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[the-mad-duchess]

Don’t just accept the new Terms of Service

Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)

OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:

Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:

Now you’ll see this page:

Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:

Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.

When we click on that one, what we will get is this:

A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.

(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)

[expatgirl]

I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.

[bughead]

thirty-four episodes of bughead

[syl-s]

why does it make you cringe?

a couple levels, which i’m putting under a cut because not everyone wants rants on their dash:

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[findingbetty]

A+ rant

[stillscape]

six sentence sunday

because why not? 

all the roads chapter 12, coming to you… eventually…

As it turns out, tonight is a “cook enough for four people night,” and Alice Cooper, mood buoyed by the news that Betty’s father hasn’t been able to find a reasonably priced flight back to Riverdale and is therefore remaining in Florida for the time being, doesn’t mind the extra company at all.

“If I didn’t know any better, Mom,” she says sotto voce in the kitchen as she’s helping Alice collect the table settings, “I’d think you were happy to see Jughead.”

This earns her a sharp tut. “Honestly, Betty. Whatever gave you the idea I don’t like your boyfriend?”

Almost everything, Betty thinks, but she bites her tongue.

“In fact,” Alice says, raising her voice a little as she approaches the table, where Jughead sits, “I have a little proposition for you, Jughead.”

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@imreallyloveleee just read another one of yours, spectacular views! if you feel like checking it out

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For the Scene Stealer Award (until I come up with a better title), you have Archie vs Reggie. Both only had one line, but boy did they still make an impact. Archie’s poison ivy was a nice thread throughout, and was the reason for them to actually have this lovely afternoon together. Brought out some great lines such as his arms are practically the same color as his hair. And then you have Reggie making fun of Archie for getting poison ivy which in itself is hilarious. But the true hero is

“Reggie didn’t do anything wrong.”  

“That we know of.”

Winner: Reggie

Fic google count: 1 + funnel cakes image search

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Twas beautiful. I really love pre-canon fics and this totally exemplified why: 

- You have awkward, dorky, pining Jughead (the best kind)

- Betty slowly realizing that Archie is a fantasy and rather Jughead is someone she could love and be loved by because they actually understand and see each other. Everything with her fantasy date being checked off in slightly different, real versions was aaaamazing. Aaaaaaah

- The innocence of it all. It’s so highschool and genuine to the age they’re supposed to be, dealing with expectations, home trouble, their parents or lack thereof, relationships etc. rather than ya know dealing with serial killers and gangs. 

You really had me going with the bit about Jughead and his mom, I was not expecting this to go that hard. Very emotional. The part about that he doesn’t deserve his mom doing that murdered me. I’m not sure if he starts talking about it to make Betty feel better, in a kind of it’s okay I’m sad and disappointed too way, like feeling her pain but also distracting her from it? Or her talking/starting to cry about Archie brings up similar feelings in him that he’s tried to suppress, but feels comfortable enough with her to finally talk about it. Either way, looove it. It’s so sweet how they’re there for each other. Her reminding him that he isn’t a substitute is ev-er-y-thing. Them checking off all the stuff on her list I loved, because it had a much more real and much more them feel to every activity. That’s also why I liked why it didn’t end with an “actual” kiss, it wasn’t what she was fantasizing about, but gave her a glimpse into what could be. Her slowly realizing the things she’s probably always felt about Jughead but now in a new light is always so lovely to read. The you have a nice smile. Wow. Dead. There was so much cuteness in this, 100% made up for the emotional turmoil.

This was also very funny! Archie’s poison ivy was hilarious. But the Ethel scene killed me (poor Ethel though), I could see it in front of me, his awkward looking at anything else was so freaking funny. Look at these water guns! He also had a lot of great lines. They were both so in character it was fantastic. I love your writing, the descriptions, the way it flows. 

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But Betty keeps hers on his hand. And she doesn’t let go until he’s walked her all the way home.

Bleeeeeeeess

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Jughead’s smile is fleeting, hesitant. “I hope I was an adequate substitute-Archie.”

“You’re not a substitute anything,” Betty says firmly. “You’re Jughead.”

this made me smile so hard aaaaaah, and it is so what he needs to hear and be reminded of. I am now very emotional

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On impulse, she leans forward and kisses him on the cheek. “Thank you for spending the day with me,” she tells him quietly.

aaaaaaaw I like how you did this, I think it’s better than if it had been a real kiss as per her fantasy 

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He swallows. “Yeah. Just…trying not to look down. Or up. Or anywhere, really.”

Betty smiles. “You’re missing a really nice view.”

“I’ve got a pretty nice one right here.”

THIS IS SO FREAKING CHEESY I LOVE IT

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She blinks in surprise when the wheel slows to a stop, leaving her and Jughead rocking gently back and forth in their gondola at the very top.

is it gonna happen?!???

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She anticipates a snarky retort – and how many people have gone plummeting to their deaths in that time, hmm, Betts? – but Jughead just says, faintly, “I know.

Man he must really be scared, it’s cute that she knows exactly what he would say

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Betty pries the fingers of his right hand off of the bar anyway and clasps it between both of her own, resting their entwined hands on her thigh. “It will be fine. The Ferris wheel was invented over one hundred years ago. It’s perfectly safe.”

Aaaaaw. This also kind of reminds me of that the OC episode

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Betty bites her lower lip. “How many tickets do you have left?”

FERRIS WHEEL BABY and the fact that she wants to go there with him really means something aaaah

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Betty watches him for a moment, then lets her eyes drift past him to the sky, where tendrils of pink and orange are beginning to peek out from behind the fluffy white clouds. Today couldn’t have strayed further from what she’d planned, but she feels nothing if not content.

Jughead Jones, it turns out, is a very good date.

This is so so lovely, I love how it’s written.  And also I am internally dying.

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She kicks him lightly under the table, her foot bumping against his ankle. “Someone has to keep the semicolons in check.”

Confession: I have never in my life used a semicolon