nope.

whimsigoth wannabe

[thatfrenchhelper-blog]

Character Sheets and character creation →

When creating a character, there’s a lot of questions you ask yourself. Whether it’s an original character or one you’ve been playing for a long time, using a character sheet to get to know your character better can always be a nice idea. With it’s help, you’ll be able to think about things you didn’t necesarily thought about, and ask some important questions to yourself that might activate your character’s voice, or help you to get your muse back with them. Everyone has their favorite character sheets, some people prefer to have a lot of questions, some others like it a bit more vague, so here’s a masterlist of the character sheets I found on various websites and found quite interesting, plus some other things that could be used to help you see, for example, how other character view yours. 

Blank Character Sheet (+370 Questions)

Abridged Character Sheet (100 Questions)

Big-Ass Character Sheet

Character Creation Form

Character Sheet by Jody Hedlund

Creating a character Bio Sheet

Character Analysis Worksheet

100 Character Development questions for writers

Create a Character Profile

Character Development Worksheet

Original Character Bio-Sheet

Character Chart for Fiction Writers

A Character Chart By Charlotte Dillon

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Detailed Character Sheet

Character Sheet Template

Character Twenty-Question Worksheet

In-Depth Character Sheet

Character Worksheet

Character Interview Sheet (First Person)

Background Questionnaire (First Person)

Characters Perceptions (How do other people perceive your character?)

With these sheets, you could also try to find your character’s Jung and Enneagram Type or use the Moral Alignment tool. All of these things can be really useful to get a better grip on a character.

Then, if you’re trying to create a character, and do not have many ideas, or get stuck, I’d suggest for you to roam around TVTropes, which gives you a lot of tropes used for character creation. Maybe you could try to mix a few of these and create an original character?

Or, if you’re a skillful writer and know how to make your character different from another, make a list of characters in fiction you happen to find interesting and why. Try to keep it short. Then, maybe, try to mix and match things from two or three characters, take a character and change their backstory, to see what would change. Play with them to inspire yourself and create something new, original and truly yours.

Oh, and here’s a little guide to Mary-Sues and OCs, just in case you want to make sure your character isn’t going to become a Mary-Sue or a Gary-Stu

And last but not least, this article about building fictional character definitely seemed interesting to me, and is full of many other links that could guide you during the creating of your character and help you file one of these sheets.

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Happy Halloween! Sorry about the lack of comic this week, but here’s something to hold you over. Steven and Connie dressed as some characters they really like. Can you guess who they are?

[trapcard]

this is SO funny

[gingerglides]

The idea that, if Eleven and Matilda ever met they would be enemies or fight is totally ludicrous. Matilda would take one look in Eleven’s lost, angry eyes, and take her in. She’d be patient and thorough, teaching her new words every day, and they would share chocolates and roller skate and have regular kid fun. Matilda would show her board games but Eleven would insist on cards. They’d both cheat and see who was better at getting away with it. Eleven would teach Matilda how to move larger objects with her powers and be utterly fucking thrilled by the story of revenge on Ms. Trunchbull.

They would be thick as thieves and no one can convince me otherwise.

[gayingmantis]

[cockyroaches]

Matilda and eleven both had shit ass childhoods and the concept they’d fight is surreal

[bismuth]

a bunch of new movie themed merch got added to cartoon network’s shop!

[lifewithlala]

HOW I STRATEGICALLY PLAN MY SEMESTER

AND GET SHIT DONE

STEP 2: PLANNING AND SCHEDULING

We talked a bit about looking at the planning of your syllabus back in part 1, however, this should get a proper post by itself when I say you gotta get your schedule right. 

To recap, step 1 was to Study your syllabus. The syllabus has a lot of information, so you just need to make sure to check the following items: 

Books

Learning objectives

Test form

Planning

You can read more about them in detail here. 

Will the second take a bit of time? Hell yeah! But I assure, it will save you time in the long run. I’m talking about planning and scheduling. What is the difference between the two of them? We’ll start with the one we do most: 

Scheduling vs planning

Scheduling is concerned with the when. When do you have to deliver your report? When are the feedback sessions? When do you have exams? The schedule is in the syllabus. They give you all due dates, deadlines, and information about other events. 

Planning, on the other hand, is concerned with the what and the how. What must be done? What guidelines are there? What resources do you have? What can go wrong and what measurements can you take to avoid or to overcome the situation? How can you achieve what must be done? How can you break the end result into smaller and more manageable tasks? How can you deliver a complete product? 

As you can see, we often bother ourselves with only scheduling, but what 👏truly 👏 makes 👏 a 👏 difference 👏 is 👏 planning. The teachers don’t tell you how to go around a problem. They tell you what the end result should be and when it is due. It is up to us, as students to see how we are going to do it.

How to schedule and plan your semester

Ideally, you want to plan first and then schedule. But college already gives us a schedule. Here are the sub-steps I follow to plan and schedule: 

1. Get scheduling out of the way. Yes, get it out!!! I grab that syllabus and start highlighting the shit out of the important dates. What’s very useful is that you can make a monthly and weekly schedule/ overview right away. So far most schedules I’ve ever gotten are divided in weeks. 

But don’t just highlight, you’re supposed to have done that back in step 1 while you were studying your syllabus. Put them in your go-to calendar, agenda or bullet journal so you can see it every day and feel the pressure. I like planning my entire semester in Evernote.

Putting it all on the calendar gives me a nice overview of my semester. And having it like this makes it easier to divide into smaller tasks. AND will help me with the second step.

2. Prioritize your subjects. When I looked at the syllabus, I determined what the learning objectives and test examinations are. These two help me prioritize my subjects. Why is prioritizing important? Because if you get a lot of subjects it’s gonna be hard to get straight A’s for them all. That’s why one of my golden tips is to see what kind of tests you’ll get for the subjects. If it’s a report that you have to write, you know that’s gonna take you more time than just doing a presentation. Reports and projects are usually done in groups, so you’ll have lots of deadlines/ revisions in between. Take a look at the calendar and determine which subjects take the most time.

And also, look at your own capabilities. What are you good at? Which subjects are hard for you? I’m horrible at remembering theoretical subjects. So depending on how many chapters we’ll be analyzing, the more I’ll prioritize it. So make a list, give it numbers and see which ones will take priority this semester and write down the reasons you are prioritizing it. 

This is how I do it: 

3. Brainstorm. Now that you know what each subject is about and what is expected of you (learning objectives), you can start brainstorming. 

I mostly do this in projects and reports, because most of the times that information is already in the syllabus. I start by thinking about which subject I want to talk about or which company I can choose. I also make a bit of desk research. For example, if it’s a marketing plan that I have to do, I look up my previous works, see what I’ve done or look for templates and official marketing plans of other companies. This will give me a general idea of what a marketing plan consists of and I brainstorm what models I could use on my own. (A web clipper is a life saver when doing this!!!) If it’s a big project, I usually come back to this section as I work on it. So I don’t brainstorm everything in one shot. An idea can pop up anywhere.

4. Break down projects/ work into smaller tasks. This helps you get a detailed view of what must be done but it also saves you a lot of time. 

When I have the lists of the tasks that I must complete, I can start right away without wasting time because I’ve already brainstormed about the project. I know which direction the syllabus wants me to take it but I also know where I want to take it and how I can give it my own twists. So I know where I’m heading right from the start. 

5. Risks and things to avoid. THIS 👏 IS 👏 THE 👏 HEART 👏 OF 👏 PLANNING. This is what has saved me a lot of headache and stress. Especially in group works because your grade depends on the work of others. I don’t like doing everything alone because that’s hella stressful. But I don’t like delivering a mediocre report either. So in order to get a high grade, I start by thinking about who I want to pair with in ADVANCE. Then I ask the classmates I have in mind BEFORE we reach the first lecture. So we already have a group before class even starts. 

In case that doesn’t happen and I get a classmate that doesn’t understand a lot of the subject, I don’t blame them. I HELP THEM. I offer my help, and try meeting up and work on the part, even if it’s only the two of us. It doesn’t have to be the entire group. 

If procrastination is a risk for you, try figuring out why you’re procrastinating and how you can fight it. Make a plan of action for when you fall into a rut. Or if you tend to get sick, try coming up with a plan to avoid getting sick as often. Come up with whatever that might pose a threat to your schedule and make a plan to avoid it and/ or overcome it. If it gets too hard for you, try looking for past experiences and learn from them. Ask yourself what you could have done differently.  

In the third step, we’ll be focusing on evaluation and feedback, which is what ultimately helps me to improve. I’ll be sharing how I evaluate my performance and what I look for when giving myself feedback. I’ll also be sharing some templates if you guys want to use my method of planning. 

[aeseyastudies]

170618 // I haven’t made a post like this in a while, but I’m revising for an exam right now and it’s the last thing I want to be doing so I’m procrastinating (don’t follow my lead kids).

How I use Digital Notes

I’ll make a more detailed post about how I study at some point, but for now:

I use microsoft onenote, but you can use whatever program you feel comfortable with.

Useful features of onenote include the organisation into notebooks, sections, and tabs, search function, equation support, tagging, and formatting options (inc. different heading styles).

You can find really great posts about onenote quite easily if you’re interested in how it works (I would 100% recommend it).

Throughout the year I type up my class notes, summarising information and organising it into a sensible order.

This took a lot of discipline and I fell off the bandwagon quite a bit. I initially intended to type up my notes from the day every evening, but I found it’s more realistic to just do it as often as possible and to aim to finish each topic’s notes before I move onto the next one.

When I come to revise for exams I will rewrite and summarise my notes on paper (writing out notes helps me remember them, but this may not work for you)

When I’m doing the first few past papers I’ll have my notes with me so I can look things up until I can do a paper without them.

I find this is more effective than using the mark scheme to help as the mark scheme basically gives you the answers.

Why Make Digital Notes?

Obviously digital notes don’t work for everyone, but I find they’re much more useful to have than notes on paper, at least before you start revising.

The main benefits of digital notes are:

typing is faster than writing

search functions (depending on the program) to look up information quickly

neater and faster formatting

you can back them up somewhere else so you don’t have to worry about losing or damaging them

you can bring all your notes with you without it weighing a tonne (assuming your laptop/tablet doesn’t weigh a tonne)

copy and paste! Ofc use this as infrequently as possible, but it’s useful for quotes etc.

pictures without the effort of drawing or printing out and sticking in

cheaper as you don’t have to buy pens and paper as often

an excuse to bring your computer into school and then go online shopping and play games during really boring classes no I haven’t done this what are you talking about so you have access to google etc. to look things up whenever

Prioritising

The only reason I’ve managed to keep up with my notes throughout the year is because I don’t take any for maths and I’ve kind of fallen off the bandwagon for French (whoops). It’s a bit unrealistic to expect to keep up with all the notes for all your subjects (particularly if you’re doing gcses), so prioritise.

Subjects like maths tend to assess a skill rather than knowledge, so it’s probably more useful to do practice questions rather than make notes.

If you’re dropping a subject in a year and won’t touch it again make sure it’s actually worth making notes for the whole year.

In Class or After Class?

Whether you write notes on the computer during class or afterwards depends on the class.

I’ve got one particular teacher who flits back and forth between topics and often mentions things without going into detail because she assumes we’re too stupid to understand (not my favourite teacher ngl). So I use my laptop in her lessons so I can go back to topics we’ve already done and so I can google things to fact check (she frequently dumbs stuff down to inaccurate levels) and expand on points that she makes.

If you’ve got a teacher that tends to move super fast it might be worth having a computer with you as typing is generally much faster than writing.

If you can’t touch type learning is a really good idea, even just to improve the speed of your typing (I can’t actually touch type but I took a course until I learnt to use all my fingers when typing and now I type much faster). There’s lots of free online courses available.

Alternatively, you can just make all your class notes on paper and type up the important information when you get home.

This means you don’t have to worry about your class notes being neat enough to revise from; after you type them up you can file them or even throw them away to save space.

It also works as a review which is really good for putting the information into your long-term memory.

However it is also pretty time consuming so you’ve got to be super disciplined to keep on top of it.

In my school at a levels I’ve found it’s not too unusual to have a laptop out but it’s a bit odd to have one at gcses (idk about other schools). Obviously you shouldn’t care about what other people think, but if having your laptop/tablet with you will make you feel self-conscious and uncomfortable then leave it at home.

Also laptops and tablets are expensive and it’s understandable if you’d rather keep them safe at home.

That said, people do get used to it. Even if you’re the only one with a laptop/tablet, the novelty wears off quickly.

Some teachers don’t actually like students using laptops and tablets during class, so do check before you bring it in.

I hope this helped! Of course if you have any questions about this (or anything else) my ask is always open please ask me something

Here’s where I post this and find 56 typos :/

[lifewithlala]

How I strategically plan my semester

AND GET SHIT DONE FOR REAL (part 1)

1. Study your syllabus. 

 In there you’ll get all the important information: books, assignments, scores, goals, due dates, deadline, you even get a planner. You can’t overlook any of this. Nowadays most syllabi are full of crap, they have more pages than they did a couple of years back, yet students are still confused or don’t even use it. These are the things I look for in the syllabus: 

Books. Yeah, you get a list at the beginning of the semester but some courses have readers or make use of articles as materials too. Which you are likely required to download or print yourself. I like to be 101% prepared and that means getting all my reading materials. I download all my books, readers and articles and organize them right away on Google Drive so I don’t have to look for them at the last minute. 

Learning objectives. My syllabi have a section dedicated to the objectives of the course. This is a lifehack by Shirou, folks. So listen carefully. If the syllabus says “create a marketing communication plan based on the marketing policy”, YOU 👏 WILL 👏 GET 👏 THAT 👏 SHIT 👏 IN 👏 YOUR 👏 TEST. 👏 NO 👏 ARGUING. You better start looking at what a marketing communication plan consists of. So write the objectives down in your notebook, in a document, somewhere you’re sure to look, so when the professor starts explaining that objective, you’ll paying 200% of your attention. I like to write them down with checkboxes. That way, if I see we’re getting close to exam week and the professor still hasn’t explained that objective, I’ll take the opportunity to ask and not lose any time. The entire course is likely to go around these objectives. So if you understand them, and can explain them, then you’re likely to pass that course. It has worked for me these past 2 years. 

Test. What kind of test will I get? Is it a written test, digital, presentation, essay? A combination of these? If it’s written or digital, you know it’ll most likely be individual. If it’s a presentation or essay, chances are high it’s in a group. I have the most difficulty with group works. They give me a hell of a time and I want nothing more than to avoid them. So I take this opportunity to see how hard I will have to work for the subject. And of course, if there are multiple exams within a course, I take a look at the percentage of each one of them so I get to prioritize the most important examination. If I have a presentation that counts for 20%  and I have to write a report that counts for 80%, I’ll work my ass off to get a perfect score for that report. Ultimately, that’s what’s going to raise my score faster. So it will be downright stupid to do a mediocre work on the report, hoping the presentation will raise my final score. 

Take a good look at the planning. Are there any due dates or deadlines for things you have to deliver before midterms or exam week? Highlight those! In my first semester, I overlooked those in between due dates where your professor gives you feedback. Bad decision, people. I could have had a higher score if I had delivered things as planned and get feedback. But nope. 😥

In the second part, I’ll explain how I make a personal study plan based on the planner you get in the syllabus, and I’ll share my tips on how I stay on track with the planning. 

[bristudieslaw-deactivated202008]

Hello Everyone, 

I’m Brianna and this is my first ever masterpost! I have decided to show you how to use one note for a student, I’m a first-year psychology student and have found one note extremely useful. 

I have a notebook for each subject as well as an overview/planner. This enables me to be able to organise everything very effectively. Each notebook is colour coded, I use the same system in my bullet journal to distinguish subjects.

Then I have created a semester planner, with a tab for each subject. I include any readings, assignment and exams I have. When using one note there are tags, much similar to the bullet journal, for my planner in front of every task I have an ‘to do’ box, this helps me prioritise and understand on a large scale of what I have to do.

For the other sections of the College Overview, I have a highlighting code, which is very important for me because I often forget it, as well as my timetable and my study planner. If you would like me to discuss these more in-depth, please let me know!

In my class notebooks, I have five sections; Lectures, Tutorials, Workshops, Textbook Notes, and assignments. In all sections but the assignment one, I have a page for each week. In these pages I write all my class notes down, this makes it extremely easy for exams when I am revising!

As a bonus One Note automatically syncs with your Microsoft account, thus if your computer crashes and deletes everything, all your notes will be safe! 

Thank you so much for reading my masterpost! if you have any questions about one note or anything else please feel free to message me! much love, bri xx

Check out my insta: https://www.instagram.com/bristudiespsych/ I follow back! ✨

[kawaiistudy]

If I’d ever get an award, it’d be for the ‘Best Lazy Nightowl’. I excel in this. This is my shit. So here’s a masterpost about how I’m able to do everything I need to do whilst being sleep deprived lol

School

Organizing your life on your phone/computer

Organizing your life in a bullet journal

How to not stress about anything

My printables c:

Ultimate Japanese Reference and Study Guide

Channel that might change your life

Favourite masterposts ever [x] [x]

Hobbies

Art References on Pinterest (x , x )

Guitar Lessons

Write articles

Learning to play Anime songs on guitar

Beauty guru who does things right

Fangirl relatability over 9000!

Woke af youtuber

Food

Vegan Lunches

Healthy Afterschool Snacks

Study Snacks [x] [x]

Geeky Food pt. 1

Geeky Food pt. 2

Sleep

How to get things done before going to school

The power of naps

How to fall asleep

Relax

Steven Universe is great

This anime is hella great (RomCom + Study motivation kinda)

Read fanfics ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)σ»

Manga’s  〜(￣▽￣〜)

My own Tips:

Don’t pull an all nighter regularly. I’ve had eye problems ever since my last one and it’s sucks because I need more help to pay attention.

If there’s enough natural light, use it. Your eyes and rest are really a priority as an nightowl.

Caffeine is like your favorite problematic movie/book/tv character. It’s oh so tempting and good when you have a little taste of it, but the long time effects are evil and might try to kill you by betray you by joining Hydra..

Sleep as often as you can. If you can, do all your homework at once, so you’d have more time to sleep and relax. Most nightowls don’t have the privilege of having an overload of Serotonin, certainly at night.

Have fun. Don’t make it studying a chore. If you really really REALLY don’t want to study, then don’t. Don’t force it on yourself. It doesn’t matter what others think about it.

[theanxioustudent]

third masterpost and this one is gonna be super long but hella useful!!!!!!!

much much luv, ali xx

Ms. Effie (her website saved my butt in AP Lit!)

iOpeners (AP Lit, timed essay, art, quote and picture prompts) 

AP Lit/Lang resources (100+ links!!!)

LifeSavers

Writing Help

Tools & Cool Stuff

Super helpful handouts

Topic Sentences

Topic Sentence Help

Write a Good Topic Sentence (2) (3)

Paragraphs

Writing Introductory Paragraphs For Essays

Introductions/Conclusions

Writing a Conclusion (2)

Writing Proper Introductions

Paragraph Development

Paragraphs Handout

Strong Body Paragraphs (2) (3) 

General Essay Tips

How To Write Great Essays PDF

Academic Writing Tip

Interactive Essay Map

Basic Essay Tips

Quote Introduction

Punctuation

Ways to Narrow Down a Topic

Best Way to Learn Grammar 

On the College Essay

Transitions (2) (3)

Grammar 

25 Most Common Grammar Mistakes

14 Common Grammatical Mistakes

Omit Empty Phrases

Eliminating Words

40 Useful Words and Phrases for Essays

Active/Passive Voice

Helpful Words

Inflate/Deflate Phrases

Prepositions

Editing/Proofreading

Editing and Proofreading Handout

Proofreader/Paper Grader/Plagiarism Checker (all in one!!!!!!!)

Proofread Bot

Writing About Poetry

Write About a Poem (2) (3) 

Explicating a Poem

Research Papers

Anatomy of a Research Paper

Need to Write a Research Paper?

Writing Research Papers (2) (3)

Write a Research Paper That Rocks

Write an A+ Research Paper

The Research Paper

Georgetown U: Write a Research Paper

Style, Citations and Formatting

The Elements of Style PDF

Formatting your Paper

Composition

Ultimate Guide to Citation Style

[studycxlture]

how to schedule your time (ft. Plan)

requested by anon ; web app featured is Plan

Plan is essentially a digital planner where todos and events are drag/drop, so it’s convenient and easy to make adjustments.

i swear this isn’t sponsored, although it sounds like it ha. i love this site. the app is in beta though, so you have to be on a computer to use it.

there’s a daily, weekly, and monthly view, but I use the daily view most.

you can sync with your Google calendar so all your events are already on the calendar.

every day, after i settle in at my study space, i open Plan

i add my todos / school assignments in the task bar at the top of the daily view.

then, on the timetable, i click to add events for pre-scheduled dinner time, preparing for sleep, etc.

from there, i drag and drop in my assignments into the timetable where I have free time.

adjust assignment times. for e.g., my bio review packet might take 45 minutes while french hw might take 15 minutes.

i move assignments around until nothing overlaps, and –

don’t forget to schedule breaks! i just leave some spaces empty on the timetable.

when you finish an assignment, you can click the check and IT CROSSES OUT and i feel  a c c o m p l i s h e d !!

also it’s so much much much much easier than physically writing it down, because everything is drag/drop and adjustable. say, if I take 30 minutes longer than expected on an essay, I can push everything else back by 30 minutes and still be able to have everything in order.

ALSO!!! at the end of the day, i can look back to see what i’ve accomplished that day. it’s a great feeling honestly

sorry this was kinda short! it’s getting late and i might have forgotten some things :/ send an ask if it’s confusing!!!

xo, kt

[pinkgreenbreeze]

Thanos destroyed an entire race for a gauntlet that Tony Stark could make in his basement while a build-a-bear rabbit mocked him from the sidelines.

Think about that.

[kiodja]

i just want peace ✌️

[lucy-harker]

Tell my family I love them. You tell them yourself.

[lil-lillerzzz]

Proof That Tony Stark Has A Heart

[notdoingitformoney-deactivated2]

David and Robert: We can’t understand why people think we are a married couple

Also David and Robert:

[elivanto]

The Umbrella Academy (2019–) Soundtrack.