oh my godddd just got recommended a post about how the slay the princess fandom is misogynistic and giving in to "the trend where fandom ignores the female characters" bc people are having fun shipping the voices. several comments were like 'ugh i know its so bad already ://" shut up. shut up shut up shut uppppppp
the slay the princess fandom is VERY small. if you check ao3, we've got less than 200 fics total. and guess what? the hero/princess ship is by FAR the most popular. the voice ships are miniscule in comparison. if people playing with m/m ships at ALL bothers you, you may in fact just be homophobic. (and maybe instead of bitching about how what a handful of other people create isn't to your liking, you could like. create something yourself.)
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my experience in my schools gifted program is very specific but even when i was little i knew that the program was racist so i dont know how people on here are fully grown adults and yet lacking that knowledge. the gifted program for my general area happened to be in a school in a predominantly non white, poor neighbourhood. i came from a neighbouring school like a kilometre away at most that was majorly white. most of the kids in the gifted program were from all around the city and probably 60-70% white at best (toronto is 45% white as a whole). like the disparity between my class and the class next door… very obvious! also gifted wasnt even good i literally learned nothing for three years so i don’t get the hype
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was freaking out about how I was going to fail this one stupid seminar class that's for SOME REASON a graduation requirement and thinking there's no way I'm getting above a 60 in it because there are only 10 assignments for the whole semester and all of them are weighted equally and all of them SUCK and are exactly the stuff I hate doing and I've been super behind in the class for the past 3 months so basically I'm screwed and then uh. my four missing assignments got put in as zeroes and my grade only dropped to a 58. WHICH IS BAD. but if I turn them in and get 50s on all of them and then get a 90 on the culminating paper (WHICH IS WEIGHTED THE SAME AS THE OTHER ASSIGNMENTS FOR SOME REASON BUT WHATEVERRRRR) I'll have a solid 76. WHICH IS NOT GREAT. BUT IT'S NOT FAILING. GUYS I'M NOT GOING TO FAIL
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Anyone else intimidated by the new HSK 3.0? https://goeastmandarin.com/new-hsk-levels/
Upon some digging, it appears the HSK will first add the new 7-9 levels for people who want it. Then afterward, gradually transition the original 1-6 levels from the old version to new version. So for now, HSK 1-6 are the same. And from what I'm finding, while HSK 4 and 5 maybe got a bit harder in the new version (more hanzi and words pet level), HSK 6 got a bit easier (less unique hanzi and words) so it evens out to probably around the same amount of content from HSK 1-6 just with a somewhat more even distribution of content between each level. So maybe that's good? Because I was not planning to purposely study 5000 words I hadn't considered before... outside of old (current) HSK 6 and below, I mostly learn words from media and conversations. If there's even more core HSK vocab to eventually study... I know there's like 11,000 words in rhe new HSK 1-9, so around 5,000 brand new words in HSK 7-9, and 1/3 of vocab in each level 1-6 seems to be new. So there's just.... a lot more vocab to learn to pass...
Another intimidating thing: the need to write characters, and translate, on the tests. As a self studier I did almost no writing practice beyond the first 5 months. If you take a chinese class you might be fine, as many Chinese classes require a lot of handwriting. I often can recognize characters but not recall their radicals/writing steps off the top of my head without reference (like 毁 强 岸 墙 愿 etc I am used to recognizing/typing words but not writing... writing I can only recall stuff like 我是,你知道,爸爸,妈妈,姐姐,哥哥,妹妹,弟弟,很好,不好, 没有 etc without a visual to remind me). While the new HSK at max seems to only need handwriting familiarity with like 900 hanzi (not that much), I would definitely need to purposely drill. :c honestly it's a fair expectation, for a language proficiency test (all the changes are), it's just something I'm severely lacking in lol.
Then the translating skill... I find translating to be a skill of its own, so one I'd definitely have to practice and improve in. To comprehend and chat is one ability, to listen to that chat and instantly translate AS you continue the chat in chinese/other language is a whole other skill.
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