Gallifreyan-consulting-criminal - Losing Brain Cells. Looking To Donations.

Don't come back puki!!! 💜

I am flying to Asia now. Be back in 20 hours.

Reblogging coz yeah

Bisexual Visibility Week 2021 - Bisexual History

Places to learn bisexual history, including links to books, articles, etc. Note that because these sources range from the 1970′s to today, there are some terms that are currently considered incorrect or offensive.

Compilation of Bisexual Histories & Resources (google doc navigation; over 200 resources; courtesy of @femmebisexuelle​ )

The Bisexual History They Don’t Want You To Know

Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries and Visions (pdf download)

Bisexual Histories in San Francisco in the 1970s and Early 1980s

A History of Bisexuality

A Brief History of the Bisexual Movement

13 Historical Figures Who Are Bisexual

Bi women :the newsletter of the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network

Anything That Moves - Bisexual Magazine Archive

The Bisexual Community: Are We Visible Yet?

Bisexual Lives

Being There and Being Bi: The National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

Out of the darkness and into the shadows: The evolution of contemporary bisexuality

Historicising Contemporary Bisexuality

The Biphobia Scale a Decade Later: Reflections and Additions

Journal of Bisexuality

Absolutely Worthy price of art

Sorting hat quizzes be like

How do you brush your teeth?

a) Bravely

b) While eating sweets

c) While reading a book

d) I’m a snake

(Reenacted this HP post y’already know about :))

Oh man, here I was thinking it's just meeeeee

as an indian hannibal fan i think i deserve financial compensation for two reasons:

1. the goofy ass pani puri. yogurt??? who did this??????

2. the whole mess with hindu myth in ko no mono

[Amusing myself and my anxiety] Post #6 - Separation and associated shenanigans

[Amusing myself and my anxiety] Post #6 – Separation and associated shenanigans

What started off as a draft about separation anxiety, quickly turned into an impersonal review of my writing style. When I sat down to write this one out, my anticipations included word vomit, erratic typing and loads of re-reading and deleting things like – do I actually write like that? Do people come and read this for the way I’ve written?Nevertheless, I hope to cater to a regular audience and…

View On WordPress

Gender reveal party?

You're mistaken, it's a

GANDER REVEAL PARTY

*I release geese into the party, turning it into absolute chaos, and watch it from my seat on the roof*

Make this a thing guys.

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!

Imma borrow this. With credits of course.

Life gave me lemons

So my dadi made an aachar out of it

Agreed.

Reasons to get an AO3 account as a reader

Every time I see someone who reads lots of fic on AO3 but doesn’t have an account, I have to wonder if they realize how many features AO3 has just for readers. This is not an exhaustive list, but here are a few (and I’ve saved the best for last!):

Bookmarks - You probably know these exist because you’ve seen them on fic you read. But did you know that you can:

Make private bookmarks that only you can see - they don’t show up when someone clicks that “bookmarks” link. Not even the author can see them. 


Organize your bookmarks with tags.

Filter them like you would a search.

Add your own comments/descriptions, either for your own benefit or the benefit of people looking for something to read. (Just remember that unless your bookmark is private everyone including the author can see tags & comments.)

History - AO3 can track every fic you’ve ever viewed. My history is 373 pages long. However, you can delete any fic from your history with the click of a button, clear your entire history at once, or turn this off.

“Marked for Later” - Some people use bookmarks to save fics they haven’t read yet, but there’s also a separate system for that. When you’re logged in there’s a “Mark for Later” button on each fic. Then you can filter your History down to just those Marked for Later. Once you’ve read a marked fic you can then hit the “Mark as Read”  button and it will drop off this

The downside to both the History and Marked for Later is that this system currently can’t be sorted or filtered beyond that, but it can be useful nonetheless if you want to save your Bookmarks for rereading your faves.

Locked fics - Some people lock their fics to registered users for many reasons. They don’t want their fics showing up in search engines, they don’t want bots stealing them, they’re having a troll problem, etc. Without an AO3 account you won’t even see that these exist.

Comment notifications - You have an inbox on AO3, and anytime anyone replies to one of your comments you will get a notification. No more having to go back and check fics to see if authors replied to you! You can also opt to get an email every time.

Customize how you see the site - You can use site skins, hide tags or warnings on fics, skip the extra step to view adult content (if you’re 18+), even customize how your browser titles the window.

Last but very much not least:

Subscribe to fics, series, or authors - I honestly don’t understand how anyone keeps up with WIPs without this.


Get an email every time a new chapter is posted, or every time one of your favorite writers posts a new fic or chapter!

Don’t want to read a WIP as it’s being posted? Subscribe and know as soon as the last chapter goes up.


Worth getting an account just for this alone tbh. 


How are you living without it???


(Hitting subscribe is also one more way to show an author you care, although authors can’t see subscriber #s on series.)

There are probably more, but those are the main ones. Yes, you have to wait a few days to get an account, but it’s worth it. If you’re worried because you don’t want people seeing you kudos certain fics (that one tentacle fic you’ll never admit to having read?) - the way login is setup it’s actually super easy to log out, leave anonymous kudos, and log back in without leaving the fic. AO3 is designed by users; they’ve got your back.

And hey, if you ever decide to take the plunge and post something, that’s one step out of your way!

(And seriously, subscribing is a game-changer.)