Humanities student

former khâgne, now studying english and russian 🖤translation🖤 french

[real-language-facts]

couples costume idea: signifier and signified

[keraleda]

“Lighten Up” by Ronald Wimberly

Beautifuly written- and drawn.

[machenzza-deactivated20220827]

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[xanaxfarts]

‘Small Knife with Sheath’ The Ottoman Empire, 18th century. Material: steel, silver, bone, horn, mother-of-pearl, enamel [source]

[armthearmour]

An astonishingly gilt Sword decorated with enamel, pearls, and rubies,

OaL: 48.4 in/123 cm

Weight: 3.7 lbs/1.7 kg

South Germany, early 17th century, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna.

[mayonezli]

Green Mosque - Kütahya, Türkiye.

[aq2003]

say it louder vince

[queermasculine]

pluribus spoilers ahead cause i need to tell someone that when vince gilligan was altering his concept to be about women instead of men i really really think that shouldve included manousos... not to take away from the actual lesbianism that occurs on the show but manousos the machorra very much shouldve been on that yuribus... imagine carol sturka having to pull out the cover of her book a second time when yet another tall woman with dark features shows up at her door, and this time the woman literally has a sword a machete on her hip. proud stubborn manousos who just braved 9000 kilometers of untold dangers just to speak to her. sexy butch manousos who is more like a genuine real-life raban than any alien hivemind could ever be like do you fucking get me do you understand

edit: drew her, art is in the reblogs

[szyszkasosnowa]

Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????

[rosslynpaladin]

I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT

[parkchanwoohoo]

James Cameron's mind fascinates me, at least what little I can see from the Avatar movies (I have not googled his biography). He loves nature so much. He also loves military shit so much, and must have struggled to reconcile this in a somewhat Kojima sense. It seems he "cares about" indigenous people in so much as they are, to his mind as far as I can tell from Avatar, closer to nature than white people. He fucking loves whales so much. His biggest wish is to go back in time and give indigenous people machine guns so that they can fight white people and everyone (especially him) can live lives closer to nature. It is astonishingly condescending and also completely, childishly sincere. At once a little boy and a cynical old man. The movies read to me as he fucking loved the Tarzan books growing up, or maybe he wished he could have been Tarzan and do a better job of it and never leave the jungle. Fascinates me

[steampunktendencies]

Victorian ingenuity: a mahogany "reading station" crafted by Charles Hindley & Co. circa 1890. It features a double wing-back seat with an arm divider, each seat equipped with an adjustable reading stand, various compartments, drawers, and bookshelves.

Photos courtesy of Butchoff Antiques

[metamorphesque]

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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[bookgeekconfessions]

99 legal sites to download literature

The Classics

Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

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The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

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Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

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Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

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eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

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[cygnahime]

The Faded Page, which has books that are in public domain in Canada. Lots of Canadian lit, but also lots of mysteries and other works! I recommend the Sayers Collection in particular.

[the-trash-eating-llama]

I. AM. FLOORED.

[vague-humanoid]

@sissa-arrows @el-shab-hussein @fairuzfan @huzni

[sissa-arrows]

While elected officials who are pro Palestine (mostly LFI) are getting threats it’s true, Rima Hassan, the person in the screenshots, is not an elected official. She is a candidate in the list of LFI for the European election (next week end) but they started going after her and sending her threats and horrible messages long before she became a candidate. They are also investigating her for saying that resistance against colonialism is a right (she is a jurist specialist is human rights and international law). The reason they are so much more virulent against Rima is because she is Palestinian.

[emustelidae]

Both ethically and aesthetically, I’m more compelled by the thought of translator as eternal guest. Or, at any rate, as the kind of guest-host forged by being a long-term inhabitant, an apprentice, a participant-observer in another place: an arrival that becomes an entire life. A life in which being a friend and neighbor defines your everyday reality, even your identity, more than anything else. When I translate, I am not merely a guest in the Spanish language or in the culture of the poem or story or novel I’m translating; I’m also made more aware of being a guest in my own. No: not my own, because I don’t own it. I translate into English not because it’s “mine,” my “mother tongue,” my “dominant” language, but because I have learned it immersively and will never stop learning it. I sleep in it, steep in it, speak and write myself into it. It is relentless, this learning, with my object of study neither English nor Spanish per se, but rather the material, ever-evolving relationship between the two. I am a guest in both houses.

“Hosts and Guests” by Robin Myers, published in Words without Borders, December 15, 2022

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2024??

Beginner-oriented video on how to sail

This guy has so many videos on baking different types of bread. SO very many.

Coding in Python - one of the most flexible and adaptable high-level programming languages out there - explained through projects making video games

Learn to swim! (for adult learners. I don’t care if you live in Kansas or Mali or wherever. LEARN TO SWIM.)

Learn how quantum mechanics works. Then read some more about it

[Learn about quantum mechanics again, but in a more advanced engineering/mathematics class. Then read more about the math and physics of it]

Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Something I learned this year: how to sew a quilt (Here’s a very easy beginning pattern that looks amazing and can be done with pre-cut fabric!)

How to hit the ball in softball

Tutorial video on what is under the hood of most (gas) cars + weird engine sounds and what they mean

Full beginner mechanics technical training, if you want to go more in depth

Playlist on how car engine physics work if you want to go ultra in depth

Lecture series on architecture design through study of buildings

How (American income) taxes & tax law work (choose “audit course” at checkout for free class)

Pickleball for beginners (so you can finally join your neighbor/friend/distant cousin who is always insisting you join their team)

+ Para-Pickleball for beginners (for mobility aid users!)

School is so much more fun when there’s no tests:

American Law - Contracts

Shakespeare’s Life and Plays

Fairy Tales: Meanings, Messages, and Morals

Modern Poetry

World History [Part 1, Part 2]

Learn a language:

Arabic + Resource Guide compiled from Reddit (includes info on different dialects)

Chinese (Cantonese) (audio)

Urdu (frequently recommended course on Reddit) + Resource Guide

Yucatec Maya