Who I thought was Haru making a cameo is just Jet in a ponytail. OTL

This lady was really just attack on sight

Why do racists not fear God?

Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.

Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.

Make a list of the steps in the process of doing your thing; allow your brain to pre-game fucking off by rotating those steps and banging them around like an octopus with a shape sorter so that when you actually encounter the mild annoyance it knows that the triangle will also fit into the square hole.

Trade annoying tasks with a friend. I'll transfer my domain to a different registrar if you call your doctor and make an appointment (you both win!)

Have fucking-off tasks handy that are related to the main task you're avoiding. I don't want to look at that thing right now, I don't like that thing no sir, I shall simply look at this peripheral thing that will help me at a later stage of the thing.

Know which distractions are absolute poison for certain kinds of activities and plan to avoid them, for instance I am Not Allowed to listen to podcasts right now because a lot of my activities are writing and I can't write while listening to podcasts. Podcasts can come back when my tasks are mending and yard work. My brain can fuck off and write a distracting list on tumblr but it cannot start a video or turn on a podcast.

Ask yourself what about the task is pinging your avoidance - I figured out that what was making me hiss at this project was needing to create a new account when I already have an old account (adding to the old account would be more expensive than creating a new account and I can't keep the old account with the new information). I have a password manager; remembering passwords and keeping track of accounts isn't a problem, it is okay to create a new account, brain. Calm own.

Spend your fucking off time making a chore chart (this works best if making checklists and charts is fun for you). I am not doing the task but I am organizing the list in a fun way that I will get to check off with my scented highlighters or my gold star stickers.

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