me: i have alexithymia

person: wow i can’t imagine what that must feel like

me: yeah me neither

hold on i gotta look something up

yeah this is funny

"we need more angry, traumatized female characters" you guys could barely handle katara

Mental Crop Rotation

When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.

To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”

So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.

Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.

: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season. 

It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.

We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back. 

So yes, grow and produce different things from time to time, rotate them around your mind and exercise different mental muscles, take different things from your creative processes, yes– but also, give yourself a fallow spell now and again, and let the field of your mind grow things for itself to keep, to break down and save for later. 

Positive mental health AND agriculture??!?

*slams reblog button*

I give anyone reading this permission to use my grave to lie to cops

Day 27 of Mermay is Halle Bailey. I decided to recreate the iconic Little Mermaid Musical playbill for her. Have you seen the remake yet?

I love the composition and lighting of this! Amazing job!

Are you struggling with being a writer? Well Have You Tried Poison Testing As A Hobby,

@ruler-of-turtle-kind

write for the audience you want, not the one you’re afraid of

write to delight the audience you want and piss off the one you’re afraid of

Write for the audience of yourself and trust that there’s other people out there who are just as weird as you are

@ruler-of-turtle-kind <33

she rolled.

@olyollyoxenfree this you?

This is what having ADHD is like.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEWTWO! 

i didn’t miss it this time fucking finally

more drawings of my cats (2)

Small joys on Tumblr:

When your notes make a perfect cat

Kitty has an exclamation-point tail because of all the attention

bold of me to constantly use the phrase “no worries!” when I am, in fact, constantly full of many worries

Dude has a death wish

Delighted to announce this bird is real and is a corvid.

Truly the family that just keeps giving.

I haven’t seen it in the notes yet, so afaik, here’s the source of that video! So now you can see the funny poison bird much more clearly.

It was taken by a biologist that studies birds so it seems like he knows what he’s doing. For the most part. Here’s his caption:

You all know that he 100% licked his fingers after handling that bird

I can’t leave this in the tags, I’m sorry.