#it's literally my first language lmao

[xx-midnight-candy-goblin-xx]

Duolingo really said gay rights

#duolingo #spanish or vanish #I actually am fluent in spanish I'm just doing this for easy xp #it's literally my first language lmao #gay rights #lgbtqia+ #queer #queer rights #lgbt right

[n7punk]

for all the None people who follow me and care about Trace Memory/Another Code (spoiler free I promise): if you're interested in the remaster, I recommend you only get it if you're getting it for the sequel that was never released in America. they changed a lot in Trace Memory (Another Code 1) and this isn't a "new is bad" thing (usually I prefer remasters), this is a "they cut puzzles, 'streamlined' the game, and reworked/removed the best scene in the entire game" kind of thing. the game undoubtedly looks better, but it's also missing some of the hand-drawn art that really added to its story. there are some improvements (the new voice acting is cool to have, especially having it be optional, and the way they implemented the autoplay feature for that is clever. there are some improved scenes they could rework with the benefit of 3D graphics and voice acting), but I don't think it should be your first Trace Memory experience.

if you can't get your hands on the DS line and an emulator isn't working for the puzzles (something I can see - some of them did actually need to be cut just for being janky or more difficult than they needed to be) and this is the only way you can ever experience the first game, I recommend it over not playing the game, I'm just saying it's not the original. from what I can tell they normed the style of the first game with the second, so it's brighter and all the dialogue and non-flashback cutscenes are rendered in game, which loses some of the impact of the stylistic comic panels. I never thought I'd prefer flat art to rendered cut scenes but in a game like this the hand-drawn, kinda gritty art did a LOT and the brightly-rendered 3D models just don't lend themselves to the mystery of all these people's deaths. I am excited to play the second game since, changes or not, this is the only way to experience it in America (like I said, I still recommend Another Code: Recollection if it's the only way you can experience Trace Memory), but I would say the remaster is mostly worth buying for the sequel if you like the original game.

#might do a more in depth post later #definitely wanted to keep this free of any spoiler since i Love the story #also can i just say. my understanding is that it was always known as 'another code' in japan #so they changed it from trace memory to the 'real' name in the remaster #but the problem with that is languages differ and i bet people calling it 'the another' sounds less fucking dumb in japanese #because calling something 'the trace' worked a lot better in the original #like just. this is literally the opening cutscene when you boot up the game before even the starting menu so no spoilers #'dual another system' sounds WAY weirder than 'dual trace system' #this is a very minor gripe #i was genuinely excited the whole way through to be playing the game again and it is fun #i just don't think it should be anyone's first experience of the trace memory story lmao #words and things #trace memory #another code #another code: recollection

[hummerous]

finally, a recording of my singing voice that I like - only took............... nine years. okay. yeah. fuck me.

#my dad was on national television (not u.s.) for singing. as a kid. when the first TVs were being.. released in our country #mom won state competitions (our equivalent anyway) #they sent me in to this fuckin. juliard type place when i was ten. because someone up the ladder owed a friend of a friend a favor.. #and i literally. 1) didnt know how to sing. at all. no discussion happened previous. 2) didnt know the language they wrote everything in #it was fun. i sat in for a class - shattered my ego in ways I couldnt quite put into words #and then three years nothing #then. when my voice started to break. do that annoying teenage thing - they got me private tutor #i was incompetent and (unbeknownst to moi) had a massive crush on the tutor #so that was another. fun . part #so it's been interesting #getting here #one recording #lmao. #I'm happy #hmrsrmbl

[hella1975]

the closest ill ever get to being a pick me girl is the joy that fills me when the chefs at work so clearly favouritise me. like im there nicely cleaned up in my smart-casual uniform just a 20 year old waitress smiling my customer service smile and behind me spawns Scary Dog Privilege 10x in the form of several burly middle-aged chefs at least three of which have criminal records and would all stick a bread knife in someone for bothering me

#like it's really funny bc i worked HARD with back of house bc i knew my job would be significantly easier if they liked me #(it speeds your orders through. you can ask for things without being told to fuck off during a rush. they'll get you food on shift etc) #and also there's a stereotype especially in fancier places where floor staff look down on kitchen staff and i think that's shitty #so i was always going to be try with them and be nice but ALSO when i first started my job it was in a peak era so while these days #we're struggling a lot and have had to employ a lot of college kids that dont know what they're doing #when i joined it was all private school girls that would swan about the place very snootily. so the divide between front and back of hosue #was INTENSE when i joined. and there i was a little state school girlie and the chefs immediately recognised that #and took me under their wing. so even though the class angle doesnt exist so much anymore and theres majority state schoolers #im still very much in with the chefs in a way not many of the other floor staff are. and there's also the fact im not scared of them #like chefs ARE rude and a lot of them DONT like or even respect floor staff but i will GLADLY tell them to fuck off if i think it necessary #and that's a language they understand like ironically there's one chef that doesnt get on with ANY of the waitresses #(i talked about him on another post he's the soup one) but he likes me bc when he tried that rude dismissive act i told him to shove it #and now the other waitresses literally SEND ME TO TALK TO HIM when they have questions/want something bc they know he'll listen to me #and me and the head chef are besties and the one kp will talk OVER THE OTHER WAITRESSES' heads and completely blank them #so she can talk to me and it's all just really funny bc the kitchen staff LOVE me and that's not even me being arrogant #it's like a known thing at work that they love me and im just. a 20 year old 5'2 waitress with my little pearl necklace and blouse #and some tattooed ginger mohawked 6ft chef is there getting angry for me when i come in complaining about a table #or the kp that is literally on probation will give me a sticky toffee pudding and tell everyone to leave me the fuck alone LMAO #hella slaves to capitalism

[zeldabecameaqueen]

hello qsmp enjoyers, here's my goodbye to a server that saved my days for a year now

i don't know what will happen with the qsmp in the future but i just can't put myself in it anymore

i feel disrespected by the choices Quackity's Studios made, as a french person, but also as someone who's been abused as a worker. I understand that the process may be long (every administrative stuff is hell) for the studio to solve the financial and hierarchical situation, and I believe Quackity did everything to solve the issue as fast as he could (it's a belief, at no point i'm saying this is the truth of course).

however, i do not agree with him being neglectful towards his own project, towards his own admins, towards the qsmp community, i do not agree with him being radio silent towards his employees/volunteers, not thanking them once they left, not communicating anything to them about their own future, i do not agree with him either being blind to their loudly expressed needs or purposely ignoring them, i do not agree with him telling everyone "stuff takes time" but also allowing new events to happen on the server, and i'm extremely disappointed in this whole situation, because it divides more than ever a community and a project that i, among a lot of other people, cherish since a year now, when simple mesures such as COMMUNICATION were ignored.

frankly i think that most of the people would have better understood and been patient if Quackity's Studios didn't keep on announcing new events like nothing was happening

the reason i'm not talking too much about the financial issue is that : 1. I believe finding a way to pay admins that are still in the qsmp is a priority to Quackity nowadays, along with firing those who mistreated the employees/volunteers ; 2. I believe they will find a solution regarding the incomes (merch actually being a means to pay the admins is one of them)

i'm writing this during qsmp awards, i know a lot of ccs will be there. i'm a little hurt and disappointed but at the same time, i know some of them have a personal relation to Quackity that we as viewers don't have, they have their reasons to trust Quackity, i just don't agree with them, but please, no hate towards them or to people who'll watch the future events

it's a goodbye even though no one knows me lmao (i spent hours and hours watching, filling the vods of timestamps, translating youtube clips, even drawing again since a long time, i filled in the qsmp fandoms, did presentation docs and put hours into spreadsheets of the ccs statistics), but know that being a part of this community was a life experience for me, in so many ways, i'm forever thankful for the people who made this project possible, i'll miss sharing my hyperfixation with you all

🎨 also, I saved a bunch of qsmp fanarts that I didn't want to rb because I didn't want to support in any way what was happening, i didn't want to make people feel like watching the streams was ok, instead, I wanted to let the most room for any info about the admins' situation

i realize now that it wasn't fair, their art comes from a place of love, and whatever their reason was to continue watching qsmp despite all that was happening is not my business. They did art, and good art, so i'll reblog the last qsmp fanarts and probably will continue to share some from time to time

🩵 big big thanks to the artists and the ccs for creating such an amazing universe, i hope you'll keep the spirit and maybe leave with good friends, and obviously i'm so proud of all the eggies (by that I mean their admins), who have spoken up and left a project despite their obvious love for it, thanks to Lea for starting all this, freeing admins from an unbearable situation they might have not even recognized as so at the time

i don't know if i'll be back, for now i need to step back, but if i see one day that the situation got all fixed and safe and that actual apologies were made, then maybe i'll come back to this unique qsmp (it'll certainly feel changed tho)

#it took me time to write this properly but i think i expressed myself the best way i could #english is not my first language and i'm really exhausted so pardon any mistake or confusion #i won't tag it as neg since i love this community i'm just telling my goodbyes and justify me leaving #qsmp #this one year anniversary is difficult #have a nice time on the qsmp for those who stay #all my povs got away with all of this lmao (but it's ok i mean there literally work abuse so)

[jvzebel-x]

"You can’t quantify humanity. You can’t measure it—not the way you mean to. People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them."

x. "If We Were Villains", M.L. Rio

#If We Were Villains #ML Rio #📚 #so while this was an extremely good book for many reasons-- my admitted love of shakespeare among them-- #the first half was almost impossible to get thru lmao. i dont know if ive ever read a book where the fucking murder was so. #satisfying. LMAO. even thinking it in actual context feels a bit fucked but also the whorephobic nepo baby #who is actively violent&homophobic was basically crafted for me to cheer the death of lmaoooo. #(like aww all that money&muscle couldnt save ya skull from a literal right hook to the brain huh??? :'() #... anyway im glad i pushed thru even if just for the writing style. ill never get past my soft spot for dark academia bc of the language #LMAO im such a simple hoe. #no one does a tragic romance quite like dark academia either 🤷🏽‍♀️🥂💘 #ESP tragic romance in a shakespearean themed book lmaoooo

[oatbugs]

i am actually terrified xoxo

#ok yk how i ended up going to sweden to a family friends house and staying in an empty w a futon in it #the family friend in question is actually a really ridiculously clever translator/linguist/author/journalist/etc #genuinely shes so smart . but also shes like . super introverted and the whole house is constantly silent i can hear someone sighing #through a closed door . and the door to my containment cube TM is in the living room and i am constanrly living in fewr #of making any noise . also forgot to take UK-EU adapter w me so i literally cpuld not study which is the entire reason #i came here . to run away from my parents constantly screaming at each other etc. anyway theyre actually lovely ppl but i am so afraid of #like . using up their food etc . that i rejected it for a while . which is dumb as fuck bc straight up rejecting to eat smns cooking #is actually rly rude in my culture . but i still feel guilty. and like im not even here w my own money (i dont have any of that left xoxo) #anyway we had a convo abt languages and i realised my persian is so shit rn its so . shameful of me. she also told me to learn german #(bc philisophy) and i told her i kind of am kind of and she said do u find it a mathematical langauge ? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN #WHAT DO U MEAN . LIKE IK ROUGHLY WHAT SHE MEANT BUT LIKE WHAT WAS THE RIGHT ANSWER #when i responded she just smiled and said nothing for 10 seconds i feel like my whole personality was being judged for that response #anyway @swedes ur consensus culture is actually so fascinating #empty cube** first tag #every moment i am living in fear . still 100x better than being home lmao #the way i didnt sleep for 3 days . xoxo #anyway linköping bitches r like lets do smth crazy and go to a pub at 7pm order 2 entire beers chat cordially and split the bill before 8pm #heart emoji everyone here js rly sweet

[broke-on-books]

Where are my friends that are highly, highly passionate about the same things I'm passionate about

#i say this like im literally not going to the first language growth club meeting tomorrow 💀 #and wasnt literally texting and talking w my friend in spanish earlier #but in my defense my advisor sent out an email abt study abroad and fellowship opportunities for foreign language (barely any id apply for #bc freshman) and not my body is just ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⭐️🌞🌟🌞🌞☀️🌝🌛🌞🌛⚡️⚡️⚡️🔥🔥🔥🌝🌞☄️🌟🌛🌡🌛🌡🌛🌛🌝🌛 🌞🌟🌤🌞🌞🌞🌜🌞🌞🌛🌞🌟��� insid #like aaaaagggghgghhhhhhhhhh #where are my crazy enablers. 😭😭😭😭 #out here saying that like it isnt so much better here than in high school #like i have friends that speak my tl and WANT to speak it!!!! #weve had full conversations at one point we only spoke spanish for like 2 hours in the room and then on the bus and then getting dinner like #!!!!!!!!!!! it was sooooooooo fun. best day ever #ahejahsuabdajdushdhshdhr #anyways. i just need to take a walk or smth. im feeling the equivalent to the zoomies lmao but just for like. talking abt how much i love #learning foreign language. so we just need to breathe or whatevs. i can 100% do that and be normal rn for real #for real. #blah

[alkibiadessuperfan]

Birna telling a story on the ship about her best shags. Top shag was in a monastery on an altar, other was in a tree. You go, Birna.

#idk how i feel about the word shag lmao #i guess it‘s because english isnt my first language and sometimes words have meaning but not the like backround #birna slayed #literally #birna fucks too #obviously #slay legend #ac valhalla #i havent had someone tell a story like that before #thanks birna? difkpfkgpgco #peak ac content

[scare-ard--sleigh]

not to be a bitch but like

#silver jelly #i do not care if you pronounce it as 'gail' or if you spell it 'gail' when we haven't corresponded via text before. #that is totally absolutely fine i 100% get that it's a weird-hard name and that gaelic is a weird-hard language!!! #i also do not care if we're friends and we're talking and you misspell it like obviously i know it's not intentional #but. when my name. is right there in the business email address/subject line. when i've signed off as gael. like when it's THERE #and you STILL call me that i'm................................mm #and you know i wouldn't even care but this is the 2nd time it's happened from people representing their businesses and it's like #fuck capitalism absolutely but you Need to act professionally in professional spaces. #people aren't going to take you seriously if you don't; including me; loathe as i am to admit it. #i was literally signing a contract with the first person who did it. and i didn't correct i just signed each email 'gael' #we went back and forth like a dozen times and literally EVery Time she would start the email off with 'hey gail!' #like?????????????????? are you kidding me right now???????????? #anyway god mmf this is like a stupid button considering i picked the dang name in the first place but it just really like. #shows me who's actually listening to me and taking me seriously and i guess sometimes that information sucks lmao

[t-lostinworlds]

e.g. a tom fic into a bucky/peter/steve fic. bc i revisited something in my WIPs that's been sitting in there for years and it actually has some potential. but...the main character/love interest just isn't doing it for me lately lol so maybe changing it would push me to finish it. hopefully bc finishing WIPs? Who's that?

#THIS IS WISHFUL THINKING BTW #i'm not actually sure if i'll do it bc this fic is my baby #and i do feel kinda bad changing it #but it's an AU so i can literally fit it to anyone #okay i'll give a hint #it's a frat/college AU #i just need to tweak it a lil to fit #the character of choice #change the names #and the slang + language #and it'd be as if i wrote it for x character in the first place #OR it ends up being a huge piece of shit LMAO #now i'm leaning for it to be more steve harrington #or college! peter parker #bucky barnes could also fit it but i need to change much more for him #just chucking thoughts into the void at this point #mine: polls

[j-esbian]

frustrating how so many craft books have a section about "how to sell what you've made"

like on one hand i get it because the person writing the book has obviously made their craft a full-time job. and they might have some tips and tricks that might be useful, and there are people out there who might be trying to start a small business out of it

but on the other hand it's just exhausting and feels like another voice saying "what's the point of having a hobby if you're not going to monetize it"

#the one of those that rly boils my blood. that i still think about all the time. almost ten years later #the art of language invention by david peterson lmao. fuck that. it is NOT actually a helpful resource if youre trying to get into conlang #in the intro he pretty explicitly was like 'yeah i'm only writing this bc the publishing house approached me bc #i made up some languages for the game of thrones show and that's popular so they thought it would sell' #the meat of the book itself is pretty rudimentary stuff iirc. 'here's the ipa chart. this is what a morpheme is.' #some cool stuff in there about how to build your own font and mess with the kerning to make cursive but it was a program i dont have so #and at the end. hoooooo boy. this is where u can tell they told him to put in this kind of section bc he basically straight up said #'if you're reading this because you want to learn how to build a fantasy conlang dont bother :) #if you weren't on this specific forum in 2002 youll never get it. just hire a Real Conlanger instead' #like. that absolutely colored the rest of the book preceding it bc the entire thing was stuff i had literally just learned #in the intro to linguistics class that inspired me to want to learn how to make a language. so it was nothing new #and the added antagonism of basically saying 'if you dont already know how to do this IM not gonna help bc you'd be competition' #again i understand why he had that attitude bc that's probably how the publisher pitched it in the first place #'this is going to be a book for the average joe who knows nothing about language mechanics and might have aspirations #of writing a story with its own language (because obviously gameofthrones was the first to do that /s) and is wondering how to do it' #but just a very weird attitude to have #mine

[moomoorare]

I actually drafted the first 3 chapters of my Scales of fate au on a03 last night, so ... Well te heeh...

I'm gonna review and add art I think but like I have soooo many things planned and already so much art ready for it it's just been kept to myself because I second guess myself too much... IM DOING THIS TO HAVE FUNNNNN

#its like 8 k words for those 3 chapters and its literally only the premise #like . the characters havent even met #theres like 20 k after that ready #then anotehr . 50 k? #probably more. i havent written in a while #yuri be upon ya #to be a refresher its my empires x hermitcraft au that's nothing to do with the crossover #its just the premise of empires with also the hermitcraft folks #a lot of yuri and yaoi probably #while its ortty existentialist terror vibes i wanna add some horror #and creepy stuff #cus its like. ohh #so much philosophy #and im trying to get better at writing. which is really not a thing i fo cus i draw #but i will draw for this #ive been reading a lot lately for my vocabulary #and writing down pretty words i like #i hope its good cus damn eng is not my First language lmao #i dont even write in Italian.. anymore #i used to on wattpad like 10 years ago lmao i was oretty famous too 😭😭😭 #ANYWAYS... SOON #rare rambling

[the-acid-pear]

was watching a video on wendigoon going over all the controversies and shit and i'm not here to talk about it i'm just here to say that im so glad someone fucking cleared up the whole "he's white" thing because for as race blind as i fucking am i was pretty sure that man Was Not white 😭 but hey how could i be sure when ppl like charlie white exist... 😞

#luly talks #i took until like 2020 or past to find out he wasn't asian i was like so fucking convinced of it #but yeah no like wendigoon isn't even that fair skinned #btw today i was literally thinking about my race blindness bc like that's literally how i was raised when i was a kid i didnt know race lik #a thing. yknow. #i understood nationalities for sure i understood China existed becuase well there's a lot of chinese immigration over here esp when i was #a child (now its rarer isnt it? i mean i cant fucking blame them lmao but i really feel like you dont see as many chinese ppl anymore) #but the whole idea about skintone meaning something or fucking. facial features was just. something i didnt think about #i did apparently get very surprising when i saw a african man for the first time according to my grandma #i was a fucking toddler i was like 4 or 5 btw i didnt know any better 😭 #i did also call a horse a big dog like i was just a easily confused child #anyway when it came to my peers like. i even learnt about our country's native ppl and the diff tribes and their culture #(to an extent. which is super cool btw) in primary school BUT EVEN THEN i just. #like i just grew up in blissful unawareness i didnt think there was any difference between ppl like #we live in the same country and we speak the same language that's all i need to know you're like me 👍 #being a child truly is of the silliest it gets

[strawberrypaw]

thank god for nectarine season <3

#told the roommate we're moving and she's not coming with us a few weeks ago and she has been acting like a demon lmao #i was nice and i didn't even bring up her behavior as reasoning during the actual conversation #my official reasons were. so incredibly valid too lmao #like.... our cats...... #her cat straight up MAULED my cat when we first moved in. like blood spatter and everything #my cat is 18 years old... he doesn't have claws (Not my call... i was 12 when my dad did that) and he's missing one of his fangs #he is literally the nicest most social kitty on the planet and i have never had problems introducing him to other animals before #sooo we have been keeping them in separate parts of the house for 2 YEARS #and this will NOT work in an apartment #also im sick of it lol #second reason is that we need cheaper housing and she...... uhmmm lol #is too scared of bad neighborhoods..... to live where we're looking to live...... #iiiii could pick that apart but i think it speaks for itself lol #anywayyyy she's been.. trying?? to guilt trip me?? about her financial situation Every Time she talks to me #but uhm.... she makes. 28$ an hour.... in an office.... she's got 10k in her savings account......... #and its. not working on me. im not acknowledging it when she brings it up and it is making her SO mad #she's resorted to turning this into like..... leftist discourse in order to feel like she's been really truly wronged #like ''what ever happened to COMMUNITY!!!!!'' #or ''you have a punitive mindset and i'm about to remove abolitionist language from its context to make it about my personal relationships'' #soooo.... you are aware that you treat the people around you like garbage lmao?? you didn't need me to tell you #that we want to leave because you're an asshole to everyone??? and you're throwing a fit about it anyway #you can go find community with the other girls who's parent's have bought them 3 cars in the last 10 years and still pay their car insurance #and scream cry and throw silverware when daddy says ''maybe you can afford to fix your own car now that you make so much money!'' #almost blowing out my little brothers car engine bc you were mad he couldnt get it out of the snow #to drive you to the airport so you could go to SPAIN for VACATION #and FREAKING OUT at him bc now you have to pay.. 40$... for an uber.... is not very.... ''community'' of you..... lol #mau