#mejo

[killerandhealerqueen]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love ❤

Oh, thank you Mejo! Okay, okay, five favorite fics...

1. Catch Me If You Can (F1 RPF, T, Loscar, 12.7k, detective/hitman au)

2. It's Not the Devil at Your Door (It's Just Your Shadow on the Floor) (F1 RPF, T, Lestappen, 10k, hero/villain + baby au)

3. Enough (Miami) (F1 RPF, M, Loscar, Lestappen, Carlando, 14.7k, mafia au)

4. 药剂师日记 | The Apothecary Diaries (Killer and Healer, T, Yuezhi, 89.3k, apothecary diaries au)

5. Monster Like Me (Killer and Healer, M, Yuezhi, 21.5k, mafia au)

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA El Mundo di Oggi domenica, 29 dicembre 2024

[sunriseverse]

I keep meaning to look this up, but could you please help in pointing me somewhere to start? I'm learning Chinese (on a hobby level, at a snail's pace) and every class, on- or offline I tried so far expects me to just bruteforce learning hanzi one by one. I think you've mentioned it before (or I read it somewhere, can't remember) that there's a logic to how they are built and by knowing the building blocks you can even guess how a new-to-you character might be pronounced. Could you point me somewhere reliable I could learn more about this? Thank you :)

hi fixa! my apologies in advance if this reply is a little disordered, i personally learnt chinese as a child/growing up in china so my experience with learning chinese is very different from those wanting to learn as adults. but hopefully the resources i've provided will at least give you a starting point!

in terms of texts:

for character dictionaries that allow you to look things up via radicals and/or allow you to practice writing, there is adrian van amstel's text "simplified chinese character dictionary", cheng & tsui's "chinese character dictionary", and muhammad wolfgang g. a. schmidt's "the big chinese character dictionary" which all look fairly promising. cheng & tsui and schmidt's texts both have built-in writing portions, where you can practice the characters, while amstel's text is more of a classic dictionary in that you can only look characters up. (there's another text that i would recommend here, but i can't for the life of me remember the title and i don't have the text on hand—it's probably from the 80s, but it also teaches characters through radicals and has some explanation on the history of the evolution of the characters? will add this if/when i remember the title (providing i didn't list it already, but i don't think i have).)

the main drawback to these is that i haven't actually been able to find a copy of the cheng & tsui text online anywhere :/ it is possible to find the schmidt one, though (probably because it was published in '65—which is a drawback because i'm not sure where it would be in terms of simplified characters vs traditional), as well as the amstel text (though the copy i managed to find lists both the traditional and simplified character versions, which might be a bit confusing).

for actually learning how to write chinese characters, without having to pay anything: i cannot recommend TOFU Learn enough. when i was trying to regain competency in writing, this was the app/website i used the most. it's technically a general flashcard resource, but it's designed for learning chinese first—there are specific decks for all the hsk levels, and for radicals (usually the kangxi radicals list, but there are also 100 most common lists, etc).

in terms of other resources:

— the pleco dictionary is invaluable for looking characters up—it also breaks down characters by components, and you can, if you have it downloaded on your phone, draw characters to look them up rather than having to remember the pinyin. it also includes alternate pronunciations of characters when they exist (saved my life in a classical chinese translation project where i was ripping my hair out trying to figure out who the fuck was being talked about because the common pronunciation wasn't yielding shit).

— haven't used it myself, but my good friend @commandersya claims the mandarin blueprint system is incredibly helpful (despite looking scammy as hell); they have a free 30 day trial, as well. they put a lot of emphasis on radicals/character components, though the system they use to memorise characters feels a little baffling and roundabout to me (but howl says it works great, and i trust her because she's actually the one learning it from scratch).

most other resources i can think of off the top of my head are geared more towards getting you ready to speak, so i hope at least some of these are useful!

( @mejomonster might have some further resources as well; i know he's been studying chinese for a while, and would probably be a better source for that sort of thing than i am, since my experience is not really anything like your average foreign chinese language student.)

[officialpenisenvy]

lo so che è gauche chiamare le opere della letteratura italiana fanfiction ma oggettivamente quanto fa ridere che in una sidequest dei promessi sposi ci sta l'irl cardinale federico borromeo. bella raga sono proprio io il cugino di un santo qui per aiutare questa giovane massaia fittizia

[esqueletosgays]

CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980)

Paura nella città dei morti viventi

Director: Lucio Fulci Cinematography: Sergio Salvati

[weirdlookindog]

City of the Living Dead (Paura nella città dei morti viventi, 1980) - British Quad

[ross-nekochan]

大好き、池袋 ～❤️

[anitalianfrie]

✨Diggia as a cartoon character✨

[timetravelstudies]

its very like well if you see and recognize the struggle why are you betraying the sisterhood. and its like mariasole idk howto explain this to you if youve never felt it but after all the talk and issues and chicken and egg and butler and preciado are said and done there is simply just a little voice underneath all of the intellectual shit like the peas under the princess’s mattresses that says but im a guy though. and unfortunately i cant prove it to you in a lab environment or in a 100 page bibliographic essay but its there and ill die if i dont listen to it.

[pierppasolini]

Teorema (1968) // dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

[mejomonster]

Annnnd my hair is pink again (bunny)

[cinemaquiles]

Este filme foi rejeitado pelo próprio diretor: "O bebê de Manhattan", 1982

[i-am-a-polpetta]

non seguo la diretta dell'ital volley perché preferisco la Diretta di @pizzettauniversale

AURORA IO TI AMO E FRANCESI MERDA ♥️

[esqueletosgays]

THE OTHER HELL (1981)

L'altro inferno

Director: Bruno Mattei Cinematography: Giuseppe Beradini

[weirdlookindog]

Paura nella città dei morti viventi (1980) - Spanish VHS cover

AKA City of the Living Dead

[rigelmejo]

Yesterday: did 273 sentences in Glossika and like 1300 repetitions (im argh about new glossika tbh but i'll use it for the month i paid and see how far i get). 3 hours.

Watched Paranoia Agent (english subs), hoshii means wish? Want? I heard some words i knew. (Not really studying, but it was an interesting opening).

Found Ranma 1/2 chinese dub again, found utsurei yasura and devilman in japanese, didnt watch just bookmarked them. Found a ton of japanese movies. I was thinking of the youtuber One Word at At Time and how he mentioned over the course of a long show you'll learn 1000 words from watching (like seasons of Friends). And how I bet I could use Kamen Rider Build like that lol. Or Ranma (ranma would probably be easier since i know the plot).

Listened to chapter 1 of SCI audiobook (maybe chapter 1 and 2, i just listened until i was tired and heard a chapter break message). Much better comprehension this like 5th time listening! Truly, relistening works like magic. Listen to something 1, then 2-3, then 4-5, or even 10 times, and SEE how much more you understand over time. Even if you multitask and barely pay attention? You see improvement. This time I followed the main idea of each scene, most dialogue, and some of the descriptions. I will attemot to write a summary in chinese (please keep in mind I'm rusty with vocabulary and even rustier at using any active vocabulry, couldn't write since I dont practice, and this is basically one of my first attempts to try and practice output more): 我试一试接受那个小说点。找粥和百余桶工作在SCI。他们碰到对手在电梯。工作是警官，他们有生气老板。老板告诉他们工作一起当这个案子。破案子。老板告诉他们必须合同(cooperate?)。下时候，一个男人（百余桶还有找粥）出去了其他的人家。他招呼，其他的人回答。他们走了去看案子地方。

Couldnt remember: chief, cooperate, ordered (zhao?). I also did not spell the names Bai Yu Tong or Zhao Zhou right. Maybe later i'll look up how to write this better and compare.

I also listened to 3 condensed audios of The Untamed episodes.