#i'm making a planner?

[defiancecomics]

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I was going to separate this page into doctor vs therapy appointments, but that seemed a little extra even to me. If anyone feels differently, definitely let me know.

#chronic illness #chronic issues #health #healthcare #plannernerd #orc planner?? #planners #i'm making a planner? #planner #planner community #planner sample pages

[upsidedog]

i am so charmed by a lumax wedding because it’s not even something max thought would happen. like she assumed weddings were something the girl makes happen and the guy puts up with. and because she had no desire for one, so there’s no reason it would happen.

among other things weddings are an exorbitant and performative show of love, max loves lucas and she doesn’t care whether or not other people know or believe this. at it’s best marriage to her has been a representation of failed dreams and at it’s worst it’s been a tool to manipulate people who need to get away to stay. maybe they will get married for the tax benefits, she thinks.

this is until max and lucas are older and living together, they’re chilling on the couch and lucas mentions his family has been asking when he’s planning to propose and if that’s something max even wants? max doesn’t care, she doesn’t plan on going anywhere, a certificate won’t change anything and she's not crazy about parties. she doesn’t ask how he feels, he brings it up, that “actually i want a wedding.”

that is saying the least, lucas wants a wedding more than anything. he loves max and he doesn’t need to prove that to anyone, but he’s happy and he wants to share that with others! he wants to work with max to make marriage a positive thing to them, he wants to celebrate their love, everything they’ve been through. also, hell, he’s only human, he wants to show off! he wants to dress really cool and go to a really cool place and show the world know how awesome he and his girlfriend are. HIS WIFE!!!

most of all, lucas wants the moment near the end of the night, where the party’s getting loud and everybody wants his attention, but max asks if he wants to get out of there and he says yes. not out out, just outside the venue. it’s dark and the once booming music is now faint, they sit and catch up, complain about their families, laugh about their friends. max holds lucas’s hand and plays with his wedding ring, she whispers something sweet before asking him to dance. it’s the best part of the night and nobody will know about it but them.

suddenly max decides she wants a wedding.

#lumax #max mayfield #lucas sinclair #stranger things #to be clear i think it isn't really that max becomes excited for a wedding - i think it's more that she is incredibly touched by what it #means to lucas and wants to give that to him #i don't think she would ever be crazy about all that attention on her but she loves that it makes lucas happy and loves how much he cares #about her #and i also think lucas is aware of this. he loves weddings and the idea of being married is romantic and beautiful to him and he loves that #max understands where he's coming from and feels loved by his explination but also he knows it's something he will enjoy more and that's ok #lucas would be a very good wedding planner #also they would have this discussion then formulate oppisite plans catering to the other's love language #lucas would be like 'i'm gonna do something so private and sweet for max to propose' and max would be like 'i am going to go all out in #public to propose' and luckily max gets to hers first because it was way harder to do #nonetheless i am being cheesy ignore me

[hwestalas]

Here's a drawing that I did of Beleg, best friend in the Silmarillion, chilling in a tree on a summer's day with the little birdies (not shown)!

(If anyone wishes to dispute this, I can only point you to the line that broke my heart: "Thus ended Beleg Strongbow, truest of friends..." Tolkien himself said that in the Silmarillion! So there.)

(LIES. I can also admit that reasonable arguments could be made for the Best Friend Ever status of several other Silm characters)

(Notice that I very carefully said "in the Silmarillion," not "in the Tolkien legendarium." The historographer would not have been familiar with Samwise Gamgee.)

(Good thing - I have no idea which one is a better friend.)

(And who cares? I like good friends better than competition!)

(Oh, wait that quote said "truest" not "best." My logic resembles Swiss cheese.)

Fun/heartrending fact: On Holy Saturday a couple years ago, I thought I'd get in the mourning mood by reading the longest and saddest chapter in the Silmarillion... for the first time. Thus I first learned of Beleg and his shocking non-sequitur death. I cry over books all the time (okay, so only when they're sad or otherwise moving) but this was the only time I feared I would faint or throw up because of something in a book.

Anyway, this is my only fan art of him so far (no doubt there will be more, as he is now not only my second-favorite character in the Tolkien legendarium, but #2-3 of fictional characters from anywhere), and it's happy because he's such a happy guy, and I want to be happy thinking about him. :)

#fanart #my art #silmarillion #beleg #beleg cuthalion #beleg strongbow #trees and forests #Planner 10 #I was experimenting with light effects using brush pens on this one #OH maybe the historographer met Sam later in Valinor! #I'm happy for the historographer #Even if he makes a decision on whether Beleg or Sam is the best friend #If anyone wanted to dispute the fact that little birdies are not shown #I'd be thrilled to have them pointed out! #I'm sure they're cute!

[otter-byte]

You know you're absolutely playing a sim/tycoon/factory game right when it starts to drop below 10fps purely from the amount of entities you have on screen

#I've been playing a bunch of Voxel Tycoon #I am certainly not playing it correctly though lmao. I've started razing neighbourhoods to the ground to build subway lines #the game does not really have a subway option. so there's just giant holes in the ground with a train station in it. then tunnels in betwee #the actual focus of the game is making craftables not passenger transport but I'm truely a cities skylines girlie at heart #like theres busses but they're so fuckin boring and the station radius is so very very small #Just realised I'm basically roleplaying as an early 20th century american city planner lol #lmao shut up haz #I'm sure the game could absolutely support more stuff. I'm just playing on a laptop capped at something like 2.5ghz #so anything unity based runs like dogshit because the number of cycles spent on scripted entities balloons so much faster #yall are not _ready_ for the factorio screenshots I'll start posting once i have a thicc gaming PC

[dragonomatopoeia]

i'm in a weird place where i'm a few decades younger than most of my coworkers but i'm a few years older than than a couple of the newer coworkers. so most of the older coworkers are giving us financial planning and career advice while i am giving my younger coworkers tips like "do not blow up your entire life just because you're bored and antsy"

#turning around and telling one of them to schedule reminders on their phone and keep a planner #and then having to convince the other that purposefully making their life worse will not be worth the 'rich inner life' they hope to gain #but in any case i'm like well i would love to have work friends but i have somehow become the Middle Child of the workplace

[keepchangingandneverstop]

Day 220 - Stamp carving time again! Not sure why I made it this complicated but I sure did!

It's based off the Status boxes I used to have on my old planner/journal printables, but as a stamp so I can use it on my current planner/journal, which is basically a sketchbook that I've made inserts for.

I've carved out all the easy bits for now, we'll see how I fare on carving the actual lettering later. Also tried a new way of transferring the image which is way easier than what I was doing (drawing backwards by eyeballing a sketch) but ended up showing up super light.

#stamp carving #stamps #planner stamps #in the middle of making this i stopped and priced out not only custom stamp services but also laser engravers #and then just got back to work because damned if i'm going to pay that much even if it's way easier

[dxsole]

happy new year everyone! I'm manifesting more writing, more art, and me no doubt adding more ocs bc the grind don't stop 💪

#ooc #gonna call making silly lil ppl 'the grind' from now on #also I'm manifesting I actually make boundaries this year bc damn I complain a lot about irl situations that could have been solved #by me just saying no!!! #I got my new planner and I'm ready to GO!!

[lithyena]

Spending the day creating these planner pages I'll hopefully remember to use. I need a place where everything is together and I think these templates @petite-gloom made are perfect! I'm so excited to start using this because the setup just makes sense to my brain ✨

#mine #journal #planner #commonplace book #I'm lowkey obsessed with my divider pages - i think they make everything look so cool

[flowerflamestars]

Course Correct snippet

Feyre played for time, biting the already beginning to disintegrate cardboard straw in her iced matcha. Feyre didn’t like green tea. Had been known to proclaim on many immoderate occasions that it tasted like grass, mournful that pretty tea latte colors couldn’t be worked into her grid without waste.

“Lucien always likes the omelets,” Elain pointed out, sunny. Nesta could hear the leather toe of her flats taping the floor. “We could split one?”   Feyre shook her head, setting back down the undrunk tea. “I’m not eating animal products. No sugar, no carbs, no coffee, no nightshades, no seed oils.”   Nesta’s normally very healthy blood pressure skyrocketed in a way she could quite literally feel.   “Seed oils?”   An open handed gesture toward the matcha, slowly separating as the ice melted under bright California sunshine.   “I’m on a cleanse!” She hopped up, catching the strap of her heart-shaped purse from the back of her chair, “Just running to the bathroom. Can you order me the kale kiwi protein smoothie? Thanks!”   The dark surface of Nesta’s coffee held no answers, but she gazed into it anyway. Three inches of liquid was about enough for a human being to drown in, theoretically.   “Do you think,” Elain was laughing, hushed, horror needing a sheer output, “That she knows almond milk has almond oil in it?”   Nesta heaved a sigh, tilting back in her chair. “Do nuts count as seeds?”   Hibiscus, darkly red and dreamy violet blue provided cover for the tables, trellis arched into a whole porch overhead. Feyre’s favorite restaurant, all day brunch. Feyre’s favorite foods. For her birthday eight months before, she’d eaten a waffle made out of bacon. “Maybe she’s pivoting into wellness content?” Elain asked, hysteria reeled in.

#the way this fic makes my brain PURR #Nesta Archeron voice: YOU HAVE A LIVER? KIDNEYS? COOL THERE'S YOUR CLEANSE #THE REAL DANGER IS WEIGHT CYCLING CAUSING LONG TERM DAMAGE TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD #Feyre as an influencer is literally maybe one of my favorite things I've ever come up with #not Fey a few thousand words later hiding from her wedding planner/best friend Mor to inhale a burrito #my god we are talking about allll kinds of fuckery in this one #it IS A sexy love story #(yes I'm hording the Tarquin content for The Reveal) #but also? #a hating certain flavors of rich people story #a pointing out that weddings make people crazy story #also. very quietly. a story about carelessness vs compassion #A ROM COM FIRST AND FOREMOST HOWEVER #Nesta is three seconds from murder at all times #Elain ALSO is but she's trying #sometimes your sister decides to marry a guy nineteen years older than her and it's bad #sometimes its worst because he's a billionaire she's known a grand total of FIFTEEN DAYS #there are too many fires to put out frankly

[arctic-hands]

I learned what a bullet journal was by watching a few YouTube artists set theirs up and my algorithm spiraled out of control from there so I guess I have all the bujo influencers to thank for getting into it because it has been a godsend so far on my third attempt, but damn if the over emphasis on aesthetic over the actual practical organizational aspect of it doesn't rankle me a bit

[thirty rambling tags later] huh. I didn't know there was a thirty tag limit in all the years I've been on tumblr. Whatevs I can't copy paste the tags onto the main body because I'm on mobile and I don't want to write it out again so I'll just summarize the last bit here:

If you are browsing the bujo tag because you feel bullet journaling will help you but you feel intimated because you don't think you can make it look pretty, or that the bullet journal method could never help you because it looks exhausting or the inspo you see doesn't cover what you need, I am pleading with you to ignore all the pretty inspiration, take the most common and even original Ryder Carroll formats and spreads with a grain of salt and eliminate or change them as needed, and talk to people who have similar needs than you even if they don't bujo and suss out what's important to keep track of. My bujo is eighty percent important medical bullshit, because that's what I need more than a book tracker. You prolly have your own unique needs. And hell, if you want a book tracker then add a booktracker. It's your bujo to format and plan out.

So like if you want to start bullet journaling, go to Michaels and get a seven dollar Artist's Loft dot grid journal. Or a binder you have left over from school years past and print out your own dot grid paper if you have enough ink and paper and printer that can do double sided (Kevin McLeod's site I forget the name of has free adjustable dot and other grids I've used), or buy a pack of 8.5x11 dot grid paper, and grab a crappy hole punch that just barely does the job. Get yourself a nice pen you think looks and feels nice in your hand and on the paper–or if that doesn't matter to you go get pack of Bics or even pencil if that's what you prefer (I use a pencil for things I can't have be permanent, like temporary meds or the dates of yearly vaccines). If you're twitchy about messing up then get the cheapest wite out they have (but don't worry about messing up especially if you're not even showing it off to anybody). A cheap yellow highlighter if you think it'll help. And a ruler if straight lines are important to you. I lost mine so I just wobble my lines now I don't care (and it's marginally easier to get a line adjacent to straight with a dot grid)

Anyway. If you want to bullet journal but don't know where to start or how to make it pretty or how to make it work for your needs, just try it in the cheapest way possible and rearrange the guts of the bujo as you see fit. And don't worry about the optics as long as you can make sense of your methods and writing.

(and for the love of God if you're bipolar don't make an hourly mood tracker yes our moods can and will fluctuate throughout the day but goddamn was that a bitch to log and abandoned a few weeks after inking it out)

#i see this with in regular journaling/diary circles too #people saying 'i want to start a bujo/diary but I'm not good enough at art ☹️' #like more power to you if you can make it pretty but it shouldn't be the primary emphasis especially with how useful it is #(it's especially depressing with just regular diaries and journals because like. you're under no obligation to share that shit with anybody) #I'm on my third bujo attempt because i got overwhelmed with my first two because i didn't know how to customize it with me and my needs #the most i got about symptom tracking was like a weekly layout checking off if the criteria was hit #and mood tracking was like daily smiley or frowny face in the corner #like my siblings in planning that is not enough for my chronically ill bipolar ass lol #i went way overboard my first attempt with just mood tracking. i planned it out HOURLY. every week #and that got overwhelmingly tedious and i use overwhelmingly deliberately. so i just stopped mood tracking #and then the whole thing got overwhelming so i stopped it entirely #gave it another shot because my method of scheduling things and symptom tracking was to write appointments and symptoms on post its #and pray they didn't fall off and i could remember where i even put them #and i see a lot of doctors so that was a LOT post its to keep track of #so i did another bujo but had the same problem as lack of resources and inspo and how to make it work for my needs #plus future logs were hard to parse AND i often felt too tired to lay out a new month or two every time #so like there were just whole months and the symptoms and appointments within just missing and i might as well not even have a bujo #so i stopped that one too #FINALLY after a little bit more watching Ryder Carroll and looking at prefab medical planners that were still woefully inadequate #AND MORE IMPORTANTLY talking to my fellow chronically ill. mentally ill. disabled. or all three. friends on what i should jot down #i finally got a system that worked for me thus far #i got rid of even staples like future logs and just laid out a monthly calendar format because that was easier FOR ME #and i laid out the year in advance so i could still have the scheduling part of i was too tired to do entire layouts at the beginning of the #month #my mood tracker was merged with my symptom tracker and turned into a symptoms *list* #with a section for every specialist i see. mood stuff just went under psych/therapist #also i switched to a binder format instead of a bound book for even more flexibility #i can easily remove things i no longer need. i can rearrange what goes in what section. i can easily add more to a section before the next #bujo #bullet journal

[thegrapeandthefig]

Every single year, I create a calendar layout I think I'm happy with and think I can just reuse to save myself time and effort next time.

Every single year, once we're close enough to the upcoming year, I look at it again and go "okay but what if?" and just dive into something that requires even more time and work. aaaaaaaaaaaaa

#for context: two years ago or so I started making a digital version of my ritual calendar to help me keep track of it #last year I decided this would be good to have in print so I made it into a wall calendar #and now I'm looking at it again and thinking I should try putting it in planner form instead #in the hopes that having it as a planner makes me use the notes and “planning” features more instead of just looking at it on my wall

[defiancecomics]

I did a sleep tracker. Partially because I'd like to keep track of my sleep, it's fucking shit. Some days I'll get like, 4 hours, maybe. Others I've gotten 10. It's weird. So I figured it was a good idea to go ahead and track it, and that it would be a good idea for others to track it if they wanted too.

#plannernerd #orc planner?? #planners #i'm making a planner? #planner #planner community #plannercommunity #defiance comics #artists on tumblr #artists on patreon #artists on tiktok #small artist #trans artist #digital aritst

[juniemoe]

i never see anyone talking abt it but can we pls have lady josephine montilyet in dragon age: dreadwolf, i just want to see her and the inquisitor happily married and josephine enthusiastically gushing about her wife/husband and even their kids to anyone who listens.

#dragon age #da:d #josephine montilyet #we didn't get on screen wedding which i'm slightly salted about but it makes sense for her to have a huge wedding #with all her loved ones there #she'd be so excited to plan the wedding and when the inquisitor suggests that they hire a wedding planner #she'd absolutely refuse and insist someone else might get it wrong #and at the end of the wedding she'd be so exhausted but the happiest woman in thedas!! #i love her so much #she'd be such a good mom too!! #she would do her best to provide the very best childhood for them #sorry getting teary eyed thinking abt her brb

[togekissies]

being an adult woman with adhd that was not diagnosed as a child fucking sucks. it took me like eight years to find a psych that would listen to me when i said i'm convinced i have, and once i did get officially diagnosed and got put on vyvanse (which works well for me!!) federal regulations on stimulants force me to see my psych each month just so i can tell them that everything is still good and they can go ok cool sending the refill to your pharmacy, see you next month.

it's fucking stupid. i hate it. my insurance gives me 90 days of literally every other medication i have, including my antidepressants, but am i allowed to get more than 30 days of another medication i have been on for nearly two years now and have been fine on??? no! fuck you!!

but by far the worst part is the psychs at the practice i go to seem to turn over once a year. so each year i get informed like the day of or day before my next appointment that the psych i've been seeing has left, and they can get me an appointment with another one usually like a month or two out. so each year i have to grit my teeth and beg for a single refill to be approved so i can make it to my first appointment with a new psych while i anxiously wait to see if i'm going to have to defend my adhd diagnosis to someone i have never met and who has all the power to decide they don't think i need it, no matter how much i tell them i do.

so anyway right now i'm killing time until i need to leave to go meet a new psych at a location that's twice as far as the usual branch i go to, and i hope to god she listens to me and is willing to have virtual appointments from now on because those are MUCH easier on me and my adhd brain and full time work schedule

#text please! #it's almost certainly going to be fine #but i lived my entire life being told there's no way i can have adhd since i was not diagnosed as a child #i'm so used to trying to convince people i do have it and it makes my life harder in a way that exacerbates my depression #like right now i'm wondering if i should bring my planner with me to my appointment #i would prefer to so i can write my new appointment in there right away #but what if this new psych thinks i don't need meds because i use a planner and therefore am organized??? #i'm fucking not! the planner is compensating for my brain! and i forget to look at it half the time anyway!!!

[eldergremlin]

wizard!lau's recollection of the astarion romance scene post ascension:

#bg3 #ascended astarion #and then she broke up with him #there is no way i'm getting into a 24/7 infinite D/s relationship my good bitch! #he knows she's been the bear's honey pot for weeks now and this is what he brings to the table? #i know he's not a big planner but yikes #memes #half genuine half shitpost #sometimes i make my own posts

[forensicated]

Dear self,

Instead of remembering "I need to do such and such...." in the middle of doing something else you've just remembered that you needed to do, perhaps it might be easier to actually complete the job you're doing on the moment and then move onto the next and complete it too before starting anymore...

Might actually find things get done then!

#The story of how I've been attempting to find a water resistant shower curtain on amazon for at least 10 hours without committing #And completing online Christmas food shop #And updating my planner with what has happened over the last week before I forget days/dates/info given over important stuff #And make a list of stuff I need to purchase from a non online store before christmas #And work out the “naaaaice” Christmas food I need to grab from m&s #And catch up on the podcast I'm listening to #And take the 4th dose of medication I have to spread out over the day but now have been organised and moved the box that I can't find it #And get other last minute jobs done.... #Instead everything is a tiny fraction more done every so often rather than anything getting completed 🤦