Reasons you should go watch Over the garden wall right fucking now
-The aesthetic™
-If you love Halloween, like hell you’re gonna love this
-Spooky scary skeletons
-There’s a shit ton of hidden messages
-The fan theories are as good as the show itself
-It’s so short you couldn’t even consider it time consuming
-The characters, the story, the place, everything in there is so well developed you are going to fucking CRY
-The character design is a work of art
-So is the background
-Everything in this show is a work of art, really
-Ships galore
-Some good sibling content there
-If you like Gravity Falls, well, you’re gonna die for this one
-The nostalgia™
-Potpurri of historical eras
-The soundtrack fucking ROCKS
-No, but really, the soundtrack is the best thing is ever going to get near your ears. Ever
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horror stories I think mermaids would make up to scare other mermaids:
- There’s a pelican so huge you can’t possibly dive down far enough to evade its beak
- If you get bitten by a deep-sea shark when it comes up to the surface to die, you’ll transform into one and have to live in the abyss
- Hagfish can fill up a dead mermaid, make it look alive and use it to trick you
- A mysterious mermaid wanders at night waiting to startle you with the horrible crustacean in her mouth. If you flinch, she steals your tongue and leaves the creature in its place.
- You might think you’ve made a nice new friend who just doesn’t talk much until she grabs you with her metal hook hands and drags you away on an invisible line to get eaten by land people
- If you eat too many jellyfish, one might turn out to be a vengeful jellyfish ghost that will only choke you to death from the inside*
*this one is real because it’s a plastic bag
I’ve only watched the first episode of Emily in Paris and the most unrealistic thing about the show is that many French people willing to speak English
Japanese Resources
Essentials
Rikaisama - Pop-op Dictionary - based on Rikaichan
Yamasa.cc - Learn Handwritten Stroke Order
Anki - Spaced Repetition Software
Japanese Stack Exchange - Ask Questions, Get Answers
Dictionary Codes and Meaning - ex: v4k, vi
Chinese and Japanese Characters Mnemonics - Stroke Orders, Lists, Study Sheets
A better Japanese font for Windows web browsers
Verb Conjugation Chart - gaoshukai
Similar Kanji LookupDictionaries
Jisho.org
Tangorin - English⇆Japanese Online Dictionary
Honyaku Star - Simple and Fast Dictionary | Noローマ字| Specifically for Translators
JLect - Japanese Dialect Word Search
TMdict - vocabularies from games, books, anime, and other works by Type-Moon.Kanji Alive_ Web App - Kanji Lookup, Stroke Orders, Examples, Picture Mnemonics
Kanji Dictionary - 漢字辞典
Etymologies - A comprehensive, illustrated dictionary with etymologies, pictographs & definitions in English and Japanese
More Eymologies - Traditional & Simplified CH/JP
Oichan’s Dictionary - CN/JP/EN Dictionary
Proverb Dictionary - Dutch, English, and Japanese語源由来辞典 - Etymology Dictionary
平明四字熟語辞典 - 4-Character Idiomatic Compound Dictionary
故事ことわざ辞典 - Proverb Dictionary
日本語俗語辞書 - Colloquial Language Dictionary
日本語コロケーション辞典IT用語辞典 e-Words - Internet and Technical Terms
三省堂 Web Dictionary - Sanseido
Weblio - 辞書 - Main Dictionary
Weblio - シソーラス - Thesaurus
Weblio 翻訳 - Translate
alc.co.jp - Another Great Dictionary
goo.ne.jp - Goo’s Dictionary
kotobank.jp - Uses yahoo.co.jp dictionary with a nice Interface
Tatoeba - Example Sentences
Tsukuba Corpus
複合動詞レキシコン - Compound Verb Lexicon
Yamasa.cc - Learn handwritten stroke order
kotoba.ne.jp - Extremely useful once you learn its capabilities
Excite.co.jp’s Dictionary with Pitch AccentSoftware
Houhou SRS - Dictionary + SRS
Tagaini Jisho - Dictionary on each OS
zKanji - Another Dictionary + SRS
Capture2Text - Get Text from Manga and Other Images
JGloss - Automatically annotate Japanese text with readings and translations
KanjiTomo
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OmegaT - Translation Memory Tool
Foreign Language Text Reader
Learning With Texts
Language Tool - Proofreading/Spellcheck Program
Lingoes - Dictionary & Translation
StarDict
Wakan - Dictionary App for Chinese and JapaneseThesauri
Goo.ne.jp’s Thesaurus
類語同義語辞典 - Quasi-synonym/synonym DictionaryLearning the Language
Wanikani - Learn Kanji Through Spaced Repetition (Paid Subscription)
Japaneseclass.jp - Vocabulary and Kanji
Kapibara - Apps and Materials
U-biq - Japanese study
Japanese Stack Exchange - Ask Questions, Get Answers
Tae Kim’s Guide - Site for Complete Beginners
Chinese and Japanese Characters Mnemonics - With much more material
Japanese Parts of Speech - 日本語
Japanese Linguistics - General Terms, Parts of Speech, Particles, etc - General Linguistics
Loanwords - gaoshukai.com
Esaura - Q&A site dedicated to J<->E translation.
Lang-8 - Write Journals, Get Corrections from Natives (All Languages)
Japanese Reading Practice with Tanaka Corpus
Tips on Japanese
JLPT Study Materials
JLPT Vocabulary Lists
HiNative - Q&A
OnomatoProject - Practice Japanese onomatopoeia (擬音語) and mimetic words (擬態語) with examples and illustrations!Grammar
Imabi - Lessons From Basic to Classical Japanese | Everything You Need for Grammar
Kanzen Grammar - Sentences broken down in detail
JGram - Japanese Grammar Database
Renshuu.org - Over 600 entries for Grammar
Jtest4you
Auxiliary Verb ChartRadicals
Kanji Radical Names - 仮名 and ローマ字
214 Traditional Radicals - From Kanji Alive
Radical Names in Japanese - with kanji used
More Kanji RadicalsKana
Rapid Recognition Trainer for Hiragana and Katakana
Multiple Font and Stroke Magnifier
Kana - Anomalous Cursive SyllabaryAdvanced Learning
Mistakes & Differences Guide
Different Kanji With Same Reading and (Usually) Meaning
Slight Different Meanings
Read Your LevelReading Material
Aozora Bunko - Japanese Project Gutenberg
Bauddha.net - Similar to Aozora
Children’s Reading Material - Fairy Tails
Reajer - Bilingual Texts & Frequently-updated Language BlogManga & Light Novels
Comico - Manga & Light Novels
Mangabox
Vomic - Manga with Voice (Mac users download VLC web plugin)
Kadokawa - Free ComicsLight Novels
Anime
AniChart
Anime List
Hummingbird - MAL Alternative
Anime Recommendation FinderCrunchyroll - Watch Anime Legally
Japanese SubtitlesNews
SmartNews - Japanese Smartphone News App
SANSPO.COM（サンスポ）
NHKニュース and NHK Easy Version
朝日新聞 - Asahi and Children’s Edition
Japan Times
Japan Today
MATCHA and Easy Japanese Version - Japan Travel Magazine
Metropolis Magazine | Japan’s Number 1 English Magazine
Tokyo Weekender - English Magazine
Yomiuri, Children’s Edition, and English Edition
Easy News - Newsinslowjapanese.com
Nikkei
SankeiJapanese Sign Language
Dialect Study
JLect - Dialect Word Search
Osaka-Ben
Kansai-Ben
Kansaiben.com
Kansai-Ben Word ListPitch Accent
U-Biq
Pitch Accent Diagram
Excite.co.jp’s Dictionary with Pitch Accent
OJAD Online Japanese Accent DictionaryRecommended Books
White Rabbit Japan - Buy Things From Japan
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar
- Dictionary of Misused Japanese
- Kanji Dictionary - 1006 Kanji Picture Dictionary
- ALC’s Japanese for Business: Business EtiquetteJ-LIST - Buys Things From Japan
- Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants to Japan - Bilingual
- Encyclopedia of Japan - BilingualAmazon
- The Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary: Revised and Expanded
- Kodansha’s Furigana Japanese Dictionary (Kodansha Dictionaries)
- The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary
- The Original Modern Reader’s Japanese-English Character Dictionary
- The New Nelson Japanese-English Character DictionaryCulture & Life
AFA Channel - Japanese Pop Culture Video Channel
Becomming Legally Japanese - Information on Naturalization
Danny Choo - Culture Japan
Japan-guide - Your Guide to Japan
Japan Subculture Research Center - Yakuza and other cool culture information
Just Bento - Blog About Bentos
Just Hungry - Japanese Food & Recipes
néojapanisme
Spoon & Tamago - Japanese Art, Design, and Culture
What Japan Thinks - Surveys of Japanese People
Niponica - Free Multilingual Magazine in HTML, PDF, or E-Book
Nippon.com - Your Doorway to JapanMusic
JPop Asia - Asian Music Videos, Top Charts, Lyrics, & Forum
Kasi-time - Lyric Search
Utamap - Another Lyric Search
utaten - Lyrics with Furigana
Lyric Get - Copy Lyrics on Restricted Japanese Lyric WebsitesInformation
JLPT - Japanese Language Proficiency Test Information
JNTO - Japan National Tourism Organization
JET Programme - Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme
Japanese Language Schools - List of language schools in Japan
Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign LanguageScholarships
JASSO - Japan Student Services Organization
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program - U.S. CitizensWork
GaijinPot - Jobs and Other Information
Japan Today Jobs - International Jobs in Japan
Kansai Flea Market - Jobs, Classifieds
Metropolis Classifieds
O-Hayo Sensei - The Newsletter of (Teaching) Jobs in Japan
White Companies - InformationWanikani Extensions
KaniWani - Reverse WaniKani
Duendecat - Sample Sentences from WaniKani Progress
WaniKani to Anki ExporterMisc
Free Japanese Kana and Kanji Fonts
http://www.find-job.net/startup/
Convert Japanese Dates and Western Dates
Japanese History - Wikibooks
Japanese Ghost Stories - Hyakumonogatari
Reading Speed, Comprehension and Eye Movements While Reading Japanese Novels - Scholarly Article
Hinoki Project
何年.jp/ - Japanese 平成 (Heisei) Year Lookup
Math Symbols & Readings
Traditional Colors of Japan - With Hex Values
Color-sample - Colors in detail
Onomatopoeia Picture Game - in Japanese
Kanji Used in Important Documents
Free Beautiful Handwriting - Handwriting Practice Sheets with Your Own Data
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Modern Sherlock Holmes but he’s a 27 year old, drinks energy drinks only, is astonishing polite and has no idea how the solar system works because it was never relevant to a case but can name every every person involved in making Super Mario Bros because he did need that for a case once.
Watson is continuously appalled about his eating habits and makes vague posts on Twitter that ends in threads like
Watson: “My roommate noticed only today that he can label his email inboxs but took apart his entire bloody laptop two weeks ago.”
Person: “This reminds me of the post about the roommate who couldn’t turn on the coffee machine but remembers like 500 numbers of pi”
Watson: “I’ll be delighted to inform you that this is the very same roommate.”
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