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[The Post-reading Process] Andy Weir's The Martian

[The Post-reading Process] Andy Weir’s The Martian

The number of pirate ninjas it required for me to push myself to write this is insane.This is one reference that I kept going back to – coz its cool. Well, hello y’all. A long hiatus, a longer spell of depression later I’m back, with yet another book to regale. And this time, I’ve gone out of space. The Martian, by Andy Weir is one such sci-fi book that makes the point across the best way, with…

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Make-believe

It’s an underrated word to describe the most powerful tool of mankind. Imagination. The ultimatum of creativity. No two conjured images will ever be the same. One can build a whole universe while on a 10 minute bus journey. That which gave us the happiness of discovering Hogwarts, the glory of finding the ring, or the triumph of winning the hunger games. Creation, is right here. This is genesis and destruction. Beginning and the end. Just one single idea. And the world, as we know it, has changed.

You sir/ma'am/entity, are what we expect from now on

Yasssssss

welcome to the SuperLokiOmens era. delighted to live through these times together with y’all

No, what???? The original brought me down... Rumi my genius, we've done you dirty.

every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry

I thought this post will go in a different direction, but this. I support this.

It’s sad, and frankly kind of ticks me off, to see the posts where content providers are asking for reblogs. You like it enough to heart it? What does it take, a few seconds more to reblog it. It doesn’t go with your blog’s aesthetic? Fuck that. If you want to see art and fanfics in your feed, you need to be supportive of the creators! Otherwise, they will either move to another site where the people are more supportive, or just stop making content all together, 

Don’t make us beg. If you like it, reblog it! What’s wrong with you? 

But I am hanging out with satan, he's a good listener.

when you’re 23 and have moved out of home but them brown parents still need to keep track of what you’re eating, when you’re sleeping, why you’re not married, whether you’re hanging out with satan

A research tip from a friendly neighborhood librarian! 

I want to introduce you to the wonderful world of subject librarians and Libguides. 

I’m sure it’s common knowledge that scholars and writers have academic specialties. The same is true for subject librarians! Most libraries use a tool called Libguides to amass and describe resources on a given topic, course, work, person, etc. (I use them for everything. All hail Libguides.) These resources can include: print and ebooks, databases, journals, full-text collections, films/video, leading scholars, data visualizations, recommended search terms, archival collections, digital collections, reliable web resources, oral histories, and professional organizations. 

So, consider that somewhere out there in the world, there may be a librarian with a subject specialty on the topic you’re writing on, and this librarian may have made a libguide for it. 

Are you writing about vampires? 

Duquesne University has a guide on Dracula

University of Northern Iowa: Monsters and Religion

Fontbonne University has a particularly good one on Monsters, Ghosts, and Mysteries

Washington University in St. Louis: a course guide on Monsters and Strangeness 

How about poverty? 

Michigan State: Poverty and Inequality with great recommended terms and links to datasets 

Notre Dame: a multimedia guide on Poverty Studies.

Do you need particular details about how medicine or hygiene was practiced in early 20th century America?

UNC Chapel Hill: Food and Nutrition through the 20th Century (with a whole section on race, gender, and class)

Brown University: Primary Sources for History of Health in the Americas

Duke University: Ad*Access, a digital collection of advertisements from the early 20th century, with a section on beauty and hygiene  

You can learn about Japanese Imperial maps, the American West, controlled vocabularies, Crimes against art and art forgeries, anti-Catholicism, East European and Eurasian vernacular languages, geology, vaudeville, home improvement and repairs, big data, death and dying, and conspiracy theories.

Because you’re searching library collections, you won’t have access to all the content in the guides, and there will probably be some link rot (dead links), but you can still request resources through your own library with interlibrary loan, or even request that your library purchase the resources! Even without the possibility of full-text access, libguides can give you the words, works, people, sites, and collections to improve your research.

Search [your topic] + libguide and see what you get!

Gone girl part two: FOUND GIRL™

She just came into your life... Or did she.

This feels like the start to a horror movie and I love it