^ This is Brownie. I’ve had him since I was 1 year old, apparently. I remember insisting that teddy bears were 1 when they are born, so that we would be the same age.
I had a whole bunch of stuffed toys as a kid, but he’s the only one I have left, and the others vanished when my parents moved.
^ Mittens. When I moved to the city for university, my grandma sent her to me, because I’d never lived without cats before, and she didn’t want me to be lonely. <3
^ Shelby. I got her at the Denver Aquarium when we went to the US to visit the aforementioned grandma. I’m so glad she got to meet my wife, and Shelby will always remind me of that trip.
^ Squiddy. I got him from the free box at the thrift store we used to live next to. Honestly, I was just amazed at the idea of a plush squid.
^ Mortimer. He was a birthday present from my wife. She also got me turtle socks. (Can you guess yet what my favourite animal is?)
^ Myrtle the Purple Turtle. Some work friends got her for me as a surprise when I came out to them. She lived on my work desk for ages.
^ Moira. My first dragon plushie. She always looks sad.
^ Ember. Both she & Moira were birthday presents the same year, but I don’t remember which one I got first.
Ember sometimes comes in the car or my purse with me.
^ Meryl. She’s a weighted lap turtle that I got not terribly long after my autism diagnosis, and after we discovered the joy of weighted blankets. I sit with her on my lap every single day.
^ Poppy is so huge & so huggable. I got her as a gift to myself for making it through the first lockdown in 2020.
^ Gizmo. A Nameday present from my mum. He fits on my shoulder.
^ Romeo. A Valentine’s gift from my wife <3
^ Charity. I bought her with an Easter egg this year, with my first paycheck from my new job.
^ Millicent! I got her at a craft market just last weekend. @thankyouforyourcooperation saw the same stall, and was tempted to buy her (or a sibling) for me.
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We’re under a severe thunderstorm warning rn and my dad just opened the door to show my dog because he was begging to go out and it reminded me of that part in Dracula where Dracula opens the door to the howling wolves and Jonathan’s like um actually I’ll stay inside thanks
you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too
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Fantasy writers should be more anthropology brained. More theology brained. More wacky intellectual history brained. You should be giving out interesting and novel but believable social structures. Oh they don't have monogamy they have some other thing and they're just as violent about it? Perfect. There should be religions that aren't just gods of x y z. Folio gods are out! And the theology shouldn't fall apart from a moderately intelligent person thinking about it for 4 seconds. Of it falls apart in five econds that's fine. Like just crazy enough to think that a real human society could get down with it. There should be like bizarre new architecture that ye oldifies modernist movements. Oh amd the thing where every city and region is somehow completely homogenous is crazy; do something else. Put people living together with a complicated history. Oh and you can just give them a completely different conceptual scheme for talking about gay and trans people. That would be fun. I should be saying "I never thought of it that way." Make up norms and then think what are all the ways in which this can go wrong. Tell me how people disagree on the interpretation of some doctrine. Create a parodying spectre of some constitutional arrangement. Go crazy
I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby
English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son
I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”
So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid
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I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.
I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.
dont store a knife with the point facing down, it damages the blade. no, dont do that either. when you store it with the point facing up you might accidentally hurt yourself when you try to grab it. dont store a knife at all actually. your blade must never leave your hand, always ready, ruthless and waiting. you know deep down that ever since you learned the stench of blood you will never be able to cast it aside. or just get a sheath for it i guess.
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Weirdly enough, the purpose of this purse cleanout was to move stuff from my old bag (the strap was breaking for some mysterious reason that's probably completely unrelated to anything in this post) to a new bag that looks like it should be bigger, but actually holds less stuff. Had to remove some of these items, which is an absolute injustice.
(The rocks are staying, because what if I need a cool rock for something in an emergency? Also because they're getting a nice little polish from jostling around all the time in the inevitable beach sand that ends up in every bag I own.)
Tumblr users over here trying to foil my plans to disappear into the ocean with a bag full of shiny rocks to bribe the merfolk into letting me live with them.
Okay admittedly I have no solid proof that this particular locket is cursed. Honestly it's mostly just wishful thinking. But maybe someday...
I really wanted to get a picture of my other actual, really definitely cursed locket for this post, but I'm currently unable to find it.
Edited to add because Tumblr was really determined to post this before I was done:
The actual really definitely cursed locket is an antique French poison locket. It has a lovely little fly design and some suspicious powder residue inside. Due to the suspicious powders, it's sadly not a safely wearable piece of jewelry. The fact that it's no longer in the box I thought it was in is concerning on multiple levels (it's probably toxic, definitely expensive, and also a much-loved gift), but feels pretty on-brand for a cursed locket. Hopefully it'll come back to haunt me in the near future.
Listen. Listen. There could have been any number of reasons for the strap of my new bag to spontaneously snap in the middle of the grocery store. You don't need to call me out like this. It could have been completely unrelated to the rocks!
Also, the umbrella thing a few weeks ago proves nothing. The fact that there was an audible scattering of trinkets onto the sidewalk when I opened my umbrella (a small, purse-sized umbrella! a reasonable umbrella to carry around in one's bag!) does not in any way imply that there were too many trinkets in my bag. I have no idea how those coins, rocks, and random bits of broken jewelry got in there. It's an utter mystery.
In conclusion, I blame the fashion industry and their utter lack of understanding of the contents of the average person's purse. They need to understand that a bag that can't handle forty-seven cool rocks is simply not practical for everyday use.
Honestly, at this point, if you're still bitching about AI but not moving to open-source and nonprofit software/tech/services, you deserve it. Shut up or stop using it. Those of us who've put in the effort to switch to non-evil tech are sick of the purposeless whining.
I've been nicely letting everyone suggest open source on this post because it might genuinely be useful to someone but because you've decided to be a condescending little bastard- this might be a hard concept to grasp, but some of us actually have jobs. Some of those jobs also provide us with computers equipped with an OS we have zero say over, to use software we also have zero say over. Kindly get off your high horse and suck my dick.
As someone who has worked in IT for the past 17 years, I'd also like to say that there is often a higher barrier of entry for open-source software / operating systems when it comes to technical knowledge and ability, and those who can't jump that barrier still deserve to not have AI programs installed on their devices without their knowledge or consent. Someone who struggles with Windows is not going to be able to just hop into Linux, especially when they probably have other things going on in their lives and don't have the time to sit down and learn a brand new operating system. Someone who doesn't even recognize that there are different browsers, much less open-source ones that aren't Chromium forks, isn't going to be able to seek out one they can both a.) safely download, b.) install, and c.) use instead of the shortcut they know as The Internet.
And sure, you can dismiss these people as lazy, as stupid, as being elderly and so who cares. But from my 17 years of experience, I can tell you that technical instinct and ability varies widely across the entire adult spectrum. And I can also tell you that people have different strengths, and that just because someone isn't good with computers doesn't mean they aren't smart as hell.
And I can also say, again, that it really doesn't matter.
Companies like Microsoft and Google sneaking AI software into devices and software without the consent of those using the software or devices is wrong. It's invasive and raises major security concerns. People should not have to learn entirely new operating systems to escape this nonsense. It's an unreasonable expectation, and it fails to hold companies like Microsoft and Google accountable for their malicious behavior.
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