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@fanarain
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My secret Santa piece by @artycreaty 💕
Haven’t found it on tumblr yet so I had to share it with the audience 😁
Heehee I was gonna post later but I got beat lol 😆
So yeah, after 86 years, I wrote and posted a thing! I enjoyed writing this thing!
I’m glad you liked the fic ElfSedan! ❤️
DCMK SS for @artycreaty / @fanarain
This is SO CUTE! Thank you so much! ❤️
Also put Heiji 😂 and lol love how Kazuha is just being chaotic fun! 🤣
I also love the way you draw the hair and the braids! How adorable! 🥰 And the birds? So pretty!!
A little late, but reading your take on Enchanted made me remember how much I love that movie. What are your thoughts on the rest of it? Like say, what do the Prince and Nancy represent? What about the villains? I’m curious how they fit into the allegory
Prince Edward is just like Giselle in the sense that he does what people accuse Disney Princes of doing, and it's funny--but it's rewarded by the narrative, because it's actually a good thing.
People think a Disney Prince is just some dumb hunk with no personality, because he's "just there to be the obligatory love interest so the girl can't save herself." But that's a twisted, hollow way to look at it.
Prince Edward is
Active -- he actually does something, not just in his spare time but when faced with a problem or a dilemma. Doesn't matter if it's troll-hunting or braving a strange world to rescue his bride or turning on a dime to fight his own step-mother when she turns out to be evil. He actually acts.
Keeps His Commitments -- When Prince Eric commits to Ariel he commits; jumps in the water to fight a sea-goddess single-handedly. When Prince Charming says he'll give his heart to Snow White but then she disappears, he won't rest till he's found her. When Prince Edward's fiancée disappears, he won't stop searching for her, either.
Genuinely Cares About the Princess -- People act like Princes in Disney movies are just obligatory--they don't actually care about the girl, there's no real tension or getting to know each other or whatever. That's such bull, obviously. In fairy tales, you cram a lot of nuance into a little scene. The Prince meets Snow White singing at a well and promises his heart to her; but it's after he hears her singing about her heart's fondest desires, after he observes that she's surrounded by doves that aren't afraid of her, after he notices she's just a scullery maid; and he still chooses her. Disney appeased everybody by adding in more rom-com moments with later Princes, like Aladdin and the Beast, but truthfully, Princes do what Princesses do; they know what virtues they're looking for in a good soulmate, so they don't need much to recognize it when it crosses their paths. Then they commit. Edward is willing to go on a date with Giselle. When she grows, he's confused, but he'll go with her. She doesn't sing with him anymore but that doesn't mean he ditches her. When she's cursed and be can't wake her he's 100% onboard with Robert doing it--because it doesn't have to be him, he just cares about her.
Has Just As Much Faith As the Princess -- One of the things Princes and Princesses use as the litmus test of whether or not they're soulmates in Disney movies is if they're both believers in the same Idea. Ariel and Eric are the perfect example. They both believe in something that everyone around them thinks is totally crazy. Eric believes in the fated, Right Girl. Ariel believes the Surface World can be worth loving. Those two things get united when they meet each other. Prince Edward longs to find the woman who's his other half, a companion who fits into his heart and makes his life more than just one quest after the other. (And he's so sweet about it.) He's very romantic. Giselle's been dreaming of her true companion, too. They have that in common, that faith that somebody right for them is out there. It just...so happens that that person isn't each other. But they're not wrong that someone is out there, which is why he is rewarded by winding up with Nancy.
Anyway. If Giselle is the Disney movie, so is Prince Edward.
And yeah, he's not quick on the uptake, he's super confident that everything he's doing is right, and he's definitely convinced that Nathaniel actually likes him. But that is okay. Because Edward is uncomplicated. He knows that what he's setting out to do is Right, so what bothers him is never "people here are mean" or "I'm not the hero in this world." Did you notice that? He's never bothered when he finds out he's not the hero. He's only bothered when the idea that Good won't win is threatened.
He's the first one to turn and look at Robert and go "unless...!" excitedly when he realizes his own kiss isn't working. No trace of bitterness. No suspicion. Just eager to solve the problem.
That's why he's great. His confidence came from being the champion of Goodness. Doing the right thing. He doesn't care if he's not the one who wins. He just cares that it's someone Good who's winning.
Then you have Nancy, who is the first of the "normal" people from our world to really give in to the idea of "True Love's Kiss" being a viable solution, right on the spot. Meaning there was space in her brain to believe in it.
I guess if I had to try to distill it, I'd say Nancy is just the reverse-Giselle. In the allegory (it's not all one-to-one) I would say...if Giselle (and to a lesser extent, Edward) is the Disney movie, and Robert is the skeptic, Nancy is us. She's not quite Giselle, not quite Robert...she's someone who wants to believe that the Disney Philosophy is true, but the problem is, nobody in our world believes it or acts like it.
She's looking for a fairy tale but she's stuck in our world. The moments where she's happy with Robert are moments when he's doing something an open-hearted, genuine, selfless and chivalrous Disney Prince would do. The kind of guy who knows who he is and knows what's Good and values Love, so he isn't ashamed or insecure to come right out and declare it.
Gentleness is power, under control. A man in love should have no fear of vulnerability, which again, takes faith—because love isn't about you. It's selfless. Why worry about how telling a girl you love her will make you look, will make you feel? So what if she rejects you; you thought she was worth loving, you gave her that enormous compliment--so what if she doesn't return it? You know who you are. You didn't need her validation--that was never the point of the love-declaration--it was for her. You kindly gave her the world's best compliment, good job, now on to other worthy things. It would've been great if she wanted the same outcome of that love as you did, but she didn't, and that's great too, because it was never that much about you. So you don't have to be hurt, angry, embarrassed, jealous, or any of the anti-love things we associate with bogus unrequited "love."
But in our world, men don't act like that anymore. Because it's all about you. Can't tell the girl how you feel because she might hurt you. How would you be hurt? By finding out she doesn't feel the way you would prefer her to feel about you, by mocking what you've deemed precious, etc. It's all about you, you, you, fear fear fear, etc.
Still, you can tell Nancy thinks she got as close as she could to the fairy-tale guy with Robert because in her first scene, when she finds Robert and Giselle together, she goes on that rant about how she thought he was "sensitive" and "protecting Morgan." Those are the traits she's attracted to; the idea that he wasn't protecting himself, he was protecting his daughter--the idea that he was careful with emotions for other people's sake, not his own--that he cared about emotions at all.
But that's not what it was, it was self-protection, over-planning. Still, the second he's willing to send her flowers or make any kind of heart-on-his sleeve, straightforward gesture of affection, she is SO ready to believe in him again.
She's the grown up who wants to find the Disney fairy tale in "real life" and she's doing the best she can with what she can find. Kinda like a lot of us who grew up on Disney and didn't want to accept the derisive cynical mocking of Disney as we got older, but what could we do?
But good news! It's real! The Good, the Beautiful, the True, exists, and it comes for her.
Then you've got Narissa, the villainess.
She's interesting because she's totally the opposite of everything the movie says is Good. Giselle and Edward wear their hearts on their sleeves—Narissa manipulates people's fondest desires for her own gain. Robert needs to learn to have faith—Narissa believes everybody is out to take what's hers.
Edward gives the gift of love freely, first to Giselle, then, unshaken when she doesn't give him the same, to Nancy—Narissa takes the adoration of people like Nathaniel and treats them like garbage in return.
I also think Pip is important, and it's important that Narissa is defeated by him.
She's brought down by the tiny chipmunk who's been treated with true kindness and friendship by the Princess. The chipmunk who can talk and understand what's going on and be useful, even in a world where people like Robert think there's no such thing. Pip is the unlikely "something wonderful will happen" in our world that Robert didn't believe in. He's the little, fairy tale element that nobody could plan for or calculate or control, coming in to save the day.
How very Disney of him. Ya'll get off of Wish. Disney's tribute to 100 years of fairy tale animation? It has nothing on Enchanted.
i want to thank the 1920s-1930s third wheel who saw their two friends lying in bed together in their underwear and stocking garters reading a book with their legs wrapped around each other and said “i am going to take a photograph of this”
i hope wherever they are now that everyone involved in the taking of this photograph knows how much joy it is bringing me 80-100 years later
Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950 by Dee Swan, Hugh Nini andNeal Treadwell (Washington Post)
Reblogging this again because please, please click the link and look at the other photos but more importantly read the words written by the owners of the collection because it’s so touching and heart-warming
@Fanfic writers:
My friend send me this link, is a series on a profile on Ao3 (tumblr) that has different tutorials to insert things to fanfics via html code, I thought I would share bc it’s really cool
Lists of tutorials:
How to make images fit in mobile browsers
This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.
How to mimic letters, fliers, and stationery without using images
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.
How to make a “choose your own adventure” Fic
This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.
How to make linked footnotes on Ao3
This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.
How to change text on Ao3 when the cursor is hovering over it (or clicked on mobile)
This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.
How to mimic author’s notes and Kudos/Comment buttons
Anonymous on tumblr: do you have a skin that would mimic the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons section from the end of a fic? the desired effect being that the fic could go on after the “end” of the fic, so after the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons
Here's a tutorial/live example to do just that, with some of the buttons actually functioning. I'll explain more inside!
How to wrap text around images
This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.
How to mimic email windows
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.
How to make ios text messages on Ao3
This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
How to make Customized page deviders
Bored with the default page dividers? This is a tutorial/live example on how customize your page dividers with no images needed (though I do show you how you could use images if you wanted to do such a thing).
How to make invisible text (That can be highlighted)
This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.
MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.
How to make a rounded playlist
Original coding and design is from layouttest. I make no claims for it, just tweaked it so it will work on AO3.
How to create notebook lined paper on Ao3
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of lined notebook paper in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
Sticky notes on Ao3 without using images
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of sticky notes (aka Post-Its) in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
How to make deadpool’s thinking thinking boxes on Ao3
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
How to make newspaper articles on Ao3
This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of a newspaper article in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die
How you dying 👀
WIPs 3 & 8?
Hi Anon @mirrorfalls! Thank you for the ask!
I'd already answered the number 3! But as for the Phantom of Baker Street, it's just a... self-indulgent fic? I guess? It's an SI/OC involved with the Detective Boys in the virtual game world. The kinda catch is that the OC/SI is a deaf character. I've been trying to think of how they would act in the game, how they would interact with the Detective Boys as well as Conan. It's kinda... difficult to decide whether I should have Noah's Ark grant them the ability to, kind of, read what other people say (because, see, it's tech), or just have them... try to understand what the heck other characters are saying. The doc is... mostly blank, I'm afraid to say. I know it's boring. I'm so sorry to disappoint...
(Listen, I just want a deaf OC interact with Conan and the other characters, okay?! T-T)
As an apology, I'll share one more snippet from number 3:
Childhood
“Shi-Shinichi…” Ran whispers so softly, so full of fear that makes Shinichi just freeze, and look down at her. “Let’s go home, okay? Please?”
That voice. He doesn’t want to hear that kind of voice from Ran ever again. Never, until the end of time. This isn’t Ran; her voice should be cheery yet strong. She can be a crybaby— she can cry whenever she needs to. That he can bear. She can even be scared whenever she needs to be.
But that voice… That voice, full of heart-dropping terror, that hand holding her vocal chords and her heart right in its hands, taking away the only thing that matters; her own soul.
She isn’t that. She should more, she is more than that.
Shinichi doesn’t know why, but he never wants to hear that kind of voice ever again.
4 for the WIP Challenge?
Hello, Marshmallow! Thank you for the ask!
The WIP was just written for a ShinRan Week prompt created a year ago that I'd never touched upon in aaaaages! It was supposed to include a kiss, but I'd needed to, kind of, write about Ran feeling a little sad (maybe even a bit sus) that Conan isn't that cheerful for Ran as much as he usually did. And then the muse refused to tell me anymore scenes aaaaaaaaa! I literally have only two scenes in the draft sobsobsob!
Here's a little snippet! My apologies if it disappoints!
Black Knight and Princess
wip challenge number 2 please
Hi Nymph! Thanks for the ask! my apologies for it being late because life asdfghjkl!
The doc is just… literally short 😭. I wanted to write about Izuku (MHA) who is a few steps closer to snapping upon Katsuki because of his feelings about coughs asshole coughs his dad returning from nowhere. I just don’t have any idea for anything than just Katsuki trying to stop him from killing his sperm donor because they’re heroes. I hadn’t touched upon it for over a year and a half because glares at dialogues and brain asdfghhjkl!
Anyway, here’s all I have on the doc! Sorry if this disappoints you!
Fight me
“Katsuki.”
Katsuki stops, and stares at Izuku incredulously.
Izuku smiles at him, except that’s not the smile he usually gives his friends. This smile, it’s somewhat terrifying.
“I love you, really I do, but if you don’t shut up and just let me go, I will throw the table at you.”
7 & 3 for the WIP Challenge!
Aaaaaaa~! Okay, so! Those two WIPs were written for ShinRan week that I never got to finish for some reason and so were left incomplete for whoever knows how long (it was a year ago, Aina) (shuddup, brain).
'Childhood' was just little Shinichi and Ran going to investigate the rumours at their school, similar to the episode where they first met Kaitou Kid (Touichi). Ran is trying to talk Shinichi out of going there, and he just refuses. Haha, lame isn't it? ^^;
'Vampire' would be Shinichi thinking that Ran is acting strangely and is trying to find out what's wrong with her. Ran is actually a vampire in this XD. ...I need my muse to come back so I can finish this already T-T
Sharing a little snippets from those two WIPs in the read more!
WIP Challenge
Rules: “post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. (You can make your own post or reblog this one!) I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? Dnd campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!”
I have way too many (60 with their own files and a ton of others sitting in ideas files I haven’t bothered with yet) - here’s ones with actual progress that made the cut on my vote.
knight
fashion
stormcloud
family
soulmates
magic
bad habits
save
superman
stray
love
Tag as many as I have WIPs? That’s just mean.
@olivia-anderson-fanfic @boldlyanxious @ive-tumbled-down-a-rabbit-hole @the-witches-you-couldnt-burn @mochegato @miraculousmelodies @serenescribbles @girl-in-thechair @tinybrie @the-coffee-fandom @the-alice-of-hearts
(Watch me regret this again)
Sigh
I don’t wanna 😭 there are too many and I don’t know enough people to do that so have some of the first ones I see on one of my Google docs accounts
1. Angst Bingo - Coughing Blood
2. A Demons Misdeeds Done Right
3. Jasonette Soulmates
4. Timari Fake Dating Take 2
5. Till The Fires Light The Skies
6. Leave (And Ignore The Pain Behind My Eyes)
7. To Remember Fallen Angels
8. Fire Lex idk
9. Take A Picture Of My World
10. Shenanigans Of A Baby Bug
11. The Ghosts Of My Memory Were Meant To Fade Away
Thats enough right?
Uh 11 people?
@folk-ever-lore @jumpingjoy82 @boldlyanxious @paintball169 @wildbookcat @wolfy-kat @newdog14 @nightlychaotic @newmoonxy @couffeeine @verymuchimmortalcat
Sorry for any double pings have fun <3
thank you @the-coffee-fandom and @khneltea for the tag!
i have just a few-(i don’t really write much-)
burnt food
Lost in your Eyes
dickwally
bio dad au
bloodbound
angsty fluff
hot bike boy
tags- @scarlixy @ramen8008 @paintball169 @the-witches-you-couldnt-burn @bookwalmartav @tiredfictiongate @alittlemelody716
Oh dear. Thanks for the tag.
How recently do I have to have worked on something for it to qualify as a WIP? I’m pulling from the Recent tab of Docs
1. Light my Way + The Tracks Ahead
2. The Games We Play
3. Legends Reloaded
4. Destination Unknown
5. Viper’s Den
6. Scheherazade 5
7. Woke and Broke: Onwards Still
8. Vigilante Vesper
9. Saudade Skies
10. When September Ends
11. This may as well happen
12. As the days roll by
13. Speak and remember, we were never meant to survive
14. Genre Savvy
15. CCS x BnHA
16. Hisuian Hijinks
17. A silver requiem
18. Cooking Chaos
19. Jeweled Lightning
20. Cartref
21. Cursing with cookies and camembert.
Fair warning if you want to ask questions. At least 1/3 of this list is probably some variation of something else on the list. I tried to limit those but- eh. And more than half have to do with reincarnation and OCIs. Multi-fandom.
And yeah, there are more but I limited it to those I wrote in this month.
@mysnis @ultimatetornshipper @ramos123 @moonlitceleste @salty-fang @ramblingkat @astrynyx @fanfics-and-fangirling @icerosecrystal @flapdoodle-noodle @strawberry-lemonade @miraculouspenta @miraculousmelodies @miraculousfanfic127 @heart-charming @avengerthewarrior @mochinek0 @feedmetothecrows @1rosebyanyothername @elfhawk3 @excalisi
Apologies for anyone that I pinged who isn’t a writer. I panicked and pinged any name I could remember. Also RIP to those few people not even in this fandom circle bc panic and also possibly bc I messed up the pings.
i didn’t even realize i had this many wips before this. i completely forgot half of these existed until today
lin chen & mei changsu: shitty light novel book club au
rimuru goes a little apeshit. you know. as a treat.
courier gets a mom who was in love with his dead mom. several years later, he has two dead moms
khun commits first degree murder within the first 700 words
vitriol: the electric boogaloo
highly doubt that i’ll get any asks lol
@spideywhites @blenderfullasarcasm @chaosgreymistchild @altered-karma @ramblingkat
i ended up having to cut out an extra 6 wips because i don’t know that many people on tumblr lol
Edit: I fucked up the tagging and just realized it so I fixed it. A whole 22 days after I posted this. Sigh
1. Genta Faux Noir
2. DC X 4869
3. AITA for gaslighting my entire workplace into thinking I’m alive?
4. R-r-r-r-rEWIND!
5. Goonion 2: Electric Boogaloo
5. AITA if the only communication I’ve sent to my family in the past two years is a wedding invitation?
6. I didn’t mean to kick him off the bridge, honest! It was a reflex! (Part 2)
7. TBC
8. I am not dead Yet
@kuroko99 @animikachu @8ddict @thrushsong-kvaris @spectralcentroid
I have…too many WIPs… i’ll give y'all 5 with fun titles
1. (make me feel alive) and Shatter Me
2. Fake Dating but not
3. Runaway
4. Bastard Ragnvindrs
5. A Terrible day for rain
@taliya-writes @kuroko99 @blenderfullasarcasm @arsquare @deducingcircumference
Another WIP game, hope it’s not too spam-ful :D. Thanks, Song!
I’ll do only DCMK this time. WIPs of varying alive-ness:
Haibara, in between
[where is this going] askbox shinran 5
antagonistic AU/Chapter 7
dark!Ran
psychic AU
vermouth
hmc AU – monstrous
hakuba-shiho correspondence
escape room
teacher
kaishin
angel demon AU
translation - Intelligence War
Interstices rewrite
stargazing (fluff) | shinran
Be warned that some of these are literally two lines, and may have shown up in my workbench in the DCMK FF server already. Anon asks are off, sorry.
I’ll tag um, @subbe93, @purplellamanator, @defectiveconantoy, @fanarain, and @otaku-108. No pressure do to this!
Aaaaaaaa~! It’s been a long time since I’ve been active on Tumblr! Thank you, Circ! I have very few WIPs cuz I’m not very good at writing haha, and they haven’t been touched upon for months or even years! And even a few or some of the docs in my file are literally blank! T-T So I’ll have to cut out the blank docs... Also, I doubt I’ll get asks about those WIPs... But here you go~!
1. DCMK Secret Santa Mini-Gift 2. Fight me 3. Childhood 4. Black Knight and Princess 5. DCMK Secret Santa 2021 (2nd chapter incomplete) 6. time travel 7. Fairy Tale - Vampire 8. Phantom of Baker Street 9. SI in MHA my POV
And that’s about it! I know, I know, the titles are boring, but they’re there to help me kind of organise them, so I know what they’re there for, if that makes sense? ^^;
Oh, I have to tag 9 people? Um, I don’t know that many people, and some of them were already tagged, but I’ll try? Um...! @gisachi, @elainetheladyofchaos, @marshmallowgoop, @cyberweasel89, @rakashith, @tsukiko-no-art, @shelling4869ford, @raventhekittycat, @blenderfullasarcasm @nymphadorathetemplar Apologies if you’ve already been tagged, and no pressure to do this if you don’t wanna! <3
fuck google docs so fucking much
i've just lost hundreds of docs and pdfs and i'm beyond pissed right now
they're all permanently gone
actually they're not holy shit
okay so, gonna tell ya'll something awesome rn
google drive is a mess sometimes with its storage things and if you're unlucky it might delete some of your files and you won't realise until it's well past the point where they won't be in 'trash' anymore and you're fucked
all is not lost however!
if you're on drive via browser, hit the little ? in a circle next to the settings cog and select "help"
search for "file recovery"
it'll show you the ways to try and recover your files on pc, android, and mac etc
these don't matter
you need to scroll down to the bottom and just hit the "contact us"
you'll be logged out automatically
log back in
click the little box to give google permission to attempt to restore your files for that account
click "submit"
give them some time to work but it's an automatic process
i've got most of my files back in less than 10 minutes
all is not lost! rejoice!
I'm gonna reblog this again bc wow but was it helpful to learn!
How much would you recommend Wanikani? I want to use it but it's quite expensive. Do you think it's worth it?
Hi anon, thanks for your question! I apologize for my delayed response; I've been away from Tumblr and Japanese studies for some time.
I first made an account on WaniKani in 2016, but I didn't seriously start using it until 2019. My studies got put on the back burner again over the last year, but I'm back on track as I finish level 2 and start unlocking more of level 3.
My progress has been slow because I take my time (and sometimes I don’t learn 5 new items every day). Nonetheless, I have found WaniKani really fun, and especially rewarding when I see the kanji I learn and am able to recognize and/or read them.
How the SRS System in WaniKani Works
After doing a lesson, there are multiple different levels for a given item (i.e. radical, kanji, or vocabulary word) to be in. Depending on where an item’s at determines how long you’ll need to wait before you’ll see it pop up in a review session.
Here are the levels:
Lesson
Apprentice
Guru
Master
Enlightened
Burned
Within Apprentice and Guru, there are smaller subdivisions or stages. Apprentice has 4 of these, and Guru has 2. So further expanded, the levels look like this:
Lesson
Apprentice 1
Apprentice 2
Apprentice 3
Apprentice 4
Guru 1
Guru 2
Master
Enlightened
Burned
Now, there’s a certain amount of time that you have to wait after review sessions in order for a given item to progress from Apprentice 1 to Guru 1.
Lesson done = an item is Apprentice 1
Apprentice 2 is reached after you get it right in a review session 4 hours later.
Apprentice 3 is reached after you get it right in a review session 8 hours after Apprentice 2.
Apprentice 4 is reached if you get it right in a review session 1 day after Apprentice 3.
Guru 1 is reached if you get it right 2 days after Apprentice 4.
There’s three sets of lessons or things to learn: 1) radicals, 2) kanji, and 3) vocabulary. As radicals progress from Apprentice to Guru 1, some kanji are unlocked. As these kanji progress from Apprentice to Guru 1, additional kanji are unlocked. In order to level up, you need to get all the kanji in a given level to Guru. But in order to do this, you need to unlock all the radicals and get those to Guru first.
Getting kanji to Guru also means unlocking vocabulary words that contain those kanji. These new vocabulary words appear as lessons. Although these don’t count towards leveling up, vocabulary words are still important to: 1) reinforce kanji, and 2) learn the other readings of a kanji.
User Guides for WaniKani
If you’re on the fence about WaniKani, read the lovely FAQ provided by the WK team and then read this legendary guide to WK. Once you understand what you’re signing up for, make an account and go for it! The first 3 levels are completely free, at which point you can decide if you want to subscribe for access to the remaining 57 levels.
I should also note that there are a TON of ways to customize the WaniKani dashboard (i.e. the home page where you do everything from) using a nifty browser extension called Tampermonkey. So many wonderful users in the WK Community have made userscripts that can help you study more efficiently! (The above progress bar is one of them.) For more about userscripts and why you should consider using them, check out section 7 of the aforementioned legendary guide.
The Lifetime Sale
Lastly, once every year, there’s a winter sale where the cost of a lifetime subscription is significantly decreased by $100.
Monthly = $9, so 2 years would be $216
Annual = $89, so 2 years would be $178
Lifetime = a one-time charge of $299
Lifetime Sale = $299 - $100 = $199 (so for $21 more, you could have it for life - not just 2 years!)
Pros:
The mnemonics work. If a few don’t work for you, you can come up with your own. I also like using Kanji Koohi and searching the WK Forum for reference to see what mnemonics other people have come up with.
The layout and overall design of the website is really great. Everything is organized really well, and it’s also color-coded (pink for kanji, blue for radicals, and purple for vocabulary). The bright colors are also engaging but not blinding.
Example sentences let you practice reading, and see new vocabulary words in context. Recognizing and being able to read kanji from previous levels when you learn new vocabulary words is so satisfying.
Cons:
The lifetime subscription is expensive - but once a year, WaniKani has a lifetime plan sale and cuts the cost by $100, bringing the cost down to $200. I bought it this year to give myself a kick in the pants to continue studying kanji.
There is no built-in notifications system to alert you when reviews are ready - but you can get around this with browser extensions.
I hope this helps! Best of luck with your studies! ♡
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“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored
Who they are:
Emma Gonzalez
Malala Yousafzai
Ruby Bridges
Greta Thunberg
Mari Copeny
Autumn Peltier
Afreen Khan
Sophie Cruz
Charlottesville Black Students Union
Naomi Wadler
DAPL protestors (names not found)
Ahed Tamimi
This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.
Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.
7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.
Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital.
Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.
This is Lepa Radic, a 17 year old girl who fought against the Nazis in Yugoslavia. She was executed when she refused to give the names of her Partisan comrades.
And this is Sophie Scholl, part of the White Rose group, also against the Nazis. She was 21 when she was killed.
While I totally understand being excited about Kate and Yelena (I am too!!!) I haven’t seen nearly enough excitement for the character of Maya Lopez/Echo!
In the comics she is the adoptive daughter of Kingpin. She’s Native American and Deaf. She has the powers to replicate any physical movement after seeing it once. She’s extremely talented in martial arts, acrobatics, dance, and playing the piano.
She’s being played by Alaqua Cox, a deaf Native American actress.
She’s going to have a main role in Hawkeye and is already set to have her own spin-off Disney+ show!
