Taken in 1877, this brave Civil War veteran and free man, Lewis Martin (1840 - 1892) was in an unmarked grave for 121 years until a community effort was made to mark his grave with a tombstone on November 2, 2013.   Lewis was born an enslaved person in Arkansas, escaped slavery, and then moved to Springfield Illinois where he enlisted in a black regiment in the Civil War. A few months later, in the Battle of the Crater, he lost his right arm and left leg.   After the war, he wasn’t able to work because he couldn’t read or write and was unable to perform manual labor. Lewis lived his life in pain due to his injuries, and leveraged alcohol to dull his senses. Resting in an unmarked grave for over 110 years, Lewis will always be remembered on AncientFaces.

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

Time to drop some links again.

– https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

– https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

– https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

– https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.

– https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Google’s. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

That Google and Meta can get away with this during an era of intense misinformation and disinformation signals that we cannot rely on large tech companies to provide reliable access to information and news:

Remember that post about Pokémon's villains together being a bunch of random dudes in a suit and Ghecis being, well, Ghecis?

I took the liberty to update it, it's just getting funnier

Listen my basic human empathy does feel genuine horror for those people who most likely died in that submarine.

But my working logical brain is also scoffing at anyone stupid enough to spend 250k to get into a heavy metal coffin, sinking to see the ocean floor graveyard that is the titanic.

Like just watch the movie, man. Spend 250k to go to Venice or some shit.

Why the titanic? We all know what it looks like. We all saw the movie.

"People don't deserve to die in such horrifying ways" and "You voluntarily got into a jerry rigged unregulated submersible to go to an incredible hostile place you shouldn't be going to anyway what were you expecting" are statements that can coexist

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

Louder for the people in the back, thank you @thelazyaesthetic

I'm seeing a lot of people say that punk fashion is expensive and inaccessible, which is very wrong. here is a list of some ways you can make punk fashion easier, cheaper and more accessible for you, since that's... kinda the whole point.

others are encouraged to add onto this!! (just don't recommend corporations like amazon. not cool.)

1. patches!! you don't need to buy them. DIY patches are not ugly or boring. in fact, they are encouraged here!! DIY, in my opinion, is always the best thing to do when it is an option and is safe to do so.

2. speaking of DIY, spikes!! you can make them!!

cut the top and bottom off of an empty can. cut down the middle of the cylinder and flatten it, so it's just a flat rectangle of metal.

cut out a shape that is kind of a third of a circle, but around 3/4 of the curved edge is taken up by triangle shapes. (I'm not very good at describing, so here's a badly drawn picture)

roll it into a cone, leaving the 4 triangles sticking out at the bottom. this bit is optional, but you can fill it with hot glue to make it more sturdy, just be careful touching the hot metal. I tend to hold the cone by one of the triangles with a bit of fabric wrapped around my fingers for this bit. cut 4 small holes in your fabric in this kind of shape:

and put the spiky bits of triangle through the holes. fold the triangles in on themselves to secure the spike in place. boom. spike obtained. this is one I made and attached to a little piece of fabric to test this method out:

3. battle vests!! (like the base jackets). the best places to buy these are charity shops and second hand websites in my opinion, but if anyone else knows any better options, please reblog with those!!

a good trick I find works well on eBay is to filter search results to your country (or state? can you do that in the US? idk) so that a: fast delivery because local, and b: all the sellers of everything that shows up are in YOUR TIME ZONE.

why is this important? when people sell something for really cheap, it goes FAST. check eBay at like, 2am or something. all the scalpers in your area are asleep. grab the cheap stuff while they can't.

4. sewing!! want patches, but can't sew for whatever reason? I've heard of a lot of people with joint conditions like arthritis complain about the inaccessibility of patch stuff, and that does sound extremely annoying, however:

safety pins!! while they are still a little fiddly, they're much less work so you don't have to fiddle about for long. if you can, you could even ask a friend to help, since it doesn't take long at all I'm sure someone will be willing to help out!! (I know I would, but that's just me, and I love this kind of thing). safety pins on clothes are also widely considered to be a symbol of solidarity, so if anything, you're adding some extra love and meaning to your patch pants/battle jacket.

if that's still too fiddly, fabric glue is always an option. unfortunately this means you won't be able to remove/reposition patches, at least without leaving a massive patch of residue, but if you're ok with that then fabric glue is probably your best bet.

for people who prefer sewing: as for where to get the thread, I've heard a lot of people recommending dental floss, as it's apparently much cheaper and works just as well. I haven't tried this myself so can't confirm that, but I thought I'd share it regardless.

5. where to get fabric!! old clothes. rip em up. you don't need any kind of fancy fabric from the craft store. my patches are made of old jeans that I grew out of.

don't have any old clothes and you don't want to waste any good ones? I'm not sure about other countries, but in the UK, as long as you're not on private property (trespassing), dumpster diving is perfectly legal.

I definitely ;) do NOT encourage ;) trespassing rich people's land ;) to steal from their dumpsters ;)

or tbh it doesn't matter too much how rich the person is, since it's all going to landfill anyway. if it's in the bin, it's free game, but you didn't hear that from me. ;)

please add onto this where you can!! and if I missed something or got anything wrong, add that on too!!

i’ve seen a lot of young kids/baby punks recently complaining about how expensive dressing alt is. especially in the past week, with across the spiderverse coming out. and listen.

listen.

no it’s not. get a pair of boots from a thrift store and rip up/ make patches from your old clothes and paint shit. cut and dye your own hair. fucking steal. if someone told you you have to buy $200 docs from amazon to be punk you’re allowed to kill them

You can also get fabric for super cheap from thrift stores that are religiously affiliated. Dunno why but I've never had much luck at a Goodwill looking for fabric. 10/10 would recommend a store associated with the MCC (Mennonite Central Committee), their stuff is super cheap and they usually seem to have a good section dedicated to just fabrics, threads, crafts, etc.

La chupamanzana!

Uh oh, looks like something strange happened to Fluttershy! Requested via ko-fi

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If you happen to see this Cuz, I'm not upset, I just think it's funny

For context:

Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.

You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.

posting for the 30th anniversary of my favorite movie EVER happy Jurassic Park 30 🦖🦕🫶

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

I am in love with you /p

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

Oh, love that story, adding it to the list: 20. Princess Talia and adding a few more contenders 21. Thyme 22. The Monster under the Bed 23. A Meaningful Death 24. Humans are unstoppable…until they aren’t 25. The Monster under the Fridge 26. Antler Guy 27. Cleric slamming healing spells

Adding a few more I remembered:  28. The Frog and the Scorpion 29. HSTHETE 30. The First Witch in the World 31. Imagine that Oceans were replaced by Forests  32. A Faerie taking a Name  33. The Dragon on the Farm  34. Synovus & Menace  35. Raising the Anti-Christ  36. Aliens vs. Flora & Fauna of Earth (pretty sure there are even more additions to the original post but I had this one saved)  37. Doctors without Borders…in Space!  38. The Villain-Wrangler  39. The Last Contact  40. The 100 Parent-Point Children  41. And the Heavens Wept  42. The Night Gentleman  43. The Serpent God and their Priestess 

44. No One Showed Up for the Last Storytime

45. Untitled Comic

46. A Fair Return

where is 7 deadly sins one? the one where you die and have choose one of the 7 deadly sins to spent enternity in. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that one and I can’t find it.

is there a way to bookmark posts?

tag as #bookmark?

thx!

this whole oceangate submarine fiasco has actually led to a lot of interesting talks and debates about the grey area of human empathy vs the inclination to recoil at the bizarre behaviors of the ultra wealthy and how people struggle with both ideas and is actually very interesting to watch play out in different types of people

my favorite genre of fanfic is the hyperspecific au that you can tell someone made because they know so much about a single subject and they want their blorbos to take part in it. absolutely brilliant.

avoiding eviction, 2023 edition

good morning. i am very tired. remember last year when our landlord decided to try and evict us with no legal standing and it turned into a months-long fight even after we paid him $1500 (thanks to the generosity of you guys and others in the community, which i can't even put into words how grateful we are for)? yeah, well. gestures vaguely. he's doing it again <3

this time, this bastard in all his disgustingly greedy glory wants $2600 by the end of june. being blunt, there's not much we can do to pull that out of our asses without some serious detriment to other financial corners, like bills, doctor trips and medicine. so, here i am again, asking for whatever help you may be able to give, even if it's as simple as spreading the word.

donations of any amount can ask for as many stickers and prints as their hearts desire (just note that they may be late in going out, as i'm almost out of stamps). donations over $30 can get a colored sketch commission; over $70 can get a flat colored comm. i'm even willing to do tattoo design commissions (donation amount depending on complexity).

here's the kofi goal, as well as my shop. maybe one day we'll finally stop getting hit over and over with crisis events. i can only hope

i wish i had something more to say than, just. please help us. and thank you. please remember that you're loved, and you're worth it, and you're welcome here. i hope you have better days than we currently are

bonus HD picture of my idiot cat for incentive:

okay, but where is, “I’M THE SMARTEST RACCOON I KNOW”

better

Okay good i didn’t want to reblog this without the racoon one

the raccoon one tho

Favorite commercial thing.

These were what I lived to see as a kid. I loved these commercials

HES STILL AROUND, like two days ago I saw a new one where he was a glitch in a smart house’s system keeping the garage door from opening and he was LITERALLY GLITCHING, it was so clever XD

I no longer know how to make gifs so here’s the vid.