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Gimme sites or app to learn arabic please?

Levantine Arabic (spoken in Palestine/Syria/Lebanon/Jordan, different dialects but all mutually intelligible): Learn Levantine Arabic on YouTube Lebanese Arabic with Heba on YouTube Jordan Institute for Arabic Studies on YouTube Learn Arabic with Maha on YouTube LiveLingua Levantine course Lingualism CultureTalk videos Arabic phone conversations Kaleela app Memrise app Mango app Modern Standard Arabic (aka Fusha, used for books & news): A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language Al-Jazeera Learn LiveLingua MSA course Learn Arabic with Maha on YouTube Rapid Arabic audiobook Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News (more advanced but good to have on hand if this is your goal) StartFromZero Arabic app Beginner Arabic app Arabic Locker app Kaleela app Memrise app Mango app

I can't personally speak to how good any of these resources are for total beginners, but I've used many of them to improve my Arabic, and the rest I've seen recommended by others. Have fun ❤️

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god i am So Sorry if youve answered this 80 times but i cant find it- what watercolor lookin brush are you using for the recent pokemon art?

no worries! i do get this question more than any other so i'll share my whole sugimori-style art process in detail below.

first i start with scanned lineart, done with brush pens on paper.

when painting digitally, i use Paint Tool SAI. i start with a simple base color with our good old friend the paint bucket.

next comes shading. here are my watercolor brush settings:

i copy the base colors of a drawing over and turning them completely white, then setting them to Screen mode. then i draw over the silhouette with a black watercolor brush (and sometimes midtones as well.)

after that i add an overlay (watercolor or coffee-stained paper) from a selection i keep on my computer. then i do some final color correction!

that's all! if you have any additional questions let me know!

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do you have any recs for solo ttrpg?

im just gonna list pretty much every solo game ive finished playing so far because ive had a good time with all of them! i think theyre all journalling games, im copying some of the descriptions from their respective pages

also if youre interested in solo games i highly recommend buying any of the 'solo but not alone' bundles on itch.io and just tearing through any that catch your eye

Thousand Year Old Vampire - A solo roleplaying game of loss, memory, and vampires. In TYOV, you chronicle the many centuries of a vampire’s existence, beginning with the loss of mortality and ending with inevitable destruction. (very fun and also free! go grab a community copy! the first solo game i ever played)

Artefact - a story game from the perspective of a single magical item, and its history as it passes through the hands of many different keepers. You’ll feel the weight of time as the item is lost or abandoned again and again, the dust & decay piling around it until it’s found again by someone new.

Bucket of Bolts - A game of iconic spaceships and their infamous captains for one player. (same system as above but with spaceships!)

Long Haul 1983 - tells the story of a dangerous journey through an empty world. You play a long-haul truck driver trying to make their way home through the end of the world. Very good, DID make me cry.

The Empress and Her Seer - a solo game requiring tarot cards. Does the Empire dream of its Empress – its human handler, master, prisoner? She does not shoulder her duties alone. She has advisers, generals, spies, poison tasters, lovers. But she has no one so important as you. For you are all these things, and more. You are her Seer.

Princess With A Cursed Sword - same author as above, a game requiring tarot cards that follows a princess. A figure stands in an ancient ruin, bare feet on crumbling stone. Her gown far too fine, her sword much too dark. She can not put down the sword until she finds where it came from. So she has come.

A Fool's Errand - You are the jester in King Lyrics’ court. Through mere observation you discovered a conspiracy threatening their rule. You now have the fruitless task of warning their majesty. A single page, Solo-Journaling game about the futile effort of trying to warn a king about their inevitable destruction.

Lost Among the Starlit Wreckage - A 1-2 player journaling/storytelling game of war, loss, hope, and reflection from the cockpit of a deteriorating giant robot. <- f@tt coded

If anyone has more recommendations feel free to reply to this bc i dont know much and would love to play more games lol

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Heres a MEGA folder filled with art book pdfs, if anyone has some others that you'd like me to add to it thats missing, please let me know and send me the link

EDIT 1: If you're a bit new to art and you're super overwhelmed by the options and you don't know where to start, I highly recommend the morpho series of books

Edit 2:No more Google Drive, just the MEGA folder now, so don't panic if the stuff on Google ain't there no more, its still up, just in a different location

Edit 3: Its dead. :(

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hey jsyk while hellofresh is dummy expensive and i wouldn’t reccomend it if you already know how to cook (if you’re a beginner like i was when i had it for 3 months, then it’s worth it), you should know that ALL OF THEIR RECIPES are free on their website and they all fuck hard

i will say that all the cooking instructions for veggies are pretty much the same (season with salt + pepper and roast on the top oven rack at 425F), but if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

that being said, it also introduced me to methods i wasn’t at all expecting. i would have never thought to use cream cheese in my meat sauce, and now all my friends are constantly asking me to make my special rigatoni.

happy cheffin! :)

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every time i see those posts like ‘what food from a show did YOU always wanna try’ i go lol none? but i just remembered im a liar

i always wanted the fucking soup brock made in the pokemon anime

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Holy shit, someone on Youtube is uploading HUNDREDS of unaired TV pilots from the 2000s-2010s

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its just that zucchini and tomatoes season is going to end and then no more spicy summer veggie pasta.

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MS paint is getting layers and transparency support. This is the single greatest art news of my life.

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I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

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Cooking tips for beginners:

1. Grill your salmon skin side down first.

2. Salting your pasta water seasons the pasta and makes it tastier.

3. Adding olive oil to your pasta water keeps the pasta from sticking together.

3. Slice your onion through the root. Don’t cut the root off (this is what causes you to cry).

4. Make sure your meat is at room temperature before you start cooking it.

5. Let your meat rest for 5-7 minutes before cutting it.

6. Always rinse your rice & canned foods. (Rinsing canned vegetables can reduce its sodium content).

7. Rice: rinse, season, cold water, lid on, boil, simmer for 8-10 min. Fluff with a fork.

8. To keep avocados & potatoes from browning, put them in water with lemon juice and keep in fridge.

9. Storing parsley in water will keep it fresh for a week.

10. Always leave your hard boiled eggs in an ice bath for 10 minutes. (This makes it easier to remove the shell).

11. After rinsing and peeling your potatoes, soak in cold water for 30 minutes. (This removes starch from the potatoes giving them a crisp finish when cooked).

12. Roll lemons & limes under your palm before slicing through for the maximum amount of juice.

13: Always dry off your proteins before seasoning.

14. Adding pasta water to your sauce helps it stick to the noodles.

15. Shred your own cheese, it melts better.

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hi! how do you determine where to put thick and where to put thin lines in your drawings? id really like to know :3

here's some pointers I made hope this helps!

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Anyone who's into Hetalia I was going thru my middle school junk and I found some old CDs and stuff so if anyone's interested PM me. The booklets and discs themselves are all pretty much brand new its just the cd cases that have some wear bc they were in a garage for 10 years.

It's whatever price is reasonable to you as long as you pay for shipping (I live on the US east coast)

Pics under the cut

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had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

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@bakaichigo if u could enable PMs I'll send u the mcl account info!

random thing but anyone into the game eldarya or my candy love who wants a free account hmu i haven't been on since 2019 but was cleaning my accounts and passwords and junk and found them. the eldarya one was in hibernation mode so it's all still good, i put it back in hibernation for now but eh!

edit: I STILL have a fucking gaiaonline account too lol. so that's up for grabs as well

just ignore that they have a lotta cringe posts from when i was like. 13 please lmao

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random thing but anyone into the game eldarya or my candy love who wants a free account hmu i haven't been on since 2019 but was cleaning my accounts and passwords and junk and found them. the eldarya one was in hibernation mode so it's all still good, i put it back in hibernation for now but eh!

edit: I STILL have a fucking gaiaonline account too lol. so that's up for grabs as well

just ignore that they have a lotta cringe posts from when i was like. 13 please lmao

Edit: elda and gaia are both taken!