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"a very old young person"

@flipwizard / flipwizard.tumblr.com

thats what the elderly call me
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ladyshinga

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

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cea-tide

Time to drop some links again.

https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.

https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Google’s. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

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flipwizard

you should read Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross, btw. idk why i hid that in the tags of my last post. i read that book a full year ago and I'm still like, woah, i need to be telling everyone to read this book. bodies! are ! fascinating! it turns out that when science has ignored one kind of body for, say, literally the entire time of "science, ever" and then actually starts to pay attention to it, then there are some fascinating things about it! woah! Fuck! introduce the term "the clitoral complex" into your vocabulary. you wont regret it. you cant go back to a life before you knew about the clitoral complex.

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I have simply nowhere else in the world to complain about this specific pet peeve, and what else is Tumblrwebsitedotcorn for if not that? Look, I'm reading this fic, it's quite long (220k words), featuring a cis straight relationship, that is quite deliciously kinky in a very informed clever ways, all about, oh, free will, free will but in Satanic context, BDSM, love, consent, responsibilites herein and unto our fellow sentient creatures upon this earth, etc, etc, but what is driving me fucking insane is - one of our main point of view characters is a cis woman and throughout theeeeeeee whole 75 percent of the book (book? sure, it's a book, I'm reading it on my ebook reader, that makes it "book") I've read so far, only once during any of the very! horny! and! explicit! scenes! (the BDSM kind and the normal fiction-writing kind) does this character refer to her genitals as anything other than the most boring vague terms such as "lower body/between her legs"; "her lower body tingled with arousal/between her legs was aching" - we have one, count 'em, one use of "clit" in a mastubation scene, but god, every other time, there is some insane hot shit going on and it'll be like "her lower body..." and i'm like, what!!!!???!! are??? her//?? ankles???? HORNY???? What PART of her lower body!!!! you can say vagina!!!!! you can say cunt, pussy, clit, the clitoral complex, vulva, vagina!!!! AHHHHHH COME ON!!!!!!! i'M going CRAZY HERE!!!!!! it's SOFUNNY. it's either masterful writing of a character so repressed they cannot name their own body parts, or, er, fic writer with similiar and/or same hangups. Come on.

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you should read Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross, btw. idk why i hid that in the tags of my last post. i read that book a full year ago and I'm still like, woah, i need to be telling everyone to read this book. bodies! are ! fascinating! it turns out that when science has ignored one kind of body for, say, literally the entire time of "science, ever" and then actually starts to pay attention to it, then there are some fascinating things about it! woah! Fuck! introduce the term "the clitoral complex" into your vocabulary. you wont regret it. you cant go back to a life before you knew about the clitoral complex.

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I have simply nowhere else in the world to complain about this specific pet peeve, and what else is Tumblrwebsitedotcorn for if not that? Look, I'm reading this fic, it's quite long (220k words), featuring a cis straight relationship, that is quite deliciously kinky in a very informed clever ways, all about, oh, free will, free will but in Satanic context, BDSM, love, consent, responsibilites herein and unto our fellow sentient creatures upon this earth, etc, etc, but what is driving me fucking insane is - one of our main point of view characters is a cis woman and throughout theeeeeeee whole 75 percent of the book (book? sure, it's a book, I'm reading it on my ebook reader, that makes it "book") I've read so far, only once during any of the very! horny! and! explicit! scenes! (the BDSM kind and the normal fiction-writing kind) does this character refer to her genitals as anything other than the most boring vague terms such as "lower body/between her legs"; "her lower body tingled with arousal/between her legs was aching" - we have one, count 'em, one use of "clit" in a mastubation scene, but god, every other time, there is some insane hot shit going on and it'll be like "her lower body..." and i'm like, what!!!!???!! are??? her//?? ankles???? HORNY???? What PART of her lower body!!!! you can say vagina!!!!! you can say cunt, pussy, clit, the clitoral complex, vulva, vagina!!!! AHHHHHH COME ON!!!!!!! i'M going CRAZY HERE!!!!!! it's SOFUNNY. it's either masterful writing of a character so repressed they cannot name their own body parts, or, er, fic writer with similiar and/or same hangups. Come on.

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The ten minutes a week I spend on tumblr dot com implies to me that everyone else is spending a lot more time on Tumblr dot com than I am and that worries me. Im standing in the distance sagely shaking my head. No sirree, my posting days are long behind me, I aint go back to that life, I told the missus, it done what caused serious internal strife.

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being as (1) i work at the librry processing new items and as i am (2) incapable of picking up a book and not at least going "ooh wwhats this about then", i am often (3) gently perusing absolutely ridiclous books on many ends of the spectrum, and so i have become mostly immune to the immediate annoyance, anger, etc, that scuh literature will provoke (even thoug yes I am still rolling my eyes at the 20+ holds there are on each copy of that Liz Cheney book we keep getting more and more of) but this week I flipped open one with some kind of err Christian philosophy vibe and ssaw a chpater title "Our Dna Demands a Designer" and i am rather STILL quite annoyed at the icky logic that the existence of a thing "demands" anything (this is why I hate that meme format, you know the one?) and alsos, I mean, come on, itwell fucking doesnot. our dna so perfect and complex that it needs to have been designed, oooh,. well, that's a fucking shit design mate. Have you seen the bones of a human foot? Who would design that????? On pirpose/????? Have you even counted how many bones those have. Doctors have tried but we just dont know. You shoud seek revenge on God for feet bones. Also for wisdom teeth.

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Do you feel the rational normal urge to become completely immersed in a piece of fiction as to the detriment of your physical body? have you ever seen an episode of, or even vaguely understand the premise of the PBS/ITV television show Downton Abbey? actually, imagine any period drama, you've got the right vibe. Now imagine chucking out all the prissy richos. Do you also want to get tricked into learning about British Army medical procedures of the first World War? Well, I keep staying up later and later each night to get deep, deep into this Downton Abbey fanfiction about Thomas Barrow in the RAMC during WW1. word count >400k, ohhh yeah baby. And there's so many cited sources. a fanfiction with a bibliography. ytummmm yummm

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