Gennetha Pang

Current special interests include Steven Universe, Gravity Falls and Rick & Morty. Side-blog called: Multi-Crossover AU.

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

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.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

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

[nwarrior777]

fat animation practice

fat knight with fat physique

[seffen]

What if Lord wins?

Everything will be lost. A world where only Mitzi remains conscious, simply because this psycho enjoys tormenting her.

[pelpolpet]

Madoka movie redesigns redesigned for my own mental health and well being

[seffen]

I'm truly happy she's back

To be honest, I don’t always agree with the idea that “dead characters should stay dead.” I really liked Mitsi, and I was sad to see her killed off in episode 11. Essentially, she was just a plot device to advance another character’s story, but now she’s back with us. I hope she doesn’t die again—please.

[domasuita]

I miss Vic and Cho siblings

[seffen]

I can't wait for the next episode.

And I'm charmed by her pet sheep, who recognized her after all these years.

[faeryeee]

thank you, marjane satrapi!

i was so sad to hear about her passing yesterday, she truly changed so many girls everywhere. rest in peace you beautiful woman

[domasuita]

Vic happy birthday

My №3 fav character

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[fluffmugger]

"Love is love" is a milquetoast cishet marketing phrase

Pride is a FUCK YOU to a society that wants us dead.

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

Listening to bad YA book analyses always makes me feel really sad. Mainly how they often handle sexuality and comfort in it. For one, there is rarely any sense of mutual erotica. The characters will find parts of each other attractive but in a very voyeuristic way. It is all about how the person looks or smells, never something like a personality trait or ease being near the person gives you. Nevermind speaking these things out loud beyond cliche 'you are so hot/beautiful.' There is never a 'wow, really digging that clean manscape!' or any other casual observation. The characters aren't allowed to feel comfortable with one another where there is no longer any stress when it comes to flirting. It always has to be serious and business-like. The male has to be dominant and forceful and the female has to be submissive and inexperienced. And it is boring beyond the mild erotica those scenes have. There can't be quips or jokes, nor calling someone out being cheesy. There is no falling off the bed or debating who cleans the mess afterwards. There is no character, just paint by numbers sex.

[goodluckclove]

I know people like to clown on aspects of classic Disney films that don't feel grounded in reality. But I've worked both front and back of house in restaurants of varying quality. And if I found out our line cook or something served a full plate of spaghetti to two dogs in an alley, I would consider that like. Like not good. But possible.

[zevveli]

I've said it before, I will say it again. Tramp was shown latter in the movie to be a ratter. It is not at all farfetched to think that he might have once hunted a bunch of rats that threatened the restaurant and so the head chef considers him a valuable ex-employee and friend.

[quasi-normalcy]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

It's kind of tragic how homophobia affects insecure men.

Like sometimes they want to experiment with a bit of anal and instead of just buying a sex toy and some lube like a normal person, they instead shove random objects up their ass that inevitably get stuck and then they try to get them out by themselves which makes things worse and then they lie to doctors about it and like this all leads to all kinds of extra complications like internal damage, risk of infections, bleeding, the fall of Yugoslavia, etc.

Come on guys, just buy a dildo. It's way safer and it leads to way fewer problems.

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

[terri-theslime13]

AvA 13 spoilers!!

One thing I haven't seen anyone talk about is that once Victim is reanimated under The Dark Lord's control, his fighting style completely changes to something closer to TDL's

It's a lot faster and more brutal, though compared to TDL, it's a bit colder? It's stiff and precise, and his movements are a lot less exaggerated. He also uses two blades attached to his forearms, in a striking approximation to the virablades.

It's neat, and it shows really well that he's been pretty much reduced to an extension of The Dark Lord's brutality, just another body he fights through

[sunflowersosa]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[sunflowersosa]

I'm glad you all like the Nigeria Pride post!

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

Thank you all!