oh my bad The Master i didn't know you were cool like that

wdym it's bucktommy's first anniversary this week. i swear i lived like seventeen lives in this fandom since last april

Alright let’s get this over with

AHAHAA, GOTTEM

Every year the notes on this post make me so happy

I am yet again fueled by outrage for another year

M O R E

>:o)

i don’t like to beg. but i will literally get down on my knees and grovel at your feet and BEG you, BEG YOU! to watch whatever the hell is happening here. i desperately need other people to experience the emotional whirlwind this had me in. absolutely nothing could have prepared me for anything in this video whatsoever

What the “haha millennials can’t even make phone calls” crowd fails to appreciate is that making phone calls is a far more user-hostile and physically uncomfortable experience than it was 15-20 years ago.

It used to be you picked up a landline, which had physical buttons and at its smallest was still 3x larger than a smartphone, dialed the actual location you wanted to call (instead of a corporate call center) and you could actually talk to someone with access to the store computer/government records/dinner reservations that actually fucking applied to you.

You could also actually hold the phone with your shoulder without it hurting, which freed your hands up to cook or eat, or type on a computer, etc. it didn’t require an accessory you had to keep charged. It was built into the phone’s physical design!!!

It sucks more to do phone calls now! Like it just does!!!

The most mundanely dehumanizing experience I’ve had in the last few years was when I called a domino’s to troubleshoot a pizza order and they directed me to a call center in a different state.

“We had to automate it because nobody would do the job!”

PAY YOUR FUCKING WORKERS

Lori's Favorite movies!

back again encouraging people to start using the hobby stuff they've been acquiring for years

reasons to start can include:

curious to see what other reasons people might add

Me trying to persuade myself to use the foamboard I've been "saving for a special occasion" 😅

I wouldn't be encouraging people to use the hobby stuff they've been acquiring for years if I hadn't personally started using the hobby stuff I've been acquiring for years, and found out it felt pretty good, actually XD

So, I know exactly how it feels to be saving that thing for something special

and also how--for me--it normally ends up feeling pretty special to use it at all

Not always, though! there will inevitably be hobby projects that don't go the way you expected. I have learned (and am still learning) to acknowledge that nothing's perfect and mistakes happen and then move on to the next project.

While it's true that you can never mess up a project if you never do it, that also keeps you from making the things you end up having fun with and loving, doesn't it?

Much Ado About Nothing is really funny bc it’s a Shakespeare play where one of the couples already love each other before the play begins and one of them start the show by calling each other brainless backstabbing insufferable whores and you’d think the ones that like each other would be the easier ones to get together but Here’s The Thing

I'm a simple bitch. i believe the purpose of government should be to improve the lives of its citizens and protect its most vulnerable members. unfortunately i live in a day and age where this gets me labeled an enemy of the state

Teach me how to use my tumblog

I am tumbling

Do not curse me

I bet you I can find the post in that photo.

DO IT

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@important-animal-images

I found it.

#im sorry. the Blogging for Dummies book is RECENT???

At first I thought it was from 2010 because that’s when “Blogging for Dummies, 3rd Edition” was published, but then I noticed this smartphone ad:

Which looks really out-of-place for that period of time, so I realized I must have been looking at the wrong edition.

Then I looked at those trending tags up at the top of the screen. Computer, enhance image.

I didn’t watch house of the dragon but I knew it was a more recent show, so I could have used that to narrow it down. More useful however was the dual venice film festival tags, and the fact that one of them had “don’t worry darling” (which I surmised to be the name of a film) underneath it, so now I just had to find out when that film was shown at the venice film festival. Sure enough, it premiered on September 5th, 2022.

My next step was going to the post archive page for @important-animal-images, filtering the posts by “Photo” and tagged as “#cats,” and then flipping through to September 2022. Sure enough, the post was there!

And as one final mystery to solve, I looked up blogging for dummies by Amy Lupold Bair and found out that “Blogging All-In-One for Dummies, 3rd Edition” was published in April of 2023 and has this cover:

Which matches perfectly with the cover of the book that @dakotaqueen had in her original post!

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