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[toyastales]

1951 Studebaker Fastback Woody by Hill's Rod & Custom

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[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[princetofbone]

Studying when EXAUSTED

This is for those times when you really desperately want to be productive and get things done but you can't focus and you just want to sleep but you didn't do anything today so you feel shitty.

if you can, please just go to sleep (I do get that sometimes you feel so shitty about how little work you got done that you can't sleep, but if you can, please do it and approach tomorrow with a fresh start)

plan out what tomorrow is going to look like. I will break it down by task, for example: 6:00 wake up, 6:05 work out 6:15 shower, 6:30 make tea, 6:40 start work, 7:30 break etc. This will 1) help you feel better about not getting anything done 2) can help you be more productive tomorrow.

if you have things to do that are easy/low brain power, do them. These are things like printing out work, scanning stuff, tidying your kitchen. getting these little things out of the way can make a HUGE difference later

if you can, just read over your material. Don't even try to understand, just read it. Tomorrow when you come back to try and actually learn it, you will already be a little familiar and it can speed things up for you

eat something, drink something, and see if it makes you feel better- many times when i'm "unable" to go on, I eat a meal and drink a glass or two of water and magically I feel great again

try doing a workout- sometimes it just makes the exhaustion worse, but if you need to stay up later (shoutout to my fellow 6:30 pm bedtime pals) it can stretch time a little bit, and sometimes wakes up your brain. It's also good for you and can make your sleep go better

DONT DRINK COFFEE. or tea. no caffeine. you are already tired, it's not going to fix anything, its just going to make you jittery and sad. it's also going to upset your sleep schedule and make the tired worse for tomorrow.

lastly- just go to bed. pushing through true exhaustion is not going to help you or anyone else. anything you try and learn is going to float right out of your head, and it can lead to burnout which will make everything worse. Please just sleep

[pinkponydiaz]

I feel like eddie hen moment could be end of the episode, hen has decided to yes be captain, eddie has moved back, he’s asking his new captain if he can come back to the 118 and she’s saying i can only do it if you’re gay we’re now down to one straight guy and we are in the running for gayest house in LA.

[satans-knitwear]

Hmmm i dont think i have any lingerie in this colour.... A tragedy. 🥺

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

happy disabled pride to those for whom cooking/food prep is a nearly insurmountable task btw. whether that be due to pain, fine motor skills, comprehension difficulty, time blindness, or any other kind of physical or mental reason.

it fucking sucks losing hours and hours to a task that is supposed to be fun and good for love and life, all while cookbook "time to prep" numbers jeer and other people seem to be able to handle it a million times easier.

you are seen, you are loved. we all deserve to eat well and eat happily, and im proud of you for anything and everything you were able to eat today, regardless if you made it or not

[luckydoeslanguage]

🎏Immersion, its quirks, and tips for language learning this way!

its the 5th of May, so happy children's day! 🎏 I got a question in one of my posts asking for some advice on immersion learning! i thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about immersion in general, my current study(?) routine and perhaps give some useful advice! As the name suggests, Immersion language learning is done primarily by consuming media in your target language. Immersion can seem super intimidating to us learners, mostly cause we can't understand most of the stuff available to us. But! its not impossible to start out using immersion right out of the gate. i think people tend to get scared or go "I'll immerse when i get better at my TL!" But the truth of the matter is, your not going to get used to, or better at your target language unless you consume actual content. (in my opinion.)

Honestly, a lot of immersion learning is being able to tolerate that i probably wont understand everything right away. I will someday, but for now i have to be comfortable with not understanding a lot. which is okay! So, what is my current study routine?

right now, my routine consists of:

doing vocabulary cards on Anki from a premade anki deck.

playing about an hour of Animal crossing everyday

watching 1 - 3 episodes of an anime

watching Youtube videos

weekly (ish) grammar done by reading Imabi, and watching Cure Dolly videos on Youtube.

The bread and butter of my routine is learning vocab, and occasional grammar studies. I'm using the core2k/6k deck. which as the name implies, is an optimized vocab deck that contains the most common 6k JP vocabulary. i currently take 5 new vocab cards a day, and try to get my reviews in everyday. my anki deck has contributed a lot to me being able to immerse so early in my language journey. learning and then reviewing new words everyday lets me recognize words in my immersion. As time has gone on, i can recognize more and more words, and even some words I haven't encountered yet in my deck. Immersion, while still uncomfortable, (especially with complex media) is the other side of the coin. i try to spend double the time i spend on anki, immersing. Mostly because i enjoy what I'm immersing in, but also because i get more out of it the more time i spend immersing.

"that's all well and good Lucky, but what advice would you give to someone who wants to learn this way?"

Well! first of all, and this is very important:

Be comfortable with ambiguity. you may not be able to understand some, or maybe most of the thing you are immersing in. that's okay! Your brain is already looking for patterns to see in your TL, and is growing more accustomed to it. I got a lot of headaches in the beginning, i still do actually. but i know that's my brain working hard! (take a break if you get a headache!!)

Second, and probably just as important:

Follow your interests. make immersion fun! whats the point of immersing if its torturous?! I'm a lot more likely to continue immersing in something if i actually enjoy it. there are a lot of easier anime to immerse in, but if I'm not having fun, I'm not going to learn anything. you should do the same! even if its too difficult to understand. I'm currently watching someone on YouTube play a dating sim, and even though its waaaay above my skill level, I'm really enjoying myself watching it! I've even recognized some words i know. whole sentences, even.

Third:

Be Consistent! This is probably advice you've already heard, but it bears repeating! even if you do something small like listening to a song in your TL, that's immersion babyy :) consistency is key, above all.

Lastly: Track your Immersion. a problem with immersion is it can feel like you are going nowhere. tracking how much time you spend doing an activity, (watching videos, reading, etc) is a great way to make immersion more tangible. lots of people reccomend toggl, but i personally use polylogger. its built with language learners in mind, and is stupidly easy to use. i also keep personal logs in an online diary, as well as here on my blog to measure my progress. it helps!

alright, i think thats everything i have to say for now! if you've made it to the end of this long post, hello! and thank you <3 hope you've had a good day so far! I will leave you with some links to more reading on the subject under the cut, they go into more detail than i have here.

take care for now! またね！

this article by Refold about tolerating ambiguity:

The Moe ways guide to immersion:

Making the leap to Immersion, Video by Cure Dolly:

[siena-sevenwits]

💜💜💜

Hey, do you want a hug, my friend? This is a hug for you. It's going to be okay. Really.

[princetofbone]

study tips for when it is late at night

i am one of the first people to tell you to go to sleep- I myself prefer to be a 7:30 pm bedtime kinda guy, but sometimes I need more time to study, so here are some tips to have a less painful late night study sesh:

lights on at full brightness- as much as I love watching the sunset through my window and lighting my desk via a dim yellow lamp and candles, the sunset + low yellow light is screaming at your brain that it is bedtime, so keep as many lights on as you can

have a super cold drink- i'm talking 95% ice. I love warm drinks, but when I start getting really tired because it's late, it only makes me sleepier, so ice water/iced tea will be your friend

have a very clear to-do list. when it's late and you want to sleep, your brain gets floaty and you might drift onto topics/things you don't need to be doing, so make sure you have a good list

get rid of any distractions- your goal right now is to get your shit done and go to bed- if you spend half an hour scrolling through tumblr, that's half an hour later you now need to stay up to finish.

NO CAFFINE please do future you a favor; you won't be able to sleep and (at least for me) you can start getting really anxious

[daffi-990]

Seven(ish) Sentence Sunday ✍️

Tagged by @diazsdimples @giddyupbuck and @wikiangela. Thank you lovelies mwah 😘

Have a little something from LA Lonely -> this is after the fun and orgasms of Buck and Eddie’s hook up. Still don’t know if I’m going to go full spice 🌶️ or just do a quick little run down of things.

Prev snippet & mood board here

Buck expects him to start pulling his clothes on and to give him the whole “this was fun, but I gotta bounce” speel, but Eddie surprises him by climbing back into bed and nudging Buck to roll onto his side so Eddie can scoot up behind him and hold him.

Buck freezes for a moment because no one does this. They have their fun and then they leave. They don’t stay and they definitely don’t cuddle.

Eddie must feel him go tense because his hold loosens and he moves as if he’s about to pull away. “Is this okay?”

Buck grabs at the arms that are wrapped around him, stopping Eddie’s descent. “Y-yeah. It’s-it’s okay.” He pulls at Eddie’s arms and the man settles back behind him, burrowing his face into the juncture where Buck’s neck meets his shoulder as he shuffles closer.

Soft kisses are pressed into his skin and Buck is helpless but to relax back into Eddie, letting the comfort and warmth of whatever is happening wrap around him.

“Stay?” He whispers, not sure if Eddie can hear him but not being brave enough to say it any louder. He feels like he’s asking too much.

A kiss behind his ear. “Okay.”

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[hawkeyedflame]

i cannot overstate how much postural restoration therapy has changed my life. i can actually snowboard now. like for real, my center of gravity actually shifted back to where it is supposed to be and i can comfortably stand balanced over the board in a way i was completely incapable of last year when my pelvis was all twisted and fucked up. i can't believe how drastic the change is. i can't believe i was walking with a limp for years and i didn't even know it until i stopped limping. and above all, i can't believe how simple the therapy was. i'm like. wow. what the hell.

[crazyhickofftheirrocker]

Did I hit my head? Or did Lisa Swain actually admit she has feelings for me?

[millionsknives]

im watching death note and this image is the only thing beamed into my empty skull the entire time

[stupidlittlespirit]

just thinking about you, hope you're doing alright and everything went fine with the grandparents. sending love ❤️

Ahh thank you so much! <3

I'm gonna put this under a cut bc I'm just rambling really.....

I got there and had a cup of tea with them/chatted, and everything seemed fine. They said I wouldn't have to see my mum, but she needed to come over to dog sit while we (me and my grandparents) went out to lunch together, so I said that's fine because that can't be helped. I expected to just have to sort of politely say hi or whatever as we passed.

But she came in and just made herself at home, and my grandparents were like 'oh we're going to go and get ready to leave' (which felt very deliberate) and conveniently left me and her alone in the living room for like a half hour. So I had to talk to her. It was fine, like no drama or anything, but I was annoyed.

Then they came back and my grandmother was like 'oh it's such a shame your mum can't come with us' (to lunch) and I said oh no well someone's got to stay and look after the dog so..... Again, a very deliberate attempt. I know my grandmother has early stage Alzheimer's though, so I don't know if I can be too angry about that because it's hard to tell if she's even really in her right mind. That said, I'm fairly sure she'd have done the same even if she was compos mentis, so.....

My grandparents and I went and had lunch which was very nice, I had a nice time even though I was still on edge. Then we got back to theirs and my mum was still there. She could have just left when we got back, she'd even said beforehand that she had other stuff to do, but she didn't. She stayed. So, I ended up having another cup of tea and talking to them/her for like an hour.

Again, it wasn't terrible. She wasn't rude or anything, we got on and it was all perfectly pleasant. But I don't think that's the point, if that makes sense?? It was a fairly deliberate play by all of them to get me to see her/her inserting herself after explicitly knowing I didn't want to see her. The unfortunate thing is that they win either way because they know I have two options:

1. I refuse to stay/see them and cause a 'drama', which can then be used by them to motivate their narrative that I'm The Bad Child, which has always been their stance, and give them cause to tell everyone how cruel and evil I am for not wanting to see them after 'all they've done for me'. Word would inevitably get back to my sibling and it could cause friction between us (even though I know I wouldn't have actually done anything wrong) and I don't want to risk losing my relationship with them because they're all I've got.

Or, 2. My mum and grandparents get the nice feeling of knowing they've flattened me down and that I've just given in like I'm supposed to. They enjoy 'winning' and to them, making me do what they want and getting their own way is a win.

So, although there was no fighting or whatever, I still feel like I lost. I could have done what I said I was going to do and hit the bricks, and I'm kicking myself for not doing it, believe me. I should have just been strong enough to say fuck this and left, but I just got this overwhelming miserable feeling of who cares? What's the fucking point? and I know that's probably what they were all counting on but whatever.

I saw my lovely friend afterwards and we hung out for a while together, so I left on a good note in the end anyway. That was really fun.

It's a very strange experience going back, though. I return to the town I spent 27 years in and I feel like a total stranger. Nothing feels familiar and everything feels wrong and uncomfortable, like I'm wearing shoes that are a size too small or something. But then I hop on the train and come to London, and I immediately feel like I'm home. I come out of the station and I listen to the drunk people being silly in a way that's indescribably specific to this city and I think yeah, this is where I'm meant to be. This is home. And that's nice. It just reiterates to me that I've made the right choice to live here and leave all of that behind.

[kiwisandpearls]

maybe I’m just Bad At The Game tm but playing nightmare mode as an f2p player feels like the game went “have this particular unit that does this super particular thing on your team or perish” and that’s…not exactly a good thing.