#knowledge is SO cool
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I think a great piece of advice for people who want to learn, but don’t know what to learn, is to take advantage of Wikipedia.
However, the second half of this advice is use that specific feature where some words are highlighted, and fall into rabbit holes. The best part about this is you don’t have to have anything super specific to search.
Say, for example, I was in the mood for some ELA type stuff, but I don’t know what kinds of stuff there is. I simply go on Wikipedia and search English. Admittedly, that doesn’t bring up much, but there IS a blue link to a page about the English language.
From there, I can click on things like “Indo-European language family” and “early Medieval England” and “British Empire” if I’m in the mood for more history things. Or, if I really want to learn about words, I can click the vocabulary section, or the phonology section, or the orthography section, or even the grammar section.
There’s so much to be learned in this one broad category, and it’s the same for every other subject you learn in school, which is a great place to start.
Math (mathematics)? Empirical sciences, number theory, and set theory are just in the opening paragraph. Not to mention the sections titled “relationship with astrology and esotericism” and “symbolical notation.”
History? Well, from history we can get to History of Earth, and it’s not hard to guess how much is there. There’s also anything that could be the History of; History of Mankind, History of Dinosaurs, History of Philosophy, literally pretty much anything you could want to learn about is on Wikipedia.
The point is, Wikipedia is an amazing tool and source of knowledge. This strategy is a great way to actually access that knowledge. Have fun!
#also non fiction yet well written books are a game changer for me#wikipedia#Wikipedia supremacy#school#history#study tips#sentence structure#writing#advice#mathematics#English#knowledge is SO cool#knowledge#knowledge is power
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I love learning things cause why I recently find out that whales used to be land animals. That they come from the same family as cows, hippos, and camels.
Also that there is an ocean inside the Earth’s mantle but it isn’t liquid water. It’s inside these rocks called ringwoodite
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I think it’s neat that the Phineas and Ferb characters aren’t into summer because they dislike learning or math or anything like that. These kids actually LOVE math & science & the arts. They love summer because it gives them more free time to work on personal projects using those skills
#phineas and ferb#it could be so easy for the show to fall into#blah I hate science I hate nerd stuff#but it doesn’t and I love that#the show is about how knowledgeable and creativity are cool#actually
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it's been about a year since i started fostering cats and as of today i have raised and adopted out 50 kittens on my own 🥹🥹🥹🥹
#my daughter Glep left today 🥹#this has been really emotionally and physically exhausting but i am really proud of myself for being able to do hard things#when the weather cools down the endless flood of kittens will stop#bc now that i have proved to myself i can do hard things i am ready to take that knowledge and sit on the couch eating cheetos indefinitely#Fun fat factoid: the rescue shirts only went up to 4x so they had to special order one for me
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The first part separately as a bonus:
#I don't know much about these two but I like them#I'm currently getting my ass beaten in the first Sanctum so all my lore knowledge is mostly based on the book notes#and some secrets#anyway#they're cool#Minos is just a chill guy#not in the Sanctum tho#ultrakill#ultrakill minos#ultrakill sisyphus#minos prime#sisyphus prime#my art
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What are people even saying fiddleford did?? 😭 like what did he ever do wrong I can’t think of a single thing. maybe it’s bc I didn’t read the book yet
I think what is primarily being discussed in his case is a) he left his wife and b) he started a cult to erase people’s memories, generally nonconsentually.
Now we don’t actually know all that much about fiddlefords relationship with his wife, there are things that suggest he maybe wasn’t prioritising his family when he was with Ford (I.e. the Christmas presents) but I think it’s unfair to write off someone’s headcanon or theory as “wrong” when there’s no definite answer.
The cult is probably definitely a bad.
BUT! What’s so revolutionary about Gravity Falls is that it has well written characters that are complex and with flaws. I think just about every main character does something bad or selfish at one point or another but it’s also always perfectly justifiable to the character too. There is always personal reason for their actions so nothing is technically black and white “bad”.
I’m not pointing fingers but I reckon some people who maybe aren’t so familiar with fandom spaces or consuming media in a more critical way seem to have a sort of mindset which means that in order for you to like a character they have to be entirely good (or bad - but if they’re bad you have to admit they’re bad and that’s why you like them). And of course people could also take the personal justification and turn it into actual justification.
A lot of the conflict in the show is morally ambiguous and the characters motives are generally easy to understand and even empathise with. Most people that genuinely enjoy the characters - or at least, speaking for myself - don’t excuse their flaws but enjoy the complexities of them!
All that to say, Fiddleford is literally me you guys <3
#SORRY FOR THE ESSAY I KNOW YOU DIDNT ASK FOR THIS!!!#and I’m not pointing fingers or even upset about this either!!!#I don’t care what you think about characters that I like!!#I don’t even really care what you think about me for liking those characters!!!#I just think media literacy and consumption is really interesting and cool!!!!#and I think about this stuff all the time!!!!!!#I also think it’s bizzare to single out McGucket because there are so many Ford and Stan and bill apologists like#test me - I will become a Fidds apologist#just for the sake of it#hey also! last point:#this is a kids cartoon#they’re not real#no real townsfolk were forced into a cult by this man (to my knowledge…)#chill out and enjoy some bread with my boy Tad#ask#noodles talks#a LOT
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My auntie keeps Golden Guernsey goats on our island, like many of our local unique breeds of livestock they nearly went extinct in the starving during ww2 occupation surviving by only one smuggled flock. They're super friendly and energetic and their colouration might be of interest :eyes:
Oh OH these are very pretty
#it's extremely cool and admirable that your aunt is helping to preserve a rare heritage breed of livestock#these goats are gorgeous#wonderful caramel colors#they look highly pettable#answered#anonymous#also this is beside the point but a few years back I was really interested in the history and cultures of the Channel Islands Isle of Man#and the archipelagos of Scotland#I remember thinking that I've never interacted with anyone who lives in any of those places at least to my knowledge#and my chances of coming across someone organically are fairly low so I probably never will#maybe it's weird to say but I just think it's terribly neat that there's at least one Channel Islander in existence who has seen my art
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Everytime SQQ mentions how much of a lazy pretty boy he is an alarm in my head going "NO NO FALSE THATS SO WRONG" goes off in my head. Like, you're lying!! You're such a lier!! The moment you transmigrated you jumped head first in going above and beyond with your second life!! You know how I know?
...He hasn't done it because he had a twisted hobby inflicting corporal punishment upon the great male lead, but because he just couldn't endure it any longer. After taking over Luo Binghe's education, he'd mulled it over and decided that since he was to be a role model and worthy teacher, he ought to at least do some proper teaching. This way, after they fell out in the future, he would be able to utter the phrase, "Within a master-disciple relationship lies the grace of knowledge passed down," without reddening from shame before the words left his mouth. Volume 2 pg. 234.
SQQ went above and beyond, and honest to goodness, BECAME an actual attentive teacher. A good one at that apparently! His students adore and respect him, his colleagues see no fault in his teaching, no faults found among his community for years!
And we have proof that his teaching paid off with Luo Binghe specifically. Because earlier in volume 2 there is this whole thing about Shen Qingqiu being particular on teaching Binghe proper footwork and how to outmaneuver his enemies, which then cuts to Binghe using these particular skills against Shen Qingqiu and he's like "shit! He's using the stuff I taught him against me! And doing it flawlessly!"
Like, he didn't have to go all in and *literally* become a teacher/scholar/peak lord hybrid like SJ, and then also do every aspect of it ten times better. For funsies. For the immersion. But he did. Lazy my ass!
I mean, we already knew that SQQ was a lying lier who lies, but heres another example lmao.
#hes a not so secret follower of the toxic on the grind work place culture#oh no! i cant just hand off my students to other people for learning! thatll break mah immersion! my cool one liners!#*becomes legit educator*#hehe im so lazy and useless#*becomes trusted and knowledgable scholar in the cultivation community*#svsss#shen qingqiu#luo binghe#scum villain
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i love my Basketbot Portal AU
#Basketball is Chell and Robot Flower is Glados#i think GB would be Cave Johnson and TB is prob just her assistant.. and Puffball would be the Turrets (because she sings so beautifully)!!#maybe Flower is Caroline?#The plot would change a bit too... this AU is more like a role insertion and not a complete perfect run of Portal/Portal 2#Basketball would still be trapped by RF to do tests and she would try to get closer to Robot Flower and try to fix her#Basketball is really smart... i think she would admire Robot Flower's innovation and creativity even if shes Evil... they looove each other#they would totally fall in love and date in the end trust#in the end i think Basketball would try to code the personality spheres off of her#maybe each personality sphere could be a character... like Intelligence Core = Pin (cake) or Book (smart and knowledgeable)#Space Core = 8 Ball (in the sense that they both have a fixation on one thing... Space and 8 yknow?)#Morality Core = Teardrop..... or actually maybe Pie? shes apathetic and i think it would be cool#Curiosity Core = Liy or Pillow... in a sense? before her huge killing spree thing i think Pillow was the very curious and experimental type#im not completely sure for Wheatley... ill think on it#omg if you read all this thank you sm ive been thinking of this for literal months#btw please tag me if you make art#bfdi#portal#basketbot#basketball x robot flower#basketbot portal au#key rambling
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Cloud Strife
1 in 3 chance for each played 7 to create a Planet card when scored.
#........clown strife.................#if rebirth+queen's blood proves anything it's that cloud would absolutely get hopelessly addicted to balatro.#ffvii#cloud strife#balatro#my art <3#my music <3#ok so. obligatory commentary on the music.#this song isn't in A440! well at least the official version uploaded by louisf certainly isn't#not 100% sure exactly what it is but i approximated it to A446-ish? 446.5? kinda? it's funkyyy#(translated for non music nerds: all of the instruments are tuned sliiiiightly higher pitch than standard tuning)#gives it a ~weird~ vibe. even if just on a subconscious level#i learned a lot about pitch effects from this project actually! including how to cut/copy/paste pitch controls between patterns in FL#which WAS PURE HELL. two hours of my life GONE. because fl studio's piano roll can do everything EXCEPT copy pitch controls. 🤡🔫#so i had to dig through literally DECADES worth of obscure forums just to find a dozen obsolete workarounds and ONE actual solution.#well. at least i know how to do it now lol#boy oh boy... the price of knowledge is steep........#anyway. enjoy the cool jams 😎
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The most illegal thing Koby has done is learn a divine language... Which is only a little bit more illegal than dating a God
So.
Thoughts on language/religion in regards to this au. They aren't fully fleshed out but I'll clean it up as I go.
Learning a divine language is kinda taboo, like, you can learn them, and it's certainly less frowned upon than poneglyph, but outward practice isn't really accepted. Many people who are religious or follow religious practices are well versed in divine languages, in order to feel closer to their respective Gods.
Besides, religion makes people feel at ease and the world government is pretty relaxed when it comes to punishing those for worshiping or following their Gods. With how many there are, and how deeply a lot of it is ingrained into so many cultures, it'd also be a pain in the ass to control both that and pirates.
Koby learns through the people he meets while traveling. A lot of them think it's odd but fascinating that a young, wide-eyed marine wants to learn something like that. They indulge him anyways.
He did get better at understanding the language but his pronunciation isn't great, kinda hard to make some of the sounds Luffy makes too. Especially when he isn't used to talking like that, nor are most people. Demigods have an easier time picking up on speaking the actual... Words?
Robin understands the language of the Gods, and the rest of the Straw Hats do pick up on it a little bit just through exposure to Luffy. Luffy isn't the greatest teacher, but having people who want to understand him is always exciting. He is thrilled when he meets up with Koby on Water 7 and Koby can understand him.
#one piece#monkey d. luffy#one piece luffy#op koby#cobylu#kobylu#god au#my art#this is so silly-i needed you all to understand the vibes of this#koby did NOT know wtf luffy was saying at first#unfortunately that was unacceptable so he learned how to talk to luffy#sorry if theres like-inconsistencies or smth else not really understandable with that#kinda going off of my knowledge of what 'speaking in tounges' is and my understanding of that while also not abiding by that like at all#i think religion and language are such cool concepts tho#irl too love learning abt that stuff
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can we all agree to call aventio / ratiorine either golden ratio or knowledge addiction? thanks guys
#ratiorine#aventio#dr ratio#hsr aventurine#star rail aventurine#aventurine honkai star rail#veritas ratio#hsr ratio#golden ratio#knowledge addiction#it would be so awesome#it would be so cool#honkai star rail#erm#genuinely how do you tag these things help
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This video is only available to people who are members of Acau's ( 악어 ) Youtube, but one of his fans posted a short clip Acau shared of his and Quackity's conversation testing out the QSMP translator!
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#Acau#악어#QSMP#Quackity#That's so cool!#I cannot speak any Korean whatsoever but I'm very curious and excited to watch him and learn#My language knowledge is English > Japanese > Spanish#which. is ironic since I'm Mexican#but some Korean words sound very similar to a few Japanese words and it always trips me up hearing them#I'm so excited to meet 악어 and his community!!! aaaaa!!!#everyone is so excited I love seeing everyone getting so excited to share information about the streamers they love#Anyways shoutout to Gaby for the heads up about this. They don't even use Tumblr but they're wonderful
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I've been so bad at posting commissions I'd done recently so here's the first from my wee backlog.. a DnD sea elf Sami for @greek-praetor!! Thank you again for commissioning me <33
#commission#art#dnd art#soo much fun with designing the tattoos i loved it#and just a very cool character!!#i only have very basic dnd knowledge so i never even heard of a sea elf before
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finished my hat finally and its super warm and comfy and i keep putting it on and then feeling the strong urge to knit more warm items. and then i take the hat off and can be normal. and then i look at the hat. and im like oh its such a warm and comfy hat though why would i not wear it ? so i put it back on and then the urge returns.
may have knit a cursed hat, basically ?
#pictures to follow at some point#cannot find my phone rn#also its too dark anyway#i am considering embroidering some dead trees on it but i want to knit not embroider#it would look cool but im pleased with it regardless#i think this is the first time in my life ive done the recommended 4 inches of ribbing for an adult hat and wow#i have been missing out. but also knitting those 4 inches of ribbing was terrible so even with that knowledge idk if ill do it again#this post brought to you by waking up at 5 am despite my alarm not going off and then sitting in bed for an hour and a half getting weirder#i really only want my phone to play minecraft tbh but that doesnt make my phone magically appear so#if i still havent found my phone by the time its light out which is not for a while#im going to the store#not for a new phone. becauase im out of food.#an unrelated but necessary task
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playing fallout new vegas and having to listen to caesar complaining about travelling and getting to study the languages of various communities living in the wasteland and calling it a waste of time while irl the humanities are constantly disregarded and getting a higher education and opportunities to study anthropology hands-on costs tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and requires so many connections and he was just getting that FOR FREE from the followers but that wasnt cool enough for him so he decided to use the education he was given to start his little fascist larper group and enslave people
#the followers are so fucking cool man#the way they just take in jerry the punk without needing any money or like references or anything. and can make him an archival assistant#like aside from being anarchists and stuff the way they just openly and freely share as much of their knowledge theyve preserved#thats what makes them so cool to me#considering that in todays world education like that is so fucking expensive#and knowledge is only appreciated when its seen as 'useful' and exploitable like stem studies#i wanna be an anthropologist man#fnv#followers of the apocalypse#fallout new vegas#fallout#caesar fnv#caesar's legion#talking
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