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쓰레기통 vs 휴지통  

Both are used interchangeably at times, but 휴지통 is used more for wastepaper baskets or bathroom trash cans, whereas 쓰레기통 is used more for general trash cans (e.g kitchen trash can, apartment garbage disposal places, street garbage disposal)

정류장 vs 정거장

These both effectively mean station, stop (as in bus stop, train station) - 정류장 is more used to talk about depots, bus stops, 정거장 is used more for train stations or stations generally (e.g. 우주 정거장 - space station). Both are actually used interchangeably so its no big deal, but if you’re saying “Get off after 5 stops,” you are more likely to use 정거장 (다섯 정거장 뒤에 내리세요)

이를 닦다 vs 양치하다

Both mean ‘to brush teeth’ except one is the Native Korean root and one is the Chinese (Hanja) root - guess which is which? You’d be right if you guessed that 이를 닦다 was the Native Korean and 양치 was the Sino-Korean (養齒). As 양치하다 is derived from the Hanja, it conveys a more formal feeling - you might see it written more than spoken, whereas 이를 닦다 is more informal and mostly used when speaking.

물건 vs 사물

Both of these words mean ‘things’ or ‘objects’ or ‘stuff’ and are somewhat interchangeable. 물건 is a material object that has a relatively constant shape (e.g. pencil, book, clock), 사물 is any object or individual in the universe, even if it does not have a constant shape (e.g. space, air). 사물 has more of an academic/literary feeling (e.g. as in science, law, philosophy etc) than 물건 so you will hear 물건 more commonly used. Some people like to think of 물건 as ‘stuff’ and 사물 as ‘objects’.

부엌 vs 주방

HMM!! to be honest, all of my coloring is done by eyeballing it- but after choosing colors for a while I do have some preferences? coloring is sort of a personal choice, and i think you can make any colors work for the piece you want. Disclaimer: I don’t know ANYTHING about color theory, complimentary colors and things like that. If you feel like you need to learn those things I encourage you to find tutorials online. The tips I’m sharing are from being self-taught. This being said, maybe showing which tones I like will help someone else find out what they like!

In general I don’t usually pick colors from the absolute most saturated part of the color wheel/square.

colors from this area can be kind of harsh, especially when used in conjunction with others that are just as saturated, but maybe that’s something you want! i’ve seen so many great artists use bright, saturated colors and make them look AMAZING.

In general, I usually pick colors from this bean shaped area.

colors here are a bit muted, but not too washed out. There will always be exceptions, and a lot of what factors into picking colors and coloring a piece will be in how you choose to shade it!

For instance, let’s color this lil mic here.

(please excuse how simple he is) if I’m going to color him I usually put down the flats like so (i marked which colors came from where on the color square)

he looks ok! now is the part where i pick the darker shaded colors. When i was younger I would take these colors and simply drag the cursor closer towards the bottom of the square making it a darker color like so:

This works in some cases, but I’ve found that doing this all the time can make my art look kind of muddy. Nowadays when I pick a shaded color I adjust the saturation as well as how dark the new color is. This is an example of how I’d do it now:

In this method I slide the hue towards orange as well as make the new color  darker and more saturated. Doing this to varying degrees gives me all the new colors i need to shade this doodle.

the next step can be picking lighter colors, I basically do the last step but the other way, picking lighter colors that are different in hue and making them lighter/less saturated.

The last thing I do is color the lineart! I do this by creating a clipping mask and picking colors that are darker than the color within their borders. I usually leave the outside borders of the drawing black for clarity.

hello thank you!!! i’ve had some other people msg me asking for this too & i really don’t think i’ll ever do a speedpaint or anything so instead i documented my general process. even this was hard because i don’t really think much while drawing but i hope it helps (open the images to zoom/read)

BLACK SCREEN.

A VOICE COMES: “LOOK, I DIDNT WANNA BE A HALF BLOOD”

Sorry, I’m on mobile for the weekend and so I can’t put this behind a read more.

I’m awake again and I wanted to write a meta for @om-nom-berries to explain the purpose of a certain scene in TLJ, because she was saying she could feel Rian Johnson put it in the movie for a reason, but she didn’t quite get what the point of the scene was.

The scene is the one where Rey stands in front of the mirror beneath the island.

So here’s my take on it. You were right, it’s in the movie for a good reason. I’m glad to see that some of my favorite Star Wars meta writers loved that scene, so I look forward to them writing about it too.

Three things first:

Star Wars is about adolescents embarking on Joseph Campbell-style hero journeys and becoming adults. Like Luke Skywalker’s journey in the original trilogy, Rey is going on the same kind of journey to adulthood. (As is Kylo Ren.)

The Last Jedi is the first Star Wars movie that has been ballsy enough to delve into the sexual awakening/sexual maturation aspect of adolescents becoming adults. The Last Jedi is about sex. The physicality of the island of Ahch-To and the interactions between Rey and Ben take sexual suggestion to a level not seen in this series before.

Rey’s journey is based on the “Heroine’s Journey” which is a little different than Joseph Campbell’s Hero Journey. The step of her Heroine’s Journey that involves the mirror is “The Descent.”

Ahch-To is an island of yonic usymbols - that is, images of female genitalia and sexuality. The tree that contains the Jedi texts has an entrance that looks just like a vulva/vagina. (Someone tweeted this at director Rian Johnson, and he admitted it was purposeful.)

It is only when Rey stops following Luke and enters the vagina tree, when she passes this vaginal threshold, that Rey finally gets to ask about the “something inside her” that she doesn’t recognize but is now “awake.” It’s not just the Force - the “something inside her” is also her own burgeoning sexuality.

In The Force Awakens, we know the “awakening” of the Force happens inside Rey. Adam Driver has also explicitly said the title ‘The Force Awakens’ refers to Kylo Ren as well.

That’s why, in the novelization of TFA, Kylo is the one to seem to recognize Rey (“Who are you…?”) and the reason why at the end, when she calls the lightsaber to her, he says, “It is you.” Because Kylo recognizes that Rey is also the ‘awakening in the Force’ that he and Snoke felt at the beginning of the movie.

They are linked together by their interactions in TFA, their mind-joining, their recognition of each others’ deepest fears, which spark the awakening of the Force in Rey, and which also (as we see in The Last Jedi) create a Force Bond between them.

All of this I mention only to set the stage, because in The Last Jedi, their already established dual Awakening is revealed to be not only an awakening in the Force, but also a dual sexual awakening. So we have to keep in mind, in a large part of this movie, the mysteries of the Force = the mysteries of Sex to the uninitiated. And it’s about both of them, equals and opposites.

It shouldn’t be necessary to say how the interactions between Rey and Ben are sexually suggestive because the movie was so clear, but I will anyway:

Ben ending an interlude with Rey with moisture on his gloved fingers (I mean… this made me gasp in scandalized shock in the theater)

Rey stumbling upon Ben half-clothed and exposed, and Ben refusing to put a shirt on while walking toward her and not breaking eye contact

Long, lingering, direct eye contact while talking and commiserating about their secrets, their experiences and personal struggles

Ben stripping off his glove so he could slowly, deliberately touch Rey’s outstretched hand skin-to-skin

Luke interrupting their hand-holding with a climactic explosion

But the actual sexiest interaction (besides the hand-holding, which happens right afterward) might be when Rey, quiet-voiced, opens up to Ben about her experience in the Dark Cave of Female Sexual Mysteries. The same Dark Cave that Luke was horrified she was attracted by, and shamed her for (spurring her Heroine’s Journey crisis and Descent into that very cave, but I’ll get to that). The words she speaks while she explores the Cave is her confiding about the experience to Ben - the experience is explicitly tied to him.

As if the Vagina Tree wasn’t enough female sexuality imagery on Ahch-To, the entrance to the Dark Cave of The Force/Female Sexual Mysteries under the island is also shaped like a vaginal cavity, complete with what looks like pubic hair around the entrance and moisture (the water Rey falls into). She’s still literally wet from her experience in the Burgeoning Sexuality Cave when she talks to Ben about it, when she touches his hand. It’s all so goddamn suggestive.

Now I should explain about the Descent in the Heroine’s Journey. Here’s an excerpt from Using the Heroine’s Journey:

“Somewhere inside, she begins to realize that something is missing from her life. She feels stretched thin. She looks in the mirror, and isn’t sure she knows the person looking back.”

Rey enters the Vagina Tree and is asked who she is by Luke - her identity, her parents, is a subject that troubles her at the very core.

“The Descent: In stage four, tragedy strikes. [Her allies] tell her she is a coward. Or perhaps that she is selfish, impulsive, or whatever despised quality the masculine attributes to the feminine.”

Rey reaches out in the Force/her sexuality, and is immediately drawn to the Dark Force Sex Cave under the island, which horrifies Luke.

“But she doesn’t hear them. She is already far away, undergoing her own inner turmoil. She begins a period of voluntary isolation, descending into a metaphorical cave. There time passes slowly. It’s dark; there are no sights or sounds to distract her. There she searches for herself. She may have to sift through a maelstrom of emotions. Anger, remorse, and grief may all set upon her. She might be afraid to follow her thoughts and feelings to their conclusion, but she knows she must.”

Alone, Rey falls into the Cave and looks into the Mirror, searching for her own identity, the identity she already knows but is suppressing. She fractures into myriad selves of who she could be. She looks at the approaching figure behind the mirror.

(1000 other people have said this outlined figure looks like Ben Solo before it solidifies into Rey, and I strongly thought the same thing on both my viewings. Rey sees Ben’s outline in the mirror of who she is, her soul mate/twin soul/mirror opposite, and then the figure solidifies into her, merging the two of them. She is also speaking to Ben over this imagery, further linking them together. In the Initiation Cave of Female Sexual Imagery, the two of them merge.)

“Meeting With the Goddess: The heroine begins stage five in her darkest hour. But she is rewarded for her struggle when she encounters the goddess. The goddess symbolizes the true nature of the feminine, and the best of what the heroine left behind. The goddess imparts a great truth to the heroine about herself and the feminine.”

Rey sees herself and is awakened to her female sexuality. Still literally wet, she immediately Skype calls Ben about it, and during that call, after she confides in him, she is the one to reach her hand out to touch him. They see a vision of their future, one where they are together. Immediately after this scene and after confronting Luke, she sheds her hairstyle of triple buns (a hairstyle she had kept the same since she was abandoned as a child) and lets her hair down as that of a sexually mature woman, and changes her clothes, and leaves to go to where Ben is. The subsequent fight scene where they work perfectly in sync has been discussed as it it’s a realized sex scene.

So, I didnt even absorb all that symbolism during my viewing. I mean, I remembered it all visually bc I figured it was important but didnt know why. This was so incredibly helpful.

I’ve started a new post-TLJ Star Wars comic (and it will have Rey/KyloBen stuff), so here’s the archive. Decided to call it Solitudes.

Latest update: November 24, 2019

Part One - Again

Part Two - Dead or Alive

Part Three - Who Killed Snoke

Part Four - Girl Talk

Part Five - Humour in Dark Times

Part Six - Uncle Wanwo

Part Seven - More Uncle Wanwo

Part Eight - Trust

Part Nine - Teamwork

Part Ten - Liar

Part Eleven - The Awful Truth

Part Twelve - Things To Come

Part Thirteen - Plots

Part Fourteen - Planning

Part Fifteen - Advice

Part Sixteen - Having Heart

Part Seventeen - Talking About Feelings

Part Eighteen - Savareen

Part Nineteen - Dinner and a Show

Part Twenty - Don’t Taze Me, Rose!

Part Twenty One - The True Colours of Lady Mereena

Part Twenty Two - Talking Doors

Part Twenty Three - Power is an Illusion

In My Dreams, my pre-TLJ comic, can be read here or downloaded (for free) here.

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Part II my post-TROS comic, “Death is a Lie”, pages 9-12.

Ben is back! 

I was worried that these pages had so much scenery transition in them it wouldn’t make sense. But if Rey is travelling to the underworld there are also many stories in cultures around that world that speak of different levels of heaven (and hell). Sometimes 3, sometimes 7 (both are very holy numbers in lots of places). So we can think of the transitions as Rey going through the levels of heaven, or hell, or limbo to find Ben.

Or not. Whatever. lol  I like drawing forests. Also a red string.

Buy a bat (I have my old color guard rifle) or similar. Keep it in your room/near your bed.

Get a lock for your bedroom door.

If you’re moving into a new place, change the locks. Who knows who had a key to your place before you.

Keep your phone/a phone in your room.

Get a weather alert system set up. App, weather call, little weather radio that tells you about major weather events.

Adopt a pet

Wave at your neighbors. Take note of the ones that make you uneasy. Watch out for kids always.

Be nice to your mail person. No matter what.

If you choose to drink/etc alone, unplug your wifi router. You’ll thank me.

Have extra seating. People sit when they visit. Your one comfy chair is great for you. Not so great for you + grandma + ur five cousins, your aunt, and a couple others.

Learn the self-Heimlich

When you take a shower, bring your phone to the bathroom in case you fall your phone is no longer halfway across the house, it’s just on your counter

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Give a key to someone near you trust, or hid it somewhere few people will look, like up in a tree. Shutting yourself out isn’t nice, esp. not at night. Put something translucent like curtains or stickers for windows where people can walk past or look in. You’ll feel less watched that way.

Put some contant money somewhere in your room. Good to have in case your bag gets lost or stolen. 

walking around with a headset or headphones discourages people from yelling at you on the street, and it’s easier to escape from hasslers. however, it’s pretty advisable to not have anything actually playing so you can be aware of your surroundings. if anything, have it at low volume.

if you get grabbed on the street (this used to happen to me a lot), immediately scream, and the person will usually get startled, giving you time to get away. 

if you feel like you’re in a really bad place, call someone, or even pretend like you’re calling someone. say where you are. act like you’re planning on meeting up with them. be loud about it. make it seem like someone will notice if you go missing, even for a little bit.

Slightly related to this post by @sauntering-down

In Star Wars, Boba Fett is Jango Fett’s clone son. Now in Clone Wars, the clones don’t appear to have any rights and are generally considered as cannon fodder by most people rather than Sentients. It got me wondering why, although by all technicalities Jango OWNED him, Boba was treated as a Sentient Being.even by others and not just the Jedi.

This led me to headcanoning that due to a nice neat loophole in the paperwork declaring all clones property (after all wouldn’t want to violate their own Slavery Laws) that Boba was considered a Sentient Being with all the Rights associated with that because Jango (a Sentient Being and Republic Citizen) adopted him and essentially passed those rights onto his son.

So here comes the fun bit.

Anakin, having trouble reconciling the fact he’s now a general to what is essentially a slave army, goes hunting for every piece of legislation regarding the Clones and the rights associated with them. 

He finds the loophole.

And sends out the paperwork to every last clone, calling it a minor oversight in paperwork and if you all just sign here…

“Anakin, why is the Senate claiming you’ve kidnapped the entire Galactic Army?”

“Kidnap is such a strong word, Master. The more accurate term would be spontaneous adoption!”

The Senate and Palpatine are not happy with now having to treat the entire GAR as Sentient Beings with rights. It’s also costing them even more money since they have to PAY the clones otherwise it would be slavery and General Skywalker, a Citizen of the Republic, is more than willing to sue them over it.

(The Separatists think this is hilarious and a few planets are actually considering becoming neutral after watching Skywalker verbally flay the Senate for threatening his ‘sons’. The Public, of course, thinks it’s great.)

The Jedi Council is in two minds. One) it’s very impressive that Skywalker managed to find the one loophole that would get the clones their rights. Two) This screams attachment but as Kenobi brought up, there’s no part in the code that says Anakin can’t adopt.

(Plo Koon, Obi-Wan and Aayla Secura might be bargaining with Anakin over who gets to adopt 104th, the 212th and the 327th. Anakin is willing to give them partial custody.)

The clones think this is a) one of the best things ever and b) are very touched.

Most of the 501st think it’s hilarious to call their General ‘Dad’ after Jesse blurts it out in the middle of a battle.

Kamino tries to stop Skywalker from adopting even the undecantated ones but someone cough ShaakTi and R2 cough hacked their systems so the unborn clones are now also Skywalkers. They can’t even ‘decommission’ any more clones since it would technically be murder both under their own laws and the Republic’s.

Anakin’s just worried about what he’s going to get everyone for their Life-Day gifts.

This all leads nicely into a happy au where the Skywalker Twins grow up with an entire Army’s worth of brothers. Leia is especially delighted whenever a sister Vod’e show up primarily because it’s a well-known fact that brothers are exhausting.

I’ve started a new post-TLJ Star Wars comic (and it will have Rey/KyloBen stuff), so here’s the archive. Decided to call it Solitudes.

Latest update: November 24, 2019

Part One - Again

Part Two - Dead or Alive

Part Three - Who Killed Snoke

Part Four - Girl Talk

Part Five - Humour in Dark Times

Part Six - Uncle Wanwo

Part Seven - More Uncle Wanwo

Part Eight - Trust

Part Nine - Teamwork

Part Ten - Liar

Part Eleven - The Awful Truth

Part Twelve - Things To Come

Part Thirteen - Plots

Part Fourteen - Planning

Part Fifteen - Advice

Part Sixteen - Having Heart

Part Seventeen - Talking About Feelings

Part Eighteen - Savareen

Part Nineteen - Dinner and a Show

Part Twenty - Don’t Taze Me, Rose!

Part Twenty One - The True Colours of Lady Mereena

Part Twenty Two - Talking Doors

Part Twenty Three - Power is an Illusion

In My Dreams, my pre-TLJ comic, can be read here or downloaded (for free) here.

My Society6 Shop - Tip me via my Ko-fi page - Buy my comics on Gumroad

hi, siyempre! xx I actually have a masterlist of resources here but here’s an updated and condensed list for beginners:

if you’re willing to spend $$ on books:

highly recommend Tagalog for Beginners

or Conversational Tagalog

and this amazing standard dictionary !!!

if you’re not willing to spend $$, there are a ton of online resources:

this website with children’s books in Tagalog and Taglish

the Memrise course

Mango languages

Easy Filipino YouTube channel

a YouTube channel for kids, starting with the alphabet song!

any OPM song, Filipino movie, or teleserye that you can find is a great way to immerse yourself even if you don’t understand everything (my fav artists are Bamboo for rock, KZ Tandingan for pop, Abra for rap)

my fav love team is Jadine especially in OTWOL !!!

but honestly the best way to improve is to have a conversation. and that’s really where the trouble comes in - hopefully you have someone in your life to talk with, because the online language partner programs/forums are NOT great for Tagalog. unfortunately it’s not a very in-demand language outside of the Philippines.