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all time favourite movies:

Thoroughbreds (2017)

Thoroughbreds (2017)

What with bucket hats, bare midriffs, and flared jeans having been resurrected by some irresponsible necromancer with frosted tips, I figure there’s no better time to resurrect some of my favorite Y2K fonts. I typically only see the same three or four pop up in discussions on the subject, so maybe this will be helpful to nostalgic designers. Click though for links.

Golly! That post sure was popular. I’m happy to share some more.

How does this have so many notes?

LVDC Cobra 4 (2000, Lovedesign Co., Freeware) Contour (1992, Device, Commercial) FUTU (2002, Fenotype, Freeware) Intergalactic (2000, BrainReactor, Commercial) Omicron (1997, Beyond Design, Freeware) Photonica (2002, Liew Keng Huat, Freeware) SF Quartzite (1999, ShyFoundry, Freeware) Republika (2000, Apostrophic Lab, Freeware) Unite (1997, Image Club, Commercial) Warzone (1999, Glitch, Freeware) Yagiza (2001, B-Rain, Freeware)

I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Fortune I do not want. Employment I do not want. Consequence I do not want.

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

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.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

First take a standard rectangular piece of paper (I used one from a small notebook which I ripped out then cut the holes off)

Then fold in half touching the shorter side to the opposite shorter side.

Fold again making the new shorter side touch the other new shorter side

I did this one more time, but this time I unfolded it right after to get back to where it was only folded twice. It should have left a crease in the paper.

Using this crease, fold the corners up alongside it to look like this

This are also going to be unfolded, but this time you’re going to push in alongside the triangular folds you just made and undid.

Doing this once will result in this

Do the other side of you haven’t already to get this

You’ll open these newly created flap to change which parts are touching

Leaving you with this

Then you start pulling the top “tabs” down

Do both sides to get the final folded form

Decorate as desired.

In addition to the usual public domain suspects (Frankenstein, Dracula, Carmilla, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a bunch of Lovecraft of mixed quality), there are also a bunch of other stories there which tend to get referenced a lot but aren’t necessarily adapted too often.

So, I thought that I’d link some that I’ve actually read in the past and thought other folk may enjoy.

- The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, written after the author suffered a bout of post-partum depression and was prescribed essentially getting locked in an attic room by her husband with “no distractions” as a means of getting rest… The enforced isolation and boredom was most certainly NOT something Perkins Gillman approved of, with her sending a copy of the short story to her doctor to illustrate how terrible it was.

- The Monkey’s Paw by WW Jacobs, I’d imagine that most folk are aware of this one, if only via the parodies in shows like the Simpsons. The premise is simple: elderly British couple get a magic monkey’s paw which grants wishes, only for horrible things to happen to them in response.

- The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, a pair of Englishmen go on a rowing holiday in Eastern Europe. Unfortunately for them, they go into an area that people aren’t meant to travel into, and things get trippy. Blackwood was himself one of several big influences on Lovecraft, although Blackwood own actual interest in the occult sometimes makes his work a little… esoteric?

- The White People by Arthur Machen, a pair of Edwardian blokes are discussing the nature of magic, when one of them pulls out the diary of a young girl from the North West of England. Within the journal it details her experiences with the supernatural in a creepy, matter of fact way brought about by her nanny essentially indoctrinating her into a magical world from a very young age. What in other stories could be whimiscal becomes deeply creepy when the protagonist is trying to describe what she’s seeing with a child’s vocabulary.

- What Was It? A Mystery by Fritz-James O’Brien, in a supposedly haunted guesthouse, one of the residents is set upon by what the initially thought was a ghost, only to discover after beating the crap out of it, that it’s some undefinable invisible… thing. More weird than creepy, but still kind of interesting.

- The Night Wire by HF Arnold, a tale told by a night wire operator, whose job it was to take and record incoming messages by telegraph over the course of the night. This take a turn, when it appears that a living fog begins to creepy into the city…

- The Canal by Everil Worrell, wherein a man falls in love with a woman on a canal boat, only to accident usher in a potential vampire apocalypse. Read this version, it’s the better of the two existing versions, the other being an extensively revised version of author/publisher August Derleth which he essentially rewrote to be more stereotypically pulpy.

- Caterpillars by EF Benson, a bloke on holiday in Italy notices an unusual infestation in the hotel he’s staying at.

Open-Access Digitized Grassroots Media

Dr. Margaret Galvan has is teaching an upcoming seminar on the visual culture of American grassroot periodicals (1960s-1990s), and released a collection of online resources, focusing in on feminist and LGBTQ periodicals. Share and enjoy, and contact her if you have more to add to the list!

Specific digitized grassroots periodicals:

Bay Area Reporter, SF LGBTQ periodical 1971-present

BOMB Magazine, cross disciplinary NYC artists mag, 1981-present

Chicago Defender, long-standing black newspaper, founded in 1905

Cultural Correspondence, New Left review out of Providence that published 1975-1985  

Dyke, A Quarterly, ran for five issues, 1975-1979

The Empty Closet, Upstate NY LGBT periodical, 1971 to present

Heresies, feminist art journal, 1977-1993

HotWire, journal of women’s music and culture, mid 1980s-mid 1990s

Lesbian Tide, Los Angeles lesbian publication, 1971-1980

Lesbian Herstory Archives newsletter, newsletter of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, from 1975 onward

Liberation News Service, New Left, anti-war underground press news service, 1967-1981

Outweek, LGBT NYC weekly, 1989-1991

Sinister Wisdom, multicultural lesbian literary & art journal, 1976 to present

Unicorn Times, DC area arts newspaper (1973-1985)

The Washington Blade, oldest LGBT newspaper in the US (since 1969), based out of DC

Washington Free Press, DC underground newspaper, 1967-1969

Larger collections of grassroots periodicals:

Chicana Por Mi Raza, “Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era” 

Civil Rights Digital Library

Digital Transgender Archive

DC Punk Archive Zine Library

The Freedom Archives, “progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice”

Houston LGBT History Publications, mostly Texas publications but also others like Lesbian Tide (Los Angeles)

Independent Voices, “open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals” 

Lesbian Poetry Archive

POC Zine Project

Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)

Roz Payne Sixties Archive

Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project

UC Berkeley, digitized periodicals largely from the Bay Area

Additional grassroots media digital projects:

Asian American Little Magazines, 1968-1974

Bay Area Reporter Online Searchable Obituary Database

GLBT Historical Society Digital Collections

June Mazer Lesbian Archives, digital collections at the bottom of this page

Lesbian Herstory Archives, digital resources

The Panther and the Lash: Black Literary Movement Publications and the Black Aesthetic