irrelevant ramblings

“we did not give up on love today.” florence/flo | she/her | 20+ | yapping about things i like here

[irrelevant-ramblings]

About me!

in which i make the about me post i was meant to make.

my name is florence but you can call me flo. i use she/her. i’m a writer, mostly.

here is my ao3.

if you like my work/want to commission me to write you something, and feel so inclined, you can drop by my ko-fi.

(thanks!! i really do appreciate it/gen)

original work can be found on ye olde pictures app (insta).

thanks for stopping by 🌸

p.s. my profile pic is from Kiki’s Delivery Service! my tumblr cover photo was taken by me at Ghibli Park! i am the real kiki now…

[irrelevant-ramblings]

Annabel during today’s (free) episode of Nevermore: well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions!

[beaniebuggz]

here’s an old jester i did a few months back. might revisit and redo but gosh do i love how she turned out :3 (laura bailey liked this on twt im screaming-)

[eddieintheocean]

Introductions to academic papers will be like "everyone knows that the sea is cold (citation), as well as salty (5 different citations). Things live in there (citation) and the environment is important to that (2 citations)"

[disorganisedautodidact]

these tags gave me thesis writing flashbacks

[saltedweather]

the thing about writing history. Is that you get used to this. And sometimes, some of us get too comfortable and so we're writing shit like

"Murder is bad. In the time period discussed, people sometimes committed murders (2 citations). And most people agreed that murder was bad, but it was widely known that murders still happened."

And your advisor goes, "Did most people agree, though? Was it widely known?"

And you go (sigh.). Okay. And do twelve hours of going back through your readings. And rewrite.

"Murder is bad (4 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations)."

And you look at your draft. And you go. But. But we all — I mean, the archival sources from the time are in fact QUITE CLEAR about how widely known it was! Like–! I've read hundreds of letters and a third of them mention murder! I've talked to so many historians of this time and place and we ALL talk about the murder thing!

And you look at the twelve goddamned hours of searching you did. And you write several increadingly desperate emails to colleagues. And after another few days, you come to the agonizing realization that, in fact, there are no citations of published work establishing that people knew murders occurred despite them being bad and against the law. And then you spend another week looking up those archival sources. And you rewrite again.

"Murder is bad (6 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations). While no conclusive study has been done, from communications in this time, we can say that at least a significant number of people knew that murders still occurred (18 citations)."

[bucketofdeltav]

I currently have exactly this problem.

"Everyone knows that [reaction A] works like this and [reaction B] works like that". Very common way to start a paper or thesis in this field. Everybody knows this, we can carry on with the more interesting stuff about [reaction C].

Huh. These 73 citations all cite each other in a ouroboros and the only original source in the lot is a popular science book which is indeed worth citing, but it's a memoir, which I have read repeatedly, and the author of the memoir just threw this out there as another example of "things everyone just knew in those days".

...I am now doing a PhD on "Hang on just one second, we have no concrete evidence for how [reaction A] or [reaction B] work and even whether they're different at all."

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: #and you just know someone spent like 12 hours trying to find those goddamn citations /End ID]

[dogpuppy]

[sudaca-swag]

as a woman in the ozempics era you HAVE to have friends who eat normally (3-4 meals a day, no girl dinner bullshit) and who are always down to going to cafes and eating burguers and fries and stuff, I cannot stress how vital for your mental health it is to have friends with whom you feel free to say you're hungry at any time and with whom you feel free to eat as much as you want

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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Also prev tags:

That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[eknippp]

Some of my favorite quotes from Artemis ii so far:

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon."

"We just went sci fi."

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.”

[tevruden]

People always wonder why we need to risk sending humans out to do this when we can just send a robot. I think this is a good explanation.

[irrelevant-ramblings]

“play hollow knight,” they said, “you’ll love it,” they said

yea well i’m a very very very inexperienced gamer with zero games literacy and dyspraxia and i’m about to throw my switch at the wall because those goddamn platforms are so small and i cannot. freaking. master. pogoing over those spikes

ok but i’m having fun tho (even if im getting hopelessly lost)

[sundazesoul]

念入りに確認するメタモン

[winged-void]

The problem is I always want to dm my mutuals some shit like "I consider you an ally to my cause"

[frigidvalkyrie]

Reblog to tell your mutuals "I consider you an ally to my cause"

[irrelevant-ramblings]

how are ppl building masterpieces in Pokopia. i am still running around Bleak Beach trying to power all the goddamn street lights

[lemontongues]

shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡

[the-mcgrath-index]

It's giving very demi 💅🏻

[gentleaffirmations]

Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt.

[gentleaffirmations]

I hope this message reaches all the neurodiverse and disabled people who were made to feel like their abuse was justified because they had "behaviors".

While this message is true for every child, you are who I had in mind when I wrote it.

[irrelevant-ramblings]

seeing all the sad fan art from Pokopia makes me want to write FANFICTION from the pov of a FREAKING DITTO on top of all the hours i’ve already lost to this time vortex of a game

[frejs-froggy-artblog]

Left behind.