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New Free Minizine - "Online Alternatives"
100 random non-social media websites, 20 offbeat youtube channels to check out, 20 online missions to do instead of scrolling on social media -- the internet is so much bigger than the algorithms would have us think so I hope this inspires you to go out and explore!
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I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because itās a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
Letās do this.
I am God and in this next patch update Iām getting rid of periods. instead, vaginas will now make pearls that you can trade in for prizes
Itās gotta really suck when Leoās proven right about anything.
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.
anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.
Games
A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.
corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.
Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.
Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.
Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.
sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.
Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.
FaƧade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.
The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.
Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.
The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.
Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.
Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.
The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)
Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.
Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.
EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.
You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.
The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)
Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.
Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.
ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.
PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.
Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.
FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.
Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.
PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike
Tools
Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)
Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.
Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)
Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.
PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.
Non-Games
Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.
Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.
17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.
Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.
The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)
Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)
Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)
If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.
r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.
r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.
thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.
Reblogging the update too
Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!
For all my uninsured judys out there it's for Walgreens only: walgreens.rxsense.com
as a pharmacy technician i can share with you some websites that give you those "coupons" for your meds!
goodrx is the most well known one, but if i'm trying to find the cheapest price for a patient i compare it to scriptcycle, and use whichever is offering the best price. you just type in the medication (PLEASE make sure you're getting the right drug, dosage, and quantity) and your zip code and they will spit out some offers for you
some pharmacies may have their own discount card to compare to as well!
if you are getting a name brand medication, you can also look at the manufacturer's website to see if they offer any evouchers for you to use too
good luck out there š
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another one is singlecare.com, brought my duloxetine from $240 a month to $20
and there are coupons for hrt on there as well :) different options for different pharmacies
dollarfor.org saved my broke ass, it can save urs too
For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.
summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.
Examples:
summary: Bruce
summary: "Bruce Banner"
summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk
You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.
The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.
expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.
You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.
otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false
This page is so beautiful and honestly I hope it reaches and helps any new people that are just starting out on Ao3 because it's helping me and Iāve been using the site for 5+ years now
Hey yāall I have an announcement! My web app that Iāve been working on, Afro Index, is now live! Itās a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, for artist, animators, writers, and anyone who wants to learn more about them!
Check it out at afroindex.org! šāØ
A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming, structured filtering, and curated reference images.
pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.
hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!
so, ways to get around this:
turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us
don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace
a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)
instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian
including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too
including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue
for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend
when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!
if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache
some online resources and museum collections:
fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples
the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates
costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)
v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece
lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces
nypl digital collection for photographs
national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art
national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific
stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource
wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain
auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!
anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)
Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.
i keep trying to phrase a post as like a helpful tip for people who like worldbuilding but. i have to be honest with myself. it is not a helpful tip because no one asked for it. i just want to rant about kinship terminologies.
i can't even phrase it, my brain rn is basically just. "THIS! LOOK AT THIS!"
^^ LOOK AT IT ^^
i am also presenting anyone who wants with the wikipedia page for australian aboriginal kinship. btw. if you care.
Oh, this is fascinating!
I am half Scottish and half Japanese- I hand-sewed this kimono from menās dress shirts and boxer shorts.
This kinda stuff is actually really inspirational to those of us with uncommonly mixed heritage, regardless of if youāre this particular mix just seeing other mixed people make their backgrounds their own instead of being forced to choose is so important for mixed children growing up tbh
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This is solarpunk AF.
Best part (IMO) is that it actually makes sense from a historical standpoint. In feudal Japan, each clan would have a mon (an emblem sort of like a coat of arms) that would be displayed on banners and used to identify that particular clan. Members of a clan would often have their mon displayed on their clothing including kimonos, like so:
Thus, the idea of a kimono in a clan tartan pattern is in fact completely appropriate and would be perfectly familiar to feudal Japanese culture.
And also it looks really cool.
This weekend, Maya Caulfield posted to photos of herself modeling a kimono she sewed by hand, and her work earned her thousands of instant a
the artist is Maya Caulfield, this blog stole her post
Pigeon Mail
Another piece from my solo show at Nucleus Portland
"Strike a pose if ur the best duo" ofc they would strike a pose. (Maybe I'll post here more often)
There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?
I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!
Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.
Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...
I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.
Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come
Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.
DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.
I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. Itās about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.
Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm
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normalise being bad at roofs in minecraft. normalise not being able to make an aesthetically pleasing roof to save your life in minecraft.
Normalize just digging into the side of a mountain to avoid making roofs in Minecraft
yall need me to tap the sign?
hereās a roof guide that i use because i used to be shit
i dont remember the source, b/c ive had this for like years, but i suggest messing around with these roofs with different shapes/sizes of buildings
in fact, you can mix and match and have one roof with a side room with a different roof on it
honestly, have fun
Iāve had these saved for a long time and unfortunately donāt know the source either, but here are the other tutorials from this artist if anybody is interested!
Oh! These are super cool!
These were made by PixelandPoly they have an entire 40 page eBook with various design guides, alongside the ones theyāve released for free.
Iāve had this in my drafts for ages and just forgot what I was going to say-
So late reblog of this a-may-zing post!
ooOoo :0
There's this curious thing in 2k3 where... Don is pretty much the only family member Leo never gets truly sharp with at least once? And I think there's a fair case to be made for it having a lot to do with their particular relationship.
Leo works hard at his iron core of self-control, but it's an open secret that he has a temper, and over the course of the series most of the family cops a lashing at some point, usually when he's stressed or anxious. Leo and Raph have their own occasionally vitriolic love language that leads to them outright throwing down more than once, Mikey earns a couple of sharp dressing downs, and even Splinter takes both a verbal and physical beating during Leo's extended mental breakdown.
At the same time, I've been plumbing the archives over this point specifically and I still can't find a moment where Leo hits Don as an individual with anything heavier than exasperation or a silent Look. He kind of bites at Donnie at the end of Dragons Rising, but even then his anger is spread across the whole team, not aimed at Don alone.
It's all the more interesting because this restraint doesn't quite go both ways! Don's mild-mannered overall, but he absolutely lets it be known when he's tilted into the realms of genuine annoyance: whapping Mikey for messing with the Battleshell, rounding on Raph with a dangerous glint in his eye upon being judged 'cranky', grousing at Splinter about being forced to train on a supposed vacation - and scorching Leo with the sulky underside of Don's injured pride during the same. "There goes Leo, making us look bad again."
(Which is also, incidentally, one of those moments that will always have me arguing for a subtle mean streak being part of 2k3 Don's characterisation. Like, ouch buddy, you know that's a collective sore point.)
It's not favouritism, exactly, but Leo definitely seems to find it easier to extend a measure of grace to Donnie that he really struggles to extend to Raph and himself, and even somewhat to Mikey. Part of it is that Don isn't a 1:1 competitor in the ninja family hierarchy scene; leader isn't a role anyone's expecting of Don, Don himself isn't interested in challenging Leo most of the time, and he so obviously contributes through his tech speciality that he gets cut a fair bit of slack on the ninja front - being excused from training to focus on the crystal problem, copping mild exasperation from Leo at worst for cheating at ninja hide and seek, not getting chewed out by even Angsty Mode Leo (TM) for accidentally bringing an entire spaceship down on their heads.
On top of that, Leo clearly regards Don as the next most 'sensible' brother, especially in those early seasons where Raph's still working through the worst of his impulsive tendencies and they're all still pretty green when it comes to real combat. It's not that he's never anxious about Don (and certainly not like Don never makes a bad call), but he generally just... trusts Don, even beyond the obvious trust earned by being their technical specialist. From where Leo's standing, Don's not going to launch himself into ill-advised fights, and he's probably not going to thoughtlessly poke buttons or goof around at the wrong moment, so he doesn't need to be 'managed' as actively as the other two. He's not quite as serious as Leo, but he's introverted and thoughtful in a way that meshes well with Leo's own tendencies, so Leo just sort of seems to automatically expect that Don's assessments will generally be correct and his decisions sound, because he naturally gels with how Don's forming them. (Of course, this has its own pitfalls - Don insists it's just a cold, so Leo lets it go, and, well... he should have pressed Donnie much harder on that whole situation, as it turns out.)
So yeah, Don gets a lot of grace. And, as noted above, he's not always completely gracious in return: there are a few snide comments, a few unkind laughs and more than a few moments of figuring that asking for permission seems like a lot of hassle when he could just go ahead and check out that blackout or duck off with April into a dangerous side dimension. At the same time, I actually think Don - more than Raph or Mikey - takes Leo's steady shelter for granted. He laughingly remarks in The Shredder Strikes Back that Leo's the one turtle they don't have to worry about; after that's proven rather dramatically incorrect, he tells an unconscious Leo that "you're going to pull through this, I know you are - you have to". Over two months into Leo being sent away to the Ancient One, Don's the one who keeps forgetting he's not there. Leo relies on Don as a veritable fountain of tech and knowledge, but it's partly because Leo's busy doing what he does that Don's been given the space to develop those skills in the first place. Don's often quite taken-aback any time Leo goes down, and always full of wide-eyed relief once his brother's fighting fit again.
It's an understated symbiosis compared the other match-ups you get between the brothers, and the show is strangely reluctant to show the two of them spending much time together as just a pair, but it ends up forming the critical spine of how and why the family makes a successful field team. It helps that we get to see how things go when one or the other is taken out of the picture, and the answer is pretty universally "not well". (Not to say I think it would go much better were either Raph or Mikey removed under similar circumstances, but there's something to be said for the particular practical scaffolding Leo and Don provide in both the day-to-day and in field operations.)
As a final sidenote, I think it's therefore very fitting that Leo's the only brother to distinctly preference the name Don over Donnie! I don't think Don dislikes 'Donnie' at all, but he only uses 'Don' or 'Donatello' when referring to himself, so it's kind of a cute nod to their particular partnership within the family.
This! All of this is really good analysis!
It's interesting also that, although the fandom likes to portray Mikey as able to wrap his big bro Leo around his little finger, in canon it's Don that breaks out the pleading to get his way.
Compare that to Mikey's pleading when he wanted to dress up as the Turtle Titan on a mission, and Leo firmly shut him down
Sure, you could argue they're very different circumstances ā one is just keeping a salvaged vehicle (something Don does a LOT), while the other is in the middle of a high stakes mission.
But both have Leo falling heavily into that responsible sibling/leader role. (You can also absolutely see where the fandom gets the "Mama-Nardo" nickname from, when he has lines like these! š ).
What's interesting is that he doesn't compromise and let Mikey wear even part of his costume, but he does indulge Don (and his brothers know he will ā Mikey says Don "has a shiny new train car", not he might 'get' one if Leo lets him keep it. It's already a done deal as far as Mikey sees it).
Then there's how both Leo and Don go into full protector mode when the other is down. Sure, they jump to the aid of their other brothers, too. But there's something almost desperate about how intense they get when either of this duo is seriously hurt.
You've already mentioned The Shredder Strikes Back - Tales of Leo arc. If I might also add to it, Don's the most outwardly concerned about Leo at the farmhouse. That doesn't mean the others aren't worried about him: it's just that Don abandons all pretense and lets his concern show openly.
No jokes. No quips. No funny anecdotes. No hiding his feelings behind humour or anger. He's just all worry for his bro this episode. Maybe that's just who Don is, but I also think Leo's beating shook him to his core, to the point he couldn't distance himself with jokes or temper like the others.
Then you get Leo's poisoning in The Big Brawl, and Donnie's iconic Protectivenessā¢ļø coming through so wonderfully.
And on the other side, you have Leo going full "No matter what it takes" when Don double mutates in S4. Yes, I believe he'd do the same for any of his family in that situation, but Leo is visibly lost without Donnie at the lair.
His stoic facade cracks, and he can't keep the despair from bleeding through, just a little
They're both so lost when the other is incapacitated.
