yumeslop defender

i am nuts i am pick up shit i eats it

[beawoo]

"better dead than red"? better red and fed

[heavensent-menhera]

when you at a family gathering and ur mom tries to push you to socialize bcs you look miserable and suddenly youre 12 again and a social outcast from your peers

[heavensent-menhera]

you ever get excited to go meet some people and then when you finally get there after three hours of traveling suddenly you're hit w the feeling that ur an outsider and dont belong here? me too

[heavensent-menhera]

wdym... wdym no fabric shops in my city carry faux fur..... wdym 🥀

[heavensent-menhera]

thinking about every time i got hit because someone next to me saw a yellow car and how i never see it because i have the spatial awareness of a toddler

[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.

[beawoo]

yani neko is pretty bad so far but its so close to being good, it's unreal, like, you would only need to shift the focus a tiny bit n it would create a compelling narrative

im holding out for now because i REALLYYYY want it to get good, and frankly id be a lil surprised if the manga is just gonna be what we've seen thus far in the anime (catgirl ecchi with no substance)

like i said, its so close to being good, all it needs to do is FOCUS ON ADDICTION as the key element driving the narrative, it could be such a good story if it contrasted like different modes of addiction and juxtaposed all the different cats n how they overcome/succumb to it, but as of right now, its literally just CGDCT but the Specific Flavor of it is Cute Girls Doing Drug Things, its like an afterthought, it doesnt really add anything or serve any purpose besides being an outlet for gags

secondly, it could be an amazing commentary on discrimination, specifically the sexualization/exploitation of marginalized communities, in this instance the beastfolk - like it seems like its gonna bring it up and tackle it in every fanservice scene because it usually makes it apparent that beastfolk are completely dehumanized and disregarded in any capacity that doesnt somehow serve humans.......... like its so CLOSE TO SAYING SOMETHIGN ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT WOULD RESONATE WITH A TON OF PEOPLE BUT IT NEVER DOESSS

[beawoo]

all it needs to do, is to just take itself seriously for a sec, just stop turning every instance of these two elements into a bit, pleaseeeeeeee, just have the characters reflect on something earnestly, you can do a bit in the next scene i promise, but just have them reflect on their position in society or addictions for a second to let me know ure actually interested in writing a compelling story here

[heavensent-menhera]

sometimes my bpd makes me hate ppl for no reason but then the bpd is actually valid ngl

[heavensent-menhera]

i NEED to get BETTER at DRAWING so i can draw myself getting HARASSED by EVIL fictional men!!!!!

[amygdalae]

Being like. Post-suicidal is so strange. Like hiiiii everybody im new I spent a good chunk of my life languishing and have like 3 or 4 lived experiences. But now I'm ready to fuck and party or whatever. Can we be friends. Im so happy to be here. Can we be friends

[heavensent-menhera]

need more denpa music in my life actually

[beawoo]

you are now queued for Ranked Petplay

[boarboy-old-blog]

[heavensent-menhera]

thinking abt trying dating apps again (it will be bad again. grindr was a cesspool that i will never revisit.)

[heavensent-menhera]

they should bring me into autopsies so i can study how to draw organs (i will throw up and cry with the first cut)

[heavensent-menhera]

on the first day too... not recommend.

[heavensent-menhera]

they should bring me into autopsies so i can study how to draw organs (i will throw up and cry with the first cut)

[heavensent-menhera]

tinnitus speedrun any%