Hi and nice to meet you! My name is Cain and welcome to my blog. Here is some basic information about me:
🔹 Age: 21
🔹 Pronouns: He/Him
🔹 Gender: Transgender Male
🔹 Sexuality: Bisexual
🔹 Romantic Orientation: Biromantic
Here, I share small pieces of my thoughts and interests. These will go all the way from shower thoughts, mental health issues, religious things, aesthetic images, art, writings, and really anything else I may think is interesting at the time.
🔹 Mental Health: Depression, Anxiety, C-PTSD, OCD, DID
🔹 Other: Autism, ADHD
🔹 Religion: Polytheistic Omnist
I'm a chronic fandom hopper! Still, very multi-fandom. Expect a lot of reblogs of my interests: Some of those include:
🔹 Genshin Impact
🔹 Cookie Run Kingdom
🔹 Metalocalypse
🔹 Five Nights at Freddy's
🔹 House M.D.
🔹 Supernatural
🔹 Markiplier (and egos)
🔹 Stray Kids
And, trust me, MANY more.
DO NOT INTERACT
🔹 Homophobic/ Transphobic/ TRANSID
🔹 Racists/ Xenophobes
🔹 MAGA
🔹 Antireligion
🔹 People who hate on Furries or Therians
🔹 People who demonize mental health disorders of any sort
🔹 People who infantilize Autistic people
🔹 People who sexualize age-regressors, Furries, or therians
PLEASE INTERACT
🔹 LGBTQ+ people
🔹 Mentally ill people
🔹 Pro-Palestine
🔹 Religious people (Any religion!)
🔹 Furries and Therians
🔹 Age-regressors
+ anyone else who is kind and may like the things I post!
Pine's Ridiculously Long List of (Mostly) Free Japanese Study Materials
2026 Restart Edition
All my current study materials, because sharing found resources is caring. You may have seen the first version of this in the past, and I had a study lull due to circumstances since I last posted that. Taking everything into consideration, I made a few changes and updates to my list of resources.
Again, these are not JLPT-specific and are for beginners like me. Comparison is truly the thief of joy. I still hate my handwriting, and I still block every YouTube Channel I find that says learn X language in X short time period. I am not its target audience. I am still a slow learner, and that's okay.
As I said in the previous post, find a community because it truly does make a difference. Shoutout to Seitokai's Nihongo Discord!
This list contains the following: my textbook (paid), anki decks, dictionaries (paid and free), a game (paid), grammar and kanji guides, writing practice, watching (not YouTube) and reading resources.
Textbook: Tobira: Beginning Japanese I. This is one of the three resources that are paid. I really like this text book because it's colorful (which, it did matter for me) and physical (which, I did Marugoto, but I prefer turning the pages myself, if that makes sense). You could probably borrow this from z the library.
Genki and Minna no Nihongo are definitely more popular and would have more third-party supplementary material (like on YouTube), but I found they're catered more to university students or classroom learning which does not fit me.
Tobira has a self-study guide containing how they'd suggest you use their textbook to study on your own, and links to videos and audio materials which help you review vocabulary and explain grammar points found in the book. Disregard how their vocabulary videos has beginning spelled as begging. IDK how that got past quality control, but I mean everything else was sound.
Anki decks: And while I understand that Anki is not for everyone (and I suspect I am not too, but I am still in my trying-to-embrace-Anki-phase). Making a deck is a productive form of procrastination, but I digress.
Tatsumoto's Kana (Writing Sub-deck)
Tatsumoto's AnkiDrone Sentence Pack V7
Custom Tobira: Beginning Japanese I Vocab Deck
Dictionaries and similar:
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar. The second paid resource in this list, sorry! The e-book sold on Amazon does not have good reviews as it's a scanned copy of the book, rather than a properly formatted e-book. I have the physical book copy.
Rikaitan browser extension I use on Firefox with installed JMDict English V4, JMExtra, 日本語文法辞典(全集), and Kanjium
Takoboto site (online) and app (with offline access) dictionary
Youglish site for pronunciation examples.
Stardew Valley Japanese Wiki because no one can stop me from playing this in Japanese even if my pronunciation will likely suffer but I don't care I will complete a playthrough in Japanese! The wiki is free, but the game isn't. I had been playing Stardew Valley years prior to my Japanese learning journey and I love it. Update 1.7 can't come fast enough, but in ConcernedApe and his team I trust.
Ultra Handy Japanese Verb Conjugator because help!
Immersion Kit provides audio and picture examples for Japanese words and phrases. It helps you look up things when you're immersing.
Game:
Wagotabi. This is the third and last paid resource in this list. It's a role-playing game which starts off in English, then gradually changes to Japanese as you play through and learn kana, kanji, vocabulary, and grammar points. It's fun and I have yet to beat my in-game rival because I don't know left from right yet. I am stuck LMAO. I barely know my directions in my native language of Filipino, you can't expect me to know this immediately in Japanese PLEASE.
Grammar: Because if you can't get your hands on a textbook or prefer to just read through the grammar points, there are available free alternatives online which I do refer to from time to time as well.
Cure Dolly Script. This is a transcript based on the YouTube series by Cure Dolly. Whether you're put off by the robotic voice the original creator used or you just want something to read along or refer to, this one is for you.
Sakubi: Yesterday's Grammar Guide
Kanji:
The Kanji Map is where you can search for kanji, their radical, and what other kanji can be related to them.
Handwritten Kanji Search as it says on the tin.
Writing:
Kakikata Generator for Japanese writing sheets. I like how customizable it is, which is very useful for me since there are certain kana characters I would really like to be legible.
Watching:
Famelack. I like the shop channel especially because all I can understand from it so far are the numbers. LOL
Slow Japanese with Yuki. If you're familiar with Comprehensive Input in Japanese on YouTube or in their website, you've likely seen her before. She's the same creator, but this is her post-CIJ venture.
Japanese Media Recommendations that I have yet to go through, but I have it in my bookmarks.
Reading:
Reader Ttsu for reading Japanese materials on a browser, used in conjunction with Rikaitan, since I couldn’t find an e-book reader that I can install a Japanese dictionary in.
Todaii Japanese site and app for easy news reading. Has a one-time lifetime paid option to unlock all the features. It has audio that plays along as you read.
Mangaz for manga if you're into that. Features independent and/or older, more niche work. Also has adult content if you're into that. This site disappeared for a bit because of that whole payment processor issue which like, plagued half the internet last year, but they came back! Not completely beginner friendly, but it's fun to look at!
Tadoku for easy reading materials which really is for beginners.
Open Access Readers is a list of reading resources gathered by the University of British Columbia.
Watanoc is a free web magazine written in simple Japanese.
I needed to put all my reading resources in one place lol
Tadoku - free books from beginner to advanced aimed at language learners. The books from level 0 - 4 contain furigana.
YomuJP - More free japanese graded reading material. N6 is the easiest and N1 is the hardest. Contains audio, furigana and pictures.
Jgrpg Sakura - Japanese graded reading material. You need to create an account first though
Watanoc - Web magazine aimed at language learners in easy japanese. N5-N3. Contains audio, pictures and you can hover over unknown words to reveal the meaning.
Soseki Product - This website is dedicated to the works of Natsume Sōseki and it's also aimed at language learners so there's furigana, audio and translation. These novels are from the 1900s so it might be a bit difficult but I think it's really fun
MeikaSensei - Blog posts aimed at beginners. There's beginner versions and intermediate versions of the same post. Contains furigana
Bunsuke - Contains excerpts from books with translations and vocabulary lists. Also has links to the books used. Made by a fellow language learner :)
Ehon - Picture books aimed for 0-6 year olds. Doesn't seem to contain kanji. Some books contain audio
Lingual ninja - This website is for learning hiragana/katakana/grammar/vocab/kanji but it also has a folktales section that contains audio, vocab lists and optional furigana. There's also youtube videos of each story available
yomou syosetu - Over a million free novels! I believe a lot of it is user-submitted works
Syosetsu - Similar to the above.
Bookwalker (jp) - You can read the first few volumes of manga for free here. There's also light novels and doujinshi
Aozora Bunko - digital library that contains a lot of out of copyright books
Note - User submitted posts about various topics
Easy NHK News - News in easy japanese. Contains furigana.
NHK News - The news. In Japanese
Apps
Pibo - Picture books aimed at children
Todaii - Aimed at language learners. News with furigana and pop up dictionary.
Satori Reader - Paid
Yomu Yomu - First 3 chapters are free on edit: some stories!
I just saw a post answering the ask "what are some things to keep in mind when becoming a system?" And then I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole looking at the blog that answered that post.
I wanna hear some outside opinions on this, it's sharing time boys. How do people feel about willow/Tulpa blogs?
Me? I think encouraging people to essentially role-play a mental disorder is a bad idea. I suppose in the format of a long held religious practice, something like this would not bother me, but these people likely aren't stewards of a culture handed down through generations. It's much more probable that they saw an idea on the internet and jumped into it. It seems misguided to call that culture.
All in all, It seems like a very unhealthy practice to... ultimately, lie to yourself about what's going on in your head. The equivalent of any plural treating themselves as a singlet.
I feel like it also works off of this sort of misconstrued idea that systems form because one thing breaks into many, which Isn't... entirely right? Given what we know about the brain and development.
Systems don't become systems, not like one object breaking into pieces of the same object. It's more like the formation of stars. You have all the ingredients floating around in early childhood, and under the correct conditions as you move into early adolescence, those ingredients should form one star. Under different conditions, more chaotic ones, this space dust may form many stars, instead of one. That's WHY systems only form in this early stage of development, because the "one star" isn't developed yet. You're still just space dust.
It's not really splitting or breaking something already made or whole, it's forming something new. There never was a whole. If you are plural, you have never really had one total identity state, only the sort of ingredients to make one. Even if you reach final fusion, you won't have the same neural makeup as a singlet. To some degree, you'll always be you, all of you. This time, you'll just be all of you together. Likewise, one star (for the sake of this analogy) will not split into two once it is formed. It is just one star for as long as it is a star. This theory of formation makes a lot more sense than theories where there is originally a whole that fractures, the latter idea is much less consistent with current leading theories on the formation of memory, personality, and childhood development.
I need everyone to look at me. Look me dead in my eyes.
Cleo, the real human person who will be face revealing next weekend, is, by their own definition, a heavyset White femme presenting nonbinary person who is in their early-mid 40s. That's what they will look like. I need you to get that in your mind right now so that I don't see any dumb as shit comments about Cleo not looking like fanart or a cartoon or their anime style V-Tuber. They will look like a real human person. You will be normal about this.
Remember that being normal about them also means not immediately sexualizing them. You will be NORMAL. You will treat Cleo like a person and that means not being an ass and not being horny over her.
I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic
Nazis will never be welcome in paganism. They have no space in our communities, we will have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to nazis. You have no right to the cultures, gods and religions you hijack to spread your disgusting ideologies. You will find no refuge or comraderie amongst pagans.
Reblog to let nazis know they’re not welcome here.
