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girl typing a very specific question into google search bar, scrunching her face as she takes time to make sure she hasn't made any spelling errors, hitting enter, shaking her head as google only presents her with unhelpful websites that don't answer her query at all, moving her cursor back to the search bar and clicking on it so she can carefully write 'reddit' at the end, hitting enter again, sighing with relief as she finds a link to a reddit post asking the exact question she needed answered posted in a subreddit for a very niche topic, finally moving her cursor to click on the link, wondering why she didn't go straight to the subreddit earlier, only to be met with a deleted comment with a reply from the OP stating 'that was very helpful, thanks', sighing with frustration as she moves her cursor back to the search bar so she can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine,

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I thought I needed a new laptop but nope, youtube is slowing down your PC if you have adblock on on any open tab...

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Reblog with where you're from (USAmericans if you're willing to specify state too that would be great)

I need to know if my suffering is just because my school district hates students or if it's a common thing

#gym was a requirement every year until I think senior year. So 3 years of required gym classes

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#it was either deviantart or neopets #but i dont remember exactly which came first #probably neopets

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#corn pop #or cereal

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Because I've recently had one of those "your experiences are not universal" moments, please humor me

#grew up in Minnesota where it was always a summer thing #you open a window or go sit on the patio and enjoy listening to a good storm #here the storms dont last as long but they still happen multiple times during the spring/summer

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You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

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artist tips

don’t save as jpeg

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it

buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell

leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist

put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.

when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!

plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.

if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge

if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.

its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.

#i ended up having to get a clothing rack to put in my room because i never went into my closet #and once winter ended I packed up the sweaters I knew I wouldnt wear and took down the rack #and then put the jackets and hoodies I knew I'd wear on an over the door hook #got an 8 cube storage unit and fabric bins for undergarments and shirts #I have a hell of a time remembering to clean the litterbox #so I got disposable ones I can throw away instead of cleaning #it helped so fucking much

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the ache of nostalgia

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my go-to evening activity for the past few weeks has been watching anime, which is obvious to anyone who's seen my waves of posts when i become obsessed with some new show for a day or two and then never talk about it again. sometimes when i do that, people ask me if there are any websites for free anime streaming, and truth be told i have no idea, honestly.

and the same goes for manga, i wouldn't even know what to use, since manga isn't even a video or an executable. i'd expect it to be very difficult to pirate a book. i don't even own a printer, how would i see it?

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what’s your ‘thing’ as a friend. i don’t mean like ‘oh im the mom friend’ i mean like what’s the Thing where if one of your friends was looking for a specific interaction they’d message you first. personally i can always be relied upon to get hyped about bugs, literature, and cursed internet images.

#i honestly have no fucking idea lmao

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#loooove pickles as long as the yarent actually on my food

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shoutout to my brother for setting me up for this