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they/them | lurking, mostly

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[dugaodna]

[ziprasidones]

[raspberry-poptart]

it’s literally been more than 2 years but all the skyrim book report jingles still give me so much serotonin

[manlet-rights-activist-deactiva]

IF RANBOO CAN BREAK THE RULES OF THE GAME, CREATE INFINITE MATTER, AND SPEEDRUN HIS CAREER IN AN UNREALISTICALLY SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME THEN EITHER RANBOO IS A GOD OR COULD KILL GOD AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE

[mysanity-wastaken]

these two

[thenamesjocelyn]

[jatel0-deactivated20150421]

For The Masses:

http://gen.lib.rus.ec

http://textbooknova.com

http://en.bookfi.org/

http://www.gutenberg.org

http://ebookee.org

http://www.manybooks.net

http://www.giuciao.com

http://www.feedurbrain.com

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380

http://www.alleng.ru/ 

http://www.eknigu.com/ 

http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/

http://2020ok.com/

http://www.freebookspot.es/Default.aspx

http://www.freeetextbooks.com/

http://onebigtorrent.org/

http://www.downeu.me/ebook/

http://forums.mvgroup.org

http://theaudiobookbay.com/

More Here

[keomoto-deactivated20141214]

no one coulda reblogged this a month ago when i spent 500

[kreativegeenius]

momentsbymarcus

[trappunzelll]

Look at KB coming through

[kimreesesdaughter]

Every time you see this, reblog it. There is always someone in college that will see this.

[kidrat]

have some fucking tips for androgynous presentation that mixes femme and masc styles and isn’t just ‘be afab and wear trousers from the men’s section’

recently I wore some of those trousers with the wide non form fitting legs   and added small heeled boots. 10/10 would recommend I felt very high fashion. looked masc but was making the femme click clack heel sound.

basic loungy outfits can be made 100% more queer by adding colour. srsly jeans with a nice tshirt is queer as fuck if the jeans are orange.

wearing the femmest outfit possible, long skirt, cute blouse, etc. becomes a power move when you do so without a single shred of makeup. bonus if your hair is short. bonus if it’s not a pixie. bonus if your shoes are stompy

find all your Statement Pieces. wear them together. voila.

we all know about suspenders. now put them where they don’t belong. attach them to skirts. attach them to your trousers but leave them hanging

literally just wear stuff you think looks rad because if you enjoy both masculine and feminine clothing styles it naturally follows the stuff you think looks rad together will end up being genderfuck

embrace alternative fashion/weird charity shop finds/vintage/stuff that breaks fashion rules even if its ‘technically’ femme/masc. part of fitting into gender roles is wearing mainstream and current femme/masc clothes because gender roles and their associated accepted dress are always shifting so anything that differs from that is automatically subversive.

billowy shirts. undo them as much as you’re comfortable with. somewhat obvious but the howl’s moving castle vibes are v strong. am I a femme arts student or a dashing masc pirate type? who knows. 

floral patterns feel a billion times more masc if the colours are bold. 

personally after I stopped wearing makeup I felt I lot more able to just be like huh. that’s my face. and feel kinda triumphant  in the ugly parts of it and just be unabashedly weird. and if that’s not genderfuck idk what is. same w not shaving my legs tbh. I enjoy just existing.

that said if you do like makeup, using just (just. no foundation or shit) eyeshadow or just lipstick? also a power move. 

If you go for the classic dapper style of androgynous presentation but want something closer to androgynous than just weird masc, try adding a soft girly jumper to your manly trousers and etc.

adding an emphasis to your natural waist to a masc outfit (with a belt or something) is a good way to feminise it and vice versa with emphasising a dropped waist in a femme outfit to bring attention away from your smaller natural one (again with a belt or maybe low waisted trousers)

long coats are very good I feel my most formless and inexplicable when my outer layer goes straight past my knees.

obviously all this is gonna be slightly biased to my agab/personal style/body type/etc. but yeah. there’s my tips and hopefully none of them are weirdly unachievable or equate androgyny with masculinity 

[sapphic-fem-support]

Love this. 💕

Some other androgynous styles I like:

• Not shaving underarms and wearing lacey tank tops

• Wearing makeup but contouring to appear more masculine

• Shaving the sides of your hair but growing the rest really long

• If afab, binding your chest when wearing a dress or other high-fem outfit

• Makeup for creative, not gender-related things. Put glitter and fake freckles and purple eyebrows and shit

• Super masc clothes with makeup, painted nails, and fem jewelry

• Huge cloaks. Can’t see my gender under my fucking cloak

[eryn-n-g]

These are so great

[queering-the-binary]

My favorite way to make formal wear androgynous is to either mix tops and bottoms (button up with a flowy skirt and stompy boots anyone?) or just mash together ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ aesthetics. Floral patterns for a tie, little bit of make up, and a masculine suit, or stompy boots and a wider belt with a dress, or just whatever feels comfortable and allows me to move, and that’s usually not following traditional gender norms.

[sharpthreads]

Does anyone know where to get brightly coloured wide/straightleg jeans reliably? I found all my favourites thrifting in capital cities & I haven’t been able to do that for a while.

[tumblingrona-deactivated2022113]

love this.

also, i saw colored jeans at esprit but i’m not sure how international they are (i’m german).

[sharpthreads]

Thank you, that’s a super helpful starting point.

[rfskia]

[halogen2]

thanksgiving 2006 - ocean vuong (night sky with exit wounds)

american arithmetic - natalie diaz (postcolonial love poem)

roses/lotus/violet/iris - hayley williams

saying your names - richard siken

watch me while i bloom - hayley williams

[simena]

Coby Whitmore - Girl by a Lagoon

[jvlianbashir]

when you find an academic source that’s perfect for your paper but it’s behind a pay wall

[deadmomjokes]

Deciding to cite it anyway base on the abstract, knowing your professor probably won’t go through and look up every source in works cited

[rootbeermolecule]

if you guys want to read academic papers but they’re behind a paywall, get the chrome extension Unpaywall. when you visit a site that requires you pay for their journal to view the article, the extension will look for other open access sites that will show you the article for free, and it’s all completely legal. all that money goes to the publisher, the writer of the paper gets none of it. https://unpaywall.org

[sewickedthread]

If you can find out an author’s name, contact them. They may be willing to email it to you.For free. 

[my-autistic-things]

I’ve rb this before but I’ve been writing so much lately and here’s some extra tips. Also, I have unpaywall and its my favorite thing.

If you’re a university student specifically:

- use your library search site, you’ll get access to a whole bunch of articles with your university log in. Most sites will have an “institution login” button to get access to the article you’re looking at but that never has ever worked for me. Copy paste the title into your uni’s library, and about 70% of the time it pops right on up.

- it seems dumb and obvious, but if the paper is assigned for class and you can’t find it online, look in your resources folder in the class site.

- Again, seems obvious, but ask your teacher if they have the article. Most professors would be estatically delighted they have a singular student actually interested in the topic they are teaching (no seriously, they would be). They might have it saved, have personal access to download it for you, know the person who wrote it and can get it for you, or know of 4 more articles to send you to use instead. Plus, it will make you more memorable when you’re desperate for letters of recommendation

For everyone:

- RESEARCHGATE!!!! Go make an account right this second I swear it is so worth it. It has so much research, you can follow researchers, and you can download the papers right there OR request access from the authors. Its basically social media for researchers. Plus I used it to stalk potential grad advisors to see what stuff they are truly into and not just what their outdated lab bio says.

- now this ones super obvious, but I forget so often: Google scholar. Type in the title and 50% of the time you get lucky and there’s a pdf version listed right there

My method of finding an article is

1. Find then article

2. Does unpaywall have access? No?

3. Is it on ResearchGate? Surprisingly no? Or no full access?

4. Check university library. Probably got access by now. If not?

5. Look it up on Google scholar to see if there’s a pdf. Still no access?

6. Copy paste into straight Google and see if any of the links has access. Probably not, but I’ve gotten super lucky once lol. This is a last ditch effort though when your paper is due immediately.

7. Request full access on ResearchGate and wait…..most people give you access within a few days, some within a month (or two). But every article I’ve requested I’ve been given access and sometimes with a little message saying “thank you for your interest in my research” (I think its auto-generated but sometimes they add more or an !)

[raspberry-poptart]

underrated: the blaseball community getting so excited about the possibility of a blaseball unraveled that they apologized to us afterwards

[lilybugmusings]

Is there a website to look up models or people  to draw, with gender, ethnicity, and age filters. (if possible)?

 For example if a wanted to make a cartoon character realistic and use a real person for reference or to edit the photo to look like them?

I’ve been just googling  white 20s male, black female 40s etc. (can’t find any good references for kids either)  and been sifting through the results.

[art-res]

https://generated.photos/?ref=producthunt

https://generated.photos/faces

This site probably has what you’re looking for!

Look at what you can sort by!

[waluigi-the-stripper]

Reblog to save an artist’s life

[helloohart]

Caravaggio living paintings by Ludovica Rambelli Theater

[johnthestitcher]

This never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many times I’ve seen it.

[raspberry-poptart]

not me watching how to get good at darts 3 times in a row at 1am and genuinely almost crying because i miss it being march instead of almost november

[raspberry-poptart]

update i also watched pepcorn and i’m not okay

[raspberry-poptart]

not me watching how to get good at darts 3 times in a row at 1am and genuinely almost crying because i miss it being march instead of almost november

[upcycleability]

Resources for Mending Clothes

We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water. 

So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles. 

* How to sew on three different types of button

* How to hand sew on a patch on a torn pair of jeans

* How to sew up a hole in an old shirt

* How to sew a simple T-shirt

* How to upcycle old clothing into new clothing

* More upcycle and sewing techniques

* How to repair a damaged sock

* How to do an invisible stitch

* 3 different stitches to work with for different results

* How to make a T-shirt smaller so it fits you better

* How to make repairs to your shoes

These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful. 

So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term. 

[afewdroppedstitches]

Mending! It’s really satisfying, saves money, and saves the planet!

[nonasuch]

@miri-tiazan this looks like a good place to start!

(and thanks @mythologicalmango for pointing this out)

[chucktaylorupset]

Juice’s silly stupid obstinate game has taken centuries of these immortal lives and squeezed from them seventeen minutes and fifty-nine seconds where each second is priceless, he has taken eternity and wrought from it a scenario where time has value, is indeed invaluable, to people who have an infinite amount of it and he did it by pure stringent absurd adherence to the rules and nothing else and that is a wonder.  Picture Nick, Spending One minute, Sixteen seconds, in that train cockpit.  Trading his time for his husband’s, sacrificing it so that he might remain with him in a five mile journey across the desert.  This is a silly game with no material danger or consequences and yet this is a sacrifice.  Nick taking math and faith and turning it out to the world and sending it to his teammate and his love, and it gently lands fifty yards away from him.  Close enough to reach out and touch it is the work of moments.  Look at the tender anguished feelings that arise, the fear beforehand, the elation afterwards, and tell me the heights of these feelings created could be ascribed to anything but we call art. It has been said that if art decorates space, then music decorates time.  And sending  a gift of nine footballs in a backpack hanging off the side of an engine car by using One minute Sixteen seconds to ensure the crossing between two 100 yard wide fields across 13 miles, the game has taken space and time and decorated both.  What do we call that.