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Quick ADHD and study tips:

- Do the minimum. Don't do any more than the school expects you to do. Don't overwork yourself trying to become an expert on every topic ever, making every project a perfect masterpiece.

-> "I'll just do this quickly" method - Do the minimum. What's the least you can do for this topic, the easiest, most minimalist, "laziest" solution possible? Do it. It helps to get started. (exactly what I did here)

- Adjust your routine to a radio's broadcasting schedule (it's background music and "company", aka. chatter in the background)

- Pomodoro timers are too hard to reach from YouTube, here, an extension. (It plays white noise, and makes me miss the sound of rain in the breaks XD)

- Switch from Word to a notepad, a colored paper, google translator, a tumblr draft, etc., write your essay there.

- Water reminder.

- Too tired to design a PPT: SlidesGo Templates

- Too tired for grammar: Grammarly (or ProWritingAid)

- Too tired for words: Wordtune and Wordtune Read

- This grades essays, this estimates reading time

- This for grammar check, this is for synonyms, acronyms, and everything, this for idioms.

- Set BeLineReader to something colorful (space colors ✨)

- Write it in memes (see the first part of this post), use emojis, make memes, use meme language, edit it like a tumblr post with highlights, side notes, pictures, colors, etc.

- Tell it to someone. There was a history topic I very much disliked until I started to read it, and man, it was hilarious. The warlords made the worst decisions possible! Of course, I told my brother about it.

Look at it as a masterpiece or look at it as a ridiculously bad movie, it will get better. (This goes for literature, history, etc. - why not "make it" into a soap opera? XD)

- Do it while you wait for something. The water to boil, the baguettes to bake, someone to answer your message. And in the meantime, do something.

- For revisions: Loop a song. One topic-one song. Then you switch the song, next topic. It's even better if the songs are from completely different genres.

- Have a list of stuff you have to do. An optional list. If you can tick off one, you're good. Leave your accomplishments.

[Stuff like, 'write a poem', 'make cocoa', 'sing,' but also, 'eat breakfast normally' and 'write that English essay'.]

(-> Computer "gadgets" (idk what are they called in English) -> set tiny slideshows, and bamm, little reminders that are always visible! I made the text in Ipiccy, the to-do list in paint)

[ID: A partial screenshot of my tumblr, with the two gadgets on it, displaying two small pictures, one is a color gradient text on a black background that reads "keep on going", the other is a bit messy to-do list with check squares and simple text on a white background / end of ID]

How to remember anything?/learn stuff

Create (write a poem, make memes, try reading it out loud, but singing, act it out XD - the possibilities are endless!)

Bee dance ("write down" the letters of the word or numbers of the date walking around)

Make it touchable (form the numbers/letters from plasticine, sticks, gravel, ketchup, candy, shoes, or anything, really) -> Morse / ASL (knock, clap, or sign the numbers/letters)

Tell it in different styles, on different levels (to a kid, to your dog, to your plant. "Emotionally" as if you were telling some outrageous news, or as if it was the greatest thing in the world! It's ridiculous, it's nonsense! It's so stupid, it's brilliant! It's tragic, actually. Tell it professionally, as if you knew what you're talking about, like some sassy professor. Tell it as if it happened next door, as if you were some old folk telling it to the children (the good ol' times!), tell it like a bored weather forecaster, present it like in some tv ad!)

Learn it at places (literally, bring your book/little paper to a corner of the house, or out to the park. It's a bit like the mind palace method, "hmm, yes, 1945, the blue shower gel bottle, "amygdala" is in the fridge, and Thales' Theorem is right under the bed.")

The mind palace method, but place the data on a picture (take a picture, a stock photo, anything, and write dates/words at different places)

Speed run (set a timer, it can be Pomodoro, and do what you have to do on max speed. Yes, you got x minutes to sit at this one spot in the bathroom and memorize these words, drink tea, and take out the trash! The clock is ticking! It's adrenalin rush!)

Tie it up with the senses (pick a color/palette, a taste, a smell, a feel, a texture, a style, etc. for each topic you can recall later. Chew a specific tasted gum while studying, chew the same taste while writing the test. Spray a perfume, set your desktop/phone background to a picture that fits the mood, set the lights, surround yourself with a specific texture, create a mood.)

Make a cheat sheet (write it in a "compressed format," so only you can understand it, and it takes up the least place possible. Tiny drawings, reminders. The point is not to have the information but to have a safe reminder in your pocket, you can reach out to. You may not even need to use it.)

Have water and sleep (yup, a dehydrated brain can't think, and our brains process information while in REM sleep - a sleep cycle calculator)

Play card games, Activity (do you know the board game "Activity?" Or twenty questions? There are also a bunch of card games [mainly played with French cards] where you have to yell words and smash cards and each other's hands. Well, why not rewrite the game with the words/dates/phrases you need to memorize? Even better if you play it with people who study the same thing as you.)

So, that's it for now. I hope I helped some! :D

evil autistics are like *parallel plotting*

blocking someone bc they’re personally annoying to you is always morally correct

Big bad pirates in love ❤️

𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐑, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐎 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋!

do not let ANYONE undermine your beauty and your culture. never be ashamed of who you are and your background. its a magnificent thing, instead be proud of it. your culture is beautiful, your culture is divine. everything about you is gorgeous and you are the of embodiment of goddesses. everything you do is just goddess behaviour. your features represent how pretty you are

WHOEVER IS ON THIS WEBSITE NOT SHAVING YOUR BALLS JUST SHAVE THEM ALREADY THE ADS ARE GETTING TOO PERSISTENT

body shaming men is also wrong and not funny

Tummies are sexy and so are thick thighs and so is cellulite and so are stretch marks and so are uneven tiddies and so are love handles and

the occult implications of large parts of modern society being okay with "pleather" and "vegan leather" (plastics and micro plastics existing everywhere from placentas to the bottom of the ocean), rather than using the skins of animals who will ultimately die no matter what we do

TikTok is convincing too many hot people that they're funny

reblog if you’re a SHARK APOLOGIST

Marriage is about having good sex and committing unspeakable acts of violence for one another

What Makes a Good Friend? 1. Shared common values 2. Equality (that is, you both put the same amount into the relationship, and both benefit equally from the friendship) 3. Sharing common interests and activities. 4. Sharing common struggles; having gone through things together 5. Trust, honesty, respect, loyalty, and dependability 6. Being committed to each other’s happiness and personal growth 7. Respecting each other’s principles; someone who never asks you to compromise, or go against, your values 8. Someone you can laugh and have fun with 9. Someone who believes in you “no matter what” 10. Someone who’s a good influence on you, and inspires you to be your best.

People who can’t communicate think everything is an argument.

on god

discord and spotify are fucking rn while youre not looking btw

is it just me or did they yassify the quaker oats guy

"listening at a volume louder than this point can damage your ears" i wish my head would explode everytime i listen to music domt tell me what to do

Uni.

As a former sex worker, let me just say, that all baby sex workers starting out need to let someone trusted know you are doing sex work. Be it cam or in person fssw and anything in between. Clients can not be trusted and you need to be safe.

When I did fssw I kept these essentials in my hoe bag

100$ visa gift card

Burner phone (something cheap. You should have that or Google phone app atleast)

Water and snacks

Spare charger

Knife or switch blade (kept in outer pocket or easy to reach inner pocket preferably 2)

Mace

Wipes (for client and yourself)

Soap

Condoms (you should always have this)

Mints

Lotion (unscented)

Your real ID should be at the bottom of your bag hidden (I cut a hole in my bag and placed it in the bottom of the bag)

Clean panties

And I can't stress enough please let your trusted contact know who you are with and what hotel you are at (exact location) and what time the appointment should be done.

Miss Vanta loves you and be safe getting that money💵💸💸 loves

Xoxo

💖Vanta💖

Things Read in February

Essays & Articles:

The Battle for the Heart of the Great American Nudie Suit

"We Will Always Have the Nightmares"

A California redwood forest has officially been returned to a group of Native tribes

On the Lie of "Let People Like Things"

The Case Against the Trauma Plot

The Joe Rogan Controversy Has a Deeper Cause

Is 2000s Tech the Next Big Fashion Aesthetic?

We Owe Courtney Stodden An Apology

'The Rise and Fall of LuLaRoe' Investigates Scandal Behind Marketing Company

Matilda Bernstein Sycamore on Writing on Your Own Terms

The mythical genius of Daidalos, the first polymath

Horror Fiction in the Age of Covid

Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk

How to Have Closer Friendships (and Why You Need Them)

How this jellyfish earned the nickname 'Psychadelic Medusa'

Herodotus' Other Lies

Is it a clash over writing...

France's nuclear colonial legacy in Algeria

"My pink socialism became red as a wound": Impossible interview from Ukraine

My Body is Used to Design Military Tech

10 Questions You Should Never Be Asked in a Job Interview

Stop Pretending the Left is on Putin's Side

The American Boy

Millennial Women Made LuLaRoe Millions. Then They Paid the Price.

Mary Renault: how classical Greece reflected her troubled life

i: vision

Poetry:

Do You Wonder About All The Black Girls Speckling That Beach by Salt

February by Jack Collom

Arguing with Something Plato Said by Jack Collom

Invocation by Cid Corman

Ariadne by Jeanne Murray Walker

Worm Moon by Mary Oliver

Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing by Margaret Atwood

The Horse Fell Off the Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

The Summer A Tribe Called Quest Broke Up by Hanif Abdurraqib

Theseus Within the Labyrinth by Stephen Dobyns

Books:

Ariadne by F. L. Lucas

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Los Reyes by Julio Cortázar, translated by Juan Sebastian de Vivo

The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Dark Tower and Other Stories by C. S. Lewis

Theseus by Plutarch

listening to music isn’t enough anymore i need to eat it

Here a message for everyone who needs to hear it:

History is uncomfortable. It’s not meant to make you feel good. It’s profane, lewd, violent, controversial, and terrifying. There is no way of getting around that.

You are not doing your kids a service by getting rid of the parts of history you deem “too offensive” or “scary”, you are just setting them up to become the next set of unempathetic monsters who will end up killing millions.

And if you truly cared about history, you would stop sucking the funding from schools and museums and giving it to the police and military.

surely this is a good idea that doesn't have the capacity to end real fuckin badly