fastidious

/faˈstidēəs/ adj. very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail the studyblr of a stressed out mat student

[incidentalcomics]

Understanding Poetry (after Mark Strand)

This comic appears in my new book, I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF. You can order it from your favorite local bookstore, or find it online wherever you get your books!

[viejospellejos]

[fluentisonus]

☞ THUS

[serialjekyller]

Not to be a fucking nerd or anything but writing academic papers is actually super fun when you have a genuine interest in the topic!

[autumnslesbian]

[what-even-is-thiss]

[skepticalqueen]

This is wildly accurate.

[izukuwus]

Still reeling from the realization that bullet journaling was essentially created to be a disability aid and got legit fuckin gentrified

[izukuwus]

Like I'm at work and don't have the time to properly organize my thoughts atm but like.

-bullet journalling was invented by a man with a learning disability (99% sure it was ADHD but his website now just says learning disability so I can't be 100%) as a system for organizing his life/way to work WITH his learning disability

-the general concept is bullet point the important things you need to do and use a simple system of symbols to mark whether it's done, rescheduled, cancelled, etc. with very little fanfare, keeping it all in one notebook so you know where to easily find the information at a glance

-people pick it up and it starts getting popular

-bullet journaling becomes an aesthetic movement largely populated by white neurotypicals

-bullet journaling has turned into creating an extremely pretty notebook that has some function, but largely depends on complicated decoration and aesthetic function that takes more time to set up than is tenable for the people it was created for

-new entries to bullet journaling feel pressure to shop at particular stores, use particular brands, purchase lots of stationery purely for its aesthetic value, and prioritize the artistry of the pages rather than the information being stored on them

-people who would massively benefit from the original system can only really find information on it from members of the aesthetic movement. There is now a barrier to entry for ppl with ADHD and other similar conditions, as bullet journaling now requires a focus and motivation to start that these same people often lack or struggle to maintain consistently

-bullet journaling is no longer a disability aid and has become an aesthetic movement largely for middle class white neurotypicals, pushing out the people who the system was created for to begin with

[bibookmerm]

This is the original guide from the person who made bullet journalling. Super simple. Not at all high maintenance.

It was eye-opening to rewatch this after getting used to bullet journal meaning "work of highly decorative art you might journal in if it doesn't detract from the decoration" everywhere online.

[belovedstill]

useful websites i forget about when i actually need them

feel good & feel better

Good News Network - exactly what it says, good news only from all around the world

you feel like shit - the website asks you questions that guide you through the process of figuring out why you might be feeling unwell right now

information & research & books

Z-Library and Library Genesis - a place to find & download books, scientific articles, etc. very useful especially for academic purposes

Archive - the Internet Library to know and love. Also, Internet Wayback Machine - lets you access ‘screenshots’ of websites etc that no longer exist (or shows you what they used to look like)

Asexual Research - a user-created and updated Zotero repository of academic asexual research

Recommend Me a Book - lets you read a page from a book with the cover, title, and author hidden. You can reveal the book information with a click

Whichbook - helps you find a book to read based on several categories: mood & emotion (comes with sliders), books from… (world map; click on the map, select a continent and a country, and browse), and character & plot (sections: race, age, sexuality, gender, plot)

writing & writing prompts

Calmly Writer Online and ZenPen - online minimalistic writing software, both come with such handy options as dark mode and manually saving your progress. Calmly comes with several preferences you can adjust, ZenPen lets you set up a target word count.

Tip of My Tongue - helps you find the word you’re thinking of so you can carry on (sections: partial word - starts with…, contains…, ends with…; letters - unscramble, must have, can’t have; word meaning - word 1, word 2, word 3; and refine search - min. length, max. length, sounds like…)

Prompt generator - generates multiple writing prompts for you, you can refresh each section separately or everything at once (sections: genre, setting, relationship, period/time, profession, book/movie/show au, theme, fantasy/sci-fi, prompt idea, dialogue idea)

OTP Fluff Generator - generates one fluffy ship-oriented prompt at a time

Fic Prompt Generator - SFW and NSFW version (sfw sections: setting, genre, trope, prompts; the nsfw one has a bonus kink section)

misc

show all tumblr tags - type in a tumblr blog handle and it’ll show you a list of all the tags that have been used (takes a while to load the tags up)

GeneratorMix - a website full of different random generators

Online OCR - extracts text from an image or a pdf file

TuneFind - gives you a list of songs/music used in TV shows (per episode), movies, and games

midomi - find the song stuck in your head by humming or singing it

waifu2x - lets you upscale images/artwork 1.6x or 2x with minimal quality reduction (works best on lineart)

[academicssay]

academic writing explained | via @KaleyBrauer (Twitter)

[the-greater-grief]

My prof left a comment on a paper I submitted saying “you don’t need to put a comma before the word ‘and’ when listing things.”

Well, Linda, I decide on comma placement with my heart, and I’ll not be ceasing my usage of the Oxford comma. Thanks (but no thanks) for your feedback.

P.S. APA 7th edition says I should use a comma before ‘and’ at the end of a list, so how do you like them apples?

[jstor]

FWIW, JSTOR is an Oxford comma organization.

[mityenka]

the cruel choice between pdf (free) vs physical copy (annotatable)

[glowingghosty]

and pdf (searchable) vs physical copy (read on couch away from screens)

[bioaccumulation]

I miss the god complex english class gave me

[studentlifeproblems]

[undasrego]

How to remain productive with online classes:

A few tips from a broke neuro-divergent academic

Try and wake up early, and go to bed early too. I’m not saying get up at 5 (unless that’s you’re thing) but sleeping into noon is a productivity blackhole. I go for 8 or 8:30, generally, but that’s just what works for me.

Get dressed for the day. I’m not talking like, jeans and a business casual outfit, but a clean pair of sweatpants, fresh underwear, and a new shirt can really put you in the mood for a new morning.

Have a workspace. Whether it be the kitchen table, a desk, a spot on the floor with a lap desk, have a place that’s dedicated to your work. Have items that signify that workspace too, like your book, planner, laptop, lamp, whatever. It can help you get into the zone, being in that space.

Have a morning drink. I choose earl grey tea with honey and cream, but black coffee, herbal tea, lemon water, whatever works for you is awesome, as long as itll wake you up and start your day.

To do lists. To do lists and to do lists and more to do lists. I have three. One is a post it weekly planner deal (3.99 at a local grocery store). it’s a weekly spread already set up, and if you’re anything like me, its really hard to set up a weekly spread. Then I have an app called Ike. I have a daily to do list I write on that app, and then I have four more to-do lists of what I have to for each specific class.

Spread out your assignments. Don’t overwhelm yourself. If you’re professors are like mine, and have the due date for each module as Sunday at midnight. What I do is spread out all my assignments from Monday to Saturday, and I leave Sunday blank, so anything I didn’t do that week, I finish on Sunday. It works for me, it might work for you.

Have a folder for each class, and a notebook for each class. I hate spending money, I’m broke as hell, sono al verde as the Italians say, but a 0.99 cent folder and a 0.25 cent notebook can do wonders for motivating one to fill them up.

Study with a drink. Tea, water, coffee, whatever, but my go to is generally a warm drink. I cannot study if I’m cold, I get tired and groggy, so warm socks, a robe, and a hot drink really keep me going.

Take breaks. Make time for your hobbies, for something fun. Working without stopping absolutely destroys my motivation, and let me tell you, when I feel like that, an episode of Avatar and a snack gets me right back on the wagon.

Do self check ins. Does your back hurt? Are you sad? Stressed? Do you have to pee? Are you hungry? Never put your homework over your health. You won’t be able to get anything done well anyway if you’ve got those blocks.

Most importantly, get enough sleep. I beg of you. Sleep is so important, and it’s the game changer, at least to me. We as students have such an amazing opportunity to get more sleep than we ever have before during the year. Take advantage of that.

[skellydun]

posting on a blackboard discussion board and replying to two of your fellow students has to be one of the nine circles of hell

[academicssay]

[mypoorcanary]

ME

[valtsv]

i <3 themes i <3 motifs i <3 ripping into the guts of a story and tearing through the meat and seeing the connective tissue that holds it all together