A Porch Full of Geezers

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Thanks for the mammaries

For the memes that wouldn’t quit

For agreeing to say “I like your shoelaces” if we ever met

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Thanks for the bad puns

For the emotional support

And for opening our eyes to things we’d never seen before

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Thanks for incorrect quotes

For the Mishapocolalypse

For all the OTPs that never quite became canon ships

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Thanks for “the signs as” lists

For the fanmixes and fanfic

And for how a certain imagine could make us squee or squick

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Thanks for AO3 feeds

For aesthetics and moodboards

For how “what is air?” worked when we were lost for words

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Thanks for the headcanons

For shoving breadsticks in your purse

And how we never can forget the phrase “take me to snurch”

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Thanks for the recipes

For how text posts derailed

For gushing about NaNoWriMo even harder when we failed

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Thanks for SuprWhoLock

For cross stitch, knitting, and crochet

And for how Obama dropping the mic meant there was nothing more to say

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Thanks for stories in the tags

For smudged writing on your hand

And for how 3AM drunk posts got many more reblogs than planned

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Thanks for “beeves” and “snoteleks”

For warning that spoilers lay ahead

For how we’d whisper “just one more post”, but never go to bed

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Thanks for arrows to the knee

For letting us obsess

And for when we agreed to disagree on the color of that dress

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Thank you for the Science Side

For spoopy Halloween

For Canada, Australia, and for every place between

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Thanks for “okay, that sounds fake”

For so much lovely art

And for the way a well-made gifset can truly break a heart

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Thanks for the cute animal posts

For the cauliflower grandad

For the way that Denny’s posts made us think that they’d gone mad

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Thanks for “follow forevers”

For every eccentricity and quirk

And for what different people thought of as “not safe for work”

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Thanks for procrastination

For the celebrities we’d roast

For the loyal mutuals who reblogged every post

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Thanks for hiatus therapy

For “trying to find them in a crowd”

And for letting us tell the world the things we’d never say aloud

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So I said “thanks for the mammaries”

But what I really meant to say

A collection of posts with advice for getting you and your blog through whatever this mess is.

Check if your blog has been incorrectly flagged as NSFW (and if it has, get it unflagged before Dec 17th)

See all your blog posts that have been flagged (because tumblr didn’t feel the need to notify you?)

New posts not showing up on your blog and how to fix it (you have not been muted)

Exporting your blog (Tumblr)

Backing up your blog (to WordPress)

Alternative way to backup your blog

Masterpost of Tumblr alternatives

Complaining to Tumblr about this mess

Advice for those who’ve never dealt with a fandom purge before

All of these posts link back to original posts of other blogs, I mostly made this for myself but decided to make it shareable, please respect the following:

If you click through to ANY of these posts, even if you don’t use them, reblog them individually if you’re going to like/reblog this post. 

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

you though this was gonna be a christmas post? guess again bitch! happy hanukkah! may your latkes be delicious and you have a blessed holiday season! אני אוהב את כולכם כל כך !!!