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OG art!

Kanshikan ( Inspector ) Akane Tsunemori Vol. 3 / by Hikaru Miyoshi ( Mangaka of Kanshikan ( Inspector ) Akane Tsunemori )

my scan-edit

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star hoarder

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i haven’t been doing much design work lately because of how swamped I am with webcomics, but I took some time off to do some character designs for a few witches with very portable gardens. How convenient!

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I had once started a fic where the PSB-SAD had to go undercover as idols. This made me want to revisit that!

Hi! Can I request SAD boys from psycho pass with Singer!Fem!Reader?

I love your writings!🤧🩷💐

Their profession and popularity doesn’t matter to Kogami, but it does make him worried.

Being popular means you’re in the public eye and attract all kinds of attention. Not all of it pleasant.

He worries about them as he can’t be around them all the time with his job. Particularly when they are touring out of the country.

Kogami has personally tested their security team and trained most of them. Unless they pass his inspection of their skills, they can’t protect his partner.

Teppei was actually a fan of theirs before they met. Knowing about them before they ‘hit it big’ and played in the smaller clubs in the city.

He is actually surprised how down to Earth they still all. Fame can change people but they seem to be the same as they always were.

He does worry how hard they push themselves. Teppei never knew how rigorous the training to be a singer and idol was. It was almost as hard as his own to be in S.A.D.

Teppei calls or text them often to check in. Make sure they are eating, taking breaks, and providing words of encouragement for their tour.

Gino is actually pretty musically gifted.

Although he chose a different path of ‘science’ over the arts, he has perfect pitch and a good ear for song. Which is how he knows that his partner is extremely talented.

Talent, however, often is outshined by flash these days. Classically trained artists aren’t provided with the reverence their showy social media pop stars are, but Gino still thinks they are amazing.

They could be playing on a huge stage or just humming & singing around their apartment, and Gino wouldn’t care. Hearing them sing is one of the great joys in his life. One he hopes the world can share.

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Today's dragon is Ruth from Dragonriders of Pern

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Today's dragon is Temeraire from His Majesty's Dragon

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Today's dragon is the Bull Dragon from Reign Of Fire

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Woodcut?

Cooking Jam  -  Teija Lehto, 2016

Finnish,b.1965-

Woodcut,61 x 77 cm.

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Can anyone recommend some good kinky fics? Any fandom, any pairing. I just need some good kink in there!

Okay thanks!

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Today's dragon is the Red Death from How To Train Your Dragon

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mushrooms !

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Today's dragon is the Festival Dragon from Jellycat

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The unexpected reason why the drive-through line is so long

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Is no one going to ask OP why they are throwing dice at the cat? Is it some elaborate form of worship?

invented a game called “I throw dice at the cat”

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Psychologist Katharina Bernecker and her colleagues measured participants’ tendency to engage in self-control as well as their hedonic capacity, in other words, their ability to experience pleasure. As the design of this study implies, people vary in their ability to enjoy things! Some people just experience pleasure more readily and are more motivated by pleasure than others! This alone should lend you some comfort, I think. If you are not an especially pleasure-wired person, whether by trait or by trauma, you are far from alone.

People high in hedonic capacity were people who tended to agree with the following statements (note, some at the end of the list are reverse-scored):

I am good at pursuing my desires. I can follow my desires in the here and now. I often do what I feel like doing. In my spare time, I can relax well. In my spare time, I can "switch off" well. In my spare time, I find it difficult to turn off thoughts about what is still left to do. Thoughts about my work sometimes prevent me from enjoying pleasant activities and moments. Sometimes I cannot stop myself from thinking about things I still need to do. I often think about my duties even while I am enjoying a good moment. I often think after the fact that I should have enjoyed the moment more.

These high hedonic capacity pleasure-seekers were compared with people high in self-control, who tend to agree with the following items (or to disagree with the reverse-scored items, which are marked with a minus sign):

1. I am good at resisting temptation. 2. I have a hard time breaking bad habits. - 3. I am lazy. - 4. I say inappropriate things. - 5. I do certain things that are bad for me, if they are fun. - 6. I refuse things that are bad for me. 7. I wish I had more self-discipline. - 8. People would say that I have iron self-discipline. 9. Pleasure and fun sometimes keep me from getting work done. - 10. I have trouble concentrating. - 11. I am able to work effectively toward long-term goals. 12. Sometimes I can't stop myself from doing something, even if I know it is wrong. - 13. I often act without thinking through all the alternatives. -

If you are a person who has masked your Autism traits for a long time, or otherwise carefully regulates how you present yourself and the choices you make about your behavior, then congratulations, you are probably a very high self-controlling individual. And if you find it very difficult to slow down in the moment or experience pleasure, you probably don’t have a very large hedonic capacity.

In a series of three studies, Bernecker and colleagues looked at how high self-control and high hedonic capacity individuals approached spending their free time. When given an hour to spend however they liked, participants who were high in hedonic capacity (in other words, the ability to enjoy pleasure) preferred to pursue activities that they ranked as highly pleasurable, including baking, eating, napping, talking with a loved one, or taking a walk. Conversely, individuals who were highly self-controlling were more likely to spend their time doing activities that they ranked as meaningful (such as reading, working, gardening, doing chores, or working out).

It might sound pretty self-evident that people who are interested in pleasure choose to spend their time on pleasure and that people who exert a lot of restraint over themselves choose instead to take part in activities they find meaningful. But what’s really interesting here, I think, is how much participants enjoyed the activities that they selected and found them satisfying.

It turns out that high self-controllers didn’t just decide to spend their free time doing laundry or working because they felt they should do so. They also got more satisfaction from meaningful tasks, more than if they had chosen to spend their time on supposedly ‘pleasurable’ activities. They were not motivated by the pursuit of straightforward pleasure. They ranked reading a book, knocking an item off the to-do list, or lifting some weights as more enriching, fulfilling, and motivating for them, and they cared more about these aspects of life than they did about pleasure! Individuals high in hedonic capacity, in contrast, preferred and were more satisfied with activities they said left them feeling soothed, amused, relaxed, indulged, and so on.

This study points to the fact that happiness is not everything, and people actually differ quite dramatically in which ways of spending their time make their lives better. And that means there are no recommendations for leading a good life that are one size fits all.

If you are someone high in self-control and low in hedonic capacity, you may have had the frustrating experience of trying to lay back and relax on your day off and being unable to quiet the whirring of your brain. You take a bath, but you can’t keep your eyes off the soap-scummy grout that needs to be scrubbed off. You share a languid restaurant meal with a best buddy, but through every course you can’t help but think about the items on your to-do list and grow panicky and bored.

Now of course, an inability to enjoy activities can come from burnout, depression, or excessive pressure to be productive. But you also might feel frustrated when you seek pleasure because you are just not wired to enjoy pleasure right now, and would find it easier to let go and enjoy yourself if you had an interesting challenge to keep you busy instead. Many Autistic people find working on a project related to their special interests to be a far better way of recharging their energy and lifting their mood than attempting to “relax” or have fun in neurotypical-approved ways. You may find, Anon, that the same is true of you.

In Bernecker and colleagues’ paper, participants high in self-control tended to appreciate activities that they described with the following adjectives. Why don’t you take a moment to read through this list, then write down what life activities feel this way for you?

What Activities Feel:

Meaningful?

Worthwhile?

Fulfilling?

Productive?

Important?

Purposeful?

Inspiring?

Elevating?

Motivating?

Enriching?

An interesting challenge of Autism unmasking is figuring out what a worthwhile life even feels like for us, and abandoning the expectation that such a life will feel the way it does for non-Autistics. Our best lives might not look happy, outgoing, energized, extroverted, or anything else that we have been taught it has to be.

I wrote all about the inability to experience pleasure, the fact that we evolved to be anxious more than to be happy -- and how to make life worthwhile in spite of it all. You can read the full article for free on my Substack.