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@thatonexman
So this was a project that I started in late 2024, and only now just finished it. @sirius-bizdness helped quite a bit, making the CGI backgrounds and compositing. Honestly I find it really hard to imagine Spamton without any Max Headroom-isms
I found a really weird secret in Deltarune, does anybody know anything about this
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.
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)
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.
The flowers if they were on a roadtrip:
Green: holds up a sign that says "SEATBELTS." waits to hear seven seatbelt clicks. burns rubber. (when they're not driving, they're the designated shotgun snacks person.)
Flowery: the usual driver. a pretty good driver, apart from the occasional ludicrous over-the-top anime stunts. takes a nap in the back when he's not driving
Yellow: drives like it's the Wild West, until Seth gets annoyed and looks up road safety laws. has a breakdown. drives them all to the police station to turn himself in. not allowed to drive after that
Blue: polite and cautious to a fault. always drives under the speed limit. takes several minutes to perfectly parallel park.
Seth: does not drive. listens to audiobooks when they're not being an annoying backseat driver
Aqua: sitting in the back singing VERY VERY LOUDLY. wants to stop at every roadside attraction and restaurant they pass. Flowery distracts her with road trip games when he's not driving. everyone is relieved when she falls asleep.
Orange: wants to know if they're there yet. sings along with Aqua sometimes. gets in fights with Aqua sometimes. maybe sits on the dashboard and helps Green distribute snacks
Pink: argues with herself about the directions. banned from driving after the incident
various sketches from the process of designing Dr. Lumine. I went through a lot of iterations for her--this is just the ones I did, and not any of the concept sketches I crowdsourced from my siblings. I was aiming for sort of a radiant look for her, since she's a light detector. that idea's still present in the final version, but toned down a lot compared to some of these drafts.
might as well throw out the ideas that were crowdsourced from me
Various designs for W. D. Gaster I've thought of, plus the Forgotten Man.
I think a majority of people believe that the Forgotten Man is actually Gaster, or at least a part of him after getting shattered. While I do think that's interesting, I also think it'd be funny if the Forgotten Man was like, straight up just a guy
the horrors persist but so do books, art, hot chocolate, winter nights, the moon, the sea, the stars, sunsets, literature, libraries, cats, flowers, stories, love and the wistful feeling you get when you finally return home
I heard Sell Out by Reel Big Fish again recently, and turns out it's an aggressively Spamton-coded song. Anyway it inspired me to make something weird, bizarre, and more importantly, eye-gougingly loud in Macromedia Flash 8 again, as a little experiment to push the software a little bit
rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished
Story idea when you try to actually write it:
Story idea when you first rewrite it:
Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!
Your story when somebody else sees it:
hhhhhHHHHHHH
This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents.
Also possibly relevant is that probably when Van Gogh finished Starry Night, he jumped up and down in frustration for a while because it didn’t look as good as it had in his head.
Tolkien used to complain that he could never write anything as well as he could imagine it. So you know, ‘good enough’ is definitely a thing.
A relative of mine is a professional author and every time someone asks him which of his books is his favorite one, he always says “The one in my head, because I haven’t messed it up yet.” He’s written more than thirty books and several of them have been on the Times bestseller list, and he still thinks this way. You’re always your own worst critic.
Okay, that last addition might be my favorite ever. I need a name so I can quote this genius
NYON!!!
I know you are also charmed by this loving, cute, silly little birb! I needed to have KawKaw as a pet, so I crochet it. It fits in the palm of hand.
Just a lil Aqua doodle
Undertale/Deltarune doodles
One of my brothers (one who's not on Tumblr) has some thoughts on the new FRIEND dialogue that just dropped.
(here's a video if you haven't heard of it yet.)
As he put it:
This is straight up a new villain figure whoever has the army of cats since cats = no good, clearly OR: It's a metaphor for the DELTARUNE experiment, and the MewMew knows the person at the head. Nearly every character in the cast is hunting other people for some bits of protein they have hidden, and some characters, namely the Roaring Knight, have taken on a new look and name to hide things.
This is an interesting parallel to draw...everyone in Deltarune is looking for information other people have...
first meal together & also the last
So deltarune is pretty tight right guys
Okay so Deltarune is cool and all but like. I think it would have been way better if Gerson revealed he was actually Gallifreyan the entire time and owns a spaceship cube
(He's on Artfight by the way. And by correlation, so am I)
An art gifting game
