ONLINE THINGS THAT HELP ME ON UNIVERSITY, because someone may need it
- resoomer.com –> summarizes the text (you can set your native language)
- wordcount.com –> counts words in document
- speechinminutes.com –> counts how long it will take to read the prepared text (you can also set whether you speak slowly, quickly or normally)
- essaytopicgenerator.com –> generates the topic of the essay based on keywords (the field or type of essay can also be included)
- researchgate.net –> free texts that can be referred to in the essay
- academia.edu –> free texts that can be referred to in the essay
- Google Drive / Microsoft OneDrive and Office365 –> free cloud with tools to make slides, documents etc.
- sites.google.com –> make free, simple website without any skills
- carrd.co –> make free, simple and pretty website without any skills (max. 100 elements)
- Online converters –> change file type to different file type
- icons8.com –> free icons (for slides, sites etc.)
- remove.bg –> remove background from photo
- loader.to –> download YouTube video or playlist as video or sound files
- forms.google.com –> make simple form/poll/quiz/etc.
- quizlet.com –> make flashcards and test yourself (some things are only in pro version now)
- Streaming services –> documentary films, educational podcasts etc.
- artsandculture.google.com –> explore art, online museum tours etc.
- plantsnap.com –> recognizes plants and mushrooms
- ecosia.org –> web browser, but they plant trees when you use it
- tunemymusic.com –> transfers music playlist (or text song list) to another service
- shazam.com –> recognizes songs
- slidesgo.com –> slides templates
- Darkling Dark Mode –> dark mode for Google Chrome
- Darkling Dark Mode –> dark mode for Microsoft Edge
- thesaurus.com –> finds synonyms (you can easily find similar websites in your native language)
- Apple reminders, google calendar etc. –> help organize
- Online libraries –> free books
- html-online.com –> write html, css and javascript online
- supercook.com –> shows recipes with things you have at home
- edx.org –> free courses
- academicearth.org –> free courses
PLEASE GO COMMISSION @fmd-art ! My new phone wallpapers live rent free in my head 24/7 ever since I saw the drafts and they turned out so much more beautiful than I could have expected. Beefleafs, we got FED. <3
More of my favorite Animated Sequences from various movies/shows
Over the Moon - On the Moon above
Piper
Violet Evergerden - Every single scene from this entire series
Tangled - See the Light
How to Train Your Dragon - Test Drive
Encanto - We Don't Talk About Bruno
Coco - Remember Me
Jiang Ziya - Fox Spirit
(Here is the rest of my favorite Animated Sequences if anyone is interested)
with great power comes great responsibility master lee was uncle ben all along
Junho making his cat metaphor: I’m happy loving you even if you don’t love me back
Youngwoo: Your metaphor is wrong because I do love you back.
Junho: *Internally combusts*
The only right thing Minwoo has done is when he blurted out "you're pretty" after Attorney Jung took off his sheet mask
myeongseok bringing his ex wife to meet the hanbada team, trying to wink at youngwoo when he says he’s quitting, trying to do the special handshake with geurami and giving up, i love him so much he’s the father i never had
The princess…is alive. She’s free. Be satisfied with that, you idiot. Don’t let her…see your desire now.
the (almost) complete Bungou Stray Dogs reading list
as a dostoyevsky fan i first discovered bsd by being very confused whenever i saw pretty anime boys in the crime and punishment tag, so now i’m using bsd to discover more classic literature, and you can too!
this is my personal list straight from my phone notes app, of the most significant works mentioned in the series. italized titles are those that i really couldn’t find an english translation of but they’re there for completeness (if you’ve found one please comment!)
i’ve also got links to the french text of all works that are originally in french, because i read french and as said this list is just adapted from my personal notes hahaha
special shoutout goes to @bsd-bibliophile and their website from where i got many of the links, especially the works of the japanese authors, as well as the bsd recommended reading list ❤️
links are pdfs unless otherwise specified
the armed detective agency:
- no longer human by dazai osamu
- the moon over the mountain by nakajima atsushi (beast beneath the moonlight)
- an encouragement of learning by fukuzawa yukichi (all men are equal)
- o brother, you must not die by yosano akiko (thou shalt not die)
- kunikida doppo’s works
- the makioka sisters by tanizaki junichirou (light snow) [epub]
- naomi by tanizaki junichirou
- be not defeated by the rain by miyazawa kenji [online]
- demon pond by izumi kyouka (demon snow)
- edogawa ranpo’s works
- i am a cat by natsume souseki
- futon by tayama katai
the port mafia:
- rashoumon by akutagawa ryuunosuke (link includes o-gin that akutagawa gin is based on)
- this soiled sorrow by nakahara chuuya (upon the tainted sorrow) [online]
- golden demon by ozaki kouyou
- falling camellia by hirotsu ryuurou
- the dancing girl by mori ougai (elise)
- vita sexualis by mori ougai [epub]
- higuchi ichiyou’s works (no ability specified yet, but see for example encounters on a dark night)
- midwinter memento by tachihara michizou
- lemon by kajii motojirou
- dogra magra by yumeno kyuusaku [website, incomplete translation]
- madness of george III by alan bennett (madness of the jewel king) pretty sure this one’s still copyrighted, hence why they couldn’t use alan bennett’s name for ace, and why i can’t find any pdf copies
the guild:
- the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald (the great fitzgerald)
- little women by louisa m. alcott
- the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck [online/pdf/epub]
- the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne
- gone with the wind by margaret mitchell [online/pdf/epub]
- anne of green gables by l. m. montgomery (anne of the abyssal red)
- moby dick by herman melville
- the adventures of tom sawyer by mark twain (huck finn and tom sawyer)
- the adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain (huck finn and tom sawyer)
- the black cat by edgar allan poe (the black cat in the rue morgue) [online]
- the murders in the rue morgue by edgar allan poe (the black cat in the rue morgue) [online]
- the call of cthulhu by h. p. lovecraft (the great old ones) [online]
the rats in the house of the dead:
- the house of the dead by fyodor dostoevsky [online/epub]
- crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
- a feast in time of plague by alexander pushkin [online/pdf/epub]
- the precipice by ivan goncharov (this is an abridged translation please buy the new 2020 unabridged translation titled malinovka heights please it’s one of my all-time favourite books please thank you for your attention)
- the perfect crime by oguri mushitarou
the decay of angels:
- the decay of the angel by mishima yukio [online]
- the overcoat by nikolai gogol
- dracula by bram stoker [online/pdf/epub] (bram’s ability isn’t named yet but come on who are we kidding)
- sigma has been speculated to be a reference to russian writer and journalist sergey nikolayevich syromyatnikov, or possibly sigmund freud
the hunting dogs:
- mirror lion by fukuchi ouchi (online summary)
- gasp of the soul by ookura teruko (see bewitching shadow which is the only work of anyone from the hunting dogs with full english translation!)
- priceless tears by jouno saigiku
- plum blossoms in snow by suehiro tetchou (wikipedia)
special division for unusual powers:
- discourse on decadence by sakaguchi ango
- hail in the begging bowl [online/pdf] (an essay by james abrams on the life and poetry of taneda santoka, from which the ability name is derived)
order of the clock tower:
dark era:
- strait is the gate by andré gide (french original, online)
- flawless by oda sakunosuke (see his other works from the stories of osaka life collection that has been translated into english, which can be found on the @bsd-bibliophile website)
- the long goodbye by raymond chandler [online]
55 minutes:
- the time machine by h. g. wells
- the mysterious island by jules verne (french original, online/epub)
- matasaburou of the wind by miyazawa kenji [online] (atsushi’s alias)
- johann wolfgang von goethe (mentioned)
- william shakespeare (mentioned)
- victor hugo (mentioned) les misérables french original
fifteen + storm bringer:
- illuminations by arthur rimbaud [online] (french original, online/epub)
- paul verlaine’s poetry [online/epub] (french original, online/epub)
- frankenstein by mary shelley (adam frankenstein)
gaiden:
- another by ayatsuji yukito (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3)
- the summer in the ubume by kyougoku natsuhiko (an inherent drop)
- yesterday’s shadow tag by tsujimura mizuki
dead apple:
- shibusawa tatsuhiko’s works (referred to collectively as draconia, see fish scales which has been translated into english)
chapter titles and other references:
- franz kafka’s works (our man asagiri) metamorphosis [online/epub] the trial [online/epub]
- the setting sun by osamu dazai (have you seen all those dazai sunset scenes in the anime)
- the black lizard by hirotsu ryuurou
- the case of murder on D hill by edogawa ranpo (murder on D street, ch 6)
- poems of days past by nakahara chuuya (back in the day, ch 11) see poem collection
- light, wind and dreams by nakajima atsushi (even if my head be mistaken, ch 29)
- if you’re gonna read the above you should probably be acquainted with robert louis stevenson’s works, like the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde [online/epub]
- tower of silence by mori ougai (the silent tower and the raven’s feast, ch 30)
- husband and wife by nakajima atsushi (cherrirs, ch 43)
- dreaming of butterflies by hagiwara sakutarou (ch 65-66)
- the sheep song by nakahara chuuya (the chant to activate chuuya’s corruption)
- les sœurs de charité by arthur rimbaud (the chant to activate verlaine’s corruption) french original
this is all the main works i could find, but naturally bsd is chock-full of literature references so please feel free to add to this list if you have anything! again i have to direct you to bsd-bibliophile’s online library for more complete resources and relevant authors that are not directly mentioned in bsd + a bunch of other useful content, i swear that page is one of my most-visited websites hahaha
other great resources for free books that have entered the public domain, where i got most of the links to the western books on this list:
happy reading!
Here’s a cheat sheet I made for myself to know the chapter numbers for when significant HakYona Moments occurred in the Akatsuki No Yona manga. I figured I’d just share it in case anyone else finds it useful.
If some of the phrases don’t make sense it’s because I made them extra short to fit on one line in my notes app. For vague statements like “Wind tribe” I just think the whole chapter is a HakYona moment
Covers up to chapter 226
Spoilers ahead***
I lost my best friend 3 years ago- not lost as in dead but lost as in we only text each other on our birthdays now. Movies and books don't tell you that a friendship dying is like the sinking of a ship, you try to get higher and higher and hold onto the rails and unanswered texts, the captain tries to steer it to safety and salvage pieces of two broken hearts until you're left with memories of what once was. We were friends for a decade and knew each other's diaries by heart, I still remember her phone number and the way she took her coffee. Seeing her in streets is like breathing in a scent you forgot you knew but it immediately takes you back to a summer in '07.
Movies and books also don't tell you that friendships don't just end after one fight or incident, it's like the rusting of a bridge, the slow decay of flesh and bones and secrets. It took weeks, months- until one day I woke up and I realized I hadn't thought of her in a while. And I wrote a poem that day and I titled it 'The dying of a best friend' and I put all my love for her in a tiny box with my half of the matching pendant of a dolphin we had and stored them in a corner of my heart under the heading Grief. Where else can one hide unspent love?
It's been 3 years since I lost my best friend, lost as in I still carry our secrets in a tiny box but we only text each other on our birthdays.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire
Edit: here's the visualizer for this piece
i love letterboxd because there are so many lists that cater to very specific, yet somehow universal moods. here are my favorites:
You don't understand, she gave him that pamphlet putting her heart and soul into it and it became a love letter to him. And he didn't want the crown prince to look at it even though to him it would just be an ordinary pamphlet but he didn't want anyone else to see. I'm dying!!!! Uk got me crying on a Sunday I've never felt so single in my life!!!
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Is there anything sadder than being in a fandom that has little to no fanart while also being someone who cannot draw for their life
