The engine is running

Glowing Goldfish at Dusk

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

i'm so glad i happened to see these tags this is the best thing anyone has added to this post so far

I was just grocery shopping and for a while I was in line behind the peak possible combination of parent and child, here is my 1 minute recreation from memory

Apparently people who don't have executive dysfunction think that actually working on something is the hardest part of doing something. And that's why they get mad that you call the rest of the project "easy" after you've finally worked through doing the plan and know what to do when you're working.

So when you're through with the epiphany of how to make it physically possible to make the thing you're making, and you're sharing the plan with excitement, because the hard part is over, and now you only have to get your hands moving and do it, they get mad at you like

"it's not that easy! It's a lot of hard work! >:C"

they mean it, because

to them, working is the hardest part.

They don't have to fight their brains to get started. They don't have to fight their way through making the choices, making the plan, making yourself make the thing. People who don't suffer from executive dysfunction think that the hardest part is actually doing the thing.

when you have executive dysfunction, it’s like... you’ve just clawed your way up a long steep embankment of loose gravel, and you flop exhausted into the construction site, and you’re like “oh thank fuck, time to lay some bricks, i absolutely could do this all day” and the guy who drove to the site goes “what’s wrong with you man bricklaying is hard graft!”

not as hard as crawling up the gravel mountain bro

there’s also good hard and bad hard. doing the thing might be hard, but at least you’re doing it; it’s good hard. just getting to the thing in the first place is hard and it’s fucking miserable. executive dysfunction puts so many bad hard things in your way before you can get to even the good hard things.

sometimes i describe it as my transmission is broken, every thing else works fine but no matter how hard I pump the gas pedal, I ain't getting anywhere because I can't

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

Also do NOT append "12ft.io/" before a URL ! Typing an URL like this https://12ft.io/<URL> will redirect to a site that would break the display of the page by removing the paywall !

Honestly it's kind of prohibited to mash CTRL+P before some paywall windows can load in to get a PDF of the article. Really shouldn't be done tbh very dangerous🤷🏿‍♂️ ❌️

Very bad, so danger, much wrong.....

And whatever you do never paste the article URL (without anything after the ?) into either https://web.archive.org or https://archive.ph. You definetly won’t find a snapshot of the webpage available without the paywall.

Falling asleep thinking abt Frodo grabbing Sam by his hair to pull him out of the water at the end of Fellowship. That’s such a visceral, unpolished motion. I once wrote a similar moment — grabbing someone who cannot swim by the hair — because that’s what I did once when I was little and my brother who could not swim jumped in the pool.

Thinking about how Frodo was fucking invisible for that whole scene. Sam chased him without seeing him. Frodo said take my hand and it was almost funny in the way Tolkien makes so much of everything a little funny bc life is ridiculous and so is the shit you have to get through, absolutely ridiculous —

anyway I’m lying in bed wondering like I have been wondering for days: which hand was it? The hand with the ring or without? Which pulled Sam out the way you pull people you love from deep water? Which was offered when Frodo said, very helpfully, “Here it is. Don’t pinch, lad! I won’t let you go.” It’s not clarified and maybe it doesn’t matter. In that of course the Frodo wearing the Ring and saving someone from drowning matters. That it could have been either hand, maybe, matters. Ok I’m going to bed!!

#it matters because it didn't matter#because for the last time probably in his life#Frodo wasn't thinking of the Ring at all - by @cygnahime

If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

A few days ago I discovered this poor little guy laying on the train tracks at my local station, I took it upon myself to rescue him, clean him, and reunite him with his owner.

u/YuyaBestBoy

i took elvish in school and i fucking hated it. the teacher was like 700 years old and he'd like take us on field trips to sit on the banks of babbling brooks and watch the fall of sunlight through the leaves. my friends in spanish class were like conjugating verbs and shit and meanwhile i was in an old-growth forest being overcome with awe at the sight of a majestic stag. like uhh yeah mr autumnheart when are we gonna learn like any grammar "listen to the murmur of the wind in the treetops, and you shall find the grammar you seek" like fuck dude your pedagogy leaves much to be desired

Haruhi fujioka really is the character ever. Going by any pronouns in 2006. Big beautiful brown eyes like a baby cow. Constant deadpan delivery. Getting bitches constantly. Reacts to romantic advances with a thousand-yard goldfish stare. Perfect flawless protagonist 10/10

i know there is endless clowning on Astarion for the way he genuinely thinks he’s being secretive about his Vampirism despite the fully visible fangs, the bite scar on his neck, the sneaking around at night etc., but imo the 100% funniest thing he does is put a giant mirror at his camp directly facing the spot where he stands and reads so anyone walking by would see he has no reflection

literally he’s the funniest bitch in camp for that

Deeply sad that there is no dialogue option when he admits that he's a vampire for you to say, "Wait, that was a secret?"

If you don’t long rest enough at the start, you won’t get the scene where he tries to bite you at night! Instead, an exclamation mark appears above him while you’re playing, signaling he want to talk to you, and he tells you that he’s a Vampire Spawn, totally at random somewhere along the road.

You have an option to tell him you already knew, which is what I chose. It’s literally, “well yes, obviously.” He’s like Oh! Well. Huh. Alright 👍🏻

Unstoppable Force (my love of seeing other people's takes/stylization on my OCs) vs Immovable Object (my gripping fear of not doing other people's OCs enough justice when I draw them)