orthography not sorcery

If it doesn't cost you to be kind, then be kind (even to yourself)

[moveslikekeithrichards]

this might be kind of a reach but is there a way for printers to connect to devices so that documents can be printed from them

[withaninotay]

Uhg. Back in the ancient before times when it had a port and a pin connector - sure.

Now? Not in my experience.

And if you are super unlucky corporate will have helpfully provided you with a printer and then immediately decided that the brand selected was a security risk, and force removed the drivers. You will occasionally have an IT call centre person remote in to reinstall them (badly) but by then the toner is more of a suggestion than a function. . .

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Reading LM Montgomery has got me thinking that in some ways we’ve gotten more restrictive about what a “normal” family structure is. It’s not at all uncommon in her books to have households and families made up of groups rather than a couple and/or children. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are brother and sister. Rosemary and Ellen West are sisters. Marilla Cuthbert and Rachel Lynde are friends who move in together. Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, and Emily all live together at New Moon well into Emily’s adulthood and career as an author.

Now, a lot of this is related to the restrictions that women did face in terms of career options and social respectability. Living alone and being self-supporting is a much more common option for women now than it was in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and that’s a very good thing. I think singleness and living alone has become more normalized than it was then for both men and women (modern appliances probably helped with that shift!).

But the flip side is that living with adults other than your spouse – siblings, or other relatives, or friends – on a long-term basis was treated as much more normal then than it is now! Now it’s taken for granted that if you’re single and without kids, you’ll live alone if economically capable of doing do. And I feel like that could he contributing to increases in loneliness. For most of human history, in most societies, I have the impression that it wasn’t typical for single people to live alone. Having the freedom to do so is great! But having it feel atypical to not do so could be guiding people who are genuinely unhappy alone to think that loneliness or finding a romantic partner are their only options.

[withaninotay]

I have a couple of friends who I have talked about this with (the Golden Girls scenario). We know we can live together peaceably, and that living alone means paying the single tax . . .

We're also realists. We saw our grandmothers outlive their spouses and age alone. Now our mothers. And I get it, my mum has a full life in the home town, but I can't move back there and keep my own household running. . . So the day will come much sooner when we have to make hard choices then maybe they would have if she'd moved in with a good friend or a sibling or a cousin after she was widowed . . . The supply of indigent distant female relatives is unfortunately not what it was at the end of the 1800s.

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

looked up Heidi because I'm a journalist

for reasons I can't imagine this publisher of sexless Alaska love stories is averaging under 20 likes each on posts about her books, so if I can be so honest I kind of have my doubts that her books are getting read even with the excessive use of generous lending policies

[ariaste]

Also her claim that authors are not getting paid per borrow is.... wrong. With ebooks (which is what she's talking about here with Libby) there are two forms of licensing for libraries to lend out ebooks.

The first kind is that they buy a license for a pre-determined amount of check-outs. I'll just make some numbers up for the sake of illustrating what that looks like: Let's say $20 for 20 borrows. When the ebook has been checked out 20 times, the library has to renew the license and pay more money in order to continue lending out the ebook. The author gets a cut of that $20 as their royalties.

The second kind is literally paying per borrow. (Again just making up numbers here) Let's say the library pays 50 cents every time the book is checked out. The author still gets a cut as their royalties. Is it just 10 or 20 cents per borrow? Yes, but that adds up! AND it means that people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to read my book at all are able to read it, which is great! AND it means that the library is thriving and being used, which is also great!

So yes, authors DO get paid from library activity!!!!!!

Do not feel guilty for using the library. I don't know one single author (except this Little Miss Ma'am in the screenshots, apparently) who would resent their readers for using libraries.

[withaninotay]

It's not piracy Georg, it's the library.

[bargainbasementrichardpapen]

veronica mars 1x21 a trip to the dentist (2005) you are so important to me....best episode of television ever made....

[withaninotay]

So much happens in a single episode. The "my girlfriend" declaration. Closure (ish) on the sexual assault storyline. The reveal in the pool house. Weevil's no questions asked pick up from an 09er house.

This is the telenovela episode that sets up the horror movie that is the season finale. Two fantastic episodes of teen TV.

[sunburst-stratocaster914]

I need to know does anyone else love haiku bot the way I do

or even know what it is bc it’s cool

It shows me a lot of cool posts I otherwise wouldn’t have seen just bc of a cute little grammar quirk in a caption!

haiku bot oh how I adore you

[the-haiku-bot]

I need to know does

anyone else love haiku

bot the way I do

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[withaninotay]

Feeling seen today

Because I love haiku bot

And sharing with you

[fatedxdestiny]

"Try and remember everything you touched the day before you got busted."

[withaninotay]

Veronica and Weevil, working overtime at the innuendo factory, as usual.

[socratesgirl]

i try to not be totally anti angel or anti bangel because i love angel i really like buffy and angel in the early parts of the series but just thinking abt how more powerful the symbolism would be if they stuck to the idea that him turning evil after they had sex was about how having a relationship with an older guy is great and then he can suddenly turn really nasty with you and she is unable to kill him right away because she's young and she needs time to process what's happening and the symbolism of angel turning back into the sweet loving guy moments before she kills him being that when you try to end things or stand up to your ab*ser they revert into a guy who's really sorry/sweet again and buffy has to actively choose to kill him because even though she loved this part of him she can't risk the monster coming back like if that's where it ended it would be fantastic

[raccoonmilf]

Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)

[raccoonmilf]

For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.

So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.

[raccoonmilf]

We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon

[raccoonmilf]

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.

[raccoonmilf]

Those vibes are likely because I’m the original creator of Dashcon and my personality has not changed since 2012 lmao

[fipindustries]

[withaninotay]

The devine word!

[laufeysons]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REWATCH -> Who Are You? (4.16)

[withaninotay]

This episode is just two young actors (who will never be taken seriously enough because - patriarchy) chewing on the scenery and signalling the whole body swap storyline without breaking a sweat.

So good. Makes me so angry.

[ladyshinga]

There are few things funnier to me than the white-hot raging beef parents can have with fictional characters written for young children. You want to hear one of the funniest rants of your life, you ask nearly any parent of a young child their least favorite little cartoon guy. It'll be amazing.

[ladyshinga]

no. i want them to find me organically on this one

[withaninotay]

But there is a right answer.

Caillou

[iero]

T-shirt that says "I'M SORRY FOR THE PERSON I BECOME WHEN I'M OVERHEATED"

[withaninotay]

The tags included mention of SSRI sweats . . . And psychiatric drug folks . . . I need you all to stay up to date on the advice from Climate Scientists and Public Health scientists -> excess death statistics from heat events suggest that heat disproportionately impacts people using some psychiatric drugs, especially those with "anticholinergic" (common side effects include dehydration, dry mouth, dry eye) effects. Stay informed and seek supports during extreme heat.

For many of you those drugs are instrumental to living your lives, to saving your lives, I want you to stay saved.

[clarkgriffon]

VERONICA MARS + Outfits (Season 1)

[withaninotay]

Rebagel so that I can play Season 1 rewatch outfit bingo later.

Love this.

[greelin]

“why did you write this man as a service top” because i have eyes. and common sense. And also god spoke to me

[sigunnlafeyson]

[withaninotay]

He has doubts.

[buffygifs]

Buffy Summers & Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2x14 | "Innocence"

bonus:

[withaninotay]

This. This is why we loved it despite its flaws. Because life, and the media, and experience had taught us to expect to be punished for sex (as Buffy was) and to be held responsible for our partner's actions, but instead we saw her given grace, and validated, and loved in the face of a disastrous consequence. This was something that needed to be said, and this very flawed show in this moment said it.

[glowwormcentral-deactivated2021]

[lawyer voice] mothers and fuckers of the jury-

[hellenhighwater]

DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN I THINK ABOUT THIS POST??? IM IN LAW SCHOOL THIS POST IS GOING TO RUIN MY LIFE

[toontwink]

reblog to ruin a law student’s life

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

oh hello you’ve returned to us

[hellenhighwater]

Hi. I’m a trial attorney now and every last one of you is a motherfucker.

[withaninotay]

Circular motherfucker economy?

Self-motherfucking prophecy?

[beesmygod]

do you take a werewolf boyfriend to the vet or the doctor. this is too complicated

[fairyofthemoonarchive]

[takineko]

Context: she had babies with a werewolf and isn’t sure where to take them either.

[i-peed-so-hard-i-laughed-deacti]

she had babies with a what

[deathsmallcaps]

He died :(

[rainbowmilk1996]

Raising kids alone is stressful enough without them being part wolf.

[the-haiku-bot]

Raising kids alone

is stressful enough without

them being part wolf.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[withaninotay]

Amen.

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[therustyskull]

@ralfmaximus Showers that will kill you

[ralfmaximus]

Holy shit I thought this was a Sims bit or someone playing with CAD software, but the last few seconds knocked me out

[batbetbitbotbut]

@thebibliosphere I'm pretty sure you are the appropriate recipient for other people's terrifying home renovation choices

[withaninotay]

Patron Saint of unhinged renovation.