leticias garden 💫

♡ mostly anime, cats and memes ♡

[jmfenner91]

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2024??

Beginner-oriented video on how to sail

This guy has so many videos on baking different types of bread. SO very many.

Coding in Python - one of the most flexible and adaptable high-level programming languages out there - explained through projects making video games

Learn to swim! (for adult learners. I don’t care if you live in Kansas or Mali or wherever. LEARN TO SWIM.)

Learn how quantum mechanics works. Then read some more about it

[Learn about quantum mechanics again, but in a more advanced engineering/mathematics class. Then read more about the math and physics of it]

Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Something I learned this year: how to sew a quilt (Here’s a very easy beginning pattern that looks amazing and can be done with pre-cut fabric!)

How to hit the ball in softball

Tutorial video on what is under the hood of most (gas) cars + weird engine sounds and what they mean

Full beginner mechanics technical training, if you want to go more in depth

Playlist on how car engine physics work if you want to go ultra in depth

Lecture series on architecture design through study of buildings

How (American income) taxes & tax law work (choose “audit course” at checkout for free class)

Pickleball for beginners (so you can finally join your neighbor/friend/distant cousin who is always insisting you join their team)

+ Para-Pickleball for beginners (for mobility aid users!)

School is so much more fun when there’s no tests:

American Law - Contracts

Shakespeare’s Life and Plays

Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals

Modern Poetry

World History [Part 1, Part 2]

Learn a language:

Arabic + Resource Guide compiled from Reddit (includes info on different dialects)

Chinese (Cantonese) (audio)

Urdu (frequently recommended course on Reddit) + Resource Guide

Yucatec Maya

[mostly-lilith]

Lulu

[leticiasativa]

omg lulu is so precious

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My cat learned how to use a sword and her weapon of choice was my brother's Katana.

[userfrieren]

[leticiasativa]

somehow dreams containing my evil exes are feeling way more appealing than reality right now

[leticiasativa]

i will say my dreams are pretty cool and fun at the moment, the last one was definitely giving living in video game - but why does my least favourite ex always pop up as a side character 😑

[leticiasativa]

somehow dreams containing my evil exes are feeling way more appealing than reality right now

[tatakaeeren]

⏯ Jujutsu Kaisen men "sexy" playlist

[spooksier]

Can you show us more oil. Please

here's her showing off her power star

and here's her launching a psychic attack

[hellsbaby-deactivated20251129]

do you wanna hang out tonight my curse was finally lifted

[tornandwretched-deactivated2024]

me when my depressive episode is suddenly over

[apparently-artless]

big bro choso moments in every episode [3/?]

[apparently-artless]

⋆☆ DERANGED DETECTIVE E12 ★ KAMONOHASHI RON ☆⋆

[butchbait28]

[pitbolshevik]

since people in the notes are asking for sources

rwandan genocide:

How Israel helped prop up Rwanda's Hutu regime before the genocide - +972 Magazine

Israel refuses to come clean about its links with the murderous Hutu regime that carried out the genocide in Rwanda 25 years ago. But Foreig

The Israeli guns that took part in the Rwanda genocide

A Tel Aviv court has rejected a petition to reveal documentation of arms exports to the Hutu government in the '90s.

apartheid south africa:

Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria

During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he

Guatemala:

You may not know it from reading or listening to the major U.S. media, but the rest of the world has been steeped in news coverage of a form

On 1 September, Alejandro Maldonado was installed as Guatemalan president. The choice was controversial due his role in nullifying the convi

Srebrenica:

Israeli academic denounced for report denying Srebrenica genocide

Germany is reconsidering whether to award Gideon Greif after his views on the Srebrenica massacre became known.

Supreme Court rules against exposing Israel's role in Bosnian genocide - +972 Magazine

Citing potential damage to Israel’s foreign relations, the Supreme Court rejects a petition calling to reveal details of the governmen

kashmir:

Israel in Kashmir | The Express Tribune

RAW has ties with Mossad since its inception in 1968 but Modi and Netanyahu have brought them closer than ever

Chile:

‘Investigate Israeli complicity with Pinochet's crimes’ - +972 Magazine

Family members of a Chilean man disappeared and murdered by the Latin American dictator want Israel to open a criminal investigation into of

(article also links to a book on the subject)

armenian genocide:

Israel’s Refusal to Recognize the Armenian Genocide Is Indefensible

Both Armenians and Jews have been the victims of premeditated mass murder. The Israeli government must put justice before political expedien

and for what it's worth, I'm not doing any deep diving to find this. im literally googling "Israel apartheid south africa" and "israel azerbaijan" like this info is readily available.

[catchymemes]

[adropofhumanity]

yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. but in two weeks time, it did what no oil or gas- rich arab nation could do. by seizing three ships and costing i****l more than 2 billion by forcing its ships to go around africa, yemen showed up.

[ponyb0ycurtis-deactivated202407]

Just a reminder that Yemen has risked it ALL for Palestine, as they are going through one of the worst humanitarian crisis' ever. Due to their resilience, the puppets at the UN have decided to exclude them from the world food program. Yemen is STARVING. Please consider donating towards their hunger crisis. Let's show up for Yemen.

[reasonandempathy]

Providing a bit more context and options than random crowdfunding site:

Yemen Food Crisis

Yemen's Houthis warn ships in red Sea to avoid Israel or face attack

Other places to give:

Save the Children Donation

Muslim Aid USA

Islamic Relief USA

Baitulmaal

[atesan]

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE | ハウルの動く城 | HAURU NO UGOKU SHIRO (2004), dir Hayao Miyazaki

[leticiasativa]

Howl 😍😍

[killy-deactivated20241228]

I’m in the process of organizing a gofundme for a family to get out of Gaza and into Egypt. If anyone with a big following on Twitter can help me spread it there, please let me know.

[killy-deactivated20241228]

I’m really, deadly serious about this. Please do contact me if you or someone you know could help. If some tumblr blogs with significant followings can volunteer to spread it when it’s ready, too, please send me a message and I’ll send you a post with the link as soon as it’s ready

[killy-deactivated20241228]

Help Ahmed and His Family Escape Gaza, organized by H A

To introduce myself, I’m a Palestinian-American who has been to the West Bank many times. R… H A needs your support for Help Ahmed and His

Here we go. This fundraiser is for @90-ghost and I’ve had it set up on his behalf because gofundme isn’t available in Palestine. I’m collaborating with a DC-based organization to help spread this on Facebook, but it’s been put together on short notice and the reach is limited, so we need your help: the need for someone to help spread it on Twitter still stands.

In case anyone is suspicious, I hate to have to do this, but I’ve reverse-searched Ahmed’s images (featured in the gofundme), checked his posts to see that he does use authentic Palestinian Arabic to the best of my knowledge (my family is from the West Bank and I’ve been there a lot), checked the story of his sister from 2021 and found confirmation of her murder, etc. If you have questions about me, well, Ahmed will vouch for me, and you can see from looking at my blog that this is a cause that has been near and dear to me for a long time; I’m Palestinian and would sooner die than do wrong by a fellow Palestinian fleeing death itself. Please help Ahmed by donating and/or spreading far and wide!