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12 months. 365 days. and WHAT a year it’s been. jensen’s deafening silence on the finale, a rogue spanish dub actor doing a better job of writing the script than literally anyone at the cw, misha “it was a homosexual declaration of love” collins, jackles letting slip he recorded the entire confession so he could watch him and misha together again and again whenever he wants, the increasingly messy jivorce, misha posting a photo of himself in jensen’s bed on the last day of pride month, destiel trending worldwide every time misha or jensen so much as breathe on twitter, misha using justin bieber to wish jensen happy birthday (again), jensen’s inexplicable decision to write a show about john fucking winchester, et tu brute, jensen calling misha “babe” live in front of thousands of people, misha publishing poems suggesting jensen has kissed him, confirmation that questions about destiel are being censored at cons, misha posting a celebratory tweet for destiel hitting 100k fanfics on ao3 in which he confirms he likes to top. i mean. just. what a fucking year.

#destiel #seriously what the fuck

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#stray kids #hwang hyunjin

billiewena

“And here we were thinking that, you know, we were teaching you and all this time you were teaching us, about heart, about dedication, and about how gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day.”

- SPN 3x13 Ghostfacers

ONE YEAR SINCE NOV 5TH, 2020 as summed up by Supernatural

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nangong-shunu

can't just tweet this and not put it on the supernatural website

pantlesshero

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a tweet by @ sunlit_sky "Megan" that reads:

happy homophobically canon destiel eve everyone, remember to set out your beat-up old work boot tonight for the one night a year when Castiel is let out of turbo hell to deliver gifts to all the good gay children

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sailorcuba

the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u

arborealgargoyle

like, that is a very unspecific response I still have no idea what you want but I applaud how adorably you meowed all the same, well done

arborealgargoyle

This post led me to reminisce on the nature of cat’s meowing, and I have a funny story

I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human interaction. I was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didn’t meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kittens when their vocal chords/ears aren’t fully developed, adult cats communicate with vocalizations that aren’t audible to humans. She probably tried making noises I couldn’t hear to call me but ended up sticking to the one I always responded to- a horrible yowling growl that she had made at me when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didn’t want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way.

Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to me, long story short I gained their trust and put them in this big pen, that I had previously used to keep chickens in, so they’d be safe and to keep her from having another litter. Except she was already secretly pregnant again! (Fix your pets, guys, they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. I’d be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind me and I’d immediately answer them and give them love, teaching them that humans could be friends that answer their needs- making them adoptable once they were weaned. Mama cat (Artie) would just watch me play with them, and I guess she was doing some thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused because I hadn’t realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasn’t. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way I always did with the kittens “yes baby?” And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After that she would.not.shut.up. It was like she had cracked some kind of code, meowing for attention and snacks and just to say hi. Her two older kittens, the ones she’d had in the forest, had never meowed at me either but started to once they saw how I responded to their mom. and I find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because that’s the best way to get a human’s attention.

Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesn’t seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And I’m a baby give me love!

onetwistedmiracle

TIL that the maximum number of photos in a post like this is 10.

puppybytes

Babe you reblogged it from me, a dutch, with that said:

ms-demeanor

On your jerky post one of your comments is about the chipped key in cars being... unreasonably priced. Is there a legal "I own it so I changed it" way around those?

I own it so I can do whatever the fuck I want to it. So whatever I do to it is legal, Toyota has no right to determine what kinds of keys I use or where I get them from. And even if it did, fuck them.

I’m going to order two unprogrammed keys from the internet and take them to a good locksmith and have them cut and I’m going to follow the instructions either in this article or in the Haynes manual that I ordered to program the other fobs.

And then I’m going to pry out the fucking transponder chip from one of those keys and superglue it to the casing on my steering column so that if I need more keys cut I can just have them cut from metal blanks.

And hopefully that whole process will cost me around $100 instead of the NEARLY FIVE FUCKING HUNDRED DOLLARS the dealership quoted me for ONE key.

“I can come down as low as one eighty on the key” “Oh, it’s a good thing you already have a programmed key because programming it is an additional hundred dollar fee”

You motherfucker “programming” consists of unlocking the key and fiddle-fucking around with the ignition for less than a minute, this is a ten-year-old used car that I bought because I’m fucking broke.

This is part of why I’m so against “smart” technologies - they largely aren’t used to help the consumer, they’re used to apply DRM access rules to the physical world that we interact with.

This transponder thing is supposed to be an anti-theft measure but I’m guessing if you looked at the history of how many car thefts the transponder has prevented versus how many replacement keys users got up-charged FIVE FUCKING HUNDRED DOLLARS for I’m thinking that Toyota comes out way, way ahead of where the car thieves would have in terms of profit.

You know what’s an anti-theft measure that works to prevent your vehicle from getting stolen but doesn’t cost five fucking hundred dollars? A steering wheel lock. You know what’s even better if you’re paranoid? A battery disconnect.

This is the same kind of aggro I get about chipped print cartridges and proprietary water filters for refrigerators and shit. No. Fuck you, motherfuckers. Not today, satan.

I AM ALSO ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE WITH ENOUGH ACCESS TO MACHINE TOOLS AND ENOUGH FAMILIARITY WITH REWIRING SHIT THAT I WILL STRAIGHT UP REPLACE IT. FUCK YOU TOYOTA, I’VE GOT A SATURN HANDY THAT’S ONLY GOOD FOR PARTS I WILL REPLACE THE WHOLE FUCKING CYLINDER, YOU MANKY DIPSHITS.

ms-demeanor

I know a guy whose Jeep was an unholy abomination that combined a corvette and a ford windstar with an XJ. I have done an ABS deletion and removed a wiper fluid reservoir to put in an aftermarket master cylinder so the brakes worked better. I have helped to put a Ford Bronco radiator into a Mazda truck.

Fuck your fucking transponder ignition lock bullshit.

Also my friends, I cannot tell you enough that it is worthwhile to learn how to fix computers or work on cars or fix your appliances. Once you know how much it really costs to do these things, or you know how to diagnose a problem, or you know how to PREVENT a problem you are never solely at the mercy of this bullshit ever again.

There are very few ways that I could fuck up this repair and have it cost MORE to have a more experienced mechanic fix than the dealer quoted me for ONE FUCKING KEY, so there’s no incentive for me to pay the dealer that much for one fucking key.

ms-demeanor

I’m reclaiming RTFM from shitty IT departments and recycling it as a call to revolution.

Read the manual!

DIY or die!

(like obviously I get that a lot of people don’t have the physical ability or the experience to do a lot of their own repairs but the point is that you should be able to repair your possessions within your own community without having to rely on the original manufacturer to keep it running and keep charging you money; you may not be able to repair your car but if your sister physically can and has the experience anything that prevents her from repairing your car through the use of arbitrary proprietary tools, batteries, microchips, or fucking iphone cables, should be resisted)

cmdrwilkens

Just upping this for the RTFM bit but also:

This applies to appliances. Have a dishwasher that suddenly stops working/ A fridge on the fritz, dryer that is leaving things wet? Chances are its either a $10 fuse that’s busted or AT WORST the main circuit board running the dang thing frying out…but here’s the thing all those parts are out there waiting to be ordered and used by you the consumer. An appliance repair tech is gonna charge you $100 minimum just to come out and look at what’s wrong before they order that $10 part and charge you $50 for it plus labor. I’ve had three different fridges break on me, twice it was the main circuit board and for $50-60 and a little time with the manual I had a working fridge again. Read the manual, get familiar with using tools to get at things and don’t be afraid to try.

discoursedrome

I’m curious: how do you tell what’s busted with appliances? With computers my primary approach if diagnostic software fails is “try to swap out the part for a different part of the same type”. which isn’t really feasible if you’re ordering fridge bits off the internet I guess

ms-demeanor

You know how when you’re tracking down a computer problem you sometimes find someone who had the exact same unanswered question posted on a forum in 2013?

Yeah, that generally doesn’t happen with appliances. It’s staggeringly easy to find instructions on how to replace your car’s radiator or the compressor for your fridge compared to how easy it is to debug and track down computer issues.

Also because they’re much, much simpler machines there’s a lot less that can go wrong. There are only, like, ten ways a washing machine can fail and they’re all pretty distinct compared to the infinite identical ways computers can fail with infinite different solutions you need to test.

It’s the difference between printer repair and printer networking: both suck but at least you can probably narrow down the physical source of a problem fairly easily because it’s probably rollers or the fuser since there’s just not that much else that it could be.

ms-demeanor

Actually you know what, here’s an answer that is more directly an answer: you figure out what’s wrong with appliances by getting good at following leaks to their source and getting good at figuring out why a machine would make a particular sound.

I’ll use my car as an example: when i stop the car but keep it running there’s a loud rattle. It’s more of a fwap sound than a clang sound so it’s more likely to be a plastic part hitting things than a metal part. In my engine the parts of the car that are plastic and that move at least a little bit are a hose that comes out of the air box, parts of the A/C system, and my radiator fan. Since the sound varies with RPMs (which you can tell by the variable frequency of the fwapping as the car idles) it’s probably not coming from the airbox and since it’s loud enough to hear over the engine noise it’s probably not the A/C.

So I go search “radiator fan rattle when stopped 2010 Yaris” and lo and behold there’s an official Toyota PDF on how to stop a cable from rattling in the engine because it sounds exactly like a broken radiator fan. The fix for that is five minutes and a cable tie so I will try that before anything else.

Did the hum your refrigerator makes change in pitch? Maybe there’s more pressure in the system somewhere, perhaps something needs to be cleaned or a filter replaced. Is your washer clonking? Make sure none of the internal plastic bits have cracked.

Is your car kind of doing a rattling purr thing that sounds like a quiet horse with a weird gait? Check your oil (this is more complicated with cars because cars have a lot more moving parts that can fail a lot more excitingly than a dish washer).

There’s also an order of operations to repair options? Like you’re trying to find the best possible combination of cheap, easy, and effective so if something is the LIKELY cause of a problem but it’s expensive and difficult to fix (say, replacing your master cylinder) and there’s another possible issue that’s somewhat less likely to be the problem but is easy and cheap (say, replacing your brake pads) you do the cheap, easy thing first and see if that solves the problem before you escalate.

That varies based on likelihood of a thing being the problem (no matter how cheap and easy it is to replace an O2 sensor that’s not going to fix a leaking hose.)

ms-demeanor

This is getting reblogged again and GOOD.

#useful stuff

davidfosterwallaceandgromit

loveletterworm

perplexed by this post because the heritage-post blog here is not the heritageposts (plural, without a hyphen) blog people would assume it is, and the date it’s giving is incorrect, but the date it gives isn’t wrong enough to be funny and also this post wouldn’t be especially odd for the normal heritageposts to reblog because it is quite old anyways. so i am not completely sure what was being gone for here. Anyway this is probably why tumblr should have more obvious built in timestamps because now a bunch of people think the spiders georg post was made like half a month before it actually was

loveletterworm

this heritage-post blog is quite baffling because it does reblog old posts but i guess the “joke” is it just. doesn’t care what date they were made and makes one up on it’s own, because it reblogs multiple posts where the original post is deleted (thus the date of origin is lost) and gives a specific date on those, and when it does reblog posts where the op is intact it gets the date wrong by up to 3 years

there is literally not a single correct date on their blog it’s always off by at least a couple months

but like the posts it reblogs are like still pretty old in the first place so there’s not really any joke to giving them a slightly wrong date of origin. they’re just kind of doing this. bizarre

loveletterworm

they identify a post from THIS YEAR as being from 2018

but again like not a wrong enough date to be funny?? not a day that would have any real significance to the post (the ban the post is about went into question on december 17th, not the 28th) they just kind of went “Ok now i’ve decided this post from april is actually from like 3 years ago. Laugh(?)” Is their goal laughter? Try as i might i cannot discern what the joke is

c0rpseductor

im so glad somebody noticed this blog because i got this bizarre DM from them like months ago and couldnt for the life of me figure it out

loveletterworm

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roboco-san

the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth