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The Dad

@brainshittery

Rib, he/him/they/them. This is my main blog where everything goes. Sporadic posting and situational rambling; I don't tag a lot of my stuff.

proper pinned post time

hi my name is Croc or Rib, im a legal adult with pronouns being he/they. 

i’m terrible at introductions, ahahah! but anyway, standard DNI:

dont interact if: pedophile/proship/whatever you call yourself, radfem or terf, any other manner of thing that isnt behaving decently.

listen. yes I loved fire emblem three houses enough to play it like 12 times and put 1100 hours into it and post like 100,000 words of fanfic and draw So Much fanart, but I hope every fire emblem game from now to the end of eternity is more like Engage. peak gameplay, no annoying ass discourse. I play once or twice and enjoy the hell out of it. I wait for the next one. ideal gaming experience

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

The skill can come back and it often does. It is not unusual for it skill recedes during stressful and painful times. Maybe you just need more stability/safety/kind people around you.

I have been through something similar a few times in my life with writing, yoga, studying...

Admittedly, my life is always financially and socially precarious, so my notion of stability currently just means "enough money to pay the rent and food for the next few months."

It is hard to hold onto anything when you have to fight for survival all the time, either materially or emotionally.

Wow, uh. Okay, I'm gonna need a minute to process "It is hard to hold onto anything when you have to fight for survival all the time...". You're genuinely rewiring my brain is we speak.

Thank you, this means a lot to hear. <3

Thank you as well. We have to help each other in this hellscape whenever we can.

people might think creating OC lore involves a lot of thinking & planning, but in my personal experience, OC development is more like a divine vision from a god slamming you over the head with a mallet while ur doing the fuckin dishes or folding laundry

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

love that for 100 years people have looked at these beasts and thought “heehee what if the big one wore the little one like a hat”

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