CJ's Guest House

cj. she/he/they fluid. possibly older than your mom. * Be excellent to each other and remember--you don't owe anyone your identity or your traumas in order to be valid. * 

[edwarbteach]

JUNE THE THIRD, AN EXCELLENT DAY!

[dailyhudsonwilliams]

Hudson Williams and Mike Myers at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards

[magnhild]

it's midnight on the 1st of june aest

[dropoutvocalstims]

posting this again cause now its actually true

[sophsun1]

#happy pride month 🌈

Queer as Folk – 2.03: Hypocrisy: Don't Do It

[weathereyehorizon]

If I had a nickel for every time two little guys from a queer Canadian show realized all their dreams were coming true by looking at a billboard of themselves in LA together, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's still really fucking cool. 🥹

[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

[cjmarlowe]

WIP Wednesday

This is still a thing, right? No one asked, but Ima go ahead and show my butt anyway. This is actually a Hollanov rom-com in the end, I swear, but it starts with...

“Hey, Babygirl, what can I do for you?”

“Ew, you are not allowed to call me the same pet name you use for your girlfriend.”

“I would never!” laughed Carter, though he was getting the eye from a couple of teammates like they thought he was, so maybe his sister had a point. “You’re my only baby girl.”

“Stoooppp,” said Annie, but she was laughing too. “I have a serious question.”

“Serious as in I should take myself somewhere private, or serious as in we can handle it in the five minutes before I have to get on the ice for practice?”

“Oh shit, I thought it was an off day, sorry.”

“No game, just practice,” said Carter. “Everything okay?”

“Oh yes, yes, sorry,” said Annie. “I have a favor to ask. Well, kind of a favor and kind of an offer.”

“Out with it,” said Carter as Hunter bumped his shoulder with a gloved fist before heading out onto the ice. “You know I’d do anything for you.”

“Can you invite some of your friends to my wedding?”

“Are you asking about Hunter? He’s already invited, you know that. You will have the support of the entire contingent of out MLH players. All one of him.”

“No, I mean… look, the entire wedding party is women. Most of our guests are women. Single women. Some of them even straight women. We have a very, um, unbalanced guest list.”

Carter just laughed. “Oh, you’re not asking for my actual friends, you’re asking for my hot, hockey-playing acquaintances.”

“Just the ones who’d be cool,” said Annie quickly. “And the ones with all their teeth. Not the assholes. Yes, I realize that leaves you with a short list.”

“I would obviously not invite anyone who wouldn’t be cool,” he said, very seriously now. Anyone who had a problem with Annie and Erica had a problem with Carter, too. “Okay, I can think of a few guys.”

“Thanks, bro. I want to do my straight girls a solid. Somehow they think that I have all these connections. There’s even a group chat I’m not on with all kinds of speculation. Or so I’m told.”

“And you’re sure you want this and it’s not just for them? It’s your wedding. You get to say no.”

“No, it’s cool,” said Annie. “It’ll be fun. And besides, you’re paying for it, right? So what’s a few more guests?”

“Oh yeah, that’s the spirit,” he said, shaking his head. It was true, though. And he’d do a lot more for her than that. “Okay, I gotta get out on the ice. We’ll talk soon, though.”

“And I’ll let you know if they have any specific requests. Maybe send you some headshots.”

“We’re not a menu you can order off of!”

“Then why do they have names and pictures on your website?”

“Oh my god,” he laughed. “Love you, Annie.”

“Love you, too! Now go kick some ass!”

“It’s a practice!” he said, but she’d already hung up so he tucked his phone into his cubby and headed out.

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

“A sleeping mother snow leopard curled up in a doughnut shape, front paws resting against her back, while her tiny, eyes-and-ears-closed kitten nuzzles into the fur of her belly and wraps their arm around her”

[blanklier]

do you think if i just start putting montreal metro jeremy culhane in my fic anyone will say anything or

[blanklier]

i can paint the picture hang on. imagine this is all like. truly c or even d plot at this point. the third or fourth comment on a metros socmed post type thing.

metro jeremy culhane's name is like. jeremy callhain. they call him phone or caller usually, because nicknames.

third line d-man. he's not that popular so people don't really know him, but even through the league and stuff people call him by nickname.

he is in fact, identical to Actual Comedian Jeremy Culhane. who is also a real person in this universe

the overlap between dropout fans/fans of The Sex Lives of College Girls and hockey fans is not that high, so nobody really picked up on this fact. even if they did, it never got really popular- mostly an in joke in a little corner of the internet.

ofc, Actual Comedian Jeremy Culhane gets on SNL. you know who probably watches SNL sometimes? actual hockey players and their social media managers

someone will eventually go hey. hey isn't caller's name jeremy too-

anyway this is how we get the game changer/game changers overlap

and CRUCIALLY. this is all fucking c/d plot. there's other shit going on. nobody cares about the fact that the jeremies may be long lost twins or some shit

[cjmarlowe]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Cliff Marlow | Cliff Marleau, Svetlana Vetrova, Original Characters, Rose Landry Additional Tags: Post-S1, AU: Canon divergence, Ilya is traded, POV Ilya Rozanov, plans are made to be broken, the MLH is a business, Road Trip, Svetlana Knows, mental health issues implied, the infamous missing 2017-18 season, use of homophobic slurs, Ilya Rozanov plays for another team, pet acquisition, More Tags as Chapters Are Added, Phone Sex, Long Distance Relationship, Rose Landry is a Good Friend, New Team Dynamics, Cliff Marleau is a good friend, Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Clubbing Summary:

Before he can make the move to Ottawa in free agency, Ilya is traded to the Detroit Overdrive for the remainder of the season. It's only a temporary move to bolster their playoff prospects, but it still puts a hell of a wrench in some carefully laid plans. And once one piece of the plan changes, who knows what the ripple effect will be on the rest.

[panelshowsource]

[cjmarlowe]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Cliff Marlow | Cliff Marleau, Svetlana Vetrova Additional Tags: Post-S1, Original Characters - Freeform, AU: Canon divergence, Ilya is traded, POV Ilya Rozanov, plans are made to be broken, the MLH is a business, Road Trip, Svetlana Knows, mental health issues implied, the infamous missing 2017-18 season, more tags tba as the story progresses, use of homophobic slurs, temporary pet acquisition, creative phone sex, Ilya Rozanov plays for another team Summary:

Before he can make the move to Ottawa in free agency, Ilya is traded to the Detroit Overdrive for the remainder of the season. It's only a temporary move to bolster their playoff prospects, but it still puts a hell of a wrench in some carefully laid plans. And once one piece of the plan changes, who knows what the ripple effect will be on the rest.

[midnightstorries]

connor storrie "trying on" hudson william's coat at the Met Gala 2026 (via caradelevingne)

GUNS TOO BIG

[cjmarlowe]

I am having a bad brain day, so I get to post a picture of my cats, as a treat. :D

[389]

Who Killed Laura Palmer?

[crankydevon]

thank you, ratsawgod for the source:

These were the results of a Twin Peaks poll from a talk show called The Phil Donahue Show, from a broadcast that occurred in 5/21/1990. This was from the first season of the television series, two days before the finale of season one was to air.

[belladonnaprice-deactivated2025]

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This is the best one