the devil to your angle

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Beginner-oriented video on how to sail

This guy has so many videos on baking different types of bread. SO very many.

Coding in Python - one of the most flexible and adaptable high-level programming languages out there - explained through projects making video games

Learn to swim! (for adult learners. I don’t care if you live in Kansas or Mali or wherever. LEARN TO SWIM.)

Learn how quantum mechanics works. Then read some more about it

[Learn about quantum mechanics again, but in a more advanced engineering/mathematics class. Then read more about the math and physics of it]

Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Something I learned this year: how to sew a quilt (Here’s a very easy beginning pattern that looks amazing and can be done with pre-cut fabric!)

How to hit the ball in softball

Tutorial video on what is under the hood of most (gas) cars + weird engine sounds and what they mean

Full beginner mechanics technical training, if you want to go more in depth

Playlist on how car engine physics work if you want to go ultra in depth

Lecture series on architecture design through study of buildings

How (American income) taxes & tax law work (choose “audit course” at checkout for free class)

Pickleball for beginners (so you can finally join your neighbor/friend/distant cousin who is always insisting you join their team)

+ Para-Pickleball for beginners (for mobility aid users!)

School is so much more fun when there’s no tests:

American Law - Contracts

Shakespeare’s Life and Plays

Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals

Modern Poetry

World History [Part 1, Part 2]

Learn a language:

Arabic + Resource Guide compiled from Reddit (includes info on different dialects)

Chinese (Cantonese) (audio)

Urdu (frequently recommended course on Reddit) + Resource Guide

ty for the tag @jewish-fanboy

origin of your user: well i like glee, and gleek rhyme with freak, and 69 is like, a freaky number so yknow

i will always order this food: mm maybe chips? like fries chips

overused emoji: 🥹✌️these two, on their own and as a combination

current favourite show/movie/book: yellowjackets definitely.. im currently rewatching it

song(s) on repeat: miss world by hole and where’s my phone? by mitski

last thing you really got into: the last of us 👍

oddly specific thing that brings you joy: late rainy nights in the city!! love it sm..

phone wallpaper: meowl…….

what smell makes you happy: this one perfume i have, i forgot the name unfortunately tho

morning night or other kind of person: night!! i love the dark and the silence

what's your work/profession: unemployed rn but i hope to do something in the film industry? i’m not fully sure now tho the future scares me a bit

origin of your user: honestly i don't know. i mean i liked ducks and kermit cuz theyre goofy so why not smush them together?

i will always order this food: honestly ice cream. but in terms of main course if theres reginette i'm immediately ordering it

overused emoji: 💀

current favourite show/movie/book: fav show is still brooklyn 99 (i guess it's more of a comfort show), favorite movie is cruella, favorite book is the little prince

song(s) on repeat: the sharpest lives by my chemical romance, last flowers by radiohead, last night on earth by green day

last thing you really got into: phantom of the opera

oddly specific thing that brings you joy: the feeling of laughing myself silly with friends over stupid things at lunch at midday as the sun shines just the right amount and the world closes in till no one else seems to be around

phone wallpaper: idk some photo of the ocean that I took

what smell makes you happy: what smell makes you happy: her perfume (jk it makes me immensely sad)... my favorite smell is probably the smell of fresh air at night

morning night or other kind of person: used to be a morning person but am now definitely a night person who wakes up early and regrets it

what's your work/profession: also unemployed but definitely not gonna do something in science cuz it makes me want to kill myself

Origin of user - so I guess I just combined my name and Abbott Elementary together lol

I will always order this food - I will always gets fries and a sandwich

Overused emoji - 😭🫂😒

Current favorite show/movie/book - my favorite show is Abbott Elementary, my favorite movie is def the parent trap while my favorite book is definitely Frankenstein

Song(s) on repeat - purple rain

Last thing you really got into - graphic novels

Oddly specific thing that brings you joy - my blankets

Phone wallpaper - Lisa Ann Walter

What smell makes you happy - my room

Morning night or other kind of person - night

What’s your work/profession - I’m still in school studying for audiology!

origin of your user: randomly came up with it in 8th grade when i was thinking of a username for my amino account (yuck) and just combined the words derpy cause i love that word with avocado cause i love avocados lol

i will always order this food: i’m a fiend for crumbl, big back pink status!

overused emoji: 🫩

current favorite show/movie/book: for show, rupaul’s drag race cause season 18 is peak so far! for movie, uhhh idk i’m not locked in on movies but looking forward to mortal kombat 2! for book, ao3 fanfics if that counts since i’m mentally ill ;)

song(s) on repeat: bbno$ songs, especially diamonds are forever like omfg i’m obsessed with that canadian

last thing you really got into: abbott hyperfixation won’t leave me tf alone!!

oddly specific thing that brings you joy: buying and building legos, specifically ninjago (autism be damned)

phone wallpaper: (i change it every month)

what smell makes you happy: the gay smell from bath and body works called “love always wins”

morning, night, or other kind of person: afternoon person cause i’m a fat fucking chud

what’s your work/profession: currently on my jobless behavior type shift but i’ve got hopeless dreams of becoming a financially struggling animator!

origin of your user: As with most things in my life, it is a Simpsons reference. Ralph- I eated the purple berries! Bart- How were they, Ralph? Ralph- Tastes like... Burning.

i will always order this food: Um. I don't know. Maybe a burger from Grill'd

overused emoji: melty man 🫠

current favorite show/movie/book: Show- Drag Race s18 (team Jane & Vita!) Movie- I dunno, I haven't watched a movie in a while. Book- Currently reading 'Jar of Hearts' by Jennifer Hillier. It's not exactly groundbreaking stuff, but it's alright for what it is.

song(s) on repeat: I made a drag queen playlist a few weeks ago. Mainly Alaska, Trixie, Adore, Jinkx & AAA Girls. I've been listening to that.

last thing you really got into: I'm playing Bit Life, and it is ridiculous but I can't stop.

oddly specific thing that brings you joy:Getting new pins for my bag

phone wallpaper: My favourite Bosco photo. I have had it for something like six months even though it annoys the crap out of me that the clock is covering her face (I can't move it, I checked).

what smell makes you happy: The smell of the first mangoes of the season at the grocer, Sandalwood because it smells like the 90s, and Brandy because it smells like lying on my Auntie Bonnie's living room floor on a Saturday night in the 80s, watching the Angela Lansbury version of The Lady Vanishes.

morning, night, or other kind of person: Anytime but morning. Morning is my enemy. I remember at uni my course coordinator said to me one day "You're not a morning person, are you?" I looked him in the eye and said "No Daryl, I'm just not a YOU person" so apparently I don't enjoy it when others notice. He WAS a total dick though so my statement was still true.

what’s your work/profession: I was a nurse. Now I am a full time carer for my kid who has PDA/ Autistic burnout. One day perhaps I will work again but it seems like a distant fantasy rn. Also my own health sucks so there's that.