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[wanhyutji]

Actually I DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That’s the normal age to start puberty, so why does it have to be different for trans kids?

[starsharts-blog]

If you think trans kids don’t deserve the right to a timely and correct puberty – the same way cis kids already get – you are transphobic.

[wre7ch]

if trans kids are too young to start puberty so are cis kids

[absolutely-not-a-cryptid]

btw if you encounter uneducated but loving and supportive parents who are fretting over whether to let their kid take hormones, this is the most effective argument by far.

Reframing it as “your kid is facing the risk of going through the wrong puberty either way, so you might as well let them pick” works incredibly well, because in their head, transitioning is a scary medical intervention rather than an alternative to what was going to happen anyway.

[stripe-conlon]

Hey tumblr, why is this considered for mature content?

[aftgphoenix]

Was Kevin Day conceived on an exy court?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 29

The post that inspired this poll

[stripe-conlon]

Yes with the caveat that he would be horrified at the “disrespect” to the court if he ever found out.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[kedreeva]

I scheduled this in 2025 to give you all a week to make Moon Day Monday preparations! I think I will order a little rocket cake or bake some moon phase cookies!

[dduane]

It's coming, cousins. ...This could be as big as March 15th if we made it that way...

[asexualbert]

Happy Moon Day Monday folks

[belladonnabedlam]

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Voting ended onJul 27

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

[stripe-conlon]

Depends on what you mean by invite. Your number’s a helluva lot lower than mine and I had to enter my email and wait approx. 3 months for an email from ao3 inviting me to join. But if you mean you had to know someone with an account already to invite you personally, then I cannot help you determine that one.

[vampiremansionpoolboy-moved]

reblog this to put a leaf on your mutuals head

[stripe-conlon]

I would like the PWHL to release the schedule, please, so I can plan when I’ll be see Seattle in NY

[jawpeople]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[robinade]

In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option

Voting ended onJul 20

➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):

1-Minute Typing Test — TypingTest.now

The industry-standard benchmark used by employers and typing certifications worldwide.

➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.

➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.

*typingtest.now, typingtestgo.com, typerworld.com

[jonnywaistcoat]

writing fic knowing ur on here is the same as living with the ever present fear that ur parents will find out that u write fanfic

Look, I dont want to be dismissive of concerns that I'm sure feel very real to you, but believe me when I say that your parents don't care and neither do I.

[stripe-conlon]

My mom was convinced that 13 year old me wired up a 1998 computer for internet in a room without a phone jack in 2006 because she found fanfic I’d written on it complete with authors notes as if I’d ever publish them and freaked out, screaming for my dad to punish me.

This was a few months before I was grounded from the family computer indefinitely for reading gay fanfic. Technically the grounding only formally got lifted last year but we all started tacitly ignoring it around late 2008 and the only reason it got lifted is my dad got tired of me laughing about it any time I remembered it technically still existed while I was an adult with an adult job and living on my own.

[theresthesnitch]

Hold on, this is fascinating. Reblog this and tell me in the notes how old you are and if you ever had typing lessons.

[irishironclad]

What in God’s good name is a “typing lesson”

[intjint]

I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not

[irishironclad]

I’m serious what is a typing lesson? What would they teach you? To type? My brother in Christ it is like writing with a pen but technically easier.

[intjint]

Before home computers were very common, people typically only typed for business-related things, so the only people that actually knew how to use typewriters and word processors were authors, secretaries, accountants, etc. These people would take classes for typing bc it was seen as a skill. This gradually fell out of fashion, much like teaching kids cursive

Typing is only intuitive to gen y & z bc most of us learned through computer games or had someone tell us where to rest our fingers. People who never learned to type use just their index fingers, hit one key, take a long time to find the next letter, hit it with an index finger, and repeat until finished

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

34 i played this:

[stilldickslappinthestate]

33 and i started with Mavis Beacon

24 and I had typing lessons all through school.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

34, had typing lessons in 3rd and 4th grade and Mavis Beacon as a kid and I’ve still never used home row except when I was forced to. I type everything with my left hand. The only thing my right is for is using the shift, backspace, and enter keys.

[deuceofgears-deactivated2022101]

43, first had typing lessons in 4th grade on some type of Mac, then my mother bought me a book and a manual typewriter and made me learn to touch-type, for which I am still grateful 30+ years later. I remember how excited we were when we upgraded to an electric typewriter.

Of course, I got hit by nostalgia so hard that I recently bought a manual typewriter and have been writing letters to people with it! I love it to pieces.

[zarohk]

28 and I learned to type through Type To Learn. I have severe dysgraphia to the point where I couldn’t keep up with writing in school early on, so the summer after second grade my parents trained me intensely on all the typing programs they could get, and found ways to help me learn to type fast.

I’m so nostalgic for those games.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“It is like writing with a pen but technically easier” my brother in Christ children also take writing lessons

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#LMAO yeah^#i had computer class in 2001 where we eventually had to put paper over our hands to take a test to see if we could type without looking#we also played games#i hated the paper thing at the time. i knew i just needed MORE practice. i dont think i got GOOD at typing until a few years after that#also.. when you have a pen. you can just create the letter you need. with a keyboard you have to FIND IT. and its NOT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER#how is that easier??#but i guess i dont know any kids whove grown up with computers and could probably type before they could write….????? 😳 

Modern kids can’t type before they can write. I mean, most kids understand how to use a keyboard, and pressing letters takes less coordination than writing them so can be started at a younger age for learning to spell, but I’ve worked a lot with kids in the 8-14 year age bracket and they’re usually FASCINATED by how fast I type. (My typing speed is… not impressive. If they made me take one of those speed/accuracy tests they used to do for admin or data entry jobs, I would NOT pass.) But many of the kids I’ve worked with take my comfort and familiarity with a keyboard (I’m a writer) as some impressive, magical skill, because an awful lot of them are letter-peckers.

[peregrineggsandham]

24, learned actual touch-typing when I was maybe 4 or 5 with this, the sound effects still live rent-free in my brain:

The shift keys on our computer were broken, so up until high school I would type capitals by turning caps lock on for a single key and then back off again.

[average-monster]

I’m 39. We had typing lessons every year throughout elementary school. I never really got good at it until I started playing mmos, though.

My kids are in 5th and 6th grade. They’ve never even seen a fingering chart. The 6th grader is expected to do nearly all of his schoolwork on a computer, and he doesn’t even know the term “home row”. I don’t know how they expect them to excel without giving them the skills they need to use the tools they have to use.

I’ve gone what I can to help them learn how to type, but I’m not a teacher.

[iconuk01]

Mid 50′s.

Typing classes were only availble to those taking the secretarial class, which was not open to boys.

It should be noted that there is a distinction between typing as it used to mean and word processing. Typewriters were unforgiving machines, not only could you not cut, paste or delete (for obvious reasons) so your spelling had to be very, VERY good, but the legibiity of each letter produced depended on how hard you hit the key (unless you went to a fancy school which had electric typewriters, which were not the norm).

Those of us who were subversive enough to learn keybaord skills through computing had a MUCH easier time of it. Though it was often offset by the shitty keyboards some computers had, and YES, I’m calling you out ZX81!

If you can’t see any depth to those keys, you are correct, they have none because the ZX81 keyboard was a damned membrane!

But believe me, if you could learn to typeat a decent speed on of these, then NOTHING could stop you, expcet for the fact that the odds were good you were typing faster than it could process input.

It’s successor, the ZX Spectrum had spongey keys, which whilst not great, were better than nothing.

[physicist-pi]

Genuinely as a computing teacher in the 11-18 age group, I’m saying this now:

We need to bring back typing lessons to the curriculum. The kids will fly if you give them a tablet or smartphone but they have no clue on how to use a keyboard or keyboard shortcuts. If the senior PE class decides to be twats and pry up the keys and swap them round, I will still have 14/15 year olds unable to type because the keys are swapped. And I often don’t notice when helping them because I just.. touch type.

I legitimately broke a Higher Computing Science (so a 16 year old who had chosen to do computer stuff) by showing him how Ctrl+H let him find and replace because he’d made a consistent error in his code and I could see him going back and adding up all the time he’d spent trying to find all the incidences of a specific variable in his code and there I was showing him CTRL+F and all these things.

These kids might not pick a computer based subject after the age of 13 and half of them don’t understand file systems, version control, difference between cloud vs local storage, how to save, etc.

So many kids would just turn off the monitor and think that was the computer, usually leaving themselves logged in (to the point I locked the monitor power button and had multiple posters up reminding kids to press the spacebar on the keyboard to wake up the monitor first).

Basically, digital literacy is being fucking stolen by the appification of the digital platforms available to kids.

[doomhamster]

I’m in my 40s and I had typing classes in my second to last year of grade school, using some really ancient computers that took forever to boot and AFAIK only ran that one program. I still technically know how to touch type properly, though I never bother because my own hybrid system works well enough.

[rebels-cairn]

I’m 40 and I had to take a typing class in high school. I can still technically touch type, but I do it in a half-assed kind of way that isn’t very fast and results in a lot of mistakes.

[alienbooknose]

40s and typing class was one of the required ones in the middle school rotation. (We also had a basic cooking skills class, basic sewing, wood shop, metal shop and foreign languages. For the languages, you took each one that would be offered in HS so you could pick what you would take. Everyone took all of these and other specials in a rotation that meant you had about 8 weeks of each.)

My school was unusual because we had computers but they had a room full of actual typewriters for the typing class. So I learned to properly touch type on a typewriter even though it was the 90s. I happened to get involved in an online RP chat at the time that was on a website where it didn’t load what everyone else was saying until you hit send on your text or refreshed the page. So I had some incentive to learn to type fast and I did. (Steelsings I miss you!)

I’m a teacher now and kids still marvel at my ability to look at them and have a conversation and type something else. I also regularly teach high school seniors how to use things like CTRL F. I have been saying for pretty much my whole career that we need to stop assuming kids are naturally good at tech (fuck you concept of digital natives) and go back to teaching this stuff. It’s not better with the ipad generation- it’s worse. They only understand apps and not real computers.

Also, for the person upthread who mentioned the letters being not in order - there’s a reason for that! They invented the QWERTY keyboard arrangement to slow typists down because people were going too fast for the machines. There were other keyboard arrangements (DVORAK for example) that people can actually type faster at once they learn them but qwerty has stuck.

Huh… apparently that’s a myth! It was designed to speed up typing? TIL

QWERTY - Wikipedia

QWERTY - Wikipedia

“Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the typist down,[4]: 162  but rather to speed up typing. Indeed, there is evidence that to place often-used letter pairs farther apart increases typing speed, because it encourages alternation between the hands.”

Well there’s still a reason for it.

[digitaldiscipline]

In my 50’s; typing was an elective in high school into which my parents forced me, rather than let me stay in small engine maintenance shop class I enrolled in because it was more fun and interesting.

This was doubly offensive, since I already knew how to type from writing school papers since second or third grade (ie: the early 80’s).

[idiomagic]

I’m 56. Took typing in school, twice. Took computer programming classes on a TRS 80. I’m a whiz at Basic. My typing speed has slowed down considerably, what with the hEDS and other Horrors, but on my good days I still manage a respectable 68 wpm with zero errors.

[skrybspryt]

I’m 49 and my first typing class was freshman year. It’s the only typing class I remember taking.

[stripe-conlon]

33, learned on Mavis Beacon in…late 3rd grade-5th grade? We had a weekly computer class from 1st to 5th grade but I don’t think they started us on typing until 3rd grade. My parents also bought me my own copy of Mavis Beacon because I wanted to play the typing games but our teacher only let us do the lessons. After that, the only thing holding me back was my terrible spelling.

We also had a computer day once a month in ILA in 6th-8th grade and a freshman computer class in both high school and college. My college only required it because of how many kids came in that were homeschooled by parents who thought computers were evil. Ahhh small religious college issues.

[kitten8chcocolate]

Check out the Sara Raasch Fan Club community on Discord - hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

There I did it!

We have a discord server. 18+

[sararaasch]

omg 👀

[striving-artist]

If you got hold of a Death Note what would you do with it?

I'd use it, en masse, don't care if people get the connection

I'd use it, but try to send a message

I'd think for a bit, then use it chaotically

I'd think for a bit, then use it to send a message

I'd get hung up on the ethics, not use it much

I'd never use it

I'd start writing immediately and I'd take the deal for the Shinigami eyes too

Voting ended onJul 19

you don't get a results button. You only get the ability to cause the death of anyone in the world so long as you have their name and write it in the book.

[niiioooo0]

I do not know anybody that’s read any Sara Raash books and I desperately need someone to talk about them, like, what do you mean I have a ton of reader friends and none of them have read them?

(What tags am I supposed to use in this post 😭?)

[sararaasch]

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

[kitten8chcocolate]

I'll make a discord server for us! Don't tempt me!

[stripe-conlon]

Reporting for duty!

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

How do you feel?

great!! I love this

good!

It's okay

So bad. I hate this

This is similar to my real job!

Results/other

Voting ended onJul 18

[stripe-conlon]

Isn’t a professional pilgrim the same thing as an influencer? I don’t want to be an influencer for stupid shit! I want to have a platform that lets me do shit like getting paid to embroider all day.

[prettyboyneil]

Aaron really is the foundation to Andrew finding a sense of purpose in life because he found Aaron and made his deal with him he then joined the foxes so Aaron could get his degree then because he joined the foxes he made his deal with Kevin who then led him to Neil so when you think about it andreil is all Aaron’s fault he brought the horrors on himself

[homunculus-argument]

Has either of your parents ever accidentally called you/your siblings the wrong name? (someone else's name, like other sibling, pet, etc)

Yes, at least once

No, but I've seen it happen to someone else

No, never

I don't have pets/siblings/parents/hair

Voting ended onJul 9

[stripe-conlon]

One time when my mom wanted my attention she said my name, my sister’s name, both of our cats’ names, and then my name again. My sister and I were so amused by this we started rapidly quizzing her on family members’ names until she was so flustered we could go “what’s Sarah’s name?” and she’d say another cousin’s name.

[cjowoart]

Bel ♡

from The Fake Divination Offense

[sararaasch]

THE NOISE I MADE

HE IS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY 😭😭😭