i only recently started reading again. i hadn’t for years, mostly because of an inability to find the books i wanted. so, partially because i didn’t want anyone to go through the same thing, partially so i can show off my ~excellent taste~, i decided to start uploading books i love or plan to read~
Currently includes works by Jane Allen, Martin Amis, Petronius Arbiter, Henry H. Bashford, Alan Bennett, Mikhail Bulgakov, Truman Capote, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Neil Gaiman, Cédric Giraud (ed.), Ernest Hemingway, Patricia Highsmith, Tom Holland, Alan Hollinghurst, A. E. Housman, Erin Hunter, Christopher Isherwood, Franz Kafka, Ronald Knox, H. P. Lovecraft, Vladimir Nabokov, Hans Henning Ørberg, George Orwell, Robert Peston, Terry Pratchett, Marcel Proust, Anne Rice, Walter Rüegg (ed.), J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Tom Sharpe, Robert Louis Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, Donna Tartt, Voltaire, Alice Walker, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf. Complete list under the readmore.
Allen, Jane
I Lost My Girlish Laughter
Amis, Martin
Dead Babies
Arbiter, Petronius
The Satyricon
Bashford, Henry H
Augustus Carp, Esq.
Bennett, Alan
The Clothes They Stood Up In
The Complete Talking Heads
The Habit of Art
The History Boys
The Lady in the Van
The Laying On of Hands
The Uncommon Reader
Untold Stories
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Master and Margarita
Capote, Truman
The Complete Stories
Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Martin Chuzzlewit
Nicholas Nickleby
Oliver Twist
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Pickwick Papers
A Tale of Two Cities
Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 1
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 2
Fitzgerald, F Scott
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Beautiful and Damned
The Great Gatsby
Tender is the Night
Forster, E M
A Room With A View
Howards End
Maurice
Gaiman, Neil
Good Omens
Neverwhere
Giraud, Cédric
A Companion to Twelfth-Century Schools
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell To Arms
A Moveable Feast
Across the River and into the Sea
Complete Short Stories
Death in the Afternoon
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
Highsmith, Patricia
The Price of Salt
Holland, Tom
Attis
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Stranger’s Child
Housman, A E
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
Hunter, Erin
Warrior Cats (all of, I think?)
Isherwood, Christopher
A Single Man
The Berlin Stories
Kafka, Franz
Complete stories
Knox, Ronald
Let Dons Delight: Being Variations on a Theme in an Oxford Common Room
Lovecraft, H P
The Complete Works
Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita
Ørberg, Hans Henning
Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata (all materials)
Orwell, George
1984
Animal Farm
Down and Out in Paris and London
Peston, Robert
The Whistleblower
Pratchett, Terry
Going Postal
Soul Music
Proust, Marcel
Swann’s Way
Rice, Anne
Interview with the Vampire
Rüegg, Walter
A History of the University in Europe vols 1-4
Salinger, J D
The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William
Julius Caesar
Sharpe, Tom
Porterhouse Blue
Grantchester Grind
Stephenson, Robert Louis
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stoppard, Tom
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tartt, Donna
The Goldfinch
The Little Friend
The Secret History
Voltaire
Candide
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
Waugh, Evelyn
A Handful of Dust
Brideshead Revisited
Vile Bodies
Wilde, Oscar
De Profundis
The Importance of Being Earnest
The (uncensored, supposedly) Picture of Dorian Gray
The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Wodehouse, P G
pretty much everything (except barmy in wonderland (i’m pretty sore about it))
Woolf, Virginia
A Room of One’s Own
Mrs Dalloway
Orlando
hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.
think a lot of my clutuals will be interested in this open access book published this year:
In ancient Rome, the Latin word viscera denoted the inner parts of the body, where physical sensations related to fear and anger could be fe
Part 1: Politics
Chapter 1. Anatomy, Sensation, and Sacrifice 25
Chapter 2. Civil Strife and the Body Politic in Cicero, Vergil, and Livy
Part 2: Reproduction
Chapter 3. Womb Words and Kinship Metaphors
Chapter 4. Abortion and Domestic Violence in Ovid
Chapter 5. Civil War and Dynastic Struggle in Ovid
Part 3: Succession
Chapter 6. Overdetermined Violence and Polluted Sacrifice in Seneca
Chapter 7. Self-Destructive Devotion and Aberrant Divination in Lucan
getting older and weirder and sexier and more perverted and gluttonous and intelligent and blunt and eloquent and spontaneous and skilled is literally what it's all about
Really bad habit I have to get rid of is feeling like I shouldn’t open a message until im going to reply but not opening it results in me having hundreds of message notifications and forgetting I got messaged for 6 months and then when I finally do open it i see something like “my entire house burned down and they poisoned all my horses and they’re trying me for witchcraft and I need your testimony by 7 pm tonight to save me” and I’m like uh oh
A few years ago, I wrote a post on how to torrent for beginners. It gave poor advice and isn't worth reblogging. Unfortunately, I can't make the thing unrebloggable, so instead I'm writing a new one.
You will need:
A working internet connection
A copy of qbittorrent
An adblocker, ideally uBlock Origin
Especially if you're in Germany or the USA, a vpn. I recommend mullvad (though make sure to use a p2p server).
Install qbittorrent here for the operating system you use. This is what you'll use to download torrent files. Once installed, it should look like this:
2. Find ext.to on your browser of choice. Although this website is largely safe, it's also filled with ads--this is where your adblocker comes in. The front page should look like this:
3. Find something you're interested in, but avoid the apps section. ext.to has very little moderation on who uploads, so although visual/aural media is 99.999% likely to be safe, software is less likely to be. For example, here's a copy of Avatar: Fire and Ash:
There are three important things to look at here: the number of seeders (green number), the number of leechers (red number), and the contents of the torrent (the section under Torrent Contents). In general, you want the seeders--those uploading the file--to be as high a number as possible, and the leechers--those downloading the file--to be as low a number as possible. As for the contents, what you need to check here is the file extension. mkv is a common file extension for video and there are tons of seeders on this file, so it's extremely likely to be safe to download. Avoid files with exe or msi file endings.
4. Click the magnet button just below the seeder/leecher information. Your browser should ask you if you want to open the link with qbittorrent. Tell it you do. qbittorrent should then show you a popup that looks like this:
Tell it where you want to download and bingo:
5. That's pretty much it! Let the file finish downloading, navigate to where you downloaded it to, and play it. That's pretty much all there is to it.
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This isn't technically necessary, but I'd strongly recommend it: keep seeding any file you download (i.e. keep it in the same place you downloaded it to and don't delete it) for as long as possible, or at least until your ratio reaches 1.0, as seen here:
A ratio of 1.0 means you've uploaded the entire torrent to at least one other person. This is how torrenting survives--if nobody seeds a torrent, there's no way to download it.
Anyway, that's all! Go forth and torrent, and best of luck to you.
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
