Dream some quality dreams

Hi there! I'm Nimu, 27, Russia. MD, radiologist. Sometimes I draw and write about my life. I like games: RPG's, point and click adventures, VN's and otomes. This blog is mostly for reblogging fun stuff and art things.

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Textile art featuring a school of koi fish, by artist Lin Xia.

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Haven’t had a chance to watch the tutorial yet, but I’m seriously considering making this for my gf’s niece

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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):

How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills

Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func

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

Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults with Autism

Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as

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 do not have to be stuck forever.

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Haruka Kawakami

かわかみはるか

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Shampooed cows ♡🐄

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Detail of paintings from Nebamun's tomb chapel. Theban Necropolis, Egypt.

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Brotherhood of The Orb

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[marcelshorjian]

> THE JESTER

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my piece for the @welcometomistriazine ! check it out, everyone worked so hard and there's something in there for every character <3

decided to add a process gif cuz it took so dang long

[miyaneatworld]

I finally drew peak

Full res with PSD is up on that patron website thing

[androgynosaurus]

I love you so much I hope we get reborn as housecats who sleep together like puzzle pieces

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This is us in the next life

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Of all my posts to Do The Numbers over the years I think this is one of my faves because the notes are full of two things: people tagging their friends/loved ones, which is very sweet, and people posting photos of their own cats cuddling, which means I get to see more cat photos

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[ethirdes]

Pale Sun Knight polymer clay figure Original design from Vermis by Plastiboo

[the-remainder]

Starting my day by looking at my pretty sweetheart. <3

Meet them by playing Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder

[mytyldotwav]

Let's have fun on the hostile architecture with mama :)

[tanglefootcomic]

I thought I'd post the paintings I deemed Quite Bad in my previous post, partly because I remember being a young artist and finding it a bit demoralizing when I'd see older artists talk down their work. I'm always frustrated when I swing at an idea and miss, but every bad drawing is a stepping stone to slightly better drawings! And making art you dislike is so much better than making no art at all. I think I can speak from experience there.

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So I have been adopted into a knitting circle I have never met?? I started knitting a few weeks ago (on my fifth sock now! Socks are fun.) and one of my friends told their mother about it. Their mother knits. Like a lot. And she also hoards, again, a lot. So, two weeks ago, my friend gave me a care package with a project bag, stitch markers and a pair of small ducks to stick on the needles so I don't lose any stitches.

Needlessly said, I was absolutely overjoyed. I made sure my friend would tell their mother how happy I was about this (I mean look at those ducks. LOOK AT THEM), ran around screaming in a circle for about half an hour and expected the whole thing to be over.

I was wrong.

One more important thing: I have met this woman once, and so briefly that I don't remember what she looks like. I have no clue if she remembers what I look like. I don't even remember her name. Anyway, I guess my friend mentioned I was complaining about wool being expensive because I am broke as hell and that does not pair well with hyper fixating on an expensive new hobby. Now their mother listened to that, went to her knitting circle, and discussed me. With all these other old ladies. And they decided to go through their dragon hoards of yarn to decide what they needed and what not, and pooled together to gift it to me.

Whom they have never met before. Because they thought it would make me happy. AND I AM HAPPY. VERY HAPPY. (The only issue is that my friend refuses to give it to me until Tuesday afternoon so I actually study for my biology test which I guess is fair but also uuuggggghhhhhhhhh.)

More importantly, I am just so completely overwhelmed at the thought of these people hearing about me through a silent post game led by my incredibly cagey friend and just deciding to help. They have no clue who I am. They just thought it would make me happy. Holy shit. I need a moment. I am in awe.

[jeanjauthor]

That's why I like to do random acts of kindness for others.

Just to make them happy.

It makes me happy to make others happy.

You being in need, and those ladies being able to help? I guarantee that it makes them happy to be able to help.

[subversivecynic]

Compersive joy is not limited to intimate relationships, and is fundamental to human community