[The Post-reading Process] Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.

I'm sorry bestie. Are you me?

Cant believe i was made the bisexual, Non-binary, communist eldest daughter in a conservative, right winged Indian Hindu family thats extremely homophobic and islamophobic... what crimes am i paying for!??

I've been late to the party y'all, wtf happened???????

Living through Fandom history like

"It was supposed to be Sherlock s5. It was supposed to be Sherlock s5."

DUMBLEDOOOOOOOOOOREEEEE

harry potter was so messed up guys

not the book series

the character

he was so messed up like he lived in a closet and was hungry and treated like crap and no one helped him escape that life for a decade and then he finally gets to know his heritage and his family and oops kiddo you’re kind of famous?? wizard jesus??? so deal with that without any kind of adult guidance whatsoever you’re eleven and grew up in a house without any kind of emotional support you’re mature enough to handle that and THEN he finds out that he’s actually got people in this world that want him and want to love him and he finds out that… this world… hates them???  like one’s a werewolf and the other is a “criminal” and this world that celebrates his life hates the people that want to genuinely love him and care for him??? and the family that also loves and protects him are treated like crap because they are poor?????? and aren’t racist??? 

then he grows up a bit more and then suddenly he’s got this fuckin’ genocidal war lord out for his head specifically and he’s killing people and shit and NO ONE BELIEVES HIM they literally look at him like YEAH RIGHT YOU ARE JUST THE LITTLE BABY THAT SURVIVED A BAD NIGHT YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING and Harry’s like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

YOU KNOW WHAT NO FUCK YOU

and then he starts a club to teach kids… how to protect themselves?  Because he’s been let down by adults all his damn life so fuck them fuck them all he doesn’t need them they won’t listen to him so he’ll do what he can to protect these kids because the adults won’t do it it’s all on him he’s gotta do it he’s gotta

and then people that love him and want to protect him just for the sake of protecting a friend start dying one by one

and then he fuckin learns that all his fuckin life he’s been raised to be killed and he just

walks into the forest calmly 

and accepts it

WHAT THE FUCK 

I'm future causality of the octopus war

Freelancing in technical theater means you’re on a lot of different email lists. People need a crew, they send out an email, you respond with your availability. Now, most people start these with things like “hey folks” or “hi everyone”. Neal is not most people.

His openers started off innocent enough.

Then, he started to push boundaries.

And as you can see, it has spiraled out of control since then.

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.

Ron is that smart dumbass we all wish we were sometimes.

HP fandom: Hermione’s clearly a morosexual. I mean, she fancies Ron!

Ron Weasley: *is a literal chess master*

Ron Weasley: *is a strategic genius*

Ron Weasley: *is incredibly knowledgeable about the wizarding world*

Ron Weasley: *suspected that Lockhart was a fraud months before it was revealed*

Ron Weasley: *noticed Hermione’s weird behaviour due to the time turner when virtually no-one else did*

Ron Weasley: *suspected the horcrux being alive before both Harry and Hermione did*

Ron Weasley: *suspected the taboo on Voldemort’s name before both Harry and Hermione did*

Ron Weasley: *came up with the idea to get the basilisk fangs to destroy the horcruxes*

Ron Weasley: *remembered the house-elves during the battle of Hogwarts when even Hermione forgot*

Ron Weasley: *has repeatedly proved how smart, capable and intelligent he is, despite not being especially studious*

Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

Yes.

gotta love the evergrowing list of light hair/dark hair gays

and there's more

As opposed to what Puki?

Feeling very unethical today, might spread hate