Lemme Just Mash Buttons and See What Happens

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

To Bind Our Echoes That We May Be Whole

The apocalypse has come and gone, and against all odds, Pharloom remains standing. The time has come for Hornet to return to Hallownest, accompanied by friends and allies: Shakra hopes to explore the mythical land beyond the wastes, and properly lay to rest a member of her own tribe; Lace fears unraveling without the aid of a Weaver, while contending with the immensity of a future free of her mother’s threads; and the Green Prince lives only only to spite the Citadel, passively seeking a more honorable end than might be found in the rubble of his homeland. Meanwhile, Hornet returns from Pharloom with magic and knowledge that might aid in the slow recovery of Hallownest and Deepnest–and perhaps offer the chance to call home the sibling she once thought lost to her forever.

Chapter 7: The Shape of a Future You Can't Yet Grasp

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It's been ten thousand years since we had a chapter properly focused on the green bean, but it looks like he's finally stopped dissociating long enough to participate in the plot. It's probably because of the Emotional Support Grubs, let's be honest.

At any rate, we're kicking off his plotline properly, with mantis politics and the introduction of the only major original character in this comic--Vise, a mantis who until recently existed in my notes exclusively as "Himbo Mantis."

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I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

Preview for Chapter 7 of my Silksong Fancomic: The Green Prince dissociates to the me-mow of cute little grubs.

I'm still genuinely unsure how people will feel about this chapter, because it focuses so heavily on worldbuilding and establishing an OC within that narrative. However, if you're not into mantis politics, might I offer you some grubs in these trying times?

Additional panel previews will be available on Patreon as part of the $1 Tier, with sketches and full page previews as part of the $5 tier. Hoping that I'll be able to get this update out by the end of the week (2/5 pages complete).

To Bind Our Echoes That We May Be Whole: [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [ Chapter 4] [Chapter 5] [Chapter 6]

Lace is by far the easiest character to write--her emotions are loud, and even when she's lying or deflecting, it's pretty easy to communicate what she's actually thinking or feeling based on her body language and tone. At this point in the story, she's already starting to learn and grow. She's learned that lashing out isn't going to yield results, and while she's still insecure about expectations and boundaries, she relatively secure in the idea that people aren't going to hurt, abandon, or humiliate her for making mistakes (she couldn't even get the Green Prince to fight her when she intentionally baited him into it). On top of that, the burgeoning friendship with Hollow is an emotional anchor point. Which isn't to say she's done acting out--there's a lot of messiness ahead of her.

The Green Prince is opposite in nearly every way. With the exception of falling for Lace's targeted baiting (before almost immediately realizing what she was doing and backing off), he's cautious and closed off. He actively represses both his memories and emotions, because the full weight of what he's lost is so great that it might destroy him to feel it all at once. But those defense mechanisms were created under extreme pressure--a pressure that has suddenly lifted, by virtue of no longer being in Pharloom at all. He's slowly starting to experience a breadth of emotions unrelated to his grief--annoyance, curiosity, wonder, and even good humor. However, even the positive things are like touching an exposed nerve. They hurt him, just in new ways that he's not ready to start processing. But he's also too tired to keep running, and is instead stuck sitting with things simply not being Bad.

hope you have a lovely day and are in good health :D

I haven't read a fic like this, but maybe someone would recognize it? Can someone help us find DJ Danny? (Also, I had no idea Danny had a middle name! This opens many doors for my brain)

Now, if I misunderstood and you were making a prompt rather than asking to locate a fic, then I love this idea.

I picture Danny with one too many drinks at the Ice Lounge, dancing around and dropping his wallet. A rare good civilian finds it, takes it to the front, and they make an announcement for Danny to come to the front. If he failed to go in five minutes, they would keep it (the employees had already taken out the cash to give to Penguin), but drunk Danny didn't realize they were calling his initials and last name. He genuinely stops mid-dance because he's been assigned as a DJ and he needs to go perform.

Before his friends can stop him, he stumbles to the stage, climbs up the station and zaps his powers into the house set up. It's an imitation of Technus's ability to access electronics, but it's enough for him to learn how to use it and force it to do what he wants, without having to actually load songs. He quickly takes over the music, and the entire club is screaming.

He's not even infusing them with his powers; he's just got a good ear for mixing songs. He even zaps into the lights, throwing random spotlights on the best dancers he sees, shouting "theme music for you!" changing the song to match their vibe, and the crowd loves it. Penguin is alerted right away that someone hijacked his DJ booth -the other DJ got busted by Batman, so he was a no-show- and he's about to "bring him in" until he sees how successful Danny is.

His men informed him that word had spread online and that a line wrapped around the block was waiting to come in. Not to mention, Danny keeps randomly yelling sentences like, "This next set is best with Volka Soda!" because he likes to make playlists to whatever he's drinking that night. The bar gets an overflow of people following Danny's alcohol suggestions. He basically doubled thier profit in only an hour. What's more, after playing the entire night, the guy just leaves, doesn't even ask for pay, and Penguin basically made more in one night than in the entire month.

He demands that his men find DJ Fenton and have him become an exclusive DJ at Ice Lounge. He'll pay him triple the usual rate he offers DJs as long as Danny pushes more drinks like he did that night.

Meanwhile, Danny was so drunk he woke up the following morning with a killer hangover and no memory of what he had done. He is unaware that Penguin is hunting him down for a job, and when his men first tried to talk to him, Danny assumes he pissed off the crime lord.

He runs away from the Penguin-hired goons, deciding to go to ground while planning how to get out of the city. This catches the Bats' attention, so they also start chasing him to offer protection, but Danny counts as a meta, so he assumes they are chasing him to hurt him, as "No Metas allowed in Gotham" rumors make him paranoid. Now he's got to escape Gotham while avoiding both Penguin and Batman, which is nearly impossible no matter what he attempts. He's just lucky he's fast enough to vanish in the streets whenever they get close.

Danny dodges them all for a month, while Penguin has already announced his next show and is growing impatient that the man hasn't come by to sign a contract. He will have that idiot for the next show, even if he has to pay more.

Penguin himself introduces his newest employee to his very own personal bartender for unlimited drinks throughout whatever set the new DJ wants to play. Along with designated bouncers to ensure safety. (Actual safety, complete with food tasting for poison.) He also makes absolute BANK.

It's right up there with that story of Fats Waller getting kidnapped to play for Al Capone's birthday bash.

The Bats only manage to catch on to the poor guy's whereabouts significantly later, to which they are collectively baffled by the club losing their collective shit in enthusiastic partying with DJ Fenton confusedly but drunkenly playing set after set.

The next chapter of the comic got delayed a bit due to mental health (and figuring out how to draw a new character), but I'm making pretty steady progress now.

In the meanwhile, I thought it would be fun to share some progress shots from Chapter 5 and Chapter 6. The amount of detail in sketch form varies wildly, and I'll sometimes just ditch parts of the sketch and redraw entire panels for the final version.

You can see more stuff like this for upcoming chapters on Patreon.

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

North West basement 2

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