JayStellar

Just here to cause chaos

[sirpest]

Against the Darkness

Fun fact: I used a moray eel as the headcanon for the dragon's appearance.

[kyri45]

💜✨Asexual Sticker for everyone!✨💜

[weaver-z]

I heard this metaphor growing up, and in my case, it backfired supremely, because I went out into my neighbor's backyard where a rose bush was growing, and the one I tested had like 30 petals (it was yellow, but definitely a rose of some kind), and as a very logical lass, I came to the conclusion that you could have premarital sex AT LEAST ten times before your future husband would even notice something was up. Moral of the story? Test your metaphors on the weirdest and most neurodivergent child you know before writing your weird religious propaganda.

[spiribia]

completely losing my mind at FIFTY dreepy

[lesbx]

do NOT separate them

[tailsbot98761]

I had to look this up

[laqueus]

let’s be a plush with baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby and baby

[creatureofthecornfield]

don’t talk to me or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my daughter or my–

[marvelmaniac715]

Does anyone know about the OUAT Season 2 DVD bonus feature called Good Morning Storybrooke which is an entire twelve minute broadcast with the morning news and features the following highlights along with other content?:

Doctor Whale giving relationship advice

Belle reviewing books she hasn’t finished yet

Grumpy reuniting with Nova post-curse as they fold a fitted sheet (it’s very awkward)

(My favourite part) Mr Gold’s minute long ad for his pawnshop where he invites people, in a friendly customer service voice, to come back and reclaim their belongings for a price (if they dare), highlighting Gepetto’s puppet parents, a recipe for curds and whey and his special deal on poisons and curses which he advises you to purchase before your neighbours do, before ending with what I can only assume to be his tagline - “Mr Gold’s Pawnshop - I wheel and I deal”

It’s absolutely hilarious and I have a link to the whole thing right here, I promise you will not be disappointed:

[writingsofmax]

I know that they used classic rock to make Lacey like “cool” or whatever but I think it would have been funnier if they had been accurate to the 2013 time period instead. Mr. Gold goes into that bar and they’re playing “Turn Down For What” at DEAFENING levels as he stands there like this 😐. Lacey yelling “shots! shots! shots! shots! shots! shots! EVERYBODY” and buying for the whole bar. When she gets caught making out with that guy she just goes “tsk 🙄 sorry for party rockin 🙄” and Mr. Gold says “What the FUCK are you talking about” it’s the only fuck they say in the entirety of the show. They allow it for just this one time. ABC hire me

[littleladysnake]

Edit of v!abolish cuz he’s veylocking in

Really appreciate feedback

[jaystellarbirb]

Avid’s manic episode doubling as a homosexual awakening is genuinely so funny to me, and I don’t think enough people talk about it

He saw one (1) conventionally attractive man and proceeded to-

Accuse him of murder

Try to convince the town he was a monster

Break into his house

Throw his fledgling off a tree

Try to bribe his roommate to leave him

Burn down his second house

And then almost immediately after being turned he

Robbed his old friends

Suggested mass murder

Burned down the town walls

Man had his first vaguely non heterosexual thought and SPIRALED, and the funniest part is Scott just. Has that effect on people. Everyone else got lightly hit, Avid got ran over by the emotional equivalent of a freight train

[jaystellarbirb]

I need help finding a vsmp fic collection

The premise was pyro wasn’t turned at the obelisk, and instead Scott is basically keeping him around as a blood bag. I believe each fic was roughly 1000 words? The collection name was something like “brink of insanity” but I can’t remember any names of individual works.

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[qinnyanimation]

Corruption speaks in kind words….

Corrupted Pyro! Just to be clear, nothing’s confirmed….

[spyglahass]

Pyro is not corrupted as far as we know but...... imagine

I'm continuing qinny's bricks [1] [2]

[qinnyanimation]

Happy Ending!

Or a Majorscythe AU brick that Digit threw at me at high speed.

And I quote from them, “ Future majorscythe au where Pyro lives. Scott thinks they have a cutesy happy ending loving relationship Pyro thinks he's being punished for living via an eternity with Scott ”

[drlamp-and-other-polyships]

Just rewatched Sinbad : Legend of the seven seas and remembered I shipped Sinbad, Proteus and Marina so bad. I headcanon that Sinbad and Marina just keep coming back to Syracus every month or so to check on their prince of a boyfriend. And when they eventually retire from sailing and adventures, Proteus kinda just orders them to stay at the palace. They don't have titles or anything and nobody is really sure why they get to just live there for free, except for the maids who heard them through the bedroom door.

[unusual]

Japanese is an incredibly fun and rewarding language (if you’ve ever wanted to learn it for ANY reason, most importantly including the “silly” reasons) but the fearmongering and capitalist intervention involved in the language learning process have given it a reputation as an “impossible task” for English speakers, leading to confusion and dkn learners and weird pessimist attitudes about the whole thing. In this thread I will explain how to effectively learn and retain Japanese. This is a tried, tested and true method; probably 99% of all people who try to learn Japanese give up, but everyone I’ve met who has tried and stuck with this has been at or above N3-N4 after 6 months or less including me

[unusual]

You can teach yourself Japanese for free if you have a little free time every day and a computer

1. Drill yourself on hiragana and katakana. These are the phonetic building blocks of Japanese, think of them as equivalent to english letters. This site is a good resource in general. Once you have a solid grasp on this, DO NOT LINGER HERE; move to step 2. You will master kana later.

2. Download Anki. This is a flashcard service. They have a paid app if you’re willing to invest for it, but if not, they have a mobile website (create an account and sync it with your computer).

This is the deck you’re going to download. Import it to Anki and do this every day. I have learned the hard way (twice) that skipping this is bad. If you become overwhelmed, you can change the number of new cards and reviews by clicking the cog next to the name of the deck!

3. Cure Dolly (Youtube, grammar) + transcript. She has kind of a posh accent, you might want to turn subtitles on. Watch a few videos when you feel like it but most importantly set up 4 and 5 as soon as possible

4. Yomitan (must have) is a browser extension that functions as a pop-up dictionary. you need to install dictionaries for it to work. here are some dictionaries you can use with yomitan and explanations of what they do

5. READ. DO NOT LET YOURSELF GET STUCK BEFORE THIS STEP. JUST READ!!!! Most people who fail to learn Japanese do so because they are afraid of not being ready to move on, which is counterproductive. Just read. When you were a child did you spend years on vocab and grammar before reading? No I bet you did not. Pick something to read and learn what you don’t already know by reading in Japanese.

Jiten.moe has a list of novels and visual novels that you can read on your computer sorted by difficulty. So does jpdb. There’s also this document. There’s also this document. Hey look this website is cool too

For visual novels: download LunaHook. It “hooks” to your VN and allows you to use Yomitan on words you don’t know. Turn off the translation feature, it does nothing to help you learn

For literary texts: ttsu e-reader supports epub and htmlz files.

You can also learn Japanese by watching anime, but it’s a little more convoluted and requires a lot more patience.

For manga, utilize Mangatan, but I don’t recommend this right out the gate because when you’re first learning sentence structure you’ll want something with complete sentences.

Set your computer up for mining vocab before you start reading. Once you finish your kaishi deck, you can drill your mining cards (I didn’t do mine until after finishing kaishi because it was too much).

Most importantly: reading is going to be hard at first. It is going to piss you off. You need to muscle through with this because this is where the bulk of your learning will happen. After a while you will just feel like reading because you love reading! Try not to pick something too hard for your first read, but if you’re interested in the story you might be able to muscle through something a little tougher.

Remember to consult yomitan and cure dolly where needed, that’s what it’s there for. As you can see I am quite normal about the Japanese language, so if you have any other questions or need help with anything else feel free to shoot me an ask and I will get back to you promptly. Japanese is not your enemy and it is not impossible. It is your friend

[kokoruu]

this is true, ive been trying to learn japanese on and off for over 10 years, and the past year is the only time ive been able to actually stick with it every day and actually interact with the language meaningfully! here's some more resources: 1. the moe way i cannot overstate how essential this site was for me to change how i approach learning japanese. it not only has a plethora of resources to get you to start learning but also HOW to learn and why people tend to fail. i recommend reading their "japanese guide" and "30 day Japanese" to get you started. they also have a discord server with lots of extra resources. there's a lot of people there fluent or near fluent and native speakers too, so they can have some great insights for you

2. this is gonna age me severely but i recommend for learning the kana trying out this book too: Remembering the Kana: A Guide to Reading and Writing the Japanese Syllabaries in 3 Hours Each. it's only like 8 bucks for the digital version but it's so old the pdf has been circling around forever if you can't pay. they are not kidding, over 10 years ago when i first used this i really did memorize it in a few hours, and it took like 3 days total of using flash cards to completely solidify it and ive never forgotten them even when i went years without studying. it uses mnemonics, and i think it can be a good alternative if the brute force method isn't working for you.

3. for other grammar resources, esp if you prefer reading to watching videos, you can try yokubi or the classic tae kim's guide. there's also japanese ammo by lisa for an alternative video series. i don't recommend trying to absorb every grammar point possible before reading- you really just need the absolute basics, and the rest will come naturally as you see them in context while reading hundreds and hundreds of times.

4. for me personally, starting off reading manga for a month or two helped me dip my toes into reading without feeling overwhelmed with literary prose or long dialogue with vns and novels, but it is important to try and graduate to the latter as fast as you can. when i finally stopped being scared to try reading novels i can't tell you how much of a difference it was to enhancing my reading skills- reading actual books, and visual novels too, just blows comics out the water. but! they're still very good for stepping stones. remember your first vn and ESPECIALLY your first novel is going to suck, it's gonna feel like beating your head against the wall. it took me over 30 hours to read my first novel and it was for children lmao. but, every time you finish one it gets easier and easier. anyway, for manga, i recommend the mokuro app there's hundreds of premade ocr'd manga and all you have to do is install them and start reading. it also tracks how many characters you read.

5. game sentence miner + agent agent text hooks games and gsm allows you to use yomitan on the hooked text, it also acts as a repository that tracks your vns and game progress, how many characters you read, and lets you set goals. it even has an overlay you can put directly over your game window so you can use yomitan directly there instead of having to go to your text hook page. gsm also works with lunatranslator. generally you wanna use luna for pc visual novels, and agent for games on consoles. i recommend agent over luna generally, as luna in my experience can be fussy, and agent loads text near instantly to gsm. the switch especially has a treasure trove of visual novels to read.

6. random but do you like tsukihime? there is a 100% browser based version of it with some qol features, and selectable text so you can use yomitan directly in browser with no other resources necessary. you just gotta change the language to japanese in the settings.

it's not necessary to read per say, but i recommend listening as well as reading, even if you don't care about being able to understand verbal japanese in media or never want to speak it irl, it can help reinforce your reading, and figure out the proper pronunciation. you can start with watching shows with subtitles and moving up to pure raw listening.

also yes to op's point it's so important to just read. 99% of any problems you have can be solved with just read more. keep forgetting grammar and vocab? read more. reading is hard and frustrating? read more. consistency is key, and you also wanna try and stick with things that you're interested in, esp things youve already read or watched. i feel like stuff labeled as shoujo or shounen is the sweet spot- complex enough to not be boring, but not so much that it becomes overwhelming.

[floppyschoice]

the cha cha slide in full metal armor

[floppyschoice]

“sliiide to the left”

*indescribably loud screeching of metal against asphalt*

[floppyschoice]

“one hop this time”

*clonk*

“two hops this time”

*clonk clonk*

[floppyschoice]

“everybody clap your hands!”

*clankclankclankclankclank*

[snakeybones]

Ask and ye shall receive ft. my drunk ass Any other requests? Send ‘em my way! 

[ellipsisgalore]

… apparently they now have a youtube channel filled with doing shenaniganry in armor.

Including the chicken dance

And the YMCA.

[saintdollyparton]

I love this and I love the term shenaniganry

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): this artifact was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This stuffed bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that sits just beneath the barrows provides an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in preservation.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.