i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

this art by david horvitz changed me as a person. we're attentionmaxxing this fine hot girl summer

Happy burn your house down day for my fellow Fullmetal Alchemist enjoyers ✨

If I can, this will be finished by tomorrow!

ALMOST DONE I PROMISE it just got a little out of hand

Some exciting news! I’m reopening my Horizon smooch sketches! Ten slots are open, now with an option to add full colour for an additional fee!

I will be away next week without access to art, so please expect extra time for your order.

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nil portrait for @ryntheseeker - used some fun new techniques for this and frankly i'm obsessed with how it turned out 😭

Poll: Are you reasonably okay with being at your current job?

Are you satisfied? Do you not hate it, mainly?

Im not putting show results because I need hard numbers and am bad at subdividing.

Hey if you see this reblog it please my blog's small and I want people to see it.

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?

ooh this angers me so much. so let's make a poll of it.

edit for clarification: the Deaf/HoH option includes any hearing impairment and d/Deaf people ^^

In the law, there's this idea called the "last clear chance" doctrine.

If you are in an accident, and you had the last clear chance to avoid the accident, then you are, at least in some portion, responsible for the accident.

For instance, if you are driving and a car pulls out in front of you, and you could've slammed on the brake but do not, you're responsible for that, even if the turn the other car made was illegal. Moreover, you might be held partially responsible for the other person's injuries, depending on how things work in your location.

This is even true if you can merely mitigate the damage. If you have a chance to limit the damage -- again, let's say you don't brake and the result is a collision at 40MPH instead of 10MPH -- the additional damage you cause could be considered your fault.

To me, this seems very applicable to voting.

The two parties in the US are going to put a couple of candidates up in the next few months. Both of them might be dangerous. But in the end, everyone who can vote is going to have one last, clear chance to avoid, or at least mitigate, damage.

It sucks that both parties are out there driving like maniacs.

But the fact of the matter is, they've put us in this position. And if you don't put on the brakes -- that is, at least mitigate damage -- you are responsible for the additional damage caused.

In the national elections, a choice not to vote for Biden is a choice not to brake when some jerk pulls into your lane. And if there's an accident and a lot of damage -- to voting rights in general, to reproductive rights, to the health and safety and life of trans and other queer people, to education, to the environment -- then you are responsible for not attempting mitigation.

You have the last clear chance to minimize danger and damage. And while you can yell until you're blue in the face that the Democratic party put you in that position in the first place by not running another candidate, you are still responsible even if you try to abdicate that responsibility.

this is a great analogy but it runs on the same premise as the trolley problem in that you have to assume harm is your only choice

you can change the road design - like tiered voting

you can disallow drivers who are impaired from driving - including the senile

you can make it so that only the licensed are allowed to drive - or maybe not have so much gerrymandering

you can promote vigilance in participating in driving - or direct participation in politics

or you can remove cars from the road entirely - or bad candidates

theres many ways to mitigate danger on the road and in voting but I dont think having a "what sucks less" competition compares to a "what is a better solution"

All of these assume that you have some control of the situation before you get into it. You do not. You are on the road. A complete stranger you have never met before is driving too fast or is otherwise not driving safely. They cut you off in a way that does not give you enough time to avoid them, but enough time to break and mitigate the damage. There is nothing you can do before you are in the situation to change it.

So in the upcoming General election, when your only two options on the ballot are Biden and Trump, what are you going to do? In the same way that there is no real way to prepare for a dangerous driver situation when you do not have control over the other drivers, there is nothing you can do to change what vote options you have in the general. The primaries are over. You can't do anything there. Third party candidates will not be getting enough votes to make a real difference. There is no way to communicate that your refusal to vote means anything different than someone who just forgot it was election day.

As my law professor used to say, don't fight the hypo, just answer the question. You have two options. The only third option you have, not voting, absolutely benefits the worst of two evils. So what are you going to do?

heated niloy ko-fi smooch for @ryntheseeker ! thanks so much, love sketching the otp!!

okay. fic writers. let's talk about titles.

i personally am of the eternal lowercase crowd except for one (1) exception...i wanna know your bias and why!

We're five days away from release!!

We cannot wait to share the fruits of our labors with you!!

since it's out in the wild now, I can post this shot from FOTH :) background and sprites by me! WORKIN HARD 💪