April is the perfect time to start something new!
April (spring is the time of year when most Japanese people change grades and schools and start a new term. It’s a period of transition and new beginnings. In March, many students graduate from college, and start a new job in April.
For Japanese people, April is the perfect time to start something new. So, why not join us in studying Japanese during this exciting time of year, alongside many…
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ORIGINAL MARCELINE OF THE WINTER KING'S UNIVERSE!? 😨
Is the implication that Ice King took her out with all of the other oozers or did the oozers end up killing her?? Either way, it seems that this Simon was not coping well with any of what was going on in his life. Living a life of hypocrisy & ruling a false kingdom.
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As I get older I use different methods to learn. I'm presently working in a warehouse with many colleagues from Eastern Europe.
Here's my picture memory to phonetically say "good morning" in Polish.
Sounds like "jean dobry".
Some of them greet me with "chesz"
And one worker said a general greeting which sounds like "sham argh". (See what I did with the pirate there).
"How are you?" sounds like "yak she mash"
To which you reply " dobzie".
Can't read the language to save my life, but can say "hi."
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so i'm readin various stuff on the xray cause this silly film is my current source of joy and
wait
hold up.
what...
WAHT ??? WHAT
XRAY CAST DESCRIPTION????
YEARS???
xrAY dESCRIPTION eXPLaIN!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FLOYD WAS HELD CAPTIVE FOR YEARS, WHAT SECRET INFO DO U HAVE ACCESS TO???
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Seeing, "Zuko is canonically bad at firebending," takes on my dash, so...
Zuko is canonically not bad at firebending. He may not be the natural prodigy that Azula or Iroh are, but skills don't work on a basis of either "extreme prodigy" or "not good at all."
Zuko works hard throughout the series to grow and improve in his firebending, and he does.
He defeats Zhao, an adult firebending master, in an Agni Kai when he's 16 and ostensibly still stuck on the basics, because mastering the fundamentals is a huge part of getting "good" at any skill.
He learns lightning redirection in about a day and later successfully uses it against Ozai, who is meant to be an extremely powerful firebender.
He learns to understand and appreciate his fire on a fundamental level from the dragons, who were the original firebenders, and in so doing he becomes a firebending master just as much as Katara (who had a few days/weeks at most of formal training) or Toph (who declared herself an earthbending master after learning from badgermoles) are masters of their elements.
And then he took everything he had learned about fire and put it together to help Aang master firebending over the course of a few weeks.
None of that says, "canonically bad firebender." It says that Zuko didn't start out as a major natural prodigy like his sister, but he worked hard, never stopped learning and growing, and developed into a very strong and capable firebending master in his own right by the end of the show.
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Bird-reptiles is a butterfly-moth situation?
Precisely! These kinds of situations show us how wrong we have been for so long about the relationships among various animals. The pretty little boxes we like to make are often very, very wrong, phylogenetically, i.e., they are not compatible with the *actual* relationships among the organisms.
Here are a few other mind-fucks that have come to light as a result of modern methods being applied to traditional categories that turned out to be wrong:
• Snakes are lizards
• Termites are cockroaches
• Birds belong to lizard-hipped dinosaurs (Saurischia), not the bird-hipped ones (Ornithischia)
• All tetrapods are fish
• Insects are crustaceans
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lan jingyi: *sitting on a basket that’s making angry clucking noises*
lan sizhui: jingyi, what is that?
lan jingyi: a basket
lan sizhui: i mean what’s inside?
lan jingyi:
lan sizhui:
lan jingyi: let’s say, hypothetically speaking, i found a way to trap a demon in the body of a chicken—
lan sizhui: what?! how did you even do that?!
lan jingyi: “hOw DiD yOu EvEn Do ThAt?” aren’t you the one who told me i can do anything i put my mind to??
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