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the-yearning-astronaut · 44 minutes

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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.

But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.

#fascinating #i have some mashup of the first four choices #i wonder if there's any correlation of this with aphantasia....#(im about a 4 on that scale where i can see the things im imagining sometimes but othertimes they're indistinct blobs)#(and even the 'perfectly formed' images i get when im super inspired to do artwork.... are more like concepts and vibes than anything else)#polls #q

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being in love with ur friend like entirely platonically is insane. like. hey, i love you so much by the way. i carry a part of you in me, so if were apart ill still do things that will remind me of you because i got it from you. hey man i know were talking right now but i miss you. i love you

#love #i was literally just talking to a friend about this the other night #how love is complicated and expensive and how i can't articulate what the word even means to me #or why I feel like im not made for giving romantic love but gdi i fall in love with my friends all the time #im in love with them now even #and I'll be in love with them tomorrow and the next day and the day after that #i still love my childhood friends #but not in the same way i love my friends now #also!! important note from an aro here: yes it is so very human to love your friends but it's not what MAKES you human #if you don't feel love at all - romantic or platonic or any of the other kinds - that's alright you're not less human because of it #however you feel or show affection to your family and friends and dear ones is totally ok whether you call it love or not #and I'm giving you *my* love if you want it #(or a hug or a fist bump or a friendly wave -- whatever you're comfortable with)#friendship #relationships #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 hours

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#polls #keyboard because it's more comfortable #and i love the tactile feel of a good mechanical keyboard with the right keys #however #i do most of my typing on my phone because it's more convenient and i can write wherever i am without needing my laptop #ngl typing on my phone so much has probably exacerbated my hypermobile thumbjoints #which has led to severe pain in my hands #stick to the keyboard kids (age neutral) it's better on your hands #just watch out for carpal tunnel and use a wrist cushion #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 3 hours

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#technology #remember when things had charm and whimsy #AND COLOR #God I'd kill for tech to come in colors again #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 3 hours

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i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny

#tumblr things #me #😂#q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 4 hours

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i believe you can always get back to yourself. you can always soften into being again. no matter how long you might be stuck in a pattern of unhappiness, of being jaded, of feeling guarded from the world in some way. there is always a path back. give yourself a chance to find it.

#reminders #hopepunk #be gentle with yourself #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 5 hours

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this this this

#fandom things #prev tags→#I despise the corporate expectation #that I should pause my life and immediately binge the entire drop within the first 24 hours #if I want a show to have any shot at renewal #let me watch it a week at a time #absorb and digest it #without worrying about completion stats #or ducking spoilers if others have finished ahead of me #let me savor the 'season' over 8-10 weeks #instead of gorging it down in one or two sittings #← this this this #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 5 hours

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They switched tags between solid ground and starship

Original post by @katieaki here

#star trek #st: aos #jim Kirk #leonard mccoy #mckirk #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 17 hours

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#catherine tate #important #reminders #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 17 hours

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150 meter aluminum sea serpent skeleton sculpture in Nantes, France. Artist Huang Yong Ping

#art #sculpture #monsters #pretty....#q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 18 hours

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What a nice insect

#art #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 days

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ARE THEY HYPOXIC ??

#the expanse #jdhxjdjd #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 days

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Murderbot I love u

Original post by @lavenderlemniscate

#SCREAMING #fanart #Murderbot #the murderbot diaries #q #i want that tshirt

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 days

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shoutout to all the disabled artists and writers who have to look up guides on how to depict their own disability for any reason. Fresh diagnosis, bad memory, not considering themselves disabled enough, afraid they'll somehow misrepresent it, whatever reason. Don't be afraid to depict it in the way you experience it, even if its "stereotypical", even if its completely different than most depictions of it.

#disability #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 days

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As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, one thing that’s been helping me grapple with the intense shame I have over all my “wasted potential” is accepting that potential doesn’t exist and never did.

This sounds so harsh, but please bare with me.

I procrastinated a lot growing up. I still procrastinate today, but less so. And yet, I got good grades. I could write an A+ paper that “knocked [my professor]’s socks off” in the hour before class and print it with sweat running down my face.

I was so used to hearing from teachers and family that if I just didn’t procrastinate and worked all the time, I could do anything! I had all this potential I wasn’t living up to!

And that’s true, as far as it goes, but that’s like saying if Usain Bolt just kept going he could be the fastest marathon runner in the world. Why does he stop at the end of the race??

If ANYONE could make their top speed/most productive setting the one they used all the time, anyone could do anything. But you can’t. Your top speed is not a speed you’re able to sustain.

Now, I’ve found that I do need to work on not procrastinating. Not because the product is better, even, but because it’s better for my mental health and physical health to not have a full, sweating, panicked breakdown over every task even if the task itself turns out excellently. It’s a shitty way to live! You feel bad ALL the time! And I don’t deserve to live like that anymore.

So all of this to say, I’m not wasting a ton of potential. I don’t have an ocean of productivity and accomplishments inside of me that I could easily, effortlessly access if I just sat down 8 hours a day and worked. There’s no fucking way. That’s not real. It’s an illusion. It’s fine not to live up to an illusion.

And if you have ADHD, I mean this from the bottom of my heart: you do not have limitless potential confounded by your laziness. You have the good potential of a good person, and you can access it with practice and work, but do not accept the story that you are choosing not to be all that you are or can be. You are just a human person.

#reminders #nd #adhd #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 days

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- Toni Morrison

#important #q

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the-yearning-astronaut · 2 days

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It is what it is but like. Can it be something else

#honestly....#q

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