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hey there Delilah what the fUCK DID YOU DO TO MY HAIR

#bible #bible study #Samson #delilah #hey there delilah #samson and delilah #catholic #bible commentary

"Sima Qian wrote the Grand Historian" but to the tune of American Idiot

#green day #american idiot #sima Qian #ancient history #ancient china #china #chinese

RFK* my beloved

*Rebecca F. Kuang

#rfk #rebecca f kuang #poppy war #the dragon republic #the burning god #rin #fang runin #yin nezha #altan trengsin #nikara

This is how I picture Sima Yi in Iron Widow/Heavenly Tyrant. (Chi Fu)

I hope you do too.

#xiran jay zhao #iron widow #xjz #wu zetian #bookblr #gao yizhi #li shimin #heavenly tyrant #sima yi #qin zheng

QZ imprinting on Zetian like a baby duck in Heavenly Tyrant

#xiran jay zhao #iron widow #xjz #wu zetian #bookblr #gao yizhi #li shimin #heavenly tyrant #qin zheng

Two predictions for iron widow book three:

1. This is potentially a spoiler if you haven't finished the first book and/or you haven't seen the book cover for Heavenly Tyrant

Qin Zheng will get jealous of Zetian's other lovers (obv Yizhi and Shimin), he will burn down her favorite pagoda, and then she will kill him and mix his ashes into the cement that builds the new pagoda. I'm basing this prediction off of what Wu Zetian did to her lover Xue Huaiyi.

2. THIS PREDICTION WILL BE A GIANT SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED HEAVENLY TYRANT!!!

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#xiran jay zhao #iron widow #bookblr #heavenly tyrant #xjz #predictions #spoilers #iron widow spoilers #heavenly tyrant spoilers #wu zetian #li shimin #gao yizhi #qin zheng #xue huaiyi #chinese history #tang dynasty

Wu Zetian: "you say you hate private property, but you're treating me like private property??? 😒🤔👀"

Qin Zheng: "erm akchually it's personal property 🤓☝🏻"

@xiranjayzhao I have so many feelings about this man

#a-according to my calculations!!!#heavenly tyrant #xiran jay zhao #bookblr #iron widow #incorrect iron widow quotes #incorrect heavenly tyrant quotes #wu zetian #qin zheng #gao yizhi #li shimin #zhang yizhi #tengri

More bookshelf pictures :)

My bookshelf!

Not pictured: The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang, Strike the Zither by Joan He, and Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Two years ago, I decided to completely stop purchasing books by white authors. I definitely have a preference for East Asian (especially Chinese) and indigenous authors. I'm currently expanding it to include S/SE Asian and African/Black authors.

Books I haven't read yet: The Poppy War, Never Whistle at Night, Moonstorm, Of Jade and Dragons, The Girl with No Reflection, Fathomfolk, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, The Night Ends with Fire, and the Emperor of the Endless Palace.

Books I'll be getting soon: A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahey by Briony Cameron

Update: I finished reading A Bright Heart, Of Jade and Dragons, and The Night Ends with Fire, along with a few others that I didn't describe in the last paragraph. I'm currently halfway through Fathomfolk.

PS: I wasn't aware Shannon Chakraborty was white when I bought the book, but my book shelf is also lacking Muslim representation

Some of my Shadowheart cosplay! My friend went as Gale. I just felt cute in the second pic lol

#cosplay #bg3 #baldurs gate #gale dekarios #shadowheart #bristol renaissance faire #ren faire

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3 #Gortash #boeing #whistleblower #bg3 meme

#iron widow #xiran jay zhao #wu zetian #li shimin #gao yizhi #zetian #shimin #yizhi #heavenly tyrant #xjz

#iron widow #xiran jay zhao #wu zetian #li shimin #gao yizhi #xjz #heavenly tyrant

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #archduke enver gortash #enver gortash #gortash #bg3 gortash #baldurs gate gortash #video games

sapphicautistic

In the 1980s in France, musicologists and archaeologists Iégor Reznikoff and Michel Dauvois used their voices to explore caves with notable Paleolithic wall paintings. By singing simple notes and whistling, they mapped their perceptions of the caves’ acoustics. They found that paintings were often located in places that were particularly resonant. Animal paintings were common in resonant chambers and in places along the walls that produced strong reverberation. As they crawled through narrow tunnels, they discovered painted red dots exactly located in the most resonant places. The entrances to these tunnels were also marked with paintings. Resonant recesses in walls were especially heavily ornamented.

In a 2017 study, a dozen acousticians, archaeologists, and musicians measured the sonic qualities of cave interiors in northern Spain. The team, led by acoustic scientist Bruno Fazenda, used speakers, computers, and microphone arrays to measure the behavior of precisely calibrated tones within the cave. The caves they studied contain wall art spanning much of the Paleolithic, dating from about forty thousand years to fifteen thousand years ago. The art includes handprints, abstract points and lines, and a bestiary of Paleolithic animals including birds, fish, horses, bovids, reindeer, bear, ibex, cetaceans, and humanlike figures. From hundreds of standardized measurements, the team found that painted red dots and lines, the oldest wall markings, are associated with parts of the cave where low frequencies resonate and sonic clarity is high due to modest reverberation. These would have been excellent places for speech and more complex forms of music, not muddied by excessive reverberation. Animal paintings and handprints were also likely to be in places where clarity is high and overall reverberation is low but with a good low-frequency response. These are the qualities that we seek now in modern performance spaces.

Sounds Wild and Broken, David George Haskell

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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

salvadorbonaparte

Duolingo Alternatives by Language

Disclaimer: I haven't used or tested all of them. All resources have different strengths, e.g. Drops being designed for vocabulary. They often aren't full alternatives for Duolingo or formal classes. I just wanted to compile resources for all languages on Duolingo to make the switch easier, especially for the less popular languages.

Feel free to also check out my collection of free textbooks

If you want a more detailed resource list for any of these languages (or perhaps one not listed here) you can send me an ask and I can see what I can do.

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