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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had. 

It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!

So if you didn’t know that…now you do

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| FELLEYAN’S COMMISSIONS 2024 |

Hi friends, it’s been awhile but I’ve decided to reopen my commissions as a potential means of funding myself whilst I continue to look for a job. more examples of my art can be found here on my blog and through my commissions page on carrd which I will link here

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if you decide you want to commission me, please contact me via email: [email protected] please include which type of commission you would like, as well as any basic references regarding your desired subject. Payment is 100% upfront and is done via PayPal. Any questions about the process feel free to ask I will update regularly with progress sketches throughout the painting process.

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I have the right to decline a commission however there is very little I will not draw and this is topics such as gore, nudity or animalistic humanoids (such as tabaxi or dragonborn from dnd). Currently I will only be taking commissions for one singular character at a time.

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link to my commission page on carrd: https://felleyan.carrd.co

✧Signal Boosts would be incredibly appreciated, thank you for your consideration ✧

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Oh hello.

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since we’re getting odysseus in hades 2 and considering the heavy witchcraft themes with hecate and melinoe, we’re probably also going to get circe!!! if they go all the way with odyseuss’ story we’ll likely also see calypso and penelope (penelope as weaver could also thematically connect to arachne). odysseus being athena’s best boy also connects us to arachne (cursed by athena)

if we do get circe she may make references to medea and jason (since medea is her niece and she helped her and jason perform a ritual purification!) but circe is also connected to Asterius, who is her nephew! her sister pasiphae was queen of crete and mother to the minotaur (asterius, as well as ariadne, who maybe we’ll learn more about from dionysus! though i can dream that she will show up somehow…)

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You’re a daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids’ parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer.

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best pair of socks!

so i have a cat now

#thou shalt always queue

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“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

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Out of Context: WIPs

This exchange came into my brain unbidden and will be in something I'm working on but I wanted to share it with y'all because it made me cackle like a little gremlin.

"You're not the woman who used to own this shop..." [Aggressively cheerful] "She retired...violently..." "Wait what?" [Panicked blinking] [Giggles and smiles] "So did her successor and now I'm here!"

#wip excerpt #original writing #writing

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"AO3 doesn't need a "dislike" button"

Um, actually, it already has one. Depending on your specs, it might look a little different but over all it looks kinda like this:

You can find it at the corner of your screen, which corner is dependent on your layout.

Anyway, if you dislike a fic, you can hit this Dislike Button until the fic goes away. It really is pretty amazing actually.

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Be like @neil-gaiman ...use LibreOffice.

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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The passing of absolute legend Trina Robbins just hit me in the chest like a punch when I learned it this morning.

She was such a force, an exceptional human being, witty, quick-witted, brilliant and talented, always crusading for women’s rights in and out of the industry.

I met her and worked with her only a few times, but each time she was an absolute delight and her exceptionality just poured from her. We will miss you a lot Trina.

All my condolences to her family and friends.

NY TIMES obituary (if you don't know her please read): https://web.archive.org/.../10/arts/trina-robbins-dead.html

#trinarobbins

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Not gonna lie, this is the only thing that didn't make me absolutely irate about this whole trailer.

[Stitch pterodactyl screams in classicist.]

Hades and Peresphone in Blood of Zeus season 2

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Lord Ancunin’s masquerade ball