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no bro i'm not replaying the same character right after i finished playing bro. no who would make the same exact choices and take screenshots at the same parts bro. bro no trust me i experience everything video games have to offer me i don't just have the same story repeat im not attached to pixels bro no listen

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just found this in my favourites and I've never loved anything more

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Scientists once thought that ADHD symptoms were always present. But previous research from Rapport, who has been studying ADHD for more than 36 years, has shown the fidgeting was most often present when children were using their brains' executive functions, particularly "working memory." That's the system we use for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning and comprehension.

Here’s full study: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/478386

If you enjoyed this post, please give it a ❤️ and check out @scienceisdope for more science and daily facts.

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May the 4th be with you, always <3

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in other news i have some more writing to do

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i forgot i have something for today

i am not good at these kinds of edits but anyway

it’s sad about how most of these people are dead

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pyloon’s saloon

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ah lads we hate a notp

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little needles drabble

being in reference to Needles, from to fall before we fly, taking place sometime during the clone wars, from the perspective of a clone trooper

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It’s quiet and dark, and he knows he’s supposed to be sleeping, but he isn’t. Instead he’s lying awake, propped slightly up in bed, and staring at the place where his leg used to be.

He’s still probably luckier than the poor bastards they left behind on the ground, and it feels selfish not to feel like it. He doesn’t entirely understand why he was saved; exactly what calculation took place that made his life more saveable than any of his brothers. He hadn’t been the only one left alive after their transport was shot down. There had been others. He hadn’t even been the most intact out of the troopers dying around him. Spider had seemed better off. Maybe that’s why they hadn’t grabbed Spider. But then, Triplet had definitely been worse, and they hadn’t grabbed him. 

Maybe it was luck of the draw. Maybe he was just the closest, easiest to grab. Maybe it was because it’s easier to slap a prosthetic onto a clone, teach them to walk on it, and send them back out into the field than it would’ve been to fix whatever it was that had Triplet wheezing and bubbling blood out of his ears. He doesn’t know, and it’s going to haunt him.

He’s lying awake, letting it haunt him, when he first hears the strange, pneumatic thumping from out in the hall. The door to the rest of the station is open, a slice of glaring white light through what’s probably supposed to be restful darkness—but down this corridor, in this room with patients as stable as he is and trying to sleep, like he should be, there’s generally not a lot of traffic.

The odd rhythm of the thumping doesn’t seem to have woken anyone else, but he manages to shift himself into a sitting position, leaning forward to see if he can catch a glimpse out into the corridor. Whatever the sound belongs to, it’s definitely getting closer.

Only a few moments later he gets his answer, as a familiar silhouette hops into the doorway. Anyone who’s had their boots on the ground for any duration of the war will have learned by heart the shape of one of the medical droids that every squad is assigned. His squad’s is named Needles. He’s easily distinguishable by the red glow of the eye that had replaced his own.

And, apparently, by the newfound lack of one of his legs.

The sight is so absurd he can’t help but stare, watching as the droid’s one red eye surveys the room, and eventually makes his way around to him, in his corner bed with the curtains halfway pushed back. sitting upright and staring back. They hold each others gazes for a few extra moments, and then Needles hops into the room, straight over to the side of the bed.

“Hello, CT-0588. I heard about your condition. I thought I might show some solidarity.” The droid makes an exaggerated show of looking down at his single remaining leg. The other has probably just been pulled off and stashed somewhere, interchangeable. “It’s not so bad once you get used to it.”

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on god i am still here and still writing and as proof of life and continuing JFO passion, I got this tattoo today. it was my very first one and i think it’s pretty cool. it’s not that wrinkly IRL, that’s just the bandage.

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on god i am still here and still writing and as proof of life and continuing JFO passion, I got this tattoo today. it was my very first one and i think it’s pretty cool. it’s not that wrinkly IRL, that’s just the bandage.

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thought about this again. kind of amazing how we’re all just chasing ways to duplicate how this scene makes us feel, either in life or in art.

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‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

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Cal Kestis headshot commission for @four-armed-bandit!

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Cal Kestis headshot commission for @four-armed-bandit!

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first day at school 🚀

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You no longer need an ao3 account to view my works!

that was a setting I enabled back when posts went around about bots scraping and selling text of publicly available fanfics but i’m dead inside and I don’t care anymore

Hi, I love your fics and headcanons!! Do you have any recs for JFO fics and/or authors?

Hi anon! Thank you for your kind words! Here's an updated rec list!

If you aren’t reading @sauntering-down’s amazing work you are missing out!

@four-armed-bandit’s stories are also fantastic (You need an AO3 account to view these).

And no one has more fandom energy than @spidezer

Oooh and I am eagerly awaiting more of @serena-darrin work too :)

@pennflinn writes amazing stories too!

@drgeektoyou has some great stories for you.

Be sure to check out my bookmarks too for more ^_^

(Apologies if I've forgotten anyone. If it's any consolation, I pointed at my laptop and called it a violin earlier, so that's where my brain's at...)