less fandom squealing than expected tbh

[beatrice-babe]

Qifrey is out here like, casually lifting up ten year olds with one arm, one in each arm, carrying them around the place

bro, your upper body strength? your arm strength? 👀 out here with that certified Twink Black Turtleneck but I know what you are (secretly jacked)

ultimate secret of Witch Hat Atelier is that Qifrey could bench press a fucking car. he uses the weight of his trauma for bicep curls

[summonthebats]

Magic Weaponise That NOWWWWW

This level of nail art to paint or engrave the seals onto pop on nails

Mounted on the Wudu nail ring fixings for stealth attacks and quick swaps

(You can find them HERE or just on Etsy)

With the 'Qifrey can use his blood as conjuring ink' as an optional extra

Olruggio this is within your power make it happen

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[summonthebats]

Qifrey origins thought-

Spoilers if anime only!

What if proto-Qifrey's burial wasn't another experiment?

He was used in a test run, and he died. Wasn't the first, wasn't the last.

The other test subjects -they had a collection then, its so easy to find people desperate for healing- bury him.

They make a coffin, badly but the best they could. They take a discard from the early Silverwood Seed project and tuck it into the wound they think killed him, no more than a wish. They bury him in the dead grove, part prayer, but also the closest they can get to a graveyard.

He was one of them. They cared.

Maybe some of them even live long enough to visit his grave

And then the resurrection they set up actually happens and the boy they loved wakes drowning in the dark with no memory of anyone who wasn't cruel enough to do that on purpose

[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.

[thegoliathbeetle]

No but this bit is SO fucking funny to me. Engendale really thought he had a prayer of winning. He's fighting a pissed off Qifrey, master water witch, in the middle of the sea. And he says, "I will not enjoy this." No you won't, buddy, Qifrey's gonna break you like a glowstick, and you can bet your ass he's going to enjoy it a lot.

Ch 68

[ribbons-and-tassels]

The balls of this grandpa put in a situation equal to fighting Poseidon in the middle of the sea

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

Well gee whiz, Qifrey, considering what a magnet for gossip you've always been, I wonder what could have possibly happened in his childhood that made Olruggio Like This???

[velnna]

and remember

[hazbinhyperfixationtime]

[summonthebats]

I fully believe that Qifrey has won an unseemly number of Very Serious Witch Duels by physical violence

Multiple Formal Declarations of Malice that ended with one (1) distracting spell and a jackass getting decked

HE HAS BITTEN PEOPLE BEFORE

HE WILL BITE PEOPLE AGAIN

[bob-artist]

A battle between good and weevil

[kerizaret]

unfortunately quifrey is an extremely memeable character so once more he needs a separate post

[ladysdork]

I think i've already reblogged this but i wont stop

[skyrimhusbandmaterial]

when you find someone who's equally unwell about The Character

[ananxiousgenz]

no one worry about him guys, he's fine

[staticbluue]

“People should pass a test before being allowed to have kids.” “Isn’t it scary how white people have this inborn capacity for evil?” “I’ll never pass because males and females have different skull shapes.” “Autistic people have a stronger sense of justice than anyone else.” “I don’t want AMABs in my space because they’re dangerous.” “You shouldn’t have access to hormones if you dress like THAT.” “Anyone who does something that awful isn’t human.” “Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

This is eugenics. This is phrenology. THIS IS NAZI SHIT, YOU ARE A LEFTIST BUYING INTO NAZI SHIT. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO NAZI SHIT.

[skies-diary]

I've seen a lot of people in the comments saying people needing to pass a test to have kids is a good idea, but I don't think they understand what that means. The US government used to take Indigenous children from their parents for reasons as asinine as grandparents living in the home (called "overcrowded environment") or using only their native language at home instead of English (because it "failed to prepare" children for a world where English is the dominant langauge).

Children placed in residental schools were abused, murdered, and sold into arranged marriages with white men. More recently, children "adopted" out into white households are often also subjected to the same, as well as forcibly converted to Christianity.

The most effective way to protect children in the country is to give them rights to ensure their safety, autonomy and dignity. Eugenics and laws to control reproduction will not do that. Crafting legislation with the help of child wellness experts is a better choice.

[skies-diary]

I should add - the US government STILL disproportionately targets Indigenous families for child welfare checks. ICWA is supposed to protect against this but is unevenly enforced, and there's even talk of overturning it. Protect ICWA and Indigenous children.

[summonthebats]

The really sad thing is, yeah

IF we could trust the government

IF racism, ableism, classism, homophobia and every other prejudice under the sky were not in play

IF every single asshole desperate to pretend that there bullshit is an axe worth grinding wouldn't get all up in that shit

IF all the power trippers in waiting wouldn't just love to be part of that system

IF corruption and cruelty were not rampant

Then yes, a test to make sure you understand that babies scream a lot, toddlers are difficult and teenagers are more so and your child may be autistic and LGBT+ and disabled and a conservative and a liberal and really into prog music and that obsessed with one cartoon and will learn from you actions not your words and as a parent it is your duty and your privileged to love and protect that child no matter what would be lovely

But if those conditions were met we probably wouldn't need the test

Now would you please check your privilege

[summonthebats]

From the Imagination of a woman plotting her downfall...

There was a line and those shoes have obliterated it!!!!