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I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

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99 legal sites to download literature

The Classics

Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.

Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.

The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

Textbooks

If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.

Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.

Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.

KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.

Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.

Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.

MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.

Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.

Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.

Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.

eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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“What is desire? Desire is a restaurant. Desire is watching you eat. Desire is pouring wine for you. Desire is looking at the menu and wondering what it would be like to kiss you. Desire is the surprise of your skin. Look - in between us now are the props of ordinary life - glasses, knives, cloths, Time has been here before. History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries. The props change, but not this. Not this single naked wanting you.”

— Jeanette Winterson, from The White Room 

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i'm very attached to the au where jayce and viktor are pierre curie and marie skladowska respectively.

they are two scientists from completely opposite european cultural backgrounds. deeply in love with each other and sharing the same passion for chemistry and physics. they explore new chemical bonds at day, and each other's souls at night. their relationship is precious: how they balance between academic partnership and marriage. everything in their life is connected and everything is poetic.

they do have arguments, of course. how viktor can't with jayce anymore. how he feels distanced from his polish background, how he is the one who learned jayce's language, how he was the one disrespected in the academic field because of his nationality and/or disability and/or too bold ideas. and jayce... well, jayce just had it easier. he never experienced any barriers in his career, at least not as extreme as viktor. however every time viktor loses it jayce doesn't scream at him back, no. he soothes him, hugs as lightly as possible and reassures him. they are doing this together, they are going through this together. jayce agrees he is an asshole, he often forgets how hard it is for viktor, but either way he is always there by his lover's side.

when the nobel prize is only proposed for jayce he finally fills with anger. it's not for him, it's for them. jayce never accepts the prize without his husband. and he makes sure everyone knows how hard both of them worked on this invention, stress on viktor. his beloved spouse, partner, best friend, companion, the smartest scientist he has ever known. viktor is the one deserving this prize. and they receive it together.

viktor's grief is unspeakable when jayce dies in an accident. he has to relearn how to be alone. there were always two of them. existing without jayce is unsafe, now viktor gets it. before there was jayce between viktor and all the hatred directed at him. now jayce was gone. viktor had to protect himself just as fiercely as before he met jayce.

viktor has to explore grief. being a brilliant scientist, he finds it impossible to do the same thing he has been doing for years — because his partner isn't around now.

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imagine steb feeding the cats on the street before and after work 🥺🥺 the cats swarming and purring at his feet whenever he arrives... him tickling them beneath their chin if they let him...... bringing extra food if one of the cats ever have kittens......

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readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

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recently i was thinking of how viktor's supporting device reminds me of a corset play piercing. just think about it.

you can imagine it in any au you like tbh. i like to think either way he asked jinx to do that. the piercing's temporary and she knows her ways around such things. she picks out dark blue ribbon to pull it through the rings pierced through the skin on his back. it looks so good with his natural look.

and jayce loses his mind when he sees it for the first time — golden rings with dark blue fabric forming a corset pattern on his back. he calls vik crazy and adds to himself that he is crazy in a good way to the point jayce can't hold himself around his partner. every time he sees viktor topless — and believe me, vik makes sure to appear that way before jayce as often as possible — he feels the indulgence to pull the ribbon. and then he stops himself from thinking that because the piercing looks very fragile. what if he hurts viktor? can his skin hold the pull?

viktor though comes closer to jayce and places his tanned hand on his own back. "pull it," he asks, "don't be afraid. i'm not as fragile as you paint me to be." permission granted jayce slightly turns him around and unties the bow on viktor's back. this process feels so much more intimate than simply undressing could feel.

jayce wonders what a scarlet ribbon from his own collar would look like on viktor's back.