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@ghostyouknow27 / ghostyouknow27.tumblr.com

This blog no longer knows its purpose. It wanders, adrift, like a sad robot leaking oil across an apocalyptic landscape.
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architeuthism
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flittering-sylph

Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.

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gollyplot

If thou this mistake shouldst make on thine own blog, then know, villain, that thou art a dirty descriptivist, and no friend of mine. Ne'er should language itself alter, it doth remain fixèd as such, untouch’d by change. Wouldst thou, vile descriptivist, that we forget the heritage of our great tongue? Nay, say I. Thou art but a dickhead who sayest so.

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kingfucko

stynt ðy clappe! beoð ðo writerris be wetleas knafen. ðy langag o engelond diffoulened be, ille usenid bi sclaundrous novelri.

#humor#language
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ladyofthelog
Conservatives: Let's go back to the good old times of the 1950s.
1950s: Had 92% income tax for the mega wealthy which allowed for households with a single breadwinner. Had minimum wage high enough to get somebody through college.
Conservatives: No... not that part. The sexism and racism part is the one I like...
#u.s. politics#also boys wore pink#in fact everyone just really liked pink#to demonstrate our technical superiority over the soviets#we brought a pink kitchen filled with pink appliances to a world's fair#this is probably my favorite thing about the 1950s#decade i feel no need to return to#i believe it was the brussel's world fair
ghostyouknow27

Due to technical difficulties, etc., I am retiring this tumblr blog (and maybe deleting it; I haven’t decided) and starting a new one. If you want to know where the new one is and I know you in some way, message me. There’s not much there yet, and it will most likely have some hockey on it when all is said and done, but hopefully I’ll have some new functionality and can reply and stuff!

#breaking Ghost news
ghostyouknow27

Stop & Go Traffic Game

When I am stuck in stop-and-go traffic, I play a game. The game is called “see how long I can go without hitting my brakes” and involves driving really, really slowly -- slow enough that when the car ahead of me stops, I can keep rolling along and never catch up to them. Theoretically, if I never hit my brakes, the car behind me never has to hit them either, and neither does the car behind them, and soon enough one lane of traffic will all be moving at a steady pace instead of being stuck in a traffic jam. The traffic jam is gone then! Yippee!

I say theoretically, because it never works out that way.

- People see the open lane in front of you and come in from every direction to jump in front on you, forcing you to stop your car. It’s almost funny to watch this happen. They’re just so excited to see some road!

- The person behind you continues the “rush ahead; slam brakes” style of driving, even though they could easily match your 3-5 mph pace, which is still better than everyone else’s 15, 0, 15, 0 mph pace.

- The person behind you honks their horn, finds a space to get in front of you, speeds up to fill the gap you’ve carefully cultivated between yourself and the next car ahead, and then slams their brakes, because being all of one car length ahead of you is crucial to their personal happiness. Or maybe because they have to demonstrate their preferred method of being stuck in traffic. This game doesn’t have points, but I’m pretty sure you get points for that.

So anyway that is the game, and it makes you way more zen about traffic jams, so everyone should play.

#the real winners ride bikes#someday someone is gonna break out a baseball bat and I will die playing this game
ghostyouknow27

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt...

... Is awesome. It is an awesome show. Kimmy is a great character, because she is Disney Princess sunshine-sparkle bright, but her painful backstory and related trauma keep her from being cloying or stupid. I really enjoyed her.

The theme song, however, is an earworm sprung from the depths of hell.

#unbreakable kimmy schmidt#spoilers
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So I can't be the only one here to watch Äkta människor...

i.e., the Swedish robot show.

I liked it! Mostly the first season. The second season went a bit too nuts for me. The defenders of Hubot Battle Land were funny, I guess, and I enjoy that the hubots are out to destroy all humans and/or assimilate them. Normally that kind of thing makes me wary, but at least all the non-Niska and non-Bea hubots seem harmless, so the hate group stuff is not quite as cringy as it was on True Blood, imo. And this apparently started as a human's plan.

But the second season's pacing was kinda whaaaaat, especially with Flash's story. She meets Douglas. He immediately finds out she's a hubot. They immediately get married. She immediately kidnaps a baby. They immediately buy said baby. Gordon immediately kills Douglas. I'm also not sure why the hubot affirmation makes Gordon so much more violent than it did Mimi. I assume all David's Children have past lives as humans, but maybe not? Sometimes I feel like individual scenes worked better than the narrative they were a part of, which is likely a credit to the actors.

Also, Odi is my favorite. Long live Odi.

#Äkta människor#spoilers#why is xkit always all gone when I come to tumblr?
ghostyouknow27

So does anyone know any good tutorials for Corel Painter? I've scribbled around in it, but it's not terribly intuitive, I don't think! It's much easier to figure out how RL brushes and pencils will behave!

#pleas for help