a brook in the city

Recursion; every iteration a new and better version

[dreaming-in-circles]

Those mood tags masterpost (this is for my own reference, feel free to ignore; or don’t, if you wanna go through the tags, you’re more than welcome)

m:dontbreathe - horror element, should literally make you hold your breath

m:feelsomething - should make you cry with existential feelings of being human. Do you want to be seen? Do you want to be vibe checked by the feelings inherent to living and loving and losing??? Do you want your fucking heart ripped out???

m:compelling - it’s cool. Maybe something that might break the writer’s block but probably won’t be as cool the next time I look at it

m:thegodfather - if I’m gonna write a gangster story, it’s gonna be based off this aesthetic

m:happybright - makes me smile, in, ya know, an inspirational way or something

That’s all I can remember will update as I find the other ones oops haha

EDIT: got some more

m:glitchinthematrix - those theoretically true stories that make me question if this is real or not

m:takeflight - og feelsomething; more punk, less vibe check

m:writersblock - when compelling inevitablely doesn’t work

m:bittersweet - parting is such sweet sorrow I guess

EDIT: made a new one

m:adastraperaspira - fictional space stuff that makes me feel things

EDIT EDIT: made another one

m:radioactivedivine - trueform angels. Radiation. Yeah.

EDIT EDIT: made another one

m:youinthesea - when im feeling some kinda way. Title from this fic.

[thundergrace]

Oh my God! 😭 You dropped this queen 👑

[thundergrace]

To think I thought I knew what ethereal beauty was before now. Laughable.

[lymeandcoconut]

she’s so beautiful i had to include a few more photos

[happibeans]

Her instagram is @queennyakimofficial !

Support Black Women!!! Support Black Womens Art!!! Support Dark Skinned Black Women!!! Support Dark Skinned Black Womens Art!!!

🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤🤎🖤

[thesaltofcarthage]

I’ve reblogged her before, but really, you can’t have too many dark-skinned Black queens on your dash. 

[theartofdysfunction]

[umahowell-deactivated20150712]

It looks like a cat version of Toothless.

[ideal-fatalist]

Clawless

[rocketssurgery]

They’re the same age aaah <3333333

[redstonedust]

idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Books for International Non-Binary People's Day

[ I apologize for any mistakes. This is my fourth time creating / uploading this post today, which kept corrupting. I'm doing the best I can. ]

[pillowspace]

There are many people who don’t share this sentiment, but I have an appreciation for when a fanfic is so separated from canon that it could’ve easily been its own original novel, and yet the author was only ever going to put that much energy into it if their favourite characters got to be there

[pillowspace]

I think there’s a difference between “the author stripped the media of everything it had to replace it with something easy” and “the author thought up a concept they really really like and are bestowing it upon the character like a medal”

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[feyd-meowtha]

It's a moral imperative that we write more sex scenes which are

Weird

Uncomfortable

Not good for anyone involved

[this-is-multigenderphobia]

If I may, some people are very attached to the whole "im the most oppressed out of everyone in the world" because it means they dont have to confront their biases and unlearn their bigotry against anyone else, since bigotry against anyone else is automatically "punching up" and therefore justified and righteous, and taking away that possibility is a sign of oppression against them.

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone will say "as a queer person in the heart of empire, my life is in danger every day" and you'll find out they're a developer for Amazon and live in San Francisco or Seattle or some shit, and then you'll meet a trans girl from Alva, OK who's like "Yeah, things are pretty good. AutoZone moved me to full-time."

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone in a queer group in my current blue city said that they didn't like expressions of solidarity because it "diluted their oppression".

[teaboot]

[msvorderofoperations]

#That's what I mean when I say the foundation of feminism and queer community should not fixate on victimhood #Once you feel that our suffering is our shared experience an not our love then our suffering becomes vital to the culture #I don't want a culture where suffering is vital #I want a culture where love is celebrated #The suffering is an imposition not a prerequisite #And yeah I sure fucking hope our oppression is diluted bitch you WANT us freebasing the uncut shit???

[superbatonly]

Batman / Superman: World's Finest 2026 Annual #1

Cover B Rahzzah Variant

It’s literally like a scene from a dream...

[rickyapologist]

the beautiful thing about getting really into heavy character and textual analysis of the thing you love is that really you never have to think about yourself ever again. but watch out

[popsunner]

[popsunner]

[popsunner]

[popsunner]

[unashamedly-pratchett]

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[xi2shi]

titus fanart!!

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

[captaincobaltblr]

Hey wait a second, why did cats evolve to attack invisible things?

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

They were domesticated in Fertile Crescent and Egypt so probably an evolutionary advantage for snakes and scorpions that are hidden in sand and are more noticed by their movement than being seen directly

[corrucyst]

and also all the ghosts and devils.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

and also all the ghosts and devils.