You know, I gotta say, I had some rosetta stone fall of the back of a truck near me, and while there's stuff I used to like about duolingo, vs it's current state this is way better

Might just have to see... what other languages I can find strewn around the ground to get my mitts on before the source dries up

My feelings towards ao3 this morning.

i had a lot of issues with s4 but i genuinely believe that max’s arc in s4 was one of the best things they have ever done in this show and i don’t think the graveyard scene nor her death scene will ever leave me. the way that so many people have connected to her and her story is incredibly moving. you don’t need to have experienced 1980s indiana or battles with lovecraftian horrors to  wrap yourself in max’s pain, her quiet distance, her panic when she finally realizes she wants more time just as her clock is running out. i just. i don’t know. the duffers got that really, truly right.

theories as to where Grace got the cigarette she was smoking after fucking Max's ghost:

she has actually secretly been an active smoker for a long time and always carries a pack with her

she bought a pack of cigarettes when she was on the run from the cops because she was stressed, and figuring that she had already disappointed the Lord by touching herself and lying to the police and dismembering a body, decided that she might as well relieve that stress by taking up smoking

Max died with a pack of cigs and a lighter on him and they stayed with him when he turned ghost and Grace pocketed them from his clothes after they had sex

she just found them in the school or on the ground somewhere after the Lords in Black meeting, and perhaps her mind made the association between sex and cigarettes and that's how she came up with the idea of giving up her chastity to end Max's reign of terror

Grace had immediately thought of giving up her virginity as the sacrifice after the Lords in Black meeting, and the entire time Steph and Pete are running away and tearfully coming to terms with Steph having to kill Pete to stop Max, Grace is running around the school or off to a drug store for cigarettes because she felt having a smoke after was that necessary

so one character got to learn how to live again, how to reenter society after traumatizing event that will forever impact his life, got to heal and rebuild his relationship with his family even estranged father, reconnected with his old friends and was able to create reliable support system of people that also grew throughout this healing process and now can understand him more and be there for him, got to graduate and start his own business and now can even give inspirational speeches to help others

and the other one had to leave two closest people to him that were his only support after his family death bc 'friends' he had before weren't type of people worth reconnecting with, move out of his country abandoning everything he knew his whole life just to * checks notes * start a job he didn't really want and the main reason he needed higher pay was to establish financial stability for one of two people who he had to leave and that no longer wanted to be with him

okay yea okay sure both cases are about personal 'growth'

hm. i do not like chilshi 🤔

sometimes I remember how the magisterium series ended and get so angry i can't even think straight

Whenever I feel my age in hockey fandom, I remind myself firmly: no matter what, Marc-Édouard Vlasic will always be older than you. Pictures - 1) Kitty Cat Max on patrol; 2) Magnus Chrona (6'5) standing next to a U6 goalie at the anthem; 3) full moon at night.

im so annoyed with everything today, i think i need some tasty food and a million hours of sleep and then I'll be back to normal

i have been doing this thing where i have been accidentally eating nutritious meals, not drinking caffeine, not smoking, not drinking alcohol, and not eating any junk food and holy shit i feel amazing??? my mood has just increased so much and I'm NEVER tired and I've been having rare if no negative thoughts. has anyone heard of being healthy this is insane?

the actual original purpose of the modern au wasn't mediocre froi jokes or insulting finnikin or whatever the fuck. it was the quintana-centric polycule. and that's still the idea, baby!

the8 // performance team vcr, '17 Japan concert

i'm gonna preface this by saying i genuinely enjoyed the stolen earth/journey's end, it was absurd, it was stupid, it was fun, it was generally an enjoyable romp through a silly scifi show season finale

that said, it was also an exercise in how many women could be fucked over in two episodes! and a case study on why you shouldn't let a guy who's just had multiple different traumas excavated and waved in his face make unilateral decisions about the fate of his support structure <3 i say this with all the love in my heart: ten is a condescending hypocrite with control issues who took rose and donna's agency from them, and when all his emotional faultlines get a hammer taken to them at once, it makes total sense to me that he would try to fling every person close to him as far away as possible. Like. The final scene of the season is him, in the rain, saying "i'm fine" and "they have other people" with nobody around to correct him. the final shot is him staring morosely down at the tardis console, that had just been piloted by the full complement of six for possibly the first time. The earth might have been saved, but he just gained a contender for "top five worst days of my very, very long life."

Anyway alternate universe where the DoctorDonna wasn't slowly frying in the background because the apparent? mindmeld? that comes free with human-Time Lord biological metacrisis is the thing keeping the both of them stable (no evidence blue ten didn't have his own meltdown in the parallel universe!). She clocks him the minute she asks how he's doing in passing and he says "i'm fine." She declares that nobody is going to be put anywhere they can't get back from until he's had a nice nap and a few weeks on the beach to come down from getting jumpscared by Davros. donna gets a twin and rose doesn't get left on the beach with a fixer-upper. the doctor hates it. it's very good for him.

so many things to grade in the next ~24 hours and i am SO tired from teaching as well as the makes-you-tired disease but we're going to do the bare minimum of grading and call it a day ig