#I’ll help however I can

[dirtyheathencommie]

DEAR EDUCATIONALLY NEGLECTED HOMESCHOOLERS

I’ve gathered some resources and tips and tricks on self-educating after educational neglect. This is only what I did and what I know helped me. I’m about to graduate college with honors after having no education past the age of 9. I wouldn’t be here without the following. Everything is free, and at/well above the standard for education in the US.

The holy grail: Khan Academy. Nearly every course you could take is available here, in order and by grade level. Their open-source free courses rival some of the college classes I’ve taken. This is your most solid resource.

For inattentive types: Crash Course offers a variety of courses that are snappy, entertaining, and extremely rewarding. They work for my ADHD brain. They also have college prep advice, which is essential if you’re looking to go to higher education with no classroom experience.

To catch up on your reading: There are certain books that you may have read had you gone to school that you’ve missed out on. This list is the most well-rounded and can fill you in on both children’s books and classic novels that are essential or at least extremely helpful to be familiar with. You can find a majority of these easily at a local library (and some for free in PDF form online low key). There are a few higher level classics in here that I’d highly recommend. If it doesn’t work for you, I’d always recommend asking your local librarian.

*BE AWARE* The book list I recommend suggests you read Harry Potter books, and given their transphobic author you may or may not want to read them. If you choose to, I’d highly recommend buying the books secondhand or borrowing from a library to avoid financially supporting a living author with dangerous and damaging views.

TEST, TEST, TEST: Again, Khan Academy is your go-to for this. I don’t personally like standardized testing, but going through SAT and ACT courses was the best way I found to really reveal my gaps so that I could supplement.

Finally: As much as you can, enjoy the process. Education can be thrilling and teach you so much about yourself, and help shape your view of the world. It can get frustrating, but I’d like to encourage you that everyone can learn. No pace is the perfect pace, and your learning style is the right learning style for you. In teaching yourself, be patient, be kind, and indulge in the subjects you really enjoy without neglecting others. You are your teacher. Give yourself what others chose not to.

#if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to message me anything #I’ll help however I can #homeschool #ex fundamentalist #ex homeschool #ex homeschooled #educational neglect #education #self education #ex fundie #send me asks #homeschool recovery #resources #educate yourself #ex christian #exvangelical #religious trauma #tw religion #deconstructing christianity

[shima-draws]

Hiiii I come bearing another OC design WIP, this time it’s YA BOY, the one and only protag boy (from this post!)

He’s a darkness/dragon elemental, the black on his hands and arms is permanent and happened due to an incident in his childhood. He was a bit self conscious of the way his arms looked at first but now he’s totally chill with it (and. When he uses his powers dragons scales sprout on his arms and glow and it’s sick as hell.) He is everything to me and I would die for him and he doesn’t even have a name. WHICH IS WHY I’m letting you guys pick since I’m settled on an “N” name but I’m indecisive <3

#I struggled so so much with this design but it turned out SO nice and I’m so happy with it. UGH just look at him. My fucking BABY BOY #Also his inspo might be a BIT too obvious but you know what. This is my house I do what I want #I can make my characters look however I want them to tee hee <33333 #Don’t say anything tho or I’ll beat you up. Let me have this. #ANYWAY. #Help me pick pretty please 🙏 #Polls #Poll #Among the Stars #ATS #Shima’s OCs #I couldn’t pick a design for Kai and now I can’t pick a nickname for this guy. Lol I’m a mess #Shima speaks #THANK YOU MUCH!!!!!

[writingjourney]

Friends, what’s your opinion on the 5 times / 4 times and 1 time sort of fics? I know I’ve written a bunch of those, but I see people hating on it and I’d like to know if that’s a structure you enjoy? Because I may or may not have a few WIPs like that and I could restructure them.

#i’ll do it however i want to anyway but i’d like to hear reader opinions? #I enjoy breaking down my chapters and fics into scenes #it helps my adhd to actually not be overwhelmed #but I can see how it would feel formulaic?

[caterpillarinacave]

So you choose not to step through the door, after all why mess with nonsense when you're already in nonsense? You check the items in your pockets, your phone you shut off to conserve power, the dog tag, key and top clink together but offer no help, and when you fiddle with the walkie-talkie you manage to get it to turn on, excitedly you call out to the void but only static responds, which is disappointing but predictable, so you put the items away and hunker down for the night, looking at the sky you can see that the stars seem strange, though you're no expert, and the moon seems to have a second smaller moon near it which looks pretty cool but is a stark reminder of how not on your own world your predicament has landed you.

In the morning you begin looking through the nearby bushes and plant life taking note of anything strange, you notice the berries you had been picking before you stepped through the door are also growing around here, they look and taste the same, and some other plants seem pretty similar to the forest from before as well, although the further away from the door you go the more unfamiliar plants you come across (of course that may just be your lack of familiarity with plants) and the few animals you have noticed are bizarre in a way that you can't explain, like the people from town, they seem almost perfectly familiar, just a little off and the noises they make have you thinking they wouldn't be able to communicate with their counterparts either, brushing aside another branch you come across a strange funnel made of metal which you pocket and what looks to be a regular whistle, you wipe it down and blow but hear nothing aside from the air going through, you consider it is either broken or maybe a dog whistle, as you go to put it away you hear something big running in your direction, before you can decide how to react a large creature storms out of the bushes and stops in the clearing before you, it's huge as a horse with paws and sharp teeth it licks as it looks around and spots you, it shakes its head again reminding you of a horse, then steps closer before turning and staring expectantly, you get the feeling it's waiting on you, impatiently, and you realize it seems to expect you to get on its back. Do you get on?

Yes.

#I am a terrible terrible Irish child #Clearly all those folk tales whose only moral was “don’t climb on the strange horse” were lost on me. Technically not a horse though. So. H #Uh please don’t run into the bog with my on your back strange horse thing. #…This may be one of my worse ideas #On one hand moving away from what appears to be the only connection my world doesn’t sound like a great idea #Back through the door is logically the the best bet. However I’ve already explored the area #The only thing to do would be to just sit there for hours and that will get me nowhere. The things that do have leads like the walkie- #Sputtering are things to pay attention to but not things that are likely to change if I don’t move. The whistle is the newest thing- #And let’s be real I’ve been in the bramble for like 14 hours without the neurospicy meds I am teetering on dangerously antsy #Probably better to get on the horse before I come up with something more stupid #It’s interesting my world flora seems to surround the door. I wish I’d payed more attention before I stepped through #If the nearby flora on the other side seemed like it would come from this world it would suggest that the door just leaks between universes #In two ways. If it’s earths flora then it’s either only leaking one way which we could no from one step through #Or - which we will not know but should pay attention for if we step into some other world - if the earths flora shows up around EVERY porta #Which would suggest earth is the base in some way #It might be beneficial to climb a tree to try and see farther out #Though I don’t exactly get many opurtunited to haul myself up a tree so I would put to much stock in a)my upper body strength #And b) my ability to chose a tree that won’t kill me #It’s defintley worth taking in as much info as possible. I’ll try and notice things like different winds gravity tempature ect #What should i tag this all. Help I got lost in a blackberry bush? Anon who takes me to alternate planes of reality? #I know #Guys I got lost in a bush #That’s a good one. Nothing weird there at all. #FINE I’ll rage it “guys I got lost in a blackberry bush” #I wonder what makes things so familiar. Perhaps this world exists very closely to the other. Perhaps they’ve crossed paths before. #Perhaps they’ve shown up in our dreams. Perhaps I have bad memory and my brain gaslights itself into thinking everything’s familiar #I wonder maybe the horse is a horse/dog thing- that would explain the likeness to the dog whistle (?) #This can’t get any worse I say doing something that could very much make it worse #Eh what’s the worst that can happen. At least I don’t have to pay taxes in this world #Guys I got lost in a black berry bush

[gralixe]

One Piece has so much gall giving so much screen time to characters I truly do not give a fuck about

#my thots #one piece #sorry wano #ur amazing except for all the parts that suck #sorry carrot I just don’t wanna see ur lame fight I never cared abt Pedro anyway lmao 😭 #I do fuck w Marco tho he can stay #law and kid u are in. drake and apoo sashay away #odens entire backstory was a FUCKING CHORE #I would love oden a lot more if I wasn’t forced to watch all that lmfao #do u think oda knows that story events can be communicated without literally showing it fully and completely #through like clever dialogue and environmental storytelling and LIMITED backstory #anyway wano is still s tier #this is how u kno op fans r fucking cooked 😭 #I’ll be like yeah 30 hours of this arc were unwatchable. amazing tho #Sanji getting kidnapped by sexy ladies (again) was whatever. I am so so sick of his I’ll never hit a woman thing I’m sorry #bro some women r evil and literally fighting u…. u have 2 fight them back babes….. #however him calling for help? S TIER #FINALLY #LOVED #made it worth it to me #Robin said I love having friends 😘 #they save me I save them #now for oda to have Zoro need savings #put that man into some situations #make him more pathetic. do it u won’t #idk when this turned into my ranking rant #anyway #wano #wano spoilers

[pendinganchor]

(before the post starts: to everyone who follows me for stranger things i’m sorry you have to deal with my random adventures into other fandoms — this is for the marauders fandom so if you don’t care about that feel free to scroll 💞 and also as always fuck jkr)

me: this fic is going to be so fucking full of angst and jealousy and toxicity with rosekiller endgame

also me:

It’s silent for a moment— Barty convinced the Gryffindor’s eyes could bore into his soul if he let him stare long enough. “You’ve never needed to simply feel something, Potter?”

-

[Barty] lowered his voice, a hand almost absently reaching up to the other boy’s face. His middle finger ran down his jawline. “What does [Regulus] see in you?”

“What-?”

“He’s never looked at me the way he looks at you. What are you doing that I wasn’t?”

-

“I can move. Do you want-“

“No, stay.” James laid back down. It was dark, but Barty reached up anyway. His hand started in James’ hair then ran down to his cheek. His middle finger traced his jaw again— like it had that night on the tower. “I can see what he sees in you now.”

me in some tags AFTER i wrote the stuff above:

BRO OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES YOU SHIP IT AND THIS IS HAPPENING

#i drafted this at like 2:30am lmao #enjoy the chaos #HOW IS THAT PLATONIC KARSON HOW #also james is very much dating regulus during all of this and barry knows that #barty* if my phone doesn’t stop autocorrecting barty to barry i will set it on fire #this was completely an accident #but at this point it would make no sense to not have darksun endgame #more specifically it’ll be starkillerchaser #at least i think that’s the ship name for regulus x barty x james #barty is deeply disturbed in this fic because evan started playing games when he was tired of barty’s games #he can dish it but he can’t take it yk #i was about to say evan might be ooc in this but like canonically we have nothing so i can make him act however i want #but like i’m not making him the bad guy #just two dudes who don’t know how to healthily communicate their feelings then everything gets jumbled up #maybe i’ll change my mind and have james be like ‘barty you’re latching onto me because i helped you’ #and rosekiller does end up being endgame #who knows man i just go with the flow because the characters never wanna follow my outlines #if you see this and read all these tags lmk your opinion on what i should do #can’t guarantee i’ll commit but i’d like the input #darksun #barty crouch jr #james fleamont potter #wizarding world #userkarson #karson writes things sometimes

[obstinaterixatrix]

mom was saying how she wasn’t good at getting gifts and was like “I don’t even know what to get you :(” and I was like. no mom. I’m the problem here.

#my ramblings #anyway I’m helping her fold dumplings for sister and dad to eat while she’s in cn to take care of grandpa #she has to. wrestle a lot with healthcare. not really looking good. #sister’s gonna order groceries so I don’t have to spread myself too thin but I’m still gonna help out of course #but anyway I think gift giving is a skill that can be trained #but part of gift giving as a skill is knowing how to give gifts to folks when you don’t necessarily know what they want #for a high school pal I don’t know the specifics of fandom or what she already has #so I gave her socks and was like: now that you are an adult you get adult gifts. #and she seemed to get a kick out of that #but in general it’s helpful to 1) keep in mind if someone wants something specific #2) keep in mind if there’s a type of theme they enjoy (e.g. space or fish or cats) #3) keep in mind if there’s a type of object they collect (like mugs or magnets or merch) #3.1) find a way to keep track of their collection and check on it (ask them if they’ve gotten anything new/are planning to) #4) gifts can still be food or experiences it doesn’t have to be limited to An Object They Keep #(one of the ‘gifts’ I was planning for mom was ‘let’s go to this scenic garden for an hour or two and I’ll take pics of you however long yo #want and I won’t complain at all) #(mom loves getting her photo taken and posting her outfits to wechat)

[zanathan-aisling]

cat hacker reintroduces mspec lesbian discourse into my life my brain obliterates itself in ocd-fueled recursive self-argumentation

#‘noones identity lives in a bubble and the self-id of others DOES effect broader culture and cause potential ramifications’ #and #‘jfc i’m not the center of the god damn universe and REGARDLESS of whatever petty semantic preference i have towards ‘my’ definition that #doesn’t mean shit for other people + the idea that queer people can be ‘invalidated’ or ‘excluded’ is fucking STUPID that isn’t how queers #work we aren’t a fucking club we can kick people out of for not doing things ~correctly~’ #can seemingly coexist in my brain but they keep biting each other #oh and in addendum to the first one ‘my lesbianism is fundamentally disinterested in men as both ID and interest to the point that it has #can feel (<- FEEL) like active misgendering to imply its definitionally compatible with other conceptions of the word. #not to mention the whole ‘i can’t even fucking figure out how my sexuality treats bigender people at all. like i’m consciously fine with #them from a like… impersonal framework but LUST-WISE it feels like dividing by zero. i don’t know. fucking logic puzzle ass shit.’ #ON MY END I’M FUCKING MISGENDERING SOMEONE EITHER WAY ITS. GAH. HELP #IT MAKES ME FEEL BADLY PROGRAMMED. CAN’T EVEN HANDLE A LITTLE GENDER FUCKERY. INFANT BRAIN. #you can pry my ID from my cold dead hands and if you imply its bigoted or ~separatist~ in origin i’ll fucking gut you. but also teehee its #just MY id and you can ID however you want just don’t tell me how to identify sparkle sparkle~<3 #but also my id IS mutually exclusive of yours definitially and WILL cause problems going forward from a clerical & organizational standpoint #homonym ass queer theory relied on by a fucking spineless little shit who refuses to take a hard stance for what she believes is right OR c #correct. the spineless coward is me. by homonym i mean the same word and spelling meaning different things to different people to the point #it might as well not be same word at all #‘i think my definition of lesbian is objectively better and wish people using other definitions would please stop but ALSO if you think less #of other people for using other definitions i will beat your skull in with a rock you bitch’ is. what i boil down to. #‘i think inclus vs exclus language is stupid and not how the lgbt+ community works but going by the logic i don’t like the existence of the #ID but also literally almost all my bestest friends in the world are inclus on the subject and despite my semantic arguments i don’t disagre #disagree with them. i still pray every night that i might wake up to a world where my actual opinions are unnecessary and my consciousness k #knows pure unchallenged peace though’ #while also recognizing that dream of personal peace by way of ignorance of the identity of others is pretty fucking selfish lol #i keep writing addendums. this can go on forever.

[padfootastic]

Atp my benchmark for Sirius in fanfics is “do I think this person could last like two seconds in Azkaban let alone 12 years”… one would be amazed by how many do not meet that criteria!

you lovely anon, i think you’ve given me a new criteria now. this one’s a bit more objective than ~bad vibes~ too.

(also now i’m examining my own sirius critically lmao can this highly domestic creature survive a day in azkaban? i…fear…he might not 🤭)

#sirius black #sbds #new drinking game. take a shot everytime sirius: #1. shrieks #2. loses his shirt over his hair being out of place #shit* #3. freaks out over a broken nail #4. can’t write down notes in class without remus/lily’s help #5. faints for whatever mundane reason #6. needs to hide behind a big muscular boyfriend at the sight of blood or gore #7. cannot think of anything except pranks #8. his default emotion is giggling #9. makes a joke out of everything harry says/does. even if it’s a matter of importance #(okay i’ll stop now. i’m atleast 65% kidding i promise) #(bc if i wasn’t we’d all be incapacitated with alc poisoning lmao) #(nope. no. not going there. still kidding) #people can write characters however they want. if their sirius is a shrieky het stand in *shrugs* just tag it my dudes #pen’s asks

[jerriisspeakingnow]

Can’t believe I’m genuinely about to download Honkai Star Rail just because I want to stare at pretty men.

#rant time! #personal #Dan Heng has a deathgrip on me for real #other do too but I can’t help it SERIOUSLY #delete later? delete later #I don’t actually know if I’ll download it #HOWEVER me getting that PS5 is so tempting now just so I can play when it releases on console finally…

[arionawrites]

i keep thinking that maybe i can just settle with my current job for the long term and as soon as my brain realizes and recognizes that i’m trying to do that it gets very scared and hyperfocuses on all things writing because fuck no, i like my job but i’ve wanted to be an author since i was in second grade and no fucking way am i settling for anything else in the long run

#its mostly me not wanting to do college #but knowing the degree i’m working towards will help #however i did decide to spend the money necessary to take neil gaiman’s masterclass #and then i’ll take all the writing relevant masterclasses as well #and keep taking courses on skillshare and coursera #and im finally taking college level creative writing in fall #so i am getting places its just slower than i’d like #i also started looking into places to send short stories so that i can look into getting things potentially published before i have full boo #full books that are ready to be published #i just am v burnt out with my current classes and with my job tbh i just want to be where i’m working towards #i want to skip ahead and Be There but i can’t i have to work towards it first #big sigh and big patience

[arthur-r]

i’ve gotten really bad over break at falling asleep in a time frame where i can wake up in the morning and function at capacity. but in other news i’ve written a very angry song aimed at my father. so that’s fun

#good morning everybody i tried so hard to go to sleep when i still had a chance at eight hours #i’m still gonna get seven but that’s like. if i fall asleep immediately #anyway my dad deserves to have a song about his problems i focused too much on my mom with hard to break #although actually the core memory that made me want to write that song is my dad calling me a monster when i was like ten #however the song itself is mostly about the way my mom looks at me. where it’s like i’m not human. which is a mom thing #anyway things have been really bad at home lately like i’ve mostly avoided talking about it but literally earlier today i packed a bag to #run away and just kind of changed my mind when i found out my mom was working #(because the type of running away i mean is not as drastic as it necessarily sounds. mostly just wanted to move into the apartment #permanently and im basically going to do that starting next week like i’ll be supposed to go home but i can always decide not to) #anyway do you kiss my mother with that mouth or let your anger rise and cuss her out? do you want to fuck her or do you say fuck her? #either way you fucking overshare!! do you kiss my mother with that mouth? or tell me to shut up and get the fuck out? #and when you tell those jokes do you understand how deep it goes? cant you see i’m broken from the actions that you chose?? #i just wanna get out of this i just keep getting sadder!! i’d rather not even exist does my involvement matter?? #[/ly] anyway then the song goes on after that for another while. but it’s like. long. so i’ll spare you the rest #came up with the first bit on guitar a few days ago and my dad heard the chords from my room and was like hey that sounds like pink floyd #and i had to be like nope just a chromatic scale. and be glad that i was only whispering the words #anyway if you see me right now no you don’t. and i am so incredibly asleep rn. spooky scary talking in my sleep (/all of this is untrue) #sleeping is like. my favorite hobby. but i am entirely incapable of it when there are this many anxieties floating around my head #it also maybe doesn’t help that i finished the caffeinated lemonade this morning at like 1pm. digging my own hole to lie in here #anyway im going to try and stay after school tomorrow and then go to the apartment from there. rather than see my dad and pretend we’re okay #but hi from after midnight. i miss the days where i could sleep in until ten cause im kind of a night owl i just also really like sleeping #like if i could be blathers from animal crossing and nap for twelve hours getting woke up every once in a while and given a fossil and then #going back to sleep. and then waking up when it’s dark out and every once in a while getting given a fossil. that’s the life #anyway sorry for still being here. i was eyes closed for a while and my do not disturb has been on this whole time. and yet i’m awake #going to post this and go to sleep. though. cause unless we get another snow day in a row then i do have school tomorrow morning #and a snow day would actually be terrible because of. aforementioned not wanting to be at home. and being snowed in is terrifying #ok anyway i really have to go to sleep but yeah. goodnight world wish me luck again with sleeping!! #me. my post. mine. #delete later #ask to tag

[whimsyprinx]

Kane has dnd tomorrow so I’ll be alone :(

#whimsy whispers #this is so tragic for me like who am I gonna annoy? #I’m gonna die of boredom I have no life and no friends this is like actually how I’ll die #being dramatic on purpose but also I truly don’t have a life or many friends so I will be bored af #I’ll probs be entertaining my roommates little sister throughout the day if she wants to play which is what me and kane already do #help around the house however I can and then what? I die

[taardisblue]

.

#google how do I say ‘yes I’ll get the file done however there will be a 30 min delay due to me needing to cry in the bathroom about it’ #but like in a professional way #I’m so fucking tired god bless #seeing my actual career manager tomorrow and I’m supposed to tell her about workload overloads but lol #A. it’s not like she’ll actually let me back out of her perimeter #which arguably isn’t the busiest one but Is supposed to be secondary #B. I’m already getting tackled by my actual managers #about how I ‘really shouldn’t be taking on too much work’ #like. fuckers. you’re the ones giving me the work I have to do. #’oh yeah just tell us what we can help you with’ my dude I don’t even understand enough what I’m doing to know what I need help with #and the stuff I do understand and could delegate is stuff You Don’t Know How To Do #and it’s just. the solicitous bullshit gets on my goddamn nerves bc. #YOU decided to assign me to the additional perimeter!! so now you don’t get to be mad when I have to spend hours on said additional topic!! #not how this works!!! and being all disapproving about me working too much is just the opposite of helping fuck you #fuck you fuck you fuck this fuck you #.txt #all that to say. no fucking clue what I’ll say tomorrow. bc I have had enough of being told off for shit that isn’t my fault #but I also have had enough of having to be like :) yes I definitely don’t mind that this ‘short rush period’ had been going on for 7 weeks #ok complaining window over back to (the useless utterly meaningless) work #yk at the old job there was always the silver lining of ‘I can quit! I can do something else!’ #but now…. I Am at the ‘doing something else’ job. i got nothing else. #ok whatever I do need to get back to work bc I will Also be complained at if I send the file to the client at ‘an unreasonable hour’ #like fuck you man if you’d paid for the actual staffing you needed you wouldn’t be getting emails at 10 pm #‘tell us if you’re having a hard time’ oh yeah that’s gonna go great. hi Simon I can’t industrialize the tooling this morning. #why? well you see getting up in the morning has become a struggle equal to what it was when I was actively suic*dal. hope this helps. #anyway did you want to review the slide drafts before the touch point? #yeah. that will go. really well. god. fuck this.

[tothesolarium]

When you come up with someone so cool but they won’t show up till the damn third book at best

#hi guyz #this story #is much longer than I ever thought to was possible of doing #i apologize #however I’ll talk about her a shit ton if ya want #and If y’all can help me name her that’d be amazing

[iloveyoumorethansoup]

Giving me the email to the Senior Executive VP of Programming is definitely the worst thing to happen to that guy today

#and I’ll make sure of it #I’ve got 6 different email accounts #and a lot of rage #bestie u canceled the one thing that made me happy on a regular basis your emails will be a curse to look at #I’m probably gonna end up writing out a few different emails and then copy pasting them like. hourly #thanks but I haven’t the patience for people who make stupid decisions out of greed and moneys #i can definitely say that being able to fight and complain for a renewal is helpful to the absolute grief I felt seeing it canceled #but also with the way I deal with emotions after a day I would’ve probably been numb to it so maybe I’m extending the grief #however! i am stubborn a pain and I hate corporate greed! #also. on Twitter u can make violence jokes which is very sad #bc. I’d love to be like which organ do I gotta sell to get this show renewed? better yet who’s organs? #unfortunately that would definitely land me in whatever twitters jail is #my dad is a regular of Facebook jail bc he can’t be nice I don’t need to be like that lol #I’m. incredibly spiteful and vindictive so sorry to the people just now finding that out #soup talks