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arrghigiveup

TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).

Bonus:

drst

These are my people.

petermorwood

Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.

In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…

…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…

…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.

In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.

The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.

The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…

And of course the Save icon is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.

Why it wasn’t a 5¼ floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.

Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.

Graphics and terminology are funny things.

nehirose

reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.

porcupine-girl

I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.

catgirlforeskin

skeumorphism my beloved

bizships

It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.

redcurlzbychoice

And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)

nifftyisgonnakillu

AWEEE

habken

what did they do!

wei-yiing

oh my god i found this on the mdzs reddit

yibo-wang

Wei Wuxian suddenly murmured, '… Lan Zhan.' He reached out and grabbed one of Lan Wangji’s sleeves. Lan Wangji had always been beside him. He immediately bent down and whispered, 'I am here.'

⤷ʟᴀɴ ᴢʜᴀɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴇɪ ʏɪɴɢ|ᴇᴘɪꜱᴏᴅᴇ 46

letsmakeitwritee

cliché but classic trope: when the person who almost died wakes up in a hospital bed, looks around and sees the object of their affection sleeping uncomfortably in the chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days.

i-dont-use-my-main-anymore

You can pry that trope from my cold dead hands.

insertnerdyjokehere

cliché but classic sub trope of this: the person who almost died tells the object of their affection “you look like shit” despite the fact that they are the one in the hospital bed and almost died.

thundergrace

Oh my God! 😭 You dropped this queen 👑

thundergrace

To think I thought I knew what ethereal beauty was before now. Laughable.

lymeandcoconut

she’s so beautiful i had to include a few more photos

modernsuperhero

angelofthequeers

HSUFKXJSJSJDJE WHAT A PRINCESS

sarahseeandersen

lostsometime

i had a very illuminating conversation with a guy about 10 years younger than me that really put this change into perspective, which is this:

i have a very distinct memory, in my childhood, of the moment of my disillusionment. i believed that grown-ups knew what they were doing, and that the things that seemed so obvious to me had to be obvious to them, too (things like DON’T GO TO WAR IN IRAQ, for example). i believed that, and had that belief pulled out from under me, so my disillusionment comes with a sense of betrayal.

a mere 10 years younger than me, this guy has no such moment or memory. he never believed grown-ups were fundamentally competent, or good, or reasonable. he never lived in a world where things didn’t feel constantly careening wildly out of control. there’s no betrayal in his sense that the government has failed him - of course it has, it was always going to. he doesn’t remember a time pre-bush, or pre-9/11, or pre-iraq war. this is just what the world has always looked like for him. so it’s not really a sense of “disillusionment,” actually - his generation never had any illusions to lose. they’ve just been in this world so long it’s all they’ve ever known.

randomishnickname

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

inimitably-ineffable

Not to mention the plot tropes.

“I don’t think the Highschool AU is going to come in too strong this year. Fandoms a touch jaded for that. But the hurt/comfort is growin’ thick as weeds and twice as fast. It’ll be a good harvest, fer sure.”

mx-incognito

@cynaram

cynaram

“I hear over at [neighbouring fandom] they’re putting the top field into fix-it fics.”

“Yes, ‘twould be. They had a hard season last year, a right hard season.”

jedthewolfdog

Crowley, who has no idea how bookshops work because he’s never been in one, tosses something over. “A little present. Congrats on the shop.”

Aziraphale huffs as he catches it, not expecting it to be so heavy. He delights as he tears off the paper, no matter that he’s a little nervous. “Crowley…” His voice is slow, cautious. “What is this?”

“A present,” Crowley says again.

“No, I understand that.” Aziraphale tries to find the most delicate way to phrase it. “I’m a little rusty, but if I didn’t know better, I’d think this is an original tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Which is an absurd thought, because that’s clearly something you don’t have.”

“Is that …” He blinks, all innocence. “Not the kind of thing that goes in bookshops?”

“Where did you get this? Did you steal it?”

Crowley puts a hand over his chest. “I’m hurt.”

“I’m serious, Crowley. Did you take this from a museum?”

Both Crowley and Aziraphale had taken credit for museums with their respective organizations.

“What, do you want me to put it back?” He holds a hand out, fingers wagging.

Aziraphale pulls it against his chest. “No. No, I just …” He clears his throat. “No. I’m keeping it.”

Crowley nods, playing it cool. Partly because he is cool, and partly because he doesn’t want the angel to know he’s been holding onto it for over a thousand years now, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to give it to him.

It would just go straight to his head.

businessboybrick

A Star Trek idea: A comedy sitcom where instead of a Vulcan on a mostly human ship it is a human on a mostly Vulcan ship

hanasheralhaminail

All the Vulcans are fiercely protective of the ‘fragile, illogical, prone-to-danger, smart, reckless little human’.

To make the human feel more accepted (as it is only logical) the Vulcans try to include aspects of terran culture in the ship’s day-to-day life, failing spectacularly at it.

The human loves them even more for it.

southerndrawlinmypants

They’ll get better at celebrating the human’s birthday next year. It’s the thought that counts.

sergle

@jvlianbashir THAT’S A GOOD END TO THAT EPISODE THOUGH… the vulcans put together awful, bland decorations. they make a cake because it’s of “significant importance”. they go through the process of putting together this party and Studying this Human Ritual and the entire episode is setting up to what you KNOW will be a horrible result. they do a bad job!! then when the human’s birthday comes, and they reveal the off-the-mark, underwhelming looking birthday bash, the human just. starts crying. because they had no idea their crew would go through all this trouble to celebrate their birthday, and even put up DECORATIONS, or make a CAKE, and there’s a birthday card with extremely polite impersonal messages written and a hundred perfectly tidy signatures. and the vulcans are just standing around like “you appear upset. the Birthday Party was unsatisfactory”.

rumshop

I would watch the fuck out of that

“Humans require regular physical contact to remain healthy. We have a weekly rotation for The Daily Shoulder Pat. Please inform us if this is insufficient contact, either in frequency, magnitude, or duration.”

carmineeyes

Okay, I reblogged this because of how adorable it is, but then I started picturing McCoy as the sole human.

regardstosoulandromance

twitter user @ likewatercress speaks the truth

maculategiraffe

me, reaching into my dresser drawer for black pants: I hope this isn’t the pair with big holes worn in the inner thighs

Marie Kondo, gently over my shoulder: why is a pair of pants you find unwearable still in your dresser drawer

me: oh shit that’s right!! The dresser is for clothes that under some circumstance I might conceivably wear!!

Marie Kondo, beaming proudly: Yes, that’s correct!! These pants must have been your favorites. How wonderful that they were so comfortable and practical that you wore them out. But now since they no longer function as pants, you should move them from the drawer where you keep your functioning pants!

me: Yes thanks I got it they’re in the fabric basket now

Marie Kondo, fading back into the darkness: I love what you’ve done with the kitchen!!

cwicseolfor

The notion of KonMari as some creepy semi-embodied but entirely benevolent spirit, like a well-intentioned Bloody Mary, is so perfect and wonderful.

wintersoldierfell

hot take pride and prejudice isn’t a story about two people who hate each other getting married despite their hate. pride and prejudice is a story about a rich, privileged guy getting called on his privilege and toxic masculinity by the woman he admires and then actually listening to her, taking steps to correct his own toxic masculine behavior, and using his wealth and privilege to rectify the “missing stair” problem he caused by allowing a predator to operate unchecked in his community. he specifically takes action, pays money, and does work without asking for credit or using it to point-score, because he realizes that his job as a privileged person is to protect vulnerable people, especially women. and THAT is what changes his crush’s mind about him, because he does the work and becomes a person she can respect, love, and be proud of. thanks for coming to my TED talk

cchellacat

I have never heard the plot and message of P&P articulated so accurately. We wonder why Austen is still so relevant today and Pride and Prejudice has always enjoyed such consistent appeal, this is it, this is why!

feelsforsterek

roo-bastmoon

Not even in this fandom, but quality like this deserves to be reblogged.

chunkecheeks

I was going to make a joke about how people tell their hairdressers so many personal details that I wouldnt be surprised if someone confessed to murder while I was styling their hair but then I remembered that was an actual thing that happened when I was in cosmetology school

chunkecheeks

SO when I was in cosmetology school i was in the breakroom and I was telling everyone back there about how my client had just told me about how her dead husband’s head was found at the airport along with 63 other human heads (that’s a story for another day) and everyone started swapping stories about weird things that their client had told them

and then this one girl pipes up and is like “Yeah my client told me about how she killed her husband once.” and we were like EXCUSE ME??? WHAT? and she was like “yeah apparently her husband was coming at her with a knife and she managed to get it away from him and stabbed him like three times”

according to the teachers she had A. told that story to at least three other students in the time she had been coming there and B. It was ruled as self defense so it’s not like she was a criminal who was on the run

witch-apologist

Okay but tell us the human heads story

laurajameskinney

op can we PLEASE have the human heads story

chunkecheeks

OKAY so this one I actually have a lot more context for because it was a firsthand experience buckle the fuck in

So I get this client, she’s an older lady so it was a color retouch and a trim and I was like okay I do this all the time this is gonna be just a super routine and mundane day. So I’m chatting with her just like usual small talk stuff like asking how her day is going and stuff and at some point she says: “I’m actually going to be in the newspaper tomorrow so I needed to get this done so I look good when they take my picture.”

So I’m like “Oh that’s nice! I hope you have fun!” and she goes “It’s not going to be fun, it’s because of a court case. I’m seeking legal action against a funeral home because they stole my husband’s body.” She’s saying this is the most casual tone ever and let me tell you, when someone you don’t know drops information like that on you, it’s the weirdest situation ever

I have NO idea how I’m supposed to react properly to that so I’m just saying “Oh no that’s so terrible!” and she keeps on going

“Yeah his head was found at an airport with 63 other human heads. they removed some of his body parts before they cremated him and sold them illegally. They were using his head at a dental convention in some other country.”

That was the strangest thing a client had ever decided to share with me and i’ve been continuously googling that shit trying desperately to find what she was interviewed for but there’s nothing and I can’t figure out if it’s weirder that she may have lied to me about this crazy story or if it actually happened and she decided to tell a student hairdresser she never met the entire story without being prompted

daniel-oneiroi

y’all it fucking happened

culturistjack-deactivated201804

I'd very much like to punch a feminist.

I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist. It’d bring me great joy.

olisaurusrex

I’m 6’2 and weigh 180lbs

ready when you are

thattallsummonerguy

Or if you’d like to have some more options….

I’m 6’4” 228 pounds and have 9 years of combined martial arts training and 3 years of being a Line Backer in football. Just in case you are looking for variety.