• Parents: Don't forget to make us proud
• Friends: Don't forget to socialize
• Teachers: Don't forget to get A's
• Strangers: Don't forget to blend in
• Opposite sex: Don't forget to look good
• Society: Don't forget to be perfect
• Tumblr: Fuck the world, at least you haven't murdered somebody today
• Tumblr: But just in case you want to get away with it, here are some tips.

ricotez:

boy I do wonder who of these people will turn out to be plot relevant

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japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
• Read Real Japanese Fiction

Dictionaries:

• ALC (I use this everyday)
  →Expression encyclopaedia
• Goo dictionary
• Weblio
• WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
• 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

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)
  
  

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]

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)

Listening:

• “Real World” Japanese
• 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

• Lang-8
• www.Japan-Guide.com
• 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
• Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

News:

• NewsWeb Easy
• NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
• Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

• JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
• TBS Radio’s Junk
• TOKYO FM

YouTube:

• Afternoon Hirusagari
• Jet Daisuke
• バイリンガール英会話
• Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

• Heartful Power Hideo
• Shuwa Island

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
• 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]

Those studying in Japan.

• 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)

Blogging:

• Yaplog

Learning websites:

• JapaneseClass.jp
• The Japanese Page
• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
• Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
• Maggie Sensei

Other resources:

• Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
• JLPT Resources

I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

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merriamwebsterdictionary:

reasons why winter is better than summer:

• little to no insects (◕‿◕✿) 
• sweaters all the time (◠△◠✿)
• the air is nice and fresh smelling (◡‿◡✿)
• sometimes it snows and you get out of school \(◕‿◕✿)/
• snow is pretty (´･ω･`)
• no pollen (▰˘◡˘▰) 
• it gets darker faster so theres more nighttime and more time to look at the stars (ᅌᴗᅌ* )
• everything is dead just the way i like it (⊙‿⊙✿)

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4gifs:

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nefarious-nefi:

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(⊙‿⊙✿)

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(⊙△⊙✿)

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(´◡ω◡`)

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(◕ω◕✿)

I WILL NEVER LOOSE YOU AGAIN AHAHAH

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terezi-pyrope-seer-of-mind:

i-want-chips:

karkatsaysfuck:

voculabulary:

chaoticwaltz:

badwolfsourwolf:

georgetakei:

Never thought of it from that angle.

that is not acute joke.

i’m finding it rather obtuse tbh

i’m pretty sure neither of you is right

they are telling it to you straight 

300% DONE

i think you mean 360%

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fencer-x:

underthesamestar:

stephnrice:

glassmountain:

stfuconservatives:

nextyearsgirl:

This is an enormous chain and I’m sorry, but I need to say this:

The laws in the Old Testament were set forth by god as the rules the Hebrews needed to follow in order to be righteous, to atone for the sin of Adam and Eve and to be able to get into Heaven. That is also why they were required to make sacrifices, because it was part of the appeasement for Original Sin.

According to Christian theology, when Jesus came from Heaven, it was for the express purpose of sacrificing himself on the cross so that our sins may be forgiven. His sacrifice was supposed to be the ultimate act that would free us from the former laws and regulations and allow us to enter Heaven by acting in his image. That is why he said “it is finished” when he died on the cross. That is why Christians don’t have to circumcise their sons (god’s covenant with Jacob), that is why they don’t have to perform animal sacrifice, or grow out their forelocks, or follow any of the other laws of Leviticus.

When you quote Leviticus as god’s law and say they are rules we must follow because they are what god or Jesus wants us to do, what you are really saying, as a Christian, is that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was invalid. He died in vain because you believe we are still beholden to the old laws. That is what you, a self-professed good Christian, are saying to your god and his son, that their plan for your salvation wasn’t good enough for you.

So maybe actually read the thing before you start quoting it, because the implications of your actions go a lot deeper than you think.

/An atheist who understands Christian theology better than Bible-thumpers do.

^

(mic drop)

boom

whoa.

#i am a christian and i whole heartedly agree with this

Yep. Me too.

THANK YOU. I hold on to posts like this when I grit my teeth while sitting through crappy “sermons” on how “homosexuality isn’t God’s plan for us”. Pretty sure being in a loving relationship with a fellow consenting adult is quite all right by God. And even if you tell yourself that it’s “not in God’s plan for us”, sit down and bite your lip and let cooler heads dictate who marriage should be for. Unless you’re against Jews and Muslims and atheists and everyone else NOT getting married, marriage has nothing to do with your religion. It’s awesome if you have a mandate in there covering married couples, but not all married couples are Christian, and last I checked, the US was not a church-run state, thank God. You don’t get to decide arbitrarily who marriage gets to be between.

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thelxiepia:

captain-snark:

servant-of-the-earth:

sandandglass:

My cellphone is basically just a clock sitting in my pocket because nobody contacts me

This is the most accurate thing ever.

don’t fret, it also shows the date.

and games, so when you’re waiting for your friends to meet you somewhere you can pretend you’re texting someome

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ashgaytchum:

perfectcells:

its not a real anime if you can’t feel the sexual tension between the protagonist and their rival

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✰ G A R E K I ✰ || Karneval

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I hope I’m not the only one that knows that those are lyrics from a song…

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