#2000-3000 words

[pinimi]

Armand orchestrated Madeleine’s death because she so easily outcunted him. Absolutely no effort just laughed him in the face at his questions “yeah I can live and be mentally stable for eternity. what, like it’s hard?” she said skill issue if you can’t handle killing as a vampire. Every night Armand has seven different existential crisis and Madeleine sleeps soundly without a shred of guilt WHILE ALSO looking dead drop gorgeous and being funnier than everyone around her. Armand had to take her out early. He never stood a chance

[silliestintheworld]

should I finish this or scrap it/gen

Ganke paced back and forth, the dim glow of the streetlights filtering through the curtains. His mind raced with worry as he glanced at his ridiculously bright computer screen. It was well past 1 in the morning, and Miles still hadn't returned.

Ganke had spent the last couple of hours working on both his and Miles's homework, trying to distract himself from the gnawing worry in his chest. He had even managed to complete an entire essay in that time, fueled by stress and the desperate need for something to do besides worry. But it wasn't working. Not when Miles was out there, somewhere, and he had no idea why he hadn't come back yet.

He was giving himself a headache.

"No but seriously, where is he?" Ganke muttered to himself, his voice tinged with concern. He knew Miles had a habit of falling asleep on patrol, but it was 12 degrees outside.

Ganke shivered at the mere thought. "He's gonna freeze his ass off, and then I'll have to explain to everyone why my best friend died from hypothermia!"

Why couldn't New York be warmer!?

Great, now he was talking to himself. Might as well change your name to Miles while we’re at it.

He considered calling Miles's parents, but dismissed the idea almost immediately. If they knew Miles wasn’t with him, they would likely be even more worried. It wouldn't help anyone if they all panicked.

His phone remained silent, devoid of any response from Miles. That was very unlike him. Ganke knew Miles hated seeing him worry, and he always made an effort to keep him up, especially when he knew he would be out late. The fact that he wasn't answering a single text only added to the unease in Ganke's heart.

He was supposed to be the calm one.

A thousand scenarios played out in Ganke's mind. What if something had happened? What if Miles was hurt, trapped somewhere, alone in some stranger's basement? The thought was ridiculous, he knew, but in moments like these, the worst-case scenarios seemed all too possible.

"He's fine, stop stressing yourself out," Ganke told himself, trying to project calmness into the air. But his own voice wavered with uncertainty. He wanted to believe his words, to have faith in Miles's abilities, but the fear gnawed at him relentlessly.

"He'll be fine. He'll come back," he mumbled to no one in particular.

"He always comes back." But deep down, he couldn't shake the feeling of dread that settled in his chest.

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

oops (<- his ass is not being normal about ic and fable)

[0vergrowngraveyard]

writing a short-ish oneshot that i can just post on here without having to make a whole thing on ao3 challenge (impossible)

[organised-disaster]

All my Snowbird playlists! The "rumi" one is the original "snowbird," but I decided to make snowbird the general one with rumi and sera combined

Ashamed to do this but tagging @randosfandos for the attention (they're the only person who'd be interested in this lol)

[rigelmejo]

10/20/2024

Well, Smart Books app by Kursx is crashing every time I try to open a chinese book. I was trying to read SCI and first it wouldnt save my progress so it kept making me scroll from page 1, and then it loaded chapters wrong so every chapter was the whole book, then it crashed when I tried to scroll TO the part I was reading, then it crashed any time I tried to open SCI. Now its crashing when I try to open any chinese book :/

So much for being able to click translate quickly while I read and audio plays. I guess I'll just go to Edge again, use it's Read Aloud feature, and look up words after getting through a chapter.

I'm annoyed, as that was a really good app for seeing english/chinese full sentence parallel translations for each sentence (versus pleco that can only show an english full translation in a pop up window so you can't look at both at once) AND played audio and highlighted as it read aloud. I guess I'll see if any other apps can do parallel translation per sentence, and audio. (Tons of apps can do individual word or sentence pop up translation if you click,and play TTS, Edge and Google Chrome are what I usually use or Pleco... but the per sentence displaying BOTH languag texts at once was the unique benefit of the Smart Book app)

In happier news:

listened to 4 hours of chinese audiobook yesterday. I did understand more as the hours went on so maybe I just need to fucking listen a lot more. When I read SCI yesterday, I do know most of the words, so when listening there are many more words I /should/ know, that I'm just not recognizing when listening).

Did 8 hours of glossika japanese this week, 4183 sentences total, 86 hours total, 28374 reps. I do notice the listening ability for japanese making some improvements. I'm going to fucking finish glossika japanese A2 by the end of next week. So if A2 part 1 was 1500 sentences (im almost done), part 2 is probably 1500 sentences... so 4500 to a2 part 1 end, 6000 to a2 part 2 end...I'm quite pissed that out of 6400 sentences in this course... B1-C levels will probably be only 400 ish sentences. The only thing motivating me is that glossika japanese CLAIMS it teaches 5000+ words. Even with names counted, even if 200 place and people names are used, thats like 4800 words. Assuming glossika doesnt count every individual conjugation of a word as separate words... if it does, then I'll be pissed. I want my vocabulary to get around 5000...

Anyway I will be doing a review of glossika japanese when I'm done. Since I found only 1 person who reviewed glossika japanese AFTER completing the whole thing. Londoner learns Japanese:

He studied on the app 300 hours, so if he was an absolute beginner beforehand then that would be a big jump from zero. If you're an upper beginner like me, the jump in progress fter 300 hours may not be as big. He thinks he feels high A2 or very low B1 at the completion of the course.

If I do not learn at least 4000 vocabulary from glossika (so 2000 new words for me), then I'm either going to fucking find and buy nukemarine's Lets Learn Japanese anki decks and cram through them on anki (because I know it teaches 6000 words so 4000 new words for me), or get on Satori Reader and read like fucking crazy. Probably Satori Reader first though... because I fear If I use the LLJ deck I'll study basics again and waste time and perfectionist obsess and not make progress, or I'll never study cause I cant focus on anki its so hard for me to concentrate on using it. I'll listen to Nihongo Con Teppei and a Casual Japanese podcast I found either way, as the sooner I can just pick up words from stuff like that then the less I need to do drilling type study.

If I DO learn 4000 vocabulary from glossika (2000 new words for me), then I'll do a month of reviews and reading the sentences (to combine listening with reading and pick up kanji), and trying to speak the sentences out loud more (some speaking practice). Then after, I'll focus on Satori Reader.

[polyhexian]

Beach scene Beach scene Beach scene!!!!

[raininyourblackeyes]

A friend wanted me to write her a figure skating au bsd fanfic for her birthday and this rate it will be an entire actual book sized story 😭

[rolandkaros]

was doing so well on the next chapter and now im banging my head against the fucking wall why is writing so hard

[dwarfsized]

"oh this will just be a simple little intro i need to write and then I'll write some smut and I can post the fic" i tell myself, like a liar

[lavendercoloredglasses]

someone hold me accountable: im gonna try for a double chapter day

[sunjoys]

GOT AN A ON MY SHAKESPEARE ESSAYYYY

[acheronidae]

(this meme is so fucking dumb lmao, I apologize/hj)

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

found out that picture captions are included in the word count and said out loud to myself alone in my room "ohhhhh yeah let's put some pictures in this bitch!!"

[marigoldispeculiar]

Okay so. Finally realized that it makes way more sense to collate the Perfect Medicine scenes into chapters before editing, not after. And even though I’ve already edited 2/3rds of the scenes, I decided not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good here, so I just went ahead and collated everything last night!

I’ve still got about 4 chapters to edit, but honestly I’m feeling really good about things now! I can finally see how Perfect Medicine is going to be laid out for readers and it’s giving me immense satisfaction :)

[bmpmp3]

I LOVE LOOKING AT FUNNY IMAGES ON THE INTERNET INSTEAD OF WRITING MY ESSAY THATS DUE NEXT WEEK (explodes on impact)