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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • Idk, the guys blowing up my phone on Grindr right now seem pretty attracted. Chubby bears with hella body hair are a prime currency in the gay world, let me tell you.

    Like, you know one believes that “trans people are conversion therapy” or “genital preferences” shit IRL right? Most people are ya know, normal. Everyone has preferences for who they feel like dating, whatever.

    Some gay guys haven’t been interested because of my equipment; other guys have been very eager; most are in the middle. I don’t share dick pics without consent, but I can tell you my little soldier is pretty impressive when he stands for attention.

    Like again, you’ve wriggled your way so far away from even trying to make a point. See, at least TERFs can be convincing with the claims of being feminists. This is such a transparent ass pull; you don’t actually give a shit about homophobia.























  • Here’s a website with those FSI courses I referenced earlier, as well as Peace Corps training materials. This is going to be the boring route. Drill drill drill, but you get good at it.

    As a general strategy - on the Omniglot forums a billion years ago there was a method called Listen-Read which I think does wonders for me. You pick a longer book, preferably one you have enjoyed and read already in English. You get a copy of that book in English and your target language, as well as audiobook (let’s go with say, French), then you listen to the audio book in French while reading the book in English, then switch to listening to an English audiobook while reading the French book, then the audiobook in French while reading the French.

    Librivox and Project Gutenberg are godsends. I did Candide this way, and part of Les Miserables. This is obviously less immediate fun/dopamine satisfying than Duolingo is, but will teach you to read better than Duolingo will. It’s not great at expressive language - while I can read Proust, my « je voudrais un Diet Coke » was not well received in Paris.

    If you have a language in mind I can probably point you in some other directions.