but seriously though i’m sick and tired of those masterposts that are like “here! A reference site on Greek mythology for all your needs! Look it has all fifteen Greek gods on it!” And I’m like. tHERE WERE LIKE HUNDREDS OF FIGURES IN MYTHOLOGY YOUR CRAPPY HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL BIBLIOGRAPHY SITE MEANS NOTHING TO ME
if you want a basic outline of Greek mythology okay sure fine??? but like. if you want an extensive fucking reference site you are looking in the wrong goddamn places
as a self-declared greek mythology snob my reference site is fucking alwaysthis fucker right here. almost every single figure ever mentioned in a Greek text is on it, it has the most obscure gods, spirits, nymphs— it’s GREAT. You really wanna extend your mythological knowledge past the basic 12 and like four others? USE THEOI. plus plus PLUS everything is cited so you can actually read the source material written about whoever it is you’re looking at.
fucking signal boost this. i’m so sick and tired of writer’s helpers blogs referring people to sites with as much information you would get from opening a third grade mythology book jesus chriiiiiist
I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)
Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.
*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ more useful.
There are so many writing tools out there that it’s nearly impossible to find the right one that has all the features you like…and then you find it. The one. The writing application that is going to make your life easier and ensure you get your novel written. But wait, what’s that? IT’S FORTY DOLLARS! Your dreams are crushed. Tears spill down your face when you check your bank account and you contemplate giving up writing for good. Expensive writing tools are the only way to create the amazing things you want to create, right?
Nope. That’s entirely incorrect. There are a good number of free tools out there and I’ve scoured the internet and app stores to find free (or at least freemium) apps and tools for writing. This list is by no means entirely inclusive as I can’t possibly find and test everything. I considered adding in mobile apps specifically, as well as productivity tools, but the post was getting long. I will revisit those in the future.
Also, just putting it out there: #notspons. C’mon guys, I’m not that popular.
(This is long, so it’s under a read more. I know, I’m so thoughtful.)
Why do my interests in canning, couponing, and homesteading overlap so often with blogs with titles like ‘The Obedient Housewife’?
Like, I’m like, “I want to learn to make soap and farm,” and suddenly I see 500 “traditional family” motherfuckers like no you are mistaken. I am just a simple lesbian anticapitalist looking to limit my consumerism as much as possible.
‘these fun crafts will keep your kids occupied until your husband gets home!’ no i want a clothespin crown for me
As a nerd who homesteads, let me share the data I have gathered!
First is my megalist of homesteading-related links I’ve gathered over the years. I’m a mod over at r/homesteading and this is where I’ve put a lot of good sources (not all, admittedly some are still sitting in my bookmark folder waiting to be added). The search function at reddit is wretched, but there’s also been lots of good things I’ve shared there too. Please note that many of these sources are not actual webpages, but PDFs. That’s not an accident, PDFs are where you find the really good in-depth stuff.
Many of my sources are from the Extension Service. They won’t try to relate to you based on your lifestyle or sexual identity or religion or whatever, but due to that, they also won’t be alienating you either.
The Cooperative Extension Service (US only) exists in all 50 states and in most counties. It is taxpayer funded. The Extension Service exists to help people become more self sufficient, for farmers to be more successful, for people to be healthier, for kids to be well adjusted, to figure out how to grow the best plants in your area, etc. Some county offices even offer cheap classes in things like gardening, canning, soap making, and they’re taught by people with training in these areas (I once heard a great talk on composting from a soil scientist that way). Do you want to know what type of plant something is? Do you need help figuring out a plant disease or pest issue? You can now contact them online and get great info.
I HIGHLY recommend checking out your state’s extension service website, because they do offer different types of information, depending on what is grown/raised where you are (and how well funded they are). My county extension puts out a monthly gardening newsletter, which includes a helpful ‘this is the time of the year to do —-’ part.
Here’s an example from New York – they have a calendar at the bottom, showing how they have things like hydroponic and urban agriculture workshops coming up.
Interested in raising animals? Penn State Extension is really really good. They have tons of free materials and courses available online, some I pulled for my megalist at the top of this.
National Center for Home Food Preservation – they cover the important aspects of food safety, and also have some recipes. Many state Extension Service websites will have lots more recipes.
If you have kids, check out4-H programs for them. It’s part of the local public school system here. If you’re homeschooling, you can also purchase their science-filled educational and self sufficiency materials (materials are divided by age ranges – Cloverbud Member: ages 5-8, Junior Member: ages 9-13, Senior Member: ages 14-19). One of my coworkers is in 4-H, she’s still in high school, and last year she raised an award-winning heifer.
Congress grants the money for funding these programs, and they’re connected with various universities. There’s a level of cutting edge scientific knowledge and academic rigor you don’t find in blogs or even most books. There’s LOTS of homesteading books filled with outdated information like ‘till the earth every year’ hell I still have older coworkers who do it and I’m trying to figure out how to gently tell them that they’re destroying their soil that way, and that there’s better methods now, methods grounded in science.
A course created one year ago by the University of Alberta was the most popular online course in Canada in 2017, and is already making inroads into how Canadians understand the history of Indigenous people.
With almost 20,000 people enrolled, the free online 12-module course called Indigenous Canada teaches those from an Indigenous perspective.
“A lot of Indigenous experiences in Canada have been silenced by a normative settler vision of Canada and the history of it,” said Paul Gareau, assistant professor with the U of A’s Native Studies program and the academic lead for the course.
“This course focuses on telling an Indigenous experience of Canada.”
“The course is available for free through Coursera here.”
I’m not surprised it’s extremely popular: it provides an actual answer/solution to the “okay if my entire lifetime of education about the history of the country lied to me and erased these perspectives, how do I learn the opposite?”
“Go and read up on your own” isn’t really a solution to this, as there is a large amount of bullshit out there, and it’s actually hard to wade through, especially for people without actual training on evaluating historical sources (ie the vast majority of the population).
So a course actually being offered by a Reputable Educational Institution is a huge boon, especially when offered for free. Hat tip to the creators of the course.
Title: The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People: 2.8-2.11: Avoiding Invalidating Language Traps
Speech bubbles contrast the following phrases under the headings “Invalidating language” versus “Validating language”: “Women and trans women” versus “Cis and trans women”; “Students who consider themselves ‘non-binary’” versus “Non-binary students”; “Zed, who identifies as agender” versus “Zed is agender”; “her secret was exposed” versus “her history was publicized”; “closeted,” “stealth,” and “passes” versus “private” and “nondisclosure”; and “an out trans man” versus “openly trans” and “public.”
Some of the most remarkable items from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections have been selected for long-term display in our Treasures Exhibition. This is where visitors can find a whole slate of the ‘greatest hits’ in one single gallery, from Shakespeare’s First Folio to Magna Carta, or Handel’s hand-annotated Messiah to Shelley’s long-lost Poetical Essay.
One extra gem – almost an honorary member of the Treasures selection – can be found just outside the exhibition. Hanging proudly on the wall in the Weston Library’s Blackwell Hall is the Sheldon Tapestry Map of Worcestershire.
This is one of four lavish, groundbreaking tapestry maps, alongside others of Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire, that were intricately woven from silk and wool for landowner Ralph Sheldon in the 1590s. Sections of the Oxfordshire and Worcestershire maps have been owned by the Bodleian since they were donated in 1809; we have also purchased several pieces of the Gloucestershire map at auction in the years since.
Because it’s simply so detail-packed and comes with so many stories, the Sheldon Tapestry Map gets its own special event for visitors on every weekday.
From 11.30am until noon one of our guides (who is, whenever possible, an expert from our Map Room) goes on duty in Blackwell Hall, ready to tell stories about the map or answer any visitors’ questions.
There’s a lot to say about the Sheldon maps, and the questions asked by guests will ensure that every morning’s talk is different, but here are just a few of the things we learned from the expert guide in just a few minutes – and all while we were taking onboard the tapestry’s immense, delicate beauty in person.
Each of the four tapestries shows one of the labours of Hercules. On the Worcestershire map is a depiction of Hercules killing the Hydra.
The map is largely consistent with many other maps at the time, but also features the brilliantly-named WorldesEnd which, soon after the tapestries were completed, vanished from maps entirely.
Weston House, Ralph Sheldon’s own home, is featured on all four maps, making the links between their geography more obvious.
The map’s scale is approximately 1:25,000, which is the same as today’s Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps.
The Worcestershire map is detailed in purple, with Oxford set in orange, Gloucestershire in green and Warwickshire in yellow.
Weather or not you’re making a mountain out of a molehill or a problem is really a mountain, sometimes you need to see where you stand and find a safe way down from the problem. I couldn’t find quite the spread I wanted for this read (I am still building my library) so I crafted my own spread for it. @copperbadge posted a spread of his own so I decided I would get up the nerves to post my simple little one. I hope it helps someone out!
Where do you stand? What’s your current position in life in relation to this issue or your current stance on it.
How is your footing there? Where does your position put you? Are you on firm ground or is the issue shaking things? Or should it?
Where do you need to go now? What you should think about doing next? The next step or the level ground you need to get to.
What will you find along the way? What will you find as you travel and get to that level ground?
What should you avoid on the path? What dangers do you have to watch out for that could become pitfalls or problems of their own?
THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS
This site is also a godsend for editors. The number of times I have to come up with a word to replace something that is being used far too often or the like is insane.
These sites are fantastic resources for writers AND editors! ^_^
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