Rachel @arjache@mastodon.social
I used to draw comics, and now I mostly write stories, except when I’m writing code, but I only talk about that to complain about it.
(Not that my English audio comprehension is particularly great either, though, so it's kind of a low bar to meet.)
What I'm finding with Duolingo especially is that my ears are already primed to hear it, which feels like a big advantage when learning a new and complex writing system. A lot of back and forth between audio and text, taking turns compensating for one with the other.
I realize that grammatically Japanese is probably still the hardest language for English speakers to learn but I can't help but wonder if our being surrounded by Japanese media and social network content these days tilts it back in the easy direction
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a cheerful old Jewish man and his grandkid sat down next to me for a while at the coffee place I'm at and wow do I miss my grandfather
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, a manga autobio by a Japanese lesbian woman, is coming out in June and is supposed to be super amazing - make sure to pick it up when it's out! https://awoo.space/media/y4qZB5tEZeiH8LgZ5Bw
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It's 69F outside right now. For those of you used to celsius temperatures, you can get a sense of what that's like by remembering "69 = nice"
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thinking about character design in the novel I've been writing and realizing that I have very few medium-sized characters; they're mostly either Tall or Smol
I blame Steven Universe, honestly.
flashygoodness sounding almost Woofle-esque at times in this new soundtrack, or at least very SEGA http://store.flashygoodness.com/album/rivals-of-aether-original-soundtrack
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Any Intro To Mastodon thinkpiece that doesn't acknowledge that it's existed since 2016 and was essentially first colonized by a bunch of gay communist furries (and later: game devs, circa holiday season, but that's less important) is totally useless imo
Chapter 2 of Assembly Language for Kids includes a detailed study of the source code of an assembler, which seems like the sort of dedication to actually understanding the thing you are developing against I’d previously only seen for Lisp. https://archive.org/details/Assembly_Language_for_Kids_1985_Microcomscribe
Assembly Language for Kids
The 80's was an awesome time! :smiley:
https://archive.org/details/Assembly_Language_for_Kids_1985_Microcomscribe
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Seeing various Mastodon instances/communities developing has me thinking about how I'm frequently furry-adjacent in a way that looks suspiciously like the way that people still in egg mode are frequently trans-adjacent
