#ci method

[tempo-takoyaki]

Listen, I love the "XL helps HC to see how beautiful he is" scenario as much as the next person... But I also see it like this.

[talk-danmei-to-me]

It's you Xie Lian. The answer to what makes Hua Cheng, Hua Cheng is Xie Lian.

Like honestly, this boy is so dumb sometimes.. I know Hua Cheng has lost his game this book with his special person and joking about marriage, but my dude, seriously?

[corneredcopia]

While I draw I like to have a little bill cipher staring at my work to motivate me

[yeonslayjun]

MXTX WHY?!?!?!?

AFTER TRAUMA DUMPING ALL THAT SHIT YOU'RE TELLINH ME HUA CHENG WAS KISSING XIE LIAN DEEPLY?!?!!??!?!!

i am not okay

IDK WHETHER to scream cry laugh or just die.....dying seems easier

[theygender]

I love being T4T. My gf has been on estrogen for a couple weeks now and she's been having a rough time with her mood so I'm teaching her about the ancient art of soaking in a bubble bath with a little drink to sip while watching shows on your laptop

[princessofxianle]

Sometimes when Im feeling weak I look at Xie Lian and wish I could be as strong as him. Physically but also mentally. Even after 800 years he still smiles, and even before Hua Cheng found him.

With that being said, I also find comfort in that, once upon a time, even a strong person like Xie Lian truly wanted to die after his life fell apart. A feeling that is so very real and very human.

This man, an ex-god at the time, who we all idolize... even he attempted suicide in his 20s.

And yet he still lived to over 800 to accomplish some pretty amazing things, including (but absolutely not limited to) his third ascension.

Sometimes, if you want a story to tell, you gotta go through hell.

And even the strongest people sometimes wanna throw in the towel.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Your favorite strongest characters took an absolute beating to get to where they are now.

But you still love them, right? Bc I sure as hell do.

[dudelynxx]

he/she hunter toh (crowd cheers)

[tenaciousrumour]

hot academic men come have conversations with me where we disagree on the analysis of different texts just to rile the other up. call it derivative, lacking detail, watch how the others teeth grind and how saliva blooms on the backs of your gums.

I need someone to challenge me, not mind when I bite too hard. passion has always been an ugly word that misplaces coherency and I need a man who too feels anger in the wrong places. gnaw at eachother all messy with teeth and grieving a boyhood that never had the chance to leave our bodies, we strike with sharp words that no longer hold our feminine softening.

we are both quick, blunt, and I have to keep swallowing around the argument pouring from my mouth like a flood drain. we want eachother in that way that's mostly sin, a vengeful gluttony, a hedonistic lust too indulgent to say in any way that's permanent.

[tiercel]

Once again asking when the T pellet will be available for men that are not cis & old

[neurasthnia]

AVOID These MISTAKES When Getting INPUT - Superbeginner Spanish

[skeletonmaster69]

im still really pissed that everyone said gc2b sucks like literally scared me into going with underworks instead and guess what their binders sucked and my years old gc2b one is infinitely more comfortable than them

[rigelmejo]

I've been very interested in the r/dreamingspanish and r/ALGhub subreddits lately. Mainly because it's very cool to see people share their progress reports of: how many hours they studied, what resources they used (very useful if you're looking for material you might understand at various milestones), and what milestones of understanding they've hit so far (what kind of stuff they can understand in the language and do) and what is still difficult or impossible for them.

I highly recommend checking out r/dreamingspanish for Spanish material recommendations, and ideas, and to compare your own progress after X hours. I am not an ALG/CI purist, and even though I've used a ton of explicit learning resources (anki, memrise, textbooks, classes, youtube explanation videos, grammar guides, word translations) along with content I understood the main idea of with no aid (more like ALG/comprehensible input pure methods recommend), I found that their hours for milestones are still somewhat in line with my experiences. So I think learners who use some media they understand the main idea of, even if they do some explicit learning, will find the milestones and comparing with other learner's progress of some use.

I know French, Chinese, and Japanese, too much to try learning any using a pure ALG/Comprehensible Input approach. But I really wish I could test the method out on a brand new language ToT. Alas, I do NOT have enough time in my life. So I've settled for seeing how the ALG/CI method ideas can be applied to improving from where I'm at. For Chinese, this is easy, as comprehensible input for understanding the main idea is whatever audio I want to listen to (if I don't look up words or don't count time I look up words). And listening for hundreds of hours was alrwady my goal for Chinese, so this is just motivating me to listen MORE and have a goal milestone to hit in X hours. For Japanese, I simply do not want to sacrifice the speed explicit learning has for initial familiarity with words, so I'm still trying to cram through glossika and learn 5000 words (although I'd argue Krashen - not ALG but him in particular - argued any input that's comprehended, even with aid like english translation, which is what glossika is, japanese audio made immediately comprehensible by english translation right after, also how the Listening Reading Method works, in any case glossika is very much NOT compatible with ALG lol). In addition to glossika, I'm watching Comprehensible Japanese youtube and just watching in order from Complete Beginner. I tried watching peppa pig in Japanese and I could do it, but wow do I not like that cartoon. I wish I could watch Rugrats in Japanese instead. I do find Comprehensible Japanese is helping with grammar quick-comprehension, even though right now I know all the words. For French: I've been watching Comprehensible Input French (a phenomenal channel), and listening to Ayan Academy's voiced videos for Francais par Le Methode Nature (a book I used to study with). I know most of these words, but my listening skill in french is like A1-A2 Attrocious!!! I can't understand Spoken french of things I can read! So I'm hoping it helps my listening skills, and it would be cool to test if this Comprehensible Input only method helps make words more nuanced in my head (the visuals on Comprehensible Input French youtube helped make words feel more Active in my head, attached to a mental image, instead of how they are now mostly in passive storage where I only remember meaning when seeing them spelled in a book). I also am curious if the comprehensible input exposure will help speaking skills eventually, seeing as I have barely any speaking skills. (It's bad, I can read anything in French but if someones speaking or I need to speak it's like I know almost nothing, that's what I get learning to read Primarily).

[ballroomnotoriety]

ive had to explain being she/they a lot this year and honestly the best explanation that's landed so far that's made cis people go "oh...okay" is that my whole life my interests have wandered between "boy room" and "girl room" and i got tired of people telling me i put my stuff in the wrong place so i knocked a wall out and now i have an open floor plan.

[beautifulsummersunsets]

China: OMG! Do you watch our shows!? Wait, let me share with you the full episode with english subtitles on our official youtube account so you can enjoy it properly 💗

Japan: Not Japanese? Then fuck you 🙃

[invisiblyvisiblejay]

letting people pick if they're trans or cis or nonbinary or binary separately is great bc like accurate and representative of gender and stuff but HELL to like. count. like i have 146 cis women, 33 cis men, 9 trans men, and 7 trans women which is fine but then there's 12 people who are just nonbinary and 12 who are trans and nonbinary and one who's cis nonbinary and one who's a trans nonbinary woman. and that's like okay why's that an issue well.

my data says i have 221 participants but 183 are cis and 26 are nonbinary and 31 are trans (which is 240) and then also theres 42 people who are trans and/or nonbinary (but 26 + 31 = 57) and 178 who are just cis (soo 5 cis and nonbinary/trans) AND i have 44 men and 10 nonbinary people and 154 women and 13 who picked multiple genders (but 10 + 13 = 23 so 3 unaccounted nonbinary people) (and 44 + 154 = 198 so should be 23 not men or women). do u see the problem. if u think that sounds confusing that's because it is and way too many people are in multiple groups 😭😭😭😭

[threebea]

I have started to think of the Jedi being blamed for the Fall of the Republic like blaming firefighters for wildfires.

They have been fighting fires (corruption) for years, but the fire is getting bigger and hotter and spreading farther. They're doing their best but there aren't enough of them to go everywhere there are fires. The Senate points them to where really big fires are, but sometimes it turns out they just want their property saved and there weren't that many people in the building. The Jedi still save lives but they have to look at the bigger picture and hope volunteers will put out the little fires because they simply don't have the people for every little fire even though they wish they did. The Senate starts restricting their use of water. Then an arsonist, Palpatine, is made mayor and takes control of their budget.

Dooku and the CIS start lighting fires on purpose. Palpatine let's Dooku know where the most flammable places are.

And the firefighters (Jedi) keep fighting the fire. They can't not fight the fire. People will die if they don't fight the fire. Then the government is like: there are not enough firefighters to fight the fire, but here is a large population of people we will force to fight the fire with you. You shouldn't have qualms, apparently an individual that used to work for you is the one that paid for their training so really they're your responsibility. You'll be in charge of them on the field and get to watch them die, but we control their lives and have decided they're not people so we don't have to pay them. Good deal. We are good at fighting fires.

And the Jedi can't say no because they need to stop the fire and they can't do it alone at this point. Many of the Jedi are killed in their attempts to stop the gasoline fire Dooku lights and it shows how badly they need these new people.

Luckily, the people drafted to fight with them, the clones are also good at fighting fires! It's dangerous many clones will die, but despite having no choice they stand beside the Jedi bravely. The Jedi do everything in their power to protect them. They fight alongside them and try to minimize loss.

There are a few Jedi that get overwhelmed by anger or trauma. They become arsonists themselves, but the number of those that do can be counted on one hand compared to the thousands of Jedi that continue to fight fires.

Sadly, the clones have explosives inside them that Palpatine, the mayor, has the trigger for. Just when it feels like the fire is under control and the people lighting the fires have been stopped, Palpatine sets them off.

Most of the clones are never the same. They think the Jedi had to have set off the bombs inside them, even though they would have never thought them capable of it before. Most never learn the truth. They hate the Jedi for being traitors.

Most of the firefighters die. And their families too. Their children and uncles and aunts and grandparents, and cousins even if they weren't capable of fighting fires they all get burned to death.

The mayor declares it was the firefighters lighting fires and outlaws being a firefighter.

Some of the Jedi survive. Some of them can't bring themselves to fight fires anymore. Some of them keep doing it because it's what they were trained to do. A lot of them are novices who didn't know all the best techniques, but they find their own methods to put out fires and teach others how to do it as well.

And the rebellion begins because when you see fire the logical thing to do is put it out, but all the firefighters are dead or in hiding and being a firefighter is illegal. There's no one to call so the town's people start doing it themselves, inspired by the Jedi.

This becomes extremely important when the mayor makes a device that can light entire cities on fire at the push of a button.

Anyway that's my metaphor and maybe explains my point of view when it comes to the Jedi.