Mosiaho! and Other Exclamations

Just caught up to reading In The Heat of The Moment by PumpkinsBelow. That fic's singlehandedly driven me into a wenclair rabbit hole. Felt like I NEEDED to see Wednesday with fangs. Here she is after the scuffle with Hugo.

Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.

"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.

You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.

I usually suggest this technique as a "Reverse Pomodoro." In the original Pomodoro, you work for 25 minutes and then take a break for 5 minutes (the times vary, but that's the essential ratio). People with executive dysfunction often find this insurmountable, and they get even more frustrated, and then the task seems even more difficult. So instead, flip those times.

FIRST, spend 25 minutes doing something energizing and engaging that you like to do. Not scrolling social media passively, not watching tv, not napping. Try something like colouring, doing yoga, running/walking around the block, talking about your favourite tv show with someone in real time, playing with the dog or cat, making and eating a lovely sandwich, hula hooping, something active. Having a little treat absolutely falls in this category!

(on the subject of little treats: refusing yourself food until you do work is for fucking Puritans and you can be kinder to yourself)

Then, after 25 minutes (or however long it takes to eat the sandwich or finish the yoga routine, it doesn't have to be exact), spend 5 minutes writing (or doing whatever you're struggling to start). Most people can coax themselves into doing something they find difficult for five minutes, if they have already filled up the joy/energy/engagement bucket. You can put a timer on for the 5 minutes if you want, or if you find that annoying, just work for as long as you like.

The other key is: don't push yourself to keep going when you're frustrated or tired—that will just reinforce the negative belief that you already have, which tells you that this task is painful to do, and needs to be avoided. If you've commonly had to force yourself to do this kind of task, that's likely part of why you think of it as painful and have trouble starting it now. Also, you should just, at a basic level, try not to put yourself in pain for the sake of productivity. So just do it till the good feelings run out. Then start hula hooping or colouring again for another 25 minutes. When the tank's refilled, try another 5 minutes of work, if you can. Adjust times to taste.

Okay so I tried out a new drawing program. Had some issues so I ended up drawing the outline in Sketchbook and then coloring it in Krita.

Itching for WPBL to start. August 1st, 2026 seems far away, but some recap for the uninitiated:

The Women's Professional Baseball League is about to start in the US. It is hosted in Springfield, IL, USA as a neutral site for the current 4 teams:

Boston (merch-green) - roster

New York (merch-teal) - roster

San Francisco (merch-purple) - roster

Los Angeles (merch-blue) - roster

Some highlights of the teams:

Details from back at tryouts last year:

Kelsie Whitmore of Savannah Bananas fame (first woman to play) will be playing for San Francisco. She was the first round first pick in the 2025 draft.

Danae Benites of the Loco Beach Coconuts will be playing for New York

There are 15 players over 30

The draft pulled players from a variety of countries:

Outside the US we have Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Australia, France, Venezuela, UK, and while it is under US occupation I wanna highlight it on its own: Puerto Rico.

There are a number of out queer players

Boston (5)

Paloma Benach (LHP - DC, USA)

Nadia Diaz (3B - NY, USA)

Stephanie Everett (LF - MD, USA)

Zoe Hicks (3B - CA)

Raine Padgham (RHP - BC, CA)

New York (4)

Denae Benites (Catcher - NV, USA)

Elodie Ciamarro (Catcher - Quebec, CA)

Beth Greenwood (Catcher - USA)

London Studer (1B - OH, USA)

San Francisco (6)

Kelsie Whitmore (RHP - CA, USA)

Jordan Eyester (CF - MI, USA)

Amanda Gianelloni (2B - LA, USA)

Liz Gilder (LHP - BC, CA)

Arwen McCullough (RHP - CA, USA)

Micaela Minner (1B - OH, USA, she's 40 btw! 😍)

Los Angeles (3)

Ashton Lansdell (3B - GA, USA)

Jamie Mackay (Catcher - CA, USA)

Luisa Hernandez (3B - Jalisco, MX)

From Commissioner Justine Siegal PhD:

"Across the USA and around the world, women have always played baseball. From backyard games with older siblings, to rec leagues across the country, women have found ways to play the sport they love. Baseball is America’s pastime, but the professional game hasn’t evolved to reflect the diversity of those who play, watch and love this sport. That’s about to change. A long time dream is coming into focus: a professional women’s baseball league for a new generation. The Women’s Pro Baseball League is here. We’re creating a stage where elite women’s baseball players have a place to shine, and establishing a pipeline for every girl who dreams of competing at the highest level one day. A league of their own, for the first time since the AAGPBL of the 1940s. This league is just one part of a larger cultural shift. Women in sports are finally getting the recognition they deserve. We’re at the beginning of a new chapter and it’s time for our athletes to write their story. 

What started as an idea is now a reality. We’re less than five months away from the WPBL’s opening day on August 1st, 2026 and already so much has happened. The world has taken notice of what we’re doing, and hundreds of thousands of people have tuned in to follow along. People just like you. Thank you for supporting this league. For supporting women in baseball. You’re a part of this. A part of history. The next chapter begins this August. We hope you’ll join us in making history."

1. Do not do age verification.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

Wenclair♡

Commission for @cometisanerd (Thank u for your trust, and because I'm always happy to draw my girlss!)

Comms open! if you want me to draw your favorite couple, send me a DM!

we do need to make her have more than k*ramel though

also this is the first one in the k*ramel tag:

Pam looks up from the seventh “Alex Danvers terrifies me” form of the day. There’s a woman standing in front of her desk with an L Corp id badge clipped to her skirt. “Excuse me?”

“I know that they put a black bag over my head for the drive over, but your windows are three stories high and I can definitely tell we’re on 14th Street and Lex.”

“Please don’t say that word.”

“What?”

“Please don’t say ‘Lex’, we try to say the full ‘Lexington’ or sometimes Superman bursts through our roof and honestly our budget cannot handle that this quarter.”

“Right, sorry.” The woman with the L Corp badge extends a hand, the one not balancing a stack of papers. “I’m Jessica, Lena Luthor’s assistant.”

Pam shakes her hand, narrowing her eyes at the top visible piece of paper. “Don’t tell me, Kara told someone else?”

With a sigh, Jessica drops the papers onto Pam’s desk. It rattles and a DEO branded pen rolls off and onto the floor. “Not in so many words, but she implied seven times she can fly and five times that she’s from another planet, once didn’t do up the top buttons on her shirt and her suit was visible, twice used her heat vision on Lena’s cooling tea, and once lifted two filing cabinets so I could grab the pencil that rolled underneath.”

Pam pinches the bridge of her nose. Someone needs to teach that girl how to lie properly. “Where did you even get the DEO NDA’s? I never recieved a request for two copies.”

Jessica shrugs, “They were just on my desk when I came into work this morning.”

“Winn Schott,” Pam mutters balefully.

“Bless you.”

“What?”

“Do you prefer ‘gesundheit’?”

“…”

“Anyways, I filled them out for both of us, had Lena sign them, walked out of the building, got abducted by commandos wearing black, was dropped of in the underground garage, took the elevator to HR, and now I’m here.” Her voice is completely calm, like this is just something that happens every day.

Then again, Pam thinks, she does work for a Luthor. Who knows what happens in those offices. (Winn Schott, obviously).

“Thank you, Jessica, I’ll get those processed by the end of the week. You may or may not also get a visit from Agent Danvers brandishing a gun and threats of violence. Please ignore those, she has been reprimanded already this week for improper use of finger threats.”

“Finger threats…?”