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-> you read 2,690,420 words, none of which are in the bible
-> your preferred genre is an abomination
-> you found one writer and read everything they've ever written...
-> ...only to find out they're into some weird shit.
-> and now you are too. congratulations!
-> the data we've collected has shocked us to our very core and we wish we hadn't done it. we won't see you next year. please seek professional mental support
the terrifying ordeal of being the favorite of the neices and nephews and having them rattle on the locked door of my room during holiday mornings with intent to wake me up
*ok, but what is Jake's stragle?*
me normally: i love!! acquiring objects!!
me packing: who the FUCK acquired this many OBJECTS
the one thing i want to be able to do as a writer is make people come back to something ive written. i want that piece of text to haunt them, i want their thoughts to be briefly consumed by this. i want this to be something they remember long after its time. thats the one thing i want to do
The message Taehyung wants to deliver through his album "Layover".
I've replayed portal 2 for the 5th time recently. and now Im thinking about them a lot (help).
I just now decided to find a translation of the song Cara mia addio. and oh my Glados is so pathetically in love with Chell. let them have a happy ending pls!! 😭😭😭
and yes chell wears a black mesa tshirt just to annoy her (ex)wife.
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
i think one of the reasons i get mildly annoyed about worldbuilding threads that are 200 tweets of why you should care about where blue dye comes from in your world before saying someone is wearing blue is that so few of them go up to the second level of "and that should impact your characters somehow" - i don't care that blue dye comes from pressing berries that only grow in one kingdom a thousand miles away if people are casually wearing blue
a couple of people reblogged this so i was thinking about it again (ok i'm almost always thinking about material culture worldbuilding tbh) & a lot of my problem is that these kinds of worldbuilding threads and posts treat it like an obligation and not an oppurtunity --
"blue dye is rare" is a world fact that could be a plot obstacle (character is a dyer and needs blue cloth, of the right shade, for a festival); a clue (main character notices someone wearing blue and realizes that they're in disguise); a way to inform character (main character sees a blue banner and thinks its owner is showing off); and any number of other things, from small to large.
and if the rarity doesn't serve any of those functions in your story, then the existence of blue dye is not important enough that you, as the author, need to consider it.
i'm a trends and forces guy - i believe any given worldstate is created by billions of coinflips leading up to that moment, some random (the sun rose on the day of the battle and gave one side victory) and some more directed (a law was enacted with a specific intent). expecting, as an author, to have generated a worldstate that coheres and connects in the same way and with the same complexity as ours is going to lead to paralysis more often than it is to interesting worldbuilding, or worldbuilding that supports the story you're trying to tell.
My fandom account is @lightfiends which is where I am more active.
So if you don’t see anything here - try there! But since I can’t follow from that account - it’s likely you first got this one come up 🤍
my favorite romance trope is like. you dont want to hurt me but i am asking you to hurt me. i need you to stab me. i need you to carve this out of me. i need you to cut something off of me. this will hurt both of us in incredible ways. yours are the only hands i trust enough to weild this knife. you do not want to hurt me. i am asking you to hurt me.
Sometimes it still blows my mind that modern/queer fandom exists cuz starfleets finest did some roly-polies in the sacred sands
Also, diet culture can go kick rocks.
can someone PLEASE save these lesbians souls from the depths of comphet hell.
Really amazed I didn’t realise I was bi sooner when THIS was one of my fave shows. Damn you comphet.
NANA (an infographic)
The chokehold this show had on me back in the day
this was such a delight to read
Wait, wasn’t there also a theory that there’s some big threat in the universe and all civilizations have either learned to be quiet or have been destroyed by said threat? So basically, us sending messages into space is the equivalent of yelling into the den of a giant sleeping beast, and in the shadows there are several people we don’t notice whispering: “Holy fuck, you idiots, will you please shut up?”
Yes! That’s the Fermi paradox, the theory that everyone in space is quiet because they’re all afraid one will pull the trigger on the other.
That’s actually The Dark Forest hypothesis, based on Cixin Liu’s novel of the same name! It’s based on the plot of his science fiction novel. The Fermi Paradox refers to the overall conflict between the high estimates for extraterrestrial existence and the lack of evidence we have thus far for extraterrestrial. life.
Oop yes you are right, sorry! The book is fantastic and terrifying. I forgot that it’s called the Dark Forest tho my bad 😂
