#so at least its the probably thing in the movie

[thelonelyraven]

Alternatively, I guess especially if you’re more of an auditory learner, speak. Maybe to yourself, first. That was me around age 12 with English. I was probably speaking beyond broken English in my head and the few recordings I have at the time attest to that, but it helped start a shift in my brain. I must have been between A1 and A2 by then but this prompted me on the path to the edge of B1 I think. I was there before the end of French middle school, which is when this is expected (in part thanks to basically only watching TV in original language subtitled and the overwhelming majority of said TV was English speaking) but slowly I learned.

I wrote a movie script that called for some lines / dialogues in English. It was… bad, but a start.

But, most crucially, I was able to spend 2 months in Australia having to speak English all day. I mean, I guess you need a certain level in your target language to get by. I know my 10 days in Germany were fucking useless but it’s also because it was short and I was too scared to speak German and spoke English most of the time as by then I was basically fluent in English (and basically everyone in Germany speaks it very well, dear god).

But yeah. 2 months in a country where you maybe have a couple other exchange students or something from your own country you see for lunch and chat with sometimes? That definitely forces you to adapt. They shaped my accent, especially as they corrected me on some pronunciation (which I think was sometimes maybe not *wrong* but not necessarily Australian idk) and there were times I had to ask for a sentence to be repeated, even a couple times as some words didn’t register (sometimes I’d even give up and just vaguely nod or apologise that I was having trouble understanding) but all in all I managed to get around most situations and only ended up with a moderate Australian accent, that, incidentally, was picked up on by an Australian student in my high school back in France. A high school full of English people as it was one of those schools where they taught us history and geography in English and we had English literature classes instead of English language classes and beyond the fact that I was incomprehensible to my friends at the start (though perhaps less so to the Australian girl so maybe it was in part an accent thing? Idk) I was told by my dad to keep trying to speak English to my friends so I’d get practice. And that really paid out because by the end of my first year is when I was basically fluent.

Well. Fluent-ish, I still got a C on my Cambridge Proficiency 2 years later, but you know.

I guess 3 years of dorms with people I mostly spoke English to helped. By the end when I moved to Scotland for uni people were genuinely surprised when I told them I was French, assumed I had at least on English parent and told me I sounded “very English”. Guess my roommate of three years with what I think was pretty much a RP “accent” (despite her father being from Manchester…) had its influence on me and uh… yeah. English accent. Though it got tamer as time went on but dear god around my second year I have recordings where I sound like I’m putting on an act of trying to sound English it’s so weird.

Anyways. Practicing a language is invaluable and I advise it to anyone who can do it to try. I’m sure there’s plenty of ways to do it that don’t imply moving to a foreign country for 3 months. Like chatting online on forums or discord servers or whatever and then you can maybe be on calls with people maybe playing games like Among Us (Alice no, it’s not 2020 anymore) R.E.P.O. or Lethal Company or whatever the latest trend is idfk. Maybe Dead by Daylight, join us

Just… practicing. Forming sentences is a skill you have to learn. Just like you can be expected to spit out a 20,000 word fanfiction just because you listened to a lot of podcasts, it doesn’t work quite that way.

I very much agree with these suggestions. Forcing myself to write was the way I could finally start to become an active rather than a passive user of the target language.

[notclauderains]

I (and probably a lot of other people) found the garlic test scene in Sinners reminiscent of the blood test scene in John Carpenter's The Thing but I just thought of another scene in Sinners that reminded me of Carpenter's 1982 horror classic. Spoilers for both The Thing and Sinners btw.

When we are first introduced to the vampire Remmick he is being hunted by Choctaw vampire hunters. He seeks shelter with an American couple who offer him protection from his pursuers. The lead hunter warns them of Remmick but is ignored. Remmick then kills the couple and assimilates them into his vampire hivemind.

The Thing opens with the Thing (in the disguise of a dog) being hunted by Norwegian researchers. The Thing seeks shelter with a group of American researchers who protect it from its pursuers. One of the Norwegians tries to the Americans of the Thing but he isn't understood and is ignored. The Thing then kills the Americans and assimilates them into it.

In both movies a creature pretending to be something it isn't (a human and a dog) is being hunted by a group of non-English speakers. The creature seeks shelter with, and is offered protection by, a group of Americans. The non-English speakers attempt to warn the Americans of the creature but are ignored. The creature then kills the Americans and makes them one with it. The non-English speakers who were hunting the creature are also never seen again after their introductory scene (the Norwegians are killed when they try to kill the Thing and the Choctaw just leave the moment the Sun goes down).

Coincidence? Maybe, but I wouldn't blame Ryan Coogler for taking inspiration from The Thing. Both movies are amazing and I love them.

Edit: Another user pointed this out to me and I really thought I should mention that there's a distinct difference between why the Norwegians are ignored and why the Choctaw are ignored. In The Thing the Norwegian's warning is ignored due to a language barrier. None of the Americans speak Norwegian and the Norwegians can't speak English, so they don't understand what he is saying. Meanwhile in Sinners the lead Choctaw warns the wife of the danger of Remmick in English but she willingly ignores him because the couple are Klan members (or at least the husband is), of course she's not going to listen to a group of Native Americans especially after a white guy told her that they raped and murdered his wife.

In The Thing it's a misunderstanding between two groups who don't speak eachothers language that causes the warning to be ignored but in Sinners it's because of the couples racist beliefs and preconceptions of Native Americans.

[qoldenskies]

i think its so funny when people take the way donnie acts at face value even though its a horrible lie because he's a horrible liar, while understanding leo is bullshitting very well despite him actually being GOOD at bullshitting. many such cases

[xxplastic-cubexx]

alternate apocalypse ending or something who the hcrist knows anymore

[ersatz-introspective]

i've been stalking the batman rogues fandom since about 2019 i believe and tbh the horniest enjoyers of any iteration of the riddler are the fuckinG PAUL DANO RIDDLER STANS. i could never repeat what some of you fuckers have said to me in private .... what some of you have told me you've done ... I'M SO AFRAID OF YOU GUYS HIGHKEY???

[wolvesrain]

pls reblog for more ppl 🫡

[sofia-not-sophie]

Help I’m thinking too hard about the unexplored world building implications of the seven kisses lead to pregnancy in a world where there seems to be/have been a patriarchy and also somehow it works interspecially despite humans and akiridions having entirely different modes of existence/bodily function

[broken-clover]

Regularly frustrated by the fact that most of my fixations aren't mainstream enough to have much in the way of official merch, but for the sake of both my sanity and my wallet, that's probably a good thing

[lunatic-fandom-space]

i just saw a post that was obviously vagueing about that popular vampirism as disability post being like "OF COURSE a post being like 'what if vampires (bloodthirsty predators) were actually the victims and people reacting negatively were the villains' would do well on tumblr, this is the Nothing Is Ever Your Fault website" and it just pisses me off because its like, hey man. modern vampires (the ones that came about in victorian times, that are loosely based on eastern european folklore) have existed for like a hundred years now and people have been characterizing vampires as a 'species' in a bunch of different ways for just as long, and the person who made the original post clearly chose to characterize them as basically normal humans mentally but a bit fucked up physically. yknow, kind of like disabled people

[unwritten-fanfiction]

I did a fanart

There's no path of trampled flowers around so I guess they all flew down while in whimsical laying position idk, just don't think about it lol

[xxplastic-cubexx]

feel the need to rewatch the x-men films just so i can draw a layout of the mansion for drawing purposes

[coridallasmultipass]

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[marklikely]

watching movies w the Boys during social time and so far they really like the reanimator green goo and nothing else

[fabdante]

not excited for the live action to white wash gan and give the fandom even more of an excuse to white wash gan because white washing is already such a problem in this fandom, a 'canon' source doing it is just going to make it worse

please just make him a pig i am begging for him to be a pig i am begging

[ouroboobos]

What is it about middle/upper class older women and the urge to go "erm 😳😧 you guys better get over here" and act like Jason Vorhees is en route every time a homeless person so much as enters their peripheral vision. Like ik everyone is horrible to homeless people but its such a specific pattern of behavior I've almost exclusively seen in 50+ y/o white women. They start acting like they're in a fucking movie and its literally just a guy with scraggly hair walking into a store

[todayisafridaynight]

You're most welcome! I love snooping around maps and seeing stuff others capture from freecam mods myself, so again, I'm happy to be able to share. I really want to have WAY more detailed location pages on the wiki eventually, but this'll have to do for now. Also, I would love to see your layouts and I'm sure others would as well!

I don't think it's actually his apartment, though, he just went HARD in terms of personalizing his space. According to Yokoyama, he does also live in (well, "is the type to" live in) Minato--Roppongi specifically--and Mine mentions having gym equipment at home too, but I don't think it's the same place because the spaces are all work or recreation without any of the necessities, and there aren't any more doors. But if anything, it's pretty safe to say his home probably has the same vibe as his office, and I think that still fits for a "workaholic."

I thiiiiink Mine's old company was an IT startup, but he's got his fingers in a lot of pies, for sure. There's a cell phone software company that's a front for the Hakuho Clan, and I would guess he probably still has shares in Every Taxi Company in Kamurocho. Fitness is very much a thing he holds in high importance and is extremely picky about ("not being in the mood" to work out if he doesn't have his specific brand of protein and cancelling a proper gym membership because he "has better equipment at home"), so if he has the money, why not right lmao

I have seen the uncorrupted piano room and you're right that there's literally nothing else there other than the piano lol; in terms of the missing furnishings I was referring to, it's just some decor, mainly. He certainly could use an actual bench, but there isn't one in the "fixed" model either... fair enough though, since only the piano is "needed" for that shot.

About the doors behind the piano, those actually open out to the hallway outside the office. So you can enter either through the main entrance or the piano room. It is consistent with the game since Katase comes into the gym through the piano room, I guess, but it is kind of weird.

It'd definitely be nice to see more detailed entries for places (though I guess I speak from the minor perspective of artists compared to the general RGG fanbase, so it'd be understandable if it's not a paramount priority)! On that note though, maybe one day I'll dump them to the public. They're pretty old and messy: they have just enough info to get me by but might be indecipherable to. Everyone else LMAO BUT maybe I'll drop it after a revision (I also want to make sure everything's accurate if we're looking at the WHOLE room instead of just bits and pieces of it in the background of comics I make)

I figured it wasn't his personal apartment and was more strictly an office space (definitely a very personal one on that note). With that in mind, I'm forced to wonder what Mine's actual personal space looks like (but I'll let sleeping dogs lie: it's not something we'll ever get concrete info on, so I won't drive myself crazy trying to speculate on it when I have next to nothing to go off of for a layout)

ON THAT NOTE THOUGH the doors behind the piano leading to a hallway is comedically obvious in review. I should jump off a bridge for thinking otherwise 😩