so uh. watched s4 of sex education. hated it. moving on.

nothing happens

jegulus | M | 3 parts of ?

James and Regulus meet when they're kids, and it doesn't take them long to become friends. Best friends, even. And it's fine, because they're young, and love is easy and simple, and it can't be mistaken for anything else.

Then they grow. And their friendship turns into something else entirely. But it should still be fine if nothing changes, right?

If nothing happens.

speaking of fucked up overly hated female twdg characters i find it Super Interesting how people will say carver was the best villain in the whole series, but when lilly is literally just a successful carver (iron fist leader of a community turning children into soldiers) suddenly shes a bad/lame villain for some reason 🤔

T'Meni-bu, I don't think that's the quote...

you ever just think about. “You are diseased, albeit a disease of our own making. No more.” you ever just. oh, they made him and they discarded him. it’s never going to be quiet again for him, and that’s just collateral. they let the sound rot through his whole life, his whole timeline. because that’s the kind of easy sacrifice you can make when you want to save yourself above everything else, one that doesn’t ask anything of you. you dig open a child’s mind and you bury your survival inside him and when he follows the noise back home, when he does exactly what you groomed him for, you call him ruined for it. that’s. you ever just think about that.

Missles: *happen to hit Polish grounds*

Tumblr: OMG, WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE KILLED THERE BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE REMEMBERED AS THE ONES WHOSE DEATHS WILL CAUSE WW3 TO BREAK OUT

Me, a Pole, looking at all of this: *sips coffee with exasperation* westerners...

Does anyone know if in P3 Reload ALL the girls have a completely platonic path where they don't confess and/or ask how you feel about them?

I managed to get Chihiro and Aigis platonic, intentionally romanced Yukari, think I know where I screwed up with Fuuka (who I've heard can be platonic), have NO idea where I screwed up with Yuko since I tried NOT to flirt with her, and wasn't able to get Mitsuru to rank 9 before it was too late, so I don't know about her at all.

I ASSUME that all girls have a platonic option - I honestly figured that if anyone didn't, it would be Yukari and Aigis, but since Aigis does that would JUST be Yukari as a must romance/reject, which is maybe more "canonizing" than the devs want for any one girl.

i can't think about drawing right now I HAVE THINGS TO DO!!!

🌜Dijon Part 2🌛- WIP

I was having a really hard time finding a middle ground for Jonathan’s and Dio’s fashion, both seemed to prioritize different things and accent in vastly opposite ways. But turning away from panels for a sec and focusing on official art provided a whole new pool of inspiration!

It was way more fun then on dressing them like a paper doll until I found this kind of in between.

Dijon is their own person most of the time, but they’re the cumulation of a kind of deal passed between two warring enemies stuck in the same body to survive - ever couple of months Dijon becomes ‘mostly Jonathan’ and goes to spend his time with Erina and friends, and they spends the weekends as ‘mostly Dio’. A very precarious balance mostly maintained out of spite, pride and (unfortunately and bafflingly) respect.

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). 

What do you think of the news about a Rey movie? I don’t know whether to be excited or not. On one hand, it’ll be nice to see Rey again and I’m genuinely curious how they plan to fix the disaster they left behind with TROS, but on the other hand it’s unlikely Ben will be making an appearance. Adam seems busy with other projects and I can’t see him returning to SW. :( also the 15-year time jump is strange imo

You literally couldn't pay me to watch.

A lot of people seem to think it might not even happen, since they're apparently constantly cancelling things and a lot of films don't get made even when companies have their shit together. That's my best case scenario.

Am I the only one who dislikes the two-year-timeskip thing? Every other season it could have worked, like-

Season 1? Just let Will throw up slugs and let El live with hopper for a year longer. Season 2? Let the Russians take a year longer to build the mall and their underground bunker. Season 3? Just let everyone be depressed and miserable for a year longer before vecna starts doing shit.

But season 4? The upside down is literally leaking into a destroyed Hawkins. This was the first time they didn't win because the villain, Vecna, is still alive. And the military is actively hunting El.

It's the one season where they shouldn't be able to skip time, but instead go right back to where we left off.

i feel like the fact that barely anyone who watches the show thinks of will as the main character might be indicative of the fact that he isn't

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you currently being the same age as Nanook and beginning the story when you were 17, would also mean that you were OLDER than Tomkin was when the men left for war? Or am I misremembering Tomkin's age

nope you're spot on tomkin was only sixteen when he went to war! im going to cry

If you wanna be happy (because Ze with students) but also sad at the same time (because of what he says) ... this is your video

anyways yesterday my phone shut down and turned into a featureless inactive brick for several hours for literally no reason (ah midas curse, how i did not miss thee) so i ended up having to do a hard reset which fixed it but i hope no one tried to contact me about anything important during that time