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things i did as a neurodivergent person to get straight a’s for the third year in a row

hi hello hi how’s it going. welcome to the 3am-burst-of-motivation-tumblr-post-of-the-day, where i’m sharing all of my study tips that allowed my adhd/austism/ocd/bpd brain to somehow squeeze out straight a’s for the third year (sixth semester) in a row. 

1. study differently for different subjects. contrary to popular belief, flashcards and rewriting your notes does not work for every subject (unless it does for you, in which case ignore me and do what works for you). different subjects, at least for me, require different environments, techniques, and associations. 

2. association! sensory stuff works great for me because i tend to associate physical things with emotions and even personality types, so have something be constant every time you study. example: i have two tubes of chapstick, one peppermint and one pomegranate. i put on the peppermint one right before i go to bed and the pomegranate one after i eat breakfast - i associate the different scents with different activities (going to bed and starting my to-do list). 

3. to-do lists! mine are written on sticky notes and stuck to my mirror because i hate hate hate having the sticky glue stuff from sticky notes on my mirror and i’m not allowed to clean my mirror until all the sticky notes are off of it. when i can’t see my mirror, they’re on the outside of my backpack because they’re bright pink and the social anxiety makes me think people are staring at me if they are on my backpack. 

4. change your location often. specifically for my adhd peeps who have the attention span of an overexcited puppy, walk around. do things. go to a park or a coffee shop or a grocery store or a sidewalk or a bench somewhere or my personal favorite, the bank. when you’re understimulated go somewhere with lots of different noises and when you’re overstimulated so somewhere quiet or control noises (listen to music, noise-cancelling headphones, humming). 

5. keep a piece of paper next to you for the Random Thoughts That Come at Inconvenient Times and write down the stuff you want to look up/do/tell someone about and like… i don’t even know why that helps but it does. just having your thoughts out there i guess?

6. body doubling. find a person who will study with you. bonus points if it’s another neurodivergent person. they are depending on you to finish the studying and get the good grade. THEY ARE DEPENDING ON YOU. DON’T DISAPPOINT THEM. (side note anxiety people i would not recommend this for you)

7.  go to a place that will remind you to pee and eat and drink things. starbucks is great for this. so are most restaurants. 

8. get a new thing to study with every week. i like new things. if i have a new thing i am going to use it until it’s no longer exciting. i get a pencil, just a boring, manual pencil from the drugstore every monday afternoon for like sixty cents. it’s a fantastic method, at least for me. 

9. don’t drink something with caffeine in it while studying. you will either fall asleep or end up on a roof. it is not a good situation. caffeine for neurodivergents is like sleep pills, for me at least and most of the other ND’s i’ve met. if not for you, you’re lucky. 

10. spaced reps. in other words, find a big pair of dice and write vocab terms on each side, then hurl it at the ground and define each term. do this for like an hour. it’s fun and gets a lot of energy out. 

11. stim. vocal stims, physical stims, self-talk, fidget, yelp, squeal, tap your foot, walk around, shrug your shoulders, twitch your nose, jump up and down, ribbit like a frog. stim, stim, stim. it helps. 

anyways. it’s 3:17 am. happy studying!

STEM writing advice

Ok so this could probably work for a lot of writing, but the only writing I've done in years is scientific papers, so I don't wanna lay untrue claims. Anyways, here we go!!!

Don't just put in a quote. Unpack it. By that, I mean explain the contents of the quote and then how it relates to your topic. For example, let's say you're writing about the sky and use the following quote: "the sky gets its color due to the reflection of light". Your followup sentence should explain this, looking something like: the blue color therefore is a result of this reflection in the atmosphere. It both helps explain the quote and its relevance. This is very important for supporting evidence for a claim.

Titles are hard!!!! I recommend writing your intro and discussion before deciding on one. This way you can pull a summary phrase from one to use for a title!

Download or save all your sources!!!! Trust me trying to find them panicking at 2am is no fun.

When compiling resources, make an annotated bibliography

WRITE ON YOUR SOURCES GOD DAMN IT!!!!! I don't know why this belief that you shouldn't write in books or on papers or anything is so prevalent. But fuck it. Trust me you want to write on them! It will save you so much time when you're looking for that once super specific, amazing, perfect quote you read.

Before you proofread, do not touch your paper for at least a day. Don't even think about it. You're too attached. After 24 hours of absence you'll be able to go "wow that really sucks what was I thinking?"

If you hit a block, just word vomit. Just write down anything and everything.

Or start with your evidence or quotes and build from there.

Use something like [zz] for missing information. That's what I use and it allows me to search the document for that to find where I'm missing something whether it's a citation, an explanation, a data point, whatever.

You don't have to write the sections in order. Write your methods first and your intro last. It doesn't matter at all.

It helps having someone else proofread your paper, but if no one can, Google translate or any read aloud service is amazing

Stuck on an idea? Talk about it to someone or something. I use my ferret. I'll just sit there and be like ok this is what my data is and this is the analysis from it, but how do I explain its relevance?? Like sure it shows this but what about this? And then eventually I figure it out. Bartenders are also great for this

If you don't like working at a library, make yourself a spot at home that's just for writing with no distractions. Yes, even that plant will get you away from your paper, trust me.

Get you a nice, soft pillow to bang your head against.

Learn to do calculations in excel and run analysis in a statistical software like R which is free to use!

If you want to access an article without paying, email the authors! A lot of time they'll send you the paper!

Keep track of ALL vocab. Any niche terms might have to be defined, so keeping a list with definitions/explanations is very helpful.

Make a folder with subfolders. Keeping things organized will save you so much time I promise. Put drafts in one folder, papers in another, lists in another, etc.

Save! Always save! Even better: set up autosave to occur every like 10 minutes.

Early mornings and/or late nights are gonna be your thing now I promise.

If your eyes start feeling strained or your head starts hurting, take a break! Trust me, once you start writing in what I like to call the "goo stage" (where you're starting to get foggy and tired, rubbing your eyes, stretching your back, etc) your work quality is gonna go way down. Get up, stretch, drink some water, take a walk, whatever.

Get a stress ball or something. Especially for running data analysis. Things get very frustrating.

Set up a news alert for your topic. It can help you find real world applications for your discussion as well as maybe find you a super recent publication!

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my childhood in one picture

ehcvjhervcuervcherwvhcukecfkhudvhujfehv huefh- these head cannons! I fucking loved them! Especially the “Sex with a ghost one”! Like where do you get there fantastic ideas?! Also about the sex with the ghost head cannon I have tried to write it and extend it-

Lucie smiled as she looked at her husband. His Blackthron green eyes reflected the sunlight coming from the window, turning his face a shade paler. He looked beautiful as always, with messy black hair and his enchanting smile. He caught her looking at him and pulled her closer, kissing her lips as he did so. Lucie put her arms around his neck, into his soft raven hair and started ruffling it. He wrapped his arms around her waist and soothingly rubbed her back. She loved it when he did that, it calmed her down, made her feel wanted. 

“Happy Anniversary, love,” she muttered gently into the kiss. It was their first anniversary, and Lucie being Lucie had even wrote a short story on how she expected it to go. She hoped Jesse hadn’t found that story, cause he would have tried his best to finish all of the things on Lucie’s list. Which also included writing ‘L+J’ on the moon with gold chains. She really hoped Jesse hadn’t done that, and even if he had, how had he done it?

“Happy anniversary, Princess Lucinda,” Jesse said mockingly, but still with his usual warmth of affection. Lucie couldn’t help to prevent the blush on her face. She used her willpower to pull back from the kisses and said, “Oh thank you, Sir Jethro. What should I do, on this auspicious day, to amuse you, my dear?”

Jesse didn’t answer, just pulled her closer again, and showered her with more kisses, moving from her forehead to the bottom of her neck, where she still wore the chain of gold, that used to store Jesse’s last breathe. “Just be there for me,” Jesse said, and kissed the chain of gold, “Until my last breathe.”

Subconsciously, Lucie reached for his pulse, by placing her hand on his heart. He is still here with you, Luce she comforted herself, still alive, breathing.

While one part of her busy reminding her Jesse was safe, the other part was forming an idea. A very good one indeed. Lucie mentally made a note to visit her parabatai’s brother, Alastair Carstairs.

                  *  *  *

“Good Evening, one and all,” Will Herondale announced, “Today as we all know, we are here for my daughter, Lucie’s first marriage anniversary with Jesse Blackthron!” The audience erupted with applause as Jesse kissed Lucie on the forehead, receiving a stare from Will and James and a kind smile from Tessa and Cordelia.

The audience wasn’t a really big one, just the close relatives- the Herondales, the Lightwoods, the Fairchilds, the Carstairs, Grace, Brother Zacharich and Ariande. 

Jesse felt Lucie move away from him. He scrunched his eyebrows at her. She gave him a comforting smile and winked, “A surprise for you, Sir Jethro,” and she walked away to the stage. She took her place beside Alastair Carstairs, who Jesse hadn’t noticed was waiting on the stage with a piano. He couldn’t blame himself, the only person he noticed was his Lucie.

“Hullo everyone,” Lucie gave a small bow with a wide smile, “Since it is my first anniversary, I am going to perform a song that I myself have written and thanks to Alastair for the help with the piano,” she turned her head in an appreciative gesture towards Alastair, who smiled kindly. 

“This one’s for you, love,” Lucie gestured to Jesse, who blew a fake kiss at her.

Alastair started playing. Lucie followed and started singing, “I'm getting hickeys from my bed bugs,”

Alastair gets nervous like “This is not what I signed up for”. Will and James get the questioning look on their face. Meanwhile Lucie ignores all this, not moving her gaze from Jesse she continues,

”I'm getting busy with a bad perfume I'm sticking kisses to a pen drug I'm making friction with a sad vaccuumI'm getting jiggy with a rifle I'll pull the trigger with my eyes closed Hoping to hit you somewhere vital And when I miss, you come and kiss me with a smile,” 

At this point, James and Will were moving towards Jesse to kill him but thank the angel for Uncle Gideon and Uncle Gabriel, who held them down.

Then there is a few seconds of Alastair playing the piano and Lucie sings in high pitch, “I'm having sex with a ghost, 'cause he knows I'm alone He's a freak in the sheets, play it cool I'm sleeping with a Sex with a ghost, 'cause he knows I'm alone He's a freak in the sheets, play it cool I'm sleeping with a ghoul,”

Will, James, Gabriel, Gideon and Thomas were mortified while Tessa, Cordelia, Anna, Matthew, Ariadne, Jem and Grace were laughing their asses off. Christopher wasn’t really paying attention to the lyrics, he just thought it was nice of Lucie to write a song for her love. Gideon and Gabriel are holding James and Will back to prevent them from strangling their nephew. Jesse had no idea what Lucie was doing, but he definitely knew this was some masterplan of Lucie’s to make her dad and brother kill Jesse. 

Ignoring all this and looking at Jesse with a smirk, Lucie continued, “ The only time I ever see him Is when he's behind me in the mirror Even from a distance I can hear him Try to listen, but his whispers make my ears hurt,”

Will and James finally broke free of the Lightwood brother’s grip as they lunged towards Jesse and landed on top of him. 

“Thank you,” Lucie bowed and rushed to grab her second best bonnet.

(The song above was “Sex with a ghost”)

Ghostwriter/Blackdale Headcannons

As promised, in honour of my birthday here is a master list of all my Lucie and Jesse headcannons.

CHAIN OF IRON SPOILERS AHEAD

DISCLAIMER

If you’ve seen the same/similar headcannons to these it’s likely that someone has had the same idea and posted it immediately rather than add it to a list to be posted 2 weeks later. I promise I’ve not copied or stole from anyone, these are all straight from my brain as soon as the thought occurs.

Cannon Time Period

For a long time after Chain of Iron Jesse struggles to sleep because he’s scared of being possessed again and because he gets nightmares of murders.

·When they get to Cornwall Jesse refuses to go outside or open any windows until Lucie wakes up because he doesn’t want to see the sun without his light

As soon as he gets the chance Jesse goes to meet his uncles officially. He doesn’t ask Grace or Lucie to come because he feels his family is something he must face on his own. There were many tears, many desperate hugs, and many stuttering sobs.

Jesse makes a point to get to know his cousins. He tries to help Christopher with some of his experiments, he lets Anna take him shopping and Thomas helps to teach him Welsh. He asks Cecily and Gabriel if he can babysit Alexander sometimes and Eugenia takes him out for tea while teaching him modern etiquette.

Jesse moves in with Gideon and Sophie and they love and nurture him like his mother never did.

When celebrating her birthday Jesse always gets Lucie something pertaining to writing (new pens, a notebook, typewriter accessories etc.) then takes her some place beautiful so she can write about it in one of her books. He once took her the highest point of Idris where they could look down on Alicante and see Lake Lyn simultaneously; He also took her to an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of London which she thought would be a well-suited environment for a fight scene

At their wedding Jesse gives part of his vows in Welsh both to surprise Lucie and appease Will

 Lucie gifts Jesse his first set of gear and gives him a custom sheath for the Blackthorn sword as an engagement present.

 Lucie gives Cordelia the final instalment of The Beautiful Cordelia for their parabatai ceremony. In the instalment Cordelia discovers that Lord Hawke - her lover she’s been trying to reunite with this entire time - was actually Cruel Prince James all along, and he may not be as cruel as he seems.

After finishing The Beautiful Cordelia, Lucie begins writing a spinoff novel titled: Princess Lucinda and Her Adventures with Sir Jethro.

When they’re sleeping/cuddling she rests her head on his chest and her hand on his throat to feel his pulse.

Lucie inherited the Quiet Look and is often found gazing at Jesse from across rooms, much to the disappointment of those trying to have a conversation with her

As we know Alastair can play the piano so I got the idea that for their wedding anniversary or Jesse’s birthday maybe Lucie enlists his help to create the song “Sex with a Ghost” (this song is pretty funny if you imagine Lucie singing it). She writes the lyrics and Alastair does the backing music. The catch is she doesn’t actually give him the lyrics, so when the time comes Alastair along with Jesse, Will, James, and Thomas are all mortified while Tessa, Cordelia, Anna, Matthew, Ariadne, and Grace and laughing their asses off. Christopher isn’t really paying attention to the lyrics, he just think it was nice of Lucie to write a song for her love. Gideon and Gabriel are holding James and Will back to prevent them from strangling their nephew.

When Tatiania goes off on one of her anti-Herondale/anti-shadowhunter rants, claiming Lucie stole her son and that she’ll have her revenge, Lucie interrupts her by simply knocking her out with a punch then letting the Silent Brothers deal with her.

After all the chaos is sorted Jesse regularly wakes up at the ass-crack of dawn as to not miss a moment of sunshine. The first thing he does is look at Lucie and silently thank her for giving him life again. He doesn’t wake her up because he knows she lost many hours of sleep just to stay up at night with him. Instead he makes tea and reads by the window or on the balcony. If Lucie does wake up to join him she writes in her notebook next to him or they discuss they’re plans for the day.

It becomes their nightly routine to talk about their day while Jesse brushes Lucie’s hair before they go to bed

When they trained together for the first time Lucie was very surprised that Jesse could hold his own against her. That was until the sun shone through the glass panes, illuminating Lucie’s pale eyes and making her hair shine all the different colours he loves. This caught Jesse off guard and Lucie used the opportunity to knock his feet out from under him. In turn Jesse sweeps her off her feet so she lands on top of him and captures her in a kiss.

Lucie chooses Cordelia to be her suggenes and Jesse chooses Grace

Modern/human AU

Their respective clothing styles are lazy cottagecore with a touch of academia for Lucie and soft boy-next-door also with a pinch of dark academia for Jesse. Lucie drinks ice coffee out of a metal straw, wears baggy sweaters, has pencils in her hair, always carries a notebook and is constantly bumping into people. Jesse likesthe piano, black coffee, old converse and crewnecks and candid photos

Lucie steals sweaters from basically all of her friends. She took Jesse’s green one, Cordelia’s yellow one and a brown one from James

They’re both English majors which is how they meet but Lucie has a focus on creative writing and Jesse has a focus on literature. Jesse also does a minor in business to please his mother.

After they get married they open a publishing company where Lucie releases The Beautiful Cordelia and many others. Jesse is her editor.

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