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jack of no trades. master of fuck all
Instagram got stupid; we got stupid; I'm not mis-remembering this
I recently went through my old posts on my mostly abandoned Insta account.
My Insta was always a modest bookstagram. About 10 years ago, I got max 100β200 hits per post, and comments were mostly from my irl friends, although New York literary agents and small press publishers I was interning with as a student also followed it. This was plenty for me; I was happy in my lil' book community.
Then reels became a thing, first making up a small percentage of my feed so that it wasn't immediately clear that Meta had decided my style of posting was out the door. My stats very abruptly tanked at one point, though, going from 3-digit 'likes' to only a handful of my closest friends liking my posts.
I found out that Insta was shadow banning people who posted pictures instead of reels, so my posts were no longer being seen. That was pretty much the end of Insta for me.
I hadn't looked at my old posts in awhile, but here's what I found:
Lengthy, detailed, thoughtful book reviews. Multiple paragraphs. I quoted excerpts from the books, author interviews, and other reviews. I just ran some of my captions through Microsoft Word, and I was writing these Instagram captions at a grade-12 reading level.
And they were getting engagement! When I asked for book recs, I got them. My friends liked my close readings of Kazuo Ishiguro. NYC literary agents were using this proof of me as a thinking human being to offer me a place in the professional book world.
I think I did not fully grasp the extent to which Meta intentionally barred intelligent discourse on its platforms until now. Disagree with me if you think otherwise, since I haven't engaged seriously with bookstagram in years now, but I just do not think that reels ever get anywhere close to the intelligence and depth of old-style bookstagram.
In-depth book reviews that you had to, you know, actually read* were replaced by people dancing and screaming at cameras.
*And which you had to actually write, which in and of itself was a great exercise for me as a reader, and which served as proof that the person discussing the book had actually read the book and wasn't just being paid to promote it.
The billionaire clapped his hands and said, "Dance, monkeys, dance!" And people all around the world put their words away and did it.
the thing is that why would you even ask chatgbt things you can google??? 'hey chat whats the tallest animal' not to blow your mind or anything but google has known about giraffes for forever. they even sometimes have articles for you to read its awesome. you dont have to ask your imaginary friend
no rest for me and im not even that wicked ?
"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world
obtuse is such a good word. Bro that was so thoughtless it's triangle
β± I go to work -> I recover from work β΄
β¬ I recover from work <- I go to work β²
worst thing about a job is that you have to. keep showing up. like you have to. you gotta.
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should I get a masters or jump into a river and swim away forever. vote now
me looking at my acceptance letter:
its such an experience being from a small country. technically my mother tongue is rare, we're constantly being forgotten in maps, some dont even realise we're a real country. i told someone here once where im from and they thought i was lying because they didn't know anyone else from here. well my guy idk what to tell you i'm right here
i once met a guy that thought iceland was a city on the north pole
lmao. lol. yea.
the north poleβ€οΈ
wow the north pole looks different than i thought it would
Yβever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?
I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:
It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.
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TIL the highest honor is to be consigned to the processing vortex
Whole day ruined
and i had it in front of me on my dressing table SPECIFICALLY so i don't forget.
but i forgot anyway.
whole day? whole week.
drinking water when I have a headache should give instant relief. it should go away. what's even the point of drinking water if it can't do that
i hate when i tell people that i like something/to do something that may be popular and they say "what? i can't imagine you doing that" or or or "wow i can't believe you do that what do you even do with that" or or or "i didn't expect you to like that, now i HAVE to see you do The Thing" in a condescending tone.
like now i have to explain what i like and why i like it and have to prove that i like it somehow because if i don't do it "right" or the way they expect it feels like i don't deserve to like The Thing anymore.
whatever happened to "oh you like The Thing? cool me too"
i swear we're losing recipes