I’ll make a bet with you. If you and I should ever meet again, let us live together for one year. My heart is the direct inverse of yours. You are kind, and pure, and honest. And I’m sure that is how you will continue to grow up. Your heart will remain pure. So, if we should ever meet again, I will try my hardest to learn to love you. Just for one year. And after that year, if I can consider you “special”, you will have won, and I will not kill you. But if I decide that I cannot consider you special to me, if I cannot distinguish the difference between you and that corpse, then, I will kill you. And so, today, I will let you go.
literally every sleep advice pamphlet and website: don’t do things before bedtime! no reading! no video games! don’t watch tv! nothing stimulating at all within two hours of going to bed! :)
me, an adhd: you fools. you buffoons. i can’t even manage one minute without stimulation. i will die before following this advice and that is a threat
My go-to-sleep routine involves ramping down with less stimulating input for a couple hours, but having some form of media until I literally can’t keep my eyes open.
Of course, my sleep schedule is “surprise me,” so this may not be the best advice.
If you’re someone who experiences an absence of stimulation as [negative] stimulation, it makes sense that that advice wouldn’t work for you.
(I don’t know whether it’s that way with ADHD, but it can be with autism, so I’m thinking it’s likely.)
Health advice that excludes disabled people is a constant irritation. I saw an article once about research supposedly finding that spending much time sitting down shortens your life, and someone who needed a wheelchair full-time commented underneath “Well, that’s me fucked, then”. Sums it up.
Heyyyyyyyy you want a piece of life-changing advice from your local ADHD gremlin?
Hang out in bed.
I kept hearing that you should only be in your bed for sleep and that all your other activities - like reading, internetsing, talking on the phone, playing games, etc. - should be done somewhere other than the bed so that you could associate the bed with sleep.
You know how I’ve averaged three to five hours of sleep a night for about seventeen years? (you probably didn’t know; let me tell you IT SUCKED) I’m approaching a MUCH healthier average of five to seven hours through the simple expedient of hanging out in bed around bed time.
You know why?
Because I would get sleepy out in my not-bed but I couldn’t get my executive function to cooperate with getting me into bed.
I’d sit in my chair and hang out on tumblr or have a book in my hand and around 3 am I’d be fighting to keep my eyes open but I wouldn’t get the motivation to get out of my chair and go to bed until around 4.
Now I start hanging out in my bed at about midnight and when I get tired at one or two I can just take off my glasses and go to sleep. There are still hyperfocus incidents - I’ve gotten sucked into a book until 6 once or twice since I started doing this, but that’s once or twice in four months instead of going to bed at 5am every night.
So yeah, FUCK sleep hygeine if it’s actually preventing you from getting to sleep. There is no way the blue light from my phone could be worse for sleep than the ADHD “I’ll get up and go to bed in a minute” mode was for me.
this is the bedtime version of “running the dishwasher twice”
pay the ADHD tax upfront; embrace the second-best solution rather than the perfect one you’re half as likely to do or use
i swear if the wizard doesnt let me out of his abandoned salt mine soon im gonna fucking LOSE IT
what did you do to be put into the salt mine
i MAY have eaten his special wizard meal. but i think he should let me out tbh
was it good? was it worth it? are you able to bear the weight of your sin?
im not gonna lie it was fucking delicious i would fucking do it again. wait shit youre the fucking wizard in disguise seeing if ive learned my lesson arent you. fuck.
10 YEARS IN THE ABANDONED SALT MINE.
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WikiHow said fuck blue lives
YA books: There are 2 boys, the protagonist girl HAS to date one, but how can she choose? They are so incredibly different in every way!
The boys:
He literally has a twin brother but the implication here is much funnier
when the boy who ghosted you goes viral for skating your routine that is to a gay opera love song about lost love that you commissioned so you show up at his house with your marble bust and your poodle and get naked
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone.
here it iss!! the finished klance animatic I mentioned 8′) 💜
it was started back in 2018 before s6 even aired so there’s some old art in it, I almost dropped it but this whole year has been so weird I was like.. this might as well happen? lool
anyway I never made an animatic before, I hope you enjoy it, bunch of frames under readmore or you can view them all here! c:
Ah! It’s the Daiken Secret Santa I made for this year exchange! Thanks to @daikenweek for organizing. I’m also VERY happy that my recipient liked the piece I made for them. (▰˘◡˘▰)
do the spiderverse kids all have. slightly different meme cultures
miles: look I can fit my whole fist in my mouth
gwen: freaky flexing. but alright
miles:
miles, through his fist: I’m sorry what did you just say
ok but remember Peter B’s world is most like ours
so both Miles and Gwen would have slightly off memes and distress him when he has a hard enough time remembering his own world’s memes
I WAS HOPING SOMEBODY WOULD POINT THIS OUT.
Miles: It’s “strange flex but cool beans.” Peter: Am I tripping on something? Is this a stroke, is this what a stroke feels like?
Miles: *makes a mistake* This is distressing. Siri play Take on Me.
Gwen: you absolute heathen. It’s ‘This is tragic, google play All Star.’
Peter: whAT the fUCK
THAT’S IT THIS ONE IS THE BEST ONE
noir: strange flaunt, but alas
Noir:
You’ve done it - you found something that fits the format but holds the meaning “fuck Nazis”.
spiderham: hmm disappointing, jukebox play what’s new pussycat