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[sugarcubeindulgent]

inbox requests will be posted throughout !! the inbox is closed for now !

[nox-in-a-box]

Nox try not to edit his post a million times after posting challenge (impossible)

[foundfamilyarena]

Hey sweepers calm the fuck down

[allwaswell16]

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[melon4k]

[joeyclaire]

[purpleberrypunch]

it’s not the best mods (until obsidian releases modding tools), it’s spacer’s mods

https://www.nexusmods.com/users/14751719?tab=user+files

a pinned post for my mods, hi. i don’t know what i’m doing but i like making things sometimes so here’s my favorites so far :)

Kick Me Vicar Vestments

Anubis Always

Weapon edits (shrink ray extra shrink and grow ray)

Character Creator changes - add more or less points to skills

Wake up Cap, new hair colors dropped

Lower Tinker Cost at upper levels

Captain Vicar Max

Extended Facial Sliders

also my tag spacer’s mods has all my ‘research’ and unfinished things

[satorinnie]

#START?$€

meet the mastermind.

works.

terms and conditions.

membership.

[dumpsterfirebooks]

So Gwyn...

Her family tree is super fun. Grandma was a water nymph that seduced a High Fae from the Autumn Court. Her mom took part in the Great Rite and boom her and her sister were born. No clue who her dad was because the magic chooses the partner. Gwyn is 28 which means the only Court doing Calanmai was Spring. This doesn’t make her Tamlin’s daughter necessarily since the magic makes everyone get their freak on but this ACOTAR so odds are it’s someone we already know.

Everyone seems to be leaning towards Tamlin because it would make him relevant again but Lucien is far messier. Honestly, SJM loves a good mess. People seem to think the rose necklace from Azriel is a hint at her being his daughter but who knows it could be Tamlin is her mate.

Unless we’re retconning again and her mom went under the mountain for that very special night. I suppose she could have just met a guy anywhere.

[everlastingrandom]

THey didn’t even bother to use makeup to make sam look older they just dyed his hair grey im

[ybyg]

Here’s my second Nihongo check-in!

Preface: Very pessimistic, I’m whining and shitting on grammar. Can’t be helped.

If you’re reading it, please don’t let it deter you from learning something new, like musical instruments and languages. Getting over hurdles will grant you gratification, and don’t be like me, wishing for instantaneous results. I’m an idiot, so be the opposite of me. Please remember that practice makes perfect.

About 9 days ago, I wrote about how I focused on kanji (that’s the Chinese characters used in Japanese for the uninitiated) through WaniKani and paying less attention to grammar and absolutely skipped thorough memorisation through other SRS, like Anki and my own notes.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise anymore, I did just about 3 hours of Japanese grammar since then.

Anyway, I’ve levelled up on Wanikani, and the last 2 levels have been the fastest I’ve levelled up, which makes me shake in my boots. Like. How. I felt like I’ve been making slow progress as things get harder, but apparently not?

My progress for each level so far:

As you can see, for level 4, it took me significantly less time to learn and level up. It’s not ideal to finish my kanji/vocabulary reviews with 10 lessons to spare (mostly vocab stuff) and when I click Home, and it suddenly shows I have close to 100 lessons because I’ve unlocked the next level.

This has happened twice. I had a heart attack.

Right now, I’ve learned 15/21 radicals (they’re a breakdown of each kanji) for level 6 which I surprisingly unlocked yesterday evening, and I have 48 lessons to go (the remaining radicals, new kanjis, and new vocab, I presume). I wanted to try my best to maintain a healthy 10-20 lessons per day, and at this rate, that’s not happening. I’m cramming kanji left and right, and this is how I start to not prioritise Anki, my notes and grammar.

I made my calculation (heh) based on this graph and for me to finish all 60 levels of WaniKani. Appaently it’ll take me 3 years to learn over 1.7k kanjis and 5k words. And that doesn’t account for when I have a job (it’ll slow down my progress). I’ll be 28 by then. And I want to have a working knowledge of the language by 30. Will it be possible? Dun dun dun.

I’ve also started to unlock ‘Enlighten’ for over 80 items I’ve learned (mostly from levels 1 & 2), and this has made me go back to those levels for a refresher. Just making sure they’re sticking in my brain until I unlock ‘Burn’ for these. (Burn here means you’ve passed it, and according to WaniKani, basically by the time you burn the items, they’re supposed to already be a part of you and you’re able to recall the kanji and words you’ve learned in no time).

Okay. Way too long for WaniKani. I swear I’m not being sponsored by them lmao. I guess it’s time to start complaining about grammar.

Sooooooo. This sucks. I hate grammar. It’s maths for languages where, upon explaining it, people think they’re making sense, but the longer the explanation is, the less sense it makes; so you’ll have to re-read the line a few hundred times before it starts to make some sense. And I just fucking despise maths.

I know it’s important, and especially when you’re learning a language, it’ll help you form your ideas correctly and succinctly. But what sucks about learning grammar is that when you finally have a grasp the idea and move on to another topic, everything you knew about the former just... disintegrates. There are way more rules to follow. It’s the start of ‘studying’, not ‘learning’. That’s just how daunting I find learning grammar.

In my experience, grammar has reduced my confidence, and I’m already a pessimist, so it bodes well /s. Unless someone is understanding, and even how long it took you to learn a language, people would make you think you’re lesser than (ohhh I’d know); and if your brain is an asshole and a half like mine, it’s not people, it’s just you. This is why I go to therapy.

Sorry. I went off-tangent there. Haven’t seen my therapist in 2 months because of Covid. 

As I’m typing this, I’m flipping through my old notes from uni about verb and tenses. English tenses gave me a hard time, and Japanese tenses are at least twice harder than that.

Disclaimer: The following bit is what they call ‘conjugation’ (I think), and in no way I claim these to be correct, and I’m not explaining it until I know for sure what each of the function is for, so take these with a fistful of salt. Seriously. I remember writing these down, but it’s been 4-5 years since uni, I don’t remember anything about this, however the pain in my chest is telling me otherwise.

For example for verb to-do ending in します (shimasu, drop the u at the end when pronouncing it, so it becomes shimas), and the word I’ve chosen is 食べます (たべます, to eat, in its polite form):

1. Present positive: 食べます　(たべます) - I suppose this means ‘I eat/am eating’?

2. Past positive: 食べました　(たべました) - This... ‘I ate’?

3. Present negative: 食べません（たべません��- ‘I’m not eating’?

4. Past negative: 食べませんでした（たべませんでした）- I dunno. ‘I didn’t eat’?

There’s also keiyoushi (adjectives), and in my notes they’re divided into two parts - the いーけいようし (i-adjective, words ending with  the ‘ee’ sound) and なーけいようし (the ‘every other adjective’ adjective), and for no apparent reason, some of the ee-ending words just fall under na-adjective. WHY!

These i- and na-adjectives start with です as the present positive. Yeah, that’s easy. As soon as past positive gets into the picture, it fucks you over.

i-adjective example I’ve chosen is 可愛い（かわいい, cute):

1. Present positive: 可愛いです（かわいいです)

2. Past positive: 可愛かったです（かわいかったです - the second い in kawaii is replaced by かったです

3. Present negative:　可愛くないです（かわいくないです）- just like the past positive, the second い in kawaii is replaced by, this time, くないです

4. Past negative: 可愛くなかったです（かわいくなかったです) - just like the other two, the second い is replaced by くなかったです

Do I want to do one for the na-adjective? No. I’m tired.

This is why I just wish I was either a genius or a person who doesn’t ask inane questions like ‘Why the fuck must it be this way?’

On a more positive note, my favourite word right now is マジで (maji de, spelt in katakana, and using hiragana for で). It means ‘seriously’, but after some checking, it also means ‘for real’ and ‘literally’. For instance: ‘たっくんはめっちゃかっこいいね。。。’ (Takkun is really handsome/cool, yeah?) and you reply it with ‘マジで？’ if you wanna sound sarcastic. (But no, Takkun is metcya kakkoii okay) Other than that, you can say ‘マジで？？？？？？？’ if you’re, for lack of a better word, shook.

Yes, I love my slangs and buzzwords...

Another thing, in Japanese, they don’t really use exclamation marks and question marks, at least formally anyway. You can scream on top of your lungs through text, but you’ll just use ‘maru’ 。which is their full stop。Maru quite literally means circle. But informally, you can use exclamation and question marks. By all means. Go to town with it.

[poisxnyouth]

listening to anna faris' podcast with david -

it's very interesting to hear him talk about youtube and i love it so much...wish he would express his thoughts through other mediums

[memeticallyengineered]

[degeamufc]

Pochettino has been SACKED by Tottenham

[prettylittlebrownskingyal]

do you not like the aladdin movie? I'm also a brown person (India), and I personally thought it was great... But I am Indian, and not Arab, so I understand if I'm missing out on a different point of view... Sorry, just saw your post and wanted to know your thoughts! Ignore if necessary, love you!!!

Hi doll, I haven't seen the movie and I probably won't.

Aside from brownface , the original animation film was released in the 1990's and back then, it's mishmash of South Asian and Arab cultures was already a mess and it's still dauntingly offensive in the live action re-make. Also, brown cultures across the board is very rich in all elements (especially in clothes and event processions) and deserves better representation than some party city knock offs commandeered in an orientalist way.

Perhaps, if all of this is set aside, it may be quite entertaining. But it's a little too much for me to look past the pandering.

[maskedmuses-archived]

"Don't we all wear masks?"

Sorry for the huge images, but thank you for reading my rules!!

I’d love to interact with you soon, I’ve been very interested in your blog!