#for my shitty vpn wifi

[quotidianish]

Wdym this wasn’t how episode 8 went

[iishmael]

bro I hate Europe fr I forgot to switch my wifi over when I got home to Ireland and started watching a movie. Now I realised halfway through, turned the fucking wifi on, my Netflix switched country, and now the goddamn movie isn’t available anymore lmaooo

[sorenflyinn]

So what fandoms are you gonna write for? And what are your boundaries when it comes to requests (stuff you won't write (yandere, smut, ect.))?

Just wanted to know before I go ahead and request something

I meant to post my list of characters yesterday but my wifi was shitty (I forgot to turn off my vpn and my phone didn’t like that) but here’s the list! (characters might be added later on)

Marvel

Loki

MHA

Mezo Shoji

Keigo Takami (Hawks)

Tamaki Amajiki

Shoto Todoroki

AOT

Levi Ackermann

JJK

Kento Nanami

Megumi Fushiguro

Toge Inumaki

Suguru Geto

Satoru Gojo

Toji Fushiguro

Kamo Choso

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

Kusuo Saiki

Buddy Daddies

Rei Suwa

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Challe Fen Challe

Kaguya-sama: Love is war

Yu Ishigami

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

Ryūjiro Tsuchigomori

Ouran High School Host Club

Takashi Morinozuka

Sk8 the Infinity

Kaoru Sakurayashiki/Cherry Blossom

Hazbin Hotel

Lucifer

Alastor

Vox

Genshin Impact

Arlecchino

Kinich

Dainsleif

Alhaitham

Wriothesley

Capitano

I ALSO write

Kaveh x Alhaitham

Ningguang x Beidou

literallt any other genshin ship that isnt illegal or just 😦

I have a pretty specific list when it comes to characters (I’m picky).

I’m ok with writing smut, just inexperienced so it might take me a while to write.

Things I won’t write are:

-underage smut

-minor x adult

-student x teacher (college is fine though)

-yandere themes

-noncon

-Valentino smut 😟

-piss/shit kink

-incest

Anything not on that list is fine (might be edited later if I realize something that needs to be added)

[transboysokka]

@transuncletaylor made a post that really made me remember how easy it was to get lost back before we had smartphones and being home, it was just normal and they weren’t really essential, but TRAVELING omg…. When I would travel with my parents, no big deal at all. But traveling alone….

I used to live in Fuzhou, China, in like… 2018? In day-to-day life, smartphones were very much a thing by then- but without a VPN you couldn’t use pretty much any of the Big Western websites, including Google so now that I think about it, maps were much more difficult there. But that’s not my point right now.

Fuzhou’s kind of on the central coast, across the strait from Taiwan. On long weekends I would take the high-speed train about 4 hours to Hong Kong alone (most of my traveling is done alone) and BOY I never had ANY idea what was going on there. I wouldn’t bother with a SIM bc I would never be there for too long and there was free wifi in a lot of places (but, I’d find out, never in the places that mattered)

Anyway I would tend to just wander around Hong Kong without a real plan, hop on a ferry to some island I didn’t even know, wander around, get back on the ferry, go somewhere else to hike… It was fun! I have a good sense of direction so I was always able to end up back at my hostel when I needed

Another important thing to know… my Chinese bank account (and I ONLY had a Chinese bank account) for some reason wouldn’t let me use my debit card or any ATMs when I was in Hong Kong. So it was very much a cash only situation but I was always pretty good at bringing the right amount

Well

Here’s the situation. It’s December 23rd. I’d taken a couple days off work so I could do a long weekend for my birthday (the 20th) and experience Christmas (which was really not celebrated at all in Fuzhou) but I DO have to work the next day, the 24th and I can’t remember why but there was something really important happening that day that definitely couldn’t be missed.

The train to Fuzhou ran something like twice a day and my ticket was for the afternoon train. Security and immigration took unexpectedly WAYYYYY too long and for the first time in my life I missed my train.

So here I am, without any money to even buy another ticket if I want to, PAST immigration with no real way to reenter Hong Kong, with no phone signal or Wi-Fi, and HAVE to work the next day…

I go up to the help desk and explain what happened and they were like “Well, you gotta go somewhere so we’ll stick you on the next train to Shenzhen” which is right over the border but I’m thinking “great because at least I’ll be in China with a phone signal and it should be easy to get a train from there”

So I get to Shenzhen. Which is a HUGE city that I know nothing about and have never been to before. I find the ticket line at the station. Because I was a foreigner, I was required to buy tickets in person instead of from the machines? There were a lot of rules like that, I’m not really sure what was up with that. So I get in the line which takes FIVE HOURS to get to the front of. Not even joking. That’s also for some reason not completely unheard of there. By now it’s probably like 7pm? I tell the lady I need to get to Fuzhou TONIGHT and I’ll take a standing ticket if I have to and she says they JUST sold out but I can get an unreasonably expensive business class ticket for 7am the next day if I want.

I take it. At least I can afford it now bc I’m back in China

Then I gotta figure out where to stay. I get on the Chinese version of like booking.com or whatever people use nowadays and find a shitty hostel that accepts foreigners. Many hotels and hostels DIDN’T take foreigners bc they’re allowed to choose and you need a special license of something. So the closest place that had a bed and would take me was AN HOUR AWAY on the metro.

Okay good I finally get there and I’m exhausted.

I pass out and wake up at like 4 or 5am to make my morning train. I try to take a faster route back to the train station and somehow it’s WAY slower. I ALMOST MISS THAT TRAIN TOO. But I do get on and NOW IM STRESSED BECAUSE I HAVE TO WORK AT NOON and the train is gonna pull up in Fuzhou at like 11:30.

I get in and RUN to work, luggage and all, and make it but oof how exhausting, Merry Christmas…

Not nearly as dramatic as going missing in Seoul, but I do love this specific genre of story 😆

[green-mountain-goose]

If you use a vpn, the school won't be able to block the sites you visit

hey, i do! just not on my laptop, becuase none of the vpns (proton and xvpn i've tried) seem to work longer than like 5 minutes before disconnecting and completely not letting me use the wifi at all. like the network fully disconnects from my laptop for like a couple hours until later in the day. idk how they designed that. also it worked fine (xvpn) at least with my old laptop, but not my new one. this means i dont use a vpn on my laptop, becuase i need wifi on it even if i can only access the sites school lets me (like, btw, i take notes and stuff with my laptop in my compsci lessons. so killing off my wifi for a couple hours is not a great idea). (also sidenote, like, the stupidest things are blocked on school wifi. sure, discord and tumblr and reddit. but also spotify and todoist. whyyyy??. and for some reason yt isnt blocked lol. (probs bc educational videos ig. anyways)).

i ended up reading manga on my phone lol, with a vpn (xvpn), which does stay connected (kinda). school wifi is still shitty and still disconnects like, every 10 minutes, but we did it lol. but also, tbh, reading manga on my phone is not the usual or comfortable experience, hence i try read on my laptop lol.

[babycactus]

bro why is tumblr suddenly not working in pak

[dirtbagwithachainsaw]

yeah i got nervous playing survival mode on minecraft so i set the difficulty to peaceful what about it bitch

[ms-demeanor]

Is there a way to make smartphones *not* horrible? Or is this just another thing in the “everything I like and that helps me live is evil, permanently” category?

Uhhhhhhhhhh. Okay. FIRST I wanna say please look at this android pocket computer with a full qwerty keyboard that you can use as a cellphone and install Linux on because it is giving me an erection:

That’s so fucking sexy. I love that. That makes me want to spend a large amount of money on a piece of technology. I haven’t felt like this since I got my first Sidekick. (Things were kind of briefly amazing when we had phones that fit the niche between “flip phone” and “smart phone” with weird little carrier cloud networks and packet radio data service)

But. Okay.

So first I want you to really think about how much you use your phone as a phone. Like with the talk function and all.

Think about how much you use texting.

THOSE TWO THINGS, those things that require the use of a phone number, are the only things that make a phone different than a tablet.

So I’ll ask you: what do you actually use your phone for?

Me, I am a weirdo. My phone is primarily used for the browser.

What I like about using Firefox as my primary phone app is that I’ve got a lot more control over what the app is collecting/observing/tracking than I do with, say, the tumblr app. Also I have an adblocker on my FF for Android so I can browse in peace and not get too perplexed by weird tumblr noodle ads or whatever.

Also log in to different sites as different users, run a VPN, use an anonymizer, or just straight-up decide to use Tor instead.

(and I can log into my email without an app, which sometimes I want to do because “reasons” where “reasons” is “I’m already a massive fucking data mine for you, google, I shouldn’t have to see ads in my fucking inbox”)

If you find that you mostly use your phone for things that could be done in a browser then you’d probably be in super good shape to attempt to use some variety of linux tablet (Good luck because they kind of aren’t really a thing but dear LORD do I have a techboner for that gemini phone/tablet thing) or just using a tablet that isn’t tied to GPS and cell service towers. A wifi tablet with no SIM is better than a smartphone if you’re concerned about security shit, from there using the browser on your tablet and using services that don’t track your data is another good step.

Do all of that and then get a flip phone for calls and texts; try not to take your flip phone everywhere because basically it’s a location tracker with a unique ten digit serial number that we’ve all volunteered to carry 24/7 and every time I sit down and really start thinking about that I want to go lie down in a faraday cage for a while and cry.

*IDEALLY* you’d just use a tablet and use Signal instead of your phone’s voice or message function. And you’d just use available internet; how often do you *really* get messages or calls when you’re someplace that doesn’t have internet?

*REALISTICALLY* yeah okay phones are how people have access to 4G and can communicate if there isn’t wifi available.

If most of the things you do on your phone are apps, well. Run android, install antivirus, get a vpn, do things through Firefox for Android as much as possible, disable apps you don’t use, and seriously reconsider which apps you want to use (for instance don’t install facebook or facebook messenger on your phone)

I don’t know - this is kind of complicated advice because there are lots of types of tech users and lots of levels of paranoia and I don’t know where you’re at.

Here is some blanket advice that I feel comfortable giving to everyone:

Don’t install Facebook products on your devices. Yes, that includes Instagram and yes, I should delete my Instagram.

Avoid using Google as much as you can - if you’re on android I know you’re kind of screwed, but let’s be real, you don’t need to use the youtube app on your phone. Disable what you can’t uninstall.

Don’t deal with Amazon except where you have to. Don’t buy from Amazon if you can get the product elsewhere, don’t shop on Amazon through anything other than the website (No. Amazon. App. Take if off your phone.) Don’t get Amazon smart devices, don’t get Echo Earbuds (what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck why is that even a thing)

Practice leaving your phone someplace that you aren’t. Try to get into the habit of being out of communication. I know there are people for whom this is impossible - whether because of illness or work or whatever, I get that there are some people who need to be in arm’s reach of a phone. But if you *can* be away from your phone you really, really should, at least a couple days a week.

Look, your phone isn’t evil!bad!, you’re not evil!bad! for needing to use your phone. But it is extremely shitty that privacy rights and civil liberties haven’t kept up with technology and I think we need to be loud and angry about it.

With that in mind, please consider supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

And if you can’t do that then PLEASE consider using open source software (like GIMP, LibreOffice, or Mozilla) instead of relying on closed-source software (like Adobe, Microsoft, or Google).

[athenadcvell]

Let’s make this a strict parent’s thread

Ok, everyone with strict parents. I’m boutta top y’all. And let’s all suffer together, so reblog with your own wild rules you have to follow

Fellin bored, so I’m boutta flex and just go ahead and hand my parents the most controlling and manipulative strictest parents of all time award

I have never been allowed to go to anyone’s house unless they were family

That literally means that growing up, if I was even invited to a birthday party, my parents would not let me go

Not one of my friends have ever been allowed to come over

Up until Sophomore year, I had never hung out after school with my friends

I maybe ever went to one birthday party, for, like, an hour

My dad gave me his old tablet when I was 12. He put restrictions so I could not access any web browser, the app store, or download games intended for children 12 and up

I was twelve 

We have an alarm on our door. Not a system generated alarm that notifies police if there is an intruder. Nope. An alarm. You open the door or window? Alarm

I’m not allowed to open my windows and have my door locked. And no, I have not been caught smoking before, or sneaking out. My room is on the third level

I am not allowed to have my phone or laptop in my room, ever

I am not allowed to wear leggings

I am not allowed to wear shorts

I am not allowed to wear tank tops

I can’t wear ripped jeans or crop tops

I can not wear short dresses or skirts without wearing leggings underneath them (which is why I stopped wearing them all together)

I can’t leave the house wearing a shirt that shows my shoulders

I have never been allowed to date, or even hang out with guys

My mom says she’s fine with my hanging out with boys, but one time, one of my guy friends dropped me off home after school (there were two other girls visible in the car) and my mom thought he looked like a ‘drug dealer’. I ended up getting grounded for a week

I was not allowed to wear makeup until I was 14

I literally do not have a curfew. Meaning, that I can be out of the house for maybe two or three hours before my mom drags my ass back in. God forbid I ask to stay out past 7

I can’t hang out two weeks in a row. I asked my mom once if I could hang out with my friends on Friday, and she said I was abusing her generosity because she had let me hang out with friends the Friday before

I literally can not even sit on our front porch because apparently I look like a ‘prostitute’

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN???

My mom makes me roll up my pads/tampons in toilet paper before throwing them in the trash bc the ‘men of the house’ don’t need to see that

the only one who cares is my misogynistic fuck of a father. I’ve asked my brother. He couldn’t give a shit

I can’t even say the word period out loud without getting yelled at

My phone and laptop both have internet restrictions on them, cause apparently, a fucking high schooler can’t be trusted on google

I literally have like 5 different VPN’s and Proxy’s downloaded on my computer

At 9, my WiFi cuts off. I’m the only one in the house who has to go through that

If I want an adrenaline rush, I go and ask my mom if I can hang out/ buy something. Get’s the heart beating real quick

Also works if I wanna be reminded of all the reasons why I’m such a failure and let down

I can’t spread my legs open wide while sitting down without my dad getting angry and yelling at me

On more than one occasion, my father has forced me to sit in the trunk of our car bc I did something to piss him off. The drive can range anywhere from 15 min to 3 hours. The first time he did this I was 9

Tbh this has started to become more of ‘reasons why my parents are such shitty people’ rather than ‘reasons why my parents are super strict’

There’s more, but Imma stop now. 

If you got strict parents, add yours! Even if your parents are stricter, or not as strict as mine, it actually rlly helps to know that you’re not the only one in a wildly unfair and controlling household

P.S: Yes. I have broken almost every single one of these rules more than once. And yes. I have gotten in trouble. Trust me, I got the scars to prove it.

[edwardashley]

me: haha i dont want to work haha wouldnt if be great if something kept me from working

also me: somehow my shitty apt wifi cutting out the VPN during processing breaks the internal database software so bad the IT dept has to outsource to the actual software engineers AHHHHHH MONKEYS PAW

[xthecaptainssaviorx]

I can't watch the clip either my my vpn isn't working or it's my shitty WIFI

[quotidianish]

Tumblr isn’t letting me upload my vpn wifi is so damn shitty

[elle-stevens]

The Break Up Blog - Day Forty One

I’m a in a crappy mood today.

It’s not for any tangible reason save for the fact that it’s close to that ‘time of the month’.

Oh, the joys of being a woman…

So naturally, I find everything irritating, even the sound of other people breathing around me.

I fell asleep around midnight after working on Katie’s portrait, but it wasn’t the best quality of sleep. Mainly because I kept stressing about my bloody fourth grade class and having some of them do more work on their diary entries tomorrow.

Why do they have to make my life more difficult than it needs to be? Some of my boys have all the etiquette of children raised in a wasteland far away from human civilization. It’s like they’ve never set foot in a classroom a day in their lives.

It was bad enough when I left Korea 4 years ago with high blood pressure after teaching there for two years. At this rate, I’m going to leave China eventually with high blood pressure and a nervous breakdown under my belt.

I texted SH about it over the weekend and she was very sympathetic, which made me feel even worse. She’s got enough on her plate and I feel like I’m adding to her burdens these days. I hope class goes better than what I’m expecting.

I have officially checked out of everything to do with my school. Sure, I’ll still go to work every day and continue doing what’s expected of me, but my head and heart are just not into this crap anymore. I’ve thought about it for two days now and I’ve decided that I’m not going to turn my fifth grade classroom into a democratic forum like H recommended. The parents and my colleagues may not like how I discipline my students, but I’m still their fucking teacher last time I checked. So I won’t do anything in class save to give my students their classroom points or not give them any points on a bad day when they’re not listening and disrupting my lessons.

When I went to get my hair done at the salon, C texted me and told me that the latest rumour mill is saying that no one should approach her at work and ask her for anything because she’s apparently so angry about being dismissed from work that she’ll lash out at anyone who approaches her.

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I feel like many of my teaching colleagues have some hidden talents geared towards writing sensational fanfictions or fairytales. Anyone who knows C knows that she would never not help someone in need just because she’s going through a difficult time either personally or professionally. I don’t know where these pack of lies are suddenly coming from.

Well, that’s not true. It all seems to be coming from ML. I’m beginning to think the woman really thinks she has a penchant for mind-reading.

Or maybe she’s just demon-possessed.

I really don’t know what’s going on at my workplace and why the atmosphere has become so tense and poisonous in the last year. It wasn’t like this when I first started working there. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d blame on it too many new staff members and too many new students coming in and upsetting the ecosystem.

I can only imagine what people will say or what they’re already saying about me wanting to leave. At this point, everyone at work who has time to gossip and make up shit instead of doing their goddamn jobs can kiss my big, brown ass. I’m done playing politics with people who have no fucking common sense.

I am sick to death of shitty people besting me and having the last word. To all the shitty people in the world, here is my final piece of advice on the subject:

If you can’t do right by others and live a good life during this existence, then just kill yourself so that the rest of us trying to make sense of this crazy world can get on with our lives.  

I know that’s a cruel thing to say, especially when my life has been touched by the loss of a loved one through suicide.

But that’s honestly where I’m at right now. If you’re not good or even useful to me or others, then just kill yourself and be done with it. Because if you’re still alive and not living the right way or doing right by others, then you might as well be dead for all the harm you’re putting back out into the world.

Yeah, I’m in a really terrific mood today.

I managed to finish marking my student diaries, save for some of the fourth grade ones that aren’t finished yet. I took the box I packed it in back to my desk at school. JI, one of my Korean colleagues in the elementary department, was working late too. I hope she doesn’t stay at work too long and manages to get some rest later tonight. I left her pretty early on after finishing my work and gave her one of the Oreo bars in my backpack.

Now I’m typing angrily at this blog entry, wondering why I feel so tense and wound up today. It’s probably just emotions. At least the meds the doctor gave me yesterday are working well for my sinuses.

*touch wood*

I have one more set of exercises to do for my Keep Training and then the programme will finally be complete.

Halle-freaking-lujah!

I’m so over exercising, it’s ridiculous. Since I might be riding the crimson wave soon, I think I’ll slow down with exercising this week and just take it easy. I’m still in two minds about this, but I’m probably going to quit this blog after tonight too. It’s too exhausting doing this every evening after a shitty day at work and having to rehash my feelings about that and about X in one fell swoop. I’m just over everything.

At least there’s Golden Week to look forward to this coming weekend, plus next month’s pay cheque. Despite my crazy spending this month, I haven’t done too badly for myself. I just have to make sure I have enough cash to spend on a flight home to see my family in January. Given the ambiguous state of my parents’ marriage, I’m not exactly looking forward to figuring out whose place to crash at during my holidays.

Can people just sort their shit out and leave me the fuck out of it?

I’d better stop typing here before this becomes more of a shit show of emotions and bottled up resentment. Then I’ll do my bloody exercises, shower, eat dinner and then hopefully have a dreamless sleep. Whatever will happen tomorrow will happen with or without me.

As for X, I’m done feeling anything about her, good or bad. She’s a piece of shit in human form and I’m glad that she’s finally out of my life. Now she can find herself another dumb and rich foreigner to manipulate.

I hope I actually feel better by the time I finally stop typing. My wifi is being so shitty today too. What do I pay 300 RMB a month for anyway? Fresh air, wifi-adjacent, connectivity?  

I’d better switch to watching old movies or TV shows on my USB for now till my fucking laptop behaves and actually lets me use my VPN without any problems.

I guess it doesn’t matter anyway.

Nothing matters.

I need lots of sugar to get me through the night.

Some alcohol wouldn’t go amiss either.

[werewolfetone]

Are you listening to me?

Yes, I am, and I've been slow because I've been at school and the wifi there is so shitty my VPN won't even work. I can't get ahold of Boots because I cannot DM them, because they wouldn't answer my asks, and because they don't want to be bothered so not bothering them is the polite thing to do. You can try to find someone else who will if you're hellbent on talking to them, but I don't think even Boots can help you anymore.

[kaibuntsu]

There may or may not be bad news...

I’m still unsure how it’s gonna turn out. So far, it hasn’t affected me, but the Indonesian government as of today has banned Tumblr from our country. Providers affiliated with the semi-private, state-owned telecommunications company has officially prevented people from accessing this site as of today. I happen to be using a different provider for my wifi, that’s why I’m still able to open this site. But I fear that sooner or later, the government law will affect this provider I’m using too.

Should that happen, I will try my best to stay afloat by using VPN, as much as I don’t want to. This is such a shame and a grave news for me, considering that I was planning to open writing commissions here next month.

Here’s hoping that my ISP won’t follow through with the government’s shitty ass plan and still let me use tumblr...

[golbatgender]

Hey guys, TrustZone VPN is having its winter sale right now, so you can get a good VPN for $39.95 for a year. They also have 3 months for $14.85.

TrustZone is a real VPN that won’t steal your data (unlike FB’s shitty “Onavo”), and is located in Seychelles, a country that doesn’t participate in the Five, Nine, or Fourteen Eyes spying programs. It also doesn’t keep logs, meaning that no one can tell what you’ve looked at unless they actually get spyware onto one of your devices. And yes, you can use it on your phone, too. It also allows torrenting (unlike most VPNs) and has unlimited bandwidth.

TrustZone didn’t pay me to write this; it just happens to be the VPN I use and I find it pretty affordable and easy to use, particularly on Windows computers. It’s a bit more complicated for phones (setting it up with the wrong protocol can cause Android 7 to freeze or restart, at least it did a couple system updates ago; use the “open vpn” one), but the site has very good instructions. (Though I’ve found that some public wifi networks trigger constant failed connection attempts that drain battery, but that particular place has pretty terrible wifi to begin with and it’s my work so all I do is listen to music anyway.) Keep yourself safe online!