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@iamthespineofmybook
I am the spine of my book Stories are my core and strange is my brain I have created over a dozen worlds. Writing of beginnings, Dreaming of the ends. Withstood pain from inconsistent ideas, my words don't reach anyone. Yet, my dream never ends. My whole self was still Unlimited Story Time.
Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.
Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.
whats the difference in length between multiple warrior cats books in a row and one 310 page tolkien?
there is no difference it's the same amount of reading going on
Any of that "you read x-pages long book as a kid?" tends to confuse me because I was a voracious reader almost from the word "Once."
I would keep my bedside lamp on to read by long after I should have gone to bed, and would pretend to be asleep when my parents looked in (which I learned later never worked) just so I could keep reading when they walked away.
I not only read The Hobbit, I read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy, I read all of Animorphs, The Sword of Shannara and its sequels and prequel, what Discworld books we had. All before I was a teenager.
Not once did I pay attention to the page count, or the word count, or the chapter count. I saw interesting book, I read interesting book.
The hardest books I tried to read growing up were the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy (which I chalked up to it being nonfiction), The End of Time by Julian Barbour (because I needed to keep looking up definitions, as it was a hefty science book about temporal physics), and The Silmarillion (dry as heck for a book of ancient history of a fantasy setting).
I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare
Shavua Tov
Blessings for a good week, a safe and peaceful week, and may all the plans of our enemies fail.
Oh my fucking god r/deltarune literally banned referring to ralsei with she/her because of "drama"
Fucking transphobic shitheads
The craziest part is people accusing galsei believers of "forcing the theory on people" when the subreddit mods are literally forcing a cisgender interpretation of the character on the entire subreddit. This is fucking beyond parody, literally just going "only we can do this"
Yet another fandom proves itself to not actually be safe for trans people
This could be controversial but i do legitimately think there should be demotions over this, the r/deltarune moderation team has proved they'll just lay down and let transphobia happen and treat the trans people themselves as if they are some how equally complicit for just having a different interpretation of the text. Keep in mind this community is famous for theorising, this is the first time (to my knowledge at least) they have ever outright banned a certain theory and i do not think it is merely a coincidence that is specifically a transgender theory. People being shitty to galsei theorists is not the fault of the galsei theorists for fucks sake
I'm curious, because we have all those citations on the Deltarune wiki about their pronouns, how do the mods handle Kris?
Hold on, this is fascinating. Reblog this and tell me in the notes how old you are and if you ever had typing lessons.
What in God’s good name is a “typing lesson”
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not
I’m serious what is a typing lesson? What would they teach you? To type? My brother in Christ it is like writing with a pen but technically easier.
Before home computers were very common, people typically only typed for business-related things, so the only people that actually knew how to use typewriters and word processors were authors, secretaries, accountants, etc. These people would take classes for typing bc it was seen as a skill. This gradually fell out of fashion, much like teaching kids cursive
Typing is only intuitive to gen y & z bc most of us learned through computer games or had someone tell us where to rest our fingers. People who never learned to type use just their index fingers, hit one key, take a long time to find the next letter, hit it with an index finger, and repeat until finished
34 i played this:
33 and i started with Mavis Beacon
34, had typing lessons in 3rd and 4th grade and Mavis Beacon as a kid and I’ve still never used home row except when I was forced to. I type everything with my left hand. The only thing my right is for is using the shift, backspace, and enter keys.
43, first had typing lessons in 4th grade on some type of Mac, then my mother bought me a book and a manual typewriter and made me learn to touch-type, for which I am still grateful 30+ years later. I remember how excited we were when we upgraded to an electric typewriter.
Of course, I got hit by nostalgia so hard that I recently bought a manual typewriter and have been writing letters to people with it! I love it to pieces.
28 and I learned to type through Type To Learn. I have severe dysgraphia to the point where I couldn’t keep up with writing in school early on, so the summer after second grade my parents trained me intensely on all the typing programs they could get, and found ways to help me learn to type fast.
I’m so nostalgic for those games.
“It is like writing with a pen but technically easier” my brother in Christ children also take writing lessons
#LMAO yeah^#i had computer class in 2001 where we eventually had to put paper over our hands to take a test to see if we could type without looking#we also played games#i hated the paper thing at the time. i knew i just needed MORE practice. i dont think i got GOOD at typing until a few years after that#also.. when you have a pen. you can just create the letter you need. with a keyboard you have to FIND IT. and its NOT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER#how is that easier??#but i guess i dont know any kids whove grown up with computers and could probably type before they could write….????? 😳
Modern kids can’t type before they can write. I mean, most kids understand how to use a keyboard, and pressing letters takes less coordination than writing them so can be started at a younger age for learning to spell, but I’ve worked a lot with kids in the 8-14 year age bracket and they’re usually FASCINATED by how fast I type. (My typing speed is… not impressive. If they made me take one of those speed/accuracy tests they used to do for admin or data entry jobs, I would NOT pass.) But many of the kids I’ve worked with take my comfort and familiarity with a keyboard (I’m a writer) as some impressive, magical skill, because an awful lot of them are letter-peckers.
24, learned actual touch-typing when I was maybe 4 or 5 with this, the sound effects still live rent-free in my brain:
The shift keys on our computer were broken, so up until high school I would type capitals by turning caps lock on for a single key and then back off again.
I’m 39. We had typing lessons every year throughout elementary school. I never really got good at it until I started playing mmos, though.
My kids are in 5th and 6th grade. They’ve never even seen a fingering chart. The 6th grader is expected to do nearly all of his schoolwork on a computer, and he doesn’t even know the term “home row”. I don’t know how they expect them to excel without giving them the skills they need to use the tools they have to use.
I’ve gone what I can to help them learn how to type, but I’m not a teacher.
Mid 50′s.
Typing classes were only availble to those taking the secretarial class, which was not open to boys.
It should be noted that there is a distinction between typing as it used to mean and word processing. Typewriters were unforgiving machines, not only could you not cut, paste or delete (for obvious reasons) so your spelling had to be very, VERY good, but the legibiity of each letter produced depended on how hard you hit the key (unless you went to a fancy school which had electric typewriters, which were not the norm).
Those of us who were subversive enough to learn keybaord skills through computing had a MUCH easier time of it. Though it was often offset by the shitty keyboards some computers had, and YES, I’m calling you out ZX81!
If you can’t see any depth to those keys, you are correct, they have none because the ZX81 keyboard was a damned membrane!
But believe me, if you could learn to typeat a decent speed on of these, then NOTHING could stop you, expcet for the fact that the odds were good you were typing faster than it could process input.
It’s successor, the ZX Spectrum had spongey keys, which whilst not great, were better than nothing.
Genuinely as a computing teacher in the 11-18 age group, I’m saying this now:
We need to bring back typing lessons to the curriculum. The kids will fly if you give them a tablet or smartphone but they have no clue on how to use a keyboard or keyboard shortcuts. If the senior PE class decides to be twats and pry up the keys and swap them round, I will still have 14/15 year olds unable to type because the keys are swapped. And I often don’t notice when helping them because I just.. touch type.
I legitimately broke a Higher Computing Science (so a 16 year old who had chosen to do computer stuff) by showing him how Ctrl+H let him find and replace because he’d made a consistent error in his code and I could see him going back and adding up all the time he’d spent trying to find all the incidences of a specific variable in his code and there I was showing him CTRL+F and all these things.
These kids might not pick a computer based subject after the age of 13 and half of them don’t understand file systems, version control, difference between cloud vs local storage, how to save, etc.
So many kids would just turn off the monitor and think that was the computer, usually leaving themselves logged in (to the point I locked the monitor power button and had multiple posters up reminding kids to press the spacebar on the keyboard to wake up the monitor first).
Basically, digital literacy is being fucking stolen by the appification of the digital platforms available to kids.
All of this.
I’m 37. I’ll be 38 in a couple of weeks. I learned on Mavis Beacon, like many others.
I’ve actually submitted a computer literacy panel to my home anime con under the guise of “showing prospective panelists how to use the equipment for paneling.”
Same age-ish as prismatic-bell, though I learned typing specifically because both my gramma and my dad had computers with games on that I wanted to play. And a couple typewriters, only one of which was electric, the other being fully manual and I had a hard time pressing the keys hard enough to actually type a letter.
There were typing lessons in middle school, specifically trying to teach Home Row, but back then I was adamantly against learning it, instead trying to brute force hunt-and-peck while the keyboard was covered with an orange rubbery thing so we couldn't see the letters.
And then, after graduating, I wound up doing Home Row anyways.
pitch for my new tarot card “Do Not Panic”
I mean, this would work perfectly for a kaiju-based tarot deck's The Tower.
its kinda funny to me to use "everybody on earth" to mean "every single person" like this applies to everyone. except the people in space fuck those 10 people in particular
And my first thought was a bit in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. In as short a form as possible:
Yamcha: "I want to wish back everyone on Earth killed by Cell!"
Later, King Kai (killed by Cell exploding on his planet): "Yeah, thanks for specifying on Earth, by the way! Yamcha! YOU ASSHOLE!"
Is my birthday
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?
decay exists as an extant form of life
That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day
"Decay exists as an extant form of life" is part of my macro for using Living Death in FFXIV, which is a Dark Knight ability where you no longer die from 0 HP, but if you aren't healed to full in a set time, you die regardless. It is considered important for a Dark Knight to have an announcement macro for activating it so that the Healer actually knows a full heal is necessary.
Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.
Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.
(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)
Are you safe?
Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.
I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.
I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.
A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.
The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.
I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.
…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.
(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)
Juni from Spy Kids vs Wolverine.
There might be a chance, but I think Wolverine's got my back.
-https://www.tumblr.com/princess-of-the-corner/761270238527586304/so-i-just-finished-a-fic-that-although-it-takes?source=share
Hi! Out of curiosity, do you know the name of that fanfiction and/or where I can find it? I'm curious and want to read it, but I can't find it on AO3 or Fanfiction.net
Unfortunately, it's been over two years since that Ask was sent, so I don't remember it off the top of my head. But, seeings as it was probably on AO3, I'll try and dig through my read history and see what turns up.
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Found it! Here you go: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52423207
i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af
i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience
say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!
Everyone: Pound cakes are very rich.
Me: Yeah I bet they're a bit more than a regular cake, probably basically the same thing though.
Pound cake recipe:
This isn't a cake this is a giant cube of cookie
#i fucking love pound cake i will go FERAL for pound cake i dont think this recipe has enough butter
This cake is approximately 50% sugars and fats how much more butter do you want
....this isn't a pound cake.
A pound cake has four ingredients and it's so called BECAUSE YOU USE A POUND OF EACH. Pound of butter, pound of eggs, pound of sugar, and pound of flour.
Yep. The recipe in the original post makes me think of the Cold Oven Cake Dylan Hollis made on his YouTube channel.
Also, while the others are easy enough to figure out with just a scale (measuring by weight is among the best ways to measure for baking), eggs is a trickier subject, but I'm 94% sure that it's been determined that one pound of egg is nine large eggs.
A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE.
I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!
I just remembered an MLPFiM fic where one of the minor plots involved Luna being very confused why Celestia was suddenly being so formal with her, and blaming it on her time as Nightmare Moon, not knowing that the language had drifted while she was sealed away.
Wish I could remember which fic it was...
Local asexual who hates the heat wants to know.
Allosexuals, do you find it attractive/sexy when someone you're attracted to is sweating?
Yes, in any circumstance
Yes, but only under certain circumstances
Maybe?
No, never
asexual button
I think for me it's more the light reflecting off a body than sweat, especially since, generally, if my partner is sweating, then she's not having a good time, and I would much rather she be having a good time.
the thing about using Bce/Ce isn't that im pretending the calendar isn't based in Christianity, its that i dont want to literally participate in christianity every time i talk about the year. ill use the common calendar for the sake of convenience but im not saying ad because it isnt the year of my lord.
