We’re Nocturnal Anyway

Noah. 24. He/Him. INFJ. Icon by @jacequilart

[babyanimalgifs]

Tiny round rain frog wakes up, yawns, rubs his eyes, then squeezes himself into his tiny hole 

(Source)

[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.

[porcupine-girl]

I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.

[catgirlforeskin]

skeumorphism my beloved

[deepspacepirate]

One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it

[togepipi]

catch me in the city of fre shavaca do

[ampervadasz]

[pocketgameboy]

This transition is straight out of a horror movie

[an-odd-idea]

@heymynameismolly-jk wow

[thoradvice]

romanticize your life. i cannot stress this enough. use scented shower gel and shampoo, so you look forward to showers. go on walks and see how pretty the sky looks. notice the wildflowers on the roadside as you drive. light a candle when you get home to make your room smell good. notice & appreciate the little things in life. it won't cure your mental illness, but it'll make it easier to exist in this world.

[5thocean]

sunshine

[parakeet]

the human life is a strained and tense one. i envy the life of a smooth rock resting on the beach… warmed by the sun… unaware of the trials and tribulations of sentient life… 

[badoptics]

do you need to talk

[parakeet]

i wish i was a croissant 

[brucemanimean-batwayne]

how did we all just casually listen to Take Me To Church on the radio in 2014??

you’re telling me we really heard lyrics like “there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin” and “if i’m a pagan of the good times, my lover’s the sunlight” and didn’t go absolutely buck wild???

[floristyunho]

bold of you to assume i can comprehend the words that are said even to this day

[applefae]

as soon as hozier says “she’s the giggle at a funeral” my vision greys out and i wake up 4 hours later in a church garden, shovelling handfuls of dirt into my mouth

[girlballs]

there's a hole in my heart only gay sex and drugs and autism can fill

[funnytwittertweets]

[hockeyheart]

[ethnostates]

ur so weird and grotesque let me kiss you

[girldog]

unfortunatyely im displaying behaviours. and acting in ways

[icy-moons]

okay! quick lesson for a bunch of you new tumblr users who i’m pretty came here from tiktok!

the tags are for content filtering, not just exposure. the tagging system doesn’t just exist for you to get your post out to as many users as you can. the only time i should see a post that has nothing to do with the tag i’m browsing is if a porn bot made it, and that’s a separate problem.

[lordwhatfoolsthismortalsbe]

[daleks-have-the-phonebox]

^^^^^

[smileyfolly]

yknow ever since people realized tumblr isnt dead and have decided to flock here from twitter and tiktok ive seen a huge influx of people in fandom spaces who dont reblog anything. at all.

like, i used to have an art blog with 340 followers. not a ton but not a small amount either given how this website works with creators. and in my experience back then even the ones who only left likes still reblogged other things or at least posted their own stuff. literally the only empty blogs were clearly bots.

but on this New art blog, i’ve had so many people with fandom-specific headers and icons with actual usernames as urls and some kind of title or description, but have. Nothing. no posts. all they do is like things. and it’s always public, too. their following list and their likes list.

and honestly all it makes me think is that these people are New and also don’t know how tumblr works. how likes don’t give exposure. not even in a “oh, i know it doesn’t give exposure, but i’m still going to reblog anyways” way, but in a genuine honest to god straight up doesn’t realize tumblr likes don’t work like twitter’s.

PLEASE please if you’re from tiktok or twitter or whatever please reblog people’s art both fandom and original if you like it!! and maybe actually pad out your blog’s content in some way so people won’t potentially see you as a bot and block you.

REBLOG ARTIST’S WORK. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY GET ANY ATTENTION ON THIS WEBSITE OH MY GOD. PLEASE. I BEG of you

[deathbyotpin123]

WAIT THEY’RE REAL PEOPLE?! I’ve blocked several accounts so far because it was just “blanks space” and I assumed it was a bot.

FOLKS if you’re new, please, please, this is not like Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Reblogging is the way to go. This is how we network on here. This is how you make mutuals. This is how you share new stuff with others.

You are also:

Encouraged to add your thoughts to the post

Engage in conversation freely

Express yourself in the tags if you don’t want to write in the post

In fact, write a god damn essay in the tags - we old members will read it, I promise - the limit on tags per post is insane anyway

Reblog the same thing as many times as you like. Like every time you see it, and you want to reblog it because it brings you joy - go for it!

[thefloatingstone]

Blank accounts will get you blocked because we are all refugees from the Before Times and have been conditioned to assume a blank account is a porn bot;

1: Have an avatar. It can literally just be a picrew you made of your OC. But have an avatar

2: have a header image. Again, it can be an MS paint handwritten image saying “Header.jpg” but just have one

3: Reblog your interests so we know you’re not here to spam us with Rayban Sunglasses offers. Just write something in the tags as well. it can literally just be identifiers of the post you reblog. “photo” “fanart” “fave character” etc. but 99% of the time, tag your posts

[phantomrose96]

Babygirl I go through spoons faster than you can even imagine

[phantomrose96]

Everyone tagging this "I thought this was about spoon theory": that works too. Here, you can have this post. It's yours now. If you need me I'll be emptying my ungodly overfilled cutlery bin from the dishwasher.

[supermariomamafucker]

proof that moles are the best small mammalians out there.

need I say more