In 1995 Elif Batuman started Her First Year At Harvard; She Was In Love With Fiction And Determined

Kimiko, you hit home mon coeur.

Amen, Butcher.

slaughter-house five - kurt vonnegut / orpheus and eurydice - catharine adelaide sparkes / user sawasawako / orpheus mourning the death of eurydice - ary scheffer / metamorphoses - ovid / orpheus and euridice - enrico scuri / talk - hozier / orpheus and eurydice - michel martin drolling

When i first joined Tumblr i would read things here and think, " wow, all this is so funny. These people here are weirdly awesome."

After a few months of into it i finally realised how morally questionable and mentally deranged the audience here is and i was a little startled. Then I realised further that to enjoy their humour i would've to be equally fucked. Then I fainted.

Now? Now I party with vampires and dry hump wolves and throw cats into fire when I dream of jungles the night before to appease to satan and also now I wait outside everybody's rooms to suck little parts of their soul whenever they walk past me and the ultimate goal is to be immortal.

Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

@academia-lucifer

got started on learning python, so far it’s been fun. the weather is changing every hour lmao. a bit behind on my french learning but i’ll keep up with it soon. and i got into a reading slump hhhh also hey it’s august!

What do y’all mean by you can open orange with hands that thing is unbreakable what the hell

"I care bout some people, but to assume they give a shit bout your self respect, your sensitive nature or you in general is the worst lie i tell myself everyday. You try to let their behaviour be ignored once, twice but everytime? It's only a matter of time before i go touch some grass. Someone who actually gives a damn bout me at all will not just toss hurtful shit everytime he/she feels like it and then be all guilty. Fuck them."

That's it, that's the post.

@regnum-lab Okay, so this has been in discussions a long time and i had to write my views. The thing is that often theories (especially the conflict theories) in criminology mention how law is made to either suit the standards of those already in power or the powerful ones easily evade the law causing the ones with lesser power to have a higher conviction rate.

So technically Will Smith had good intentions but wrong way of acting on it. Yes, tasteless jokes have become quite the culture and it's only fair to feel offended if it makes you vulnerable, so Chris Rock needed to apologise, but slapping him on stage in front of so many celebrities and viewers was a little overboard. Will Smith was wrong to have physically abused someone who could've been reasoned with in a firm manner. He did do wrong but unlike the white guys, he'd possibly pay for it too and probably more harshly than a white guy would- and that is maddening. Not his conviction- but the evasion from conviction by those who have been in power for so long.

so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)

THE IDIOT; ELIF BATUMAN

I recently started reading "The Idiot" by ELIF BATUMAN. And so far, it's been brilliant. The protagonist- full or intelligence and dry remarks, is absolutely a compelling presence in the back of your head as you move forward within the book!