#can you tell I have adhd?

[azure-clockwork]

Ugh, I really gotta stop getting into stuff because somebody describes it has having homoerotic relationships. My roommate who knows my tumblr was telling me about how prosekai had all these women who cared so so deeply about each other, and I used to love beat saber back when I had access to a VR rig, so I downloaded it, despite having no previous exposure to Miku except through said roommate. And now I am sitting here trying to think about Immanuel Kant and the ethics of end of life care but noooooo my brain wants to sing Ghost Rule at top volume. Thanks, brain. Thanks, women.

[cloudyvulpine]

i've been writing notes on new 1.6 stuff in stardew valley and i just think it gives an interesting look into my brain

[anoddopal]

One of these days I’m going to open the floodgates. 💀

[indigo-ghost-girl]

This is not silence – a short poem.

My brain it fizzes and whirs,

My face hot and heavy,

My brain aching but alive,

The almost silent fizzing and popping of the carbonated drink poking at my mind as it struggles to decipher the needlessly complex wording of the English language,

The clicking and clacking of my computer keyboard as my fingers dance across the letters,

The cars outside roar and hiss in my ear despite my distance,

The clock, in its endless need to distract me, thawks at my eardrums with an obsessive, repetitive passion I cannot ignore,

The fabric of my sleeves scrapes across my skin with an unyielding fury, catching on the corner of my laptop and dragging my fingers backwards with it,

My hair trails sits behind my neck, its thin fibers agitating my skin,

The cat slumbering on the bed shifts, the rustling adding its part,

The boiler, insistent on joining the chorus, breaks out in a great hiccuping song, stealing my attention completely from my work,

This is not silence.

Do not whistle!

Do not speak!

I am deafened enough as it is!

And I have work to do.

[humanransome-note]

Anyway, it is basically five am and after making a cardboard inkle loom to try tablet weaving, I enjoyed it. Both the cardboard carpentry and the tablet weaving.

Good news/bad news in regards to the weaving, the pegs finally gave out bad news, good news, I realized the tv dinner tables have two parallel bars between the legs, so flipping it over on top of ANOTHER tv table, and I can set up a weighted warp without worrying about the cats smacking the weights.

It’s still fumbly, and the sound of 4 dollars worth of pennys clacking about in plastic bags is a bit grating. But it’s something I can work on.

Between the pegs giving out, trying out a weighted warp set up, and just trying things, I ended up with a lot of scrap yarn.

Specifically, crochet cotton.

Now I don’t use crochet cotton often, and with the amount of joins I’d end up having to make, even if I crocheted something with it, I don’t think it would make me happy.

So what to do with all these bits?

I’ve already mentioned cats, multiple cats, so multiple slicker brushes exist in the house. And the Ren faire before last, I learned you could use slicker brushes to card fibers for spinning on a budget.

So I’ve been working through the scraps as best I can, having to relearn carding because cotton fibers are shorter than fleece and need to be treated differently.

The short fibers of cotton also means, that any attempts at spinning should be done with an specific awareness of weight/tension, as the draft and yarn are more susceptible to snapping. Now I have a top whorl drop spindle, I’ve used it for wool and even cat hair (no I didn’t use the cat hair yarn, it was just for something to do) and it lasted a bit, but after too much over spin and the dowel end smacking my desk, it snapped.

So I had some options,

Try the drop spindle again, carding out the end of the snap and drafting back into it

make a supported spindle, I have dowels, I have chunks of cardboard I could soak in modge podge for the whorl, and I’m willing to try whittling a point, if using a pencil sharpener wouldn’t work

More cardboard carpentry

Chat, I want you to guess which one I decided to do

…

Did you guess the most convoluted and labor intensive option?

Because I did.

It’s called a Charkha, a spinning wheel that’s design originated in India, and to my understanding, was built with cotton in mind.

It’s hand operated opposed to pedal powered (I’m assuming modifications could be made) but that along with the fact the actual wheel portion of the spinning wheel isn’t a usually a wheel, but instead two sets of spokes connected via string, I figured it would actually be possible to achieve with cardboard carpentry.

I got one of the spoke sets done already, I have to finish the other one then see how they act when tied together and spun.

Theoretically, this set up should be pretty sustainable, considering how little tension is required to hold certain things in place, and how few actually moving parts there are, theoretically, it could be a functioning replacement for a full wooden charkha. Not permanent, that’s just the nature of cardboard, but certainly more long lasting than the inkle loom.

[adhdandcomics]

one of those mornings

[docdalas]

anyone with adhd and/or autism have part of their brain that constantly tries gaslighting itself into thinking that you aren’t actually autistic, that you don’t have adhd? i’m so tired

[pixiemage]

Holy crap I completely forgot I attempted to download the entire Unus Annus channel right before it got deleted. I just found an old hard drive in my desk I forgot I even had, and like - dude. I have no idea how many videos are on here but it HAS to be in the triple digits, including thumbnails. This is friggin' insane.

[natjennie]

why do you have to stop doing things and go to bed. you should be able to keep doing things forever.

[quinngefail]

Then uh just this drawing, more closely following the initial sketch I did here because I just loved the look of it, but it didn't completely fit the vibe of the comic lmao-

What is he yapping about !!

[bg-brainrot]

Astarion/Tav Fic Recs 📖

Hi! Not only do I write fic, but gods do I enjoy reading it too 🌝

Here are some fics I like in a few categories, all Astarion/Tav, mainly with F!Tav or GN!Tav, unascended Astarion unless noted because I'm a softy. Check the tags/summaries for CWs!!!

Oneshot Smut (with plot)

This Lethal Light Falls Softly by loquaciousquark: F!Tav, post game, soft and loving

all my ghosts by theycallmesuperboy: GN!Tav, met-before AU, covers the whole game

Not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again by makesometime: F!Tav, post-game romance after in-game Karlach romance

eternity by ChaosFroggy: F!Tav, ascended!Astarion, kidnapping doesn't work for Cazador

Oneshot Smut (no plot)

honey i laugh when it sinks in (a pillar i am of pride) by chloe_petrichors: F!Tav, mirror sex!

Angelic Slumber by mitangy: M!Tav, soft and consent focused

Mine, if Only for the Night by Dogbinary: F!Tav, tiefling party reimagining

Oneshot Fluff

You Have A Type, Don't You? by pokemon216: GN!Tav, the drawing-Astarion fic (also writes a lot of great other fluff)

first light by noyaspeach: GN!Tav, nice morning hangout~

Oneshot Hurt/Comfort

Force the Door by loquaciousquark: F!Tav, injury panic

you can leave a bruise by eyes_of_the_lamb: M!Tav, blood drinking and introspection, great series too

Series (in progress)

Someone to shed some light by thedreamlessnights: GN!Tav, Prince!Astarion AU

shook the love from me by chloe_petrichors: F!Tav, durge retelling

The Fangs Between Us by feyascorner: GN!Tav, deliciously angsty

Series (finished)

Any kind of life (without you, dear) by QueenMaria: F!Tav, feign death goes wrong, angsty Astarion

Seducere by Tlon: GN!Tav, less romance, more Astarion, seriously one of my all time favorites

I Want It All by ShenanigansEnsue: F!Tav, violin playing leads to feelings

Like Stones, floating on Water by Cirrocumulus: F!Tav, beautiful look at their relationship through Astarion

There are definitely more (I read some before I even made my AO3 account, so I had to go digging to find them), so I'll probably have another list down the road.

Also, a lot of these are pretty popular, but I want to go digging around for less popular fics in the big ol' sea of them so if you have recs for any along these veins that need a good reading/kudosing, let me know!

[puppetmaster13u]

Slowly rotating designs for the meat marionette bodies.

Only sketched Dick & Bruce for now, but I like to think that they're partially made from their own blood. Any corpse that doesn't make it to the morgue, human or animal, might get dragged down by tendrils Gemini Home Entertainment style to the Hive.

Apologies if I am spamming, but what do you think @phoenixcatch7? Tried to make Dick look slightly more mammalian or avian compared to Bruce but idk if that came through lol.

[rosieparker1856]

I was dead asleep and woke up like a fucking zombie with the thought of “I wonder if when people go to Danny’s Grave to offer their condolences or whatever people do, if Danny can only hear it when he is a ghost.” I’m imagining it like an answering machine, you don’t actually know the message unless you play it back. This idea has probably been said before, but it’s 4 a.m and I’ve written 6 college papers in the last 24 hours. I wasted good sleep for this random bunny.

This premise lies solely on the fact of Danny actually having a grave stone, for people to go to.

That being said, a lot of people don’t go to Cemeteries every time they think of someone who passed away. Personally, with my Great Grandmother, when I want to remember her I bring out her old cookbooks and make her favourite recipes. And I talk to her the entire time I’m cooking. Especially during Harvest Fest.

So, in that mindset, can Danny hear everything people say when they’re remembering him? Cause that could get really annoying really fast for a boy who’s still half alive.

Like he’s partnered up with Wes on a Chemistry project and all that’s going through his head when he’s fighting a ghost when they’re supposed to meet up is “Danny Fenton, Danny Phantom, why isn’t he here already? I didn’t see a ghost on the news” or something like that. Don’t judge the dialogue literally have had 2 hours of sleep the last 3 days cause of work and classes.

Someone please, if this is a thing and there are fics about it drop them in the comments. Is that pick me? To ask you to comment? Anyways, i should try and get back to bed.

This is not proofread and I didn’t even put on my glasses for it, so if it’s clunky/there are misspelled words, no there aren’t.

[mamawasatesttube]

i do think that despite being the squad's designated nerds, kon and bart struggle to watch lotr together because kon physically CANNOT stop infodumping through any of the movies (and of course they have to watch the extended editions only), but bart's like. you want me to sit in one place and watch one screen for 12 fucking hours. and on top of that you WON'T SHUT UP the ENTIRE TIME? i already can't focus on movies and you TALK THROUGH THE WHOLE THING? im going to fucking bite you--

[nyaacatboy]

i love the new pjo tv show don't get me wrong but i feel like it's missing the like, campiness of the original? that got translated pretty well into the musical but honestly 2-3 lines of witty dialogue per episode isn't really getting the original Ridiculousness of the book across.

like it's been pointed out that they seem to immediately know & recognize every myth they encounter, which is part of it, but like...episode 7 in particular made me sigh a lot because they cut so much of the humor! things like annabeth just immediately training cerberus to stay put and them bald-face lying to Charon that they are all dead, actually, they drowned in a bathtub. Together. it was such a nice like, breather before they get into the Very Serious Underworld Scenes and instead...nope, just more ACTION.

and they took out stuff in other episodes that made the tone lighter-things like percy and annabeth getting grossed out by the mirrors in the tunnel of love ride, the dam snack bar jokes, grover eating cans, them playing around in the lotus hotel, etc. i feel like half the fun of the original books was that, at any given conflict, the main characters were either going to sword fight their way out or completely bullshit their way out in the most convoluted ridiculous way possible. which was hilarious and also suspenseful-is percy going to pick up riptide, or is he going to start talking baseball? and them giving impassioned dialogue all the time instead of goofing around a bit just weighs down the whole tone of the show.

i feel like the show is very action-adventure whereas the original book was more of an adventure romp. i also feel like with the new heaviness that's come with multiple POVs (like seeing percy and sally's backstory) the show would really benefit from like, sad shot of sally and poseidon talking then BOOM cut to percy complaining about getting sand on his favorite pair of jeans while on the beach with ares. or something else.