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Hbd Ferdinand!

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Could you reblog this if you enjoy seeing your writer friends ramble about their wips on your dash?

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Ferdinand von birthdaegir

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they're totally doing that on purpose

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I'm very normal about him

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Finally had the time to draw some VB fanart…I need to get this image out of my head so bad…everytime i listen to prophecy by Judas Priest this image pops up in my head for some reason!!!

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Some ghosties for Wanderstop ;u;;

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i cannot keep quiet about this anymore.

if you're in the US or Canada and interested in learning a language using a free app please get a library card and download MANGO. it's very good and extremely free with a library card (there are many public libraries and universities using the service, so make an account and use the search feature here to find out if there's one near you).

mango currently has 72 available languages and dialects (that's right! different courses for french or canadian french! spanish or latam spanish!). it's set up basically like an audiobook with text. the idea is that the narrator explains the words while you read, and you repeat after them or say the translation out loud when prompted. there's a daily review where you go through flashcards. you can also use the flashcards at your leisure and create your own. at the end of each chapter there's a listening comprehension quiz and a reading comprehension quiz. i cannot emphasize how effective this all is. and it's free with a card.

if you're not in the US or Canada and/or looking for something more like duolingo (don't use duolingo btw tldr they fired translators and replaced them with "ai"), then try BUSUU! it only has 14 languages atm but the lessons are really descriptive and effective. it also has a feature where you can correct other people's open-ended speaking/typing exercises. you set your fluent languages, and exercises by people learning those languages will appear in your feed for you to correct. you can even add others as friends! and, much like duolingo, it has a streak and leaderboard system for you to strive for, minus the guilt-tripping owl.

busuu is free (you watch ads to unlock lessons and they're all skippable after like five seconds), although it also has paid premium/plus versions (i don't use the paid version—the language courses are available for free, and the ad system is Really unobtrusive).

so that's my wisdom for the day. mango and busuu. please check them out :)

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The dark Princess reveals her deepest fears only to a stoic old amphibian, which long ago hopped into her tent, and into her heart.

Melinoë, Princess of the Underworld:

Only the deepest fears for you, Frinos!

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gale commission!

bonus

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mr demon of vyrantium

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I worked on a collab with @river-gale where I proposed that I draw a picture and then they write a fic based off of that piece! Here's the final product and a snippet of the fic they shared with me!

“Finally,” January said, adjusting the angle of his baseball cap and the fit of his mask. “I feel like a real celebrity.” “Now that you’re in disguise to not look like a celebrity?” Gale said. They were dressed similarly, in a decades-old green cardigan and an identical black hat that said THARSIS UNIVERSITY Applied Linguistics Dept. on it. They threaded their ponytail through their baseball cap, which made January smile, because he had never pictured them doing it before. Behind deep purple sunglasses, their eyes were bright. 

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Obsessed with how obsessed the De Rivas are with each other like absoluting nothing is going on out in the world and Rook brings up Viago completely unprompted (sometimes prompted by ride or die legend Lucanis, who is also low-key kind of obsessed with Viago, understandably so), and then back home Viago is noticeably different without his favourite idiot around, makes knowing digs at them when they're back. I am obsessed with them. They're so fucking stupid. Give me 1000 more hours of it 🫴

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The San Francisco Examiner, California, June 30, 1932

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this is a safe space for toxic relationships and unhealthy romance and unhealthy power balances and of course who could forget stockholm syndrome

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One of these days Gretchen, one of these days.

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Max Nonnenbruch, Junge Schönheit. 1892