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can you infodump to me? (i love you) is this overwhelming? (i love you) is this the right texture? (i love you) is it ok to touch you? (i love you) do you want the subtitles on? (i love you) do you want to go somewhere less noisy? (i love you)
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Anat's journey of vengeance to confront Mot.
Really tried to nail the "it's so hot it feels like all of my skin is going to peel off in one go" feeling of the Dead Sea basin. Please click on the image for best quality!
PLEASE NOTE: it's not really known where Mot's 'throne' is, and various translations allude to it being vaguely at the 'edge' of the underworld. I thought it over and realized that the lowest place on earth is quite literally right there and made the creative decision to make Mot's throne/palace a salt pillar at the Dead Sea. this is a purely creative decision and not really anything supported by literary evidence (as most of my stuff on Canaanite myth is).
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space (dogs) race
laika laika laika laika
a beloved tragedy
the stars in their eyes became the stars around yours
a fatal optimism
echoes of the doomed ring of communism
so we say
belka and strelka and belka and strelka and strelka and belka
joy and hope and triumph
the stars in our eyes became the stars around yours
a resilient optimism
echoes the brilliant ring of communism
so they say
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mooncalves
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1 am thinking abt the triassic cuddle once again and getting sad. The Thrinaxodon was in a torpor and wouldn’t have woken up before it drowned in the rain. The Broomistega was badly injured and dying. Neither of them ever actually knew each other but their last moments are curled up together and immortalized in stone Hggggm
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The plot structures of movies need to start taking more cues from classic opera. Open with fucker in a hat who directly addresses the audience and explains what's going on in a way that raises far more questions than it answers, then immediately drop the viewer into the middle of a shouting argument between three of the weirdest people you can possibly imagine.
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Can’t agree more about that duolingo post you shared, the Irish course is *terrible*. Do you have any recommendations for other places to go to learn Irish for someone with practically no knowledge of the language?
dublin city university has asynchronous courses that run regularly on futurelearn, starting with irish 101 and going up to 208 (you might have to wait a little while for 101 to come around again because they don't all run simultaneously). they're a pretty good intro with more grammar explanations, written exercises, etc. my biggest issue with them was motivating myself to actually put the time in, because i found it tough to get through all the course in the amount of time i had available to give to them, but they're probably the best free online resource i know of, especially because they do have people there to answer questions and explain grammar
there are also various online courses on zoom etc but those tend to cost money. i do think after a certain point it's worth trying to get in an actual class (in person or online) for the conversation practice if nothing else, but something like the futurelearn courses is a good stepping stone to get going
for pure vocab, memrise has so far not fallen as far down the hole of "gamification of language apps at the expense of actual teaching" and you can make custom courses to learn vocab that you yourself actually need (e.g. lists from courses you're taking), but i know memrise is trying to push a new version of their "official" courses which may end up being at the expense of "community" courses (custom lists) so idk how long that'll last, and anyway it's more of a supplement to learning elsewhere than a way to learn in and of itself, in my experience
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My friend reminded me of one of my favorite images on the internet ever
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please dont make fun of the star i have a lifelong inability to draw them 🥲 but isn't she cute🥲
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I came up with this character last night. her name is Isabel Badkitten and she is a little girl who is a cat that is bad.
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new materialism does make me feel a little silly. yeah the physical structure of the house is literally out to get them. the dress is eating her alive. there's a ghost in that sword.
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Vessel in the form of a mouse, Greece, 400-300 BC
from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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