Early video game designer: Okay, we’re just about done with this level
Video game designer’s manager: Great! Did you figure out what to put at the end?
designer: Yeah, we put this tough, nasty, mean, ugly monster that the player has to beat. We made sure killing the monster feels as rewarding as possible.
manager: Cool! So what’s it called?
designer: The boss.
manager:
manager: why’s it called that
Sometimes… you just gotta draw Every Single Neopet.
I would link a non-chopped-up fullsize here, but I’ve heard that new tumblr is allergic to both boobs and hyperlinks, so I’ll just say you can find it on my DeviantArt instead.
I went to go see a councillor last year for a few sessions to discuss my anxiety issues and she spoke about mindfulness.
I can’t say that being aware of the concept of mindfulness has completely changed my life or anything. When I’m intensely anxious I still have a lot of trouble dealing with it. But if I can wrangle my thoughts together, I have a better understanding of how to calm them down. It’s still hard to do, and I feel I haven’t worked on it enough, but it’s something I want to work on more this year.
Anyway, one thing that kind of blew my mind was that to calm your brain you don’t actually have to “shut it off” or silence it completely. I’ve NEVER understood how people are able to do that and honestly still don’t. But something I learned about was that it’s easier to calm your thoughts if you treat your brain more like a snowglobe than something with an on-off switch. When I’m anxious my brain feels like there’s a thousand thoughts and scenarios flashing all at once and it feels loud, but actually seeing a visual of a snowglobe and seeing all of the flecks not disappear but just calmly float to the bottom actually made me feel way better. That was much easier to understand than turning your thoughts off.
If you imagine these thoughts not going away entirely, but gently floating down and giving yourself some space and air to breathe, they’re easier to come back to and deal with.
Another thing she said was that if I’m feeling like I’m starting to get overly anxious or panicky, to tell myself that I will come back to that thought and make time for it. But when you say that, most of the time you don’t WANT to devote time to it. If you tell yourself “ok, this irrational thing will be worried about later, I’ll devote an hour to it”, sometime you will come back to it, but realize you absolutely don’t want to give it so much of you time, and so you spend less time with your irrational, anxious thoughts.
Again, though I have this information and feel it could work for me, it’s hard to break out of cycles of bad ways of dealing with anxiety and irrationality, and so I haven’t worked on implementing these techniques into my life properly. But there have been times where I’ve used them and they’ve worked somewhat.
I’m not saying this stuff works for everyone, and maybe I’ll find that it won’t even work for me in the long term, but this was some information I was given and it sounded like something to maybe pass on.
literally the pornbots got worse, at this point i’m getting very close to “i’ve gotten more pornbot followers in the weeks since december 17th than my entire tumblr experience before that” being a true statement
i’ve been on tumblr for like 9 years and this is the biggest influx of pornbots i’ve had in such a fucking long time, but, you know, the adult content ban totally worked you guys like absolutely worked tumblr is Saved from the scourge
remembering that kakashi was fuckign 26 years old when he got assigned team seven is blowing my mind right now. I was naruto’s age when I got sucked into this shit and now I’m kakashi’s and like,,,I get it. my man got assigned the generation’s WORST of the WORST gremlin children and he did the best he fuckin’ could. he nearly dies on every mission because sasuke refuses to go to anger management and naruto is so dumb he probably can’t even read. he’s got like 7 summons that are dogs and he could be spending all his time with them but is he/?? no. he’s got a sharingan making him so Perpetually Exhausted it’s a straight up medical condition and he has to spend all his free time restraining the two finalists of Konoha’s Next Top Orphan from getting people killed instead of like….teaching them. 26 years old and all that unbelievable bullshit. god. and!! then when he finally gets to take a fucking nap they make him hokage I honestly can’t believe he did it. wasn’t even 30 fucking years old. I can’t believe he didn’t leave the damn village himself.
