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Ramble below
The theme of childhood trauma in Witch Hat Atelier is something that comes to my mind from time to time. We see how children deal with it with the girls (especially Riché) and how it affects the adults they become with Qifrey, Olruggio & Lulucy.
I love how we have all sorts of characters in Witch Hat, there’s something for everyone to connect with. There’s also always something to think about with all of them. Characters become relevant at different points in one’s life.
I feel like the arc with Beldaruit questioning Qifrey as a teacher reflects a lot with how people with mental illness are treated. While some concern is valid, I feel Beldaruit has his faults when it comes to his relationship with his former student.
Honestly when people say their art needs to get "more weird" they usually mean that as in "less commercial/less broadly appealing" and I think the answer to this is not to insert artificial Quirky Weird Style Stuff into it I think you just need to get uncomfortably earnest. What's the thing you really want to draw but feel shy about putting the effort into because it'd be too sincere an admission. You need to draw that. I want to see it
Two abandoned houses in Headford, Co.Galway.
Like. Autism doesn't come with an automatic love of hearing anyone infodump about anything they love. In fact sometimes it comes with the opposite. Sometimes restricted interests are in fact restrictive enough to make anything else boring. Sometimes it's just hard to process that much speech. Doesn't mean we get to be unkind about it either but yeah. This fantasy people push of autistics having endless energy and appreciation for each other's special interests is just not realistic.
By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
Meditation
Martial arts
Sports in general
Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
Woodworking
Cooking
If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers
Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.
Buenos Aires
<3 no es mi cartel pero. ayer se hizo acto de presencia. te amo cultura sweetie you will always be famoussss
today your guest lecturer is: fun dad
little overachiever witch they could never make me hate you
everyone has a ship thats just: theyre perfect. they hate each other. theyre married. they havent spoken in 15 years. they have date nights three times a week. theyre divorced. theyre pining, its unrequited. its requited. theyre starcrossed. theyre meant to be. theyre doomed by the narrative. they love each other. theyve never held hands. they wont stop making out at parties. they cant look each other in the eye
group outing and oru was successfully forced to tag along too (i just wanted to draw him)
Does someone know of a manga about this middle aged man who’s a book binder that loses his wallet accidentally by unknowingly crossing over into a supernatural world and with the help of a 55ish year old painter he gets it back but is unfortunately tied to the supernatural world and is a magnet for hauntings but that’s ok because he kinda likes old man over here, anyone know it 😭?
The first volume is out but I can’t remember the title on mangas£x
some wha art in celebration of the anime announcement and the 8th anniversary ^.^
AND CREATURES!!!!!!!
Characters (+One lovely puppy!) by:
1. Emilia in the snow @yamsbean +her artfight
2. Orange Juice date of Jake and Léon MwuiMwui
3. Blue! Fkastray
Orufrey Week Day 1: Modern AU 🧡
The most important aspect of this modern AU is that they have a Polaroid camera
Full image without the Polaroid effects teehee