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Ana // Femme Lesbian This blog is a mess, but it's my mess.

[yokodash]

[existentialterror]

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

[greenjudy]

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

[jumpingjacktrash]

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

[averixus]

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

[ashby-santoso]

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

[ms-demeanor]

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

[ms-demeanor]

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

[workfornow]

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

[existentialterror]

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

[idontknowwhatimdoingandimsorry]

S'mores chai... I want one so bad.

[idontknowwhatimdoingandimsorry]

I got one.... wasn't very good honestly

[fourleafisland]

FERRIS WHEEL OF LOVE! (print in my shop)

[manglestar]

looks like mama

[takengrave]

Guilliman… Guilliman… Address me

[kaizenreiii]

Fom Gifts

Complete :

Incomplete:

Missing Recipes

Glowberry Cookies (Dell)

Spellfruit Parfait (Darcy/Juniper/taliferro/Reina)

Coconut cream cake (Hayden/Taliferro)

Missing Item

1.Monster hoop (Dozy)

[ubekeyk]

Trying to focus more on lineart, colored some juniper sketches! yippie

[idontknowwhatimdoingandimsorry]

S'mores chai... I want one so bad.

[voyaging-too]

The thing about Kaneeka Forsyth is that she's an anime nerd so you can say she's getting Madoka Magica'd as well as getting low-key Anthy Himemiya'd. But if you look at the racial dynamics of her situation and also to a lesser extent the town as a whole, then you'll see that more than anything she's getting Get Out-ed.

[fawnpalmer]

Goddamn a farming sim hates to see me coming

[alienatedartt]

atlas

[puppyrex8]

Summarized most of the different Rocky fanart styles

He varies intensely but he’s still the same ol Eridian!!

(8/9 of me posting most of my PHM art at once)

[monochrome-anomaly]

watching pluribus and the whole carol losing her temper thing is such an interesting metaphor. this insane stuff is happening so she rightfully gets angry which makes bad things happen to everyone, and everyone blames it on her. instead of the thing that's making this happen. they're like no matter what you need to remain calm, pacified. 800m killed by the pluribus that's ok it's collateral. but 11m killed by carol without her even knowing or intending it, so in fact they were also killed by pluribus, and everyone's mad at her.

[ultra-baklan-the-ovosh]

do you have a labubu, orikan?

[swampshi]

Daeran and his darkest secret...

Something is watching with his eyes. Constantly.

(Daeran for #Owlcatober, theme : secrets)

[chryza]

Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?