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Overcome Disorganized Thinking: Strategies for Focus
Do you often find your thoughts scattered? Disorganized thinking can block productivity and cause stress. But, effective strategies exist to improve your focus and tackle disorganized thinking. This article will cover strategies that aid in managing disorganized thinking. These aren’t about avoiding thoughts but redirecting them. This helps bring you back to the present. Grounding techniques like…
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#Clear Thinking Methods#Cognitive Behavioral Therapy#Cognitive Organization#Improving Concentration#Mental Clarity#Mindfulness Techniques#Overcoming Mental Fog#Strategies for Focus#Thought Management
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Sisters :]
#og post#my art#Ace Attorney#AA#The Great Ace Attorney#TGAA#susato mikotoba#iris wilson#iris watson#dgs#dai gyakuten saiban#look away spout#slapped a grayscale down and played around with gradient maps and then fine tuned it definitely the weirdest method of coloring ive done#then i threw on halftones for funsies#a really funny thing happened in my playthrough of dgs with my friends. they formed a. conspiracy theory. wherein.#mikotoba fathered both iris and susato.#we just finished blooming attorney theres no reason for them to think this they just went omg mikotoba and wilson knew each other#to be clear they think mikotoba gave birth#and jigoku is susato's other father#i just started sobbing. like how. did they get so close. to an actual twist. by throwing darts in the dark#they have no idea#highlight reel#1k
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if you struggle with mental health, one piece of advice i would genuinely give you is learn to knit.
or crochet: something repetitive to do with your hands, assuming you're capable of it. if you're like me and learnt to knit as a kid but let it lie fallow for a long time, it may be that starting a large, simple project (for me it was a cloak, but a blanket could work too) gets you back into it. or maybe doing something smaller, idk. i personally found socks really hard for a while because they felt smaller than my cloak but weren't getting Done quick enough for me. as i've sped up i find it more interesting to knit socks.
regardless, a repetitive task is great for emotional regulation (also see: autistic stimming), and something that you can look at and go hey i've done something, unlike simply using a fidget toy, can also help to pick your mood up when the brain is being cruel.
it's also useful as a conversation starter or distracter if you don't know what to talk about. if you're wanting to talk to older people also you're more likely to reel them in with knitting (i work better with older people, and 99% of people who ask what i'm knitting are older than me). it also gives you the opportunity to not make eye contact because you're busy knitting, even if you're still carrying on a conversation. if you're absolutely stuck for conversation you can count your stitches and people might stop bothering you.
if you have trouble focusing without doing something with your hands, you can knit! i knit a lot in church, and it helps me to focus on what's being said.
i probably have more reasons you should pick up knitting, but i can't recall them right now, so yeah.
#knitting#catkin knits#i remember one specific time back in october where i was sitting in Bible class utterly unable to stop the most horrible thoughts going#through my head. i was knitting as fast as i've ever knitted. no exaggeration to say i was knitting to stop myself from attempting to die.#and afterwards i sat there in the corner knitting for all i was worth. just repeating to myself 'not now. i am not killing myself now.'#and someone saw me in the corner frantically knitting and came to ask if i was ok. and asked how my mental health was.#must've been end of oct bc it was the first wednesday after i was out of psych ward. and i was having lots of thoughts about the method#i'd used for what is still my most recent suicide attempt. which was in october. and i had the means with me.#it would have been a horrible thing to do. to kill oneself at Bible class. with children around. but i wasn't in a particularly hinged stat#of mind at the time. that's approximately the only clear memory i have of that time in fact.#anyway idk why im thinking of that rn when im fine
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devotionduo so codependent that when they try to be less so they end up hurting each other what if i kms
#mine.txt#zam hated being relied on so Heavily in s5 so now mapicc values team interindependence to a level that i dont think?? hes had before#which means hes taken more liberty in grinding for himself and his teammates a lot more than he used to#and because zam places a lot of value in himself in being the team grinder he feels useless and unneded#and since zams a huge grinder it means mapiccs main method of helping him is through violence but since hes a pacifist this season#and while technically zam is fine with other ppl killing and most importantly killing For him; he doesnt really have any beef that requires#killing as a form of revenge which means mapicc cant do the main thing that zam (and anyone else really) uses him for#and they both want to do and be more for the other but theyre stuck at a standstill cause theyre in uncharted territory#cause theyre friendly but not teamed (or even pseudo-teamed like in early s5)#i will say tho mapes more active in trying to find ways to hang out with zam#but if there isnt a clear opportunity to do so hes so Weird about it lmao like he basically just kinda. hovers over him lmao#whether in chat or otherwise#but when an opportunity Does present itself tho he seizes on it basically immediately#like the stalking is easy pickings but theres also gaias hand and literally anytime zam asks him to kill someone for him#ok but seriously tho the fact that mapicc basically declared them as teammates (even if its not official)#after he finished with the stalking was so sdfsdklaghsaljh#like bruh why does zam even have doubts about mapicc prioritizing him above everyone else he doesnt even do all that for his actual team 😭#devotions
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My Study Method
I have quickly mentioned my study method in several posts through the years but I don't think I have ever written a proper post about it, so here it is.
I have to say that overall my study method is quite time consuming, but in years of experience it's what works best for the type of learner I am, the materials I have to study and the type of exams I have. I believe these three elements are the fundamental things you should figure out when creating your own study method. Let's go over these things quickly. Firstly I am an history student, tho not all my exams are history based (I have taken some language, philosophy, anthropology and litterature classes) so my method is proofed for most humanities. I am a learner with terrible memory, if you give me a list of things to learn by heart expect me to fail because my brain simply cannot do that. So I have to train myself to learn things when studying for an exam. As for the type of matherials I have to work with when studying for an exam, they are mostly full non fiction books, sometimes I have to work on articles as well, and depending on the class I have lectures to attend.
The fundamental element of my study method are the notes I write. That's why in my daily posts I am constatly mentioning them. The lectures I attend are turned into notes, the books and articles I have to read are turned into notes, everything you leave me with for too long will be turned into notes. The very act of writing is what truly helps me get into the topic, understand it, and memorize it. I might write an indepth post on how I write notes in the future, but for now what you must know is that the goal of my notes is to be the only material I actually study in the end. As I mentioned the very act of writing is itself a huge part of my study process. When I am listening to a lecture I try to write down notes as tidy as possible, and then try to fix them at home if needed. So there's not much to say there, as for the materials I have to read here's how I do it. When I get a book I have to study I usually read a chapter and underline all the important bits that I will be transferring to my notes as I am reading. When I am done with the chapter and have the topic still fresh in mind I write down by hand all my notes. The goal is to write everything I need to know, in a direct and easy way using my own words. By re-elaborating the original text I am making sure I am not blindly copying things, and actually understanding stuff. Once the entire book has gone through this process, the book goes back on the shelf and as I said I only work on my notes from then one.
Once I have all my notes ready a long time has probably passed, but in reading and writing I have already started to memorize things in general. I try to highlight my notes as I am writing, but in case I don't I go back once I am done writing, doing a quick reread and highlighting important stuff. I usually use two different colours: yellow for the important dates and another colour for the other informations. At this point there's two more steps left. Repeating and writing key words.
If writing notes can be counted as half of my studying, repeating outloud is the second half. Since I have oral exams I have to make sure I am comfortable with exaplaining things, showing I have understood things and I am not just midlessly reciting a list, and using the right terms. I am a very lucky person because my dad is both retired and quite interested in the topics that I study, which means that I get a lot of help from him in this phase of studying, because basically what I do is following him around the house for a few days exaplaining my notes to him. If you do not have someone to annoy with your study, talking to yourself works too but you have to speak outloud and honestly pretend you are giving a lecture. If you just go over your notes and read them it is not the same thing, it's way less effective. I usually do two rounds of repeating. The first one looks a lot more like reading and saying things outloud in my own words. By the second one I am usually much more comfortable with informations so I have my notes there only to guide me through topics making sure I don't miss anything. Having someone who actively listents to you is definitely a bonus because if they ask you questions they challenge you in the exact same way an oral exam does, and you make sure your exaplainations are as clear as possible.
The very last step is going through my notes one last time with the goal of writing a long list of key words. This is a tool I specifically use to review things quickly the day of the exam. Usually during my commute I reread the list of words in my head and I mentally make sure I remember about everything.
As mentioned this is a longer study method but it truly locks things in your brain, and paying that much attention to note writing also makes them a tool that lasts in time. If I am interested in the informations of any of the books I read during my degree I can pick the notebook in which I wrote those notes and find the information right away without even having to open the actual book. I usually dedicate a whole notebook to each book, in order to archive and find them easily. I will be writing a specific post on the way I write notes, maybe including a few pictures, but in the meantime I hope this was somewhat helpful.
#kids i have written this the other day and rereading once so there is surely typos and not perfect sentences but i think it does the job#i am thinking of making one more post on how i write my notes since they are so important to me and then maybe writing a post on oral exams#do let me know if something isn't clear or it you have questions!#when i was still working on creating a stuy method i found posts like these quite useful so hopefully this will be helpful for someone#studyblr#studyinspo#study tips#study method#uniblr#university#historyblr#studying#student life#study motivation#study blog#study advice#mine#the---hermit
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important question
#ted lasso#im asking BECAUSE. i think that is yucky. and i want to know how many people. do#please also feel free to let me know if you do a ted and scoop it out wit ya finger or use a spoon#to be clear the method of eating it by itself doesnt matter to me. its the peanut butter by itself that dowa#does**#nsbajshwlsks#food //
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ik she's not an oc but she should belong to you! 🖊 for komari??
you know what? you are so right 😌✊🏻
*yoinks all the character rights away from canon*
anyways, you know what I want for Komari? That she isn't technically a *good* Jedi, but that she is a terrifyingly *efficient* one.
Yoda's words were 'do or not do, there is no try', so I like to imagine Komari as a true force of nature because she does not doubt herself at any point. At least not truly.
She just does.
Does she do it because it makes her feel cool and admired? sure. but people around her (and she herself) have learned to direct that energy into a direction that more or less serves the greater good. The way I see Komari is that she truly likes being a Jedi and that she has found her niche amongst the Order to live her dream. She might not exactly do it for selfless reasons like many of her peers do, but that doesn't diminish the good she does.
it's also what makes her the ultimative hype-man.
she lives unapologetically and is her happiest self, so she encourages everyone around her to also do that. social anxiety and fomo? she's never known them.
Also, out of her entire lineage, Komari is the one most firmly rooted in the Cosmic Force. Dooku himself leans heavily towards it too, but he's also got a strong Unifying influence in his life through Sifo-Dyas, so it's a bit muddled.
Komari tho is, in fact, *such* a Cosmic Force baby that she often doesnt realize it is working through her. She just does Her Thing TM because It Feels Good TM not really questioning *why* it does that.
It's a very simple mindset, technically, but also very effective
#the inherent comedy of using the wrong formula to get to the correct answer#and in komari's case that answer was a near perfect unity with the force when she was like 16#she doesnt question it. she doesnt try to figure it out. it just is and she moves on - tripping up many of the masters while shes at it#it's also why she does consistently horribly in philosophy classes and such#bc the answe to HER is clear and while she can acknowledge the logics behind other people's opinions when they are presented to her#she would never think of them herself#its been the point of many a debate#another side effect of it is that she isn't able to do classical meditation#because when she sits still the force also just... waits#they've figured out a workaround for it tho and komari just does moving meditations#but it sure was A Process to get there. dooku almost dispaired on it because he kept thinking the problem was with him#and not with the method#anyways. i love komari and she is very blorbo shaped once you take canon and bend it to your will#random boli thoughts#star wars#me writing#answering asks#ask game#komari vosa
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modern (ish) nathaniel ideas
#look at my preacher dawg i'm going to hell#nathaniel norwell#idv#my art#i don't always take nano seriously but when i do i try to maintain his methodical evil#although i don't think he was born that way it is one of the key differences between him and ithaqua#also i'm worried it'll get misconstrued so 2 clear it up the music thing is him drowning out the torture sounds#hes not in his feelings sorry 😔#anyways sorry again if u saw the og tumblr keeps glitching my images#modern au
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crumbs in your bed
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#bakuspecial#comic#horror#cw: child abuse#cw: body horror#ask to tag#hi! hello. this is basically just a goosebump story I think. or a scary stories to tell in the dark entry#that's kinda what I aim for? along with the good ol vibe of fuan no tane#and also the like. Thing in east asian art where they make the main character a generic white person and then#every other thing about the setting is deeply recogniseably common asian shit lmao#that's entertainment for me. this came about extremely haphazardly... its why the first two pages look nothing like#the rest of it fsdjfhdsjhf. I slammed those out at a cafe like two days ago#went into this one no plan outside of a general sense of direction#I dont think Ive ever actually designed a single character in any of the short horror comics I did. like either its me or#I made someone up as I went. genuinely didnt know what the character'd look like until I sketched em#and then I kept referencing previous panels to draw em. dont know if I recommend this method#mmmm on reread not super sure if the sound effect of the bed leaving the room is clear enough... oh well there are other comics#been writing a lot about food and places recently Ive found out. oh yeah dyou know whats funny#I watched a wayner highlight vid of the kingdom heart charity stream today (I do not know anything about kingdom heart) and realized#how much of kingdom heart (at least the first one) is about like. places.#which is like. good job baku great deep read there isn't kingdom heart literally behind a door. arent there doors all over the place.#isnt the biggest symbol from that game taht EVERYONE knows about the KEYblade. for locks on door#fskdjfhdj but yeah its just. very cool to me that that game really does have iconic recogniseable sites. like the scenes are all tied to#where they happen at. and the climactic battle happens in a black void around a door. its good#good story about leaving ur home after ur friends aren't there anymore and being changed so much by what you go through that#you can no longer call where you started at home anymore. I am being conned by the music#anyways. yeah I go sleep now. powered thru the last 4 pages of this so its done and out there. hope my bed will not do this#have a good night lads! be careful of bugs
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Personally I think a lot of opinions about which Monster Hunter games are "good" and which are "bad" just comes from people failing to recognize that Monster Hunter has two different mainline lineages going at this point, each of which are supposed to emphasize different aspects of the series and create a more distinct experience between them to make it more worth experiencing both. And some people won't like both lines! That's ok! It doesn't mean they're bad, it just means the style of that line isn't for you.
#personally i view their decision to make the portable and console lines more distinct is a good one and lines up with their other recent#choices for the game#i think that limiting themselves by only letting their console releases be as good as they can translate to handheld#would be a bad choice#so i like that theyve gone in the direction where they take advantage of consoles to their full potential to really focus on the#ecological aspects of the game and create really expansive detailed worlds#meanwhile they use the portable for more classic monhun graphics and seem to be emphasizing#creative. fast paced. and personalized combat in portable#and i think in doing so they've created a fantastic system for keeping their fans as happy as possible#rather than using the old method of portable being the same as console with some tweaks#and this lines up with their switch from doing g-rank expansions as whole new games#to dlc expansions#but yeah i think ultimately we're only going to be able to compare portable and console releases so much#because its clear they're going for very different things with them#and i think this decision is best for fans because we get the best of both worlds#console fans get what they want. portable fans get what they want. and neither line has to be beholden to what the other#is doing yknow?#monster hunter
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first of all rye 'hello fellow kids' ingellvar there is nothing in this world or any other I wouldn't do for you. second of all, considering where this story ends... I'm going to die. this conversation -- and how much he genuinely believes what he's saying at this point -- held up against the fact that in a couple of months max he's going to get her killed (well. that's how he feels anyway) and then go against everything she believed in and stood for as a person in the end and have to live forever with knowing that's how he honoured her sacrifice. (and live with how easy it is to live with, the way he doesn't regret what he did at all. she'll haunt him from time to time, that's fine, he's a watcher he's loved many a ghost before and will again. but that won't.) 'no one is beyond help? oh lace I'm so so sorry, wherever you are now please forgive me for who I am, but after what he pulled and by the time I'm done with him on my watcher's oath he will be beyond help. I'll hold every hand in this world that reaches back but his'. and she'll still be gone.
'or none of this matters'. im so fucking sad I feel sick *through tears* this is great I love fiction I love this game (embarrassingly genuine as is my wont)
#rye joining the cycle of violence on the side of violence with clear wide open eyes and seeing harding and varric#out of the corner of his eye for the entire rest of his life. this is fine! this is fine#there's going to be big 'you fuckers killed all the kind voices and now you're left with the vengeful cockroach motherfuckers (ME)'#(he was cleverly disguised at the time I see how they might have missed that until it was too late. but yes! yes! the tiger will be free)#energy from my guy in the third act of this story fhsakj (focused thankfully he doesn't want The World to suffer. just solas)#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#oc: Ellaryen Ingellvar#lace harding#this relationship took a while to coalesce for me (I think rye and harding are both too much people preoccupied with Seeming#in different ways to get each other at first and rye is at heart a cautious methodical academic which early game harding is not all about)#but now that it has it is crushing. it is awful.#also that just made me make a connection with how much and how easily lucanis likes and understands both of them.#rye isn't quite a people pleaser (mostly b/c it didn't actually work out for him growing up b/c he was such. a mess.#he tried to please but no one was pleased) but he and harding DO have some of these (well-meaning) interpersonal dishonesty parallels#head in my hands. grief in my heart. joy and hyperfixation in my fiction loving brain#this conversation was really really good for me personally every line rook says feels exactly like what rye WOULD say#some scenes you have to do some gentle rewriting in your head around to make fit but no I think this is pretty much it.#and then. the Cursed Knowledge of what's ahead making that ending silence so ominous. chef's kiss
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IDK 73 yards leaving so much unexplained - i think it was a help rather than a hindrance. folklore ceases to be folklore if we know step by step the action and reaction of everything that happens
within the framework of a folklore type story what is much more interesting is following the actions and emotions of a character and what the mysterious unexplained element might be a metaphor or stand in for in the narrative rather than nitpicking about: was that an alien and does their species have the power of teleportation? but idk why the dr vanished?
does any of that matter to the story that was trying to be told?
#i just think the x files would be an even dumber show if every week mulder ans scully dedicated 10 minutes at the end of every episode to#give a post mortem of what alien / entity was that and why and what was it doing on earth#I ❤️ ambiguity though#i still had some problems with the episode to be clear lol but I thought this particular thing wasn’t#an issue at all#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#anyway wish they wouldn’t release episodes this late so I could actually make my thoughts coherent#idk I also think it’s a valid storytelling method for any genre it’s about the soul and emotion of a story the narrative details are allowed#to be ambiguous sometimes 🤷♂️
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If you visit my desktop blog, you may see a little change in the sidebar :)
I'm trying to help myself by creating some navigation haha, so you'll be able to find stuff here if you like :)
not all my posts are tagged so it's a work in progress, but it's hopefully still fun to peruse!
#while i'm at it i should update my about me lol#it's from 2019 i think#chatter#by me#just clearing my headspace with some methodical tagging#and revisiting old faves and quietly enjoying fandom stuff in my own archives#it's good :)#also if anyone knows how to fi the overlapping reblog button and tags#let me know bc I've given up for the moment haha
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What do you struggle with the most when it comes to making an OC?
(Mine is giving them a name. Like..... I would create a cool looking character with some personality but then, I don't know what to name them. I'm even struggling with that as we speak.)
design, absolutely design. a lot of the time i have a name / personality / role / backstory for them Before knowing what they look like. coming up with a physical look to go with the character is a bitch & a half lol
#name is tough tho! i feel your struggles!#if i may offer some advice - coming from someone who has crafted literally hundreds of brain guys#ask yourself what their vibe is#like... do you think their name is short? do they seem like someone with a long name? an abbreviated name like A.J?#maybe they look like someone whose name starts with 'h'#look up h names and go from there#or another method is a bit tougher but hey it kinda works#clear your mind and look at the character#the first name that pops into your head is often the best choice#or yk... just sit there thinkin about them! maybe they're like. idk a bird#bird > birdie > birdly > billie#billie the bird!#ALSO LOOK UP BABY NAMES#there are sooooo many lists#you can look up lists with specific amount of letters. starting with [insert letter of your choice]. names with nicknames.#male. female. unisex. myth-based. animal based. plant based.#THERE'S A LIST OF NAMES FOR EVERYTHING I PROMISE#rambles from the bog#for example w/ my puppet sundown summer#i chose her name bc her color palette reminds me of a sunset & she has western inspiration & she's from a kid's show#so her name would be alliterative & sound cowboy-ish. sundown is more western than sunset#and then throw on the summer for the alliteration & friendly feel - kids automatically have positive associations with summer#see what i mean?#or take my murder man Aces - he's named after the diamond patterns on his body#(i associate the word ace with the ace of diamonds playing card)#or uhhhh i have a talking cat character named bartholomew#named so because i think it would be funny for this little talking cat to have a long & 'haughty' name that's also a cat pun. 'mew'#see there's no one way to go about it!!!#there's lots of methods and none of them are wrong!!#good luck and have fun my guy!
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i thought itd be funny to compile some of the uuuuuhh interesting + memorable messages ive received on gay app
#work in progress n all that but. yknow.#it just makes me laugh sumtimes#words#the 'heyyy: heyyyy' just really really cracks me up like. Lmfao#also to be clear im not Judging these ppl (except for the middle one) on their. method of approach j think its#immature to be mean kn there etc etc
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I usually like living with my parents and don't even entertain the idea of moving out and then there are the moments that I recognize that the older I get and more I experience life outside of my house, the more I realize that my mother can drive me crazy
#I love her and I respect her and I do think she knows better than me in many circumstances#however... I have my own thoughts opinions and methods of doing things and I feel like she questions#every independent choice I make in a way that says she disapproves#idk I think that the more I develop my own opinions on things I've never even thought of before the more I end up#at odds with my mom and I hate that I get so frustrated about it. bc I do respect her. she's a really fantastic mom I want to be#clear on that.#she's SO good. I just don't agree with her on everything all the time.#Lu rambles#delete late probably
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