Part 83 of My Bakery “enemies” Au!

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succession (2018–) cr. jesse armstrong / arcane (2021–) cr. christian linke & alex yee / euphoria (2019–) cr. sam levinson / the fall of the house of usher, steven berkoff / antigone, jean anouilh (trans. lewis galantiere) / a brother named gethsemane, natalie diaz / a flicker in the dark, stacy willingham / gone girl (2014) dir. david fincher / avatar: the last airbender (2005–2008) cr. michael dante dimartino & bryan konietzko / filmnoirsbian / to all the boys i’ve loved before, jenny han / clara ortega / the umbrella academy (2019–) cr. steve blackman / where things come back, john corey whaley / the pull of you, the national / little women (2019) dir. greta gerwig / jazmine hughes / antigonick, trans. anne carson / statue of vincet and theo van gogh, ossip zadkine / ‘blues for vincent’ otherwise known as the human condition, geoff dyer

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

It might seem like the hardest thing in the world until you do it, then you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.

Do the hard thing today.

Sometimes I forget how much my brother and I are Sirius and Regulus variants until a family crisis happens and I'm making jokes and getting tattoos while he's sitting there rolling his eyes and doing shots.

Summer Language Plan

OKAY ! So I’ve got quite a bit of plans for language learning this summer and I was thinking if I post it to tumblr then hopefully it’ll be more than just wishful thinking. SO without further ado, here are my plans. 

French (reach B2)

finish Dracula by August 31 (6 pages per day minimum) 

at least one hour of active learning a day (grammar practice, vocabulary, etc) 

at least five new words each day

write 3,000+ word story

German (reach B2)

at least one hour of active learning a day (grammar practice, vocabulary, etc)

at least five new words each day

translate one poem/song/paragraph a week

Italian (reach A1)

at least one hour and a half of active learning a day (grammar practice, vocabulary, etc)

at least seven new words a day

What does active learning look like?

I’m glad you asked, self. While reading books and listening to music is great for language learning, unless there are comprehension questions at the end, I would consider it passive learning. Here are some active learning exercises that are (hopefully) more interesting than just doing plain textbook drills. 

write a sparknotes summary for each episode of a TV show or book you’re engaging with. Bonus points if show/book is in a different language than your summaries, because that requires you to interact with new vocabulary.

find x number of vocabulary terms then weave them into a story or poem. Doesn’t have to be long or complex

film or voice record yourself talking about a topic that means a lot to you, then note down what words and grammar you have yet to learn

messy, stressy and a lil depressy