#procrastination station

[anulithots]

I think using immediate gratification is the only *semi guaranteed* way to get any amount of work done.

(kindly) Forget goal setting and 'what does this mean to me', my brain does not want to do the task even if I want to do it.

Therefore, I shall play my favorite songs while doing a task, if I'm daydreaming half the time, at least I'm doing it. And I'll go outside and sit on a patch of grass for that task I've been having executive dysfunction for. (I can go outside, which has a nice amount of stimulation for me... so I can pet the grass and still get distracted, but it's better than being inside where you'll have the once and awhile turning on of the air conditioning. Outside there's constantly changing surroundings, so it keeps the back of my brain occupied.)

I'll use things I enjoy that are semi-productive (like writing) to avoid the tasks I don't want to do (like math), I'll use that necklace to stim with, I'll make a story out of it while I learn it so I can call it worldbuilding (which is easier for my brain to do). I'll constantly have the tabs open so I can be reminded that it exists. Any amount of instant gratification is better than trying to force my brain to do a task, even if it can be slow going, being distracted becomes a part of my process...even if it can be slow at times.

TL;DR - use things you enjoy, and surround yourself with your hyperfixations (soundtracks from fav show or smth), so that way brain is focused on the dopamine instead of the task... therefore tricking the brain. (Also have something to stim with, I use one of those prayer bead necklaces that broke.). It's okay to do a little bit of work, then get distracted, then go back to do that bit of work. We do not want brain to throw a fit.

Other helpful things:

HOW TO BEAT EXUATIVE DYSFUNCTION TO TAKE CARE OF PLANTS

#adhd #adhd brain #adhd problems #neurodivergent #executive dysfunction #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #neurodiverse stuff #adhd things #procrastination #procrastination at its finest #procrastination is a bitch #procrastination station #Youtube

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Hey hey! Limbless here, figured since you're doing Halloween prompts i would share my sheet ghost au idea. Gotta be honest it was made for shipping in mind and the idea of it being with Damian won't leave my mind.

Ghosts have started sweeping through Gotham, maybe following their prince, or because Amity has become too dangerous. Far too many living people have the ability to disintegrate a ghost to be comfortable over there.

So when Damian starts claiming that he's seeing a sheet ghost (which looks nothing like the other ghosts they've been encountering so far), the rest of the batfam think the little bird is too stressed and seeing things because of it. He gets benched for a bit until things mellow out a bit, which he is absolutely LIVID about.

Danny (the sheet ghost) gets worried and starts looking for his little birdy friend. Because of this he stops being as careful about not being seen and Jason is the one that sees him next.

Shenanigans (and perhaps some tentative hand holding) ensues

(the whole thing with the sheet started as a joke, then Danny became reliant on it to hide the scars from his death. It'll take a long while for him to get comfortable enough to even show his hands)

Omg this is from October? Has this really been sitting in my asks for so long? Its the 15th of December now. Omg I'm so sorry.

But I love this, it has angst, it has comedy, it had deadserious, it has a sheet ghost. Truly everything in one prompt. I love it.

Also the idea that ghosts are just casually following thier prince/king whether he wants them to or not is hilarious. He has en entire court that kinda just appointed themselves and take care of him/ use him to practice thier obsession, like those two tailor sisters that keep dragging him (and now dami) off to have outfits made for them.

Danny and Dami have had to escape together many times at this point but dami at least likes the clothes.

#the alien answers #but late #very very late #procrastination station #ill get on the train to leave...later

[melodygatesauthor]

I really will do anything to avoid working on WIPs. I took a shower, repotted and watered my plants, ordered groceries to pick up later, and cleaned up all the bottles and cans in my house.

Amazing lol

#procrastination station #working on zine stuff today though fr #writing this morning #drawing this afternoon

[rubywingsracing]

What I’m supposed to be doing rn: Writing a paper for my Henry James class

What I was just doing: Writing an essay of a comment on a fic dissecting the complex romantic relationships between the characters like the little freak I am

Someone needs to either take my phone away or hold a gun to my head till I get my work done

Also go read the fic rn or I will burrow into your walls!!!!!

#f1 #mclaren #papaya army #lando norris #he is so babygirl #pookie #he is the loml #op81 #oscar piastri fanfic #lando norris fanfic #landoscar #landoscar fanfic #angst angsty angst #love when Lando is a morally grey little freak who doesn’t understand communication #use your words you fool #the landoscar brain rot is all consuming #procrastination station #i’m procrastinating #yes my anxiety is eating me alive #but this fic eats ok that’s all that matters #f1 fanfic #f1blr

[little-peril-stories]

“Let this be a warning to any fool who believes he is above the law. Iustitia aecum has been terrorizing the good citizens of this city for far too long. We will tolerate it no longer. We will show no mercy.”

The Prince of Thieves

I've been meaning to remake my TPOT mood board for a while to a) avoid using copyrighted images, which the old one is full of, and b) make it match the one for The Queen of Lies. I was super into procrastinating on angsty heist wip yesterday, so this happened.

Enjoy!

| the old mood boards are all still tagged here |

#lps the prince of thieves #procrastination station #what do you think ? did I manage to capture the vibe? #some images Canva just straight up didn't have #so uh #oh well #😅 #whump story #lps mood board #mood board #tpot-lps-revival #tw blood #tw spiders #description in alt text

[clove-pinks]

tagged by @theancientvaleofsoulmaking, thank you my friend!

Favourite colour: all shades of purple

Last song: MacDonnell on the Heights by Stan Rogers. 😭 (Someday... someday I will visit Brock's Monument and Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonell's grave.)

Last movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Very underrated potc movie, Javier Bardem put his whole pussy into Capitán Salazar and deserved more screen time and a better ending,

Currently watching: Putting the Flint in Flintlocks. A really interesting short instructional video about sourcing and using flints for blackpowder/flintlock gun enthusiasts; practical tips and tricks and shows how the flint is set in the gun. How all your blorbos from c. late 17th century to the 19th century prepared their gun locks and maintained them. (You can get 50 shots from a flint in good conditions!)

Other stuff I watched this year: Les Mis the stage musical, in Chicago (A++ peak experience)

Shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: idk, I always have quite the to-watch list going on.

Currently reading: endless academic papers, mostly

Currently listening to: PLÜM – To Stay

Currently working on: Finishing a project about the role of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic

Current obsession: Haunted by thoughts of Fort Meigs and (perhaps relatedly) how much I would love a pair of Napoleonic-era boot gaiters.

tagging @maudeboggins, @cadmusfly, @fleur-de-paris, @agnetaseafoam, @victoriansecret, @mooseofthesea, @sanguinarysanguinity, @kaxen, @rowzien, @meerawrites, @apurpledust, @linguisticparadox, @artgirlfunkel, @nebylitsa, @iamthemaestro, @suddenly-frankenstein and @suburbanbeatnik if you feel like doing it!

#tag game #procrastination station

[simfestation]

I made this as a silly add-on to a post I'm writing. It has made me once again realise how much this blog has made me truly appreciate being a tired spinster in a sharehouse rental. Could you imagine if I was allowed to design myself a wedding? Could you imagine my home? You don't need to, I've created moodboarda

TO BE CLEAR: It's the COMBINATION of conflicting themes and concepts. It's not shitting on anyone's creations, tastes or weddings. Except my own. To be clearer: I neither want to finish my wedding post nor do I want to tackle any of my responsibilities for the day.

#bus driver ts4 #BusDriver2k #BusDriverLegacyofOne #Procrastination Station

[busierdisc88398]

would love to know what i do all day

#procrastination station

[obsessedwithceleste]

Guys, if my new Theo fic isn’t up by midnight tonight, someone needs to take this rock 🪨 and throw it at me

#this is a cry for help #procrastination station

[writing-for-life]

I’m stuck on editing/rewriting a chapter called “Collapse” (that’s like 18 chapters in 😩), and my procrastinator-doodle-brain wants to doodle. So I doodle…

I weirdly like how this one turned out despite much being wrong with it, but I don’t know if it makes me laugh or cry (laugh because of the stupid little stick man, cry because… well, I just know my story).

Also, I’m not sure if the vignette works because it makes everything look grainy, and my stylus just gave up its ghost…

#dream of the endless #the sandman #morpheus #fanfic #sandman fanfiction #aimless doodling #doodle #procrastination station #sandman fanart #wfl does art

[leche-flandom]

Who tf is this clown?!

I'm not usually bothered enough by website changes to take action, but I could not abide by that creepy little pirate clown plaguing my dashboard uninvited. It's not so much the eerie presence that bothers me, but the intrusiveness of this ad campaign. That being said, I put in a little effort and found a way to massively improve that immovable eyesore by messing with the image url through the "inspect image" option.

The Doctor disapproves of your ham-fisted advertising, @staff

#agents of shield #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d. #leo fitz #the doctor (agents of shield) #marvel #hellsite (derogatory) #tumblr pls fix it #buggy the clown #seriously what the fuck #this is like when apple thought it'd be a good idea to foist U2 onto everyone #tumblr dashboard #dashboard clown #this alternate reality evil scottish scientist is not good but infinitely better than a goddamn pirate CLOWN WHAT IF PEOPLE WITH PHOBIAS SE #oh yeah i remember that fitz actually dislikes clowns (in the dark with knives) so this is fitting! #procrastination station #iain de caestecker

[booksandventingaboutlife]

i want to say something dramatic and philisophical but i cant think of anything so instead just have this

#charlie spring #im desperatly bored #procrastination station #heartstopper occupies most of my brain

[beebeetheclown]

My mom told me that I should be studying for my midterms and I said “Yeah okay.”

This is what I’m doing:

Please tell me someone else plays or played this game.

#procrastination station #I’m studying… #studying the orders of my customers on a mobile game #papas freezeria #I may get low grades but at least I’ve got high points in this game😎 #kidding I’ll study now……. totally

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

One of the great reasons to keep a to-do list of stuff you need to get done or stuff you’d like to get done is that you can kind of weaponize any strong urges to procrastinate on something else.

Like, oh, you really should be working on getting Thing A unfucked?  Can’t right now, gotta get Thing B unfucked instead!

I mean, Thing A is still going to need to be unfucked at some point, but at least you got Thing B unfucked instead of mindlessly scrolling through your phone for an hour or half-watching some show you’re not even really into or just sitting there stressing about how much you need to get Thing A unfucked. 

If anyone asks what you were doing, you can point to everything you did get done.  If you’re looking at Thing A later and going “Dear god, why did I put this off so long, I hate my liiiiiiiiiiife,” at least you won’t also be having that same conversation with yourself about Thing B the next day.

If you keep a to-do list with stuff (especially if it’s ranked in similar urgency tiers) ready to go for when you’re looking at emails you need to send or errands you need to run or something you really need to clean and you’re like “I would rather die,” you don’t need to invest any already-scarce mental energy into figuring out if there’s something you could be doing that’s not entirely a waste of your time. 

You just scroll through the list, find something that seems like a great project to tackle instead of doing the thing you’re avoiding like the plague, and do that instead.  Plus knowing that you could be stuck doing Thing A like a chump tends to take a little bit of the sting out of doing Thing B.  Like “I hate pulling weeds, but it beats the pants off cleaning the bathroom, so I’m coming out ahead in this arrangement I’ve tricked my brain into thinking I’ve made.”

#procrastination station #life advice #ideally you figure out why you're procrastinating on important things #but therapy's expensive #and to-do lists are free

[persephoneunderground]

List five things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of the last ten people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity. 💫🌈

Thanks!!

Lemme see...

Working with polymer clay! Glam & Ghoulish is the first thing in my adult life that I really, genuinely love doing. I love seeing people's reactions to the things I make! I'm trying so hard to turn this into a full-time career ASAP because it has my heart.

The sound of my girlfriend playing guitar. She's insanely talented (she thinks otherwise, but she's very, very wrong), and there's something magical about watching her lose herself in the beautiful music she makes.

Autumn! It's almost here and I am very excited. The days are finally getting shorter and the air is getting cooler and everything is slowly taking on the golden/orange glow that I find so soothing. I love this time of year.

Hot drinks. Coffee, tea, cocoa...it's all good. I love wrapping myself in a blanket and sipping on something warm. It's cozy.

Halloween!!!! And yes, this is separate from just "Autumn." I love the decorations, the movies, the food, the events, and the way everyone embraces their inner weirdo for just a little while.

#ask stuff #procrastination station #back to jewelry making now #my spotlight event is next weekend and i have so much to do!

[writersmorgue]

fuck you

*organizes your bookmarks by color*

#procrastination station #not bnha #well it's in there actually #llyn is annoying