Flaps

Don't mind me I'm just some nobody who's paranoid

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“This reads like AI-”

No, sir, AI was trained on how I write. I grew up in the trenches of Tumblr, AO3, Wattpad, and fanfictionnet You can’t pry my rule of three from my cold, human hands.

[Greentext Poster @GreenTextRepost]

Submitted by @epicartworks

[NotAzehara @NotAzehara]

One of the most American things I have seen a non-American Vtuber do.

[Marble statue🏳️‍⚧️ @Skinman11111111]

This person uses color theory in ways I've never seen before you have to look at them if you haven't already oh my god

[Depressed Nousagi 🥕LOCKED IN @VTuberHistorian]

> Decided to watch some old Mumei clips
> Eventually go down rabbithole for an hour
> Jumpcare myself with an old comment.

[RAT 🐀 @doctor4t_]

this website is a joke with no punchline

[RAT 🐀 @doctor4t_]

I'm losing my marble
good thing I'm not an ancient Roman cause otherwise my house would be gone

[✨bi-nosaur✨ @strugglesaurus]

One time a therapist was like “give yourself a reward for completing a task” and I was like “or I could just give myself the reward anyway and not do the annoying boring daunting task” and she was like… oh.

[twoodles 🦔🏳️‍⚧️ @twoodlescore]

this is the character development that matters

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Scientists shut off the dopamine in some rats and they stopped eating. Food everywhere. They starved in a full cage, not because they hated it. Put sugar on their tongue and they licked their lips. They still liked it. They just lost the drive to go get it.

This is one of the strangest things we know about the brain, and it traces back to a researcher named Kent Berridge at the University of Michigan. Your head runs two different systems. One is wanting, the push that gets you off the couch and moving. The other is liking, the good feeling once you are in it. Dopamine runs the wanting. The enjoyment runs on separate wiring. So you can be sure you will love something and still feel almost no pull to start it.

That is the man in the cartoon, swinging at rock with diamonds all around him. He could see the good stuff. He just could not make himself dig toward it.

Once you see why, the usual story about procrastination stops making sense. We say lazy, or bad with time. Mostly, it is neither. Two psychologists, Fuschia Sirois and Tim Pychyl, argued back in 2013 that it runs on emotion. A task makes you feel something you would rather not feel, even just the small dread of starting, and putting it off makes that feeling vanish on the spot. So you scroll, or you suddenly need to clean the kitchen. Dodging the task is a quick hit of relief, and your brain grabs it. The bill goes straight to future-you, who is left holding the guilt and the deadline.

You can even see it on a brain scan. In 2018, a team in Germany scanned 264 people and matched the scans against how much each person put things off. The big procrastinators had a larger amygdala, the little alarm bell deep in the brain that flags anything risky. They also had a weaker link to the part meant to quiet that alarm and get you moving, a region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Loud alarm, weak off-switch.

And if this is you, you have plenty of company. A big 2007 review found that 80 to 95 percent of college students procrastinate, that roughly one in five adults does it long-term, and that more than 95 percent of them wish they could quit. Students alone burn about a third of their day on it.

The fix falls out of that same split. If wanting and liking are two different systems, then waiting to "feel like it" is waiting for a bus that may never come. The main treatment for the severe version, called behavioral activation, flips the order. You start first, as small as you can stand, before any motivation shows up. The wanting tends to arrive a few minutes after you begin. The diamonds were there the whole time. You just have to swing the pick before you feel ready.

[𝐍𝟑𝐎 𝕾𝖊𝖓𝖕𝖆𝖎 💜🐢💔 @senpaio3o]

For those of you don't know:
> Hololive EN started in September 2020
> Melody started her journey in mid 2019
> Fefe started her vtuber journey in November 2020
> First English vtuber to ever start was Mira Pink February 2018, 5ish months earlier than Natsumi Moe the more famous one (July 31)

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

There is this guy on youtube name GAKHED who films his cats with a 1999 camcorder and in this time of brainrot and toxic internet it's the most calming and soothing thing i've seen.
This is what spring felt like as a kid. ❤️

[Sasha @SunSharkSasha]

New discord feature about to be like this

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

Your official guide for bees this summer

[Alpel @AlpelDokkan]

"Rin is heterosexual"