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LGBTQ+ TV-SHOWS UPDATE 🌈
Last month I explained how my friend needs feedback for his website Lingopie where you can learn a language watching movies and tv-shows with dual subtitles and effective tools to progress super, super quick! Here is how it works by the way:
I did a poll asking if people would be interested in them obtaining licensing for LGBTQ+ tv-shows and movies…but the problem was that they have limited funds…
98% or so of you were in favor of them adding LGBTQ shows to their learning platform. I passed on all your replies and he was thrilled to see so many of you willing to help. He’s been working hard these past couple weeks on adding LGBTQ+ tv-shows in a variety of languages so I am excited to announce you can now learn the following languages in gay!
Japanese 🇯🇵, Korean 🇰🇷, Spanish 🇪🇸, French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, Italian 🇮🇹, Portuguese 🇵🇹 and English 🇺🇸
Video streaming takes a lot of data, so usually there is no free trial but as a thank you, he wants to invite you to test Lingopie 7-days for free and get a big discount when you sign up! This offer is only available for a limited time.
Hope you have fun learning a new language and acing those exams if you have any!
Click here to try it out! ✨
Reblogging because this app actually works really really good for my adhd brain and gives me context to associate the words with. Love the flashcard feature too where they show you the tv-fragments in which the words you are learning are said. I highly recommend lingopie if you’ve had trouble learning languages before because this is awesome!!
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some books written by asian authors that you should support because they’re really really good and overshadowed by their white counterparts:
🏳️🌈 means there is queer rep
Out Already:
- the poppy war series (extremely popular. fantasy based off the Song Dynasty, amoral/morally grey brown asian girl protagonist. i haven’t read this yet but all of my poc mutuals have this as their favorite book of all time. pls read tw warnings. no romance only faint subtext)
- jade city series (another favorite of the poc that i haven’t read. no romance)
- the bone shard daughter trilogy 🏳️🌈 (set on a strand of fantasy islands based on imperial china but has a healthy mix of various asian representation - south asian, southeast asian. queernormative and no patriarchy. main lesbians. one of my favs)
- these violent delights duology 🏳️🌈 (a side mlm couple, 1920s gangster shanghai, romeo and juliet retelling. one of my favs)
- warcross duology 🏳️🌈 (set in futuristic tokyo. ft. a side mlm couple, sci fi. one of my favs)
- not your sidekick triology 🏳️🌈 (sapphic superheroes and sidekicks. vietnamese bisexual protag, sci fi)
- girls of paper and fire triology 🏳️🌈 (extremely popular, chinese lesbian protag but other asian rep as well, fantasy)
- parachutes 🏳️🌈 (side sapphic couple, read tw warnings, contemporary).
- huntress 🏳️🌈 (east asian sapphics)
- last night at the telegraph club 🏳️🌈 (chinese lesbian protag. 1900s fiction)
- forest of a thousand laterns (morally grey angry chinese female protag)
- the space between worlds 🏳️🌈 (main southeast asian and east asian sapphics, sci fi dystopian. read tw)
- everything i never told you 🏳️🌈 (mlm rep. 1900s biracial family deals with the death of their daughter)
- the gilded wolves 🏳️🌈 (be gay do crime, indian love interest. historical fantasy)
- the weight of our sky (set in 1960s malaysia. historical fiction)
- spin the dawn (fantasy)
- descendant of the crane (fantasy)
Out In 2021:
- she who became the sun 🏳️🌈 (one of my most anticipated releases. genderqueer sapphic protag with a sapphic love interest, mlm main characters. set in the ming dynasty of china. the official advertisement is the song of achilles meets the untamed meets mulan)
- jade fire and gold 🏳️🌈 (the pitch was “what if katara was the dark avatar and zuko was chasing her down?” main sapphics)
- the ones we’re meant to find (i literally don’t know what this is about but the cover is gorgeous)
- counting down with you 🏳️🌈 (fake dating romcom b/w a south asian brown girl and the bad boy who is a himbo. ft. diverse girl gang so im interpreting that as lgbtq)
- the jasmine throne 🏳️🌈 (morally grey lesbians tearing an emperor from his throne/washing each other’s hair/holding sharp-edged knives to each other’s ribs. set in india)
- gearbreakers 🏳️🌈 (cyberpunk japanese sapphics. there is a tender tattooing scene)
- six crimson cranes (fantasy)
- black water sister 🏳️🌈 (sapphic malaysian protag, fantasy/sci-fi)
- how we fall apart (dark academia murder mystery thriller but make it asian american)
- you’ve reached sam (contemporary)
- love and other natural disasters 🏳️🌈 (sapphic fake dating b/w japanese girls)
- the chosen and the beautiful 🏳️🌈 (queer sapphic retelling of the great gatsby)
- hani and ishu’s guide to fake dating 🏳️🌈 (south asian sapphics)
one last thing, i realize that a lot of these are east asian, so if you have more to add on, please do!
- The Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee 🏳️🌈 (military scifi/space opera, lots of queer rep)
- In the Vanishers’ Palace 🏳️🌈 by Aliette de Bodard (sapphic beauty and the beast retelling)
- The Tensorite series by Neon Yang 🏳️🌈 (fantasy novellas, lots of queer rep)
- The Devourers by Indra Das (speculative fiction / dark fantasy)
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (fiction)
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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly
**UPDATE**
I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some
Please let me know any further suggestions










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i decided to make a masterlist of photoshop resources, for those who want to start making graphics or are looking for new ways to create graphics! there’s download links, tutorials, textures, psds, and other helpful resources.
DOWNLOADS (PLEASE MESSAGE ME IF LINKS ARE BROKEN)
for windows:
TUTORIALS
- getting started with photoshop (sorrydearie)
- learning photoshop’s interface
- the ultimate photoshop tutorial (rresources)
- how to color without whitewashing
- how to make a coloring psd (yeahps)
- guide to gradient maps
- texture tutorial
- how to use textures
- a guide to textures
- sharpening workshop
- how to add makeup to a picture
- lenaofrp’s graphic tutorial
- masterlist of gif tutorials
- moving pattern tutorial
- how to make gifs
- how to isolate a color
- coloring black and white pictures
- colorful gifs tutorial
- pixelated effect tutorial
- overlay gif tutorial
- how to clip mask an image
- border tutorial
- how to make flower crown edits
- how to make manips
- how to make hq pictures
- sharpness & grain tutorial
- moving text tutorial
- typing effect tutorial
- how to make a circle edit
- how to use actions
- what are templates and do you use them?
- how to make icons
- more tutorials in this tag
TEXTURES
- 25 textures by plaschka
- daenso’s texture pack
- 18 textures by plaschka
- watercolor textures
- polaroid texture pack
- flicker & fade: 50 textures by plaschka
- retro feel textures
- daenso’s texture pack 3
- watercolor textures
- 20 large textures by talbots
- light leaks texture pack
- 25 textures by dartagnans
- 60 nature textures by queencoloring
- texture pack by jhnwattson
- moonofrp’s texture pack
- hayleyofrph’s mega texture pack
- texture pack by myungin
- all emojis download
- this and that textures by plaschka
PSDS
- gif psd pack by shycolors
- psd by prettycolorspsds
- psd 422 by lawynterpsds
- jasperhelps manip psd #1
- animated movies psd by addictionps
- psd 42 gallifreypsd
- psd for candids by sistaroundpsds
- psd 28 by hipstaps
- icon psd by baepreviews
- psd 4 by psalpha
- psd 33 by gallifreypsd
- psd 006 by kwonbaes
- psd 1645 by wasirauhlpsds
- psd 325 by lawynterpsds
- adorkablelena’s psd 3
- pswonderland’s tag
- psd 10 by quinncoloring
- psd 151 by pridecoloring
- dirrtylady psds
OTHER RESOURCES
- resource pack by whatphotoshop
- screencap gallery masterlist
- photoshop reference
- cs6 shortcuts
- photos to use in roleplay graphics
- color blender
- gryffnsdor resource pack
- psbright resource pack
- landofmerlin resource pack
- psd for text on gifs
- font pack by yeahps
- font pack by aladdin-s
- font pack by whatphotoshop
- cursive font pack by yeahps
- gallifreypsds favorite fonts
- 78 different font styles download
- pack of 530 pngs
- png & brush pack by twiangelz
- png pack by daretochase
- resource pack by editslovers
- template 02 by awfulpsds
- template by mixsoucers
- simple smart sharpen action by lovotopsds
- action #3 by flatinepsds
- action #2 by louderps
- action #4 by hollypsds
- celebrity hq galleries masterpost by fassyy
- resource pack by championselenapsds
- 30 striped pattern overlays from cyrusassists
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hey, take some more video essays. (part one)
- how tiktok makes you feel ugly
- a relaxing critique of animal crossing new horizons
- the 27 club: mental illness and art
- talent belongs to the beautiful - how media manipulates your tastes
- lindsay lohan: the rise of a starlet ( part one, part two )
- the unrealistic beauty standard is deadly
- how beauty brands failed women of color
- the devil wears prada style analysis
- the beauty standard between men and women
- what happened to all of the black children sitcoms?
- a deep dive into ‘aesthetic’ youtube
- dan schneider’s wife aka hungery girl exposed
- why black people hate justin timberlake
- janet jackson: the underrated legend
- erotica: madonna’s career ending album
- the cracked reality of the ACE famly
- the lovely bones is scarier than we remember
- lady gaga is performance art
- why rappers are the new rockstars
- colorism and violence: what really happened to 3lw
- the real ellen - the bitter truth behind the daytime icon
- pretty privilege: beauty standards, bimbo effect and free scones
- from fame to shame: shane dawson’s story ( tw for racism & pedophilia )
- you’re not relatable anymore
- the beauty community: racism & toxicity
- a goofy movie and the power of nostalgia
- music that defined the 2010s
- heathers, jawbreaker, & the timelessness of killer cliques
- deep cuts: society & queer horror
- pinterest aesthetics, fatphobia & whitewashing
- tiktok vs black creators: if you hate us just say dat
- the “blaccent”; nonblack creators key to fame
- ghost singing: who was really singing on michael jackson’s posthumous album
- judy garland: the end of the rainbow
- marilyn monroe: living blonde
- the downfall of the singer cassie
- this teen idol manipulated everyone
- how frenemies reveals a mental health misconception perpetuated by the internet
- legacy, chronical, & every other reimagining of the craft
- it’s not a coincidence, it’s colorism
- evil queens: a gay look at disney history
- the authenticity of lana del rey
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actually @ every fanfiction writer whether you wrote something that got thousands of reblogs and comments and became a staple in your fandom, or you wrote one fic and deleted it, or you write mutilchaptered fics that never get a final update, or write short fics, or long fics, or used to write and now you don’t, or you deleted/orphaned your works, or you only share with friends:
thank you.
sharing your writing is hard. and sometimes it’s thankless. sometimes it’s such a negative experience that I wonder how anyone does it at all. but you are needed; you are wanted. whether or not we properly acknowledge it, you are a vital part of fandom culture. thanks for sharing.
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Remember: Once the clock turns over to 2021, all Flash functionality on every browser will be permanently killed. If you want to still be able to play Flash games or watch Flash animations that haven’t been preserved in a non-SWF format, go install Newgrounds Player. It works for both online-hosted and downloaded SWFs. I’ve provided a link to it in the source below, since putting a link in the post itself will keep posts like these from showing up in tags and search results.
For Homestar Runner stuff, HRWiki.org has direct links to all the animations and games. Just replace the “html” with “swf” in the URL when loading them in Newgrounds Player and you should be good to go.