#assignment tips

[cockroachparty]

an unconventional study tip that has helped reduce my stress:

spend an hour doing a hobby you enjoy before leaping into your workload

this goes against much of what we read on keeping a good study schedule (aka get your work done before doing the fun stuff) but when you're stressed, it can be really hard getting into study mode when all you want to do is decompress

which is why allowing yourself an hour to do that thing you really want to do (NOT DOOMSCROLLING) can help you out in the long run. doing that thing you love will help calm your nerves and clear your head, making it easier to tackle your assignments.

get one good hour of your hobby in and then lock tf in.

[kids-worldfun]

Find Your Learning Style (Assignment Tips!)

Knowing your personal learning style furthers your academic success. In the same way that each student has different interests and abilities, our ways of receipt, processing, and storing information differ. Embracing your unique learning styles can make studying easier and more pleasant rather than frustrating and overwhelming. Educational psychology defines learning styles in a few different…

[ghostboidanny]

I've seen a few times in Dp x DC fics when Danny is first introduced to the Justice League and meets Captain Marvel, that they both know the other is actually a kid and not an immortal being, but pretends to be old friends so as to not be outed and tricks the JL together.

Now I bring you, neither of them know the other is a kid and both Actually think the other is immortal but still somehow ends up pretending to be besties. How? Time travel.

This is their actual first meeting, but in the future, Danny will time travel back to the past and meet past Champions of Magic. Billy, as the current Champion of Magic, has inherited the knowledge of these meetings, but thinks they happened chronologically = Phantom is immortal. So he use that knowledge to bullshit his way into pretending he's been all those old Champions and greets Danny as an old friend to sell his Old as Shit act before the JL.

Danny in turn doesn't know about those past meetings but he Does know about time travel. So when Captain Marvel greets him like an old friend and start recounting their different meetings throughout history, Danny assumes he's gonna time travel and do all those things one day (accurately). But he's pretending to be immortal, not a time traveling teen, and so has to pretend that he Totally Remembers That One Time In Greece, Yup!

[reinekoya]

DREW ELLIOT KNIGHT(yes Gaz for collage smh) FOR AN ASSIGNMENT HES SO PRETTY

defo gonna colour him in later when i have time since it was a black and white assignment

[ryllen]

Congrats to the FIRST TEAM to BEAT THE TITAN!

[elodieunderglass]

Do you have more Moby Dick: Modern Translation chapters anywhere that certain interested parties (me and everyone with taste) could read?

In reference to this translation of Moby Dick into insufferable modern idiom, in which Ishmael is suddenly shown up in a startling light as a person we’ve actually met and knew well but didn’t really like:

I’m sorry, I haven’t written any more of that! After chapter 1’s mad rush of energy, the book tackles more tricky, boring and unfunny content, including passages that are just uncomfortably problematic in any time; and, like, entire chapters about listening to a church sermon.

A line translation (and that is mostly a very faithful line translation! The only thing I regret not doing was perfectly capturing the fart joke!) apparently has a lot of educational value, and helps to reframe the whole novel. That’s worthy work! But i simply wouldn’t want to do a line translation on the next few chapters. My brain is picking daisies instead, already. I would say: “sorry, I’m abridging this for my own mental health. You’re eligible for a free refund.” In which case the educational value is negligible (you can just read the plot summary online. There’s a really big whale in it.)

Anyone else who wants to take a stab at it (FROM HELL’S HEART) would be welcome and I’ll gladly promote your efforts. It’s just. I am going

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- come here let me measure your head

[yandere-yearnings]

do u have any writing tips dar??? Ur stories are immaculate

nonnie?? that's so sweet of you to say, thank you😭🩷 in general, a lot comes to mind bc there's so many different components to writing (i.e dialogue, characterisation, structure,, even mindset!!) so if you want to hear abt anything specific pls lmk🥺 for now tho, i've summarised a few across the subject that i think are helpful, and they will be below the cut bc i'm shit at explaining things, so i ended up writing a lot hhh

i also wanna point out that these are just things that i've personally made note of over the years from my own experiences + being friends w/ other writers, but that doesn't mean they will apply to everyone!! more than anything, i always believe that you shouldn't let other ppl dictate how you do and enjoy things, so if smth works for you and you like it, there's nothing wrong w/ that even if it contradicts an opinion you got from some rando on the internet (a.k.a. me😔💔)

Know your game

I'd like to say that in writing, there's a vein of liberty that isn't echoed in very many other creative fields; a lot of the times you can go in blind, and still make something of it because the nature of fiction is liquid — if you can imagine it, it can work. So to say, I find that nine times out of ten, room for improvement doesn't necessarily lie in the content of someone's writing, and more so its execution.

You could play a desultory game of chess without knowing all the rules, but if you wanted it to be your best match, you'd have to be aware of every move you could make, no? What you do from there then becomes a matter of choice, and choice is a landmark divider between doing something and being good at doing something. There's a difference in omissions due to lacking the technical knowledge, and omissions made because you are aware they are optimal.

Knowledge on the fundamentals of literature will always serve you, and that isn't to say you have to study all forms and contexts, but if you want to write a story, for example, it will always help to know the common elements of one. Grammar, punctuation, structure — brushing up on those things will build your toolkit, and once you've got that, you have the self-autonomy to decide what to use from it. My three favourite writers only use commas and full stops, and their works are, on all levels, spectacular. Still, if you asked them how to use a semi-colon, they'd be able to tell you.

Appreciating the basics will also tie into your creative exploration as a writer, which is a cornerstone in developing your distinctive writing style. I doubt a person in any type of craft hasn't heard a variation of know the rules before you break them, so studying until you do, inside out, remains beneficial to both new and old writers alike.

2. Have a starting point

This tip is fairly applicable to a range of different types of writing, and how one would practice it depends strongly on individual preference and styles of working. Some people like to plan things out thoroughly whilst others, including myself, like to dive in headfirst, and there's nothing wrong with either approach. The commonality between both types of writer is that regardless, they will have at least a vague idea of where to start from — a scene that they've bullet-pointed prior, a lyric that resonated with them, a mental image, an emotion or even just a single word that everything branches from. What all these details achieve is writing that has motion, because you have something of substance to piggyback you to an end point (the establishment of which is also important, but I will not be covering in this post).

3. Decide a structure

Again, this can be done both comprehensively or as simply as just having the thought to adhere to a certain method. As you gain more experience as a writer, you'll begin to understand what works best for you and create a system of your own, but starting out, there are a number of templates that have already been established by writers that you can follow, and find by researching. What matters most is that by using one — whichever it may be — you're turning your text into a story.

As an example, I'll detail two that I use regularly, in their simplest forms for the sake of brevity:

A linear narrative moves from point A to point B, and from point B to point C, etc. and all subsequent points build on the previous ones until your goal is reached. It's a system that works well for shorter pieces because it has a definite structure, like a length of spine and its individual vertebrae (and although we're talking about writing here, I think Newton's Third Law of Motion sums it up very well: every action has a reaction.)

A coalescing narrative considers all points as separate elements that may or may not always interact, but all contribute to the end point to different extremes. It's a useful template for creating depth in a piece, but due to its complexity, is better applied to longer projects.

They are visualised respectively below.

4. Iterate

If you think of your first draft as a block of clay, everything you do to it will equate to it being moulded and shaped, and if you think of your first draft as a skeleton, everything you do to it will equate to flesh being put on the bones. If you want your piece to be the best it can be, there's a sort of detachment you must have from it, where you won't have the fear of changing it until it is in the image of what you have intended. Write and rewrite, add things, take them away, make a separate copy for every edit if that makes it easier for you, but keep working it until you are happy.

Iteration doesn't just apply to drafts — chapters, paragraphs, sentences and even singular words can be given the same treatment. When you pick up the habit, the process becomes second-nature and you'll find that the first lines you put down are the ones that make it into the final piece, and that is in light of sorting through the renditions unconsciously. Additionally, you don't have to do things in one sitting; sometimes taking a break and coming back to your writing with a fresh outlook is valuable.

5. Analyse and apply

One piece of advice I always see given when someone asks how to improve their writing is to read more, and though it is — at its core — a tip worth acknowledging, it always comes across as unserviceable to me. There is nothing that reading will change for you if you are not actively practicing the things you learn, or even actively learning to begin with. So to address it as a matter of semantics, I feel it's best put as studying the writing of others, as opposed to reading.

If you have a favourite author, go over their works twice — once as a reader to identify what you like about them, and then again as a writer to identify why you like those things. To put it into context, if I read something and decided that I enjoyed how clear and easy to understand it was, I'd do a second pass to figure out the attributing qualities. Perhaps it's the use of punctuation, chosen sentence forms or even the simplicity of words used. My first tip of knowing different literary fundamentals is complementary here, because it makes the analysis and application of isolated features that much more smooth, and also means you'd be able to adapt them into your own style instead of just copying the other writer, which is what you want to avoid.

(Some writers I personally recommend studying are @ozzgin, @monstersholygrail, @aayakashii and @urprettylildoe for readability and clarity in execution, @moyazaika, @carnivorousyandeere and @purerae for characterisation and dialogue, @suiana and @unhappy-last-resort for engaging plots and concepts, and @sabotsen and @lirational for word choice.)

[stellerssong]

🍓🍄🌿 (picked the last one to continue with the plant/natural world theme honestly)

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

the need to have in hand the stories i’d been wanting to read my entire life finally hit critical mass and overturned the debilitating social anxiety/OCD magical thinking that told me i would be pelted with eggs and rotten fruit for daring to inflict my thoughts (and thots) upon other residents of the internet. only took 25 years, folks! prior to this i was simply trying to cram all of my nascent fanned fiction into the tags field of random posts on tumblr dot edu, which i’m sure was not annoying AT ALL for anyone making the posts that came under my fire.

now obviously i do not have that problem and i tag things normally.

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

eurydice hadestown is very handy with quick mental math and its applications, i.e. calculating tips, making change, emergency budgeting, guesstimating prices, etc. orpheus hadestown can subdivide ONLY in the context of musical time signatures and only ever passed a math class beyond algebra 2 because he has big sad eyes and his teachers felt bad that he was clearly trying really hard. this is perpetually baffling to eurydice, who is just like "if you tip 15% it’s 10% of the bill plus half of that, so you just move the decimal up a place and then divide that number by two and then add them and—" and orpheus is like no no that’s already too many steps. and she’s like well what do you just not tip your barista because it’s too many steps? asshole? and he’s like of course not! i always tip two dollars. and she’s like on a four dollar coffee? that’s a 50% tip?? and he’s like well no that one was $4.38, see, it’s just easier to not have to do the math. and she’s like [screams]

for orpheus’ part, he can diagram chord progressions to an extent that causes eurydice to lapse into a defensive coma, but of course that has no practical applications.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

no, YOU give ME some advice on writer’s block and low creativity!!!

i dunno, man, all the stuff that works for me is stuff that’s been said more eloquently elsewhere. if you’ve written one sentence that’s a sentence that didn’t exist before and therefore you have increased the thing. the time will pass anyway so you may as well pass it making something. sometimes you just need to look at another project, another fandom, another creative hobby, a tree, instead of your current project. you’re allowed to just think about it if thinking about it is all you have the heart to do. it’s easy to mistake the plateau before leveling up for stagnation, and it’s easy to mistake the upward climb for rotting and crumbling into dust.

you’re always improving. every day you wake up and see with your eyes and hear with your ears and think about the world around you, you’re banking sense-impressions and test-running dialog and feeling emotions that might one day find their way into a project. and this too is writing, in its way.

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[macadamiastudies]

Dec. 16, 2024

Day 9/150 Days of Growth

Today was another quiet, gloomy, cold day so I spent the entirety of it in my room with a candle on and a warm peppermint latte 🤎 Been on a study-call with my best friend for the past 6 hours, so I got extra done today.

What I did today:

☕3 units of Azure exam prep ☕A LeetCode problem about dividing strings ☕30 minutes of GMAT math prep using the Princeton review ☕Packed my bags, cleaned my room ☕Did my hair and lots of skincare ☕Created a video and written tutorial at work for a colleague ☕Spent overtime fixing their system :?

Tomorrows targets:

🕰 1 hour of Azure exam prep 🕰 30 more minutes of GMAT prep from the Princeton book 🕰 Another work party + some pictures at the Christmas market :) 🕰 Start on re-booting my portfolio in Python 🕰 Read a few more chapters of SmartCuts (genuinely such a powerful book by Shane Snow) 🕰 30 minute workout 🕰 One more Python Leet Code

Playlist for the day:

[ros-sauce]

People are using chatgpt to answer the discussion questions in business communications you people cannot do anything

[tails-kinlab]

Welcome to the lab!!

I'm mod Tails, and I'm here to cook up some inventions for all your fictionkin needs and wants!! Anyone, kin or otherwise, can submit a request though! Make sure to check out the whitelist as well ^^

The Blueprints! -- What can I build? This is an ever-growing list, but here's what I can make for you as of right now!

Playlists! This will be a short 10-15 list of songs!!

Stimboards! 3x3 grid of gifs galore!

Canoncalls and confessions! Or we could just chat if you want ^^

Kin assigns! Pick a media from my whitelist, provide some tropes or your current kins, and I'll provide you with a kin I think you may align with just for fun!!

General kin tips! This will most likely be a mixture of activities, maybe clothing, media recommendations, or whatever else I see fit! If I get the hang of making these more often, this may split off into its own few blueprints instead of being mashed together.

Click below the read more line to look at the whitelist!!

The Whitelist! This is ALSO an ever-growing list, so I'll try my best to update you guys when it gains some new media ^^ In bold are the medias I'm most knowledgeable about!

Gravity Falls

Amphibia

Scott Pilgrim [Franchise]

Rise of the TMNT

Tales of the TMNT/Mutant Mayhem

Sonic the Hedgehog [Franchise]

Theme park kins

Over the Garden Wall

Invader Zim

Ducktales 2017

Dog Man

Hermitcraft/Life Series

The Ghost and Molly McGee

The Owl House

[vigil-of-stendarr-official]

I heard rumors that Jarl Balgruuf's young son is consorting with Daedra. What do you intend to do about this? Balgruuf's middle-of-the-road stance clearly applies to allowing his son to make deals with dark forces. Do you punish the father or the child?

Thank you very much for reporting your concerns, Anonymous Citizen! Because of our limited resources and the vast wilderness of Skyrim, we rely on alert members of the community such as yourself to tell us about possible daedric activity in their area.

While our organization is strictly neutral on matters of politics, we hope that all good people of Skyrim recognize the threat that consorting with Daedra poses to our fair land.

The Vigil of Stendarr does not administer punishment, we merely eliminate the threat of daedric activity. Unfortunately, it often happens that by the time our Vigilants are made aware of a problem, the people involved are too invested in their vile activities to cease without the use of force. If they survive the application of Stendarr's Mercy, we leave their local government and justice system to the task of deciding punitive measures.

Spot the Signs of Daedric Activity IN YOUR VILLAGE!

Expressed or implied threat of daedric summoning is the most reliable way to know if someone in your community is consorting with daedra.

Theft, loss, or diversion of seemingly inconsequential items, such as small amounts of alchemical ingredients that enhance conjuration like blue butterflies, lavender, and bone meal

Observation/surveillance: a prolonged or unusual interest in crypts, mausoleums, or graveyards beyond casual or professional interest.

Otherworldly Activity, such as strange lights, smells, or sounds that appear during particular summoning days or phases of the moons.

Acquisition of Expertise: gaining skills or knowledge on specific topics related to daedra, such as summoning, soul trapping, realms of Oblivion, and principles of contract negotiation.

[opiumvampire]

so i have to get a notebook for work so i can keep notes on my accounts and when im talking to clients WOULD it be in bad form to get the jerma vampire redbubble spiral notebook

[larrythefloridaman]

WOAH, HE'S BIGENDER? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

[fur-paradises]

AVOID & USE

[hero-of-the-wolf]

Do your homework. Write the sentence “TWILIGHT WANTS ME TO” then make the first word of every sentence spell that out. Honestly gamifying it like that is how I made it through so so many papers.

TWILIGHT WANTS ME TO 😭

I might actually have to do this—