#I'll be showing more as I progress ^_^

[twotales]

So, I had this thought, about a grumpy little 2D Rodney- so I set off to make it happen- (I had no idea what I was doing)

I love him.

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Thennnn I thought, hey, wouldn't it be cool if I animated him? (counts as using my degree right?)

Adorable.

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but- BUT (no way man it's impossible)

WHAT IF YOU- (stop)

WHAT IF YOU COULD- (don't even-)

WHAT IF YOU COULD CONTROL HIM!?

Mission accomplished

[havinganidentitycrisis]

☆ | SOUL EATER ◇ PROJECT ARCANA | ☆

1. Lord Death as Death

- Meaning: End of cycles, new beginnings, new life.

- Reversed: A reversal of the Death card suggests one is resisting change or a significant transformation. Holding on to old perspectives or beliefs from the past could hinder progress and leave you feeling stagnant.

• Interpretation: The effect Death has on the world and everything in it, his place as not only as a god but existing in nature as well, his legacy as the first guardian and passing it on to the next, the passing of the torch, and knowing that while his time is running short, he trusts those who will lead after him.

[starkrebellion]

"I'm sick of blaming you, dad"

I'M NOT!!! I'M NOT SICK OF BLAMING JOHNNY LAWRENCE WHEN IT COMES TO ROBBY KEENE!!!!

[local-tithonia]

I just came across your villain rook art and it's fantastic! Is there a collection of your fanart of Ben 10? I felt like there were more designs but the pages no longer exist.

Omg thank you sm!! 💜 Unfortunately not, I felt most of it was outdated and had to priv it 💔 I can't say fs whether my art style changed much since then but we all know the deal with old art LOL OTL,, In any case I threw together a lil sum for him 🙈

[hephaestuscrew]

Who says the episode title phrases in each episode of Wolf 359?

I've created a spreadsheet to show which character says the episode title phrase (i.e. the words which form the name of that particular episode) in every episode of Wolf 359. Graphs summarising this data can be found below, but to look at the full spreadsheet in all its glory, and see the progression through the series, you can follow this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cQLkhxbDAItU6rdiUAYGn54FXXxYC-JXlCmP_Dqe9FA/

(Please note: I’ve focused here on which character first speaks the exact title phrase within the episode itself. In some cases, this is not the only - or the most significant - time that the title phrase is spoken.)

EDIT: This post previously stated incorrectly that "the devil's plaything" is not said in Ep57. In fact, it is said by Pryce (through Minkowski). Thank you to @yaghoulghosty for pointing this out!

Season breakdown graphs below the cut...

[rigelmejo]

@earlgrey--tea you asked who learned French just by watching TV shows and I'm thrilled you asked.

Here is the paper Peter Llewellyn Foley published: Picking up a second language from television: an autoethnographic L2 simulation of L1 French learning. Looking over the paper again now, he did 1500 hours of audio-visual French material for native speakers. He read toward the end of that period for some hundreds of hours, and he talked to people in French similarly toward the end of that period for some hundreds of hours. I read the whole thing, and I recommend anyone else who's curious reads the whole thing. Because my takeaways may not be the same as another person's. The paper includes what he did, how he studied, how he tracked his study, what study materials worked best (he found children's cartoons with a lot of visuals of what is being talked about were the easiest to learn from in the first few hundred hours - and adult television where they talk about things not directly visually shown as some of the hardest stuff that he used once he had more understanding of the language).

His paper shows at least 1 person could learn French by watching shows (with children's cartoons being best at the beginning stage until you learn more words), and trying to figure out what each thing means as you hear it. He did a lot of puzzling out the sounds he heard, using context and guessing what was being talked about (for curiosity's sake he did the opposite of what ALG Automatic Language Growth articles tend to suggest people do). He did not do any reading later sometime after 1000 hours, and it's fascinating how different he imagined French spelling was based on his guesses from the sound, compared to how it is actually spelled. He did use some graded readers for learners once he was reading.

He did not look any word translations up when watching all those shows. He personally makes the guess that if he HAD looked up words, if he HAD used French subtitles, and if he had focused entirely on children's shows at first, his progress might have taken less time. But his experiment did not do that, so it's only a guess, and actual success of people who've looked up words should be referenced instead for how successful or not it is (people like r/Refold learners look up words while watching shows), and he did not use any video materials made for language learners but my personal thinking is that Comprehensible Input type lessons at the beginning stage may have worked even better than children's cartoons.

To me, his level of understanding and ability to do things lines up fairly well with Dreaming Spanish's roadmap estimated hours to do X things. That makes sense to me as Peter basically studied with stuff made for native speakers, which eventually became more comprehensible. And Dreaming Spanish is designed to be fully comprehensible to a learner, until they can comprehend stuff for native speakers. I imagine Peter had a harder time initially, but as an English speaker learning French, with all the cognates, maybe he didn't have to learn as much to cross the threshold into comprehending children's shows as someone learning a language with no cognates.

I wrote my in depth thoughts about his paper here but it's mostly just rambling.

[coquelicoq]

watching cdramas with french subtitles is the best idea i ever had. if the show is in a language i don't speak i'm already going to have to be closely reading the subtitles, so why not also use it as language practice? the subs go by so fast i don't have time to translate them internally into english, i just have to absorb the meaning without doing that (which is how it's supposed to work but i've never been fully able to do that before). AND the best part is that when i'm going about my day i'm finding that some of my internal monologue is just in french now?? i think it's because subs are almost entirely dialogue...i'm getting hours of dialogue practice without actually having to converse. it's also fun with cdramas specifically because i have by now picked up some chinese vocabulary from watching tv and i get to see how that vocabulary is translated into french. idk man i'm just having a great time.

[piscoyt]

the mrst/endless compilations i've been talking about for months! it's here!

big thanks to @dragonpuff17 for finding like 80% of the clips <3

funny screenshot as a bonus :3

[aghosts-eulogy]

"you convinced yourself that this was necessary, this darkness.

that it was the only way to survive, to grow stronger than those who hurt you.

it consumed your mind, your heart, your soul.

you let that power in, let it run in your every vein, let it make your eyes black as the night.

but, my darling — don't lie to me.

don't tell me you didn't enjoy the fear in their eyes, the screams of the crowd.

when you welcomed in the dark, don't tell me that it didn't feel so unbelievably right.

because, in the end, when that crown is placed on your head, you are a liar if you claim that it was necessary.

no.

this was your plan all along — wasn't it?"

[ponyrepress]

Bitches will be like "damn am I overexaggerating how bad the current landscape is?" And then the top posts in a character tag that's not even involved will be "this post contains filtered tags [ship]"

[imagine-nerd]

Oh small acts of kindness, we're really in it now

[astravis]

Who is Danny’s most underrated rogue and why is it Walker

You are so correct. I can't say I've seen Walker as anyone's top favorite and he's about as underrated as Freakshow-- but like Freakshow we sure do appreciate them giving us more solid reasons for someone to hate Phantom. That's not to say that his main appearances in the show don't seem decently recieved, but that he never fit that fandom sweet spot of there being enough questions or intrigue over his setup or personality.

But Walker's "There's all kinds of prisons, kid" is such a good setup. Most of Danny's rogues gallery don't go after his personal life despite knowing who he is. He's not as invasive as Vlad, but it's exciting to see someone who really takes advantage of knowing where Danny's home is. It's fun to watch another villain employ psychological warfare.

And most importantly: Walker wins. He's not a beat-them-into-the-soup-can-and-done villain of the week. Or a Danny can wish-everything-back-to-normal one. Walker's actions don't get to be wiped clean the following day. The game changed when he made Phantom into a pariah.

[novuit]

There was this AU/fic idea I had in my head for a LONG time where Arthur murders Feliciano after he rejects Arthur's proposal and when Arthur realised what he did was wrong, he fixes his ways but really, he just becomes way worse.

[pink-spaceturtle5]

I think if I'm ever a parent, I'm gonna make my kids play outside for an hour after school instead of doing homework, and if the weather is bad or they don't wanna play outside, then they can either do a craft or free read (or switch from one to the other) bc I feel like building motor skills and reading comprehension are more important than being forced to slog through 2+ hours of bullshit that you already spent all day doing, and if they get marked down for doing homework, I'll explain to them how grades don't actually matter until you get to college (and even then, Cs get degrees) and it's more important to enjoy childhood and learn through reading and play, and homework is bullshit that actually discourages people from learning

[seaofreverie]

The Me who bought tickets to see TMBG in february 2023 and the Me who's going to actually go to the show next month are two completely different people

[emmyspov]

what i still wanna read this year:

inkdeath (i am currently reading inkspell)

inkworld: the color of revenge

geneva by richard armitage

lessons by ian mcewan

im morgen wächst ein birnenbaum by fikri anil altintaş

good girl, bad blood by holly jackson

movies & shows i still wanna see this year:

wheel of time season 2

rings of power season 2

the lost flowers of alice hart

his dark materials season 3

falling

anyone but you

all of us strangers

the zone of interest

fellow travelers

twisters

testament of youth

a good girl's guide to murder

missing

raising voices