#bring back og studyblr

[enfleures]

tagged by the lovely @sabrinstudies (maybe literally 2 years ago) but i thought this might be fun

rules: set your entire music library to shuffle and report the first ten tracks that pop up, then tag ten people to do this!

1. all the good girls go to hell - billie eilish

2. wait for it - h.e.r.

3. location - khalid

4. idontwannabeyouanymore - billie eilish

5. we find love - daniel caesar

6. coaster - khalid

7. angels - khalid

8. ultralight beam - cub sport

9. pray - sam smith

10. little rowboat - daniel caesar

i tag: @luthiest @stuhde @shlrleystudies @ronanlynch @castudies @productivityrocks (if y’all wanna do this ofc) + anyone else who feels like it <3

#the shuffle wasnt shuffling #i swear i listen to more than just pop and new rnb #spotify really wants me to listen to khalid #tags #bring back og studyblr

[lantern-hill]

honestly my advice to baby studyblrs is just do whatever you want. if you feel like getting twelve hundred mildliners and you can afford it and you want to make really over the top color coded notes do it. you want to spend ten hours on canva and photoshop making a header for your blog, or for your masterpost? go nuts. you want to put a super saturated pastel filter over every photo? sure, do it. you want to raise the exposure of every pic so high that the paper blends into your white desk? why not?

i used to take an erasable highlighter and make the most complex, confusing notes ever. i used to do calligraphy titles for every. single. header. and add in highlights with white pen and drop shadows with black pen. i used to make my post headers animated gifs with smoke or rain or whatever on top for the aesthetic. i used to have literally hundreds of spotify playlists for very specific moods and i used to bring a metric ton of markers and fucking crayons or whatever to school every day. i used to spend like three hours every week setting up next week’s bujo and a full day every month on the monthly layout. 

and yea, now i literally just keep a black pen, a ruler, a pencil and a couple highlighters in my pencil case. now i bullet journal with the cheapest dot grid notebook i can find with my One Good Black Pen only, no colors, barely any calligraphy, maybe a sticker or two once in a while. now i don’t even use a ruler on my weekly setups and i scribble things out instead of painstakingly using white-out. now my notes are pencil, pen and a highlighter *sometimes*. 

but i don’t think i would feel as comfortable with my notes or my bullet journal if i hadn’t gone through the phase where my notes were extra and color-coded af, and i still highlight the sides of my notebooks so i know which is which from above or below. yea, my bullet journal is pretty spartan, but i still like to flip back and look at the pages i have that are perfect aesthetic collages. plus it’s nice knowing that i could do that if i wanted to. and i genuinely think the phase where i spent 3 hours on every page of notes helped me get better at taking the quick notes, because i know what’ll work for me now and what won’t. 

i don’t regret the phase where i spent hours trying to figure out the best way to optimize my tagging, even though now i usually just slap on “studyblr” “og” “dark academia” and throw my shit out into the void. so sue me. 

i guess what i’m trying to say is if you’re just starting a studyblr, do whatever you feel like doing, and if you don’t feel like doing what you were doing anymore, switch it up. i’ve taken like six months off of posting and i’ve posted every day for weeks. i’ve edited photos to look like they were taken on the surface of the fucking sun and i’ve edited photos darker than my nightmares. you don’t need to be consistent, i STILL am not consistent with my content. throw shit at the wall, see what happens. have fun, get stupid.

#og #studyblr