#but i'm not gonna elaborate on this really

[thereosheep]

You were born in the 2000s, so it was interesting to try and tinker with a computer that was even older than you. How fast would it run? What could it do?

Could it run Doom?

In a sense.

It did doom your entire worldview after all.

It used to belong to your mom. One of the few things you had access to now that you were of age and could fish around her storage unit.

Whoever used it, whoever had your name, used the file as a journal of sorts. They would write a date, Year-Month-Day, and then whatever their thoughts were on that day or other interesting stuff that happened.

At first it was pretty innocuous. A gentle hand still unsure of what they were doing.

1998-08-27 - Mom said I can use the computer for school work. I'm doing a journal too. Feeling rebellious :)

1998-08-28 - Saw a male Calico today. Pretty rare stuff :)

But each subsequent entry got more and more complex. Their thoughts more and more elaborate. And each one would bring in new insights about the author. Insights you were starting to find even weirder when taking into account the fact that you were the one reading them.

1998-09-7 - [...] Mom got me red shoes again. Even though I said I don't like them. She keeps insisting that I do no matter how many times I tell her otherwise. I wear them now because she starts crying when I continue to insist on it. [...]

1998-10-31 - [...] Mom got in a fight with Miss Huxley because I didn't get a main role in the Halloween play. Miss Huxley says I got no talent for acting. I think she's rude and has an ugly face.

Mom agrees with me for once. Says she wants to take me to a school that'll actually "appreciate my talents" [...].

1998-12-18 - Mom and I fought again today. She saw me giving Mike a goodbye hug since his family would be traveling the entire break. She asked me about him, but I don't think she likes him very much despite after telling her how great he is at soccer and how he's the strongest and most handsome boy in our class. She said she'd prefer if I was friends with someone like BELINDA GEORGE of all people! Snooty goody two shoes fake blonde and upturned nose Belinda George!

I could tell she was holding back tears as I told her that I'd NEVER be friends with someone like Belinda George.

She's been doing that more and more recently.

Those were all experiences that you've had with your mom growing up. The dates and names were wrong, sure, but it was all uncannily similar.

What really chilled you to your core, however, was the last note. The last thing someone so like you and yet so distant from who you were today.

1999-04-26 - Mom said we were gonna visit a farm today for my birthday. Seems a bit weird, but I get to leave school for the day ;)

Mike's gonna be so jealous.

She did the same for you, back during your 9th birthday.

Thing is, you never really reached that far because a car ran over a red light, hitting her side of the vehicle square on and killing her instantly.

And as you ponder the contents of the journal of a child who had an eerily similar life to yours, you wonder if you ever truly knew your mother.

And how many degrees were you separated from the "real you".

You’re visiting your parents at your childhood home and decide to do some Spring cleaning in the attic. Under a pile of dust, you discover your first 90’s PC and miraculously it still powers on. You check the documents folder. There’s only a single text file. It has your name on it.

[goldenivy0]

They lost their minds. I can't believe that E/riel having regency couple vibes is a thing now, oh no, I'm losing it I- 😂😂

*clears throat and insert sound*

"Nobody!! Is better than the original." 🗣🗣

[cardo-de-comer]

[angelpuns]

Deep deep fear that one day all my friends are gonna decide they just don't wanna talk to me anymore for whatever reason and unfortunately, I won't get the memo and will keep trying and that'll just make them hate me more :(

[transusopp]

you ain't ever have to lie to me, i'm everything that i've strived to be! so do i look like him...? i don't look like him! (no text under cut)

i'm predictable. all i do is draw this man suffering during wci. sorry sanji

[diz-eaze]

MONDSTADT QUEST SPOILERS!!!!

Bro did u just predict that albedo makes a baby in the new quest😭😭 u literally manifested it!!

5.6 SPOILERS !!!

IM GONNA GO CRAZY.

[torra-and-the-toons]

There is no comic... yet. But perhaps one day there could be.

This took me an entire week to finish. 😵

[mildarka]

i'm powered by wanting to make things but i'm extra powered by wanting to make/give my friends things that'll make them really happy even if it means i gotta do loads of work first

[mariamariquinha]

[deet-doot]

late to maid day but it's fine, have a doodle

thank u @lucien-aventine for the idea that we do not in fact have to adhere to the in-game maid outfit 💙

[total-drama-brainrot]

hi I’m Jesus Christ and I want Noah Total Drama to be blended into a smoothie

- Jesus Christ

Thanks Jesus. Praise be, or whatever.

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 15: Charles Keeping

Keeping This One Brief

Our second in the spooky subseries is a set by Charles Keeping, a famed English illustrator, children's book author, and lithographer who, among his many other accomplishments, illustrated the entirety of Dickens's work for the Folio Society.

This set is unique among all those we've seen so far, both for its recentness (call its publication date a Bowling for Soup song the way it's "1985"🤪) and for its source:

Rather than being from a large public resource like the Internet Archive or from my own personal scans, these are all coming from the personal blog of Derrick J. Knight, a fellow netizen who just so happens to have scanned the illustrations of the book he was reading and uploaded them to the Internet for all to see.

Out of gratitude and respect for giving these precious rarities of illustrations to the public, I'm going to keep this post simple and straightforward, with no post-notes.

Here they are (fair warning, a couple of these are pretty gory):

That's it! Thank you, Charles Keeping and Derrick J. Knight!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

[moe-broey]

Crazy how I can recount something from my adolescence about how I was raised and still manage to make my therapist (who I have been seeing for Years) still go Oh. That's... 😶

Like obviously professional quick recovery style but like. Has an immediate grounding effect and gives eye opening perspective in point zero seconds. Like ooooohh. You see, I was operating under the impression that like, this is a fairly run of the mill and expected experience for someone like me with my lived experiences. Like I could just say this and anyone would know exactly what I'm getting at without needing to provide all the details and thought processes at play here.

Hm. Well,

[chipistrate]

I'm not even upset that Vanessa and Mike are in love or whatever- I'm really just upset that they're rushing into it

Vanessa refers to their meeting as a "meet cute" and Mike tries to kiss her mid-trauma dump- like is that??? Really necessary????

Can we not wait until they know each other a bit better????? Have some nice character moments outside of their traumatic experiences at Freddy's?????????? Please???????????????

I'm just so sick of romance being rushed, can we PLEASE get some nice character moments before we start having the protagonists fall in love I'm BEGGING

[daz4i]

why did we retire this trend. it was fun. i can't find my old poll but i'm bored so lemme make a new one bc why not

[alexthemacaronian]

Got bored and made a Suitcase doodle in paint with a mouse loosely based off of a pmv I'm planning to make so have that

kinda meamt to be style experimentation tbh idk I haven't drawn eyes like that sibce the 2nd grade but I think it looks cool when people pull it off well so yk

Uh yeah I might delete this later cuz I'm starting to overthink it now tbh idk