Preheat oven to 350
Mix
Make cookie shapes or whatever
Bake for 10 minutes
If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.
Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.
It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!
I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!
Feel free to add on.
wow! as a broke college kid, i wish there was a way to access books and movies as well as scientific articles that the new administration isn't necessarily a fan of. man. If only there was a free and trusted vpn ( up to 10 gigs of downloadable data) to use in conjunction with an anonymizing router (also free up to 10 gigs) to safely, er, permanently borrow media in an untraceable way as well as share files. Man, what's that browser that keeps your online activity anonymous? I'm awfully attached to firefox, personally. If only i had a browser extension that would throw a smoke screen over my browsing data while blocking ads at the same time.
what was i talking about? hmm. weird.
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Homie gonna share this
PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin or that Babel was too heavy-handed just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here
Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn
If anyone has any recommendations give them to me please!
Gladly! The pieces on this list aren’t limited to specifically anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy, but they do center related and relevant topics, themes, etc.
Severely underhyped books of assorted speculative genres:
Read widely. Read diversely. People of the Caucasian persuasion need to stop getting pissy when the story doesn’t immediately center them and they don’t automatically relate to everything the character says and does and is. Just let yourself get swept in the story—even if it touches on (gasp!) racism—and maybe, just maybe, it’ll reveal something to you.
Or maybe not! Marginalized sff authors do not have to and should not have to educate their readers. But if I see one more white person complain about how Black characters are fundamentally annoying because they complain too much I’m going to fling myself into the sun
Thanks for coming to my ted talk I didn’t want to do it but here I am
Oh! Please read EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN by P. Djèlí Clark y'all! but start with this book first!
This is the epitome of Black Steampunk. It so refreshing to see science fiction written and just beautifully and authentic displaying of black culture(locations, language, practices, belie, ect) like black culture is extremely relevant and refreshingly written in this story. It even has some thrill of historical/ancestors revenge, along with messages of life and healing in it. It has all kinds of Black diaspora and queer rep in it too!
try also the House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard x
Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa was also really incredible.
RadenWA is honestly a hero for these
This website is full of free sewing patterns that will automatically alter to ur measurements
https://freesewing.org
WHAT.
this is the post that started me off making my own clothes, i never actually used a pattern from this site bc i learned how to make my own too quickly but this is where the jump from wishing to doing happened
now im making money doing sewing commissions so lmfao i guess tumblr did do something for me after 10 fucking years
Making black bottom cupcakes for my beloveds belated birthday! They’re gonna be so decadent. The recipe was boring and called for water replaced with goat milk, no flavorings other than chocolate added lemon zest, just cocoa powder added 1/3 cup of melted dark chocolate, and vegetable oil I used coconut oil. Oh and I added an extra 2oz of cream cheese, obviously.
They’re baking but the batter smelled so gooood.
My beautiessssss. They smell decadent as fuck. Cannot wait to dig in.
Sheets, may I ask why you stuck with a recipe that was absolute trash instead of just switching to a new recipe?
Recipes exist as scaffolding. I have never actually found a truly amazing recipe online. They all require some fluffing to get really spectacular results. So I use them as proportions for the base stuff. Wet to dry, that kind of thing, but for things that affect the taste and flavor, then I just do what I want.
But since folks inevitably ask what recipe I used I feel obligated to make note of my substitutions preemptively so people don’t think I’m eating very boring baked goods.
Changing up chocolate flavored baked goods can be pretty tricky because there are so many forms that chocolate can take! If you're adding significant amounts of cocoa powder it'll increase the proportion of dry ingredients, and I'm not really sure how melted chocolate changes things (is it just liquid? fats?), chocolate chips/chunks mostly just bulk the recipe out so you'll have a bit more than expected, and it also varies depending on the concentration of chocolate (milk, dark, extra dark etc)!
I imagine it must be like cooking where if you've baked enough things you start to get a feel for whether the batter/dough is going to do what you want and adjust accordingly but I'm not there yet!
They are moist AF. I shorted my cocoa powder a little knowing I’d be adding more chocolate that I melted and added last.
It was a bit of a gamble but honestly the past times I’ve made them the chocolate flavor has just been lacking and these are as chocolatey and rich as my little heart desired.
you're welcome
Since the whole thing with NaNoWriMo has gone down, I've noticed that one of their former sponsors, Ellipsus, has cut contact with NaNoWriMo because they do not support their stance on AI; I didn't know what Ellipsus was, but upon further research I've found that they are a writing platform that works a lot like Google Docs and Microsoft Word, only with a heavier leaning on the story-writing aspect and connecting with other writers - and they also completely denounce any use of AI, both in the writing process itself and in the use of their platform. I really appreciate that.
Since this is the case (and since I've noticed Google has begun implementing more AI into their software), I've decided to give Ellipsus a try to see if it's a good alternative to Google Docs (my main writing platform). It's completely free and so far, I've found it simple to use (although it is pretty minimal in its features), and I really like the look of it.
I figured I'd spread the word about this platform in case any of you writers would want to give it a try, and if you do, let me know how you like it!
This sounds great, I’ll give a try tonight!!
i think they know their demographic to fr
Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.
Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.
You’re welcome.
Holy shit? thanks op!
for comp sci, physics, math, etc p much everything is uploaded by authors to https://arXiv.org
also, use Unpaywall
(and sci-hub but I didn’t tell you this)
Scientist here: can confirm we also don’t like the paywall. It costs us money to publish, and sometimes we just don’t have the budget to pay enough for free access. None of that revenue goes back to authors, so yeah, if you email one asking about their article, chances are high they’ll give it to you. I do recommend trying to get it from ~alternative~ means first because you probably can get around the paywall yourself.
I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.
stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.
bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.
mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:
The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."
Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)
Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."
Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."
JD Vance: *is from the midwest, claims to be for the working class normal folks, went to Yale and is a venture capitalist*
Tim Walz:
Oh fuck yeah, I'm making this.
Okay I"m asking for those who know...is Schell's beer so iconic I need to get it or find a special substitution? Or will any beer do? I ask because Midwest.
They're one of those iconic Minnesota things. Like many other Minnesota things, there's a lot of German heritage there, so if you get a classic German lager of any variety you'll be damned close.
Hi there! Love the stickers! Where do you get them made? Do you make themselves or get them from someone else like Sticker Mule? Thank you! Also, how do you build a sticker empire? Asking for a ~f r i e n d~
Oh gosh, lemme share some resources for y'all -- especially if you're just starting out.
Fourthwall - ShopShifty and our Sticker Club stickers are made thru FW, and always come out crisp. FW is great if you want to start a sticker shop but don't want to risk buying bulk inventory yet because it's all print on demand. They even give you sample credit to order some and see how you like them.
Printrunner - All of the @shiftythrifting official stickers I slip into merch are made in big bulk with Printrunner, their prices for low number runs aren't great though. Their stickers are the best ones I have though, they're waterproof, sun-resistant, and easier to peel than any sticker on this planet.
Sticky Brand - I found these through one of our featured artists for Sticker Club and I like them a lot, they have sales and specials ALL THE TIME and have good prices for smaller runs. I am going to try them again soon because they have lots of varieties.
The secret to Shifty's sticker powers? Our incredible artist @clockworkotter who I work fluidly with and love dearly. We make a great team.
It's a great time to reblog this because of all the crap going on with sticker mule. There are WAY better alternatives out there!
first thing you might want to consider: is the pain mental or physical?
if it’s physical, what type of pain is it causing? — sharp pain, white-hot pain, acute pain, dull ache, throbbing pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain (typically caused by nerve damage), etc
if it’s mental, what is the reason your character is in pain? — grief, heartbreak, betrayal, anger, hopelessness, fear and anxiety, etc
because your character will react differently to different types of pain
and I think that’s it for now! feel free to add anything I may have forgotten to mention here!
I go over my entire process, so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful!
This could save your life.
BOOST.
Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.
I especially appreciate this guy's commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn't have been fun.
I don’t live anywhere near water like this, but I am still memorizing this knowledge because:
* I might use it in a story someday.
* Any knowledge that staves off the dying is good knowledge.
