This Is.... Simply Beautiful.

This is.... Simply beautiful.

because the gag reel???

There are things Cas likes to do, now: spend hours outside in their makeshift garden, covered in soil and humming to the plants in his wide-brimmed hat; take long showers that use most of the hot water, leaving the bathroom partially flooded and smelling like jasmine; organize his tea collection; wear weird fabrics and bright lipsticks; run and spar and meditate; drink a cold beer; dance.

It’s the dancing that kind of fucks Dean up.

The rest he could definitely see coming - the idea that someone technically genderless wants to play around with gender ain’t groundbreaking to him, no matter how much that seems to shock people - but the dancing is… weird. Mostly because Das, for all his earnest enthusiasm, is impressively bad at it.

Then again, that’s what probably happens when you’ve been in a meatsuit for less than one percent of your entire existence; no amount of dance or movement theory can help the way Cas swings his damn arms.

He’s swinging them right now, Etta James playing low on the radio as he sits at the kitchen table “keeping Dean company” while Dean does the dishes. Dean isn’t totally sure how Cas always ends up keeping the dish washer company instead of washing, himself, but he figures it has something to do with the way that even though Cas looks like he needs an emergency room every time he starts to dance… he also looks kinda cute while he does it. In a please help him kind of way.

“Hey, get up for a minute.”

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DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome? Research. You know what’s not awesome? Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects. Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks. Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more. Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana- Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too. Free! And legal! They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies. Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things! Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen- Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access- Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this. Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

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gallifreyan-consulting-criminal

5 years ago

For the first time, understanding wine taste doesn't sound like a lecture from a connoisseur

I keep trying to like red wine like a grown-up but like … it’s rotten grapes, guys. You can drink things that don’t taste like rotten grapes. Why

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gallifreyan-consulting-criminal

3 years ago

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

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