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Did they make Wriothesley's voice deeper in his latest update? Like it seems WAYYY deeper than in his early trailers

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Random black coat Vash doodle I did in class a while back

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You know how Romance and Reason are so deeply tied in Amphoreus mythos because their gods love each other? In the next cycle, I hope Trickery and Romance are connected because of Cipher and Aglaea's parental bond

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They should make more connections w vash and nuclear power aside from the living nuclear bomb thing cuz like. thats metal, make him occasionally radioactive or something

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Happy Wolfwood Wednesday! 🖤

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People who play Genshin: is the Wriothesley banner still running?

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I just cannot explain to you how badly I want a Wriothesley expy in Star Rail. I'm on my knees BEGGING hoyo...

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It would be so unbelievably funny to me if the Flame Reaver ended up NOT being Phainon... like they're actually Cyrene

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せっかくアカウントを作ったので投稿してみる。 使い方わからないよ💦

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The Black Widow

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a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

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will you love him?? 🥺 will you buy. hats.

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i love my therapist but i hate being in therapy. 10 minutes before my appointment, i'm in a meeting with my boss - we discuss my artistic choices; my boss recommends i artistically choose less. 10 minutes after therapy, i wash my hair and think about everything that was said, and then i have to switch it off, like a lamp, and go back to work again.

i was on a walk the other day and someone had the perfect combination of his cologne and whatever-else. it was almost exactly his scent. i fucking hate that. after all these years, i remember that? i tell my therapist - i feel like a fucking wolf. try telling a middle-aged blonde lady. oh i scented him on the air. i'm 30, and i'm having a panic attack over something that would be a plotline in the omegaverse.

what they don't tell you about mental illness is that if you are lucky enough to survive it into adulthood; it becomes a weird slice of your life. because you do, eventually, have to build a life. i realized in a panic somewhere around 22 - oh. i don't know what i'm fucking doing, because i always assumed i'd just go ahead and die. i didn't die, and i'm grateful for that, and i'm very happy about that choice. but it does mean that i am an adult in an apartment, living with my conditions side-by-side like. oh, that's my roommate, adhd. ignore the glass, bytheway, that's ocd.

so you pick your stupid life up by the scruff of the neck and you're, like glad for it (so much laughter and light and friends you would have never thought possible, when you were in the worst of it). but it feels so strange to be dancing around these odd little microcosms, these patchwork moments of your symptoms. if you have a panic attack at night, you still need to wake up and walk the dog in the morning. if your depression is making everything boring, well, you don't have any sick days left, and a job's not really supposed to be that exciting anyway. your ocd tears out each individual leg hair, and then, an hour later, you sigh, patch up the bloody bits, and go get dinner with friends. and the life is kitten-quiet, mewling and pathetic, but it's also like - it's yours, so you're fond of it.

and it's like - you're real. so you still enjoy pushing the shopping cart really fast and then riding on the back of it down an empty aisle. and you're not, like, so sick anymore that when you accidentally drop a mug you burst into tears (except for the days you do that. which are bad). and no, you're not allowed around certain items anymore. oops! but you've learned to be good about brushing your teeth most days of the week. and you sometimes in the middle of the day you have a little freak-out about how fucking unfair it all is, how fucking hard, how other people can just do this without having to fucking hurt the whole time. and then you sigh and force yourself to sit down and fucking journal about it so you can tell the nice middle-aged blonde woman yeah i had a hard day but i practiced grounding. you still sometimes want to burst out of your own skin, but you force yourself to eat kind-of healthy and to take your vitamins. you let yourself chop off all your hair in the sink in a dramatic poetry of control and relief - and you also have developed good hobbies that help you move your body more frequently. you feel helplessly behind, lost in the shuffle - but you also practice gratitude, taking stock of what you have garnered. because you're trying. even if you're never gonna be normal, you have something... close enough.

and the little kitten of your life, this mangy, starlit tigercub, this thing you expected to rot so young: in your arms, it turns itself over, belly-up. exposing this new soft part, all the organs and guts. like it's saying i trust you now. you won't give me up.

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Can anyone who's dyslexic give me advice?

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tldr: Can you be ok in one language and be dyslexic in another??

I'm a native English speaker, and I've never had any trouble reading. In fact, my reading was always considered high for the academic level I was at in high school and below. My spelling has always been ATROSCIOUS (I figured I'd keep the mistake here lol), often to the point where autocorrect and the spelling suggestions can't figure out what I want to say, but reading has always been easy. I definitely don't have an issue with letters appearing backwards or out of order.

I started studying Japanese about 10 years ago in college. I majored in Japanese (and Comparative Literature), ended up taking I think 2 years off, then went back to a master's program for Japanese Literature, and am now in a phd program for Japanese Literature. I passed all the language requirements by the skin of my teeth, but despite studying it for 10 YEARS, my ability is less than the average graduating undergrad. I can't remember kanji (Japanese characters) to save my life; in language courses, I would be able to remember them long enough to pass the test, but would basically instantly forget them after that. I'm almost entirely illiterate. In the past year, I've been trying to build my kanji knowledge up by studying them every night, adding on more and more as I get more comfortable. It's helped a lot, but even though I will go over the same 200 words every night for months, if I miss a day or two, I'll forget a LOT of them. It'll almost be like starting from square one. I struggle to recognize kanji I've studied on flashcards when they're on paper or a different digital screen. If there are similar kanji, I can see the difference when they're right next to each other, but I can't usually tell the difference when they're apart. For example:

慣 惜 and 憧 are tripping me up a lot right now. My feeling is I'm just looking at a bunch of stacked boxes. I mixed up 鳥 and 鴉 in class, and my teacher seemed very surprised. I mistook 与 for 写 today.

I thought for a long time that my struggles were just laziness and the 2-year gap, and that's surely a big part of it, but I feel like it's very strange how much difficulty I'm having retaining information even after so much repeation (this was an honest attempt at repetition). And it's been 10 years. 10 YEARS! Surely more should have just rubbed off on me by now even if I was the worst student... and I do actually try. And people with less Japanese experience than me don't seem to struggle like this (though who knows ig).

I'm autistic, but no information I found says autism (unless you have difficulty in your native language to begin with, I assume) affects second-language learning. My grandmother's spelling is also apparently horrible enough that my mother has remarked on it multiple times, but she is very uneducated and it could be the result of that.

Can you be ok in one language and be dyslexic in another??

Am I just bad at this lol???

I guess I'm just searching for a reason not to feel embaressed by how bad I am. I'd feel a lot better knowing I had a medical condition that made it hard. An excuse. I won't give up, and I plan on hitting the flashcards hard this summer. And regardless of what I am or am not, I'll probably look into kanji learning for dyslexics and autistics. But if it seems like I'm grasping at straws, that would be why lol

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