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"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved [stabbing] more."

-Brutus

#ides of march #julius caesar #march 15th #stabby stabby 🔪⚔️#Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved stabbing more

gamergirlcrustacean

one of my favorite things about FMA's worldbuilding is that you get to gradually realize how edward elric is the only person who dresses like that

the-shrimp-alchemist

@nonspecificgayteen THESE TAGS AHAHAHAAA

zsugamialba

How dare you hide this in the tags.

#edward elric #fma #yeah ed is me when I was that age #I had this leather jacket I would wear in 90° heat with 100% humidity #i was dying #but it had sooo many pockets #my friends went nuts over the gold star stickers I kept in my inside breast-pocket #real power is control over gold star distribution

You call it a pedestrian. I call it a speed bump.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #planet of the spiders

Weapons' malfunctions can happen even to the worst of us.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #death to the daleks #technical difficulties #the way they just look at each other in total confusion is hilarious #the dalek theme in this episode reminds me of March of the Villains

I'm pretty sure we can all agree, Sgt. Benton is the real MVP of this episode.

✨️Bonus✨️

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #invasion of the dinosaurs #sgt benton #this man is too pure for this world #also #the mugshots #just look at them

It can be frustrating to explain how things work to the new person

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the time warrior #it's my delta particle alarm clock

Some managers are a little too hands off

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the green death #i rather liked the boss #he had a lot of personality for a computer

Today's episode is brought to you by the letter D and the number 3

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #planet of the daleks #even the Daleks know Martians are supposed to have googly eyes #those cloaks really do make them look like muppets

linguisticparadox

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

ri-writing

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free.

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.

linguisticparadox

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

wanderingchaos

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

athenadark

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

zsugamialba

I feel like it's important to draw attention to this. I used to be heavily involved in the storytelling community, and Project Guttenberg is a great place to find folk and fairytale anthologies.

It really has been around for ages. I remember when I was little, my dad would read me bedtime stories from Andrew Lang's colored fairy book series he had downloaded onto his palm pilot. He got them from Project Guttenberg.

#Project Guttenberg #public domain #a palm pilot featuring heavily in my fond childhood memories makes me feel kinda old now #not my usual Doctor Who stuff #but still important

It's so hard to read your book when the girl you're holding prisoner won't shut up.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the master #frontier in space #war of the worlds #really Jo #he just wants to read his book

We'll never be able to afford this. I'll be sacked for going over budget again. The fuel costs alone...

#classic doctor who #funny #first doctor #second doctor #third doctor #the three doctors #a little army of roadster driving chaos gremlins #i have a feeling the brigadier will be ordering a lot of apples

That moment when you find out your most problematic employee has been using company funds for his man cave.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #second doctor #the three doctors #i love how the brigadier's first thought when he sees the inside of the tardis is #so THIS is the money pit!

You know you're having an off day when the old man you're trying to manipulate delivers two sick burns in rapid succession.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the master #the time monster #King Dalios #touché Dalios touché

One of the natural consequences of erasing the culture of an entire race is the loss of essential lore. In this case: the basic concept of puberty.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the mutants #well well well #if it isn't the consequences of cultural erasure #so your body is changing

Jedi mind tricks not working?

Try ✨️violence✨️

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the master #the sea devils #it used to be the Doctor who had documentation problems #oh how the tables have turned #the master seems to be losing his touch #he's just having awful luck with hypnosis

Good to see not even the Master is immune to the mesmerizing effect of children's programming.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the master #the sea devils #the clangers #i'll admit #I did not expect to see something this wholesome #more evidence for the idea the master's dream job was children's toy designer

Life is a lot more frustrating when you can't just hypnotize everyone.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #the master #the sea devils #well well well #if it isnt the consequences of my own actions

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