direhuman:

direhuman:

Executive dysfunction is like all of your abilities are on cooldown and you’re mashing buttons to try to do anything but your brain is just like “i can’t do that yet. that’s still recharging. i can’t do that yet. that spell isn’t ready yet. that’s still recharging.”

#WTF I DIDN’T KNOW THIS WAS A THING#I THOUGHT I WAS JUST A PIECE OF SHIT OMG

And that’s why talking about mental illness is important.

It can also happen in situations where you can see you need to take an action, but can’t process the steps to take that action.  For example you can’t just see your light bulb has burned out and press X and its done.  You need to 1) remember where a new light bulb is, 2) Go to that location, 3) physically take the light bulb, 4) take it with you, 5) find a chair or ladder, 6) pick that up, 7) take it with you, 8) I could go on but I don’t want to be tedious.  Your brain has a hard time sorting that to do list, so even though you know what you need to do, when you start contemplating how to do it your brain just goes NOPE!!!

One solution that I find works for me (with mixed results) is to see what part of the list I can process and do that.  I’ll look at the bulb, go CHAIR! in my head, put the chair there and wait for the next epiphany.  Or if I have a report due I’ll put paper in the printer, or if I have to do laundry I’ll open the top of the washing machine.  That way when my brain charges back up enough I already have part of the work done and I don’t have to travel as far mentally to do whatever it is.

amolecularmachine:

poploppege:

amolecularmachine:

soooooo anyone wanna hear a ridiculously over-thought-out theory about LazyTown because I am sort of torn between wanting to tell someone and being extremely self-conscious that I’ve spent as much time thinking about it as I have 

You know i do dude

hooookaaaaay, but I warn you guys, it’s a long one 

First, some context: so, I started watching this in the first place because I kept seeing all this weird stuff on my dash and eventually I’m like “I have to figure out what the hell this is all about”, and the first place I always go when I want to figure out some bit of media is TV Tropes. So I went and read the TV Tropes article and watched a couple of the songs and Stefán’s livestream and thought “this is all insane, I must know more” so I started actually watching it and uh…here we are.

But, thing is that it mentions a couple times in that article that in the original plays and the Icelandic dub Sportacus is explicitly referred to as an elf, and it mentions the thing about his hat always covering his ears. And apparently you can’t just tell my Overly Analytical Nerd Brain that one of the main characters of your show might be an elf without Overly Analytical Nerd Brain running away with that, so the whole time I was watching it I kind of just automatically started looking for other things one might associate with elves. Overly Analytical Nerd Brain knows full well that everything it’s noticing and over-analyzing could and probably should be easily explained as “it’s a children’s TV show” or maybe occasionally “Magnús Scheving is just like that” but Overly Analytical Nerd Brain doesn’t care, it’s on a mission. 

(Note that in this case Overly Analytical Nerd Brain is running on a mishmash of urban fantasy novels, bits of books on mythology, and random things I read on the internet, just in case anyone thought this was a seriously mythological analysis here. And I don’t know anything about Icelandic elves, really. What I know is mostly more like British Isles elves.)

Anyway, this all basically stemmed from knowing that one fact and then the rest of it is entirely what I saw from watching the show, it doesn’t really take into account the plays or creator comments or whatever the fandom’s decided because I didn’t know any of that when I started and I still don’t know much. So. 

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roachpatrol:

stophelping:

star-crowned-prince:

@ingu

Can we get this show, please?

P L E A S E

This would be amazing, especially with a few very self-aware flashbacks of some cowboy so weathered his face is leather staring stoically into the middle distance saying something about how she must be one with the rope to lasso the calf and a flashbacks of her standing at high noon with her hands hovering over her gun belt.  I would pay so much money for this!  It would be epic in the actual meaning of the word.

I accidentally misread one of the posts about a recent asks and wondered how I had missed a question about doing a crossover with Wee Doctor and the dark ages.  I’m running out of gas as far as Wee Doctor is concerned and getting excited for other projects.  But!  A dark ages Wee Doctor would be a lot of fun especially in the context of nephyria’s fae AU. 

In the context of the dark ages (and Wee Doctor) John would be considered a changeling instead of a genetically engineered soldier – and let’s be honest, immediately Roost would too.  Roost couldn’t seem like anymore of a fairy than if he sprouted wings and started sprinkling fairy dust.  I’m not sure how Bad Davey would translate.  Maybe living a double life as a merchant of slightly shady luxuries to the aristocracy and the leader of a mercenary army full of broken crusaders.

Tim would be really hard to make into a dark ages equivalent.  I’m not sure what would exist in the medieval era that would translate to computers.  At least not anything that wouldn’t be directly supernatural.  Maybe he could be the sort of polyglot that has the sort of native accent that makes him sound like everyone’s neighbor?  Maybe he does the sort of math in his head that would make a supercomputer take a vacation.  Or maybe the sort of math that could look at a field and see tell you how many bushels of wheat you’ll have at harvest.

This would mean of course that W would be considered literally more than a man, something supernatural, a fae interfering in the world of man.  It would take the themes of Wee Doctor out of a modern isolation and nihilism to make the thematic threat about trusting in something that society says is dangerous.  Just into trust in general.  Is it possible to trust someone who’s keeping a secret from you?  Is it possible to trust someone as a way to show someone you’re trustworthy?  Is it better to go with what society tells you or to look at someone’s actions and chose based on the results of those actions?

Other fun things about the dark ages AU would be that Grendel would be an alchemist and alchemy works really well for the story considering the transformation that happens.  Inquisitor Moriarty who’s dabbling in the dark arts on the side and wants some of that fae magic to increase his influence.  Tim carrying around an actual chicken instead of a picture of one.  Muslim lawyer Godfrey Norton visiting Europe with his giant dogs and his quick wit.  Lady knight Irene Adler with sword and excellent horsemanship.  Broken crusader shark eyes.  I love shark eyes, I will not reveal his secret identity.  Mycroft trying to make a Deal to make W leave off his brother.  Sherlock trying to make a Deal with W to get that sweet, sweet knowledge.  Everyone trying to make Deals with W and John’s just looking balefully and Tim like, I’m not actually magic, what do?

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to combine Wee Doctor with Supernatural/Dark Angel Crossover?

I’m not against the crossover.  It would be interesting either way of doing it whether by applying the AU to Supernatural or Dark Angel, or by having Dean and Sam deal with tiny doctor/soldier John and his psuedo-parent Sherlock.  It would probably be pretty healing for Dean especially to see someone who was raised to be a ‘child soldier’ be treated with love and affection, even if it was by someone who is as prickly as Sherlock.