This blog is a hoarder case.

"kiss my ass" ✅

via @swatercolor [insta]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

fanfic that is none of my business

I dunno where I'm going with this, and I'm not trying to start discourse, just, like, the idea of monetizing fanwork is very new, relatively speaking, and it's strange to me that people get so mad when someone says they can't, I guess, because this used to be Known.

Don’t just double down, recognize it - call it out in your writing, and make sure everyone who reads it KNOWS IT! Just because it is, doesn’t mean it’s BAD, in fact, it’s amazing that you even noticed it was! That means you have self-awareness and can now do things on purpose, and it’s great

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It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

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.

this is my house?