BORN TO MAKE HISTORY

Personal and multi-fandom blog! Mostly Yuri!!! On ICE. Jordan, 27, they/them pronouns. open to messages! let's talk!

[moopet]

weird old forgotten tumblr things that I never see included in this sort of list:

ah, the scalene triangle

loving Cole Sprouse

hating Cole Sprouse 

the tons of “social experiment” memes that followed

the first wave of Actual Cannibal Shia LaBaeuf memes from before there was even a video for it

trying to trick “hipster” blogs into reblogging fandom content 

the whole strict dichotomy between fandom and hipster blogs as a whole tbh

“I was here here before MTV!”

12.9 year olds

“what is air” and “my ovaries” 

non-tumblr people were peasants

nice legs daisy dukes

slideshows with comic sans and sometimes making your mom or sibling comment on some cringey show they’d never seen

homestuck

tumblr user pizza (what ever happened to them???)

tumblr user the-vashta-nerada 

Nine In The Afternoon jokes/references all the time??

imagine how is touch the sky

“you tried” stars and all the variations thereupon

do she got the booty?

“can you give me directions to the olive garden?”

night bloggers 

add more help me relive the past 6 years i’ve wasted on this garbage website

[vibinwitch]

Don’t forget: do you love the color of the sky?

[quadheartflip-blog]

This was my era.

[pumpkan]

Me: waiting for any form of public transport

Rain: starts

Some deep dark part of my brain that never forgot the first night vale episode: 👀🕐🚌🌧🌧🕐🕐🚌🌧

[actuallyblind]

Small tip to help some of your blind friends: do not put 10,000 emojis in the middle of a text or a post if you continue to put text after the emojis because I will tell you that I will Straight give up if I have to listen to “face with tears of joy, face with tears of joy, face with tears of joy,” 23 times just to hear the rest of your text or post.

[cowthropologist]

Oh my god, that’s what screen readers say when they read out emojis?? I didn’t realize.. I will change how I write my posts now… My bad…

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

This is good to know. Pretend there are twenty three light bulb emojis indicating sudden understanding following this text.

[drackir]

So the clap hands emoji post would be extra annoying since you can’t just speed read it, damn!

[actuallyblind]

YES. That is one of my least favorite emojis because it’s LONG. It also says skin tone on some, and while that’s AWESOME, if you put 30 prayer hands, I have to hear “hands clasped in celebration with medium dark skin tone” 30 times in full. And even if I use a braille display, it still writes it out in full because there’s no real way to represent them any other way yet, so until someone invents a Braille display with like 10 lines that isn’t astronomically expensive, there’s no easy way to skip over them.

Now, at least with some screen readers, punctuation is a little different and if there are multiple of the same thing it’ll say like “17 exclamation points” instead of saying them all individually, and I wish that update would be made to screen readers to speak emojis in multiples that way… That would be a good solution.

[let-the-spectrum-in]

Is it okay to use emojis sparingly? I don’t ever use a million like that, the most I’d put in a row is probably two different emojis, lol. But I do feel the need to use either emojis or ASCII faces in order to get emotion across in my writing. Which is better for you, a traditional ASCII face like :-) or a newfangled emoji like ☺️? Can your screen reader “translate” things like :-) into “smiling face” or do you just hear “colon dash right parentheses”?

[actuallyblind]

Oh yeah, of course! If you only use one or two in a row that’s totally fine! Don’t feel like you have to just stop using them. They are fun and lots of people like them.

As for emoji versus traditional typed out faces, it doesn’t really matter. It can’t translate most of those faces except for a general smiley face, but I know what the symbols put together mean, though this may be difficult for somebody who is not very well versed in print reading. Most blind kids get taught to recognize both though.

[cowthropologist]

There’s so much good info on this post! I didn’t know any of this. Thanks for making it!!

[brainstatic]

“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”

[jewish-privilege]

Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious. 

(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.

Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”

Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[breezybbb]

I hate the idea that we’ll “understand” when we’re older.

Like no, I will never comprehend your blatant disregard for other people, Diane.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

No, you’re wrong, once you turn 40 you’re so bitter you decide saving a few bucks on your taxes is worth the health and well being of literally millions of your fellow citizens.

[05637-deactivated20190328]

this is all i want for christmas this year

[askduelistyugi]

What…. what is this….

[tachikoma]

A millennium item

[ommanyte]

No… a millennial item

[honestlyyoungpersona]

They say “blonde” because “white” is too obvious

[dont-at-m3]

this is the first time ive EVER heard the phrase “in cold blood” used by a member of the media to describe a police shooting

[longseasons]

me to my mutuals

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

Twilight may be trash but at least they cast actual native americans to play natives

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

The Twilight franchise was basically a great cast all trapped in hell together

[meggtaka]

it’s morphin time!

[scottscranston]

when someone asks me about power rangers

[outtagum]

Power Rangers (2017) character posters

[quadheartflip-blog]

You: there is a gay white character in Beauty and the Beast for about THREE seconds! I'm glad they are representing the LGBT community :')

Me, an intellectual: 4/5 of the power rangers are POC and they're all of different nationalities, there is an autistic black character and a Latina lesbian character and a HOT Asian character who are actually leads and not just there for publicity and a false claim of diversity, the autistic character is loved and not once asked to go out of his comfort zone, they're all teenagers who love and protect each other and also save the world while being huge nerds,

[strawberrypucker]

[astrocyte-deactivated20171202]

cashier: sorry for your wait. we’re short-staffed today

millennial: oh that’s ok no worries :)

 baby boomer:

[tnerdbean]

But listen that’s the thing. 

We are short staffed almost 97% of the time at my retail job. Because corporate has figured out you can overwork 4 people at minimum wage instead of paying for the 8 people you should probably have to be on the clock.  

Baby boomers grew up with stores that were adequately staffed, with workers who most likely had weeks of training for their jobs as opposed to the 1-2 shadow shift training we get now. Also those workers most likely were able to be full time if they wanted. Now retail, except for management positions, is mostly made up of part time workers, because you don’t have to give them benefits. So you have a workforce of perpetually underpaid, overwhelmed, undertrained people trying to do their best all while dealing with an entire generation of people who refuse to acknowledge that the system has changed and the average retail worker has NO control over that change and is being taken advantage of.

Like we got our customer surveys back, and almost every single one mentioned that they couldn’t find someone to help them or we needed more people on register because it was TOO SLOW, but what did management tell us instead of scheduling more people? We need to be quicker on register and call for backup if necessary. Which makes no sense because we can’t call for backup THAT ISN’T THERE.

[guiltyfandoms]

Y'all my parents haven’t worked retail since the 70s and they absolutely never believe me about the things that happen at work. I explain the schedule for next week gets hung up on the Friday before and they scoff and go “well when i worked at X they had it a month up your manager is just lazy.” No mom, its company policy to only do “two weeks” in advance. They won’t give you a full month’s scheduling in advance cause it let’s you plan for a world outside of work. Or about the hours, workload or anything. They just assume its an individual’s failing instead of corporate mandate. Or, if they do believe me (that its company policy) they call it ridiculous and point out some survey that argues its Good Business to do (insert decent thing here).As if they think the higher ups don’t know this and are simply ignorant of Good Business Practices. They don’t understand that retail has completely shifted from caring about its employees to squeezing out every penny now instead of investing it for later.

Cause that isn’t how it was when they worked and they just can’t seem to see otherwise.

[nightworldlove]

   I think there should be a ‘bring-your-parent-to-work-day’ instead of ‘bring-your-kid-to-work-day’, it would shock so many parents and would probably make them finally realize how much retail indeed has changed in the US.

[poutine-existentielle]

when i first got hired as a cashier, my manager who had been doing that since she was like 17 in 1975 told me that back in The Days, when you were hired as a cashier in a grocery store it was a) a well paid job & you could get full time work easily b) a respected career choice c) the store closed at 6pm and was closed on Sundays so the hours were a lot more pleasant d) they made you go to cashier school for 2 weeks, which was basically a fake grocery store and you just learned the trade completely before even meeting a customer now its like : you get like 20 hours a week, bullshit shifts like 3:45 to 10:15, a 20 minutes training before being thrown to the wolves, customers tell you you deserve your shitty lowlife job as soon as you don’t thoroughly kiss their ass

[millennialsargueback]

The millennial experience is tied to growing income inequality and the indentured servitude of student loan debt

[idiomsir]

sorry i just had to bold this part: 

They just assume its an individual’s failing instead of corporate mandate. Or, if they do believe me (that its company policy) they call it ridiculous and point out some survey that argues its Good Business to do (insert decent thing here).As if they think the higher ups don’t know this and are simply ignorant of Good Business Practices. They don’t understand that retail has completely shifted from caring about its employees to squeezing out every penny now instead of investing it for later.

I think people who don’t work retail have no idea how much employers/managers don’t give a flying fuck.  We’re not humans to them, we’re assets. And I have a reasonably cool manager, too, and I don’t hateˆmy job- but it’s draining and infuriating, and sometimes downright painful (hello lunch break 2 hours into a 10 hour shift). 

And I can’t “complain” to anyone or suggest my managers practice Good Business Practices because 1) they know, they don’t give a fuck (or CAN’T change), and 2) i’d get fired. That’s the facts. 

[cryptidbitch-deactivated2017080]

“u kno what, bro?” “what?” “if i were a cat, i’d spend all 9 lives with u” *clutches heart* “… bro”

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

we have the technology to turn salt water into potable water and we don’t use it

we have the technology to have unlimited solar energy and we don’t use it

we have the technology to turn the Sahara desert into farm land and we don’t use it

capitalism get on my damn nerves