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velvetvetiver

I fucking HATE what we have to do for money. I hate capitalism. I hate that we have built entire systems worshipping numbers that don’t fucking mean anything. I hate living in a world where these figures can be the difference between life and death. I hate that these numerical values are how we measure our worth. People kill for money, they work until they can barely stay standing for it, they debase themselves to the point of dehumanization just to earn a little extra. I have lost a disgusting amount of time, energy, and life to the mandatory pursuit of money in order to survive and exist with dignity. I’ve had enough.

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stargir1z
i am not a failure. i am not decaying. i am growing. i am always growing. i have the eternal capacity to improve. intrusive thoughts mean nothing. my art will get better. my hands are shaking from coffee, not from some disease. i am fifteen, i write well, i draw well, i think well, and i will continue to do so. my mind may be a hurricane but there is an eye to that hurricane, and i will find it, and i will be calm. my poems are twenty times better than a year ago. my art is ten times better than a year ago. my ability to communicate is five times better than a year ago. there is no stopping me. i am not getting worse. nothing is getting worse except perhaps my anxiety. i need to take care of my mind a little more. i need to keep a journal perhaps. draw even more often. meditate— learn to be in peace with my thoughts. i am losing patience but i am growing in intellectuality, so patience can be regained through thought. i will read more books and i will draw more trees. i will keep laughing and keep comforting because that is what makes life worth living. i am not going insane. i am not worthless. i am NOT A DEAD END. i am smart when i put my mind into it; i do math problems fast when i try and i can sketch a water bottle in less than a minute. i understand complexities that forty year olds do not have the intelligence to. i care for people who i do not know and i try my best to help them. i have an aesthetic with perhaps not the best consistency, but a running pattern of thought and symbolism that makes it stick. i have a support group with wonderful friends from around the world. i have a friend who will buy me boba, i have a friend that has taught me dutch, i have a friend who i can draw spheres with, i have a friend who will obsess over cassie clare with me, i have a friend who will put flowers on their face on the same days i do, i have a friend who will rap about grass with me, i have a friend that hand feeds me philosophy, i have a friend whose hugs feel like a cloud enveloping you, i have a friend who i can climb rooftops with, i have a friend who will take pictures of me always. i love all of them and all of them love me. there is beautiful music in the world that i have heard and others haven’t. i know that degas is famous for the ballerinas and not monet. i love frank ocean and rowan blanchard and fall out boy and karolina koryl and john hughes and tara chandra. i have surrounded myself in inspiration, infused myself with bits from everywhere, and it is all welled up inside me waiting to be used. maybe there is something blocking it but i will find it and pop it off like an eraser on the end of a pencil. there is much to be done but i am invincible and i will do it. i don’t need a horcrux to feel like im living forever. i am going to take my time, but i am also going to take the world in my arms. i am going to run every day through the little park with the badminton court. i will take the glitter on my face and wipe it onto others’ cheeks. there is nothing out of my reach, that’s what ladders are for, and i will get it unless i break my own ladder. i will fix my shoulders and i will drink water and i will keep on feeling and thinking and caring. i will love myself. i will decorate everything with my soul. i will love others and the world. i will make them think because thats what an artist does. i can do it and i will do it.

— don’t feel hopeless. stargirl, feb v.

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~300 Basic words

funwithlanguages​ made a post about how you can write a lot with around just 300 words , there doesn’t seem to be a Japanese version, so I thought I’d have a go at translating it. This list has some things that just aren’t used in Japanese or that commonly used words don’t exist for (the, a etc). Be careful as I’ve kept the original list in tact, which means some things listed in the adjectives section (’enough’ and ‘too’, for example) are verbs and some verbs (’like’ ‘want’) are adjectives in Japanese, also terms about work, family and counting etc need special attention in Japanese as they are very different from English. No, I will not transliterate this into romaji, please don’t ask me to. You can learn kana in a weekend, far faster than memorising this word list. If you can’t read this list, go and learn kana then come back to it when you can. Romaji damages your learning and accent development. If there’s a mistake, please let me know, thanks! First Verbs

  1. be 居る　いる
  2. there is　ある
  3. have　持つ　もつ
  4. do　する
  5. go　行く　いく
  6. want　欲しい ほしい (this is an adjective in Japanese)
  7. can できる 
  8. need いる
  9. think　思う　おもう
  10. know　知る　しる
  11. say　言う　いう
  12. like　好き　すき　(this is an adjective in Japanese)
  13. speak 話す　はなす
  14. learn　習う　ならう
  15. understand　分かる　わかる

Conjunctions These are really hard to translate!

  1. that (as in “I think that…” or “the woman that…”) expressed using 〜と思います　とおもいます　or maybe the passive tense ‘(The books that are written in English are over there.’ etc.)
  2. and　と
  3. or　か
  4. but　でも・けど
  5. because　から
  6. though　でも
  7. so (meaning “therefore”; e.g. “I wanted it, so I bought it”) から
  8. if　なら

Prepositions

  1. of の
  2. to　に
  3. from　から
  4. in　なか
  5. at (a place)　で
  6. at (a time)　に
  7. with　と
  8. about　くらい
  9. like (meaning “similar to”)　みたい
  10. for (warning, this one has several meanings that you need to take care of)　ため (for the purpose of~) ・につき (for/ per e.g. ~yen for one hour)・particles の, に and で　are commonly used to cover many other uses of for, but need to be checked on a case by cases basis.
  11. before (also as a conjunction)　〜の前に　〜のまえに
  12. after (also as a conjunction)　〜の後で　〜のあとで
  13. during 中　ちゅう

Question Words

  1. who 誰　だれ
  2. what　何　なに
  3. where　どこ
  4. when　いつ
  5. why　なぜ
  6. how　どう
  7. how much　いくら・いくつ
  8. which　どちら

Adverbs

  1. a lot　多い　おおい
  2. a little　少しい　すこしい
  3. well　上手　じょうず
  4. badly　下手　へた
  5. only　だけ
  6. also　又　また
  7. very　とても
  8. too (as in “too tall”)　過ぎる　すぎる
  9. too much　過ぎる　すぎる
  10. so (as in “so tall”)　そんなに
  11. so much　そんなに
  12. more (know how to say “more … than …”) Grammatical comparative construction　AのほうがBより is used when A is the thing that is more
  13. less (know how to say “less … than …”) Grammatical comparative construction　AのほうがBより is used when B is the thing that is less
  14. as … as … (e.g. “as tall as”) You can use 〜のような grammar to express this, ほど can also be used
  15. most　最も　もっとも
  16. least　最低 さいてい
  17. better　Grammatical comparative construction　AのほうがBより is used
  18. best　一番いい　いちばんいい
  19. worse　Grammatical comparative construction　AのほうがBより is used
  20. worst　一番最悪　いちばんさいあく
  21. now　今　いま
  22. then　その時　そのとき
  23. here　ここ
  24. there　あそこ
  25. maybe　多分　たぶん
  26. always　いつも
  27. usually　大抵　たいてい
  28. often　よく
  29. sometimes　時々　ときどき
  30. never　全然　ぜんぜん
  31. today　今日　きょう
  32. yesterday　昨日　きのう
  33. tomorrow　明日　あした
  34. soon　もう直ぐ　もうすぐ
  35. almost　ほとんど
  36. already　もう
  37. still　まだ
  38. even　それでも (even if)
  39. enough　足りる　たりる

Adjectives

  1. the, a (technically articles) this doesn’t exist in Japanese
  2. this　この
  3. that　あの
  4. good　良い　よい
  5. bad　悪い　わるい
  6. all　全部　ぜんぶ
  7. some　幾つか　いくつか
  8. no　何にも　なんにも　(as in 何にもないです　‘There are none there’)
  9. any　何でも　なんでも　(as in なんでも良いです　‘any one is ok’)
  10. many　たくさん
  11. few　少ない　すくない
  12. most 　一番〜　いちばん〜
  13. other　別　べつ
  14. same　同じ　おなじ
  15. different　違う　ちがう
  16. enough　足りる　たりる
  17. one　一つ　ひとつ・一　いち
  18. two　二つ　ふたつ・二　に (counting in Japanese is very complex, you need to research this issue if you are a beginner)
  19. a few 少し　すこし
  20. first　一番　いちばん
  21. next　次　つぎ
  22. last (meaning “past”, e.g. “last Friday”)　 先　せん
  23. last (meaning “final”)　最後の　さいごの
  24. easy　簡単　かんたん
  25. hard　難しい　むずかしい
  26. early　早い　はやい
  27. late　遅い　おそい
  28. important　大事　だいじ
  29. interesting　面白い　おもしろい
  30. fun　楽しい　たのしい
  31. boring　たくつ
  32. beautiful　美しい　うつくしい
  33. big　大きい　おおきい
  34. small　小さい　ちいさい
  35. happy　嬉しい　うれしい
  36. sad　悲しい　かなしい
  37. busy　忙しい　いそがしい
  38. excited　ワクワクする　
  39. tired　疲れる　つかれ　
  40. ready　準備　じゅんび
  41. favorite　大好き　だいすき
  42. new　新しい　あたらしい
  43. right (meaning “correct”)　正しい　ただしい
  44. wrong　間違える　まちがえる
  45. true　真の〜　しんの〜

Pronouns

Know them in the subject (“I”), direct object (“me”), indirect object (“to me”), and possessive (“my”) forms.

  1. I　私　わたし
  2. you　あなた
  3. she　彼女　かのじょ
  4. he　彼　かれ
  5. it　typically それ is used, which means ‘that’, this is hard to translate
  6. we　私達　わたしたち
  7. you (plural)　あなたたち
  8. they　彼ら かれら

Nouns

If your language has grammatical gender, then learn each noun as “the [noun]” with “the” in the correct gender. (e.g. in Spanish, instead of learning language = “idioma”, learn language = “el idioma”.) This will help you remember the gender.

  1. everything　全て　すべて
  2. something　何か　なにか
  3. nothing　何にも　なにも
  4. everyone 　みんな
  5. someone　誰か　だれか
  6. no one　誰も　だれも
  7. (name of the language you’re studying)　日本語　にほんご
  8. English　英語　えいご
  9. thing　物　もの
  10. person　人　ひと
  11. place　所　ところ
  12. time (as in “a long time”)　時間　じかん
  13. time (as in “I did it 3 times”)　回　かい
  14. friend　友達　ともだち
  15. woman　女の人　おんなのひと
  16. man　男の人　おとこのひと
  17. money　お金　おかね
  18. country　日本　にほん
  19. (name of your home country)　イギリス
  20. city　市　し
  21. language　言葉　ことば
  22. word　単語　たんご
  23. food 食べ物　たべもの
  24. house　家　いえ
  25. store　店　みせ
  26. office　事務所　じむしょ
  27. company　会社　かいしゃ
  28. manager　主事　しゅじ(this is very sensitive to hierarchical language changes this is a complex issue in Japanese)
  29. coworker 同僚　どうりょう
  30. job　仕事　しごと
  31. work (as in “I have a lot of work to do”)　仕事　しごと
  32. problem　問題　もんだい
  33. question　質問　しつもん
  34. idea　考え　かんがえ
  35. life　人生　じんせい
  36. world　世界　せかい
  37. day　日　ひ
  38. year　年　ねん
  39. week　週　しゅう
  40. month　月　つき
  41. hour　時 じ
  42. mother, father, parent　母　はは　(my mum) お母さん　おかあさん　(your mother)・　父　ちち　(my dad) お父さん　おとうさん　(your father)・　両親　りょうしん (parents) (this is very sensitive to hierarchical language changes this is a complex issue in Japanese)
  43. daughter, son, child　娘　むすめ (my daughter)・息子　むすこ (my son) ・子供　こども　(this is very sensitive to hierarchical language changes this is a complex issue in Japanese)
  44. wife, husband 妻　つま　(my wife) 奥さん　おくさん (your wife)・夫　おっと　(my husband) ご主人　ごしゅじん (your husband) (this is very sensitive to hierarchical language changes this is a complex issue in Japanese)
  45. girlfriend, boyfriend 彼女　かのじょ・彼氏　かれし

More Verbs

  1. work (as in a person working) 働く　はたらく
  2. work (meaning “to function”, e.g. “the TV works”) 動く　うごく
  3. see　見る　みる
  4. use　使う　つかう
  5. should　べき
  6. believe　信じる　しんじる
  7. practice　練習する　れんしゅうする
  8. seem　みたい
  9. come　来る　くる
  10. leave　出る　でる
  11. return　帰る　かえる
  12. give　上げる　あげる
  13. take　取る　とる
  14. bring　持って来る　もってくる
  15. look for　探す　さがす
  16. find　見つける　みつける
  17. get (meaning “obtain”)　もらう
  18. receive　もらう・くれる
  19. buy　買う　かう
  20. try　〜てみる (this is a grammatical construction)
  21. start 始める　はじめる
  22. stop (doing something)　止める やめる
  23. finish　終わる　おわる
  24. continue　続く　つづく
  25. wake up　起きる　おきる
  26. get up　起きる　おきる
  27. eat　食べる　たべる
  28. eat breakfast (in several languages, this is a verb)　朝ごはんを食べる　あさごはんをたべる
  29. eat lunch　昼ごはんを食べる　ひるごはんをたべる
  30. eat dinner　晩御飯を食べる　ばんごはんをたべる
  31. happen　起こる　おこる
  32. feel　感じる　かんじる
  33. create (aka “make”)　作る　つくる
  34. cause (aka “make”)　indicated using the passive, causative or causative-passive tenses 
  35. meet (meeting someone for the first time)　会う　あう
  36. meet (meaning “to bump into”)　打つかる ぶつかる
  37. meet (an arranged meeting)　会う　あう
  38. ask (a question)　聞く　きく
  39. ask for (aka “request”)　頼む　たのむ
  40. wonder expressed using だろう or かな at the end of sentences
  41. reply　返事する　へんじする
  42. mean　意味　いみ (noun)
  43. read　読む　よむ
  44. write　書く　かく
  45. listen　聞く　きく
  46. hear　聞く　きく
  47. remember　覚える　おぼえる
  48. forget　忘れる　わすれる
  49. choose　選ぶ　えらぶ
  50. decide　決める　きめる
  51. be born　生まれる　うまれる
  52. die　死ぬ　しぬ
  53. kill　殺す　ころす
  54. live　生きる　いきる (to live/exist)・住む　すむ(to live/reside in a place)
  55. stay　泊まる　とまる
  56. change　変わる　かわる
  57. help　助ける　たすける
  58. send　送る　おくる
  59. study　勉強する　べんきょうする
  60. improve 磨く　みがく
  61. hope　希望する　きぼうする
  62. care　世話する　せわする (take care of)

Phrases

  1. hello　こんにちは
  2. goodbye　じゃあまたね・さよなら
  3. thank you　ありがとう
  4. you’re welcome　どういたしまして
  5. excuse me (to get someone’s attention)　すみません
  6. sorry　ごめんなさい
  7. it’s fine (response to an apology)　とんでもないです
  8. please　おねがいします・ください
  9. yes　はい
  10. no　いいえ
  11. okay　大丈夫です
  12. My name is　私の名前は〜です。　わたしのなまえは〜です。
  13. What’s your name?　お名前は？　おなまえは？
  14. Nice to meet you.　初めまして　はじめまして (said before anything else in an introduction)
  15. How are you? お元気ですか？　おげんきですか？
  16. I’m doing well, how about you?　私は元気です、あなたは？　わたしはげんきです、あなたは？
  17. Sorry? / What? (if you didn’t hear something)　すみません？(use a rising intonation to indicate this is a question)
  18. How do you say ______?　〜は日本語で何と言いますか？　〜はにほんごでなんといいますか？
  19. What does ______ mean?　〜はどういう意味ですか？　〜はどういういみですか？
  20. I don’t understand.　分かりません　わかりません
  21. Could you repeat that?　もう一度お願いします　もういちどおねがいします
  22. Could you speak more slowly, please? もっとゆっくり話して下さい もっとゆっくりはなしてください
  23. Well (as in “well, I think…”)　まあ
  24. Really?　本当に？　ほんとうに？
  25. I guess that　〜かもしれない。
  26. It’s hot. (talking about the weather)　暑いですね！　あついですね！　
  27. It’s cold. (talking about the weather)　寒いですね！　さむいですね！

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Now that you’ve learned the 300 basic words, how do you learn more? I suggest practicing writing.