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Listen, if Steve Rogers on earth 3490 is not as gone on Natasha Antonia Stark as John Mulaney is on his wife, then what is the point?

How to be More Attractive and Likeable

1. Treat other people with kindness and respect.

2. Be generous and caring towards people that you meet.

3. Don’t be preoccupied with yourself.

4. Work on being a good listener.

5. Take care of yourself, and develop confidence.

6. Develop different interests, and be willing to learn.

7. Encourage other people – don’t be critical and mean.

8. Demonstrate gratitude, and be positive.

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t just pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

Venus Williams (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

Warmth

So, this was a random piece I wrote a long time ago, in the pretty severe lack of actual friendly Russia.

Summary: Sometimes, you can find friends in the strangest of people.

It was a rare occasion indeed that the anthropomorphic personification of Russia found time to leave the wastelands of wintertime Siberia in favour of the warm tropics. His favourite haunt was a small group of islands off the north coast of Madagascar, Seychelles (though this may have been as much because it annoyed England and France, overprotective bastards that they were, as the warm sun).

He could relax here, without America’s obnoxious suspicion, or his little sister’s disturbing obsession for him. Just himself, the sun and warm sand, and of course, his beloved Magical Metal Pipe of Pain (it never hurt to be too cautious).

This was how Michelle, also called Seychelles, erstwhile adopted maybe-daughter of France and/or England, found him – coat, scarf and even trousers discarded in favour of swim trunks (complete with a dubious palm tree print) and pale skin and hair gleaming like silver in the sunlight.

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I’ll sell this for about 7-8 USD, though, price might vary when the final product comes out, cheaper or so. Also, I’ll ship this world-wide!

There will be 

Original Version (as in the pic)

Spades Queen Version

Bunny Version

Black Top Hat Version

2P Version

Mochi Version

And still open for more suggestions

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þ!

A feature of English which I think is stupid,

If we’re carrying on with this game,

Is how we abolished the thorn and replaced it,

With two letters that meant the same.

The þ was a letter, amazing, astounding,

Perfect in every respect,

Representing the ‘th’ sound and shortening words,

The one thing it didn’t expect;

One day T and H went and burgled its meaning,

And then, thanks to the printing press,

Its symbol mutated and morphed into Y,

Which is pointless, I must confess.

Þoughtlessly, the þ was forgotten,

Þreatened as the language evolved,

Þankful for þose who knew of old English,

A topic where it was involved.

It only survived in Modern Icelandic,

In English it’s treated with scorn,

And as barely anyone knows it exists,

Please try to remember the thorn.

Hello! Catch-up vocabulary number 1 is for Week 5! I’m writing out week 6 as soon as I’m done typing this so I’ll probably queue it up for tomorrow. Week 7 will come after the Kanji for weeks 3 and 4, then we’ll work on getting caught up on Kanji! I also haven’t done any practice exercises that I would post here in a while, so maybe we’ll get to some of those once we’re caught up! 

Vocabulary

Week 5

[Day/Night Continued]

きょう - Today

きんようび - Friday

からい - Dark

けさ - This Morning

けつようび - Thursday

ごご - P.M. / Afternoon

こんばん - Tonight

じ - O’Clock

じかん - Time

すいようび - Wednesday

すぐに - Immediately / At Once

そうして / そして - And Then… 

それから - After That

それでは - Well Ten

ちゅう - During / In the Middle of

つかれる - Tire / Become Tired

つき - Next

とき - Time

どようび - Saturday

ながら - While

にち - Day

にちようび - Sunday

ねる - Sleep (verb)

ばん - Evening / Night

ひる - Noon

ふん - Minute

まいあさ - Every Morning

まいにち - Every Day

まいばん - Every Evening

もくようび - Thursday

やすむ - Rest / Take Time Off

ゆうべ - Last Night

よる - Evening / Night

Year

いつも - Always

おととし - Year Before Last