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Links to games on steam are in the title:

ABZU: This game is an experience. It's not very long, but it does take some time to get used to the underwater controls. If you've played journey it's very similar and very pretty

Bastion: Supergiant's first game and it's wonderful! You are in a post-apocalyptic world playing as 'the kid' trying to find other people in the ruins. The soundtrack (like every other Supergiant game) really sticks with you too.

Cat Cafe Manager: A cute cafe game where you build a cafe, serve the customers, and get to know a few of the locals! You can also help stray cats find a new home. It caught my attention more than I thought when I played it.

Celeste: This game is a wonderful platformer. Difficult, but will help you if you need it. You play as Madeline who is determined to climb Mt Celeste no matter what, and face herself in the process.

Chicory A Colorful Tale: This game is so unique and charming. You play as a little dog who is the janitor to the Wielder of a magical brush that brings color to the world. One day the color vanishes without a trace it you become the Wielder and journey to try and find the source of the problem.

Cozy Grove: A beautiful calming game where you play as a spirit scout who is sent to the island of Cozy Grove to ease the spirits bound to it by helping them out in their day to day life. This game is meant to be played in short bursts daily and will only give you a certain amount to do at a time, but there is no penalty for missing a day.

Darkest Dungeon: Note: this game is difficult. A turn based RPG with a distinct style. This is a game where your choices will matter and you must lead a band of adventurers into dungeons for treasure. Every choice will have a consequence and random events will happen when you least expect them. Prepare as much as you can.

Dorfromantik: A lovely little puzzle game where you have a select few hexagonal tiles and try to make them last as long as you can by fulfilling little quests included with some that give you more tiles to place.

Graveyard Keeper: A game where you are transported to a strange place and have to upkeep the local graveyard while trying to find a way home. The game can be a little vague in explanation so a guide/wiki to help out is recommended.

A Hat In Time: This game turned out to be one of my favorite games I played. It's a 3D platformer where you play as Hat Kid who lost all her hourglasses to fuel her ship to go home! You must travel to different places and do different quests and beat bosses to win back hourglasses. If difficulty is what you are looking for the seal the deal DLC is fantastic(both DLCs are really good.)

Inscryption: Also one of my favorite games now. A rogue-like(map changes every time you die) card game where you build your deck on the go. Loads of cards and abilities plus..and interesting mystery surrounding the cabin you are trapped in. This card game is more than it seems. If you find yourself loving the card gauntlet, Kaycee's mod is worth checking out it has even more cards and challenges.

Little Witch In The Woods: Cute little game where you play as a witch who misses her train and ends up in a mysterious place where she finds an abandoned witches house and is itching to make some potions. Collect ingredients, help out the locals, and explore the forest.

Megaquarium: A pretty straightforward game where you build aquariums! Easy to get the hang of while still being pretty extensive in what you can do.

Mini Metro /Mini Motorways: These two games are little puzzle games where you build pathways for trains/cars and see how long your infrastructure can last through daily commutes! Very relaxing and tricky at the same time.

Monster Sanctuary: A monster catching metroidvania(maze-like map where you find items to open up more areas.) You start as an aspiring monster keeper who is finally facing the trails of the monster sanctuary. There are over 100 monsters to fight and collect and many beautiful areas to explore!

Outer Wilds: A game where the less you know going into it the better. You play as a new astronaut setting out on their first flight mission. There are plenty of mysteries to solve.. and plenty of ways to die.

Parkasaurus: Another park builder game but this one is dedicated to dinosaurs!

Poly Bridge: This game asks you what sort of bridge does it take for this vehicle from point A to point B, but you only have a limited amount of materials.

Pyre: Supergiant's third game that I feel slips under the radar. Its a visual novel that has breaks with some fast paced underground sports. Very gorgeous and the characters are lovely. Definitely worth the play if you are interested.

            Frogs fall out of my mouth when I talk. Toads, too.

            It used to be a problem.

            There was an incident when I was young and cross and fed up parental expectations. My sister, who is the Good One, has gold fall from her lips, and since I could not be her, I had to go a different way.

            So I got frogs. It happens.

            “You’ll grow into it,” the fairy godmother said. “Some curses have cloth-of-gold linings.” She considered this, and her finger drifted to her lower lip, the way it did when she was forgetting things. “Mind you, some curses just grind you down and leave you broken. Some blessings do that too, though. Hmm. What was I saying?”

            I spent a lot of time not talking. I got a slate and wrote things down. It was hard at first, but I hated to drop the frogs in the middle of the road. They got hit by cars, or dried out, miles away from their damp little homes.

            Toads were easier. Toads are tough. After awhile, I learned to feel when a word was a toad and not a frog. I could roll the word around on my tongue and get the flavor before I spoke it. Toad words were drier. Desiccated is a toad word. So is crisp and crisis and obligation. So are elegant and matchstick.

            Frog words were a bit more varied. Murky. Purple. Swinging. Jazz.

I practiced in the field behind the house, speaking words over and over, sending small creatures hopping into the evening.  I learned to speak some words as either toads or frogs. It’s all in the delivery.

            Love is a frog word, if spoken earnestly, and a toad word if spoken sarcastically. Frogs are not good at sarcasm.

            Toads are masters of it.

            I learned one day that the amphibians are going extinct all over the world, that some of them are vanishing. You go to ponds that should be full of frogs and find them silent. There are a hundred things responsible—fungus and pesticides and acid rain.

            When I heard this, I cried “What!?” so loudly that an adult African bullfrog fell from my lips and I had to catch it. It weighed as much as a small cat. I took it to the pet store and spun them a lie in writing about my cousin going off to college and leaving the frog behind.

            I brooded about frogs for weeks after that, and then eventually, I decided to do something about it.

            I cannot fix the things that kill them. It would take an army of fairy godmothers, and mine retired long ago. Now she goes on long cruises and spreads her wings out across the deck chairs.

            But I can make more.

            I had to get a field guide at first. It was a long process. Say a word and catch it, check the field marks. Most words turn to bronze frogs if I am not paying attention.

            Poison arrow frogs make my lips go numb. I can only do a few of those a day. I go through a lot of chapstick.  

            It is a holding action I am fighting, nothing more. I go to vernal pools and whisper sonnets that turn into wood frogs. I say the words squeak and squill and spring peepers skitter away into the trees. They begin singing almost the moment they emerge.

            I read long legal documents to a growing audience of Fowler’s toads, who blink their goggling eyes up at me. (I wish I could do salamanders. I would read Clive Barker novels aloud and seed the streams with efts and hellbenders. I would fly to Mexico and read love poems in another language to restore the axolotl. Alas, it’s frogs and toads and nothing more. We make do.)

            The woods behind my house are full of singing. The neighbors either learn to love it or move away.

            My sister—the one who speaks gold and diamonds—funds my travels. She speaks less than I do, but for me and my amphibian friends, she will vomit rubies and sapphires. I am grateful.

            I am practicing reading modernist revolutionary poetry aloud. My accent is atrocious. Still, a day will come when the Panamanian golden frog will tumble from my lips, and I will catch it and hold it, and whatever word I spoke, I’ll say again and again, until I stand at the center of a sea of yellow skins, and make from my curse at last a cloth of gold.

You know how if you go through years and years of “best science fiction short stories”, every so often you find some short story you’ve never heard of before, but it’s just amazing and brilliant and leaves you wondering why you never read stories with that plot before? This is one of those.

CBC made a good documentary on adult ADHD and part of it really caught me off guard because i swear they repeated verbatim my life story for the past 3 years

full programme here:

My ADHD manifested in piles of homework left undone until the last possible minute, while I stared at them, thinking; “I want to get these done. I understand the theory. It would take 10 minutes. I want to start, why can’t I start?” 

My ADHD manifested in fantastic reading comprehension - nigh impenetrable focus on interesting topics the first time I’m reading about them. 

My ADHD manifested in a complete inability to focus on reviews or re-reads, mind skittering sideways and away whenever anything was boring or repetitive. I sat down to study, my books open, my eyes on the text, and my brain clawing its way out the back of my head to focus on something else - anything else. Focus, focus! [No.]

My ADHD manifested in Articulating wings half-finished but still beautiful, in beautiful lineart and half-hearted coloring. In stories written passionately for days until I forgot it existed and never returned. In projects started and forgotten and started and forgotten a thousand times until my bins of project supplies piled up and my bank account shriveled down. No, it will be different this time - I LOVE this new thing. This new thing is my world, my destiny, my Everything. I CREATE and CREATE and CREATE and never FINISH. 

My ADHD manifested in confusion and surprise as time slithered away, hours passing like minutes and minutes seeming endless by contrast. An inability to gauge how much time had passed, was left, a task would take. An inability to hold dates in my head, because time didn’t feel consistent or even real.

welcome to may masterpost mondays! this monday, the topic is discipline. for more “3 steps to an A” tips, check this out 

first of all, yes, motivation does not equal discipline, BUT you really do need some motivation in order to start building up discipline

check out this motivation masterpost!

oh look here’s another one

15 things to tell yourself when you don’t want to work/study

motivation for “harvard students”

@ another motivation masterpost

motivational videos

planning is SUCH an important part of being disciplined!

here is one way to make a schedule

a way to make a study plan

things to do when you don’t want to study

how to plan properly

make sure to STICK to this plan! it’s important to remember that you have to make sure that it isn’t too difficult to follow. DO NOT push too much into one day!

the pomodoro technique works!! after 25 minutes of studying take a break. give yourself a reward!

another example would be if you finished everything on your to-do list for the day, then you could give yourself a reward! read a chapter of a book, watch an episode of a tv show, etc.

do not forget to take a break! this is so important to make sure that you don’t get burnt out! all work and no play makes jack a dull boy remember?

WAHT