fruity little fruit guy

Charlie - 20 - he/they • JJBA Enthusiast

[hamletthedane]

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

[finalfrontierpublishing]

Want to learn bookbinding, with an interest in fanfiction?

Figure out what tools you need - video by bitter melon bindery

But also, you can definitely bookbind with a lot of stuff you have on hand and on a budget - post by starblight bindery

Learn how to bind a square-back bradel bind - videos by DASbookbinding

Impose your own typesets - Renegade Community Imposer, maintained and coded by Renegade members

Some free resources put together by Renegade Bookbinding Guild

Non-obligatory link to Renegade Bookbinding Guild discord (18+ only), an online international community of fanbinders engaged in not-for-profit fanbinding, which has an amazing community of people willing to share information, tips, resources and great fic.

[busket]

honestly im saddened by the violence that trans people treat their past selves. "your son/daughter is dead, I killed him/her" "that wasnt me thats just a miserable angry little boy/girl" "why are you using the name and pronouns of a dead person" I know its born from trauma and people feel like they want to dramatically separate themselves from that traumatic, sad and desperate part of their life. its a way to cope with being a new person and feeling like you wasted all your life being unhappy

I think about myself as a little girl, or a teenage girl. and she was unhappy, lonely, and she hated herself. people were mean to her. and she doesnt need me being mean to her, too. she deserved to know that she would grow up to be someone happy and confident. it doesnt matter if she was "really a boy trapped in a girl's body", she was a person. she was a child. she deserved compassion and understanding, and a lot of people couldn't give that to her. what kind of a man would I be if I cant even extend love to the confused, sad and afraid little girl that I will carry with me for the rest of my life? if I kept bullying a child who was already put through so much? she didnt die, she stays with me, and she watches me laugh and smile and take joy in the body that she used to hate. she can hear me when I tell her that she did her very best, we survived because of her, but im a grown up now and ive got it under control. we dont need to use the coping skills she learned to survive because they dont work anymore. and im proud of her for getting me here.

[yourfavouritebruiser]

Everyone knows that Memorial Day (US holiday) is for Abbacchio, Bruno, and Narancia. Duh.

R.I.P., kings 😔🙏

[ot3]

coming up with an au were a dead character lives but shaking my head while i do it so everyone watching knows i support the role their death played in the narrative and consider it a legitimate writing choice

[ot3]

wasn't expecting this to get notes so i feel like for extra flavor i should say that this post was made about my desire to have caesar zeppeli live long enough for joseph to cheat on him too

[bikakirarin]

I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe

[heritageposts]

[gendercensus]

The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

[tsunflowers]

she just left

[feralghouls-deactivated20240225]

[szeretemacheddart]

done

[jaidefinichon]

[bringingjexyback]

Why is this my favorite comic strip?? 

[lt-hawkeye]

Rough translation:

“My friends are gonna be here in 15 minutes!”

“I gotta set the table!”

[goatpaste]

Hey can you draw hot pants punching someone in the face, like absolutely slogging them, please it will advance feminism by 50 years

I hope this doesn't sound weird I just wanna see hot pants punching someone in your style

fuck yeah, Steel Ball Run if it was based

Hot Pants Knocks out Funny Valentine Killing him forever the end

[pukicho]

Look at this goofy fucker pretending to be a writer. GET OUTTA HERE

[pukicho]

I GAINED 112!! SHE IS NOT TO BE FEARED

[onion-souls]

How is Charmingman a particularly odd name in the country with a former president named Funny Valentine

The guy next to you is named Jodio Jostar

[denjidenjiji]

I dreamt that cahara lost a coin toss and Joseph joestar strangled him to death.

[ilikepotatooes-deactivated20250]

Reblog to have the most homoerotic year of your life 2024

[illumineeti]

[nothingbizzare]

Trans color pallete fugio for all the trans people out there

[lolobizarreadventuresshatpost]

[juststoleyourcat]

Trans Visibility Day activities

(image id in alt, i hope!)