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‘am i Having A Brain Problem or Being a Shithead’: a short procrastination checklist
aka why tf am i procrastinating on The Thing (more like a flowchart, actually)
lots of people who have executive function difficulties worry about whether they’re procrastinating on a task out of laziness/simply wanting to be a jerk or mental struggles. this checklist might help you figure out which it is at any given time! (hint: it’s almost never laziness or being a jerk.) (obligatory disclaimer: this is just what works for me! something different might work better for you.)
1) do I honestly intend to start the task despite my lack of success?
yes: it’s a Brain Problem. next question
no: it’s shitty to say one thing & do another. better be honest with myself & anyone expecting me to do the task.
2) am I fed, watered, well-rested, medicated properly, etc?
yes: next question
no: guess what? this is the real next task
3) does the idea of starting the task make me feel scared or anxious?
yes: Anxiety Brain. identify what’s scaring me first.
no: next question
4) do I know how to start the task?
yes: next question
no: ADHD Brain. time to make an order of operations list.
5) do I have everything I need to start the task?
yes: next question
no: ADHD Brain lying to me about the steps again, dangit. first task is ‘gather the materials’.
6) why am i having a hard time switching from my current task to this new task?
i’m having fun doing what i’m doing: it’s okay to have fun doing a thing! if task is time-sensitive, go to next question.
i have to finish doing what i’m doing: might be ADHD brain. can I actually finish the current task or will I get trapped in a cycle? does this task really need to be finished?
the next task will be boring/boring-er than the current task: ADHD brain. re-think the next task. what would make it exciting? what am I looking forward to?
I might not have enough time to complete the task: ADHD brain wants to finish everything it starts. (if task is time-sensitive, go to next question)
i just want to make the person who asked me to do it angry: sounds like anxiety brain trying to punish itself, because I know I’ll be miserable if someone is angry at me. why do i think I deserve punishment?
no, I seriously want to piss them off: okay, i’m being a shithead
7) have I already procrastinated so badly that I now cannot finish the task in time?
yes: ADHD brain is probably caught in a guilt-perfection cycle. since I can’t have the task done on time, i don’t even want to start.
reality check: having part of a thing done is almost always better than none of a thing done. if I can get an extension, having part of it done will help me keep from stalling out until the extension deadline. i’ll feel better if I at least try to finish it.
no, there’s still a chance to finish on time: ADHD brain thinks that I have all the time in the world, but the truth is I don’t.
reality check: if i’m having fun doing what I’m doing, I can keep doing it, but I should probably set a timer & ask someone to check on me to make sure I start doing the task later today.
8) I’ve completed the checklist and still don’t know what’s wrong!
probably wasn’t honest enough with myself. take one more look.
if I’m still mystified, ask a friend to help me talk it out.
hope this helps some of you! YOU’RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE DON’T GIVE UP ON YOU
today i was talking to my therapist about being upset that my dad wanted a daughter and she told me 'your father is crying by a grave of his own making that has no corpse in it. you do not need to fill it for him and are not required to weep beside him' and I had to take a sip of water bc my mind stopped working for a moment
So tumblr ate my post.
ANYWAY
Acetone doesn't work. Maybe soaking it might've, but I didn't want to risk shrinking/warping the head to find out.
A dab of Winsor & Newton brush cleaner, on the other hand, works very well. Even made it easier to magic eraser off the remaining bits. :)
Wonder if the gloss was what was resisting the acetone or the sort of paint they used. Maybe both.
Got the BTS dolls V and Jung Kook since they had the closest faces to the characters I'm going to use them for. Ordered them online since I didn't care that much how off the paint placement was but still a little sad I can't salvage much of it. LA's Totally Awesome did a good job getting rid of whatever product was in their hair, tho.
Tried to remove V's face first. Took 20min with a magic eraser just to get that much off his eye. :/ The rest is on the eye surface and underside of the lash line, so I'll just paint over it.
Luckily his lips seemed to only be two paint layers deep, so it took only a few minutes.
Will definitely be getting more of these boys when they go on sale if only for the sculpts alone.
Acetone doesn't seem to work on this paint (rather, it didn't work as quickly and I didn't want the vinyl to start absorbing it), so I tried a dab of Windsor & Newton brush cleaner. It works so well, it made it easier to magic eraser off the bits left behind. Makes me wonder if the gloss sealant was resisting the acetone or just the sort of paint they used. Maybe both.
Got the BTS dolls V and Jung Kook since they had the closest faces to the characters I'm going to use them for. Ordered them online since I didn't care that much how off the paint placement was but still a little sad I can't salvage much of it. LA's Totally Awesome did a good job getting rid of whatever product was in their hair, tho.
Tried to remove V's face first. Took 20min with a magic eraser just to get that much off his eye. :/ The rest is on the eye surface and underside of the lash line, so I'll just paint over it.
Luckily his lips seemed to only be two paint layers deep, so it took only a few minutes.
Will definitely be getting more of these boys when they go on sale if only for the sculpts alone.
I havent seen anyone talk about this yet so im making a post.
So lets say you’re researching something for a paper (or just for fun) and the research paper you want to read is behind a paywall, or the site makes you create an account first, or makes you pay to download, or limits you to only 5 free articles, or otherwise makes it difficult for you to read what you want.
do not fear! copy the link to the article
go to sci-hub.se (the url is always changing so its best to check out whereisscihub.now.sh to find what the current url is)
slap the article link in there
bam! free access!
Got the BTS dolls V and Jung Kook since they had the closest faces to the characters I'm going to use them for. Ordered them online since I didn't care that much how off the paint placement was but still a little sad I can't salvage much of it. LA's Totally Awesome did a good job getting rid of whatever product was in their hair, tho.
Tried to remove V's face first. Took 20min with a magic eraser just to get that much off his eye. :/ The rest is on the eye surface and underside of the lash line, so I'll just paint over it.
Luckily his lips seemed to only be two paint layers deep, so it took only a few minutes.
Will definitely be getting more of these boys when they go on sale if only for the sculpts alone.
so weightwatchers released an app for kids - a diet app for kids (!!!!) down to the age of eight (8) years old.
this is literally an app that is supposed to have children track their food intake, and their energy output, every damn day, with the purpose of them losing weight. it does before and after photos, and uses this system that is a “stoplight system”, so bad foods are red, medium is yellow and good is green.
when you sign up you have to put in your goal and one of the choices is “to make my parents proud”.
this is basically an app designed to shame children, and indoctrinate eating disorders into them.
what the hell is wrong with people????!!!!
also, apparently oprah is supporting this shit so screw her.
i am so damn mad. this is child abuse, and the weightwatchers cult is making money off of it.
god i love being part of the internet’s most monetarily worthless user base. i love going to bed knowing that at least one social media site isn’t making shit off my presence.
Cookie Clicker for Android is now officially in beta!
While the alpha was previously accessible to our $15+ Patreon backers only, we’ve decided to make the game fully public while moving into beta! If you’ve got an android phone you can play it here right now!!!!
The app is still missing some features and there’s still a few bugs but it’s fully playable and we’re very happy with where it’s heading! We hope to completely finish it over the next few months, after which we’ll continue supporting it regularly along with the browser version!
Cookie Clicker also turns 6 today and remains probably the coolest thing that’s ever happened to us! We’d like to thank you for your patience and support all these years (and in particular our mod team on Discord and the people who’ve been supporting us on Patreon!)
tl;dr - we got a cool new app and you can play it right now
honestly what’s the point of nancy’s season one monologue about not wanting to be trapped in some Nuclear Family if it doesn’t end in the found family of her bisexual ass having two bisexual boyfriends with seven kids and a funky lesbian aunt
apologies if this is a little bit long and rambling, but i decided to slap this comic together really quick to talk about just why i’ve gone so hard on plus-sized characters and some of the stuff i’ve been drawing and more vocal about over the past 1-2 years. it means a lot to me and it’s not going to change, so i figured i should explain Why. as i state in the comic, it’s the hill i’m dying on.
i hope y’all are on the same page and enjoy the content i put out, and that my fellow plus-sized folks out there get something meaningful and positive out of it.
Does anyone else with autism get that brain thing where their mental dictionary just randomly decides to become unavailable? And all you're left with is describing the word or saying close approximations until someone says it for you?
"The big... Cleaner. In that room."
"The washing machine?"
"YES!"
Love, Death & Robots has some pretty killer concepts when it not, you know, being gross or insufferably horny.
“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”
— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?
Anonymous said:
Could you please do a clip of Team Rocket using insults that are a lot heavier than “twerp”?
meowth, control yourself
