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but on the topic of language learning apps some i used include
Drops - made by the same people at kahoot, more of a vocabulary app than learning actual grammar but it has a lot of options, free version lets u do 5 minutes every 12 hours. If you want to learn more than one language what i did was download the individual language apps (u can either just download drops for all languages or drops (specific language) ie drops spanish for just spanish) and use different accounts. i also took advantage of the free trial cuz its fun but i do think the 5-10 minutes a day thing works fine to create a doable habit
Beelinguapp - This one requires a subscription i dont remember how much you can do without one but i have an android so i just downloaded a modded apk. edit: i forgot to elaborate when i posted this but its practicing reading / listening by reading stories and articles
Mango languages - this one is a lot different than duolingo but still good, its essentially based on learning by hearing / speaking a new language than just learning vocabulary and writing sentences. It requires premium BUT if you have a library card you can check if your local library lets you use it for free (this isnt guarenteed unfortunately but i think it is more common in bigger areas), there are also some free endangered languages
Memrise - Like the name implies this is mostly an app for memorizing words and sentences, using flashcards. Theres official courses but users can make them too so you can use it for more than just language learning if you want to. I think if you used this with mango languages it would be helpful to get practice writing phrases & words in a way you dont get to with ml. Apparently theres a pro subscription but i have no idea whats different & a lot of people say the free version works just fine
Ling - Havent used this for very long but its almost identical to duolingo but with more languages, its basically premium only but once again i use a modded apk
Some more specific stuff
Lifeprint - ASL w/ videos and its all free! a very good resource even if you arent looking to learn
Tagalog.com - Free resource for tagalog you just have to make an account
If you have resources for specific languages or anything in general id love to hear, this is all just from someone who has had a casual interest in language learning
Also if you have an android you can download modded apks of a lot of paid language apps. Just be safe (use adblock) and smart, not all apks are actually modded or theyre too buggy to be worth it, so pay attention to the reviews. The paid apps are often very nice but the prices are ridiculous. everyone deserves the chance to learn. I dont know if theres ios equilivants (although i wonder if theres a way to run apks on your pc through something like bluestacks)
#elisey speaks#this took me way too long to make#Cuz i kept gettign distracted#but i hope this helps someone out there#I just mentioned the ones i have experience with because ive never learned any languages with a foreign alphabet but ive reblogged some#posts that talk about chinese/japanese apps specifically#If thats what youre interested in#To be clear i dont necessarily know all the bgs of these apps and companies im not advocating giving them money#Everyone should learn languages for free#in my opinion.#Also look into your librarys resources rhey might have cds / audiobooks / books or free programs and the like
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the cowboy hat rule:
wear the hat, ride the cowboy ;)
#these cowboys are FREAKY#(Lando is oblivious to the cowboy hat rule cause ofc he is)#daniel totally informed Lando after this and teased him#what if you declare your sexual/romantic interest for me in front of an audience after competing in a deadly sport#I have so much art prepared for this you guys are NOT ready#awkward flirting cause thats the landoscar specialty#forgot to add the sheer amount of DIRT they roll around in#bullrider!landoscar#bullrider!lando#bullrider!oscar#Landoscar#oscar piastri#lando norris#f1 art
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No I don't want these characters to go to therapy I want to watch them tear each other apart with teeth
#leo txt#this is abt thoschei but it coukd be abt anyone of your choosing tbh#thoschei#like sorry but what are they gonna do with therapy theyre both so fucked and thats what makes them interesting ❤️
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every time i interact with the silmarillion i get weirdly excited about the fact that the authorial intent is that it's a translation of historical accounts. it's a tertiary source! none of it is first hand. it makes it so much more interesting. was the legendarium a mannish tradition? what parts of these were written by pengolodh? by rumil? what loremaster has recorded this? would there be bias in the accounting? can i trust what i'm reading, from this viewpoint, this many years after it would have been written?
what has been mythologised, what has been sanitised, what is third-hand written on rumour? it's such an interesting thing to consider.
#i mean like. you can trust MOST of it#but authorial intent as a translation makes it interesting to approach it from a research pov#like are you going to trust this story in its totality when it was transcribed by someone who hated someone in the story#i guess depending on our definition the silm COULD be a secondary source#but thats nitpicky lol#tolkien#silmarillion#silm#i just unreliable narrators/retellings#the element of ambiguity#the way your interpretation can be shaped by how much you trust the author#i totally get why people are like “this is what it says in the silmarillion so there's nothing that supports different readings”#but also i think that is doing the format a disservice
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hmmm. thinking about how veilguard seems to subscribe more to the more traditional "video game as personal power fulfillment fantasy of heroism" than any other dragon age game, except perhaps origins, though origins does it more artfully.
#da2 certainly is not a power fulfillment fantasy#and inquisition seems like it could be on the surface#but under that surface is the horror of how power corrupts#and rots you from the inside and steals everything from you even yourself#maybe thats not true for a trevelyan#but inquisition at least has the opportunity to be played as either#depending on how the world treats your character as someone they are comfortable with having power#or not#which is a commentary in itself#origins idk#it has never stuck with me the way the other 2 games did so someone else will have to do that analysis#but veilguard is sooooooo hero fantasy fulfillment in comparison#you win in the end#nothing bad ever really happens to you at all#you tell everyone what to do and they listen and love you for it#no one blames you for anything ever#you are always right#you save the day!#compare that to leandra telling hawke their baby brother/sisters gruesome death is their fault#like JHERGJKHERGKJHREG#anyway its not necessarily a bad thing#but its a very... traditional#video game narrative path#that i dont think most of us were expecting or interested in#from a franchise who has deconstructed such things in the past#veilguard critical#mine
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hey im curious
feel free to rb & explain your answer in the tags!
#i will go first <3#i reread my own fics all the time!!!#it's so fun!!#i am the target audience for every fic i have ever written#like even if it's a gift/for an event i write it bc i am genuinely interested in it#so of COURSE im going to enjoy looking back on those fics#i have uh 24 fics on ao3 now?#so i dont reread All of them#i mainly reread my longer fics bc i just have the most fun writing them#i encourage ppl to reread their own work bc#1 its fun to see how your writing has changed#(my writing has gone through So Much since i started in 2019 lol)#2 if you write for yourself then youll always love what youve written!#n e way thats my 2 cents#pls share w/ me i am very curious#thanks love ya#fanfiction#fanfic#<- promo tags ig
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The girl that loves night orchids
#Shadowheart#Baldur's Gate 3#baldurs gate fanart#BG3#BG3 Shadowheart#I love Shadowheart so much#POV: You are Bing Bong (that was my friends first comment when he saw this haha)#She is such an interesting character and an absolute cutiepie as your girlfriend#And her with the white hair#I am in love#Also her beautiful green eyes#I gifted this piece to Jennifer (her VA) and Aliona (VA and MC Director) and added a little Corinna sitting on Shadowhearts hand haha#very happy because they loved it#heartyfarty#thats what my Tav calls her girlfriend (she's embarassed but secretly loves it)
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Someone brought a fish tank to Bring Your Own Cup Day at 7/11.
#interesting#interesting facts#discover#thats interesting#thats incredible#thats insane#like woah#woah#woah dude#woah :0#slurpee#711#7/11#bring your own cup day#what the#whatthe#what the fuck#what the hell#what the heck#what the flip#what#woahhhh#but woah#woahg#woah woah woah#thats crazy#fish tank#fish#fishes
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I think when getting along with other people, its perfectly natural (and entirely inevitable) that you're going to bump elbows with others and treating confrontation/discomfort with a kneejerk "well we have to beef now and turn this small miscommunication/moment of friction into a Whole Thing" reaction, instead of doing your best to give your fellow people the benefit of the doubt, even if you got off on the wrong foot is really key. and in fact an essential skill for any grown adult. especially when operating within and without other communities or cultures
#not trying to be a hot take or anything just a thought#i hope this isnt just coming off as 'why cant we alll just get allonnng' i dont mean it that way per se#I just think especially on the internet people resort way too quickly to#'well you clearly suck entirely and im no longer interested in your perspective'#(disclaimer im not talking abt giving any grace to hate groups thats not what this is abt)#i mean just innocent moments of miscommunication/social clumsiness/cultural clash
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It would've taken extraordinary skill to layer the involutions on this artifact. What a waste of talent!
#me every time emmrich speaks: emmrich your josephine is showing#im so glad her writer wrote emmrich. it shows! in a good and brilliant way#dragon age#dragonageedit#emmrook#daedit#gamingedit#'i always choose my words carefully' yeah you do. and youre probably the only one in da4 T_T i weep with what could have been#dragon age the veilguard#emmrich volkarin#emmrich#emmrich x rook#aughh why couldnt everyone speak so eloquently like emmrich ;-;#anyway. i still love it. my rook is smitten and thats enough for me.#also for the first time in dragon age game im playing as a human lol. not that its very differnt. bc they didnt put any distinction into it#but its fine. he honestly grew quite quickly on me. but thats mostly bc of his grey warden origin. thats the interesting stuff#da4#datv#mine#gif:da#gameedit#datv spoilers#da4 spoilers#not rlly anymore. but just for sure#rook#rook dragon age
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"what's your favorite memory with joey jordison?" - insp - id in alt text
this was supposed to post on the anniversary of joey's passing, except i forgot to finish it before then and didnt have a chance to edit it the way i wanted until now. genuinely one of my favorite slipknot related stories corey's ever told, and it's always interested me that this is one of his 'favorite memories'. i know it's far out from the anniversary, but rest in power to this absolute scamp of a guy 🫶 we miss you joey
#artings#corey taylor#joey jordison#slipknot#i dont have much else to say other than finishing this was actually very refreshing even though ive switched over to#cheap pens and the worlds hardest eraser. im glad to have made it though ive been inspired to do something similar to the linked animation#for a while now. and im serious about how interested in this little anecdote i am#your favorite memory is him laughing at your struggletimes???? interesting. endearing even. im not crying shut up#corey taylor art#corey taylor fanart#joey jordison art#joey jordison fanart#shoutout to my handwriting i fear it is getting worse as i continue my stride as a Doodle Maker but hey! thats what alt text is for!#corey#joey
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When the whole town despises the rational-genius kid's dad, for him committing a huge mistake-but the kid still stood by his father side...
#your origin: cas#OOOOOOOO#dobie turner#orange turner#now thats SOME lore-istg my brain sometimes is goated#they both from henford-on-bagley#wonder what dobie did to be HATED by that town... its actually big BIGG...#orange being a rational kid while dobie being a risky man- quite interesting i must say!#random but dobie name is inspired from acnh iykyk hehe#simblr#my sims#ts4 cas#sims 4 cas#ts4
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♥️Surrah♥️
This is weirdly accurate for what goes on inside my head... 😝😅
Show me some love, y'all! And purdy please check out my other platforms 😘 and please let me know whatcha think. I need some feedback 😊
https://linktr.ee/Surrah698
#the emperors new groove#autism memes#autistic memes#llama#movie memes#cartoon memes#lol memes#relatable#neurodivergent memes#neurodivergent#adhd memes#overthinking#social anxiety#memes daily#moody monday#childhood trauma#yeehaw#bless your heart#its the tism#auadhd#sensory overload#cant focus#autistic experiences#autistic things#thats what she said#conspiracy theories#special interest#random facts#bad jokes#funny memes
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still dont see how so many people say that dawntrail is poorly written in comparison to other expansions like. what, did you realize you had to learn about a new culture and immediately not care anymore lmao? you've done it before, was this one not white enough for you?
genuinely i think more people should do side quests during msq so idk you can form a heart about the characters you're interacting with if you struggle with that and understand the land better so when impactful shit happens your illiterate ass can actually read and have empathy. theres no excuse for this.
if you can't handle storybuilding and character introductions from the expansion that feels like stormblood and shadowbringers had passionate gay sex that got one of them pregnant and birthed a beautiful daughter they both love and care about then idk what to tell you, maybe youre just lame and can't read. best of luck with that.
#'they dont take as many risks as shadowbringers and endwalker!!' okay one WHAT risk did ENDWALKER take lmao#and two DID YOU PLAY PAST ZORMOR LMAO?????????? HELLO?????????? DID YOU LEAVE TULIYOLLAL??? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT#like i genuinely think you guys just complain about shit without actually playing the game#god forbid you have to learn about another world#some people heard this was stormblood 2 and immediately gave up caring#oh im sorry you were able to care about literal racist elves in cold france but a refugee? a non white civilization? oh i see#shadowbringers literally set up its societies too they were already in war dawntrail wasnt already#i think people should replay stormblood. it was never a bad expansion and i dont know what people are talking about???#half of the complaints i see for stormblood are racist and the other half werent reading any of the dialogue#'the horrors of war expansion has horrors of war in it i just wanna play on the playground with gay elves'#bitches will literally say they dont understand stormblood or dawntrail and then say yotsuyu was justified zenos is hot and wuk lamat is bad#why play a fantasy game if youre not interested in exploring new worlds#dawntrail takes so many more risks than shadowbringers and endwalker combined and sticks the landing with just about all of them#i think my only problem was how many times theg brought up they arent related by blood. no i can tell lol#some of yall are just haters that cant form their own opinion and are just mindlessly nodding along to somebody#you follow on twitter that was gonna hate DT regardless because zenos didnt come back to life this time#consume new media. go do side quests. touch grass. walk a trail at dawn and perhaps you have appreciation for story building#you guys are pathetic and i wish you the worst <3#dawntrail's twists are on par with shb and stb thats why i call it the love child of stormblood and shadowbringers#ffxiv
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it's really weird to me the way people have been talking about maria lately.... like i know maria wasnt the most developed character in her earlier appearances and she also didnt get to have a normal childhood experience but seeing people say she has no personality and has no joy or whimsy or never got to be a kid at all makes me wonder if im the only person whos actually been paying attention to maria this whole time...???? like do people think she was a sad miserable kid who never got to have fun because of her disability or something ? because that is quite literally the opposite of who she was
and people are being weirdly ableist about it too like talking like her illness is the reason for all those traits she supposedly lacks. implying disabled people cant be happy or have fun or whatever. like come on man
#maria robotnik get behind me ill protect you#and regarding the disability thing i am disabled myself i was a disabled child once i am well aware of the difficulties that come with that#but you can acknowledge the struggles with being disabled and facing ableism and such#without portraying being disabled as constant misery. shoutout to shadow generations + its associated content for getting that right#anyway its especially weird that people Always say this stuff as a way of hyping up movie maria as a better portrayal#like. movie maria is missing so much of what makes game maria interesting ????? what do you mean shes better ....#and again. people are being weirdly ableist about comparing the two#''she finally gets to be a kid/have a personality now that shes not sick''#''movie maria's death is sadder because game maria was just going to die of her illness anyway'' do you not Hear yourselves.#the fact taht they didnt mention her illness at all and people are just Fine with that is bad enough#but did you really HAVE to say with your whole chest that a disabled child's life is worth less than that of a non-disabled one#even if thats not what you meant its what youre implying.#trying not to avoid talking about the movie but my god some of you make me so mad.
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seeing ppl on twitter’s takes about snowgrave kriselle makes me want to kill myself oh my godddd “its toxic” “regular kriselle better bc its healthier” DO YOU THINK I WANT TO SEE THEM MUSHY KISS AND BE LOVEY DOVEY AND HUG EACH OTHER??? NO!!! the APPEAL is that adding romantic connotations to their snowgrave relationship (which mind you very much already exists in canon) allow their relationship to become so much more interesting. do i think they’ll become truly endgame canon? do i think they’re in love with each other??? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! AND I DONT WANT THEM TO!!! the POINT is that it’s supposed to be dark and interesting and exploratory of their characters in relation to the deconstruction of autonomy in video games through gender roles and principles of knighthood and the idea of the “damsel in distress”. not to mention that “shipping” regular kriselle and snowgrave kriselle isnt mutually exclusive either. in fact i think understanding both allows you to analyse their relationship much more fully and deeply than without considering the other side. and besides, isnt the fucking point of shipping to explore character relationships??? why would you want to Ignore nuance and depth rather than focus on it???? are you unable to handle anything deeper or darker than like fucking cocomelon??? if you hate character analysis and dark themes in relationships you can head on back there or smth idfk oh my lord i cant fucking TAKE IT ANYMORE
#snowgrave#kriselle#rant#deltarune#this probably comes off as harsh lol#i was going to add its alright if you find snowgrave kriselle uncomfortable for personal reasons#but like sincerely if youre in the utdr fandom and you’ve seen the fucking geno route then i think you can handle this#and not only that but i feel like nowadays fandoms are purposefully trying to get away from darker subject matter and themes#while in the process airbrushing nuance and details in favour of shoving characters into tropes and boxes#all in the name of ‘person comfort’ and ‘preference’#and while i cant control what other people do or ship or whatever#i do think its a sign that we’re leaning far more into anti-intellectualism these days#and people are just completely unwilling to engage with things outside their comfort zone#its okay to have preferences! its fine if you think kriselle is bad!#but like if your only reasoning is that its unhealthy and toxic then idfk what to tell you man#please play/watch/read better media#relationships in media can be toxic and unhealthy and portrayed without romanticisation#kriselle is very much so!#my ideal version of them is that neither of them have feelings for each other at all#neither does the player have any for noelle#the romantic/marriage connotations are there as metaphor for the stripping of autonomy through a forced heterosexual lens#however if they somehow form some fucked up forced conditioning traumabond feelings for each other along the way which fucks things up even#more… now THATS fucking interesting#really gets you questioning the lines between the decisions you make and the ones they make of their own volition#suselle completely endgame though#i just like analysing kriselle more LOL
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