What Should You Be Reading To Maximize Your Language Learning?

so apparently the way the world works is elle asks me to make something and then boom there it is

@anothertimdrakestan here ya go: tim drake + dark academia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37989127

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32279554

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28636230

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35359273

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39996741/chapters/100160040

http://archiveofourown.org/works/33691468

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33870568

thank you so much!! can't wait to check these out :D

noah kahan everywhere everything is such a stsg song to me “we didn’t know that the sun was collapsing til the seas rose and the buildings came crashing” and “til our fingers decompose keep my hands in yours” but also peach prc’s favourite person “you’re my favourite person, i’ve created a version that hurts less” but also taylor swifts so long london “you say i abandoned the ship buti was going down with it, my white knuckled dying grip, holding tight to your quiet resentment” but also conan grays memories “it’s still on my clothes everything that i own and it makes me feel like dying, i was barely just surviving” and also maisie peters love him i dont “i could see a bloodbath coming, playing checkers as the flat was flooding, i wasn’t eating and you still said nothing” but also kodaline’s all i want “you brought out the best of me a part of i’ve never seen, you took my soul and wiped it clean, our love was made for movie screens…. but if you loved me why’d you leave me?”

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Fucking P fucking S fucking A

ABUSE AND PTSD

Don’t fucking hit your children.

Don’t fucking scream to your children.

Don’t fucking lead your children to think that it’s all their fault.

Don’t fucking remove essential contact methods and coping resources from your children.

Don’t fucking try to force a path on your children.

Don’t fucking misgender your children.

Don’t fucking be ableist towards your children.

Don’t fucking threat your children.

Don’t fucking try to control everything your children do.

Don’t fucking try to make your children a copy of yourself.

Don’t fucking sexually abuse your children.

Don’t fucking be homophobic/transphobic/etc towards your children.

Don’t fucking try to change your children’s world views to match yours because.

Don’t fucking try to kill your children to create a traumatized robot.

Don’t fucking judge your children for being themselves.

IF YOU CAN’T DO ANY OF THIS

Don’t fucking have children

Period.

UGH! FUCK!

mother raised me just right. I'm exactly the type of person –the type of bomb– she expected of me.

i destroy things and i ruin people and i love all of them. i love them just in the right intensity to kill them. how stupid was i to think that i could be someone normal and good? I'm her daughter for fucks sake. we don't have any good in us and, even better, we don't get the famous "lucky try" people talk about.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ze9fgpphbna5vgy/AABJd7Zd2HbgSohV42zl3GBFa?dl=0

I know that some days you barely exist- scrolling mindlessly for hours, trying to find some peace. I know that sometimes you wish you could be someone else because your 10 year old self had big plans to save the world and some part of you wants to make her proud still. I know that sometimes you feel like a side character in your own story, written with someone else's words. I want you to please unclench your jaw and let go of the tension in your shoulders and save yourself first. The sun is still out there and it'll be there tomorrow, ocean waves exist and oranges taste like peace.

I hope you say goodbye to the ghost of your 10 year old self because unlike her, you still exist.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson // achilles & partoclus // house of dragon, 1x07 // plainwater, anne carson // the truth about forever, sarah dessen // lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson