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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

yellow-cat

actually hate that the bodys response to anything is nausea. ate too much? nauseous. ate too little? nauseous. an imaginary threat got you scared? be nauseous. on your period? you guessed it. sawed into your hand and need to go to the emergency room? perhaps throwing up into your open wound will be of help

dearwalker

saintsqueensbutchers

fandiagnosis

jealousy, jealousy

Robby and Abbot in THE PITT season 2

destiel-news-network

(Source)

This comes one day after the archive changed their status to “Omega” for April Fools’ Day.

beemovieerotica

people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol

hollowedskin

"I asked it but it said no so the mystery is still unsolved" how have you survived to adulthood?

dash-n-step

the english language is truly a wonder

scribeofpnakotis

all hail william the werewolf, proto-enby

wretchedly

Diversity win! The werewolf in your village goes by þei

lyonelwhoretent

Lyonel Baratheon, Raymun Fossoway and Baelor Targaryen after just meeting Ser Duncan The Tall:

handsomeboymodelingschool

I didn't include maybe my favourite part

itscyran

REBLOG IF YOU USED TUMBLR IN 2011 - 2013

If so, you knew how turnt Tumblr use to be

your-gay-grandma

date your friends - by which i do not mean you must literally date your friends but by which i mean go out to dinner with your friends, buy your friends flowers, tell your friends you love them, write your friends love letters, play your friends songs that make you think of them, help your friends with moving and doctors appointments and listen to their worries and joys. love one another so entirely and i promise the world will feel so much brighter and you will have a community full of love

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maricoin

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lamppostisposting

I finally realized why I hate the serena williams GLP1 inhibitor commercial. It’s the notion that even a fucking four time olympic gold medalist needs Weight Loss Drug™ to stay healthy. As if the woman whose job it is to be fit needs a miracle drug to lose weight. It’s sickening. It’s subliminally telling you that since an Olympian needs to use this drug to be healthy, a regular person like you will never have a chance unless you use it too, and that this is the only chance you’ll lose all that fat that’s making you unhealthy. (Not true, plus it’ll come back when you stop)

fatphobiabusters

Naturally skinny people with skinny genetics and a lifetime of thinness absolutely love to advertise weight loss bullshit. "You can look like me if you buy these products that worsen your life!😊" If I want to look like you, I need to crawl back into the womb and ask for a reroll on my DNA. Most thin people advertising diet culture and fatphobic shit have either always been skinny or became skinny because they starved and harmed their body, let alone the fact that forced thinness is almost always temporary as the research has shown for decades.

This is also a major contributor to fat stereotypes. "I can eat a ton of food and still be skinny, so fat people must be eating twenty pizzas every day to manage not to look like me🤔" Nobody ever stops to think about how "naturally skinny" people have a "naturally fat" counterpart. There's countless reasons why a person weighs what they do. Food and exercise are 1% of that list.

-Mod Worthy