They're doing singing valentines on campus and I seriously considered sending one to my best friend, purely to make him mad. <3

Why is everyone speaking in that strange dead-eyed monotone???

Two recommendations for lining your upper water line:

Buying high-quality makeup is definitely worth it once you know your skin tone / colors, but in the meantime I really recommend those drugstore $2-3 lipsticks.

Rite Aid allows returns of opened makeup, so the best thing to do is pick a one "warmer" (reddish/orangish/yellowish/"bright") and one "cooler"…

Oh nooo, growing up this was a constant battle between my mom and me.

Thank you.

I was the target of a process like that at another university, and it was hell.
Just hearing people acknowledge how fucked up it is means a lot!!!

I mean, relative to J-pop it's also a stylistically weird song. I can't imagine J-pop having halting pauses like that — it works with the English, but in Japanese, especially translated Japanese, it ends up strange.

Yeah, that super-stressed /ki/ in dekinai makes me so uncomfortable, haha.
But she gets a million bonus points for not doing the hard /r/, so. :)

Oh, I never knew that was a thing!

In this case I dunno if that's what's causing it, though. It might just be that the choppy emphasis on the slower Japanese syllables sounds weird in a way it doesn't in English... so when she gets to the longer phrases it automatically sounds more natural.

The weirdest is when my Japanese prof would suddenly switch to English. It takes your brain that split second to catch up, bc you're expecting Japanese, so for that short moment you can hear what English sounds to people who don't speak English!!!

Super fun :)

I should have clarified anyway — I meant just sort of the generic "English speaker" accent you get if you're learning Japanese from English. :)

But yeah, she doesn't sound very British! Maybe my own ears just aren't good enough at distinguishing Japanese to catch it tho...

Yeah, her Japanese is good! Especially the faster parts, which is kinda weird — you would expect those to be worse imo. It sounds like she has a fairly obvious American accent, but she's pronouncing all the words correctly. Tbh that's the best most of us can hope for — in my advanced Japanese class you can still hear…

Who has time for this shit?!

If I manage to fully do my hair, makeup, and accessories before class in the morning, that's a major win...

Seriously, my sister taught me most of those tricks and they are golden.

Well thank you ~~~ :)

I think romance is best defined as reminding the person you love that you love them. You can't "remind" someone you don't know, barely know, or just started dating. It throws the whole thing off.

THIS!

For the record, you should never do stuff like this for someone you aren't currently dating. So: not for crushes, not for exes you're trying to win back, and not for people you've just started dating either.

Otherwise it just sorta screams "I'm creepily obsessed with you and have no sense of personal boundaries."

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I love guys who publicly answer "yes" to the contraception question on dating sites.

Yeah, within the first two hours of being on OkC I got heated abuse for doing the polite no. So I just started deleting messages when I'm not interested.