GATTACA 1997 | dir. Andrew Niccol
When you're a helpol who's also a chronic soda drinker, cutting up the six pack rings is also a devotional activity to Lady Artemis.
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.
It is free.
It is legal.
I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.
I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.
Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!
If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!
And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!
I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!
Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!
it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!
*accidentally realizes i’ve been overusing a random phrase a lot* where did this come from. who did this to me
The king's younger daughter was sent as a bride to the Dark Lord, as a peace offering, since the older daughter ran away. He took pity on her and saw her potential, so he made her his apprentice instead. Years later, when a hero faced the new Dark Lord, the two sisters found each other again.
Mideyn had barely crested 17 when her father offered her up as sacrifice. Of course, he had phrased it better than that. 'You'll be a hero,' he had said to her. 'You'll bring peace to our land.'
As she got older, she realized how horseshit that was. Luckily, Dynern was a decent man. He wasn't good, by any stretch of the imagination, but he was no monster like the village parents painted him out to be to keep their children in line. He took her in, not as his wife, but as his apprentice. And, over time, as something akin to a sister.
It was nice, to have a sibling again. She was still fairly young when her elder sister, Alhea, ran away. She couldn't blame her now, but she did a lot when she was younger. She was an angry 12 year old who had been abandoned by the only family that mattered to her.
But she was beyond that now. She had a new family. And she had a purpose.
Dynern was not dead, despite what the public would believe. He had settled down in a small village to retire. He had never showed his face while being the Dark Lord, so it was easy to slip into the populous.
It was also why people assumed she was dead, too. When she took up the mantle as her mentor retired, with no sign of her existence, people assumed that Dynern had just killed her, and she was content with that. Content to live a life of peace, for the most part.
Until she started to get reports from her generals about some upstart hero who had been singlehandedly taking down her operations.
Of course, this wasn't uncommon. There were always people who liked to play hero, but never had they been so successful and decisive. It would take her months to rebuild what this damned hero had torn down.
And never had a hero been so bold as to confront her at her own home.
She sighed as she heard the door open. Her underlings knew not to interrupt her, so she knew there was only one person this could be. She set aside the book she had been reading and stood up from her chair, mask in hand. She didn't turn around yet, instead just listening to the footsteps and the creaking of the floorboards beneath them.
"Hello, hero. You've been quite bold, coming here to my home. Especially after all you've been doing. Have you enjoyed tearing down my operations?"
The hero hummed, stepping forward slowly, still well a ways across the room.
"Well, it's all the better seeing how much it riles you up."
Mideyn just smirked, laughing.
"Yes, well... I'm afraid you won't be able to see it for long."
She spun around, mask rising up to meet her face. "Say goodbye—"
She froze. Eyes wide, she felt the mask drop from her hand, revealing her face to an even more horrified hero.
"Alhea...?"
They are valid and deserve more appreciation
Me and "The Fonz" at premiere of Goncharov (1973) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
[the beetle] changes a life in tiny little ways. most times, the universe just compensates around it, but with you? great big parallel world.
I'm generally okay with the tumblr checkmarks for eight dollars because, like. websites need money to continue being websites. I like it here! I don't want tumblr to cease to exist! Tumblr selling stupid little trinkets is preferable to tumblr becoming the bloated carcass that is every other website in order to stay afloat.
Almost an example of priceless be worthless.
Fun example of two different types of useless.
Angel + being an old man who just wants Wolfram & Hart to get off his lawn Bonus:
i desperately need my moots who aren’t doctor who fans to see this PLEASE
Please tell me the lights and music is unedited
Absolutely delighted to announce this is 100% unedited, lights and music and all.
When I saw the Master had assumed the identity of Rasputin, I started chanting to myself, for nearly 45 minutes, “Do it do it please do it do it please please do it” and I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED.
So, that lore, huh?
Hello, I made a proper fandom/art blog if any of you want to check it out.
(I'm on a bit of a hermitcraft binge to catch up before the charity stream, so you'll probably be getting some of that for a while.)
damn it i can't find the post about the warhammer sacrifices being less than the amount of people dying of covid daily
found it again. sorry to repost
I died, I guess, and the afterlife had that feature where people from the living world would send messages to dead loved ones. My first letter was, in fact, a question from kids (who I didn't know) that asked me how to solve a math equation.
Teacher: “You’re not allowed to google the answers”
Student: Hoho. Hehe. Teacher does not know. I can use. The Doogle. The Dead People Google. Hahahee
The strangest dream that I ever had was where I was talking to Strax the Sontaran from Doctor Who and he claimed that he had gotten into Christianity in a big way because he thought that it was "admirably cunning of humanity to lure their God down to Earth in a mortal body so that they could DESTROY HIM!"
I want you to know that I read this in his voice and it was the funniest thing I've seen all week.
I hope that you also imagined him pumping his fist in VICTORIOUS JUBILATION
au where eberytjings the same but they have to go to five guyd
I didnt even question it
Despite some of its misses, Firefox still matters. Mozilla is pushing companies to be more private, and its key product is different at its core. The browser market is dominated by Google’s Chromium codebase and its underlying browser engine, Blink, the component that turns code into visual web pages. Microsoft’s Edge Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera all use adapted versions of Chromium. Apple makes developers use its WebKit browser engine on iOS. Other than that, Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is the only alternative in existence.
“This market needs variety,” Willemsen says. If Firefox diminishes further, there’ll be less competition for Chrome. “We need that difference for open internet standards, for the sake of preventing monopolies,” Willemsen says. Others agree. Everyone we spoke with for this story—inside and outside of Mozilla—says having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there.
Download and start using Firefox if you don’t already, I made the switch back to Firefox after not using it for years and being a chrome person until 2020 and have never regretted it
I'm so. emotional at how human the robots in Stray are.
Sometimes sci-fi stories would play into AI taking over the world and wiping out humanity. And it's that horror of having us be replaced by robots and machines. But Stray kinda flips it around and turns it into something comforting. Humans are all gone but the robots prevailed and they honor us in every way they know how. They're the ones keeping our memory alive. And throughout the game we see it everywhere.
The humans left behind plants and so the robots nurtured them even in a city without sunlight. They put together mannequins of what they think a human would look like and put it in their homes to remember us. They draw murals in our memory. They tell stories about us and wonder about what we were like.
And from the Control Room, we know that they weren't always like that. Once upon a time they were just machines, mindless and unfeeling, existing only to follow orders. But it's been so long since then that they've turned into something more.
Now they're alive in their own way. Now they live in communities and they build homes. Now they stargaze in a city without stars. There's light and there's music. They understand beauty they understand art they understand family.
They're curious about us. They want to see the world outside. They've never seen a cat before but their screens turn into hearts when one rubs against their legs.
And maybe there's not an ounce of human history left but through them we live on. We live on in they way they play games and dance and make music and write poetry. And even though they're made of metal and bolts, they are human in all the way that matters. So very human. In Stray, the humans are gone but humanity lives on.
