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Tried a vampire impression at improv night and honestly i get it now. I get you WWDITS gang i truly do its fun as heck.

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

Obviously spoilers for Nosferatu!

Saw Nosferatu with a pal and it was good. The music, the transitions, the gothic feel mwah i love it. But it got me thinking.

Remember the scene when Nosferatu invites Thomas to fool him into signing his marrige away? Thomas is understandably a nervous wreck at this point - unfocused, distracted, *malleable* - so it should be easy to get him to sign and then get rid of him afterwards.

But instead, he keeps him around for several days, feeding on him of course, but not in the grousome way he will feed later on in the movie. Instead Thomas is free to roam his castle, and converse with the Count.

And yes, while Nosferatu is probably gathering strenght for the journey ahead, intending on killing him before departing, what if..

What i propose is Nosferatu is curious about what Ellen sees in her husband. After all he is the only thing keeping her away from his clutches.

Evidence of this would be: How much time the two spend together at the beginning of the movie without bloodshed.

and well.. the second time Nosferatu fed on Thomas - remember this is the first time we see how Nosferatu feeds, by sinking his teeth into a victims heart. We also see later how mercilessly the Count bleed his victims either by draining them dry, or going for the neck.

BUT unlike those times, this is the one time which is similar in how Ellen finally defeats Nosferatu - by sleeping with the beast. Nosferatu is in full display feeding on Thomas, naked and gangly, only for Thomas to wake up dazed in his bed again. By this logic the event *is* more horrific, but we can chalk it up to Nosferatu wanting *a taste*.

we need more pathetic female characters written by authors who don't hate women

Uprooted doodles of the battle costumes from last episode. :) might make a fake move poster of them.

I made a paper doll of Kremy Lecroux from Legends of Avantris ( Once Upon a Witchlight ) 🐊

For sharing:

Long-ways | Box-ways

Going to put all this in its own post too by popular request: here's how you make your own website with no understanding of HTML code at all, no software, no backend, absolutely nothing but a text file and image files! First get website server space of your own, like at NEOCITIES. The free version has enough room to host a whole fan page, your art, a simple comic series, whatever! The link I've provided goes to a silly comic that will tell you how to save the page as an html file and make it into a page for your own site. The bare minimum of all you need to do with it is JUST THIS:

Change the titles, text, and image url's to whatever you want them to be, upload your image files and the html file together to your free website (or the same subfolder in that website), and now you have a webpage with those pictures on it. That's it!!!!! .....But if you want to change some more super basic things about it, here's additional tips from the same terrible little guy:

That last code by itself is: <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=001.html"> Change "001.html" to wherever you want that link to take people. THIS IS THE REASON WHY when you go to bogleech.com/pokemon/ you are taken instantly to the newest Pokemon review, because the /pokemon/ directory of my website has an "index.html" page with this single line of code. Every pokemon review has its own permanent link, but I change that single line in the index file so it points to the newest page whenever I need it to! While I catered these instructions to updating a webcomic, you can use the same template to make blog type posts, articles or just image galleries. Anything you want! You can delete the navigational links entirely, you can make your site's index.html into a simple list of text links OR fun little image links to your different content, whatever! Your website can be nothing but a big ugly deep fried JPEG of goku with a recipe for potato salad on it, no other content ever, who cares! We did that kind of nonsense all the time in the 1990's and thought it was the pinnacle of comedy!! Maybe it still can be?!?! Or maybe you just want a place to put some artwork and thoughts of yours that doesn't come with the same baggage as big social media? Make a webpage this way and it will look the same in any browser, any operating system for years and years to come, because it's the same kind of basic raw code most of the internet depends upon!

this is just canon i fear