It is our pleasure to announce the first Tinfoil Throne Secret Santa!
What’s all this about tinfoil?
This is a Secret Santa exchange for GOT/ASoIaF fans who are interested in rare pairs, crack theories, and everything else strange and unique. We’re spreading some cheer this holiday season by sharing gifts (fanfic, fanart, gifs, edits, videos) featuring less-common ships or cracky/AU scenarios.
1. Less is More: no need for a paragraph to define a term, choose the simplest and most efficient one. Also, don’t include common sense things or things you know by heart, you’ll waste time and space by writing them down.
2. Sketch it Out: Sketches can be helpful in allowing you to visualize the term/concept.
3. Say it Out Loud: When reviewing through the cards, try and say the definition out loud. It will require you to think about it more, and it also helps with memorization. If I try and define a term in my head I usually speed through it and leave something out.
4. Write them as you go: Don’t sit down right before finals and try and write down every term/definition from the course. It takes forever and you will kill your hand. As you finish a chapter in the course finish that set of flashcards. You will thank yourself later.
5. Repetition: I go through my flashcards before a test maybe a thousand times (exaggeration but very close). Remember to focus on the harder ones, you’ll most likely remember the easier ones during the test.
Here is my method:
Round 1: Go through every single card. Don’t set any aside. I usually don’t know a majority of the terms at this point, I most likely just finished writing them down.
Round 2: Go through every card again, this time setting aside ones I didn’t know or had trouble with.
Round 3: Go through the harder ones I missed.
Round 4: Add the harder ones back in with the original and shuffle.
Round 5: Go through them all and repeat the process until pleased!
your bare minimum isn’t actually that bare or minimum. my dad once told me that there’s nothing in this world that’s easy and that’s true tbh. everything we do takes energy, time, and effort. even the little things. if you feel like you’re not doing enough please try to think about your circumstances and what’s currently available to you: chances are, there’s something that’s diverting or otherwise draining you. and to pull away from that and get something done regardless? well, i think that’s really admirable! please try to take pride in the things you do accomplish in a day, no matter how small or trifling you perceive them to be. you can’t be proud of your growth if you don’t notice where you already are!
do you ever just see someone you love or admire and feel your heart palpitate a little bit and it just aches so bad and you feel like you could implode or explode or melt at any second and you don’t know what to do so you just kinda sit there and your brain and soul become a metaphorical puddle
Tag yourself, I’m the tramp in slutty shorts buying a Mickey pretzel.
I mean my childless ass is going to WDW in April. I’ll make sure I get a mickey pretzel and wear slutty shorts.
featured in: people who had kids because it was a societal obligation and are regretting it later
These two have the same energy
JFC, I’m a mom of 3 in house daughters, step-mom of two daughters, and inadvertent mom to my youngest brother, and never in my life of raising kids has this sense of entitlement and bitchiness been a thought process.
I don’t know if she got the memo, but being a mom, your kids don’t owe you jack shit, they poop, they cry, they get sick, they need you to do thankless tasks a million times, it’s hard work. Is it rewarding? I like to think so yeah, but come on, she, and other moms like this need to seek therapy, and cognitive behavioral help, because this is the wrong attitude and mindset to have when caring for any child, especially your own.
They didn’t ask to be born. You made that call. You brought them into this world, and now you need to act like the fucking parent, and do your goddamn job. Will it be hard, feel never ending, and leave you exhausted? Yeah, but when you have a kid, it’s no longer about you. It’s about them. To be a parent means being willing to sacrifice your needs (sleep, time, patience, etc.) in order to make sure they are happy, well fed, clothed, healthy, and don’t be an abusive fuckwad.
One major thing that sticks out to me is the lack of planning she is showing about her “family vacation”. When vacationing with kids, or going on any kind of trip, you need to plan everything out, from making sure you have snacks and small toys to amuse them while waiting, to making sure you buy fast passes so you don’t stand in line for hours with a toddler. You don’t let the toddler dictate where you go, you can give them choices on what to do first, but damn, acting as if it is an innocent bystander’s fault because of your poor planning, and stress levels is fucking ridiculous. If I saw you do something like this in front of your kids, be prepared for me to make you cry, and question all your poor decisions in life, because I will come for you.
Don’t do this shit. Your kids need more than just the accumulated scraps of sanity and care, if you’re having that hard of a time, you need to talk to professionals, and adjust your plans to accommodate everyone melting down and going critical mass. Take it from someone who had to unlearn all the shitty behaviors that made life, and holidays/vacations a misery, and build good memories with my kids.
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