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also fanfic writers write whatever they want to read for themselves first and foremost. they didn’t write to please you, random stranger on the internet.

fanfic writers didn’t force you to read their works. they’re kind enough to let you in their house for free if you want to. if you don’t like how they decorate their own house, quietly leave instead of telling them things you want them to change about their own house to better suit your personal preferences and calling it “constructive criticism”.

if they specifically ask for one, then sure. give them that. but if they didn’t ask and if you don’t have anything nice to say, quietly leave.

✨️You Come First✨️

So here it is. It's beautifully made.

A few highlights...

There's also a final chapter called "The Worst of the Worst." What's not to love. :)

Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!

I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs) 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!

As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)

New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!

greatest and hardest dance scenes

ever recorded……

Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.

Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.

So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.

But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.

So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.

Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”

Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”

Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”

So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.

It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet

Telegraph operators, bank clerks and printers wore them too, possibly along with a green celluloid eyeshade; they appear in movies ranging from Westerns to 1930s gangster stuff. The intention was to keep sleeves pulled tightly away from ink and other risks of staining.

An alternative - or extra - was to wear protective “sleeve stockings”.

Old-style shirts were cut longer and fuller than modern styles, and besides the protective aspect of the previous examples, sleeve garters also allowed for adjustment so “the right amount” of cuff showed between hand and jacket.

When gamblers wore them it was partly for fashion and partly to show there was no spare room for an Ace up the sleeve.

(Hah. I just bet. If that’s the right phrase and I don’t think so.)

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Period shirts also had separate collars, cuffs and bib / bosom / dickie / shirt-front - these were the bits most likely to get dirty, so could be exchanged for clean ones without washing the entire shirt.

They were made of starched linen, celluloid or stiff paper, and the cuffs could be used as somewhere to make a hasty note perhaps using a miniature propelling pencil like this, one of the many useful (or indeed “useful”) gadgets that could be attached to a watch-chain.

Paper collars-and-cuffs were disposable, cloth ones were washable (though needed re-starched afterwards), and celluloid ones could be wiped clean like a modern white-board.

(Sapolio still exists, BTW.)

Old silent comedy films sometimes showed characters who looked fine at first but were so hard-up than all they wore beneath their jacket is a vest (undershirt, not waistcoat), collar, cuffs and shirt-front, with no shirt at all. IIRC Charlie Chaplin did this at least once.

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Here’s a video showing the whole process. It’s more complicated than I thought, and also mentions sleeve garters as “an extra step”…

…while this video shows the business of wearing collar-cuffs-and-bib (etc.) without a shirt.