Because, Reasons

Wordsmith, gamer, equestrian. Celtic-flavored Pagan of over 20 years. Biromantic asexual. Lives with 1 husband, 20+ arcade machines, 3 snakes, and a chaos gremlin. She/they. Filter #snake if you don't want to see the, well, snakes.

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

[stevishabitat]

[mandate-transgenderism]

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[screaming-at-the-wailing-void]

In the 2010s I read a weekly column sporking bad fanfiction. I'm glad the practice is no longer in vogue as far as I'm aware, but it did successfully make me aware of some of the most disgusting things I'm aware of. And I was laughing, because the articles were pretty well written, if distinctly of the time. I honestly think it's why I'm so close to immune to disgust at fetishes and kinks, and why any time someone tries to talk about like. Age gaps in popular ships as pedophilia, or 50 shades as the worst depiction of bdsm. I just smile and crack up on the inside.

I promise, it's fine. Whatever people are calling degenerate, or claiming will destroy society, you're still in the lobby displays. There's a whole library and the stacks contain multitudes. Relax, read something else, learn to analyze what you don't like honestly instead of being grossed out. It makes the world a better place

[sobcat]

people who do a PhD are running from something

[petits-pois-carcinogenic]

the job market

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[dduane]

The best "online-ageism" rebuttal I think I've ever seen

Check this out.

...Gotta adapt this for myself to include CompuServe and Fidonet. :)

[doomhamster]

Reblogging for "I have usernames older than you".

[vaspider]

This username is older than a lot of people on Tumblr. I've been vaspider online since 1998.

My username can not only vote and drink, that bitch can rent a fucking car.

[scenerwiththegreenery]

i got my first hotmail account in 1999. one of the usernames i still use (not on tumblr dear god) i've had since i started going on chatrooms made with iframes in 2001. it's a word i got from the dictionary, which was a physical object in my home that i frequently referenced.

i see kids being like "why are you still here?" like man this is where i've always been? i was here for IRC and AIM and Windows/MSN Messenger. i was here for dialup and desktop PCs that lived in cabinet-like desks. i had a GeoCities website before my school friends had email.

my dad worked for IBM, but he also taught me piracy before it was commonplace. i learned how to download music and burn it to CD, which took over my prior hobby of recording songs on cassette from the radio to make mixtapes. i had photoshop 7 which you could pirate with a keygen, and i made covers for my mixes.

so no, actually, i think i'll fuckin stay, thanks

[skelotan]

As soon as the pearly gates close he'll come back and ask them to be open again

PATREON

[lizardlicks]

Hey, quick PSA for young or otherwise inexperienced fic writers:

"*****smut marked with asterisks so you can skip!*****""

Don't. Don't do this.

You let readers know what your fic contains through proper tagging and rating. Content warning notes at the top of the chatter are also great. You can even summarize key "this is the plot relevant stuff you missed of you're skipping this chapter" notes at the bottom too! This is a much smoother reading experience.

This is HELL on screen readers which is a disability access issue. Screen readers will read out every single asterisk you put, which I have seen done as entire page breaks. It's an awful reading experience. Please just don't.

Readers do not need their hands held through the reading experience. If they're enjoying the fic but don't care for smut, they can just skim until it gets interesting again. If they REALLY don't like smut, you warned them. There's a back button. You don't have to do a special song and dance isolating out the specific parts you think might be "icky". (If you think those bits are icky and don't like writing them, consider just don't! Fanfic is a hobby we do for fun and you don't have to write anything you don't find enjoyable. There's plenty of readers for gen fic and smut free ship fic).

If someone reads something they don't like then gets mad at you, block em. They need to be responsible for their own choices. It's not your job to please everyone. Your job as a fic writer of his to tell an entertaining and engaging story. (The reverse is true for a reader that demands smut or says it would "improve" the fic but that's not the story you're trying to tell. Block button is your friend!)

[muffinlance]

This is also super common in scene breaks.

Please, please don't try to span the entire page with whatever symbol you're using for your scene breaks. It takes an eternity for screen years to get through, and typically has me noping out of even the most interesting stores.

Instead, use just three (or fewer) make. Three is standard, and does the job without making your story unreadable.

In general: please, think of the screen readers.

[vivaciouscynner]

as a person whose only good trait is their eyes, this has eluded me until i was tasked to test websites with a screen reader.

It is hell

It is absolute hell

From navigation to listening to the voices

It's just awful

Since then I've tried to write with screen readers in mind because the number of websites that think about accessibility is SO SO SMALL

If you don't believe me, use NVDA which is a free accessibility tool. Otherwise you have to spend thousands of dollars for a slightly better one. Then try to navigate a website.

So yeah, listen to the above posts

[kactusnz]

read this post and then got up to do some stuff around the house, and caught myself doing the text to speech voice saying "Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk."

[secondlina]

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[feralkitten420]

"You need to relax"

Best I can do is dissociate

[lizardho]

I’m reading a book on biofeedback trainings right now and they talk about this. The words “try” or “need” add pressure to stuff. Sometimes switching from “I need to calm down” or “I’m trying to slow my breathing” to “I’m allowing myself to calm down a little more with each exhale” or “I’m giving myself permission to slow my breathing” can be more helpful. There’s a difference between “try to relax the muscle” and “allow the muscle to soften” that is significant enough that for some people it can totally change the outcome of a relaxation exercise.

For other tips and tricks, instead of asking “why” you can’t change a thought/feeling (why being an offensive question, meaning it forces you to respond defensively - in this case defending the emotion you don’t like) you can ask “is there any leeway or wiggle room with this feeling/thought/belief for something else?” Oftentimes we know multiple things at once, and by allowing for a small amount of ambiguity we can start to accept the situation more fully.

[ashenmind]

What is the deal with electrons?

anon, I have two degrees in “what is the deal with electrons”

[ashenmind]

free-spirited to an enviable degree

[natalieironside]

I love it when ppl who listen to a lot of country do the whole "rap music is bad because of Crime and Drug" thing cuz listen Brantleigh not 5 minutes ago you and me was joyously singing along to Steve Earle talking about defending his weed farm from the cops by blowing them up with improvised explosive devices so I think u might just be racist

[bat-in-the-machine]

Okay look you're right and also this is a very good example but now I have Copperhead Road stuck in my head. :/

[natalieironside]

That's like saying it's great to go outside in the late afternoon "but" you "have to" see the sunset

[natalieironside]

For the uninitiated:

[ruckuscauser]

gahdamn this rips

🗣️BETTER STAY AWAY FROM COPPERHEAD ROAD🗣️

[failure-to-adult]

I remembered the moonshine bit but for some reason had completely forgot the bit about the guy coming back from Vietnam to start a drug farm and fighting the DEA with guerilla tactics he learned from the VC.

Damn.

[niknak79]

[odysseusyes]

even with those four numbers there are countless possible combinations good luck with figuring out which one is the right one you punk

[eatsleepcrap]

*straightens calculator*

It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:

n!/(n-4)! possible orders. As ‘n’ is 4 (number of digits available). 4!/0! which becomes 4x3x2x1/1 which simplifies to 24. That means that there are 24 possible combinations of codes. This would take you about two or three minutes to input all possible codes.

[crashingsunlight]

Unless an alarm goes off if you don’t get it right in 3 tries

[eatsleepcrap]

*straightens calculator again*

Kick the fucking door in

[the-brave-little-blogger]

well ‘technically’ the code is most likley 1970. statistically, a majority of people, when told to choose a 4 digit code will choose their birth year. and this key pad is obviously a few years old to put it nicely, thats most likley it. 

[everyonesfavoriteging-blog]

some sherlock holmes shit just went down over here

[the-neon-pineapple]

No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.

Sherlock out.

[perks-of-being-chinese]

woah.

[panicrobot]

it got better

[twistedthicket1-deactivated2022]

and this is why the sherlock fandom could either rule the world or end it….

[ofthefantastic]

Close, but not quite, I think. People will almost always choose a number they can remember. What’s memorable about 0791? Try 0719 - a birthday, 19th of July. That is more likely.

[venatrix26]

Those deductions are great and all, but unnecessary.

The light is green.

The door is already open.

[party-gilmore]

And that’s why we have a John Watson.

[lotrlocked]

This is “top 10 favorite posts” level.

[moriartyfortheevening]

Omg, it’s actually on my dash! This post is like a fossil!

[oriocookie]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[kedreeva]

someone found a dollar this morning

[arizonaleroy-deactivated2026020]

Nobody said it was some sort of good luck money bird, but I'm not taking any chances.

[kedreeva]

*I* didn't say it, but

it may have been mentioned

[middle-eastern-queen]

The Met Gala is literally our version of the Hunger Games. The elite play dress up while them and their elite circle of rich friends with powerful connections blow up children overseas.

[brehaaorgana]

The met gala singlehandedly funds the nonprofit Costume Institute within the Met Museum for the entire year. The costume institute has to fund itself and does not get funding from the rest of the met.

The money raised by the gala goes towards a collection that spans over 33,000 objects and seven centuries.

It is actually nothing like the hunger games because no one is fighting each other to the death at the gala, and also because it's a massive charity fundraiser for the preservation of history.

[captain-acab]

Fellas is it a fascist dystopia for *checks notes* wealthy people do philanthropy to fund a history museum and showcase contemporary art?

[thelatestkate]

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[pmamtraveller]

"Fat Tiger" by "Uncle Bum" (不二馬大叔).

[hollow-head]

"who do you self insert as when you read?"

This is me when I read:

[desolationlesbian]

sometimes I think too hard about like. how the ability to record audio fundamentally changed how humans interact with music. can you imagine if the only time you ever heard music in your whole life was when you or another human being in your actual physical presence decided to create it. and 99.99% of the time that person was not a professional but just like your wife or your dad or your co-worker or church choir singing or playing whatever they happened to know. i honestly don't think we can fathom it

[desolationlesbian]

Everyone on this post making nonsense "WAH it must have been BETTER back then" comments is ridiculous. I have 24/7 instant high-quality access to Carly Rae Jepsen's entire catalog. Go listen to Cut To The Feeling and appreciate that miracle or get off my post.