind to everyone’ and the ‘fuck everyone you owe them nothing’ mentalities 

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The Forest Productivity App

Forest is an app that rewards you for staying off your phone and staying productive.

Every day, you’re presented with an empty plot of land. Your goal is to fill that land with trees. You can plant a tree by setting an amount of time, and not leaving the ‘planting’ screen for that period. If you do leave the screen, your tree dies. As you work throughout the day, you plant more trees and fill that day’s forest.

There are a few things I adore about this app.

The Trees Themselves

The trees are a physical manifestation of all of the time you’ve spent doing things that are important to you. I’m recommending this app to writers because it’s a great way to 1. track your writing time and 2. limit distractions while writing. But you can use it to do the same thing with reading, studying, exercising, meditating, et cetera.

Like writing, there are many activities where the time spent on them is more important than the important than the ultimate product. It doesn’t matter that you only wrote one sentence today. What matters is that you dedicated three hours of your day honing your craft, and that even though it was difficult, you didn’t give up.

The trees place a value on that time. They make the time the product. So if you end up deleting that sentence, the trees are proof that you worked on it and that time was time well spent.

The Rewards

This app turns working into a game.

Like any good phone game, you get gold coins and rewards and there are things you can buy with them. For each tree you plant, you earn gold coins that can either be spent on fancy virtual trees or real trees planted through a charity.

You get extra gold coins for hitting various checkpoints (working for a total number of hours, planting trees a certain number of days in a row, etc.)

These are great additional sources of motivation for when you really want to spend the day binging that new Netflix show, but you’re so close to being able to afford that cat-shaped tree, you might as well get an hour of work in.

Limited Distractions

The app’s main ‘thing’ is that if you close the planting screen before the time period you’ve set yourself is up, your tree DIES. If you try to open another app, you don’t get your tree.

A lot of the time when I write, I open apps reflexively. My brain is straining to figure out this plot hole and suddenly I’m scrolling through Twitter, without any conscious intent.

With this app, that reflex is blocked. Every time you reflexively pick up your phone to check twitter/facebook/whatsapp/whatever, you’re reminded that you have **:** minutes left in this session.

As a bonus, there’s even a chrome extension that lets you blacklist or whitelist certain websites so that while working, you can check your email or an online thesaurus or wikipedia, but not Buzzfeed or Tumblr.

You can block both your phone and computer at the same time.

This is not a product placement, I just honestly LOVE THIS APP.

Task Tags

You can tag your task for each tree you plant. For example, I’m planting a tree right now tagged with ‘blogging.’ Earlier this morning, I planted two ‘reading’ trees. This afternoon, I’m going to work on some ‘manuscript’ trees. The app lets you view your ‘stats’ to see how much time you spend on your respective tasks so you can better visualise how you spend your ‘focused’ hours.

Customisable Inspiration

You can add your own inspirational quotes, so that every time you check the phone and you still have that long left, you also get a little nugget of inspiration to help you through.

It’s Social

You can add Facebook friends on the app and see if your friends have been productive today.

If you have a writing group, or a writing buddy, this added touch of (friendly) competition can be an additional motivator.

Just FYI, the app costs $1.99 but I promise it’s worth it.

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When I read @sunokasai YouMaru fic, I always wanted to draw it! Here’s a little something I did for “Three Words For The First Time”  

More YouMaru please…hahahaha

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Current Godtier John --> give some words of encouragement to your younger self.

and they will always care about you.

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Smile! （*´▽｀*）

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‘Free Bird Seed’ Graffiti Leads To Unexpected Surprise In Chicago

Via Works By E.Lee | Instagram (h/t: streetartnews, demilked)

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Another poem-like thing

I am faulty

I am flawed

I make mistakes and break things apart

My emotions control me, making me think irrationally

I say things I shouldn’t

Do things I shouldn’t

Break things I promised I wouldn't So it's okay if you go

It's fine if you leave

Im the one who hurt you

The one who scarred you

The one who burned everything down I don't deserve to be with you

You deserve someone better

Because Im nothing more but a failure

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A short free style poem... Thing I made

You think I don't break?

You think I don't get hurt?

In your eyes, Im perfect Im shatter proof I can roll with the punches and come out unscathed 

You can cut me up and tear me down, but I'll keep coming back up With the same bright smile plastered on my face

That's not true

That's a straight-faced lie

A delusion you so desperately want to believe

I can get hurt too 

i can break down and cry like anyone else 

Im no invincible superman 

Im fragile and weak

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Jeremy: Is masturbating while smoking weed called masturblazing?

Rich: No, it’s called highjacking.

Michael: Guys, no, it’s weedwhacking.

Christine: No, it’s called disappointing your mother

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This just in, an Ivy League School is a “community college” if you’re friendly to The Gayz.

The latest in the series of “science agrees with my prejudice unless it doesn’t in which case it isn’t Real Science.”

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a note to all aspiring novelists…

sometimes you should just use “said”

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Sofa sitting positions

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Reach for the sky.

Since someone reposted my art, I guess it’s better to just put them all in one post and share it from the original source with you guys. Thanks for everyone who’s kind enough to tell me about this!

Everyone is here except Mr.Doomfist.

Prints and other products(shirts, totes, notebooks, cards) are now moved to my society6 store:https://society6.com/elapuse/prints?show=new

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Pork, Shrimp, Napa Cabbage Dumplings