*barry's theme starts playing*

hi I'm kait and I like to draw things! ⭐️ pokémon so on the brain rn (dppt/pla beloveds) ⭐️ silliness and sinnohposting abound

[poketcg-art]

I lied, the Sinnoh gallery is up now!

Huge thank you to every artist who participated! 💚

[voldemo]

My friend really changed once she became a vegetarian 

[voldemo]

its like ive never seen herbivore

[itsbats]

[thewickerking]

day one after changing sheets: ok im gonna kick my bad habits i won't eat in bed or leave knives or scissors or lighters in bed I'll have only normal bed things in my bed and I'll change the sheets more often too

day two after changing sheets: oh yeah this half eaten bundt cake is sleeping with me tonight

[bird-gifs-collection-agency]

babies frickatebird chick wants to rend you limb from limb! haha it just hungry, but if you're a fish... 👀

[flareonfloof]

if you were a fish what kind og fosh would you be

catfish

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Voting ended onApr 27

[flareonfloof]

i. forgor

[windup-angel]

[sonic-colours]

contender for stupidest fucking line in sonic history

[wnacn]

Second place goes to Eggman as well

[protagpigeon]

found a copy of jet set radio (well. jet grind radio) at my local game shop today I'm so happyyyyyyyyy

[luna-azzurra]

Chaotic duo / best friend energy!!!

⟢ "I need you to bail me out." - "Again?" - "...the number of times is not the point right now."

⟢ "I have a plan." - "Last time you had a plan I had to explain to three separate adults why we were on a roof." - "This is a different plan." - "Is it though."

⟢ "You're my best friend." - "You literally just said you hated me four minutes ago." - "Yeah and now I need a favor so."

⟢ "I would die for you." - "I just need you to return this library book."- "I would die for you." - "It's two weeks overdue." - "I would absolutely not do that."

⟢ "Nobody has to know." - "Seven people already know." - "Nobody important has to know." - "I'm important." - "Debatable."

⟢ "This is your fault." - "You made the decision." - "Based on your advice." - "I said and I quote 'that sounds like a terrible idea.'" - "In a very convincing tone!"

⟢ "I need you to pretend to be my partner for one evening." - "What do I get out of it." - "My eternal gratitude." - "I have that already." - "Fine, I'll buy you dinner." - "I want to be your fake partner so bad right now."

⟢ "You could've warned me." - "I did warn you." - "You said 'this might be mildly chaotic.'" - "And?" - "There were police involved." - "Mildly is subjective."

⟢ "I'm not saying it was a bad idea." - "It was a terrible idea." - "I'm not saying that." - "You're thinking it." - "So loud."

⟢ "We need a code word." - "For what." - "In case one of us needs to be rescued from a conversation." - "What's wrong with just leaving." - "SOCIAL ANXIETY, DEREK."

⟢ "Tell me honestly, on a scale of one to ten, how much trouble are we in." - "Eleven." "So a four, roughly." - "An eleven." - "I'm going to need you to lie to me right now."

⟢ "I can explain." - "Please don't." - "It's actually a funny story." - "I don't want to laugh right now I want to be angry." - "You're going to laugh." - "...okay but I'm still angry after."

⟢ "You're a bad influence." - "You love me." - "Genuinely against my will."

⟢ "I followed your advice." "- I have never given good advice in my life, why would you do that."

⟢ "We should do something productive today." - "We could." - "Yeah." - "...you wanna do literally anything else." - "So bad."

⟢ "This is fine." - "Nothing about this is fine." - "I'm choosing to believe it's fine." - "That's not how reality works." - "Watch me."

⟢ "Nobody panic." - "Why would we panic." - "No reason. Definitely no reason. How do you feel about light jogging."

⟢ "I googled it." - "You're not a doctor." - "I googled it very confidently." - "That's worse."

⟢ "Do you trust me?" - "Absolutely not." - "Perfect, follow me anyway."

⟢ "We are never doing this again." - "Agreed." - "I mean it this time." - "Same time next week?" - "Obviously."

[victusinveritas]

[black-crested-jaybird]

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

[makingtrouble]

Give yourself the treat before you start. I'm serious. And ideally during the task and afterwards too.

Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.

"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.

You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.

(Also read How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis)

[twwings]

I give my students a LOT of techniques for starting writing when it feels overwhelming or daunting, but one of them is exactly this: dopamine load BEFOREHAND. It may sound weird to people on tumblr dot com, but a lot of people seriously struggle with executive dysfunction when it comes to writing literally anything, to the extent that it can cause such symptoms as panic, depression, and AI chatbot use.

I usually suggest this technique as a "Reverse Pomodoro." In the original Pomodoro, you work for 25 minutes and then take a break for 5 minutes (the times vary, but that's the essential ratio). People with executive dysfunction often find this insurmountable, and they get even more frustrated, and then the task seems even more difficult. So instead, flip those times.

FIRST, spend 25 minutes doing something energizing and engaging that you like to do. Not scrolling social media passively, not watching tv, not napping. Try something like colouring, doing yoga, running/walking around the block, talking about your favourite tv show with someone in real time, playing with the dog or cat, making and eating a lovely sandwich, hula hooping, something active. Having a little treat absolutely falls in this category!

(on the subject of little treats: refusing yourself food until you do work is for fucking Puritans and you can be kinder to yourself)

Then, after 25 minutes (or however long it takes to eat the sandwich or finish the yoga routine, it doesn't have to be exact), spend 5 minutes writing (or doing whatever you're struggling to start). Most people can coax themselves into doing something they find difficult for five minutes, if they have already filled up the joy/energy/engagement bucket. You can put a timer on for the 5 minutes if you want, or if you find that annoying, just work for as long as you like.

The other key is: don't push yourself to keep going when you're frustrated or tired—that will just reinforce the negative belief that you already have, which tells you that this task is painful to do, and needs to be avoided. If you've commonly had to force yourself to do this kind of task, that's likely part of why you think of it as painful and have trouble starting it now. Also, you should just, at a basic level, try not to put yourself in pain for the sake of productivity. So just do it till the good feelings run out. Then start hula hooping or colouring again for another 25 minutes. When the tank's refilled, try another 5 minutes of work, if you can. Adjust times to taste.

Not every technique works for everyone, but I've seen this one work for many students who are genuinely and seriously disabled by executive dysfunction. And many people find themselves getting more and more excited and engaged in the "difficult" task—because the good feelings from the hula hooping carry over, and because they're suddenly able to do the task without feeling pain, and feel accomplishment without feeling pain.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"Mario Mario" is an anachronism. He and his brother were only ever referred to by mononyms in their lifetime, like most residents of the Mushroom Kingdom at the time - multi-part names were typically reserved for members of the Toadstool dynasty, and even these were more like titles or Roman cognomina than what we would call a surname today. His putative ennoblement as founder of the "House of Mario" came centuries later as the collapsing feudal order sought additional sources of legitimacy

[prokopetz]

#mushroom kingdom folklore says that he sleeps beneath a warp pipe to arise in the time of the kingdom's greatest need #he's definitely shown up a few times but it's hard to tell if he has risen from the dead or is just in the middle of some time travel shit #historians hate him.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

While the historical evidence for Mario having a younger brother is quite concrete, the name of said brother is less certain. "Luigi" is generally held to originate with a separate figure from a series of chthonic myths, who originally served as a sort of psychopomp charged with capturing spirits that escaped the underworld. The strongest case for a contemporary figure named Luigi comes from the Waffle Kingdom sagas; however, this Luigi's brother is a gladiator named Gonzales.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

now I know that there's no way for me to respond to this without a bunch of fans of the modern adaptations ruining my inbox for the next week, but there's no evidence of Waluigi - or indeed Luigi - in any of the contemporary versions of the Mario-Wario sagas. The name "Wario" itself is a later invention, held to be a pun on warui that likely emerged after the adoption of Japanese scripts in the Koopa States.

The conflict between Mario and his "boyhood rival" was one over political influence on his home island and Mario's long absences - in particular his trip to Sarasaland. While later Sarasan sources would heavily reference Mario's brother, he is absent from both the preceding narrative and the unrest in Mario's homeland. The historical consensus is that the Sarasaland journey was one of Mario's earliest wanderings, with his brother attempting to manage affairs in his absence and proving unfit. The invention of a separate "Wario" character and its development into an explicit coup d'etat were later poetic creations, as is distancing of the "Wario" figure from the later depictions of Mario's brother as the more cowardly and reserved "Luigi".

(As an aside: "Mario Land" is a mistranslation. The original Mushroomer and Sarasan chronicles are better translated as "the land of Mario", without connotations of ownership. The modern scholastic consensus is that it refers to Yoshi's Island, where Mario and his brother spent their youth and later established a small manor, not, as commonly depicted, a "Mario Castle". The emphasis on Mario as king of "Mario Land" was a mostly successful political maneuver by the Yoshis to retain coequal status with the Mushroom Kingdom heartlands in the face of 18th-century expansionist pan-Mushroomism.)

The later emergence of "Waluigi" is an ironic recombination of two figures from the same historical source, and may have originated as a farce parodying the Mario stories. (The name "Waluigi" is also conflated with the early Norman figure Varr Yngwi, who is generally credited with the invention of tennis.)

[fryeshiverbigman-deactivated202]

hmm... *gets in evil bed and holds my evil stuffed animal* evil night.. *turns off my fucked up evil lamp*

[nnebuchadnezzar]

in class and we were told to pull up chatgpt on our laptops to experiment with and the guy in front of me pulled up a deli menu and started looking at sandwiches

[ouroborosorder]

boss makes a dollar i make a dime that's why i work at the us mint

[poketcg-art]

Wurmple – Yukiko Baba

[aaudreychu]

"Whoa, you finally got one!!" 🛸🛸

[creepycrag]

i love when a villain is like "ahhh what a ROTTEN day" but they mean that it's good and they're just saying it like that because they arbitrarily like when things are bad

[plumbo-gummite]