too-clever-privateer

"When people say impossible they usually mean improbable."

[s-n-arly]

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

[sosuperawesome]

Mmumechii on Instagram

[perfectquote]

“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”

— Melissa Cox

[deviika]

Jane Austen // Bao Phi

[katadesmoi]

well personally i think that this is an entirely appropriate reaction to two characters having one (1) conversation and exchanging a knife, actually

[lavendertiny]

DPR IAN - NERVES (2021)

    I’m doing fine, I’m doing fine     I’m doing fine, I’m doing fine     I’m doing fine, I’m doing fine     I’m doing fine, I’m doing fine     I’m doing fine, girl, I’m doing fine     I’m doing fine, I swear it’s not a lie

[awitchybrat]

"If only you could talk to girls in equations." There was a long silence, and then, eyes trained on the notch they'd created in the link, Wylan said, "Just girls?"

Jesper restrained a grin. "No. Not just girls."

[chaotic-art-druid]

Sketching out Zoyalai and their tattoos 😭

[privateerrezni]

Damn. 💕

[ariestheflower]

i’m living because of the two seconds in the trailer where kaz switches his cane from one hand to other with that hairstyle and the one second of jesper winking and the two seconds where inej smiles slightly.

that said, i can not wait for the darkling and alina and mal and nikolai and zoya and genya.

[welshduck]

who in the frickety frack picked these damned hats??!

[nata-ver]

Shadow And Bone

[privateerrezni]

BRB CRYING BECAUSE IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!

but in all honesty.. I’m crying.

[saintprivateer]

I can’t find the post rn but! someone said brown eyed Zoya...,and that changed me

[privateerrezni]

YES!

[bucumber]

kaz.....

[evasjacks]

Nikolai Lantsov and Dominik from King of Scars

Soldiers did not cry. Princes did not weep. Nikolai knew this. But the tears fell anyway. “Dominik the brave. Hold on a little longer.”

Dominik squeezed his hand. “This country gets you in the end, brother. Don’t you forget it.”

“Not us,” he said. But Dominik was already gone. 

[brightbeautifulthings]

“The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic.”

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things  (via antigonies)

[slavicafire]

be wild, be unruly, bare your teeth to the world; be the terror and the abomination, be the blood on their hands, be the last exhale of a raging sun. ravage, devour, revel in the madness of the sleepless nights. burn, and bite, and grin like a feral god.