pls give adhd tips that have worked for you 🤲
Oh I do not think we can say that ANY of the way I live this life is recommended, but:
✨ Attitude ✨
I blamed myself a lot for not 'bucking up' or "buckling down" or "just doing it"
It never improved anything and it makes me sad. I stopped doing that and I achieve the same about of shit but I'm happier
💩 Boring tasks 💩
It is simply not a choice between "get it done properly right now" and "get it done half arsed at a weird time while wearing a silly little hat, singing a silly little song and rewarding yourself with a silly little sticker"
Its either half arsed or it's not done, so I'm half arsing it. My apologies that your task is boring as shit, I did what I could to make it bearable and you'll be thankful that I did that (me to me about the dishes)
🔊 Sound 🔊
I have a bell in my keys so when I think 'do I have my keys tho' for the 50th time I can just shoggle my jacket and know they're in there
I set a 30min audiobook timer, I can tidy because I can't watch anything because someone's talking, when it ends I can guilt free stop or I can ego boost keep going, but doing it often enough means sometimes I finish BEFORE THE TIMER (unmatched smugness)
I sing the "got my (something) got my (that thing) got my (thiiiing)" song while pating important things like dog lead poop bags headphones before I leave the house
Work video conferencing filters out background music, you can just play tunes all day and it makes 'tell me when you can see my screen" silences bearable
🦄 One little thing 🦄
Every work day I set myself one task I WILL do today, it needs to be no more than 20mins with no pre work
No matter what happens that day I can take 15 and achieve one actual small useful thing and if I do I put a little "good job" sticker on my to do list notepad.
I am both the struggling student and the teacher cheering her on. I have the power to buy £1 unicorn rainbow motivational stickers and by God I will use that power to email Ken from statistics
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it's late by the time bernard gets home from the grocery store. he takes off his shoes by the shoe rack they he kept by the front door.
"ti-" his voice falters, "i'm home."
tim's not here anymore, remember? you broke up with him.
"shut up." he tells himself. he enters the kitchen and starts putting away the groceries. bernard hums to himself as he works.
tim had loved that about him. you're always humming he used to say like my very own disney princess.
"oh but love grows where my tim goes!" he sings, thinking about all the times he used to serenade tim with this song.
(tim used to blush furiously at the name substitution and then he'd try to sing back and they'd go back and forth singing the song to each other and it didn't matter that both of them could barely sing because they were so in love. they were so in love.
there's a sob building in his throat and he will not cry. he will not.)
the song is building to the climax in his head and he spins around using a leek as a prop microphone when he sees the people sitting their his living room.
"what the fuck!" he screams as throws the leek at them.
the wayne brothers -- all 4 of them duke, dick, jason, and damian --stare back at him unimpressed.
"what the fuck." he repeats when he's calmed down. "why the fuck are you guys lounging around in our. in my living room.?"
damian, predictably reacts first, pulls out a switchblade, and waves it around in what would be a threatening way if it wasn't coming from someone bernard has seen melt at his cow's babies.
"you made drake cry dowd. explain yourself."
"put the knife away, dami." dick says, never taking his eyes off bernard. "what did i tell you about pulling knives on people?"
damian sulks and mutters, "that it's not nice."
there's a hot, vicious, anger brewing in bernard's gut. "what the fuck is this. what did tim send you guys?"
"no, we came on our own accord." duke says
"oh enough of this." jason says, "why'd you break up with the brat? he's at the house fucking ugly crying because of you. you better have a damn good reason."
"because i couldn't do it anymore. now get out of my apartment."
"what does that even mean?" jason says.
bernard inhales for 5 and exhales for 5. "do you know how many dates tim's run out on me in the past 3 months alone? not to mention how many over the course of the past 4 years? do you know how many nights i woke up to his side of the bed empty and cold? do you know how many dates i've been stood up? do you know-"
he cuts himself off.
"drake loves you. is that not enough?" damian says.
"i keep forgetting you're only 14."
"what does that have to do with anything?"
"it means, that no, love is not enough," bernard responds.
"they were family emergencies." duke says quietly.
his fists clench and unclench at his sides. "do you think i'm stupid, signal?" he says quietly.
all 4 of them still.
"you know." dick says
"yes."
"how?"
"it's not that fucking hard. he runs out and then 10 minutes later, red robin's on the scene. once you know that, it wasn't too hard to figure out the rest."
"so then what's the problem?" jason says "you know why he has to keep running out."
"this is why all of you can't keep a relationship," he says.
"he has a duty." dick says, "to the city, to it's people, to-"
"what about to me?" bernard cuts in, "what about his duty to me?"
the anger is bubbling up.
"what about his duty to me?" he says louder, "what about me?"
"kid," jason starts, "you can't expect him to drop every-"
"4 fucking years of this. i figured it out 3 months into our relationship. y'know. and i understood at first. 'oh he's a vigilante. he can't just reveal himself.'"
"so i thought that maybe if i proved myself, that i was trustworthy, that i loved him, that i'd do anything for him, he'd tell me himself. and then a year went by and i thought, 'oh it's just a year. it's probably too new. he can't just tell me." and then the second year and the third year and the fourth year. and then i realized he was just never going to tell me."
"so you're mad cause he didn't tell you he was a vigilante?" duke asks incredulously
"no i'm mad cause he keeps leaving! he keeps fucking leaving. date after date. night after night. and i'm just left to sit at the tv and watch the news reports and pray like i'm some wife from the 40s hoping her husband comes back from the war."
"4 fucking years of you guys just hiding or outright lying about injuries. and maybe it's just me, but i don't think it's selfish to want the man you love to stop going out in spandex to fight crime."
there are tears dripping down his face. he wipes them away angrily.\
"i don't think it's too much to ask to want the man you love to prioritize you instead of fucking mr. freeze."
"i love your brother." bernard ignores the way his throat hurts and his voice cracks and his heart aches, "he is the light of my life. i want to marry him. i want to have children with him. i want to build a life with him but i can't do that if he keeps on leaving."
they're frozen, staring at him.
"am i supposed to be married and live with him making excuses as why he has to leave cause the fucking condiment man decided to terrorize gotham? if we have kids, am i supposed to watch him leave them again and again, cause dr. isley decided gotham looked better if it was a forest?"
he stares at them, "when is he going to stay? when his body is 60 and he can no longer physically fight crime anymore? if we had kids, do you think they'll need a dad 30 years down the line or are they going to need both of their parents?"
"i'm not lois lane." he says quietly, "i can't spend the rest of my life waiting around for him. i can't spend the rest of my life sharing him with the public. i can't spend the rest of my life living off the rare days he decides to come home."
"i love him. i'm in love with timothy jackson drake-wayne. i want to marry him. i want to have children with him. i want to spend the rest of my life with him but as long as he keeps choosing red robin over me, i can't be with him."
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Possessiongate and Will in S2- or Why Mike is Completely Fucked
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- OKAY so, I had the great idea to go into season two and try and see if there was anything similar about Will’s possession in relation to what we might be seeing with Mike- And oh my fucking god- you guys aren’t gonna believe this shit
First of fucking all, we’ve got ‘Loch Nora’. Y’know with the purple and yellow flowers there and just a few red ones (reocurring imagery for season 2 but I don’t have TIME for that in this post- it’ll be in the next one when I get to it I swear). Really similar to ‘Lenora’ and Mike’s flowers that he gave to El. This is also where Will has his second episode.
Look at his left eye.
Look at this absolutely horrifying level of forethought. And subtle visual storytelling. And, no, it doesn’t even stop with just this.
Like even just in this one we see Will’s left eye get scary dark. Like, this was put in here before we even knew about Vecna or before the show introduced his lore into the canon. Like??????
Now, I’m putting Mike in here because how Mike is being lit in season two is exactly how Will is being lit in season four. It is literally so wild. They’ve literally traded places. AND it makes sense for them to be lit this way because they are each others ‘light’. In season four Max’s whole plan was to hide in the light and maybe the reason that Mike and Will are being lit like this
Is because they’re trying to hide in the light to fight off Vecna (/the mind flayer)- by looking to each other
And here to, it’s more subtle- but in their backgrounds are very different. Mike’s in front of the light while Will’s in front of the dark (and in front of a blue light so that’s a point for blue lights meaning possession). I’ve done nearly a 30 part analysis of lighting in season four so I’m not gonna include any more examples of Will being in the light but trust me. He is. Exactly like Mike is here.
In the car with Bob, while talking about standing up to whatever’s bothering Will- Will’s left eye is dark. Like, this is a consistent thing that’s happening whenever the Mind Flayer comes into play. It’s also seems to be a thing for Mike too in season four- which is where I FIRST noticed the possibility that a darkened left eye could indicate possession by Vecna. And now I’m checking season 2 and ohhh it’s breaking my brain. Snapping it like a little twig- like how Jonathan snapped steve’s face in that alley in season 1.
This is just to add to the ‘Mike’s definitely being lit different in season 2′. This is consistently happening/it’s very intentional. And it’s paralleling season four so god damn hard.
Okay, so when Will stood up to the Mind Flayer- it didn’t go very well. Like, at all. But I wanted to note that this Upside Down is blue and in episode nine of season four the two colour themes are red and blue. This is just adding to the season 2 and 4 parallel list- because I think that they’re meant to parallel each other/relflect each other. I don’t for sure know why, but I’ve known that this has been happening with the plot for a few months. I have a hunch it’s got something to do with time and or the Upside Down just as like general themes-
BUT ENOUGH OF THAT. BAck to why Mike’s definitely (most likely-probably- I’m pretty sure on this one. But keeping a healthy margin of error) being possessed in season 4. Kids head is not full of rocks, just an evil man trying to steal his brain. It’s a much more forgivable offence.
There is a focus on Will’s eyes at the start of episode four. And we might be able to kinda start to see even here Will’s left eye darken/be in shadow.
AND THEN IT BEGINS.
This right here- look at his eye- look at it. I have been staring at it and I am on the floor. Who does this??? Who puts this much shit into the god damn foreshadowing?? The Duffers apparently, mad lads.
It’s a lot subtler here but you can still see the difference between Will’s right and left eye. His left eye bag is just slightly darker than the right. Well, not slightly, but it’s not really noticeable unless you’re looking for it.
This is episode five and there’s a few things that are scaring me here. First of all, that jaws poster in Will’s room. It was also there when Mike and Will were having their ‘best friends’ heart to heart- and honestly? A lot of the heart to hearts in season four are Will trying to comfort Mike. And by doing that they’re paralleling a lot of what happens with Mike and Will in season two. They’ve just traded spots. But that poster is in a different position in relation to Mike in season four. It’s directly behind him- like how it’s in line with Will if that makes sense? Who we’re meant to notice who it’s about has changed.
Also Will’s eye gets SCARY here. Like creepy af
It’s getting a lot clearer here what they’re doing with Will’s left eye but in a way that we wouldn’t of had the slightest chance of even knowing to look at it without season four. Without Vecna being introduced, there would be very little reason to look at Will’s (and Mike’s- fucking Mike. Jesus. I can’t.) left eye.
A few other thing that season 2 Will and season 4 Mike have in common;
Black shoes with white laces.
Being really fucking out of it and confused.
Blue god damn lights. There’s a lot more of these that are probably better examples, like Mike from the Monologue and Will in the Upside Down during episodes where all the lights are blue- but I just didn’t want to go searching for them.
Believing the person they love about somethin that fucks them both over/doesn’t work or go as planned
So, Michael, your head is not filled with rocks. You’ve just been trying to fend off the evil man who is trying to take over your mind. Welp.
Babygirl you’re possessed.
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why does he have 1KG of moz tho 👀
It is completely normal!😅
My dad doesn’t like milk but mozzarella is a different story! He bought a couple of them (one for the New Year’s Eve and one for you know, why not).
And he bought those big mozarellas which are called la figliata (a litter), a pregnant mozzarella, because it is a big mozzarella with little ones inside. And they look like this:
Also you can find big mozarellas in the form of La zizzona (big tit), yeah. The first one is a 5kg mozzarella:
There are others types of mozzarella, different types of milk and different shapes, like La treccia (the braid).
Anyway, mozzarella is simply delicious.🥹
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