"I Am The Master Of My Fate”

Jared / Male / 28 / Libra / ENFP / Gryffindor / Gamer / Pokemon Trainer I'm just a super nerdy dude and this is my blog. I blog a lot of random stuff as my interests change frequently. I love Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Until Dawn, and movies with great music like Pacific Rim and Inception, also Roosterteeth and Achievement Hunter. Hope you find what you're looking for while you're here. PS: Rachel is a weenie

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Heritage Post

02/19/2017

[bleedthebeat]

english major macklemore: i read your granddad’s prose

[ndnbutch]

therapist macklemore: i hear your granddad’s woes

[bleedthebeat]

coffee enthusiast macklemore: i drink your granddad’s joes

[ndnbutch]

body mod shop owner macklemore: i pierce your granddad’s nose

[bleedthebeat]

pizza chef macklemore: i knead your granddad’s doughs

[ndnbutch]

television network executive macklemore: i make your granddad’s shows

[bleedthebeat]

wildlife rehabilitator macklemore: i feed your granddad’s crows

[ndnbutch]

blanket maker macklemore: i knit your granddad’s throws

[bleedthebeat]

sir mackle the more, knight of the great kingdom of seattle: i slay your granddad’s foes

[ndnbutch]

rapper macklemore: i spit your granddad’s flows

[bleedthebeat]

we were sitting across from each other in the living room reblogging back and forth like it was a life-or-death yu-gi-oh duel

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[dogpuppy]

[mandywondering]

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

[dietspam16]

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

[thewittyphantom]

[penny-anna]

Now you see, I’ve watched enough cartoons to know that this square of the carpet is on a separate animation cell from the background & therefore something funky will happen if I step on it. You won’t catch me making a rookie mistake like that no sir!

[lisaonatree]

Did you step on it?

[penny-anna]

I forgot it was there & stepped on it, plummeting through the concealed trapdoor into the cellars. Please send help.

[lisaonatree]

Help it’s on its way!

By the way, are the bricks all the same colour?

[penny-anna]

I can’t see anything! It’s pitch black down here. All that’s visible is my eyes.

[damndinarzade]

Just make sure there isn’t a second, more dangerous pair of eyes somewhere around yours

[secondmoredangerouseyes]

Hey

[celestialite10]

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[ahperrytheplatypus]

MAKE SURE TO AVOID THIS STUFF EVERYONE

[anxietyproblem]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[victusinveritas]

[raggadollie]

like what if they were a little self-aware

[dankmemeuniversity]

[athlethick]

[excusemewhileiplaykh]

Days encapsulates starting a new job so well. The boss is incomprehensible. Everyone either hates you or ignores you except for one older coworker that takes you under their wing. No one gets your name right. They make you try to kill one of the only coworkers you like. Mickey Mouse is there.

[goldensunset]

you are repeatedly told you aren’t human

[orteil42]

everyone needs a creative outlet to stick a creative fork into

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[heroineimages]

I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!

[onbearfeet]

THINE IS ALSO GRAMMATICALLY EQUIVALENT TO YOURS.

“It is yours” and “It is thine” differ only in their level of formality.

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.