#listening and speaking

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田一郎 ／ Japanese, b. 1954

不講道理的人是偏執狂 不能講道理的人是傻子 不敢講道理的人是奴隸

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. 🙌🙌🙌

─ Lord Byron (British, 1788-1824 拜倫勳爵 George Gordon)

[falseandrealultravival]

Japanese Central Government Agency (7) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

"Education in a ruined country" promotion agency. In recent years they have been credited with bringing Japanese universities down from world standards. In addition, 'relaxed education' brought about the devastation of education.

In terms of foreign language education as well, by emphasizing only "listening and speaking" in the basic English education, the Japanese are promoted to be nothing more than servants of the British and Americans. It is a so-called semi-lingualization that makes it impossible to think logically.

This central government office has no reason to exist.

Rei Morishita

日本の中央官庁（７）文部��学省

「亡国の教育」推進官庁。近年では彼らは日本の大学を世界的水準から低下させたのに功績がある。また「ゆとり教育」で教育の荒廃を招いた。

外国語教育にしても、基盤の英語教育で「聞く、話す」のみ重視することにより、日本人が英米人の召使いにしかなれないことを推進している。論理的思考ができない、いわゆるセミ・リンガル化だ。

この中央官庁は、存在意味がない。

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Remember the 6 year old girl who was surrounded by Israeli tanks and the red crescent couldn't reach her? Her name is Hind Hamadeh. Here you can hear the phone call her 15 year old sister, Layan Hamadeh, made with the medics. She was killed exactly a moment later including all people in the car, except for 6 year old Hind who was stuck in the car with the dead bodies of her family, Israeli tanks and IDF surrounding her, shooting, preventing anybody to reach her.

That was last night (29.1.24). Today, still nothing. The fate of Hind remains unknown.

palestine red crescent ambulance team went to rescue her yesterday evening, but they have not returned as of now. We lost contact with them about 18 hours ago, and we still remain unaware of their fate and whether they succeeded in evacuating her or not.

Please, share Hind's story as much as you can on any platform. We need to know what happened to her. Put yourself in her place, how terrified she must be. Don't scroll past this.

This is Hind.

[watercolor-freckles]

In case anyone needs a reminder…

Being transgender does not make you intersex.

Going through HRT does not make you intersex. Surgery cannot make you intersex.

Intersex people are born with atypical variations of physical, biological sex characteristics. That is what makes someone intersex.

Perisex trans people (especially on Reddit) have been recently insisting that just being transgender makes you intersex, and therefore able to speak over intersex people on issues that specifically affect us, especially when it comes to dangerous and offensive terminology. This is not true.

Also the idea that you can somehow “make yourself intersex” is untrue. You can make your body more androgynous through things like hormone treatment and surgery, but that does not make you intersex.

Falsely claiming intersex identity based on these things isn’t *always* malicious (though it is often done to speak over us) but it is always harmful.

[a-ikuoliver]

i love men that are submissive in a knight to their princess kinda way

[smart-macademia]

the key to surviving grad school (also maybe life but definitely grad school) is to pick a side quest every few months or so. something that brings you joy and that you can get better at over time, independent of whether or not your research or classes are going well. put your need for academic validation to use in a non-academic setting and everything will feel less dire and you will learn you are more than your work

[zzoupz]

developing a transfem hc for a character most of the fandom see as transmasc

[unlimitedbutchworks]

a lot of older norms for internet and site etiquette are shit but you know what was good that we need to bring back? lurking. you need to lurk moar

[chloesimaginationthings]

Is Michael Afton gay or European in FNAF?…

[acetier]

queen sonia my beloved <333

[emoclone]

breaking news: same parents who warned you about peer pressure won't wear a mask to the grocery store because nobody else is doing it

[yhwcomeback]

They grow up so fast!

Happy 14th birthday Ninjago!

[composeregg]

edit (10/23/2024) now that the poll is over: Original version, with 10 questions, from April 2023 here

And, given that the original is from April 2023, that means I can very easily say:

No, this was not an ISAT reference!

Just because I use parentheses and 2nd person pov and love the same concepts of what a time loop can do to a person doesn't mean it's ISAT

(Yes, I like ISAT, the original poll is why I was recommended the game! But if you look at the original, you can see all the origins of the options to choose from, including what spurred me on with the moss option from the replies)

If I were going to make something for ISAT, I would never be so vague, you can simply look at my ao3 for proof of that

[phantomrose96]

I don't get into media that often as an adult because I no longer have the 14-year-old naivety that lets Naruto blow my mind. I still absolutely like getting into media! But my bar is significantly higher. And even the things I genuinely enjoy come with a sort of measured assessment of what areas are maybe a little weak in my opinion, or what aspects don't completely appeal to me.

So actually, I a little bit don't know what to do with myself over the fact that The Silt Verses is just so good. I don't have my usual mental folder of measured critiques. Like at most maybe a one-off plotline here or there that I was only mildly interested in. But that's nothing when I mean like, assessing the over-arching characters, their development, their self-driven character motivation, the evolving dynamics between them, the intricacies of the plot, the way the world breathes, the horrible and ironic and compelling concepts that come to life here, the incredible voice acting, the sound production, the astounding writing--the untouchable quality of the writing.

When I say "The Silt Verses gets better the longer it goes" that's because it's so good at developing its characters and their dynamics and the plot and the stakes. Something exceptional should get better the longer it goes if it's doing these things well.

I listen while cooking and time and time again I need to stop what I'm doing to just... soak in what I've heard. I rewind lines. I'm on episode 40 and every single ongoing character plot compels me. I'm invested in everyone. The dimension to each of the main characters is undoing me. I listen and I go "I cannot imagine writing something this good." What do I do with this. I don't know.