Born one of two, intrigued too much to perish

Bisexual Witcher shitposter, writing blog @duns-writes, ADHD, bard class, trans NB. Icon by @jemmasimmons. U18s DNI please.

[jonathanbyersdeservesbetter]

Jonathan: Wow, I feel happy and I’m having so much fun!

Jonathan:

Jonathan: *narrows eyes* Something’s wrong here.

[soldier-of-death]

im only attracted to worthy opponents

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[ordinarytalk]

Recovering from autistic burnout as a high-masking adult:

To recover, you literally need to manually learn skills that most people learn as a toddler

You need to learn what makes your body uncomfortable, and what to do to fix it

If you are high-masking, that usually means that you have learned to ignore every distress signal your body sends unless it is a distress signal that a neurotypical person would recognize. People have likely been unintentionally gaslighting you about your lived experience your entire life

If you feel bad or panicked for no reason, stop and try to pay attention to your body. Are you tense? You are likely feeling physical pain somewhere. If you've been gaslit about your pain your entire life, you might not be able to identify it.

Go through a sensory checklist.

SIGHT: Try closing and covering your eyes. If this gives you relief, the lights are probably too bright. You may also need differently-colored lights

SOUND: Cover your ears. Does this give you relief? If so, you may need earplugs or noise canceling headphones. You may also benefit from a neutral or pleasant background noise, like soft music or brown noise.

TOUCH: Are your clothes uncomfortable? Your chair? Your body? Do you feel greasy, like you need a shower? Do you need softer, sensory-friendly clothing?

TASTE: Do you need to brush your teeth or tongue? Would chewing on something help?

SMELL: Is there a strong or unpleasant smell in the room? Do you need to clean or empty a trash can? Would an air purifier help? Would a pleasant smell like a candle help?

INTEROCEPTION: Are you hungry? Thirsty? Tired? How is your posture? Are any of your muscles tight or sore? Scan your body slowly from head to feet, tensing and loosening each group of muscles. Going for a walk or doing a series of quick stretches may help a lot.

Learning how to do this stuff is not intuitive, if you've had an entire lifetime of gaslighting telling you that everything hurting you isn't a big deal and you're being dramatic over nothing.

This takes time, it takes work, it's not intuitive, and it's hard. Most people forget how hard it is, because they learned this as toddlers.

If you want to recover, you need to relearn your whole body. And get over your idea of "normal" and just wear the damn sunglasses and put on the headphones. If people stare, fuck em. You're disabled and they can deal with that.

[partywithponies]

I think fandoms in general don't know the difference between "good redemption arc" and "good slowly gaining trust and forgiveness arc", in this essay I will,

[partywithponies]

Good redemption arc: a formerly villainous character sees the error of their ways or the fundamental flaws in their world view with their own two eyes, makes the effort to be better. Doesn't become instantly good overnight, continues to make mistakes and be flawed, and slowly and gradually learns to become a better person.

Good "slowly gaining trust and forgiveness" arc: a formerly villainous character is still distrusted by the good guys and those around them, has to gradually convince them all that they're not that person anymore, earn their trust, and gain their forgiveness

Notice how those two things CAN coexist in the same character but are not the inherently same thing.

I am SICK of people saying that characters who instantaneously became good and overcame all their major character flaws overnight but had to spend a long time gaining people's trust and forgiveness had a better redemption arc than characters who were basically adopted by the main characters and forgiven overnight but who had a long road to gradually changing and becoming a better person and shifting away from their former worldview.

Redemption is INTERNAL. Forgiveness is EXTERNAL. It's a personal choice which you consider more important, but they are not the same thing.

[partywithponies]

If you want your "redemption arc" to happen instantly, that is not an arc. That's a dot at best.

[sludgewizard666]

if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

some others i found in the notes

[feathery-dreamer]

i'm not awesome like [X], i'm awesome like me <- litany against always comparing yourself to others

[growingwingslikeanangel]

What's everyone's favourite Casualty Character/Characters

(Other shows are allowed too ♡)

I'll go first my favourite is Cam Mickelthwaite (I also find his actor amazing ♡)

[heartpdf]

[arstoryels]

one day at university, Will's Studio Art professor will assign them a piece inspired by the theme of 'father figure'.

Jonathan worries that it'll be a dark piece about Lonnie's abuse.

He can't stop his tears when he sees a cherry coloured portrait of his own face staring back at him instead.

[razielim]

that's it that's the nutshell genai is in

[holyunholy]

should be able to leave kudos on scientific studies. i liked your paper dude keep at it

[holyunholy]

sorry, Dr. Dude

[thepioden]

Dude et. al.

[wormofmouth]

need y'all to know that most academics have publicly searchable email addresses and this not only makes their day but they can put nice emails in their giant packets for applying for jobs or tenure. "hi i read your paper for a class and it was very helpful, im at xyz college and the class is blah with professor blah" is sufficient and ENORMOUSLY helpful

[link-the-feral-anon]

It seems that, once again, when you can't kudos, commenting is the way to go

[dunroamins]

...ain't this just Advanced Altmetrics?

[finelytaylored]

“he’s an empath who clocks what your crisis is”

IM NOT CRYING YOURE CRYING

[stelladiver81]

WE'RE ALL CRYING

[questions-about-blorbos]

If you could, would you have your Blorbo as your therapist?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 22

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

[hiveswap]

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

[xiaguangmagpie]

Yes actually I will not shut up about how these foods are from the Americas/cultivated by the people there, and did NOT exist in Asia, Africa or Europe before the 1490s, there was an absolute food revolution going on in the 1500s. Whatever you think is traditional food for your country? Check again, you’ve maybe only been using that ingredient for maybe 500 years. Here is the full list of crops, it is very interesting :))

[armandageddon]

who gives a shit if the heated rivalry actors are queer or not. if they're queer then good for them for getting to play queer roles and if they're straight but this cheerfully willing to have hot sweaty gay sex with other men on television for our entertainment then more power to them too. other straight men should take notes. whats the issue here again

[etherealspacejelly]

this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it

buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell

leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist

put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.

when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!

plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.

if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge

if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.

its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.

[should-be-sleeping]

You are allowed to accommodate yourself.

[easterndaylighttime]

if I just had the presence of mind and the wherewithal and the chutzpah and the bandwidth and the executive function and the energy and the mental resources and the spoons and the right attitude and the capacity and the gumption and th