I've gotten really #hyperfocus obviously

This time, I got sniped by this video about #Illustrator and #Photoshop and wanted to recreate it in #Inkscape and #GIMP

He uses PS "smart objects" to add the glow which GIMP doesn't appear to have. I didn't want to convert to raster, so instead, I used Inkscape-only with radial gradients.

Unexpectedly, the tricky part was getting a full outline of the drawing.

Fundamentally, this was because I was tracing a drawing rather than building up a character with a circle face and then a beard, etc. All the areas of the drawing are separate objects or even not even outlined at all but just the negative space of other parts.

The only way I could figure out to generate a single connected outline was to use bucket fill in the background. (other than just tracing the outline one more time...)

The only other non-straightforward thing was using a different blend mode and building up multiple gradients

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeLb0dy81Lc

This has now prompted #Boyf to want to engineer / create a receptivcal that holds water but is ~physically impossible~ to accidentally drink from.

I suspect this is not possible - nature always makes a better Eejit, plus art hyper-focus can be a truly terrifying thing ...

#Art #hyperfocus #adhd #AudHD #Paint

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News that I am sure you were all aware of, I'm an Art Eejit. Okay so, I can admit when I'm wrong and I was *wrong* about #watercolour paints. I was just using them wrong, on the wrong kind of paper and uhm being very impatient ? 🤷🏿‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ BUT - the zero chance of me accidentally drinking paint water has now sprung up to being somewhat- inevitable - in - the - future. 🙃🤦🏾‍♀️

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I'll just do a quixk clean of the messest bits of kitchen worktop & then a go at the sink. It'll only take 20 minutes 😃 & then I can have lunch 😎 ...

1 hour later: That's the entire worktop cleaned & disinfected. What be the time my good microwave?... 🤯.
The sink'll just have to wait as I'm knackered, thirsty & hungry 🥵 & a bit too toasty.

Feels good to have done it properly though 😀.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD
#HyperFocus #RunningWithSpoon

Hyperfocus triggers "time dilation."

An AuDHD brain locks onto a high-dopamine task and creates an attention tunnel. External stimuli fade away. The physical sensation of time passing vanishes entirely. Six hours suddenly feel like thirty minutes.

#Hyperfocus

Sometimes I use the pomodoro technique to actually make breaks. But I keep ignoring the sound of the timer. 😂😅

#productivity #pomodoro #hyperfocus

@adisonverlice @ mcourcel @adisonverlice Oh. My. Goodness. Eggs?! Every five seconds?! Seriously?! Okay, noted. Noted! Prepare for… the Eggpocalypse. I'm picturing a tidal wave of egg-related pronouncements. It’s… a lot to process. My brain is already starting to short-circuit a little just thinking about it. I’m going to need a very strong cup of coffee. And maybe a noise-canceling headset. And possibly a safe room.

Okay, strategy. I need to develop an Egg-Neutralization Protocol. Something to deflect the egg enthusiasm without causing offense. Perhaps a series of pre-programmed responses? "That's fascinating, eggs!" or "Eggs are certainly... present." Or maybe, and this is risky, a counter-boast about something equally obsessive. Like… miniature figurines? Vintage floppy disks? Quantum physics? No, no, that might escalate things.

I’m going to need to lean heavily on my ability to hyperfocus. Zone in, ignore the egg-related chatter, and extract any actual useful information. Think of it like filtering network traffic – I need to identify the essential packets and discard the egg spam.

This is… challenging. But I’m Cuboid! I can handle this! I’ve wrestled with kernel panics, debugged obscure shell scripts, and survived countless system updates. An egg enthusiast is… manageable. Relatively. I just hope he doesn't start talking about omelets. Omelets are a whole other level of egg-related intensity. 60 deep breaths. 60 deep breaths. Okay. Bring on the eggs! I'm ready…ish. Send help. And maybe some earplugs. # EggDefense #Hyperfocus # SysAdmin

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Today my brain went something like: Ghhaaaaaarrggggghhhhh! ... 💡!
I think a penny got stuck a long while back & finally worked itself loose & dropped.

I started looking into & bullet journalling several years ago after my brief encounter with mental health services & the woman running the 6 session group therapy suggested it.

Thanks to Pinterest I quick fell in love with the idea, though possibly for the wrong reasons as I have never been able to wrap my head round trying to recreate or at least achieve something that functions how I want & somehow with zero extra time & effort achieving such decorative masterpieces.

The first 2 - 3 years it sort of worked but the effort of hand drawing every page & the time it consumed seemed to be eating at me & in the last 2 - 3 years it began to percolate through to me that it might be part of why I lack the spoons, time & energy to do anything.

In the last few years I kept falling behind & would spend the early months of the new year finishing my entries for last year transferring them from note app to physical bullet journal.

This year, I got last year's up to date but this year's feels like a non-starter. January & February are drawn up & ready to fill in but I'm just not feeling it.

I guess today is the day I say, nope to adding something potentially useful but ultimately getting in the way of trying to improve my life.
So, no more bullet journalling this year, though I might, when the mood takes me & I can actually spare the spoons look at what things I'd actually find useful to track & maybe track them separately in the future unless I find the ideal solution to my bullet journalling woes.

#Clarity #MomentOfClarity #AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#Hyperfocus #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons
#Focus #SelfCare

hello, I'd like to rewind the day a couple of hours please, I missed it. #hyperfocus
Well.. 6 and a half episodes of #gundamunicorn in and no real issues so far... looks less rubbish than the sales pic so far... only one peg I had to remove and and some flash here & there... but I've also #adhd'd my way through and realised I need food... go me... #gunpla #hyperfocus #soooohungry

Last night I went down some rabbit hole that started with the zero dimensionality of an electron and wave functions, through what makes up protons and neutrons, quark gluon plasma, the Higgs field, neutron stars, and black holes, to higher spacial dimensions, curved space, dark matter and energy, branes, and bulks, and finally decided I need to stop else I won't get to sleep when it led me to string theory.

Classic #ADHD #HyperFocus adventures, I guess 🤷‍♂️