所有割裂你头脑的刀锋

and everything tastes right ao3

[beckycore]

rest in peace, hana. 🌸🌸🌸

“The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.”

[khakilike]

This scene is haunting me.

I didn’t watch Yosuke’s season, so this didn’t hit me all that hard when I first saw it. But now? Ton of bricks.

[terracehousegifs]

tsubasa in episode one

[youtiaoshutiao]

exclusive memory || 独家记忆 → episode 13

“We are that one in ten thousand.”

[lilicriticallanguages]

The Best Way to Memorize Chinese Characters

A recent question inspired me to write this post! So I hope it’s helpful! 

 I’ve been studying Chinese for a couple years in what feels like an uphill battle to keep up. There are thousands of characters to learn and no alphabet to use to help except for Pinyin, but no book is written in Pinyin and no one is writing anything in pinyin. So aside from learning pronunciation, pinyin is worthless. You’re just going to have to straight up memorize of thousands of difficult characters. This is a drastically different system compared to English and is very hard for a learner at any stage to learn and then retain. However, over the years I have come up with a system that has worked absolute wonders for helping me memorize characters and actually retain them. The downside, it takes A LOT more time than simply putting a character down on a flash card. As you’ll learn, Chinese requires a certain level of blood, sweat and tears to learn thoroughly so if you’re new to Chinese, get used to putting in a lot more time learning basic stuff than your peers learning romance languages. Take frequent breaks if you need to, space out your studying, and make sure you give yourself enough time to study. You’ll learn how long it typically takes for you to study as you go. What’s also important about learning characters is your attitude. You must try to have a good attitude about learning and say whatever you have to to yourself to get yourself to be at least somewhat enthusiastic about the prospect of learning around 8000 characters. Otherwise, your negativity will delay your study process and even disincentivize you from studying at all. With that in mind, here is the best way I have found to study Chinese characters laid out from start to finish. 

As clarification: Beginners should always use pinyin. Intermediate and up should try their best to remove the pinyin from their studies by not including it in flashcards or notes. If you forget the pronunciation, refer back to your vocab list.  

1. Read Whole Vocabulary List

First thing you need to do before you begin memorizing anything is to simply go down the list of vocabulary and read them aloud both the Chinese pronunciation and the English definition. Mark the vocabulary you don’t quite understand the meaning of so that you can do additional research a bit later. 

2. Assign Colors to Represent Tones

You will only need to do this once in your Chinese studies, but it’s very very important. It’s important to remove your dependence on pinyin ASAP. It’s very helpful for beginners to help them learn to pronounce things, but as soon as you get comfortable with pronunciation in about the intermediate level you’ll want to remove the pinyin from your studies completely. Pinyin after a while becomes more of a problem than a help if you become over reliant on it. How do you remove pinyin? Well you use colors! For the tones at least. For each tone, assign a different color and then write each character in that color to help you memorize the tone without the pinyin. I personally use blue for the first tone, yellow for the second tone, green for the third and red for the fourth. Now for the actual pinyin, bad news is, you’re just going to have to omit it from your notes and flashcards. The only exception is If you’re a beginner. If you are, please write out the pinyin in your notebook and in your flashcards because you’ll need the pinyin in your early stages. But as you advance in Chinese (starting at the intermediate level), DO NOT study with the pinyin. 

3. Take Apart the Characters 

Now that you have your colors ready to go, on to the important part. This is a very important part of your memorization process and that’s using radicals. Radicals are your best friend and act as a guide to help you distinguish the meaning of a word. So if you encounter to the animal radical ( 犭) in your studies, you’ll know from then on that whatever the word is has something to do with an animal. So yeah, they’re important. With your first vocabulary word, before you write it down, stick your vocab word into The Written Dictionary and take a look at the radicals. This will require you to have a Chinese keyboard either on your phone or on your computer. Go ahead and enable that in your control panel. Then keep the page up because you’re going to write them down write below the vocabulary word in your notes. 

4. Write Down the Character and the Radicals Below 

Now you can finally write down the vocab word! Get your colored pen out so you can write the vocab words according to their tones. And then right below them, write their radicals. It should look something like this:

1. 顺利 - (both characters in red to mark the fourth tone) 

顺 = 川  river +  页 page/leaf

利 =  禾 grain +刂    knife

Okay, so you see how this method takes a while, but let me tell you, if you do this, you will remember SO MANY characters. 

5. On a Separate Page, Practice Writing Vocab 10 Times Each And Read Aloud (Optional)

This part you can skip if you’re short on time, but I highly recommend making time to do it anyway. In grade school, Chinese students must repeat each character 10-12 times a day. It helps really cement the knowledge into your brain. The key here is that you are only writing the characters and then saying the word. It completely leaves out pinyin, which is GREAT! You want to establish a connection between the character and the word, not the word and the pinyin. 

6. Plug Vocab Words into Online Flashcards

I recommend either using Cram or Study Blue to study with but go ahead and plug in all your vocab words into some flash cards with or without the radicals. Whichever is better for you. I put the character on one side and the radicals on the other with no pinyin whatsoever, but I do have colors to help me differentiate the tones like I mentioned above. Again, if you’re a beginner PUT THE PINYIN IN YOUR FLASHCARDS. If you are intermediate or above, take ‘em out! 

7. Review Flashcards Every Week or Every Other Week 

Make sure to go back to your flashcards in a week or two so that you can review them. 

Whew, and that’s it. I know it’s a lot but believe me it will save you time in the long run because you’ll actually memorize characters instead of those who will probably promptly forget them after learning them and then have to go back and re-learn them all over again. That would really suck. So do yourself a favor and learn them really well first and then just review them when needed and you’ll be golden. It isn’t easy at all, but no one said learning Chinese would be easy! I’m sure you’ve got the ambition, no you just need to put it to work! You got this!

Good luck in your studies!! :) 

[zhouszishu]

#SAME GIRL SAME

[k-pfaff]

i would like.. 10000% pay u money to write that last chapter of ibtmay (none of us will ever b over it)!!

that’s also coming but if you’d like to pay me go ahead (;

[k-pfaff]

hey, i know you dont write anymore, but your writing has literally colored literature in a way i havent seen before. like, you write in such an interesting, alive, breathing way that i honestly have to thank you for it. thank you for your work and coloring life as you have. i hope you feel better soon, stay safe

i only just saw this i love you ❤️

[k-pfaff]

UR ALIVE!!!! REJOICE!

i am and i’m submitting my final assignment of the semester and then THE FIC IS COMINGGGG

[k-pfaff]

seeing as i watch Fuller House solely for that Lori Loughlin eye candy at this point, my only hope is that Aunt Becky moves back to Nebraska for work and because Jesse is left on his own with Baby Pam, Joey moves in to help him and they fall in love with each other and they divorce their wives and live happily ever after. the end.

[studynotepad]

The Little Prince book in Chinese that I ordered arrived earlier this month. I’ve been reading it from time to time and It’s been really relaxing. 

The book is in both English and Chinese. What I do is read one chapter in Chinese first then read it in English after. I obviously don’t know all the words in Chinese but it’s nice to know that I can recognize some characters and remember how to say them.

I got the book from AliExpress by the way! 

[k-pfaff]

hey polly, u doing alright? hope ur doing okay man. u gotta stay strong dude. u gotta stay strong

[ensnare-ment-deactivated2018041]

In my experience, living with an eating disorder is paradoxically much easier when I am sicker. Then, my aims in life are, essentially, to restrict and to lose weight. Nothing else matters much. Loneliness? Guilt? Fear? All eclipsed by the overwhelming drive to starve, the only clear thing in my fuzzy, food-deprived mind. It’s a bleak, joyless existence, but so straightforward.

This all changes, though, when I try to recover, or even just get a little better. Suddenly, things matter again. I feel. I want. I empathize. I care. There are too many decisions. I hate myself for eating and I hate myself for not eating. My body is a massive burden I have to drag along with me. It’s intensely uncomfortable, when it isn’t painful. It’s scary. It’s complicated.

This is the real reason I miss being sick-sick. Recovery can bring great beauty, but living in sickness means being protected from the bewildering world and the self, even as it also may mean dying.

[k-pfaff]

I had a feeling you were dead, like legitimately, actually dead, but then I saw the little notification that said you were on like a week ago and I was so relieved

:( im sorry, im not dead (not really alive) but certainly not dead x

[k-pfaff]

do you still write?

tumbrino thank you for asking after me (i’m presuming you’re the one who asked how i am as well)

unfortunately i don’t write anymore and i doubt i’ll write anything in the foreseeable future. it makes me real sad because i never finished my fic and it feels like a part of me is missing.

tbh a lot of me is missing; i’m at the worst point physically and mentally i’ve ever been and I don’t recognise myself. all my brain power goes on studying and calorie counting, i don’t have energy for anything else — one thing no-one ever tells you about EDs is that you lose your personality as well as weight.

maybe i’ll write again, i can’t say. i don’t know who i and what my interests will be once i’ve recovered which is exciting on one hand because i can’t wait to buy new clothes (i have one pair of jeans rn rip) and have the concentration to watch all the anime on my crunchyroll. but also petrifying because i’m worried i’ll be an asshole or something.

thanks again! if you want to know anything else just drop me an ask x

[loviely]

raise ur hand if You’re tryin real hard but it’s gettin worse n worse evryday

[heavenhillgirl]