He kept raving about seeing an Insulindian Phasmid, and wouldn’t shut up about leftist theory.

Fly Away Now

Boo Scarlet, Vodka forever.

Yes, me too. “Did you know?” and “Don’t even look at me!” And nothing in between, lol

Yeah, I had to do some work up there recently and it was so depressing.

Chuck Schumer is Bloom and Nancy Pelosi is Bialystock.

Edit: recast

TIL, what a badass. Thanks!

Abraham Lincoln sent faxes! Ancient tech.

It’s pretty janky in my experience. I use sunshine, works a lot better.

How is this show, anyone got an opinion? I watched the first episode of season 1 but never got back to it.

がんばいます！

I appreciate the feedback, this Anki deck should hopefully get my vocabulary to that point. I am actually pretty good at getting the meaning usually and the readings are the tough part, so I’m doing okay I guess. It just feels like a lot, but that’s true of any language I suppose. I’ve learned a lot in the last few months. Thanks for the encouragement!

Girls Band Cry is one of my favorites, another show that doesn’t get enough love for sure. I love Nina, she’s so very relatable. I was also a stupid ball of unfocused rage and fierce independence as a teen.

I started with Duolingo and while it has all the regular duo problems, I think it actually does a good job with the kana stuff. You can turn off the Romaji too, forcing yourself to read. It doesn’t teach grammar, though, so I bought Genki Vol 1, working my way through that, and wotaku.wiki has a lot of good resources.

I really like the Cure Dolly stuff for grammar (though she can be difficult to understand, use the youtube transcripts or if you prefer reading a book someone helpfully wrote it all up). Her approach is totally different from the Genki methods, but I find it easier to understand.

I am also using Anki with the Kaishi 1.5k Kanji deck for kanji and vocabulary. This is honestly pretty painful, I’ve been doing it for like 10 days now and I feel like I’m doing badly every time, but I am improving. I could probably stand to study the radical stuff to understand more how the kanji is constructed but I haven’t found a good resource for that just yet.

Watashi mo, but getting better every day.

Yeah I’m a lefty and not terribly creative. The only superpower you get is the ability to identify every lefty you see in the wild.

I cannot tell you how angry I am that Link is no longer left handed. Both Mario and Link were lefties because Miyamoto-san is a southpaw. But the stupid Wii motion controls in Twilight Princess had to work for you normies and we lost our representation, lol. They mirrored the whole game to make it work.

You can saute them in butter as well, I often do that with green beans.

And beet sugar makes good Belgian style beer. Beets are great.

こんにちは！日本語を勉強しています！

I’m 90 days into learning Japanese. Most of that has been learning kana and I’m now working on kanji and grammar. It’s very different from English but I really like the way information is conveyed. I’m struggling with grammar stuff right now pretty bad, particularly conjugation, but it’ll click eventually. Also the lack of spaces is definitely something to get used to.

Yeah R-A-G is trash lol. I am a slice of life / comedy / romance whore, but god are a lot of them crap. Romance in particular is fucking all over the place, quality-wise. If you like Dress-Up Darling I’d recommend Makeine if you haven’t seen it, I feel like they have a similar feel and they’re both in my top ten shows for sure. Bunny-Girl Senpai is of course very similar to Monogatari thematically, though the latter is MUCH crazier and darker. Actually pretty similar in look and vibe to Call of the Night too, I think the director of that also did at least some of Monogatari. And if you’re looking for actually good harem, I’d recommend Quintessential Quintuplets and of course the delightfully unhinged 100 Girlfriends.

にゃん！