Surprise Flowers For Spring!

A list of things to practice your listening skills with, and to practice hearing the flow of Japanese, so as to better incorporate that in your own speaking (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

YouTube

LayerQ - gaming channel, speaks clearly.

Mitoku - gaming channel, speaks at a nice pace. I’m currently watching her Breath of the Wild LP!

Roa - gaming channel, speaks really fast, but she’s just so 元気 that it doesn’t matter that she’s hard to follow. I enjoy having her in the background.

Fonimu - plays a lot of JRPGs, but he is very relaxing to listen to, and polite.

日本語の森 - I’m sure you all know this one! Get Japanese explained to you in Japanese. They have dedicated channels for N3, N2, and N1.

Just Duncan - Japanese youtuber, with Japanese subtitles. It’s been a year since he uploaded anything, but I enjoy his sense of humor.

Shows

If you want to use shows for practicing listening, either a) listen with closed eyes, b) turn off subtitles, or c) put on Japanese subtitles.

野武士のグルメ - Samurai Gourmet. I swear, this is the cutest show in the world. Go find it and just feel the warmth of watching a sweet elderly man having lunch.

Japanese Style Originator - a show where the origins of Japanese concepts are explained, and some people have to make some guesses. The game part of it isn’t terrible interesting, and the music they use is obnoxiously loud, but I’ve learned some very interesting things!

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories - as far as I understand this is a live-action adaptation of a manga. I haven’t watched it yet.

Terrace House - Japanese reality show about 6 young people living in a house together.

Little Witch Academia - anime about a witch school. It’s kinda cute.

AJIN: Demi-human - significantly darker anime than the one listed above. This is the only one on the list without any kind of Japanese subs available.

Good Morning Call - drama about two classmates accidentally renting the same apartment. I haven’t seen this, but it looks like it caters to every romance trope in the best way possible.

Keep in mind that availability varies greatly depending on countries! The ones I’ve listed are available on Netflix Denmark, so I’m thinking they are also available in most of Europe and America as well.

Podcasts

ひいきびいき - a super relaxing podcast with hour long episodes feat. two Japanese people just talking about their days and anything and everything. I really like this one.

バイリングアルニュース - Bilingual News. A Japanese-speaking woman and an English-speaking man discuss recent events. This is easier to follow along with, because you have the context very clearly in English.

そのアニ - Discussions about anime entirely in Japanese.

自由なラジオ Light Up! - Politics, society, news, and stuff like that. Difficult Japanese, but there are transcripts, so you can practice reading with them as well!

天使のモーニングコール - A slower paced podcast meant to be relaxing, discussing lifestyle-related topics.

Yeah when them Sleep Boys

I really love the amount of platonic love Tangled the series shows.. These three have my heart? Team Awesome of course includes Lance too. Who fell asleep first? Your guess is as good as mine.

I doodled this at 4am when I couldn’t sleep! So naturally made it into a full blown piece… Yes, I winged the background, please don’t mention it.

Wasn't expecting to be tagged but thanks a lot. So, my favorite books are:

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

3. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

4. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

5. The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin

6. No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu

I think that's a neat list. Honestly, I've just picked the books randomly (as you can see) because there's so many to choose. Still, they are very great books, in my humble opinion.

And... I don't know who to tag honesty. I don't have that many subscribers and I'm a bit shy to tag anybody 👉👈. But if you see this post and want to join, you're welcome.

Favourite Book Tag Game

Dear mutuals and followers, let's play a game. It is simple and straightforward: name your six favourite books (with or without explanation), then tag five more people and let them do the same.

Here are my six favourite books (not in any particular order, they all share a space on the podium):

1. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2. Northanger Abby by Jane Austen

3. The neverending story by Michael Ende

4. Krabat by Otfried Preußler

5. Fire and Hemlock by Dianna Wynne Jones

6. The Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

I'm tagging @thelostinthebooks , @catcoffeeenjoyer , @stoertebeker , @plutorine @deimosatellite

Have fun 😊

This account has been brought back to life. Doubt anybody noticed my absence. But, at least, it's all good now.

Этот аккаунт вернули к жизни. Навряд ли, кто-нибудь заметил мне отсутствие, но, по крайней мере, всё хорошо.

Happy birthday to me! Now I can change the banner 😁. Now I am officially 23!

Can people please shut the fuck up about how “shipping every male character is harmful to the male friendship representation”

Literally almost every single peace of media has platonic male friendships in it and almost none of them ends up in a canon relationship. So there IS representation. Some people shipping those characters don’t take away their canon friendship.

And it doesn’t only happen to the male friendships. Every close female and male/female friendship you see on screen will always have people shipping them.

Because guess what? That’s how fandoms work. It doesn’t only happen with male friendships.

Are we really ignoring all the people who assume every man and woman who breaths the same air are canonically in love with each other? But somehow it’s only a problem when queer people do it.

Are we really ignoring how we get so little male/female friendships in media without writers turning it romantic at some point?

But we never get to see two close male leads of an action movie kissing at the end do we? So shut up about “friendship representation” You have tons of platonic friendships.

And the thing is, a lot of people who say this don’t even care about platonic friendships or mlm fetishization by straight girls. They’re just trying to find a way to put queer ships down. They never say “I think this two specific characters are good friends so I don’t like it when people ship them”

Instead, it’s always “these characters showed a little pinch of interest to opposite gender so they’re straight. just let people be friends and stop making everything gay”

Because they’re not actually mad about people shipping two close friends together. They’re mad about people offering the possibility of some fictional characters not being straight

Differences between "made from", "made of", "made out of", "made with" & "made by"

made from:

= to talk about how something is manufactured (the material is not recognisable anymore and has been completely changed)

Glass is made from sand.

Paper is made from trees.

made of:

= to talk about the material or quality of something (similar to "made from", but you can still recognise the material)

The necklace is made of silver.

The jacket is made of fur.

The door is made of metal.

made out of:

= to talk about something that has been made into something else

The pillow was made out of an old tshirt.

The fort was made out of blankets.

made with:

= to talk about one or multiple things used in the creation of something (especially used in recipes)

Potato soup is made with potatoes and cream.

This cake is made with flour.

made by:

= to talk about the action used to create something or the creator of something

Origami is made by folding sheets of paper.

The movie was made by Taika Waititi.

Requested by anon

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

“Hewie! Oh thank goodness! I’m not alone with you by my side. I’m not… alone any more. Now let’s get out of this place… both of us!”

“You saved me… Now it’s time to save you. I won’t forget this.”

Haunting Ground (2005)