#a-level german

[zivazivc]

Meta & Flint, the freaks who named their daughter Oblivion.

Don't let their looks fool you, they are actually good parents. (Maybe "okay" parents, they did let Liv run away with her boyfriend they never met and his band at 15. (But she was responsible and called them to explain her decision and that she already talked with the school and will be taking special exams at the end of every semester, so it's all good lmao.))

In my AU the Techno/Rock Trolls are the largest population of mixed trolls. They live concentrated along the shore between the Rock and Techno Kingdoms and also extending north into the no-man's-land on the map. This whole area is simply referred to as "the Shallows". They have their own communities and villages there which are located partially on land or exposed reefs/rocks and partially in the water.

Liv grew up in one of those villages. Her parents own a small apartment carved into a cliff side above the ocean. Personally they prefer walking over floating/swimming, and they can't stay in the sun for too long either (they all inherited sun sensitive skin from their Techno sides) so this way they're mostly on land and also aren't in direct sunlight after noon.

It's a modest home but I imagine they must have the prettiest sunrises.

Despite the Shallows having their own communities they still belong under the Rock Kingdom which doesn't really care about them or their different needs much, so a lot of the trolls living there are very anti authority.

[emichevy]

I will never stop thinking about how the fuck Kurt was about to pull WANDA in this show with THAT haircut.

[foldingfittedsheets]

My beloved wife is not just a doctor of acupuncture, they also have a Master’s in both English and German. Language is their jam. To their eternal suffering, I do not have perfect grammar. When prompted they said it’s “fairly acceptable” on a day to day basis.

But I do have quirks that make them quietly grit their teeth. One of them is my indifference to differentiation between “is” and “are”. On multiple occasions they’ve tried to explain to me when I misuse “is,” and generally I can’t even parse what’s upset them. They gave an example of me asking, “Is there pickles in the fridge?” rather than the correct “Are there pickles in the fridge?”

They’ve told me that to pacify the editor in their brain they’ll mentally correct my sentences and that’s usually enough. Tonight it was me saying “There is other narrators,” in reference to a series we’re reading. When they pointed it out tonight it was to say that “are” would have been correct because there’s multiple other narrators.

“No,” I countered, “I was trying to use ambiguous language but there is really only one other narrator, so in my mind I knew that and spoke incorrectly because I knew it was singular but the sentence implied it was plural.”

This incensed them further (I also don’t know the difference between further and farther and the pneumonic is just as unhelpful to me as the one for stalactites and stalagmites.)

What’s funny to me though was that I asked about my use of “kind’ve” that people got worked up over in my 20lb ass post. “Doesn’t that bother you? It’s blatantly wrong.”

“No, that’s just a colloquialism, it’s fine.”

[joonebugg]

How can call of duty players be so homophobic when Soap and Ghost are literally right there lowkey flirting over the radio?

[ganondoodle]

(while i am crumbling into pieces from cramp pain)

back when they announced the totk masterworks book i said i wasnt happy about it bc it would either

prove they thought all this was good from the start and everything went as planned

show us that they had unbelievable better ideas and plans but for some unknow reason scrapped it all

as it stands now with the concepts i have seen ... they somehow did both, some things seemed to have been planned fro mthe start (the whole focus on sonau/zonai stuff for example, which i personally just dont like bc i liked them better as an unkown mystery you never get to meet) and other stuff (like ganondorfs concepts, or the infinitely cooler castle in the sky esque concepts for the sky islands, instead of some nonsensical, meaningless little stone crumbs) was much, much more interesting initially (together with the interviews that said they initially planned to have the battery be a magic meter and make the sonau more magic than tech- but then decided to build their stuff around modern electrical devices just so players would immediately know what it was an what it would do -why????? thats so boring?? and unecessary ?? and they still give you tutorials for it anyway, multiple times??!!- for some ungodly reason)

it makes me more and more sure that this game, that took 6 years to make with most assets already being there (the same time that botw took to make?????????), went through a similar development hell as that one final fantasy game did where the director decided to make it an entirely different game every few weeks bc he saw something cool in another game-

its the only thing that makes sense to me, why else would it be so weirdly ... unfinished, its full of grand ideas badly executed, or like i said in a previous post, like an alpha build (weird! did someone in charge also see cool stuff every few months and decide they wanted it in there too no matter what so everyone had to scramble to try and put it in making the whole jenga tower fall over and over??), just to test how far you can push things, with placeholders everywhere, the same cutscene pasted in where another should be and a placeholder reason to get players to go soemwhere (fake zelda) and rough ideas for puzzles etc, that was never finished, jsut highly polished (in looks, sounds and presentation) in hopes of it being 'good enough' or players not noticing (like, take the underground for example, the idea itself is fantastic and cool as fuck, but its feels like an idea that was never finished and just barely fileld with some things to try and cover up the fact that it was never done, like a statue that wasnt done being carved but ran out of time so they painted it anyway- take the base map and invert it, put some easily accessible points of jumping down into it in random spots to test if the game can handle it- no time left to actually get that idea anywhere more specific and well thought out/put together, so its left like that, put the same texture everywhere, barely modified copies of the same enemies, and some little reward spots that make no sense, modelling three types of trees and an enemy camp is way quicker to do than actually making an entire new map (they didnt have to make it the same size btw, just make it big but unique caves, put the gravity effect down there in enclosed spaces! makes it less weird to have randomly happen in the sky! etc) but its there!! its in the game and if they are lucky most players wont go down there enough to notice how meaningless and unfinished it all is)

knowing they would most likely never admit to it though, probably bc of their reputation, is just addign to the frustrations i have with it :I

(i just hate to not know the reason for things, if the devs, who are usually the ones being worked to the bone for things they know arent good, where put through that bc some executive big shot threw their tables around every so often or neglected their project bc they wanted to focus on something else first ... id like to know, i dont enjoy making up these conspiracy (?) theories .......... but i cant shake this feeling, its jsut makes no sense)

[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

[looking4mikey]

welcome to my studyblr ✩𖦹°‧₊ ⊹

I'm Mikey (if you can't tell from the totally discreet Looking For Alaska reference in my username) and this is my studyblr!

What I'm studying (A-Levels):

English Lit (currently studying: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)

History (currently studying: Weimar and Nazi Germany)

Media Studies (currently studying: Hollywood vs. Indie cinema with Clueless (1995) and Submarine (2010))

Languages I'm learning:

Norwegian (Bokmål)

French

German

Languages I want to learn:

Latin

Russian

Ukrainian

Dutch

Finnish

Books I've read this year:

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Books I'm currently reading:

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Fun facts about me:

I write poetry and short stories! I also write fanfiction on AO3 (telecrushxx)

I run the Film Club at my college, and I help with the Debate Club as well

I'm from Northern Ireland

I want to be a writer and filmmaker

My other blogs:

@the-everlasting-empty — main blog

@konflictdreaming — war/conflict history blog

I created this blog to improve my productivity and focus on studying, so I really hope it helps!

[agnesandhilda]

how do you think all the "devour"-ing talk in blue lock sounds when it's been put through an automatic translator. do the international players who hear the blue lockers talk about cannibalizing each other assume it must sound so strange because it has different connotations in the original japanese? do they know isagi's a huge freak?

[dkettchen]

native english speakers learn how to pronounce basic german sounds even vaguely correctly (like you seem to manage with say french loan words) challenge 2024 - difficulty level: impossible apparently

[saltycharacters]

[ID: Digital art featuring a fan-made kid for Apollo Justice and Klavier Gavin from the Ace Attorney series. The first drawing is their ref, depicting a 16 yr old with colorfully dyed hair and sunglasses perched on their head, two overlaid jackets, and torn jeans. Following that is a lineup of the Justice Family, including Apollo Justice, Klavier Justice, Anupa Erith Justice, Camile Dance Justice, and some pets such as Spätzle the ball python, Mikeko the calico, and Vongole the golden retriever. Next is a concept drawing of older Camile and Anupa, with Camile being 28 and Anupa 13- biggest changes include Camile getting a mohawk, growing to 6 ft 4 inch, and Anupa getting an aeronautical engineering inspired outfit. The final image details various Camile mannerisms and emotions, which are shown to be inspired by various pre-existing Ace Attorney characters. End ID]

Camile Dance Justice/CJ, supernova teenager extraordinaire :]

Don't forget, help Palestine:

-> arab.org <- Click once a day for free

-> gazaesims.com <- Instructs how to donate esims

-> gazafunds.com <- Randomly selects a fundraiser for you to support

-> Fundraiser spreadsheet <- Lists Gazan fundraisers

-> Operation Olive Branch Spreadsheet <- Lists other ways to support

-> Resource link google doc <- Has tons of information and links

[hanakihan]

‘So, judging by your face you did something again’

‘Maybe? 👉👈’

‘You absolutely did something I won’t be happy with Hunter Sung Jinwoo’

[milfygerard]

im not the most knowledgable of italian fascist history so dont take me at face value but I do think a lot of the visual aesthetics lean way more towards italian fascist imagery than german fascist

[caterjunes]

perhaps unprecedented in recent decades of movie musical adaptations that wicked did not add a new, bad song to try to snag an oscar nomination???!?

[skitskatdacat63]

This is a special genre of f1 picture(to ME.)

[ceilidhtransing]

We call that a Großvater Wurm

[tj-crochets]

Another weird question for y'all: If you are moderately allergic* to a thing and had been eating it anyway for years because you didn't know, and then when you figure out what you're allergic to you quit eating it at all, can you lose your ability to tolerate even a little bit of it? *a phrase which here means "probably severely allergic but can tolerate small amounts when on antihistamines"