#January progress

[rigelmejo]

Yo!

I am thinking of cancelling Glossika. I sadly didn't get through it as fast as I thought I could (cram in 2-3 months). It has been like 6 months, and I'm 3/4 through the sentences but still not done. So I feel it's a waste of my money if I can't buckle down and cram through the rest soon. I had planned to spend 3-5 months money on subscription, not this long. On the flip side: if I cancel Glossika, I'll switch to using free Comprehensible Japanese youtube channel. Which while great, would be largely words I already know. A big reason I intended to use Glossika to study was because it teaches over 5000 words, and other materials I have used to study taught 2000-3000 words so I figured I could learn at least SOME new words using Glossika. Because increasing my vocabulary is the main thing I need to do in Japanese right now, as well as focus on listening skills. Comprehensible Japanese youtube will let me focus on listening skills still, but there probably won't be any brand new words I'd hear and learn for a long time (dozens or hundreds of hours). With Glossika, I hear 5-15 new words each learning session now, meaning I get more exposure to new words quicker. And I have quite the habit of... restarting my japanese learning from the basics again, which prevents progress as I tend to just re-study beginner stuff I already know over and over...

I "worked" too hard in 2024, and my body responded by being very mad at me and sick for months. I am still sick. So I am going to try and do less intense study this year. I will be trying to find a relaxed balance... we'll see.

I'm still super into the Nature Method books... I got myself a copy of the All Spanish Method, and Francais Par Le Methode Nature. So I may read them this year... will I fuck up my own pronunciation? Yeah, yeah I will. But at this point it's a matter of... do I want to do something imperfectly, or not at all? Because the fact of the matter is these books are OLD, the Spanish one does not have audio anywhere (the French one does on Ayan Academy youtube), so I am not going to be able to just listen-to-proper-pronunciation-while-reading the Spanish book. So I either read it, or don't. I'd prefer to read it. There's always my dabbling in the Dreaming Spanish youtube videos to hear some proper pronunciation.

[nevertheless-moving]

thinking fondly of that star wars body swap au where 3/4 of the protagonists are experiencing relatively standard body swap shenanigans: bewildering friends and confounding authority figures, learning about each other and themselves, going outside their comfort zones. Meanwhile Cody’s just kindof writhing in eldritch horror inside of Anakin’s force-stitched-together-meatsuit.

Anakin (as Padme): “Man I can’t believe that Senator actually called me sweetheart, I can’t believe how patronizing these men are.”

Cody (as Anakin): [Scratching at his arm] “Yeah, that’s great. Uh, hey, quick question—why does my shadow keep turning into a death head mask?”

Anakin: “Huh? Oh, hey! Would you like at that! I haven’t looked at my shadow in years! It’s—it’s totally normal! I mean except for how it’s Padme—”

Cody: “This is—your shadow just always—does it ever...I mean when you’re around other people”

Anakin: [sucks in his breath through his teeth] “Did it kill someone else’s shadow? I hate when that happens”

Cody: [scratches arm harder, eyelid twitching] “This...happens often? What—why—”

Anakin: “I try not to think about it, ha! Anyway, have you tried smoothies since—[voice fades into high pitched static noise, distant sound of respirator breathing]

Cody: [scratches arm harder] (muttering under his breath): “don’t think about it. don’t think about it.”

Obi-Wan (as Cody): “There you two are—oh Anakin—I mean Cody, you’re bleeding! What happened?”

Cody: “I...misjudged the strength of the mech arm.”

Anakin: [gives thumbs up]

[cityrun]

my brother my brother my brother and me

[gravedigg]

They're in their honeymoon phase uwu. I redrew this old piece of mine, I hope I redeemed myself.

Full nsfw here

[wolfythewitch]

im so so confused rn the last time i had social media you were a mcyt artist??? now as far as i can tell you are in the bible fandom and the odyssey???????? im so lost bro like i wasnt on the internet for a full year but still lol??? love your artwork btw!!!

Sometimes we find god when we least expect it

[agentcricket-art]

la processa

[euphreana]

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[whattheskyknows]

Can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I've just finished writing the final chapter of Galaxy Masquerade???

[brown-little-robin]

okay, I'm crowdsourcing advice for a minute, so bear with me and please lend some words if you have any:

I want to get out of the house more. Like, on a regular basis. Weekly, maybe. Preferably, I would like to be interacting with people—the same people—every time, for... like... accountability, but also because I am hoping to put myself out there as the 21st century's most neurotic platonic Casanova. Uh. Making a friend or more out of this would be desirable. But I think if I go out with the intention of making a friend, I will be disappointed.

So. I want to go do something, for that something's own sake. I don't want to go be fake once a week hoping to get a friend out of it.

However, the beautiful state of Iowa is a bit cultureless, and I am too introverted and easily overwhelmed for this world (e.g. going to bars is probably not gonna be my thing). So.... I guess.... any suggestions? opinions? thoughts on making friends in general, or finding good activities as an introverted adult, in general?

oh yeah, also: I am poor. that's a factor. so. signing up a class or similar is not a great option right now.

what the heck, I'll add a silly poll for fun:

[rigelmejo]

So Justice in the Dark (cdrama adaptation of MoDu by Priest) is hopefully returning to air (and to finish airing the rest of the 30 eps) March 7 on Wowow japanese channel.

And that, in combo with the poll i did asking what to focus on studying, has me listening to as much of the MoDu audiobook before then. If anyone else wants to join me in trying to listen, feel free, and maybe we can tell each other how far we listened to motivate each other to listen more.

Downside is my chinese listening is quite rusty, at least when I don't have the visuals of a video and hanzi of chinese subs. So I am listening, catching some of the dialogues, then individual words or phrases (like "he shook his head" "she suspected a reason" "he gave a smile" etc). But I know I used to be able to understand most of the first 5 chapters, so I definitely need time to relearn words.

I'm hoping if I just listen a TON, I'll recognize words again.

I've also been listening to The Untamed condensed audio files which... I recognize 50-95% of the words, depending on the sentence. Part of that is its quite easy to place which scene I'm listening to so I can guess a word if I forgot it, part of it is that the audio is ONLY dialogues. And dialogues/people talking use more common words than audiobook description portions. So I figure the words people frequently say are much fresher in my memory and easier to recall.

I finished Glossika Japanese. I'm disappointed. It actually had less than 6500 sentences total. I suspect it only had 4000 unique words (the app claims 5000 words and 6400 sentences for japanese but apparently the sentences were less than claimed so... I suspect the unique words taught is also lower). And of the less than 5000 unique words it has, many "unique words" were just differently conjugated forms of the same verb. So again, i think it had 3000-4000 actual unique words. And the old audio cd version had ~3000 unique words but can be found free at libraries or online in certain places, so I recommend the old audio cd version.

I went into glossika knowing 3000-4000 words already in japanese, i think at most i learned 500 new words if im being realistic... maybe 1000 new words if i stretch. I guess its time for me to go to Nihongo Con Teppei and other podcasts instead.

I am debating if its even worth 1 more month of a subscription to review the sentences for a month. :/

Mostly im just really disappointed the course is basically JUST beginner level material, despite the claims indicating that it could be lower intermediate level stuff too.

[the-fibre-stuff]

I made a fren.

[silencedogood1969]

You stood beneath a stolen flag,

a coward’s grin behind your mask,

breaking glass like you broke your oath,

spilling blood, spilling truth, spilling both.

The Capitol stood like a sentinel of time,

until you tore it down, crime by fucking crime.

The floors ran red where history walked,

and democracy bled as your chants mocked.

You came as a mob, a tide of rage,

hands on riot shields, fists on the stage.

Tear gas kissed the marble halls,

while “patriots” desecrated sacred walls.

Tarrio, you fucking coward,

Rhodes, you spineless son of a bitch.

Barnett, who pissed on freedom

while democracy screamed in the ditch.

QAnon prophets in horned disguise,

Nazis and “militia” with vacant eyes.

You called it liberty, called it war,

but all you left were shattered doors.

Then the ink of the pen, the coward’s decree,

fifteen hundred pardons for your fucking heresy.

Trump stood tall on lies today,

“Unify!” he cried, while justice decayed.

The audacity of that son of a bitch,

to pardon the mob and their seditious itch.

“Merit-based justice,” he dared to say—

yet he handed treason a golden bouquet.

He spat in the face of every cop who stood,

every drop of blood spilled in those halls of wood.

He pardoned the wreckers, the rioters, the damned,

and gave democracy its final backhand.

Where were you, McConnell, when the blood dried?

Where were you, Thune, when democracy cried?

Greene, you cheered; your voice rang clear—

you gutless motherfuckers, complicit in fear.

Your silence, your nods, your partisan games,

have carved your legacy into the flames.

You are the ghosts of this dying nation,

mute accomplices to its damnation.

And to you who stayed silent, stayed home that day,

clutching your morals as the country frayed,

spare me your protests, your outrage, your blame—

this fire’s on you; you stoked the flame.

You fucking stood back, let them torch the house,

and now you want to cry about the ashes.

Don’t you dare whisper a single goddamn word—

you let others fight while the country burned.

The tear of glass, the battering ram,

the fists that struck, the shields that slammed.

The cries of fear, the clash of will,

the officers falling, the chambers still.

They stormed the gates with malice bright,

and made a coup of that January night.

Freedom fell with every cheer,

the sound of treason in the atmosphere.

And for those who fell defending the line,

we carry their memory through space and time.

But let me tell you something, loud and true:

You may pardon the guilty, but we’re coming for you.

Two years from now, we’ll clear the House;

we’ll take your seats and call you out.

We’ll vote, we’ll march, we’ll raise our fists,

we’ll break the chain of your accomplice list.

And four years from now, your reign will end,

this nightmare gone, this wound will mend.

You’ve made a coup the morning’s norm,

treason an acceptable form,

but you don’t get the final say—

we’ll take this country back one day.

Traitors, cowards, you hollowed the flag,

turned stars to scars, left stripes to sag.

You spat on the graves of those who fought,

and shredded the ideals they thought were taught.

Your pardons are nothing, your names will fade,

while the strength of the people sharpens its blade.

This isn’t your country—it never was.

It belongs to the dreamers, to the cause.

So hear this now, from sea to sea:

We are America, the land of the free.

You tore it down, but we’ll rebuild—

your names forgotten, your dreams killed.

This is the anthem of those betrayed,

a promise to history: you won’t evade.

For every flag, for every vote,

for every tear in the words we wrote.

True patriots rise, unbroken, free—

the soul of this nation will always be.

We are coming.

We are rising.

We are America.

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Modern Priscilla 1914-01

[the-alan-price-combo]

60 years ago - on November 16th, 1964, the Animals recorded "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"!! 🐾✨️

[toodetudpimedas]

Found some of my old Stay fanarts that I haven't posted here yet.

[violake]

• flicks of january •

it’s been a cold january, maybe made more shocking by how warm november and december were, but i’m going to appreciate the snow while it lasts ! also i got a very cute little tin with a harlequin on it and have successfully pawned the candies off on my coworkers <3