#go get the better dopamine

[siennaditbot]

Got motivated for one night so far so here's my tip

Stop doomscrolling and go learn things. Please.

Maybe even write them down. Take notes from video essays so you won't get bored. Your brain needs more than the easy dopamine from constant content. It helps with escapism, yes, but is it really helping?

Here's an easy start: go look up things you're interested in. Maybe some silly questions. Like...

"Why do we use the QWERTY-keyboard?"

"How did we decide what numbers or letters should look like?"

"Is there anything interesting in the history of my hometown, country, language, or family?"

Or, on the franchise side of things...

"What can I learn about my favourite game or movie's soundtrack?"

"Is there a greater theme or message in this game/movie/franchise?"

"Do the people working on it enjoy it? Are they passionate? Can you learn from them?"

(There are great video essays on GRIS, Minecraft, Sonic and Hollow Knight at least that have some amazing answers and have brought me to tears lol)

Learning shouldn't be graded and made stressful like in school. It's so fun. Only a few hours in and I'm feeling so invigorated I don't wanna go to bed.

I've been writing down fun facts I could later share with people or have some interesting conversation topics to bring up.

So.

Stop doomscrolling. Wake up your brain.

It'll thank you.

[fennthetalkingdog]

Dang, being nonhuman really is just like being trans, where I look back at my life and go, "Ohhhhhhhh, so THAT'S where it came from." It's easy for me to fall into the habit of thinking, "Well I just found this new label but I don't want it to infiltrate my whole life." But... it already has. All those moments pretending to be a cat on the playground, making fake "dog packs" with my friends, wrestling with my dog and laying next to her as if I was just another pup, attaching to my dog and cat stuffed animals, making dog-like noises to supplement my words, pretending I had (and still have) a tail to wag when I wanted, shaking out my "fur" and huffing just because I "liked mimicking my dog"—those were all my nonhumanity shining through. Me identifying with the nonhuman/therian label isn't an outliner, it's just the trend.

[90stvqueen]

it is so hard to break the habit of consumption but once you start trying, once you really start to ask yourself "do i really need this brand new piece of garbage?" whenever you're at the target dollar spot, or wherever else, it becomes easier and easier to say, "actually, no. this will not bring my life new meaning. it will maybe provide a tiny dopamine rush, and then it will have served its purpose." and you'll start to realize that not only did you not need this $3 piece of plastic whatever, you didn't actually really want it. you'll go home without it and you won't regret it and the next day you won't even remember it

[a-personiftranslator]

ok i just spent my entire day watching All of the solarballs episodes so here are my immediate thoughts

astronomically accurate planetspirit whump my FUCKING HEART i don’t even know what to say. i spend the least amount of time on average on planetspirit stuff because except for earth they don’t actually fall under my definition of personifs but ive spent far more time proportionally crying over them than any other kind of -spirit

i find it really interesting that the core message of the series so far seems to be the nature of redemption and responsibility (europa, ganymede, titan, earth, jupiter, saturn, x, probably more i’m forgetting) considering that unlike personifs celestial bodies in actuality still have no agency, but it makes sense because like. everybody’s gravity affects everybody else’s, and so there’s no way to look at anyone individually and decide anything without considering the destabilization it’ll cause. despite everything there’s no choice but to tolerate everybody

i love the… fragility of life-bearing planets. it’s fine for everybody else to take a few asteroid hits and go on extended trips out of orbit but earth can’t be left alone because his axis’ll freak out, he freezes up even before he leaves the goldilocks zone, he NEEDS luna to take his hits for him, etc. and i wonder if this ever frustrates him. the main issue with x taking jupiter’s place was the risk to him. ik this was already explored somewhat during the moon revolution but still

ganymede vs planet x sounds so incredibly random without hours of context lmfao it’s like that one wttt poll asking whether god or alaska would be more likely to fall for an mlm

i’m noticing common memetics among planet fandoms (i am aware currently of solarballs, the earth-chan thing, planethumans, and the milky way/jupitearth fandom) the way country fandoms tend to fixate on certain events (ww2 and specifically poland’s experience, depicted accurately or not). jupiter is always characterized as a calm, protective figure, and earth is always somewhat egotistical, has a complicated relationship with mars, and is unconditionally devoted to their life forms, which is not really considered a strength. everybody else’s depiction is more variable, i’ve never seen the sun be portrayed as so unstable

i think the unpredictability of my interests is one of the reasons i don’t get as much engagement as i’d like lmfao

[revenantlore]

might be that i broke my rule of not being distracted by new WIPs until i finished something but. it’s reese’s fault, really, so i should get none of the blame

Air out here’s like sucking breath in through a plastic bag: hot, wet, and suffocating. Draws sweat from every pore, even at this hour, the sun setting deeper the further down the sidewalk Keaton walks. No longer knows where he’s going. Berlin’s directions were too vague, simple and unclear.

Down the road, he’d said, and that leaves a lot of options. Too many.

He’s already passed a nail salon, vet clinic, a 99 cent store, and a shop boasting true psychic readings. Last one’s kind of tempting, but it’s been closed for two hours. Maybe tomorrow, if they haven’t left town yet.

Keaton draws his phone out from his pocket to glance first at the time, then at Berlin’s text to confirm the name of the bar. He’s on the right street, and it’s ten minutes until he’s supposed to be there.

There’s a nervous weight on his shoulders like a stalking ghost, remnants of their argument this morning haunting him all these hours later.

Because nothing’s been resolved.

Nothing’s likely going to be resolved.

[jrueships]

something invokes the carnal rage in me when a grown man rages like a two-year old over a video game

[syvanna]

jesus fucking christ like I want to be able to go back to school so I can make more than $23 per hour and my mom already thinks we're going to buy a different house together when my uncle passes

[sarcasticratsims]

Solo projects are hard because then I have to wait to actually release the stuff to get feedback (to be fair, nobody is forcing me to have a week-by-week update schedule...)

Trying so hard not to spoil my own episodes when I have stuff ready weeks in advance 😔

[sorikkung]

people interacting w wgoin in my notes... this would be a rly bad time to say all my writing will probably be on hiatus for the indefinite future huh

[inspector-montoya-fox]

so anyway

[kenonade]

guys idk if u can tell but i did not have english today…

[tipytap]

love how we went “look we have these amazing devices that connect everyone to all the knowledge in the world!” and companies went “what if i took that and irreversibly damaged an entire generation’s brain chemistry”

[dallonwrites]

took me all these years to specifically think wait maybe it’ll be hard to write on days im spending a lot of time online, because social media is a bombardment of information that my brain will attempt to process, and every post i see and every app i scroll through is just stacking something new on top of that, and we are not meant to be consuming this much information at once all the time and maybe consuming this much will make it hard to do a thing that although fun does take brain power, but social media use in this way is so normalised now and ive been doing it for years. literally had a rot in bed on my phone day yesterday which was great i needed it but by the evening even with brainstorming i was like woahh why can’t i get a grasp on any scene in my head the way i usually can. like woah wait a minute. many such cases i think

[ebitenpura]

Am I Understimulated Or Depressed: a novel

And Would Buying the New Mario Fix Me: the sequel

[fandomsfrillsandfuckingtea]

I have emerged for my quarterly tumblr session to recover from MCM Expo. It's been so long since I've done a con and I did Liverpool Comic Con the weekend before. There were so many people going solo to MCM that it really felt quite comfy, just bopping around, running into folks and hanging out. Vibes were impeccable though the timing of things was a bit wonky.

Also Rhys Darby is a gorgeous man and getting to make him laugh is going to be on loop in my brain for life, probably.

[strawbebyjam]

listening to unpredictable trying to convince my brain i have control over my life