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CHRISTMAS IN JULY, DAY 6: HALLOWEEN:

↳ SHADOW AND BONE CHARACTERS as GREEK GODS

GUYS DID YOU SEE THE TIDE PODS COMMERCIAL FEATURING MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS???

Dr. Strange Fanfic writers' hcs were right about the Cloak of Levitation being stubborn and unrelenting when it comes to washing/cleaning itself KAHSHSHHAHSH

the fact that marc takes every same step steven takes before sleeping to ensure he knows when he's been awake when gets home before the shift, like cleaning the blood, changing clothes, putting the tape on the door, the sand around the bed (unless he carefully steps over it when he leaves which cool), and chaining himself to the bed again is hilarious cause like, dude's a mercenary yet he cannot let poor shop gift-ist steven realise his body is out there in the world, god knows where, every night, sometimes for a couple days, fighting the leader of a cult and his minions to try and stop them from murdering people and all in the name of khonshu, an egyptian god

it's hilarious and i love it

Moo point

Louis: It’s just a moo point.

Niall: A moo point?

Louis: Yeah, it’s like a cow’s opinion, it just doesn’t matter. it’s moo

Liam: have i been friends with you guys for too long or did that all just make sense?

HOW TO WRITE A //HIGH SCHOOL// ESSAY

When most* English teachers grade essays, they aren’t actually sitting down and reading your work like it’s a novel. They scan through and make sure you have all the key components for essay writing (that’s why you see little checkmarks over your essay when it’s returned. Once they see you have the sentence there, they leave the mark and move on).

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This is the template I used for 90% of my essays in high school:

I just filled in the sentences for the relevant topic, copy pasted them into a paragraph, and proofread once or twice to make sure it flowed and there were no basic spelling mistakes.

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*THIS IS NOT //GOOD// ESSAY WRITING

In an academic capacity, these types of essays are weak, boring, and won’t hold up. It works in high school because /technically/ it has everything you need, so it gets a 100/100 (or close, fingers crossed) on the rubric.

If you end up with a teacher that doesn’t let you just plug in sentences and actually pushes you to /write/ something, take advantage of it! I learned more about writing from one teacher that ignored rubrics and actually graded the quality of my work than I did in all four years of high school combined.

That being said, this is not meant to put down teachers or make it seem like I know everything. I’m absolutely sure all the english teachers I had saw through what I was doing (one or two of them even commented on it), but it was still enough (the bare minimum) to get me through the slog of high school. Good luck and happy writing!

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NOTES ABOUT THE TEMPLATE:

Add in transition words at the start of each paragraph and at the beginning of each new piece of “PROOF”

Repeat the “BODY PARAGRAPH” template three times with each different piece of your thesis

You only need 2-3 ‘PROVE, EXPLAIN, CONNECT” sections for each body paragraph. A good idea is to aim for one longer paragraph with three supports, and have that be your strongest argument, and let your two other paragraphs only have two supports.

This template works best for PERSUASIVE ESSAYS. It can be used with tweaking for comparative essays, but I don’t recommend it because it’s specifically designed to cater to the persuasive essay rubric

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Here’s an example of the template in use for a body paragraph. This was, in fact, one of my old high school essays, I just pulled up the old document. The thesis was that there are no heroes in Hamlet.

A big part of ADHD (and Graves' disease, which can give similar symptoms) is feeling like it's your fault somehow.

That if you did just try harder or put "more effort in", you'd somehow stop struggling.

There can be times where you're at the absolute end of your rope, emotionally and physically exhausted, and you'll still feel like pushing yourself because you "could" be productive right now.

I'm here to tell you to STOP. When you reach those moments, do not suffer in an attempt to get more work done - let's be honest, if you're in that state, the work you do isn't going to reflect your capability anyway.

Right now, you might feel like "productivity" is defined by working or studying or something similar.

This is a lie. Right now, productivity is defined by self-care. Don't try to push the exhaustion aside, even if there are deadlines on the horizon. Right now, focus on keeping YOU healthy enough that you don't end up breaking down. If you've already broken down, now's the time to stop it from happening again.

Drink some cold water, and eat some food. This does NOT have to involve cooking either! Have a microwave meal. Eat cereal out of a mug or a glass. Don't have the executive function available to make a sandwich? Eat the ham slices and bread by themselves.

Can't find the energy to wash up, but you need dishes? Rinse a dish with boiled water. No, it's not the same, but it'll do for now, just for the moment.

The washing up and the cleaning and the deadlines and the stress can WAIT.

Productivity isn't just stuff that affects other people. It's also doing stuff that helps YOU.

You won't be able to properly do the other stuff if your body and mind are shutting down.

MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the labrynthine vasculature of the brain.

In this new paper, the researchers combined their work in hydrogels and in magnetic actuation, to produce a magnetically steerable, hydrogel-coated robotic thread, or guidewire, which they were able to make thin enough to magnetically guide through a life-size silicone replica of the brain’s blood vessels.

The core of the robotic thread is made from nickel-titanium alloy, or “nitinol,” a material that is both bendy and springy. Unlike a clothes hanger, which would retain its shape when bent, a nitinol wire would return to its original shape, giving it more flexibility in winding through tight, tortuous vessels. The team coated the wire’s core in a rubbery paste, or ink, which they embedded throughout with magnetic particles.

Finally, they used a chemical process they developed previously, to coat and bond the magnetic covering with hydrogel — a material that does not affect the responsiveness of the underlying magnetic particles and yet provides the wire with a smooth, friction-free, biocompatible surface.

They demonstrated the robotic thread’s precision and activation by using a large magnet, much like the strings of a marionette, to steer the thread through an obstacle course of small rings, reminiscent of a thread working its way through the eye of a needle.

The researchers also tested the thread in a life-size silicone replica of the brain’s major blood vessels, including clots and aneurysms, modeled after the CT scans of an actual patient’s brain. The team filled the silicone vessels with a liquid simulating the viscosity of blood, then manually manipulated a large magnet around the model to steer the robot through the vessels’ winding, narrow paths.

imagine trying to side w a guy who is some country's national ass 🤡

Imagine being someone who thinks Tony Stark was right in Civil War 🤡

nevermind this kid is perfect to play percy 💀

A weird idea of a möbius strip in a complex plane - a somewhat looping sequence in a vague interpretation.