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Just me, myself and I

@vivien-1211

Vivien, a 19 year-old girl from Germany doin' some stuff. I do not know what I'm doin' exactly...
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FAMOUS AUTHORS

  • Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
  • The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
  • Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
  • Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
  • Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
  • Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
  • Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
  • Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
  • The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
  • Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
  • Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
  • Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
  • Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
  • Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

MATH AND SCIENCE

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
  • Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
  • International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
  • Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

PLAYS

  • ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
  • Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
  • Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
  • ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
  • The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
  • Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
  • Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
  • Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

  • Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

  • Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
  • Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.
  • Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
  • 2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
  • Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
  • Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
  • Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
  • Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

  • MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
  • TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
  • Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

  • The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
  • Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
  • Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
  • Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
  • Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
  • QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
  • CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
  • PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

  • Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
  • World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
  • DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
  • A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
  • Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
  • ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
  • Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
  • Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.
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… and here is a gift for all of us.

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Culture should be free for everyone

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Imagine

You are friends of powerful men, that love you an consider you as a lover of once in a lifetime. So, when they found out that one man got his hands on you, they all let their differences aside just so they can torture him for touching a beautiful soul. 

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The Date

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Summary: You decide to go onto the tv show first dates in the hopes of finding a real connection with someone, if only they had told you, you’d be going on First Dates Celebrity.

Warnings: Swearing, Inuendos?, Fluff, Flirting Nerds, Idk? Like there’s no smut so?

A/N:so had this idea for a while, please bare with me I’ve never actually seen a full episode of First dates so there may be some errors. Also you may disagree with the harry potter house but it was for the purpose of this story so don’t hate on me please, either way i hope you enjoy this little piece.

Taglist: @isitmine​ @tinabean37​ @loserrlauraa​  @msblkfire84​ @henrythickcavill​ @plainbrunettelbl​ @dummiesshort​ @cynic-spirit​ @pandaxnienke​  @two-unbeatable-beaters​ @libbymouse​ @wolfieash​ @eldarwen333​ @princesssterek​ @mom2000aggie​ @blackestpinkworld​  @kebabgirl67​ @luclittlepond​ @beck07990​ @watercoolerpaint​ @sofiebstar​ @mansaaay​

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love, dad

a/n: i read this fic recently called ‘to my future son’ by @iguessweallcrazyithinktho and it inspired me to make this. i did get their permission to write this and to use their fic as inspiration beforehand!! 

summary: this is a compilation of letters chris writes to his unborn baby from the day he finds out about them to the day they made their arrival. 

warnings: some language, nervousness surrounding impending fatherhood, mention of panic attack, tooth rotting fluff

i would love to hear what you think! my ask box is always open to chat and for requests. :)

word count: ~4800

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add yourself to my taglist here!

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7 weeks

Hi there.

I’m not really sure where to start with this. But I guess this will be a good place to start.

Today I found out that Y/N, the most incredible woman I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, is pregnant. Y/N and I have been married for almost 2 years now and we have been so eager to start our family.

I’ve known since the day I met her that I wanted to marry her and start a family with her. There has never been a doubt in my mind that she is the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life loving. She’s not just my soulmate and my life partner anymore. She’s the mother of my child now. She’s your mom. I still can’t wrap my head around it, if I’m completely honest. Being a dad is the one thing in my life I know I want to be.

Being your dad is going to be the best, I already know it. Mom is just a few weeks pregnant right now. We’re thinking about 6 or 7 weeks. We’re so fucking excited. I don’t think you’re going to read these until you’re old enough to appreciate and cherish them so it’s okay if I swear, I think. I have to get it all out of my system now, I guess.

We’re not going to know if you’re a boy or girl for a few months so I think I’m going to refer to you as my jellybean for now. I’ve been stress eating starburst jellybeans for the last few hours because even though I’m really excited to be your dad, I’m really scared. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that we’re going to be parents in a matter of 7 months. Just give me some time, I’ll get there eventually.

We’re going to get a look at you in just a few days and we’ll figure out when we should be expecting you. I can’t wait to see you. Right now you’re probably just a mess of cells and other weird stuff but I know you’re going to be the most incredible thing I’ve seen with my own 2 eyes.

I’ll write to you as soon as we get back from the appointment.

Love,

Dad

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vivien-1211

My heart just exploded reading this fucking masterpiece! And maybe, just maybe I shed a few tears... Loved every second of it 🥰😊

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Source

Video of Tama

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The picture in the background of the second one

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Tama is boss

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THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

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ultrafacts

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

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Beautiful.

Now I’m crying thanks

and a new cat was hired right?

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clarenecessities

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

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she works very hard

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Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

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Law

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I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

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Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

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a legacy

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bemusedlybespectacled

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

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“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.
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Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

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You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

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you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

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You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)

Imagine you are paid in food to greet people, and people like you so much you become a goddess after you die.

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quefish77

And that is just *expected* pain. That doesn’t go into people with additional medical issues that go along with it. Or the times when it is inexplicably heavier than usual, causing additional pain.

And let’s also not forget the added *psychological* effects of a period. The stigma that it is disgusting, something to hide from or avoid. The way non-period-people treat period-havers. Like we are looking for attention, exaggerating. Or the psychological affect of getting it early and not being prepared, the panic of figuring out what to do because we aren’t always in a convenient situation.

And should we tell these non-period-havers about what happens when we sneeze?

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My nightmares consist of me sneezing while on my period.

This 😌

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I have been here, multiple times!  By referring to the order as a “Little Rosa”, you don’t have to make as big a deal out of the fact that you’re seeking help.

And believe it or not, it gets better. Rosa’s also gives out sweatshirts to the homeless (or sells them to the general public) that has information on local soup kitchens and even computer training in the area, on an insert sewn inside the sweatshirt.

(Details)

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Reblogged again for these excellent details.

Also you can buy slices for the homeless through their online store, from anywhere, not just PA!

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thank you for the comment about buying online! I am in canada but would love to help

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