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Two mini serene scenes for the weekend. I am deeply tired, and it has been a very, very long term (I know, a long year). I have one more week of work this year, so just trying to de-stress and make a list of everything I need to do so I can take time off with a clear head 🕯✨

“You love him. The story still ends.”

— there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying | p.d  (via lostcap)

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"

07/29

Specific Hozier Music Edits Masterlist

(I’ll update this everytime I post a new one)

• Shrike but you’re sitting by your open window during a thunderstorm

• In The Woods Somewhere but you’re actually somewhere in the woods during a summer night, sitting by a campfire

• No Plan but you’re sitting on an empty beach looking out on the sea

• Almost (Sweet Music) but you’re sitting on a porch during a thunderstorm

• Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene but you’re driving through a snow blizzard at night

• Wasteland, Baby! but you’re driving at night through rain

• As It Was but you’re sitting on your windowsill, watching the thunderstorm that’s going on outside

• Sedated but you’re underwater

• Wasteland, Baby! but you’re right at the edge of a dark forest, sitting by a bonfire

• Run but you’re sitting by a lake. The sun just went down and you lit a bonfire to keep yourself warm

• From Eden but you’re sitting in a field by a small river. It’s a nice sunny day & the birds are chirping

• Arsonist’s Lullabye but you’re all cozied up in front of an open fireplace

• NFWMB (Acoustic) but you’re in the middle of a forest at night, sitting in the entrance of your tent in front of a bonfire

• In A Week but it’s coming from an unknown source in the distance; you’re laying in the middle of a field, insects are buzzing around you

• It Will Come Back but you’re sitting at the edge of a cliff looking out onto the ocean and the thunderstorm that’s raging in the distance

• Foreigner’s God but you’re walking through howling wind

• Work Song but you’re on an empty beach, looking out onto the ocean while the daylight fades

• Dinner & Diatribes but it’s playing at a fancy cocktail/dinner party

• Would That I but you’re sitting outside on a windy day enjoying the way the trees move and the leaves rustle all around you

• Movement but you’re lying on your couch next to an open window, enjoying the thunderstorm that’s going on outside

• Like Real People Do but you’re in the forest, actually digging up something (or someone?)

• Work Song but sung by a woman/female!Hozier

• Run but sung by a woman/female!Hozier

• Take me to Church but sung by a woman/female!Hozier

• NFWMB but it’s playing from an old truck radio. You’re at the edge of a forest at night, cuddled up to your lover in the makeshift bed in the back of the truck, listening to the sounds of their breathing and heartbeat

• Better Love but you’re in the treetops of the jungle, listening to the sounds of the animals in the forest below

• Talk but you’re on a walk in a forest

• Cherry Wine but you’re in your hammock on your veranda with a glass of wine, listening to the rain and the insects in your garden

• Would That I but you’re cozied up in front of your fireplace after a long day

• From Eden but you’re riding your bicycle down a dirt path

• Someone New but it’s quietly playing through your headphones while you’re walking down a busy street; watching all the strangers around you going about their day

• Sunlight but you’re out camping on a hot summer night

• The Humours of Whiskey but someone is singing it while you’re on a walk, exploring a forest

• Be but it’s a hot summer day and you’re sitting by a river at the edge of a forest

• Jackie And Wilson but you’re sitting by a campfire; there’s a thunderstorm brewing in the distance

• Nobody but you’re in bed, cuddled up to your significant other while it’s raining outside

• To Noise Making (Sing) but you’re on a walk through the woods on a nice spring day

• Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue) but it’s playing from an old radio that your friend/SO and you took with you to hang out by a lake on a nice summer day

Constellations. A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy. 1870.

Internet Archive

Videodrome (1983)

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

Dancing in Film:

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

Choreography by Monica Bill Barnes

Anne Bachelier’s illustrations for The Phantom of the Opera