going down the ereader rabbithole has been kind of wild like I don't think I ever considered how challenging it would be to find alternatives that tick all the boxes when amazon has the ereader market cornered...so many of my usual buying habits and strategies are just non-applicable bc there's next to no secondhand market for anything that's not a kindle
it's such a shame because I learned that there's all this cool stuff out there, but they're next to impossible to get here because they're still so niche that they end up being incredibly expensive and difficult to find....it sucks so much though bc kindle really needs the competition their products are so limited compared to what's out there internationally
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Does anyone have recommendations for a good language app to learn Korean? I didn’t like DuoLingo and found it confusing, a free app would be ideal but I’m not opposed to paying. Also while we’re on the topic who has k-pop recommendations for me? I’m obsessed with Kard but don’t really listen or know anyone else, well I mean I know Black Pink too but haven’t listened to them much. Send me your favorites, bonus points for gorgeous men or women my Kard biases are BM and Jiwoo. I’m usually a Visual Kei and heavy metal girlie but K-pop is damn catchy and they’re all so pretty. What about Ateez? What songs are good? I feel like Mingi is my type so they have my interest and Felix in Stray Kids? I don’t know where to start though, I need someone to baby step me through this one please and thank you 🩷
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Ya know. I spent most of my life with horrible painful soul-crushing social anxiety.
And after about 25 years of continuous hard work, suddenly, people started pointing out - to my utter bafflement - that I had, in fact, achieved my lifelong dream of being charismatic. I'm 29 now; I feel comfortable in most social situations, and it is a very rare person whom I cannot make laugh.
I am, undoubtedly, finally, charismatic.
But do you know what I found?
I found that now that I have an understanding of which social rules serve which functions -- Now that I have an understanding of just how much damage my awkwardness was doing to people, well,
I found that, actually, my awkwardness never really hurt anyone at all. People were just judgmental dicks to me about it.
Now that I have the skill-level to (most of the time) creatively vocalize what is in my head as soon as I think it and without fear, I can confirm once and for all what I had always suspected:
I was worth talking to when I was quiet.
I was worth talking to when I was awkward, and when the words in my head took time and patience to hear, and when most of my jokes didn't land. I was worth talking to the whole time.
So I just... I hope that if you've ever wondered whether you are worth communicating with, the answer is yes. Absolutely yes. Each of us has a soul worth sharing - and if you and I were talking, I would happily wait for you to speak (or communicate in other ways) without condescending, and I would never shame you for that harmless awkwardness that so many people feel the need to violently stomp out.
You are worth talking to. You just are. And you deserve people who will speak to you with kindness, with patience, and with the basic immutable respect owed to all people.
(I talk about this with some frequency, both on tumblr and in real life. At some point, maybe I'll gather all my thoughts on the matter into one post. At some point, I wrote about my personal experience trying to build my social skill. But I felt the need to say at least a little bit tonight after seeing this other lovely post, and I'm glad I did. It will happen again.)
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i hate people that come from tiktok to ao3, i’m sorry. fics that get promoted on tik tok are always a bit odd too. i hate the outlook that ao3 should ban content that offends you and i hate the outlook that ‘ohhh i must be shadowbanned because my fic is hardly getting any kudos, does anyone know how to get in with the algorithm?’ are you sure it’s tagged correctly? is your summary good? is your formatting good? is the fic readable? maybe it’s just bad dude. or maybe the fandom is a bit dead. or ‘there should be an algorithm/how does the algorithm work?’ ugh. or the ‘technically this tag doesn’t apply but i’m just adding it for reach :)’ thing !!! NO!!! don’t do that! i fear that tik tok is an app for Children and that people advertising ao3 on tik tok has meant that wattpad aged kids are going on ao3 because they’re being introduced to it before they’re able to find it and figure out how it works on its own. i fear that discovering ao3 on your own and working out how it works on your own (with a little research, sure) might just be a necessary rite of passage.
like are you ready for ao3 if you jump into it before you understand it and break all the rules? idk man
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Day 4
Not going to the trouble of doing 10 steps today unless I really feel like it when I get in to it, it's almost 1am at this point.
So here we go.
“Learning HTML Forms by Building A Registration Form” Steps 36-41
36 and 37 had me struggling to read the instructions because they're just written in such a janky ass way,
38 was tedious as hell, just kind of a bore to get through.
Step 39 and 40 were pretty nice.
Looking at Step 41 as I write this... something tells me it's gonna take a while.
I was write, that did take me quite a few minutes. But that's it for the night, let's do some tangentially related updates.
Today I had my first math test of the year, and... god it was not great... I had to use a quadratic, but quadratic form or the quadratic formula were not on the formula sheet provided, so I had to come up with it from memory, and I kept thinking it was ax+bx^2+c, when in reality it's ax^2, but I did manage to get that in the end.
What's less than ideal is that the last question of the test said "Try this if you want a 7" (for a context a 7 is like an A+), and I didn't get time to do that, which really sucks because I really wanted a 7 on this. But it's okay I guess, there's nothing to be done about it, I lived, I learned. I think I am getting better at math though, and feeling better about doing math, which is great.
Today I spoke with my dad about university, and he totally backtracked on the conversation that we had about it a few weeks ago. He's now saying that I shouldn't apply to colleges in the States, and just focus on the UK, which makes my life a whole lot easier, but maybe I should be taking on challenges (such as doing university in America) but I'm not too sure about. I'm gonna take the PSAT in October and proceed accordingly based off of that.
That'll be all for tonight, I'm going to bed. Love y'all.
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