#satellitesandfallingstars

[themonkeycabal]

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Also, t-strap pumps might be your answer here! They’re retro to fit the vibe and swing dancers regularly use them so they’re pretty stable if you have a low heel on them.

Oh, cool! I’ll look them up. 

I just have to be able to at least a little bit describe stuff, you know? And I’m so embarrassingly out of my element here. LOL. 

Thank you everybody for the help! It has truly been invaluable. 

[ofgeography]

public/private whichever: friend mollyhall, i seem to remember you mentioning you lived in virginia at some point. i too am from virginia, insamuch as you can be living within the total annihilation range if a nuclear blast landed on the white house. i say this to ask if you too were dragged on a field trip to colonial williamsburg, and if you have any stories worth telling about taking a herd of sixth graders to place like williamsburg?

GOD of course we went on field trips to colonial williamsburg!!! however, i was not dragged there. i basically drove the bus. i was SO EXCITED. i LOVED colonial williamsburg. everyone else in my grade was like, “uuuugh, this stuff is for babies,” and i was like, “SIGN!! ME!! THE!! FUCK!! UP!!” i am still this way about these things. there’s a spy bar in chicago and i like to go and FULLY COMMIT to pretending to be a spy. why? BECAUSE LIFE IS SHORT, MY CHICKENS!!! BE A NERD!!! 

once time we went into someone’s era-accurate house and i was wearing shorts and the mom screamed and threw herself at me, hiding me behind her so that the boys couldn’t see my legs and then made me put on this big hilarious skirt they had. i was thrilled and wore it around the whole day and was like, “COLONIAL MOM, LOOK HOW MODEST I AM,” and that poor employee was like, “i can see now that i made a huge tiny mistake.”

[sidneycrosbyisawitch]

is there a comprehensive playlist somewhere for the crowdsourced taylor hall playlist?

okay so if we want to continue this taylor hall crowdsourcing… here’s a collaborative youtube playlist everyone can add to for maximum damage

eta: now also a collaborative playlist on spotify lmao

[ofgeography]

Public! Friend, I should like to tell you that your hockey primers are what got me to understand hockey, and I am therefore either owing you a great debt or a sad glare because hockey is now consuming me slowly. You say in your header that you're not into sharks, but how about The Sharks? And do you think we could merge tampa and san jose to produce a superteam called Sharknado?

my complicated relationship with sharks as a marine species does not extend to Sharks as a hockey species! i am glad my primers were helpful to you, although they are INCREDIBLY out of date. sorry about all those super sweet 2013 #jokes. as for combining tampa and san jose, my only hesitation is: a bird may love a fish but where would they live, you know what i’m saying?

[ladytemeraire]

i'm cool with public conversations!! (we could also switch to the messenger feature, I suppose?) tags are such a cool form of expression on this site, y'know? like half the commentary and cool stuff comes in the tags, not as added text. i don't feel like we really see that anywhere else? not that i can think of anyway. it's an extension of hashtags, maybe.

It’s whatever you’re comfortable with - I’m fine with either, though I’m on mobile most of the day because I’m at work and I generally wait until I’m at my computer to answer asks so I can tag (and also be sure I won’t bork any formatting).

And yes, exactly this. I think part of it is that there’s this weird... I don’t know if pushback is the right word, but I feel like people feel like they’re not supposed to add commentary when they reblog things in most cases. (Plus on things like chat-style posts you literally CAN’T add commentary without it looking weird.) It’s not something that’s easy to articulate and it’s very Tumblr-specific, but I think that’s a big reason behind a lot of the commentary in the tags.

Honestly I use the tags for most of my commentary even when I know it’s “okay” to comment on something (I have an entire dedicated tag as proof of this), just because I’m kind of shy about putting myself out there. I’ve actually found myself reflexively “reaching for” tags on other sites when I have things I kind of want to say but don’t necessarily want to put in the main “post”. And then it’s like “wait... Facebook doesn’t have a tags feature like that, dangit.”

It’s kind of the textual equivalent of muttering under your breath - the post itself is what gets reblogged and seen by other people, but they have to be paying attention if they want to catch things in the tags.

But yeah, I really love seeing fun commentary in the tags. Do you ever idly check people’s tags when they reblog something from you? I feel like such a creeper when I do, lol, but I love seeing what people think about the things I put on my blog!

[ofgeography]

it's your birthday? many happy returns, may you find a twenty dollar bill on the ground and get lots of kisses from puppies or kittens or, like, iguanas if that's your pet of choice. may your favorite team do all the scoring, and all the winning, and may your coffee drinks be infinitely large and delicious.

this wonderful birthday wish covers maslow’s hierarchy of needs completely

[satellitesandfallingstars]

-Somehow I’ve found myself back here, because time is a flat circle and my decision to make a Tumblr account in 2009 means fuck it! We ball! in God’s own year 2025.

-Someday I’ll remember how to tag but until that day, Godspeed on navigating this blog.

-I’m gravityinglass on AO3, I write chaotic shit. Like it or don’t, I’m officially fandom old these days.

-No, I’m not sure how I ended up here again either. Let’s make the best of it.

[ladytemeraire]

1, 15, 22, 25, 39, 51, 57, and 94!

Oooh lots of questions here!

1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans?

Coffee mugs for hot beverages, wine glasses for cold. (I am That Person who drinks cranberry juice out of wine glasses in the morning.) I like the look of teacups but don’t actually own any!

15. favorite book you read as a school assignment?

Probably Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles! I remember loving the variety of stories in them, and of course sci-fi is one of my favorite things.

22. role model?

To quote myself from a previous Q&A: Fred Rogers. Chiune Sugihara. Carrie Fisher. Malala Yousafzai. Literally any woman who was a pioneer or “first” in her particular field - I have a poster of Margaret Hamilton with her enormous stack of handwritten code hanging next to my desk at work.

25. first song you remember hearing?

This lullaby by Michael Card. My parents used to play his Sleep Sound In Jesus album (on cassette! CDs were not a thing yet!) when it was bedtime for a good bit of my childhood, and I still find it very soothing.

39. lemon cake or lemon meringue pie?

Lemon cake!

51. current stresses?

Taxes, family nonsense, trying to get in shape/back in the habit of working out, trying to write but not having the spoons for it.

57. the three biggest struggles you’ve overcome?

Hmm. This took quite a bit of thought, but here’s what I settled on:

Upending my entire life to move to a different state for my first job (in hindsight I cannot believe how cavalier I was about this, I blame wonky brain chemistry)

Bouncing back from getting laid off with no warning from a contract position (VERY difficult if, like me, you internalize everything and view your work as a reflection of yourself and your worth)

Clawing my way out of the pit of depression over the past year (still an ongoing effort but I’m getting there!)

94. favorite season?

Autumn! I love the mix of warm and cool weather, all the colors and smells and foods associated with it, and getting to wear my sweaters and boots~!

Thank you so much for asking!

(weird asks that say a lot)