when you create a character and want to give them a nickname, it might sound ideal to call them something cute or cool like nightshade or candy or other stuff, but i think its inherently more realistic and way more funnier if you have in mind that most of the times nicknames come from other people, like your friends or family, and they can be straight up violating
from what ive gathered throughout the years of living amongst people, there are a few "nickname categories", and they are as follows:
your surname has a somehow funny word in it and its now your nickname for forever
youve had a misfortune of reminding someone of some fictional character and now you are called by that characters name
actually, youve had a misfortune of reminding someone of anything, be it a plant or an animal or an inanimated object, and it is now your nickname
youve misspelled/mispronounced a word and everyone collectively agreed that its how they will call you from now on
(the last one is personal bc i legit didnt know how "auchan" is pronounced and i said it wrong in front of my friends (rookie mistake). ive been auchan (the mispronounced way) for a long, long time)
obviously do what you want with your characters, but i highly encourage the funny nicknames. they can add so much to the oc, both in the dynamic they have with their friends/family, and also in terms of a backstory for them
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first time doing sk8 art in literal years and its just bs. inspired by @demidins post
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High guys im back did you miss me ?
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One of the interesting things about being medicated for ADHD for the first time after forty is the ongoing adjustment of coping mechanisms. The thing about medication is that it doesn’t render them unnecessary, it just takes a ton less energy to engage in them, and sometimes it means developing different ones.
I’ve used Google Tasks for probably about a decade now. Generally it’s just a list of the “big things” to do -- “do the dishes” “take out trash” “weekly donor screening” et cetera. I realize dishes and trash don’t seem like big things, and truthfully they aren’t, but they are “macro” in the sense that they are not detailed.
But now that I have more executive function, I can accomplish all of, say, taking out the trash, so I can no longer simply write “take out trash”. That will tell me to take out the kitchen trash, which is admittedly 90% of all the garbage I generate and the most important thing to actually accomplish. But I want to take out the kitchen trash, check the paper bin in the living room to see if it needs emptying, add the litterbox bag to the kitchen trash, see if the bathroom trash is full, and recycle the pile of boxes that I left by the door to remind me to recycle them and now they just live there. All of which I can do, thank you Adderall, but none of which I’m going to remember to do because I’m so focused on “taking out the trash”.
So now my google tasks is like “TRASH” and then on separate lines are kitchen, paper, bathroom, litter, boxes. And after every single action I do, like taking the bag physically out of the trash can, I check the list. Or I have DISHES which used to be enough because I really could only manage to do one thing -- put all the dishes in the sink, rinse the dishes in the sink and put them in the dishwasher, run the dishwasher, or empty the dishwasher. Now I can do it all! If I can remember to do it all. Which I can’t when I’m doing part one of any of them. So before I do any of them I list all of them in the Tasks.
The bananas of the detailed lists I make these days is surpassed only by the insanity of how short the lists end up at the end of the day, so it’s worth it. I have one list for “during the week” that is mostly work stuff, and one list for “weekend” that is usually personal stuff or optional stuff, and at the end of this week there were three items on my work list. The last time I had only three items on my work list was when I was creating that list a decade ago.
Meanwhile I have already checked eight things off the weekend list before noon, but primarily because it had items like “put a bandaid on your right foot” “take a shower” “Go to the second floor of Target first” “get a glass of water before sitting down”.
Doing November cleaning should be fascinating this year.
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If you need a tweaker girlfriend or boyfriend reblog 👫👬👭✌
Boyfriend girlfriend couple whatever. It would just be nice to have a friend or two share the experience with.
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