death loves you. break its heart.

usa; she / her.

[song-of-the-spheres]

DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access-  Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.  Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

[lesserjoke]

Also, remember — there is a wide world of researchers out there, most of whom don’t give two figs about paywalls. Let people know what you’re having trouble accessing, and you’d be surprised how quickly a copy will find its way to your inbox. And if you do belong to an institution with a library, check out their interlibrary loan system, which is a more official way of getting things from behind a paywall at no cost to you.

[booksandwords]

As the adults argued politics we kids went through a massive tonal shift when it came to our perspective on our culture and our security. And that is when I became paranoid. Because our parents had wars and we had Columbine.

Me & Mass Shootings, Eugene Lee Yang

Okay so this video is hard to watch. It is 8 minutes of brutal honesty that needs to be seen. There is some perspective on mass shootings in there that is forgotten. But this line is something I hadn’t realised. And it does include us all know. Social media changed everything. My view has been changed and influenced by shootings as the previous generations were by war. Don’t tell us we’ve never seen violence. Ours is just different.

(via justanotherqoteblog)

[sophomoreslumps]

and why put a new address on the same old loneliness, and this is you and me, and me and you, until we’ve got nothing leftI COMB THE CROWD AND PICK YOU OUT 

[wistfulwatcher]

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[just-shower-thoughts]

2017 is the last year anyone born in the 90s will be under 18. After this, there will be no more 90s kids.

[just-shower-thoughts]

There are over 7,500 different types of apple, but only one “apple juice”.

[alwaysfob]

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Ask Me Stuff 😉

Full name

Zodiac sign

3 Fears Spiders

3 things I love

4 turns ons

4 turns offs 

My best friend 

Sexual orientation

My best first date

How tall am I

What do I miss


What time were I born


Favourite colour Black


Do I have a crush


Favourite quote


Favourite place


Favourite food


Do I use sarcasm


What am I listening to right now


First thing I notice in new person


Shoe size


Eye colour


Hair colour


Favourite style of clothing


Ever done a prank call?


What colour of underwear I’m wearing now?


Meaning behind my URL


Favourite movie


Favourite song


Favourite band


How I feel right now


Someone I love


My current relationship status


My relationship with my parents


Favourite holiday


Tattoos and piercings?


Tattoos and piercing i want


The reason I joined Tumblr


Do I and my last ex hate each other?


Do I ever get “good morning” or “good night ” texts?


Have I ever kissed the last person you texted?


When did I last hold hands?


How long does it take me to get ready in the morning?


Have I shaved your legs in the past three days?


Where am I right now?


If I were drunk & can’t stand, who’s taking care of me?


Do I like my music loud or at a reasonable level?


Do I live with my Mom and Dad?


Am I excited for anything?


Do I have someone of the opposite sex I can tell everything to?


How often do I wear a fake smile?


When was the last time I hugged someone?


What if the last person I kissed was kissing someone else right in front of me?


Is there anyone I trust even though I should not?


What is something I disliked about today?


If I could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?


What do I think about most?


What’s my strangest talent?


Do I have any strange phobias?


Do I prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?

What was the last lie I told?


Do I prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?


Do I believe in ghosts? How about aliens?


Do I believe in magic?

Do I believe in luck?


What’s the weather like right now?


What was the last book I’ve read?


Do I like the smell of gasoline?


Do I have any nicknames?


What was the worst injury I’ve ever had?


Do I spend money or save it?


Can I touch my nose with a tongue?


Is there anything pink in 10 feets from me?


Favourite animal?


What was I doing last night at 12 AM?


What do I think is Satan’s last name is?


What’s a song that always makes me happy when I hear it?


How can you win my heart?


What would I want to be written on my tombstone?


What is my favourite word


My top 5 blogs on tumblr


If the whole world were listening to me right now, what would I say?


Do I have any relatives in jail?


I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power?


What would be a question I’d be afraid to tell the truth on?


What is my current desktop picture?


Had sex?


Bought condoms?


Gotten pregnant?


Failed a class?


Kissed a boy?


Kissed a girl?


Have I ever kissed somebody in the rain?


Had job?


Left the house without my wallet?


Bullied someone on the internet?


Had sex in public?


Played on a sports team?


Smoked weed?


Did drugs?


Smoked cigarettes?


Drank alcohol?


Am I a vegetarian/vegan?


Been overweight?


Been underweight?


Been to a wedding?


Been on the computer for 5 hours straight?


Watched TV for 5 hours straight?


Been outside my home country?


Gotten my heart broken?


Been to a professional sports game?


Broken a bone?


Cut myself?


Been to prom?


Been in airplane?


Fly by helicopter?


What concerts have I been to?


Had a crush on someone of the same sex?


Learned another language?


Wore make up?


Lost my virginity before I was 18?


 Had oral sex?


Dyed my hair?


Voted in a presidential election?


Rode in an ambulance?


Had a surgery?


Met someone famous?


Stalked someone on a social network?


Peed outside?


Been fishing?


Helped with charity?


Been rejected by a crush?


Broken a mirror?


What do I want for birthday?


How many kids do I want and what will be their names?


Was I named after anyone?


Do I like my handwriting?


What was my favourite toy as a child? 

Favourite Tv Show?


Where do I want to live when older?


Play any musical instrument?


One of my scars, how did I get it?


Favourite pizza toping?


Am I afraid of the dark?


Am I afraid of heights?


Have I ever got caught sneaking out or doing anything bad?


Have I ever tried my hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end?

What I’m really bad at


What my greatest achievements are


The meanest thing somebody has ever said to me


What I’d do if I won in a lottery


What do I like about myself


My closest Tumblr friend


Something I fantasise about my ex

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65 Questions You Aren't Used To

1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?

2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you?

3. The person you would never want to meet?

4. What is your favorite word?

5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be?

6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?

7. What shirt are you wearing?

8. What do you label yourself as?

9. Bright room or dark room?

10. What were you doing at midnight last night?

11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?

12. Who told you they loved you last?

13. Your worst enemy?

14. What is your current desktop picture?

15. Do you like someone?

16. The last song you listened to?

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?

18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?

19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do?

20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional)

21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?

22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?

23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?

24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.

25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?

26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?

27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?

28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place? 

29. What is your favorite expletive?

30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?

31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world!

33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?

34. What was your last dream about?

35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]?

36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital?

37. Have you ever built a snowman?

38. What is the color of your socks?

39. What type of music do you like?

40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?

41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?

42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer)

43. Do you have any scars?

44. What do you want to be when you graduate?

45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

46. Are you reliable?

47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?

48. Do you hold grudges?

49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?

50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?

51. Are you a good liar?

52. How long could you go without talking?

53. What has been you worst haircut/style?

54. Have you ever baked your own cake?

55. Can you do any accents other than your own?

56. What do you like on your toast?

57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?

58. What would be you dream car?

59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain.

60. Do you believe in aliens?

61. Do you often read your horoscope?

62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?

63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?

64. What do you think about babies?

65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of.

[alwaysfob]

16 days of Infinity On High: Day 8 → Don’t You Know Who I Think I Am?

[themasterofpuns-deactivated2020]

Me when subway asks what I want on my sandwich

[pruningthisbranch-deactivated20]

do you ever pretend like you didn’t see something so the other person doesn’t feel embarrassed 

[1nd2rd3st]

750,324 people whose mama taught them right

[hey-its-scar]

The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.

–US Flag Code

[shawnzayn]

12/7

[micdotcom]

WhiteHouse.gov scrubs climate change, LGBTQ, more issues from official site after Trump takes office

It’s official. Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

In with the new and out with the… civil rights, climate change policy, health care.

These are just some of the many issues scrubbed Friday from the White House’s official website, after Trump’s inauguration.

The website’s transformation, from former-President Barack Obama’s administration to Trump’s administration demonstrated the stark differences between the two. Read more

Update: As the bottom tweet in the photoset shows, the old pages have been moved to an Obama White House archive site. The website changeover is part of a routine hand off. It is possible the the Trump administration will replace those pages with versions of their own but that is yet to be seen. Here’s Snopes for more clarification.

[shawnslmao-deactivated20170914]

His smile is a ray of sunshine, and I am a sunburn.

[just-shower-thoughts]

There needs to be a channel solely to entertain our pets while we are at work.