#language ressources

[lameravigliadoro]

my langblr introduction! hallo!!

age : 22 yo stress ball

name : klara (you can call me klar)

pronouns : she/them

my target language during the 2023 summer : german

languages i know : italian (advanced), chinese (beginner to intermediate, french (native), english (fluent) (i hope)

centres of interest : linguistics, politics, impressionism, arts and crafts, cinema, queer history

i'll post my german journey as much as possible. i'm going to live for at last one year in germany, so i need to get back to german and get better at german. like a lot of french high schoolers, i studied german as part of the compulsory course but did not actually enjoy it nor did i learn anything from it. so the main goal here is to reunite with my inner teenager and make peace with them ⁀➷

what i like to do when studying languages is journaling/writting in TL, revising lists of vocab and going through the grammar points one by one.

then, i'll look for podcasts in german and youtubers, radio broadcasts, free online newspapers and TV series so that i can practice my listening comprehension.

anyway, don't hesitate to interact, and if we share a common TL/language, get in touch, i love to make friends and getting to know more abt this world <33 also i don't wanna let my italian die, quindi raga, parlami in italiano!

see you soon! a presto, tschüss!ˏˋ°•*⁀➷

[jawnressources]

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[moinsbienquekaworu]

thank you so much!! okay so. past tense stuff. I'm confused why sometimes it's être+verb or avoir+verb, but other times you can use imperfect? it kind of seems to me like être/avoir+verb are for more recent things, but I'm not entirely sure. if that is the case, is there a specific time limit or is it just up to the speaker? thanks again!!

Conjugation my beloathed. (not against you, I just never liked learning conjugation)

Être/avoir + verb is called passé composé, it's a compound tense made with the auxiliary verb in the present simple + the past participle of the verb. It's used for an action that happened in the past and that is over now, but it doesn't necessarily denotes that we know when the action happened. It's tense that's used for narration informally (with the present tense), so like, talking to people.

Imparfait is a simple tense used for - the French wikipedia page phrases it as "the imparfait presents the action while it is happening, as it is being done or repeated in a past moment all the people in the exchange are aware of, even if implicitly". So it's in the past, but it implies we know which moment of the past, as opposed to passé composé where that's not necessary. The example they use is if you're talking about someone learning french, "il a appris le français" only says it happened in the past at some point, but know he knows how to speak French, but if you say "il apprenait le français", that only makes sense if you know when he was learning french.

The other difference between the two is that - this is a weird way to explain it, but using the imparfait gives this vibe of your POV being in the past? The wikipedia pages says that it's often used to contrast the past and the present, to discuss a past situation/action that is clearly over, with examples like "quand j'étudiais en France, je mangeais beaucoup de pain". And looking at that sentence, in English that'd be like, "when I was studying in France, I ate a lot of bread", your POV for that sentence is "when you were studying in France" (except french and English do tense agreement differently so in French we keep using the imparfait but in English once you've established which time you're talking about you switch to another tense). In that vibe scenario, passé composé has its POV in the present? I don't know if that makes sense. The way the wikipedia page puts it is that "presents the action as it is happening" part.

They also say that the imparfait is used for putting a past event in the background when combined with the passé composé or passé simple, with the time of the event in the imparfait being the reference for the time of the event in the passé composé or passé simple (so the event in the imparfait kind of sets the scene - "je mangeais quand j'ai entendu un cri"). When you're writing a story, there's the narration tense, for actions, and the scenery tense, for descriptions - the passé composé is a narration tense both out loud and in writing, the imparfait is a scenery tense, and obviously both of them are used when you're writing in the past.

So the passé composé isn't necessarily for things that happened more recently, it's more about that "knowing when the event happened" thing + in real life discussions the thing where imparfait kind of sets the scene. The writing thing with narration/scenery tenses (which - maybe that's a thing in English also? I'm assuming? never took an English creative writing class) is also applicable out loud, especially the passé composé + imparfait combo (as opposed to passé simple + imparfait, which is very literary, since we don't use the passé simple out loud). There isn't a time limit, but like in English, there's different tenses for when you're talking about events that happened in the past of the past - like, if you're talking about something happening yesterday, but in that story there's something that happened the week before (plus-que-parfait informally, for sentences like "I had eaten a full meal")

All of that is only for the indicative and not the subjunctive, and obviously if you want to check out a verb's conjugation your best friend is the Bescherelle conjugaison website, which is nicer to use and easier to access than a physical Bescherelle book. Hopefully that helped a little?? Looking at wikipedia pages and example sentences I was realising I am so so bad at explaining what's going on in this hell language. Conjugation is one of the hardest bits of french though! It doesn't get much worse than this shit. Maybe agreements?

Here's the Wikipedia graph about which tense to use and which one comes before which on a timeline, if that helps

[timemessedmeup]

The Language Community — For those who would like to learn Frisian

[cockroachbait]

I've realized fairly recently that out of all the languages I know/study, french is the only one that doesn't make a distinction between wool and yarn and it pisses me off so bad??

english has wool and yarn, japanese has 羊毛 and 毛糸, italian has lana and filato!! I even looked it up in fucking german and they also have two different words (respectively wolle and garn) so french really is the only language i know to use the word "laine" in both contexts and it keeps me awake at night

[caeliangel]

FLAG MAKING RESSOURCES !!

tagging: @cocajimmycola @puriette @neopronouns @genderstarbucks @genderselkies @estrogenism @haunted-thing @mogai-sunflowers

If you want to be untagged, pls lmk!

note: I do not use most of these, but I digged on the internet in order to find stuff that could very much help to make flags!

★╷��INSPO PALETTES

sites that will help you get inspiration with colours and generate colour palettes from nothing or even from words.

coolors.co

colorhunt.co

colormind.io

mycolor.space

colormagic.app

picular.co

perchance.org

hexcolor.co

pinterest

★╷﹕FLAG MAKING

apps and sites to make flags.

any drawing app

flag-creator.com

tennessine.co.uk

teamultima.org

★╷﹕PRIDE FLAGS

collection of flags.

pride-flags on deviantart

lgbtqia fandom

★╷﹕TEMPLATES

templates to make flags for simple or more complicated terms.

neopronouns on deviantart

flag templates by crowdsourcedgender

pride-flags in deviantart

★╷﹕NAMING

sites and information to help naming certain terms.

thewordmixer.com

namecombiner.info

unique-names.com

study.com: latin roots

latin and greek roots pdf

thoughtco.com (latin & greek roots 1)

en.m.wikipedia.org (latin & greek roots 2)

google translate

using the languages you speak (ie I often use irish or french when naming my stuff!)

★╷﹕SYMBOLS

Bunch of links where symbols, templates and such are in order to make symbols on your flags.

ask-pride-color-schemes

logodesign.ai

logomakr.com

pride-flags gallery : (01) (02) (03) (04) (05)

apps: canva, picsart, etc

★╷﹕TERMS

suffixes card: (here)

suffixes vs systems: (here)

In-nature: (here)

[softestqueeen]

emily pre it’s x female reader who loves spoiling emily? like the relationship feels like the reader is a sugar mommy, but it’s actually just wanting to see emily happy and loved? if you could that would be great!

a/n: hey anon, thank you for your request! i'm sorry i'm only getting to it now, i wrote it like 2 weeks ago in my notebook but didn't have the time to type it out! but here it is, enjoy! <3 warnings: none, just fluff I 400 words

꣑ৎ ever since emily and you have officially gotten into a relationship a little over a year ago, the team has started to notice some changes

꣑ৎ not just has emily become happier, but also her style has changed

꣑ৎ her pant suits started to fit a bit better and the quality of her shirts has also improved

꣑ৎ not to mention the new rings, earrings and the expensive watch adorning her writst

꣑ৎ the truth was, while emily was your girlfirend, it sometimes felt as though you were her sugar mommy

꣑ৎ your job as a fashion designer gives you not just the money, but also the ressources for your gift giving

꣑ৎ you buy her designer clothes that haven't been launched yet and designed and made some of the best clothes she's ever worn

꣑ৎ your love language has always been gift giving, so it was clear that you were about to spoil your girlfriend rotten. and now emily has a whole new wardrobe, so it's a win/win situation

꣑ৎ you just loved to spoil and take care of her. and with her hectic and chaotic job she deserved a little pampering here and there

꣑ৎ if she comes home from a longer case and you are out of town, there will be flowers and jewellery waiting for her in your shared flat

꣑ৎ and don't get me started on anniversaries. you always call hotch beforehand to make sure emily gets the day off and then organise the coziest dates

꣑ৎ high-profile restaurants with private rooms, special screenings in cinemas, special performances of plays and of course rented out malls for your girlfriend and ger bau-girls

꣑ৎ but emily doesn't even has to think about paying, you already took care of it

꣑ৎ "just let me take care of you, you deserve it baby."

꣑ৎ in the beginning she didn't feel that comfortable with you paying for everything, but she's since gotten used to it

꣑ৎ she had to, because you definetely didn't stop the gifts

꣑ৎ the rest of the bau just smiles when they see her with a new designer go-bag or the newest phone

꣑ৎ they're just happy emily's found someone that treats her right

a/n: i hope you liked this, if so please leave some notes, likes, reblogs and comments! feedback is very appreciated!

please also consider supporting my ao3: @ softestqueen

requests open!

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[themedialmercurial]

🌟Asteroid Abundantia (151) and where you may be blessed🌟

Asteroid Abundantia represents the area(s) of your life in which you can expect to be extra plentiful.

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ABUNDANTIA IN THE HOUSES

1H

Greater self-perception, more favourable impressions amongst others, improved physical appearance, improved health

2H

Better finances, increased personal possessions, experience ease in making money, greater access to ressources, improved self-worth

3H

Ease in producing thought, communication comes more naturally and wanting to do so with others, uptick in short trips, greater early education experience (if in natal chart), more learning, more siblings (if in natal chart)

4H

Several family members, a prominent relationship with the mother, several familial traditions, many properties (real estate), a blessed early life (childhood)

5H

Great creativity, comfort in self-expression, having several children/pets/relationships, numerous vacations, hobby-lover, several talents, attracting a lot of attention naturally

6H

Manifests as many employment opportunities or having an abundance of work to do, overall health, a busy daily routine

7H

Experiencing many relationships or one in particular that brings about blessings, several enemies

8H

Having many transformations in one's life (rebirth, leaving behind old thinking patterns/perspectives), immense interest in spirituality

9H

To speak several languages, experience many different cultures, numerous long travels, religion is prominent, to gain knowledge through higher education, luck through one's media/internet access

10H

Great public reputation, great ambition and work ethic, attaining a prestigious career, many responsibilities, a prominent relationship with the father

11H

To have many goals, very involved in humanitarian endeavours, many acquaintances and/or friends, to experience an abundance of money from one's career

12H

To love sleep, spirituality is prominent, many fears and secrets, a need to withdraw, many hidden enemies, a need for privacy

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ABUNDANTIA IN THE SIGNS (how this abundance is expressed)

ARIES Emphatically, energetically, enthusiastically

TAURUS In a stable manner, practically, aesthetically, patiently

GEMINI Adaptably, curiously, communicably

CANCER Sensitively, emotionally, in a nurturing way

LEO

Dramatically, generously, creatively, in a fun way

VIRGO

Cautiously, critically, usefully

LIBRA Peacefully, indecisively (back-and-forth), diplomatically

SCORPIO

Powerfully, intensely, persevering, passionately, extreme

SAGITTARIUS In a scattered way, exaggeratively, restlessly, idealistically

CAPRICORN Responsibly, efficiently, ambitiously, insensitively

AQUARIUS

In an original, unexpected manner, rebelliously

PISCES

Sentimentally, spiritually

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ABUNDANTIA IN ASPECT TO PLANETS

Abundantia/Sun benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength and peace in self-identity, creativity and leadership

Abundantia/Sun malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of ego, will power, identity (self-absorption)

Abundantia/Moon benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in feeling one's emotions and emotional responses, nurturing qualities and habits

Abundantia/Moon malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of feelings, sensitivity, overwhelm of emotion

Abundantia/Mercury benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in one's own thought (rationality), all forms of communication, local travelling

Abundantia/Mercury malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of thought (overthinking), constant travel (perhaps as a means of escape or for work)

Abundantia/Venus benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in one's own beauty, the beauty of the world (seeing the little things), balance and harmony

Abundantia/Venus malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of desire for beauty (obsession with aesthetics), constant need for balance and harmony

Abundantia/Saturn benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in structure, discipline, responsibility and maturity

Abundantia/Saturn malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus in responsibilities, authority and restriction

Abundantia/Mars benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in assertion, initiative, independence and competition

Abundantia/Mars malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of aggression, competition and initiative (restlessness)

Abundantia/Jupiter benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in higher education, growth, long distance travel

Abundantia/Jupiter malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of growth (too many things all at once to tend to), long distance travel

Abundantia/Uranus benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in the unusual/unexpected, individuality, reform

Abundantia/Uranus malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of uniqueness, sudden unexpected/undesired changes

Abundantia/Chiron benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in heaving, teaching and innovation

Abundantia/Chiron malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Surplus of hurt and pain

Abundantia/Neptune benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in imagination, spirituality and arts

Abundantia/Neptune malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of fear, confusion, and mental sensitivity

Abundantia/Pluto benefic aspects (conjunction, sextile, trine)

Experience strength in finances, transformation, intimate encounters

Abundantia/Pluto malefic aspects (opposition, square)

Experience a surplus of transformation (unable to get one's footing)

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Don't forget to apply this to your solar (year outlook) or lunar return chart (monthly outlook)! Also transits!

For example, in my 2023-2024 solar return chart, I have abundantia in scorpio 2H. This placement predicts that my year will be plentiful when it comes to personal finances and possessions (2H). This is expressed very powerfully and intensely and should also be shared with others (scorpio). Based on what I've seen thus far, I’d say yes in the sense that I had a solid income source and have been able to treat myself and my loved ones (the urge to do so has very much been intense, especially as Christmas is right around the corner).

Natally, I have abundantia in sag 3H.

Thoughts come naturally to me and I tend to express myself exagerratively ngl (my words tend to come across more harsh than I'd like)

Also, I do tend to go on small road trips with my family. My early early education experience was amazing (I honestly miss it so much and I love love learning but that could also be my scorpio 3H and pluto 3H interacting lol).

-->Ironically, I don't have any siblings! It's also worth noting that abundantia quincunxes my mercury. A quincunx is a rather "negative" aspect and represents a disconnect or compromise.

-->I nearly forgot to mention that the asteroid itself is in retrograde...great. Perhaps delays in abundance are expected

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What’s your abundantia placement? How does manifest either natally or in your solar return chart?

[taikeero-lecoredier]

HELP STOP KOSA,CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS

With the end of the year approaching, we are expecting KOSA to be slipped into an end of the year spending bill. We cannot allow it to pass. There has been push by parents to bring KOSA back, not aware how dangerous KOSA actually is for children online. It would make it mandatory for platforms online to enforce age verification via ID, and deeming any content "inappropriate" for kids to be banned.This could range from not safe for work content, to health ressources, to climate change. It'll be up to politicians to dictate what is and isn't proper for kids,and, of course, killing encryption. Imagine the damage. Please focus on the entire leadership of the House,as well as reps generally, telling them to not bring KOSA up. Speaker Johnson must also be contacted, whos number is: (202) 225-2777 Heres a list of House reps to contact: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0 Use the call tool to call the House : https://www.stopkosa.com/ https://www.badinternetbills.com/#kosa

Here are scripts you can use : if your rep is GOP : I am urging you to VOTE NO on KOSA, the Kid’s Online Safety Act. This is a dangerous bill that will harm children. Many news organizations have reported that this bill actively harms kids by exposing their private data to strangers under the guise of protecting them. We need to hold Big Tech accountable, but KOSA is not the solution. The bill let any state attorney general and the FTC to sue any website for “harmful” content. Do we really want blue state lawyers deciding what can and can’t be allowed online? Big Tech is already censoring us. That’s why they support KOSA. This is massive government overreach. We need a bill that actually protects children by creating better security measures instead of bringing about more censorship. Multiple experts agree this bill pushes age verification, even with the new language. KOSA hands more private data of children to third party companies, which would put them in further danger. How is this protecting children’s privacy? What parent would want their child’s private data in the hands of strangers like this? KOSA is actively putting kids in danger. Do NOT support this bill. Thank you. if your rep is DEM: I am urging you to VOTE NO on KOSA. Nearly 200 human rights and LGBT organizations total came out in an open letter opposing it. The ACLU is against it. Hundreds of thousands of Gen Z, who actually live online, are against it. We know the harms of social media, and we know this is not the solution. The new language does NOT meet any concerns brought up, in fact many organizations were ignored. Major news have reported that this bill actively harms kids. We do not want this. The rewritten bill would still allow any state attorney general, and now the FTC, to sue any website for “harmful” content. When you have Republicans calling anything LGBT “sexual exploitation” or anything about race “CRT” to successfully ban books and teachers, then they will use any justification to censor the internet. The Missouri attorney general used “mental health” successfully to ban gender-affirming care with backed up research. Suicide rates will skyrocket for marginalized youth with this bill restricting content. Multiple experts agree this bill pushes age verification, even with the new language. KOSA hands more private data of children to third party companies. Furthermore, updated language threatens encryption the same way the Earn It Act does. How is this protecting children’s privacy? KOSA actively harms kids. Do NOT support this bill. Thank you.

Tell them you'll vote for your reps if they vote no on KOSA,anything goes. But most importantly it's crucial that KOSA is not being brought at all for any vote. Also,to note, Biden supports KOSA: You could try asking your GOP rep why they would support a bill that has Biden's support,and that he could use it to his advantage somehow (we know GOP does not like Biden,so it should be utilized somehow). We need to ensure the bill doesnt pass at all.

Last but not least: COME JOIN OUR ANTI KOSA SERVER ! we organize to help fight against bad Internet bills ! https://discord.gg/pwTSXZMxnH

[diejager]

I can request yandere! König and yandere Ghost?

She used to be a soldier before she was kidnapped by them, so she uses what she learned to beat them and escape from that room she was locked in.

Although she can't find the exit

No Escape Cw: DARKFIC, kidnapping, yandere, possessive behaviour, obsessiveness, nonconsensual drugging, basement wife, tell me if I missed any.

You learned that compliance was a better choice in this situation, having fought tooth an d nail against them only to be punished and had your privileges taken away from you. You started in the basement, waking up confused and disorientated, throat dry and head heavy from the substance König and Ghost used to drug you. You trusted Ghost, having worked with him so often - too many to count on both your hands and feet - and learned to put your trust in him to watch your back and protect you.

You, however, couldn’t say the same about König, you didn’t trust him, he was the enemy, someone you and Ghost had fought so many times, shot and wounded time and time again —only for him to come back stronger, more determined and more dangerous. Yet they worked effortlessly together rather than fight on every decision, they’d work through their differences, barked and fought but they clung to the thought of having you to themselves. It was the driving force behind their cooperation.

They took you, locked you away in the darkness of a home in Austria (an idea they both agreed to, Austria was farther and calmer, less populated and you wouldn’t be able to get help if you escaped, a stranger to the country’s spoken language) until they deemed you compliant enough to let out. You threw snide remarks, leering comments and a disrespectful and bratty attitude to push the act, to have them believe you weren’t thinking of playing them.

You were punished for every act of noncompliance, Ghost was cruel but he didn’t beat you, he used words and training —dog training, to train the disobedient mutt out of you. He did just enough to stop you from always biting, but never too much that you lose your feistiness, the aspect that made keeping you interesting and fun. König was more direct, holding you down and making you listen to him, he went without beating or training you. He had firm hands and he knew how to use them, praising you whenever you did something well and giving you privileges like going to the bathroom, showering alone, taking a walk outside or sleep in a bed.

Compliance had worked so far, they were lost to the domesticity of having a soldier turned housewife cook for them, care for them and give yourself to them. They had grown so used to having you at their beck and call, giving you whatever you wanted: books, food, a bed, a Tv, but never your freedom. That was something you had to work harder for, to pull them deeper into the delusion of your love and subservience towards them. You went unsupervised for long periods of time at home, leaving the doors locked and windows shut whenever they left.

And today seemed like the right time to move, you’d been warned by Ghost that they would be gone for a while for a joint mission (SpecGru and KorTac had somehow formed an impossible alliance), leaving you home alone with enough food and ressources to last a year. You watched them leave, their cars driving out in the distance and disappearing behind the trees once they turned the corner. You waited an hour, and hour of patience in case they came back for an emergency or because something in the plan changed, but you didn’t hear the tell-tale sound of car engines or the imposing steps up the porch.

You scoured the house, eyes roving over every little crevice and hands feeling the walls for any weaknesses. The windows were bolted shut and the grates made of hardened iron that were simply too sturdy for you to cut through without the right equipment, and the doors were locked from the outside, both men holding the only copy of the key. You wanted to keep forcibly unlocking the door as a last ditch effort because it would take more effort than needed to pry it open. So you searched the house, up the attic and down the basement, and their individual offices, who unfortunately had every drawer locked with a master key.

As you broke apart a few pins to make a lock pick, you heard two cars drive up the driveway, the loud rev of the engine and the angered slam of a door. You cursed, swiftly moving down the stairs and into the hidden corner of your reading spot, hidden by the arch between the indoor porch and the kitchen, away from the entrance’s sight. You hadn’t prepared for them to come back home —a mistake. You’d picked a random book, flipping through the pages and acting as if you spend the time reading, hoping that they wouldn’t grow suspicious.

“Come here, love,” there’s a dark edge in his done, a deep and angered growl. “Now.”

They knew. Not only were you too late, but you were caught as well. You’d lose all your freedom, your privileges and your soft affection, replacing them with the cold and damp air of the lonely basement. You bit your trembling lip, stopping yourself from spitting at them and worsen your punishment. You felt their disappointing and wrathful gaze without looking at them, it oozed off their broad shoulders in waves.

“You know what you’ve done, ja, Bärchen?” König sounded more disappointed than mad, his tone on the edge of condescension, his blue eyes dimmed with sorrow.

Ghost was quick to grab you, handling you roughly against his chest, gear and vest scrapping your skin. He had you down the basement stairs and chained to the mattress in seconds, a leather collar wrapped around your neck. He scruffed you, pushing your nose into the musky bed and thin sheet of your new room, glaring down at you with deep browns, his chest puffed with angered breaths and throat rumbled with menacing growls.

“You’re stayin’ here until we see you’ve learned your lesson.”

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[sissa-arrows]

I was asked for ressources on Western Sahara so here is a list.

Context: Western Sahara was colonized by Spain. In 1975 Spain was about to leave and they somehow decided that it was their right to fucking give the land despite the fact that the people did not want it. So Spain kinda agreed to give the land to Morocco (2/3) and Mauritania (1/3). Except they had no right to. Morocco then organized the “Green March” a march during which Moroccan colonizers marched to Western Sahara and settled there. Becoming settlers in a land that did not belong to them. Morocco claims that Western Sahara belongs to them because once a long time ago (in like 1040) the chiefs of multiple Sahrawi tribes allegedly swore allegiance to the Sultan of Morocco. It makes no freaking sense. On top of it the founder of the dynasty to which Western Sahara allegedly swore allegiance was an Amazigh man from Mauritania not from Morocco. Anyway after Morocco colonized Western Sahara in 1975, a war broke. In 1979, Mauritania gave back the land Spain had given them but Morocco still refused to give back their land to the Sahrawi people. They actually decided that if Mauritania didn’t want that piece of Western Sahara then it would also belong to Morocco and they colonized it too. In 1991 a ceasefire was signed under the condition that a vote would be organized for the independence of Western Sahara. Except they never voted… Morocco refuses to. In 2020, the Polisario (the name of the Sahrawi resistance) blocked a bunch of trucks between the border of Western Sahara and Mauritania. Morocco considered that it was a declaration of war and the ceasefire ended.

(If people wanna know how Algeria is involved in all this just tell me I’ll make a post)

Now the ressources to learn more about what’s happening!!

Sons of the clouds, the last (colony of Africa) a documentary in Spanish and Hassania (Sahrawi language) about Western Sahara. The link included subtitles in French.

An article from Amnesty international regarding how a Sahrawia activist, Sultana Khaya, was abused by Moroccans authorities.

The book “Sáhara occidental: un viaje a la libertad” by Taleb Alisalem a sahrawi activist. Only available in Spanish but if you have Twitter you should really really follow him. He shares a lot of information past and current on the subject with sources.

A human rights watch article from 2022 about the situation in Western Sahara (the article mention the Human rights situation in Morocco too)

Because listening to local journalists is very very important here is a Sahrawi newspaper in multiple languages: in Arabic in English in French and in Spanish

The APS (Algeria Press Service) is also a good ressource BUT I wouldn’t suggest to quote it when you’re debating with someone who is pro colonialism. Algeria is 100% pro Western Sahara so people against the independence of Western Sahara don’t consider that Algeria is a reliable source on the subject.

A friend suggested the Book “Sahara occidental: conflit oublié, population en mouvement” by Sébastien Boulay (Western Sahara: forgotten conflit, displaced population) to my knowledge its only available in French maybe in Spanish too as the co-author is Spanish. I personally haven’t read this one yet but I 100% trust the person who recommended me the book.

[polyglot-sock]

this is a gentle reminder that when learning languages, you need to keep in mind the "mother tongue rule". if you're dyslexic, dysgraphic, have speech impediment, social anxiety or something else, if you have problems with reading, writing or talking to people even using your mother tongue, then you can't blame yourself for not being fluent enough or compare yourself to others when having these problems with your target language. everyone is different. this difference is not only about methodology, speed, or ressources. it is also about disability and mental illness. please don't be too hard on yourself.

and if you know someone who has these problems, be patient and understanding. don't insult them or laugh at them.

[thorin]

oh my god this is a real language masterpost!!! thank you so much!!!!

unfortunately i only know of elfdict & realelvish so far. if i do find anything else, i'll let you know, though i don't think i'll be of much help 🤕

thank you so so much for replying & sharing this info with me!!!

does anyone know how i can say "let's go" or "we are leaving" in sindarin? or better yet, does anyone have a reliable sindarin translatoor tool or vocabulary list they're willing to share w me please?

i'm new to writing tolkien fics & it'll end up looking silly if they have elven characters not speaking their language 😔🙏 (& if u have any khuzdul refs, i'm a taker too!!!)

[dreamtydraw]

do u have any advice for someone starting to draw?

Hmmmm I have a bunch of advices the thing is they worked one me and might not work on everyone but let me share things that helped me in my art journey.

It’s a long post with advices and resources so i hope it can be helpful.

On advices :

Accept the fact that not every art you'll make will be good. Unless you're a full on professional with years of experiences you'll always need to learn things and so, often you'll find flaws in your art. That where it's important to remember to have fun , art shouldn't stress you into making flawless products.

Doodle often. Again you don't have to daily make detailed artworks but doodling will help you progress and helps with creative process.

Find an art format you like. Just like you can't ask a guitarist to play piano, every art mediums are different with their rules. I would advise you to experiment until you find something you're the most comfortable with ( ex i like markers, color pencils and digital art but I despise oil painting )

The quality of your material does matter. It doesn't matter on how well you draw but it does matter in helping you work better so sometimes it's worth saving up for better materials ( do research on what seems the best for you ). This apply for digital tools too ! I only like one app and it's ibis paint...

Copy. Now this doesn't mean blindly trace or steal but find artists or artworks you like and try to find WHAT you like in it and then try to copy it on your own. This goes for anything you want to reference visually, find what you like in it and copy that, if you just copy the reference you don't do much more than being a printer.

Flip your canvas or use a light tablet to turn your sketch. This help you notices anatomy errors more visibly so you can correct them before starting the clean up.

Don't sleep on cartoon. A lot of people say "learn realism before finding your style" and I'd say that not for everyone. If you want to get professionally into art or works on your anatomy then yes you should learn realism because it's the fundamental of anatomy but that not an obligation. One thing you can learn from tho regardless of what you try to do is cartoons. Cartoons are exaggerations of posing, expressions and designs and learning some cartoons rules might help you understand a bit better some notions ( mainly shapes languages and expressions )

Find something that motivates you to draw. Draw for fandoms, draw your oc, draw for yourself but having something that makes you want to draw is important. It's very important that you don't base your motivation on other people's opinion of your art.

Get inspired by other medias. Search about symbolism in other art form, get inspired by movies, books, videos games, people, objects, design etc… Humans are good at making creative stuff, it feed the spirit.

Now on ressources ( That i use or have used )

My personal pinterest board for visual reference

Scan of morpho, a good morphology book

Scan of morpho, about fat and muscles

Post with resources about fat

Tips about character design

Links to Kasey golden Chanels for cartoon inspiration and material review

Post about shapes designs

Hope this can be of help !!

[valictini]

I don't think people truly realise how Qstudio's response to the revelations has been and still is extremely unprofessional. Ghosting people you exploited for a year because you're what, scared of leaks? Is unacceptable behaviour.

(Angry rant below)

Like, to be clear, it is obvious to me that they haven't recruited any Human Ressources yet because this shit wouldn't fly in a normal workplace.

You have a lot of exploited ex employees left on read, asking for a private DISCUSSION for 2 months now.

All the somewhat relevant announcements were made thru public streams, in a language they know not all their ex employees understand.

They relied on volunteer labor (the fans') to translate their official annoucement instead of, you know, doing it themselves (and not just in english but all the language they prided themselves to have included in the project)

And even then, the announcements are so vague and unhelpful that we might as well not have them.

Let's be real. They don't consider these ex employees as such. They consider them formerly privileged fans that are now ruining it for everyone. People they think are a pain in the ass and would rather not deal with for now. At least, that's the message their behaviour is sending.

This is an extreme caricature of bad management, except it's in real life.

Their only saving grace is that Quackity, his friends, and the project are beloved by fans. If it were any other company, i can guarantee you that there would be zero support because they objectively don't deserve it after this much shit.

[fumifooms]

Okay okay new flekille angle... Fleki joking about being a "dark elf" and Marcille being uncomfortable about it... Fleki saying it and teasing with it BECAUSE it makes Marcille unsure and uncomfortable.

No because okay okay rundown : 'dark elf' is a catch-all term for elves who show unsavory behavior or commit wrong actions, wether violence, theft, scamming or lying... It being a shorthand for criminals in general is a safe assumption to make, especially since they're classically demonized already.

"Okay but Fleki? Run me through the situation what does it have to do with flekille." Short sociology lesson, because of urgent needs being unable to be met through honest means & with the system favoring others instead, people from poorer more neglected social classes tend to fall into crime & bad crowds more easily. Having less ressources means the 'solutions' you do have are more extreme, wether it be for regulating your mental health or stabilizing your income or living situation. Here's a study link if interested.

Why I think Fleki may have been lower class, before becoming a prisoner? Okay stay with me here, elves are very hierarchal and xenophobic, even while being colonizers. Referring to the area guide blurbs, the northern central continent (NCC) is managed with more restrictions but also more valued in general than the southern central continent (SCC), which also has a widespread elven population. It's said life is "safe and easy" in the NCC, so alongside all the noble elves we have info for come from the NCC, we can see a dynamic form where NCC continent elves are from a higher safer social class than SCC elves.

Another hint of this is the characters' names. If you compare their name origins, a pattern starts appearing where... Well @room-surprise did the work and has more knowledge than me so, the way they put it: "It seems like every elf that has a clearly Germanic or Slavic name is either a criminal or a lower-class person and everyone who is higher class seems to have names that are Latin, Greek, or West/South Asian."

And this seems like a lot of large vague groups options that don't mean much, but this tidbit of info becomes more telling when knowing which races are more associated with what languages and cultures. For a full look into it I recommend this essay, but to get to the point here concisely: 'Fleki' is old norse. 'Otta' and 'Helki' are other elves with old norse names, but for what it's worth Otta is from the NCC, and who knows about Helki's origins. They're the only elves with old norse names at all, but three's a crowd. Who else do we know are scandinavian coded? That's right, Laios and his home region. Tallmen.

Prisoner/non-noble elves tend to have old norse names while none of the noble ones do. And wouldn't that be interesting if tied with tallmen being nordic, wouldn't it be a result of the cultural mixing happening in the less rich regions and the lower social classes, since noble elves are especially xenophobic and uppity about social classes?

Ironically, our protagonist Laios has a greek name, something associated with elves in Dungeon Meshi, but just like Anoutolid and Nussa (two of Laios' father's dogs) could have been picked as names because Laios' father likes names from myths, with the dogs this is canon but in case of Laios it's probably more of a meta joke. ANYWAYS! Go in the essay for more info, all I'm saying is, tallmen = nordic, elves having nordic names = possible cultural mixing, on the continent that canonically has more immigration and less restrictions but is also less safe and 'easy' to live in.

Elves concentrating all their efforts and wealth into the 1% is too real and it checks out. It's also hinted at and mentioned many times through canon and extra info (Misyl's Complete Adventurer's Bible blurb for one) that the canaries overpolice and charge criminals too heavily because they lack manpower, so they want people arrested and want them arrested for longer to have more canaries. Fleki was arrested because of possession and sale of ancient magic artifacts, and only got into ancient magic for the money. Look I'm just saying, it lines up that Fleki would turn to crime because her material conditions weren't great! And as a criminal, she's automatically fit to either having been treated as a dark elf or joke and taunt about it. Especially since the lore info extra on dark elves is set somewhere where tallmen approached unfriendly elves, while this could be a tallman unused to elves outside of rumors thus approaching them with a reckless idealized view, the casualness of it makes me think this is the sort of contact that was likely to happen in an area with a lot of elves and a lot of tallmen living nearby each other, ie the SCC.

Mentioning the Mithrun-Hareus parallels AGAIN but Mithrun and the canaries directly contrast Daltian Clan, it' holds up and makes sense a result especially of Mithrun being hareus' exact lookalike. It's fantasy vs reality of Marcille idealizing Daltian Clan and elven military through General Hareus and novels growing up, then realizing that the real elven military is miserable and very much not glamorous and general Mithrun is dehydrated, rude and after her life. So this plotline about idolizing vs demonizing elves as a race, stances that are very split within the dunmeshi cast, is very Marcille-centric within canon's story. She herself goes from associating with them a lot and being prideful about it & elven customs, to condemning their superiority complex and narrow-mindedness and being on the run from the elven military, before becoming an advisor for a short-lived tallman court, which is seen as dishonorable for elves, as Marcille the half-elf. There's a bit of an arc here, regardless of how much change she actually went through or if it was always just performance on her part that she wasn't really attached to.

So obviously this is all to say that Marcille having a romance with a very underprivileged elf, a "dark elf", would be not only compelling but relevant. FLEKILLE SUPREMACY!!!!!

Half-elf woman who drank the koolaid a bit growing up and idolized elves and tried her best to fit the image of one x woman who knows personally the shortcomings of that same idolized society and embodies that a bit, who breaks that elegant image by being crass and unapologetic and a criminal prisoner, who would have no problem breaking Marcille's fantasies about it, a full elf who still grew up disadvantaged and demonized. Marcille has been emulating elves all her life, perhaps in the hopes of being accepted more or feeling a bigger sense of cultural belonging, but Fleki is there, showing her hey, it isn't that great anyways, hey it doesn't matter squat if you're an elf or not people will always find excuses to mistreat you anyways. It's Fleki taunting and saying come be dark elves with me and Marcille coming to understand and replying no, we're both just elves.