#it was just i liked books

[spoonyruncible]

By Christ, this is so annoying. I cannot imagine being more dull than this. Training yourself to manage difficult texts can be a hard exercise, this much is true. There is a pride moment when your eyes cross and you're tired but, by Batman you are going to figure out your latest struggle and unlock your next level of comprehension. It's not meant to be punishment, tho.

Maybe, instead of torturing yourself, you should stop and think, as one of my favorite thinkers recommended, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." Maybe the sun is warm, maybe your blankets are soft, maybe the washing machine a room over is making a soothing hum, perhaps a wayward spider has set up shop in the corner and you have enjoyed witnessing her work. Read the text again and think of yourself in the place where you are and how important this text you love is, how beautiful it might look from a distance. Then realize how much more beautiful it looks from your rare angle. Only after this reverie is complete should you return to the text, eyes fresh.

I despise the rise of exclusively video and audio content, I can barely stand it. All I wish for is nicely written pieces I might digest in the method I have become accustomed to (writing with maybe some captioned pictures). The world is so loud. But to say to people who enjoy videos, "STOP BEING LOUD AND FAST AND AUTOPLAY AND DOING THINGS YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO! READ BOOK!" is just as wrong as all the well meaning folk who desire for me to watch a video about an article I could have read in literally a 10th of the time. If I want to enjoy audio or video content I have to teach myself to think, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." I can relax and appreciate it as a unique medium that provides things print cannot. (That being said? If you send me a 10 minute video of an article that I could have read myself in 3 minutes? You're dead.)

i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

[stemmmm]

bad youtube clickbait thumbnail that reads "I think I just had a therapy session with a DEMON???"

[starridge]

puppet hour was brutal

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[s0up1ta]

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[lylahammar]

My take on unicorns! I'd really love to make a mythical creature field guide someday, since the Spiderwick Field Guide is what inspired me to start drawing in the first place 🥰

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I could get over anything as long as I have something new to be obsessed with

[doctorsiren]

Gravity Falls AU where everything is exactly the same except Bill’s parents are alive and well, and they’re just so proud of their chaotic dream demon son

[adriles]

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

[atalana]

but seriously i do find it so funny that ford was like OH GOD MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION after bill possessed him around other people for all of one night

and then he gets back to this dimension after thirty years and this is now the photo the press associates with his name

[starridge]

well???

[maibeloved]

Guess who is back in their gravity falls phase! (After it being dormant for almost a decade!)

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.