So as a continuation of this post I made in frustration about how anglo-centric most “must-read” book lists are, I went and found a few lists with a focus on non-English speaking authors (sorted by number of books listed):

All these lists have reviews and feature books from a wide range of countries. I haven’t read every single review but I browsed the lists to make sure they wouldn’t all just name the same books and they don’t!!

I hope you’ll find inspiring new reads on those lists! :)

does anyone have that image like "the first rule of electrical safety is have fun" with a really really horrible set of three plugs wired into an outlet using unprotected copper rods or smth? cant find it for the life of me

it looks like this sort of

Gotchu

The second rule is be yourself

need a robotic nun to lightly rap me on the knuckles every time i chase temptation out of Compulsion rather than Desire, "if you're gonna Sin, at least do it through Agency and Intention rather than Base Impulse," she would say, "do it because you Want It, not Just because you Don't want to do Whatever You're Currently Doing"

"quit refreshing grindr every 40 seconds like a roomba bumping into the same coffee table leg for an hour at a time. go outside. find a man with a ring on his finger. ruin his life through quick wit, decisive action, and a fat ass. Now." - nunbot9k

lumpensinner vs. honorable industrial sin prole

You understand.

REMEMBER TO HACK UR 3DS AND WII U BEFORE NINTENDO SHUTS DOWN THEIR INTERNET SUPPORT (April 8th)

no one probably cares but as wii u and 3ds modding (especially wii u) is my area of expertise (haha weird silly obsessions go brrrrrr) im gonna add some stuff here. 1. this is *not* time sensitive as far as im concerned. for wii u both dnspresso and the traditional web browser exploit DO NOT require nintendo's servers, only a working internet connection, which you will still have even after the servers shut down. the servers are shutting down, not the wifi module in your console (contrary to popular belief). iirc to mod a new 3ds you just need to do a camera exploit, which similarly shouldnt require nintendo's official servers. can't remember about old 3ds tho. 2. there ARE custom servers in the making!!! https://pretendo.network have been working on reviving the nintendo network servers for years now, and for the next few months they'll need as much support as they can get because the real servers will no longer be alive to reverse engineer from. it's for both wii u and 3ds. 3. modding does *not* impose any risks on your console, as long as you follow these specific written guides sent by the lovely op. video guides can be outdated with new developments in the homebrew scene and so it often causes problems for people doing tech support (such as myself) when the whole issue was an outdated file linked in the description. these written guides are regularly updated. trust me, im a disaster and i didnt brick either of my consoles. also, modding != piracy!! modding enables piracy but theres a flourishing modding community outside of piracy too :] 4. stop reading my stupid reblog and go mod your consoles (after youve bought an sd card or 2 that is - preferably go for 128gb formatted as fat32 - use guiformat for this)!!!! ill add more stuff if i remember but thats it for now

this is cinema

Pause this on each screen, because there's stuff in here I wasn't aware of and I'm sure I'm not the only one. This isn't just cinema, this is free education and I'm grateful for it.

I took screenshots

tumblr put them in reverse chronological for some reason

Tell me a soft memory

I didn’t think a typical transaction would take such a turn for my life. “Have a good day,” I said, my usual, every day wish.

“Have an easier day,” he said. “You wanna know why I say that instead of have a good day?”

There was no one else in line. It was a slow evening, and the man had been so kind as I helped him get his dog food, I didn’t think much of it. “Sure,” I said.

“Because you can’t make someone have a good day. But you can always make your day a little easier. Put off that one chore. Don’t be the person who rushes to do all the heavy lifting. Ask for help. You can always make your day a little easier.” And he tilted his head, as if to tip his hat, and headed out the door.

I started saying that at work instead. “Have an easier day.”

Customers smiled more, surprised by this verbiage.

I took his advice. I started making easier days.

I asked for help when my depression started to get more severe on days that I felt like getting up was worthless. It became an easier day.

I put off getting the mail one day because it was hard to get out of bed, but I was able to shower that night instead.

I started graduate school and my dad got cancer in the midst of the pandemic.

I needed easier days.

My mom and I helped each other.

I told my zoom students to have an easier day.

When my dad beat cancer, and I started teaching in person, while still working towards my MA degree, I would tell that class of 11th graders “Have an easier day.”

One day, my student asked me why I would say that. I told them the story of the big bearded trucker guy who said that to me while lugging a 40lb bag of dog food over his shoulder.

I told them all I ever wanted for everyone was to have an easier day. Because not all days will be easy. But they will get easier. And you can always make your day easier. You can’t make a good day. They’re gifts to be cherished.

I wish I had gotten his name. I wish I could tell him thank you.

He truly did change my life. My days are easier. They’re not always good. But they are easier.

So, thank you, sir. I thank you for making my days easier.

We can’t have a midlife crisis, our entire existence has been a crisis. Enjoy doing grand folks shit my fellow millennials ❤️

The entire idea behind midlife crisis is based on the person having gotten "everything" by their late 20s and then realizing that none of it was what they wanted. If you've been systematically barred from obtaining the things that you're supposed to want, then you're way more likely to pursue the things you actually want, something which has for many years been denied to anyone in the USA before the age of 60 or so.

Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

Imagine if you had a neighbour who keeps performing songs from Phantom of the Opera in his apartment every night, by himself but accompanied by a parrot, which he has taught to sing Christine's part. Admittedly it's kind of obnoxious but you are far too baffled to even be properly annoyed. And also you don't want to confront someone with that kind of power and determination. So every once in a while you just hear this guy dramatically bellow

[ASTONISHINGLY HIGH-PITCHED PARROT SHRIEK]

I'm so sorry I had to it was haunting me

It should be a bigger scandal that J.K. Rowling is threatening to sue small accounts for accurately calling her a Holocaust denier. So glad the Streisand effect exists. Now we can all rebuke her reprehensible views more than ever.

i was playing scrabble and i had a B, U, R, G, E, and R and i thought “aha burger, one who burgs, but my mom will never accept that as a word” but then i remembered burger is actually a word

one time I played the word “am” and I thought, they can totally let that slide because of AM radio and A.M time.

then i remembered 

Scrabble does things to your mind that you can never come back from.

I once was playing and put down ‘cow’ but in my mind I was saying it so it rhymed with ‘crow’ and I told my friend that it might not be a real word but I’m playing it and he can’t stop me and he looked me right in the eye and said it like how ‘cow’ is supposed to be said and I was so mad at myself I nearly flipped the board.

My brother played the word ‘scrabble’ and my mom said, “I actually don’t think that’s a word.” And I said, “yes it is? ‘scrabbled eggs’???”

One time my mom played “early,” and I was like: “What does that mean? Resembling an earl?”

good read for teachers.

I’ve been yelling this for years

Hi yall, author of the piece here. Medium instituted a pay wall so here is a link to access it for free:

Do not cite the old magic to me. I was there when it was written.

Sometimes I look at the Big Hair People in the comics I wrote back then and have to remind myself that, actually, they were, if anything, understated.

Okay but how did they all get their hair like this? I'd do anything to have this kind of volume.

It's permed, then heavily teased, then sprayed with about half a bottle of Aquanet while you blow dry the hair with your head upside down, then you blow dry the bangs while combing them higher and higher and spraying the other half of the can of Aquanet. You have to add so much hairspray that your hair feels lacquered.

I'm not even sure they make hairspray with that kind of hold anymore?

to get that kind of volume you have to be willing to put a hole in the ozone layer