#make your own library

[radio-ghost-cooks]

hey remember how i said i might disappear? yeah i lied

i'm so sick of just wallowing. it's not getting me anywhere. wallowing without action doesn't do anything

i'm going to try and reblog more resources/fund links/general punk shit because i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. obviously i'm going to find time for myself to process but i also want to DO something with all of this.

so, basically, disregard all previous statements, i am going to be a menace to society if it sedates me.

[a-compass-without-a-needle]

This is what happened after 3.1 isn't it?

[sergle]

I think if you're in a relationship that's anything less than ROCK FUCKING SOLID you should consider not messing with too many of your partners interests. You'll think ohh nooo I'm being a good partner engaging in the stuff they loveee we can bond over ittttt No. you don't want all your hobbies and shows and books covered in their stank.

[queerliblib]

do you like signs and symbols?

do you ever wonder what happens to a sentence that’s been ripped in half? 

do you ever lie awake at night, listening to the sound of your own heart beating wondering how you’ll ever express to another person all the unsayable moments that comprise a life? 

try poetry*

[hemaris]

i love u book translators ❤️

[fusionfanatic]

Research for an au fic I’m working on: how would Azula act and behave in a modern setting? And I don’t mean re-imagine her character within a modern context and stories. This isn’t Azula, but she’s an overachieving American high schooler with strict and overbearing parents, or Azula, but she’s the soon-to-be CEO of her father’s multinational conglomerate based in Japan or something. No, I mean how would Azula as she is in canon, Fire nation princess and all, act and behave if you simply just took her from her world and plopped her into [insert current year you’re reading this]?

[abyssal-glory]

vector portrait for digital imaging class of RGB!! hey go read The Property of Hate if you haven’t already btw it’s an amazing comic by @modmad that i’ve been hotglued to since my junior year of high school.

big thank you to mod for giving their permission/blessing to wrestle with this horrible tv bastard in adobe illustrator for the express purpose of shilling him and this comic to my unsuspecting class <3

(edit: god okay pls click for fullscreen. hogy shit)

[shadowsighttt]

what if i start making printable paper doll artfight attacks

[ask-messily-drawn-baldi]

Baldi brah do you have a favorite book

This one here is The Why Café by John Strelecky. It's thought provoking, and small enough to read in one sitting.

Some previous favorites of mine, in no particular order, are;

Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel-- a nomadic theater group travels a post-pandemic world, clinging to what's left of humanity, and recalling their lives before.

Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty-- a sci-fi murder mystery! Clones, space ships, suspense!

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig-- a young woman visits the space between life and death, and experiences the ways her life could have been different; and, in the process, discovers she wants to hold on to the one she's got.

And,

Day Four, by Sarah Lotz-- an illness takes over a cruise ship, and the occupants lose contact with the outside world, as well as themselves. There's a sprinkle of the paranormal in there, too!"

[legacysam]

so, with amazon getting more and more evil about not letting you own the things you buy from them, I finally went ahead and scraped the drm off my kindle books. while it did require a bunch of setup, the process itself was pretty easy and less intimidating than I had feared, so I want to share some helpful tools I used if you want to do the same but aren't sure where to start:

An excellent step-by-step video guide

Calibre (the main program you will need)

The de-drm extension you'll want to add to Calibre

A guide to downgrading the kindle for pc app to a version that makes this easier

[nevemancer]

Solas (trying desperately to condense his time there into a story), sera (used to finding spaces for herself in places with very little, will take what she needs because its never given), and vivienne (Insists upon herself. and other people giving her space and recognition because she knows what happens when she doesn't have that) being the ones to really make a space Their Own in skyhold makes me surprisingly emotional.

[binah-beloved]

Binah likes those star-shaped hard candies. not because they taste particularly good- they're mostly sugar, anyways- but because you always seem so delighted when you give one to her. your voice singing "Binah, look! It's a little star!" is enough for her to face any day, no matter how deep the well and how loud the voices.

[motorclit]

I highly suggest whoever is reading this to get into shortwave radio listening. There are plenty of reasons for this, such as if your radio is portable (is rechargeable or takes batteries), then when the power/internet goes out, you won't be completely in the dark regarding news or the weather (I'll get to weather radios in a minute).

Make sure you get one with an adjustable antenna, too.

There are PLENTY of tutorials on YouTube and several books that can help you get started. As far as books are concerned, I *highly* recommend Shortwave: Radio Listening for Beginners by Anita Louise McCormick. I finished it not too long ago from the library, and it covers a very brief crash course in the history of radio including who invented it, how radio waves work, etc.

I will say that if you look for YouTube tutorials, you will run into a LOT of videos talking about "HAM radio," and that's basically for people who really want to set up their own little radio station and transmit instead of listen. You *will* need to apply for an FCC license for that, so if you wanna get into that, there is no shortage of resources of people on YouTube talking about everything you wanna know about that.

I strongly urge (actually, I'm begging whoever is reading this) to get yourself a weather radio. Weather radios are, as the weather YouTuber Ryan Hall puts it, "Like a smoke detector but for tornadoes." These radios are designed only for the weather, but if you have an emergency, from tornadoes to flash flooding, even wildfires, there is an alert system that will go off. The one I have is a simple Midland brand one that so far worked like a charm. While I havent had any nights of it waking me up due to dangerous weather, it did alert us to a tornado warning when the derecho hit the other week. That was while we had no power or internet, and because my muž and I live on my parents' farm, we have almost no cellphone signal. My mom and I got the cats to the basement before the worst of it hit us.

The weather radio I got is the $40.00 one from Ryan Hall's shop site. If you want to get that or the other model, his site keeps getting sold out on them and can sometimes be hard to keep in stock. You can program them to go off for only certain alert systems, or if you want, you can keep them on in case you think shit is so whacky that you wouldn't rule out the possibility of a hurricane or an iceberg in Nevada or something (yes, they have alerts for EVERYTHING on this little radio, they are not fucking around).

The instructions that come with your weather radio will help you figure out which regional radio station you should pick for your state and county by directing you to a website that helps you figure that out. The weather radio also comes with a wall plug, but be sure to have batteries in it (and plenty of spare batteries reserved if you're without power for many days) for when you lose power. I periodically unplug mine so I can plug in some lights, but that's for a few hours each evening. My radio lasted for 3 days on batteries alone during the power outage, and the only thing I had to reset on the radio when I gave it fresh batteries was the clock. All of my settings were saved.

Because of the current regime here in America, radio might be a lifeline regarding news, as radiowaves don't give a shit about international boundaries. Canada understands most Americans don't want the bullshit going on right now, so it wouldn't surprise me if there will be a radio station or two that might broadcast American news for any American who has a radio because the internet is a hot steaming pile of rotting garbage right now. Basically be ready for a potential Radio Free America helping us out from Canada long before the regime decides to make buying radios complicated or impossible.

You don't *need* a super-fancy radio, and be careful of dropshippers when you go to make a purchase for a regular shortwave radio. I'm getting mine in the mail today, which is a C. Crane Skywave model. I had to get it slightly used because brand new they can be pricy. (I got mine used from eBay.) The Skywave 2 (the newer model) is advertised as being able to also listen to Air Traffic Controllers, which could be important for many people's safety these days since planes are dropping from the fucking sky. The reason I had to buy a new radio is because the only non-vehicle-based radio we have is a shitty modern boombox that is already malfunctioning to some degree and doesn't have an external antenna at all. We used the sketchy radio signal listening to a station airing 80s and 90s music to fall asleep to since there was no power to power the large fan and we need background noise or else we can't sleep. (And now I've reawakened the heavenly feeling of falling asleep to the radio faintly playing in the middle of the night.)

I am begging younger generations to learn some analog tech, as you don't need internet for it, you don't need a subscription, you don't have to worry about it spying on you, etc. And fellow Millennials, re-learn what you can. Re-embrace the old tech. Teach younger gens and don't be dicks about it.

Let's make radios cool again!

[harvestmoth]

okay now for a bunch of scribbles im not finishing

[robotsafari]

a mind palace’s (unasked for) renovations [DO NOT TAG AS SHIP]

bonus under the cut:

white mushroom more like “butlershroom.”

anyway. yep! my headcanon is that the mushroom series of heartless were essentially like early versions of ansem. experiments to see if creating a heartless with a will of its own were even possible. (the mushrooms just wanna play charades and go on nice walks! they wont steal your heart because their instincts tell em’ to! they’ll only snatch it if they feel like it <3) how can you make an “immortal” successor if they cant even understand the research you left for them? so thats why they were created!

[rohirric-hunter]

Steam WTF do I play that makes you think I'm interested in platformers