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Mermaid stuff 🐚✨

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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

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Toothiana is the BEST fairy. Don’t @ me  I love her so much I just 💕💕💕 featuring a few re-draws of old art from 2014-2015 uou)/  @dreamworksanimation 

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“Oh, Melody, sweetie, it doesn’t matter if you have fins or feet. We love you for who you are on the inside, our very brave little girl.” THE LITTLE MERMAID II: RETURN TO THE SEA (2000) dir. Jim Kammerud & Brian Smith

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

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[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

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https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

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This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



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First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[jeniferprince]

oh, yeah? what a coincidence 

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[terraterrific]

I was gonna wait until I had a nice pile of Westerloch stuff to post again, but then James happened. This boy basically walked up to the Favorite Child throne, shoved Luca and Celestino off, and sat down right by Eros. I’m….gone.

In short, he’s a necromancer who becomes Luca’s best buddy that looks out for him in the human world…the same way Chrysanthemum looks out for Luca in the magical world. He tries to act like an uncoordinated nerd at school to keep people out of his business…but…he slips up sometimes.

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By Janek Sedlar

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[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

This man took so much longer to crack than I would have what a PROFESSIONAL

[peripetyy]

Plotting, scheming, etc.

[smoluglies]

Lily of the valley 💕🧚🌱✨

[oldpaintings]

from Arabian Nights, 1928 by Virginia Frances Sterrett (American, 1900–1931)

[moodyskeletonart]

Heres a google drive folder filled with art book pdfs, if anyone has some others that you'd like me to add to it thats missing, please let me know and send me the link

[jeniferprince]

ghoulfriends!

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what if we kissed in the library

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[littlestpersimmon]

The little world next door

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They are my ocs fnsjsn

[lady-of-the-spirit]

"I'm glad you're okay" but said by someone who has just had the shit beaten out of them, to someone who is not hurt at all, is a brilliant trope and I lose my mind every time.

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Scenes in Frozen-verse that will never be the same again because of Dangerous Secrets

This is my second mega post on Dangerous Secrets. The first was on all the in-universe references, and this one focuses on scenes within Frozen-verse that now have a new meaning because of DS. These posts are 100% original.

Again, spoiler alert!

1. Kai, Olinda and Gerda are old!

You knew that they had been there since Elsa and Anna were kids, but did you know they were also there since Agnarr was 14?! The following excerpts are all from the time that he was 14.

Since Agnarr is about 21 when Elsa is born, that means the castle staff have been there for more than 31 years at the time of F2! [(21-14) + 24)]

2. “Conceal, don’t feel” didn’t start with Elsa =(

That’s Lord Peterssen speaking to Agnarr. In fact, he goes on to say that King Runeard did it too in his time. This is so sad…part of the tragedy of Agnarr and Iduna.

3. Anna/Agnarr and Mattias

Mattias is so fatherly, he was a father to both Agnarr and later, Anna. And Mattias’ father’s wise words, “Do the next right thing”, were passed down to both Agnarr and Anna!

Although Anna didn’t know it, she really takes after her father! She promoted Mattias to General, and she gave Mattias news about Halima (that Halima’s still unmarried)

4. This is the MAKE-OUT tree!!!

Ok, there’s no avoiding it, Agnarr and Iduna MADE OUT A LOT!!!!! In the tree, in the secret room, behind other trees and bushes…Elsa and Anna still do not know till this day the hot kisses that took place in these locations!!!

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