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a few days ago an irl told me about how the alphabet is on the wrong order on the doctor who wiki because in one episode a character recites the alphabet backwards but gets two letters the wrong way around and there has been no other representation of the full alphabet in any other dw media so technically there’s no proof that it isn’t canon and i’ve been thinking about that ever since

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the best thing about tumblr is that you can watch a show and then you come here and someone has made a gifset of it and you can put it on your blog like a sticker in a journal

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“We dropped different numbers of balls at different rates, different heights. We had a ramp. The ramps were at different angles, trying to get the most out of the balls as they hit the actors. After doing the tests, we figured out 35 feet above the deck of the ship was the height we needed our nets. We had these three big nets that held almost 80,000 per net. The balls dropped 35 feet into ramps that projected them towards the stunt guys. It just knocked them over. It was pretty spectacular.”

-Mark Hawker, SFX Coordinator for Pirates of the Caribbean

“It’s amazing to see a bunch of 40 and 50-year-olds turn into three-year-olds all of a sudden. Everybody had to pick up blue balls, hit the other guy in the head. It was like, ’Is it time for the parents to come pick up the kids?’”

-George Marshall Ruge, Stunt Coordinator for Pirates of the Caribbean

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happy almost extremely loud sound wednesday monday everyone!!!

i cant believe its already almost extremely loud sound wednesday monday

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'Good-bye, Frodo!' he said. 'I wish you were not going into the Forest. I only hope you will not need rescuing before the day is out.

~A Few Hours Later~

'Help!' cried Frodo and Sam

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Tho I love saying some things are productive like "rest is productive", sometimes it's okay to just indulge in enjoyable activities just for the sake of it. It's important to learn that being completely unproductive sometimes is good, and it is okay to not feel guilty about it. Because framing things as productive means you will end up justifying the things you do, which works well for when you need arguments against anxious thoughts, but always doing so it not healthy. Once in a while, you just need to let go, take a nap, be "lazy", and not justify the reasons you're doing so to anyone, not even to your anxiety. It feels good to rest, and it is good enough reason, though it is a lesson I'm still trying to learn.

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It amazes me how many teslas I see out and about. Like you guys bought one for real? On god? No joke?????

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Lego Swimming Pool Layout

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Homemade Vegan Marshmallows

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Les’bee’ans

Print available for a short time. <3

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this reddit thread of living your silliest life is so so good

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Before production began on Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the main cast played a session as their characters. (It's a shame the big studios stopped caring about bonus features, because there was a time when we would've gotten a whole featurette explaining how the game went.)

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There's an adhd hack which I wanna describe but it's going to sound sort of fake and sort of like I'm saying "just do the thing" which I'm not.

Basically it can be impossible to start doing the thing, but once you've started it, it's actually fine right? It's just FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to start it, especially because you don't want to do it.

So I've got this way where I start it "without meaning to" a bit like if you were standing on the edge of the cliff and unable to make yourself jump off but... but you can jerk your body violently-- then you're falling and you don't really get a say in the matter any more.

A good example of this is not wanting to make a call. So you'd sit there and plan what you want to rehearse and hit the button when you're ready... or not, because actually you'd put the phone down and run off to do literally anything else.

So instead, I just hit call really fast, with no actual intention to make the call. Oh shit I really don't want to but now it's ringing and oh shit someone picked up and now we're already rolling and it'd be worse to hang up than to just talk--

I do the same thing with timers and work tasks where I've trained my brain to only be 'winning' the 'game' when the 15m timer is running so now if I hit the timer I'm like 'oh shit work started and I'm LOSING' and I'll jump up to do exactly 15 minutes of work... Only now I've already started and I might as well keep going, right?

Turning tasks into "reactions" not "actions"-- And reacting is way easier.

It's kind of setting the "poor impulse control" part of ADHD against the "Procrastination" part and making them fight.

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you know in retrospect it's weird that the splatooniverse has a band called "the squid sisters" when, like... they Are squids. that's like if the real world had a band called "the human league"

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always remember the sacred words:

you can do whatever you want forever