Balter

Fandom. Feminism. Cats.

[scatter-the-stars]

Steve Buscemi won Halloween!

[guerrillatech]

[an-autistic-with-personhood]

[synebluetoo]

Why would you hide that in the notes

[neil-gaiman]

How did it feel the first time you all saw the bookshop again? I imagine it was quite emotional!

It was more than that. It was for me -- and talking to the other people who were around the bookshop on Season 1 -- fairly disorienting.

My Brain: Oh, right, I have been here before.

Me: No, brain. You only think you've been here before because you have been somewhere exactly the same as this built on an airport on Bovingdon in December of 2017. That burned down. This is a new place.

My brain: Yeah no that's not a thing, I can do places, I've been here before, look there's all the stuff you only noticed subliminally anyway and it's exactly the same so I have been here before.

Me: Brain we are in SCOTLAND.

My brain: We are in Aziraphale's bookshop. We are back. You're just being weird.

It wasn't until I found some of the things that we've added this time around that my brain started to simmer down a little.

[ineffable-writer]

Ironically, that’s exactly what happened to the canon bookshop.

[bled]

[l-ouroboros]

Tigers, tigers!

[hidingoutbackstage]

Ngl I was not prepared for where this was going

[hidingoutbackstage]

[atreefullofstars]

#bangs head on table#that’s tony fucking hawk#Nobody recognizes him😭#It’s like a curse or something Funny story… I didn’t recognize him so I thought “It’s probably Tony Hawk.”

[halliewriteshockey]

God works hard but Lil Nas X works harder

[bowelflies]

DEPLOY THE BOYS

[bogleech]

You really won’t ever appreciate how cool insect wings are until you’ve seen all this footage. The ones with wing covers that completely open up are beetles, by the way, but the ones LIKE beetles whose protective cover remains in place are bugs. Bug is supposed to be a special term for just one insect group! Mid-way through is an earwig’s wings, which is neither a beetle nor a bug, but does have very beetle-like wing cases.

[severeannoyance]

I’m so glad earwigs got their due here. They do some amazing origami to fold their wings up small enough under their wing cases.

[square-enix]

i hope this email finds you a broken husk of a man

[viole-n-t]

[theshallowest]

[theshallowest]

[itskarmalone]

So that explains why I found this...

[hshouse]

lil nas x is a true pop icon like we haven’t seen in years

[zashiki]

jurk

[mysharona1987]

[instructor144]

[mysharona1987]

Fun fact: Tucker's super rich mom made a point of only leaving him $1 in her will.

And she likely did that for a reason: So he couldn't contest the will and argue "But maybe she was old and not in her right mind and forgot me."

It's apparently a specific practice amongst rich people when you want to leave a loathed family member nothing and don't want to give them a leg to stand on in court.

[mysharona1987]

Tucker's mom giving off the Lucille Bluth vibes.

[we-used-to-dream]

GET FUCKED TUCKER

[queennan1-deactivated20240816]

Yeah, my great aunt decided to leave all of her property and money to my dad rather than any of her shitty kids or grandkids (like they all lived in houses she owned and maintained rent free within 5 miles of her own home and guess who took care of her for the last 10 years of her life? Like cleaning her house, taking her to church and appointments, and out shopping. My dad, my mom, and me.) She changed her will about 2 and a half years before she died and left each of her kids and grandkids $10 each so they couldn't contest the will. She actually insisted on a traditional will reading, probably for the drama. I was 100 % sure her oldest son was gonna have a stroke when he realized Dad got just about everything, including all the houses they all lived in. Auntie even stipulated in her will that Dad should boot them all out if they gave him trouble and at the very least they should all start paying rent.

Anyway, if Dad hadn't already had a will leaving everything to me and mom one of those jerks would probably have tried to kill him.

[mysharona1987]

"Insisted on a traditional will reading probably just for the drama."

Your great aunt was amazing.

[theboboshow]

Your dad showing up to the will reading like Ransom from Knives Out.

[chrissongzzz]

Lil Man was Ready To Fight…😂

He felt violated.

[kwansimah]

I’m actually weak lmao

[brattylikestoeat]

Me when someone playing with my food.

[timberphoto]

A summer sunset in Montana.

Instagram

[elvarasokazokakurvaelvarasok-de]

[fungiblegoods]

[tonedeafparrot]

[tonedeafparrot]

[tonedeafparrot]

[tonedeafparrot]

[tonedeafparrot]

[tonedeafparrot]

[tonedeafparrot]

[tonedeafparrot]

[boopednose]

How is this person still alive

[destiny-islanders]

If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“Please oh please open up your computer to a porn virus! If you don’t you’re evil!”

[history-student-against-antis]

Freeloader Comin’ through!

[moonlight-fox]

We didn’t start this war internet users have with ads - We might have moaned about banner ads, but it was only when they started making noises when we might be listening to music or a podcast or whatever, causing two sound sorces at once, that we started trying to block ads universally rather than just a specific type of ad (pop ups).

And since then ads have gotten worse - Actual malware rather than merely breaking one of the fundamental sins of web design - though shalt not autoplay anything with sound. And the more aggressive a website is with ‘please turn off adblock’ the less I trust it to bother to vet ads and advertisers to make sure they’re not installing malware.

[bramblepatch]

Not to mention that the idea that avoiding ads is “freeloading” is hilariously backward. Advertisement is a transaction between the platform and the advertiser, the user has no obligation to provide the views/clicks the platform has promised. Using an adblocker isn’t freeloading in the same way that leaving the room to get a snack during a commercial break isn’t cheating the tv network.

[pocosun]

Ok y’all, I work as a web developer and I’m here to tell you that you are 100% right and that it’s shit. SO I’m going to tell you how to get around websites that block you from using their website if you’re using an adblocker. 

Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:

Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature

Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu

And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”

And then just refreshed the page

[eggfucker1]

Reblogging to save my life

[doublekaiju]

saving a life

[intrepidradish]

Freeloading for ever