I don’t know how American students feel about college these days, but you should know that it’s perfectly valid to spend a decade+ taking community college classes for fun and end up with so many numbers to your name that it’s meaningless.
Sometimes I’m looking for something online – often “how to” articles – and I want to filter for – like – a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience.
I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.
thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me
ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video
The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.
This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.
“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.
If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?
I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“
i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!
it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.
INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini (1652), Saint Maud dir. Rose Glass (2020).
And connecting these two works in my brain is Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (2000). Trashy as it may be, it turns into an exhilarating tour of Rome, and the insistent name-dropping of works and locations makes for compelling Google fodder. The imagery roils up my long-lost memories of crumbling churches and bloody saints that fill up a Catholic child’s imagination.
Star Trek fans, please reblog with the series/movie that got you into Star Trek and the approximate year that you did so.
TNG, and it was the summer before I turned 10, so around Dec/Jan 1991.
(My parents had been renting TNG on VHS for a couple of years, but that was when it registered as something I might be interested in obsessed with.)
Discovery, December 2017 🙂
VOY and ENT, 2001, I got the tail end of VOY and thought it was interesting but ENT was MY Star Trek
TNG/TOS Films, around age 6, circa 1992.
TNG right from the pilot. 1987, I was 6
VOY, im not sure cos I was like,,,, a baby but I’m gonna guess 2001/2 since that’s when I was born
Voyager, 2017. Watched the first scene and *groans*… gave it another try a couple of days later and fell in love with Captain Janeway ❤️
Tng 2010? My roomie was binge watching the series and I fell in love.
Technically Star Trek 4 in 1995? I didn’t know it was Star Trek until my dad had me watch TOS a year later
TNG, 2016. We still have cable (don’t judge) and BBC America was airing TOS and TNG in September as part of the 50th anniversary. Fell in love with Picard and crew and to this day it remains my comfort show.
The Original Series, November 2019.
Ds9 late august early September 2019
I don’t remember a time before Star Trek. it was probably the first adult show I could recognize on TV. my parents watched TNG as it was coming out in the early 90s
For whatever reason, I chose to watch DS9 on Netflix back in 2015 without having cared about Star Trek at all before that. I wasn’t instantly onboard but I stuck with it and came away liking it enough to follow it up with TNG and then VOY. I got around to the remaining shows and movies in later rewatches of the whole lot.
I spent the better part of the pandemic with DS9 on loop, played all the video games recently, and now I’m coming up on a rewatch of DS9 in Spanish, so… it stuck.
This is a compiled list of some of my favorite pieces of short horror fiction, ranging from classics to modern-day horror, and includes links to where the full story can be read for free. Please be aware that any of these stories may contain subject matter you find disturbing, offensive, or otherwise distressing. Exercise caution when reading. Image art is from Scarecrow: Year One.
PSYCHOLOGICAL: tense, dread-inducing horror that preys upon the human psyche and aims to frighten on a mental or emotional level.
UNSETTLING: fiction that explores particularly disturbing topics, such as mutilation, violence, and body horror. Not recommended for readers who may be offended or upset by graphic content.
