Knock-Kneed and Bleary Eyed

Dumping ground for shiny things. I draw things sometimes.

[bobacupcake]

its a mystery

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[bikananjarrus]

love everyone contributing to the absolute hoard of dice for emily to roll

+ bonus: some delighted emily faces

[aidaughter]

t shirt that says I PUT A NORMAL AMOUNT OF THOUGHT INTO STUFF

[enlitment]

spill for me, Muse, the wine-dark tea on a problematic man

[theprofessional-amateur]

Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:

On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

[theprofessional-amateur]

Some previous “winners”

Miscellaneous Old Stuff. *long sigh*

Other Idiocy. Honestly, this one was fitting.

(R) Man Claws. I have so many questions. Like, SO many

Keep for historical reasons. Neat.

Unprocessed Internal Provenance. Or how I answer the question “so what brings you to therapy?”

[theprofessional-amateur]

•••Possibilities for 2005••• you can really feel the optimism, which almost makes up for the pile of nonsense

[theprofessional-amateur]

Dogs Against Drugs. Ok McGruff.

[theprofessional-amateur]

The Lawsuit. Because in a series of legal files for an org over 100 years old, I am sure there is only one.

[theprofessional-amateur]

Other Crazy. Not to be confused with “other idiocy” which is already in this thread.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Okay but “Unprocessed Internal Provenance” is legit chilling.

[tapacamino]

Some gems from when I worked in the entomology department of a museum:

Bonus calendar appointment in my Outlook:

[historicity-was-already-taken]

[theprofessional-amateur]

I forgot these bad boys from a natural history museum I worked at.

[theprofessional-amateur]

Losing my mind with metadata cleanup but found my new favorite folder title:

“Scientific Committee on Problems, etc”

[theprofessional-amateur]

[theprofessional-amateur]

✨✨concepts ✨✨

Ah yes, unanswered emails.

Compelling stories (folder empty)

[daily-weasel]

[mammalidentifier]

Mountain weasel (Mustela altaica)

[professorsparklepants]

#it fucken sumny (via @mindfulwrath)

[feminist-space]

[official-lucifers-child]

the wemther brothers

[cannibalchicken]

[toastyglow-rb]

1920s gangster voice: when you stare into the boid the boid stares back

[7777777awawawa7777777]

sorry everyone we won’t be seeing any men today they’ve all been bricked into their enclosure

[m1dori-eyes]

The Masc of Amontillado

[unpossiblycromulent]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

I honestly expected to see "What trying to tell a man anything is like" under the image and then "The Masc of Amontillado" took me out at the knees.

[finefeatheredfabler]

I believe in the separation of church (fandom) and state (media creators)

[thesiltverses]

Doing a re listen and Inside my pretty little head, Eskew is a city in the Silt Verses universe. You can't help but falling in love with her. It demands your adoration.

That being said, I'm sure Carpenter would burn the whole thing to the ground

Look, I talk a big game about maintaining the integrity and finality of stories, but on the other hand:

[oysters-aint-for-me]

BJ has a very clear understanding of Objectives unfortunately he lacks that level of comprehension when it comes to tactics methods procedures etc. Thus: his Behaviors.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

[chemicalcain]

this is the single best description i have ever heard for a cat

[ariadne-mouse]

he is Calculating

[theotherwesley]

thoughts have to be tilted in order to go into the right part of brain for solve

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[lucybellwood]

Bouncy this morning.

[lucybellwood]

NAH BABE EROTICISM IS BACK ON TUMBLR DOT COM

[sleepyrogues]

Pro hag, anti ai

[hlahlahlahlahly]

This local swamp hag is tired of AI trying to cut in on my vaguely plausible hilarious bullshit stories business

[eli-void]

the problem with having a cool/enby/colorful haircut if you live in a place like Poland is that you end up having the same hair as your grandma. and many grandmas out on the streets will have wilder colors and better color matched wardrobe than you.

I just saw somone little in a long coat and short purple hair and a turquoise beret and thought that was my enby ex but then they turned around and it was literally somebody's grandma. the struggle is real

[eli-void]

how dare you hide this in the tags