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Did you know? You can buy wild rice direct from Native folks!
Wild rice isn’t actually rice-it’s a grass seed that grows naturally in lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and it’s been an indigenous staple food for many, many centuries. Although some corporations have taken and grown “wild rice” in paddies, it is not the same thing- it is actually a hybrid seed that is not the same quality and often sold for a higher price anyways.
Not only is the wild rice a sacred food, but is a form of Indigenous science that lets you know how healthy the water is (or isn’t), because water is life and affects the health of all people, plants, and animals that live with it. This has been belatedly acknowledged by very recent research from the University of Minnesota that the health of the wild rice can predict all health of lakes and streams.
I buy my wild rice from the Red Lake Nation and the White Earth Nation.
The cool thing about buying from the White Earth Nation is that they also have videos showing the traditional processes involved in harvesting and parching the rice, and they offer stuff like gift baskets, chokecherry preserves, maple candy, soup & pancake mix, and cookbooks which make great gifts!
What I like about buying from the Red Lake Nation is there is a massive variety and quantity of different wild rice products at many different prices! They are aware that the broken grains are not as quality, but it doesn’t go to waste-you can buy the broken grains for “Soup Bits” ($3.49) which are an inexpensive way to add flavor & nutrition to soups and stews. They also offer “Quick Cook” wild rice ($5.69), which is prepared from a lighter roast/parch process that allows the grains to cook in a shorter amount of time and has a rich, traditional flavor.
You can also buy syrups and jellies made from hand harvested hawthorn, chokecherry, and highbush cranberry there.
BUT! If you’re worried about shipping costs or like me, are disabled/have limited mobility and can’t always get to the store like you might prefer,Red Lake Nation also sells their rice through Amazon, eligible for Prime shipping. This is also good for those, Native or not, who are struggling in the community and share their wishlists for help purchasing food.(Also please know this post is only meant to share information, not to make anyone feel bad or imply they’re eating “inferior” food.)
If you’re interested in finding out what other nations cultivate and sell/trade wild rice, there’s a partial list here of where you can buy hand-harvested wild rice from native people in the Great Lakes region
my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.
i literally love tumblr
Attention non-artists who commission artists: don’t fuckin do this???
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Thank you for the ressource! Langblr is a lifesaver tbh
OKAY GUYS I DON’T KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN DONE BUT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT BILINGUIS. ya’ll, this site is amazing. it’s a site of free, public-domain bilingual books. and there are SO MANY LANGUAGES. it’s not just french and spanish, but also dutch, mandarin, ukrainian, esperanto and way more. there are only five books but they are all classics and they are all amazing!
see that? that’s Alice in Wonderland in Esperanto and English. AND IT GETS BETTER. in certain languages, YOU CAN PLAY THE AUDIOBOOK ALONG WITH IT AS YOU READ. it’s also worth noting that you don’t have to have it in english and another language. you can have it in any two of the languages offered.
anyway, here it is. so please guys, spread the knowledge, because it’s totally great and i have a new addiction.
AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok
summer selfship surprise!
summer is just around the corner, being just a month away now - and to prepare for one of my favorite seasons, i will be hosting an event called the summer selfship surprise!
in this little summer event, members of the selfship community can surprise each other with gifts! these can be anything from drawings to writing, to moodboards / stimboards, playlists, etc! each gift equals a certain amount of points - and the top three with the most points gets a prize!
the event is planned to start june 1st and to end around july 1st! currently i am looking for both those who are interested in participating and those who are interested in volunteering to give prizes! if you're interested in either, please fill out this form and you will be added to the official summer selfship surprise doc for when the event begins!
i hope to see you all enjoying the event this summer! :)
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Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!
The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.
This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.
Here is a short and easy video showing this in action
The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.
You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.
If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!
I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.
If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!
How to download ANY *working* audio post from tumblr
Okay so I’ve been using this method for a few years now to download most of my music and apparently a lot of people don’t know how to do it so I thought I’d share. This method works for any working audio post on tumblr and you won’t lose any of the quality of the audio post like you do with some Youtube converters. This method only works for GOOGLE CHROME. I’m sure you can do it with other browsers, I just don’t know how. Chrome is free though so it shouldn’t be a problem. Okay so:
1. Open up tumblr and find the audio post(s) you want to download. (don’t press play yet!!)
2. RIGHT click over the center-ish of the audio post (mac users click control then click to right click)
3. Click “inspect element”
4. Click “network”
5. Click “size”
6. Click the play button on the audio post and let it play for a few seconds until the audio file shows up (you don’t have to listen to the whole thing).
7. Right click where it says “from cache” in the size column. This should be the audio file.
8. Click “open in a new tab”. A new tab with a black screen and the audio file should open.
9. Right click anywhere in the black screen, then click “save as”.
10. Save your file and enjoy!!
*PC users will need to drag the mp3 file from your downloads to iTunes; Mac users can just open the file after it has downloaded and it will automatically open in iTunes
**you can change the name of the song/artist/album/artwork after the file is in iTunes. Just right click then click “get info” and edit away!
I hope this was helpful!! I know this seems like a lot of steps but once you get the hang of it, it’s really fast and easy. :)
***UPDATE: IF YOU HAVE XKIT THERE IS AN EXTENSION THAT ALLOWS YOU TO DO THIS MUCH SIMPLER. IT’S CALLED “AUDIO DOWNLOADER” OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT :)
Just posted a new headcanon for Aziraphale on AO3!🤍
It is with great displeasure that I'll inform you that watching Reality TV in your target language will increase your comprehension abilities by A LOT.
If you can understand a drunk woman with a strong accent, crying because her crush served orange juice to another woman, using every slang word known to mankind, you will understand basic conversations with ease.
If you cannot stomach Reality TV (which is understandable) I'll recommend watching youtubers doing commentary videos on Reality TV shows/episodes. I find this way of consuming Reality TV less brain-frying.
And you could argue that watching movies / TV show is sufficient, but you need to remember that the way actors speak isn't 100% natural : the speed, enunciation, choice of words will not be a proper representation of how people speak in real life, while reality TV on the other hand...(I'm not saying everyone speaks like this). But, especially if your goal is to be able to speak casually with your foreign friends, it will help you a lot ! (I guess if your goal is to read classical literature in your target language, don't bother watching Reality TV)
Good news ! If you're learning Mandarin, there are a looooot of Reality shows that are actually cute and not ...vulgar ? And a lot of them can be found on youtube with English sub ! In German, I watch Mirellativegal on youtube. Anyway, don't ask me for recommendation for French Reality TV, I looked for it to give you some examples and I feel like I've lost brain cells during the few minutes I looked for it. If you guys have recommendations for cool Reality-shows in any languages don't hesitate to share ! I'm currently looking for some Spanish ones (preferably Mexican ones)
I watched a video today that has me convinced that watching Shrek over and over again is a very efficient way to learn a language.
This channel called One Word At a Time often does these videos where he assumes it takes 20 exposures to a word in context to understand it and runs some numbers to see how quickly you’d learn words if you watch a certain series or read a kids book or whatever.
Here’s the thing. In most of his videos he assumes you’re watching one episode a day or something and it takes like 100-200 days to acquire 1000-2000 words.
Here’s the thing though. Shrek has 1200 unique words in it. So if you watch Shrek once a day you get that done in 20 days.
And he was being like “this seems like such a dull way to learn a language”
Dull? Shrek? You think Shrek will get dull? Maybe for you but I’m someone who rewatches things to death. If what you’re saying is true, you just found the hack. The jump to A2. The shortcut to god mode. All your other calculations took hundreds of days to learn this many words, sir. Shrek is the answer.
Fanfiction Recommendation 163: the romance of it all (Good Omens)
the romance of it all - Too_Salty - Good Omens (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
A lovely fic where Aziraphale starts writing romances after Armagedon't--and doesn't realise his romance novels are based on his relationship with Crowley
Here is the link! What an amazing idea ❤️
Reading eyewitness accounts of the first crusade is so funny because it's very clear that no one knows what they're doing.
I don’t know if anyone can resist some good ol’ fashion fake dating, so here are 150 related prompts.
this list of prompts includes:
☆ 50 reasons why we must fake a relationship ☆ 50 reasons i’m only doing this because people need to believe this is real ☆ 50 moments of wait, are we still pretending?
buckle up and please enjoy the ride!
reasons why we must fake a relationship
01. I’m tired of my family whining about when I’m going to start dating someone (classic and must be included) 02. my moving van was stolen so will you pretend to marry me so I can get the money and gifts to replace everything? 03. my ex is an asshole and I really don’t want them to think I’m still in love 04. I’m tired of my friends/family setting me up on horrible blind dates so I made up a relationship and now they want to meet this mystery person 05. I need a green card (aka The Proposal AU) 06. I want to let someone who keeps asking me out down easy, so I blurt that I’m in a relationship and things sort of got out of hand 07. I answer an ad so we’re each other’s partners to our family gatherings 08. someone assumed we’re dating but I didn’t realize that’s what they meant until it was too late and I had committed us to a couples’ retreat weekend 09. in order to get that promotion, I have to show the Big Bosses that I’m a family person too but I don’t have a family so can I pretend to be part of yours? 10. my ex just showed up with their new partner and I don’t want them to win this breakup 11. I’m your assistant and you just informed me that your entire family thinks we’re dating and you don’t want to let them down 12. it’s grandma’s dying wish to see you married so here I am 13. I’m really competitive and drunk and I just told a rival that my relationship is way better than theirs, but they don’t believe you exist (but I’m too stubborn to admit they’re right) 14. our friends set us up on a blind date as a prank because we don’t like each other but neither of us wants to let them win so 15. people keep teasing us about being a couple so we come up with a plan to fake date and have a fake breakup so they’ll feel awkward and leave us alone
enjoy the rest of the prompts under the cut!
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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"
College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access
Gendered pronouns in Japanese vs English
In Revolutionary Girl Utena, the main character Utena is a girl (it says so in the title), but very conspicuously uses the masculine first person pronoun 僕 (boku) and dresses in (a variation of) the boys school uniform. Utena's gender, and gender in general, is a core theme of the work. And yet, I haven’t seen a single translation or analysis post where anyone considers using anything other than she/her for Utena when speaking of her in English. This made me wonder: how does one’s choice of pronouns in Japanese correspond to what one’s preferred pronouns would be in English?
There are 3 main differences between gendered pronouns in Japanese vs English
Japanese pronouns are used to refer to yourself (first-person), while English pronouns are used to refer to others (third-person)
The Japanese pronoun you use will differ based on context
Japanese pronouns signify more than just gender
Let’s look at each of these differences in turn and how these differences might lead to a seeming incongruity between one’s Japanese pronoun choice and one’s English pronoun choice (such as the 僕 (boku) vs she/her discrepancy with Utena).
Part 1: First-person vs third-person
While Japanese does technically have gendered third person pronouns （彼、彼女） they are used infrequently¹ and have much less cultural importance placed on them than English third person pronouns. Therefore, I would argue that the cultural equivalent of the gender-signifying third-person pronoun in English is the Japanese first-person pronoun. Much like English “pronouns in bio”, Japanese first-person pronoun choice is considered an expression of identity.
Japanese pronouns are used exclusively to refer to yourself, and therefore a speaker can change the pronoun they’re using for themself on a whim, sometimes mid-conversation, without it being much of an incident. Meanwhile in English, Marquis Bey argues that “Pronouns are like tiny vessels of verification that others are picking up what you are putting down” (2021). By having others use them and externally verify the internal truth of one’s gender, English pronouns, I believe, are seen as more truthful, less frivolous, than Japanese pronouns. They are seen as signifying an objective truth of the referent’s gender; if not objective then at least socially agreed-upon, while Japanese pronouns only signify how the subject feels at this particular moment — purely subjective.
Part 2: Context dependent pronoun use
Japanese speakers often don’t use just one pronoun. As you can see in the below chart, a young man using 俺 (ore) among friends might use 私 (watashi) or 自分 (jibun) when speaking to a teacher. This complicates the idea that these pronouns are gendered, because their gendering depends heavily on context. A man using 私 (watashi) to a teacher is gender-conforming, a man using 私 (watashi) while drinking with friends is gender-non-conforming. Again, this reinforces the relative instability of Japanese pronoun choice, and distances it from gender.
Part 3: Signifying more than gender
English pronouns signify little besides the gender of the antecedent. Because of this, pronouns in English have come to be a shorthand for expressing one’s own gender experience - they reflect an internal gendered truth. However, Japanese pronoun choice doesn’t reflect an “internal truth” of gender. It can signify multiple aspects of your self - gender, sexuality, personality.
For example, 僕 (boku) is used by gay men to communicate that they are bottoms, contrasted with the use of 俺 (ore) by tops. 僕 (boku) may also be used by softer, academic men and boys (in casual contexts - note that many men use 僕 (boku) in more formal contexts) as a personality signifier - maybe to communicate something as simplistic as “I’m not the kind of guy who’s into sports.” 俺 (ore) could be used by a butch lesbian who still strongly identifies as a woman, in order to signify sexuality and an assertive personality. 私 (watashi) may be used by people of all genders to convey professionalism. The list goes on.
I believe this is what’s happening with Utena - she is signifying her rebellion against traditional feminine gender roles with her use of 僕 (boku), but as part of this rebellion, she necessarily must still be a girl. Rather than saying “girls don’t use boku, so I’m not a girl”, her pronoun choice is saying “your conception of femininity is bullshit, girls can use boku too”.
Through translation, gendered assumptions need to be made, sometimes about real people. Remember that he/they, she/her, they/them are purely English linguistic constructs, and don’t correspond directly to one’s gender, just as they don’t correspond directly to the Japanese pronouns one might use. Imagine a scenario where you are translating a news story about a Japanese genderqueer person. The most ethical way to determine what pronouns they would prefer would be to get in contact with them and ask them, right? But what if they don’t speak English? Are you going to have to teach them English, and the nuances of English pronoun choice, before you can translate the piece? That would be ridiculous! It’s simply not a viable option². So you must make a gendered assumption based on all the factors - their Japanese pronoun use (context dependent!), their clothing, the way they present their body, their speech patterns, etc.
If translation is about rewriting the text as if it were originally in the target language, you must also rewrite the gender of those people and characters in the translation. The question you must ask yourself is: How does their gender presentation, which has been tailored to a Japanese-language understanding of gender, correspond to an equivalent English-language understanding of gender? This is an incredibly fraught decision, but nonetheless a necessary one. It’s an unsatisfying dilemma, and one that poignantly exposes the fickle, unstable, culture-dependent nature of gender.
Notes and References
¹ Usually in Japanese, speakers use the person’s name directly to address someone in second or third person
² And has colonialist undertones as a solution if you ask me - “You need to pick English pronouns! You ought to understand your gender through our language!”
Bey, Marquis— 2021 Re: [No Subject]—On Nonbinary Gender
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Sources for Research on English Linguistics, Literature, and Culture
-> links to databases, archives, corpora, encyclopedias, and more
The following sites are for English studies, linguistics, and anglistics.
I could also do another list like this one for other related studies, such as classic philology, German studies, Scandinavian studies, Romance studies, and Slavic studies, in case that’s something you guys are interested in.
All of these sites should allow free access for everyone. Most of them are from Great Britain, Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia/New Zealand, and Germany.
(Please let me know, if any of the links don’t work)
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Collections / Databases / Archives / Anthologies:
About the USA (information about the US, including holidays, history, society, art and entertainment, media, government, politics, travel, sports, economy, and science)
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (database of 50 works by African American women of the 19th century)
American Memory (digitalised material from the Americana collection of the Library of Congress)
American Song Sheets (collection of 1,800 song sheets from the 19th century)
American Verse Project (archive with American poetry until 1920)
Archive of Early American Images (7,000 images about North and South America from primary sources between 1492 and 1895)
Arthurian Fiction in Medieval Europe (information about the Arthurian tale and the scripts which spread it around Europe)
Atlas of Surveillance (records surveillance technologies used by US law enforcement agencies, including drones, body cameras, face recognition, etc.)
Australian Poetry Library (over 42,000 poems by over 170 Australian authors)
Bartleby.com (texts of (English-speaking) world literature with reference material; over 370,000 sites)
Bibliography of the International Arthurian Society (literature about the Arthurian tale)
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads (over 30,000 ballads from the 16th to the 20th century)
Bodleian Library Pre-1920 allegro Catalogue (printed matter in European languages and writings published before 1920 or purchased before 1989 by the Bodleian Library)
BookPage: Issue Archive (monthly information about new books and book reviews)
British Cartoon Archive (over 200,000 cartoons from comic books, newspapers, magazines, and books about British history)
British Fiction 1800-1829 (2,272 texts by about 900 authors of the early 19th century)
British Library Online Gallery: Virtual Books (virtual access to rare / old books of the British Library)
British National Bibliography (bibliography of books and periodicals of the British Library)
Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online (database about the life and works of Ben Jonson, a well-known Renaissance writer)
Cambridge History of English and American Literature (online version of the books)
Canadian Literature Archive (texts by Canadian authors)
Canadiana Online (over 200,000 texts of historical publications)
Casgliad y Werin Cymru = Peoples Collection Wales (document collection by 9 Welsh museums and libraries)
Collect Britain (over 90,000 images, photos, maps, and audio material from the British Library)
Contemporary Writers in the UK (biographical information about the most important contemporary authors of Britain and the Commonwealth)
Digital Collections / Harry Ransom Center (access to over 7,000 objects from literature, photography, film, and art, including manuscripts, letters, posters, photos, and drawings since the 16th century)
Digital Comic Museum (access to Public Domain Comics from the ‘Golden Age of Comicbooks’)
Documenting the American South (14 collections of primary sources about history and culture of the Southern States)
DraCor (collection of dramas in several languages published between 472 BC and 1947)
Early Americas Digital Archive (historical texts in regard to America, published between 1492 and the 19th century)
Early Modern Festival Books Database (over 3,000 texts about festival culture, published between 1200 and 1800 in 12 languages)
Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (interactive database about the morphosyntactic variation in spoken English)
English Broadside Ballad Archive (English ballads of early modern times with transcriptions of the texts and sometimes recordings of the music)
English Poetry Anthologies (English poems from 1250 to 1943)
English-Corpora.org (collection of English corpora)
Environmental History of the Americas Database (2,000 international texts about the environmental history of North and South America)
European Views of the Americas (32,000 European printed texts about America until 1750)
Familiar Quotations (online edition, includes 11,000 quotes of English literary history)
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici (all sources in English or Latin texts from Anglo-Saxon England (until 1066) or Anglo-Saxon authors)
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS, 1861-1993) (official documentation of foreign-policy decisions of the USA)
Gender Inn (database with more than 8,400 texts about feminist theory and gender studies)
Grand Comics Database (database of all comics about North America published world-wide)
Hamnet : Folger Library Catalogue (online catalogue of the Folger Shakespeare Library)
HANSARD 1803-2005 (British parliamentary sessions from 1803 to 2005)
Hartlib Papers (database with all the letters of Samuel Hartlib)
Heroic in Victorian Periodicals (analyses the motive of heroism in Victorian Great Britain)
Historical Thesaurus of English (800,000 words from Old to Modern English with meanings, synonyms, etc.)
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana (sheet music from the Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society)
Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections (index of 3,900 anthologies from before 1984)
Internet Shakespeare Editions (database about the life and works of Shakespeare)
Internet Speculative Fiction Database (database of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Literature)
IntraText Digital Library (texts about religion, philosophy, literature, and history in 39 languages)
ipl2: Information You Can Trust (catalogue of examined, evaluated, and commentated links to American websites)
Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator (2,000 peer reviewed journals about Japanese research in science, technology, and medicine)
John Johnson Collection (one of the largest collections of printed documents from British history)
Johnsons Dictionary Online (web version of Samuel Johnson’s ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’ (1755))
Joyce Papers 2002 (digitalised collection of the National Library of Ireland in Dublin)
Language in Australia and New Zealand (bibliography of 6,200 titles about Australian and New Zealand languages and language families)
Lecturing Women in Victorian Periodicals Database (Feminist lectures in Victorian England (14 periodicals))
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters (locations of English literature from the 18th century to today in Great Britain and Ireland)
Luminarium (English literature and history from the Middle Ages to the 18th century)
Making of America (primary sources of American history from 1859 to 1877 and secondary literature from 1840 to 1900)
Melville Electronic Library (online editions of the works of Hermann Melville)
Middle English Collection (database of 60 works and collections of works of Middle English literature)
MIT Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive (online access to Shakespeare performances from around the world)
MLA Language Map (map of the linguistic characteristics of different regions of the USA)
Modernist Journals Project (database of texts about modernism from 1890 to 1922)
New Face of Fiction (modern fiction of Canadian authors from Random House Canada)
OLC Anglistik - Online Contents (articles about anglistics / English studies)
Oxford Journals (by the Oxford University Press; collection of journals)
Oxford Languages (collection of language dictionaries)
Papakilo Database (database about history and culture of Hawaii)
Papers of Abraham Lincoln (database with handwritten papers and documents by Abraham Lincoln)
Pascal / Francis (database of journals and conference proceedings)
PEN America Digital Archive (archive of audio and video materials since 1966)
Perseus Digital Library / Renaissance Materials (collection of 80 texts of English Renaissance literature)
Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (corpus of all manuscripts of the poem ‘Piers Plowman’)
Polish Diaspora in the UK and Ireland (databank on how Polish immigrants influenced British literature and culture)
Popular History in Victorian Magazines Database (database of how popular history was presented in Victorian magazines)
Project Gutenberg (53,000 free ebooks and other texts)
Questia (5,000 free books)
REED Online (database of early English dramas from the Middle Ages to 1642)
Shapell Collection (collection of media about the history of the US in the 19th and 20th century)
SSSL Bibliography: A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature (secondary literature of more than 1,000 authors from the US south)
Swedish American Newspapers / Svensk-Amerikanska Tidningar (database of 300,000 newspaper pages from 28 different daily newspapers published in the US from 1859 to 2007)
TEAMS Middle English texts (online editions of Middle English texts with annotations and bibliographies)
Trove / National Library of Australia (search engine for media relating to Australia)
Vetusta Monumenta : Ancient Monuments, a Digital Edition (digital edition of ‘Vetusta Monumenta’ from 1718 to 1796 with scans of copperplate engravings and scientific commentary)
Victorian Dictionary (sources about life in Victorian London)
Vision of Britain Through Time (historic-geographic information about Great Britain)
Walt Whitman Manuscripts (archive of the manuscripts of Walt Whitman)
Welsh Journals Online (archive of 50 Welsh journals/magazines)
Wright American Fiction (digital library of American novels of the 19th century (1851 und 1875))
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Language Corpora:
British National Corpus (100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the later part of the 20th century)
corpora.unito (linguistic corpora for Italian, French, Spanish, English, and German)
Corpus of Early English Correspondence
Corpus of Electronic Texts (database with texts of Irish literature and literary history in Irish, English, Hiberno-Norman, and Latin)
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
Middle English Grammar Corpus (corpus of Middle English texts)
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Dictionaries / Encyclopedias:
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Dictionary of Irish Biography (contains about 11,000 articles)
Dictionary of the Scots Language
EDD Online 3.0 (based on Joseph Wright’s ‘English Dialect Dictionary’, 1898-1905)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (general encyclopedia with over 90,000 editorally reviewed articles by 4,300 authors)
Encyclopedia of American Studies (800 texts about US history, politics, culture, society, and economy from precolonial times until now)
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (records the cultural movements and their influence on cultural communities in Europe in the wake of the Romantic period)
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (16,350 entries about Science Fiction authors, artists, and filmmakers, as well as entries about films, radio and TV productions, periodicals, and other publications)
Glottopedia (free editable encyclopedia by linguists for linguists)
Green’s Dictionary of Slang (dictionary by Jonathon Green)
Irish Dictionary Online (English - Irish dictionary)
Linguee (translation database by DeepL for word contexts)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online (monolingual English dictionary)
Macmillan Dictionary (monolingual English dictionary)
Merriam-Webster (dictionary and thesaurus)
Oxford Learners Dictionary
Thesaurus of Old English (Old English (Anglo-Saxon) dictionary)
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TECHNOLOGY IS AMAZING ❤️
(I followed the tutorial+got the model from this tweet!)
oh, i love the way relationships develop their own personal language of love. when all that joy shows the way they love you. i love when it is a little icon to who they are, to how you get along with them.
my sister takes a picture of a dead bug and sends it to me - this is you. my friend asks me how the move is going; she put a reminder in her phone to check up on me. i put a piece of ice down my friend's back, he returns the favor by holding my phone over my head and making me jump to catch it. jason and i scream-sing green day while going all of 15 miles an hour down country roads. molly is who i go to for a quiet night in with 5 dollar wine.
i go out for dinner with them and have to step outside to take a phone call; when i come back they've ordered my favorite appetizer without needing to be asked. andrew and i have a long-standing tradition of him picking me up to spike me directly into the first soft-looking surface around. i don't even need to speak to my best friend - she and i will just look at each other and have an entire conversation. burst out laughing at 3 PM, high and cackling like we're evil witches. i just moved by myself into a new city - my brother keeps introducing me to his friends that now live close to me. he always says - oh yeah, this is sibling and then pretends to ignore me. for days now, my family has been in and out of my apartment, just tinkering with things; making sure i am settling in nicely.
i usually have watermelon instead of cake for my birthday; kim forces a full yankee candle into the rind so i can have something to blow out and wish on. for 20 minutes on a saturday, all us grown adults crawl into one bed to have a cuddle puddle like we're in high school again. every 20 seconds someone starts giggling, and then we're laughing again. nick calls me from california; we both groan about the price of tickets, agonizing. miranda and i meet up in the city for the first time in years - without discussing it beforehand, the minute we lay eyes on each other, we both strike gruesome little gremlin poses instead of waving. dean always goes for the hug. joe always does a single firm handshake. sometimes i think about my friends and get so happy i just start crying.
oh, how wonderful to live in a world where affection is biologically ingrained in us. how wonderful that affection helps us build our single greatest strength - community. how wonderful that affection is our body's way of saying - thing is good, let's keep. how wonderful, this language, this skein we weave! to show the other person - i might not always say it. but i love that you live in me.