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buster. 24. english.: currently playing: dragon age inquisition my other half

[cosmicsheep]

Messy coloured Mob! With milk!!

[darkkaosanime]

Welcome back Give-Away!!!

Hello to everyone!

It’s been quite a long time since I was active on this blog and even longer since I did a give-away!

So here is a little welcome back give-away from me to you all.

there will be 10 winners!

each winner will get 3 pokemon!

all the pokemon are shiny

some of them have IV, egg moves and/or HA.

How to enter:

like and reblog to participate

Please read this, to know all the rules, how my give-aways works and how to participate/win the give-aways.

Give-away ends: 25. August 2016 at 5 pm.

If you have any questions, just message me! :3

[sebstermoran]

Hello Tumblr, long time no see...

See everybody still loves gifs, as it’s prompting me to add one every line... 

[misaoooart]

MISAOOO GIVEAWAY :D 1. First place !: One character portrait OR tarot\ multiplayer card 2. Second place !: One colored head to waist                - Warden - Hawke - Inquisitor - Shepard - OC - RULES

- You must be following me

- No giveaway blogs allowed 

- reblogs only count

The giveaway ends JULY 1!

[kyrstin]

I think it’s important that all GoT fans who haven’t read the books see this. This is the first time Dany and Khal Drogo have sex. Notice how it’s consensual and how, instead of crying and wincing in pain like in the show, Dany is an active and willing participant. Why they chose to change it in the show, as they also did with the more often discussed Altar Scene, is beyond me. This scene is sexier and more interesting than the scene the show gives us in addition to, y’know, NOT BEING RAPE. I wish the GoT writers would understand why what they showed is so wrong and why they should stick to the source material.

[donnaweasley]

HERE’S ALSO THE THING.  If you only watched the show and never read the books, you might be confused why Dany is so infatuated with this dude. Show Dany is a girl who has been used and abused by Viserys only to be sold to Drogo, a man who is large and strong and historically violent and who rapes her; Show Dany is a victim who miraculously overcomes this abuse and goes on to fall in love with her rapist and be a strong, independent woman.  There’s a disconnect in the story, a lapse in the narrative of the character development.  BUT THIS BOOK SCENE RIGHT HERE gives you that bridge.  Book Dany is a girl who has been used and abused by Viserys, sold to a man who is large and strong and historically violent BUT in their first real moments together is immeasurably kind to her.  Drogo, big, strong, violent dude, is the first person to be thoughtful of her and to give *her* power.  Previously, Dany was first a Targaryen who was expected to marry her brother, have his babies, and be a silent partner in his rule, and then a female to be used as payment for Viserys’ bid for the throne.  Enter Drogo, who makes her his equal on the wedding night by focusing on her comfort and willingness (a lot of you fellas could learn from Book Drogo, but I digress).  This is why Dany loves Drogo- he shows her kindness and gives her power by recognizing her as another human being.  

(I’m sure I’ve written a tirade on this before, but sorry not sorry.)

[read-and-be-merry]

Thanks for this because I never understood why so many people on Tumblr shipped them when he obviously raped her in the show, I was pretty disgusted. Now I see it’s because they were adorable.

[foodffs]

Croque Monsieur Pop Tarts

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[japanese-revision]

[japanese-revision]

Textbooks:

An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar

Read Real Japanese Fiction

Dictionaries:

ALC (I use this everyday) →Expression encyclopaedia 

Goo dictionary

Weblio

WWWJDIC (with audio clips)

JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)

JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)

Idiomatic Expressions

Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]

Counters dictionary

Hovering dictionaries:  →Rikaikun for Chrome →Rikaichan for Firefox →Floating Dictionary for Mac

Current Affairs dictionary

For kanji.

Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)

Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)

A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters

Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)

Online reading:

Hukumusume Fairytales

竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)

吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)

Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT

TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)

Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]

Manga.

Free online manga

Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)

Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

Japanese pronunciation guide

Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table

Topics for Language Exchanges.

Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)

Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)

Listening:

“Real World” Japanese

泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

Lang-8

www.Japan-Guide.com

原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)

Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

News:

NewsWeb Easy

NHK News (audio news with speed controls)

Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)

TBS Radio’s Junk

TOKYO FM

YouTube:

Afternoon Hirusagari

Jet Daisuke

バイリンガール英会話

Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

Heartful Power Hideo

Shuwa Island

TV:

Japanese subtitles for anime

KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)

風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)

映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

Kanji-a-Day

Holy crap Japanese

Nihongo ga Suki

Jumpstart Japanese

Nihongolog

Nadine Nihongo

That Japan Addict

ChilliMuffin

Japanese through Fandom

F-Yeah Native Japanese

J-Vocab of the Day

ぶらりめし [Japanese only]

Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]

Those studying in Japan.

Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)

Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)

Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)

Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)

Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)

Blogging:

Yaplog

Learning websites:

JapaneseClass.jp

The Japanese Page

Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese

Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)

Maggie Sensei

Other resources:

Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning

JLPT Resources

[japanese-revision]

I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

[sigma-enigma]

paradroidthevirus

[sebstermoran]

or i would put it under a read more, if that was... ya know, working for me.

[sebstermoran]

so you're happy about cuts to disability allowances and childcare and probable changes in semantics in the bill of human rights that could feasibly let the government get away with anything and the slow but steady dismantling of the nhs and the 11% payrise MPs got but the 0-1% payrise for public sector workers? nice to see where your priorities lie

My response to this is going under a read more, because there is so much information, and i don’t want to force all of this on people not in the uk/ not interested in the politics of the country. 

As for ‘seeing where my priorities lie’ it’s also nice to see that i’m getting judgement from an anonymous face, who knows nothing about why i chose the candidate i did.

Having read your concernsabout my beliefs, I took the time to explain my viewpoint on the issues raised.Most of my information, unless stated otherwise, is taken directly from theconservative manifesto. This is the Party’s promise to the electorate. If theygo back on the manifesto, the rest of parliament has every right to remove themfrom power, and the electorate will lose all faith in them. Just look at theLib Dems!

Cuts to disabilityAny cuts to disability arepurely aimed at encouraging people to get back into work. One of the big themeswith the Tory Manifesto is rewarding work, so those trying to work or in work receivethe most help. Yes, benefits have been capped per household by £3000, butaccording to the Manifesto “We will continue to have exemptions from the cap forthose receiving Disability Living Allowance”. The exception to that is if people refuse treatment for their disability,and then there will be a review in which benefits may be cut. This is only amaybe, and only if the review is failed.

Cuts to ChildcareI personally haven’t seenanything in regards to cutting childcare, as the manifesto states that“inthe next Parliament we will give families where all parents are working anentitlement to 30 hours of free childcare for their three and four year-olds.”Currently, it works out as about 15 hours a week at 570 hours a year, accordingto the Gov.UK website, meaning free childcare is being doubled.

Bill of Rights The bill of rights is apotential issue, as there are only a few mentions as to what the British Billof Rights will maintain. However, the Human Rights Act is only being scrappedto try and separate European Law with British Law, and give Britain the finalsay in courts. I doubt that the new bill of rights will enable the governmentto do whatever they want to the electorate, as a dictatorship doesn’t seem tobe on the cards. There are checks and balances in place to ensure this doesn’thappen, such as the rest of Parliament being able to challenge potentialchanges and having the ability to remove the acting government from power, andthe House of Lords approving the changes.

NHS As far as I’m aware, theGovernment are not planning to dismantle the NHS. It’s actually a point ofpride for the nation that residents don’t have to pay for healthcare, which ismaybe the wrong reason to keep it. However, the Tory Government is planning toplough money into the NHS. “at least an additional £8 billion by 2020 over and aboveinflation to fund and support the NHS’s own action plan for the next five year.” That 8 billion is on top of the risewith inflation, so isn’t even the bare minimum amount going in each year. Thelast conservative government attempted to increase accountability by promotingwhistleblowing, where staff can anonymously point out problematic areas, aFriends and Family test for staff and patients to openly say if they wouldrecommend that particular hospital. This came in last term and set to continue. These areas have come in since the lastgovernment and are set to continue, and have been confirmed to be seen inaction by both my girlfriend and mother, who both work with the NHS.

Payrise for MPsAccording to the BBC, thepay rise is NOT from Cameron, it’s from an independent watchdog. “All threeparty leaders disagreed with the move…but the watchdog is expected to say itwill press ahead with the rise” Lookingaround online, there are numerous accounts that point out how Cameron has infact said he doesn’t agree with the pay rise. Here’s another comment from ITVNews; “David Cameron has said he wants the body that sets MPs’ pay toreconsider proposals for a more-than 10% pay rise later this year.”

Payrise for Public Sector This one I agree with,though not in line with the pay rise for MPS. The rise has been capped at 1%,which falls behind the standard rise with inflation is at 1.9%. This could possiblyto do with the party trying to fund everything else, and the NHS itself havingits own Pay Scheme that rises every year separate from inflation, called Agendafor Change.

Nice things! As a bonus, here are somepositive policies that I think you might be interested in:A discount on homes for young first time buyersPersonal Allowance raised to 12,500 to help the lowest earners, with “nobodyworking 30 hours on the Minimum Wage pays Income Tax on what they earn”Jobs for all – paying businesses to take on more workers, funding apprenticeshipsso that young people can build on their skills.Job centres will work with schools to give employment advice and provide a pathstraight into work or training. Businesses will be forced to publish the Gender Pay Gap to flush out inequalityfor women.

i don’t take voting lightly, and do try to look in to the best party for me, and for those around me. After voting for the lib dems in 2010, i’ve been more than careful this time around to try and look in to what each and every party had to offer, and the conservatives were, in my opinion, the better choice. The decision to vote for them was reluctant, at first, because I am from the north and have seen what can happen under a london centric government, but in the end, they won out. 

I stand by my decision, and i will defend it.

[sebstermoran]

Mad about the foxes But yeah, happy about the rest

[forthefuns]

[treblesketch-abscond]

Wait no stop

[sebstermoran]

so i have two blogs on the go at the moment,

simply because i’m considering deleting this

feel free to follow on the other 

it’s more game based, more subdued. 

it has less rage, which is probably what everybody wants

plus video games

[dailyrtah]

rooster teeth starts with r and so does red team which clearly makes red team the best team

[taekenbysurprise]

well best team stars with a b and you know what else does blue team 

[fuckyeahmiliband]

“I don’t have the exact figures.”

[sebstermoran]

And yet its missing the rest where Cameron says it job centres weren't encouraged to give up the information about them until recently.

[blackfairypresident]

what was yalls first internet community you were in? mine was toontown in 2008

[chavvesty]

BUT WHAT DOES CHEEKY NANDOS *MEAN* IT HAS TO HAVE A MEANING

mate it’s hard to explain mate it’s just like one day you’ll just be wif your mates having a look in jd and you might fancy curry club at the ‘Spoons but your lad Calum who’s an absolute ledge and the archbishop of banterbury will be like ‘brevs lets have a cheeky nandos instead.” and you’ll think “Top. Let’s smash it.”

[strawbrris]

A protest is currently happening in London which the BBC isn’t reporting #ToriesOutNow

[sebstermoran]

doing something like this though, is not excused, even when you have a cause to fight, even when you’re working towards something better. Don’t deface graves, don’t deface monuments, don’t disrespect people who have already worked hard, and achieved, for the country.

don’t be a cunt.