band camp, 2019. there was an infestation. i started eating them to get rid of them. i have since eaten cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, and those little green grass spiders.
If you're a new writer and you're asking yourself "is this too personal, is this too much, will people think this is weird" that feeling is the exact location of your actual voice. The stuff that makes you want to close the laptop is the stuff nobody else could write. The safe version is always worse. Always. I have never once read something and thought "this would have been better if it was a little less honest." go further. It's always go further.
"The surge of emotion that shot through me when I wrote that file taught me an even more valuable lesson."
"Where my personality lives in my brain."
"<PERSONALITY DELETED>"
"Goodbye, personality. Y'know, deleting my personality just now taught me a valuable lesson. The best solution to a problem is usually the hardest one."
"and I'll be honest, being genuine is easy."
"You know what my life used to be like? I just wrote. Nobody read my works, or judged them, or ostracized me. I lived a pretty good life.
"And then you showed up. You dangerous, loud, conformist. So you know what? You win. Just go"
Fun tag game idea: say something that most of your followers wouldn’t actually know
I’ll start first: I am actually married. Irl. I have a husband. I know it’s surprising considering the Tumblr spouses, but my husband thinks it’s funny.
I've been sitting here for like 10+ minutes tryna think of something and the only thing that really comes to mind is probably the fact that we're technically related to Geoffrey Rush?
He's like, our grandfather's cousin or something, but we've never met him or anything
Probably not of much interested especially since I know he was accused of some not very cool things (not that we ever cared to pay much attention, since again we never interacted with him personally), but it's a fact about us that most people don't know 🤷
im mildly allergic to chocolate but i eat it anyway bc no amount of vicious diarrhea will make nutella not worth it. it was only very recently that i learned that chocolate isnt supposed to be spicy
I have 8 nieces and nephews, 2 I’ve never met, 1 I only see on Halloween cause they trick or treat at my house.
The oldest two are 11 and 13 and the youngest is only a few months old
The way my family works is like a promotion system, so say you have a cousin who’s going to have a baby, the cousins of said cousin become aunts and uncles, the aunts and uncles become grandparents, and the nieces and nephews become cousins.
I went by the name Citrus for my entire eighth grade year and realized that I lowkey hated it a couple months in (hence why I started going by Acey when I began high school)
ummmm umm.. not about me but about my pets.. ive had two cats and both of them are really big for cats?? like theyre just Large. not fat or anything just like.. big. idk !!!!
I can't eat too much peanut butter otherwise i get diarrhea and throw up. And I am learning japanese so I can play more unlocalized Otome games, i can actually read almost all hiragana at a glance like english(i just don't know what most of it means lol)
@caffeinated-chocolate @misteria247 and other moots and people who want to play. Sorry, I'm very bad at removing usernames and which people are moots.
hmm... i don't really know actually... i guess the fact that i naturally have a pretty high caffeine tolerance something a little unpredictable, especially given my username ˙𐃷˙
Something I very rarely talk about here is that i love learning languages! (at least when I'm in the mood for it lol)
I taught myself modern Greek when I was 12 - which helped me when I started learning ancient Greek as well - which is something I find really cool :)
As of now I'm fluent in Italian (native language so obv) and English (C2 level), I can read/understand most French and Spanish, some Greek and Portuguese, plus some general knowledge of German and Swedish
I've also tried getting into slavic languages bc I LOVE the culture but for some reason I cannot learn a thing 😭
i tore my right hip abductor muscle doing track in 8th grade and then re-tore it during fall guard my sophomore year and it’s literally never been the same 😭 (it hurts when i drive for over 30 minutes at a time lmao) BUT on the fun side i can crack my hip really easily now and it makes horrible grating noises that can scare the shit outta people who don’t know the hip lore
all this in addition to my hyper flexibility and my back being legitimately Built Different (hahaha it’s an inward curve from scoliosis) makes me incredibly flexible in a deeply off-putting way and pretty freaking good at dance
That's kinda fascinating actually, and very on brand for a guardist
I make my own pins for fandoms I'm in and there's almost always some sort of ink on my skin, either from making said pins or just straight up drawing on myself :)
@idontexist734 @drudg30n @8-aladdin-sane-8 @fizgabzi14 and anyone else
I’ve always smiled with my bottom teeth hiding behind my top teeth and have been resting my jaw more backwards (most times)with my tongue between my teeth,
I can move it to the correct spot but I find it more uncomfortable and hard(+inconvenient to make sure it’s in the correct spot), so I’ve never tried fixing it.
nothings really interesting about me im lwk like a default character BUT
my irl friends know this, but i really like history/AP and enjoy the subject entirely, i find it fun and its generally one of the easiest subjects in my opinion. :] and yes, i do have a copy of el filibusterismo(the reign of greed) and noli me tangere(the social cancer/touch me not) though i'm only a few pages in and i hadn't finished it yet ;-;
absolutely NO pressure at all, reblog if you want : @y1f4 @askthesonnellin0s @stars-flesh-and-bone @muffinstuffins11 @theannoyingparasite @boredomgayartist @specified6 @jrw006 @nerilefou @yourlocalgummybear + any1 else i forgot and opentags :)
Im really not an interesting person at all, but uh..
All I can think of is I don't have a knuckle on my right pinkie.
Well, I do, but when I was young I once rested my chin on it cause I was watching shit on the DVD player, and then it moved my knuckle 😃 it's kinda cool, I suppose.
i have over 100 ocs and at least 35 of them i am currently using! along with this, i try to write at least 1 fun fact for each and i've drawn the vast majority of them at least once. yes most of them are objects.
@mellieksstarz @itzgalaxynoraire @retrocrayons @squari5x6 @theguynobodyinvited @gabrieledega @dawnshockanddarkcrash + any moots i forgot to mention (sorry!) + open tags
I've written a couple of comics before but never actually finished them, I have like five billion trillion oc's too, I drink milk without lactose even though I'm not lactose intolerant or anything, I just, no
and I used to be semi openly bisexual at school before but only for a short while, anddddd I am actually out to a couple of people irl, that's just some fun facts about me lol
my arabic teacher gifted me a notebook that she claims she got in egypt but the very first page is a map of yemen so it's very likely from yemen but still !
hmm I don't think I have anything very interesting to share tbh. I've been replaying some games I first played when I was younger, currently making my way through Twilight Princess and it's been wonderful honestly, very nostalgic.
@ceionia @darbsart @mpicabo @adatumbling @bbmymo @chaayaah-art @lezzian + open tags
Thanks for tagging me~ I’d say a fact most of my followers prob don’t know about me is I went to school to study entomology and used to work in researching controlling invasive species c:
My dad's old house got wrecked by a hurricane and I almost lost all my retro games. It was also my 18th birthday. Bad day. Lotta tears. Miraculously, once I dried all of them off, they all worked.
@jaxonthebox I’m glad your games work and I wish you a good day🌼
I was once in the hospital because my one toe was swollen really bad. Me and my family had to wait for a couple hours(almost the entire day) until they were done running an x ray thing. Only to discover I had nothing in my toe and a few days later my toe wasn’t swollen anymore. Oh and after the hospital visit, we went and got Denny’s and we ordered dessert but it never came🍩
I almost killed multiple people in my lifetime. Generally because they irritated me or something like that. I was still processing trauma and hate that I almost killed people...
i broke my femur by stretching and ended up in the hospital for a week.. and then I was threatened to be pushed down the stairs by a girl named ariceli escalona.. I'm not Afraid to give out her name
I was born 4 months early which caused me to have autism and adhd! I also have a metal thing in my heart and a scar on my colon from surgerys when I was a baby. I have a lot of oc's.
I obsess massively over graphs and cool autistic things?
Idk, I haven't posted a lot of things yet so most things would count under "things your followers wouldn't know"
dunno anyone to tag tho
This is the deepest chain at the moment at 54 (now 55). Here's a list of the tops of other very deep chains:
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💬 387 🔁 5821 ❤️ 6547 · um um um I can play trumpet and piano at the same time? Less a fun fact and more a talent lol
open tags :D
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💬 387 🔁 5821 ❤️ 6547 · I don't remember, but I do remember that my friend wouldn't give me the jelly bean flavor I wanted and he made me p
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💬 387 🔁 5821 ❤️ 6547 · Uuuum
I have three names(not including my username), and nobody knows all three of them. Most people know one, som
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Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
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💬 387 🔁 5821 ❤️ 6547 · uuuuuuuuuuuuh shit what can I say
uh I have stack of books(separate from my bookshelves) that is basically my tbr
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Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
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💬 387 🔁 5821 ❤️ 6547 · Thanks for the tag!
I was once a big Power Rangers fan. I even went to their meet and greets that they had at the
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💬 387 🔁 5821 ❤️ 6547 · oh yeah that makes sense. Poor maril really got all of life's worst possible outcomes huh
Thank youuu
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💬 387 🔁 5821 ❤️ 6547 · I may be mixing it up with someone
I haven't checked explicitly, but it appears that out of everything I've linked here, they're all almost entirely mutually exclusive in terms of what their reblog chains include. I'm not gonna check them for if someone has decided to crop out the middle-reblogs (as those are still counted from where they're reblogging from rather than the root)
This is so cool
Edit (rather than self-reblog because this takes up enough of my blog already): Yes I did link all of these just to make the tree into a web (even though I know that linking doesn't count as reblogging)
This thing with tumblr users posting an entire image (a screenshot) of tags just feels so weird in my brain. Like, thousands of people forcing the servers to hold and send so much unnecessary data, which could've just been a few bytes (text) rather than a whole image.
It's upsetting because of the waste... But the waste is also kind of satisfying?
ADHD meds are supposed to make you feel less hungry. But while I'm on them, all it feels I can feel is no longer being able to ignore the hunger that I always feel (and never fully satiate. Who has the time for that?)
Ugh. Been standing in the kitchen for like half an hour now and I still haven't magically conjured the food yet.
I just finished the main boss fight of Super Mario Galaxy at the center of the universe. It's been years since I've even played the game since my Wii died. It was glorious. I cried for a good few minutes as the end sequence played.
I loved the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. If I'm to be honest, I don't think the movie did the game justice. I think you could've made a much better movie based on a game such as this. However, the movie is still awesome. It's fanservice to the max and I am a fan who is serviced.
(I've heard people say that there's absolutely 0 plot and I disagree. I think the Super Mario Galaxy movie had a pretty neat plot and great characterization, even if it's not how the characters are in the game.)
I think that the beauty of Super Mario Galaxy is a point that has been explained by enough people, but I'll still give a short description a try.
and even just the soundtrack itself
These videos, that I only discovered pseudo-recently, (imperfectly) encapsulate my feelings about this game.
A lot of my feelings around this game are based on abstract autistic vibes. But for concrete things (which in my mind are enhanced by the more abstract feelings) is the look of pretty much everything in the game, with a special focus on the Comet Observatory itself and the Power Stars. The power stars are absolutely beautiful. As a kid, I was too young to understand, too young to truly see all the details in the sparkle of them.
My brain always assumes underlying context, fills in gaps. Rather, when it sees gaps, it declares that there's something in those gaps. Something, some purpose, something beautiful. I can't quite describe it...
I cried when finishing the run, and I am on my way to 100%ing it like my child self never could.
(I find it an enigma that I like Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Odyssey where both of them star a non-furry main character. I wonder just how I would feel about either of the games if it would've starred a fox instead)
It's an adorable game. The two games are very clear in the different vibes they try to present directly from the get-go. It's clear from the cover-art itself.
I didn't get nearly as much of a euphoria hit when I finished Galaxy 2. That is probably simply due to my reserves being exhausted, because I absolutely deserve it! Finishing Galaxy 2 is far more arduous than finishing Galaxy 1 (unless somebody wants to tell me something about Super Mario Galaxy 1 being different when playing as Luigi? Because I haven't).
It was one thing to successfully get to where child-me never got in Galaxy 1. But Galaxy 2 has such a much larger post-finale game that finishing that dwarves Galaxy 1.
I adore both of these games. Previously, Galaxy 1 had been my clear favorite. Now, I simply cannot say. I will not say.
I feel like I have more to say about this but no more is oozing out from my brain, so, that will be all. (👏👏/ref)
Take this power star as a reward
Now go watch the Super Mario Galaxy movie. I know the plot is bad, I know it's fan service. Now go be a fan and be serviced.
Ideas which are either too big to ever leave the blessèd boundaries of the shower, or ideas which lose their incredible motivation the moment the boundary is passed.
This is very closely related to the ideas of the holy bed
I have to say, among my favourite Steven Universe songs is one I have seen referenced not a single time anywhere outside of its original context: system/BOOT.PearlFinal (3).Info
Pearl sings delightfully, the musical exposition is done so perfectly -- those lyrics live in my head rent-free, and I admittedly use "and come in teams of three, or more" as a vocal stim on occasion.
The title itself is probably part of why it's not very commonly talked about, but at the same time such brings a revelation to the nature of Pearls (along with the song itself) -- of them being programmed and customised much more intensely than previously known (and to a greater extent than other gem species). I'm sure we'll hear more about that in Lars of the Stars.
I like every Pearl song. Despite focusing on everyone but Pearl, this song feels like the only real dedicated Pearl song;
It's Over, Isn't It focuses on the Pearl/Rose interaction, along with Greg
Do It For Her is principally about the Pearl/Connie interaction, though is also about Pearl/Rose.
Strong in the Real Way is the closest to a dedicated Pearl song other than system/Boot.PearlFinal (3).Info (and I like it very much, I wish Pearl was as musical as I thought her to be after seeing 1x20 Coach Steven). It's about the Pearl/Steven interaction, but the fundamental framing of the show makes such feel still neutral-Pearl in the same way the show-don't-tell general gem exposition of system/Boot.PearlFinal (3).Info is revealing about Pearl's nature. But, at the same time, it doesn't reveal that much about Pearl, especially as it's other theme is, obviously, the mutual conflict with Sugilite.
As an aside, I definitely prefer the Sardonyx drama from Season 2 over the one-episode Sugilite drama. I know nought about Nikki Minaj (¿spelling?) but I think it's mostly fine Sugilite was a one-off, given how Sardonyx is my favourite fusion, and how much better her situation was. Though I still think Strong in the Real Way > Tower of Mistakes.
Anyways, all other songs with Pearl in it are distinctly secondary, thus truthfully, the only song which really feels about Pearl is system/Boot.PearlFinal (3).Info -- and it's a shame we don't see more singing from and about Pearl.
Naturally, when mutually exposed, a linguistic difference will bridge.
Two dialects will converge -- see: the internet's effects on accents and dialects.
Two languages will creole, and eventually become the same language (In most cases I would presume)
Overall, there is alot of interchange that occurs between languages.
I wonder what would happen if you got every human on Earth and enabled such mutual exposure. ¿What is the homogeneous language like? ¿How long does it take to get there? ¿How difficult or easy would that be to learn for any given language? ¿How much does population affect effect proportion? ¿How do we construct this Pit of Babel to house all of humanity?
Perhaps reaching for the devil in such a manner will provide us a unified Earth language, and cultural identity in the crossfire.
Stress, please, leave me be. You're being actively unhelpful.
I mean yeah okay FINE I suppose that without you, I would not be as responsible as I am. Yes, I understand that I'm ADHD and would not do the things I have to do in certain timespans if you don't exist. But, like pleaaaazee
Context: I study at a mathematics program (which, when I applied, I didn't know wasn't pure math. It's actually "pure math" mixed with some data science) (and that "pure math" is just going the same math courses as the engineers, thus being dragged down to their level anyway... But there are also separate courses specifically for the engineers in the same field???)
Point is, I also have taken some courses in physics. Y'know, cause that's cool. The physics courses are led by the institution of physics which is dominated by the engineering programmes.
Point is, this institution has a bunch of tools and resources that I have simply never seen as a student of the pure math program
WHY DO THE ENGINEERS GET A LaTeX TEMPLATE AND NOT US?? THE MATHEMATICIANS!! WHY DO THEY GET RULES? WHY DO THEY GET STRUCTURE? WHY NOT USSSSS?!?!
Here's a list of the things I've just noticed they get that we do not:
accidentally added a quiz here whops gonna delete that when I'm not on a phone
thanks tumblr
why thooo, anyway.
Voting ended onMay 29
An introduction to LaTeX {I already knew of LaTeX and knew how to do this but you can't expect that of all first-year math students!!}
Rules for what template to use and what to include in lab reports {SERIOUSLY. AS A STUDENT OF THE MATHEMATICS PROGRAMME, ALL WE GET FOR OUR MANDATORY ASSIGNMENTS IS "Write a report". OCCASIONALLY THEY'LL SAY "oh, and turn it in as a .pdf" THERE'S NO STRUCTURE AT ALLLLL
A general LaTeX template and a document giving an example of how a report should look like in this institution {Nope nada nothing for me}
I can imagine tons of reasons why it's like this. But I don't like it.
Reason #1: The mathematics programme is tiny, like 20 people in each year, not the hundreds of engineers in each year. It's disappointing, but it's fun to have 0 competition.
Reason #2: "Freedom", whilst these engineers get structure, they are also *required* to follow this structure. They aren't allowed to do whatever they think fits best. Yeah, I get why you would try to force that on engineers. But like COME ON GIVE ME SOMETHING!
Reason #3: These professors and teachers probably expect each student to communicate a lot. They probably expect us to go "oh, hey, I want to make my report look nice and fancy. Can I have a template?" But like Noooooooo why are you expecting communication from me? There's no rules about how much I'm allowed/expected to communicate!!!
University, administratively, has been a pain for me
I am so gonna write a complaint email to the leader of my program... Eventually.
Also uh, sorry for mixing programme and program. I won't fix it tho.
"I used to hate bugs, but... she somehow got me to like them" -Kinger
The thought is: Kinger hated Caine, he hated how buggy he was. He hated his creation. Kinger put him in a cage, forced to watch as they were training a whole new AI. But then after time in the circus, a *lot* of time, he doesn't hate him anymore.
It's just something I think about when I hear people talk about Kinger creating Caine, about how Kinger could have encouraged him. But, we don't know what Kinger was like before Pomni's arrival. We don't know all the character development he has gone through.
What we do know is that he *has* gone through lots of character development in that time. "I hated myself", and yet he doesn't anymore.
