HikaLyra's

- Just A Little Bit Caught in The Middle of Life - Hi! I mostly blog about everything that attracts my interest!

[hikalyra]

I finished Project Hail Mary in like 4 days last month and realize I still have that power to read thru 500 pgs or more in less than a week.

My superpower from high school is not gone yet!!!

[accessibleposts]

could you explain the post about shoelaces and presidents? it would be greatly appreciated thank you

Sure! Do you mean this post?

So, it started in a post in 2012 (or earlier, I don’t know the exact date). As the Urban Dictionary entry explains, you would say “I like your shoelaces” in public as a sort of secret code if you suspect there’s another Tumblr user there. And if there is another Tumblr user, they would reply “Thanks, I stole them from the president” to let you know they understood the message and are, in fact, a Tumblr user. 

I don’t think people do this anymore, and if they ever did, it probably wasn’t a very common thing to do. Maybe they did back in 2012 when the post was recent and Tumblr wasn’t as popular as it is now. 

I also don’t think there’s any deeper meaning to the phrases. “I like your shoelaces” seems like a pretty common and nice thing to say, and if it turns out the person you thought was a Tumblr user doesn’t recognise the ‘secret message’, nothing would happen. But then “Thanks, I stole them from the president” seems weird and specific enough that you would know they understood the ‘secret message’, unlike if they just replied “Thank you”. 

Then other posts appeared making references to the shoelaces and president posts:

[neil-gaiman]

Whoa. I’d missed that one. Then again, late 2012 was when I arrived here…

[hikalyra]

I arrived here like late 2013 or early 2014 (?)

Was basically super active starting from 2014 to 2016 😂

[accessibleposts]

could you explain the post about shoelaces and presidents? it would be greatly appreciated thank you

Sure! Do you mean this post?

So, it started in a post in 2012 (or earlier, I don’t know the exact date). As the Urban Dictionary entry explains, you would say “I like your shoelaces” in public as a sort of secret code if you suspect there’s another Tumblr user there. And if there is another Tumblr user, they would reply “Thanks, I stole them from the president” to let you know they understood the message and are, in fact, a Tumblr user. 

I don’t think people do this anymore, and if they ever did, it probably wasn’t a very common thing to do. Maybe they did back in 2012 when the post was recent and Tumblr wasn’t as popular as it is now. 

I also don’t think there’s any deeper meaning to the phrases. “I like your shoelaces” seems like a pretty common and nice thing to say, and if it turns out the person you thought was a Tumblr user doesn’t recognise the ‘secret message’, nothing would happen. But then “Thanks, I stole them from the president” seems weird and specific enough that you would know they understood the ‘secret message’, unlike if they just replied “Thank you”. 

Then other posts appeared making references to the shoelaces and president posts:

[neil-gaiman]

Whoa. I’d missed that one. Then again, late 2012 was when I arrived here…

[hikalyra]

I arrived here like late 2013 or early 2014 (?)

Was basically super active starting from 2014 to 2016 😂

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - Humans and Demi-Humans

[hikalyra]

I'm in here cause threads is being messy rn

[thingsfromthedirt]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?

[red-mercer]

Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu

[sreegs]

Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF

Yahoo’s grand plan for Tumblr was to turn it into a “next-generation PDF”

They didn't really get it.

[noctumsolis]

What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?

[sreegs]

i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was

[zenosanalytic]

Business Majors

[hikalyra]

This is hilarious 😂

[hikalyra]

I'm still mad that Lockwood & Co. was cancelled 🙃

[hikalyra]

I really need to drag myself out of twitter, it's like witnessing a car crash there

[academicblorbo]

Ilya meeting Shane's parents must be insane for them like. Mr Ilya "The Terminator" Rozanov, terror on ice and menace in bed, politely stands there. Your very shy son admonishes him for using the word "lovers" and Russia's Greatest Rage Machine just takes it.

You ask when this started and Mister Dickhead makes sure Shane is accurate about when they started this. How dare you stave off half a year of us, Shane?

You ask if they talked to Scott Hunter and Ra Ra Rasputin says that he, famous asshole extraordinaire went to talk to Patron Saint of Hockey Gays to offer him congratulations.

You ask if he has no loyalty to Boston and Mr Fucking Fuck San Francisco is like. Nyet

Your son is having a panic attack and Miike Snow Genghis Khan calls them "boyfriends" and it's your own extremely shy and sensitive and loving son that is like MY WHAT

[hikalyra]

I started my pre-30s with thoughts about death

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

person trying to get out of a timeloop but they keep getting brutally murdered by the other person stuck in the timeloop, who is having the most amazing vacation of their life and refuses to leave

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

they're very apologetic about the whole "murdering you in cold blood" thing but they have never in their adult life had this much free time

[official-time-loop-posts]

Official Time Loop Post

[hanguangjeans]

Coming out of retirement to post this here because I don't know where else to go:

Yall joke that Hudson Williams has no media training/needs media training and coming from someone who does brand management comms, Hudson does not need media training - he's the whole media MASTERMIND.

I'm genuinely impressed as an (older) Gen Z who's been in this line of work for a few years now. This man has such an authentic Gen Z way of handling media that, to no one's surprise, it WORKS. He tells you exactly what he wants to tell you and you'll know exactly what he wants you to know. Yes, he's unhinged in interviews - bc that's exactly what he is and how he wants to be perceived. Half the battle of owning your brand is knowing exactly who you are and what you stand for; the other half is convincing people of it and owning your narrative before other people usurp it. He does both of it effortlessly.

My genuine hats off to him. This man is a study in branding and a whole mastermind at it. Just. Wow.

[hikalyra]

Lately I kept thinking where do humans go after dying

And I just can't get this out of my mind

[hikalyra]

Tumblr is so alive again ever since this one specific fandom explode.

How are we feeling guys?

[hikalyra]

I feel like my country is plunging into (economic) depression soon.

I should just stay at home and indulge myself in free games and anything cheap

[hikalyra]

My brain, heart and everything else is always in conflict 🙂‍↔️