Nothing But A Lonely Enigma

[nikoisme]

hehe pile

[anglerfl3sh]

Hollowing my knight

[shandzii]

coping by turning them into bugs 😊

[crawsmost]

everytime i see these two together i start shaking

[fruitsjellies]

more doodles of the kala namak knights ...

[anglerfl3sh]

I <3 making cluttered unusable designs

[anglerfl3sh]

Kings

[deheerkonijn]

Better late than never, my final post for #JayvikDateWeek 😊 Thank you, mods, for hosting! These two are off to bed.

[laisme]

lock in!!

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

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[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image IDs: Text reading: This is from a friend of mine who is a pediatrician:

"A family came in with their 2mo. And they were very hesitant about vaccines. "Which ones are really important?"

So I went through each disease for which the child would be vaccinated today.

*I told them about diphtheria and the 30% mortality rate, how diphtheria toxin is one of the most toxic substances known, as a single molecule can kill a cell. I told them about how this disease used to terrify communities.

*They'd already heard of tetanus. Everyone has heard of tetanus.

*I told them about pertussis and the baby I saw who coughed and coughed and coughed and coughed and coughed....until he went into laryngospasm. We did everything we could. I will never forget his mother throwing himself at our feet begging us not to say what we were going to say. I let that family see the tears playing in my eyes as I described the memory. They needed to know that I am doing this because I fucking care. Not because of some quality metric.

*We'd already discussed how hepatitis B is spread by nonsexual transmission and how in the prevaccine era, as many as 65% of infants born to HBV positive fathers had HBV by the tme they were were a year old. We talked about how that is a life sentence before age 1.

*They know about polio.

*I talked about the baby I watched die of pneumococcal sepsis. Another mother at our feet. Another family destroyed by a microbe.

*I described a cricoidotomy in graphic detail to explain what Haemophilus influenza type B does.

*I was admitted for rotavirus in February of 1979. I still have the hospital bill for $20. My mother told me about how sick I was. And 25 years later, I became a resident and I saw babies with rotavirus. You could hear the diarrhea from across the emergency department. We had to do our own IVs at the NYC hospital. The babies were just so sick and all we could do was keep them hydrated and wait for them to recover. And then in the fall of 2006 the rotavirus vaccine came out. And in February of 2008 I was the senior on the floor and there weren't any rotavirus kids. It was just...gone.

And I asked that mother, now that she'd asked me which vaccines were important, I was going to turn the questions around. Which ones did she think were important?

That baby got every recommended immunization today. I won. RFJ Jr. lost. The parents won; that mother won't be throwing herself at my feet.

Most importantly, the baby won.

Today, I was a hero and this is why I am a pediatrician." /End IDs]

[seagreenlaurin]

[aemiruo]

An ember and their friend

[empiireans]

reunion (aka a moth learned how to summon a peculiar manatee through the usage of a plushie)

i want that plush

[wofsayshonk]

poor babies

[tockthewatchdog]

i really think this tweet is onto something

[iamnmbr3]

#exact same opinion but in my experience plenty of the children are over the age of 24 as well

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[serene-sky-kid]

trying… other brushes, I'm not good at making comics but I tried hard to make it understandable, I thought about putting dialogues in it but it's self-explanatory or so I think. I didn't know how to draw it but the skykid in white lets go of his hand and abandons him on purpose.

Edit 1: Just a small edit so you don't get scared, this is the story of one of my characters, since the sacrifice of moths is something I have heard about, I try not to let the story stray too far from the game. Edit 2: another edit, I have been told in comments that letting go of someone's hand in the middle of the flight was fixed a while ago, so you can rest assured, it may not be something that happens frequently anymore, and what I heard is something that happened long before I came to play, it's just something from the past that continues to be said to happen ;v; Thanks to the person who commented it!