me, wearing nothing but a sheer plunge-neck ballgown that’s plastered to my skin from the rain, soaking wet and trembling with cold and fatigue as i stand outside the entrance to the castle: p-please help me ;) i’m s-so lost and s-scared ;) ;) i have no where to stay for the night ;) ;) ;)
the sexy vampire lady who answered the door, and to whom the castle belongs: of course ;) you poor thing ;) ;) come inside, you must be freezing… you may stay as long as you need to recover from your ordeal ;) ;) ;)
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
"Déjà Vu" - fanmix for Daniel and Armand from the AMC's Interview With the Vampire. Befitting Daniel's jumbled memories, not linear.
Listen: ( Youtube | Spotify* )
*Spotify (is trash) does not have track 7 (really recommend pulling this up to hear it specifically, it's superb)
Lyrics:
The Stranger - Billy Joel
Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south every now and then
You've done it
Why can't someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself
You may never understand
How the stranger is inspired
But he isn't always evil
And he is not always wrong
Though you drown in good intentions
You will never quench the fire
You'll give in to your desire
When the stranger comes along
Alice's House - The Psychedelic Furs
In the bedroom down the hall
Your secrets sleep
It is always late at night
Won't you stay? Why don't you stay?
In the house where Alice lives, colours clash
It's a mess of souvenirs
There to remind you, telling the time
Talking In Your Sleep - Romantics
When you close your eyes and you go to sleep
And it's down to the sound of a heartbeat
I can hear the things that you're dreaming about
When you open up your heart and the truth comes out
You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
'Cause I hear it in the night
Downtown - Lloyd Cole
Slow train down, babe, track twenty-nine
There's no looking back when there's no sense of time
Because it's neon here twenty-four hours of the day
And you're sure looking pretty when it's hitting on your face
With a touch of evil in your eye
With a touch of evil in your eye
I want to take you down underside of the city
I want to take you down to the underside
Days Without Paracetamol - Snow Patrol
If I come round there now, would you be pleased to see me?
I wouldn't make much noise, just whimper to myself
My head hurts more each time, the drinking strangles me
Believe in God, like hell, believe in hell by God
Build it up, build it up (Tear it down)
Build it up, build it up (Throw it out)
Black - Basement
I tell lies
If I didn't you'd be horrified
I'd rather die
Than have you find out
What I'm trying to hide
I can't escape
These walls I made
Surrounding me
Surrounding
Collideoscopic - Catherine Wheel
I don't know why
It feels so special
It takes no time
Before I'm on my hands
Say what you say
Do what you do
It's no problem
Say how you'll be
Disguise it from me
It's no problem
In Your Room (Zephyr Mix) - Depeche Mode
In your room
Where time stands still
Or moves at your will
Will you let the morning come soon
Or will you leave me lying here?
In your favourite darkness
Your favourite half-light
Your favourite consciousness
Your favourite slave
Sleep Together - Garbage
Make me a pretty person
Make me feel like I belong
Make me hard and make me happy
Make me beautiful
The emptiness, the craziness
Satisfy this hungriness
Darling, how would it feel?
If we sleep together
Will you like me better?
If we come together
We'll go down forever
If we sleep together
Will I like you better?
Sugar - Editors
There's sugar on your soul
You're like no one I know
You're the light from another world
You swallow me whole
With just a mumbled hello
And it breaks my heart to love you
It breaks my heart to love you
Don't leave, don't leave
When you're lost in a moment, I am home
I try, I try
To make you realise when I'm gone, gone, gone
This Place Is Death - Deftones
We go out together, we weave our own web
Tangled in the waves with you
We spray the scene in red
We both erupt in colors
Then carve out our names
You keep me aroused
I know you feel the same
You arrive in my dream
Beside me every night, just you and me
We explode through the scene
We try to drain the night empty
No one else has a hold over me like you do
Night and Day - U2
Day and night, why is it so
That this longing for you follows wherever I go?
In the roaring traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you
Night and day
Subway - Peter Murphy
Use me
Don't sleep in the subway
Don't sleep in the pouring rain
Don't sleep in the subway
I'm needing you well - I
I feel you, you're closing down, yeah
Get close, talk right through me
Get close, keep tight with me
If you fall now it could be forever
There's a place where we can meet
There's a place where we can meet
Petals - Brigitte Bardini
I can see you're alone like me
Drifting on a distant thought
That you won't find a place where you belong
I can shelter you
Please let me
I'll wander through your vulnerabilities
I'll be a part of you
And you of me
He loves me
He loves me not
He loves me
He loves me not
Boy Strange - Pet Shop Boys
See boy strange on the horizon of love
He's calling to you
What do you say?
See boy strange as an example of youth
So close to the truth
But still far away
And he's such a strange boy
D'you think he'll make a good exchange for
The one before a closed door
That you left behind?
No Where to Run / Bandits - UNKLE
There's nowhere to hide
There's nowhere to run
My love is pure
Second to none
All alone
What I've become
Oh darling
What have I done
Take my hand and run
Take my hand and run
Pace Is The Trick - Interpol
I've seen love
And I follow the speed in the starlight
I've seen love
And I follow the speed in the star-swept night
Yeah, pace is the trick
And to all the destruction in man
And now I select you, slow now I let you
See how I stun, see how I stun
Give Yourself to Me - Depeche Mode
Before the fates sing
Before the bells ring
Before the violence
Give yourself to me
After the night falls
Somewhere in shadows
Watching the time crawl
Give yourself to me
Maybe by my own hand or maybe not
Or an accident with no plan or no plot
Take me with intent or as an afterthought
Take me anyway you want
Take me anyway you want
i think i tend to forget how good boredom is for creativity because we're all so addicted to numbing ourselves with screens and stimulation. but standing in the shower or going for a walk with no music or just sitting in your bedroom without being allowed to touch any screens & all of a sudden i have multiple new projects to start, a solution to a months-long plot problem & 4 new original characters
20 years later. you're kermit. opening night at the muppet theater. you look up. you can't believe it. those two awful cunts from next door are here. neither of them died yet. they're going to be here, forever.
what if instead of paying companies to delete our info off of databases periodically we like. idk. passed a law that said companies couldnt do that anymore. and set up some kind of task force to disband all the companies that do that. thatd be cool
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