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Livian turned to look at who was addressing her. "Well, this is downtown Metro City.“

“Ah, I see. Are we... by any chance... near Metro City University?” She’d only been to Earth on a few occasions and hadn’t had much of a chance to explore Metro City -- she mostly hung out on the moon these days with Mars and Melchi.

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“Excuse me, I’m a little lost. Would you mind telling me where I am?”

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rpmememaker

VALENTINE’S INSPIRED MEMES

"He loves me, he loves me not… oh."

"She loves me, she loves me not… oh."

"I don’t think it’s love…"

"So, is there anyone you’re secretly crushing on?"

"I don’t even like chocolate."

"Yeah, nothing says ‘I love you’ more than a bouquet that’ll die in two days…"

"I’m not sure if they’re a secret admirer or a stalker… but at least they have good taste in gifts."

"Oh! It’s my favourite time of year."

"If I send a mass text to all the people I like, I don’t need to get all of them gifts do I?"

"I’ve never had a Valentine."

"Will you be my Valentine?"

"Do you have a Valentine yet?"

"No one ever serenades me any more."

"Just don’t write a song and play it in front of everyone again… it’s embarrassing."

"Any secret admirers?"

"Oh, so you’re my secret admirer?"

"I may have been admiring you not so secretly."

"Just because you like me doesn’t mean the feeling is mutual."

"Seeing as we’ve both not got anyone, do you want to come to mine and watch a film?

"We’re never getting back together."

"So, he got me a teddy bear, but we fought and he tore off it’s head."

"How about instead of being ridiculous on one day of the year, you just be a decent partner for the other 364 days?!"

"We’re not together any more."

"If you haven’t booked a table we definitely won’t get to eat there on such short notice."

"It’s just Valentine’s day… I don’t see the big deal."

"What do you mean you didn’t get me anything?"

"I’m feeling sick, is it okay if we arrange our date for another night?"

"I’m not sure if they’re a secret admirer or a stalker…."

"Well… they don’t know I’m going out with you so we’re going to have a girls night sitting in and cry about being single…"

"I’ve got the lube and strawberries, we’re all set!"

"I got out the whipped cream and she slammed the door in my face."

"I am not wearing that."

"When he said he would give me a pearl necklace, I thought I was getting actual jewelry."

"It would have been a lot more romantic if you de-thorned the rose before you put it in your mouth…"

"I’m all for dressing up… but, how do you wear this?"

"If I see another couple holding hands, I’ll… I’ll-"

"Young love, isn’t it sweet?"

"Who did you get all these roses for?"

"I don’t love you, I’m just here for the chocolate."

"So, let me get this right, you want me to be a stand in to make the person you like jealous?"

"Valentines? Pft!"

"That’s the least romantic thing anyone has ever said to me…"

"What are you doing? Why are you on one knee? Get up! Get up!"

"My mum gave me a rose because she felt sorry for me."

"Look, you can buy me all the chocolates in the world, I still won’t go out with you."

"A diamond ring? I appreciate the offer… but don’t you think this is a bit… excessive?"

littlehappinessunico

• healingbotmiri

Unico was dropped off somewhere else, of course by the wind again. What.. what was this place? Everything seemed so.. how could he describe it? Not before long, he noticed a robot.. human standing there? Who was that? It was a potentially new friend of course! He ran straight towards the girl, wagging his tail and grinning.

"Hi!! I’m Unico! Who are you?" he asked.

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At the sight of the small creature Miri bent down to greet it with a warm smile. Given it's apparent sentience she wasn't sure if giving it a pet on the head would be appropriate or not. She resisted - as tempting as it was to give the fuzzy creature a pet.

"Hello there, my name is Miri," The girl greeted, "Nice to meet you, Unico."

#littlehappinessunico

tinkeriisms

how to make your autoplay more socially acceptable;

scm player and flash mp3: both have volume settings. put them on 25% so that they are quiet for most. those who wish to listen can simply turn their volume up.

billy player: download audacity, highlight the beginning portion of the song you’ve loaded, go to effects, and select fade in. the song will begin from silence and gradually increase in volume, so the audio isn’t sudden and unpleasant or even frightening. it’s also nice for those who are only briefly visiting your blog (for example, to send an ask), as they’ll be able to do what they wish to do before the song gets to its normal volume.

kissmyringbuddy-blog

Okay, I’m going to soapbox now and you’re not going to like it. But the fact is you are wrong. So wrong.

The problem with autoplay has nothing to do with social acceptability or lack thereof. It’s an issue of accessibility and not being a jerk. I say this as someone who works professionally in the web development field.

Autoplay is a thing that should never ever happen.

At its best, autoplay is a horribly intrusive thing. People don’t go to your blogs to listen to whatever music you’ve set to autoplay. They go there to read your content. Most people already have music, TV, real life, etc., going on and they don’t need your autoplay music suddenly and unexpectedly blaring out of their speakers. It’s more than annoying. It’s disruptive.

"Well then people don’t have to come to my blog," someone might say. The problem with that is people have no way of knowing if your blog has autoplay before going there. People generally go to websites expecting no sudden noise. So when they click through and hear your autoplay suddenly, it’s distracting. Thank goodness for Chrome giving us the little speaker icon because before that it was worse. You had to shuffle through all kinds of tabs to figure out which one was making the noise.

On top of it all, autoplay controls on Tumblr blogs is getting more and more difficult to track down. When you have autoplay and someone can’t find the controls, then you’re being a real jerk. You’re hurting yourself and your visitors and it basically makes you the rudest of the rude.

Beyond just the rudeness of it all, autoplay violates all web accessibility guidelines. The web operates best when users don’t get any unwanted surprises from their clicks. Autoplay music is an unwanted surprise. Always. There are no ifs ands or buts. There is no “turning it down to make it socially acceptable.” It’s wrong.

Autoplay can trigger panic attacks. Autoplay can cause people to hurt themselves if they forget their speakers are turned up and they are startled by the sudden loud noise. Autoplay wreaks havoc on visually impaired people who rely on screen readers to navigate the web. These screen readers “say” the words on the screen out loud, but if your autoplay’s running, they may not be able to hear the screen reader.

If you want to have music embedded in your blog, that’s fine. But make sure the autoplay feature is turned off. Because by turning it on, you’re being rude, ableist, and one of the biggest and worst kinds of internet jerks. And quite frankly, I think people are well within their rights to refuse to follow blogs that use autoplay.