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Tamas Blair is a rich businessman who decides to buy himself some superpowers. This has consequences that the self-centered CEO could not anticipate and Tam must accept and adapt to what he's done. Can Tamas Blair become a hero in truth, or is Dark Horse destine to fail before he begins?
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in the first season of the tv show lego ninjago, an event is mentioned that happened so long ago it has long since passed from memory and into distant myth. how long ago do you think this event happened?
TIME
i've seen lego ninjago
less than 100 years ago
between 100 and 1000 years ago
between 1000 and 10000 years ago
between 10000 and 100000 years ago
more than 100000 years ago
thank you for playing! the answer is 30 years ago.
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.
It is free.
It is legal.
I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.
I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.
Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!
If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!
And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!
I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!
Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!
it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!
Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain
lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons
because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death
Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune
and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it
Also don’t think a
book is old because it’s in
the public domain
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Want audiobooks instead?
LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.
Public domain works in the US are:
Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and
Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and
Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.
(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)
There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)
There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.
Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."
Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.
browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30
Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:
And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.
And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.
This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book
Chiquita released an advertisement which used AI and so many comments were saying they would never eat chiquita again, and like I don't care if you eat chiquita, to my knowledge there's no organized boycott against them (if there is feel free to add to my post) but if you would stop buying from a company due to their wrongdoings then why do you even buy Chiquita in the first place??? They literally funded the OVERTHROWING OF A GOVERNMENT, how can you be mad about AI but not about funding an actual coup??
Yeah Chiquita used to be United Fruit, and that name used to mean a lot, it meant so much in fact that they changed it to Chiquita hoping everyone would forget who they were. Have you ever heard the phrase "banana republic?"
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lake inferior
lake normal
lake offtario
lake hurton
lake michigan
I just realized that many many people have jobs
Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???
Quincy’s true thoughts on…
Marlowe
“The day i figure that man out completely is the day my life is no longer worth living. I think half the fun of being friends with him is just… not knowing what the FUCK is going on in that head. Since day one it’s been a mystery. Sometimes i think i know what he’ll think of any given situation, and he’ll say something completely off the wall. He’s great, though. Genuinely. Once I got past our initial… road blocks, i can’t help but care about him, you know? We make a good team, because even if we don’t totally get each other, i think we have the same goals. And he’s funny! I like that we can tease each other and neither of us take it seriously. I need someone like that in my life now that I’m not around my brothers as much.”
writing is so fun
writing is impossible why does anyone do this
I care them SO MUCH -
To me both seasons of the Pitt so far have been about Santos having the worst shift a person can possibly have and when her tank is empty and her walls of sacasm have been pulverized she looks around and finds the person that desperately needs something and gives it. A roof for Whitaker. A fun night out for Mel. In one fell swoop she won the loyalty and friendship of the nicest, kindest people in the ER, and then she goes home, looks in the mirror, and thinks i am evil, i am unlovable
⚠️This Woman Is A Complete Disaster⚠️
OC: Quincy (She/They)
new work: Nine
yeah yeah i took an unintentional hiatus because farm stuff and no time and little internet. the bigger work is still stuck, sorta lodged sideways ever-given-style in the suez canal of my mind, but here is not quite a crackfic that I have inevitably taken too seriously.
I kept trying to get other people to write this premise and nobody quite did, so here's Shane Hollander taking Ilya Rozanov's word for it about his dick size, and maybe over-preparing.
Nine, on AO3
Maybe he just had to buy a dildo and compare it that way. It wasn’t like he couldn’t stand to have a few around. But he didn’t want to be the kind of guy who had like eight dildos. Was he going to be the-- what was that fairy tale? Goldilocks. He was going to be Shane Goldilocks and the Eight Dildos. This one’s too small! This one’s too big! This one vibrates-- God help him.
Im crafting a very obnoxious outfit at the thrift store
Autocorrect corrected 'outfit' to 'purity' for unknown reasons.
Marlowe’s true thoughts on…
Wes
“Honestly from what I’ve seen of him, I’m lucky he didn’t get the prophethood. Are you kidding me? He already threatens to assault me daily. He doesn’t appreciate Quincy and I’s friendly battle of wits on the day to day, he thinks I’m mean to her. And maybe i am, but if she wanted me to stop i think she’d let me know! He fights her battles for her and I wish he’d give me the benefit of the doubt. Often times he really assumes the worst of me and it makes me want to tell Quincy to stop seeing him but really i know it’s my fault that he sees me that way. In the long run i really can’t blame him, and he makes Quincy feel happy and safe. And that’s what’s important, in the long run.”
Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known...
Day 1 of trying not to think about fucking that old man.
... relapsed.
