there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

• use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
• use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
• use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
• get rid of bloatware
• use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
• use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
• use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
• use storygraph instead of goodreads.
• use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
• use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
• use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
• make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
• use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
• use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
• use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
• find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
• burn your music onto cds
• use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
• use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
• use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
• remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
• remove bloatware on samsung X
• use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
• use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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Bullet journalling going well today. I'm a shadow of my former self

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

Romanticizing studying/education

While I am not currently enrolled in college, something I found incredibly helpful when it came to studying and taking notes was fully romanticizing it. And by that I mean going all the way in— I would put on a classical music playlist and set my LEDs to a warm orange tone and pretend I was a young scholar in ye olden days studying by candlelight, and a couple hours later I’d have half a notebook filled with color-coded notes. Another time I put on some film noir jazz and rain ambience and imagined I was a tired, grizzled detective working tirelessly on a cold case that just wasn’t making sense. And sure enough, I would have pages upon pages of notes and work completed by the end of the night. It sounds really silly but I shocked myself with how well it worked, and I wanted to share my experience with it in case it can help anyone else!

To be loved is to be changed (bujo edition)

to all the adhd bujo peeps who have been struggeling to keep your journal habit up: i know instagram makes it look like you have to be all aesthetic and inject matcha latte directly into your veins but let me tell you:

actively work against that perfectionism!!

stick that train ticket in even if it doesn't perfectly line up with the rest

cross out accidental spelling errors and leave them all scribbled and "ugly"

write everything you can think of even if it doesn't fit the theme because then you have everything in one place in case you're wondering where the hell you wrote something down (as it was originally intended btw)

USE it no matter if its pretty or not and break that awful spell of perfectionism that scares you into keeping it clean and tidy and never using it in the first place

bujos are supposed to be helpful to keep your shit together and they shouldn't have to be instagram content mills

love your imperfect bujo and it will love you back!

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions

Crime

• Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie
• Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl
• Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

Horror

• The Landlady - Roald Dahl
• A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke
• The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin
• The Veldt - Ray Bradbury
• The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick
• The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft
• The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

Sad

• The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor
• A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver
• Cathedral - Raymond Carver
• The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Chef - Andy Weir
• The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
• Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko
• The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert

Sci-Fi

• Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr
• The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
• The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke
• The Star - Arthur C Clarke
• Reunion - Arthur C Clarke
• The Commuter - Philip K Dick
• Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick
• To Serve Man - Damon Knight
• Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman

What the Fuck?! 

• The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
• A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson
• Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme
• Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto
• The Box Social - James Reaney
• He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi
  
• The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)

Other

• Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer
• A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor
  
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates
• The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton
• The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar
• The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez
  
• On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges