#adderall also helps.

[tangledinink]

*A quick question from an awed procrastinator*

How do you make so many AUs and stories?

(even if something is my hyperfixation and I love doing it, I still go at a snails pace, and I was wondering if you have any "weird tricks" or things that help you finish faster?)

Also also, your AUs are some of my favorites, the angst, the comfort, and the art is just *chef's kiss*

Oh gosh, I mean, part of the answer is procrastination? I'm very lucky that both the job I'm currently at (so far, at least, fingers crossed) and the job I had previously allows me to kind of do my own thing during downtime, so long as I stay on top of all my work responsibilities. Getting to write/draw is like the little reward I get when my work is done u w u And so sometimes a part of my day also involves... avoiding doing work things for a little while by writing or drawing instead. Not Doing Boring Work Tasks is a great motivator for creative projects, lol.

I also just have tend to draw pretty fast, lmao, and I am also hugely motivated by attention u w u I am again very lucky in the sense that a lot of you lovely folks on tumblr decided you liked the stuff I made pretty early on in my TMNT stint, and I am blessed with tags and comments and replies engaging in my work, which is HUGELY motivating. I wanna work on my projects because I wanna get to post them and see what people think!!! I wanna hear what people have to say about the next step in the story!!!

I guess the best advice I have is to not be afraid of shortcuts, especially at the beginning. Let some stuff happen off-screen. Exposition dump every now and again. Copy and paste is your friend. Etc etc etc. Let go of the idea of 'this needs to be perfect' and embrace 'it just needs to be done.' Not every scene or paragraph or panel or even comic I make is going to be a showstopper. But phoning some stuff in makes it easier for me to REALLY lay into that one big dramatic part of the story where I really want it to count. And if I spend forever fussing over the set-up at the beginning, I'm never gonna get to the dramatic scene, anyway! So just do it. Worry about quality control later. Just make it first. Sometimes you don't feel like writing or drawing or doing whatever. Do it anyway.

(Having fandom friends who can hype you up and you can send things to as you're making it is very helpful, too!)

[har-har-harvey]

hey btw y’all, just wanna let y’all know that the most heart melting, almost made me cry, in-the-running-for-favorite moment of the season has 100% been the immediate “i give her the help action” to lydia barkrock with absolutely zero hesitation from kristen

[waitineedaname]

i think a constructive hobby and/or medication would fix a lot of characters in mdzs

[brehaaorgana]

Okay here's a genuine one that I think gets lost in a lot of ADHD talk:

ADHD induced sleepy bitch disease.

pls I'm so 🥱😪

[a-lonely-tatertot]

watched jaiden's adhd video and like. i know i have the thing everyone is well aware i have the thing but i have never been so called out before

[hellshire-harlot]

I wonder how many times I’ll go to therapy before I make my therapist realize that the issue isn’t entirely my mental problems but also the fact that the world is literally dying

[seariii]

Hum...

[tcypionate]

personally, i think if some sort of apocalypse happened, we wouldn't immediately collapse and get set back hundreds of years wrt technology, infrastructure, etc. it's not like every engineer, doctor, construction workers, etc. are going to also be wiped out. and even under the constant pressure and threat of capitalism, people go into these careers wanting to do good. (depending on how the apocalypse is started/how it happens) there would probably be a few rough years at first but people are really good at getting their shit together

[lizardinkart]

I haven’t made an animatic in years but mmmmm….. Khepri…….she has me in a chokehold

[drbtinglecannon]

They should make a being alive that isn't so depressing

[pasta5284]

woke up at 7:30 & showered + washed face + made breakfast + fed cats + got laundry started & am now working on a presentation on lgbt history for class! look how productive & normal i am :3

[myattman]

It's kind of deeply irritating how much worse my adhd is when I've not gotten enough sleep

[selamat-linting]

[ef-1]

within the measure of a day | june

[wickedhawtwexler]

i think i might do camp nanowrimo. to get ~*~ back into the groove ~*~ of writing every day

[rulesforthedance]

Was trying to put tomorrow's adderall in the pill container, got distracted (lol) and swallowed it instead. I'd already taken todays's adderall. Currently on two doses (30mg) of adderall and there is a swarm of bees buzzing loudly inside my head and body. And I'm a little lightheaded