#outsourcing executive functions

[tj-crochets]

Links to the patterns I'm thinking of using: goat

werewolf (I don't have enough brown fabric so my werewolf would be gray) burger turtle

duck reindeer

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

hello fellow denizens of our beloved hellsite, please help me select my next book to read based on ZERO propaganda, only titles and cover vibes. here are The Options:

and here they are, all lined up and waiting:

help me, button-pressing site, you're my only hope!!

[minecraftbookshelf]

Send me an Empire (in the notes of this post or my askbox) and I’ll do a write up of how Succession work in that empire in general and how each emperor got to the throne in specific.

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And here’s Pixandria for free!

Mostly because it’s succession traditions are currently kind of irrelevant because they’ve had the same emperor for…a very long time now.

However, once upon a time, before the era of Pixlriffs; the Ruler of Pixandria, High Priest of the Goddess of Death, Keeper of the Vigil, was chosen via DM-ing the gods, basically.

Back in ye olden days, that was something that was possible to do, before some Plot Relevant Historical Events happened, and basically the priests would walk into Trixtin’s temple and be like “Hey, who is going to be your next high priest and keeper of the vigil?” And she would point out someone like “I like that one, let’s see how they do!”

Obviously this involved a lot more ceremony, and prophetic dreaming, and formal language (though not really on the goddess’s part)

And then there would be a big party and a training period followed by and even bigger party where the current vigil keeper passed on the crown to their successor, who would then leave the (ongoing) celebration and walk out into the desert with no supplies and spend three nights out there “communing with death”. Only about 2-3 in 10 of them never came back. (Some of them died in the desert, some of them vanished, presumably being taken by Trixtin to serve her in other ways better suited to them.) When that happened they would wait for 42 nights and then try again.

Now Pix.

Pix’s journey to becoming Keeper of the Vigil was mildly unorthodox.

I will be writing this all out in his backstory fic, but the tldr is that first of all, the priests didn’t come looking for a successor, the current Keeper got knocked on their ass by Trixtin showing up in a vision like “yo dude, this kid is going to be the next Keeper.” (This is less paraphrasing than the official Pixandrian records admit to)

And then, after the big transfer party, when Trixtin’s blessing was officially bestowed onto Pix and he went into the desert…he didn’t come back. For a whole month. And, most terrifying for everyone else, the previous Keeper, who still held the official office until the successor returned, was assassinated about three weeks into that.

In a couple thousand years, the line of Keepers had never been broken. Ever.

The surviving government of Pixandria, some military and civil advisors, some mid-ranking priests, and the trade guild leaders, were scrambling. It was a very stressful time for everyone involved.

Until Pix strolled back into the Anthill, no idea he’d been gone that long, slightly dazed, and with a notable amount of grey hairs he hadn’t had when he left (he was not yet quite out of his teens).

Anywho, things happened, Plot proceeded to happen, and the fabric of the world changed in ways that lead directly into the events of the main story (both the Lizzie and Joel arc and the Main Cast Era Arc) and Pixlriffs is there for all of it.

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AU Masterpost

[merge-conflict]

friends lend me your strength so I can play through johnny’s memories of being a dick to alt and restart PL with a better build and finish it so I can finally figure out what so mi’s Deal is

[roboticchibitan]

*note, the full title of Love for Imperfect things is Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection. It doesn't fit in the character limit

Summaries copy/pasted from goodreads

Love for Imperfect things summary: No one is perfect, but that shouldn't hold us back from love--for the world, for one another, or even for ourselves. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim (whose name means "spontaneous wisdom") draws on examples from his own life and on his years of helping others to introduce us to the art of self-care. When we treat ourselves with compassion, empathy, and forgiveness, we learn to treat others the same way, allowing us to connect with people on a deeper level, bounce back from failure, deal with feeling hurt or depressed, listen more attentively, express ourselves more clearly, and have the courage to pursue what really makes us happy so we can feel complete in ourselves. With more than thirty-five full-color illustrations, Love for Imperfect Things will appeal to both your eyes and your heart, offering you comfort, encouragement, and wisdom so that you can learn to love yourself, your life, and everyone in it.

The Book of Joy summary: The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet.

From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake: their own stories and teachings about joy, the most recent findings in the science of deep happiness, and the daily practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. Both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu have been tested by great personal and national adversity, and here they share their personal stories of struggle and renewal. Now that they are both in their eighties, they especially want to spread the core message that to have joy yourself, you must bring joy to others.

Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and humor how joy can be transformed from a fleeting emotion into an enduring way of life.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I am procrastinating on errands I need to run, So I propose a deal.

Tumblr followers, bug me until I finish all of my errands and I will reward you with photos of the goose refuge.

Things I need to do

Go to the bank

Drop off books at the library

Dump run

Make banana bread

Shovel snow into the greenhouse

Should I finish these things you will get pictures. No, I will not explain what the goose refuge is until I have pictures. I will even make the last 2 flex goals to improve the likelihood of goose pictures.

So here we go. Bug me and make me get my errands done before the end of the day.

[beeceit]

Y'all should ask me to show you my skeleton tomorrow

[centralkvetchmonolith]

Everyone say "sharpen your knives, Lulav"

[jmtorres]

help me pick my next audiobook, tumblr

i have a library of over a thousand audiobooks, but I currently have no credits to spend on new audiobooks, so you can't rec me something I don't already have, but I already have a shitton

peruse this list and tell me if you see a favorite you would like to pitch to me to read

this isn’t 100% a TBR list, according to audible and libro.fm I’ve listened to about 24% of these, and also I pick up a lot of titles I read in physical book format as a kid for nostalgia so there’s some it’s not like I’m not familiar even if I haven’t listened to the audiobook yet. HOWEVER I couldn’t come up with any easy way to mark which ones I’ve read (it was a pain in the fuckin ass getting data exported and formatted at all I’ve spent fuckin hours on this list guys), but also I’m not opposed to rereading right now. My brain is swiss cheese (thus outsourcing the decision making part of the enterprise to you all).

anyway pitch me a book I already own that there’s like a 3 in 4 chance I haven’t read! Maybe you wrote a book or two or three on this list? I know I follow some writers on tumblr. Maybe it’s just your favorite that no one else has ever heard of?

there is a decent chance I will be pulling out of meds limbo in about a week and getting brain function back, so books you pitch me now might turn into future fandoms. you might get some good meta or even fanfic out of this if you play your cards right.

the list again is here it is a fucking absurd length list but it is alphabetized by author and you can also search it that being a function of spreadsheets.

I own books. Tell me which ones to listen to.

[tundrakatiebean]

Me: I’ll leave a couple extra lines on my to do list because it tends to grow on Saturdays when I have the time to deal with stuff

Also me: (fills in the extra over the course of a half hour as I remember more things to do)

[foxgirlplushie]

Ok I'm making it a goal tomorrow to actually do some fucking writing. Please feel free to message me at any point and tell me to go write.

[obstinaterixatrix]

folks say I have a tendency to keep emotions bottled up and not talk about anything but I think I express myself a lot. I am constantly saying things like:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and then I endure

[deservingporcupine]

tbh, i’m struggling. but i feel like i’ve screwed up my life in the most mundane, tedious ways possible. is it so much to ask for a little drama, a little intrigue