Some Things I’ve Been Looking At Online Recently

remembering how reyna was shocked at the amount of pain she felt when she was giving nico her strength for a brief moment because it was even greater than the pain she felt from her entire legion fighting against polybotes and drained her even more than sustaining scipio across the atlantic. he’s just 14. he should be graduating middle school/starting highschool, not keeping the pain and anguish of more than a legion of romans in battle inside of him AND having misery herself say he’s perfect.

rick what the fuck.

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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

rick writing jason and nico

I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

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La luz de la luna

Brilla en el cerezo,

El búho llora.

👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾

Pass along and use the shit out of them

books about poc written by poc

[disclaimer: while these books have been recommended to me by other people of colour i have not read all of them, and so i don’t know how good/accurate they are so please keep that in mind!] 

- More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (young adult, lgbt, contemporary, romance)

- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (young adult, contemporary, lgbt, romance)

- The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (contemporary, young adult, lgbt, romance)

- Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali (romance, contemporary, young adult)

- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (young adult, contemporary, lgbt, romance)

- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (historical fiction)

- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (young adult, historical fiction)

- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen (young adult, contemporary, romance)

- The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (young adult, contemporary, romance)

- Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (young adult, LGBT)

- What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan (contemporary)

- How Long ‘til Black Future Month? by N.K Jemisin (fantasy, science fiction, short stories)

- Warcross by Marie Lu (young adult, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy)

- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (young adult, contemporary, romance)

- The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (historical fiction)

- Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (contemporary, romance, LGBT)

- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (historical fiction, fantasy)

- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (contemporary, LGBT, short stories)

other lists:

YA books about POC by POC

YA Books by Muslim Authors

80 Young Adult Books by Black Authors

Refusing the Narrative: Books to Educate Yourself

How to be well-read without ever having to read anything by a white man ever again

Queer Desi Lit

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

angsty bonus:

after a long and heartfelt hug he and Iroh had The Talk™ gay edition

— Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2

Love Language

It's the last day of Jasleico week, and it's time to talk about love languages.

I think Jason's is physical touch, imagine little Thalia holding her baby brother, and sleeping together because Jason won't calm unless he's hugged.

When Lupa takes him, he sleeps surrounded by wolves, and they lick him and the pups of the pack play with him, and, sometimes, Juno appears to change his clothes and talk to him, and feed him with human food.

He loves cuddles, and Leo is more willing to give it than Nico, they put together two beds in Zeus Cabin, and the hug all night, Jason kisses him when they woke up, takes him by hand to the showers and the dining pavilion; in New Rome, Jason owns a place, and the mattress is king-size, they cuddle in the sofa, and kiss a lot, Nico comes along too, but the boy is shy, he's blushing and rambling, but at the end he let it go and enjoys.

Nico always starting the contact with Jason, they're walking and Nico holds his hand, after the campfire Nico hugs him and kiss his cheek, he would go to the Zeus Cabin, or drag Leo and Jason to Hades' and sleep, he holds Jason's hand, while Leo is over the blond boy, and, if he had a really bad nightmare, he will hug Jason really tight, Jason always smiles when Nico do this, never pushing him to go farther.

Leo's language could be words of affirmation, the boy needs to hear he's valuable and loved.

Jason has a lot of compliments for him, followed by physical touch, he would say something about Leo's project and kiss his forehead, nose, neck or lips, when they cuddle Jason would kiss all Leo, giving compliments "I love your back dimples, this mole is lovely, your skin is soft, you are warming." And etcetera.

Nico will go to Leo's workplace, sit at his side, look at his work and say something "The metal butterfly you build are beautiful, you're a genius, nobody thought that solution." If Leo creates something for Nico, he will go to Leo and talk about its usefulness, and compliments the design, he is quieter than Jason, but Leo loves the two boys.

Nico's language is acts of service.

He's a little careless of himself, Leo and Jason take turns to look after him, making him eat and have a good sleep schedule.

Jason will clean the Hades Cabin when Nico is on Hades' missions; in the apartment they share, they have a chore schedule, but, if Nico is too tired, Jason will help.

Leo will build things, to help with the housework, when Nico says his powers drown him too much, Leo designs mobile aids, canes that transform in weapons, it could shrink and one spend candies.

They take Nico on dates, the search for antique shops, especially the ones with the '40s antiques.

They just love each other, and love in their own unique way.