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Sunset and Moonrise

I had started this with the intention of more cloud petticoats but somehow it evolved into ocean waves, so I just went with the flow~

HD files, art videos, and PSD files on my Patreon.com/Yuumei

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shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡

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“We can’t separate sorrow from death unless we separate love from life.”

I’m at a funeral for a lovely woman I knew for two years and her son said this. She was 77 years old and died four days after being diagnosed with rapid onset leukemia. Hearing her younger sister and son speak about her life is wonderful, hearing stories I wouldn’t have known otherwise, confirming the little I knew that she was sunshine in human form.

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Adult Swim making an unholy amount of sense.

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died and i came back normal. more normal than before even. such a regular guy it’s freaking everyone out. i’m ironing my shirts & doing the sunday paper crossword puzzle and the people i love won’t stop crying

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aerialbots. btw

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To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter. 

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I wanted to make Signalis characters as lil fucking things....

Im tempted to make these into stickers and put it on my kofi...

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What Does Executive Dysfunction Look Like?

Here, while focused and not overstimulated, I asked The Kid to draw an apple and spell it:

He is able to write the word apple all by himself, from memory. He knows how to spell apple, and he knows that he knows. He needs a simple visual aid to draw an apple himself, his apple resembles an apple (as drawn by a 6 yo, anyway).

Here, while slightly overstimulated, I ask The Kid to draw a cat and write the word cat:

Though he definitely knows how to spell cat, he needs a visual aid here to do so. He also needs a simple visual aid to draw a cat, but even with an aid, he draws the parts in the wrong order. You can tell he's struggling to perform the task.

Here, absolutely overstimulated, I ask The Kid to draw a whale and write the word whale:

After 3 minutes of picking up the pencil and then putting it down again, with lots of echolalia, he makes an attempt. He needs a visual aid for both tasks. While he writes each letter in the correct order, their sequence is mostly random. He cannot draw at all in this state.

This is Executive Dysfunction. A symptom common in autism, and adhd.

A person with Executive Dysfunction is not making a decision not to do something (chores, homework, cooking, etc.) -- they genuinely cannot do the thing. At least not under certain circumstances, such as overstimulation or stress. They might require help and step by step guidance to get through it, or to abandon the task entirely until circumstances are more ideal.

This is a normal experience and not something to be punished for (by yourself or others). In fact punishment or the fear of punishment actually makes ED worse and more frequent. The only things that actually help the severity and frequency of Executive Dysfunction is patience and understanding.

This is also why functioning labels are outdated and inaccurate. You can go from 1 to 3 in the same day. Heck, the same hour if you're having A Time of It. For example, I go straight from 1 to 3, skipping 2 entirely when I look at road maps.

(Obligatory disclaimer: The Kid was not compelled to perform these tasks against his desire. I compiled these images over the course of summer break, when he requested the activity but wasn't always in a state to complete the activity. Then realized what a keen visual representation of ED this was, and that it could be helpful.)

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love how the ming dynasty has a long series of really competent and hardworking and idealistic emperors who each get on the throne and go i’m going to be the best emperor ever, unlike my good-for-nothing predecessor who let the bureaucrats make all the decisions while he sat back and worked in his hobbies! and then they realize that the squabbling confucian bureaucracy has gridlocked the government so badly that the emperor couldn’t make any decisions even if he wanted to and they’re like ohhhh i get it now

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Going through a couple of the business help videos my library has and there's a video series on being a professional artist. A lot of it is on how to get into galleries and things like that, though. Which I don't know if there are that many gallery spaces for photography- often I feel like its considered a 'service' instead.

Maybe I'm watching the wrong videos.

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Pigeon attempts to court falcon

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Jim Henson and his Muppeteers from the first season of The Muppet Show 1976

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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It's dangerous to go alone, take this

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“Salvage” created for Critical Chips 2, published/edited by Zainab Akhtar~

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made by yours (un)truly