cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and
i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.
have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.
how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.
go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.
nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.
not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.
this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.
plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. :D
svkoon asked: hi! i've been looking for this fic forever oh god. it has tony as steve's guardian angel of some sort and he constantly is helping steve to the point where he drains his (tony's) life source and ceases to exist. near the end they meet again, both humans. any ideas? much appreciated xx
Is it Weighing of the Heart by scifigrl47?
Anonymous asked: Would you happen to know of any were Steve and tony are together before/during the battle of New York and when he almost dies?
Anybody know this one?
emilystardust asked: I know this is a week later, but I didn't see an answer to it; so in case the anon who was looking for the fic where everyone walks in on Tony masturbating was still looking, it's Greatest Hits by peppermintchild on AO3.
Yay, an answer!
Anonymous asked: What was that once steve/tony fic where in the first chapter all the avengers walk in on tony masturbating? Clint like throws his phone at Tony's balls, Thor joins in with him, Natasha comments on his vibrator and how she has the same one but the speed disappoints her n tony offers to make it better, n steve just blushed n walks out?
I have nooo idea– anybody got this?
Emoticon!anon, is ♥ by tsukinofaerii what you were looking for?
illmakeamanoutofyouuu asked: Hi i was wondering if you or anyone seemed to know the fic where steve and tony end up talking in emoticons/symbols because of tonys experiment?
Any followers got this?
illmakeamanoutofyouuu asked: its never close our eyes anon
Anonymous asked: Do you remember that one fic where Tony dies, but not really? He was kidnapped by Hel or something and Steve travels through Death Land and fights zombies and everyone had to declare how much they love Tony to get him back.
Ack, no, I’m sorry! Anybody else know?
(so yeah, this summer in general is going to be really intermittent posting–I keep thinking I will have more tumblr/fic reading time, and then I don’t, so consider the posting schedule irregular through about august. sorry dudes!)