a literal sack of bees.

katie- 40 - she/her - queer - cosplayer [header by nomoshobia on twt] find me elsewhere as keighbees

[celestialdeth]

COMMISSIONS ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN

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[celestialdeth]

Guess what guys?!! Even if you can't commission me just the simple act of reblogging extends my reach and increases my chances of getting commissioned- so if you would like to support me a reblog does a lot more to help me than you might think

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[hard--byte]

the hottest thing a guy can be is barely conscious on the floor while someone lifts his head up by the hair so that you can see his glazed out eyes and the blood running down his face

[leona-florianova]

🐎Diana Villiers 🐎

[fleauwers]

Ships Quilt (c. 1937) Made by Marie Alsop American, active c. 1933 United States, West Virginia Cotton, plain weaves; pieced; appliquéd with cotton, plain and satin weaves; embroidered with cotton in back, single back, buttonhole, cross, eyelet, running, satin, single satin and stem stitches; French knots; quilted with cotton thread                         

[orviposition-deactivated2026012]

best ship dynamic is when they go from "you fool" (derogatory) to "you fool" (desperate)

[ariadnekurosaki]

and then to “you fool” (fondly)

[july-19th-club]

patrick obrien was like "i want to make a tonally-accurate novel series about sea captains in the napoleonic war" and his initial readers were like "this is the closest i, your weird uncle, will ever get to reading jane austen but actually it's pretty damn close" and stephen maturin was like "the navy has tricked me, trained spy, amateur polymath, physician, and revolutionary, into being here, so i am going to be an unapolagetically out of my mind autistic man." and aubrey was like "i'm in a comedy of manners with a sloth!"

[aurpiment]

By the 19th book of the Aubrey-Maturin series, you can tell that POB has updated his historical research about women serving openly as women on ships. Women as members of the gun crew, women as loblolly boys, women as servants and child-minders to the wealthy, women as wives and widows of petty and warrant officers, supernumeraries who don’t have to stand muster or be assigned to a watch, etc

However, the way he presents this information is funny as fuck. It is absolutely a retcon.

Jack’s like, oh yeah, Mrs. Poll Skeeping is going to help you out in the sick-berth

And Stephen is like, a woman? On a ship? Aren’t you, like, vehemently against that?

And Jack is like, no, there’s been loads of women around the whole time, Stephen, you just don’t notice this stuff because you don’t pay attention. It’s Because You Be On That God-Damn Birdwatching. Anyway, middle-aged women don’t signify. They’re basically seamen in skirts #feminism

[aurpiment]

This, directly after a passage about intelligence work being one of life’s attention-paying professions, and Stephen being good at it. Comic timing impeccable as always, Patrick.

[syrenki]

i have a bunch of disgusting ideas if anyone's interested

[cair--paravel]

Page decorations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1899 edition.

[demi-pixellated]

Okay, but consider: Isabela/Merill

[contaiinedarmageddon2]

[leona-florianova]

'You will not mention this to Sophie, nor to any other person,' said Stephen, with a cold, penetrating glare. 'Must I not even start looking to my sea-chest?' 'What a fellow you are, Jack!' cried Stephen, in great disgust. 'Of course you must not, not until the port admiral's messenger is come. Cannot you see the obvious cause and effect? I should have thought it plain even to the meanest intelligence.' 'A ship!' cried Jack, springing heavily into the air. There were tears in his eyes, and Stephen saw that he might wish to shake hands at any minute. He disliked all effusion, privately thinking the English far too much given to weeping and the flow of soul; he pursed his lips with a sour expression, and put his hands behind his back. He said, 'Plain to the meanest intelligence: I appear—you have a ship. What must Sophie conclude? Where is my character?'

--The Mauritius Command

[dorothylarouge]

[colinarcartperson]

My sweet patreon’s voted on my next clown so here is the clown knight!~

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[turiannn]

what has magic touched that it doesn’t spoil

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

dont mind me just saving this because i looooove data