#Cure Dolly

[senchastudying]

For your question about what people wish was different about Japanese learning materials, something that I've always disliked about most resources is how they teach 'conjugation' because it's unnecessarily complicated. It doesn't help that Japanese 'conjugation' doesn't resemble at all what you do in English, Spanish, French, German, etc. because it's not really conjugation like that. It doesn't indicate number, person, mood, or tense beyond the simple past and non-past. This video is honestly the best resource I've found for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhyrskGBKHE&list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj&index=8 , and I wish verbs were taught like this in other places too.

For me, learning verbs in the ない form first really helped, but I know that other people find different ways easier. I have an explanation why I do this on my blog. Conjugation seems to always be one of those topics where no one is satisfied and everyone wants a better way. :( Waiting for the Matrix downloading right to the brain on this one! Thank you for the video, I actually haven't watched any of Cure Dolly's stuff, but I've heard that her videos are pretty alright, if a bit dated on a literal technical level, not subject level. I'll have to poke through some of them and see if any of the information sticks. Again, thank you very much for answering my question!

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

A Somewhat Condensed Timeline of Aristasia.

Aristasia is sometimes very difficult to grasp, because there are many parts in motion, and it's been many different things, either at the same time or in different eras. In Aristasian lore, time and space are one. Western Aristasia butts up against our reality, and the further east you walk, the further back in time you go.

The sun rises in the East. The early-to-mid 1970s is where it began with a group of girls in their twenties who were deeply into the idea that the earth had an ancient, secret, matriarchal history and that God was a woman. Several different groups with this same belief got together to publish a magazine that explored these beliefs, writing as if they were part of an ancient and secret matriarchal society. There were scriptures, songs, holidays, and personal histories being presented in this magazine as an attempt to legitimize their belief.

By the early 80's some of these people had formed something of a hippie commune in Ireland, and attempted to live what they had preached in their magazines for the better part of a decade. These were called the Rhennish. They were a little bit like Amish hippies, rejecting modernity and living spiritually. Their spiritual beliefs were referred to as Lux Madriana.

Only a couple of years later, by the mid 1980s, the men had been kicked out of the club and the aesthetics had turned very Victorian. In this era they still claimed to exist without electricity, but they also published a number of text-based adventure games for computers. This was the St. Brides era. This was the name of their publishing company, as well the name of their "school" that ran week long events. It was a bit like a role-playing game or a LARP. Women would pay about £ 120 to spend the week reliving their school days for fun. The inhabitants of the St. Brides School called themselves the Silver Sisterhood.

The late 1980s saw an Aristasian off-shoot that included men called "Romantia". They held similar anti-modern values to the Aristasians. They produced some newsletters and zines about their world view and perhaps hosted events. Aesthetic wise, they tended to drift further into the 20th century than the Silver Sisterhood's pseudo-Victorian role-play. The groundworks for what would later become familiar in Aristasia were laid here, but they referred to themselves as "Olympians" when they didn't call themselves "Romantics". What would later be known as "The Pit" or "The Void" was known as "Babylon".

The early 1990s saw the end of the St. Brides School. They seemed to have had some disagreements with the landlords, stopped paying rent, and then left one day, leaving a lot of their stuff behind. The early 1990s also saw an assault charge against the woman who would become Miss Martindale, for some whipping her live-in-maid, who was acting as a maid in order to learn about the female-divine religion that they popularized in the mid-70s and still seemed to practice behind closed doors. Newspaper articles came out about some very problematic materials found in the house, including correspondence with National Party members and anti-semitic publications, as well as BDSM pornography, catalogs, and equipment. They largely denied this had anything to do with the Sisterhood, and insisted it was junk mail sent by perverts and things their boarders brought into the house without them knowing.

Things were quiet for about a year, until the girls came back in full force in the mid 1990s. This was Aristasia's first big day in the sun and the height of the Wildfire Club, their lesbian publishing company that leant heavily into BDSM and master and servant relationships. A large portion of their most well known books were published in this era, which were largely erotic stories interspersed with Aristasian lore. There was a lot of push and pull between releasing racy material, calling attention to it, and then insisting it has nothing to do with sex. I believe this was the first time they called what they did "Aristasia". Aesthetics in this era largely shied away from the Victorian and focused more on the glamourous 30s-50s. There was a big focus on vintage stockings. Aristasians began setting up early websites in this era. The infamous "A Weekend with Miss Martindale" was aired on late night BBC.

This era kept on rolling into the late 90s throughout the early 2000s, with Aristasian nights at local lesbian bars, as well as fetish clubs. They sold fetish supplies, vintage clothing, vintage style stockings, as well as their own books and other fetish books. This was the height of Aristasia-in-Telluria, with several households of Aristasians living together as Embassies. Girls could schedule appointments online to meet with Aristasians to see if they were a good fit for their world. The woman who was known as Miss Martindale was something of a celebrity and had gained international renown for the brief BBC documentary about her from 1996, although she had perhaps moved to America in the late 90s.

The mid-2000s put a screeching halt to Aristasia-in-Telluria and their embassy was moved almost entirely online. The girls gradually seemed to move away from real-world events, and perhaps each other, and they moved their Aristasian adventures to forums, chat rooms, and the Second Life game, where they set up their Aristasia-in-Elektraspace. Operation Bridgehead was announced in late 2005, which seemed to make a very big statement about Aristasia: It was a real place, Aristasians are aliens from that planet, and all that spanking stuff was just a big misunderstanding and not that serious at all. This is the era of Aristasia Pura. The game got very serious: the religious parts came back out in the open, the world building got elaborate, more websites popped up, and more girls started showing up to play in their sandbox. A mysterious girl known as The Mushroom Princess was the Aristasian welcome committee on Second Life and seemed to play a big part in charming new girls and directing the game. The mysterious Mushroom Princess was, in fact, one of the girls who played a major part in creating the religion that was the underlying belief that linked all of these eras together.

The mid-2000s also saw the Miss Martindale BBC documentary go online, being uploaded to early Youtube, seeming to attracting a mixed group of people to Aristasia. Some people saw it as an intense group of friends where they could create a fantasy world together online, complete with a built-in spirituality, and others were seeing the racy 1990s erotic and stylish club of ladies in vintage clothes aggressively rebelling against modernity with their femininity. Something of a fanclub for Miss Martindale popped up online, completely separate from the true Aristasians, with a big emphasis on their Romantia and Wildfire Club days. Small Romantia revival meetups pop up in the UK after people online, particularly men, discover the old Aristasia and want to experience it for themselves. The old Romantia magazines are put online. These new groups were completely unaffiliated with Aristasia.

Things chugged on, more or less the same, through the late-2000s with the Aristasians-in-Elektraspace becoming more and more interested in Anime and learning Japanese language. The fall of Second Life perhaps shrank their numbers, because in this era they seemed to put out a lot of sites attempting to entice people into their belief system, without outright calling it Aristasia. You see them making "femmekin" blogs to attract otherkins, multiple Filinist/Deanist religious blogs, several sites about Amazon warriors, and other "all girl world" websites.

Things start to get rocky in the early 2010s. The last remaining true UK Aristasians, who seemed to have receded completely into elektraspace at that point, sell their vintage school girl supplies on Ebay to fund a move to America. Anime and Japan becomes more and more important to every conversation they have. Their aesthetics change to the kawaii. Discussions in the forums often take place in Japanese. However, despite this, they start Sun Daughter Press, and publish two fiction sci-fi adventures that seem to harken back to an the early days of Aristasia Pura.

In 2013 the boat is thoroughly rocked, the seas are stormy. Old-style Aristasians, and the Miss Martindale fan club, are sick of talking about anime and kawaii things, they have noticed the gradual change and don't understand why the game has changed so drastically. They miss the old Aristasia and notice the name of their homeworld is hardly ever mentioned any more and their old ways are downplayed or utterly erased. Critical blog posts are made. "Turncoat" and "traitor" accusations are made. There's evidence an Operation Bridgehead Version 2 was in the works. The old URLs that were allowed to lapse were bought by Aristasian purists, perhaps the people that had come in from the mid-2000s, who were looking back to the 1990s. All their old archived sites were put back online to preserve the old ways. Even the near-pornographic sites that were associated with the 1990s Aristasian empire are back in the Aristaisa Preservation Project. Almost immediately after the APP goes online, Aristasia changes its name to Chelouranya. Operation Bridgehead Version 2 is, presumably, cancelled. The old Aristasia is dead, and is claimed it never really existed, Chelouranya reigns supreme. Those who have been shut out of the new Aristasia suggest starting "Nova Aristasia" to revive the old ways, but it never comes to pass.

Chelouranya is quiet throughout the mid-to-late 2010s. It's a small group of girls who are devoted to Japan. Or rather, to the Aristasian version of Japan. They learn Japanese, The Mushroom Princess visits Japan and has something of a religious awakening where she realizes that Japan is as close to their lost Motherland of Aristasia as they're ever going to get, they speak in Japanese. They start teaching Japanese to outlanders and it's surprisingly successful. The early proto-Vtuber Cure Dolly is created for this purpose and controlled by The Mushroom Princess. She has a successful patreon. If any more Aristasian world-building happens, it's done privately. The woman formerly known as Miss Martindale lives in America, her husband (for that's why she left for America) dies in the mid-2010s, she dabbles in hosting non-Aristasian spiritual retreats in California, she does some art, hosts some plays. Meanwhile the mysterious mushroom-shaped figure who brought anime into Aristasia continues teaching outlanders to speak Japanese and the former Miss Martindale helps her out, and perhaps even lends her her home. In the late 2010s and early 2020 there is a bit of a revival of the Filianic beliefs, with several independent Filianists, some of which used to be involved in the offshoots in the 1980s. Through some intense research they make all of the old 1970s religious works available online, release their own version of the scriptures, and untangle the complicated web of the authorship of the early Filianic works.

In late 2021, the Cure Dolly Patreon made a vague announcement implying that the little Mushroom alien controlling Cure Dolly has died. There is some debate amongst her online patreons, who have probably never heard of Aristasia and couldn't tell a Blonde from a Brunette, whether or not she has really died. Shortly after this the woman who was once Miss Martindale hosts a meetup called "Wonder Woman's Island Society Recreated", with an emphasis on the ancient knowledge of the Amazons. The sun has set in the West, and is rising in the East again, but Aristasia very well may be empty of loyal subjects.

[d3cayingdolly]

you can call me by the name I gave you yesterday

(my pinterest <3)

[fisherrprince]

きっと日本語ではdungeon meshiを見れば、日本語を話すかたを思い出す。きっと勉強のに役立ちます

[stringcage]

court ordered messy pricefield doodles

[ursaminorjim]

"Auld lang syne" (NYE mix) - John Fahey

[lisbon6]

⌗ about me ! ༊

⌗ she/her . lana del rey enthusiast . age lux . infp

⌗ interests -

⌗ movies . 50s,60s,70s . old hollywood . music . sofia coppla . vintage america . to make my life into a work of art ༉

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.2.18

jun[1] ETZNAB/TIJAAX - jun[1] K'ANKIN (yellow sun)

galactic tone: unity

sun sign: FLINT| fish/white/north

spend time in reflection and introspection - MAYA

ce[1] - TECPATL [flint knife]- day to honor Huitzilopochtli

Xiuhtecuhtli | Chalchihuihtotolin

xiuhuitzilin [hummingbird]

lord of the night: Xiuhtecuhtli

trecena [ 1 - TECPATL]: Mictlantecuhtli - north

x: caxtolli [15] - tozoztontli - NAHUA

though i've done this one before, since today has ones on both calendars, songs that feature ONE:

Queen: Another One Bites the Dust

Dolly Parton: You're the Only One

Bee Gees: I Don't Wanna Be the One

Aimee Mann: One

The Cure: Just One Kiss

Janet Jackson: One More Chance

Arctic Monkeys: One for the Road

Miley Cyrus: 1 Sun

The Verve: One Day

Janis Joplin: One Good Man

The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another

Joan Osborne: One of Us

The Smiths: Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before

The Donnas: It Takes One to Know One

Orleans: Still the One

Murray Head: One Night in Bangkok

Britney Spears: ...Baby One More Time

Cypress Hill: Phuncky Feel One

Alicia Keys: No One

Phil Collins: One More Night

Hilary Duff: One in a Million

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove

The GoGos: I'm the Only One

Bruce Springsteen: One Headlight

Ariana Grande: One Last Time

The Clash: One More Time

Shania Twain: You're Still the One

Johnny Cash: Remember Me (I'm The One Who Loves You)

Elton John: The One

R.E.M: The One I Love

Pink Floyd: One of These Days

Whitney Houston: One Moment in Time

U2: Two Hearts Beat as One

The Rolling Stones: Time Waits for No One

Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime

Glenn Frey: The One You Love

Eagles: One of These Nights

Linda Ronstadt: Just One Look

Hall & Oates: One on One

Depeche Mode: One Caress

Prince Rogers Nelson: The Beautiful Ones

The Beatles: For No One

[barbarellasgalaxy]

Record Store Day 2023

[bloodibambiidoll]

It's so crazy how my bed is big enough for jj and rafe and Eddie and harrington and Roman AND YOU 😏😘

Well hellloo, looks like you just landed the best pick up line of the century. I’m fucking in.

[llimerrence]

Siblings ™

Cady, Clarke, Dolly

[stevie-baby]

Record Store Day 2023

I got to the shop about an hour after they opened and I only had to wait like 30 minutes, but I managed to get a lot of the albums I wanted (including some non-RSD releases). So without further ado, time for a haul!! Also ignore the watermarks

Dolly Parton— The Monument Singles Collection 1964-1968

Stevie Nicks— Bella Donna: Live 1981

Donna Summer— A Hot Summer Night

The Cure— Show

Phil Ochs— The Best of the Rest: Rare and Unreleased Recordings

And now, onto the non-RSD finds

Donovan— Donovan’s Greatest Hits

The Beach Boys— Pet Sounds

Queen— A Night at the Opera

Todd Rundgren— Something/Anything?

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

The forum rules for the Happy Innocent Musume Senshi Forums, one of Aristasia/Chelouranya's last forums, circa about 2013. As with the Shining World forums, this was Aristasia at it's absolute most elite. Conversations were almost exclusively about anime or Japan. "Telluria" became "West-Telluria" to allow as much Japanese popular culture as needed. It went 手-in-手 with the Happy Innocent Musume Senshi blog, which mostly was about learning Japanese, lolita fashion, and the anime Pretty Cure. Happy Innocent Musume Senshi didn't last long, the conversation was over fairly fast, and Aristasia's leaderesses soon after found their place teaching Japanese to outlanders with the Cure Dolly persona adopted by Miss Sushur, who was, most likely, formerly Miss Priscilla Langridge.

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

RKO Plot Recycling Collection

Many Unhappy Returns (1937) / Pretty Dolly (1942) / In-Laws Are Out (1934) / Hold Your Temper (1943) / Bad Housekeeping (1937) / Home Work (1942) / A Returned Engagement (1935) / Man-I-Cured (1941) / Crime Rave (1939) / Two for the Money (1942) / Maid to Order (1939) / Mail Trouble (1942) / A Rented Riot (1937) / Rough on Rents (1942) / Good Housewrecking (1933) / Inferior Decorator (1942)

[marblebees]

Ive started learning Japanese from an android

[sunshine-tattoo]

ok let's make something very clear: Taylor Swift is not a baddie.

she a spoiled white woman who grew up very wealthy and who's individual carbon footprint is larger than the entirety of some small nations.

you know who is a southern baddie? Dolly Parton.

grew up in absolute poverty in a shack with dirt floors

(TS has a rich family and spent every Xmas in NYC)

modeled her style after the town trollop, who she thought was the most beautiful woman in the world, and embraced her sexuality.

(TS retains the image of the young innocent virgin white girl despite being 35 years old and every one of her songs is about a man)

wrote a song about the stupidity of the American work system

(TS is a billionaire with two private jets)

has supported the queer community for decades even through some of its darkest times like the AIDS crisis

(TS uses the queer community like a prop)

started a scientific organization to help cure viruses like AIDS and that even helped develop the Covid vaccine

(TS made the last superbowl all about her becauses she was dating one of the players)

has run a charity since 1995 that sends millions of books to children in poverty, particularly the rural south where she grew up

(TS has done nothing for the south and its problems despite her southern belle persona)

"But she told off Trump! Thats something!"

Honey thats the absolute bare minimum.

That's telling someone 'bless you' after they sneeze.

That's holding the door open for someone in a wheelchair.

Thats waving back to a little kid when they wave at you.

It takes 0 risk and 0 effort and should not be a point of praise.

"Well her southern fans and sponsors didn't like it."

So? Woman is a billionaire with connections all over the world. She literally doesn't need them.

Bottom line: Taylor Swift remains an egotistical bourgeoisie white cunt who should be known for her pollution levels instead of her mid music.

While Dolly remains the bad bitch she's been since the 1970s.