Escondida en el Bosque

walk the garden - pick the weeds and flowers - make delicious tea - share with others - let's make art - #holo-siren to see the art I've made and shared with you all :)

[lifehacksthatwork]

Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it'll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I'd recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn't read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can't for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You'll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It's genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

[liarsblade]

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

[liarsblade]

[a-potato-of-death]

[catasters]

[bunjywunjy]

Do sharks cuddle?

THEY SURE FUCKIN DO.

many sharks are at least moderately social, and if a specific species of shark has the ability to breathe without actually swimming and tends to have a lot of sharks in a fairly small area, well.

they are just going to Pile. and there is simply nothing you can do about it.

[bunjywunjy]

also, fun fact! whitetip reef sharks in particular are SO damn cuddly with each other that they'll actively seek out a buddy or ten when they get sleepy!

it's pretty much slumber party or nothing for these guys. you won't find a whitetip sleeping alone except in the most dire and tragic of shark circumstances.

(shhh! they are. SLEEBING)

[feudalconnection]

Updated Nomination List

For those who are unable to view the current nomination list on their phone apps, we wanted to provide a list of all the nominations received to date!  PLEASE NOTE, THE LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED, PLEASE CHECK IT FOR CURRENT NOMINATIONS!

There are three days left to nominate your favorites (updated within the last 3 years).  Nominations close October 15! Nominations included under the cut!

Keep reading

[holo-siren]

I just realized I was in this list of nominations and I feel so thankful! I’m also thankful for the list of new artworks and fics I haven’t seen before xD

[195195119511951-deactivated2021]

In the first poetry workshop I ever took my professor said we could write about anything we wanted except for two things: our grandparents and our dogs. She said she had never read a good poem about a dog. I could only remember ever reading one poem about a dog before that point—a poem by Pablo Neruda, from which I only remembered the lines “We walked together on the shores of the sea/ In the lonely winter of Isla Negra.” Four years later I wrote a poem about how when I was a little girl I secretly baptized my dog in the bathtub because I was afraid she wouldn’t get into heaven. “Is this a good poem?” I wondered. The second poetry workshop, our professor made us put a bird in each one of our poems. I thought this was unbelievably stupid. This professor also hated when we wrote about hearts, she said no poet had ever written a good poem in which they mentioned a heart. I started collecting poems about hearts, first to spite her, but then because it became a habit I couldn’t break. The workshop after that, our professor would tell us the same story over and over about how his son had died during a blizzard. He would cry in front of us. He never told us we couldn’t write about anything, but I wrote a lot of poems about snow. At the end of the year he called me into his office and said, “looking at you, one wouldn’t think you’d be a very good writer” and I could feel all the pity inside of me curdling like milk. The fourth poetry workshop I ever took my professor made it clear that poets should not try to engage with popular culture. I noticed that the only poets he assigned were men. I wrote a poem about that scene in Grease 2 where a boy takes his girlfriend to a fallout shelter and tries to get her to have sex with him by tricking her into believing that nuclear war had begun. It was the first poem I ever published. The fifth poetry workshop I ever took our professor railed against the word blood. She thought that no poem should ever have the word “blood” in it, they were bloody enough already. She returned a draft of my poem with the word blood crossed out so hard the paper had torn. When I started teaching poetry workshops I promised myself I would never give my students any rules about what could or couldn’t be in their poems. They all wrote about basketball. I used to tally these poems when I’d go through the stack I had collected at the end of each class. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 poems about basketball. This was Indiana. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore. I told the class, “for the next assignment no one can write about basketball, please for the love of god choose another topic. Challenge yourselves.” Next time I collected their poems there was one student who had turned in another poem about basketball. I don’t know if he had been absent on the day I told them to choose another topic or if he had just done it to spite me. It’s the only student poem I can still really remember. At the time I wrote down the last lines of that poem in a notebook. “He threw the basketball and it came towards me like the sun”

[inuyasharedraw]

The winning Kagome!

Hello Inuyasha and Yashahime fans!

The Kagome Redraw Event 2022 will begin on the 17th of September. Here is the image chosen by those in the Inuyasha Fandom who voted for our favourite Kagome this year so that you can get started on your own version.

Tag your submissions with @inuyasharedraw and #kagomeredrawevent so we can be sure not to miss them.

We shall begin accepting and posting submissions on the 17th of September and post hard until the 24th.

Rules and FAQ about this event and our bi-monthly redraw can be found here.

SPREAD THE WORD!!! The more people who participate the more fun this is!!!

Different styles, mediums, A.U. versions etc. are encouraged. Try to make your own drawing unique!

Remember to have fun and enjoy yourself.

[loveofmirsan]

banner created by @eliza-faust-diary

Hello MirSan fans!

We hope that you’re churning away at these wonderful voter-selected prompts, and we can’t wait to see what you’ve created for us in <checks calendar> 10 days!

Please make sure to tag @weekofmirsan in all your entries so we can be sure to get them in!

Day 1, August 21: Promises/Gold Day 2, August 22: Rivalry/Green Day 3, August 23: Sacrifice/Blue Day 4, August 24: Ponytail/Brown Day 5, August 25: Foreplay/Red Day 6, August 26: Sensual/Purple Day 7, August 27: Skin/Pink

And, do not forget to add your work to the AO3 Collection!

[evartandadam]

Bad Boy

I was gonna draw a different Inuyasha character but… Gotta draw my dog boy again!

[mossymandibles]

There was a loud splash as his body broke the surface, the cloud of foam and bubbles dissipating into the darkness.

To any creature evolved to see, crimson pin pricks of light flickered and weaved, warnings of an otherworldly spacecraft traveling through the waves of the void.

[sweepingtree]

Regency AU Kagura gift for @julyzaa, commissioned by the lovely @fuckingqueenofhell!

Kagura is my all time favourite character so each time someone commissions me to draw her, it feels like a gift to me as well! Thank you so much once again for commissioning me! 😊💕

Taglist below: (let me know if you want to be added or removed!)

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[geda-art]

I am opening commissions for those who like a personalized fanart made with love.

[holo-siren]

I’m back, maybe just for a moment, with more Mermaid Kagome content <3

La hermosa sirena Kagome seems to be my greatest muse and inspiration these last two years. 

My second attempt to create her in procreate. 

[sereia1313]

OMG This is stunning, I love her colours! DRAW ALL THE MERMAIDS!

[holo-siren]

hell yeah 

[bixcll]

[holo-siren]

My first attempt at digital art in years and of course its InuKag Mermaid AU fanart. 

Ended up being a vehicle for playing with brushes and trying to guess how water works based on my own experiences looking up from the bottom of the pool xD

Wish I could be as motivated to write the fanfic for this that’s been simmering in my head for years now. 

[holo-siren]

I’m back, maybe just for a moment, with more Mermaid Kagome content <3

La hermosa sirena Kagome seems to be my greatest muse and inspiration these last two years. 

My second attempt to create her in procreate. 

[nydescynt]

My son,, he is so stupit