SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND GET READY TO HAVE YOUR ASS BLASTED WITH SOME PURE UNADULTERATED HUMAN JOY BECAUSE IT’S THE NATE MOTHERFUCKING RUESS STARTER KIT.
In case you haven’t heard, this bro is the frontman of Fun. (and The Format before that) and also a professional life-ruiner. His voice is unbelievable (“his range spans from unreachable moments of vivid theatricality to the most raw intensities”) and everything he touches turns to sweet-ass hooks. He’s an adorable human, a beam of Queen-infused sunshine, and also occasionally drunk. Additionally: his dumb face.
You will be a better, happier person for having Nate Ruess in your life. Trust me on this.
SO. I’ve picked out five songs by The Format and eight songs by Fun. that feel ~essential and zipped them. He’s the tracklisting:
1. Some Nights Intro - Fun.
2. Some Nights - Fun.
3. Dog Problems - The Format
4. At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) - Fun.
5. Dead End - The Format
6. All the Pretty Girls - Fun.
7. Be Calm - Fun.
8. One Foot - Fun.
9. Inches and Falling - The Format
10. The Gambler - Fun.
11. Snails - The Format
12. Carry On - Fun.
13. If Work Permits - The FormatIf you decide you want more (which you will, I promise), I’d like to very strongly encourage you to buy all of these LPs. But! Let’s be real, most of us on tumblr are broke-as-fuq students, so here are some download links too. (ftr: I suggest starting with Dog Problems because it’s both pretty much a perfect album and a really good introduction to Nate’s sound )
INTERVENTIONS + LULLABIES - THE FORMAT (2003)
iTunes | Amazon | .zip
DOG PROBLEMS - THE FORMAT (2006)
iTunes | Amazon | .zip
AIM & IGNITE (DELUXE VERSION) - FUN. (2009)
iTunes | Amazon | .zip
SOME NIGHTS - FUN. (2012)
iTunes | Amazon | .zip
MORE STUFF: EP (The Format) | B-Sides & Rarities (The Format) | Snails EP (The Format) | Simple Twist of Fate (Bob Dylan cover, The Format) | Holly Jolly Christmas (The Format) | And Now I Hope You’re Alright - Live in California (The Format) | Live From the Living Room (The Format) | The Format Live: Exporting Insecurity (The Format) | Believe in Me (Fun.) | Live at Fingerprints (Fun.)
NOW: go find tickets to see Fun. live (BEST DECISION OF YOUR LIFE TBH) and buy some merch (Fun.’s LGBTQ stuff is particularly awesome)
GUYS! ON MARCH 31ST I’M THROWING A TUMBLR PARTY VIA TINYCHAT!!!
A PARTY, YOU SAY? WHY, MATHILDE, WHY?
MORE DETAILS: BYOB! (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) YOU DON’T DRINK? THAT’S AWESOME TOO! ALL YOU NEED IS YOUR HEADPHONES AND YOU’RE READY TO PARTY! IT’LL START AT 9 PM EDT AND WE’LL HOPEFULLY BE A LOT OF PEOPLE AND WE WON’T SLEEP ALL NIGHT! AWESOME RIGHT? (8 THE TINYCHAT IS OVER HERE. BOOKMARK IT AND I’LL SEE YOU ON MARCH 31ST! IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS YOU CAN DROP IT IN MY ASK AND I’LL REPLY AS SOON AS I CAN!
REBLOG! SPREAD THE WORD! THIS GUN B GUD!
TYPOGRAPHY RESOURCE & CREDIT POST
One of the most important things I’ve learned from researching typography during my digital art class is this: font design is hard as balls, and if any of those designers saw the way I’ve superimposed their hard work across Batman’s face in a less-than-skilled-manner, they would probably cry. The links in this post should cover all the fonts I’ve used in past graphics and any future graphics.
Just a friendly reminder: graphics are like evolution—sometimes you throw a bunch of cool shit together and get something awesome like a platypus, and other times you get an ugly slimy blind undersea creature that eats poop. Using a good font doesn’t necessarily mean you will get a platypus.
Photoset Fonts:
I. Just—My—Type (Soraya)
II. Lost Type (Oil Can, Tommaso, Ranger, Wisdom Script, Muncie, Pompadour, Deming)
III. The League of Moveable Type (Ostrich Sans, Blackout)
OTHER RESOURCES: Behance Network | Font Squirrel | 1001 Free Fonts
I would also recommend checking my design tag on Delicious for any new fonts I may find in the future.
Dear mother of god
Because some of you anons are persistently asking what fonts I like to use in my works, I’ve kindly compiled them for you. I’m pretty sure there are other people who have compiled their favorite fonts, so my set might be repeats. Reblog/like and enjoy! [More to add in the future]
skinny | sweetly broken | punkboy | little sparrow | windsong | loremipsum | james fajardo | hand of cre
Aly I am so sorry this took ages to respond to- I would have just given you a list of books and been done with it but I decided to use this and make an actual book rec posts so then this happened. These are books that I think everybody should read. Some of them are obvious and some are from my significant books list, but I just went ahead and put them on here anyways. I tried, for the most part, to get pdf downloads for everything though one or two of them may be epub or word documents instead.I suggest everyone GET ON THESE DOWNLOADS IMMEDIATELY because I don’t know how long they’ll stay up.Miscellaneous Must Reads
- The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as translated by Jessie L. Weston
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (also: Ender Saga torrent)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Complete Sherlock Holmes (Unabridged) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
A Song of Fire and Ice by G.R.R. Martin
Lord of the Rings & Others in Tolkienverse
- Fellowship of the Ring
- The Two Towers
- Return of the King
- The Hobbit (or There and Back Again)
- The Silmarillion
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- The Bad Beginning
- The Reptile Room
- The Wide Window
- The Miserable Mill
- The Austere Academy
- The Ersatz Elevator
- The Vile Village
- The Hostile Hospital
- The Carnivorous Carnival
- The Slippery Slope
- The Grim Grotto
- The Penultimate Peril
- The End
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisGemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
- The Lightning Thief
- The Sea of Monsters
- The Titan’s Curse
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- The Last Olympian
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Inkworld Trilogy by Cornelia FunkeInheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
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I thought I’d post my theme recommendations (because I know it’s sometimes hard to find new themes and I like to keep track), so here’s a list of some my favorite theme blogs that I’ve fortunately come across that have the most amazing themes! And the list is always being updated, I hope it’s helpful! (there might be some accidental repeats, sorry!)
[ ettudis ] [ cindie ] [ evaeon ] [ manatopia ] [ jbam-themes ] [ nunmuri ] [ lmthemes ] [ ixora ] [ infernos ] [ shirotenshi ] [ charmings ] [ sanctuaires ] [ aerou ] [ pauserepeat ] [ sleepythemes ] [ themesbypolinomial ] [ aryastark-s ] [ sirmerlin ] [ kamikukisama ] [ mcsthemes ] [ shirei ] [ haures ] [ harlequinthemes ] [ themesbylts ] [ maraudersthemes ] [ solaristhemes ] [ the-redwaterfall ] [ emmelia ] [ 30dialogues ] [ sonicwand ] [ hbks ] [ snowscape ] [ rthemes ] [ forenkladthemes ] [ queridasolidao ] [ sirdornan ] [ themesbyla ] [ everthemes ] [ affectingyou-themes ] [ lemonparfait ] [ asianluv ] [ confunded ] [ distances ] [ gyuhyuns ] [ haru-themes ] [ northerndawn ] [ officerparker ] [ quinni ] [ nayarren ] [ notliketheothers ] [ kidrauhl ] [ bajusrawr ] [ casthebadass ] [ villianz ] [ rawrdianna ] [ pruehalliwells ] [ forty-sixandtwo ] [ break-themes ] [ lovegoods ] [ smpldesign ] [ themesbybluntstatements ] [ magicblood ]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwpdaaK7fB1qeb6qco1_500.png)
I thought I’d post my theme recommendations (because I know it’s sometimes hard to find new themes and I like to keep track), so here’s a list of some my favorite theme blogs that I’ve fortunately come across that have the most amazing themes! And the list is always being updated, I hope it’s helpful! (there might be some accidental repeats, sorry!)
[ ettudis ] [ cindie ] [ evaeon ] [ manatopia ] [ jbam-themes ] [ nunmuri ] [ lmthemes ] [ ixora ] [ infernos ] [ shirotenshi ] [ charmings ] [ sanctuaires ] [ aerou ] [ pauserepeat ] [ sleepythemes ] [ themesbypolinomial ] [ aryastark-s ] [ sirmerlin ] [ kamikukisama ] [ mcsthemes ] [ shirei ] [ haures ] [ harlequinthemes ] [ themesbylts ] [ maraudersthemes ] [ solaristhemes ] [ the-redwaterfall ] [ emmelia ] [ 30dialogues ] [ sonicwand ] [ hbks ] [ snowscape ] [ rthemes ] [ forenkladthemes ] [ queridasolidao ] [ sirdornan ] [ themesbyla ] [ everthemes ] [ affectingyou-themes ] [ lemonparfait ] [ asianluv ] [ confunded ] [ distances ] [ gyuhyuns ] [ haru-themes ] [ northerndawn ] [ officerparker ] [ quinni ] [ nayarren ] [ notliketheothers ] [ kidrauhl ] [ bajusrawr ] [ casthebadass ] [ villianz ] [ rawrdianna ] [ pruehalliwells ] [ forty-sixandtwo ] [ break-themes ] [ lovegoods ] [ smpldesign ] [ themesbybluntstatements ] [ magicblood ]
Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.
CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW, DIALOGUE
The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)
Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters
Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
How to Start Writing in the Third Person
Web Resources for Developing Characters
What are the Sixteen Master Archetypes?
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Villains are People, Too, But …
Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills (character traits)
How to Write a Character Bible
Character Development Exercises
All Your Characters Sounds the Same — And They’re Not a Hivemind!
Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Difference for Successful Fiction
Family Echo (family tree website)
Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy
100 Character Development Questions for Writers
Lineage Chart Layout Generator
PLOT, CONFLICT, STRUCTURE, OUTLINE
How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
Effectively Outlining Your Plot
Conflict and Character within Story Structure
Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets
Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!
Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid
Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks
The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps
Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes
SETTING, WORLD BUILDING
The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life
Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I
An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions
Character and Setting Interactions
Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds
Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping
IDEAS, INSPIRATION
Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud
Writing Inspiration, or Sex on a Bicycle
Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow
The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits
Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
Story Starters and Idea Generators
REVISION
One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle
Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
Writing 101: So You Want to Write a Novel Part 3: Revising a Novel
TOOLS and SOFTWARE
My Writing Nook (online text editor; free)
Bubbl.us (online mind map application; free)
Freemind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
XMind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
Liquid Story Binder (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $45.95; Windows, portable)
Scrivener (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $39.95; Mac)
SuperNotecard (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
yWriter (novel organization and writing software; free; Windows, Linux, portable)
JDarkRoom (minimalist text editor; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
AutoRealm (map creation software; free; Windows, Linux with Wine)
Inspired by Tumblr Savior, this script completely removes the notes for any post you don’t want to hear about from your dash!
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
- Install with the button up top!
- Open the script’s source. Most userscript extensions should have an “edit” or an “open folder” button, and you can edit with any basic text editor like notepad.
- Edit the arrays at the top. Enter the permalink url for any posts, or the username for any person you want to block. You can also whitelist usernames or posts in the second array!
- If it’s not working, double check that nothing in the lists is capitalized, and everything is correctly spelled. Every item should be in quotes, and separated by a comma.
TIP!
You can get the proper permalink to block by copying link location on the “whatever” part of a note that goes “username liked/reblogged your whatever: post title or caption bit…”
mireena taught me this. go give her love! i just wanted to share it with tumblr :)
I see a lot of stuff like this around, so I thought I’d try and gather it into one post, if for nothing else than so that I can find it more easily, later. Because I like free things.
Free 30 Day CSS / HTML Course (via muh-li-cah)Over 36,000 free e-books by Project Gutenberg
Free Courses from:
- UC Berkeley
- Yale
- MIT
- IITs
- Dozens and dozens of other schools (@ Open Culture)
- And more here ( @ Academic Earth, via mehreenkasana)
- and 200 more here
- United States Institute of Peace
