I Agree

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

When I was very young, probably about 5, I freaked out my friend by asking to dissect the dead spider we found in his room

The two of us, and some other boy, were playing around in his room when he decided to move a box that hadn’t been moved since he gained the room the year or so before. He and the random boy were horrified to find a rather large dead spider curled up behind it. I on the other hand was delighted. Finally, a chance to dissect something.

Our mothers were alerted to our discovery by the screams of my playmates, followed quickly by the sound of a very unhappy child stomping down the stairs. In trudged me, frowning and holding the dead spider in both hands.

I complained to my mother that no one else wanted to dissect the spider, especially since it was already dead and thus we wouldn’t need to kill it. She then had to convince me that my friend’s mother, who at this point was several shades greener than usual, very much did not want me to leave it next to the tea for her to dissect later.

i am sick! and grumpy! and fully of mucus!!! and if anyone wants to buy me some ramen and/or tell me a story of humorously blundering childhood mishaps, that would be most pleasing indeed!

i adore when people have diy blorbos. like they made an oc and went "oh this little freak Rules" and they just dont shut up about them. i think its fantastic i love it so much

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useful websites i forget about when i actually need them

feel good & feel better

Good News Network - exactly what it says, good news only from all around the world

you feel like shit - the website asks you questions that guide you through the process of figuring out why you might be feeling unwell right now

information & research & books

Z-Library and Library Genesis - a place to find & download books, scientific articles, etc. very useful especially for academic purposes

Archive - the Internet Library to know and love. Also, Internet Wayback Machine - lets you access ‘screenshots’ of websites etc that no longer exist (or shows you what they used to look like)

Asexual Research - a user-created and updated Zotero repository of academic asexual research

Recommend Me a Book - lets you read a page from a book with the cover, title, and author hidden. You can reveal the book information with a click

Whichbook - helps you find a book to read based on several categories: mood & emotion (comes with sliders), books from… (world map; click on the map, select a continent and a country, and browse), and character & plot (sections: race, age, sexuality, gender, plot)

writing & writing prompts

Calmly Writer Online and ZenPen - online minimalistic writing software, both come with such handy options as dark mode and manually saving your progress. Calmly comes with several preferences you can adjust, ZenPen lets you set up a target word count.

Tip of My Tongue - helps you find the word you’re thinking of so you can carry on (sections: partial word - starts with…, contains…, ends with…; letters - unscramble, must have, can’t have; word meaning - word 1, word 2, word 3; and refine search - min. length, max. length, sounds like…)

Prompt generator - generates multiple writing prompts for you, you can refresh each section separately or everything at once (sections: genre, setting, relationship, period/time, profession, book/movie/show au, theme, fantasy/sci-fi, prompt idea, dialogue idea)

OTP Fluff Generator - generates one fluffy ship-oriented prompt at a time

Fic Prompt Generator - SFW and NSFW version (sfw sections: setting, genre, trope, prompts; the nsfw one has a bonus kink section)

misc

show all tumblr tags - type in a tumblr blog handle and it’ll show you a list of all the tags that have been used (takes a while to load the tags up)

GeneratorMix - a website full of different random generators

Online OCR - extracts text from an image or a pdf file

TuneFind - gives you a list of songs/music used in TV shows (per episode), movies, and games

midomi - find the song stuck in your head by humming or singing it

waifu2x - lets you upscale images/artwork 1.6x or 2x with minimal quality reduction (works best on lineart)

There is a new Chrome extension that detects if a video you’re streaming has a strobe in it, will freeze the video and stick this warning up there until you approve it.

WHERE THE HELL HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE????

Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied 

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

The inspiration for angry birds

Deaf Metal- Jewelry for Hearing Aids & Cochlear Implants

I just saw the coolest thing! There’s a company called Deaf Metal that makes jewelry specifically designed to accessorize hearing aids and cochlear implants! They’re made of hypoallergenic silver and use a cool little silicone sling to attach the jewelry to your existing device.   

They create designs for people of all ages, gender presentations, and personal styles. For the hearing aid designs, they have designs that go behind the year as well as ones that slide onto the pipe going into the ear. They’re designed to be fashionable but not decrease function!

They advertise them as a way to both help you accessorize and to help you keep your hearing aids as findable as possible in the event that you misplace one, or in the case that your hearing aid slips off. Their safety chain options are available in both adults and children’s designs. 

They’re designed by a Finnish HOH designer named Jenni Ahtiainen who has previously done accessory work for people like Snoop Dog & Bono. She believes that hearing aids & cochlear implants should be like glasses, you should be able to style them to your liking. All the products range in cost from $15-50 and if you only wear a hearing aid in one ear, many designs offer the option of purchasing an earring for your other ear so you can match! You can see her other design work at @gtiejenni and @gtieneckwear.

Deaf Metal sells & ships worldwide (USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Norway, Finland, and France, to name a few) from their online store and their amazon shop. They also have some brick and mortar retailers that carry their designs in Norway and Finland. 

You can find their website in this post’s sources.

The wedding is about to begin!!