All Things Random

I post anything and everything. Fandoms include: That's So Raven, Raven's Home, The Librarians, Community, and Nancy Drew (CW). My main ship is ChRave (Chelsea x Raven). 

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

[ophanic]

[aropride]

(Text reads: This month I'm doing a challenge called November, it's where I try to make it through every day of November)

[yva-deactivated20200503]

ask meme: anonymously or not, tell me a tip to Live Deliciously that you have learned by experience and believe in. every tip no matter how small or big. the best pasta cooking methods. the secret to immortality. top songs to infiltrate a fortress to. it’s life-hack discussing time

[stars-bean]

[adonischildsupportcase]

[topsydead]

I’m telling you elephants are chill motherfuckers. They fucking love being helpful. They once defended a man with heatstroke from a truck that came to rescue him. They knew he was sick, laying against a tree for shade. They were watching over him and petting him, and they threatened to charge the vehicle for coming towards him. Another person passed out, and elephants cried over her and buried her body in a traditional elephant funeral. (Piling branches on her). And were quite spooked when she got up later. And an elephant was helping workers to put logs in holes for a wall. On one hole, the elephant absolutely refused to set the log in, despite being punished and goaded. Turns out there was a sleeping dog in the hole.

There are so many good elephants stories. They will even help zookeepers wash other elephants– literally, a zookeeper can be like “[Name 1], please wash [Name 2]” and he will go wash that elephant correctly. Listen guys. Not only are elephants people, but they’re largely better people than us. I’m 10000% serious.

[spiderinthecupboard-deactivated]

when humans go extinct i’m pretty sure elephants will be able to restore our planet’s reputation

[anxietyproblem]

[rabbitgoblin]

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

[rabbitgoblin]

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

[pluckedanarchist]

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

[boonbucks-city-beach]

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

[petermorwood]

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

[rae-napier-deactivated20180822]

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

[xx-ogthegaylinguist-xx-deactiva]

as soon as i have a kitchen i’m gonna make bread All The Time i can’t wait

[caturday]

[kitterjitters]

how do cats even work

[dorky-kazard]

Cats:

A cat can jump up to five times its own height in a single bound.

The little tufts of hair in a cat’s ear that help keep out dirt direct sounds into the ear, and insulate the ears are called “ear furnishings.”

The ability of a cat to find its way home is called “psi-traveling.” Experts think cats either use the angle of the sunlight to find their way or that cats have magnetized cells in their brains that act as compasses.

One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.

A cat has 230 bones in its body. A human has 206. A cat has no collarbone, so it can fit through any opening the size of its head.

A cat’s nose pad is ridged with a unique pattern, just like the fingerprint of a human.

If they have ample water, cats can tolerate temperatures up to 133 °F.

A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.

 Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws.

The claws on the cat’s back paws aren’t as sharp as the claws on the front paws because the claws in the back don’t retract and, consequently, become worn.

Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs make only about 10.

Researchers are unsure exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs by vibrating vocal folds deep in the throat. To do this, a muscle in the larynx opens and closes the air passage about 25 times per second.

A cat almost never meows at another cat, mostly just humans. Cats typically will spit, purr, and hiss at other cats.

A cat’s back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loosely fitting vertebrae. Humans only have 34.

Some cats have survived falls of over 65 feet (20 meters), due largely to their “righting reflex.” The eyes and balance organs in the inner ear tell it where it is in space so the cat can land on its feet. Even cats without a tail have this ability.

A cat can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph (49 km) over a short distance.

A cat’s hearing is better than a dog’s. And a cat can hear high-frequency sounds up to two octaves higher than a human.

A cat’s brain is biologically more similar to a human brain than it is to a dog’s. Both humans and cats have identical regions in their brains that are responsible for emotions.

And that’s how cats work.

[darneildtpg]

I learned more about cats in this post than I did in my freshamn biology class in college

[cady-nighthorse]

[homotology]

Gods perfect murder machines but they weigh 8lbs

[bunni-hopper]

@kazooldlekatdoodle

[explorerrowan]

Don’t tell me that if you find a cardboard box large enough to fit you that you don’t have an urge to crawl inside it, that some part of your brain doesn’t go “ooh! fort!” before you tell yourself that it’s better to not have a large box take up space. Cats just don’t have inhibitions about it.

[psychicvelociraptor]

it’s always so crazy to me that tegan and sara made a song for the lego movie……..like they sat down and had a meeting where someone said “who should sing the most important song for our movie about fucking legos?” and someone else said “the gay sisters” and now we have everything is awesome

[idrils]

i see your ‘nowhere in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty was an egg’ and raise you ‘nowhere in the legendarium does tolkien say that elves have pointed ears’

[annabellioncourt]

Mary Shelley didn’t give the monster bolts.

Arthur Conan Doyle never put Holmes in a deer stalker (also “elementary my dear Watson” is never said in the books, and he doesn’t smoke a curved pipe)

There are boys at Beauxbatons and girls at Durmstrang schools

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the earliest essay on the big bang theory

[mindblownie]

#reality is an illusion

[jewish-kermit]

fuck this site I thought the tv show for the briefest of seconds and the shit machine in my skull thought “quoth the raven ‘Bazongo”

[flatteryourself]

[horse-hamartias]

perhaps THE adhd mood: 

[autisticjoy]

[id: a screenshot of dwight from the tv show the office, with the caption reading, “I will have seven first priorities.” end id]

[c3rvida3]

If you'll support my mental illness when I'm suicidal, but not when I'm making my fifty-third consecutive manic post about my latest hyperfixation, you are NOT my ally. It's not always poetry, baby. Support your clinically annoying friends.

[c3rvida3]

Hands down funniest thing that's ever happened to me was when this girl who, like, exploited my mental illness for woke points came over during an episode and made me this stunning Pinterest-worthy pillow fort full of fairy lights so I could have an "anxiety nest", but I was literally sobbing so violently that I was throwing up, and when I was like, "I can't actually drink tea in a tent right now because I think I need to go to the hospital," she called me an ungrateful slut and left.

And then STILL posted Instagram pictures of the fort with a lengthy, pretentious caption about how hard it was to be friends with crazy people.

I was angry at the time, but honestly? Delightful. Just imagine your friend is too dehydrated and delirious to hold his own inhaler and you're angry because he won't get in your fort.

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

holy shit

[toxicradio-deactivated20250326]

This whole uwu soft anxious bb culture is so dangerous specifically for this reason.

People think anxiety can always be cured by soft things and tea

And depression can be cured by being a Netflix burrito for a day

Or that ad.d. is some cute quirky thing rather than the debilitating education killer it can be.

Or that being pro ana will get you to your goal weight of heroine chic so you'll look like a Victoria secret model (plot twist you wont)

Painting this cutesy soft picture of mental illness hurts people and makes it more difficult for people to understand how it affects us.

[trekkienatural]

Having three of the above mentioned things, is wholeheartedly agree. Bitch, you're not going to "fix me" with tea and Netflix. But please do give me those things, I love them, but they won't "fix me"

[dreadpiratepan]

My mental illness isn't your 'project'. If you offer to do something, do it because it makes things easier for me, not because it makes you feel like you've won cosmic brownie points.

[aflawedfashion]

Rizzoli and Isles 1x01 -  See One, Do One, Teach One (2010)

The first date

[a-wlw-reads]

Do the wlw end up together : YES!

I don’t review every book that ends up on this site, so here is a big long list of books where the characters do in fact end up in a relationship (that’s not to say that the book is without drama or violence, simply that the characters’ relationship withstands it).

Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (YA)

Soft on Soft by Em Ali

Jam Jars by Yonnette Anderson (tw: H)

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett (tw: R, SV)

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (YA)

The Prince and Her Dreamer by Kayla Bashe

Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista (tw: H)

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (YA) (tw: R, SV)

The Normal State of Mind by Susmita Bhattacharya (tw: H)

Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (MG)

A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (tw: H, R)

Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock (YA) (tw: H)

Clean Slate by Andrea Bramhall (tw: H)

Waiting in the Wings by Melissa Brayden

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown (YA)

Far From Home by Lorelie Brown

Double Exposure by Chelsea M. Cameron

Marriage of Unconvenience by Chelsea M. Cameron

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron (YA)

Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta

Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (YA)

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (YA)

Dreadnought and Sovereign by April Daniels (YA) (tw: T)

The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (tw: SV)

The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer

Landing by Emma Donoghue

The Dirt Chronicles by Kristyn Dunnion (tw: H, R, SV)

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (YA)

Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (YA) (tw: H)

Moonstruck by Grace Ellis (graphic novel, MG)

Unicorn Tracks by Julia Ember (YA)

Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge

Motor Crush by Brendan Fletcher (comic)

Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin (YA) (tw: H)

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin (graphic novel)

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (YA) (tw: H)

Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (YA) (tw: H)

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard (YA)

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman 

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman

Being Emily by Rachel Gold (tw: T)

Love & Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence Gonsalves

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Challah and Callaloo by La Toya Hankins

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann (YA)

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (tw: H)

The Weaver by Emmi Itäranta

Paper Love by Jae

Robins in the Night by Dajo Jago (tw: T)

Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha (YA)

The Afterward by E.K. Johnston (YA)

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston (YA)

The Dime by Kathleen Kent (tw: H, R, SV, T)

Run by Kody Keplinger (YA)

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan (tw: H, R, SV)

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (YA)

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

The Paths of Marriage by Mala Kumar (tw: H)

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (YA)

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (YA)

Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo (YA)

Ash by Malinda Lo (YA)

Huntress by Malinda Lo (YA)

Ship It by Britta Lundin (YA)

37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon (YA)

Dating Sarah Cooper by Siera Maley (YA)

The Ada Decades by Paula Martinac

In the Silence by Jaimie Leigh McGovern

Heart of Brass by Morven Moeller

Sappho’s Bar and Grill by Bonnie J. Morris

Falling Into Place by Sheryn Munir

Gretel: A Fairytale Retold by Niamh Murphy

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (tw: SV)

Roller Girl by Vanessa North

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (tw: H)

Idaho Code by Joan Opyr

The Year of the Knife by G.D. Penman

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy (MG)

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (tw: H)

Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen (YA) (tw: H)

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield (YA) (tw: SV)

Final Draft by Riley Redgate (YA)

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (YA)

I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif (tw: H)

The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif (tw: R)

She Is Me by Cathleen Schine

Tell it to the Bees by Fiona Shaw (tw: H)

Everfair by Nisi Shawl (tw: R)

Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley (tw: H, R, SV)

The Abyss Surrounds Us and The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie (YA)

The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

Edge of Glory by Rachel Spangler (tw: H)

Thaw by Elyse Springer

The Princess Deception by Nell Stark

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (YA) (tw: R)

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (YA) (tw: H)

Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin (comic, YA)

Beauty and the Boss by Ali Vali

The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi (H, SV)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (tw: H, R, SV) 

24/7 by Yolanda Wallace

Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace

Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward (YA)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (tw: H)

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (tw: H)

Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (YA)

Trigger warning key:

H - homophobia

R - racism

SV - sexual violence

T - transphobia

[spoonsoupsour]

[exoticbuttahs]

and here we see the Gamecube in it’s natural habitat. What a beautiful, majestic creature.

[sapphicbookclub]

Hey! First off, I wanted to say that I love this blog and I’m so glad you’re running such a fantastic resource! This is probably pretty broad, but do you have any recs for high fantasy novels with wlw romances (preferably without sexism or homophobia)? Or any recs for books with wlw knights or pirates (historical, fantasy, or otherwise, again preferably without sexism or homophobia). Thank you so much again!

Thank you! :) Fantasy is my favorite genre so I know tons! I won’t apologize for this list being long, I feel like that’s the opposite of a problem.

Fantasy with magic:

The Tales of Y'Myran duology by Shaylynn Rose 

Banshee’s Honor 

Banshee’s Vengeance

Breaking Legacies by Zoe Reed 

Fire Logic & Earth Logic by Laurie J. Marks

Lady knights and princesses:

Royal Rebel by Jenny Frame

Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

Birthright by Missouri Vaun

The Queen’s Curse by Natasja Hellenthal

Noble Falling & Noble Persuasion by Sara Gaines

Alpennia trilogy by Heather Rose Jones

Daughter of Mystery

The Mystic Marriage

Mother of Souls 

Lady loving lady pirates:

The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara (comes out in June)

The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody

Branded Ann by Merry Shannon

A Pirate’s Heart by Catherine Friend

Shell Game by Benny Lawrence

Happy reading!