#context that i refuse to give them

[dandyseedlings]

my friend said to me as i was drawing this that, quote, "it looks like they took his brain out, pickled it, and put it back in."

#lackadaisy #lackadaisy cats #lackadaisy fanart #rocky lackadaisy #rocky rickaby #dandydoodles #on a related note: when describing casts of characters to my friends on vc #generally i like talking about couples together #but when it comes to lackadaisy i like to position my descriptions of rocky between freckle and ivy #i go through my description of rocky like normal. #he's the 'leader' of the young adult trio. he plays violin. he compulsively rhymes #he needs to be so good at bootlegging right now or else he'll throw up right now he swears to god. #and my friends are charmed but not shocked with these descriptions #and then i get to end the description with 'also he's homeless and got his head split open'. #then i move on to the next character description while they're begging for more context #context that i refuse to give them

[oldmisfortune]

I'm trying to get around to writing and posting the context around their relationship but until then, pls enjoy these out-of-context sketches :)

#on this episode of lucky refuses to give context and information unless at gun point: #eldarya #eldarya oc #ezarel #oc: narcisa #my art #sketch page #I CAN AND WILL EXPLAIN THE SKETCHES if you want :) #i just don't want to spam tbh #I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THEM IN OTHER WORDS #omg look ezarel is being soft wtf #ew they're being lovey-dovey before marriage /j >:(

[rigelmejo]

The only language studying advice I’ve got that matters much, as in isn’t take or leave (because most advice really depends on the person and their preferences for how to study), is this:

if you study for enough cumulative hours, and are regularly spending study time on some new material that is requiring you to learn something (compared to picking 1 study material and reviewing it but never ever moving onto a new material with unknowns you must learn), you will make progress. 

Most people, eventually, will move onto studying something regularly challenging them with new material to learn. Usually when they realize they weren’t learning anything new long enough. (I’m a perfectionist so I perhaps realize slower than some people when I’m reviewing material to the point of refusing to move onto new challenging material that would provide more to new stuff to learn). So for the most part, as long as you just study Enough Hours, you will eventually make progress. 

There’s no fancy perfect or ‘better’ study method. Maybe there is for you personally. So it could be fun to explore various study methods. But in the end it mostly comes down to time spent studying. So WHATEVER study methods are ones you can do, and keep getting yourself to do, are the BEST ones for you to make progress with. (And its fine to change study methods if it gets you to KEEP studying). Because in the end, its going to be hundreds or thousands of hours you just need to spend reviewing what you’ve learned by practicing with it, and studying new stuff to increase what you know.

People like to argue sometimes that textbook study is best, or classroom study, or tutors, or immersion, flashcards, mnemonics, context learning, drills, audio lessons, etc. Pick whatever you can stick to, change it if you realize now you can get yourself to Do something else easier. If textbooks are something you get yourself to do, then do them. If you refuse to open textbooks you buy, then use something you WILL use more often. Whatever you pick will work if you put in the study hours. 

TLDR: the best study methods for YOU are the ones you will do, because the amount of total study time you put in is the biggest thing influencing if you make progress. 

Don’t worry too much about if your study method is perfect or if another would be ‘better.’ If you feel like switching it up, have fun. If you feel a method you’d hate looks effective, if you won’t do it then it wouldn’t be effective anyway.

*Note: if you have perfectionist tendencies or tend to stick to trying to master current materials (my worst tendency), my personal suggestion is maybe try to make sure 50% of your study time is spent on something containing Something new and challenging. To make sure you’re regularly making some progress in learning new material. (Examples: if you have read a graded reader then listening to the audiobook would provide at least 1 new thing to challenge yourself and learn - listening skills of those words you read, if you find a new novel chapter with mostly known words but a few new ones - it has some new words to learn and new sentences combinations of words you know, if you are listening to review of something you entirely know and can comprehend in listening then consider trying to shadow the audio so you can challenge yourself with new pronunciation practice, and of course stuff like reading a book/watching a show with a bunch of new words or having a conversation in a new topic would contain new challenging material to learn). 

#rant #90% of reddit language forums drama comes down to the arguement of what works 'best' #in reality most people who fail to learn a language fail because they give up before they put 500 hours - 2500 hours into it #so the most important factor of if you will succeed if if you will simply KEEP studying #so pick whatever you'll keep doing! #classrooms/tutors work well for people who like to be held accountable by a teacher #learning by context works well for me because it requires me to run into new material to learn and lets me learn by Doing which is what i #personally prefer. audio lessons work GREAT if you listen to stuff a lot while commuting/exercising #drills work Great if you do them! its just some people refuse to do them so of course they wouldnt work if you arent doing them #learning by reading works but only if you WILL read the amount it requires #and i only mention the *must regularly study something new* part #because as a perfectionist. in japanese i literally reviewed 300 kanji for TWO YEARS STRAIGHT refusing to study anything else out of fear #i wasnt prepared for ANYTHING else until i MASTERED the 300 basic kanji #so u know what happened? i only learned the 300 kanji. nothing else. in tons of hours. in at LEAST 700 hours of study #in retrospect. i know i could have learned at least 2000 words. at least 1000 kanji. at least basic reading ability with a dictionary #in 700 hours. if i had actually regularly been studying new challenging material as at least 50% of my study time #so as a person with perfectionist tendencies. i personally need 50% or more of all study time to always have SOME new content to learn

[soplapinga]

Now tell me why Cartman desperately trying to reanimate Kyle (like full on crying??? And begging??????) was one of the most emotional scenes I've seen in this fucking ass show

#I KNOW its in the context of him wanting kyle to. yk. suck his balls and everything #but “youve never given up on anything before. dont give up on life now” WHAT ????? THE FUCK ??!!:(5€(4 #him repeating “come on” “PLEASE buddy” ?? them telling him he is gone like 10 times and he just refusing to stop every each of them ??? #the HITTING ???? the BROKEN VOICE ?????? THE STRAIGHT UP CRYING ?????????? #oh the first little “kyle?” when he saw him and crutched by his side on the floor fucked me up SO much oooh ill never let this scene go #I DONT EVEN LIKE KYMAN !!!!! #I DONT FIND A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM APPEALING !!!!!!! #but GOD if Cartmans crush on him isnt GOOD specially for a character like him fuck #once again #very much a onesided kyman enyojer #kyman #eric cartman #kyle broflovski #south park #sp #nate watches south park

[came0dust]

i cannot keep drawing this dude on my phone but god do i love drawing him (+ bonus colors)

#my art #sketch #samsung notes #castlevania #alucard #i was doing gesture-y drawings but i drew him with a sword and shield and then i just wanted to Draw Him and. hes doing something to me man #i need to play sotn but im determined to play at least the first few games in order but i still havent beat 1. i fell out of it 😭😭😭 #i want so badly to have a proper understanding of his character so i wont just be drawing like 'man.. pretty.... hair.. flowy...' forever #but also i refuse to make an educated guess on his characterization bc it will Not be educated. my exposure to him is so narrow #and also mostly forgotten. most of it was years ago and what i do know is surface-level at best. any nuance will literally be speculation 💀 #but i Need to draw him. for my enrichment. hes so designed. so it ends up being just. Mysterious Handsome Man Looking Somewhere #seriously holy Shit. the more i absorb his design the more i have to draw him. ayami kojima was Cooking in the studio like damn #by the way these last two posts were scheduled. about two days after i did both of them give or take. i did this the night before last post #im trying to pace myself a bit better (its not really working 💀) #for context: the colored version was literally not even a thought when i originally put this post together #i did it the day after making the sketch and then three days later (the earliest you will see this) the post posted #oh shit right that means #medibang paint #shoutouts to multiply layer mode i would not be able to just do this without being able to keep my sketch #if i had to redraw it i would not have done the colors lol #anyways stream wandering ghosts bye bye love and peace 🤞

[johnbly]

WIP game!

i was tagged by @tortoisesshells ✨

so i have two fics going one rn: 1) in the boat purgatory in at world's end, james comes across gov swann and the two have a final conversation together (not using that for this since i haven't done too much but something to look forward to i guess) and 2) bolt's "what if james had a dragon" fic and subsequent discussions and questions has me now doing a "what if hornblower had a dragon" fic so here is an excerpt from that:

“Who are you?”  The dragonet is speaking French, and internally Hornblower swears. Is French the only language the creature knows? It’s no issue for him, of course, but how can it be expected to be a British dragon if it only knows French? “Captain Horatio Hornblower, most recently of the HMS Sutherland,” he replies, also in French – awkwardly so, because it’s a ridiculously formal introduction to make to a dragon, but in light of never having conversed with one before he’s fallen back on the old habit of saying more than is necessary. “That is not a French name,” the dragon says. In English. “Non – no, it is not. You speak English, then?” “I do.” Pause. “That was a long introduction. I hope you don’t want me to use it whenever I want to call on you?” The idea of a dragon wanting to call on him at all is no less ridiculous than having a conversation with one, but it – he? The voice is deep – has a point. “You can call me 'Hornblower',” he says.

i don't remember who all is writing things that hasn't already been tagged, so if you see this and are a writer, feel free to share!

#thanks tortie! glad i had something to share #further context: it's at the end of flying colours as you may have guessed from hornblower's intro #when he bush and brown go to steal the witch of endor they find the egg #bc originally the egg (maybe some others too?) was being sent by the navy somewhere but then as we know she was captured by the french #so now the french are getting ready to move the egg somewhere but surprise the escaped british prisoners are stealing your ship #the dragon is named justinian bc hornblower was like [sweats] how do i name things #and started thinking about the names of his ships but accidentally said them aloud and the dragon was like 'i like justinian thanks' #the fic just covers the finding/hatching/reuniting with the fleet #but i do intend to reread temeraire eventually so maybe more will come #...i hope there are no typos in these tags #also i hate posting long things on mobile but i refused to give in so here we are #also also justinian is going to be a good bean that will remind hornblower of kennedy sometimes #bc i think he needs someone like that in addition to bush. thank you show #and idk if the boat purgatory convo could happen in canon since their deaths were separated by a fair amount of time (?) #but i can do what i want #afraid of heights hornblower having a dragon is still funny to me. sorry buddy blame bolt #he's kind of a mashup of show!hornblower and book!hornblower #my writing #chilly chats #tortoisesshells

[snickerdoodlles]

only new life begins could make a threat to torture a child into a genuinely sweet moment 😭

#context: a girl’s giving birth and her asshole husband is refusing her pain relieving treatments #she’s a concubine and the guys wife is standing by and making the midwife help the girl as much as she can against asshole husbands orders #girl cries out for wife to take care of the child when she dies giving birth to them #wife: ABSOLUTELY NOT if you dare die I will torture your child for your insolence #so you better live to protect them!! #FANGRU MY BELOVED 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️ #she needs to get absorbed into the friendship circle dammit #also where my fellow fangru/hao jia truthers at 😭 #new life begins

[chussy]

just realized that my dad actually basically attempted to kidnap me the summer before 7th grade and I didn't even interpret it as such until now because it was so in line with his general shittiness that it didn't even stand out

#basically i visited him and he was living in a remote like mountain place at the time #and when it came time for him to drive me home he just. refused to do it. #bit of context he often insisted that he should've gotten full custody (social services and court decided not to give him any custody) and #he made many plans about me living with him full time and when I'd ask how he planned on getting custody he'd wave it away #also the place he lived was basically abandoned like it was a small village and pretty much all the houses were either abandoned or used as #winter weekend homes by ppl who live far away and were obviously not there because it was the summer #the only reason I managed to get home is that one of the houses was a winter house for people i knew bc they were the parents of a guy i was #in scouts with at the time and their trip up there in the summer only happened because they needed to make repairs and it happened to #coincide with my trip there and they were leaving on the same day and they lived at a village next to my town and were willing to take me w/ #them to my house while they were there. so they drove me home #NOTE! I HAD NO SIGNAL THERE NO WAY TO CONTACT MY MOM! OTHERWISE I KNOW SHE WOULD'VE STORMED THE PLACE

[dieselocelot]

It does make me wince to see people reduce Yonoi down to his relationship with Jack when he is a literal fascist. He was stationed in Manchuria ffs theres no sidestepping his incredibly violent, active participation in the imperial japanese war machine. How his driving goal in the film was the construction of the airstrip to assist in the IJA's efforts in Indonesia (which he wants to have the POWs build). How he's desperately ashamed he wasn't able to assist in the Ni Ni Roku incident or at least had a 'valiant' death alongside his compatriots. theres no avoiding it. but it's never talked about.

#overall its a wider issue of people prioritising romantic relationships in media and reducing canon queer characters to their identities #and stripping back any political cultural or religious context to their character to make them more palatable to a modern audience #i hope i dont give the impression of refusing to engage with the subject matter critically in favour of mindless gratification #btw the building of an airstrip by captive POWs on Haruku Island was completely real #many POWs died during transport to the Island due to the squalid conditions and rampant disease on ships #and if disease didn't get them they were either starved beat or worked to death on the Island #anyway please read The Knights of Bushido you can easily find a pdf of it online theres no reason not to #glass shatter sfx. #chatting shit

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

"Il me faut un bon lit, mais pour moi tout seul, une seringue, et le roi de Prusse."

This is an absolutely deranged sentence and I refuse to believe Voltaire, wit and wordsmith Voltaire, was oblivious to how this line could be read, let alone by Frederick. My guy,,, why the FUCK do you write like this

[source btw]

#the context for those curious: #Voltaire was asking Fritz to send him some laxatives only available in Prussia made by a doctor there #since he was having stomach problems yet again #Fritz responds calling him crazy and that doctor is a quack and those pills are only used by women who want to give themselves abortions #but that he'll still send them to V since he asked for them. He (again) tells V to vome visit him and promises to give him a bunch of stuff #when he arrives. specifically; a laurel crown; poetry; and a ''young virgin for your use'' #V thanks him but insists he doesn't need a virgin or nonvirgin for that matter: ''I need fur in the summer; not girls..'' #and thats when he says the above quote #joking about his health; saying he only needs a bed for himself; and enema; and Fritz #but saying ''I only need a bed; an enema; and you'' goddamn V i refuse to believe you aren't doing a double entendre #and he's made the enema/sodomy joke before; in the Montperny poem

[glassphinix]

[ID: the “touching grass is not enough” meme of text over a flowery field that has been edited to read “touching grass is not enough, i need an update about the edge of sleep tv series.” end ID]

#the edge of sleep #teos #literally ive only listened to the first three episodes bc i struggle to find an excuse to listen to an audio drama #i dont really listen to podcasts. i turned on distractible while i was cleaning my aunts house cause it was good to have as background noise #but teos is a work of fiction it's a thriller/mystery/horror story that i want to give my undivided attention #and thats hard to do because my brain Refuses to stay on track if listening is all i'm doing #when i was into bmc i had to be reading the script while i listened to the audio bootleg or i wouldnt fucken stay concentrated #i only listened to it initially during a shift w a disability support worker bc we were driving and we had fuckall else to do #but 1. i dont always have the same worker and it feels rude to keep listening to a story halfway through with no context for them #and 2. from my understanding shit gets decidedly fucked up from ep 4 onward so its probably super not appropriate to listen to #in somebody elses fucking car #but i wanna finish it SO BAD i wanna be able to pour through the teos tag and talk about it with other people without getting spoiled #ive gotten spoiled on a Lotta shit just from reading the tvtropes page #auauufah im so torn between figuring out how to listen to it as a podcast or waiting for more info on the tv show #fellow autistic people do you ever do that thing where ur special interest is always some form of media but its prone to changing #so like every few months youre defined by a new fucking show or game or film or whatever #but Every So Often when ur between big interests u have a very short-lived (hours/days/week or two) but INTENSE obsession w something niche #yeah its like that #my brain is that little ms paint creature thing on all fours with pointy teeth and red eyes biting something in its mouth savagely #and the something is teos #internal monologue

[rainiishowers]

#obey me shall we date #omswd #om! barbatos #om! simeon #simeon x barbatos #barbatos x simeon #simebarb #them <3 #i refuse to give context

[lunar-fey]

oh yeah ive finally made an honest to god anime fan out of my dad. turns out hes like me and can slam back 12 episodes in a day 😌 whereas skerples can usually only watch like 3 or 4. anyway he started trigun 98 today and like he only had time to watch 1 ep before leaving but yay :)

edit. realized i've probably never talked about this but this is a big deal for me bc i've been trying to get him into anime for over a decade since he first saw me watching trigun 98 in the living room with my bf at the time and would get entranced and watch chunks of the episodes standing in the doorway but always maintain he just "didn't like anime" bc he didn't "like the artstyle" and go on about how the only good anime he's ever seen was afro samurai and after a lot of pressure i've finally convinced him to watch a few recently (i made him watch the twewy anime with my for my birthday last year, + got him to watch dr. stone bc he really likes engineering and stuff so i thought he'd like it), and he's watched bits and pieces of a few others recently, bc he's been getting sick at night and when me n skerples are watching stuff he'll sit and kinda watch with us. recently he decided on his own to watch demon slayer and LOVED it, and as he was finishing s1 he was like "well. i think i'm an anime fan now. i really want to find more good ones. i'm thinking about trigun next" <3

#he has a bunch of shows other people have reccomended to him naruto dbz one ounch etc #and weve talked about them and like whether he would actually like them (answer is no to all of those ones LOL) #but i am waiting fearfully for the day i have to figure out how to explain to him that like. sn k or something is bad #bc he still really wanted to buy the h*p game bc he was like 'well but shell only get a few pennies so who cares' like sighs. #anyway tho having a lot of fun trying to decide what to show him 🤔 #skerples really thinks he should watch fmab and im less sure bc i legit think it might trigger his ptsd..... #he used to not be able to watch anything where a kid dies or with a lot of blood due to it like any slasher or horror stuff was right out #and while anime violence is generally fine for him (actually he really likes it) i do wonder if the context might uh #hit a little closer to home. #anyway more importantly trying to decide if i could get him into mushishi or perhaps death parade. #i think mom would like mushishi but she refuses to give anime a try even when we watch stuff w dad in the living room #she just buries her face in her phone 🙄

[taibu]

#but daddy i love him #i refuse to give context #other than HNNNNNNG HES SO FCKING AWESOME AAAA #especially in super hero he was just vibing #being a grandpa to pan #casually getting into the enemy hq and was never caught #that part where he just jumps off the lookout and catches the helmet hnnnnnnngh that scene is so fucking good #i dont like that he is trying to force gohan back to training by putting pan in danger though #then again that was very in character for mr imma kidnap a 4 year old and train them ruthlessly for a year #but come on man you can do better than that #but hey no one is perfect

[talaricula]

fun how even in a country with one of the best social infrastructures on earth, having had cancer less than ten years ago means you can just. be refused a mortgage.

#i HATE insurance companies and i HATE the laws around them #fucking vultures #context: Lilou and I are starting to look at houses #we are lucky enough to have rly solid income and my grandma saved up enough money for me for a v decent downpayment #banks will gladly give us a loan #HOWEVER you need to basically get life insurance to get a loan (to insure the bank against your death) #and it is LEGAL to refuse someone for a ton of pre-existing conditions #two years ago a law was passed that granted a right to be forgotten ten years past the end of cancer treatment #that's another two and a half years for me #so now we're trying to figure out if they're gonna refuse me (in which case two and a half more years of waiting #in a house market that keeps getting more expensive) #or if they're /just/ going to make me pay wayyy more money for the insurance #which would be an option but only bc - i cannot stress this enough - i have the privilege of being extremely financially secure for my age #INSANE #insurances are just a way to institutionalise ableism and it makes me SO ANGRY

[lunaofchaos]

Out-of-context quotes #1:

"Aren't you going to beg for your life?"

"I'll beg when I'm actually in danger of losing my life."

#1AMbrain #my brain gives me these types of quotes at random times and refuses to elaborate #might as well start posting them #begging for your life #this quote is just a power move #I got this one ages ago but it's still good #I want to use it as dialogue sometime #figuring out how social media works #out of context quotes #out-of-context quotes #power quotes