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there's something almost manipulative in the way eurylochus and odysseus call each other brothers, maybe it's because they only do that when they're arguing (which is. most of their conversations tbh)

like. the bond is THERE. they're not lying about caring for each other! but they keep weaponizing this to win arguments!

mostly it's odysseus who does this, and eurylochus is being more genuine when he plays the brother card.

"please don't do this reckless thing, i love you and i don't want you to die"

"so you don't believe in me?"

would you still love me if i was a pig

how does one answer this without sounding like an asshole? of course eurylochus changes the subject.

and so on

and then, mutiny

when he is not the one making decisions, eurylochus only looks at this from one side, and then he IS making decisions, and turns out there are NO good decisions!

he's just trying to make himself heard. he is so tired and hopeless.

i don't know where this post is going. sorry if you were expecting some kind of conclusion. it's just i still can't stop thinking about these two

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big fan of when some edgelord isolates himself from the world hiding in his menacing magical castle, only for his future love interest to ram down the doors like YO BITCH! i live here now

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I wonder what Mae got up to this Harfest 🎃🍂

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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

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"What do you mean 'cave with food to the east', you're not actually gonna trust the stoned blue squirrels right?"

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epic!Apollo just a little fan art

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Hopelessly addicted to the talisman

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Objectively speaking, the fanfic I’m reading is not good, but my goodness, it’s made my afternoon that much more enjoyable

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Harkalé Linaï - Nebula distillate 

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SIBLINGS

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Reblog to give a trans woman a warm cup of soup

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I have a lot of respect for the guy who did the study about wolves, the one that came up with "alpha wolves". Because normally when you fuck up science, it just causes some delays and occasional pop-sci nonsense.

Dude fucked up science so badly he invented an entire new genre of pornography. I can only dream of being so influential.

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Lying Odysseus replied,

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santa put me on the Nuanced list this year

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