Archive of the 2010s

[windchimessong]

I miss the days when the only thing you had to worry about was whether you should leave the washing machine on while going out or not.

[windchimessong]

Good News Sources:  AP BBC (some anti-US bias, but overall good reporting)  Bloomberg Chicago Tribune/WGN (one of the few centrist journals in the country)  The Economist The Hill (center-right leaning, though decent in coverage) LA Times Major Network News (ABC, CBS, NBC)  One America News (center-right leaning, but thorough) PBS Politico Reuters The Wall Street Journal Washington Post/New York Times (left-leaning but depends on the journalist) USA Today (better than nothing)  Your Local Paper (whether left or right-leaning, it should have competent and detailed journalism)  So-So News Sources:  CNN (Not AS biased, but gets quite a bit wrong) Drudge Report (not so much a journal as links to other sites; lets the reader decide)  FiveThirtyEight (Pretty left-leaning even if they are accurate in their polling models) FOX News (preaches to the choir)  Huffington Post (Same as FOX, but on the left)  NPR (Good reporting, but a bit left-wing)  Slate  Vice  Vox (casual and left-leaning) Bad News Sources (clickbait and biased one way or another):  Al Jazeera  Breitbart Buzzfeed  Daily Caller Daily Mail Info Wars Jezebel MSNBC New York Post Occupy Democrats  RT  Salon

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From: https://www.deviantart.com/the-doctor-w/status-update/15955910 (2018)

[writing-prompt-s]

You are a superhero looking for your sidekick who recently went missing. In your search you run into your archnemises who is searching for their henchmen who also went missing. You two soon discover that your sidekick and their henchmen are dating.

[ultrafacts]

Source: [x]

Click HERE for more facts!

[methodseeking]

JUSTICE FOR CASEY GOODSON

On December 4th, 2020, Casey Christian Goodson Jr. (23 years old) was shot three times in the back and murdered by a Sheriff’s Deputy as he was entering his home in Columbus, Ohio. Goodson’s family stated that he was returning home from a dentist appointment, holding a Subway sandwich, his face mask, and his keys, when he was shot.

Two days later, the Columbus Police Department made a statement alleging that James Meade, the deputy responsible for Goodson’s death, saw a man believed to be Goodson with a gun while driving. Meade then approached Goodson after he exited his car and walked home, where he was shot.

Hours after the shooting, the US Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, Peter Tobin, confirmed that Goodson was not the fugitive they were searching for. However, Tobin also added that he believed that the shooting was justified, claiming that Goodson was shot after he refused to drop his “weapon.”

Yet another Black man murdered by the police.

DEMAND JUSTICE.

art credit: @alex.albadree on instagram

graphics credit: @worldawarenessassociation on instagram

[academiabutmakeitdiverse]

More people need to be talking about this.

Say his name.

His family’s gofundme:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/justiceforcaseygoodson

[holytemple]

If you have lost your way, just look back to the Cross.

[why-i-love-comics]

Nightwing #77 - “Abstract Holidays” (2020)

written by Dan Jurgens art by Ronan Cliquet & Nick Filardi

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

The Addams Family renting out rooms in their huge mansion cheaply to broke college students.

The students digging it because the craziness and the bugs are pretty much the same as any other dorm house. Also, Morticia and Gomez treat them all like visiting cousins, not like tenants to abuse and exploit. 

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

One of the tenants is a creative writing major and Gomez and Morticia house them up in the tower because of the quiet and the inspiring view

They’re supposed to be working on a typical coming-of-age story but after living with the Addams for just a week the project is becoming a horror-Gothic-romance

They go to their room after classes one day and find Thing correcting the grammar errors in the manuscript with a red pen 

[specialstarfish]

and yeah, the students pay roughly market value for their rooms, but that doesn’t stop gomez from shouting “capital idea!” and handing them wads of cash when they tell him about their weekend plans or what they’re researching, so they basically end up living there for free

[gholateg]

In the same vein, half the them have to turn into exceptional fencers, because Gomez just doesn’t give a shit, and if he sees you in the library, its fucking Sword Fighting Time. 

Fester and Pugsley find out one of the college students is trying to get into chemistry and woo boy, there has never been a faster study of how to counter various acidic chemical reactions due to “water” balloons in campus history. 

Morticia and Grammy are keeping the horticulturalists on their toes with their Black Tulip/Rose hybrids, which can flick their barbs a foot away from their stem system. But it’s fine, one of the kids has managed to breed Aloe with the anti venom. 

Lurch makes sandwiches for everyone who’s too much of a coward for Grammy’s cooking. Any music major will find him looming over them, utterly stone faced as they practise until they finish, when he’ll smile, and slowly applaud. 

And the spookiest thing of all

Wednesday and Thing will find your thesis. They will critique it in every way imaginable. 

There is no escape. 

[aardvarkingmad]

I especially love the idea of Gomez spotting a student in the library, throwing a sword at a startled student, shouting, “En garde!” and lunging at him/her with a sword of his own.

Student (later in life), when asked how she jumps from quietly doing research to handling a sudden influx of ER cases so quickly and easily, says, “When you have to snap out of deep concentration on biochem to fight for your life then get back to biochem without losing your train of thought…you learn or you die.”

[soap-stains]

This has made me laugh so hard-

[tinygiantrobotsinouterspace]

And you know how chatty Gomez is when he fights, he’d probably help more students work through creative blocks via swordplay than any education counselor in a stuffy little office.

[breelandwalker]

Gomez Addams as the embodiment of the Rubber Duck Method for struggling students via surprise swordplay is directly on brand.

And I firmly believe that long-term residents who finish their degrees suddenly, mysteriously, find that their student loans have been paid off. The family attends every single graduation ceremony and claps and cheers for “their” students as boisterously as any parent. They make a particular point of doing so for the ones who have no other family in attendance.

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

do u ever want something so bad that you can’t even write wish-fulfillment about it u just. cry. instead.

[blacktealiterature]

Imagine not reinventing yourself with each piece of writing you read

[windchimessong]

Seriously tho, if the hyperbolic time chamber existed, I'd go bananas at a library–no–bookstore and read even the genres that i hate

[windchimessong]

When you're awake, i want to be with you

When you're asleep, i want to make the world a better place for you

[littlx-songbxrd]

TO EVERYONE SAYING THEY'RE INSECURE ABOUT THEIR WRITTING:

I've been seeing a lot of people reposting their insecure about their writting and its really sad because ik for a FACT most of you write BEAUTIFULLY. So I just wanted to send some motivation because writting is hard, and writers deserve love. You guys are literally creating ENTIRE REALITIES with your imaginations . Wether it be fan ficts, short story writers, etc., You are giving us a key into experiencing the world from a different perspective. Your craft is an escape, your craft is inspiring. Its always good to want to be better, but please appreciate the work you're doing RIGHT NOW. It may not seem like much, but your stories are so much more than just words in a page. Its the adventure we never experienced, its the worlds we never got to see. Writers please, whatever you write, I want to assure you today it IS good enough. Because you bled your thoughts into the page, because you were brave enough to create. Writting doesnt have to be perfect, for perfection is nothing but a myth, writting just needs to exist. Insecurity is normal but let me tell you today, your writting is worth it, your ideas are worth it, your work is worth it.

Writers, keep your heads high, continue to poor your soul into your words and know you never have to punish yourself for creating

Much love for all of you

[galactic-melodies]

Was having a sketch off and created this beauty

[windchimessong]

Kyoooot//

The conditions to evolve: evolve at [insert haunted location] at max friendship level while holding a dusk stone and having a ghost type in your party. Also, trade.

[anopuff]

style imitation of some of the feh artists with m!corrin

this was lots of fun to do!

[miskribas]

Writing research be like:

Closes eyes, turns head towards sun to see the colour my eyelids go.

Feels up a wall

Google search: what is the slipperiest brand of playing card?

Google search: how to steal evidence from police

An hour and a half spent reading up on nightclub lighting for one (1) metaphor.

Making a list of conspiracy theories

Google search: average parking lot size

The internal debate: can I invent a desert? Can I not? Can I use a real desert? What deserts do we even have in Australia? Why do I not know this?

More at 11

[leave-her-a-tome]

Goes outside to be reminded of what nature™ is like

Taking a shady online class

Google search: how many licks does it take to die from nightshade

Thinking very hard about name meanings

Then giving up and naming the mc something like “Mary”

Tries to learn smoke signals while camping

Categorizing weapons by coolness

Tastes juniper berry

Google search: are juniper berries poisonous

Stares at moon. Contemplatively

Buys a whole coconut and tries to open it

Writes notes about the dandelion you saw growing in the sidewalk.

Another internal debate: can this animal?? live in this terrain?? on this continent??? hold up now where are they native to? and what about this plant??

Google search: what did Italians eat before the tomato

More at 12

[miskribas]

Lies upside down on a chair

Punches self in face to see what colour it feels like

Google search: how do fishermen fish

Soliloquises about the dandelion for three paragraphs but can’t think of a greeting other than “hey”.

NEVER goes out, what the hell are you doing?

Makes punching movements at the mirror for forty-five minutes

Google search: videos of people shrugging

Google search: theory of semicompatibalism

Goes to the beach just to see how much sand I can track into my car

More at 1

[endless-plotter]

Google Search: How fast does fire burn concrete?

How much stuff can I fit in a backpack, for research purposes?

Videos of how to escape a hostage situation

Looking up name meanings so you can find the perfect name for a restaurant that is mentioned exactly one (1) time

Spinning my combination lock next to my ear so I can describe how the tumblers sound

Seeing if my character can actually go with that little sleep

Google Search: How to fight on ice

Reading the first few pages of Macbeth for no apparent reason

Inspecting the roof of a local high school

Google Search: Local Arson Code

More at 2

[miskribas]

Google search: how quickly does a match stop smoking

Bookmarks tab: six (6) flower meaning websites, two (2) home design sites, every police response article ever written.

Going out for Chinese food just to experience picking celery out of Chow Mein

Night walks night walks night walks

“How tall can a newspaper stack be before it falls over?”

Throws paper into the air to see what type of bird it most looks like coming down

Google search: average coma length (medically induced)

I have to gain filmmaker-standard knowledge and raw poetry talent in maybe a week? Easy.

More at 3

[windchimessong]

• Watching hours of speedthroughs to see if the video game is cool enough to be referenced

• Going on Indeed to view every job review of the job that my minor characters have

• Google search: what is the fauna and flora of Bouvet Island

• Using the bird calls page on Cornell University's website to lure a barred owl so i can get a closer look even though i have a fear of owls

• Watch every season of Deadliest Warrior to learn about human anatomy and weapons effectiveness

• Google search: extinct poisonous vertebrates

• Download the unabridged Webster's dictionary, so i can efficiently search for root words

• Almost getting lost in the Appalachian mt trail woods

• Crawl around my house to get a child's pov again

• Lie on the roof and watch the clouds until i get motion sickness

• More at 4

[nowscience-blog]

How many people can say they have played rugby with a Beluga whale? 🐳 🏉

[pugnacious-pacifism]

I’m putting this back on my radar. I want this life

[kinka-juice]

I believe this is Hvaldimir, who, get this, is believed to be a defected Russian spy. Literally.

He showed up in Norway in April 2019 wearing a camera harness labeled “equipment of St. Petersburg”, has tried pulling ropes on boats, is obviously very familiar with people and prefers to hang with people. While we know Russia has marine mammal government programs (the US does too, but it’s bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions), the extent of their programs is not declassified like the US Navy’s are.

He likes to play fetch and be scratched around the blowhole.

He has taken a diver’s knife out of the scabbard, played with underwater drones, stolen a go pro from a kayaker, and other mischief. Notably, it has been said by the Murmansk Marine Biology Institute, who may have been who trained Hvaldimir, that seals are better equipped to be polar military animals, as they have high professionalism that belugas lack.

Anyhow, enjoy Hvaldimir (the name combines the Norwegian word for whale, Hval, with Vladimir, as in Putin), the defected Russian spy whale.

[xenocuriosa-deactivated20210412]

seals are better equipped to be polar military animals, as they have high professionalism that belugas lack.

[newtonpermetersquare]

Ah yes