Zuhair Murad Pre-Fall 2022 Collection Pt.1
I am so ready for the first of Halloween.
Give a ghost the right pair of shoes and they’ll conquer the world.
Super hot where I am today, so have a summer spook.
Send me pics of your ghost costumes :>
Why is everyone into dom ghosts…?
They’re single and ready to mingle~
if I ever reblog a long as shit post, it’s this
sorry
notreally
It’s ONLY October 1st and already y’all are reblogging the weird shit!!???
This is the longest set of cursed images I’ve ever seen
i t i s t i m e
who the FUCK put this on my dash and also thank you
October can’t come soon enough
IT IS AUGUST
This has been in my likes since last year. It is time.
This is the 21st night of September skeleton. He only appears once a year.
september will be kind. september will be magical. september will bring the missing energy. september will be working towards our goals and self. september will be a month full of growth.
Been a rough couple days for one of our favorite cats, send Miette some good thoughts.
TREMENDOUS news
Happiness for Miette!
You DRUG Miette? You lace her lizard with the HALLUCINOGEN??
Are we at the burning man??
Tripping balls for Miette. Tripping balls for Miette for 36 hours.
If I was Elizabeth Bennet my entire family abandoning me at the dinner table when Mr. Collins requested a private audience would have been my villain origin story.
Here is my opinion as a recruiter (of course recruiting is highly subjective and everyone has their own biases in hiring)
1. If its your first job after a gap, don't say its a health reason. They will probably not ask more but they'll probably mentally downgrade you because 'Are they really okay to come back to work?' If it's further back, it'll be less of an issue. This goes triple for any job that is physical.
2. Depending on hiring person, I find 'I was caring for a family member full time' to be a good reason for a gap that I won't question.
3. If you have the opportunity while in a gap, get a certification or degree. Then you can use that as a reason for your gap and it could potentially turn the view of that gap from negative to positive.
4. If you have a "good" reason, most people understand. I speak to people daily who were a Covid layoff and we don't count this gap against them. I also sometimes talk to people who have to explain gaps around 2008 with "Well that was during the financial crisis" and I go say no more I understand.
4. If you don't have a "good" reason, pretend you do. Don't lie but make it sound like the gap was a thing you chose. "I had the opportunity after leaving my last job to take a few months before looking for work again." "I was able to work on building my home business (Ebay, etsy, etc), but now I'm looking for something more stable."
These are all really great and very helpful, thanks for sharing!!!
why are we here? just to suffer? every 5 minutes i have to clean my glasses
Mrs. Haruno Sakura
"I think Senju Sakura has a nice ring to it." Hashirama announces suddenly, fingers steepled under his chin as he stares at his counterparts in seriousness. Tobirama nods. "Yes. Naturally, she would be my wife as you're supposed to marry Mito-san, anija." his brother sends him a withering look which he serenely ignores.
Mito curls her lip, eyes flashing. "Hell no. Uzumaki Sakura sounds way better. Her hair and temper are more than enough for her to blend in already. You dirty little baboons better keep your paws off her."
Izuna slams his hand on the table, earning three annoyed glares. His brother is leaning in his chair cooly, observing the happenings with disinterest. "I say that Uchiha Sakura sounds the best. We're the ones who found her first anyway, so it's only natural she marries either nii-san or me."
Mito scoffs derisively, rolling her pretty navy eyes, "Yeah you may have found her, but guess who she first ran to for comfort?" her lips curl in a mocking smirk. "The Uzumaki of course. Not you or the equally dumb Senju over there."
Said equally dumb Senju rose from their chairs in protest, one silent and the other dreadfully loud.
Madara stands up suddenly, drawing attention from the occupants of the table. "I have a much better suggestion." he says languidly.
"I personally do like the sound of Haruno Madara."
Silence.
Then, chaos.
"I'm marrying into her clan first!" Izuna exclaims.
"You'll be a concubine at most. I'll be her first wife!" Hashirama shoots back.
"Hashirama, you're a man. Her first wife would be me. You're just the foot stool." Mito growls.
"... I'm not terribly opposed to that."
"I will gladly become a concubine of her clan." Tobirama says seriously.
"You can't all marry into her clan! What about continuing the main line or whatever shit your elders keep spouting?!" Mito screeches in outrage, adamant on snatching the position of main wife.
"The elders," Tobirama starts, "are welcome to keel over and die."
when ur reading fanfic and one character was cooking and the other comes up to them and they start making out and everyones like starting to take their shirts off and the author STILL hasnt mentioned anyone turning off the stove
GUYS READ ALL OF THIS PLEASE PLEASE PL–
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stay tuned for the resolution
THIS IS WHAT I WAS TELLING EARLIER
A.FUCKI G.REAL LIFE LWJ. A fkn modern wangxian au this is crazy
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THERE’S MOOOORE
This is a hell of a ride but this is the Queer romance of arranged Marraige actually turning romance and ahhh i love it so much
GOOD FOR THEM!
this is adorable but i’m still just stuck on ‘he keeps crawling into my lap and cuddling and nuzzling me, but i can’t tell if he LIKES ME-likes me, please help’
dude
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH FUCK MY HEART
Well, then the droid does belong to you.
Luke: the droid says he belongs to you
Obi Wan, who knows full well that is anakin’s fucking nightmare robot: i don’t recall
Motherfucker doesn’t need to be Force sensitive to know that there’s Skywalker fuckery afoot when R2-D2 shows up. This is the gentle knock on the door before the Skywalker Drama Van unloads like a clowncar.
smell that? that's browned butter, kid. you're out of your fuckin league.
Imagine Luke and Leia ending up in the clone wars era but all of their force abilities are “what the actual fuck?” levels of bullshit, and neither of them ever realized that the things they could do with the force were considered extremely high level techniques.
that is one of my FAVORITE things to imagine yes. To me this is less about ‘Skywalker bullshit’ (though there is some of that) and more about the training they (didn’t) receive.
The high-Midi-chlorians-actual-descendents-of-the-force thing makes it easier to tap into the force, makes it more possible to do so without accidentally exhausting yourself. But, in universe, under the right circumstances and with the properly channeled belief anyone can do anything. That’s why Palpatine had to make the galaxy want an empire, why his first strategy was misdirection and his top priority was crushing hope. Chirrut was supposedly force-null and he walked through an army. Han navigated that astroid field because he had to. The force is everywhere.
In an amusing but possibly unintended turn of events, 6-12 weeks of training in a swamp with an elderly frog who only talks in riddles without ever being exposed to Jedi culture except as a myth is actually IDEAL if you’re looking to maximize a Jedi’s raw strength. Most Jedi training that we see in the prequels is explicitly designed to put the breaks on a force-users raw power (for honestly very valid reasons). Channeling all violence through a single weapon that will start screaming if you get too violent, training to use it defensively, is definitely the soft-ball alternative to just squashing people like meatballs.
Meditating, wearing beige, the code, shunning attachments, all that stuff is built around making sure force users never run above first or second gear even in stressful situations (again valid, when you run your jedi in the red sometimes they become murder monsters). The downside of this is that when they’re forced to maintain that placid pace for years at a time (i.e: prolonged war), they’re much more likely to burn out.
When Yoda told Luke do or do not, told him a luminous being was he, told him size matters not, the amazing thing isn’t that Luke believed him. That was karking objectively provable. Yoda lifted a spaceship, so now Luke knows he can too if he just thinks he can. So he does. Vader and Palpatine conquered a galaxy. Luke believes he can stop worlds, crush armies, conquer planets and so he can.
The incredible thing about Luke is what he doesn’t do despite being tapped into the Force utterly free of mental restraint. Luke’s op character trait is his compassion, not his strength.
I assume at some point Luke puts Leia through a similar 2 month meditation class where he convinces her that her only limitations are the ones she imposes on herself. She has a complete meltdown when she realizes that she actually could have boiled Tarkin alive with her mind and saved Alderann. This causes a volcano to go off, devastating the ecology of a small moon. On the flight home, both of them slightly charred, she tells Luke that she wanted to focus on politics and didn’t really want to be a Jedi anyway. Luke nods quickly, supporting her decision, and resolves to seek out some Jedi texts about how to teach people they can do anything but also…maybe…not…anything.
And thus the Jedi order is reborn.
- - -
In the time travel version of this, it means that Luke is assuming that all of the Jedi are restraining themselves like he is. And they are, but they also aren’t, because their breaks are subconscious, built in since childhood, and have a lot of failsafes so even if they turn darkside they still restrain themselves pretty good (a la Dooku).
Leia is, again, less interested with the Jedi-specific aspects of the war (especially now that she doesn’t have to feel guilty about being one of the only people who can pick up that mantle) and more interested in the diplomatic side. Again, Palpatine can only succeed if the galaxy at large accepts this, and from where she’s standing they’re fucking moving in that direction. If being a Jedi is tapping into the mystical energy field that binds all living things together to channel it through one specific person in one specific place, then politics is manipulating that same power for a diffuse impact on as many people as possible.
This status-quo lasts until a major clone wars battle where Luke’s like ‘wait- the entire other side is sub-sentient droids? No living beings, and no droids with complex personality matrices? And they’re currently, actively killing living, sentient humans? Well kriff, come on! This is a no-brainer!’
Luke takes a deep breath. The air- it doesn’t disappear or anything- but it- it stops moving. It’s hard to explain…but breathing has an odd…resistance. The hair on the back of every clone’s neck stands up. Several get vaguely sea sick. One pukes a little. Plo Koon stumbles back, head ringing and afraid.
Luke Skywalker stands up and clenches his fists. 10,000 droids crumple like flimsi in the hands of a child. The battlefield is eerily quiet for a moment, then that imperceptible hum (which no one noticed until it stopped) fades and the air returns to its normal density. A few of the shinies start whooping, then the whole battalion is cheering.
Luke massages his temples, smiling wryly at Master Koon. “I guess I can see how that would get exhausting if you were doing it everyday.”
Plo Koon just stares.
Han, unimpressed, inside a prison cell, watching Dooku throw things around in a show of power: Yeah, but can you do that while doing a keg stand? My Jedi can do that while doing a keg stand.
Textbooks:
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar
- Read Real Japanese Fiction
- GENKI: Integrated Elementary Japanese I and II [beginners]
- An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
- Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow
- Tobira (Gateway to advanced Japanese)
- TextFugu [an online textbook]
- Heisig’s Remembering Kanji
- Basic Kanji Book Vol.1
- Kanji in Context
- Shadowing: Let’s Speak Japanese! (Beginner to Intermediate Level)
- Japanese The Manga Way
- Making Out in Japanese [for informal/vulgar language]
- Minimum Essential Politeness: Japanese Honorific
Online and Phone Dictionaries:
- ALC (I use this everyday) →Expression encyclopaedia
- Goo dictionary
- Weblio
- WWWJDIC (with audio clips) + for Android phones (incl. handwriting)
- JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
- JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
- Idiomatic Expressions
- Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
- Counters dictionary
- Hovering dictionaries: →Rikaikun for Chrome →Rikaichan for Firefox →Floating Dictionary for Mac
- Current Affairs dictionary
- Tangorin
- Imiwa? (a dictionary for the iPhone)
- Tagaini Jisho (downloadable for Windows, Mac and Linux)
- Nihongodict (also an app. for iPhone and Android phones)
For kanji.
- Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
- Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
- A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
- Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
- Handwritten kanji search
- WaniKani (reviewed and explained here)
Online reading:
- Hukumusume Fairytales
- 竹取(Bamboo-Cutting) (vertical writing)
- 吉田秀幸の日記(Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary) (recipes)
- Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
- TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
- Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]
- Blue Sky Library (public domain books, explained here)
Manga.
- Free online manga
- Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
- Sound Effects (in manga, etc)
Improving your speaking:
- Japanese pronunciation guide
- Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
- Topics for Language Exchanges.
- Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
- Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)
- My Language Exchange [to find a language partner]
- Japanese Kana (Chrome app)
Listening:
Reading & Writing practice:
- Lang-8
- Japan-Guide [for getting Japanese penpals]
- Read, Write, Learn: Macaronics
- 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
- Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)
- iTalki [similar to Lang-8]
- 手書きブログ (Blogging by hand)
- ChatPad (Japanese chatroom site)
- Real Kana practice
News:
- NewsWeb Easy
- NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
- Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper
Podcasts and radio:
Radio dramas
YouTube:
- Afternoon Hirusagari
- Jet Daisuke
- バイリンガール英会話
- Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)
- Real Japanese Studio
- Japancast
- Tofugu
- Japanese Let’s Play gamers
- サイエンスチャネル
- TheWannabeBC
- Gaijin Goombah
- Genki Lessons
Japanese sign language.
TV:
- Japanese subtitles for anime
- KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
- 風雲LIVE日本語(Feng Yun LIVE Japanese) (to stream TV)
- 映画で学ぶ実践英会話
Tumblr:
- Kanji-a-Day
- Holy crap Japanese
- Nihongo ga Suki
- Jumpstart Japanese
- Nihongolog
- Japanese Idioms
- Nadine Nihongo
- That Japan Addict
- ChilliMuffin
- Japanese through Fandom
- F-Yeah Native Japanese
- J-Vocab of the Day
- ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
- Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]
- Kumako365jp
- Japanese Revision (my blog for intermediates)
Those who are studying in Japan
- My Japan Travels (Yokohama National University)
- Mechakuchajan (Osaka University)
- Hola-Itza (Meiji Gakuin)
- The Disaster Chronicles (Toyo University) [wordpress]
- Welcome to Moonside (University of Kitakyushu)
2012 - 2013 exchange students
- Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
- Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
- Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
- Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
- Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)
- Yeonhwa Japan (Chuo University)
- Mago Mago (Ritsumeikan University)
- Marta in Japan (Waseda University)
Working as part of the JET Programme
Blogging:
Learning websites:
- JapaneseClass.jp
- The Japanese Page
- JapanesePod101
- Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
- Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
- Maggie Sensei
- Tofugu
- All Japanese All The Time
- Japanese Level Up
- Learning Japanese with Lingualift
- JPLang
- Yes Japan!
- Marugoto: Japanese Language & Culture
Other resources:
- Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
- JLPT Resources
- Top 100 learning resources via Lingualift
- Anki (flashcards for your computer, phone and online) →Yomichan (plug-in for Anki)
- Common things said by cashiers
- Quizlet (flashcards)
- DJT and Okra’s pastebins (lots of resources and textbooks for download, etc)
- Japanese.Livejournal (including tips on using IME)
- Human Japanese (for PC and phones, excl. Linux)
- Study Groups
- Help with Japanese via StackExchange
I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

















