#having no saturday classes >>>>>>>>>>

[natscbi]

12.10.23 - 30/100 dop

mol. spectroscopy questions

duolingo

theoretical chem questions. i’m serious they take so long i hate this it’s basically just maths

skipped lectures but i have the whole weekend to catch up so it’s fine shhhhh

13.10.23 - 31/100 dop

lectures + reviewed one of them

duolingo greek

some inorganic chem questions (it never ends)

honestly not much

i did prep two breakfasts to see if i like it, since i tend to get ready quickly before 9am lectures and just wait until lunch 🤞

14.10.23 - 32/100 dop

slept for way too long (jk i clearly needed it)

duolingo greek (food vocab)

inorganic work

caught up on a lecture

reviewed 2 lectures

breakfast was decent. probably a good idea to make some in the week so i actually eat before lectures

15.10.23 - 33/100 dop

caught up on the other lecture i am officially back on track lads

life maintenance day i.e. food shopping, laundry, tidying my room, washing up

made breakfast for tmr. with strawberries <3

duolingo greek - finished unit 5

[theloveinc]

sugar daddy Bakugo is so funny b/c if he's paying your tuition he's getting mad if you don't go to class

[tangentburd]

Digital sticker designs for the @90scartoonszine, featuring the heroes, villains, friends (and/or love interests?) from The Powerpuff Girls.

This was my first fandom and definitely one of my biggest ones, so I have a mega soft spot for it even after so many years... The biggest difference now is that I relate with the adult villains a lot more :v (not to mention my favourite designs here are Mojo Jojo and HIM, hell yeah)

I also made digital wallpapers for this project! Go check out the zine if you too love '90s cartoons with all their colour and style and wit and snark and sometimes inappropriateness that prrrobably wouldn't have made the cut today.

✨ [ Zine now available for free digital download at itch.io! ] ✨

[relentlessgrief]

ALRIGHT I’M BACK from the dead, works been a lot, but I’m here and I’m gonna chip away at some replies again. I missed being this aberration hello sorry school is hell.

[buglaur]

[disfrutalakia]

"Cooking minecraft

04/06 (Sunday)

2pm brt"

Oh I so love the art, this is going to be so fun

[thedungeonbat]

Week 1

Not a lot going on here since term is almost over. Handed my two pages of homework + questions in, looking forward to my math teachers feedback :)! I really have to improve my abysmal grade…Besides that classes are going horribly. There was a incredibly sexist debate in english class and a lot of transphobia throughout this week. I would quit school if I wasn’t so close to graduating atp. Been reading a few pages here and there but other than that there’s nothing happening in my life; just feeling exhausted from socialising. But at least my history teacher mixed something up while uploading our grades which means I get an A instead of A- on my report card, yay!

[desi-yearning]

Nothing I hate more than getting out of bed

[gossippool]

it's gonna take a while for the next chapter to be finished because of my exams and assignments and miscellaneous self-imposed deadlines so here is a not-so-peaceful peace offering in the meantime 🙏

[confusion-est]

"What I once feared, I have become!" Heyyy so it's time to be insane and ramble about things that don't make sense I need more people to portray flaggie as someone who has doubts and fears istg. Like yes. Yes being Light's bravest boy going through anything and everything throw at him is his schtick I don't deny that. But as much as it is fun to explore the fanaticism, no one seems to explore the more tender side of things? That he's still experiencing pain (not in a masochist way), that it still hurts, that this quest is scary for him and that he seems to not see value in his past life as beggar? That he believes this is the only thing he can do since he used to be good for nothing lowlife? Why no one talks about the tragedy that he cannot fathom the idea of experiencing something pleasant? That any act of kindness towards him he sees as 'temptation'. Bro cannot comprehend that he could accept someone's gift without it being a terrible sin (why do you consider that a sin anyway? Brother do you not believe you deserve nice things in life? Do you truly believe you can only experience suffering? Are you as pure as you claim to be or do you have a compulsive need to atone for life you did not have control over? Did you choose this life because for once you could make a choice instead of wasting away forever?) If his role is that of a shepherd (as he claims), why does he want to die so much in the final quest? So many questions. I need to study him under a microscope and he's arguably very 1 dimensional. Pain.

[stardustdiiving]

Other gods during the archon war: this land isn’t big enough for the two of us…we will fight to the death and only the strongest god will assume a seat in Celestia and rule this land…

Rukkhadevata texting the Sumeru deities group chat in the way you’d text your roommates about chore division: oh yeah btw king deshret me & the goddess of flowers r meeting up w the International Teyvat Immortal Yuri Polycule on wednesday do u wanna come

[idk-i-want-mcl-content]

also take this

[outfoxt]

Another Käärijä Research Project

aka: käärijä style-shifting project

as a preface, here are my (non) qualifications for this project and the circumstances under which it happened:

I am a linguistics student, and this past semester I took a course on sociolinguistics. the goal of this project was to become familiar with the concept of and analyze style-shifting (it's more commonly known as code-switching online but theres a difference and this is style-shifting), specifically by analyzing the speech of one person. We had the option to study oprah or to have someone else approved by my prof, so you know I had to ask my prof if I could study jere. This project is solely my intellectual property; even though I had a tutor help me a lot, everything written in this paper and on this post was my work alone.

now, on to the actual findings! the full paper and transcripts will be linked at the end :D

the actual variables (words or sounds) that I studied were the pronunciation of r, and use of the word "the".

to make things a lot easier from the get-go, i'm going to introduce you all to one of my favorite websites, ipachart.com (the international phonetic alphabet [ipa] chart is a big chart with an entry for every sound that exists in a language. this handy dandy website has an audio recording for each one of those sounds).

go to this website, and then scroll down to the table. go to the column labeled "post alveolar" and then click on ɾ and ɹ. those are the sounds i studied in this paper! ɾ is the finnish r and ɹ is the american r :)

so basically what i did to find instances of my variable was i just looked up a bunch of esc interviews and listened out for use of the different r sounds. i also transcribed the entire dinner date live because i love torture apparently :) the specific interviews and lives/stories are in the bibliography of the paper :p

after i transcribed all the interviews and lives/stories i went through and highlighted every instance of the r sound. then i calculated the ratios of ɾ to ɹ based on the context they were spoken in. the two contexts i looked for were formal contexts (sit-down interviews) and informal contexts (literally anything else).

i found that jere uses ɹ WAY more often in formal contexts than he does in informal contexts, and the same in reverse with ɾ.

i then went back to the transcripts and looked for all instances of the word "the". i also looked for instances where i thought it should be present, but was omitted. i calculated the ratio of present vs omitted "the"s in formal vs informal contexts and made some charts.

the graph with the smaller black section is "use of 'the' in formal settings" and the one with the smaller green section is "use of 'the' in informal settings" (the images are transparent, sorry)

i found that jere uses "the" WAY more often when in formal settings! there were also some instances where he added a "the" where it was unnecessary, which is studied at length in this wonderful paper by @alien-girl-21

something i also noticed that i elected not to study because this paper took enough energy on its own was that in formal contexts, whenever the "or" sound came in the middle or at the end of a word, jere wouldn't pronounce the r. it stuck out to me mostly because i heard words like "performance" turning into "perfomance", which i thought was an interesting quirk.

unfortunately i was somewhat limited by both my brainpower and capacity to do more work on this paper in the relatively short timeframe i was given (2 weeks) and the fact that i was given a 5 page MAX for this paper (not including a bibliography). i had a lot of fun doing this though and am definitely planning on studying jere for for academic credit again in the future if given the chance!

also i would like it to be known that i spent an hour searching for that 5 second clip of the urheilucast where jere said that he used to sell kitchens and understands english better than he can speak it.

link to a google drive folder with the actual paper i wrote and the transcripts of the interviews with notation:

please feel free to send me asks and dms with questions or comments about this paper! i absolutely love rambling about linguistics :3!!

[gods-favorite-autistic]

I have one month left of school and by god I will not kill myself or fail any of my classes

[thequeenofthewinter]

Shhhh, I should be sleeping.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i have never even so much as breathed towards loki in my entire rivals career of four months but chat ill keep it real that president loki skin KINDAA sexy....