Bless Me To Be…

“Jace was gold, catching the light and the attention, Alec was silver: so used to everyone else looking at Jace that that was where he looked too, so used to living in Jace’s shadow that he didn’t expect to be seen. Maybe it was enough to be the first person to tell Alec that he was worth being seen ahead of anyone in a room, and of being looked at longest. And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”

Protect her like she's made of glass, but fuck her like she's unbreakable.

“Sun, the nearest star, an inferno of hydrogen and helium gas engaged in thermonuclear reactions, flooding the Solar System with light.” Images by Pepe Manteca

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”

— Charles Bukowski 

Munemasa Takahasi - Birds on The Heads

18 DEEPEST LIFE QUOTES FROM THE GAME OF THRONES

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

“A man who won’t listen can’t hear.”

“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.”

“The man who fears losing has already lost.”

“Power resides only where men believe it resides. […] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”

“The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.”

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”

“He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.” 

“I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.”

“A bruise is a lesson… and each lesson makes us better.”

“The greatest fools are often times more clever than the men who laugh at them.”

“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.”

“A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you’ll learn that soon enough…and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.”

“A bruise is a lesson… and each lesson makes us better.”

Hello! I’m really interested in learning russian , but I’m having a hard time with the alphabet. Do you have any tips??

Of course! Thank you for your ask!

There are nurmerous ways to learn alphabets, and some may work better for you you than others. But a few that I know work well for people (and myself when I was learning it) include:

Flashcards

It’s usually really easy and cheap to find small, blank cards or notes at stores, but if not, you can cut cardstock paper into 4-6 pieces and use them. Then you write the letter in large print at the top (you can find the letters here if you need to, and yes, making these helps the learning process) with their name and sound below, written in a way that makes sense to you. Then you write only the letter on the other side. You can use them to quiz yourself, but to start, try having the first side facing you, just until you start learning them.

Grouping

Another way you can do it is to break up the letters into groups (either of familiar-looking letters, like А, Е, Р, О, then Ш, Ф, Б, Ж, etc., or in alphabetical order, which you can find here), and memorizing 6-8 at a time. You can write them, or just look at them, cover, and say their name/sound. You could also combine this method with the others. Whatever works best for you!

YouTube

There are some YouTubers out there who have some great videos on the Russian alphabet. For example, Learn Russian with RussianPod 101 makes great videos, like this one specifically designed to help you learn the alphabet (the method they use is my Grouping category, by the way). All you have to do is search “Russian alphabet.”

Transliterate

This method works to solidify what you already have learned. Basically, you type/write words in a language you already know, using the cyrillic alphabet. For example, dog would be дог, cat would be кат, and mirror would be миррор. Play around with the names of what’s around you, and don’t worry if you mess up; you’ll get better with practice. If you need to check your words, you can use Google Translate (free, easy to access) and type “дог” in, then listen to them say it with the speaker button. In the end, you’ll be able to read and spell Russian words with speed and accuracy.

I hope this helps!

If you need more methods listed, I’d be happy to make another post about this. Just let me know!

Duane Michals, Things Are Queer, 1973