#brain offloading

[deltaapollo]

headcanons about the critters!!!

because they live in my head rent free and I need to free some space in my brain lol

Dogday and Catnap like to swap pendants once in a while, sometimes even forgetting to switch back

Dogday and Catnap argue about coffee vs tea

Catnap and Craftycorn LOVE parallel play! Id imagine crafty drawing and catnap plops down beside her without saying a word to draw together

Catnap and Kickin are definitely the pranksters and troublemakers of the group lol

The critters love to play with Catnap's tail while he's sleeping, using it as a jumping rope, a scarf, making balloon (tail) animals, and catnap loves this but he wont admit it

Kickin is the number 1 gamer, Hoppy being the second, they either get in heated rivalry or destroy everyone in coop

in terms of irl size, Bubba is the critter Bobby loves to hug the most

Picky has banned some critters from the kitchen (Dogday, Catnap, Kickin)

Dogday and Bubba are yappers of their interests

Crafty, Picky, and Bobby practice makeup on Catnap

#smiling critters #poppy playtime #dogday #catnap #craftycorn #kickinchicken #bobby bearhug #hoppy hopscotch #picky piggy #bubba bubbaphant #its obvious which critters are my fave #definitely want to have more hcs about the others #some of these i already have art wips of that i want to finish #brain offloading

[bacchuschucklefuck]

she turns, makes direct eye contact with you, smiles,

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #kristen applebees #kipperlilly copperkettle #buddy dawn #cw: blood #cw: gore #cw: violence #hello this is the first post on this blog. welcome. I need to offload my art somewhere outside of my usual sphere #anyways yeah. yeah #I just think making direct eye contact with the person your murder victim is supposed to mirror before murdering them is kinda vibe #thinking abt kipperlily and kristen and how kipperlily was meant to be riz's foil but #genuinely kristen works so much better as foil for her instead. like how would beardsley ever not have swooped in to steal this off of #murph's plate. order vs chaos. embracing the rules vs rejecting them for having always fallen through the crack by your nature #so my busted ass brain saw this moment of kipperlily KILLING kristen's foil and I went insane like she took him out of the equation #HE is no longer kristen's foil. KIPPERLILY is now. deranged I need to draw this Immediately #kristen seeing kipperlily with true sight... smiling at her..... the interference that now narratively connects them do you see #can anyone hear me. hello

[cozylittleartblog]

who's your favourite lancer dad?

if you mean "who is your favorite character that happens to be in the lancer dad club" its The Big Hot Computer Wife, and that's almost surely the intended question, but if you mean "who is your favorite character to parent him" it is actually, by exactly One (1) point.... rouxls

because i love queen, i love her to bits and pieces, but for all her Mom Energy she is still actually new at the Mom thing. she has some stuff to learn beyond search inquiries and algorithms. and that opens up to all sorts of delightful shenanigans and the relationship To Be Built There is so wonderful, but rouxls has been here, by any canon or non-canon measure, longer than she has, and i think there is a very sweet bond between a naive, terribly lonely boy with a neglectful (sometimes worse) father and the prideful, terribly lonely idiot who has been put in charge of him, who Had to be there when nobody else was. and of course, this idiot caved. it feels like when you look at who they seem to be as characters, they mutually need each other, and i just think that's a really sweet kind of relationship.

... queen will catch up of course, really it's a learning experience for both of them as rouxls was the same brand of Clueless Idiot she is, he's just ahead of her on the board. he's got notes, she can borrow them. maybe they can study together.

comic relief characters can be really deep actually. or maybe i dug this hole myself. but either way, it’s there

#deltarune #ask #tckc-new-gen #rouxls kaard #queen #lancer #i could talk PAGES about rouxls and lancer i really could #and i have! in my notes app! i had Too Many Thoughts i had so many i had to offload them #they are hard to organize on command so they just sit in my brain rotating like a microwave #art #doodles #that boy loves his weird dad #rouxls and lancer got The Backstory lancer and queen get to build it all up together #doodle is only semi related ig idk i wanted to put something cute on here 💙 #i think i sound insane to people who have only casually played deltarune when i talk abt these characters #but there's a handful of people who are on the same brand of bullshit i am on and i do it for them lmfao

[onboardsorasora]

This literally popped up in my head after I finished that 'in the tags' post lmao. So....here's what no one asked for: Big CityTM reporter Dan and Country Boy Max

Daniel is a up and coming reporter for the local paper in the city. He had a really great breakout peace that garnered him a lot of attention from his peers and the editor in chief for his paper. The problem was that Daniel’s editor hadn’t wanted to run his story and a story got scrubbed last minute.

To punish him for being good, Daniel gets assigned to interview this guy a few towns over who claimed to see an UFO. Daniel’s livid, he knows whats going on but he can’t say no. He’ll go to this stupid town, interview this guy and write a fucking thesis on the sighting. 

So he goes, jumps in his Raptor that was a bit of a splurge but it makes him happy. He pulls up to this smaller town by about lunch time, the address he’s given is this almost cabin like house on the edge of a cattle farm property.

He knocks on the door and this older man with a punchable face opens it, Daniel recognises the ‘the fuck do you want?’ face immediately. He gets it a lot as a journalist.

“Good afternoon, my name’s Daniel Ricciardo. I work with [insert big city newspaper here]. I’m here to ask about the sighting?”

Eventually he meets Max after Jos grumbles for a bit and complains about ‘fuckin aliens’. Daniel thinks Max is cute, in a very stocky country strong type of way. But he’s also about to interview him about seeing a UFO soooo …yeah.

Max has them walking around the edge of the farm and is talking to him about the sighting, that it was a weird light in the sky, no sound, no wind, some kinda pressure in the atmosphere that made the animals spooked.

Daniel picks up that Max doesn’t truly care about the whole UFO aspect of it all, he just cared about how it affected the animals. So Daniel tells him, like he gets it, its kinda weird but theres not really a story here.

“What? Because I didn’t get taken on their ship and fucked in the ass its not a story?” Max was deadpan and Daniel was shocked for 1.5 seconds before he bowls over laughing. He doesn’t see it, but Max is cheesing that he made him laugh. 

“I wasn’t the only one to see it, you can ask Alex.”

In journalism, 2 sources are more concrete than one, so against his better judgement, Daniel agrees to meet this Alex. Turns out there were several people who admitted to seeing the same thing Max did and Daniel’s still skeptical but he’s aware that something must have happened.

His investigative journalist brain has been pinged, he has an itch to get to the bottom of this. So he calls up his editor and says hes staying out there for a few more days. He books a room in the motel nearby.

He and Max end up spending a lot of time together because Max was his first point of contact and knew everyone in the town. He could wrangle people and animals. Daniel’s also realizing that the longer he spends around Max the more he’s captivated by him. He truly wasn’t the dumb farm boy Daniel had initially pegged him as.

At the same time, Daniel is knee deep in all sorts of secrets about this town. His UFO story gained like three extra branches because this town has apparently been a hot bed for weird activity. And he enlists Max to help him sort it all out.

They’re working late one night in Daniel’s hotel room looking over maps and they kiss for the first time. They have sex in Daniel’s room surrounded by books and maps of the town’s history.

Daniel eventually goes back to the big cityTM and writes a killer of a story that gets a place on the front page with spillover on page 4. He gets a lot of interview requests and his career takes off. He gets invited on an interview in another big city for a nationwide news agency and bumps into Max who looks good. Daniel can’t help but think how nicely he cleans up. 

They’re interviewed together and they kill it and people love their chemistry or whatever people look for in interviews. Daniel invites Max for dinner and they have sex in Max’s hotel room. And then they get together and live happily ever after.

#I have no explanation here lmao #this is my brain offloading after finishing 2wrecked2furious lolol #max/daniel #maxiel

[wewindondowntheroad]

i feel like i can't work on or finish any of my wips right now :'(

#i halfway feel like i should make a second account to offload some of them #like that'd free up brain space #and something about not posting them on main would feel less do or die? like maybe i've built some sort of impossible standards for myself? #and that's why i can't write?? #but i feel like if i made another account i wouldn't have the subscriber traffic on the stories and that would make me feel worse probably? #i don't know #i've got a handful of sorta finished stories that just feel no good so they're sitting in my file like 'guess i'll perish'

[lunasilvis]

Busy making strides in my career and life and all, and I'm proud of myself. ...but, also, for the moment..... I'm just so tired

#I think my brain's offloading mental exhaustion from the last 2-3 months into the corners of my today #i have no energy for anything at all today :-) i know it'll only get better from here on. but right now i only want to sleep #damn #*corners of my body. wow i can't even type lol

[bijoumikhawal]

The real reason Garak was so excited when Julian mentioned a parade is because Cardassian parades always have a segment that's basically this

#Cipher talk #This joke has been bouncing around in my brain for weeks I'm offloading it #Exactly 5 people in the ds9 Fandom will understand this without explaining at best #Ds9

[ilovetommymiller]

when you accidentally create an older sister for Joel and Tommy who didn’t live past twelve

and her name was also sarah🫶

#the last of us #tlou #the tipsy bison #tipsy bison #sarah miller #but the original #she’s consuming my brain #i need to offload all this info about her onto someone #tlou headcanons

[jockpoetry]

#u: built a pyre and burnt himself up #me posting this without any commentary bc my brain is just too full of them I need to offload some of it

[catsniffer420]

i’m always so shy and awkward about starting a new journal. every time.

first page of the new journal: shy, introducing myself as usual (stating my age, current occupation, current place of residence) so as to break the ice, feeling so awkward

second page: a bit braver, writing about my day, getting comfortable recording my experiences in the new book

third page: entire page crammed with tiny writing going in different directions, afterthoughts in the margins, arrows orienting the sentence direction, word vomiting to myself as my brain finally realises there is, once again, a safe vessel to convey Every Thought in my Busy Buzzy Brain into that isn’t livestreaming my consciousness to a friend or therapist

fourth page: ??? who knows. soon enough, surely, i will be comfortable enough to draw and paint in here too. maybe put some stickers and photos in. 

#diary #writing in my blog diary about my irl diary lmfao #i LOVE journalling it feels like having a second brain to offload stuff into #if Pensieves were real i would have to have one but a journal will do

[onyxbird]

The disclaimer from a post about the (6'4") Not-Tall Himbo Boyfriend (having to clarify that it's all one guy rather than multiple himbo boyfriends) is colliding with @darkfinch's post about Goran Višnjić (and consequently Damien Moreau) being 6'4" and the result my brain is spitting out is (pre-Leverage) Confused Villain Ensemble:

Convinced he is normal height despite being 6'4" - Damien Moreau

Convinced he is adhering to normal societal standards of masculinity, but actually working from his own unique definition (also not sure why everyone and their brother is so enamored with him) - Eliot Spencer

Convinced he knows the alphabet (does not, in fact, know the alphabet) - Chapman, probably

And a bonus from Moreau's wider organization (even less well-founded than Chapman's classification):

Wishes he were queer because queer people are "all really cool" - Ennis (The King George Job)

(None of them himbos, unfortunately, except perhaps @vickyvicarious's and my fanon version of Ennis. 😢)

#had to offload this concept from my brain and thought it might amuse some of y'all #sitcom ineffective villainy version of moreau & co. #damien moreau should not be that tall #(or that ''normal height'' if going by the standards of Not-Tall Boyfriend) #towering privileges should be reserved for nicer and less threatening people like himbos #but at least if he didn't *know* he's tall he might be unable to use it effectively for intimidation? #damien moreau #eliot spencer #ennis the goon #leverage

[duplicitywrites]

Just wondering have you thought of doing more role reversal fics in the future?

oh yes absolutely. i'd really like to do an expanded version of the one i wrote, or maybe a full on harry-the-dark-lord and tom-the-chosen-one type of AU.

i do prefer writing trope subversions, or just ideas in general that i think people don't expect, so it might be a while before the exact right idea tickles my fancy. i like my fics spicy

#asks #anonymous #my brain is so full of things that i wish i had a second brain to offload ideas #maybe some extra pairs of eyes and hands so i could write faster too

[spaghettiandeyeballs]

hgbgnhhhhbbn. i wanna post about my ocs on my art account but i have no phone storage. nightmare realm.

#maybe i should draw my pokemon teams. that has been in my brain and won’t LEAVE #maybe i should actually continue offloading photos off my phone but that’s HARD #this better not show up in some tags just because i said one word in a tag ramble i’m literally just rambling

[nasa]

For the Benefit of All: Assistive Tech Developed from NASA Tech

What do modern cochlear implants and robotic gloves have in common? They were derived from NASA technology. We’ve made it easier to find and use our patented inventions that could help create products that enhance life for people with disabilities.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which highlights the contributions of American workers with disabilities – many of whom use assistive technology on the job. Take a look at these assistive technologies that are NASA spinoffs.

Low-Vision Headsets

The Joint Optical Reflective Display (JORDY) device is a headset that uses NASA image processing and head-mounted display technology to enable people with low vision to read and write. JORDY enhances individuals’ remaining sight by magnifying objects up to 50 times and allowing them to change contrast, brightness, and display modes. JORDY's name was inspired by Geordi La Forge, a blind character from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” whose futuristic visor enabled him to see.

Cochlear Implants

Work that led to the modern cochlear implant was patented by a NASA engineer in the 1970s. Following three failed corrective surgeries, Adam Kissiah combined his NASA electronics know-how with research in the Kennedy Space Center technical library to build his own solution for people with severe-to-profound hearing loss who receive little or no benefit from hearing aids. Several companies now make the devices, which have been implanted in hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

Robotic Gloves

Ironhand, from Swedish company Bioservo Technologies, is the world’s first industrial-strength robotic glove for factory workers and others who perform repetitive manual tasks. It helps prevent stress injuries but has been especially warmly received by workers with preexisting hand injuries and conditions. The glove is based on a suite of patents for the technology developed by NASA and General Motors to build the hands of the Robonaut 2 humanoid robotic astronaut.

Smart Glasses

Neurofeedback technology NASA originally developed to improve pilots’ attention has been the basis for products aimed at helping people manage attention disorders without medication. The devices measure brainwave output to gauge attention levels according to the “engagement index” a NASA engineer created. Then, they show the results to users, helping them learn to voluntarily control their degree of concentration. One such device is a pair of smart glasses from Narbis, whose lenses darken as attention wanes.

Anti-Gravity Treadmills

A NASA scientist who developed ways to use air pressure to simulate gravity for astronauts exercising in space had the idea to apply the concept for the opposite effect on Earth. After licensing his technology, Alter-G Inc. developed its anti-gravity G-Trainer treadmill, which lets users offload some or all of their weight while exercising. The treadmills can help people recover from athletic or brain injuries, and they allow a safe exercise regimen for others with long-term conditions such as arthritis.

Wireless Muscle Sensors

Some of the most exciting assistive technologies to spin off may be yet to come. Delsys Inc. developed electromyographic technology to help NASA understand the effects of long-term weightlessness on astronauts’ muscles and movements. Electromyography detects and analyzes electrical signals emitted when motor nerves trigger movement. Among the company’s customers are physical therapists developing exercise routines to help patients recover from injuries. But some researchers are using the technology to attempt recoveries that once seemed impossible, such as helping paralyzed patients regain movement, letting laryngectomy patients speak, and outfitting amputees with artificial limbs that work like the real thing.  

To further enhance the lives of people with disabilities, NASA has identified a selection of patented technologies created for space missions that could spur the next generation of assistive technology here on Earth.

Want to learn more about assistive technologies already in action? Check out NASA Spinoff to find products and services that wouldn’t exist without space exploration.   

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#NASA #space #tech #technology #spinoff #robotics #physical therapy #disability #disabled #accessibility #a11y #inventions

[sk-lumen]

How to declutter for a fresh New Year 🫧

The very first time I got into the spirit of minimalism and decluttering physically, mentally and emotionally, it was challenging as I still had a lot of resistance and attachment to things.

I started this during winter many years back, and it's becoming easier and easier. Not just as a great practice before the new year, but also as a habit throughout the year or whenever I feel like it.

When I started seeing how the mental load, the brain fog and distraction and worry... shifted into peace, relief, joy and mental clarity every time I let go of things, I understood why it's important to not be a hoarder. Physically or otherwise. (Of course this has nuance to it and it can be a privilege to be able to do it, but that's for a different topic.)

Here are ways you can start the new year fresh (or just clear the energy any time you need):

Online / social media

delete old files or photos you don't need from your devices or cloud

unfollow accounts on social media that don't inspire/uplift you

delete old messages

archive or delete conversations you no longer want to see

block or delete numbers that are affecting your mental health

Home

throw away things that are broken or falling apart (clothes, items, lingerie, etc)

donate or sell clothes you no longer use or want

sell items you don't use anymore but which are perfectly functional (hair straightener, lamp, etc)

throw away or repurpose gift bags, bags, cards

put away items you still need but are not using in this particular season - ie. put away into storage any winter clothing during summer, it's just cluttering your hangers

reorganize your home, your room, your bathroom, move furniture around or replace decor to give it a fresh exciting new feel and remove any stale energies

Physically

salt bath with essential oils to release any tension or toxins

lemon water, ginger and turmeric shots for cleansing

drink plenty of water or green tea or mint tea for improved digestion

Mentally

dedicate a journal to write down tasks, lists, to vent any negativity, or just thought-dump at the end of the day in order to feel lighter and clear-headed

have a calendar or agenda to note any important things, to lighten the mental load

say things that keep bothering you for days/weeks, do things you've been antsy to get done for days/weeks

Emotionally

journaling is an amazing way to offload emotionally

going to therapy

talking to a friend or family

cultivating healthy boundaries and communicating your needs

Spiritually

do a guided meditation to clear your head

spend time in nature, in the forest, by the sea, away from noise and crowds to clear your energy

you can also use crystals like crystal quartz to cleanse your aura

#new year #girblogging #becoming that girl #that girl #pink pilates princess #clean girl #growth mindset #new year resolutions #articles #writings #self improvement #mental health

[sideburndanny]

Okay, I don’t know how true this is, but if it is, we only barely dodged a bullet.

I don’t believe for a picosecond that David Zaslav and his yes-men ever intended to bring back the shows they pulled; the fact that they went out of their way to go through all their websites and social media profiles to memory-hole every last piece of evidence that those shows ever existed should have made that loud and clear.

I can just tell how confident they were that nobody would notice or care. “It’s just a bunch of cartoons; it’s not like we’re canceling stuff people actually watch like White People Renovating Houses or Rednecks Doing Nothing in Particular.” They were so confident about their decision that they didn’t even do it professionally, just announcing it out of the blue without telling anyone beforehand and wording the announcement so vaguely that nobody had any way of knowing that the shows would specifically be deleted later that same day.

This shouldn’t have come as a surprise, since Mr. Zaslav has long epitomized the idea of “failing upward”; he’s the brain trust that restructured the once-aptly named Discovery and Learning Channels to center around trashy, exploitative reality shows, prioritizing short-term profits over any kind of stable model.

He spent years scoffing at other entertainment giants for daring to focus on scripted content which he smugly dismissed as a thing of the past, confident that his primary focus, a niche built on fleeting trends and pandering to very specific audiences to the exclusion of everyone else, would be the future of entertainment and the focal point of all pop culture.

After decades of creating nothing of substance, skating by on the moderate successes of low-risk-low-reward crap, and endlessly patting himself on the back for so doing, Zaslav suddenly had one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world foisted on him by the corporate robots at AT&T desperate to offload an unwise investment, and like a bear cub being handed a PlayStation controller, he didn’t have the first clue what to do with it.

Warner Bros was defined by scripted content that required actual talent and effort to make, and those were nowhere near Zaslav’s wheelhouse. Could this, people thought, be the day that he actually puts in the work to have his company create something of worthy impact to our culture? FUCK NO! Instead, he took the easy route by, quoth John Oliver, “burning down my company for the insurance money.”

Unfortunately, he was so used to nobody knowing or caring who he is that he never once considered that people would actually have reason pay attention to him this time, that if he goes out of his way to destroy the hard work of so many talented people purely out of arrogant refusal to admit he was wrong, of fucking course we’ll all notice!

If the above tweet is telling the truth, we can at least be glad that our voices are being heard and the people at the top can take notice. The HBO Max Purge wound up being such a PR nightmare and made the folks at Discovery so hated among the public that they actually caved and walked back their disastrous decision that they had been so adamant in achieving just the previous day. You can absolutely fuck off if that doesn’t prove that protesting works.

#hbo max