The name's Kit. Chaotic Neutral | Writer | Soul Eater | Multi-Fandom. Sometimes I draw, but mostly I write. My current brain child is a WIP called Dissonant Fugue—a dark AU Soul Eater fanfic with OC’s.
random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google
I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.
also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo
also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)
i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:
Search Engines
Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)
WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.
Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.
Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.
Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.
Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.
Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.
Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.
MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.
Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.
Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.
https://yep.com/ is a crawler
https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)
https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?
https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?
https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.
Other Searchers
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.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.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine
I had so much fun writing my first Resbang this year! And even more fun working with my artists, jgartist916 and thatguyhedge!
Check out their art here and here!
Thank you so much to our mods, @resbangmod , for keeping us all in line and hosting again this year!
Rating: Mature
Relationship: Soul Eater Evans/Maka Albarn
Tags: Dark Alternate Universe, Canon Typical Violence, Minor Character Death, Minor Original Characters
Summary: Soul is fed up with Maka’s recklessness, and is convinced it won't get them closer to their goals; Deathscythe status for him and 3 Star ranking for her. Their conflicting feelings on the subject simmer under the surface until they are pulled for their Ascension Assignment—they must fight and defeat a witch.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary: Maka hasn’t sworn off dating, but she does have a rule. She’ll give a guy one date to see if there will even be a relationship. One date has been plenty to keep her from wasting her time, until Black Star finds a loophole in her rule.
Happy and honored to contribute my work for @worldismyne and her wonderful, lovely, amazing, beautiful, diabetic, soul-lifting, banger fic — SUPER DATE ✨
Alongside w/ artist @indigolightning and her fun, cool, sweet, stunning, date-bonanza art ✨🌸✨🌸✨🌸✨
Thank you so much @resbangmod for hosting and thank you to all for making it memorable for my first Resbang -w-🌸 to more resbangs in the future~
Artwork for @worldismyne ‘s 2026 Resonance Bang fic SUPER DATE.
I had the honor of collaborating with @worldismyne and @monomols for this year’s Resbang. It was my first year participating and it was so fun and rewarding. Thank you to @resbangmod for hosting and looking forward to more Resbangs in my future!
presented by author: @worldismyne [AO3]
with artist: @indigolightning
and artist: @monomols
Pairings: MaStar
Rating: T
Summary:
Maka hasn’t sworn off dating, but she does have a rule. She’ll give a guy one date to see if there will even be a relationship. One date has been plenty to keep her from wasting her time, until Black Star finds a loophole in her rule.
Who said the date was over?
Please enjoy the story and art previews below the cut!
One benefit of going to the arcade in the middle of the day on a weekday, were the lack of lines for all the games. Rows of brightly lit claw machines played jingles to lure in unlucky players. To the left a collection of rhythm games in different play styles. Ticket producing games sat wedged further in, so that players had to pass the prize counter and all its temptations.
"Well?" Black Star already had a game card they could share. "What do you want to start with first?"
Maka combed the aisles for their old favorites. A number of carnival type games they used to double up on as kids would maximize how many tickets they could get with their tokens. Knocking down fluffy clowns and hitting targets to a beat were their specialty, but in later years the games had caught up to such schemes. Even between the two of them they couldn't reach a coveted grand prize. Black Star pitied the children that tried in earnest, too young to realize how woefully rigged the games were.
"Wanna give this one a go?" Maka found a ring toss game. The more rings that fell over bottles the better. It'd be a good measure of how easy the claw games would be to win a prize at.
"Always." He swiped the card. Damn, he thought he'd loaded up more tokens than he had. That halved the number of games he thought they could play. He pulled together a cheeky grin, not wanting Maka to suspect something had gone awry.
Rings set free, slide down to a bay at their waists. A frantic flurry of tosses lit up each bottle. Maka glanced up every now and then. The game delayed when a bottle reset, so they had to spread out more instead of hitting the same targets over and over. It was over way too soon, his shoulder ached as both hovered over the LED screen. Sixty tickets, was that any good?
"Let's try something else," she said. "Forget silly prizes, we're here to have fun."
That was a good sign, wasn't it?
Instead of putting him on trial, she'd slid back to her usual self. There had been a part of him that worried she'd forget how comfortable they were with each other. When they had the same goal, life slipped by with ease.
She dragged him over to the rhythm games. Each machine they tried their hands at, the same memey songs jumped out at them from the line up. Black Star translated menu options where he could in a sluggish elementary fashion as he sounded the words out in his head before translating.
It'd been a long time since she looked at him with what he'd come to recognize admiration mixed with something else. Many of his injuries growing up could be attributed to trying to get Maka to look at him like that. Once they both were training it'd grown steadily impossible to so much as surprise her, but there she was, caught bashfully watching him when she thought he wouldn't notice.
"What?" he asked.
"Nothing," Maka said. "Alright, best two out of three?"
The points hardly mattered when they were equally bad at it. Graphics of anime girls arms clipping through their boobs had them in stitches, and the dancing games left them breathless.
"You sure you don't want a prize or something?" he asked, when the tokens on the card dwindled.
"We're adults," Maka said, "if we really wanted something, we could just buy it."
"Eh, where's the fun in that?" He took her hand. "Come on, we can at least look at the machines."
All through the winding aisle, he didn't let go of her hand. With so many claw games packed in the arcade, it would take a while to spot a machine even worth trying. Her hesitating a hair too long, had their arms go taught, and he backed up to see what she was looking at. The soft face of a round panda keychain smiled up at her with hope it's beady little eyes.
It was illegal to smash the thing open. He didn't need her squeezing his hand to remember that. Still, the way the pandas had been placed, it clearly was a trap.
"Hmm…" He checked the surrounding machines. "I think we'll have better luck at that one. They got the same little guys."
Like second nature, she stood in front of the controls. He swiped the token card, bringing the machine to life. Thirty seconds on the clock to line the claw up for a perfect grab. Goosebumbs flared up her neck when he drew near.
"Wh-what?" She tried to look at him, but his chin rested on her shoulder.
"I'm helping." He laid his hand over hers.
Every breath she took, she pressed a little into his chest. His hand kept her from being to jittery with the claw. She jiggled it and it dropped over the toy. For a few brief moments, the prize suspended in the air, then fell just shy of the target.
"Damn," she muttered. The claw was too loose. Even if she tried again, the keychain had face planted too close to the plastic walls to get a good second try.
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