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Just a bunch of useful websites

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

My Fridge Food – No idea what to make? Tell this site what ingredients you have on hand and it will give you recipes to cook.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

Honestly, the Black Widow movie has me feeling a level of engagement in the MCU that I haven't felt in years. I have all these ideas for fic and meta and I'm making a 90s playlist??? Time is a flat circle, and when I look in the mirror my reflection is 2012-2016 me.

Nick Fury and Natasha Romanoff in "What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?"

#natasha romanoff #nick fury #black widow #marvel #mcu #what if...?#what if marvel #papa nick #are there awards for best spydad and murder daughter duo?#because they would make a clean sweep

I haven't posted on this particular blog in an eternity, but trust me when I say I've been having FEELINGS about the Black Widow movie, and I do intend to put them into words eventually.

But also, new Nick and Nat content??? It's been 84 years since I've seen my favorite spydad and his murder daughter interact??? I am feasting after famine! And I'm out here making gifs because apparently nobody else is gonna put the goods on my dash, but that's okay, I will happily get my hands dirty for all the Nick and Nat aficionados out there. All five of us.

#it feels fitting to come out of my retirement over nick and nat

Person: Marvel has done Natasha so dirty

Me: Damn right they have, so dirty

Same person: I mean, she has no personality and no character arc

Me: SHUT YOUR MOUTH YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING I WILL FUCKING FIGHT YOU

#natasha romanoff #black widow #mcu #the life of a natasha fan #recognizing it requires mostly reading between the lines which is a legitimate criticism #but also being offended when you realize other people haven't put the same thought into her as you have

sidewaystime

oh i fucked that nat post up real good, didn’t I? whoops. That’s what comes of trying to do that during dnd I suppose.

My current favorite nat story is alternate universe never joined shield Nat getting dragged over to this universe and she’s both real pissed off about it and also very confused by everything. there was a big…thing? that happened? something apocalyptic level and she was involved in stopping it or reversing it, AU!Nat isn’t really sure but none of it seems like her and she holes up somewhere and does research on herself but not before she causes some amount of problem.

meanwhile, nick is catching rumors that natasha romanoff is not dead and also back on the mercenary bandwagon and he thinks really hard about sending a message to clint to investigate, who’s been not coping with his best friend being dead, or to wanda who has made an effort to fall off his radar that has natasha’s fingerprints all over it and he wants to respect that, and does finally send a message to Sam that there’s maybe something he should poke his newly shield-bearing nose into.

and sam and bucky do finally catch up with her and she’s just like, oh it’s you, and sam goes Nat? and Bucky’s really excellent reflexes are the main reason that Sam doesn’t get shot in the side (”You’re supposed to use the goddamn shield for this, Wilson, what the shit” and sam is like “yeah, yeah, okay, i know, i’m just more used to using the wings and there wasn’t–” “i’m going to spend all day shooting at you until it doesn’t occur to you that there’s not a big magic frisbee attached to your arm that laughs at bullets”) but you know, once they get past the shooting and everything, it’s Sam who spent literal years fighting with Nat daily and knows a LOT about the way she likes to fight and Bucky who is getting a totally unreal sense of deja vu because some of those moves are his moves but scaled down for someone half his size and weight (and also she somehow manages to get up on his shoulders again what the fuck is that about and continues trying to punch him in the head while Sam is trying to pry her off.

anyway, the point is, they do finally manage to fight her and then they drag her back to Camp Steve, who is just like very…..Sam does not know what to make of that expression, because sad doesn’t really seem to do it justice, this whole weight of something that’s not just their Nat being gone but is like the look he used to get when they were on the run and he came across some goddamn thing, a war memorial or whatever, something that sent him back to all the people he never meant to lose, a busload of loss, and not for the first time does Sam wonder what exactly Steve got up to in that minute between one life and the next.

steve calls wanda and wanda calls clint and AU!Nat is scoffing openly at the very idea that they can three ghosts of christmas her or it’s a wonderful life her, whatever it is that they think they’re going to accomplish by surrounding her with the relics of a dead woman, do they think she’s just going to be that person because they want her to be? is their natasha so replaceable to them?

(sam calls rhodey, who somehow calls space????, and Bucky seems weirdly pleased when that Raccoon guy shows up with that blue lady that Rhodey hugs and the Raccoon guy says “Carol can’t come, she’s doing something” and he mimes punching and something exploding and Rhodey says “nothing too bad, I hope, she can call us if she needs to” and Rocket is like, right ‘cause what are we going to do that she can’t and also that Okoye says that they can’t expect this woman to want to be the same and that they should set their expectations accordingly, but also that if anyone would want the choice to change, it would be Natasha. “But she can’t get away?” asks Rhodey. “Nah,” says Rocket, “she’s still mostly managing Wakanda while her king guy catches up on what’s happened.”)

and uh, pretty much all they want is to give nat the chance to find out the person she could be.

alloftheendgamefeelings

The number of emotions you have given me this morning is frankly surreal.

thedancingcow

Oh, wow. I love this concept so much, and I apologize for highjacking it with my dumb dramatic feelings.

They all recognize different things in her.

Sam and Wanda see her flashes of droll humor, and for a moment, they slip into a familiar pattern of sarcastic banter with her, and the other Natasha smiles an amused little half-smile that they know so well from their days training at the Compound as Avengers, from their nights on the run as fugitives. For that moment, they almost forget this isn’t their Natasha.

Bucky thinks he might have known her, once. Or not literally her, but a Natasha more like… this. She doesn’t look at him like she recognizes him exactly, but there’s a kind of perplexed curiosity in her eyes, like he’s a puzzle she’s trying to work out. It’s the same way he knows he looks at her.

Nick and Clint know Natasha’s sharpest edges better than anyone. They brought her in, all those years ago. She made her very first choice, but that didn’t make it an easy one, didn’t automatically settle her into her new life. She was a twisted nerve on the edge of her seat, paranoid and suspicious, desperately straining to strike out, barely restraining herself not to. But more than anything, she was confused, trying to understand what they saw in her that she couldn’t see in herself. She eventually softened, in all the good ways. Opened herself up to the world and the people in it, in her own manner.

They don’t see that softness and openness in this Natasha. This Natasha never went through deprogramming, never had the assistance of a professionally trained staff of therapists knowledgeable in trauma recovery. This Natasha’s been alone in the cold for years, no safe spaces or support systems or found families. She’s more dangerous in many ways, but she’s also worn down. Tired.

Steve and Rhodey and Rocket and Nebula have seen that exhaustion in Natasha before. They were with her through those five years after the Decimation. She never stopped. She ran herself ragged in the chaos that followed and continued to do the same as things began to settle into their new normal, because that’s what the world needed from her, and that’s what her friends needed from her. But it took it’s toll on her. And whatever life this other Natasha has lived, it’s taking a toll on her too.

Throughout her interrogation or intervention or whatever ridiculousness they are subjecting her to, Natasha scoffs. No matter what they think they see in her, she is not the dead woman they knew. She never will be. Memories make people who they are. She should know: she’s been so many different people, their memories still sometimes rattling around in her head. She escaped those mind games when she escaped the Red Room, and she won’t be victim to such manipulations again. She isn’t going to let these people make her into another woman.

Of course, if that’s what they really are trying to do to her, they’re certainly going about it in a stupidly gentle, utterly inefficient way. She says as much out loud, not that she’s trying to give them any ideas.

The one called Steve, the old man, just looks at her with a sad smile and says, “We don’t expect you to be the Natasha we knew. You never could be. We just want you to know you have a choice.”

Then they let her go. Just like that. And suddenly she’s free in a world that feels fundamentally changed, for more reasons than just because she’s been transported to an alternate reality.

#natasha romanoff #mcu

ahskatano

his kids:

#oh my god #i am emotionally fulfilled and emotionally devastated at the same time #i was just casually scrolling and got to the 'if i have kids' gif #and i thought to myself 'oh wow this would be the PERFECT time for spy dad nick and his hypercompentent spy daughters'#and OP looked into my soul and said YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT IT IS #some people just get me #nick fury #natasha romanoff #maria hill #papa nick

natashagifs

Natasha + those rare little real smiles

#that little half-smile kills me every time #natasha romanoff #mcu

allofthefeelings

Sam Jackson’s continued assertion that Natasha is both Nick’s and his favorite Avenger (and his irritation he has not yet been asked to be in the technically-still-unannounced BW movie, which I will take with a grain of salt because unlike some Mark Ruffalos SLJ knows how to lie) keeps me warm and safe through the cold winter.

#bless sam jackson #and put him in your movie #you can always count on him to remind people that nat is nick's adopted murder child #this doesn't at all dissuade me from holding hope he'll turn up in bw #nick fury #natasha romanoff #nick and nat #mcu

widowsource

Black Widow set photos, Budapest, 26/06/19.

thedancingcow

I told myself I wasn’t gonna overanalyze Black Widow set pics, but here I am.

I’ll leave the comic nerds to argue over body armor guy, I’m more interested in the vehicles. The tank says Rendőrség, which is the Hungarian police, so it seems like Budapest really is meant to be Budapest and not a stand in for another European city. Meanwhile, Natasha is getting wrecked in a fairly new BMW (I can’t place the exact model and year but leaning 2018/19 X3), which tells me whatever crazy shit is happening, it has nothing to do with the pre-2012 Budapest noodle incident that is oft referenced.

So I continue to wonder when all of this is taking place. It’s definitely not pre-Avengers. Rumors say it’s after Civil War. But then there’s the Endgame-esque hair. Whatever the case, I don’t buy that it’s gonna be a tradtional, straight-forward prequel.

#black widow movie #mcu

678i0u

Do you know what it’s like to be unmade? You know that I do.

#natasha and carol working for people they thought were the good guys and tearing it all down when they realized they were lied to #natasha and carol struggling with their lost/manipulated memories #natasha and carol clawing their way out and making families for themselves #natasha and carol seeing nick fury for who he really is and loving the hell out of him #yeah these two absolutely became friends during those five years #natasha romanoff #carol danvers #mcu

A minor thing that also feels huge to me is that Nat is wearing sturdy asskicking boots with no high heel in all of these set photos. I’m pretty sure this is the first time she’s ever been given a proper pair of goddamn boots throughout all of these movies, and I’m kind of giddy about it because those heels have always bugged me.

#natasha romanoff #black widow movie #mcu #it's almost like women making movies intrinsically understand that superhero-ing in heels is maybe kind of unnecessarily dangerous #i guess nat technically wore those weird ballet flat style boots with her SHIELD uniform in IM2 #but that was only for two seconds of her fight scene #otherwise it was platform-y #please give me a flat-shoed natasha action figure so she can finally stand without the constant threat of tipping over

Anytime I stop to think about it, I’m still kind of mind blown by the concept of a Black Widow movie. Like, this thing I've wanted for almost eight years and had basically given up hope on happening is in fact happening, and it’s currently filming and there are set photos coming out and there are no take-backsies now. My brain doesn't know what to do with it.

There is a film being made right now by a creative team of mostly women whose number one priority with this project is telling a story about my girl Natasha, with a script that has been specifically developed to serve her character. Audiences are going to watch this on the big screen, and they’ll be able to see the full scope of her in a way most of them haven’t before, because this time the narrative is hers. Natasha’s story is the blood and bone and muscle of it. This time it won’t just be mega fans Frankenstein-ing scraps together using vital scenes that end up on the cutting room floor. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I haven’t enjoyed the process of creation, which is at the heart of fandom experience. It’s just that it’s also really damn magical to have a full toolbox to play with.

And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s all the other things that come with a movie. There’s going to be an official Black Widow title font and a Black Widow soundtrack that someone thoughtfully composed and Black Widow merchandise people can actually find in a physical store instead of overpriced on Ebay. When I try to process everything, it’s a system error of excitement.

#natasha romanoff #black widow movie #mcu #will this movie make up for all the ways marvel has done natasha dirty in the past? unlikely #will this movie fulfill all my wildest desires for a black widow focused story? probably not #will this movie do some things i don't like and will choose to ignore? entirely possible #do i care about any of that right now? not at all

Gimme that God of Death AU featuring Natasha as Death. Humanity fears and despises and shuns the Black Widow because they believe she brings death with her wherever she walks, casually marking the young and the old and the in-between for termination, wantonly destroying life, callous and cruel and unmoved by suffering.

In reality, Death doesn’t choose who dies. Life chooses when life ends. Nature chooses. Chance chooses. Most terrible of all, humanity chooses. Natasha is merely a witness to humanity’s choices. But she continues to visit the dying, even knowing of her reputation, and what she does choose to bring with her is quiet comfort and compassion and peace.

#natasha romanoff #black widow #mcu