#I checked my archive I checked a couple of blogs I checked people posting pics from the shows idk if anyone knows it tell me pls
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Hey! Welcome to my blog!
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FUCK TERFS 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 THIS BLOG IS RUN BY A TRANSMASC!!!!! I LOVE TRANS PEOPLE (because a couple of TERFs are following me for some reason 🤢)
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He/they 🏳️⚧️
Bisexual, possibly demiromantic
I'm not going to share my real name here but people call me Rat so that's my name now lmao. you can also call me Soap.
Go check out my doll based side blog @custom-dolly ! (Even if you don't like dolls very much I also post doll houses which are more about the craft than the dolls lmao.)
I mostly post fanart, and I try my best to make all of them have an image ID, please tell me if I've forgotten :)
Drawing requests are OPEN right now, and I will...
Do ✅
- fanart for fandoms I'm in
- OCs (I'll need a reference pic)
- ships for fandoms I'm in
Not do ❌
- furries (I love y'all, the thing is I'm shit at drawing animals and furries sorry. I'm working on it lol)
- severe body horror
- NSFW (sex, kinks, you get the idea)
- Harry potter shit (fuck JKR)
- incest/large age gap/step sibling ships/pedophilia
I reserve the right to decide whether or not I draw something.
This blog has like no tagging system but here are the few I do have
#I-eat-art -> my art
#look at my suicide posting boy -> where I talk about my mental health, usually not super sensitively, feel free to block this tag if that kinda stuff upsets you /gen
#Rat in situations -> small drawings I make about my life, mostly goofy stuff
#fish woman -> the tag I use for my OC named Morwenna (she is indeed a fish woman)
If there are any trigger/content warning worthy things in my art/posts I will tag them as such, if you feel like there is a warning missing please tell me!
Avatar of the Hunt 🐺
Fandoms:
Dungeons and daddies 🎲
Arcane 💣🌈
Hermitcraft ⛏️📺
The Magnus archives 📼 👁️
Dungeon Meshi 😋🍲
(and kinda Camp Here and There but not really pls don't follow me if you are expecting CHTH stuff lol)
DNI:
Transandrophobes
Swifties
Racists
Fatphobes
anti-Semites
Homophobes
Transphobes
Ableists
TERFs
Zionists
Transids
Detrans/misgendering kink blogs (if you've detransitioned but you're not transphobic I love you btw)
Pedophiles
People who think "narcissistic abuse" is real
Bigots
Pro eating disorder/thinspo blogs
You get the idea
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Well our fame came to an all time high so I suppose it's time to explain what's going on and I truly wonder just how many people will be reading this. Either out of anger or curiosity or those who enjoy drama.
Long time ago I joined this fandom with a few of my friends and we enjoyed art over the years. blogs came and went and so did artists. My friends and I thought "oh hey what if we just dumped a bunch of pics online and see peoples reactions." So we took a vote and put together this blog.(the nsfw blog was from a couple of us so we thought we would throw that in here as well) It really wasn't supposed to be coherent or stable. i mean hell we came up with writing very broken english on purpose. But what truly shocked us was the amount of shall we say feedback? we got on here. We laughed tbh. A few of you respectfully asked we take their stuff down and we were about to until the pure passion arrived! So we took votes and decided to just wait and see what would happen. And boy did we! i mean one person (I won't mention because you'll get your fame from us even more!) literally took who knows how long of their time to call us out. we took that time from you. Well i stole life from you (i was handling this blog that day). So many limited breaths and your life was shortened but, that's not the point. I posted those ss to show, not out of pride, but to call those who supported this blog out. I mean, look at those likes! and we took roughly 15 ss. but decided to just shorten to the better well known blogs. hopefully you're still reading this because of one reason or another. We could say we were ginger or the pro trump jim blog or tunafish or any one who was just some rando weirdo hiding in the shadows as the cult of the one fic which we shall not name haunted this fandom back in 2019. seriously it wasn't that good. i wrote that just now to see how many people got mad from it. changeling jim sucks. do original content people. and fanart of fanart? lame. be original. but hey, look at that. lots of artists and others banded together in a lynch mob to tear down this blog and new life from hate sprouted in the trollhunters fandom once more. we took a vote and decided we had our fun and if this post gets enough attention we will in fact take this blog down because lets be honest literally every blog on tumblr could report us and the staff wont do shit. we wanted to make memories and now we have and we or at least i feel pride for it. oh another reason for the art picked by hand was because it was from very ancient dusty blogs or ones just not alive anymore so we knew the newer fans would be made aware of them. and that about covers all of it. i could add in more of what my group decided to write but ultimately its just repurposed explanations of what i wrote. i had to cut this down tbh. and as a random side thing you should for absolutely no reason check out these archive links!
excited to see the reactions we're going to get from this! and if you just are reading this because you cut to the chase. Well, we're happy we brought you another memory of the fandom =)
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New York, night 2
4 October 2021
#this took an insane amount of time I know that's just how paintings go but I want it done and I want it done fast slsjxjddldkdj#TracksintheAM#hljournal#hlsource#hlcreators#yourlarrysource#stylesedits#stylesnews#trackinghome#almightyedits#also I cannot find the post I took the reference pic from#I checked my archive I checked a couple of blogs I checked people posting pics from the shows idk if anyone knows it tell me pls#also it's badly cut bc I scanned with my phone and it was the best I could do thanks#flo's sketchbook
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Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty
The wife of one of my elementary school teachers once delivered a full-term, stillborn baby. It was a great tragedy, but far worse came in the months and years that followed, as direct-marketers bombarded them with pitches that tracked the progress of their dead child.
College-savings plan ads, ads for baby food, annual birthday notices - the whole thing running on autopilot as marketers pursued the Procter & Gamble "lifecycle marketing" playbook that targets the turning points in customers' lives, like parenthood.
This got automated. In 2014, Eric Meyer coined the term "inadvertent algorithmic cruelty" to describe his experience of Facebook's "memories" feature, which bombarded him with pictures of his young daughter on the anniversary of her death.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/
Meyer called it "inadvertent," but there's a strong argument to drop that and simply call it "algorithmic cruelty." Facebook *should* have known that promoting "high-engagement" posts would end up retraumatizing people on the anniversaries of the worse moments in their lives.
And if the company didn't realize it in 2014, they certainly knew about it after, and did not stop. In 2018, Patrick Gerard wrote about how Facebook commemorated his mother's death with a video of animated characters literally dancing on her grave.
https://twitter.com/PatrickGerard01/status/1031920228098355200
Algorithmic cruelty spread to other platforms: for example, Google's smart address book began adding women's stalkers to their speed-dials, sensing a high degree of mutual interactivity:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-problem-with-your-chatty-apps/
The problems of algorithmic cruelty - the predictable ghastliness of a fire-and-forget system of idiotic, automatic cheer - have long been a feature of science fiction.
Think of Bradbury's classic "There Will Come Soft Rains," where an empty house cheerfully greets its dead owners with their daily routine after a nuclear war has killed nearly every living thing.
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
Or David Marusek's pioneering, haunting story "The Wedding Album," about the AI avatars of a couple, created to commemorate their wedding day, outliving the couple and haunting virtual spaces for thousands of years:
https://gumroad.com/davidmarusek
Or Sarah Gailey's instant classic 2018 short story STET, which recounts a particularly horrific sort of algorithmic cruelty in the editorial notes on a scholarly paper about a self-driving car wreck:
https://firesidefiction.com/stet
None of these warnings were heeded. Indeed, algorithmic cruelty - incubated in primitive direct marketing, supercharged by social media - made the jump *back* to ad-tech, in a form that is thousands of times more virulent than its prehistoric paper-based ancestor.
Writing in Wired, Lauren Goode describes the ad-tech algorithmic cruelty trap she found herself in: eight years ago, she called off her wedding. Today, she is still bombarded with messages that track the progress of a marriage that never happened.
https://www.wired.com/story/weddings-social-media-apps-photos-memories-miscarriage-problem/
These are the product of the "memory monetization machine," which surfaces your old social-media breadcrumbs as inventory for spot-market advertising auctions: "This user got married eight years ago, who will pay me top dollar to show them an ad?"
Naturally, this has all the failure modes of social memory monetization - the dead children and parents, and commemorations of other traumas - but with ad-tech's nonconsensual, eternal torture: you can quit Facebook, but you can't control these background processes.
Goode quotes Kate Eichhorn, whose book THE END OF FORGETTING describes how this nonconsensual external memory system disrupts the "memory editing" that is key to overcoming trauma for the most marginalized among us:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976696
Reading that, I was struck by the distance between the algorithmic cruelty of nonconsensual memory-surfacing, and my own powerful, hugely beneficial practice of combing through my own digital history, which is in a database under *my* control - my 20-year blog archive.
For a decade, I've started each day by looking at my posts from this day in the past - at first, it was #1yrago and #5yrsago - now I look back at #15yrsago and #20yrsago, and republish the elements that seem significant today. Here's yesterday's:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/05/zucks-oily-rags/#retro
I can't overstate beneficial this is: tracking my own predictions, concerns and aspirations over time is an incredible tonic for anxiety, a tool to refine and improve my goals, an empirical, external check on my memories and feelings about where I am and where I've been.
It's like a subspecies of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the process of writing down your worries and aspirations, then revisiting them after the fact to refine your understanding of when your intuition leads you true...or astray.
The difference between what I do and algorithmic cruelty isn't technology - it's control. I'm in charge not an unaccountable, nonconsensual algorithm.
As is often the case with tech issues, the important thing isn't what the tech does, it's who it does it *to* and *for*.
Indeed, thinking this through this morning made me realize how much I'd like to revisit my photos every day; I've got 20 years worth of them stashed on Flickr, where I was literally one of the first users:
https://memex.craphound.com/2018/04/21/family-owned-smugmug-acquires-flickr-rescuing-it-from-the-sinking-post-yahoo-ship/
I tried it this morning, but Flickr's tools remain incredibly primitive thanks to years of neglect under Yahoo's ownership. Its new owners, Smugmug, have been making great strides, but they have a LOT of technology debt to pay off.
But having manually pulled up photos from this day 5, 10, 15 and 20 years ago, I was absolutely delighted. I would welcome a Flickr change to made it simple to see pics from a given date - maybe by editing the URL itself (currently a mess!):
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=&min_taken_date=1586156400&max_taken_date=1586242799
The point I'm trying to make here is that we shouldn't mistake the ability to revisit your past experiences and thoughts for algorithmic cruelty - the answer to this cruelty isn't to destroy our digital time-machines; it's to seize the means of computation.
Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg
CC BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Tagged by @kkoongiees, @myeonplane, and @xiupastry for the check-in tag, thank you all 💗
1. why did you choose your url? Lotto had just come out! baekdae = my biases, baekchen, dream = She’s Dreaming! My previous url had been jongdaeintheheights, but I wanted something that had both my biases in it 😊
2. any side blogs? Nope
3. how long have you been on tumblr? Since May 2014 wow seven years?
4. do you have a queue tag? Yes, it’s queue 😊 gosh back when I used to keep an active queue and I’d make it very specifically set... would especially do it while I was away on my EXO trips... now though I just don’t queue anymore I’m too tired to hahah
5. why did you start your blog in the first place? Book fandom I think
6. why did you choose your icon/pfp? I was so excited this day when we got the chenbaekxilay pic!! And I haven’t changed it since that day we got it 🥰 Our boys!! I love seeing them together and I miss them 😞
7. why did you choose your header? OT9 + EXO’rDIUM acoustic section aka the loveliest thing ever?? Yes 🥰
8. what’s your post with the most notes? I actually have no idea, it’s probably one of the moodboards I made a long time ago
9. how many mutuals do you have? 24 - though, a few of them are inactive, and there’s one who I don’t think really counts anymore hahah, but yeah 😊
10. how many followers do you have? 540, but most of them are probably inactive and some are possibly just like empty ghost accounts (I do always check new followers to make sure they’re not one of those blogs that make me uncomfortable though - those ones just get blocked)
11. how many people do you follow? 73 at the moment
12. have you ever made a shitpost? Nope
13. how often do you use tumblr each day? Quite a bit? But maybe it feels like that because it’s like, sporadically through the day I’ll go on it. I’ll scroll a bit into my dash (but sometimes it won’t take long until where I last saw, which I never actually scroll all the way to on purpose hahah), go through some tags (like exosnet, wayvnet, nctinc, and those I will usually scroll to where I last saw), and like check the update accounts and reblog the updates. Check out some of my mutuals archives to see how they’re doing, if I can remember the spelling of their url or my laptop has it remembered in the autosuggestions when you begin typing the url. But my dash doesn’t tend to be active when I’m on here at the end of my day hahah, those time zones
14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? No
15. how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts? I just ignore them
16. do you like tag games? Yes 😊
17. do you like ask games? Yes, but I never reblog them to get asks - I’ve never had anon on since I made this blog, and I’m not sure if I’d get any asks regardless of if anon was on or not anyway hahah. But I like sending the asks for the ask games!
18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? Jelly probably, even when she started making content for a different fandom, she’s just so lovely and makes great content
19. do you have a crush on a mutual? I may have had a bit of a friend crush on a couple 👀
20. tagging: @whenxoxosmilesunshines, @elyxion, @hanguangjunmyeon, @soft-daes, @baekchens, @abunnycotton, @xiudangerous, @ohsenhun, @dayafterdae
#tag games#of course you don't have to do it if you wouldn't like to :)#also it was so sweet of you three all to tag me like#I'm surprised by how fast this tag game got around hahah thank you :)
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Update...
// I’m gonna tag a few of y’all, cuz I know I haven’t really held up my end of the bargain on a few things lately.
1) I apologize for not reading/reblogging any fanfics lately. I promise, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with anyone, nor with how I feel about your work! Just wanna make that clear. Y’all know I fanboy like a motherfucker over here, right? Right!? Just makin’ sure.
2) My kiddo’s room is under a massive construction. I have to haul ass to the Portland area tomorrow to get some adapters and couplings for some corrugated pipes that-... never mind. Long story. Basically, a lotta reworking the drainage to divert the water, cuz as of tomorrow night, we have a winter storm. I gotta try and beat the clock like... pronto!
3) I’m undertakin’ a big writing project and will be changin’ a lotta stuff up on my old profile as well as this one. I’m gonna move all of my gifs and pics from what WAS the bound2becharming-archive page but is NOW @houseofdax (url change) over to my @untamedfaceclaims page, that way everyone still has access to things. I’m changing my prior page to a similar storyboard/inspo page location for another set of books I’ll be workin’ on.
In the midst of that, I’ll be makin’ private side-blogs both there, and here, for each book that I’m workin’ on. I’m attempting to organize everything and it’s kinda pullin’ a lotta my time. Sorry about all of that.
4) Still tryin’ to contact my gastro/radiology doc to talk about my gallbladder/stomach stuff and get all of my health crap figured out. Still no news, cuz they keep puttin’ me on hold for over an hour and then hang up on me. *insert eye roll here*
5) Meanwhile, I’m tearing down the walls of my daughter’s room, pullin’ up the carpet, will be reframing the interior walls, having foundation jackhammered and just... tryin’ not to lose my mind, pretty much. On top of that, I gotta dig up the backyard and put in a stabilizing cement wall to keep erosion from happening with all this. Good news is, we’re still under $10,000 USD with my guys takin’ the lead on this so... savin’ some money. And with me doin’ internal and external demo myself, but... ya know. Busy days.
Anyhow, that’s what’s up. I’m still alive. Just busy af and tryin’ to keep from goin’ batshit. Lol! I miss all y’all, but I’m not tryin’ to ignore anyone. I promise. I may still be just loadin’ the queue and likin’ a couple random posts here and there over the next few weeks, but I’ll do what I can, where I can. I know, I still owe y’all with supportin’ your works and I still fully intend on keepin’ my word so... just wanna make sure y’all know I haven’t forgotten you. Just been hella busy, is all.
Love ya, my budlits! Take care and stay safe. I’ll check back when I can. <333
-Dax
@affaridicuore; @ionlyjoinedforboydholbrook; @grumpy-bucky; <- Love the name change, btw. Lol! @emeryfleming; @maydearalexa; @sleepwithacommunist; @ithinkwehitametaphor; @cheesybadgers; @pajamasecrets; @a7estrellas; @woman-with-no-name; @vulnerablesnowman; @boydhoebrook. <- LOL! YOU TOO!? XD ...and if I don’t mention your url, but we’ve talked in IM’s, please poke me! I’ll add you later. Or if you’d like to be added to the tag list, please IM me and I’ll add you when I can, too. I’m kinda in derp mode, cuz it’s almost 10pm and I gotta be up early to head out so... brain’s just kinda scrambled atm. I know I’m forgettin’ people, but I cannot think for the life of me.
#psa#update on the craziness#whole foundation/drainage/flood thing#books are exciting and I'm lovin' it!!!#who knew I'd be doin' so much construction though? Lol!#didn't I sell my share of the business??? LOL!#how am I back to renovations again!? XD#it's like I'm now doin' BOTH jobs at once. Heh!#Crazy days.#Lemme know if I forgot to tag you! <333#que dat
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What is this? Who is that in that picture? And what is “Miraculous Ladybug”? (researches through my Tumblr blog archives) Well, apparently I’m a young woman who has a social media blog that writes these reviews (and rebloging interesting posts for other things) for a French children’s animated show and points things out along with expressing my opinion on each episode! Okay, I don’t remember watching this episode, but I’ll see it again and go through the rest of my reviews to help refresh my memories (rewatches “Oblivio” again, reads through the previous reviews and checks out the shows wiki), Okay, so here’s what I discovered:
*Oblivio-So I found the English dub of this episode and get this, this Ladybug and Cat Noir are costumed superheroes who wake up in an elevator with no memory of who one another is or what had happened before and they detransform as teenagers in front of each other! Ladybug is this clumsy French-Chinese baker girl named Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Cat Noir is this sheltered rich male model guy named Adrien Agreste and not only do they have amnesia, but their Kwamies, which are these “bugmice/genies”, have amnesia too! I read that this wasn’t the first time they had a “reveal”, but the last one had their eyes closed for an owl villain named “Dark Owl” (and he was their principal?). Marinette looks really cute and Adrien looks adorable as well.
They get out of the elevator and after going through their bags and pockets discover their identities and realize they need to stay away from this supervillain (that person in the picture) named Oblivio who can erase people’s memories and is the one responsible for all this. Marinette and Adrien try to call their parents for help, but Adriens father, a fashion designer named Gabriel, isn’t answering and to my horror, it was cuz he’s the major supervillain, Hawk Moth, who creates these supervillains to get Ladybug and Cat Noirs miraculouses (those magic earrings/ring respectively) and give him God-like powers! And his son doesn’t know about it along with him not knowing he’s a superhero! Shocking! Marinette, however, gets in contact with her mom and she lets her know about Ladybug and Cat Noir which makes her realize they need to keep their alter egos a secret and fight Oblivio. Problem? They don’t know how to transform and use their powers! Womp! Womp! Womp! Despite that, they pretty much handle everything with quick thinking and analysis. Hmm, smart kids!
One of the Kwamies, the black cat looking one, Plagg, is a lazy and stinky camembert cheese obsessed fellow who was all, “Screw this I’m outta here” and leaves the kids and the other Kwamie, the cute ladybug looking one, Tikki, to fend for themselves. What a selfish little........thing. Oblivio almost catches the gang, but Marinette uses a skill that was almost like Ladybugs power, “Lady-vision”, and they send Oblivio away. Lol! What a dumb villain.
Marinette and Adrien believe they’re a couple from one another’s pictures on their phones and I read that there’s this “love square” where it’s just the two of them along with their alter egos and here’s how it goes: Adrienette:one sided secret crush on Marinettes side, Ladynoir:one sided open crush on Cat Noirs side, Marichat:strictly platonic and Ladrien:mutual secret crush. Oh God! This is so frustrating! Everyone’s stressing out about it from the comments I read! And the two don’t even know about their own secret identities out of safety reasons! This is Season 3 and they still haven’t figured it out yet! What!? How do they keep this show going!? Is this what’s keeping the ratings up!? I also found out I’m all for Adrienette cuz, they can’t be superheroes forever! It was cute however that they got to fall in love with each other all over again ღ. They’re such a cute couple. I see that they’re very parallel with each other too. Are these two written in stone!? “Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste, Forever”!? Cuz they’re like, two halves of a whole fated couple!
Marinette researches through her phone (like how I’m trying to remember with all this) and finds a video depicting what occurred before the elevator incident and sees that as Ladybug, she drew a picture of a phone and a turtle next to it as a reminder, so she goes through her contacts and finds a turtle pic with the name Fu, Master Fu. He’s this hundred year old Chinese man who’s this “guardian” of the Miracule Box and is the one who gave Marinette and Adrien their miraculouses when Hawk Moth first showed up. He lets them know about who they are and how to use their powers, so Tikki transforms Marinette into Ladybug while sadly, Adrien is stuck without Plagg :(.
Later, Plagg comes back after a guilt trip of “psychological harassment” from seeing Adriens posters all over Paris (Lol! They’re literally signs) and transforms him as Cat Noir. As they battle Oblivio with their enhanced flexibilities and reflex’s that they forgot how to use, so they just do the dodge and shield moves. Ladybug reads through her instructional manual on her yo-yo weapon that pretty much does everything (like Cat Noirs baton) and finds out she has to destroy the weapon the supervillain has and purify the hakuna matata akuma that transformed them into a supervillain. Huh, who knew butterflies could be evil? Not to mention it’s Season 3 and Hawk Moth still hasn’t defeated them yet! He did come close, too close, but thanks to Ladybugs “good luck” power, they always come out victorious! However, he finds out that they’re “love” for each other could be their downfall! Don! Don! Don! You know, from what I saw in my research, they’re love is mostly what gets them in trouble, this is gonna be a toughie for young hormonal teenage superheroes.
Oblivio is defeated and it turns out, they were Marinette and Adriens best friends, Alya and Nino, respectively. Alya is an aspiring journalist who blogs more about Ladybug than I do and is a fox superhero named Rena Rouge and Nino is a hip hop cultured D.J who’s Alyas boyfriend and also a turtle superhero named Carapace (wait, there are two turtles?), except they know their identities compared to the other two heroes. They got akumatized cuz they snuck off during a field trip to play a babyish app game on their tablet and they got caught and humiliated and due to that negative emotion, Hawk Moth targeted them and turned them into Oblivio to make people forget their incident and spread villainy. Before the final clean up with the Miraculous Ladybug power that fixes up all the damages that have been done, Ladynoir shares a kiss and then, BOOM! Instant mind erase! They go back to their old feelings for each other. Marinette was embarrassed that she kissed Cat, but hey! It’s not like it was the first time from what I discovered *cough*”DarkCupid”*cough* whereas Adrien was thrilled, but sadly forgot about it again! Lol, sorry kid.
Looking back on my reviews, I changed it throughout the years. Starting 2015, I wrote these reviews by using those Ladybug emojis as the frames and by the second season, I used bigger ladybug pics as frames and then in this season, I used these prettier ladybugs and added in pictures! The more I researched this show, the more I grew to love it! It has all my favorite things:Paris, France, cats, cute characters, bright colors, nice music, comedy, adventure and interesting plot lines that gets darker the more I watch it! I even found out I collect their action dolls and play with them on my Eiffel Tower lamp. There’s even a web series and movie of this show and I wanna see all of it! I even wrote a mini fanfic about this episode plot and it was really funny. It was practically the first 30 seconds of this episode! Wow! I really am a writer! I also found out I met some new friends on here that love the show too and we discuss our thoughts and feelings of it like this one blogger @vulpineveritas whom I first show these reviews before the public as feedback. She’s real nice and you know what? I-(the Miraculous Ladybug power takes effect and restores my memories) Whoa! What happened!? (looks through my amnesiac written review) Aw man! Now I have to rewrite this whole review with my up-to-date mind set! :P.
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Grateful Dead Monthly: West High School Auditorium – Anchorage, AK 6/19-21/80
Forty years ago, on Thursday, June 19, 1980, the Grateful Dead played a concert at West High School Auditorium in Anchorage, Alaska. It was the first of three nights – and the band’s only visit to the Yukon State. This post will cover the whole run.
Anchorage High School opened in 1953. It was built during a post-WWII boom period just outside the western edge of the city, and then annexed. The school was renamed West Anchorage High School when East Anchorage High School opened in 1961. Until 1984, the West High auditorium was the largest event space in Anchorage.
The Lichter Brothers (Skip, George, and Andy) ran Northern Stage Company, an Anchorage booker. ” Skip told the Anchorage Daily News in 2017 that he pitched a three-night run during the Summer Solstice to Dead management “to get those guys to experience Alaska. The band was amenable. The Summer 1980 tour started in Tempe, AZ then moved to Boulder, CO for the Dead’s 15th Anniversary shows on June 7-8. After that, they visited Portland, OR (and played Fire on the Mountain as Mt. St. Helens erupted) and Spokane, WA, before making the sojourn North to Alaska.
The Dead arrived in Anchorage a week before the shows. The ADN article has a great description. Here’s an excerpt:
“Looking and carrying on more like a keg-league softball team than members of a rock group, the musicians and their entourage strode unmolested through the airport,” wrote Anchorage Times reporter Bill Kossen.
The Times reported drummer Mickey Hart immediately flew out to go salmon fishing, while Weir and keyboardist Brent Mydland took a flightseeing tour that included Mount Susitna and Knik Glacier. The Times also featured a picture of drummer Bill Kreutzmann gnawing on a big chunk of Columbia Glacier ice.
Lichter said that was just a start.
“We had the band up for a couple weeks,” Lichter said. “We had a lot of activities planned. We had a special dinner where we brought everyone up to the top of Rabbit Creek at Hash Hill and had a special dinner of salmon, halibut and caribou stew.”
Lichter said Weir and bassist Phil Lesh even went up in a radio helicopter to do a wacky traffic report from above Anchorage.
“On Tudor Road headed eastbound, in the area of Muldoon, everything seems to be moving right along, but traffic appears to be going backwards,” Weir reported flatly, according to the Times, adding the recommendation that motorists should “turn on your lights and honk your horn.”
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Lichter said the band’s prodigious amount of audio gear was hauled up the Alcan in two trucks.
The crush of gear was not lost on [Lewis] Leonard, [a local roadie and] a self-described audiophile who said the walls of the West High auditorium were packed from floor to ceiling with all order of speakers.
“Literally, the room was kind of a speaker in itself,” he said. “It was incredible sound. I was going to drop acid, so I was out on a nice acid trip while I was working and it was really great. It was so good that I dropped acid a second night.”
The three nights are all good. 6/19/80 features an energetic Alabama Getaway opener and solid versions of Cassidy and Althea in the first set. The second set includes oddly placed versions of C.C. Rider and Peggy-O (one of only five ever played after halftime).
6/20/80 features a nice Jack Straw > Franklin’s Tower opener, as well as a unique mid-first-set Let It Grow > Althea pairing. The second set highlight is a typically powerful Estimated Prophet > The Other One.
6/21/80 is the standout. ICEPETAL at the Deadlistening blog even claims that show contains some of the best GD music of the year. There’s more setlist weirdness – a Sugaree first set opener, a Feel Like a Stranger first set closer, a Big Railroad Blues second set opener (only one of two), and a post-drums Truckin’. ECM says that Sugaree, Big River, Loser, Lazy Lightnin’ > Supplication, and Feels Like a stranger are the highlights of the first frame, and Big Railroad Blues, Terrapin Station, Playing in the Band, Truckin’, and Stella Blue are the highlights of the second frame. Ed was kind enough to send pics of the relevant write-ups from the Taper’s Compendium.
ICEPETAL echoes those shouts, and gives an extended description of the second set segment that’s worth repeating:
“As things get started in Terrapin Station, the music sheds all connection to the year in which it is being played. Sounding far more like a slice of 1977, this Terrapin calls to mind that strong sense of being gathered around a campfire as the band tells a story – something generally associated with other songs than this one. Nonetheless, the band is casting its hypnotic spell over everything. Gentle hands with flamed fingers caress our face and beckon us in. The door is shut behind us. We are safe and alone, as a grand journey begins with the solo section marking a point of no return. The music rises and falls on the trails of some great juggler’s balls. They change size and color as they translucently pass each other in the air. It’s a ballet of butterfly music in a dream that defies our ability to concretely retell the story after waking. The song reaches its zenith and crashes thunderously as the melody chases its own tail over and over. It gives nary room for a breath before materializing into the next song, Playin’ In The Band.
The Playin’ jam wastes no time stroking the fibers of the Grateful Dead’s adoring musical muse. Its power is awakened like a room instantly filling with a heady incense that reminds our ancient soul receptors of the essence of the eternal. Broken up into a handful of section, the jam begins immediately to unbind the tightly wrapped petals of the musical flower that held the formal part of the song together. It’s like a flower slowly waking to starlight. While the tempo of the song churns along, there is a widening space between the beats, into which cosmic oceans gently lap to the shore. Garcia goes right for his auto-filter wha pedal and calls up a nearly invisible web of energy that drifts and turns in unseen air currents. Everything takes on a distinctly three dimensional aspect on the audience recording, all of the instrumentation finding its natural place in the landscape around us.
After a short while Garcia’s pace quickens, and he’s running staccato lines in a musically choreographed dance of twirls, swoops, and back bending joy. The energy of the band tightens around Jerry, and everything takes on the sense of wild horses galloping across moonlit countryside, not unlike the energy we hear in Playin’s from 1972. We flow endlessly over hills which quietly rise and fall at random intervals like the deepest ocean shedding a storm’s energy reserves. What seems like hours later, the band emerges into a more subtle pasture where sounds begin to crackle and shimmer like the air around us is condensing into sporadic forms just out of reach. Slowly these sounds, which could have previously tricked our mind as not possibly coming from the musicians, fill all of our aural space, and we’ve somehow been cast a million miles away from whatever concert we thought we were attending. Great suns are rising and setting. Clouds form into mountains, then into lightning, then into thousands of turning flowers. And on and on it goes.
A molten lava-like creature is stirring. It’s skin ripples with glass sharp scales as it transforms to fill our entire field of senses. Blaring a white hot cacophony of wicked colors which gush out like an uncapped torrent, the band drives deeply into a completely frenzied expression of Space, and leaves us powerless to defend anything as we slip into Drums.
The Space which then returns after Drums is breathtaking. It’s as if we have walked right back into the pre-Drum chaos. Nothing sounds done out of routine, whatsoever. By no means is the band just playing some weirdness because this is where it fits in the show. The music is doing things which defy all the laws of physics completely. Steal your face right off your head, indeed. There’s little sense in trying to describe things more accurately. This Space leaves you completely transformed. As it fades off, Phil can be heard hinting at Dark Star (no WAY!). Instead, the band turns on a dime into Truckin’ and the entire concert has returned around you. As if from a wormhole in another dimension, we are dropped back into something far more familiar to our human experience. There are people clapping along, hooting and hollering. The music dances. The band is playing back on a steady 4/4 beat. My God, where were we?
Truckin’ over delivers in most every way imaginable. When they hit the big power chord after the long triplet ramp up section, a shock wave erupts over the crowd. Just before this note there is a fraction of silence, which is common to all Truckin’s at this moment of the song. But it is somehow more this time. Perfectly executed, the entire band absolutely stops together, and hits that chord in perfect unison – a classic moment where we can hear more in the space between the music, than in the music itself.”
After the show, the crowd wandered out of the auditorium and into the daylight. Summer Solstice, indeed.
Alas, the Alaska shows are not official releases, so there’s no Spotify widget. Instead, you can check out all three shows on the Live Music Archive.
Transport to the Charlie Miller soundboard remaster of 6/19/80 HERE.
Transport to the Charlie Miller soundboard remaster of 6/20/80 HERE and the Hunter Seamonds matrix recording HERE.
Transport to the Charlie Miller soundboard remaster of 6/21/80 HERE and the Eddie Claridge matrix recording HERE.
More soon.
JF
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[Miraculous Ladybug]: It’s All Hype!
i feel like i’m severely going to regret taking this much on but fuck it, YOLO, im dead inside :))))
in honor of Ladynoir July i’m going to desperately try and do one multi-chapter for every week of the month! so that means this first week i’m going to be using Days 1-7 to make a multi-chapter, and so on and so forth until the month is over. we........will see how that goes lol
but in the meantime enjoy the first story!
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[Day 2: Banter]
Link to Archive of Our Own: [AO3]
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Title: It’s All Hype! Pairings: Ladynoir (Ladybug x Chat Noir), Adrienette (Adrien x Marinette) Summary: Alya accidentally gets the Internet in a frenzy after announcing that Ladybug and Chat Noir are dating, but the two heroes are adamant about correcting the error and making sure the world knows that they’re just friends. So Alya proposes a staged public break up to set everything right.
In hindsight, she really underestimated how utterly freaking difficult that would be.
Day 1: Patience
“Ah, my lovely Lady, bless our good fortune that I may be able to accompany you home on such a cold Autumn’s night. Perchance the stars may be able to lead us back to your marble palace before dawn.”
Ladybug threw her head back and cackled. “You’re such an idiot, what are you even saying?”
Chat Noir scoffed. “Such a sharp tongue, my Lady. Whatever would your father say? Although, I suppose I could lock this secret away between the two of us should you permit me to seal it with a friendly kiss.”
Ladybug stuck her tongue out. “I’ll seal it with my foot up your nose if you’d like.”
“So not only does that sound impossible, but that sounds like a sinus infection waiting to happen,” he replied. “Do you know where your feet have been? I could catch a disease.”
“The depths of your dramatics are truly unfathomable,” Ladybug deadpanned.
“You know, my best friend tells me the same thing,” Chat Noir wondered. “I was thinking of getting involved in acting. I played a detective once. I was pretty good.”
“You should play a knight or something,” Ladybug suggested. “You know, really play up the whole needless chivalry and romantic waxing that you’re so good at. I mean, you’re getting practice for it right now.”
Chat Noir turned his head so that he could stare at Ladybug whose thighs he was holding as he carried her piggyback across the Parisian rooftops. “I’m helping you get home and you’re complaining? What do you want from me, woman?”
“It’s just a sprained ankle! I could’ve limped home just fine. Or just swung back home without putting pressure on it.”
“Nonsense, my Lady! ‘Tis my job as your valiant prince to return you safely to your kingdom should you fall ill!”
“Fine, you goof, whatever makes you feel better, I guess,” Ladybug smirked, hugging her arms tighter around his neck. “Although you should add valiant prince to your repertoire. Start making a list for when you go to auditions.”
“Ooooh, will you be my manager please?”
“Am I getting a wage?”
“Of course, you’ll receive my utmost respect, admiration, and loyalty.”
“I get that anyway, but I’ll accept your payment.”
They both just finished up with two weeks of brutal exams at school, and Chat Noir had practically begged for the two of them to spend a day together that weekend in celebration. It had been a while since she spent time with Chat Noir that didn’t involve patrolling the city or dealing with akumas, and she thought it would be fun to see if she could spend the whole day with him. They’d been walking around the city, getting coffee together downtown, and having footraces on the rooftops before Ladybug had slipped on a chimney and twisted her ankle. It was nothing that some ice and a day’s rest wouldn’t fix but Chat Noir practically had a conniption about it and insisted that he help her at least part of the way home. They were at least a mile away from the bakery and her foot was throbbing a little, so she decided to let it go. Besides, if she was being honest with herself, she really didn’t want to cut the day short sooner than they had to.
Ladybug pressed her cheek against Chat’s and smiled when he leaned into it. “We should do this more often,” she said. “Sometimes, we feel like coworkers.”
“Coworkers?” Chat Noir laughed.
“Yeah, you know! Those people who only see each other during working hours, maybe hang out during their lunch breaks a couple of days during the week, and then never see each other again until the next work day.”
Chat Noir squeezed Ladybug’s wrist. “I’m pretty sure that most coworkers don’t know how many freckles are on their other coworker’s cheeks.”
“You don’t know that either.”
“Do so! Forty-two. I counted that time we were trapped in an alley for an hour.”
“Oh yeah,” Ladybug grinned. “I think that was the time I realized you had little blue flecks in your eyes.”
“See? Not coworkers. Coworkers don’t have the patience required to learn about the people who work with them. You and I are different.”
“I guess that’s true,” Ladybug agreed. “If I have the patience to sit through all one hundred and fifteen of your puns, that must be something special.”
“A hundred and fifteen?”
“I too am a very good counter.”
Chat Noir gripped her tighter as he crouched down and made a wide jump over an alleyway before turning to the left to head down a busier avenue. “So basically what you’re telling me is that you’re giving me permission to remain in charge of scheduling our friendship dates.”
“I’ll give you permission so long as you don’t get carried away with them.”
“You have no faith in me, my Lady. I know better than to do anything outlandish.”
“Free next Saturday then?” Ladybug asked. She pointed ahead of her. “You can leave me four blocks down. It’ll leave me close enough to my house.”
“Roger that!” he replied. “And I’m extremely free next Saturday. Wanna meet at the Louvre and walk around the palace a bit? We can take pics.”
She giggled and pressed closer to him when a cold wind blew against them. “I’ll try to show up all fresh-faced for you.”
Chat Noir started slowing down as they got closer to the point where Ladybug asked him to drop her off, but she didn’t have the heart to point out that he was trying to prolong their time together. Instead, she let him take his time and carefully let her down onto the roof while she awkwardly leaned heavily on her other foot.
“Are you sure you’re going to be ok? You could stay on my back and I can keep my eyes closed while I take you home.”
“Then you’re going to get hurt too,” Ladybug teased. “Don’t worry, it really is only a few blocks away. I’ll be okay, I promise.”
“Alright,” Chat Noir smiled. “Make sure you ice it and wrap it up with something. And keep it elevated.”
“I will.” Ladybug cupped his caw and leaned up to give him a kiss on the cheek. “Thanks for being so chivalrous and taking this poor little princess home.”
Chat Noir chuckled and placed a kiss on the backs of her knuckles. “It’s no trouble, you know that. But get some rest. If an akuma pops up tomorrow, I don’t know how well I’ll handle on my own.”
Ladybug twirled her hair. “Ah, what would you do without me?”
Chat Noir laughed and started backing up so that he could backtrack home. “Not much, you know that.” He jutted his thumb behind him. “Gotta get home, but I’ll see you later okay?”
Ladybug waved to him and stayed on the roof until Chat Noir was completely out of sight. She did her best to keep off her foot and swing on her yoyo as she looped around her neighborhood for a bit to make sure no one saw her sneak back home. She meandered for about five minutes before she landed on the roof of the bakery and slipped back into her bedroom.
Marinette detransformed when she landed on her bed and carefully climbed down from her loft so that she could grab her cellphone from her desk. She checked the four missed calls from Alya while she opened the latch to her room and asked her mom for some ice for the ankle, saying that she twisted coming down from her bed. If it was this late at night, she figured that whatever Alya was calling her about had to have been important so she called her back while she lifted her foot onto the desk to keep it elevated like Chat Noir had told her.
“ Marinette!!” Alya screamed on the second ring. “ Answer your damn phone!! ”
“I was downstairs doing something, geez,” Marinette frowned. “I’m here now. What’s up?”
“ Okay, don’t freak out, but do freak out, because you would not believe the pics that I took today while Chat Noir and Ladybug were out.”
Marinette rolled her eyes fondly. “Oh yeah, I heard about that. I saw them running around when I went for a walk today.”
“ It was ridiculously cool, I’ve never seen them just hang out all day like that. But that’s not even the best part .”
“Let me guess. It’s gonna get you a crap ton of followers and you’re going to be hailed as an investigative genius.”
“ Ugh, you know me so well girlie .”
Marinette laughed, but turned her head towards the latch when she heard her mother calling her down so that she could wrap an icepack to her ankle. “Hey, is it okay if you tell me about it tomorrow? I’ve gotta deal with something right now, but I’m all ears in the morning. I promise.”
“ Everything okay?”
Marinette winced. “I may….have possible twisted my ankle coming down the stairs to my bed?”
“ You’re a disaster,” Alya chuckled over the phone. “ Alright. Well, I’ll post the pics really late tonight so you’ll probably see them in the morning. But still call me, okay?”
“I will I promise. Night, Alya!”
Just as she expected, Marinette’s ankle was hardly anything at all and she woke up the next morning with her ankle feeling a little tender, but definitely well enough to walk on. Lucky for her. She wasn’t sure if her parents were going to let her live down the embarrassment of a self-inflicted injury that was the result of climbing down from a bed she’d been sleeping in for sixteen years.
She’d tried staying up the night before to wait for Alya’s blog to update, but knowing Alya she stayed up until three in the morning and didn’t update it until long after Marinette had fallen asleep. Marinette sat in front of her computer and pulled up her bookmarks, bracing herself for whatever silly photograph that Alya had decided to blow up today so that she could pretend to be excited about it when Alya called.
But the moment Marinette loaded the first page of the blog, she cursed loudly and yanked on her pigtails.
The first post — pinned to the top so that absolutely nobody would miss it — was a photoset of Chat Noir carrying Ladybug home last night, of Ladybug kissing Chat Noir on the cheek, and Chat Noir placing a kiss on the backs of her knuckles while the two of them had equally wide smiles on her face. Marinette didn’t really need to see the headline on the post to know what was going on, but it was kind of hard to miss ‘LADYNOIR CONFIRMED!!!!!’ in big block letters across the screen right underneath the pictures. She scrolled down to the short text that followed the pictures and sighed in frustration.
Hello my fellow Ladybloggers!
No your eyes are not deceiving you. Our patience has finally paid off and I can finally update you with some pretty monumental developments in the relationship between our two favorite superheroes. Now you can take a look at these pics and decide for yourselves, but if you ask me, that right up there is nothing short of L.O.V.E. Think these cute kids are dating? Maybe setting up for something more serious? Tell me in the comments and bask in the shipping feels! :D
XOXO Alya <3
“Alya, I’m going to kill you,” Marinette muttered. The comments were an absolute nightmare. Everyone was fixating on these photos that Alya must have grabbed on her camera phone when she was out last night. The theories were absolutely ridiculous. There were a couple of people gushing over their close friendship and partnership, and Marinette appreciated that at the very least. But the vast majority of commenters were all fixated on just one thing:
Ladybug and Chat Noir were very obviously in love and dating.
With a sick feeling in her stomach, Marinette checked Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and checked all of the Ladybug and Chat Noir tags. Sure enough, the photos were trending, and it had only been about nine hours since Alya had posted the photos. All the pictures were getting liked, retweeted, reblogged, and shared on literally every social media website that Marinette could find, and she was convinced that if the whole city of Paris hadn’t seen these pictures, they were going to before Marinette even had a chance to finish breakfast. Freaking Alya. Marinette was two seconds away from showing up to her doorstep and throttling her.
Marinette waited until Tikki finished up her cookie breakfast before transforming and swinging out a couple of blocks away until she was sitting on top of a flower shop. She pulled out her compact and made a call to Chat Noir, hoping that his kwami would be able to tell that she was trying to get through to him even if he wasn’t transformed. Luckily, he answered on her third call, looking like he was out of breath and running while he was talking.
“ Please tell me you saw the Ladyblog this morning.”
“How could I not?” Ladybug frowned. “It’s all over freaking Twitter too. She only posted them last night how is this even possible?”
“ I mean, if I’m being honest, with the way that Alya girl and all of her followers talk about the two of us, I’m surprised it’s not on the damn news.”
Ladybug groaned. “God this is a mess. What are we going to do about this, people are never going to leave us alone about this.”
“ I have no idea but this is super not cool,” Chat Noir insisted. “ Where are you? Can we meet? I sort of want to put this fire out as soon as possible if that’s all the same to you .”
“Trust me, we’re totally on the same page,” Ladybug grumbled. “I’m pretty sure we stopped by her house last Christmas when we had to deal with that Santa Claus akuma. Do you remember the address?”
“ Pretty sure. It’s a Sunday, she’ll probably be home. Wanna stop by for a quick visit?”
“Sounds good to me. Loop around to the Notre Dame and I’ll meet you there.”
It didn’t take them very long to head on over to Alya’s house, all the while ignoring all the teenagers who were pointing to them from the street and yelling about how cute a couple they made. They both landed on Alya’s balcony and saw her sitting on the couch of her living room alone and updating her blog. Chat Noir reached forward and knocked insistently on the glass door until Alya looked up and smiled brightly at the two heroes. She practically threw her computer off her lap and scrambled to the doors to unlock them and come out to her balcony to meet them. “Holy shit!” she screamed out as she bounced outside, pulling a coat on along the way. “What are you guys doing here? Did you see the piece I did on you guys?”
“Yeah,” Ladybug muttered. “About that….we need to talk.”
Chat Noir scratched the back of his head. “You. uh….wouldn’t mind taking that down, would you? You see, this is all actually just a huge misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding?” Alya echoed. “Was that not the two of you being all kissy and touchy last night?”
“I-I mean it was!” Ladybug amended. “But it’s not like that, honest.”
“We’re not dating,” Chat Noir laughed nervously. “Seriously. That’s just how the two of us are, you know?”
Alya crossed her arms and smirked. “Ah, I get it. You’re just really close . Right. Gotcha.”
“Why are you saying it like it’s a lie?” Ladybug frowned.
“I don’t mean anything by it, I swear,” Alya laughed. “Forget I said anything. I mean, I’m happy to take things down but it kind of already went viral. I can’t really control anyone who puts up mirrors of it on other websites. I mean, Lord, have you seen Reddit lately? That’s all anyone’s talking about today.”
“It’s only been nine hours!” Ladybug exclaimed.
“You really underestimate how much this city ships you two,” Alya snorted.
Ladybug rolled her eyes. “Perfect. Give it like two days and we’re going to be a meme.”
“We’re likely going to be a reaction image at best, my Lady,” Chat Noir assured her.
“Chat, you’re so not helping.”
Alya cleared her throat. “Hey, uh. You mind if I ask a question?”
“About what?” Chat Noir asked.
“Well, this isn’t the first time I’ve made theories about you two,” Alya pointed out. “Granted this one blew up like crazy and I totally didn’t see it coming, but Ladynoir has trended on the Ladyblog like four times in the past. I obviously don’t mean to make you guys uncomfortable, but I didn’t think this sort of thing would bother you.”
Ladybug big her lip and shared a gaze with Chat Noir. “Well….things might have….changed recently.”
“Changed?”
“It’s just that it’s particularly awkward this time around,” Chat Noir explained. “Trust us, we’re totally happy to let fans do their guessing and support us whatever way is appropriate. But this time it’s just toeing a really weird line for a couple of reasons.”
“Well, what’s the reason?” Alya asked. “If you want me to change the wording of the post I can try to do that.”
Ladybug rubbed her arm and sighed. “Well….the two of us are dating.”
Alya blinked a few times before her eyes widened. “Wait a minute you two are dating each other!?”
“No, no! Not each other!” Chat Noir amended quickly. “We’re both dating two different people is what we mean. She has a boyfriend and I have a girlfriend.”
Alya’s mouth formed into a small ‘o.’ “I….am seeing the issue.”
“Don’t get us wrong it’s not like our partners know who we are, but it’s still just really awkward for the two of us, that’s all,” Ladybug explained. “It’d put our minds at ease if you could just take them down and stay on the safe side.”
“Shit,” Alya sighed. “I’m so sorry. I mean, like I said, I have no problems taking the pictures down and correcting the post but it’s really too late for that. People already latched onto this and there are going to be rumors about all of this spreading around to other blogs no matter what I say.”
“I hate the Internet,” Chat Noir sighed.
“Well, is there anything else we can do? You’re the social media expert!”
Alya drummed her fingers against her pursed lips as she paced around the balcony. “Well, there’s one thing we could do. But it’s a little complicated and it’s going to take some effort from the two of you.”
“Well what is it?” Ladybug urged.
Alya shrugged. “Well, how else do you counter a celebrity hook up? Follow it up with a celebrity break up.”
Chat Noir shook his head. “Hold on a second, you want us to break up?”
“That’s right,” Alya grinned. “Well, a fake break up technically. Since apparently you two aren’t dating which, oh my God, I’m still really freaking out about that because are you sure? Like totally positive?”
Ladybug glared. “No, actually, some days I wake up and I conveniently forget my boyfriend. Tends to happen quite a bit.”
“Alright, alright, I get it,” Alya amended. “Totally platonic, nothing going on, I screwed up and jumped to conclusions. I have learned my lesson.”
“I mean, that would work,” Chat Noir reasoned. “The fake break up, I mean. Might be a bit abrupt but hey! Let everyone else theorize about that.”
“Ugh, alright. I guess that’s our best option at the moment,” Ladybug said.
“It shouldn’t be too complicated,” Alya promised. “If I could get it on video and post it on the blog as solid proof, that’d be our best bet. All the rumors drop, you two are strictly friends and partners, and everything ends happily.”
Chat Noir raised his hand. “Uh, slight problem. Public break-ups are not one of my areas of expertise.”
“Oh don’t you two even sweat that part. Consider me your unofficial publicist,” Alya winked. “If it’s a fake break up you’re looking for I can orchestrate one no problem! Besides, consider this an apology for getting you two into this mess in the first place. I insist.”
Ladybug smiled. “I appreciate that. Although, if you don’t mind my asking, exactly what did you have in mind in terms of a break up?”
Alya clasped her hands under her chin and smiled innocently at the two of them. “Oh my darling heroes of Paris, I’m so glad you asked.”
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Arcade Raid! Jacksonville Flea Market Rescue
From The Arcade Blogger
It’s high time we featured another arcade raid tale here on the blog. My buddy Steve is a collector we’ve featured previously – he was responsible for the NOS artwork raid I featured some time back.
This particular haul was discovered earlier this year, but not by Steve initially. He received a call from a collector friend who told him that he’d been made aware of some classic arcade cabinets holed up in a back room at a flea market. Steve was rather surprised as he’d been visiting the Ramona Blvd Flea Market in Jacksonville since he was a kid and didn’t recall ever seeing any sort of arcade on the property.
The other guy had already been to check the place out, but he didn’t have very good news for Steve. Everything he saw was in pretty bad shape. So bad in fact, that the only thing he thought worth taking was a rare Nichibutsu Crazy Climber – everything else was trashed. Badly.
Not one to miss out on an opportunity, and as a big fan of the game, Steve immediately made an offer for the Crazy Climber and bought it on the spot.
The saved Crazy Climber!
A nice looking cabinet and pretty much complete
At first glance the only thing missing is the left hand joystick
Hoping there might be an opportunity to pull more rare games, Steve got the contact details of the property owner, arranged access and wound up making a total of two trips out to the flea market. As he puts it, when it comes to arcade raids, “you have to beat the bushes to see what flies out!” – sound advice!
The outside of the property was pretty overgrown – an indication of how long things had been sitting inside
The first trip was an eye opener – the plan was to grab any cabinets remaining:
It was clear that water had creeped into the buildings over time, and there was a great deal of mold and water damage on most of the cabinets. But worse, some vandals had broken into the property at some point and smashed almost every marquee, almost every tube, and almost every bezel on the machines. Whoever these vandals were, they were a very angry group of people.
Here’s the sight that greeted Steve and his friends on walking in
First signs not good. That’s a trashed Galaga on the right
But somehow, whoever these people were, they had left the Crazy Climber unmolested. As Steve put it, he wasn’t sure if they had a soft spot for the game, or if it was hidden away in a closet somewhere. But whatever – somehow the Crazy Climber had survived the destruction, and was now safe and part of Steve’s collection.
Not much to be rescued here. That Frogger on the left looks like roadkill. The sad sight of a smashed Atari DigDug on the right
Oh man. One less Ms Pac-Man
So the first trip resulted in a rescued Tempest cabinet (with boards, which was a bonus), a Galaxian cabinet, a Kickman cabinet, and a Bimbo the Clown game (missing almost everything, but the cabinet was in good enough condition to make it worth grabbing).
Several carcasses were left behind, because what was left was simply too far gone to justify further outlay:
Not good. That Space Invaders Deluxe looks OK
A scene of destruction!
A destroyed Asteroids – some worthwhile parts to be had though
But a few days later Steve received a call from the seller suggesting that he could come back and take anything else he wanted for 100 bucks. Steve discussed it with a friend and they decided it was worth it to make one more trip.
So second time around, they grabbed the Space Invaders Deluxe cabinet and a bunch of spare parts from the trashed remaining games. This resulted in a great haul of control panels. Being metal, they didn’t succumb to the vandals or elements over the years:
Frogger control panel
DigDug control panel
Astro Blaster control panel
The seller was kind enough to throw in a Galaga control panel, a Ms Pac-Man control panel, and a Ms Pac-Man PCB that he had previously pulled from machines thinking they might sell in his flea market booth. I guess no one was interested in them, but Steve was happy to take them with away. but Again, Most of the stuff was just too far gone – for example, they found a GPI Kaos dedicated cabinet that would have been great to save, but it simply wasn’t in the cards. It was beyond trashed:
This is rare one. Game plan Inc (GPI) hailed from Illinois – their games are rare finds today. This one had been stripped beyond any worth
Centipede control panel
Kickman control panel
Here’s a Galaga control panel
The Ms Pac-Man control panel
And here’s the Space Invaders Deluxe saved from the Flea Market. Pretty nice shape!
And while not directly arcade related, Steve discovered a couple of other cool items. The seller had some old Pepsi-branded menu boards rotting in the mold. The seller said that he had a bunch more in another building – Steve bought nine from him, including two that were still new in the original boxes:
Steve plan is to use these as high score boards in his arcade!
And, finally, as Steve was driving away with his second haul, he spotted an Icee sign on the side of one of the old snack bar buildings. The seller told him if he could get it down, he could take it. Suffice to say, that is now also hanging in Steve’s arcade!
80s Icee sign!
So there you have it. Not a huge haul of arcade goodies, but a great condition Crazy Climber isn’t something to turn your nose up at. Whilst the rest of the cabinets were trashed, Steve was able to rescue some handy parts and signs from the Flea Market.
Many thanks to Steve for sharing pics and allowing me to tell the story here on the blog. You can follow his arcade adventures on his Facebook page here.
if you want to read up on previous raids featured here on the blog, check out the archive here.
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...and this is exactly what I meant that deattaching from this website one day is going to be incredibly hard:
9 years, 30k posts and I don’t think my backup archive of an export is going to be a... thing. That’s TOO much content that there’s NO WAY I can download. I have read that some archives from people are over 20GB (or have taken a YEAR to back up) and wtf, I don’t think my lap would handle that (downloading the zip file)???
This is going to be... a mess. If it isn’t one already, given that they aren’t giving us tools (despite being told they are going to do that... and requesting an appeal is going to be another storm on its own, especially with flagged random posts that aren’t ns*fw at ALL.
My art side blog is actually telling me that some of my posts are flagged... but if I go to my main blog, they don’t seem... to have that. But I decided those are going to be deleted (only the old art posts I’ve done). I know I am doing this in an impulse, but this is bothering me quite a lot (however, they are already backed-up in my deviantart account... thank GOD I started to do that since early 2018).
...and those are MY art posts.
I have to look for the photo sets I have published over the years especially those with writings on them.
I’m checking my own blog’s posts here in dashboard (basically my entire blog) and I’m only at page 127, and just a couple or three posts have been flagged. From 1270-ish posts, only 3... which I don’t know if I should feel relaxed or more alerted. I do have the luck that with some of my fandoms dying, and me doing more talk in Twitter, my posting here has decreased in 2018 compared to other years.
...however, I do realize that doing this action I’m doing seems futile. I COULD delete the reblogs that are marked as “flagged” because, as I’m not the owner, I cannot do anything about them, nor appeal for them. Tumblr isn’t helping either saying “oh, yes those flagged posts would definitely be deleted at one point in time if they aren’t appealed (to clear them as sfw)”... especially if the OPs are longer gone (or moved to other platforms, etc)
This is ridiculous, and perhaps this post is rather pathetic because I prove a point about it being ridiculous. And pathetic about me, because, again, I’ve been here for 9 years
And it’s only day one. :’)))))
Do you REALLY think Tumblr will give us more tools to locate all those posts that are flagged IF, ESPECIALLY, mass editing is VERY sh*tty?
This will blow completely in their face in the upcoming days. Realistically, I don’t think they are going to step back. But, who knows. Their flagging system is WAY too broken from way back the day they introduced it, it’s just it’s more agressive because they seem to be going for photos depicting people with little clothing (when it isn’t even sexual at all) but lots of flesh... and certain tone of color. I mean, the fuck.
What I mean for futile is also the fact that it’s like the automated ContentID algorhythm in YT. You could be 100% sure your content is okay one day... for another to receive 30 notification flags from a company’s representatives. THAT’S HOW this system is working as.
How the hell do they expect a normal user to appeal for ALL of their wrongly flagged posts. Before this announcement I got one of my pics flagged, but as soon as I requested an appeal, they cleared it off in seconds... but the two I appealed today. NOTHING. Heck, they are promising to send the users emails for that. LMAO, if I rarely had received mails from them...
I cannot believe I’m doing this comparison, but them also saying “okay, the 18+ blogs will remain, but they will remain neutered, isolated, with content MOSTLY deleted, with their headers and avatars with the predetermined ones.” Reminds me of OFF from some reason... thepurifiedzones, you know? Isolated, w/o an “identity”, “purified”. What the hell.
I don’t know what to do - I could be doing this and deleting the reblogs manually, deleting my own posts that “okay, these are not worthy to save”, or simply “let them go” and let Tumblr do the job.
People are rightfully in their right to leave, to migrate. Some are still wanting to stay and prove a point, but I don’t know how that is going to work.
Even if the “purge” seems gradual (because the amount of users and content is HUGE)... two weeks is still very little time to make oneself the idea that this will inevitably start its way in the 17th.
This is giving me lots of anxiety. And the timing couldn’t have been worse for me.
While my blogs aren’t in danger to be deleted (as they mentioned in another post) as they aren’t nsfw (with exception of a couple, and they will be EVEN MORE isolated)... I’m worried for friends, for artists that I like, acquaintances, etc.
That being said, my side blogs (+drafts) have been mostly cleaned by me. I don’t know what is going to happen in the next 13 days, but I’ll check them out again if any other thing happens.
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INTRO POST WITH INTEGRATED FAQ
You kind souls reading this: so wtf is this?
Me, Larry-FF Admin: Another larry fanfiction archive, of course!
You: Oh I see. How does it work?
Me: Well, I will post QUALITY Larry fanfiction here, using links and posting each work's details so you guys can see what you are getting into by clicking the link.
You:Oh, OK. Do you have any sort of masterpost where I can find all of the fanfiction separated in categories?
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You: That's great! I see you have a submission option too? Can I send you my work?
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You: Will you post anything that is not a fanfic?
Me: I will sometimes post my favourite prompts, quotes or manips, because they inspire me a lot to write my own fanfiction and I'd like to inspire other people too.
You: Awesome! I don't really have any more questions...
Me: Great, I'll say a couple more things and I'll leave you alone to read your fanfics.
Hey, It's great to be here! I've wanted to do this tumblr for so long! Anyway, if you see I have posted your work here and you want me to take it off, I WILL. JUST TELL ME. I AM IN NO WAY APPROPRIATING ANYTHING, JUST RECOMMENDING YOUR WORK FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO READ IT. ALSO, I KNOW THAT MY PROFILE PIC AND MY BACKGROUND ONE ARE NOT MINE. I AM IN NO WAY APPROPRIATING OF THEM EITHER. IF YOU WANT ME TO TAKE THEM OFF, I WILL TOO.
That's everything. Enjoy!
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Blog: Does social media help or hinder relationships?
These days 2.34 billion people use some form- or multiple forms- of social media each day. And of them it's suggested that approximately 9 million of them use dating sites and apps. Unlike a few years ago when social media and online dating was in its infancy these days people see nothing wrong with finding love online. And indeed many do find love- or short term relationships- online. Online dating stats (http://www.statisticbrain.com/online-dating-statistics/) claim that 17% of marriages in the last year began online and 20% of current committed relationships began online. Stats are hard to find on long term success rates now but various apps boast about their success rates. But this blog post isn't about how many use online dating and how well it works or doesn't work. It isn't even necessarily about people who's relationships began online. Rather it's about the impact of social media on relationships. In short: does social media help or hinder relationships? Social media, and the Internet, is, in the scheme of time, only a very recent thing. People managed to conduct relationships long before they needed to make them "social media official". Consider this: MySpace was created in 2003, Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, Tumblr in 2007, Instagram in 2010, Pintrest in 2010, and Snapchat in 2011 to name some of the most popular social media platforms to have been created. But relationships and marriages go way back. The first recorded marriage between a man and woman dates from approximately 2350 B.C. (NB: I'm doing a blog post in the future about how dating has changed over time, including marriages.) And, shockingly, thus far there have been no findings of cave scribbles of "John Jones is in a complicated relationship with Jenny Smith" or HenryK2BC receiving thousands of likes for his pictures painted or a hot cavewoman rocking the dog filter. So quite clearly we managed to conduct relationships for thousands of years without social media. (Who would have thought hmm?) Sure social media has some great points; it's a convenient, immediately gratifying way to connect with others. Social media sites offer us an instant audience and attention. It allows us the luxury of easily keeping in touch. It can help combat feelings of loneliness. It allows us to keep tangible markers of times and places, archived for us, and available for all to see. But on the other hand there's the question of such online "friendships" being superficial and possibly leaving someone lonely and struggling to connect on a deeper and more emotional level. And there is concern that individuals might forego their real-life interactions in order to maintain online communication. After all real-life relationships are unmatched for emotional and physical closeness. Now, it's becoming increasingly common to frequently post about your relationship (and life). If it's not online, you don't have proof that it happened. If you think of social media as the modern equivalent of a town square, the place where announcements are made and information is posted and communities are bonded over shared experiences, then it only makes sense that you'd be inclined to share the bits and pieces of your life that you perceive to be worthy of documenting. It's patently obvious to me that social media can put a lot of stress on relationships. We all know a couple who had an argument over one of them adding a new "friend" of the opposite sex on Facebook or following someone on Instagram who's racked up thousands of followers in their bid to become Instagram famous. We all have a friend- or maybe ourselves- who have had lots of conflicts over their boyfriend always liking other girls selfies. It seems that new relationships are more prone to invite worry over social media. Relationships mixed with social media can be tricky. Research about how social media can hurt your relationship came up with many ways, but for matters of brevity I'm going to talk about the most common red flags and issues. Like losing the connection. This is something I think is relevant in *all* relationships not just romantic ones. Spending too much time online can take away from "real life" relationships. Perhaps you've just gotten home from work and had dinner and are now curled up on the couch. I'd be willing to bet here that most of us would have our phones sitting close by at this point. One of your phone lights up with a notification and naturally they check it. Like second nature. So the other partner thinks well if he/she is online I'll just pop in and check my messages/Facebook feed/Twitter feed etc. And suddenly you've gone from dinner and chatting to being on your phones, thus losing the connection. Unfortunately, you lose the real connection between just the two of you when you connect through social media. Sometimes social media can become a problem if it seems to be taking over your partners life. If your date night is looking a lot like you talking and your significant other looking at his or her phone, you might want to shut it down. Some people can become obsessed with this false sense of reality and lose sight of what is in front of their eyes. Another issue on social media that can hinder a relationship is the fact that some people don't keep anything private online whereas others believe not everything is for public consumption. When you are in one school of thought but your partner is in the other there are going to be problems before you find that balance. But in saying that your partner being overly private about your relationship can be a red flag. If they refuse to change their Facebook relationship status from "single" to "in a relationship" or post photos of you together anywhere you can't help but wonder why he or she hasn't. Normally when you are in love and excited about someone you want to shout it from the rooftops (or, you know, the Internet.) So it can be a warning sign when your significant other doesn’t ever do that. Something else that pops up a lot is the fact that there's a fine line between being friendly, flirty, shady or sleazy. An innocent “hello” from an old friend can easily turn into that friend asking you to “catch up,” then to inviting you to other things … it’s important to know how to walk this line and to maintain appropriate boundaries. When you start seeing inappropriate behaviour (for you, because remember everyone's different here!) such as, for example, them liking pictures that make you feel uncomfortable, them liking multiple pictures from someone, if there are flirty comments, if your partner is adding random girls on Facebook or other social media platforms late at night, if he's hiding things or acting cagey with his phone or computer then it's time to speak up. There may be an innocent explanation, but if it makes you feel uncomfortable then it's time to have the talk about what is right and wrong for you in your relationship. Social media and technology combined are slowly becoming the number one cause of problems and arguments in relationships. Another issue is men who post a bunch of selfies, I feel like it's all about seeking attention. Shouldn't your partner feel fulfilled enough within your relationship without needing to rely on "likes" on his selfies in all social media for validation and a confidence boost. Also social media and technology makes it easy for bad people to cheat on someone, because there’s always something they can do to hide their steps. Everyone eventually gets caught in the end, but the price to pay is months of heartache and a lot of developed insecurities that take a lot of time to go away. When our trust gets broken once, it leaves us very scared and vulnerable for another attack. In the efforts to save our hearts from another painful trauma, we become overprotective and in some cases we just get so involved that people start calling us “paranoid”. A word of caution: the moment you start to play social media detective (facestalking isn't a word for no reason though I prefer to call it doing investigative research) is the moment you need to step away from social media. Perhaps it's prompted by jealousy- why doesn't *your* boyfriend post lovey dovey statuses about you and like and comment on all your pics like your friends does? Perhaps by a niggling feeling that he spends too much time online. Or perhaps you've been cheated on in the past and have trust issues. There's a find line here. It's normal to look up our partners new Facebook friends, checking out who liked their picture, possibly even looking at photos of their ex. But becoming obsessive about it, looking up exes family and seeing if they are still friendly with your partner and their family, seeing if they've checked in somewhere near where your partner was or where they were that time he didn't reply to you for a few hours one Saturday is crossing the line. Keep in mind that old saying: "seek and ye shall find.” You can find anything on social media that will make you upset, even if it’s truly not a big deal. When the snooping takes over, it’s showing a bigger issue at hand — insecurity. And remember this: everyone has a past. You do too. And that past probably played out on social media. You need to concentrate on the fact that he's with you now, not the ex who he'd posted about online the year before. And, lastly, don't believe everything you read. Just because a couple act like they have the perfect relationship online doesn't mean they do. So, in closing, I'm going to say social media can both help and hinder your relationships. Not one or the other. It's clearly about how you use it, how your partner uses it, and the rules you define between you about what is and is not acceptable online. Sources: http://www.thisisinsider.com/happy-couples-post-less-about-their-relationships-on-social-media-2016-9 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/close-encounters/201505/how-facebook-affects-our-relationships https://www.bustle.com/articles/103105-how-social-media-can-affect-relationships-plus-6-red-flags-to-look-out-for https://www.bustle.com/articles/42842-8-ways-social-media-is-hurting-your-love-life https://www.google.com.au/amp/www.relrules.com/the-impact-of-social-media-on-relationships/amp/ http://www.thisisinsider.com/happy-couples-post-less-about-their-relationships-on-social-media-2016-9 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/couples-social-media-oversharing-facebook-instagram-twitter-relationship-insecurities-experts-nikki-a7530911.html
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You know, it’s kinda crazy to think about... But one of the sites that I use the least nowadays is genuinely one of the sites that had the biggest impact in my life. I use instagram a lot nowadays, since it’s platform allowed me to meet and connect with new people. Maybe one day, it’ll even surpass tumblr’s impact on my life. Idk just random late night thoughts, but damn I never really took the time to appreciate this website LOL.
I guess how I got into tumblr should be a starting point. My first gf basically Kristy was very into tumblr. I was not dating her at the time, just best friends. I had a childhood friend named Cynthia that actively used tumblr and had a pretty high following count. Honestly only nowadays do I think that I finally surpassed her in follower count LOL. She had like 15k-ish, back when I first started using this website in junior year. So Cynthia highly recommended that I start using tumblr. I initially used tumblr as a way of kinda bonding with her and later my future 1st gf (having stuff in common helps lolol). At first, I just posted selfies and looked up dumb stuff that I like, so HIMYM/pizza/food/funny stuff was all I posted in the beginning. I never really found the appeal to it tbh at first. Like I guess I post stuff I like, so I can show ppl my blog and they’ll know more about me. But uhh idk? I guess what kinda made me get more into it, is Cynthia had a high followers count and she legit wouldn’t tell me her blog, unless I had 200+ followers. I was like WTF, how do I even get 200 followers!? So I tried to grow in followers by idk reblogging some cool stuff I saw on a very popular blog. The blog is gone nowadays, but it was basically vertical pics idk. It had landscape, which is basically what my blog is today. But it was like home stuff idk tumblr-esque vertical pics of home, roses, animals, landscapes, and stuff. I just reblogged stuff like that and uh did f4f until I hit like 1k LOL, then I started to join tumblr networks since Cynthia told me that tumblr networks are lit to make friends/grow. Tumblr networks did help me grow, but honestly it was orionfalls that made me get to like 20k followers today. Honestly I still queue up posts whenever I’m extremely bored once a month, so that my tumblr is still active. It’s crazy how uh strong my habits can be? I legit have always had posts queued up from 3rd year of HS to 3rd year of college and I only had a couple days, where I legit had 0 posts on kawaiitheo. The thing is, I never really took advantage of my high follower count. Like idk, if I posted something that is not a vertical landscape, it gets like 3-6 notes. I’ve noticed personal accounts with far far less followers than me have way better interaction... My landscape posts still get a decent amount of notes to this day. But it’s surprising how bad my interactions are ahhh. Like idk, I kinda always wanted a really high followers count with followers that wanted to be friends/get to know me/ask questions/etc... But I guess I should have tried to get popular in uh not landscapes LOL. But srsly, I have uploads that hit 100k+ notes... Also I legitly have 20k followers. I legit never did those promo4promos bs or anything after like 1k followers. All my followers found my blog and legitimately followed based on my content. I admit that orionfalls by queuing up my posts, I gain like 30ish folloewrs each time. But you’d have to go to my blog, see I have similar content to orionfalls, enjoy my content, and follow right? So I do have good notes on my landscape posts, but damn are ppl disinterested in me as a person :( Maybe I should have done more idk quotes reblogs/random text posts to make myself more than just a landscape posting robot LOL. Oh well... maybe if I’m really bored one day, I’ll try that.
Anyways, I’m getting super far off topic. Uhh, so Kristy had a tumblr, I made a personal tumblr since she didn’t really care for my landscape posts LOL. She did end up having a landscape blog and ended up following me again tho. She had a popular league of legends tumblr and tumblr was a cool activity/hobby that we both had. We’d share each other posts from tumblr and I got her into reddit, which she uses to this day. I think she stopped using tumblr tho. But tumblr was a cool hobby I had with her. I made my first every uh diary/journal like this, because of Kristy actually. She had kristyhere, which was her secret journal back then. She told me before we started dating when she had a crush on me and I was her best friend, that she had a private journal of thoughts that she liked to write on. She sometimes for whatever reason shared it with best friends that really knew her and who she didn’t mind knowing about her thoughts/feelings/secrets I guess. I was like woah o.o and read that blog religiously and apparently I was the first person to actually continuously check up on the private tumblr (pw protected, so can’t follow have to manually check). But yeah, fast forward started dating. I decided to make my own private secret blog and it somehow became my way of communicating with her, similar to what I later did with Stefanie actually... Unfortunately, I deleted the blog I had with Kristy after we broke up, so a lot of our idk history and my thoughts back then are gone. I do regret it a bit, so I don’t delete my blogs to this day. Since I figured it’ll be fun to look back many years from now to see my thoughts back then. But uhh, yeah used tumblr as a medium to communicate with my first gf, and it helped us idk bond and express feelings in a unique way. Since in these journals, you can have a conversation where you’re basically uninterrupted. You legit could type pages of your thoughts and the reader/SO just has to take all the thoughts in at once without being able to idk interrupt. It has it’s pros and cons definitely. But it was a way for her to idk complain about me haha and ofc randomly confess love for me. I guess the coolest thing about them nowadays is, I could always re-read her old blog posts about me and see how uh she fell for me, some really big highlight moments between us, and ofc uh dark times. I see my past dumb dumb dumb first relationship mistakes and idk silliness back then. But I also do remember sometimes she super misunderstood me based on her blog post, then after talking to her, she realizes oh haha my b. I guess I have a problem keeping this post consistent in topic. But yeah, tumblr had a huge impact on my life, since it was a way to I guess bond with my best friend, which later helped turn her into my gf. Also it was a cool hobby that we got to share together and a medium that we both used to communicate with each other occasionally.
Later on, it surprisingly led to me meeting basically the love of my life. I know I recently wrote a lot about idk Kristy and orionfalls (who I befriended through mutual interest in League, he has like 300k folloewrs crazy). Like I casually was browsing instagram and saw those kawaii battles, because linda chen? or whatever on ig was posting them. I saw Stefanie and thought oh wow what a cute girl LOL. I clicked on her instagram and then she had a tumblr~ I was still an active user of tumblr despite not being with Kristy anymore for like months at that time. I saw from her about she had a ridiculous amount in common with me and she lived in SoCal like wowow~ I didn’t think anything would come from it, but I just wanted to send her a compliment through her ask. Surprisingly she sent very wordy cute responses and we had back in forth conversations, before we transition over to kik. Then I think we had skype call together once, so I could hear her voice for the first time. Lol it’s crazy to think that I onced was kinda excited just to hear what she sounds like on Skype, and to think I was later in a position where I was sharing the same bed with her in her college dorm... Damn life is crazy. Then I found out her fb and slowly just started to message her from there. Only really talking to her later at night, since she had guard practice and no phone for a while LOL. Anyways, I had a crush on her, since she just typed really really cute and was just fun to talk to + was pretty. Idk I just really liked her personality :O and it was so nice and sweet, it’s like bro how can anyone hate this girl? Eventually I think it wasn’t until I started college that I started to talk to her again. December we had our first date and it was crazy! Eventually somehow began a real life relationship.. It became a relationship that kind of changed me, taught me more about relationships, made me really experience life (holy never drove in rain to LA before for a 1st date, never had that many sleepovers in general, never drove hours to LA, pulling all nighters for a girl, Valentine’s Day, driving on a random Thursday just to visit her since she was lonely, and etc etc). Like I guess in the process of idk trying to have a successful relationship with her, damn did I really experience life that I wouldn’t have experienced otherwise. Like idk I could write a bunch of what I learned like carrying conversations, having to plan the day even when I visit her in LA/her city, started to actively look for cool things to do like escape rooms or new places to go to, and idk improve as a person more for her + learn more about myself/relationships. But yeah, I’d say ig showed me Setefanie, but tumblr is obv where the relationship kinda all started. It brought to me a relationship + friendship that lasted from my senior year of HS all the way to before my 3rd year of college began. Crazy! From her junior year to 2nd year of college~ That’s some key years in a person’s life yo! I never really appreciated tumblr that much now that I think about it. But damn, it connected me with someone who undoubtedly had a huge impact on my life. So I guess I gotta appreciate this site more sometimes, even though I don’t really use it as much as in the past... It even has an archive of kinda my thoughts and feelings for years now from these journals/blogs, and on my personal blog of stuff I like, it sort of shows a shift on how I am at certain points of times and maybe slightly my interests idk. Also I similarly used tumblr personal blogs/journals as a way of communicate with Stefanie during the relationship too, so tumblr also get extra points for that. I guess I’m being really repetitive, but man do I take this site for granted in some ways. Like I don’t really use it that much, since idk not too popular and kinda boring nowadays, and it doesn’t really hold too close of a place in my heart. But it honestly should considering without it, oh man my life would be pretty different haha.
SO yeah, I guess kinda just random thoughts about tumblr. Who knows when the day will come that I truly quit this site. But now that I reflected a bit, it’ll have a small small place in my heart. I still try to post on my personal account and reblog random stuff that I like every day, since idk habit. I don’t queue that much on kawaiitheo, but legit the queue count is 200+ so I don’t really have to queue for like 2 months prob lol. I even post on my fashion blog every couple days at least like 1 post... As for this blog and my personal secret blog, I kinda slowly am trying to let this blog die out. But sometimes I just come up with posts that just fits this a lot more. So idk soon? one day? Who knows.. Random late night reflections yo.. Damn have this site oddly had a huge impact in my life.
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