By the mandate of Pope Innocent XVI, all ecclesiastical head coverings, shall be replaced with headwear inspired by God’s creatures, chosen freely by each wearer 😌🙏✨️🎀
We're 29 days into Lent. By this point:
Vincent Benítez is a little lean, but he's remaining cheerful.
Thomas Lawrence has lost 30 pounds and shows no sign of stopping. He is sometimes seeing visions. He has learned from many previous Lents not to mention this to the gang. He's only fainted twice but Ray won't stop fretting.
No matter what he gave up (sex or gossiping) Ray O'Malley is feverishly pent-up one way or the other, and he's taking it out on His Eminence by being half-frantic with worry. He is constantly trying to sneak high-calorie anything into him. Best results came from a very hearty lentil soup with chorizo, from His Holiness. His Eminence ate a bowlful two weeks ago.
Cardinal Sabbadin has had 4 bottles of good wine. Sundays are always feast days and therefore a break, look it up.
Aldo Bellini has given up. You can't be Secretary of State without swearing. It's impossible. He will not jeopardize the trust placed in him, no, not even for a fast. Instead he is doing a swear jar and donating the proceeds to Congregatio Jesu. So far he's collected 140€.
Joshua Adeyemi changed course mid-stream and has given up secular music. He misses opera so bad it isn't even funny. He has purchased twelve 1mL cologne samples; mixed results.
Joseph Tremblay has given up Candy Crush. He has purged himself of it. He has in the meanwhile developed a debilitating addiction to 2048. It's because he always on he damn phone.
Goffredo Tedesco has started writing tweets on small scraps of paper and littering them out the window or stapling them to the drapes. He will not be defeated by this! Yet he has a poster's soul.
Sister Agnes has caught a few nuns huffing Sharpies just to feel something. One of these years she's going to take a spring break.
Janusz Woźniak gave up around Day 4 and is actually on spring break.
These are my people.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a 5¼ floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
Graphics and terminology are funny things.
reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.
I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.
skeumorphism my beloved
It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.
And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)
The reason the save icon is a 3.5" floppy seems to mainly be that 3.5" disks were the most common disk by the time graphical interfaces got popular on PCs. Earlier stuff was more text based so they didn’t have or need icons.
But there are always exceptions. Lotus 1-2-3 for windows uses 5.25" disks for the save and load icons!
@eeriedragone and I started playing around with the concept of an escape AU lmfao
This was prompted by the passage in the book where Lomeli/Lawrence thinks about how whoever would become Pope would never be able to do normal things again. So what if Lawrence just grabbed Benitez and would make a run for it ;)))
(Let‘s ignore the fact that Lawrence‘s knees probably wouldn’t withstand the concept of running)
I will personally marry anyone who has a working link to watch Macbeth, I’m tweaking bc the only one I found wont work 😭😭😭 help
SAME I WANNA MAKE EDITS
wow this is too intimate to share with my close friends or family let me put this on my tumblr blog for hundreds of strangers to see