i voted for reigen
So earlier I wasn't feeling the best but then I calmed down with a bath and welcome to nightvale and then when I was mindlessly scrolling through Pinterest I found this:
A sewing pattern for a frog found here (yes that's to a tumblr post, the Pinterest post took me to a tumblr post)
The frogs are meant to look like:
Adorable, right?
Being the person I am, I decided that making one would be easy enough.
It was not easy enough.
But at least I tried.
Meet Frankenstein
zaggot
frisk is just a fucking baby. and everyone just monologues at them
zaggot
alphys: you know i… i used to hate myself, before you came along. i don’t know… i don’t want to use you to boost my self esteem but i just want to say… thanks, you know? for giving me a little more confidence, i guess. you’re really special to me
frisk: *is five years old*
punkphobe
No notes 5 year old frisk post
fun fact: in the latin american dub, when Helen Brand tells Benoit Blanc that "google says he's the world greatest detective", he says "i am not James Bond" which is infinitely funnier than the original "i am not Batman" response
mf rolled a successful stat check for th rizz factor @ the end there (i must now draw them holdingd hands and getting ice cream as per request of my friend)
this took me so damn long- 20 hours in total i think? first part i spent like 13 hours straight workin on it- anyways they ar so fucking silly i love them so much-
strong contender for pic of all time
does everybody else open tumblr first thing in the morning like its a fuckin daily report or is that just me
you understand me
it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of when its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...
my brother had a brilliant idea that i wanted to share with other people who have four-legged family members: he trained our two cats to go directly to the door when they hear the fire alarm.
obviously at first the fire alarm sent them scrambling for cover, but he started slowly by giving them treats whenever it went off, when someone burned food or forgot to open the fireplace flu. he then progressed to calling them to the door to offer treats immediately after the alarm went off. and it actually wasn't too long before the cats voluntarily started going to the door upon hearing the alarm.
i think this was genius because in the event of a real emergency we know exactly where the cats will be and we will not have to waste precious time trying to find them to rescue them. i think this method would work equally well with dogs and probably other free-roaming pets such as rabbits, ferrets, etc. and i certainly encourage others to give it a shot!
I trained Neelix to alert me to Sounds. So in the even of A Sound he'd find me to let me know about it. Oven timers, knocking at the door, weird creature stuck in the yard, etc. This has the added effect of being able to scoop him up and bring him to safety in the event said sound is a fire alarm or a tornado siren.
The downside is, when I had a baby, every time it cried he'd barrel into the room to let me know. Even if I was already in the room. And if I couldn't make The Sound stop (because an infant works differently than an oven timer), he'd start biting me urgently. 😅
Confused, but doing his best:
Oh, context is that I'm deaf not that I wanted to create a beast that'd harass me over sounds.
Anyway
My favourite way of learning news.
get his ass charlie boy
I hurt my back pretty reasonably at work today and unfortunately I couldn’t stop laughing because my first thought was “workplace injury barbie”
I’m still holding out hope that we’ll one day get a Scooby-Doo reboot based on that old “Fred managed to get four Actual Deities™ to go along with his solving mysteries stuff without him realizing” Tumblr post.
I just think it could be fun
@dariamarchin here you go
this is 100% in my top five tumblr posts of all time, it’s so funny to me
Adult Scooby-Doo series where they're all in their 70s and the mystery now is why is scooby still alive but nobody says it out loud bc they don't wanna jinx it but everybodys suspicious and often worried about this talking dog in his mid 60s
adult Scooby Doo series where all five of them are still young and alive and everyone around them is trying to figure out if theyre completely immortal in the background
just saw a post complaining about how hard it is to find adhd resources for adults and one of the comments said “tiktok has a lot of adhd tips” as if telling someone with adhd to enter the algorithmic quicksand of perpetual dopamine hits isn’t the most insane thing you could suggest for someone with adhd
btw a 2022 study on TikToks about ADHD [link] found that out of 100 videos, 52 were misleading. 27 were only based on personal experience and weren’t applicable to others. 21 were classified as useful.
if you are going to TikTok for information on ADHD, a video you watch has a 79% chance of being completely useless and/or incorrect.
In terms of like, Please For The Love Of God Get Hobbies That Aren’t Scrolling Through An App For Six Hours A Day, I understand and experience completely the argument of like. with the stressors of modern work, you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to do anything but mindlessly watch Netflix and scroll through your phone. but like I would like to gently encourage you to simply force yourself for a time to do something instead of pick up your phone, bc the phone is literally designed to light up your brain with no effort from you whatsoever and it does in fact rot your brain. It makes literally anything but scrolling on your phone seem difficult and joyless. But if you stop scrolling on your phone all the time, and start like, reading or embroidering or gardening or going for walks, you will eventually find the joy in them once more
I understand and it is true that it is hard to have a life outside work and scrolling but there is not a near future where that won’t be the case and you should still live a life. And you won’t create a future where that isn’t the case if you don’t have the confidence and experience and drive to fight for it
the trick is to recognize that there’s nothing intrinsically exhausting about reading a book or painting a picture or doing any of the activities that are meaningful to you. What makes these things seem exhausting is the fact that they’re now competing with cheaper stimulation. In a paper published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a group of psychologists suggested that the feeling of effort is a sensation of opportunity costs. When you’re doing something and an alternative activity promises to be easier and more immediately rewarding, the original activity feels effortful.
Therefore, if you want to do the things that matter, you need to make the alternatives less salient. Reading will be hard when Netflix is always an option. Family time will seem boring if your phone is always within arm’s reach. Easier will beat better if it’s always available.