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[functional-artaholic]

A Page of Pokes.

They all belong to a Pokemon AU of some DBH characters (my 900s + Connor) but me being me, I can’t bring myself to finish the pictures of said characters with their respective pokes so after a month of waffling, here’s the mon on their own without any context. Yay! 8D

(Giving alternate costumes to Mimikyu is one of my favorite things.)

[functional-artaholic]

Let them....... be cute twinsies........ ;;

[functional-artaholic]

Happy belated birthday to Det. Ben Collins! \o/ Let’s just ignore that I found out day-of (the 12th) and rushed the f outta this xD

Connor, Hank, and (left to right) Lowell, Rudy, Hunter, and Howl (various RK900s who, in various post-game personal timelines, have worked with Ben at some point) throw a lil celebration. Ben’s iffy on the attention but he’s not about to turn down a delicious cake made by Rey (a brother of Lowell’s) complete with that gd perfect CyberLife Sans lettering |D (How do you even do that with icing, honestly.)

The whole fandom did stuff for Hank and Connor’s bdays, so I didn’t stress about contributing myself, but this time I knew I’d be the only one doing something for one of my personal favorite minor characters so I felt an obligation. Even... if I was still late... ^^;

[studiocyen]

OMG ORIGINAL ART FOR ONCE! :O

[donlemefo]

Let’s get over with it. I’m really tired. • RK900 has GREY eyes. • RK900 and RK800 are of the same height. • The height difference between RK900 and Gavin is the same as RK800 and Gavin (about 6 cm or 2.36" NOT MORE). Stop comparing their height on screenshots with different perspectives and body positions.

[bay-harbor-looksmaxxer]

I’m laughing because all the “I’m gonna ignore cold hard facts because I can” comments are a great summary of tumblr.

[functional-artaholic]

Coupla RK900s (Wolfram, left, and Fox, right) being bros. :’D

Experimenting with editing/painting over some Sims 4 screenshots cuz I’m pretty happy with my RK8/9 sims and there is some Potential there. |D

(Edit: Added the befores, one a bare screenshot and one just missing the final touches from PS!)

[a1-b2c3-deactivated20230114]

why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

[wearethesparkk]

I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:

Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar

Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)

Chocolate Hills, Philippines

Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…

[memcjo]

Earth is effing amazing!

[isnerdy-deactivated20190101]

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Lake Retba, Senegal

Tepui, Venezuela

Tianzi Mountains, China

[bunjywunjy]

these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:

Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)

(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)

Lake Natron, Tanzania

(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)

Lake Baikal, Russia

(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)

and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.

it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:

(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it) 

anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk

[meggiemufin]

Allow me to throw in Catatumbo Lightning, which is also called the “Everlasting Storm” because it’s been raging for thousands of years in Venezuela and throws down some totally badass lightning on the daily

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[mothric]

executive dysfunction is telling yourself for two and a half hours that you need to shower bc you smell like your workplace and you absolutely Cannot do Anything Else until you shower, doing Any Other Thing before showering is illegal!!! but you still haven’t for some reason??? you’ve just been sitting on your bed in a towel scrolling tumblr for 2+ hours thinking “I need to shower right now immediately” and growing increasingly frustrated that you are still not clean and you haven’t eaten or done your laundry either

[mothric]

ok actually no I’m reblogging this because a) I am clean now (and I smell amazing, thank you), and b) I had a heckin Realize and I wanted to share it with y’all in the hopes it’ll help someone else with a brain like mine.

I figured something out about myself a long time ago– it’s only just now occurred to me that I was in fact solving a problem caused by executive dysfunction, and I haven’t been implementing this solution lately because my brain went “that’s a relatively new term to me and therefore a Different problem that requires a Different solution”. thanks a lot, brain.

anyway, long long ago, before I knew these fancy schmancy Official words, the problem, as I phrased it to myself, was such: 

sometimes I get Stuck. I was doing something, or on my way to doing something, and then… I just. got stuck.

“Stuck” looks like refreshing my feed or dashboard repeatedly. or it looks like staring at a spot on the wall. or chewing my fingernails. or picking at a stubborn sticker. all the while, my brain drifts through various unrelated topics I wouldn’t be able to recall if asked. sometimes I can get Stuck for hours before realizing I am Stuck. sometimes I get so Stuck that I go to bed that way (feeling especially bad for being unproductive) and I have to just reset everything by sleeping.

one day I asked myself, “why is this happening? why am I stuck, right now, at this moment in time?” the answer, as it turns out, was pretty simple: I was trying to make a decision, and I got distracted. I haven’t moved forward because I haven’t answered that one question or made up my mind.

let me rephrase this in terms of executive dysfunction: many people have expressed that it feels like knowing you need to do a thing but not feeling “ready” to do it. many with ADHD may also be familiar with the feeling of needing things to be “just so” before you embark on a task- you need your setup to look a certain way, or you need to set a timer, or have the right music playing, etc.

when I get Stuck it’s often because I got lost somewhere in that setting-up process, and my brain took the opportunity to nyoom off into Distraction Town.

getting myself Unstuck is solved, 95% of the time, by tracing my steps back to the original decision I was trying to make- often something small and inane- and then troubleshooting from there. (out loud! verbal processing is totally punk.) 

“what was I trying to do?” 

“was I trying to decide between two things?” 

(the answer’s usually yes.) 

“what were they?” 

“okay, let’s decide. 

“okay, that’s settled. let’s move on.”

and then I am free as a bird to nyoom in the direction of The Thing I Wanted To Do All Along, in the amazingly disorganized, scattered, yet rapid-fire way that I do many things.

so!!! in the case of my first post, where I hadn’t showered for 2 hours? turns out I had been trying to decide what music to listen to in the shower. (another hack: my chances of getting Stuck while showering decrease by 75% if I have music playing to help me keep track of time.) I couldn’t immediately make up my mind, got lost in thought, got distracted, and drifted. once I stopped and asked- “why am I stuck?”-  then I remembered- “oh yeah! I wanted to listen to music”-  and then decided- “I want to listen to Daft Punk’s Discovery album”- I was finally heckin able to shower. and also eat, and also throw my clothes in the dryer.

and may I add I only zoned out once, during the slow part of “One More Time.” :P

I’m not saying this is a foolproof method. sometimes I don’t have a reason for being stuck, and that’s okay! I’m also not saying this is how every adhd brain works. it’s just how my brain works, and I’m sure there’s at least a few who can relate. for those few, I hope this helps!!

[adhdandcomics]

this is very helpful! phrasing it as “stuck” makes a lot of sense and gives a name to that horrible abstract feeling

[fucktheevanuris]

ADHD culture is saying “what?” when you heard the question someone asked you but… It didn’t fucking… Register… In the brain? And then you hear the question before they ask again and interrupt them when they’re talking because now you’re An Asshole™ who understands

[mostlyvoidpartlyplants]

Someone: Hey what time is it?

Me: What?

Someone: Wha-

Me: It’s 3:20

[attack0npotato]

This is actually a thing, while visual info takes 0.1 seconds to process, auditory infor can take 3 to 4 seconds to process, which is why you ask, and then actually hear the question because your brains only just processed it

[seashells-and-bookshelves]

My husband has ADHD and does this, and I hate repeating myself constantly. One thing that I feel has saved us from so much stress in our marriage is that I’ve just stopped repeating myself. After a while he caught onto what I was doing and stopped saying “what” over and over when I didn’t respond. Now occasionally he’ll ask me “what?” when I said something because he actually didn’t hear me, and I will happily repeat myself for him, but most of the time I just say silent and let his brain compute what I said. So now our conversations go one of two ways: 

Me: Hey hon, where is the tv remote? Him: What?? Me: *silence* Him: I left it on the couch. 

Or 

Me: Hey hon, where is the tv remote?  Him: What? Me: *silence* Him: Ok, I really didn’t hear you that time, what did you say? Me: *repeats question*

Even if you don’t have ADHD, I mean, auditory delay happens with a lot of people, not just ADHD folk. If you deal with it, try this approach with your friends and loved ones. It has helped us so much. 

[old-songs]

I jokingly suggested something similar to my gf called the “3 second rule”. If i don’t respond in 3s, assume I really didn’t hear you.  Tho Im p good at just masking the processing time with UUhhhhHhHhh

[napping-tenno]

@m4wie

[functional-artaholic]

There are over 200,000 RK900s and I’m well on my way to making headcanons for all of them @.@ Here’s 313 248 317-86 wooo...

But for real, I have 4 who exist as a plot point in the others’ settings, so I thought I’d use one of them to be a more… generic? Version for easier/more recognizeable fanarting. Aaand then I got the idea of him ironically rocking anti-android shirts… and still can’t settle on a name. XD Welp, one day I’ll do real art instead of shitty headcanon sketches but today is not that day!

[functional-artaholic]

Lowell’s a strong, unbreakable RK900... until he isn’t. :P

My main take on the RK900s is that, in a good pacifist ending, they were never finished; all that exists of the line are the five early stress-test prototypes (313 248 317-81 through -85), and their pre-beta state really shows.

Incredibly powerful, outclassing Connor in most respects, but prone to crashing and plagued by systemic issues and stress test damage to biocomponents so unique and experimental they can’t be simply replaced or repaired. But they try to keep a positive attitude about it, so that’s gotta count for something, right?

[functional-artaholic]

Concern for their middle-aged partners’ health must be hard-coded into RK800 and 900 units, let’s be real.

Lowell here’s one of my RK900s, gets partnered with kindly, patient, helpful veteran detective Ben Collins to show him the ropes when he joins the force a lil over a year after the revolution. An android designed for police work might not need much training, but if nothing else it’s a formality to stick to now that androids can hold jobs the human way. And then they get attached. As you do. :D

(Ben: Hey, it has lettuce...! Lowell: AND bacon, two patties, two slices of cheese, three separate condiments... Ben: ...and tomato!)

[functional-artaholic]

Thought I should cross-post my ConnorADay challenge here ([this] is the original twitter post)~

I don’t know if the challenge made it to tumblr or if it was just a twitter thing? But it’s pretty self-explanatory: draw Connor once every day for a week. Good opportunity to study his pretty, pretty face *o*

[functional-artaholic]

New blog of mine, I hereby christen thee... with an old Art vs Artist meme I forgot to ever post.

Incidental face reveal ho!