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Percy Jackson - The Lightning Thief

some things i’ve learned while studying in quarantine

drink more water instead of more coffee.

weekly goals are bullshit. set yourself 3-day goals. you’ll be less laid-back.

don’t just mindlessly stare at words. before you start studying, know your approach to it. have a plan.

summarizing the concept in your own words is the key part of taking notes. don’t just copy things down, convert them into your own way of talking, your own vocabulary, no matter how dumb and unprofessional it sounds.

don’t let the “studyblr aesthetic” fool you. studying doesn’t have to be pretty. summaries and notes can be messy as long as they’re comprehensible. you can always rewrite and reorganize them later. (honestly, you better do. and you better keep them.)

don’t throw away the papers you’ve solved your problems in. staple them to the fucking textbook. you need to see them constantly. cause you’ll need reminders of how far you’ve came, when you’re feeling discouraged.

don’t be an armchair analyst for your issues. if you have an idea then act on it.

remember: the exact point where it becomes difficult, is where your growth begins. take a deep breath, and try to focus on the paragraph in front of you.

get off your high horse and understand that if you’re a zero, you won’t go to 100 in a couple of days. first, you’ll need to reach 30, then from 30 to 60, and then from 60 to 90. nobody is 100 everyday. that happens very rarely.

you need to have fun everyday. you need to have peaceful time every single day. even on exam night. especially on exam night, actually. so make sure you’ve studied enough so you can have some time to yourself.

once you’re on a roll and in need of some challenge to stay on track, start writing down your studying hours. tell yourself you’re not allowed to do less than 80% of what you did yesterday. whatever the hell it was, even just one hour. so if yesterday you really studied for like, say 8 hours, today your goal is to study for at least 6 and a half hours. if you can’t keep up with that, make it 70%, or 60%. 

be forgiving of yourself. be kind to yourself. even if you bounced back and lost your streak. start again. as slowly as you did before. take your time. it’s okay, you were there once you can get there again.

Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

Heart Attack

EIGHT [Prod.&Feat. SUGA of BTS] (2020) by IU — “We dance together without shadows under the orange sun. There are no such planned goodbyes. Let’s meet in that memory that was beautiful. Forever young.”

Percy Jackson series was so fucking funny bc in Titan’s Curse’ Athena was like  “I dont approve of your relationship with my daughter” to 13 year old Percy Jackson and Percy was like “Oh ok” and then proceeded to dance with annabeth at the party right after on olympus and continued to pine after annabeth for the next 3 years  and THEN in The Last Olympian Athena told percy to stay away from her daughter and percy was like “lol ok” then confessed his feelings to annabeth and kissed her the DAY after. Percy Jackson legit gave no fucks and i love that for him

so i don’t have my tablet with me to clean this up, but i wanted to post it today (it being the last day of pjoshipweeks and all that)

i’m just happy i managed to scribble this out in between preparing for my senior synopsis show [<3]

if you post his dark materials stuff (even if it’s only occasionally) reblog this and I’ll check out your blog! I really want to see more hdm stuff on my dash. 

jessica rabbit is literally a sex symbol though she can't be asexual?

she is in romo with a rabbit because he makes her laugh and aside from using her looks to get things out of people she literally never once shows interest in anything or anyone sexually through the entire movie and is clearly appalled when anyone makes advances towards her like there is canonical evidence that jessica rabbit from the classic motion picture who framed rogger rabbit is an asexual character  

#askhdm twitter recap

jane tranter supports the idea of hdm merch

and says that the series teaches us to “listen to the young without shouting over them” and “goodness over greatness”

said gay rights

jack thorne confirmed it was intentional to present the master and the librarian as an old married couple this is canon

dafne spat chamomile tea in ruth’s face when filming episode 6

THEY’RE ABOUT TO START DEVELOPING SCRIPTS FOR SERIES 3 THE AMBER SPYGLASS

jane also says the mulefa are an essential part of the amber spyglass

jack thorne is just like us in that he worships ruth wilson

please don’t forget to drink water and get some sunlight because you’re basically a houseplant with complicated emotions.

a collage i made from various 1970′s lesbian newspapers and magazines

I don't know english, I just throw random words, which I barely know the meaning, into a sentence and hope anyone can potatoes

happy jiheon day 💖 

good advice, I've been dealing with an excessive daydreaming during these days and now looks like the perfect time to try learning embroidery

my #1 piece of advice for anyone who is not used being stuck in their homes is to remember, every day, to do things that ground you.

playing on the computer, watching movies and tvs, even reading books - these are all great ways to make time pass quickly BUT they are not grounding activities, they are activities that instead make you more prone to getting lost in your head a bit - you look up and it’s 2 in the morning and you don’t know where the day went.

so alternate any activity that involves escapism (text messaging, movies, video games, ect.) with a grounding activity.  otherwise, if you’re like me, you’ll start to feel all weird and floaty and nothing matters and what is time and when was the last time i ate.

obviously, work with what resources you have and keep in mind any issues, physical or otherwise, that might make these suggestions not right for you.  

also, i like to do all of these with my preschooler and toddler, because they benefit from the shared activity and from the grounding themselves as well.  i’m not a board-game mom or a mom that likes to coordinate cute art projects or activities - i just don’t have the focus for that (adhd).  instead i prefer to just share activities with my kids as described below.

suggested grounding activities:

*  cooking a meal.  not microwaving something, preparing a meal that involves chopping vegetables, requires you to stand over a steaming pan stirring constantly.  bake a boxed cake for no reason other than you need a grounding activity.  chop an onion.  make ants-on-a-log.  look at the weird leftover stuff in the pantry and make something equally weird with it.  (my husband likes to do this.)

*  walking (my favorite).  if you can, go outside to walk, if not, even walking around the rooms in your house will help.  take your kids on a walk.  raining? go for a (brief) walk anyway.  my kids LOVE a rainy day walk because they get to splash in muddy puddles.

*  loud, cheerful music that you sing along to.  this is not the time for wistful,  angsty breakup music.  you want abba.  you want cyndi lauper.  you want “you can call me al.”  PLEASE dance along.  PLEASE sing as loud as you can.  kids will love having a dance party.

*  making art.  glue popsickle sticks, paint with watercolors, anything messy or tactile is A+++.  everyone has 500 rolls of toilet paper, use those empty rolls for art projects. playdoh.  molding clay.  my kids’ favorite activity is stringing beads on pipe cleaners.  

*  heavy work.  if you have the resources and a backyard, a good thing to do is to go outside and start moving heavy things.  clear out a spot for a garden.  move bricks.  clean up trash.  if you don’t have outside space, move your furniture around the room.  push and pull and lift, if you can.   alphabetize your book collection, moving your hardbacks from shelf to shelf.  

*  picking a small area or room and cleaning it.  what i mean is: washing a window, wiping a baseboard, scrubbing a tub.  doesn’t have to be the whole room.  just one thing.  what i am NOT suggesting: organizing closets and shelves.  organizing requires making decisions.  you are probably not in the right headspace for descision-making right now.  please chose MINDLESS physical grounding activities.  as an added bonus, cleaning makes you feel productive AND soothes your anxiety over germs.  for example, my kids LOVE to mop.  they beg for that priviledge.  let them mop! make a big wet mess on the floor and then dry it up with towels.  

*  play with toys.  i am literally suggesting pulling out a box of blocks and sitting on the floor with your kids, if you have them, or with your pets, if you don’t.  blocks are great for grounding me (and my kids).  build towers, roads, cities, ect.  it’s tactile, mindless and meditative, and it’s probably something you don’t usually do every day, so it’s novel.  other suggestions: barbies.  matchbox cars.  nothing that requires batteries or makes noise.  no lego sets - an open-ended activity.  don’t try to follow directions.  just get a bunch of foam blocks and make a tower.

*  paint your nails.  paint your kids’ nails.  both my son and daughter love having their nails painted.  it’s tactile, it’s good physical contact, it tickles a little, it’s mindless.  

*  play with a pet.  order a laser pointer for your kitty or get a squeaky ball for the dog.  get on the floor.  

these are some suggestions off the top of my head, please feel free to add more

Probably the most optimistic thing Percy said in the entire pjo series was ‘yeah that prophecy will probably never even happen in our lifetimes, we don’t need to worry :)’ and look at what happened

I hope every lesbian who grew up being told that lesbian was a bad word finds peace and comfort and pride in the knowledge that lesbian is a good wonderful word with a deep rich meaning and history

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What's Tony Costa age in canon? I vaguely remember from my first read he being a teen but now on my re-reading of NL Lyra says he's a grown man and I'm really confused. Maybe I messed up because of the tv show or confused him with another character?? But I remember something about his daemon settling recently so I assumed he was young...

It is our duty as feminists to protect and respect women in Hijabs

200308 GFRIEND Weverse update

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god the bush fire situation is so fucking devastating as an indigenous person because not only is my home being fucking ravaged by fires and has been for months, but people only seem to care about the animals.

and don't get me wrong, care about the animals! i care about the animals! they're MY native animals, they're part of my culture and home and they're living breathing creatures.

but there's so so so many things in place already to help animals, shelters and charities and sanctuaries, and by all means help them more, but the government does not care about aboriginal australians. shit, scomo doesn't give a flying fuck about anyone who isn't a white cishet able bodied christian.

aboriginal australians are losing our homes, you say people aren't endangered but WE ARE. we make up a tiny percentage of our country, and a vast majority of us live in poverty and unsafe areas. not only are we losing our homes, we're losing our identity, our lives, our families. this land means more to us than it ever will to people crying over the koalas. the koalas mean more to us than they ever will to you.

remember who lived alongside those animals for thousands of years.

there's a million things i could say about why we need help more than the animals, but in the end white people will care more about what's small and fluffy than people of colour, especially people whose land they're living on, right?

gofundme.com

Click here to support Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities organized by Neil Morris

Neil Morris Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities As Fires have struck the East Coast of this sacred land recently it has lead to s

(id: a picture of the sky clouded with smoke from the bushfires, the top half is black and the bottom half is red and orange, with the sun in the middle. it looks very similar to the aboriginal australian flag, and was taken minutes after sunrise on january 1st.)

I hope next year treats you kindly, but above all else, I hope you treat you kindly.

as the new year is approaching I hope this year will be kind to you and even more so you will be kind to yourself to others and in everything you do. I hope we are able to let go of the things that have caused us discomfort or pain and start afresh. going in rather not with expectations but amendments. remember that you can and you will and that above all else what matters most is you. a new year means a chance to look forward and instead of holding yourself back let yourself be !! wishing you the best

2020 goal is to actually get some healing and happiness so that when we sing the lyric “here we are in the future and it’s bright” we will actually FEEL that shit