thing about zagreus is the doctor grew up with that nursery rhyme. little time lords had it memorized they made up silly new lines for it in school. like. what if you found out rudolph the red nosed reindeer was a psyop designed to trick your government into destroying itself with a virus. and then you got sick and crazy and started walking around saying shit like “rudolph the red nosed reindeer.. had a VERY shiny nose…” over and over because the virus made you think you were him. rudolph. the psyop reindeer
there's a family of local sandhill cranes that adopted an abandoned goose last summer and they're STILL together today even after migration.... i love them + they're local celebrities + nature is beautiful
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):
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):
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 might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.
Something about Narvin always looking to Romana for cues, orbiting her, returning if he wanders too far away. They’re at some social event and every few minutes he checks to make sure she’s still across the room. She’s making a speech and he’s attentive in the shadows behind her. He’s injured and half conscious and reaches out for her as he always does, but this time it’s more obvious because he’s holding her hand instead of watching from a distance. Herding dog behaviour, almost, but she is his anchor in whatever situations they find themselves in, and he cannot stray too far.
Romana, for her part, interprets all of this horribly wrong and self despisingly
GALLIFREY: TIME WAR: DISSOLUTION: You can’t go home again but if you want to make sure you can blow up the road that leads to it;
That creature has followed you halfway across the galaxy. The Apothecary insisting on calling him Cousin Narvin and the Dalek calling him Time Lord Narvin. “I’m nobody. Well, not anymore, anyway.” Narvin, who needs to feel useful, who has always needed to be useful and who had that mistaken for ambition, now sublimating that into his promise to Romana, and to Rayo (although he does care, and I think there’s a part of him that genuinely would take him and fuck off somewhere outside the War) and having it mistaken for the untrustworthy cowardice he hasn’t worn as armor in years. It’s familiar, and it’s that….it’s “I might not be able to do this for myself but I can do this for you, but only if you don’t look at me” thing.
Narvin, who has now left both Romana and Leela behind, facing the very real and suddenly extremely actionable prospect of leaving Gallifrey permanently, not just walking away but destroying his ability to go back. If there is a Gallifrey to be saved here, a true Gallifrey, it is not the Gallifrey of the Time Lords. He’s not a coward, he’s not afraid of dying, he’s spent too much time fantasizing about vanishing into a chameleon arch for it to even be fear of being erased. His petulant little bitchbaby shit here isn’t about that….like this is kind of it, right? He has been systematically stripped of everything that makes him a Time Lord, all the titles and trappings and privileges, and now here he is being offered the choice to, you know, take the harness off entirely, to take that last step of his own free will. Hold up where’s the seal video
Narvin and Rayo’s tearful goodbye…..They are both exhausted and traumatized and grieving and it’s been like….a week lmao but they really did kind of bond? It’s heartwarming and also heartbreaking
“Gallifrey can burn for all I care” ok you know when you’re a grownup and you put yourself back in a childhood situation and suddenly you’re 13 again and you can FEEL how that teenager never got unstuck all the way from who you are as a person
“I used to think there was no place for sentimentality in all this. I truly believed it. And now, it seems to be all I have left” “I think I understood her better than anyone in my own chapter, and I think she understood me too” “Romana is…..Romana, and Leela has certainly always been Leela”
still thinking about my guy. this little man. Mr Details, Mr Spreadsheets, Mr cog in search of a clock, shoving his body into the psychic circuits and winding up where he has to go, which is also the very last place he wants to go, using ‘but what if they oubliette me’ as the final reason to run from what’s been coming all his life (what if they do to me what i did to others in their service), even as he keeps insisting that he never did any of it for recognition. Mr Gallifrey realizing it’s probably going to be him pulling the trigger. his constipated but genuine love for Romana and Leela pulling him kicking and bitching through the refusal of the call. King Minos breaking out of the labyrinth he built with sentimentality as the pickaxe. like. babygirl ~
help i think there's some kind of Beast being formed out of the hay,,,,,
!!!!!!
Don’t worry that is Normal when there’s a field of hay or marshmallows Beasts are naturally drawn to them and prance around with their Sticks and Balls and wait is she wearing her harness
She looks so puppy
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