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Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.

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"Dead dove" doesn't mean "grimdark", "dead dove" is the new "don't like, don't read." It means "the tags and warnings are accurate, so don't come into my comments complaining that you dislike something you were warned that you were about to consume".

It can mean "don't come into my All Human AU griping about how canon's fantasy elements aren't there anymore," or "don't complain that the tagged ship is, in fact, an endgame ship," just as easily as it can mean "the tags warning about Graphic Violence and Psychological Horror do, in fact, indicate that those things will happen in this story."

It came from some screenshots that were a meme for a while, where a guy found a paper bag in a fridge labelled "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat", and looked inside the bag, and said, "I don't know what I expected."

on ao3 like some of these doves aren't even wounded

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#my goal in writing isnt to be a master of the english language but to portray a feeling and a lot of our feelings are imperfect

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you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

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"Fluid as water, brilliant as silver, heavier than lead, mercury spills through a mine worker's fingers."

National Geographic

October 1972

ph. Robert W. Madden

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This totally looks like one of those double trees, two trunks with mingled roots, and then a spell caused the trees and the ground beneath them to split apart and reveal a hidden staircase.

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Extruding pasta

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Zucchini Bread Recipe

Blend 3 eggs, 1 C salad oil, 2 C sugar, and 1 tsp vanilla

Add 2 C grated zucchini, 1 C crushed pineapple, 2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt, 0.5 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp nutmeg, and 1 tsp cinnamon

(optional) 1 C chocolate chips (Really, you can add a cup of anything for flavour/texture: chopped nuts, raisins, blueberries, grated cheese … If you go for grated carrots, though, you might need a bit more flour)

(optional) 0.5 C cocoa powder

3 cups flour (Not optional - there's a lot of water in the zucchini and pineapple and you need to balance it out or it won't bake right)

Pour into 2 greased and floured 8x4 inch bread pans and bake for 1 hour/1.5 hours at 350°F

Or 24 muffins, 20-25 minutes at 350°F

Zucchini Bread, based on Banana Bread

Cream 0.75 C sugar with 0.25 C butter (or peanut butter)

Beat 1 egg light and add to sugar-butter mix

Beat in 0.66 C grated zucchini (You may need to double or otherwise multiply this recipe to accommodate how much zucchini you have)

In another bowl (or, just into a big measuring cup), sift 2 C flour, 0.5 tsp baking powder, and 0.5 tsp baking soda (optionally, add 1 tsp cinnamon)

Mix 0.33 wet mixture with dry mixture, followed by 1 Tbsp milk, 0.33 wet mixture, 1 Tbsp vinegar, 0.33 wet mixture, and 1 more Tbsp milk (or, total of 3 Tbsp buttermilk)

(optional) Add 1 C chocolate chips, chopped nuts, blueberries, raisins, or grated cheese

Pour batter into a greased 8x4-inch pan, or 12 muffin cups

Bake at 350°F for 1 hour or until done (For muffins, 20-30 minutes)

Some 'savoury' zucchini muffin recipes, if sweets genuinely aren't your thing:

(from Muffins: A Cookbook, by Joan Bidinosti and Marilyn Wearing)

Zucchini Whole Wheat Muffins

Mix 2 cups whole wheat flour, 0.75 tsp salt, 2 tsp baking powder, 2 Tbsp white sugar, and 0.25 tsp mace (for those who don't know, this is a spice) (I assume this also works with all-purpose flour and just tastes a little different)

In a separate bowl, beat together 1 egg, 0.5 C milk, and 2 Tbsp melted margarine

Blend liquid ingredients into dry ingredients, then stir in 1 C grated zucchini

Pour into 9 large muffin cups. Sprinkle tops with mix of 0.5 tsp cinnamon and 2 Tbsp sugar

Bake for 20 minutes at 400°F

Zucchini Cheese Bran Muffins

Soak 1 C all-bran cereal in 0.75 C buttermilk (or, 0.5 C milk and 0.25 C vinegar)

Stir in 0.66 C brown sugar, 0.66 C melted/softened margarine, and 1 egg

Sift in 1 C flour, 2.5 tsp baking powder, 0.5 tsp baking soda, and 0.5 tsp salt (I have found most baking works okay if you skip the salt)

Add 0.75 C grated cheese and 1 C grated zucchini

Stir until moistened

Fill 12 large muffin cups and sprinkle tops with 0.25 C grated cheese (alternatively, you can just mix the whole cup of cheese into the batter)

Bake for 20 minutes at 425°F

Serving suggestion: cut in half and fill with ham, lettuce, and sharp mayonnaise

[Non-zucchini version: 1 C chopped raw broccoli, or 0.5 C drained & chopped pickles; because this won't have all the water that zucchini does, increase buttermilk to 1 C (0.66 C milk and 0.33 vinegar)]

Life Hack: You can swap grated zucchini into many muffin/bread/brownie recipes that call for mashed banana or applesauce.

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"Healthy zucchini brownies" Did you know that our lives are short & beautiful & someday they will find your bones & no one will be able to tell, from your skeleton, what sweetness you stole from yourself?

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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My brothers were talking about this at the last family gathering, how a burger, drink, and fries at McDonalds used to be like $5 and now it's like $15.

Nearly every time I see the price of something nowadays I feel like an old person going, "In my day movie tickets cost a nickel."

I dunno man. I found out today that a subway sandwich is $14 now. A shitty subway footlong sandwich that isn't actually 12 inches long and is occasionally made with expired ingredients and was never a great option to start with. I ate those in high school because I was broke and at the mall a lot.

There are poke bowls in my city from a local place for $16. Super fresh fish and veg, warm rice, more than I can eat in one sitting, for the price of a sandwich and a drink at america's most mid-tier sandwich shop.

Someone in another post said (paraphrased) you used to be able to get something mediocre for cheap, but now the mediocre things cost as much as the nice things so why would you?

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Well if you stupid, selfish baby boomers hadn’t created a world to fucked up to bring a life into then this would never happened.

Climate Change is a thing. People not being able to own a house until 50 is a thing.

Just saying.

Also, you would have hated the theoretical grandkids, anyway.

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['Tony Hightower may have' tweeted]

I know everyone thinks Hemingway has the ultimate Six Word Story, but may I present:

[embedded photo of a paved two-lane road, with trees and telephone poles along one side, and grass and sidewalks on the other. In the foreground is a diamond-shaped road sign reading, "Warning: Low Flying Owls". Below and in front of it is a cardboard sign written in sharpie or similar, reading "Lost Chihuahua" in outlined letters, followed by a phone number. Based on the sky colours, it is either late sunrise or early sunset. Though the visual setting gives useful context, the Six Word Story is simply the signs' text together -

"Warning: Low Flying Owls. Lost Chihuahua."

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I've added a few copies of this print to my shop. Be quick if you want one: www.tomgauld.com/shop

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Inspired by @lacnunga 's adorable dragon embroidery

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The baby so far 🐉 still got a few bits to add but Im quite happy with it so far

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s/o to this skeleton babe from 1936

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When its your birthday month you should be able to do whatever you want and spend as much money as you want throughout the month and it doesn't count since your birthday is on that month so it's okay

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hi everybody please reblog this and tell me your go-to coffee order right now and if you don't like coffee feel free to include your go-to tea order instead