i’m pretty peculiar about the kind of scifi that i read because hard scifi is just too out there for me and very much focusing on facts and logic and not on feelings of characters, so I am pleased to inform that Ted Chiang does indeed make his stories with a huge focus on emotions of people in worlds where one thing has been changed compared to our current world xdd
I’m on a similar boat as taiyousea:
that Ted Chiang is probably my favorite scifi book writer I know, but that’s mostly because I haven’t dug into the genre in books all that much, so just take it as I LIKED TED CHIANG BOOKS FROM A GENRE I DONT TEND TO READ MUCH xddd
This story specifically is very much aimed towards yearning and wanting for things to be different, so if you’re into those things, you’ll have a ball ^^
five years ago, i’m level 105 already after all 
and just look at how little it means, i barely know what does
mean :sob: xddd
Even attempting to read this paragraph is painful, I remember a while back stumbling upon this wikipedia page and going like NOPE NOPE NOPE xddd
I actually can tell separate words apart, but when it comes to the actual context, aaa xdd
But man, the level 45 badge just goes to prove how little it means to be any specific level on WaniKani, I’m nowhere close to where I’d like to be eight hours in, but only one thing can take me there and it’s not resetting WaniKani for the second time 
Keep going Malinkal, you’re doing the right things ^^
August 7th, 2025
- 197 reviews on WaniKani
- 17 lessons on WaniKani
- 26 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Manga: ささやくように恋を唄う第９話
- 3h of a seminar in German
There’s a new-old radical introduced for kanji at level 45, 家, which shouldn’t cause that much of an issue, you’ve seen it many times before;
the problem is that the both kanji that use it here are something that just does NOT stick with me xdd
I’m almost tempted to watch 魔法使いの嫁 just so that i’d drill that kanji into my head xddd
When I saw the review curve for Bunpro earlier today being:
a feeling of immense joy at the fact that I can allow myself to fail filled my heart, and so I did, the worst daily review session on Bunpro so far, the most freeing one yet xdd
につき and につけ are ones that always blend in my head into one, I wonder if I can grammar drill them both somehow. They should be fairly easy to differentiate, right?
Life
Seminar is over, they gave us those big bagpacks to pack all of the materials and let me tell you, my W.A.F material bagpack was heavier than all of the clothes I brought in there xdd
I had a quick glance around Bremen for the last time for a while:
I wonder who Lorenz is, maybe we should give him justice or something xdd
Also… christian church… with a Star of David…
From what I can tell from the guidance yesterday and the wikipedia article, architects simply hated empty space and wanted to put ANYTHING and didn’t give it a second thought and until 1930s, almost nobody did, and then people were like “wowowow”
xdd
I found a manga store in Bremen and since I had some time, decided to give it a visit, and look, they host DIY artists and sell their works of art in there!
They also had a rack for magazines and hardcover limited editions of manga, we stan ^^
I keep repeating this but I’m a huge fan of the idea of magazines overall, they’re just so fun
And then, train to Berlin and OMG LING LING 40 HOURS THEY GOT HIM FOR BERLIN 
In the new issue of a popular German magazine, the cover is taken by “10 years after the German we can do it”, what Germany did and what Germany didn’t, and despite all the complaining and the stagflation and the markets not growing as fast as they should… I’m kinda happy about the direction Germany took over the last 10 years??? I might have caught the socialist and the anti-market bug though, but I like it here in Germany so far xdd
Tomorrow, I’m taking a regional train to Szczecin in Poland for a day trip… to do some paperwork xdd
I should be back to Berlin in the evening though, but look forward to the pics from Szczecin too!
Waking up early tomorrow though, so I’m probably jumping off already and holding off on catching up on WaniKani forums until tomorrow 