trying to figure it out

undergrad bioe student monsters uni = dream school

[moonshinemagpie]

for any Japanese learners who like creative writing in any capacity, my new study trick is this:

I combine the grammar and kanji I'm learning to write short stories. Like this:

Let's say I've got 5 kanji I'm learning, and 3 grammar points.

I look up vocab words for those 5 kanji and choose one word I especially want to learn for each. I make a lil' list of the new-to-me words.

Btw: You don't choose the words based on a predetermined story. You pick the words you want to learn and then decide how to make a story out of them.

Using the vocab and grammar points as creative restraints, I make myself (hand)write a 5-sentence short story, each sentence containing one of the vocab words. Occasionally I'll write a few more sentences to ensure the story has a beginning, middle, and end.

I'm not gonna share my stories because I'm sure they suck, but it's honestly been a lot of fun. I've written about pirates and witches, gods and a lawyer who got turned into a rabbit.

It feels very efficient because I'm reinforcing my kanji and my grammar at the same time that I'm practicing my writing skills. Plus, I entertain myself and actually look forward to doing it.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

jellyfish have to be kept in a round tank because if they're in a tank with corners they'll get stuck in them. I think that's beautiful. god's stupidest little plastic bags (affectionate)

[lokiii333]

Celestial dance 🌸🐝

[you-are-another-me]

[cant-thinkofanythingclever]

wanna be cuddled for like 4 or 5 days

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Moth and Bone: Study on White, oil painting by wailingwizard

[per-asperaa-ad-astra]

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

[dogrotpdf]

how’s that house that raised you?

[todaysbird]

fun thing about herding and/or generally neurotic breeds: they are really good at following rules you have instituted, but they will also make their own Dog Rules they will follow stringently whether or not you like it

[todaysbird]

despite never being reprimanded for getting sick if my dog throws up she will ‘tattle’ on herself and run over to me, show me the throw up, then hide and start shaking uncontrollably. nobody taught her to do this. she has decided that throwing up is a punishable offense until the end of time

[ajarofpickledtears]

[todaysbird]

my dog has decided that it’s solely on her shoulders to ensure there is peace in my house…if the cats fight she stands between them to ‘break it up’ and/or herds them away, if my rats have an argument she goes to the cage door and barks until they stop. not sure why she has decided she must carry the weight of the world but she has

[fauxcoral]

[quotefeeling]

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[thebreakfastgenie]

I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

[sprinkledsalt]

My mom was telling me about this YouTube video she watched (I can't remember the name, sorry) where the person shared a screenshot of some MAGA voter from Florida asking for help, because his wife had been hired for a nursing job with the VA in Texas, so they sold their house and were preparing to move. But they rescinded her job offer after Trump's executive order. The post from the guy was basically like "I already contacted Senator Ted Cruz's office, and they said they couldn't do anything about this. Please help me get this story to President Trump, we love him! We voted for him 3 times! And we know this was just a mistake and he'd help us!"

Just.................a part of me laughs, and another part of me thinks about how cult followers genuinely believe that the cult leader cares about them

[kalessinsdaughter]

This is the part about believing in universal human rights that can be a bit difficult: they're universal, and should never be denied anyone, no matter who they are or what they have done.

You can be – you should be – furious with people who voted for Trump, for wilfully trying to sabotage those rights and make them conditional, a privilege for the "deserving", a privilege they can deny the "wrong" kind of people.

And when the MAGA crowd are hit by the consequences of their actions, and denied basic human rights because it turns out their Great Leader doesn't actually include his followers among the privileged, it's tempting to say that they deserve to be denied those rights, because that's what they wanted to do to others.

But if you do that, you don't truly believe that those rights should be universal; you just have a different idea than the MAGA crowd about who should be included among the privileged.

You can still tell the MAGA who's crying that the leopards ate their face that you're angry with them for letting the face-eating leopards loose. But you shouldn't be fine with their face being eaten.

[delvinanaris]

The key here, IMO, is the distinction between your emotional reaction to hearing about it and how you consciously believe people should be treated.

Having a positive emotional reaction, enjoying the schadenfreude or whatever, doesn’t mean you’re bad and isn’t something you need to suppress. You just need to also be able to say, “but that shouldn’t happen, not to them, not to anyone.”

[thebreakfastgenie]

This is a good articulation! I'm going to reblog this addition because I think it might be helpful for some people who are sorting out their feelings to see this stated so plainly!

[animentality]

[botwstoriesandsuch]

Pssst

Hey, are you an artist or writer with WIPs?

Come here... I got a secret for you pssst come ‘ere

[kittmoon]

waiting in deep suspense

[botwstoriesandsuch]

Psst you ready here comes the secret

Here it comes

[moinsbienquekaworu]

I am also very curious about this secret

[botwstoriesandsuch]

Your time spent enjoying the creative process is infinitely more valuable that any final project you create. So stop putting yourself down for never finishing or posting those WIPs because every moment you spent creating something you loved is a moment not wasted. Your progress and talent is measured by your passion not your number of posts.

[botwstoriesandsuch]

This post went from 3k to 7k overnight and that just goes to show how many of you need to hear this so make sure you don’t ever forget it

[daily-spooky]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[tacobellcantina]

Journal #2: October 2nd, 2024

I went to the gym this afternoon. It's been a long time since I've gone, but I felt really good while I was there. I enjoy exercising, but it's hard to get myself to go to the gym habitually. I'm scared that I'll lose my motivation again soon and go back to spending entire days in bed.

Je suis allée à la salle de sport cet après-midi. C'était longtemps depuis j'y suis allée, mais je me sens vraiment bien pendant que j'étais là. Je jouis faire de l'exercice, mais c'est difficile de me convaincre d'aller habituellement à la salle de sport. J'ai peur de perdre encore bientôt ma motivation et de recommencer à passer des journées entières au lit.

[thepersonalquotes]

i can’t wait to meet someone and realize i was never asking for too much

[somerabbitholes]

finished butter—thinking about hunger, cooking, being alone—so much swirling in me—read a bunch of papers on making borders—thinking about imagining spatial bounds of freedom—something is crashing together in my head, don't know what yet