i was looking for a way to learn russian not because i have any reason to or expectation of ever becoming fluent but because i have insomnia and need challenges to occupy myself with at night without those things having anything to do with anything i try during the day.
ok now i feel like an annoying cooking blog giving an essentially unrelated story before the recipe, but this motivation probably determines what i look for in language learning resources: no organisation necessary on my part. accessible online. capable of keeping me entertained while half-asleep.
found this!
"The "textbook" for Ме́жду на́ми is this website. It is a free resource that requires no special password or registration. It provides the story line, vocabulary, grammatical explanations and cultural context that will guide your study of Russian. You will also use a set of printed workbooks called Ра́бота в аудито́рии (Classroom Activities) and Дома́шние зада́ния (Homework Assignments).
The program is organized into nine уроки (units). Each one starts with a list of goals so that you know what you will be learning to do in Russian. You should plan on checking yourself regularly against these goals as you work through the material. They will help you keep track of what you know well, and the areas in which you might need some additional work. Each unit divided into three ча́сти (parts), with each часть (part) sharing common thematic and grammatical content. These parts are divided into episodes that advance the ongoing story line and provide new vocabulary, grammar and cultural information. Each episode begins with a текст (text), which you should plan to read multiple times. Listening to the audio, looking at the illustrations, and checking the mouse-over glosses for words and phrases that may be hard to figure out from context will aid your understanding of the text. If you cannot recall the meaning of a word you have seen before, you can look it up by checking the Слова́рь (Dictionary).
After reading and listening to the text several times, you should move onto the Вы всё по́няли (Did You Get All of Тhat?) section, which provides comprehension questions with automatic feedback to help you to check your understanding of the text and to learn new vocabulary. These activities are crucial preparation for the in-class work, which is designed to help you use this new vocabulary and to examine new grammatical constructions.
As you work with the classroom activities, you will read and re-read the Немно́го о языке́ (A Bit About Language) section, which contains information about Russian grammar and usage encountered in the episode. Be sure to make use of the activities with automatic feedback to see if you have understood the new concepts being presented.
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Hear me out
A Christmas Carol like/type of fic for Billy Batson
You would expect him to love and adore the festive holiday, right? But remember, Billy Batson is a homeless child who doesn't have a family or home for the holidays to celebrate in. He doesn't get presents, a warm bed or nice meals like everyone else does, and probably hasn't for several years despite being a kid. Maybe he's a little bitter that he can't be the kid he used to be
Maybe in the Watchtower the JL is hosting a small holiday party and when someone (The Flash) asks Captain Marvel if he's having a fun time, he lies with a great big smile. But when he walks away into another room, he mutters under his breath that he actually dislikes the holiday a lot, and much to his dismay, Superman accidentally overhears it. Thus immediately begins a surge of rumors spreading like wildfire though the Watchtower about how odd that is the learn about CM.
Slowly each of the members try and bring out the holiday spirit in CM over the next couple of days before Christmas, and CM, who keeps trying to deny his dislike for the holiday, has to just sit down and begrudgingly tell them why he doesn't like the well celebrated and popular holiday (while hiding that he's Billy Batson) and earns so much sympathy and words of encouragement from the others
Superman even offers to invite him over for the holidays, but CM refuses, says maybe another time
That year he spends another Christmas doing patrol and maintaining the Rock of Eternity, but by next year, Billy Batson finally gets to celebrate with the League and the Kent family, finally getting a chance to be a kid, just for a day
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Music Monday
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Three songs for The UnTitledverse, Wings And Horns' original spin off trilogy and Far Cry The Silver Chronicles below the cut.
First is "My Ordinary Life" for the main antagonist of The UnTitledverse, Zachariah the Orchestrator, the "Hand at Fate's Table" and the second-borne Eldritch that is the center point of majority of the multiverse's issues.
"They tell me that I'm special, I smile and shake my head
I'll give them stories to tell friends about the things I said
They tell me I'm so humble, I say I'm turning red
They let me lie to them and don't feel like they've been misled
They give so much to me, I'm losing touch get me?
Served on a silver platter, ask for second they just let me
They tell me I'm a god, I'm lost in the fascade
Six feet off the ground at all times I think I'm feelin' odd
No matter what I make, they never see mistakes
Makin' so much bread, I don't care that they're just being fake
They tell me they're below me, I act like I'm above
The people blend together but I would be lost without their love
Can you heal me? Have I gained too much?
When you become untouchable you're unable to touch
Is there a real me? Pop the champagne
It hurts me just to think and I don't do pain."
Silva may not be aware of it, but she actually has a rivalry with the Voice, or at least her supernatural Third Eye does. Abridged explanation of the Third Eye: some mystical entity commonly tied to the human soul but doesn't necessarily need to be to help its user, usually just retains memories and personality to give some back to the renewed soul upon reincarnating so the variants of the person don't become carbon copies, however instances like Silva and Paul who don't have a soul (due to the circumstances of their "births") they instead only build up their own Third Eye to protect themselves, which gives them back their memories, personality and skills into their next lives deep in their subconscious, so while they don't consciously remember most familiar things they instinctively do and gravitate towards that. The Third Eye also has an OP mode and can enhance the user who is aware and works symbiotically with it in ways humans back in the beginning of the multiverse could do. Paul realized this and gave Silva some subtle lessons (never explicitly saying what it was for) so Silva just thought it was meditation to make her more spiritual with her soul or something and doesn't actually realize until much, much later in her life that she's powerful enough to kill a God if she wanted to. There's a lot more for the Third Eye but I'll explain in a more detailed post.
Anyway, the Voice genuinely hates Silva for constantly foiling its plans in some shape or form, especially by the time of Silva's Hope, as the Voice hasn't exactly made itself look capable of governing one corner of the universe to its extremely cruel and unforgiving superior. And since the Voice is very biased and hypocritical on why "a deputy woman trying to live a normal life is more deserving of torment and needless suffering than the the prophet who killed his daughter for it and the other prophet who gaslit, gatekeeped, manipulated, mansplained, manwhored and manslaughtered his way through life", once Silva becomes aware of the Voice, its on sight. Anyway song below:
"Kill me again, again and again
But I come back knowing so much more
Learning all your tricks
I'll make you sick
Because the truth is...*
I'll make you quit."
"Try to stay [first], [have to] stay first**
You're still good-good, admit to this
Don't fight anymore, it's such a snore
One more step, and I'll make it war."
"And I still love the way I "hurt" you."
"It's determination, whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-yeah
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-yeah.
I love the way, I love the way
I love the way you keep on trying
I love the way (I love the way), I love the way (I love the way)
I love the way you keep on dying."
(* = Obviously I had to emit Sans name due to that probably not being the Voice's name
** = The Voice is against Silva, and since Frisk is from Undertale, I had to adapt the lyrics here a bit)
A song for the unnamed original trilogy I'm working on, which spins off from the events of Wings And Horns, but focusing on two characters who appeared in it, unnamed but can confirm they're both women, with one being trans. This pair are the first humans to have ever explored the Multiverse, and the trilogy will be following their story in life, navigating the aftermath of the abolishing of the soulmate system, discovering + exploring the Multiverse, and seeking out the Wheel of Reincarnation in the Afterlife, while facing internal and external problems, the most prominent being the Mad Kin of Carnage himself, Discord.
"I'm born to run, down rocky cliffs
Give me grace, bury my sins
Shattered glass and black holes
Can't hold me back from where I need to go
Whoa-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Yellow hills and valleys deep
I watch them move under my feet
Stranger things, have come and gone
To see the world and take the throne
Don't hold back
Oh, I won't hold back
I'm gonna live my life like I'm gonna die young
Like it's never enough, like I'm born to run
I'm gonna spend my time like tomorrow won't come
Do whatever I want, like I'm born to run
I wanna see Paris (Hey), I wanna see Tokyo
I wanna be careless (Hey), even if I break my bones
I'm gonna live my life like I'm gonna die young
Like it's never enough, like I'm born to run.
A winding road, where strangers meet
To feel the love of a warm drink
My body moves, it's speaking loud
Don't have to say what I'm thinking now
Don't hold back
Oh, I won't hold back
I'm gonna live my life like I'm gonna die young
Like it's never enough, like I'm born to run
I'm gonna spend my time like tomorrow won't come
Do whatever I want, like I'm born to run
I wanna see Paris (Hey), I wanna see Tokyo
I wanna be careless (Hey), even if I break my bones
I'm gonna live my life like I'm gonna die young
Like it's never enough, like I'm born to run.
All these things, I've seen and done
I live my life like I'm born to run
All these things, I've seen and done
I live my life like I'm born to run
All these things, I've seen and done (I was born, born, born, born, born to run)
I live my life like I'm born to run (I was born, born, born, born, born to run)
I'm gonna live my life like I'm gonna die young
Like it's never enough, like I'm born to run
I'm gonna spend my time like tomorrow won't come
Do whatever I want, like I'm born to run
I wanna see Paris (Hey), I wanna see Tokyo
I wanna be careless (Hey), even if I break my bones
I'm gonna live my life like I'm gonna die young
Like it's never enough, like I'm born to run.
Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh!"
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