#literally up until year six

[morninkim]

In 1997, Metropolis got its own superhero, the first costumed crime fighter in decades, a flying man who would call himself Superman.

Later that same year, the Batman of Gotham first appeared, his methods much more brutal than the Man of Steel’s chipper and friendly demeanour.

A year later, in 1998, Diana of Themiscyra, the Wonder Woman, returned to Man’s World after nearly a century away, having aided the allies in the first World War.

Though the three were from very different worlds, their activities and efforts to make the planet better would usher in what many would call the Silver Age of Heroes!

#dc comics #superman #batman #wonder woman #justice league #redesign #my art #i've got a rough timeline for my version of the dc universe (i call it earth 101 for funsies) #which starts at superman's first appearance in 1997 and goes until a couple years in the future (2027-2030 ish i haven't decided yet) #its mostly just to justify designing a bunch of characters lmao- #ANYWAY #i've posted clark before but his suit is very much inspired by the fleischer cartoons + the classic suit with some homemade charm to it #goal was to make him look approachable and friendly - so guy in a sweater and undies works well for that #he's charming and goofy and a complete klutz #it literally takes him six years of dating lois to propose to her #(and even then its only AFTER starro invades and he properly realises he could lose her at any moment if he isn't careful) #bruce's suit is based on battinson's suit + the original suit from the 30s #i imagine he would use a gun at first but stop using it once he realises how fucked up that is of him - #after gunning down the red hood - oops! #he also wouldn't be alone for long - he adopts dick very shortly after dropping guns #so he can start projecting a friendly billionaire (look! he took in this little orphan boy how he cold he beat up criminals every night #when he's got a kid to look after huh?) #but ya - he's a freak and his posture's terrible from being hunched at the batcomputer for hours on end (he's workin on it) #diana was the easiest i think - i just wanted to basically redo her silver age design and do my own spin on a few of the details #nothing too fancy for the moment i imagine she gets a lil more ornate in future #but for now its simple bodice and boot-sandals #also HAD to make her taller than the guys i HAD to #so clark's like 6'2 and bruce is the same when he isn't slouching - but diana edging on 7 foot #she's BEEG #she's literally a living statue basically so y'know

[moregraceful]

put 712 of the worst words ever put in a google doc tonight BUT! it is 712 more words in the google doc than i had yesterday. this fic will be more than 2k, so help me god

#the past six months have been so weird after posting over 200k last year (including the longest fic i've written since bandom) #i think i would have been fine continuing to post 1-3k one shots all year if i had not just had to request extended time off of school #but between that + having no idea if i have a regular schedule at the library + my nonprofit boss sending a harrowing welcome back #i'm like by god jason robertson we are going to take a couple of leisurely 7-10k+ strolls to get you a boyfriend or two this summer #well all that + being horrendously writers blocked on the other two longer projects lmfao oh my god #10k deep in one and every time i open the google doc a portal to hell opens up in my living room #0k into the other bc every time i open my outline another different portal to hell opens up in my shower #i get no rest. i get no peace. every morning i wake up and 5 more demons are- oh my god #bro my fucken train of thought just got completely derailed by spotify. i know i'm the last person in the world to know this but #3oh!3 and big freedia remixed rebecca black's friday?? and it's completely unlistenable?? girls what did you do #3oh!3 kill me bc no time traveler ever took their faces in hand and kissed them gently on the forehead and looked into their eyes #said ''please focus on coloradosunrise it will literally course-correct the trajectory of your career from frat house gimmick to #rowdy but respectable indie edm artists. you can remain true to your warped tour dirtbag origins but you HAVE to develop THAT sound'' #like the chainsmokers are a joke but i feel like THAT + ANGRY EMO GIRLS + THEIR TOTAL DISREGARD FOR MARKETABILITY... could have been THEM #when the piano drops?? hello?? i had so many mental breakdowns in college listening to that song they could have defined a generation #like who else is gonna get noah cyrus and ashe and gayle and olivia rodrigo's vision. only warped tour dirtbags. #me @ myself [so lovingly]: what are you talking about. how old are you #me @ myself: talk to me abt earth 2 in which 3oh!3 remixed i got so high that i saw jesus....and it whipped ass #also. i had to google how old i was. THREE TIMES last week. #the minute i turned 32 apparently i was like i'm in my mid-30s now the rest of this decade is NOT my business until i turn 38 #this post was supposed to be an uplifting reminder to myself to keep pushing forward and trying hard and to not let the rot consume me #but i think i just drove off a cliff like fully my god #i need listen to big freedia more she rules #fresno oilers.txt #another banner day in the tags with kasper moregraceful

[larcenywrites]

I'd love to take young!Tony to the countryside and take him horseback riding! And he'd be making jokes like "hey, save a horse, ride a cowboy 🤠👉" but then he can't even mount the horse on his own and I gotta help him and I get to joke like "oh, some cowboy you are, Tones" 🤭

I think he’d actually be a little scared 🤧 and have a little trouble figuring out how to uh, navigate 😅might need a little help! Which he’ll definitely be embarrassed about 😞

But if you take him to the countryside, he’ll enjoy other things to get his mind off of it!

#anon #anonymous #answered #larstalks #I literally grew up on a farm and lived rurally up until the last five or six years #still never ridden a horse #in fact my grandpa (we all lived on the land together) had rescue horses sometimes

[aro-aizawa]

another aspect i like abt detco is how sometimes conan doesn't even bother trying to prove the results of his investigation himself, he'll just gently guide the adults in the room to the conclusion. they're so caught up in the fact that the details suddenly align that they don't question what the fuck a literal six year old is doing hanging around the murder scene with a dead body still laying there

#shut up danni's talking #danni liveblogs #danni liveblogs detco #like sure conan can just do his regular thing where he'll pretend to be someone else and then explain it #but other times he's like hm no you've got this wrong how can i be a literal six year old but gently nudge them in the right direction #it's fascinating and i love it #also the fact that the adults forget abt the kid until the kid thinks they're getting derailed by the culprit is hilarious #also the ppl he's w all hearing abt smth going down and they turn away for a second and conan is just. gone. he's off

[miodiodavinci]

you ever end up typing a rant in the tags so long tumblr physically cuts you off and the post publishes with probably only 1/3rd of the tags

#had an interaction with The Leech™ and it left me feeling so frustrated and upset #tl;dr: i wanted to record today but she showed up and started talking so loudly my mic could pick her up through my bedroom door #and it hit me that it's fucked up that she's somehow just allowed to come and go as she pleases #(and is actively entertaining the thought of moving back in for a minimum of 2 months if she gets the surgery she's looking for) #(2 months to 2 years according to her words) #(despite the fact that she was literally evicted nearly a year ago) #(after 7+ years of sleeping on our couch and making our lives hell and generally dodging any attempt to get her to get a life and move out) #anyway after about 20 minutes of chatter i heard her go outside #find the plant i bought and planted myself this last week #(the first one i've ever had ! ! ! ) #(every other plant i've ever cared for has either been my grandmother's or a gift from someone else) #(most notably the two peace lilies from my dad's memorial service) #and dump. an entire bucket of water on it. left over from soaking her orchids she insists on keeping here. #spoilers: it's a desert plant that requires low moisture and well-drained soil #so i went out and got on her about that and she insisted she was just trying to help #(like how she was '''just trying to help''' when she nearly drowned both of the aforementioned lilies) #(because she literally kept putting in water until there was noting but standing water without soil in the pot) #and for a half hour after kept coming in to bother me about the plant #asking where i bought it and if she could have clippings and asking if i had the right soil or the right tools #and reminding me of how i tried to grow pumpkin seeds when i was six and they died #and INSISTING she knew more about caring for it despite the fact that i literally researched this plant for a solid week before #and jsu t #another instance of The Leech™ trying to jam herself into my life so she can claim she's a provider and i'm helpless without her #but also turn around and complain about how it's sooo hard caring for us and how it's //impossible// for her to get a life #if she's busy caring for us #fuck off and die actually

[hella1975]

hella I keep getting edits with some sort of original version of waiting room?? on my fyp and I'm gonna be honest waiting room wasn't a song that did me in quite as badly as the rest of you but this version I keep hearing literally rips my heart straight open😭😭 like I've been planning on fixing the no waiting room on spotify issue by taking it into my own hands🏴‍☠️ but now I know it's gonna have to be this version I'm not even bothering with lost ark waiting room. it's just gonna be waiting room og bc what the fuck?? "I never grew up with you, and you're not my waiting room" what the fuck??? with the haunting background noises literally WHAT THE FUCK????????

OMG IVE SEEN THAT ONE everyone keeps going on about the vocals of 'and you're not my waiting room' but i really cant get over 'i never grew up with you' like what??? WHAT??????

#for some reason i rlly connected this song to a childhood friend of mine that im pretty sure ive at least vaguely mentioned on here before #but basically we were INSEPERABLE for years of my childhood and he was about 2 years older than me #so i think i was 5 and he was 7 when we met and we stayed friends until i went up to secondary school so SIX YEARS #and we literally spent all day together we'd play in the gardens and run about the place and we were both really outdoorsy #and obvs it was before proper tech really started coming in so it was when kids literally just got shoved outside for the day #and left to their own devices and it was GREAT like i remember him and that time so fondly #but he was also really messed up like he'd come from a lot of foster homes and he'd had every kind of abuse #and he'd finally been adopted by the couple on my street who just couldn't handle him bc their answer to his issues #was to spoil him and give him what he wanted so he just got worse bc he had a real violent streak in him #and obvs if you let that grow in a boy they're not gonna wake up one day and it'll be gone like. it's going to get malicious #and low and behold he started getting like actually dangerous like he choked his sister once and he got kicked out of school #bc he threated to BEHEAD A GIRL WITH AN AXE like really fucked up shit #but i was in a pick me moment bc he was always really nice and respectful to me until he wasnt #and even then ive never ever blamed him for it bc we were both young and he was so traumatised #and sooner or later we stopped hanging out and my mum was relieved bc that's how bad he was getting #and ive literally never spoken to him again. but he's just one of those people i think about all the time???? #like idk if it's bc of what went down or bc of the age i was but he was a HUGE deal to me and my development #and for some evil fucking reason i think of him when i listen to waiting room especially the 'i know it's for the better' #bc i KNOW it's for the better i got away from him before he got really bad but still i so desperately wish i couldve helped him yk? #especially now i understand what abuse actually means and what he'd suffered which i had no idea about at the time #SO TO ADD 'I NEVER GREW UP WITH YOU' WHEN I FEEL LIKE I ABANDONED HIM AS CHILDREN?? STOPPPP #PHOEBE PLEASEEEE #anyway unnecessary rant over rori pls pirate this song for the masses pls pls the world needs you #ask

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Me when I notice a spider normally: awww, hi cutie

Me when there’s MOVEMENT RIGHT BESIDE MY HEAD ON MY PILLOW IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT: AAH! Jesus FUCKING Christ. When did you get there and why my pillow? *catching breath* *I gently shake them onto the floor* *i then have to pick up my laptop from where it slid off of my startled ass*

#emma posts #that species might not be deadly on its own. but the shock might have killed me #it was a chill little wolf spider. a species im familiar with #really common around here and there used to be a bunch where I would wait for the school bus as a teen #I have adhd so of course I would just stare at them until the bus showed up #this one was pretty big. about the size of a U.S. quarter coin #an impressive but not unheard of size #once I realized what it was and got them onto the floor I was fine #but I had to catch my breath and I think I bent my charging cord weirdly #my cat wasn’t happy with the sudden movement but SORRY FOR HAVING A HEART ATTACK I GUESS #not a literal one. but my heart was certainly moving #this all happened last night and I was reminded of it when I went to pick something up today #if it’s just one little guy that minds it’s own business I don’t mind having them around #but did they need to startle me that badly? #taking the lords name in vain and I’m not even Christian anymore #the guy was like all leg so it was a bunch of sudden movements out of the corner of my eye #and in a way that insects don’t. they only have six and they kinda move together you know? #but spiders kinda ripple #I hadn’t seen a spider in this place all year. okay? my guard was down in my room #I hope i don’t see a bunch more because the building doesn’t like them and they might call an exterminator

[headphonemouse]

Pining hell

#in recently memory i have not wanted something with the intensity that i wanted to close the distance of 5 centimeters and press our sides #together. we were SO close. gravity was literally on my side we were sitting in a playground slide hiding from the sun my legs were swung #over the side she sat at the base and all i had to do was relax a little and i would have slid right into her #and she would have let me #when i saw her again for the first time in years she called to say she was walking down the street towards me and we would see each other #soon and i ran. i wanted to see her so bad so i ran and we ended up on opposite sides of the highway with no crossing #hi #from across the telephone line #and we talked like that until we got to the traffic light and she crossed to meet me and i wanted to hug her and look at her all at once #i looked at her. she'd lost some weight. she wears flat shoes now instead of the heels she adores. she cut her bangs #some time between the shared plate of french fries and the rose bushes we walked past time started moving again and i thought about the #future. for once looking forward to it. where would i go? what would i do? i didnt know before but i knew then i wanted it to be with her #ive always kind of known that #i used to think about her constantly #over the years i thought about her less and less but still often enough to maintain contact #hi it has been *checks timestamp* SIX DAYS?! #only six days since i wrote all the above and istg i felt time slowing down and stopping the longer i went without her #until i just kinda. settled back into living without her #six days ago it was unbearable #now im just as i have been for the past several years #and its kind of sad seeing that play out #but also by nature of getting used to it i cant even really get sad about it #its like listening to someone else distant from me talk about a foreign concept #love‚ i think i understood it just a little bit a week ago #it seems to have felt great #i dont remember it all that well anymore #talking tag

[lathrine]

very important life update for the two (2) people with the relevant context:

my brother's new hobby is baking

#this is important because up until this his only real hobby has been video games #but now he's taken such an interest in baking that my parents got him a cookbook that explains the science behind the Why #dude made the most incredible looking brownies on his first go after studying the book #he also apparently makes the most Incredible cup of hot chocolate completely from scratch #it makes total sense too #my bro absolutely loves a clear step by step list with obvious cause and effect #we had an actual conversation for the first time in almost six years last week and it was really nice!!! #grabbed me in the kitchen and was like 'so i saw on steam you were playing witcher 3 the wild hunt [EYES EMOJI]' #and we chatted about it for a bit #because he has been trying to get me to play that game for literally a decade #he BOUGHT ME that game #we arent on bad terms or anything we both just suck ass at keeping in contact with people #he doesnt really do discord or anything and does Not check his phone so texting him is useless #and i will simply Intend to message someone until i look up and realize its been like six months since i said hello #BUT REGARDLESS! YEAH! #important very crucial life update. my brother has a creative hobby and im SO happy for him

[marklikely]

whatever maybe im being too hard on him specifically maybe the other execs in that article are right that he's just an easy target because he's the one passing on changes from all of them. but even so what kind of insane defense is that. "no this one guy isnt bad at his job! the employees are just mad at him because hes the point of contact for the rest of us, who are all bad at *our* jobs!"

#god remember when i said it felt like they werent really in control of the chaos in this movie? turns out they actually fucking werent. #maybe because the producers and directors couldnt decide on what to do and had animation staff with no guidance for SIX MONTHS? #and then had to crunch them for a year to make up for it!!! yeah you guys are right this is an unavoidable part of moviemaking (/S) #there was simply no way you could have possibly. had a handle on what you were doing and had the employees work consistently #on a normal schedule instead of giving them nothing to go on until the last minute. #between movie animating and video games like. these industries are making me lose my fucking mind. #its all so needless its just blatant failures of people in management #who make their employees suffer to make up for the exec's incompetence #just for those execs to be the ones who get all the royalties and acclaim. for work that was good largely in spite of them. #avpost #once again reminded of how the movie that won best editing this year was run by writer/directors who were actively on the sfx team #and therefore. actually worked with the editors and had a plan and gave the effects team what they needed. #but yeah no you guys at sony are right your way is clearly the only option theres just simply no other alternative im sure. #its clearly too much to expect of you guys. to manage projects like this. when its literally your job to manage projects.

[flintbian]

Me: 0 Gender: 3 just this week

#once again i didnt think i cared until i showed my few work outfits and APPARENTLY I AINT FEMININE ENOUGH AND I WANT TO SCREAM #literally i was excited and feeling very good about it until someone commented and i saw red #once again i had no idea i felt strongly about this at all but then again ive never had people comment negatively before #this year ive been dressing more how i want and experimenting but i was hanging around queer ppl so got positive feedback #then my mother comes in and makes me see red fists clenched stomach in knots hours later #maybe it's not even about how i present (and i dont need to open my damn buttons why do i need to be showing cleavage fuck you) #(yes im wearing more masc clothing but it's still women's fuck off) #maybe it was just the policing that did it but i feel rotten now #it took me SIX BLOODY HOURS to find even two shirts i liked and i was feeling them but no im presenting Wrong some fucking how #i guess for school i was dressed appropriately enough but i dress like my dad ive realized #and this has all been surprisingly frustrating i thought i didn't care but you start policing me and saying im not in x box and i go mad #besides that when ive been experimenting this year again it's only been queer ppl or clare and she loves the looks #and ive been getting piercings and figuring out if there may be a way after all to get tats #but you show a Model Citizen your work outfits and you're Wrong somehow as if it matters #like everything was a problem 'why are you wearing essentially men's styles why does it have a collar why is it buttoned up' #even the material was a factor like bc the shirt is more flowy that made it better as opposed to polo or cotton or whatever material #LIKE WE'RE ASSIGNING GENDER TO FABRICS NOW?!! I DIDNT EVEN LOOK AT THE BLOODY FABRIC THE HELL?? #hannah loved the outfits but they understand of course #tomboy is fine apparently as long as you grow out of it but if it stays? wrong and literally fuck off why does it matter?? #excuse me i dont even have any cleavage to show why are the buttons so damn important #again didnt think i had strong feelings about myself but apparently i do #how is it my father is more accepting than??? #and for years i didnt get to experiment with clothing hell i was trying to find stuff i could wear with nerve pain #i dont think im trans like that's not it i just hate boxes and having to conform to some stupid standard we made up and being policed #bc im apparently not feminine enough or whatever #and what's weird is years ago i wanted to be considered pretty but that's completely gone now as ive been finding myself and style #currently rocking the androg look but some people dont fucking like that and ive been dealing with this for like only two weeks #and it's maddening already #anyways both out of wanting to and spite im going to cut even more of my hair off soon and lean harder into this #p

[professorsta]

Lost my friend of 7 years literally right now, got a text ten min ago basically saying, and I quote, “I should have told you this but I don’t believe in transgenderism and can’t stand by as you mutilate your body. I hope you live a life where you don’t manipulate the body your creator gave you blah blah blah” overall this not getting trust issues thing is noooot working out well for me at the moment

#legit wtf #wtf do you do with someone who wasn’t transphobic six years ago #didn’t believe in god until forced to go to a Christian school #and literally has had girlfriends #but all of a sudden does this? a full 180?? #last time I saw you after I made a five hour car trip just to see you #you said you were a free spirit and loved mushrooms and sex and hated going to church #who literally did shrooms with me the last time I saw you #and yet this fucking happens in less than 9 months? WHAT THE FUCK?? #did they brainwash her? was she always a bigot but hid it? #was she not a bigot just slightly ignorant but that was enough for the transphobic brainwashing to begin? #7 years I was there for her #7 years I would pick up her call anytime and sit there for her for HOURS #7 years of going to your plays to support your acting cus no one else did in your friend group #I bought you a whole ass Halloween costume cus you were upset you didn’t have one !!!!!! #when I hung out with you you literally tried to break in and disrupt and teacher admission meeting with every important #person in your school #for some fucking cookies and I had to stop you #oh but now you’re a good Christian girl oh fuck off #I met you when I was 13. like fuck man that meant nothing #did they really brainwash you I feel like I lost a friend

[conchobarbarian]

I want y'all to know that your winter-pattern SAD is not entirely idiopathic. take a vitamin d supplement.

#I learned a couple years ago that the cutoff latitude for useful uv rays in winter is way further south than I thought #if you live basically in virginia/kansas/spain/japan and up your body is STRUGGLING from october to april #it takes a bit for vitamin d deficiency to show symptoms but when it does they include #fatigue malaise body aches insomnia or oversleeping headaches low mood #vitamin d also helps your body absorb other nutrients (notably calcium but also others) #so a d deficiency can lead to other deficiencies & their symptoms & the first symptom of most? fatigue #even with d-enriched dairy you'd have to consume a lot more of it every day than any adult I know #but luckily this is super easy to remedy! they even make vitamin d gummies! #take it from me I spent six months or more with constant lower back pain that I couldn't do anything about #until I started taking vitamin d & it vanished in under a week & literally hasn't recurred a single time since #like all health things the answer is not going to be as simple as 'it's just this one thing & now you're fixed' #but I can attest that it made SUCH a difference & now I believe in (some) vitamins

[twdgs]

vicks rub is my lifeline. i smell like an old woman

#ROCKET WANTS TO FIGHT #i’ve never been sick this much in my entire life up until this year like -_-. damn #i have to take like six pills every morning now just to keep this shit from killing me because i cannot and will not miss this test. #im literally almost done with school i cant miss it

[vamptastic]

woke up at 5pm stummy hurts head hurts i have to take 5 medications and do the goddamn dishes. life is hell. nevertheless i stay chill and relaxed. due to the medications.

#have panic attack meds that i never use (got prescribed them last year bc i was having a ROUGH time with family stuff) #like i got prescribed 30 of them six months ago and ive used maybe 5-10 of them. and i usually have to take multiple per attack #i have used... four this week so far. bc ive had a panic attack every morning. Odd! #they're not that bad like i literally just start breathing too hard and cant control my heart rate and the meds take care of it within 30min #they're just antihistamines so not addictive or dangerous or anything just help w the heart rate thing #but!! idk whats wrong with me! i mean i do im super behind academically and its terrifying. but normally im fine #its easy to forget that i like have a Disorder and that most ppl do not have daily panic attacks when they're nervous abt things #uh. idk. i need to find a local therapist and talk to my advisor and mayb a school counselor until i find a therapist? #but then the process of like booking an appointment and also admitting how much ive fucked up my grades is also #going to give me panic attacks. ah well. nevertheless i persevere. i walk in the valley of the shadow of death etc etc. #for now im going Home for the weekend and my only goal is to make a list of what i need to do to get back on track #and book appointments. Also change my name but thats NBD i already did all the work for that

[ms-demeanor]

I think the eight alarms thing is usually a maladaptation. You've trained your brain to ignore the eight alarms because you kept avoiding the training of willpower following the first alarm would require. I think some sleep therapy might help?

Hey so first of all fuck you, thanks.

Second: I love it when you read literature on sleep disorders, especially if it's on sleep disorders among folks with ADHD, and you see time and time again "when allowed to sleep on their preferred schedule subjects maintained healthy, normal, restorative sleep cycles" and "effects were not lasting without ongoing intervention; resetting the sleep schedule is a permanent effort."

Like, if I sleep *great* from 6am to 2pm and I wake up feeling rested and alert with no special help but I need to turn off the lights in my house and shut down all electronics at 8pm and beam a spotlight into my face starting at 5am to wake up at seven and feel exhausted all day, I think perhaps it is not actually my sleep cycle that is wrong it is perhaps society that is wrong.

BELIEVE ME, when I find the job that pays well and has decent insurance that lets me exist as a cheerful nighttime ghoul I am jumping on that with both feet. But until then I literally feel better getting six hours of sleep and occasionally sleeping so hard that i can't hear my alarms because of chronic sleep deprivation than I do turning off all the lights in my house and ceasing all activity two and a half hours after I get off of work.

Also: the eight alarms aren't all there to wake me up, it's just that sometimes I *also* sleep through the ones that are supposed to remind me to go sit at my desk and start work. One of the first three usually gets me up, but on a day when I sleep through all three of those I will be sleeping through all eight of them and usually a phone call and someone trying to shake me awake to.

ANYWAY after being treated with melatonin and light therapy and staring listlessly at the ceiling in the dark bored out of my skull with racing thoughts for sleep disorders that I didn't have for like twenty years the single most effective intervention that allowed me to get more sleep as someone with both ADHD and DSPD was to start hanging out and being active in places where it would be easy to fall asleep if the sleep caught me there instead of turning my bedroom into a dark, silent shrine of snoozing. Giving myself permission to fall asleep late instead of laying awake chewing myself up with guilt for not being asleep helped too.

Actually here's some tips for the sleepy bitches in the crowd:

1 - If you're laying down and not falling asleep in half an hour, you're not actually sleepy; read something or get up and do something because you're more likely to get sleepy faster that way than you are staring at the clock going "if I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and forty five minutes of rest when I have to go to work; If I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and twenty minutes of sleep when I have to get up, etc. etc."

2 - Allow yourself to be ambushed by sleep. Fall asleep on your cozy couch. Fall asleep in the comfy chair. Let yourself sleep where you fall asleep instead of dragging yourself to where you're 'supposed' to sleep if doing so will wake you up.

3 - The mythbusters thing. If you just lay down and close your eyes and pretend to rest you will feel more rested when you get up than when you laid down. Laying down to rest is better than nothing, it literally causes cognitive improvements similar to sleep in tests, and knowing that can help take off some of the pressure of not being able to fall asleep and can thus help you fall asleep.

4 - It's okay to "hang out" in the area where you're going to sleep. Read in bed. Play games on your cellphone in bed. If you want to go to sleep put on comfy clothes and bring a chill activity and hang out in your bed to do it so that all you have to do when you start getting sleepy is close your eyes.

5 - It's better to get some sleep than no sleep. Sometimes you look at the clock and it's six AM and whoops, fuck it. Okay, time for bed, don't stress that you're only going to get a few hours, a few hours is better than nothing. Lay down to pretend to rest at least and you'll probably feel okay.

6 - This one sounds silly and might not work for a bunch of people for a bunch of reasons but apparently there's some research suggesting that "well-rested" is a state of mind? I've had a reasonable amount of success with just telling myself "Yeah, I actually feel pretty good," and pushing through the day on a couple of hours of sleep. I don't *recommend* that and you should try to get as much sleep as possible, but yeah the next time you're low on sleep see what happens if you just try to decide to not be tired. It sounded like bullshit to me when I first heard it but I've found some success with it.

7 - This shit is cumulative. If you're doing a couple nights a week on low sleep that's not ideal but you're probably going to be pretty functional and you can work on it. If you overbook and overextend yourself for too long - I'm looking at you college students and new parents - it's going to add up. Try as much as possible to at least keep your sleep deficit nights spread out. (This message brought to you by writing 60k words of fiction in october and completely frying my brain because i wasn't getting enough sleep).