#The BookMarks

[camlannpod]

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Thank you!!!!! (ask game here) ✨- podcast in a different genre than what you usually listen to

Ooooooooh interesting. Ok I'm gonna be a nerd and pick a couple:

Fruit is a slice of life drama about an Irish queer mid-30s friend group. I usually listen to genre fiction but this gives me so much joy!

The BBC Scotland Outdoors podcast. Listen, sometimes you just want to hear some friendly Scottish people talking about nature and the environment and conservation and hiking and it's my comfort show.

The BookMarks from @wgc-productions. I don't normally go for improv, but this is charming and really well edited, and it's got a really sweet character-driven throughline. It's a parody book review podcast about two best friends and their shenanigans.

#asks #hummingbeebuzz #podcast recs #fruit #the BookMarks

[wgc-productions]

I've never worked on a holiday speical before and now that I have I want to do it every year.

So, for The BookMarks Thanksgiving special, I wanted to have an episode that didn't touch the themes of colonization or anything like that so we went hard in the other direction. Lowkey this episode is like a food-focused Autumnal Comedy-Horror piece.

And shout out to Cody Smith, Virginia Lee, Jodi Hansen, and Julie Mallet-Paret who have their improv skills ramped up to 10 for this episode. They pull together such a cohesive and silly episode.

#The BookMarks podcast #The BookMarks #audio drama #audio fiction #thanksgiving #fiction podcast #improv #improvcomedy #podcast #Spotify

[bluejay757]

#ao3fic #ao3 #ao3 memes #fan fiction #fan fic writing #fan fic writers #fan fiction memes #those 16 bookmarks mean the world to me #this is literally me

[alkiores]

#some future bookmarks #I need more stars #MORE #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #illustration #my art #stars #cosmic #tarot

[lifehacksthatwork]

Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it'll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I'd recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn't read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can't for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You'll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It's genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

#life hacks #lifehacks #useful #bunch of useful sites #ysk #bookmark this #how to #free #helpful

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Taco Crimes

Donnie would absolutely blow a fuse if someone ruined their books with how sacred he was to that mint condition comic, and I’m sure Mikey thinks cooking is an art. Cross either of them and it’s hell to pay!

I read a lot of book series that had been handed down to me by my siblings, but you could really tell whose they were before based on their condition. One sibling left foodstains and dog ears, another left spine breaks and ripped paperbacks, and the final would threaten my life if I so much as dented a page. Such is life with shared things

I guess you could say those books were well loved, for better or for worse lol

#rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt raph #rise donnie #rise leo #rottmnt comic #rise mikey #rise raph #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #I found a French fry in one of our books as a bookmark once #I was fully prepared to kill off a sibling that day #Donnie’s dialogue was inspired by a playlist I have of country women killing their husbands lol

[8pxl]

ik it’s late af and not many ppl are on,,,, but i got my bookmarks in and im OBSESSED 😭 look how pretty they turned out 🥹🥹🥹

#these will be on my shop soon!!!! #bookmarks #bookmark #booklr #books and reading #bookworm #pixel art #artist on tumblr #aesthetic #illustration #sunset #art #artwork

[transformativeworks]

AO3 Celebrates 12 Million Posted Fanworks

The Archive of Our Own has reached the milestone of 12 million published fanworks! Read more about how the archive works (and doesn't) when it comes to algorithms, tags and bookmarks! https://otw.news/02c68e

#otw #organization for transformative works #milestone #ao3 tags #bookmark

[you-were-meteowrong]

reblog for bigger sample size

#i dont understand bookmarking everything to keep track of progress #like... #i just subscribe and read it IMMEDIATELY when i get an update email #i bookmark fics i'd personally recommend #i like looking at what my readers bookmarked #or what a fave writer bookmarked #gives me more stuff to read! #my thoughts #text #polls #my polls #ao3 #ao3 writer #fanfic #fic #writing

[bladesmitten]

btw you can get the Disco Elysium artbook for free here (archive.org)

#.txt #disco elysium #disco elysium artbook #found this thang in my bookmarks and i might as well share it #*

[ahhrenata]

#made myself a bookmark.. the wip from a while back is finally done #now i just gotta get my printer out #Star Wars #clone wars #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #obi wan kenobi #sw art

[nothatsmi]

I don't know what I miss more, having free time to draw or these fellas

The raven cycle!!!!

Oh I love these guys. Everything about these books, I want to draw them soooo much more (I probably will)!!

Guys I'm back-

It has been a nightmare lately this is the only thing I managed to draw in weeks? Finals and uni stuff that's taking all of my time and energy, slowly turning me into a cafeinated slug (worst part is caffeine doesn't even have an effect on me? I only drink coffee for the TASTE can you imagine). Anyway the rush won't be over until end of January but hopefully I'll be able to ignore the stress and draw anyway :)

#maggie stiefvater #the raven cycle #trc #the raven boys #gansey #ronan lynch #noah czerny #blue sargent #adam parrish #and they were all in love with each other #i lack words to express the amount off feelings i get when thinking about them #i wish i could go on silly quests to look for welsh kings in magic dream forests #i wish i could draw them more #i wish i could draw more #... #anyway feel free to print this shit as a bookmark if you want

[wgc-productions]

So, the new episode of The BookMarks (our new improv comedy about two friends who review fake books) talks about this fictional book series called Kitty and The Pegasi which is like Nancy Drew if Nancy, George, and Bess were all magical girls who were also in a band and time travelled sometimes.

Anyhow, it got me thinking, about fictional bands and their rankings and I think I've come up with a pretty good list

The Hex Girls:

Truly the band of bands. Not only were they spooky, but they also had a color scheme and, frankly, that goes a long way. I would be remiss to mention that they also were quite a few people's queer awakenings and their songs are straight bangers.

2. Dr. Teeth And The Electric Mayhem

Now, I don't think I've ever heard an actual song from this band but that just goes to show how awesome they are. Without a single track, they have wormed their way into my heart. Also, someone needs to share Animal's hair routine.

3. The Dreamettes (a.k.a Deena Jones and The Dreams)

So, this is less of a "band" and more of a group, but their entire discography is something to behold. This goes a little further down the list because their career is essentially a play-by-play of the Supremes (no matter how much the original creators deny it) but that does not detract from the fact that almost every song they sung on The Dreamgirls album is fantastic.

4. The Five Heartbeats

If you're anything like me this movie and the band were so good that you didn't even know they were fictional! This also goes a little lower on the list because it is a clear play-by-play of the real-life Temptations (still one of the best groups to this day!) but I don't think you can find a single person whose seen this movie who doesn't absolutely melt when the five start to sing and dance.

5. The last band on my list is The School of Rock. These kids could Jam! Also they had a robust stage crew and manager and that just gets you extra points in my book. When I was a kid I legit wanted to see them in concert which is wild cause that wasn't even a thing you could do! Definitely up there for me personally.

Who's on your list?

#audio drama #audio fiction #The BookMarks #hex girls #five heartbeats #school of rock #dreamgirls #the muppets

[blorbocedes]

recognising people's ao3 usernames in the kudos is like taking out a library book and seeing a familiar name like ah, yes, we are both connoisseurs of the art. cheers bitch 🥂

#ao3 memes #sometimes it's blued out cause I've clicked on their profiles before #i exclusively stalk other peoples bookmarks #something about understanding a person

[ja3yun]

PARK SUNGHOON???? LIKE HELLOO???

#ohhh park sunghoon #i won't get over this #i have it on repeat #repost reblog retweet bookmark #his voice is deep when he says it too like 🫠 #sunghoon #enhypen

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

#i thought it was made by the creator of 'O Human Star' for some reason but apparently not? #goddammit goddammit goddammit #'i don't have to write down the title of this piece of media i encountered in my formative years bc i'll always remember it' #*cut to ten years later frantic googling* #fun fact 'a.i.' is now a completely useless search term #google in general is useless #and stuff i read 3+ years ago regularly vanishes from the internet #bookmarks are not enough! if you like indie media--download that shit! buy digital/physical copies while you can #save it to the cloud back it up and organize that shit!!! #keep a list of the stuff you read (organized by date/media type and possibly with keywords if you want it to be useful longterm) #(or a spreadsheet even if you're like me and rabidly consume short stories/comics like a pack of amnesiac piranhas on a feeding frenzy) #(that stuff PILES UP over the years ok. if you wanna make sure you'll be able to find it again a decade later--curation is key) #because art WILL touch your soul and then vanish into the void leaving naught but a 404 Error in its wake #i am an old man shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn but the kids on my lawn are me and my longterm digital planning skills circa 2012