#Either method I mean

[sassypotatoe1]

Me: "I want brass plumbing and hardware in my home one day it's so pretty and antimicrobial" sees the cost of brass plumbing "NEVERMIND STAINLESS STEEL IT IS"

[kirby-the-gorb]

[dxxtruction]

Armand is evil in honestly a very accessible way, like who actually can say they haven’t lied to cover for themselves, that they haven’t doubted themselves into a self fulfilling prophecy, that they haven’t given to the pressures of others, that they don’t put on some sort of face for the world, that in some form or another they had forgotten or not utilized their true potential because they felt it was so useless to try and do anything but? Is that not what getting up to do a job that you often hate when you’d rather stay in bed all day suggest? That you feel compelled to comply with it for the suggestion that you don’t could spell your ruin or even your death? Are we not all moved to act by things that feel out of our control in any way that can possibly manage it? Are we all a bit angry or emptied into apathy at the futility of such things? Wouldn’t we all want love more than anything in the world if we had been denied it our whole lives? Wouldn’t we all when denied something to that extent somewhat deny its possibility? If you’re oppressed do you sort of have to reckon with the real possibility you will die still oppressed? Or perhaps if you aren’t don’t you even consider the very real possibility that so many do? Of course maybe not as many can quite say they’ve done these in quite the way that he has, these circumstances for them as well are even more unique, to actually impossible, but we’d all be lying to ourselves in saying we are all entirely incapable of it. Like if you think any bit about it, you really don’t want to say you get it, you have far more morals and backbone to stand on them, surely, but you do. If you get over the scale of it all, you could quite possibly imagine yourself in his position and be unsure if you’d be any different. It’s true too the same goes for all of these vampires, in their own accessible ways, but Armand’s evil is disquieting for me personally because when breaking it down I find its just unfathomable power given to someone unruly ordinary and alike myself.

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Watched ‘The Cancer Conflict’ documentary on Netflix and its made me SO ANGRY to the point of tears

[torchickentacos]

Posts that are like "if you reblog without this condescending addition then [threat/guilt tripping/etc]" baffle me so much because like... how are you going to verify that someone purposefully reblogged without that specific thread addition? It's such an empty claim. You cannot prove that a person went out of their way to ignore a specific reblog addition. Posts go around with like 5 different post-addition variations, that's just how tumblr works??? forever confusing and mildly annoying honestly.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

I just wanted you to know that CN altered my brain chemistry so much that now whenever I try to write my own god!Ajax fics I always end up using a similar ascension concept(the whole getting too powerful and the universe basically deciding that you need to either be a god or to die thing)

My brain just accepted it as canon and I do not know how to get it to stop/j

LMAO my condolences?? hahah

given genshin takes quite a lot of inspo from xianxia, and that method is xianxia based, i honestly wouldn't be surprised if that's how it works in game. i mean- do we even know how one attains godhood canonically? i can't recall rn. there might be multiple means, too. who knows

[peaches2217]

WOOOOOOOOOO

I GOT A HATEFUL MESSAGE ON ANON AND I IMMEDIATELY DELETED IT WITHOUT GIVING THEM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT

I am FLOURISHING!

[zestyzigzagoon]

If any non-writers want to have a glimpse into what it's actually like to write, then here. I've been stuck on this lame half-sentence for approximately thirteen days now.

[noahschnappinfs]

do you have any rare photos for us during this drought

i’ve been searching everywhere and i haven’t found anything new to post, so i’m mad as well lol

the most recent thing that i have is that i found some old ladies that ran into him a few days ago in philly but didn’t take any pictures so there’s not much to say about it. the thing is that the wording doesn’t make it clear to me if they saw him watching a musical or at a restaurant/bar so i can’t tell you what he was doing but he’s obviously still in philly for school

look, i know i’ve said that i don’t have noah pictures sitting around in my camera roll but i do have some that i didn’t see the point of posting because they are way older (than 2023) and i wasn’t even sure if they were unseen by the fandom so i don’t see the point of posting them, i just saved them and moved on. i think most are unseen and that’s what caught my eye and made me save them because i hadn’t seen them before and i got them from places that i don’t think ppl have searched before but there’s also a (big) chance they’ve been posted before and i don’t know/remember because they are old af

i try to find and only post pics from the past year or so because i think only that timeframe is relevant enough for a update post. anyway here they are because we’re all bored and need some content even if it’s from the dark ages 😌

so basically, this is it. we officially ran out of noah pictures from me so noah come back to us and give us some content.

[pigeonclaw]

I got thinking about Splashtail today and something that I've been stuck on is just how young he is. I kept thinking he is awfully young to get involved in a conspiracy to replace his Clan's leadership, especially to think he deserves a shot at being leader himself. But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

Mistystar has made some really bad choices in the past two arcs. RiverClan was weak enough to get conquered by Darktail, and afterwards, Mistystar shut off all communication with other Clans — to everyone's detriment — for the purpose of "giving RiverClan time to recover" but it honestly felt more like a choice made by paranoia to me. And of course in TBC, she sided with "Bramblestar" even to the point of exiling two warriors to appease him, even when it was clear to almost everyone else that something was wrong with him and obeying him was wrong. She's appeared as increasingly weak and illogical as time has gone on and she's gotten older.

This is the RiverClan that Splashtail grew up in. The only RiverClan he's ever known is one weakened by Mistystar. And for a good portion of his life, the Clans have been terrorized by the hunt for codebreakers while StarClan has been absent. If he's the sort of guy to naturally have doubts and concerns about these sorts of things, it makes a lot of sense that he would end up disdainful towards Mistystar and StarClan and want to change things. I think in this case, his youth is what makes all this make sense to him.

[rigelmejo]

In honor of yet again seeing on reddit "how do I learn a language?"

I made a longer post on it. But the absolute shortest advice I have is: pick a study material and study plan and STICK TO IT. Ideally pick a study material/materials that teach you some new stuff regularly, and progress through them. Once in a while, review what you've studied either with that material or practicing what you learned by immersing (reading/watching/listening to something or chatting with someone in the language). Ideally pick a study material/materials which teach you the skills you wish to learn - reading, listening, speaking, writing. You may need to be creative to make up ways to use your study material/materials to study those 4 skills (or whichever ones you want to focus on). If you take a traditional class, generally the teacher will give you exercises to practice and study each of the 4 skills. If you need to, look up how other people use textbooks to study the 4 skills and copy what they do.

A mistake many people make is just... not finishing the study material they pick. Yeah, if you only ever study 100 words... 4 chapters of a beginner book... you'll remain a beginner. You must move forward. Study some new stuff regularly. Expand what you know over time.

Stick to your chosen study materials until you finish them, then pick a new study material that TEACHES YOU NEW STUFF. So if you just finished Assimil, don't start a Teach Yourself book as they teach the same stuff! Move onto an intermediate learning material after you finish a beginner material!

Do not repeatedly study various beginner materials for years. This is a mistake many people make, myself included. You need to keep picking study materials which teach you NEW stuff.

Good options for someone who struggles to pick study materials or get past the beginner stage: formal classes!!!! Take beginner 1 and 2, intermediate 1 and 2! There's free and cheap courses on Coursera and other online class sites, if you don't want to go to college and pay for courses. Or pick a series of textbooks learners use in classes - f9r beginner 1 and 2, intermediate 1 and 2. This could look like Chinese textbooks that teach HSK 1-6, or Japanese Textbooks that Teach N5-N1. Yes lots of people don't like "traditional study." But if you struggle to figure out how to improve, doing up to intermediate 2 classes then just practicing reading, listening, and chatting with people will teach you enough to do many things in the language. Intermediate 2 will prepare you enough to understand SOME shows, some reading materials, talk about conversational topics.

Alternative good options for beginners who struggle to pick a study material: pick a study method or approach and copy it. Do exactly what it says, progress through it regularly studying new stuff. Refold is a study approach with directions "do anki cards - usually premade sentence decks for a language (study new stuff regularly), and immerse regularly - practice understanding". So if you like Refold, look up Refold for the language you're learning and use the resources it recommends. (I suggest NOT making your own study materials such as your own anki sentence cards if you are bad at self motivating and making your own study materials as this could cause you to give up). Dreaming Spanish is a Great comprehensible input approach to language learning with a guide on the website to follow and lessons to follow for 1000 hours and directions on what to do after. It also has a community that mentions what resources they used like podcasts, and you can copy what others did. You like ALG and are learning Thai? There's youtube channels with ALG lessons and ALG tutor/teaching websites you can book lessons on. Just pick a study approach and STICK TO IT.

As long as you study new stuff regularly, and practice understanding the things you have studied before, you will learn a language. It mostly comes down to that, and how many hours you study.

Some people just keep repeatedly studying stuff they already studied so they don't make progress, or they studied 50 hours when... its probably going to take hundreds or thousands of hours.

If you like a very specific study method for a very specific goal? Find someone who already achieved your goal with your study method, and copy what they did. Use the materials they used (or improve on what they did and find equivalent materials that work better for you). Do the study activities they did. You have a good chance of getting similar results. That's how I came up with all my reading study plans... I found someone who'd already learned to read chinese, or french, and copied what they did. It worked. I'm using Dreaming Spanish as a guide now to figure out how to improve my listening skills, copying the suggestions dreaming spanish has for studying, its working well so far. I found the Listening Reading Method really cool, and copied that for a while, and did see significant improvements in my reading and listening skill after doing it.

[fate-defiant]

These four wormed their way into my head last night and would not leave me until I spat something out so here's some assorted headcanons, a comic that I'm not sure I understand the punchline of myself and the youngest inn-bling(ba dum tss) in ten to fifteen years.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

come get your levitous sidekick / vicious bastard / funny little guys

[a-concert-just-for-me]

If I had (safe + mutually benefiting) people to body double with I swear I would be on my way to my 30th PhD right now

[midsomercaps]

Midsomer Murders, season 11 - Shot at Dawn

[fadewalking]

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