#to me. at least.

[kidskulls]

the people's princess

[someofitwastrue]

everyone on tiktok talking about what the girl harmonizing with fan sound actually sounds like. they are all wrong. what it sounds like is the “I AM JOHNNY” it’s always sunny scene.

[stone-stars]

so a while ago i realized that melora's boon (the song from the heart of the world) and mee maw's burden had very similar chords in their openings, as well as general instrumentation. and i thought "woah that's a really cool musical parallel for emily to have set up!"

i was listening to some other instrumentals today, and as it turns out... it wasn't just those two songs.

[Audio Description: Clips of the openings of "A Sign From Melora", "Mee Maw's Burden", and "A Rare Appearance", followed by a clip from naddpod c1e97 that features the opening of "Melora's Boon" under Murph speaking as Melora and Emily speaking as Moonshine. The first three all have a similar progression of three piano chords spaced slightly apart. The last also does, but adds a fourth chord as well.]

like you have: a sign from melora, first used for moonshine's prayer to melora when she's unsure of what to do after learning about marabelle mee maw's burden, first used for mee maw revealing that she has crick rot, continually used to represent the burden of the living and things taken on to protect others a rare appearance first used for, well, melora's first appearance when she shows up to help heal the crick and then melora's boon first used in that clip-- at the heart of the world, when melora reveals she's given up her corporeal form and gives them their boons

yeah. these songs being musically connected is something that i can feel normal about.

[mishima-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

a young mishima stands in his bedroom

A young Mishima shouldn't be standing in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, April 28th, 2023, shouldn't be this young Mishima's birthday. (Because it isn't.)

[astrxealis]

okay so the emet-selch liker and astarion liker makes a lot of sense. but i personally am a g'raha tia liker and astarion liker which honestly also makes a lot of sense!

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[thought-begone]

I guess the real glorious evolution was the homoerotic yearning we made along the way

[thelaurenshippen]

watching bridgerton and obviously there were a lot of things wrong with the way socializing has worked in the past, but honestly the idea of a "calling hour" is so appealing. office hours for friendship. you can show up unannounced at my home between 1 and 3pm. you must leave by 3pm. I may give you a pastry. lets bring that back

[bamsara]

"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

[taffy-glitch]

it should be illegal to put ads in apps or sites for solitaire or picross or sudoku tbh. playing classic puzzle games uninterrupted needs to be a HUMAN RIGHT

[marfian]

So act 3 huh

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[inbabylontheywept]

I was walking out of the Walmart today, and a car passed me, and I got this incredibly vivid impression. It wasn't really in words, but if I had to put it into words, the two key points would be

a). I needed to watch that car and

b). That I needed to be careful, because the driver of the car was a massive bitch.

It kind of took me by surprise, because I really had no reason to be beefing with that car, and I also hadn't really had an impression like that since I was religious, which was in my teen years. Right? It'd been a decade since I had a little voice whisper in my ear, and I'd basically written it off as nonsense.

Anyway, I watched the car, because The Spirits or whatever were very insistent that I did. Car drove fine, went into the parking spot, inched forward, and right when it should've just stopped, the driver gunned it for some reason and it ran into the curb and cracked its bumper.

So, the driver got out, and she went to the front of the car to check that yes, she had cracked her bumper, and then she turned to look at me. The parking lot wasn't empty, but we were the only two people standing in that row, and I'd probably been staring at her for tenish seconds now.

She demanded very angrily to know why I hadn't warned her of the curb. And I could have said I didn't know you were about to gun it or is it my job to help every stranger park, or even could you have even heard me, inside your car?

And all of those would have been fine, but I was really, really busy digesting that I had somehow communed with Mormon Jesus again for the first time in fifteen years, and that the communion had mostly been there to let me watch someone park badly (?), so what I responded with was:

"Because it was foretold."

And I can't tell which would be funnier, if she went silent because there's not much to be said to that, or if she went silent because in Utah, she might actually believe me, but we parted ways without more words.

I'm still kind of digesting this myself, actually.

[eastgaysian]