Howdy

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

I’m begging authors to orphan works not delete them.

Maybe you’re not proud of that fic anymore, maybe you were in a bad place when you wrote it, maybe you’re just getting older now and feel embarrassed of fic. But I promise you, that fic you wrote and deleted was probably one of someone’s favorite fics and one day it just disappeared.

Many people don’t copy paste the summary into the bookmark either, so they won’t even know which story it was anymore. There’s something really depressing about looking at your virtual shelf of fics and realizing one’s missing and you don’t even know which one.

I kept my horrible 10+ year old fics up on a sub par fanfic site just because I remembered the comments that people enjoying them would leave. They were god awful, but they still brought joy to some people, and maybe they still do even now.

Gladly

Ma-ia ho

Ma-ia ha

Alo?

sunt eu

“The Numa Numa Dance” was posted in December 2004 to Newgrounds.com and was one of the first viral videos.

Estimates on how many times this video has been viewed run somewhere around ¾ of a billion views.

News articles at the time talked about how this video by itself “justified the existence of webcams.” (Though I think the reason for the first webcam was reason enough.)

Let’s go back to the view count, though. If one person wanted to watch the Numa Numa Dance video approximately as many times as it has been watched in the past 19 years, and finish up the watching this year, they would have had to start roughly during the Battle of Piraeus in 403 BCE.

Yeah.

Humanity has, collectively, spent about 2426 years watching Gary Brolsma joyfully dance to Dragostea Din Tei.