If you have ADHD like me, walk 15 minutes twice a day like your life depends on it.

should we not be on our phones during 15 minute walk, boss?

That phone is better off dead than in your hands.

Take a musician's advice: without.

But... but it's cold...

Jacket

The purpose of The Walk is to factory-reset your brain from the effects of overstimulation. The fewer things hindering your ability to think is best. Music is an external influence on your brain. As great as it is, it still hinders self-motivated thought and blocks you from attuning to the outdoors as easily. Everyone's different, but that's me.

Can confirm. I went undiagnosed for over 20 years mostly because I was taking multiple hours of dance classes per week for those 20 years. We had NO inkling that anything was ‘wrong’ with me until after I stopped dancing and my entire ability to function imploded.

Physical activity is CRUCIAL, neurodivergent friends. It is non-negotiable.

It’s not about burning calories or losing weight or getting gains or whatever, it’s simply about moving your muscles until the chaff in your brain blows away.

Also, the effect is very much cumulative. When I stopped dancing after 20 years of dancing six days a week, it took months before my brain caught up to the sudden lack of fitness activities and self-destructed. 15 minutes a day will give you exponential results, I promise.

(Also, if you ABSOLUTELY need music or a snack just to get you out the door for the first two weeks, then do that to get started, but aim to wean yourself off of them as soon as you are able.)

(Something I like to do on walks to hold my attention is to guess how old the houses are and/or when they were last renovated. My dad’s a contractor so thanks to him I can usually guess within the decade. The renovated ones are the most fun because then you have to figure out when the original structure what built despite the renovation trying to make it look newer than it really is.

Another variation you could try is count the different species of plants or birds you see or try to headcanon people’s personalities based on their window dressings or landscaping. Sometimes my dad will go out with a trash bag specifically to look for pop/beer cans in the ditch and collect them to take to recycling — spring is a great time for this as there are usually TONS of cans hiding under the snow that get revealed when it melts.

Basically just make a game of observing your surroundings to keep you off your phone and keep you moving as you look for the next thing that you’re counting. Remember the old I Spy game? It’s that but for grownups.)

THATS EXACTLY IT THANK YOU SO MUCH

Blessings

HOW DARE YOU HIDE EFFERVESCENT IN THE TAGS!

@blood-starved-beast

jake that first night when they served a freezer tray tv dinner and not an overflowing plate of fish that's probably going for conservatively like $40-$80 bucks a kilo but the guys decided Eh we'll catch more let's just fry it up:

Wait im Crying I just realised his name is Jake too- he's also so much shorter than them, all the Samoan boys are like over 6'5, Jake is the shortest guy on the boat, Pandora is Real. And my dad is uhhhh Cliff Curtis

And the good food is unobtainiumable on beef jerky boat while plentiful on island boy boat!

Sometimes I can still hear their voice

Breaking: TikTok is better bc it’s more hostile towards humanity

The lack of video content is what kept us here... I thought we all agree that the best feature of this hellhole was and always will be anonymity.

Tumblr's not asking for my phone number. It's not going through my contacts to try and connect me with my fucking colleagues. I can come here and talk about whatever I want without anyone ever seeing my face or hearing my voice. I don't have to censor myself and hide my interests or enthusiasm out of fear of consequences it might have in my real life.

I think the biggest misunderstanding they have of Tumblr is that they think of it as a social media platform when in actuality it's a blogging platform with social features.

I like the use of Metroman here because if there's one thing Tumblr users collectively agree on it's that we want everyone to think we're dead

😔

wish we were still on Tumblr instead of the void

reasons i stay on tumblr dot com

• offers a variety of post types
• desktop browser accessible
• customizable features for those inclined
• is famously difficult to monetize, so people here post for the love of the game
• in fact, the ads are often so hilariously bad i’ve thought some were shitposts and have tried to reblog them
• no shop feature that encourages random people to become advertisements, leading to 60% of posts becoming a shill for landfillslop
• has never asked me for my contacts
• has never asked me to turn on location services
• is not subject to the liquid panopticon of turning neighbor against neighbor (e.g republican kirk witchhunt)
• large amount of text based posts that can allow for nuance and discussion
• the unique and organic community that is here. tiktok tried to recreate goncharov and it sucked and was just some girl’s attention promo. the years long inside jokes. the site-specific holidays. dracula daily and jokes about classic lit.
• the rejection of infantilizing, self censoring euphemisms like unalive or grape
• seeing the posts from people i follow in chronological order
• nobody i know to see me engage in “cringe” interests

et cetera et cetera

Also, I feel like we do have “tumblr personalities”? People like @prokopetz, @gallusrostromegalus, @hellenhighwater, or @kaity--did who enthrall many of us with their musings and stories?

They’re just… not monetizing it or trading on their fame or making a big name for themselves in the outside world. You’re not going to see them on the “internet celebrity” edition of Worst Cooks in America or anything. But they very much are notable people on this site.

This isn’t the place to chase clout or fame. It’s the place to have fun.

And it’s the last bastion of algorithm free social media.

Lmao the idea of me being an "internet celebrity" actually makes laugh so hard I peed a little 😂😂😂😂

Ive read fanfiction older than ICE.

I just learned about a young person named Arson. Arson. The persons name is Arson

I had to look this up quick to make sure it's not a common given name in French or something and

thank you yes, I did need this today

Absolute unrestrained glee.

@cryptidofstars added some good context here, tysm and that goes in the post now :)

@joy-and-whimsy-official