Well maybe if Video Game Blacksmith had a better business model, he wouldn’t have this problem. You want my money, don’t try to charge me 37 gold for a piece of armour that I encounter every time I open a chest. I don’t even bother to pick it up anymore, because the market’s flooded– hell, if I try to sell it to YOU you will only give me 2 pieces of gold, and that’s not worth hauling around 12 pounds of steel plate. Oh, sure, you’ll stock that “cool” piece now that I’m level 20, but I already took one just like it off a troll under a bridge. By the time I’m level 22, I won’t even think of it as a cool piece anymore and I’ll be sick of seeing it in chests. I’m really hazy on your marketing strategy, Video Game Blacksmith. Are you refusing to sell me the good stuff up front so that I will constantly be giving you money to upgrade to slightly-less-shitty armour? Like planned obsolescence? Or did you conclude that because a piece is lying in half of the chests in the kingdom now it must be a hot seller? That chest piece right there? I found a better one that that last week on a wolf. Not a direwolf. Not a possessed wolf. Like, a wolf. You know, the dog equivalent of the racist grandfather. I’m don’t know why he was carrying it– or the 15 silver, for that matter– and I have no idea HOW, but you’re selling shit that even wild animals are carrying. Fuck your “Millennials are killing the video game blacksmith industry” and make me some shit that’s gonna help me with the dragon I gotta fight on Tuesday. ‘Cos you know as soon as that dragon’s ass hits the ground, you’ll be stocking stuff I really could have used in the fight, and I’ll be pulling something out of his corpse that’s better than anything you’ve got in the store.
Being able to sleep in almost any situation or position
Irresistible urge to chase squirrels and rabbits
Hating the vacuum cleaner
Wanting to do everything with friends
Loudly and repeatedly announcing to housemates that someone is at the door
Long, shouted conversations to other werewolves across the neighborhood (bonus points at 2am)
Taking advantage of any and all free food
Werewolf-vampire solidarity
Fighting any animal that trespasses into the backyard
Boundless energy
Too much energy
Eating out of the trash if it smells tasty
Being bad at sports because you don’t want to let anyone else take the ball from you. Then destroying the ball in front of everyone because you want to make a point
Trying to fight things 10x your size like a fucking idiot
Being unable to hold a grudge for more than a few hours
Trying to make people feel bad for you over mundane things that aren’t actually that bad. And somehow succeeding.
Snoring
Needing to try a bit of your friends’ food, even if you’ve tried it 5645674 times before and have never once liked it
Getting way too friendly with random strangers
Being in a love-hate relationship with water
Digging. For no reason.
Thinking you’re a badass despite being a hyperactive ball of emotions and hedonism
Loud sobbing while pressing yourself up against the sliding glass door at your friends who locked you out because they were tired of your bullshit and wanted some goddamn peace and quiet
Okay this one is a gem:
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Loudly and repeatedly announcing to housemates that someone is at the door
So most of these are very dog oriented, which makes sense to me, since dogs are just wolves that have co-evolved with us for thousands and thousands of years BUT I wanted to add a few that are wild wolf based:
Multigenerational households!
Kids get really excited when someone comes home with groceries
“I can HELP put away the food!” “Oh, and have you whisk away the ice cream like last week? I’m fine, dear.”
Love to travel and follow food trends
Mostly very social and must have roommates/family/significant other/kids/friends around
However, not uncommon to travel alone for periods of time, especially after leaving home
Big friendly communal meals with lots of ritual around who gets served in what order
“Let grandma take her pick of the turkey first. It’s respectful, and she won’t take kindly to you cutting the line.”
Full pantries, stocking up on basics, the kind of people who always have extra oatmeal, or batteries, or a jump cable
Can hold conversations using body language and eye contact without saying a word
Cuddlers, especially with the social group
Yelling to get everyone to gather, and phone chains for anyone who lives further away
Lots of singing, the pack has a bunch of favorite songs that everyone knows by heart, and some may be song writers
“Can you smell this? Does this smell weird? Does this smell good?”
Lots of candles and incense with unusual scents
Passing houses and farms and land down through generations
Love home renovation
Communal child care and sometimes communal nursing
Kids are all really into wrestling and being outside
When someone is ready to leave the household, the younger they leave the further they tend to travel. Someone who leaves at 18 might go to another country, but someone who leaves at 26 might just move a town away.
Whether someone moves far or close to home, it’s not unusual to move back in at home a few times before settling down
“You know the futon is always open for you. Your cousins are in your old bedroom, but you’re always welcome!”
Kinda grumpy about neighbors pushing property boundaries
“Why do they have to let the damn mulberry tree hang over OUR driveway?”
Good endurance runners
Late walks at night, naps in the middle of the day
Really playful, especially with kids
Lots of rough housing and board game nights!
I’ve been looking for the one with the wolf-aspects added for a while and I found it again! Reblogging for A+ extra wolfy content!
its really weird to see all these articles about how people who have ADHD have sleeping problems but the issue I have is that if you look at it as a matter of your circadian rythym being out of sync? of COURSE you’re not going to be able to sleep. we don’t say people who can’t fall asleep at 4 pm and sleep 8 hours have insomnia, because that’s not a normally agreed upon time to sleep and its not your bodies time to sleep. if you tell someone to go to bed at 10 and they can’t sleep till 3 am sometimes in just not insomnia. people with ADHD are often wired to sleep from 4 am to 12 pm ish because of the delayed onset of melatonin but if you let us go to bed at the time we need? most of us actually sleep pretty well and consistently.
wAIT THIS IS AN ACTUAL THING THAT EXISTS
“For most adults the onset of melatonin is around 9.30 pm; in ADHD children compared to controls this occurs at least 45 minutes later, and in adults with ADHD even 90 minutes (van der Heijden ea, 2005; van Veen ea 2010). After melatonin onset, it normally takes 2 hours to fall asleep, but in adults with ADHD it takes at least 3 hours (Bijlenga et al, 2013).”
Look at me awake at 1:47 am and reblogging this post.
So I’m actually trained in therapy for addressing insomnia and one of the things we learned is that a good chunk of sleep problems are societal disorders – as in they WOULDN’T EXIST as problems if society didn’t assume everyone was on the same circadian rhythm and that being up and working 9-5 was mandatory/normal. Blew my mind and made so much sense. You are not the problem, society is literally the problem.
It’s called delayed sleep phase disorder, it is commonly comorbid with ADHD and OCD, and it’s only debilitating because of societal expectations. I’m forced to work night shift because I have the most severe form of DSPD (cannot fall asleep before 4 or 5AM no matter what) which causes other problems with my life because people don’t comprehend that I sleep during the day.
Oh…
This is why we call it “neurodiversity.” These conditions are often more about brains working differently than them straight up malfunctioning. Our society just isn’t built to accommodate a wide array of brain types.
Oh my god
in societies that still sleep in groups outdoors- you know, like most of humanity has been doing for vastly longer than walls and houses have been a thing- people naturally fall asleep and wake up at different times, so in a given group of sleeping people there’s always a few people awake to make sure that there’s no threats around. As in, humans actually evolved to naturally do this.
I knew I had a different circadian rhythm and I’ve tried polyphasic sleeping and I knew that sleeping eight hours hasn’t always been a normal thing, but I didn’t know about the four to twelve bit!!!! That’s EXACTLY when I want to sleep!!!
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