Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Journaling, etc.

[starblightbindery]

My personal goal is to try and make fanfic binding as accessible to everyone as possible, so here are some resources on how to make a fanfic hardcover for under $25.

This is a barebones bind for the broke college students and such. Happy to field questions, too!

Here's a proposed budget breakdown:

Loosely organized thoughts:

Fanfic bookbinders often share typesets amongst each other. Never pay for a typeset for a fanfic.

You'll hear a lot about grain direction for your printer paper, but as a newbie on a budget without your own printer, settle for some nice 92 bright paper. If you like the hobby, splurge after but expect to pay at least 2-3x more for short grain paper.

Printing is a pain because some copy shops won't let you print intellectual property smut, and it's very expensive. You are better off bartering instead or looking for a free printer on Buy Nothing.

You know the thick paper wrapping that comes with online orders? It's a good weight for endpapers if you need to scrounge. Paper grocery bags or gift bags (birthday presents) might work, too.

Ask your local library to give you covers from books they are throwing out. Ask for outdated textbooks (those covers are built like tanks) or three-ring binders that are too busted to be binders anymore.

Obtain a used book that was mass produced (so your destruction of it does not impede anyone's access) and maybe even become a little vindictive with it.

If you can afford it, I recommend the Olfa SVR knife (~$10)

If you can afford it, upgrade your ruler to a t-square.

I really hope this resource is helpful! I want to stress how possible this is and encourage people to cherish what they love through art.

If you are interested in fanfic binding and have a little more disposable income, I have an affordable Fan Fiction Bookbinding Starter Pack that I carry on my site. I pack them myself and drop them 1x/month on the 15th.

[shalottpress]

This is such a great resource for anyone starting out fanbinding!

[trans-ralsei]

[trans-ralsei]

[caughtthedarkness93]

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

[unforth]

Intriguing to me that the Chinese does not say the same as the English. It says,

"This is the employment jelly. People who see it can all find a good job. Please say thank you to the employment jelly."

Like. The differences aren't particularly important, I just find it interesting.

[plumslices]

If we don’t microdose delusion we won’t make it through this reality babe….

[leebrontide]

So I remember reading about this study in grad school where they have a bunch of clinically depressed people and a bunch of non-clinically-depressed people a game that was partially chance and partially skill, and asked them to estimate how much control they had over the outcome.

The depressed people were far more accurate in estimating how much influence their actions had on the outcome of the game compared to their nondepressed counterparts, who consistently overestimated the effects of their own choices on their chances of winning.

Then I remember this other study (CW animal testing) where they put rats in a bucket of water that they couldn’t get out of, so they’d have to swim. There was a fairly consistent point at which the swimming rat would falter, and stop swimming, fated to drown.

Except that that’s when the researchers would pull the rat out of the bucket, give it a nice rest warmth and a meal.

When those SAME rats who had been rescued before were put in the same situation again, they swam much LONGER than they had before.

Why? The risk was the same either way- drowning. You’d have thought that the fear of drowning would keep them swimming to their maximum length no matter what.

The researchers conclusion was that the rescued rats had something they hadn’t had the first time- they had more hope. A miraculous rescue could come, and that let them swim for longer, just in case.

I think we do microdose delusion because sometimes that little overestimation of our chances, of our luck, keeps us swimming that little bit longer, just in case something good happens. And sometimes, that little margin really does make the difference. 

[vanwolffen]

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather.

[gatheringbones]

sometimes I’ll listen to talks and interviews by people who were working artists in the eighties and early nineties when it was possible to scrape and put by on a part time working class job while developing and distributing their own skills and I’ll think about the mass sacrificial zone of art and culture that formed while multiple generations of artists were robbed of the time and energy and means to create, the artists who couldn’t rent cheap flophouses and gogo dance in bars or dishwash or bounce or escort or walk dogs part time and still support themselves, the unnecessary forced desperation of survival eating more and more away at the limited number of hours in a day available to make art.

[gatheringbones]

I think all the time about henry rollins talking about living in his best friend’s mom’s living room and working at haagen dazs and all of the shows he went to and the relationships he cultivated to get into the rock scene and how impossible all of that is to recreate thirty or forty years later with the end result being the total flattening and deadening of art and culture we see around us now.

[gatheringbones]

[“Some weeks later I went out with six young queer artists to have a drink. One was just about to publish a book with a mainstream publisher and go on a book tour. One was preparing a show for a popular commercial venue. One was about to have a funded workshop for a piece he had written. They all seemed to be doing very well, having opportunities and fitting in to the cultural structure. When I asked one guy what he did for a living, he said “performance.” I now know that that is code for “inherited wealth” and does not mean he earns his living as go-go dancer at the Pyramid Club to pay his $150 rent, as it would have in 1979. None were waiters, hustlers, legal proofreaders. One worked for a fancy art magazine, another was the assistant to a famous artist. They were American aristocracy —good suburbs and good schools, clean-cut homosexuals —but somehow still attracted to justice.

As the evening progressed they started to express a reasonable discomfort with the ACT UPers. It was obvious that there was a wall between the two groups, and I guess we all wanted to understand what that was. The younger people loved ACT UP. But in some fundamental way they couldn't relate to it. They didn't understand what we had experienced. They had never been that oppressed. They had never been that profoundly oppressed. And yet, they wanted to relate. They also had never been that inspired, that inventive or that effective. They were intelligent and thoughtful. They wanted to understand.

“Why?” I asked. “What is it that you want to know?”

“I wonder what it means about me.” ]

sarah schulman, gentrification of the mind

[stephaniesays1968]

HEAVEN HELP US NOW!!!

Death of Joan of Arc at the Stake - Stilke Heaven Help Us - My Chemical Romance

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

You already know the rabbit hole we goin down Tonite

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Bread spectrum

[thejounglebook]

Just made a free printable 2022 Habit Tracker for one of the most important habits - exercise!! Feel free to print here or see a higher quality version on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jagwa

[dilfosaur]

i noticed my burnout comic was making rounds but the full comic is no longer available after the collegehumor website went offline…. so here it is!!!

i wrote/drew this back in 2018 when i was struggling w hella burnout and depression. i hope everyone is taking care of themselves :3

[violetsnotebook-archive]

12.05.20 / happy tuesday! i’ve had a very productive day today. i’m feeling really great after a sluggish weekend. anyway, i’ve gotten a lot of asks and replies about my desk clock and where it’s from so i thought i’d link it here (not an ad, not sponsored or anything). hope you’re doing ok! –p.s.: spot the cat ♡

[houseofnadeen]

[slfcare]

things i wish i’d been told sometimes

𓂃 your life revolves around you and it always has. if you feel the need to stop and catch your breath, do it. time moves forward, but your life will never be able to continue without you. 

𓂃 the way people talk to you about others is a direct reflection of how they talk to others about you. remember that. 

𓂃 life is too short to stay quiet. your voice carries you as much as you carry your voice. 

𓂃 nobody pays as much attention to you as you think they do. 

𓂃 nobody’s expecting you to do something useful every day. you shouldn’t expect that from yourself either. 

𓂃 nothing that matters to you is useless. if it’s important to you then it’s important, period.

𓂃 don’t live every day like it’s your last–rather like it’s your first. get to know your space, get comfortable where you aren’t yet, try new things but not everything at once. and look forward to things that are coming. 

𓂃 you’re only responsible for what you can control and influence. focus on that. 

𓂃 stop trying to be okay all the time. you do not have to be okay all the time.

𓂃 it’s more common to have a soft and protecting tummy than to have flat abs. both is healthy, both is pretty. 

𓂃 your teens are not your only chance on having a good, fulfilled, and social life. if you can’t find your place in high school you will in another environment. this isn’t where it ends. 

𓂃 you have the right to change your mind over and over and over again until you’re happy.

[hopefulsalad]

“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”

— (via naturaekos)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“someone else could do it better than me” not relevant babe, no one else is gonna do it. You can’t do a mediocre job if you’re the only one doing it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“what if someone else does it better later?” Good!

Technically the Wright brothers built the worst airplanes in the world. If you do it first, you do it worst, and history will thank you for it.

[shadycottagewitchh]

This is big inspiration for me I was planning on not doing the ideas I had, but now all my excuses are gone

[chokoilatte]

more journalling and a picture of the sky.

[lottystudies]

Study time!

I’ve got a week off from school and exams starting in three weeks time. Time to start revising and studying everything.

[ophanic]

are we all aching on this warm july night?

[awed-frog]

when you’re trying to write and your last two functioning brain cells start yelling at each other