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[th3-c0ll3ct3r]

My Tumblr followers. If and when you see this. Just don't look at twitter man

This year is cooked

Sorry for the vent but omg this year man THIS YEAR UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (read tags for context)

[rook-hunt-chasseur-damour]

Can you teach me how to get a better aim? I was playing basketball earlier and sucked so bad 😭

Ah, I can help you with aim, but basketball is not my speciality ^^

Hmmm, perhaps Monsieur Kills for Thrills would be a better teacher for you (@floydleechrp)

[joukaiweek]

Trying something new this year!

Look forward to summary posts at the end of each day. Hopefully that can help people easily catch up on any posts they may have missed in their feeds.

[useless-englandfacts]

Am I the only one confused by how many people are posting about November 5 this year???

i was too initially but i believe this date coincides with that deranged episode of supernatural when destiel... became canon? or maybe it didn't become canon? i think someone got sent to hell? i'm not sure. but that's what they're posting about, not guy fawkes.

[angelic-guardienne]

FINALLY HAVE ALL THE OBELISKS!!!!

[lemonhemlock]

re: tribalism in the hotd fandom.

i use the anti and team tags a lot, even when i'm not even necessarily posting anything critical. it's not especially because i'm aiming to be antagonistic or contrarian, but i really like being able to find my posts later and i want to make this blog as searchable as possible, otherwise my inbox would be inundated with the same questions. it's also an opportunity for those who really do not want to see any kind of criticism to filter them. i don't have the energy or mental headspace to think up and keep track of original tags for every character or issue. using different tags or not tagging would defeat the initial purpose, too.

so, while i understand people getting really tired of the team v team dichotomy, to me these tags are just very useful organisational tools, because it drives me nuts trying to search for something on my blog and not being able to find it :)

[dhampiravidi]

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[ent-is-indecisive]

I understand writers so much. I can necer do what you do, but i am never so anxious to draw than when i am trying to focus on very pressing schoolwork.

[banishedandkassified]

yeah we're mutuals but that just makes me more scared of talking to you. please help you scare me. i fear disappointing you more than i fear death. disappointing you IS death.

[amrslog]

➷ 230223 || 100 days since debut ! ♥︎

[archivingbarca]

https://www.tumblr.com/archivingbarca/766054526808735744/100-leave-for-free

I’m by no means a FDJ fan, in fact I’d probably be considered a hater, but if he leaves Barça as a free agent then I will fly out to the city of whichever club he joins next and hunt him for sport. It’d be the biggest stab in the back if he leaves for free after draining the club with his ginormous salary.

🤝 you and me both. his performances have not justified any sort of special respect from me, but i’ll be willing to start fresh if he renews on a lower salary and performs well under flick

[shakesey-p]

I am holding you by the lapels. Sleep now, little buddy, throw your cares away. Nappy with a happy face, tomorrows a latter day. GO SLEEP NOW!

Ha- I may. Nicky does look rather cozy... I'll go to sleep soon, little man, ta.

[unhinged-motogp-confessions]

https://www.tumblr.com/unhinged-motogp-confessions/752215232026394624/bezz-ass-spankable-yes-or-no?source=share

Have fun hitting bones😭

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[bakuliwrites]

Testing out to see if having a writing schedule would be beneficial for me, given that I have multiple long projects I’m working on. Tentatively thinking that I could post the next chapter of End Up Here at the end of every month, and Dark Star in the middle of the month. Giving me two weeks each to work on them… We shall see…

[sreegs]

I reblogged it earlier but I'm glad the Something Awful Forums 9/11 thread was archived because it's an incredibly important slice of internet history. For the record I think 9/11 was thousands of personal tragedies for the direct victims of the attacks but one big national farce that led to America's ongoing slide into fascism, and the nationalism and remembrance around it is a joke especially in the wake of the same amount of deaths every fucking day in the US during the height of coronavirus.

Nevertheless I think it's important that if you do not remember because you were too young or just didn't exist on Sept 11, 2001 to read the Something Awful 9/11 forums to get an idea of what the internet was like at the moment when America changed to 24 hour news cycles and renewed hyper-nationalism not seen since WWII.

This all happened before Twitter, Facebook, before Discord. Before smart phones. Before most people had cell phones. When a lot of people still had dial-up internet, even. Some people in the thread were relying on radio because internet and TV weren't keeping up.

It was a live event of internet denizens reacting to the biggest national event (and among the biggest international events) of the past 25 years. It was also a slice of what the internet was like at the turn of the millennium. Not only that, but people accurately calling out who was responsible, and what would result before the attacks even finished.

Keep in mind that the links that follow contain images of the event, lots of Islamophobia, people calling for the Middle East to be nuked, people blaming Palestine, casual racist and homophobic language (this was Something Awful after all), etc etc. They preserved the first 17 pages which spanned about 24 hours during the events. It's the origin of the "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR" screenshot.

Links under the fold. I've also annotated the pages with notes regarding the timeline and any posts of interest. Note the thread was preserved in Pacific Time even though the page says times are Eastern. That's incorrect. Post timestamps are 3 hours behind Eastern Time, which is the time zone where the attacks occurred:

Page 1 - Note the first post was edited to include images of the second attack. The thread started after the first plane hit. Second plane hitting the WTC happens here too.

Page 2 - Poster accurately calling out Bin Laden was responsible at 9:14 AM EST

Page 3 - "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR"

Page 4

Page 5 - First official acknowledgement it was a terrorist attack.

Page 6 - Pentagon hit

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Page 8

Page 9 - Commercial flights grounded by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

Page 10 - First mention of towers collapsing at end of page

Page 11 - More reactions to collapse of first tower. People thinking it was a bomb or yet another plane. Rumors about a fourth plane just missing the White House (these are false and predate the actual 4th plane crash by minutes)

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Page 13 - By this point there's just rampant speculation about more bombs at the WTC, the US Capitol building being hit, etc (all false). Remember this is all just people reacting to TV news and radio and the rumor mill via phone, AIM, IRC, and maybe text messages.

Page 14 - By this point internet news sites are overwhelmed

Page 15 - Second tower collapses. First acknowledgement of the fourth plane that crashed in PA.

Page 16 - There's an abrupt time jump in the threads, I think it was the result of admins pruning the activity or the SA forums going down. This page starts on 9/12 even though it is page 16. American flag signatures and ribbons start appearing.

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