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The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

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Pokemon fusions

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Art tutorials by Disney artists Griz and Norm Lemay

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Art by Betty Jiang

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hehehehehe

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random asks

what was the last thing you read?

favourite movie?

favourite book?

dream date?

do you have a crush?

what are your hobbies?

what’s your favourite time of day?

if you could look like anything, what would you look like?

are you a romantic?

what’s your favourite type of weather?

what do you like talking about?

what are your turn ons?

turn offs?

if you got a tattoo, what would it be and where would you get it?

do you want any pets?

dream job?

dream place to live?

dream vacation?

do you want any piercings?

if you had kids, what would you name them?

what are your best traits?

worst traits?

what’s your worst fear?

what do you want to eat right now?

what’s the best vacation you’ve been on?

favourite city?

favourite social media platform?

favourite article of clothing?

do you play any sports?

favourite meal of the day?

what are you excited for?

not excited for?

when was the last time you cried?

dream house?

what’s something you hate about the world?

what’s something you love about the world?

what scents do you like?

what kind of sleeper are you?

sweet or savoury?

are you a cat or dog person?

how long would you survive in a zombie apocalypse?

free! ask anything

when do you feel safe?

are you trusting?

what fictional characters do you identify with?

what labels do you commonly get?

what soung would be your life anthem?

what issues are you dealing with right now?

how can someone win you over?

what’s something about you people don’t know?

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some of y’all still can’t recognize the differences between platonic, romantic, sexual, mentor-student, and familial relationships, both in fiction and reality, and it really shows

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“Sometimes I eat things!”

“Sometimes I eat too many things”

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weird asks that say a lot

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1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans?

2. chocolate bars or lollipops?

3. bubblegum or cotton candy?

4. how did your elementary school teachers describe you?

5. do you prefer to drink soda from soda cans, soda bottles, plastic cups or glass cups?

6. pastel, boho, tomboy, preppy, goth, grunge, formal or sportswear?

7. earbuds or headphones?

8. movies or tv shows?

9. favorite smell in the summer?

10. game you were best at in p.e.?

11. what you have for breakfast on an average day?

12. name of your favorite playlist?

13. lanyard or key ring?

14. favorite non-chocolate candy?

15. favorite book you read as a school assignment?

16. most comfortable position to sit in?

17. most frequently worn pair of shoes?

18. ideal weather?

19. sleeping position?

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

21. obsession from childhood?

22. role model?

23. strange habits?

24. favorite crystal?

25. first song you remember hearing?

26. favorite activity to do in warm weather?

27. favorite activity to do in cold weather?

28. five songs to describe you?

29. best way to bond with you?

30. places that you find sacred?

31. what outfit do you wear to kick ass and take names?

32. top five favorite vines?

33. most used phrase in your phone?

34. advertisements you have stuck in your head?

35. average time you fall asleep?

36. what is the first meme you remember ever seeing?

37. suitcase or duffel bag?

38. lemonade or tea?

39. lemon cake or lemon meringue pie?

40. weirdest thing to ever happen at your school?

41. last person you texted?

42. jacket pockets or pants pockets?

43. hoodie, leather jacket, cardigan, jean jacket or bomber jacket?

44. favorite scent for soap?

45. which genre: sci-fi, fantasy or superhero?

46. most comfortable outfit to sleep in?

47. favorite type of cheese?

48. if you were a fruit, what kind would you be?

49. what saying or quote do you live by?

50. what made you laugh the hardest you ever have?

51. current stresses?

52. favorite font?

53. what is the current state of your hands?

54. what did you learn from your first job?

55. favorite fairy tale?

56. favorite tradition?

57. the three biggest struggles you’ve overcome?

58. four talents you’re proud of having?

59. if you were a video game character, what would your catchphrase be?

60. if you were a character in an anime, what kind of anime would you want it to be?

61. favorite line you heard from a book/movie/tv show/etc.?

62. seven characters you relate to?

63. five songs that would play in your club?

64. favorite website from your childhood?

65. any permanent scars?

66. favorite flower(s)?

67. good luck charms?

68. worst flavor of any food or drink you’ve ever tried?

69. a fun fact that you don’t know how you learned?

70. left or right handed?

71. least favorite pattern?

72. worst subject?

73. favorite weird flavor combo?

74. at what pain level out of ten (1 through 10) do you have to be at before you take an advil or ibuprofen?

75. when did you lose your first tooth?

76. what’s your favorite potato food (i.e. tater tots, baked potatoes, fries, chips, etc.)?

77. best plant to grow on a windowsill?

78. coffee from a gas station or sushi from a grocery store?

79. which looks better, your school id photo or your driver’s license photo?

80. earth tones or jewel tones?

81. fireflies or lightning bugs?

82. pc or console?

83. writing or drawing?

84. podcasts or talk radio?

84. barbie or polly pocket?

85. fairy tales or mythology?

86. cookies or cupcakes?

87. your greatest fear?

88. your greatest wish?

89. who would you put before everyone else?

90. luckiest mistake?

91. boxes or bags?

92. lamps, overhead lights, sunlight or fairy lights?

93. nicknames?

94. favorite season?

95. favorite app on your phone?

96. desktop background?

97. how many phone numbers do you have memorized?

98. favorite historical era?

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[LYRICS ANALYSIS] BTS - MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA 'Persona'

“’Who am I’ The question I had my whole life” 

So here Namjoon questions his being. It’s something that he always said. It’s not the first time he brought light to it. But some people might think he already found himself with the glory and fame he accumulated. He is here making us all recall that such a question needs an answer from within. Money, success, fame and so on cannot define someone. It just gives them a Persona. 

“The question to which I will not find an answer my whole life” 

He tried and tried to find an answer but he keeps on changing and the world keeps defining him. He is expressing how hard it is here for him to find an answer in such circumstances. 

“If I were answerable with a few mere words. Then God wouldn’t have created those various beauties” 

Beauties here can mean so many things and to understand it we need to define it first ‘It’s the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design’ or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). So to cut it short, he is talking about something that gives satisfaction to the mind. we will understand more what he meant in the future lines. 

“How you feel? How are you feeling right now?”

This sentence has two meaning. First he is asking us how do we feel about what he just said and secondly he is asking himself and coming with an answer in the next phrase. 

“Actually, I am real good but a little bit uncomfortable. I am not sure if I’m a dog or a pig or what else. But then people come and put the pearl necklace on me”

“Pearls before swine” or “casting pearls” may refer to a quotation from Matthew 7:6 in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.” The meaning?  “Some people just cannot appreciate what is sacred and holy”.  But, on the other hand, we have pearls:  Pearls of wisdom, of truth, pearls of good advice, These are the pearls that straighten people out if only they would receive them, so should we just not waste our time on such people…such swine?

“I laugh more than I did before”

Namjoon may be not able to find an answer to his question. But nonetheless, he is happier now. If you heard some of past songs like ‘always’ You will understand how deep he was into depression and sadness. 

“I dreamt of becoming a superhero, now it feels like I really became one” 

Yes, it goes without saying that NAmjoon’s music and lyrics inspire many and save them from their dark space. If that’s not a superhero, then what is he?

“But as it goes on there is so much blabbering”

Even though they are influencing many people positively they will always be someones who will talk foolishly of them and their work. 

“One says run the other says stop” 

If this ain’t every comment section under every Korean article. People have divided point of views and here he said that you can’t listen to everyone and you can’t please them all

“This one says look at the forest that one says look at the wildflower”

This makes me recall these lines 27 “Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 28 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith!29 And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. Luke 12:27-30 New International Version (NIV). One thing to take from this is that people say different things and you don’t know which one to believe. And he doesn’t know which one to follow.

“My shadow, I wrote and called it hesitation”

The shadow here is not any shadow. It’s the shadow from Jung’s map of the soul. The first stage in the exploration of the unconscious, according to Jung, is an encounter with one’s shadow archetype. Over the course of one’s life, certain personality traits elicit negative feedback and even punishment from others. This negative feedback creates anxiety resulting in these traits being pushed away from awareness into the unconscious where they form the shadow – the “dark” side of one’s personality. To become aware of and integrate the shadow into consciousness is often a difficult and sometimes heroic endeavor. Here RM is aware of the existence of such thing within him and that alone is amazing. 

“It has never hesitated after becoming that. It keeps appearing under the stage or the light. Keep glaring at me scorchingly like a heat wave” 

Since RM became famous he developed a shadow, his dark side. And this one appears mostly when he is on stage or under the light of the cameras. 

“Hey, have you ever forgotten why you even started this? you were just digging it that someone was listening. Sometimes everything sounds like freaking nonsense. You know what comes of you when you are drunk … like immaturity” 

This whole verse is spoken by his shadow. 

“Someone like me, ain’t good enough for music. Someone like me ain’t good enough for the truth. Someone like me ain’t good enough for calling. Someone like me ain’t good enough to be a muse” 

Here it’s a stage where he started believing his shadow and thinking he is not good enough. 

“The flaws of mine that I know. Maybe that’s all I have got really. The world is actually not interested in my clumsiness at all” 

He calls his work clumsiness and thinks that maybe the world is not really interested in his music. Again, this is just him battling his shadow.  

“The regrets that I don’t get sick of anymore. I tumble with them every night until I'm disgusted and twist the irreversible time habitually“

BTS seemed to always have regrets after most stages. Always feeling sorry for the fans even after making the tiniest mistakes that no one but they can see and hear. And of course, before he goes to sleep is when he recalls the whole nightmarish day. 

“There is something that raised me up every time. The first question: The three syllables of my name and the word ‘but’ that should come before any of those”

He means by these lines when people accuse him of his past mistakes. When he apologized and moved on. But not just that. Whenever someone is accused of something, another one will be like “But Namjoon did this and that”. 

“So I’m askin’ once again. yeah. who the hell am I?”

You feel how heavy this question became after he told us how he struggles with his inner self and the world he was brought to live in.  

“Tell me your names baby. Do you wanna die? Oh, do you wanna go? Do you wanna fly? where’s your soul? where’s your dream? Do you think you’re alive?”

These are questions that the audience might think they are mainly for them but it’s also questions that he is asking himself. Because it’s only ith questions taht we find answers. It can also be questions asked by his shadow for RM. and it the next verse he will answer those. 

“Hey, my name is R. The ‘me’ that I remember and people know. The ‘me’ that I created myself to vent out. Yeah, maybe I have been deceiving myself. Maybe I have been lying. But I am not embarrassed anymore this is the map of my soul”

Here RM accepts his map of the soul. He accepts his shadow and persona and so on. He says that it’s true he tried to blend in with what people wanted from him. He tried to create someone they will love. But he is no more in conflict with himself. 

“Dear myself you must never lose your temperature. Cuz you neither need to be warm or cold”

He is now who he wants to be. Who he needs to be.

“Though sometimes I might be hypocritical or pretend to be evil“

He is human so he can’t always be perfect and he can’t always act as he wishes

“This is the barometer of my direction I want to keep. The ‘me’ that I want myself to be. The ‘me’ that people want me to be. The ‘me’ that you love and the ‘me’ that I create. The ‘me’ that’s smiling. The ‘me’ that’s sometimes in tears. Vividly breathing each second and every moment even now. Persona.“

To understand what he is saying we need to define ‘persona’.The word persona was used in Roman times to signify a mask worn by an actor. In an analogous manner, in Jungian psychology,  the persona represents the social mask that each of us “wear” in our interaction with others in society. Or to put it differently, it represents the personality that we try to portray to others.

You will think so he is going to create a persona to please people? No not really because it’s the person he wants to be. 

“Who the hell I am? I just wanna go. I just wanna fly. I just wanna give you all the voices till I die. I just wanna give you all the shoulders when you cry” 

But even after all this, he doesn’t know who he is yet. But one thing for sure is that he answered his shadow’s questions. He wants to do it all and not stick to one thing. By all I mean. He wants to be a singer who comforts you when you cry and be your voice when you don’t have one. H want to fly and reach higher and go to places he has never to before. that’s his PERSONA. 

Wow that took a good hour. I hope you liked it and it helped you understand the genius behind these lyrics 

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Hi guys! After I posted this picture, some people have approached me and asked me about some resources. Since a few of you wanted to know, why not make a whole masterpost and add some other useful stuff!

First of all, I am officially at B2+ level of German, having passed my Goethe Zertifikat and the DaF-Test. If you have any questions about these exams, please, don’t be afraid to ask!

Grammar books/websites

Übungsgrammmatik für die Grundstufe - this one is for the basic level (A1-B1)

Hueber Übungsgrammatik für die Mittelstufe - this is the one in the picture and it is for an intermediate level

Hueber Übungsgrammatik für Fortgeschrittene - this one is for the advanced level

Schubert grammar

German grammar - +some pretty pictures of the German cities

Duden - Deutsche Grammatik - a very detailed grammar book! (haven’t used it but you can’t go wrong with this publisher)

Pons

Hueber - the same publisher of the first three books, here you can search for more useful books that suit your needs!

German news (reading + videos)

Deutsche Welle - one of the best websites to learn German from! Has language lessons, videos, podcasts, slow spoken news, exercises and much more!

Zeit

Spiegel - this one is a little harder if you are just beginning to learn German

Tagesschau

Dictionaries

Dict.cc - the best one so far in my opinion with many examples

Collins - you can also order one online if you wish

Pons  - also available for order if you don’t want to use the online version

Tip: If you can, avoid using Google Translate and Bing! They are great for simple things, but sometimes useless and confusing if you want to translate longer and more complicated texts.

Library

I’ve seen many resources for books but honestly the best thing you can do is join your local Goethe Library, if you have one. If not, try searching for some German libraries that offer online registration. If you join your local Goethe Institute library, they probably offer an online registration to the Onleihe service, where you can rent books online and read them on your computer/phone/tablet - just ask the librarian (and it’s completely free!)

Goethe Bibliothek in your neighbourhood

Die Onleihe 

Vocabulary

Memrise

German flashcards

Cerego

Language guide

Babbel

Vocabulix

Deutsch richtig

Wortschatz & Grammatik - yet another book, this one is for the basic A1 level, but in the sidebar you can see more advanced books

Listening

Deutsche Welle podcasts - again, an amazing resource, use it wisely!

A list of German radio stations you can listen to online

Youtube podcasts with very basic lessons

Some german youtubers

Michael Buchinger - an Austrian youtuber, personal favourite!

Heimatfilme - old German movies

Easy German

Useful apps

Duolingo

Memrise

HelloTalk - this one is a personal recommendation!

italki

Rosetta Stone

HiNative

Lang-8 - not really an app but a website, really useful tho!

Final tips

make your own little grammar notebook (you can see a glimpse of mine on the photo above) put grammar rules, examples and illustrate it however you like!

if you have the money/time, invest in private/group lessons (Goethe institute also offers these!) it’s a great investment since you can actually practice SPEAKING the language with living people and not just reading it

set a goal, and then stick to it

DAILY. PRACTICE. GUYS!!!

if you can’t afford lessons, use the apps mentioned above like hellotalk, italki and hinative

film yourself speaking

start a langbrl to motivate yourself

find a study buddy

watch movies and TV shows!!! these you can find on netflix, if not, you can always choose a subbed version of your favourite english speaking TV show on netflix

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

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YEAR ONE ZINE PRE-ORDERS ARE NOW LIVE!

YEAR ONE ZINE is a yearbook-style fanzine that simulates and encapsulates events during Class 1-A’s school life. It contains the canon episodes and what-ifs that happened inside and outside the classroom, internship, dorm life, and more!

Pre-orders and the giveaway will close on January 15, 2019 (11:59pm PST)

PRE-ORDER YEAR ONE ZINE HERE!

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Bonus bookmarks and stretch goal merch (notepad #2, tote bag, enamel pin) will be added to physical orders upon meeting their conditions!

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I'm gonna hop at the K/DA train toooo :33

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School drawing ^^

And english in the background 😅

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... Inktober day 1 ... Poisunous

Just a sketch tho...

Yeah, I'm kindda back 😅

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^^

I’m doing this again this year!!

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Thought of it … I think it was funny Inspired by @vediiart caz this cat it hilarius 😂😂😂