Been Rewatching Gravity Falls And This Got Me Thinking-

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

“Sun and moon but its not who you think it is” and then they tag bakudeku WHO?? WHICH ONE OF THEM?? And before u say “dekus the moon and bakugos the sun” THATS WHO I THOUGHT IT WAS

ST POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING--The Mind Flayer

Once you realize that "opening a gate" is code for Mike's closet door, the show becomes infinitely funnier.

Season Three begins with the Russians trying and failing to open a gate. One scientist is panicking like, "We're close. We've made progress. You can see our progress. We just need more time!" A Russian Officer chokes him out and says, "You have a year."

The next scene cuts to Mike making out with El while "Just a little more time could open closing doors" plays.

Cut to a "year" later--

But you also start to consider that the Mind Flayer is a metaphor for Mike's shame, and you're back to being emotionally destroyed !!

So essentially the Dungeon Master might unknowingly be the actual Master of Puppets. Perhaps why Vecna needed him gone to take full control.

It appears this might be Vecna's secret card to play against Mike.

Vecna: Do you not see, Micheal? I did not do this to Will.

some interesting stuff I found on the blog of Oriental DreamWorks (an animation company that DreamWorks once held shares in)

Oriental DreamWorks once released the constellation information of the characters during the promotion period of httyd2🤩

Hiccup-Aries (Hiccup’s birthday in the book is February 29th, aka Pisces. I personally think that Oriental Dreamworks made a tiny mistake, has reversed the astrological signs of Hiccup and Astrid)

Astrid-Pisces

Toothless-Scorpio

Stormfly-Libra

Fishlegs-Cancer

Ruff and Tuff-Gemini

Snotlout-Sagittarius

Stoick-Taurus

Valka-Capricornus

Gobber-Gemini

Note: this information is for entertainment purposes only, DreamWorks has not confirmed the zodiac signs of the characters officially

honestly? that one David Tennant Richard II Kiss™ is my favourite acted kiss in history

look how ridiculously tender and how achingly desperate it is. so gentle, so kind, and yet so selfish at the same time. i've never seen anything quite so human

just. just look at these

there's something so genuine and chaste about this kiss, while also being gorgeously passionate and heated and...... it's just perfect

how are we feeling gravity falls fans?!

No watermark and it’s under #my art.

What makes you think that isn’t MY art.

"Genesis", Oil on canvas by Matthew Cornell