You Think I'm the Dragon(that would be so like me)

Better known as feverishsea. I do the story thing.

[nerd-artist]

[ludmithjacques]

I love the use of the phrase 'some strange alchemy' as a descriptor for a process you don't understand.

'Through some strange alchemy(crochet) they turned a bundle of yarn into a stuffed giraffe'

'Through some strange alchemy(bad cooking) they turned a perfectly marinated steak into a charcoal briquet'

'Through some strange alchemy(good cooking) they turned a pile of slop into the fluffiest bread loaf I'd ever seen'

'Through some strange alchemy(bad reading comprehension) they took my polite statement and turned into a disgusting act against the poor'

and so on

[stitchposts]

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASE ADDED!

ISOLATE DISCOVERED!

"Through some strange alchemy (process you don't understand)"

[parkchanwoohoo]

I love seeing stores and cafes that display and sell shitty local art. Everybody on the planet should be making shitty local art. Everyone in the community should get to see what shitty local art everyone else is making. Eventually you will find something and be like hold on. This weirdly speaks to me. I've never seen anything quite like this, whether because of this person's idiosyncratic style or strange choice of subject matter or what. And suddenly your favorite piece of art is a collage painting done by a woman who waits tables during the day and does roller derby at night and uses the excess flyers and paper menus from both places of work to make amateur art on the weekends and you realize this is such a bizarre combination of circumstances that has produced something so striking to you, how lucky you are to live in a world where this got to exist and you got to see it

[seatsreservedforheroes]

This speaks to me on a level I feel currently incapable of articulating but that's not gonna stop me from talking anyway

[notbecauseofvictories]

I think the most impressive thing an artist can do is be absolutely sincere in their belief that they are creating art. It's what I love about glam rock and airbrushed van metal, it's what I love about outsider art. I come from a long line of people who smirk and make snarky comments, for whom sincerity is vaguely embarrassing; you're supposed to do all things perfectly, the first time, without visible effort. So the existence of people who don't care, or are brave enough to make things that aren't audience-tested and polished from the start, in full view of other people, takes me aback and awes me a little.

[seatsreservedforheroes]

The vibe of my future coolness is still more a spot where my distant horizon will one day emerge, but this is def in the neighborhood of its long/lat

[blackulax]

They are just like me forreal

[white-throated-packrat]

every time I see film of a platypus I am struck again by how small they are

[white-throated-packrat]

#How did I not know that platypus are tiny!?!#They max out at 2 ft long and 6 and a half pounds

My problem is that they look like duck-faced beavers, so I expect them to *be* the size of beavers.

Beavers are *huge* -- about 35 to 65 lbs (16 to 30 kg) and 3 to 4 feet long.

[claudiagray]

See, I always thought platypi were tee-tiny--like, the size of your hand--so the first time I saw one in the zoo, which happened to be a two-footer, I was like THEY ARE GIANTS NO ONE TOLD ME

[seatsreservedforheroes]

Victorians on FF with an animal description and a random % of skeleton

[speedlimit15]

[cozyjorts]

for full context

[omglee-i-cant-even]

[plzu]

this is clark kent. to me.

[seatsreservedforheroes]

same dude who used to ask me if my fanfiction was popular ("it's about sherlock and john being gay? so... not much changes, huh?") still does all these years later, bless his heart*

*listen i got a tiny bit of useless internet "fame" and i'll be damned if i don't use it to impress my husband, who wouldn't know any different if I told him AO3 was invented and run solely by my legions of fans. important stuff

[dilf-din]

The most important thing you can do in this life is write hyper-specific fanfiction for you and six other people. Don’t believe anything else you read.

[seatsreservedforheroes]

There's things worth going AWOL for, and then there's things worth returning from the dead for randomly, and reblogging this post is one of the latter.

[brilcrist]

For fluffykcd week on twitter

Day 2: Childhood.

(It's just an excuse from me to draw young Radzig☺️)

[warclad]

[gregorvorbarra]

human culture

don’t be sad Ax, it’s not your fault Marco fed you puns

if you can’t read my handwriting, let me know and I’ll fix it :>

[joshpeck]

i’m screaming what does this mean

[thedisappointedidealist12-deact]

poetry 

[seatsreservedforheroes]

Ignore my texts all you want but don't you dare pretend like you're unaffected by how hilarious my stupid joke TOTALLY IS

[prokopetz]

If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

[youwillfindilluminating]

from ariana's insta stories 11-29-2024

[linguisticparadox]

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

[ri-writing]

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

[linguisticparadox]

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

[wanderingchaos]

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

[athenadark]

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

[the-haiku-bot]

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[elfwreck]

Want audiobooks instead?

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

[noswordinourlake]

Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.

[stevespookington]

browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

[zeitghost]

can you paypal me one ancient rusting coin

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]