#to me. at least.

[kidskulls]

the people's princess

[someofitwastrue]

everyone on tiktok talking about what the girl harmonizing with fan sound actually sounds like. they are all wrong. what it sounds like is the “I AM JOHNNY” it’s always sunny scene.

[stone-stars]

so a while ago i realized that melora's boon (the song from the heart of the world) and mee maw's burden had very similar chords in their openings, as well as general instrumentation. and i thought "woah that's a really cool musical parallel for emily to have set up!"

i was listening to some other instrumentals today, and as it turns out... it wasn't just those two songs.

[Audio Description: Clips of the openings of "A Sign From Melora", "Mee Maw's Burden", and "A Rare Appearance", followed by a clip from naddpod c1e97 that features the opening of "Melora's Boon" under Murph speaking as Melora and Emily speaking as Moonshine. The first three all have a similar progression of three piano chords spaced slightly apart. The last also does, but adds a fourth chord as well.]

like you have: a sign from melora, first used for moonshine's prayer to melora when she's unsure of what to do after learning about marabelle mee maw's burden, first used for mee maw revealing that she has crick rot, continually used to represent the burden of the living and things taken on to protect others a rare appearance first used for, well, melora's first appearance when she shows up to help heal the crick and then melora's boon first used in that clip-- at the heart of the world, when melora reveals she's given up her corporeal form and gives them their boons

yeah. these songs being musically connected is something that i can feel normal about.

[mishima-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

a young mishima stands in his bedroom

A young Mishima shouldn't be standing in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, April 28th, 2023, shouldn't be this young Mishima's birthday. (Because it isn't.)

[astrxealis]

okay so the emet-selch liker and astarion liker makes a lot of sense. but i personally am a g'raha tia liker and astarion liker which honestly also makes a lot of sense!

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[thelaurenshippen]

watching bridgerton and obviously there were a lot of things wrong with the way socializing has worked in the past, but honestly the idea of a "calling hour" is so appealing. office hours for friendship. you can show up unannounced at my home between 1 and 3pm. you must leave by 3pm. I may give you a pastry. lets bring that back

[bamsara]

"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

[taffy-glitch]

it should be illegal to put ads in apps or sites for solitaire or picross or sudoku tbh. playing classic puzzle games uninterrupted needs to be a HUMAN RIGHT

[hjartasalt]

Asked for a doctor's note to show to the airport staff if necessary for an upcoming flight where I need to bring my T with me and they were like "yeah sure no problem" and then sent me a note that makes it sound like I will literally die if I go one day without my testosterone LMAO

[eastgaysian]

[willowparkfanclub]

zeus is so bold commenting on poseidon having a forbidden kid as if he doesn't have TWO: one who is currently a tree and the other who's being raised by wolves. be serious

[hinamie]

10 years later

[nico-the-overlord]

Compilation of flag confusions I’ve seen online

[nelsaqift]

i hope they explode