heavensigh

[heavensigh]

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

[heavensigh]

what fucking hell dimension are y’all blogging from

[heavensigh]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[heavensigh]

"We have a new AI feature!" "With the power of AI..." "Our AI..."

I am going to abandon technology and start only inscribing things on clay tablets

[heavensigh]

Can't Have Nice Things

The Ketamine King Musk has shutdown the IRS's Free Tax Filing system.

Of all the things a government could off, a way to Freely calculate and file your taxes seems like a good one. But the richest man in the world thinks we shouldn't have that.

[heavensigh]

Can't Have Nice Things

The Ketamine King Musk has shutdown the IRS's Free Tax Filing system.

Of all the things a government could off, a way to Freely calculate and file your taxes seems like a good one. But the richest man in the world thinks we shouldn't have that.

[heavensigh]

u betrayed ur own humanity by casting ur vote for a candidate that not only couldn’t articulate how she would be better than trump but signed off on the mass murder of thousands of men, women, and children. u betrayed ur own humanity and u still lost and now ur writing nine paragraph posts abt how it’s the fault of people who aren’t interested in throwing the citizens of the global south under the bus for increasingly meager imperial benefits.

[heavensigh]

While we're casting blame and telling each other "I told you so", let the record show that Black people leery about AAVE and words like "woke" being co opted and adopted into the greater American lexicon were 100% correct to be wary.

Mere months before the election, people on here and other platforms--liberal, conservative, and in between--got pissy about African Americans feeling a way about our language being butchered and demonized. About the meaning and intent changing. You were mad we wanted boundaries and to gatekeep.

And now look, that very language is being weaponized by white supremacists to attack us, other marginalized people, and inclusive language and efforts as a whole.

Guess it WAS that deep funnily enough. Y'all are never going to learn.

What you wrote off as asinine or being over dramatic was yet another instance where you could have realized antiblackness has society in a death grip and done better. But so many of you think you're above being part of the problem and listening to us when we talk about our struggles. You think you can step over us and move towards progress anyway but you can't.

It's solidarity or nothing.

[heavensigh]

I’m of the firm belief that Lysithea should have filled the mechanical role of Claude’s “retainer” instead of Hilda for many reasons.

☝️That said.

Hilda’s death in Crimson Flower goes hard. It’s devastating and unavoidable. More so than Dedue and Hubert’s deaths, in my opinion, because they are characters who have openly pledged their life to the royal they serve. Hilda is a character who openly expresses confusion to Byleth about why people would sacrifice their life for another, then turns around and does exactly that for Claude. She is the character who intentionally portrays herself as lazy so that others don’t set expectations for her and thus she doesn’t have to face the possibility of disappointing people, and then the last thing she sees is the anguished despair of the last friend she has.

Claude’s barely holding himself together around the time of the battle at Derdriu. I imagine he has spent many nights without sleep, attempting to piece together the perfect comeback. He pulls all of his strings in the candlelight of a dying hope, sending letters to any ally he has that is still alive.

I imagine he pulls aside Lysithea and Hilda and he pleads with them to live, to flee, to retreat when if things go sour.

I wonder if it is in that moment that Hilda fully realizes she is going to die in the next battle. Perhaps she sends Holst a goodbye letter, apologizing for not being as strong as him. Maybe she carries a second letter on her person on the off chance Claude would find it later.

Or, possibly, it wasn’t planned at all. Maybe Hilda simply watches the masked pain on Claude’s face when Lysithea accepts Byleth’s offer of mercy to join Edelgard’s army and decides in the moment that she isn’t going to leave him to die alone. Maybe, just maybe, she doesn’t want to disappoint him, too. Perhaps that’s why her dying words are one last apology to him.

Regardless, Crimson Flower!Hilda is absolutely heartbreaking.

[heavensigh]

fe3h as textposts (part 8 of ?)

[heavensigh]

FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.

Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.

The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.

Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.

Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.

Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.

Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.

The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.

Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.

John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.

ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.

Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.

Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.

Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.

Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.

2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.

Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.

Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.

Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.

Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.

Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.

Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

[heavensigh]

Hi guys,

Please read this if you are a fan of me and my work.

I’m making this post on behalf of Nader( @abdalsalam2000 ). He is currently living in Gaza and is working to restore his broken home and some semblance of normality. He’s really close to his goal so if you could please donate and help him complete that goal, that would be amazing.

Donate here

I know over the years I’ve had a lot of people offer to send me money etc. in thanks for the content I make, I would greatly appreciate it if you send any of that money his way to help him reach his goal!

[heavensigh]

I continue to mourn the fact that Claude and Yuri do not have supports. They’re born to be scheming rivals. I think those cheeky little bastards have much stronger feelings about one another than simply neutrality - at least within the context of White Clouds and Verdant Wind.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I believe 100% that they respect each other from the start. I don’t think they’d ever be truly enemies. But Claude, particularly during the academy phase, does not like when he feels like someone has gotten the upper hand on him. For example: his supports with Balthus show him growing tense and mildly irritated when the dude starts prying at his background a little too much. After all, he has a lot on the line. I suspect he’d be likely to clock Yuri as a potential threat - or a potentially very useful ally - super quickly. He’d probably spend time verbally sparring with him and trying to feel him out.

I also believe Yuri would be in more or less a similar situation for a while. Claude testing the waters would likely put him somewhat on the defensive. He does not seem to like when people get in his business any more than Claude does. (ie. Yuri and Byleth’s C-Support, which consists of Yuri being tense and on the defensive. This includes him threatening to slit their throat despite him relenting a bit.) I can only imagine the passive aggressiveness. The thinly-veiled threats. Potential outright hostility. 🤌 Chef’s kiss.

I ultimately think it’d take a support chain for them to come to a more genuine understanding, and possibly even a solid friendship. Maybe up to B or B+ with the last support being locked until post-timeskip? A paired ending would be much more difficult to pull off for them considering their priorities.

Do I think supports between them are necessary? Not really. But it’d be so good guys, trust me. We can just replace Claude and Ing.rid’s god awful supports. 🥺🙏

[heavensigh]

As we head into multiple viral outbreaks including potentially H5N1, I am begging people to think carefully about how they talk about these viruses. It has been exhausting since the start of COVID hearing people talk about "only people with pre existing conditions" as if that makes everything okay. I am worth something, we are worth something, our lives matter.

[heavensigh]

It's funny how the whitest people in the imperial core are panicking and compiling doomsday survival lists for a presidency which will largely not impact them at all

[heavensigh]

it’s just funny for a website that majority seems to be against republicans and trump a large portion of this userbase doesnt care to learn anything to actually combat them like thats part of why the right wing wins they dont need to think as hard their baseline is “white supremacy good for us” and thats enough but u cant even get liberals on here to agree that america has been fascist from the jump like …….we cant get u bitches to read history we cant get yall at soup kitchens we cant get yall in the streets all yall r good at is making a hundred “im gonna have a panic attack they r gonna put me (white person) in a camp!” while actual immigrants r being rounded up like…….its all a joke 😭 its always been this way bc that is the liberal condition but its so ridiculous to have the same complaints that my ancestors were having about their white liberal peers like goddddammmmm we r not getting out of here

[heavensigh]

Instys are cowards for not giving a muscular build to at least Edelgard and Hilda. I’m talking the body of Karlach from BG3 at the bare minimum.

F!Byleth, Petra, Leonie, Bernie, Shamir, and Catherine also deserve lean muscle and somewhat defined abs. I’m willing to excuse Rhea on account of how much time she has spent not fighting, but Serios!!!

Every time someone makes fan art that gives any of them actual muscle, an angel gets their wings.

Muscular women. That’s the post.