#june progress

[rigelmejo]

i think a point im trying to make with myself lol is that i really should start reading the print novels i’ve bought extensively. i am definitely at the point where they are both readable/understandable overall without a dictionary, and where my reading speed for them isn’t that much slower than in english (and if we’re honest here... if i make myself speed read in chinese there’s a fair chance its faster than my english reading, if the speed really bothers me... also when the hell did my english reading speed get so slow? idk i think as i got older i got self indulgent about savoring things i like and dwelling in them tbh). my point is, if its a matter of struggling to follow the plot, or reading ‘intolerably’ slow, i have surpassed those points. so they aren’t reasons to avoid my print books anymore.

the only exception is maybe Poyun, Sha Po Lang, and Can Ci Pin, which are probably above my reading level a little bit. According to that zhtool website i’m reading extensively at about 1.8 (with lower numbers being more difficult), and most of the novels i own are 1.8 or easier (with the exception of the 3 listed above). So my dmbj novels, the gyadl novel, the LiuLi novel, modu, zhenhun, saye, hell even the mdzs novel i have in traditional characters i could probably do right now (i have zhenhun in simplified and traditional and figure i’ll read the traditional to re-remember/get used to recognizing some traditional hanzi i forgot or am not used to yet). Related... i saw a new dmbj novel for sale that looks like slice of life old man iron triangle side stories in the village and i’m very... tempted to buy... but i should probably buy reboot novels first (i have the first set of dmbj novels in print, then the 10 Years Later novel). To be fair, all the dmbj novels are online too (so im not worried about missing some).

Maybe i will finish this fanfiction i’m reading, then move onto a print book for a while. usually i read digitally for the automated-audio, but since i haven’t been using that lately and my listening comprehension is getting ignored Anyway, there’s no huge difference for me between using print novels or online ones. Eventually i WILL listen to audiobooks and get some listening reinforcement, will listen to chinese spoonfed audio again for listening gaps, and when i run into new Frustrating words when reading in print i do sometimes look them up and get the word’s pronunciation. so my reading to listening gap is more like “oh no i kept reading 晕 yun as hun for 200 pages (which is easy to pick up the correction when listening), or 小心翼翼 xiaoxinyiyi as xiaoxinweiwei” (yeah idk where my brain guessed the wei pronunciation either).

also @a-whump-muffin i finally kind of get what you mean when you said manga were sometimes harder than novels. i’ve been reading more manhua lately just because i’ve been in the mood, and even though generally i know MORE of the hanzi i see (like 99%), unknown words give me less context to work with. Whereas in novels i can see a lot more unknown words and hanzi and still figure out the plot and a decent portion of the details. since there’s usually like a paragraph per main-detail to elaborate on things. i read some of 你的距离 and its easy enough to follow the plot based on pictures (its about a guy who broke up, looking for someone new on app dating), but a lot of the specific-dating-app words i do not know in chinese and i could Guess what words i was seeing but i wasn’t sure specifically what a LOT of them actually were. Whereas when i read a novel i’ve got like 2-5 surrounding sentences to figure out if ‘vague word’ means specifically speaker or microphone or headphones (when in the given sentence itself any of the words could work). in a manhua its like “well this means something related to ‘match’ but i only have one line about it so who knows specifically what this meant if i see it later in another piece of writing, it could mean ‘paired’ ‘match’ ‘compatible’ ‘selected’ etc). 

#rant #june #june progress #progress #reading progress

[guarded-axiom]

all the beta kids are transfem send post

#post tag in progress #homestuck #rose lalonde #jade harley #june egbert #dove strider

[booperbeanv3]

drawstuck #8: post-retcon juneberts

it's da sequel baby

june sprites under cut

#homestuck #june egbert #junedave #dave strider #vriska serket #roxy lalonde #art stuff #i got too lazy as i progressed soz #not soz actually #my perspective is kinda shit but this is a shitpost so #john egbert #johndave #pepsicola #hammertime #davejohn #j egbert #idfk

[nyankolovesbox]

A bit lazy... but I'll do it if you all think it would be better colored.

*going to play a game for break*

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #buttonblossom #pomni x ragatha #work in progress #june wips

[eatmy-customjorts]

c'mon mom he is STUDYING

#tbhk #art #toilet bound hanako kun #jshk #digital art #mitsuba sousuke #sousuke mitsuba #theres a little mitsukou in the bg #mitsukou #watercolor #ive been working on this for like..... 2 months? #i keep working on it then making a bit of progress then getting distracted #so i did the lineart and colors today and yesterday but the sketch way back in june

[lottiemilfews]

Simone Kessell in Muru (2022) dir. Tearepa Kahi

#simone kessell #simonekesselledit #muru 2022 #the raid 2022 #filmgifs #moviegifs #filmedit #dailyworldcinema #tusermiles #..............go and compare this to the set i posted last june. lets just say. ive made progress in gifmaking lmao #my post #*m.gif

[catzgam3rz]

The QSMP Election letter envelope having an actual Federation wax seal on it is sick as hell physical props for a minecraft server event is wild I love it

#rambles #FINALLY AT THE ELECTION ARC WERE MAKING PROGRESS WERE MAKING IT THROUGH JUNE #ive got the fucking worst migraine so i am at home listening to minecraft with the lights out and my phone as low brightness as it can go #qsmp #livevodding #qsmp livevod #mcyt #i lvoe this server so much omg #this is around the time i believe i started to catch up like this was the live event going down when i started this fucking catch up journe #could be wrong but at the very least i remember the election being posted about somewhat #THERES SO MANY PAGES TOO WTF

[alistonjdrake]

A Woman of No Importance is a comedy.

#june trash #my writing #nano 2023 #I have to update my reading copy #but I've made so much progress this month #I just have to make room for the lady knight arc

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

oohh my goodness would you look at that. its the tristamp version! at last!! ill admit- this has been all but finished for uuhhh weeks! its been weeks. the only thing ive needed to do is the ampersand. that lil "&" that you see? thats the only thing i needed to do. i just didnt want to.

BUT ITS DONE!! its done and if you want heres the links to the tri98 version and the trimax version

#art #my art #digital art #digital drawing #digital illustration #fanart #trigun #tristamp #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #how long ago did i post the progress of this one... i dont want to look.... #OUUUUU BACK IN JUNE!!! #goddd if you thought there wasnt gonna be a tristamp version of this at all you were so close to bein right i was so close to just never #finishing this LMAOOO (crying) #ITS THE FONT!!! I HATE COPYING FONTS!!!! #genuinely this was the EASIEST font to copy and THATS what got me #i mean thats not the only thing ive been lowkey a lil sad but yaknow im always like that so #that arm also... and his gun.... killed me... i remember.... #for a pacifist this man absolutely slaughtered me #also since im here i might as well vent abt my life im sure no one cares lol who even reads the tags #anyways my toilet broke so that sucks ever since i got back from a trip back in early june itd been squeakin like CRAZY idk if i mentioned #it before in the tags of a different post but itd been drivin me wild like i started hearin it even when i wasnt in my apartment id just #hear the squeaking of my toilet at the grocery store. itd been destroyin my sleep fr i felt so paranoid constantly i had no idea if it was #ever stopping anyways the part that had been sqeakin like. BLEW UP or smn i havent a clue what happened but i heard water runnin in it open #d it up n got blasted in the face with toilet water that was miserable. my granma came over to check it out n the same thing happened to he #then my neighbor came over n got blasted too. called my landlord and a plummers gonna come over tomorrow i have no idea when so i probably #wont be able to sleep at all thatll be fun lol #i feel bad for anyone that does read the tags i hope no one does i always feel a little worried abt it bc i always read the tags on posts #but anyways its been a time. life is life is life. its been spittin on me. i wanna draw more trigun stuff #gosh finally havin this finished feels like a massive weight off my shoulders i havent even wanted to draw anything until i finished this

[luthienne]

What are you starting with?

metaphorically? recultivating the hope that it’s never too late to pursue what we love and uprooting the stubborn cynicism that's always whispering what’s the point

#ask #anon #literally? rehabilitating my voice once again. this time after a surgery i had to get due to several infections over the past year #i basically haven't been able to sing since last june. i was finally making progress but we realized i'd need to get this surgery in feb #and this is all after i'd already had to start over in fall of 2021 when i came back to singing after walking away from music and #thinking i'd never really sing again #to be deleted. maybe #music study tag

[rigelmejo]

I'm reading an "easier" cnovel right now and it's actually Harder for me because the lack of surrounding sentences for context means if I don't know a word? Its a Critical word to the meaning of the paragraph that I don't know. I'm looking up way more words than usual precisely because the text is skimpier on the words T-T

(Which to be fair is about as easy as The Wrong Way to a Demon Sect Leader, I just happen to know more wuxia words versus this novel having career and daily life words which i Know Less without surrounding context lol)

Anyway here's the "easier" story 我男朋友好像有病

And the pingxie supernatural college au I'm reading 夜半衣寒

If you feel like checking them out

(Read 1 section of first story, 6 sections of second story).

#rant #rec list #reading progress #june #june progress #progress #my point i think. is i can actually read the more difficult text like i read english #but the less text there is the more critical the words i dont know become ToT #sort of like the manga v novel problem tbh

[guarded-axiom]

what i think the two possibilities for daves reaction to june coming out as trans to him:

*remembering the time years ago when he joked that he wasnt gay but would 100% kiss john if he was a girl* "shiit dogg i gotta keep good on my word, cmere"

"... do you still wanna do boys night? we can rename it for you"

#post tag in progress #dave strider #june egbert #junedave #pepsicola

[obeetlebeetle]

strugatsky brothers: let's write a book Abt the plight of the worker, the impossible dream and corresponding fear of nuclear power, the pervasiveness of corruption in both body and society, our desperate desire to understand absolutely everything and the misery that comes from failure, the Soviet experiment, a legacy of Jews who survived here, and the uncertain boundaries of the human

me: and also. Gay sex

#like. yes we begin with red and kirill as the relation between the working man and his desire for the scientists to make meaningful progress #and we end with red and arthur as the broken mensch and the last of our idealistic youth struggling to believe that everyone could be happy #but also. my kirill was cured he beamed like the june sun. & redrick crawled on top of him trying to press the boy into the ground.... cmon

[waterfall-ambience]

really grappling with the weight of how long it'll take me to finish perpetua. rn the script is long bc its quite dialogue-heavy but hopefully i'll get faster at drawing comics as time goes on.

#auri rambles #perpetua progress notes #dont talk to me about hosting sites. i'll figure it out once i get the first couple chapters done so ik i can commit #setting myself a really ambitious goal of having chapter 1 ready for posting by june but like. aaa. #i need to streamline my workflow and figure out how to dual-wield csp and procreate and #. idk maybe doing page planning at uni (inc. colours) and executing all at home on weekends or certain days?? #im really dont want to pay for a csp ipad subscription!!!!! maybe if i absolutely have to and my kuripot ass is suffering

[cryberpunkart]

WIP. Two of my four Star Wars tabletop characters. Kanto was a slutty Zabrak criminal (I think we muddled a few classes together for him, like smuggler/gunslinger), and Beka was a slutty pilot and expert blockade runner.

#star wars oc #work in progress #cryberpunkart #oc: kanto harvoss #oc: rebeka june

[queen-scribbles]

I BLAME RHI FOR THIS

#queen in teer fradee #also scribe #bc we hung out yesterday and were talking games and i got on greedfall #and was getting effusive about the writing and the CHARACTERS and the interactions and the THE THEMES and- #she was asking about it and specifically kurt and there was stuff i couldn't completely remember #so obviously i have to play it again :P #also the good ones came on the radio #so clearly the universe was telling me i need to replay ves' game specifically #no other explanation for it #do i have about 9 things i'm juggling in swtor? yes #am i trying to make serious progress in lotro with two characters? also yes #shouldn't i really pick back up trinne's wotr game? also also yes #but i'm not #(my last time through was LAST JUNE that's too long) #greedfall