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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide
Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:
"I just want an identical experience to DL"
Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)
"I want a good audio-based app"
Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)
"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"
Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)
Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)
*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.
"I have a pretty neat library card"
Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)
"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"
AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)
"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"
AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone
"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"
lingory
"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"
ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)
"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"
Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)
The unofficial translation of Gensou Narratograph is now available to download! (PDF only or .rar file with bonus assets)
I know no one ever actually looks at tumblr blogs, but I've made a basic page to hopefully collect information and links in the future.
An unofficial tabletop RPG published by Kadokawa. While the game as a whole is by no means "canon", it includes a full transcript of a game session with ZUN as one of the players, plus new character quotes and location descriptions written by ZUN, so it's worth checking out just for that alone.
Narratograph is largely boardgame-based, played with a selection of 30 characters gathering clues on a map of Gensokyo to progress through objectives and resolve the incident/kerfuffle of the week. However, it is still an RPG, with every scene being roleplayed and the incident also having a proper story to it. Narratively the game leans towards the light and feel-good end of Touhou fanworks, though I suppose it's up to you what you do with it. The book includes two prewritten adventures as examples, one of which I've run for a group to test it out.
It has pretty digestible mechanics, and a very unique danmaku combat system. To help with the number of sheets, figurines, tokens etc. needed, I've made public the Tabletop Simulator mod that I use to run the game myself, together with character figurines. You can use the assets included with the game to try and make it work in some other virtual tabletop of your choice. Or of course, you can also just print everything and play it live, if you can get a group together.
The rules have some quirks, and I'll try to figure out the best way to post my own notes and suggested houserules. As things stand, though, despite having nothing to do with the game officially, after putting a lot of work into it, I'm also curious to hear anyone's thoughts or experiences running it!

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Happy Halloween!! Eat lots of candy and stuff!!!
I see this one like every year and I still dont know the characters involved but I love it, it’s not Halloween without the pumpkin dragons
I made them!! @pocketss
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it's like. I used to think my autism didn't really include the need for routine but what I've found is that when it's a Planned divergence in routine that's fine (going on trips etc) and when I can Choose to divert my routine bc I know I can handle it that's also fine (like deciding to go out for drinks or deciding to go to a movie or deciding to change dinner plans). but when Other People or Circumstances change my routine without prior warning that's when my brain goes absolutely fucking insane.
and I feel like that's not talked about enough bc I've always seen "needs routine" represented as someone who is unwilling to divert from their routine when like. no it's absolutely fine just as long as I'm the one deciding when and how to divert it or I've been given plenty of advance warning that it'll be changing.
A cat may go in a box of its own accord but it does not want to be put in a box
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WHAT IS THE SHAPE OF THIS PROBLEM? VIII of IX — LOUISE BOURGEOIS, 1999 [letterpress & lithograph | 12 × 17" (2)]

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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
Storm dragon animation
And some work in progress:
is there a smell comparable to space ? i assume we dont know because we would die if we tried to smell it but thats so cool
yeah if humans tried to smell space just like that, we’d die, no doubt about it
but the smell of space lingers on spacewalk suits, and docking hatches when astronauts open them!
apparently, space itself smells like burning hot metal, or a hot barbeque grill with a slight hint of spent gasoline. The moon, apparently, smells like a gun after its been shot!
The coolest thing about it all is that the smell is actually what are left of dying stars- it’s literally the smell of stardust, and the particles smell like that because they’re so rich in hydrocarbons- something so very essential to life, and speculated by a lot of astronomers and astrobiologists and such to be the very thing life on earth started from!
another neat fact is that no two solar systems smell the same- ours smells like that because our solar system in particular is extremely rich in carbon, and other solar systems and places in the universe will have extremely different smells depending on what elements are most abundant in their system!
We are makings of a great forging and in the space between the celestial bodies, the scent of bright embers persists even in the dark.
dear diary . i no longer want to go to space because today i was informed that it smells like the interstate
there are 2 types of people
The Ethics of Reposting Fanart
Some time ago, I became aware of a Twitter thread written at the start of 2021, with activity on the thread still being active even to this day, and I wanted to talk about it because I feel that it pertains to various people and communities on Facebook and Tumblr (even myself) who actively repost art.
Basically, the thread talks about how reposts of Japanese fanarts mean that they lose control of where they end up and how legal issues can be caused because of it, therefore other people should not be reposting Japanese fanarts. I’m just going to be straight up here and say that I disagree with this on two fronts, namely that of the copyright holders (typically Japanese corporations) and the nature of the internet itself. I would assume that this applies to Western fanarts as well, except that corporations don’t play into the argument as much because the West has the doctrine of fair use.
It goes without saying that Japanese copyright laws go against the Western doctrine of fair use (just look at Toei), but that’s a problem that should be blamed entirely on the system, particularly because of the second front, namely being the nature of the internet. It’s not our fault that those laws exist and it certainly isn’t yours. Even if a company suddenly decides to ban their fans from drawing fanarts of something (such cases are quite rare if I’m correct), you can’t exactly expect every person to follow suit or file legal proceedings on people who don’t without looking like a real-life Happy Merchant meme.
Even with all the people who have interacted with the thread, the nature of the internet, with its propensity for diversity and anonymity, it’s too late to do anything about reposts now and anything they do will have very little effect, if any. Art aggregators and booru sites are examples of this, not to mention the ignorant masses reposting fanarts who might feel offended when they see tweet threads like the one I’m talking about. In fact, that’s the whole reason why I’m making this post; to try and put things in perspective between the Japanese artist white-knights and the ignorant masses.
Also, on a personal note, people like me started their social media “careers” by doing things such as reposting art. Part of the reason why I do what I do today is because over a decade ago, when I was new to social media, I wanted to be like the admins posting on pages dedicated to anime, so I decided to make my own pages. Although I’m not that good at socialising on the internet and my tastes in anime have stagnated particularly because I decided to stop following new animes a few years later, I managed to garner about 4,000 fans on pages that I own, with an extra reach of about 50,000 fans on pages that I admin. Now I also post original content and blog posts on my Facebook page and this Tumblr blog and despite my best efforts at promoting them, I have only amassed under 800 followers. What the Twitter OP is essentially asking of me is that I abandon 99% of my fanbase because they are triggered over people’s actions on the internet that they cannot control without essentially becoming a dictator, and I cannot, in good conscience, do that.
Frankly, artists in general should be grateful that their works are getting exposure because (usually) they’re not allowed to make money off of their fanarts. And yes, I know how original sources can get lost in reposts, particularly if some people decide to be dicks and crop the fanart, but if people know how to use actual reverse image search sites like SauceNAO (who also have browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox), they can easily find the source in most cases (that is if they don’t encounter dicks who crop fanarts).
In summary, the system is the problem and these people do not have the clout to make a significant difference to the issue of reposting fanarts. Even though what I’m saying in this is going to be controversial, I’m just going to continue doing what I’ve always been doing with the following compromises that I’ve also picked up over time; I will respect people’s wishes if they don’t want their art reposted (even though it’s essentially an unspoken rule, most artists of the fanarts I repost don’t state this on their pages) and I will make sure that source links are included on my reposts (at least on the K-On page and the Waifu Network Tumblr because it was a recommendation on the former and I began adopting it on the latter because I thought it was fair to include sources), though I can’t guarantee this for every post I make because despite my best efforts at finding the sources on SauceNAO, there are times when links will become broken, in my opinion because artists don’t feel proud of the work they have done and they want to bury it, not knowing that it’s probably already on booru sites or social media reposts.
So, let me get this straight...
You’re an ignorant twat who sees nothing wrong with doing something wrong because “eh it’s been like that anyway”, “be grateful we’re giving you exposure even though we’re actually not” and because “I myself proffted off of other people’s work, so it’s a good thing!”
Sincerely, sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to people who actually have something to say in this argument, because it’s literally their right to do so.
But let’s go through this absolute bog of bullshit in order, shall we?
The loss of control is a matter of multiple aspects, including two different issues of copyright infringement, but also including potential personal damages (this is especially important within the circles that deal with BL/GL etc.) First of all, yes, the whole matter of corporate IP. Yes, it’s different from Western laws. Get over it and respect it instead of blaming it because it doesn’t suit your tastes, it’s not your place to question or protest it. In fact, Fair Use is not a guarantee even in the West: the owner of the material has the right to deny Fair Use of their works, and they have every right to do so, so long as they use a binding means of establishing the prohibition (disclaimers themselves are not enough, but that also means that if the product is being put out under a specific license, that license can include the clause prohibiting even Fair Use). Also, as far as many cases of people claiming Fair Use in the West, profitting off the content makes it less likely for the content to be considered protected as Fair Use; the minutae of that are up to the specific cases and lawyers though, obviously. But it does mean that IP holders have every right to claim copyright strikes if the work infringes on their established specific copyrights. Many companies in Japan also permit the production of both fanworks in general but also the sale of them, so long as no profit is made. So if some jackass steals the art and starts gaining monetary gain from it (offering it as prints, for instance, a ridiculously rampant practice, especially for “merch”), they could get either the specific artists in question in trouble with the company, or could lead to the entire fandom getting fucked over as a result, leading to the IP holders prohibiting not just profitting off the product in question, but the creation of fanworks for it altogether (sure, there will always be people going “screw it” and not obliging, but some people actually try to respect the will of others instead of taking what they want just-because). And they have every right to it. Second of all, there is a matter of actual personal copyright... and people infringing not only on an author’s right to their content (applies to especially original works, but to some extent to fanart as well), but also breaking Terms of Service of practically every single social media website in existence - but I will get to that later, on the point of your Oh So Grand “Career”, worry not. And this links to the third issue; control over the distribution of the work in question. Many artists choose to delete their old works for one reason or another. They have every right to want those things gone (and no, they won’t give a damn about it still sitting in your hard drive - but they will give a damn about it still continuing to be spread online). Reposting takes that capability away from them. And if it’s just a matter of wanting to bury one’s less skilled or cringe past, this can also be an attempt to retain control over narratives that are harmful to the author online (and sometimes it’s just someone actually turning a new leaf, looking at what they used to say and post, realising it’s harmful for one reason or another, and not wanting to be associated with it anymore; it’s not impossible for people to stop supporting harmful ideologies and they should be allowed to cut free of that, especially if that cutting free also means diminishing the spread of that ideology by getting rid of a source of something as influential as art speaking in supprot of it). But it can also be a problem offline. I have seen artists, especially Asian ones (mainl Japan, Korea, China), but also some instances from the West, where the artist would produce content of things their family or real life environment does not approve of. If their identity is compromised or leaked, it is only fair for them to want to get rid of any evidence thereof to prevent getting screwed over in real life; disowned, bullied, fired, etc. You have no right to take the possibility of preventing that from them just because “but muh animu pictures”.
“It’s too late to do anything”, oh no, I guess we have no choice but to sit there twiddling out hands and let things happen then, instead of trying to instill change bit by bit, then. This is obviously a disproportionate comparison, but you know what else was also “too late to do anything about it, it’s already too widespread”? Racism. So guess what people did? Started spreading awareness and enacting change bit by bit. Sure, we’re not out of the woods yet, but it seems to be working relatively well for something that used to be borderline the default state. It’s almost like people are actually capable of growing and changing, amazing, who’d have thought! And the website argument? To begin with, many booru sites require or regularly practice crediting. Danbooru has basically all their posts linking back to the sources and with artists properly tagged, making it easy to find credit. They also usually take the posts down on request without any fuss whatsoever. Most art aggregators can crash and burn though, it’s just a bunch of shitheads making profit off other people’s works, fuck that. And if ignorant twats get offended when they see threads spreading awareness of what’s wrong with the shit they keep propagating? Well, gee, too bad. Guess who else is offended: artists they steal from. But it’s okay, racists of the olden days have also tended to be offended whenever someone would point out that they’re in the wrong, to borrow the comparison again. Tough fucking luck, snowflake.
And now... ah yes, the wonderful, wonderful personal note. Congratulations, you’re one of the piece of shits profitting off of the hard work of other people, just because it’s fast and easy, hope you’re proud of yourself! Now, everyone makes mistakes, but what is important is to realise them and learn and move away from them. Not double the fuck down and then make exuses to make it seem like they’re a good thing. Especially when it’s perfectly feasible to create a resource of posts that aren’t yours, and many places offer just that. Twitter has retweets. Tumblr has reblogs. Most gallery websites offer the option to have the artwork hosted on them embedded the moment you link it somewhere else, or you could tailor your website to display an image that is at the same time a link back to the source! Shocking, I know! It’s almost like there’s a better way to do things instead of stealing and reposting art, who’d have thought! Oh, but I guess then the likes would go to the artist rather than the reposts, such tragedy, not sure how you’d live with that-- oh, wait, it doesn’t fuck matter because you don’t deserve those interactions in the first place. You’d still keep followers, though; tumblr, for instance, is a website where many people literally thrive off of sharing curated content, and many do it with proper credit, linkback, and often even explicit permissions(!) from artists. It’s really not that bloody hard, and would still let you retain your audience. Having the cake and eating it too, and all that. Too bad you apparently never thought of that. Oh, but that “fanbase” of yours? Time for a rude wakeup call. You don’t have a fanbase. Frankly, I find it amazing that you thought you do at any point at all. They’re fans of the content you post. Not of you. And that content isn’t yours; they’re not your fans, not your fanbase. That’s why they waned when you stopped providing them with what they want, although many fans of artists will stick with them even when the artist in question changes fandoms or starts producing original works: because we are their fans, in addition to being fans of whatever they made art of that led us to finding them in the first place. But you bring nothing of quality. You don’t add to anything. You just rehash. You’re just a convenient buffet with no inherent value beyond ease of use that they can get literally anywhere else. You are nothing. And the same goes for every single other aggregation profile or site. You’re just a pool of stolen water for an army of lazy monkeys that just want to consume content, will see something they like, will try to find the source, realise that all they can find is a ton of carbon copies of the same kind of cesspool as what you have, and will give up. They will go hungry, because they cannot find what they wanted and liked, and the artist won’t get jackshit, either. But hey, at least you retain the views, right?
Also congratulations, you have no idea what the Terms of Service of the websites you post on are! Good job! Most social media and galleries explicitly state in their ToS that you are only allowed to post content you own the rights to (either in the form of being the author, having acquired permission either directly from the author or in the form of the author explicitly permitting the reposting of their content, or through fair use), and that whatever content you post (assuming it already adhered to the prior rule) is protect as your intellectual property and you retain full copyright, with the exception of letting the website or service display and transform (necessity due to rescaling to fit different displays and/or cropping for thumbnails, previews, etc.) the art in order for them to be able to host it at all; it does not grant the permission for anyone else to repost the content in question. Granted, chasing infringements on that is out of question for every single reposter, and some websites handle it better than others, but the actual rules of the services being used remain. So again, congratulations. You are in violation of the ToS. Maybe read what you agree to on next time, before ticking that magical “I hereby acknowledge that I have read and understood the terms and conditions” box? I doubt your value-deprived ass is going to get dragged to court over it, but in terms of law, it is legally binding.
But ah, yes. The artists. Because we should be so grateful for the tiny trickle of what few people who manage to actually find us through the slog of reverse search, while reposter accounts will gain hundrets and thousands times more drive than what goes back to us. So frankly, take the “artists in general should be grateful that their works are getting exposure” bullshit, roll it up, and stick it up your ass. If you manage to fit it in, anyway, since that space seems to already be occupied by your head, so might be a bit hard, but good luck! I have seen not so long ago a piece of art RT’d on my twitter timeline. A really gorgeous drawing of Lust from FMA. It was clearly a repost account, it even gave “credit” to the artist (in the form of not even the full username of the author). You know how many RTs it had? Over 13k. And 37k followers. The original art (which WAS actually on Twitter already, on the artist’s profile)? Less than 2k, and less than 3k followers. And what started actually bumping up the numbers was not the half-assed credit, but people linking the original in replies to the repost, allowing others to easily reach the source instead. Now let’s assume the reposter account would have actually retweeted the art in question, instead of reposting it. You know, what would have happened? The artist would have had 15k+ retweets of their artwork instad of 2k, 105k likes instead of 8k. Probably more followers, too. Because they wouldn’t have gotten a trickle of what the reposter gets; they’d have gotten the whole cake. Reposters aren’t a magical funnel back to the creators; they’re leeches.
And for sources you can’t find? Well, first of all, you can thank people like yourself for that, in more ways than one. The flooding of internet websites with reposts being one side of it, the other being artists literally closing shop and deleting all their works off the internet to prevent the constant stealing and loss of control over their own work. They will do well enough locally, Japan has always had a robust support of smaller artists through events and local stores even before the internet became a thing. They don’t need to deal with the bullshit reposters keep serving them to keep creating and sharing their works; it’s the foreign audiences that will lose out on it. Or, you know, they could have deleted them for any number of issues I listed previously. Or maybe they were ashamed of their older works... so? How is that any of your fucking right to decide on whether they have the right to delete it or not? It’s not your work that went into it. It’s not your creation, not your skill, not your input. Not your right. So how about you respect the will of the artists who allow you to keep growing your pathetic excuse of a “career” for free instead of being a piece of shit about it and then snapping when they want any semblance of respect?
Oh, and just to get back to the point about ToS and how most Japanese artists don’t includ prohibitions on their profiles. Remember the whole “unless you have permission from the artist directly, or they have an explicit statement of permitting reposts of their work” from the Terms of Service part of this dissection of your post? For Japanese people, they operate on permissions, not prohibitions. It is understood by default, that anything that is not explicitly stated as allowed, it is automatically not allowed. You know, kind of how consent works: you don’t just assume that a person can be freely touched just because they don’t have a badge saying “Do not touch me” on them 24/7. You need to get their permission for physical contact (unless they have a “Free Hugs!” board hanging on them; but even then, that only permits hugs, not kisses, not slaps, only hugs). Learn more about the culture you’re proffiting off of before you start spewing more shit next time, will you?
Thank you in advance, may you grow into being less of an ignorant twat one day ♥

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