Is there a good, inexpensive (not even free, just affordable) way a non-academic can access scholarly articles? I’m never going to cite an article in anything and I’m not affiliated with a university, I just enjoy reading & checking primary sources.

elodieunderglass: That’s such a good question!! Oh my goodness! The short answer is yes, definitely! I’m going to tell you The Big Dirty Secret at the end of this post. But first you have to read how to do it properly, okay? If you’re browsing, and you don’t know exactly what article you want, probably… Continue reading Is there a good, inexpensive (not even free, just affordable) way a non-academic can access scholarly articles? I’m never going to cite an article in anything and I’m not affiliated with a university, I just enjoy reading & checking primary sources.

wRITERS! Doughnut say the word you meat to say. Say other words that are not that word. Your word-writing will thank you.

blue-author: Instead of WALK consider frazzle bounty kelp brigadoon spelunky biscuits w/ sausage gravy quizzical Gary, Indiana Instead of SAID consider evaporated spleened funjaculated rhubarbed miskatoniced Any time you are about to use a word, STOP! You are making a mistake. Go to this site. Put in the word you think you want to use.… Continue reading wRITERS! Doughnut say the word you meat to say. Say other words that are not that word. Your word-writing will thank you.

blackboardmonitor: carry-on-my-wayward-artblog: ladybons: carry-on-my-wayward-artblog: Headcanon: Drumknott is taller than Vimes Moist is taller than Vimes Angua is taller than Vimes Everybody is taller than Vimes #this has been my headcanon since day one and LET ME TELL YOU#it makes the books at least TWO TIMES MORE ENTERTAINING#I mean moist is average height at best#and still… Continue reading

what’s sense8 about? I saw some gifs and it looks cool. Is it?

pasiphile: Sense8 is a modern-day-set science fiction series made by Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis (they of the Matrix and more recently Jupiter Ascending). It’s roughly in the same vein of things like Heroes and Lost, in that it’s about eight people across the globe who discover they have some kind of unusual power: in… Continue reading what’s sense8 about? I saw some gifs and it looks cool. Is it?

IF YOU EVER NEED SOMETHING TO READ READ THIS

chaoticallyprecise: OK ARE YOU EVER IN NEED OF BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS BUT DON’T KNOW WHAT TO READ NEXT? I present to you, straight from the internet, whichbook: Here’s how it works: You click the link, and choose four categories and the extent to which these categories matter: Then click “go” and it’ll come up with a… Continue reading IF YOU EVER NEED SOMETHING TO READ READ THIS