[winedark-maverick]

there is more love stored in <3 than anything else in this world. pass the word along

[shirecorn]

i completely forgot to post the christmas horse!!!

[draconym]

I think there are enough mugs in the world now. I think we can stop making new mugs and just use the ones we already have.

[draconym]

I think there are enough mugs in the world now. I think we can stop making new mugs and just use the ones we already have.

[maruti-bitamin]

A fish out of water

twitter/ insta/bluesky/ store

[louferrignojrofficial]

what’s happening with santa

[lemondoddle]

[ID. Two tweets, one reading, "I just checked the santa tracker and it says he's currently ovulating" and the other says, "i just checked santa tracker and he hasn't moved from your mom's house for a couple hours bro". End ID.]

[aimseytv]

just found this and now i’m googling self lobotomy

[lemondoddle]

[ID. Text reading:

Suddenly it's December

and you're not 17 anymore.

And you haven't been 17 for a very long time,

But sometimes you need to remind yourself.

End ID.]

[sedoretu]

wore a cowboy costume to the gay bar and went home with a guy dressed as a gladiator and it was really fun but the whole time i couldnt stop thinking about how we looked like those two queens from night at the museum

[rockglocklobster]

THIS IS SOME 10PM ASS 5:30PM WE'RE HAVING!!!!!!

[redstonedust]

got a habit of referring to my brain in a weird third person sense. "my brain just gave me this idea" "my brain is telling me this" like yeah that's my me (#myme) but im not in charge here im like the copilot at best.

[writingraccoon]

Love the word "also". I have more things to say

[caats]

[wordfather]

i had a twisted dream this morning when my alarm tried to wake me up where jeff goldblum said 'Actually if you sleep a bit Longer you'll have More time to get ready It's called the Goldblum's Law and it works just go back to sleep' and i believed him and i overslept

[wordfather]

hey boss sorry im late. i got Goldblumed

[qelflinq]

archeologists forever finding ancient little statues of fat women & animal people yet we still hating ? its been our favourite shit since we were apes and if u don’t understand this u need to get hit on the fucking head

[reasonsforhope]

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):

How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills

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):

Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults with Autism

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 do not have to be stuck forever.

[elodieunderglass]

Ironically enough, having kids (to a certain extent) levelled up mine. Not just because there are very real reminders and consequences, but because managing one/two/three other people’s executive function for them definitely builds mental muscles.

This isn’t true for everyonec and obviously doesn’t always work - but there’s a reason why people who have “something to care for” often claim that it was an external motivator in various processes of survival, recovery and growth. It isn’t just doing your best for the thing - it’s the very practice of looking after it reinforcing your ability to care for things.

The absolute necessity of keeping the child (/cat/dog/plant) alive can operate as a sort of an override patch. It isn’t just a heartwarming “the power of love saved this person!” story. It can also be a very real “the necessity of manually building frameworks to manage function for someone else developed the ability to manage function.”

(Obviously this does not happen to everyone and is obviously a terrible reason to add a child - or a cat - to a situation where someone isn’t coping. But it’s just to say that even people in quite dire situations can build enough function to care for themselves and others. I am presenting this, like OP, as a reason for hope - that executive function can be strengthened, developed, and re-learned.)

[positivedoodles]

[Drawing of a pumpkin jellyfish next to a caption that says “Just because your mental state makes it hard to enjoy things right now doesn’t mean you’ll never enjoy anything again. You will enjoy things again. You will be okay again.” in yellow text against a teal background.]

[femmelovebug]

my pronouns are sweet/heart