#I need to read MORE

[ooowyn]

i don't claim to be someone who can design outfits but i can draw obiwan as a (separatist!) senator. as a treat. still don't know what to do for the colors but we'll get there.

[finhere]

reading challenge idea called Polar Winter where you read nothing but polar expedition books the entire season

[scrungus-bungus-the-elder-god]

I love how there are two kinds of covers for "The Color of Magic":

Travel guide Or

70's prog rock album cover

[girlynextdooor]

tired of my reading slump

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

[cloudofbutterflies92]

I was reading Moonstruck and... Luna and Nox give me so much Eden and Ghost vibes 👀

[who-needs-reality-anyways]

I miss Bellarke, but I can’t bring myself to rewatch the show knowing how it ends. It’s really depressing because it was my life for a long time.

[pasc4lfuzz]

obsessed with Marcus Acacius fics

[averysmolbear]

I forgot that my library card comes with a free Libby account. Now I can borrow books on my phone and read them while working. I need to get a Kindle at some point. I feel like I’m one of the few people in the world that doesn’t have some kind of e-reader.

[luckydoeslanguage]

"You find an old CD player. turn it on?" [yes] [no]

Weekly Update | 今日は火曜日。4月16日２０２４年。

Not a great week overall. I got 5 hours of immersion in this week. still not 1 hour a day, but hey its 1 more than last week!

biggest problem is my adhd medication ran out this week and my pharmacy isn't able to get more until the end of April. which blows. :\ so my routine i built over the last two weeks basically got hit by a bus and is still recovering, lol. Im surprised i got any immersion done at all, tbh.

Im trying not to take it so hard. I had a couple good moments this week, after all.

Finally got my Anki backlog under control! I hope to get back on taking new cards sometime this week. rn its all reviews so its time i start actually learning new vocab.

my other good moment was i understood all of the dialog in one part of the 乙女ゲーム実況 I'm watching on youtube, then right after immediately understood the commentary from the lets player :) i laughed. was a good moment.

Starting to get a better feel for my routine again, even after a bumpy week. I want to try and front load the hours where i feel more energetic, cause i get better comprehension when Im focused and not tired.

i also finally worked out a routine for doing Anki. 1-2 15 min pomodoros is pretty good for me, any more and i start getting frustrated. I think its important to use anki how you desire, rather than whats 'optimal'.

So yeah, overall a not super productive week, but i think I can give myself a pass. Hoping to meet my immersion goal this week, and maybe i'll peruse for a manga to read? if you all have any reccomendations for manga, id love to hear them cause honestly idk how to find stuff thats learner appropriate. (already read yotsuba.)

until next week, またね！

[totallynotpuri]

I feel like tumblr is telling me to read the great gatsby

[kandidandi]

Do you read fanfics? >:3C If so, which ones do you prefer? >:3CC

oh yes yes yes i read fanfics! i havent read many in a while but i really like ones with hurt comfort or soulmate aus! also detectives

[darcymariaphoster]

Anyone wanna do, like, an online book club? Where we all pick a book and then a day of the week that generally works and we talk about, like, a chapter? Something kinda lowkey and maybe silly. Maybe a discord server for it? Idk it's a discussion sort of idea.

[motherofagoddess]

Finished reading "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes".

1. Glad Snow and Baird didn't end up together. The small, still romantic part of me wanted them to, but I loved the Hunger Games in high school and I never liked Snow to begin with.

2. Wow, the Hunger Games was super shitty at first. Not that the idea improved by the time the 74th reaping came, but wow.

3. I love the mystery of Lucy Gray disappearing. While I'm glad Snow/Baird wasn't end game, I really like to imagine that Katniss ends up being his secret, long lost granddaughter.

4. The Hanging Tree- the first time I read it in Mockingjay to seeing it's origin in BOSBAS, I wonder if he had a panic attack hearing Katniss sing it during the propaganda thing. The past coming back to haunt him.

Overall super happy, glad I took the time to read it. Now, it's time to read Murtaugh (or finish it, since my brother by law has returned it to me)

[jewishrizahawkeye]

sorry it’s late (i was having a hard time thinking of books)

[trivial-writing]

@ducydoo2000’s Hisuian Drayton Au reminded me of the N is a Zoroark theory, and now I’m thinking of N and Drayton being like cats in their Zoroark/Zorua forms. They just knock stuff over. Iris has two older brothers too. Ugh. I love this idea.