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[lustik]

Islands by Yvan Duque.

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[marionbulot]

Dragon and Flame For CD Challenge !

[nevver]

Vanishing point, Oleksandr Shatokhin

[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.

[elodieunderglass]

Typewriters are a very physical/manual machine.

When you press a key, the stamp punches forward, usually with a lowercase letter in the right position to hit the tape. To access the capital letters, you need to Shift the position of the metal stamps downwards, so the capital letter strikes the tape and the lowercase letter misses. Pressing the Shift key is like changing gears! Sometimes engaging the Shift even makes a mechanical CHUNK.

On some typewriters, Shifting shifts the whole mass of the typebars. On others you Shift the mass of the carriage. Either way, it involves juggling a piece of mass while typing with the other hand (which is why you have a Shift key on each side of the keyboard - on typewriters these are joined together by the same mechanism). Even though either hand can engage the Shift, it still takes that hand out of typing work, and it only works for a few capital letters at a time.

Shift Lock on a typewriter is a little mechanical lock that physically holds the mechanism into the Shifted position. It’s a great little buddy, and you can find yourself getting fond of it.

[slavetomyheadcanon]

I love shit like this. Thank you tumblr for learning me a thing today.

[speciesofleastconcern]

[morrak]

My first biology professor had an ‘inadequacy drawer’ full of things to remind him he wasn’t, in fact, the dumbest and laziest person to ever exist. It was mostly Darwin, notably these two bits:

‘But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.’

‘I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids and today I hate them worse than everything.’

[funkyness]

“I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired: I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”

-Charles Darwin on a letter to his cousin

[rhube]

Charles Darwin: unexpected depression hero.

[sophiamcdougall]

I knew about “I am very poorly and very stupid and hate everybody and everything,” but not the others. 

“I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees” is A Mood.

[anima-beata]

My favorite Darwinism: “I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects”.  Hits me right at the center of my hyperfixated soul.

[moulinrouqes]

HAMILTON (2020) dir. Thomas Kail

[scimitar-and-longsword]

💢✨ A Tale of Two Headbutts ✨💢

[expressions-of-nature]

by Fabrizio Conti

[cortexiphanolivia]

Here’s some fun facts about one of my favorite stories being told in Hamilton: this is Ariana Debose, who plays a special role within the ensemble known as The Bullet. She’s killed for suspected espionage right after You’ll Be Back, and is the first one to die (not counting Hamilton’s mother or cousin who hangs himself). After this moment, she becomes an omen of death. At the beginning of Stay Alive, she carries a shot that narrowly avoids hitting Hamilton. In Yorktown, she helps Laurens kill a redcoat, shakes his hand, then Laurens is the next to die. In I Know Him, she’s the one bringing the message to King George about John Adams and symbolically heralding the impending doom of Hamilton’s political career. During Blow Us All Away, she’s the one who tells Phillip where to find George Eacker, (and flirts with him! Phillip is literally flirting with death!) then Phillip is the next to die. In Your Obedient Servent, she brings the desk on stage and hands Burr the quill to write the first of several letters that will eventually lead to Alexander Hamilton’s death. During the final duel, she again catches a bullet (fired by Burr), and if you watch her, she gets closer and closer to hitting Hamilton while he’s doing his soliloquy until Eliza pops onto stage. At this point, The Bullet is stopped by other members of the ensemble, the time freeze is abandoned, and we all know what happens‬ next. (soure: JC Payne)

[swarnpert]

just drink an entire bowl of butter. drink the fucking butter you piece of shit. fuck you

[studdedrose]

[un-rare-deactivated20151106]

let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

[huntinthedwellin98]

everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy

[anonymoussong]

[elvenkingtranduil-deactivated20]

Not a rock THE  ARKENSTONE 

[glorfy-the-bright-haired-ellon]

Why just one rock Why not three Why not the silmarils

[mondknight]

#i’m pretty sure there’s an entire book on the topic ‘why not silmarils’  (x)

[desidesidesi]

And one on why not the arkenstone

[cakeisnotpie]

You’re right. Just get them a ring.

[bcfurs]

[totally-not-nyarlathotep]

do not get them a ring

[penelopevalentine]

Can’t not reblog this again

[allminetherainbow]

[whatagrump]

This is like the third time I’ve commented on this, but it’s just so fucking funny to me.

[moulinrouqes]

Can I show you what I’m proudest of? I establish the first private orphanage in New York City I help to raise hundreds of children I get to see them growing up

[eldamaranquendi]

MiddleEarth by  LastStudio

[lesly-oh]

One of my pieces for the SheRa charity zine @wemustbeproud ! Happy Pride month y’all 🌈🌈🌈