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The Librarian's Sexuality Masterpost

General:

GLSEN

Queer Querys

The ABCs of LGBT part 1 (Video)

Terms and Definitions

All About Sex and Gender

Sex, Sexuality and Gender Explained

Sexuality Isn’t Your Business

For the Sex Repulsed

Curious and Questioning

Being Gay Curious

Certainty

‘Normal’

Nonamory

Resource Packs

Attraction:

Different Spectrums of Attraction

Re-evaluating Attraction

Types of Attraction

The Nature of Attraction

Attraction is Like Wine

Attraction=/= Behavior

Sexual Attraction Definition

Understanding Sexuality

Sexual Attraction and Desire

Sexual and Romantic Chart

Romantic and Sexual Orientations

Romantic Orientation Definition

Romantic Attraction

On Romantic Attraction

Tackling Romance

Limit on Romantic Orientation

Sensual Attraction

Explaining Aesthetic

Aesthetic Attraction

Homosexuality:

Am I Gay?

Are you Gay or Not?

What Doesn’t Make you Gay

Am I Gay or Bi?

I think I’m Gay, Now What?

Different Kinds of Lesbians

I’m Attracted to the Same Sex

All Gay Teens Need to Know

Bisexual:

Bisexual.org

Resource Center

The Actual Definition of Bi

Common Myths

On Bisexuality

Does Bisexuality Exist?

I think I’m Bi, Now What?

What All Bi Teens Need to Know

Pansexual:

The Pan Community

Define Pansexual

Pansexuality 101

What is Pansexuality?

Bisexual vs Pansexual

Polysexual:

Poly Definition

Poly vs Bi

Poly vs Other Sexualities

Asexual:

Asexuality Archive

Asexuality.org

The Thinking Asexual

Prismatic Entanglement

Asexual Agenda

Asexuality Podcast

Asexual Education

The Asexuality Blog

Asexuality: A Brief Intro (PDF)

(A) sexual (Video)

Asexual Chat Room

Possible Signs of Asexuality

How to Tell If You are Asexual

Signs of Asexuality: About You

Signs of Asexuality: About Sex

Signs of Asexuality: About Others

Things That Aren’t Asexuality

Not Asexuality

Things I Wish I Knew Before

Induced by Trama?

Asexuality and Aromanticism

9 Types of People

Questioning my Asexuality

Ace Spectrum:

Demi Gray

Under the Ace Umbrella

Notes About the Spectrum

Many Ways to be Between

Grey Ace Definition

Grey/ Demi Can do Visibility

Fictosexuality

Demisexual:

Demisexuality.org

What is Demisexuality?

Visualizing Demisexuality

AVEN Wiki

Why do we need Grey and Demi

Development as an Identity

Categories and Complicated

In Defense of Demisexuality

I Want to Limit Your Ability to Communicate

Why is it “Noble?”

Aromantic:

Ace Spectrum Awareness Week

Ask an Aromantic

People Who Don’t Fall in Love (Video)

An Aromantic Relationship

Aromantic FAQ

Aromanticism 101

Let’s Talk About Aromantics

Aromantic PowerPoint

What is Aromanticism?

An Aromantic Primer

AVEN Subform

You Might be Aromantic if…

Can I Still be Aro if I…?

5 Myths About Aromantic

Aromantics Just Wanna be Your Friend

Handy Words for Questioning

Glossary of Words/Identities

Aromanticism and Neurodivergence

Aromanticism, Empathy, and Cognitive Dissonance

Becoming Loveless

… And Then What?

Different types of Love

Caring About Sexual Partners

Aromantic Representation

Aro Spectrum:

The Line Between Allo and Arospec

Aro Spectrum

Glossary

Lithromantics

Aro Flux Definition

Queer Platonic Relationships:

Queer Platonic Definition

QPR FAQ

Queer Platonic Advice

Poly Aromantic Relationships

Polyamory:

More Than Two

Common Myths

Common Mistakes

Dos and Don'ts

Coming Out:

Tips and Advice (Video)

Coming Out Tips (Video)

Coming Out Tips (Video)

Coming Out Story

Coming Out Stories

R U Coming Out: Stories

Coming Out: The Plan

Coming Out

On Coming Out

Coming Out Tips

9 Bits of Advice

10 Tips on Coming Out

28 Words of Advice

When Should You Come Out?

Coming Out Letter

How to Come Out to Parents

Coming Out to Family and Friends

Coming Out to Friends

Coming Out to Partners

Coming Out Simulator

Resources for Coming Out

Allies:

5 Tips for Allies (Video)

10 Ways to be an Ally and Friend

How to be a Queer and Trans Ally

How to be a Good Ally

30 Ways to be an Ally

So You’re an Ally

Avoid Offensive Language

How to Help Gay Friends

My Friend is Gay

What to do When Someone Tells you They’re Asexual

How to Become a Better Ally to Aromantic People

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Free Online Language Courses

*UPDATED* Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. Some are short, some are very interactive, some are very in-depth. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos. I checked each link to make sure they are functioning.

Spanish

Beginner 

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Beginner’s Spanish:Food & Drink

Fastbreak Spanish

How to Self-Study Spanish

Preparing for the AP Spanish Exam 

Spanish for Beginners

Intermediate 

Spanish:Ciudades con Historia

Spanish:Espacios Públicos 

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones

La Innovación Social  (Check under Translation)

Leer a Macondo (Taught in Spanish)

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Reading Spanish Literature

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Basic French Skills

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Diploma in French

Elementary French I

Elementary French II

Français Interactif

French in Action

French Language Studies I

French Language Studies II

French Language Studies III

French:Ouverture

French Through Stories and Conversation

Improving Your French

Mastering French Grammar and Vocab

Intermediate

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout

Advanced

Fantasy, de l'Angleterre Victorienne au Trône de fer

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Les Chansons des Troubadours

Reading French Literature

Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners

Curso de Português para Estrangeiros

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Oggi e Domani

Survive Italy Without Being Fluent

Intermediate

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced 

Advanced Italian I

Italian Literature 

Italian Novel of the Twentieth Century 

L'innovazione Sociale (Check language under translation)

Reading Italian Literature

Catalan

Intro to Catalan Sign Language

Latin

Latin I (Taught in Italian)

Russian

Beginner

Basics of Russian

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Russian Alphabet

Russian Essentials

Russian for Beginners

Russian Level I

Russian Phonetics and Pronunciation

Reading and Writing Russian

Travel Russian

Advanced

Business Russian  (must register)

Let Us Speak Russian  (must register)

Reading Master and Margarita

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Siberia: Russian for Foreigners

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Ukrainian Language for Beginners

Kazakh

A1-B2 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Chinese

Beginner

Basic Chinese

Basic Mandarin Chinese I

Basic Mandarin Chinese II

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters

Chinese for Travelers

Chinese is Easy

Chinese Made Easy

Easy Mandarin 

First Year Chinese I

First Year Chinese II

Learn Oral Chinese 

Mandarin Chinese I

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Intermediate

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Japanese

Beginner’s Conversational Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji I

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji II

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji III

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji IV

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

German

Beginner

Basic German

Basic Language Skills

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Conversational German I

Conversational German II

Conversational German III

Conversational German IV

Deutsch im Blick

Diploma in German

German A1 Grammar

German Alphabet

German Modal Verbs

Present Tense German

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

Study German Language from Native Speakers

Advanced

German:Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Landschaftliche Vielfalt

Reading German Literature

Norwegian

Learn The Norwegian Language

Norwegian on the Web

Swedish

Intro to Swedish

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Immigrants

Finnish for Medical Professionals

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian  (Taught in Dutch)

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Arabic

Arabic for Global Exchange (in the drop down menu)

Arabic Language for Beginners

Arabic Without Walls

Conversational Arabic Made Easy

Intro to Arabic

Lebanese Arabic

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Read Arabic

Hebrew

Hebrew Alphabet Crashcourse

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Irish

Introduction to Irish

Multiple Languages

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/ : MIT’s open courseware site has assignments and course material available.

I’ll keep an eye out for new courses and if you know of any, let me know so I can update this list.

Last updated: February 19, 2016

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god bless whoever made this 

[nooradeservedbetter]

“L'inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n'è uno, è quello che è già qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo più. Il secondo è rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio.”

—

Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”

(via la-sicilienne)

[plain-flavoured-english]

Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

[likeadevils]

screw sun moon and rising whats y’all’s moon, venus, and mars signs

[macrolit]

The first three words you see will define your 2021. Go! 

[blu-berd]

[rubyfruitnb]

of course the first ever sin was a woman eating

[duchessofostergotlands]

“Being a Derry Girl, it’s a fucking state of mind”

[tiktoks-we-like]

[anachronic-cobra]

This ends with an energy I'm not sure how to describe

[hamburgeroisie]

I'M LOVING THIS ENERGY

[cinnamontoastcrises]

m y w i f e d i d i t o n h e r o w n

[lightsandlostbells]

so, overall, what did you think of season 3 of stranger things?

It took me a while to answer this question because I had to sort out how I felt about this season! I guess if I had to narrow it down to an overall opinion: enjoyable, but very messy. Had some of the series’ best moments but also, while I was watching, I had far more grumbles and gripes than the previous two seasons.

I’ve never really been hung up on whether this show is derivative or plays too into nostalgia or w/e. Plenty of media does that. And despite all the time I’ve spent dissecting micro-expressions and weighty silences in European teen dramas that are filmed for the cost of a candy bar … I am way into genre films and TV shows. I love monsters and superheroes and spectacle! I watched Stranger Things the weekend it premiered because I love ‘80s movies about kids on bikes having adventures, I eat that shit up. So I don’t expect this show to be a hardcore deconstruction and re-imagining of those tropes (though that sounds like a pretty great show), I’m fine with it being what it is: a solid, spooky sci-fi/horror throwback series. What matters most is whether the story and characters work. Personally, I would say whatever criticisms you can make of S1 and S2, they had heart, and unfortunately I think some of that heart was missing from S3. Much of that, IMO, comes from sidelining some of the familial relationships that were at the center of the narrative in S1 and S2, like the Byers family and Hopper & Eleven, and to some degree the important friendships like the party, although there were other friendships introduced in this season so that wasn’t as glaring. It’s not a surprise that one of the best-received parts about this season, Steve and Robin’s friendship, is also responsible for one of the most heartfelt scenes Stranger Things has ever done. 

There was also a way larger emphasis on comedy in S3. Comedy is probably my favorite genre, and I did laugh at a lot of humorous moments in this season. But I also felt like there was more comedy for comedy’s sake, like long sequences created intentionally to make the audience laugh. Whereas in S1 and S2, I can’t remember any scenes like that? The comedy was more understated and came from character personalities and relationship moments rather than joke set pieces. That’s perhaps another reason why S3 felt like it had less heart.

My hope for season 4 - and I am assuming there is a season 4, because apparently this show did mega ratings for S3 - is that they don’t add more major new characters (except love interests for the gay characters, go ahead with those, lol) and instead focus on the existing cast,  which is already a very strong ensemble, yet many of the characters have gotten pushed to the sides. I would love if they added to the episode count: a lot of Netflix series drag out their seasons, like they have enough story for 10 episodes but have to stretch it out to 13, but Stranger Things has the opposite problem. I feel like if they had 10 (or 11, ha) episodes they could have more time for breather moments and more space for character arcs. This season was really fast-paced in my opinion, and although that’s a positive in many respects, I missed a lot of the down time.

Also, I think every season has taken place over like a week maximum, not including the epilogues, and like … you can make the story last longer than a week! Not everything has to go to hell in like a day or two.

Some more specific opinions underneath, obviously lots of spoilers.

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[cametobrazil]

my psychiatrist to the receptionist when I walk in

[latenightsinpemberley]

Was Cersei’s death a fucking disaster completely disappointing and anticlimactic?

Absolutely. A character like Cersei deserved a damn epic, never-to-be-forgotten-in-the-history-of-television kind of death.

But the part of her and Jamie dying together?

That was one of the very few scraps of coherence left in this shitshow of an episode.

I guess it’s a tumblr/twitter thing, but it’s tiring how fans’ reactions and views on a show like Game of Thrones are so often reduced to…. ships. The way a character as grey as Jamie Lannister is oversimplified to a ~pure cinnamon roll~ that deserved a happy ending with Brienne because of his oh-so-amazing character development is downright ridiculous.

No he didn’t. He absolutely didn’t.

If there was a place and a time for Jamie Lannister to die, it sure as hell was with Cersei. Ideally as the Valonqar, yes, but in any case, a death somehow interlinked with her.

Sorry to ruin it for you, but his ~character development~ doesn’t magically turn him into a romcom protagonist picking flowers for his girlfriend’s in Winterfell (because apparently now him and the Starks are besties!), and it definitely doesn’t erase the importance of his relationship with Cersei as a core part of his identity.

[evilrashida]

I loved Isabella Blow and all the stupid wild Philip Treacy hats she used to wear

[evilrashida]

Apparently the lobster hat is by Erik Halley my bad  

[kellykapoor]

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Dido: I will go down with this ship! And I won’t put my hands up, and surrender! There will be no white flag above my door! I’m in love, and always will be!

Ten Year Old Me:

[tnsoutherngirl]