I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable
oh shit i almost missed it!
you can never go back. this is your one life. you had a bad childhood and that's it. you lost your teen years to mental illness and that's it. you're miserable in your 20s and that's it. you just go forward
Apology
i would like to apologise for the thought bubble containing a cartoon mouse in a dressing gown and nightcap who picked up a small plate with a candle on it, yawned and went to bed which appeared while you were telling me about all your problems
I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.
stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.
bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.
mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:
The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."
Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)
Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."
Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."
Remember to eat so you have the energy and strength to fight the patriarchy and fascism.
GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3
Other things you can do:
- Linked footnotes
- Customized page dividers
- Sticky notes
- Lined paper
- Paper that looks stacked on top of each other
- Old looking paper
- Newspaper articles
- Tumblr posts
- iOS text messages
- Emails
- Fake ao3 authors notes and kudos button
- Freaking discord chats
Its fucking amazing. Ao3 is fucking amazing. Can I legally marry a website?
WHAT
One of those times I'm reblogging something so I can find it again later
You can also do word-changes (for translations, usually) that function via hovertext (for folks with a mouse) or clicking (for folks with a touch screen or a mouse and the desire to click)
doing a little jig
tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.
*trying not to clench my jaw*: if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win if I lose hope they win IF I LOSE HOPE THEY WIN if I lose hope they win if I—
Upside to stop and go traffic- I could get a picture of these absolutely iconic bumper stickers.
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
minnesota spite
a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn't cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don't change course
[ID: tags saying "#you have to tell your friends when something makes you uncomfortable. #you have to tell your friends when they do something that upsets you #you need to have these conversations and you need to learn to not be scared of them #shit Will bubble over time and you will end up blowing up at them for stuff that they did not know you were upset abt #because tjey are not psychic #and you Will lose people this way #not could. you Will" end ID.]
This is crazyy good for her