oh jesus. oh my god

https://ko-fi.com/writerrat guess who got fired ✌️

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

I wish I could give the miis internalized homophobja

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

no but like i want them to actually feel it

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

you dont like her?

[catchymemes]

[peachsnout-deactivated20190614]

Grandma poison water SNAPPED

[churrotowns]

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

[everyonehasamnesia]

As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, one thing that’s been helping me grapple with the intense shame I have over all my “wasted potential” is accepting that potential doesn’t exist and never did.

This sounds so harsh, but please bare with me.

I procrastinated a lot growing up. I still procrastinate today, but less so. And yet, I got good grades. I could write an A+ paper that “knocked [my professor]’s socks off” in the hour before class and print it with sweat running down my face.

I was so used to hearing from teachers and family that if I just didn’t procrastinate and worked all the time, I could do anything! I had all this potential I wasn’t living up to!

And that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s like saying if Usain Bolt just kept going he could be the fastest marathon runner in the world. Why does he stop at the end of the race??

If ANYONE could make their top speed/most productive setting the one they used all the time, anyone could do anything. But you can’t. Your top speed is not a speed you’re able to sustain.

Now, I’ve found that I do need to work on not procrastinating. Not because the product is better, even, but because it’s better for my mental health and physical health to not have a full, sweating, panicked breakdown over every task even if the task itself turns out excellently. It’s a shitty way to live! You feel bad ALL the time! And I don’t deserve to live like that anymore.

So all of this to say, I’m not wasting a ton of potential. I don’t have an ocean of productivity and accomplishments inside of me that I could easily, effortlessly access if I just sat down 8 hours a day and worked. There’s no fucking way. That’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s fine not to live up to an illusion.

And if you have ADHD, I mean this from the bottom of my heart: you do not have limitless potential confounded by your laziness. You have the good potential of a good person, and you can access it with practice and work, but do not accept the story that you are choosing not to be all that you are or can be. You are just a human person.

[bravecrab]

"Potential" is such a manipulative word, in that it implies that if you weren't failing to maintain your personal responsibilities to society, you would not only be good, you would be great, you would be a success.

It shows that we are conditioned from a young age to believe that if we don't do what is expected of us, that it is a personal failing, regardless of if those expectations are actually achievable without inflicting harm upon ourselves.

Our mental health is in shreds because we're expected to live on a knife-edge of endless growing goals and painful failure, and we're supposed to get through it all as individuals.

[beautifulduckweed]

Holy shit this is some galaxy brain revelation here

[jennisaisquoi79]

Oh my god my whole brain just exploded and reformed at 10:30 on this Wednesday morning.

[night-the-starfish]

Disable your ad blocker? For him?, gouache on paper.

[yodaprod]

[dietspam16]

[thesweetiepienovels]

Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Walking for three minutes, is better than nothing. Drinking a glass of water and eating a snack, is better than nothing. Wiping down the counter, is better than nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. You don’t have to achieve grand things if all you’re capable of right now is the smaller things. They are still achievements. Don’t do nothing just because you don’t think you’re capable of doing bigger things, just do something you’re capable of today. 

[softwaring]

by tucker

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[idrawsnoopyeveryday]

174.

[waterbrand101]

Z-team not knowing what to expect when Robert and Flambae started dating but it wasn't walking into the break room to Robert trying to annoy Flambae with his Kermit/Beef voice and Flambae immediately responding with his npc voice.

[prokopetz]

Sometimes I have days where the name of my most recent follower keeps changing but my overall follower count stays the same, and I know I've been exceptionally successful at pissing people off that day.

[zaprowsdower27]

You actually just have one guy who follows you, unfollows you, changes his username, then follows you again

[punkitt-is-here]

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

[totally-cis-offical]

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

[moon-of-curses]

we're actually in a youtube video if this turns out to be funny enough

[pjharvey]

there are teenagers today using smartphones who don’t even remember the real gun emoji. they have never experienced it.

[shotapiss]

Never forget what they took from us

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Look how much gun violence this prevented.

[nitramaraho]

that's more direct action than the entirety of the United States Government has taken in 30 years what are you talking about

[cypherdrgon]

Phm from Adrian's perspective is just what if you were Penelope and Odysseus came home but he also brought a jellyfish and keeps begging you to build a fish tank for the jellyfish and make jellyfish food for the jellyfish and youre an ancient Greek whos never seen a jellyfish and you cant even comprehend how your going to do it but youre going to because if you dont Odysseus may kill himself. And also the jellyfish can do like. Witchcraft.

[peterparkersleftwebshooter]

👎 good luck with that guys