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Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

ASL University

Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

Arabic

Arabic for Global Exchange (in the drop-down menu)

Intro to Arabic

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Arabe (taught in French)

Catalan

Intro to Catalan Language & Society

Intro to Catalan Sign Language

Chinese

Beginner

Basic Chinese I. II, III, IV , V

Basic Mandarin Chinese I & II

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters

Chinese for HSK 1

Chinese for HSK 2

Chinese for HSK 3 I & II

HSK Level 1

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese for Business

More Chinese for Beginners

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Chino Básico (Taught in Spanish)

Intermediate

Chinese Stories

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

Online Courses here

Resources Here

Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Immigrants

Finnish for Medical Professionals

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Basic French Skills

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Diploma in French

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

French in Action

French Language Studies I, II, III

French: Ouverture

Intermediate & Advanced

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout 

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Vivre en France - A2

Vivre en France - B1

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in English)

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in Dutch)

German

Beginner

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Conversational German I, II, III, IV

Deutsch im Blick

Diploma in German

German at Work

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

Intermediate

German: Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Landschaftliche Vielfalt

Gwich’in

Introduction to Gwich’in Language

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Teach Me Hebrew

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Introduction to Irish

Irish 101

Irish 102

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Italian for Beginners 1 , 2, 3 , 4 , 5, 6 

Intermediate & Advanced

AP Italian Language and Culture

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

Letteratura italiana

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Sing and Learn Japanese

Tufs JpLang

Kazakh

A1-B2 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Introduction to Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian

Norwegian on the Web

Portuguese

Curso de Português para Estrangeiros 

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Advanced

Reading Master and Margarita

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Siberia: Russian for Foreigners

Spanish

Beginner

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Beginner’s Spanish: Food & Drink

Introduction to Spanish

Restaurants and Dining Out

Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Spanish Vocabulary

Intermediate

Spanish: Ciudades con Historia

Spanish: Espacios Públicos

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Swedish

Intro to Swedish

Swedish Made Easy 1, 2, & 3

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Ukrainian Language for Beginners

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Tips on How To Describe Clothing

1.  Don’t Go Overboard

Over-describing clothing can get in the way of the flow of your scenes, so keep it short and sweet.

Do your readers really need to know what each of the five rings your character is wearing looks like? 

Do they really need to know that your character’s jeans have exactly five rips in them or that they’re wearing this very one specific Gucci shirt that you saw online and are now describing in depth for no reason?

You don’t have to info-dump everything about a character’s outfit the moment they walk in, because being completely honest, your narrator probably won’t notice all that stuff right off the bat. Stick to the basics and defining features for the first look, and you can always sprinkle in descriptions during the dialogue.  

2. Clothing can help the readers get to know your character: Make It Count!

Saying that a character walks in wearing jeans and a T-shirt doesn’t say all that much about them. I mean, you can infer some things, but it’s pretty basic and could be worn by anyone. Clothing is an excellent way to show and not tell your audience about your character, and you should utilize it to the fullest!

Take this example:

A character walks in. She has eight studs in each ear, holographic Doc Martens, ripped jeans, and a T-shirt with some obscure band logo on it. The shirt is discolored in places from when she’d spilled bleach and tried to use her black hair dye to re-stain it.

Before she’s even opened her mouth, you already have a good idea of what this character is going to be like in a matter of two sentences. Readers can piece together assumptions about a character just by their outfit alone, and it can save you a whole lot of time later.

Things you can describe about an outfit that can help give it personality:

Certain logos or patterns

The color

The condition (stains, rips, frays, etc.)

The style (Doc Martens and leather jackets to go for a more grunge/goth/punk aesthetic, loose-fitting sweaters and glasses for academia, sweatpants and sweatshirts for people who don’t care much for the status quo, etc.)

The fit (loose, tight, etc.)

Self-alterations (ie T-shirt cut sloppily into crop top, jeans rolled up, addition of pins/patches/paintings, etc.)

3. Setting Counts!

A character that lives in Minnesota isn’t going to go strutting around in booty shorts and a tank top in the dead of winter. 

Someone from a different country may not wear the same things as people in America. 

People from cities may be more fashion-forward, while people from the country choose their fashion more based on usefulness. 

People from different time periods will wear different clothes depending on gender presentation, social class, and country of origin—so research accordingly!

Scene-by-scene setting also counts! 

If a character walks into an important meeting in pajamas, it’ll tell the readers a lot about who they are as a person, so dress your character accordingly for every situation. Do they not care about how they look, or are they very dress to impress for every possible occasion?

4. Stick to What Your Narrator Knows

You might’ve researched all different kinds of fabric and styles from around the world, but unless your character is a cultural anthropologist or a fashion major, they probably won’t know what you know!

Will your character who lives off the land, has no internet, and hasn’t gone to school since the 60s really know what chiffon is, or will they just say “translucent mesh fabric”? 

Will your character who doesn’t normally don feminine clothing know what an A-line drop hem fit and flare dress is? Will your character know the minute technical details of clothing from different countries or cultures?

The chance is that they won’t, so don’t try to dump all your research onto your readers: some of them might not know these things, either!

I went to my doctor after the er discharged me with “stress” and said “help my face is numb and I’m scared. He looked at me in my face and said “well what do you want me to do about it?” I had to beg to see a neurologist. The neurologist refused to let me speak and told me I was just stressed and refused to schedule me for an mri. Had she done that they would have found lesion on my brain.

4 years later I have now 2 lesions on my brain consistent with MS. I only found a doctor willing to take me seriously by happenstance after being hospitalized and refused a surgery that I would need anyway a few short months later. While on the hospital I was dismissed and refused pain medication unless I was literally screaming.

If a doctor refuses treatment or tests, say “I would like your refusal to treat documented in my chart.”

Then wait about 24 hours. (Partly for computer processing time, partly so if they think they’re being smart and saying yes but not actually doing it they’ll think they’re in the clear.)

Then call the doctor’s office AND SAY YOU WANT A COPY OF YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS.

If the refusal to treat isn’t in your records, you now have a malpractice suit.

Very, very few doctors are going to risk that possibility. They’ll bitch and moan when you ask for documentation, but they’ll run your tests.

As a comparison, by the way, here’s a doctor who had nothing to hide: my mom’s eye doctor when her eye started getting to the “It’s going to have to be physically removed” stage. He met us at the office at 9pm, long after close, with his date, to give my mom an injection to try to relieve the pressure in the eye. (Luckily said date also worked at the clinic and completely understood why he was doing this. He’s a great guy, he deserves a great lady.) I asked if he could note the exact time in her records, because the time needed between these injections was speeding up immensely. His reply:

“Actually that could give us an idea how fast this is progressing. Yes. What time is it? I’ll look up her earlier visit when I’m done.”

It is not hard to link to your Tumblr or Twitter with a vague message like, “If you’re looking for my other works or other ways of supporting me, go here: link.” I have had people buy me coffees after enjoying my fic and asking where to support me. I threw up a link to my Tumblr and people cared enough to follow it. They were fully understanding when I explained in the comments that they could not commission me and I could not link them directly to any donation platform, but they could go to xyz link to read more. And they did! Nobody has to put AO3 directly on the firing line.

Go ahead and commission independently. Just do it anywhere else except on AO3. And then don’t come crying to the community when you, personally, get a C&D from a massive corporation.

AO3 is our bullet shield. Tumblr will pull your shit down. Wattpad won’t fucking protect you. LJ and FF.net already sold our asses for one (1) corn chip. AO3 is trying to protect us, you goddamn lemmings.

If you cannot follow the rules that protect fanspaces, you do not belong in our fanspaces.

Bakugou is worried and afraid because of Deku’s Selflessness.

Bakugou knows because he’s been there. He knows because he saw.

How pure deku’s heart is…

And how deku would do anything to save….

But what’s nice about the way Horikoshi portrays them is that all of those theories do have pay off later in the story. These little nuances in the way Katsuki and Izuku are fundamentally written are not just coincidental but well planned. That’s why even though My Hero Academia may not always have the best art or story, it’s the expressiveness in the way characters are drawn which always has some deep seeded meaning. The characters are what keep us coming back even though admittedly, the series itself is otherwise pretty average.

Coming back to this post, that’s why I love the curveballs Horikoshi threw at us here. Katsuki acknowledges that he knows, always knew, that Izuku was the type to never consider himself or have any self-preservation. It annoyed and scared him, making him want to keep his distance from Izuku. The bullying, the inferiority complex, and misinterpretating Izuku’s intentions towards him were all byproducts of that most basic and initial feeling even if they were subconscious. This adds many layers to the resentment towards Izuku that Katsuki has had from the very beginning. It wasn’t just simple hate. That can be inferred from the nuances of his expressions and actions from the very beginning, from the way he desperately asked Izuku why the hell he won’t fight him already in Deku vs Kacchan 2 to him telling Izuku to never do that again after the other saved him from the slime monster. There are layers that not even Katsuki was aware of. You just have to look harder, and that’s what the fandom had done. I have to applaud everyone who ever wrote a meta on these two, negative or not.