the real The Jon

your resident nerd who likes stars, Na'vi, transformers, and oranges :]

[star-keepr]

★hello hello!!★

this is my introductory post :]

call me: Star ★ (will update if this changes)

☾he/him☾ however I accept literally any remotely masc or nb pronouns so if u wanna use something like it/its or other various sillies I'm here for it <3

current fandoms/interests: Steam Powered Giraffe, Fallout, All Tomorrows, TMNT, Monkey Wrench, Transformers, Circus Galacticus, Stardew Valley, Stanley Parable, Date Everything, The Young Ones, TF2, Avatar (James Cameron), Cyberpunk, Kpop Demon Hunters, You're Not Supposed To Be Here, Project Hail Mary, Predator, Dispatch, Annihilation, The Freak Circus, Iron Lung, GACHIAKUTA, Lupin III, High On Life 1 & 2, JJBA (help me), and I will yap endlessly about all the silly obscure movies that have influenced my art <3

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xtra cool facts!!

- @x-ca1iber and @kandi-bath853 are awesome n talented pls go check em out

- PRO LGBTQ

- PRO ALL THE COOL THINGS BIGOTS FUCK OFF

- 'word doodles with star' will be my throwaway hashtag sometimes if l remember

- hey you look nice today :D

[ruhua-langblr]

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 the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"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)

[buried-in-stardust]

OP: "I've seen lion dancing and dragon dancing before, but this is the first time I've seen realistic lobsters fighting clams."

[dogpuppy]

[glowing-beetle]

Eridian language not carrying any tone (when translated to English at least) paired with autistic Grace is awesome because Rocky essentially speaks with tone tags added on the end of his sentences. This is very useful for Grace. Statement.

[senatortedcruz]

I am in fucking tears

[desert-love]

[a-book-of-creatures]

When you see an adolescent saguaro 👍

[picunha]

the transition im crying

[vanity-complex]

I am walking onto the field. Haters are forcefully removing me from the premise

[anxyistiredsstuff]

Lost light cat shelter au by: @madamadamiu Heres some wigglypaint gifs of Ultra Chub, Meowgatron and Scratchet the cuties!!! Ultra Magnus being a fat cat brings unimaginable joy to me ok bye

dumb ahh cat

[leklekistired]

Rocky can see, BORING!

[animentality]

[coldgoldlazarus]

[futuremoji]

Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

[twomoonsinthesky-twicenickel]

😂 <- are they laughing at me or with me though??

Very important distinction.

[the-grand-neb]

🔥<OH CURSES THEY WANT TO SET ME ON FIRE

[ajithink]

🐟

Ok ig

[jakejavu-offical]

🙁

Fair enough /silly

[pegz-and-rexy-offical]

👌

Could be worse

[the-one-and-only-piper-offical]

🙏

Whats that supposed to mean

[artemisiamasterofnone]

☀️

Damn

[chaos-incarnate-xd]

🎆

what

[artemisiamasterofnone]

they 'sploded

[lightsabersandbluecookies]

🗣 what does this mean

[definitely-ao3-offical]

They gossip about you?

🚪 I don't wanna leave :(

[saber-toast-tiger]

👁 < theyre watching me

[halogen-insertlastparthere]

🦈

I…uhm… I don’t know what this means

[carn3lian-claws]

😔

Disappointed in me. I can see that

[veinsofwires]

👅

i. Uhm. Right then.

[carn3lian-claws]

OH WAITI MISREAD THE NUMBER SO MINE IS ACTUALLY DIFFERENT

😭

oh well that's not much better

[whitestreamrct2]

❤️ < - yay…?

@zeldafloof @silly-fi5h @bassyperson @chezzitezzi @maplethedarkshine @moonflower-wings-of-fire + open tags!

[maplethedarkshine]

🫵… what are you pointing at mf….?

(Open tags)

[fungusamongus93828]

😅 << not so bad I guess?

(open tags)

[star-keepr]

‼️

oh so she's mad at me I think

[soulofthedeep]

Sound on to hear the water running through pebbles

[hollis-art]

let's be pebbles and misbehave on our field trip to mr. grace's habitat :D

do you think this would give him flashbacks to his last memories of earth being him getting manhandled? yes or no

[starsandscars81]

Something I love about Project Hail Mary is that it’s clear Grace is an alien too. Rocky thinks Grace is gross and leaky and squishy and his culture doesn’t make much sense. That’s his weird alien friend goddamn it.

[presumenothing]

book!rocky making up for the lack of a don't go crazy room by learning to mimic earth sounds from the documentaries that stratt has, of course, pirated alongside everything else. if grace closes his eyes and tries to stop thinking for a little while it almost sounds like there's birds outside his window again. grace? grace let go now. rocky cannot sing properly if grace is hugging rocky about it

[lumiyuun]

Johnny Joestar