Tumblvision Pro: Now With Worse Functionality!

Bug-shaped poison-bug type. Compared to my pfp, I'm a poison-bug type that mimics the Espurr line's appearance, but I'm actually luring in dark types. Probably to eat?

That's actually kinda disturbing, but interesting.

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

I've read some drunken rambles from fanfic authors that were more coherent and understandable than some published works.

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

Samus and the baby

Three weeks later, I'm lounging on the beach of an incredibly far away island, reading about how the kingdom collapsed basically instantaneously because the "new guy" they hired couldn't sanctify the literal hellgates across the entirety of the kingdom. The ones they originally hired my sect to pacify and draw magic from.

At least the new kingdom isn't trying to load all of that onto a single clergy member. Better benefits too.

You were unlike the saints and saintesses of other nations. You granted no miracles, and didn't heal any illnesses. They didn’t know when they banished you in favor of a new saint that you had been pouring every fiber of your being into a blessing of protection for the nation your entire life.

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):

ADDitude

How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills

Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func

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

Kenneth Roberson, Ph.D.

Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults with Autism

Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as

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.

I can feel my ability to speak clearlyb just. Disintegrating. As I get drawn ever more into Tumblr.

Which is a problem because I'm also trying to do creative writing/fanfiction stuff.

So my writing keeps flip-flopping between-

"Neurodivergent avid reader with ALL the words memorized"

and

"Plant gremlin go yoinky the trash"

samus’s dating woes

ahhh my metroid dna is acting up ahhhh it’s making me want to kiss girls

Dentistry

When you go to a dentist, and they massively overcharge you for a basic cleaning, but also tell you that one of your molars is 'cracked' and 'dying, if not dead' you'll probably take it with a grain of salt, especially if you then check with another dentist who says there is only some minor damage from past cavities.

That makes sense, right? Disregarding the suspiciously expensive analysis from the dentist who seems to be trying to get you to pay excessive amounts of money?

I thought it made sense.

Sure, the tooth felt kinda weird, and I'd recently experienced some issues with all my teeth from having a sinus infection bad enough it made my teeth shift from the swelling and shrinking of the flesh in my jaws.

Sure, there was a point where the tooth in question shifted enough that I ended up biting it painfully, only for it to settle down again over the next day or so, and go back to feeling only slightly weird.

But surely I can't have a broken or breaking tooth in my mouth and not notice it! Surely I'd feel if a tooth was dying/dead!

Yeah guess who just swallowed about a third of a molar and needs a near-emergency tooth extraction to pull the remaining tooth out sometime soon?

I'm just glad it apparently is dead, and therefor not causing horrendous pain by being a literal broken tooth in my mouth.

When calculating years, especially by dividing large numbers of hours, does anybody else divide by 365.25 instead of 365 to account for leap years automatically?

Or am I just being dumb/extra. I can't actually tell anymore.