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as the economy in iran is rapidly collapsing under the weight of amerisraeli war, worsening sanctions, and indefinite internet blackout, queer and trans friends of mine are facing increasingly dire economic conditions. some friends and I are trying to raise funds to keep them afloat, particularly trans women facing acute housing insecurity

if you are able to spare anything at all, it would go a really long way. inflation and currency exchange is so bad that $50 could pay someone’s rent in tehran for an entire month, so every little bit counts

please write ‘donation’, and please don’t put any country or city names in the description 🙏 we are endlessly grateful for your generosity, it truly saves lives

Paypal: @nojin

Revolut: @nojanv

woundliqour

Hiiiii guysss happy pride from your fav doll that never evacuated FL bc ron dipshit cant touch thisss. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

I finally gave up on insurance this year and started DIY HRT after 10 years waiting to start bc I wanted to do things 'the right way' and I'm 3 months along now. I've gotten closer than I've ever been with my community through sports which was something I had avoided intensely as a trans woman. I've kept the same restaurant job for over a year and I've been getting more opportunities in modeling! I don't always think much of myself, but for now I'd like to take a moment to be proud of myself bc being transfem here made a lot of those prospects feel out of reach for a long time!!

I've also experienced some difficult life changes this year. HUD raised the rent by another $40 effective July, and I have nobody I can split expenses with until my lease is up at the end of November. Because I don't get full 40 hour weeks and only make $16 hourly, I often have to get an advance in order to clear my rent and then scramble for the rest of the month to make up the difference on my utilities, bills, gas prices, and food. I haven't wanted to make another post like this to fundraise, but even with all of the supportive community in my life I have today, my safety net isn't very robust. when I can avoid it I do, but I've had to rely on mutual aid and survival sex work on this platform for years now. If you've read this far thank you, I'm well aware there are people suffering worse than me now and I don't want to divert resources from them, however there's no donation amount that'd be too small to make a difference for me. #paythedolls 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

♡ $Sapphomet ♡ @ Sapphomet ♡ Kofi ♡

dragongirlsnout

10 000 dollars a day to every autistic child who grew up into an adult with a weird relationship to eating because parents can in no way be trusted to respect children's issues with food

#I am developing a new eating disorder /as we speak/#because at my ripe old age my father still believes he has a say #in what I eat and how I eat it

puppypuppypuppypuppy

My best friend is severely suicidal and needs psychiatric help

Hello, my friend Yasha has been going through a lot and requires regular therapy and psychiatric monitoring to stay functional. She also needs to save up for university tuition for the coming school year and to move out of a distressing household. Neither I nor she can offer commissions right now but any little bit helps.

One therapy session costs 45$, she needs around 400$ for the tuition and around the same for the first round of rent + bills. It's a lot to ask but her family is struggling. We are very grateful to whoever donated towards her medication costs, which now cover half the summer. I worry for her a whole lot. It would mean so much to me if she could afford to live and thrive. thank you

paypal: [email protected] to donate directly to yasha or use her kofi (the link is just https://ko-fi.com/naggingatlas). Message if you're having trouble with the transfer but still want to contribute!

didi btw ^

naggingatlas

need money for therapist and groceries again after helping ma pay bills. reluctantly im opening some commissions (particularly experimental + doodle + refsheets) if you'd like to support me and get something nice in return <:) you can browse the examples on my ko-fi or my art tag (in bio). thank you all so much for sticking with me through this.

Support yasha 💐

theartistrans

My fiance and I are intersex and trans respectively. His name change just got approved which is huge for his saftey bc if we can get the updated birth certificate and his ID, he wont have to out himself to show his papers which is unfortunately increasingly necessary. But in total getting everything updated is going to cost $160 we dont have. He also recently got out of the hospital with a diet plan that we don't have the money to manage rn. Additionally, I am going through a cancer scare, waiting for surgical biopsy, and getting lupus treatment for the first time in over a decade, so im barely functional. And our phone and internet bills are overdue. If that gets cut off, I cant all my doctor, schedule free transport to appts, or make money at all. Because of the late fees we need $300 for that.

I have a bunch of stuff on sale on my kofi as seen below, and I'm trying to add more every day. Anything you get there helps massively with this. My links are also below if anyone would like to help outright.

Kofi

PP $C V

theartistrans

They cutting off our phones ahead of when they were scheduled to and now I have no way to call my dr, pharmacy, or medical transport. I am totally screwed without my phone.

stealingpotatoes

happy neil banging out the tunes day to everyone who celebrates

toocoolforhole

me when im reading a good book, and it’s a good book, and i love a good book

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.

hagiomoto

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imsobadatnicknames2

Feeling like this rn for real

imsobadatnicknames2

Around mid-february I quit my job to take another offer I got from a language academy, which was closer to home and offered me better benefits. I got a six-month trial period contract with them, after which I'd be hired for real as an actual employee and not a contractor.

Last friday I came into work just to get told that they were terminating my trial contract, supposedly not because of anything to do with my performance but because HR decided that, with the current number of students enrolled, they didn't have the demand for so many teachers in the afternoon shift.

So I was employed there for less than a month and I can't go back to my old job and I genuinely don't know what to do with my life now.

imsobadatnicknames2

I'm not even posting this to ask for money I just genuinely don't know what I'm gonna do now, I've been applying to jobs like crazy. I feel like if things don't improve I'm gonna end up picking up a shit job as a bilingual call center operator which will turn me into the joker after a couple weeks of getting yelled at by middle aged gringos for having an accent.

imsobadatnicknames2

Me rn

imsobadatnicknames2

Okay I'm finally starting a new job on monday, for an american outsourcing contractor that rents third-world workers out to different companies as spanish-english interpreters. The pay's kinda shitty for such a demanding job and it offers 0 benefits but that's like par for the course as far as american companies that outsource labor to the global south go and atp I'll have to take what I can get.

Thing is if I start monday I won't be getting paid until the end of May, and at that point I will have been unemployed for two months and a half, so money's starting to get short, so I just need some help to make it until then. So like. just in case anyone can help me out.

Indie musician and TTRPG writer I'm Imsobadatnicknames2 on tumblr

corrucyst

more permanent dono post for me. if i know you please feel free to ask for my paypal i just dont wanna put my deadname out publicly

corrucyst

hi im built like this btw

135/350

corrucyst

doing my best to pay for what i can but all help is appreciated. yay

320/350

bulma

hi everyone, me again. so sorry to keep making posts like this, but i'm once again falling behind on my bills and floundering a bit. for a quick introduction - hi, i'm kels. i'm a nonbinary indonesian muslim who owes roughly $2000 to their bank! and i am struuuuuggling to pay it off. i'd like to get out of debt so i can move on with my life! for a better idea of my current situation and how much progress i've made, here are my previous posts.

i'm setting a tentative short-term goal of $650 to knock out some of my debt and cover essentials... i know that's a lot, and i'm in no way expecting it to be fully covered, but truly - anything helps! even $1/€1/£1. thank you to anyone who's shared or pitched in in the past. you've all helped so much and i'm so grateful!

vnmo / pypl

$0/$650

bulma

$6/$650

bulma

$46/$650

bulma

no movement since. anything helps! i'm stretched thin until my paycheck next week. almost everything is going towards gas + bills + groceries 🥲 thank you all again for everyone's help so far!!! 🙇🏻‍♀️ every share & dono means so much.

bulma

$61/$650

thank you so much! 💛

innerchildabortionclinic

Here's my pickup line. Can you give your perspective as a woman?

Did you know that male seahorses give birth? Let's give birth to wonderful conversations.

sailatina3

Hi. To make a long story short, my mother received a notice of deportation. My family is fighting this in court. As you can imagine its very expensive and burdensome, my father works many more days to afford lawyers and fees. Which means there isn't much room to spare for my expenses, so its up to me to deal with that.

So, if you have money to spare, it would mean the world to me if you could donate to my cashapp $SnowStorm626. To help with my groceries and necessities. I don't think this will be permanent, I will probably either get a proper job or perhaps start art commissions at some point. But for now I rely on charity work. Thank you.

marztovenus

that one post is goin around but I figure i may as well make my own post and pin it too

hi im currently homeless and couchsurfin again, multiply mentally and physically disabled and completely financially dependent and have been as such for the last year since i got layed off. any money thrown my way helps me on my path to regain stability and independence <3. u can toss somethin my way on my paypal (venusstars) or my cashapp (kingsnakefemme)

much luv <3

marztovenus

just wanted to add that im in this situation cuz an older man manipulated me into trustin and relyin on him and exploited my trauma and disabilities in order to psychologically and financially abuse me for nine months and I literally had to flee from where i was couchsurfin with him to where I am now so I wouldnt b on the street