#littlepiscesofsunshine

[goldkirk]

Quarantine Nonfiction book recs for someone who likes science and sociology/psychology?

HECK YEAHHHHH

Sapiens, by Noah Harari

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, by Col. Chris Hadfield (one of my fave books I’ve ever read, so detailed and so interesting. Not by a scientist but so much great reasoning involving scientific principles and being prepared and all that with PLENTY of adventure thrown in)

Crisis in the Red Zone, by Richard Preston (an almost novel-style, completely factual chronological retelling of the 2014 Ebola epidemic and multiple groups of people fighting it)

The Demon in the Freezer, also by him (if you wanna know about anthrax and smallpox and bioweapons, this is your book)

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Khaneman

Do No Harm, by Henry Marsh

Counting Backwards, by Henry Jay Pryzbylo, MD

FICTION: Extraordinary Means, by Robin Schneider (I know it’s fiction, but it’s a hypothetical “what will it look like if Tuberculosis becomes totally drug resistant in our lifetime, how does modern society handle that”) 

An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison

Flow (don’t remember who it’s by)

Rise of the Rocket Girls, by Nathalia Holt

For the Love of Physics, by Walter Lewin et. al. (Walter is a gross gross man who did a lot of iffy stuff with students if you know what I mean but this is singlehandedly the most beautiful description of falling in love with physics and learning and teaching and how magical it all is I have found so just get a copy used so he doesn’t get money and enjoy yourself) 

The Island of Knowledge, by Marcelo Gleiser

A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley (I think everyone who goes to high school or college should be given this book. if you gotta take math or science courses you deserve to learn what this book has to say)

The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg

Grit, by Angela Duckworth

Curious, by Ian Leslie

The Tipping Point, by Malcom Gladwell (actually just. any of his books. all his books. very interesting)

Applied Minds, by Guru Madhavan

The Like Switch, by Jack Schafer, PhD (dude. this is written by an ex-FBI dude, SO INTERESTING, parts of it can be a little awkward if you’re not in his same demographic, but like. this is so worth the read if you like psychology at ALL, it’s rad)

Situations Matter, by Sam Sommers

Have Dog, Will Travel, by Stephen Kuusisto (not exactly sciency but it’s an amazing exploration of the experience of disability, how different each disabled person is, how society treats the disabled, and how human we all are, plus how rad service dogs are in general, which is just a sociological gold mine honestly)

Not hard science exactly but Words on the Move by John McWhorter is SO NEAT if you want to fall in love with the English language and learn a lot about how our language trains us to think and why we think and say the things we do and how linguistics plays into our perceptions and thoughts and word choice and all that. it’s a love letter to English but it’s a lot more than that too

And this might be a bit too on the nose for right now, but if you’re up for it:

Very, Very, Very Dreadful, by Albert Marrin (some history of plagues throughout humanity’s history, how we figured out vaccines and that viruses and bacteria exist, and a LOT about the influenza pandemic of 1918. good read)

[illfoandillfie]

Playlist tag

I was tagged by the ever lovely @isitstraightvodka​

rules: you can tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people.

Television - Short Stack

Worldstar - Childish Gambino

You’re Losing - Little Pattie

London Girl - The Pogues

Can’t Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

Trampled Under Foot - Led Zeppelin

Action This Day - Queen

Zero Zero - Gerard Way

Dinosaur - Kisschasy

I tag: @rogertaylors-mullet @moreofthat-jazz  @nosferatyou  @wherearethewatermelons @littlepiscesofsunshine and anyone else who wants to do this 😁

[queenies-bug]

Tag game!

Tagged by @mercuryandmeme

Answer 21 questions and tag 21 (or how many you want who cares) people you’d like to get to know

Nickname: So many. I went my both of my middle names at various points. Vick or Vicky for Victoria

Sign: The Lowkey Bitch Kind

What I’m wearing: A queen shirt (appropriate), my trademark pink (imagine Elle Woods) and rainbow socks

Dream job: Honestly I know some people be hating, I’d like to be stay at home mom

Favorite quotes: “ Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

“There's a difference between loving the idea of someone and actually loving who they really are.”

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there”

“In a society that has abolished all adventure; the only adventure left is to abolish that society.”

“One piece makes me want to strive harder to be a stronger person capable of achieving my dreams. Nothing else has ever made me feel that way before.”

Favorite food: Delicious French shit be it crème brûlée, tarte flambée, tartiflette (morbiflette), chocolate mousse, frog legs, cow tongue, snails, rabbit head (especially brains) 

Favorite movie: I don’t know how I could possible just pick one. Mirror Mirror, Angels & Demons, Ever After (A Cinderella Story), Dead Poet Society, Hot Fuzz, Penelope, Kingsman, Pretty Woman, Sky High, Princess Diaries, The Three Musketeer (1993), The Punisher, Edge of Tomorrow, Holes, George of the Jungle, etc etc   

Favorite sport: Rollerblading / Ice skating

Dream trip: Hiking in Croatia 

Languages: English, French and some terrible German

Favorite song: I can’t chose this more than a movie. [I have many posts discussing Queen music so that won’t be here.] Very varied, from Come a Little Closer by Jay & the Americans, Ballad of a Teenage Queen by Johnny Cash, Can’t Standing Losing You by the Police, everything Clash to Bad Boy by Cascada, In the Name of Love by Rexha & Garrix, Motion Sickness by Call the Cops, Lullaby by R3HAB, Waiting For Love by Avicii, everything Simon Curtis

Favorite book: I read like 5 books (or book length fanfiction) a week so we really don’t have time for this. But some more famous ones, Ella Enchanted, Kate Daniels series, Coats & Customs, ‘This, You Protect’

What do I hate: Annoying people, lying for politeness sake like how if someone is telling you a boring story you are expected to say nothing just let them make a fool of themselves? Unsurprisingly I’m generally considered rude. 

Random fact: My taste is very weird. I like eating pickles with brownies and intentionally make playlists where techno and ballads are like back-to-back.

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Iridescent mermaid scales, dirt roads, cozy reading nooks, swishy dresses with loud prints, barefeet in the grass, daytime naps

Do I get asks: Not really. I just create incorrect posts and says stupid ace things which people wordlessly reblog

Other blogs: main is @onepieceandfandoms and @blueroses-left-to-wither but I don’t really ever post on the latter

Hogwarts house: It depends. You are either sorted on what you have the most or what you value the most. While what I value the most and have the most now is creativity (ravenclaw), when I was of sorting age I was really into one piece and I value loyalty and conviction the most which I believe technically makes me a hufflepuff. 

Patronus: Are patronus’ a reflection of your soul (James Potter’s deer) or of your soul’s desire (Snape’s doe)? If the former, some kind of cold blooded animal that you can’t really interact with like a snake or an eel. If the ladder something big and fluffy predator like a bear (panda?) or a wolf 

Favorite characters: I’ve never thought about it. Everyone from One Piece, Bilbo Baggins, Kate Daniels, Gabriel from SPN, most doctors and most companions, most of DC characters (Damian Wayne, Jason Todd, Martha Kent, etc)

Any updates on a new fic: Baby!Mercury AU about Freddie’s fictional child is on permanent hiatus because I suck at grammar but there is 6k. 

Tag Others (sorry if you’ve already been tagged): @shipscounselor @bitten-button (or on your side blog) @give-roger-his-maracas-back @perpetuallymywinchesters @littlepiscesofsunshine @im-inlovewithmycar @thebreakfastgenie @tinea-rain @virtualfartdragon @silvver-rose @ss-tamba @funnydressesweirdhairanddance @geong-staertractere @allthe-queens-men

[tastymelonfarm]

@littlepiscesofsunshine ok cool thx!!

[anthonycrowleymoved]

stage 4 fear of trying by frnkiero and the cellabration (also spoiler alert i’m emo and still stuck in 2006)

[chantecler420]

cassyblue said: Good luck !!!

grimark said: GOOD LUCK HKLY SHIT. I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!!

spacejamstevens said: Good lucK!!! Don’t hit te curb and use ur turn signal!! :)

littlepiscesofsunshine said: Note of advice - know/look up the hand signals for forward, right and left. I only barely remembered them from elementary health and I needed em. In Idaho u need to know them and if u don’t it’s an automatic fail

AAAAA THANJS GUYS I DEFINITELY JUST LOOKED UP HAND SIGNALS SO THATS A HUGE HELP THANK U 

[goldkirk]

@littlepiscesofsunshine I mean!! Apparently so!!!!

[queenies-bug]

Tagged by @incorrect-queeme

Rules: using only song titles from one band/artist cleverly answer the questions and tag 10 people.

Artist/band:

-Queen (is there anything else)

What’s your gender?

White Queen

How do you feel?

Some Day One Day (Keep Yourself Alive is too easily picking), It’s Hard Life

If you could go anywhere?

39′ (Europa!! I wanna sea space mermaids) or Seaside Rendezvous 

Favorite mode of transportation?

I’m in love with my car (not literally I can’t drive) or Bicycle (but again I don’t know how to bike) oh wait I know

Fat-bottom Girl 

Your best friend?

All Dead, All Dead 

(You’re my Best Friend and Dear Friends are too easy)

Delilah [between my friends we call each other bitch cause I’m like 100% a call you fuckface kind of person]

Favorite time of day?

Get Down, Make Love (it’s a joke because i’m ace)

Play the Game

If your life was a tv show?

Dragon Attack or Seven Seas of Rhye or Princes of the Universe

Relationship status?

Mother Love, Who Needs You, Too Much Love Will Kill You (all the Ace anthems) 

Your fear?

There Must be More to Life than this, Who Wants to Live Forever, The Invisible Man, The Great Pretender

Tag some folks: @tinea-rain @dynamite-n-lazerbeams @littlepiscesofsunshine @ss-tamba @supersonicqueerace @theglowissodivine @deacytits @silvver-rose @disco-deakyyy @rogerinatrash @big-disgrace (don’t feel like you can’t do elton dear)

(sorry if this isn’t your first time being tagged)