#weak memory

[languagegarden]

04 Slowing down & going back to move forward in my Korean journey

I think I started Korean with a routine that was just too much. I overdid it. Now it’s time to create a healthy enjoyable routine that I can stick to LONGTERM. I also need to slow down and go back to learning material I thought I left behind me for good. Since I was rushing in the beginning, a lot of material was left unfinished and not used in a way to reap the benefits from it: I used it in a passive way, an ”input way”. And because of this plus the rushing, I feel like a lot of useful vocabulary and sentence structures were not registered in my longterm memory. Using everything actively is harder than I thought and my brain seems to be a bloc of Swiss cheese.

So I need to climb down from my high horse, put my ego into the drawer and admit to myself: I need to go back to move forward. Because if there are cracks in the foundation like a lack of output (active use like writing and speaking/monologuing) and having more passive than active vocab, it will create problems later on. The cracks will grow bigger as I move forward and I will live in this illusion of being further than I actually am. You know, even if my reading and listening comprehension is better than my writing and speaking, it’s a wobbly foundation, because the difference is too big. I shouldn’t think of myself as being ”so intermediate baby yeah”. There are too many holes, too much I can’t recall in the second I need it, too much passive vocabulary rather than active one. I need to get all the aspects of the language to an +/- equal level and stuff the holes in the foundation.

Weak foundations will make the castle crumble. I don’t want that to happen.

Slowing down, going back, using (upper)beginner resources again, IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF and is not ”lowering” myself down to a less worthy level. It’s a good revision, it’s repetition, it’s learning new stuff. The awareness that I need to get stronger at the base to properly move forward is sth positive. And slowing down is not laziness, language learning is not a sprint anyway, so why not take my time, step by step and as a result enjoy it more. Sooner or later I will be where I want to be. I don’t care if it takes a few years longer, I’m not in the coffin yet lol, so let’s sail forward but first backwards.

xoxo,

A.

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

[soapbbox]

You know how in TFP Optimus can’t really remember what happened during his time without the matrix. Yeah. The sad version of this what if Optimus met cogless Megatron.

Cont from this, and this

[fairsweetlonging]

npc!shen yuan applies for a job opening on qiong ding for librarian smth like that, and yue qingyuan has barely looked at his resume or spoken to him before hiring him on the spot.

at first shen yuan is excited and proud cus wow he aced that job interview, can it really be this easy??? then he meets shen qingqiu and sees they could easily pass for brothers and have the same surname, so for a little while he's grumbly and annoyed that the sect leader only hired him bc of his resemblance to the scum villain, which honestly hurts a bit you know.

but then, double plot twist, the resemblance had nothing to do with it, yue qingyuan just saw an eager young man who had compiled all of his experience and skills on a single paper (yue qingyuan's overworked heart cried tears of joy), who seemed genuinely passionate about library work and treats the other workers well.

bonus thought: at first shen qingqiu has the same suspicion as well, that yue qingyuan was just hiring a lookalike for some weird reason, but then he meets shen yuan, sees the work that he does and is like "i have to have this man for my peak" and starts trying to poach him.

[seaglassdinosaur]

Something about how Haymitch continues to drink. That he never ‘fully’ recovers, even though there are plenty of opportunities through and after the series when his access to alcohol is cut off. Something about him perhaps seeing the act as pointless because the damage to his body has been done, but being content with the time he has left.

Something about Haymitch being able to care about people again; allowing himself to care about Katniss and Peeta and not having to fear losing them or anyone else ever again. That he finds a hobby, a constructive and meaningful way to spend his time that not only reminds him of Lenore Dove, but was prompted by the people he has around him. That he finally feels safe enough to open up about and remember everyone who was taken over the years. That he’s able to heal some through this.

Something about how Haymitch’s pain doesn’t go away, but he’s able to find peace with it through these practices and people, and is able to forgive himself and feel forgiven by those he lost.

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x01 - “Heavy is the Crown”

[slytherinshua]

Lee Minjae as GO HYUNTAK in WEAK HERO CLASS 2 (2025) requested by @twinyardevil !!

[mxboxlocks]

lord, make me dead before you make me old

[hazieash]

It’s a Ratatouille situation

[nifaux]

The first night was just a lot to take in...

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

THIS CHAPTER HIT ME LIKE A TON OF BRICKS LIKE NEARLY BEAT FOR BEAT THIS WAS MY HS EXPERIENCE!!

She just like me for real...and she needs a hug badly.

[notkingyet2]

The Terror (2018) reincarnation AU where Crozier is desperate to find his crew if he can but doesn't know where to begin

by sheer chance he glimpses a social media post with a photograph of DJ Dolleyes and he'd know those eyes anywhere

he goes to the rave (feeling incredibly awkward and out-of-place, it's not his scene, everyone here is twenty years younger than him if not thirty) again and again trying to catch the DJ's notice and find out if he actually remembers everything they went through or if he's just a victim of vivid delusions of watching over a hundred men in his care perish in the Arctic

finally as DJ Dolleyes finishes a set and slips away Crozier catches him on his way out of the venue

cries out "Jopson!" before he can stop himself

DJ Dolleyes halts. waits. slowly turns.

Crozier looks into the face of a young man he'd thought lost to him forever. and sees recognition spark in those pale eyes.

even after all these years of wondering if his crew might also be alive again, Crozier can't find the words to explain how he knows him but is compelled to ask, "Do you remember me?"

and those eyes go cold as ice

as Jopson replies, his tone clipped, "I do, sir."

because he does remember his captain.

his captain who left him to die alone.

[marcelineuntitled]

from A Kaiju Story by @kings-highway

surely nothing bad will happen to them and they're just going to have a nice day out together :>

[sk3tch404]

"Draw more serious art!!" I'm getting there, just not now kitty bby doll 😼😼

Bald y/n back at it again wtf

[sergle]

remembering waking up post-op after my breast reduction is SO FUNNY because it's such a wild thing to have a Fond Memory of. but I distinctly remember croaking "hell yessss" to my surgeon after he told me I was done and everything went great.

[jkvjimin]

(113/∞) the perfect nose for butterflies to land on it ♡