#how to reduce screentime

[princessproductivity]

7 ways to reduce your screen time...

If you create content for a living, schedule your posts in one sitting so you don't have to spend as much time putting them out throughout the day.

Turn on your phone's grayscale setting — this overrides our natural inclination to click on the brightly colored app icons of addictive socials like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and more.

Use a minimalist phone app. This removes icons altogether, and forces you to intentionally look for what you need from a list of apps as opposed to mindlessly clicking. I'm currently using an app called Oasis Launcher from the Google Play Store.

Turn off notifications from social media, so you are only prompted to spend time on those apps through your own natural inclination.

Oftentimes we reach for our phones because our hands are idle, not because we actually want to spend the time on them — find something to keep your hands busy. For me this is crochet, but it could be a book, a painting, or some other kind of project.

If you find that you spend a lot of time on certain social media apps, try uninstalling the app itself, and only using that form of media through your phone browser. I used to spend a lot of time window shopping on Amazon, and the added inconvenience of not having it available in one click has really helped deter me from spending so much time on it — now I only jump on and use it when I truly need to order something for the household.

Reevaluate your screen time at the end of every week. Many phones have a "digital well-being" feature now that allows you to set time limits on apps, and see how your screen time compares to previous weeks. This can be a great way to evaluate where you need to trim down your usage.

A bit about @princessproductivity! What is the 12 week year? 7 ways to organize your life...

[cassimothwin]

I can't hangout tonight. I have plans.

The plans:

[lesbica-virtual]

this is how some of you act with dandadan

[howhow326]

These writers really don't give a shit about Storm after all, huh

[baldyeosang]

anyway justice for tenten justice for ino justice for hinata

[firebirdsdaughter]

Me reading about the Miraculous Ladybug movie:

… More respect for Adrien good… But less Plagg??? How do you do that???

[dems-demi]

I believe it was a divine intervention who wrote Will Solace on the narrative because how the fuck is he so interesting with so little screentime in the original series? This child who lost siblings and couldn’t even mourn them because he was dragged left and right to help, this child who became a talented and great healer at the ripe age of 12 and became a prodigy at 13, this child who kept absorbing pain and pushing down anger, this child who faced his trauma with a Trademarked Solace Smile and makes everyone feel safe besides himself, this child who had to be a dependable pillar, this child who saw death for so many times and had to accept it, this child, this child, this child whom everyone turns to at all times, this child who’s still only 16 and hasn’t properly been himself much because he has a duty that he loves and must uphold—helping and healing, something he deemed he could only do for others because he believed couldn’t do anything else. This child who got so scared when his best friend went missing, when his remaining siblings went missing, when he thought his father didn’t recognize him. This child who swallows his sadness. This child who was afraid of not being enough, who was afraid that people might leave him if he wasn’t—this child was afraid of people leaving him, because his own Dad did, his relationship with his Mom was not told much, the older siblings he loved left him by death, and he was nervous if Nico will leave him too. This child who feared losing the love of his life so he turned to his anger, his rage, his wrath—all pent up and went loose for a few minutes at Night herself and gave her a fucking hay fever. This child who had his own identity, who had and still has endless possibilities regarding who he is, his powers, and feelings yet reduced to just being a silly, goofy, perfect boyfriend healer of Nico di Angelo who never had a bad day and is stable—and some people loathe him for being “Nico’s Boyfriend” as if it’s his fault. This child is William Andrew Solace and I believe none of us has truly met him fully.

[comradekarin]

bethany and steve talking about how their scenes and lines were cut out and they had to quite literally beg and advocate for their inclusion in the show. nevermind the treatment rhaena is getting in the show that just… is insanely off track from the treatment she got in the books. characters with little to no relevance are given screentime and have scenes that should have gone to other characters, actors experiencing racism and hate from the gp, and poc characters either being scrapped or reduced to a fanfiction version of the writers fantasy. mind you, baela and corlys are in my top five favs on the show, and here i am being told that despite their importance in the narrative (especially baela’s) they are either reduced to the background, sidelined or cut out completely? but they have enough time to film olivia cooke taking a fucking bath every episode? phoebe even mentions they’d get disappointed looking at the script knowing they wouldn’t have any lines. not to mention, other canon poc characters like nettles go erased and merged into other black characters, and it’s STILL not done with a manner of intention and care. it feels intentional to have these characters be played by black actors and then do this to them. fucking KYS ryan and sara

[cinderblanc]

One of the most jarring things about this season of 9-1-1 is how they got rid of most of the recurring characters and yet it feels like we've barely seen meaningful interactions between the main characters, because somehow they decided it was better to give screentime to... Gerrard and Brad???

Like, Athena's family has basically been written out entirely so it's just her and Bobby, and yet we've never seen her with anyone from the 118 this season outside of her husband and that scene with Hen in the finale.

Hen and Chimney never talked about the Mara situation properly, we're barely seeing their friendship.

Maddie and Chimney in 8a have basically been reduced to glorified side characters, with a pregnancy plot that could've been resolved in one scene.

And despite what your opinion of Buddie and their shippers is, Buck and Eddie are still best friends, so it's kinda baffling they haven't talked about the Chris situation like, at all?

Not to mention the stagnation or outright regression of characters just because.

Like, one of the things that attracted people to this show is the found family aspect, and that's been severely lacking this season so far.

[seraphdesire]

Regarding Donna Beneviento and her characterisation in the fandom, I think it's important to note that she really isn't the shy awkward adorable blushing mess that everyone depicts her as being.

This got long but I did a mildly extensive read on her character under the break! :)

Here are the notes I took a screencap of, written by Mother Miranda, which talks about the suitability of Donna being a vessel for Eva:

There's the evidence you need that she is severely mentally ill, so babying her just feels... wrong anyway, all things considered.

Note - "and has divided her Cadou among her dolls in order to control them from a distance." While I'm on my 3rd replay of re8 I still don't fully get how the Cadou works, but what I think is essentially happening is Donna is literally splitting off parts of herself and putting them in her dolls.

The main one being Angie, of course.

I always used to consider Angie a separate character entirely but she's linked deeply to Donna on a very personal level. Considering what she's like and what all the other dolls are like - loud, funny, sarcastic, rude, etc - and how Donna is literally the one directly controlling Angie (that's the only way she moves lol, because Donna is carrying her places. Which is also why, when you kill Angie, the illusion melts away to reveal that you've actually killed Donna), I think it's safe to say that's what her actual personality is like.

Also, her only spoken line of dialogue? Please listen to it. For those who are hard of hearing, like me, she says: "don't leave... I can't let you."

Bearing in mind the way she speaks? Her tone? She sounds confident imo. Determined. And perhaps even a little angry at Ethan for thinking he can escape her.

Just a last addition as well, can I say that her abilities as one of the Four Lourds is genuinely evil? Everyone else has physical intimidation - Alcina has her height and her claws and mutation, Heisenberg has his ability to control magnetic fields and metal, and Moreau can mutate into that huge fish-with-legs thing that vomits something akin to acid? Oh yeah and he can swallow you whole too.

Donna, on the other hand, doesn't have physical intimidation like that. She only has the threat of psychological damage (which makes sense considering she's severely mentally unwell). When Ethan goes through her gardens and has to solve the puzzles in the house, she makes him hallucinate about his wife whom he thinks is dead, and about his baby who is somewhere in this unknown country with a bunch of mutants who only have bad intentions.

It's even worse in the Shadows of Rose DLC imo. As Rose, Donna makes her hallucinate the bullies from back home, being called a freak and a weirdo, made to relive the worst moments of her life. And the puzzles too? Hell. Having to actually recreate the scenes of her bullying with wooden fucking dolls. I remember feeling really sorry for Rose while playing through that part.

And yet Donna is still "the uwu baby" because what? I don't know. People love to declaw female villains just because they're attractive (looking at Lady Dimitrescu here). They love to reduce the characters down to their looks and not consider their actual lore or background or the role they play in the franchise (looking at Leon especially...)

Which, ya know, of course people are allowed their headcanons for characters and Donna doesn't get enough screentime to really have her personality even thought of, let alone to be made canon. But I think it's fair to say that Angie and Donna are basically one and the same because they're literally the same Cadou.

This is a quick reminder that you are, of course, allowed to disagree with me. Everyone has their own opinions and that's fine. If you would like to politely debate about this in my comments or in my DMs, or even in my asks, then you're more than welcome to! Please remember debating and arguing are two different things though.

If it really irks you that bad then please scroll, it's not hard. If you don't want to do that then feel free to block me - the button is free of charge after all and should be used more to cultivate your feed to your liking.

[transformersconfessions]

I hate how the fandom for Earthspark specifically only treata the terrans as set pieces or accessories for the legacy characters and will complain that they get "too much screentime" when THEY'RE THE MAIN CHARACTERS. If you don't like the main characters getting so much screentime, sorry but maybe the show just isn't for you?

But like the treating them as accessories part is especially bad with Hashtag. Most fanworks with her are about specifically her relationship towards Starscream, and usually with a heavy focus on Starscream. But when friends have posted stuff with her that doesn't involve Starscream? It get comments bringing up Starscream when nothing in the post involved him at all. It sometimes feels like you can't even mention Hashtag around Starscream fans without them bringing up Starscream when you said nothing about Starscream. Plus people will put a heavy focus on Starscream's trauma, but erase that Hashtag recognized Starscream's trauma because he was actively engaging in the cycle of abuse onto the other seekers and because Hashtag herself has trauma too (which people especially erase or forget about). I get liking Starscream more than Hashtag but people take it to a point that is reducing her down to nothing but an accessory to him and do not just in their own posts, but the replies of other's posts without him involved at all as well.

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[utilitycaster]

I feel a lot of discussion of misogyny in fandom would be greatly improved if people acknowledged and understood that a huge component of misogyny, especially in how people judge and berate women, real and fictional but separated from them by some distance (vs irl interactions with women face to face) is that there is virtually no "acceptable" behavior in the eyes of the misogynist.

It's not just that the woman or the female character made too emotional a decision in the moment of great crisis and therefore she's hysterical; it's that if she'd made the "logical" decision she'd be called too cold and ruthless. It's not just that she's a treated as a joke character reduced to being kooky but hot; it's that if she were seen as even slightly more serious and/or less conventionally attractive, she'd be an unfuckable killjoy or called crazy or a bitch. If she's physically weak she's a useless damsel and dead weight the other characters have to deal with; if she's physically strong she's insufficiently feminine. The problem is ultimately that the acceptable range of behavior for a female character (and women in real life) is a single point in space defined by "listens to the much smarter men and does what they tell her and doesn't take up too much screentime," and for many people even the smallest deviation from that point is justification for hating her.

A truly depressing amount of energy (some of which I have absolutely been guilty of expending in the past, and have been trying not to do for some time) goes to sniping between people who generally do like female characters over interpretations on an individual level - whether any one female character is silly or serious, led by emotion or logic - when the misogynists are open to quite literally any interpretation provided the conclusion is "and that's why she sucks and I hate her." I'm all for a discussion of different character interpretations, but the people who are being bigoted are not the ones saying "oh man she's very argumentative" if the next part of the sentence is "and that's an interesting trait to give her." The bigots are the ones saying "why won't she shut her stupid mouth and listen to the men instead of arguing all the time."

[bunnysdollette]

₊⊹⁀➴ How to get your shit together in a slump: BD’s instant guide to feeling 100% again! ⟡﹒⪩⪨ 🫧🌸🧁

⋆˚｡⋆୨୧ Hi angels :) Thank you so much for the positive reception on my last posts. Anyway, I’ve been super down lately so I’d thought I’d create this post as a bit of a reference point for anyone who feels like their life is going off of the rails these days. This is how I get myself out of a slump. 💬

♫ todays song is…some by SOYOU

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ GET OFF THAT DAMN PHONE.. 📝 ⊹₊⟡⋆

wait! I was just joking. don’t close your phone until you finish reading (haha). anyway, take a look at your screentime for me. you might have been scrolling for hours or trying to distract yourself from how horrible you felt by doomscrolling endlessly…no. we can’t do that.

usually when I’m in a slump I feel damp, it’s not just about laziness. this could also be the result of exhaustion or a number of factors. dampness is an evil condition in chinese medicine where you feel heavy, tired, and dead. scrolling will only make this worse because you’re prolonging the pain. the first thing you should do is get up, stretch, breathe, and maybe crack a window. the airflow will make a big difference, I promise. 🌿

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ CLEAN UP GUIDE. 🌸 ⊹₊⟡⋆

when my room is a mess my state of mind is a mess. I can’t do anything, I’m literally loosing my marbles bc all I can see is a messy space. if your brain is in shambles rn, the smallest amount of organization you can do right now is tidy up your room a little bit.

this doesn’t even have to be a big clean, but small steps make a big impact!… remember your space is sacred. 🧘🏾‍♀️

make the bed. doesn’t have to be fancy, just make sure everything is where it needs to be.

wipe down surfaces like desks, mirrors, and vanities. you can even include a scented spray whilst doing this to make your space smell much cleaner and nicer!! I literally cannot function when my room smells like asscheeks.

remove any old cups, or food waste that you were procrastinating from doing so. don’t want to attract any bugs.

Sweep the floor. You probably don’t notice how many crumbs are on the ground, but please just do it.

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ RECHARGE YOUR “STATS”. 🛁 ⊹₊⟡⋆

honestly the best way to get out of a slump is self care. neglecting your needs and body can often lead to things going downhill, depressive episodes, etc. We all forget to take care of ourselves properly sometimes, but it’s important to pay attention to our needs and personal wellness.

Ask yourself.

“Did I shower today?” ➜ Take yourself a nice, warm shower and stay in as long as you want.

Take some time to reflect on your day or anything that’s been on your mind. And be sure to wash up well, so you can feel really nice after and tap into your feminine energy. You can even add bath salts, milk, or bubble bath. It will literally make you feel like a princess. . . 👑

“Did I eat/drink today?” ➜ Go eat something.

I prefer light meals or snacks that are cold like fruit, water, or a juice when I’m feeling dead but you can also eat whatever you want. Just think about what will make you feel good and reduce the dampness as much as possible, and will prevent brain fog. Heavier meals aren’t the best for that though.

I bet you feel better already after doing these things! Remember that taking care of yourself is the most important and you are a priority.

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ REFLECTING AND MAKING A GAME PLAN 🧁 ⊹₊⟡⋆

Lastly after you feel a little bit better now and you took care of yourself, I would really suggest reflecting either through journaling or shadow work questions. They’re the easiest way to just brain dump all of the crap you’ve been thinking about lately and get it out of your system in a healthy and helpful way.

You can write about things like “how have I been feeling lately?” “What’s one way I can improve in xyz” and so on. This is a mundane activity you can do at the end to organize your thoughts. Mental health is a huge thing after your physical health, as it literally not only affects your world but the world around us. Especially if you are trying to achieve your dream life/dream self, manifest anything, etc. you will need to take care of your mental health to not be consumed by your emotions and keep your mind in check.

Also something that is crucial is practicing gratitude and mentally grounding yourself. You can list things your grateful for, mediate, or exercise. Anything to get yourself into that mindset you need going forward. I personally love to listen to the wizard liz’s podcast in times like these, it’s a great motivation for me.

Remember that slumps, dampness, depressive episodes, all of it, is normal. We are just humans at the end of the day. Be a little nicer to yourself today and take some small active steps towards your goals. ✨🫶🏽

✧ thanks for reading beautiful !! ; so basically I’m thinking of maybe making a community here on tumblr for the girl bloggers that share dream girl content and stuff like that? idk let me know what u think. inbox is always open, stay hydrated and cute, buh bye 👋🏾

[class1akids]

In terms of uraraka, the misogyny comes in play because people are only upset because of a ship. That is why everyone has to constantly bring in Bakugou when they criticize it. It’s why people only started caring about Ochako’s character when the shop got together and, when Deku said no to bakugou. Nobody had an issue with the ending when Hori refused to do much of anything with it. But now it’s an issue, because how dare Deku refuse bakugou and how dare Deku get with a woman.

And you can’t tell me it’s more than that, when BKDK’ are the main ones upset at the ending and they’re the ones making the most noise about the ending. Sure you can say that there are some outliers, but those are far and few between.

I'm not sure what circles of fandom have you been active in, but I have to tell you many many more groups are upset with the ending, other than just BKDKs. If anything, BKDKs were the ones defending the ending up until Ch 430, because it gave them things they valued for the ship and didn't confirm the "other" ship.

It's just the rest of the fans started to be critical not at 430 or 431, but way earlier:

A lot of Deku fans have been complaining the entire Act 3 with how little his PoV was explored and how he's been shafted in the final fight and not getting his big save that was set-up. Not to mention the loss of his quirk, the abrupt teacher career with zero set-up or insight, then being sad / lonely in 430 and getting a pity suit which then was reversed in 431 in the face of backlash to make him lose his hero motivation.

Villain fans have been very upset since 419 and the way the saving of villains got thrown away and reduced to the incredibly lazy writing of Scissors-kun and granny redemption

Todofam fans have been critical of 426 for the inhuman treatment of Touya, for putting Endeavor in focus (again), replacing his family with sidekicks, for the way Rei was treated and yes, for not giving Shouto's feelings the same kind of spotlight Uraraka got.

I think people wouldn't be so upset with Uraraka getting so much screentime if the other main characters got their own traumas handled as well:

if Deku got some focus on his feelings regarding losing OFA and figuring out future plans - after all he's the MC, not Uraraka and much of the plot revolved around his question of wanting to be a hero

if Bakugou got some highlight about struggling with rehab or his feelings about Edgeshot

if Shouto got some highlight about his brothers's death, about his family falling apart and the public backlash he was facing for his family scandal

(And I'm not mentioning others like Aizawa, Hawks, Tokoyami or Jirou who struggled with their own losses / injuries that could have gotten some highlight too)

Taking up double page after double page with Uraraka's repetitive crying from every angle makes me furious not because she's a girl who gets with Deku, but because the narrative treats her pain as the ONLY one that matters. For me, who did not read this manga for Uraraka, this feels insulting and dismissive of the heaps of trauma that my fave went through without a proper emotional resolution.

And as a fan it makes me wonder who the epilogue was written for. Horikoshi clearly knows what his readers want, since he insists holding yearly popularity polls. And yet, he deliberately chose to draw only the things he was interested in (the female bodies he likes so much) instead of trying to give proper catharsis to all the characters and proper resolution to the themes and set-ups.

I have read manga endings that clearly keep in sight the fact that even the smallest character has fans who crave a reward for sticking with the story and some resolution for their fave. But Horikoshi lost sight of this simple truth and threw away his themes and managed to piss off 90% of the fandom to end his manga in a deeply unsatisfying whimper.

Crying "misogyny" or pretending it's all about ship wars is a lazy way to shut down any criticism or serious conversation about this story, and it just makes you comes across as someone who will defend anything as long as it gives you fodder to stick it to the "other side". Because you never cared about the story, the themes or the characters, only about "winning" the canon ship.

[linkspooky]

What ending would you have liked for the League villains in BNHA?

Well, there's two answers to this question. What would be my ideal ending to the League of Villains requires major story structure changes. To the point where it almost becomes an entirely different story,v venturing into fanfiction territory.

Basically keeping the story as it is until My Villain Academia, there's no longer a clear and distinct line between Hero and Villain. Shigaraki is now the real deuteragonist of the story, and the story is split between Deku's journey and Shigaraki's.

The league are no longer just an insane fringe element that doesn't deserve to be listened to or have their wrongs redressed. Since they now have the MLA they have public support behind them, they like become actual rebels against hero society with even public support. Either the War Arc doesn't happen, or the villains win and society is effectively destroyed so that the heroes no longer have their tight grasp.

A bunch of kids die in the war, because they weren't relevant and it's a consequence for UA raising child soldiers. The remaining relevant kids are forced to cope with two realities, number one they were violent enforcers of a broken system, number two the villains are right in some ways. A moment of the kids going "Are we the bad guys?" However, they can't agree with destroying everything so they have to fight to rebuild. The kids have lost faith in the adults, break off from them entirely so the adults no longer hog all the screentime and try to attempt to solve the problem on their own. Also, Enji dies in the war arc because Hori didn't do anything satisfying with his character beyond that part, and Dabi is hit with feelings of: oh no killing my father didn't fix my problem.

Then you'd basically have to have the narrative find a compromise between Shigaraki's complete radicalism but lack of any motivation to rebuild, and Deku's desire to save others but lack of self-awareness about the evils of his society and how the system can't be fixed as it is. Like a war between the opposite forces of preservation and destruction and Deku and Shgiaraki having to eventually work together to build their world. Maybe Deku even manages to convince Shigaraki there is a future, and save him from statements like "I don't care what happens next." The League of Villains and the reduced Class 1A are like two parallel groups in the manga running in tandem, and also Deku's bonds with his friends are closer now and actually shown in story they become a tight knit group so both sides are trying to protect the people they love too.

Here was my realistic ending I was expecting when the war started. The kids fight their respective villainous foils and then manage to talk them down and solve things with words instead of violence. Then the villains and heroes team up in order to save Shigaraki from AFO, which is the first step of redemption of the league, and also the kids realizing that the league love each other. At the end of the fight Deku tells Shigaraki what he's always wanted to hear when he was Tenko, "You can be a hero, too." bookending the story with the words All Might told him. The villains either get rehabilitated because they helped take down AFO, or they run off to become vigilantes.

What we got was everyone being sent to hell instead and that sure is something.

[study-diaries]

Mistakes I made in my junior year that i don't want anyone else to repeat.

Signed up for more extra curriculars than I could handle

Not giving myself enough breaks

Sleeping late

Had increased screentime

Didn't give midterms it's dues importance

Lost my notes a couple of times so I had to rewrite them and thus, wasted time.

Thought too much about what people think

Had increased anxiety levels because i wasn't doing anything productive

Didn't study from the start

Got overconfident in the subject which was easy and ended up getting the lowest in it.

Gave too many f**ks about unimportant matters

Didn't give too many f**ks about important matters

Didn't manage my time

Got alittle too ambitious and ended up backfiring

Implemented every single piece of advice i got from teachers (didn't turn out well)

Unhealthy diet and reduced my meals

Didn't exercise.

(For both my reference and yours. I have definitely thought about how I can improve in my last and final year of highschool based on this and thought that this might help someone else too.)