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for @dammmithardison
“It’s only a crime if you get caught, really,” General Kenobi nodded.
“We did get caught, Sir.”
“Semantics, my dear Commander, semantics.”
“This is the best day of my life,” Fox sniffled, holding up the camera again. “General, give us a smile!”
Guys I am begging you please read Brennan Lee Mulligan's story about the Insane Christmas Party. He does not even BEGIN to describe it in the Fireside Chat.
PLEASE. Please. Please take the time to read this.
Smiles at you grinfully and pulls the lever that does something pleasant >:)
[Extremely loud warning siren as a huge industrial machine tucks me cozy in bed]
this is absolutely fucking pathetic now every single fucking streaming service is gonna start doing this shit. all y'all had to do was not watch Netflix and let it flop for a few months and they would have given up
This is very misleading, and that's on purpose.
The data they're using, at least the data that I saw, was from a four day period (May 23rd - 27th) before the account sharing ban went into effect on the 1st of June. They're doing this to try and convince people there's no real means to fight back against them.
Here is the data I was talking about.
And a close-up so y'all can see what I'm talking about.
Notice the sharp drop that came immediately after the spike in new subscribers? Also, notice how they had to cut it off almost immediately?
Don't let them fool you into thinking it's futile to fight back.
Omg that might be even better
Well it is indeed very hard to resist that cilt simulation
Great advice, but I’ll argue one point - I don’t think Likes are useless! It’s true content creators don’t love them, as they don’t share the post with a wider audience like reblogs do, but they can be useful on a personal level. I often use likes as a “save for later” function (though this would work better if likes could be organized at all, but alas), so if I’m in public and can’t watch a video/listen to an audio post but would like to later, it goes into my Likes. If there’s a long post or article I’d like to read but don’t have the brain power at the moment, it goes into my Likes. Then later when it’s more appropriate, I’ll go through my recent Likes and watch/listen/read and either unlike or reblog as I wish.
They can also serve a social function, especially among mutuals. If someone makes a personal post and I want them to know I read it and sympathize but it wouldn’t be appropriate to share via reblog, a Like can be a way of acknowledging the post without giving it to a wider audience than OP might want. I don’t do this often, usually only with people I’ve gotten to know somewhat well, but it is a valid function of the Like.
Now go forth armed with knowledge and enjoy One of the Websites of All Time.
I have never yet been tempted to write omegaverse fic I must admit, but I feel I should perhaps do my part in protecting ao3 from scrapers.................
Come to think of it, star wars writers with their kriffs and their transparasteel and their banthashits are all doing their bit starwarsify the data
Writers start watermarking your work with made up words
Do your part for fandom by writing Star Wars omegaverse kriffing with Therm Scissorpunch speaking sweet nothings in Mando’a while fucking Elan Sleazebaggano up against the transparisteel while they vacation on Nal Hutta!
[Video description: Four videos that have been stitched together; the first three are captioned. One: A lawyer in a suit says smugly, "I sued a 9-year-old kid and won!" Two: A bearded person sits outside and says ironically, "I challenged a nine year old kid to a basketball game and won." Three: A person wearing a yellow bandanna as a sweatband says dramatically, "I challenged a nine year old kid to a bench press competition, and won." Four: A (presumably) nine year old kid walks across a lawn, shaking their head slightly and sounding out of breath as they say, "I had the worst day of my life." End description.]
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I want OP to know that because of this post, I entered my cat in a show as a household pet. He even got 1st place in a couple of the judgings!
Police officers could solve real problems. They could be out there feeding hot soup to the unhoused, making sure that hazardous garbage is kept away from daycares, or doing something about all these birds that keep shitting on my car. Instead of those productive things, Officer Bringdown is here, on the side of the road, spending my tax money to hand me a ticket for more of my money.
Or at least he would be, if he could figure out how to work his dorky little ticket printer. You see, I have an ace up my sleeve. Not only is my car old, and difficult to place, but I’ve made certain modifications to the vehicle that render its legal state “complicated.” My shark of an attorney, Max, brags about the bear trap of intermingled kit-car laws and year-of-manufacture exclusions that have led to this vehicle being one hundred percent approved-of by the government, in any condition I dictate, whether they meant to or not.
“Uhh, how do you spell ‘Duesenberg’ again?” the cop asks, betraying his lack of education in the classics. I spell it out for him, and explain again that the replica registration exception of December 1986 means that a 1921 Model J does not need to have operational turn signals or a functional speedometer.
“How is this a replica of a 1921 car? It says Plymouth on the hood.” he asks me suspiciously, behind mirrored aviator shades. I am familiar with this shift in conversation. I see now that he has fallen into the first legal pit without complaint. I was hoping for a more worthy opponent.
“Officer, has the state rendered upon you an encyclopedic knowledge and unimpeachable legal authority of what a 1921 Duesenberg Model J consists and does not consist of?” I ask him, reading off a sheet that has been provided by my attorney, who would really rather that I shut the fuck up entirely, but who I know secretly thrills at the chance to end another state trooper’s career in the court of law in which he is akin to a walking god. Dude has groupies.
The cop demurs, tries to change the subject, save some face. “What’s that smell?” he asks.
“Hydrazine.”
one of those time travel AUs where Vader goes back into his body as Anakin before he fell to the dark side and fixes everything. Palpatine is dead, the Jedi are alive, and everyone’s happy. He never found out who Luke’s twin sister was, but that’s fine because this time around he’ll get to know both of them from birth. The twins are born and Padmé says she wants to name their daughter Leia! :) And Anakin thinks, Hmm. Looking back I can see that Princess Leia was a good person, and we were only enemies because I went and became a Sith. Okay we can name our daughter Leia :)
Years pass and Leia starts growing older. The Organas adopt a completely different girl. Anakin’s looking at his daughter like no, it can’t be. No way. Do NOT tell me that Princess Leia was Luke’s twin all along, but time keeps passing and it becomes increasingly apparent that this is indeed the case, and now he’s having a Crisis
apparently I’m physically incapable of posting an au and then not drawing something for it
I mentioned it before but it is very striking to me that as of the last tumblr update, there are now no (0) ways to open someone's desktop blog from a dashboard post. like you can't access the url dot tumblr dot com page at all now unless you already know it exists. imo this seems like a canary that personal blog pages will be gone very shortly, which would suck, since to me that is one of the only good things this site has going for it
Correction: you can still open the top-level URL.tumblr.com link from someone's avatar on the dashboard (so, someone you follow). Actually, I should specify. Here's a post on the dashboard with seven ways to access a post:
So you can access the custom blog, but not a post on a custom blog, despite the plethora of links. Very annoying.
No, here’s the worst part: you can indeed get the link of the post you are clicking on and view it on the person’s custom blog!
IT’S JUST ON THE FUCKING MEATBALL MENU TIMESTAMP INSTEAD FOR SOME REASON I DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS SITE
oh my god
fanfiction is like. here's a piece of my soul! here's the parts of me i didn't know what else to do with! i wrapped them up in something i love in an attempt to understand my own feelings and morals and maybe the whole world. hope you like it.
One of my favourite post formats is when someone with a similar URL to op torments them like they are failed clones of each other and it completely changes the tone of the original post.
So. I think we have some things in common
I have gone on and on about Patrick Testerone Swayze pursuing this role and nailing it, but I really do want to point out that Wesley Snipes has absolutely no shame talking about the role and has been known to bring it up when people list his movies and don't include it.
Sometimes (lots of times) (all the time), I have the urge to do a thing but i dont know what. Or, I feel weird, but can't figure out why or what to do to fix it. ADHD, executive dysfunction, how I feel, and the phase of the moon can all make it really hard for me to think of a solution to the issue -- or even know what the issue IS. And while meds and regular sleep certainly help, for better or for worse my brain just isn't wired for this.
So, I decided to outsource my brain.
I couldn't find an app that did what I wanted or was customizable enough for me to fake it. Therefore I built an analog external brain to do my thinking for me.
First, I bought a small, 100-or-so page notebook. It was about eight bucks at my Local Corporate Book Retailer.
Then, I logicked out all the possibilities I might have trouble braining, and started adding each step to the book -- kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
Here's an example path, which starts with me knowing what I want, and the analog brain telling me how to get there. I twisted my ankle a couple weeks ago and keep forgetting to do things to make it better, so here's my solution:
[image: Do you know what you want? Yes -> 1, No -> 32. Yes is circled]
Yes, analog brain, I know what I want! Let me flip to page 1.
[Image of Page 1: What do you want to do? Exercise -> 2 is circled. Other options include Read -> 13, Watch something -> 20, Eat ->31, Be creative -> 25, Have an adventure ->26, Clean something ->28, Learn something->29.]
Still know what I want, so I flip to page 2.
[Image page 2: What kind of exercise do you want to do? PT -> 5 is circled. Other options include Weights -> 3, Cardio -> 4, Yoga -> 9, Something quick -> 10, Hiking -> 11, Adventure -> 12]
Skipping some pages now! Since this is meant to bounce me around, it doesn't make sense to try and read it in order. (On the plus side, that makes it super easy to add new options to any part of the tree).
[Image page 5: What kind of PT? Ankle ->6 is circled. Other options include Knee->6a, Neck->7, Shoulders->8.]
(When I first numbered the pages, 6 and 6a werw stuck together, whoooops)
[Image page 6: A list of ankle PT exercises]
Eyyyyy my external brain showed me how to do my flippin' PT so my ankle stops hurting! Yay!
But what about when I don't know wtf is wrong or wtf I want? There's an app analog brain for that! (Yes I'm aware its called a decision tree or process flow or what have you. Let me have this).
[Image: Do you know what you want? No->32 is circled]
No, spacebook, idfk what's wrong, I can't brain today.
[Image page 32: How are you feeling? In pain ->33 is circled. Other options include Overstimulated->37, Understimulated, Panicky->43.]
(As you can see, I have plans to add a page for overstimulated but have not done it yet.)
Oh yeah my ankle kinda hurts, maybe I can do something about that...
[Image of page 33: What kind of pain? Knee/ankle/neck/etc ->35 is circled. Other options include Menstrual nonsense->34, Head->38.]
[Image of page 35: Joint/old injury pain: Take advil, Ice or heat, Massage, Foam roll, Warm bath, PT exercises. Under the last option are subsets Ankle->6 (circled), Neck->6a, Knees->7.]
...Aaaand now I'm back around to my list of ankle PT exercises! And I didnt have to think at all!
Anyway -- all it takes to make something like this for yourself is a notebook and some time to think the logic through. You can start by making lists (not in the notebook) of questions you have trouble braining in the moment, and what some solutions are. Then number your pages, and get started!
WOW ok so i guess people like this idea, ok ok ok ok cool cool cool cool.
Since I know how hard it is to Think Up Stuff (oh how I know), for anyone who wants to give this a shot, here are some additional pages from my analog brain:
The main thing is to think about your own personal needs, and don't be afraid to break it down into specifics!
As you can see, I have a lot of problems with pain, especially head pain. So instead of creating one solutions page for If Headache, I determine what kind of headache I'm dealing with, and then create a unique solutions page for each one.
Yes, there will be some overlap -- "take advil" is pretty much always going to be on there -- but having separate pages for sinus headache vs tension migraine means i don't have to THINK about which one I have. I just go to the correct page and do what it tells me.
Think about your own needs, particularly where you get mentally tripped up or stalled on your way to Doing A Thing. And think about your goals, too! I want to start reading some of the ten million books I already own, so I made a bunch of different pages listing my books by genre. I pick a page based on what I'm in the mood for, and then instead of looking at my OVERWHELMING OVERSTUFFED BOOKCASE OF DESTINY and nope-ing out, I look at a list of 10 or so titles and say, "Ah yes, Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean sounds perfect!"
So anyway. This is still a work in progress, but eventually I want to add some color coding, as well as attach some labeled tabs for frequent-use pages so I can skip straight to them when needed (like the panic attack treatment page, for instance).
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mmmh I grew up very poor and im always very stressed about money and I can never figure out what goal im supposed to set for myself that would allow me to be like "okay this good this is decent I can relax a little" so here's a question for all of you :
please money anxiety is so big for me I always wonder how it manifests in other but not a lot of people accept to talk about it
(for reference rn 1000€=1071$)
I'm genuinely surprised by the amount of people who voted 1000/2000€, I didn't realize so many people were that chill about money
