Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

I really wish more ADHD mental health care told you WHY things like this matter to our quality of life.

The Hyperactivity in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is NOT about being physically hyperactive, it's about having a "hyperactive central nervous system" because it's a form of inheritable dysautonomia. The problem with disautonomia, especially the ADHD kind, is that it makes boredom flag to your nervous system as a THREAT, triggering hyperactive and maladaptive central nervous system processes like fight or flight.

But dysautonomia kills you that way. Literally, part of the reason our average life spand increase on stimulents is that it helps manage risk-taking impulsivity that can get us killed by accident, but the other part is that stimulents can regulate a hyperactive CNS such that it is functionally (while impacted by the stimulent) NOT dysregulated anymore. And PHYSIOLOGICALLY that is essential because the physical outcomes of dysautonomia can reduce your life span by YEARS if not decades through self-perpetuating hypervigelence, endocrine disruption, and adrenal fatigue.

So when the ADHD brain goes stimulation-seeking and a doctor tells you to practice mindfulness, it feels like being told "hey go stand in a functioning boiler until you can stop thinking" rather than WHAT IT IS which is the process of re-teaching your body what is and isn't safe.

Standing outside making mindful, non-interpretive/moralized observation of the world helps your brain and body re-acclimate to the idea that absence of that frantic "busy" feeling isn't a threat or a risk to your safety, and gradually reduces the level of distress that just hanging out somewhere triggers for you.

Learning WHY this stuff was being suggested and understanding what it was actually supposed to do went a long way towards changing my relationship with my ADHD. I am FAR more functional now, far less prone to shame spirals and rejection sensitivity, hell, I can **sit physically still for near on an hour at a time** now without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.

So yeah. Go outside. Let the world narrow around you and take deep breaths until it stops feeling claustrophobic or like you need to climb walls. Learn how to let little sensations become big ones like the way the heat of the sun on your skin starts as a gentle warming and be omes a unique collection of sensory moments depending on how it lands on you. Listen for sounds under sounds and let them fade in and out as you move your focus from one sound to the next. Enjoy. Move on. Rinse and repeat.

When you no longer feel like the world is actively killing you, it's a lot easier to navigate it.

S++ tier addition to the post, thank you tumblr user butts bouncing on the beltway

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Finally! Part 3 is here!! yippee!!! As a refresher, this takes place at the beginning of season 9, when Doc and Xisuma try to boot Etho back up after he shuts down pre-Season 8 Finale, set to the vibes of Joywave’s Destruction from DBHC Etho’s playlist! Ouguguh I’ve been looking forward to posting this part so much; it has some of my favorite shots so far… something about the grey-fade of Doc going into shock, something about the last two pages with xisuma and doc’s expressions… idk!! i really loved working on these :] Hope you’re enjoying the horrific, horrific ride!! =w=

As a partially insignificant but Special-To-Me note: Xisuma has always referred to dbhc doc as “Docm”— this is actually the first time X ever calls him “Doc.”

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Most of the words written here are again lyrics from Joywave’s Destruction, but throughout lyrics here and there, I plan to incorporate a little bit of dialogue! I’ve been playing around a lot with lighting and fun poses and stuff, so this has genuinely been a blast to work on :] Expressions have always been my favorite thing to draw but uh. There’s something particularly special about getting to draw chill/stoic characters like doc and etho um. Going Through It >:3 (Same with X but we’ll get there later)

Still don’t know how many parts this will be, but I’ll be updating each part as everything comes out! :]

More decked out dbhc doodles based on moments from episodes+streams!! I’ve been doing these as a little break from schoolwork and the larger dbhc comics, so I’ve been having a lot of fun with them =w=

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Listening to dbhc Etho’s playlist got me thinking about Joywave’s Destruction again, and even though I talked a little bit about this scene last year, I never really properly got to tell what exactly happened here… So, this is how it starts: Doc and X try to get Etho back online at the start of season 9 after his tragic shutdown at the end of season 8. Haunted and glitched out over the Last Life memories that made him shut down, Etho wakes up not… quite feeling like himself. Complications ensue.

Most of the words written here are lyrics from the song— HIGHLY recommend y’all give it a listen to see the full vision here >:]

The dissonance between Sebastian's narrative role in Pressure's lore and his functional role in Pressure's gameplay mechanics is so compelling to me. He unleashed all the monsters before you got there. He gives you tutorials on how to evade the monsters you've died to. He boasts about massacring the people who sent you and vows to kill more of them. He only attacks you if provoked. He's central to the main expedition's story. His story is a footnote in the main expedition's gameplay progression. He's on the thumbnail, twice. You can technically beat the game without ever meeting him. You're here because of him. Your assignment has nothing to do with him. He needs you to fail. He lets you try again. Everything that hinders your progress can be traced back to him, however indirectly. His involvement in your experience is notably disconnected from the rest of it. He's supposed to be killed on sight. He's not a boss encounter. He's doomed if you beat the game. His encounters all serve to help you beat the game. He's our antagonist. He's just a shopkeep.

FINALLY...

FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICES IT!

IM NOT ALONE WHO GET PUZZLED ABOUT ALL THIS! 😭😭😭

And if be serious right now, when I tried think deeper about all this, its always ended up with one thought: "... How this even works?"

Every time I heard: "He was forced to help us" or "He just act like helping us" for me it's still doesn't make any sense. Okey, maybe I hardly can argue with first one (someone still doesn't fully understand why he forced to help) but with "act like helping us", come on. He show us documents, sell items(I mean more dead drop, we don't give him any researches he needs, right?), even may give advice when we died. So all this is very controversial and confusing to me. 😔

Actually, It's a big topic for discussion, but damn, it's interesting!

:D

I have so many thoughts on this that I genuinely don’t know where to start XD

TDL and Yellow

I Might Need Help...

In my desperate need for validation and to show my love for this AvG game that I'm eager for, I may have gone a little overboard.

No, I am not done yet.

No, this is not the full size of the finished product.

Yes, this has to do with the poll on my page.

Yes, I have a headache.

Yes, I'm taking a break.

mmmm more stick :)) tsc and green having matching glasses makes me happy

If the color gang had their own martial arts they use, i would think it like this:

Tsc / Orange would use Jeet kune Do

Red would use Muay thai

Blue would use Jiu Jutsu

Yellow would use Taekwondo

Green would use Capoeira

This is only based on me, maybe you guys have something different but this is just what i think

Also i hope my drawings arent bad

I’d love to know your thought process behind the choices for each of them!

Lucky Block Yellow 💛💛

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

let your character fuck up. please. let them fuck up on a scale so massive that this particular thing cannot be salvaged. let their fuck up have permanent consequences. and stoooooooooooooooop having them being the smartest person in the room who always has a sharp comeback to put their enemies down, and who always handles their enemies with grace or at least an air of superiority that s justified because they’re so cool and smart and clever™ let them bleed for their mistakes, let them MAKE those mistakes, and let that bleeding be ugly and disgraceful. let them suffer for their own mistakes, and let them suffer in knowing that they cannot fix. and let other people hate them for the shit they’ve done, and for once let the haters not be ‘petty bad people’. Let the haters be right.

@muffinlance i just want to say i just read through towards the sun and you are a master of doing this, i love how well you write characters doing things and the consequences of those things. iroh fucking up so incredibly bad with his relationship with zuko, as well zuko starting a goddamn civil war??? aang condemning people to a fate worse than death on accident, breaking the trust of the people of the fire nation and striking fear into their hearts??? chefs kiss. everyone is wrong and everyone is also right and everyone has their own reasons for doing things and everything feels so real.

in salvage as well, that fractured relationship between katara and hakoda is just so devastating and tentative and sad in the way that they’re still family and they still love each other so so much, but katara probably wont necessarily see him in the same way as she did before he left ever again (which he had a REASON but he still broke her heart and its heartbreaking that they both make complete sense in why they had to do and why they felt the things they did)!

you make characters feel SO human it’s genuinely incredible 💕

oh look its the guy obsessed with @sammy8d257 's mad king au

an animatic wasnt enough so heres a drawing ,,

speedpaint [flash warning] !!

OOOO

SPEEDPAINTS MY BELOVED

So cool!! [yearns]

I love that it looks like Purple's holding MT's string but they also have one tied around their own neck too

Waaaugh

THESE 2 MAKE ME INSANE

You are a villain famous for “killing” heroes. In reality, heroes come to you to fake their deaths.

Sometimes they try to pay you.

You are posted out by the Hollywood sign tonight, sitting under the frame where the W used to be. It got burnt to a crisp during last week’s big superhero fight. A hero died right where you’re sitting. The whole area’s been closed down until Hero Force can coordinate a recovery effort. Usually it’d be done by now but no one’s willing to touch it until the ash has been completely blown away.

It’s a rule that the world must stand still when a hero dies.

“How much?”

The voice comes from behind you. The lights that illuminate the Hollywood sign are down to hide as much of the scorch marks as possible. You wouldn’t be able to see anything even if you did turn around, so you don’t.

You put some chapstick on, the glide of the balm against your wind chapped lips grounding.

“I said,” the Hero says, voice tightening, “How. Much.”

There’s the sound of gravel crunching now. They’re wearing heavy boots and the scent of fresh blood grows stronger the closer they get. Their breathing is smooth and even which means it’s not their blood.

You put the cap back on your chapstick and tuck it into your leather jacket’s inner pocket. “I don’t take money.”

“Then what do you take?” The Hero rounds the Y and comes into your line of sight. The dark hides most of their features, but you can make out a glittering gold mask and the dull shine of drying blood on their chest plate. Their breathing may be even, but their stance isn’t. They sway in place, back and forth, back and forth. Their arms wrap around their stomach. “I’ve got land. A house. You can have it.”

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This is an idea that a friend suggested months and months ago that I’m happy I finally got to put on proverbial paper (in which grian thinks it would be hilarious for (non deviant) mumbo to do some goofy hacking to mess with doc! And, uh. Naturally, mumbo comes back with no recollection of the command and also every time he tries to say grian’s name, an audio clip of doc saying “‘idiot” comes out instead)