Rebloging, and sometimes even posting!! ( but usually on side blogs @janettinniter and @bonnyjanett)
Hiiiii!!! :DDD
My name is Antea21, Ann for short!
She/her, tired student, and true UwU believer
Mostly reblogs, sometimes my own posts when inspiration strikes and I’m very welcome of any messages and questions about my postcard collection :>!
credit for the blinkies to pawpr1nc3, amy and anakin from here
English translation: I've been called a monster for so long I can now only feel numbness at those words instead of pain, I'm satisfied with that
English translation: In some hidden depths of my heart I'm still disappointed and sad over what I now like to downplay as a "small setback" but is, in fact, the origin of my whole fucking problem. Just like when the two people I could consider similar to me - you, the "alien from outside", and Kusanali, "the rejected god", joined forces to oppose me. Which I have not forgotten, by the way
English translation: But things are different now. My astute, pain-averse mind now protects me with an additional layer of emotional suppression. Just as the rich do not quibble with the poor, I willingly distance myself from society, before you can reject me for the nth time, and will just shut my eyes when facing these """"trivial affairs""""
Ever since starting to publish romance novels I’ve been checking out the romance books at the thrift store specifically for the clinch covers, as a reference for what I might want to do with my own books.
As a culture we mocked these to extinction but I think we were just afraid of their power. The modern clinch revival still hasn't reached the heady heights of what they were doing in the 80s! The vintage covers can be really quite explicit. These ones in particular were steamy enough they had to be hidden on an inner flap.
This episode of the Smart Bitches Trashy Books podcast where they interview Shirley Green and Sharon Spiak, who were romance novel cover artists in the 80s, is a fascinating look at what a huge industry these covers were. Did you know they had whole photography studios full of props to make these? They’d take photos and turn those over to a painter who’d make something like a couple of these a day. They had it down to a science.
Here is a particular favourite of mine, also by Sharon Spiak!
A pair of precious shoes
English added by me :)
It’s labeled mature because a single glance at these heels will kill you
It’s labeled mature
because a single glance at
these heels will kill you
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned
Each Benoit Blanc film takes place in a different season and classic murder mystery setting.
Knives Out: Autumn in a country house
Glass Onion: Summer on a private island
Wake up Dead Man: Spring in a small town
So the next film in the cycle needs to be set in winter on a mode of transportation.
The people yearn for Murder on the Orient Express
‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!
They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.
