#it's on the tip of my tongue

[chronicbeans]

I am suffering so hard rn trying to figure out the name of this computer program that my elementary school used to test us on English and Math. They had these cute little creatures that you can pick from, I think, at the start of each test.

Like, I'm pretty sure the English test was based on a submarine. Between each set of questions, there was a minigame where you would be in the submarine, shooting sea monsters or whatever, then get points and collect blue orbs. You had to avoid obstacles, but I can't remember what.

The Math tests were based on a spaceship. Then, like the English test, there would be a minigame where you shoot things and get points, but it would be aliens, and you avoided asteroids while collecting little blue orbs.

Like, fr. I KNOW this existed. I know it's somewhere, but I can't find it AAAA pls tell me someone on here knows wtf it is, or at least remembers it?! It was the only thing I really liked about school in general lol. I can't even find any mentions of it on my elementary school's website, so they might've stopped using it.

EDIT FOR ADDITIONAL INFO: The school I went to used them for benchmark tests. The question sections were designed to look a bit like a dashboard for the vehicle used in the course (spaceship for math, submarine for science) by having little circular windows on the top corners with either ocean scenery or stars outside.

[runscold-runsdeep]

Chilling with my dad while he's playing video games and there's a heartbeat in what he's playing hfhnvhj

[itsracc]

I wanna tackle hug someone, I don't remember what it's called but as soon as I figure out who won't go flying, and what it's called, it's happening

[pawfulofwaffles]

Currently rewatching(or more re-listening-to) every single HuniCast because I swear, I SWEAR, there was a stream where Ed(or was it Micheal??) mentioned some storybook-style video featuring either an albatross or a seagull that finally builds up the courage to fly only to get literally obliterated by a helicopter. My friend thinks I'm nutty but I know it's real, I remember it so clearly.

The narrator had a straightforward voice that didn't break even through the comedic part. It was kind of like "moments later, Bob is dismembered" except something along the lines of "Then, the helicopter blade tore out (name's) intestines" or something like that. The video was literally just called something like "(name) the seagull" or "(name) the albatross". I don't remember which bird or what name, but I know this video is out there and exists and if anyone remembers please please please tell me :3

[i-was-going-to]

I think this is why I'm good at games like Taboo.

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

I realized I could get a very useful thing from Müller, a German drug store chain, after work. Then I got a call before I could finish writing my list, which is now:

- metal teeth zipper (20-25 cm)

- bug-killing plant spray (hopefully)

- thing I forgot

All my brain is offering is "white, flat, hard, rectangular". It's not card stock. It's not a dry erase or pinboard. Not edible. Not consumeable. It might be near the pet stuff, laundry stuff, homewares, sewing section or toys. For some reason, slidey knobs come to mind.

There's only so much this store sells and my brain is just "(: not telling".

So, only one thing for it: whine about it online as a form of putting it behind me.

[isitandwonder]

Saltburn promo copying cmbyn promo...?

Please, don't

[fairsweetlonging]

imagine if after the transmigration shen qingqiu became a combination of shen yuan and shen jiu, not in a "second person living in my head" kind of way, but a "this house is haunted and carries the echoes of the dead" kind of way; imagine shen yuan having nightmares about a house, a fire, a faceless boy behind a door he can't remember; imagine him having flashes of emotions he doesn't understand, rage at a name he doesn't recognize, helplessness when yue qingyuan apologizes for something he won't mention, nausea when ning yingying says the name "a-luo"; imagine parts of his own self have changed too, how he now likes bows in his hair, pretty flowers and flowing robes, but can no longer stand a stranger's touch, a man's touch, yet he longs for the brothels, but never sexually, only fondly, like there's something there he misses. there are many empty spaces in his heart where he feels something is missing

[timblrdrake]

Waynes will say “i know a guy” and it’s just our dad or our butler

[halohalona]

Beanie

in which you crochet a cat beanie to match Logan's hair

Logan Howlett x reader

i decided to turn this into an imagine instead of a fic cause there's nothing much to it, and the idea is pretty much straight to the point. i wanted to add a picture of the beanie but i'm still making it and i could not wait to post this.

not beta read, this is the first thing I've written in a long while, so bear with me

warnings: none, just fluff cause we need more fluff with this man

"What's that?"

"Oh, it's something I've been working on." You say as you finish the last of the stitches that join the two edges of the crochet rectangle you made. "It’s a cat beanie."

"Hate to break it to you, bub, but It doesn't look much like a cat."

"Just wait." You put the beanie on your head the top corners standing up on the sides of your head. "See? It looks like cat ears! It reminds me so much of your hair, I thought to make one so we could match."

A small smile formed on Logan's lips, finding the sentiment endearing. "Cute."

[offkilterkeys]

The world isn’t ready for my alpha kid readings.

[drunktuesdays]

minding my own business, trying to google for a mcshep fic i vaguely remember about john accidentally eating some sex almonds that made him go super sexyweird for rodney and instead i accidentally found this reddit post which sent me into hysterics. i was deeply disturbed by the literature i read online. ICONIQUE. girl, you were in MCSHEP. fandom hadn't even invented dog dick yet!!!!!!!!! there's disturbances yet to come!!!!!!

[vintage-tigre]

[iffeelscouldkill]

I can't offer suggestions, but I can absolutely relate because I'm in the same boat. I was on LiveJournal starting in 2006, but I never published a single post to my personal blog because "diary" style updates about my day never appealed to me and I didn't think about posting other things like fic or fandom thoughts as blog posts. My mode of interaction was always "Go to community space about a thing => post about thing in that space", so I used LJ comms and forums to do that. Fanfic went on Fanfiction.net.

So anyway, I never got used to journalling, which means that I'm one of those people gesturing at Dreamwidth and going "I really want to... but..." I use Mastodon a lot and post a ton of little bitty updates and thoughts there. I know, intellectually, that those could go on DW. I've seen people post super short posts to DW and it's fine. But I don't just want to duplicate my Mastodon posts there, and it's hard to come up with other things to say that's just for DW. I also still have this internal pressure on myself to Go Into Depth. So I think of a DW post as something I need to set aside an hour or so for, not something I can quickly tap out during a slow moment at work. And I'll put that off if it's not something super time-urgent.

I find challenges, like the Snowflake Challenge and Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, inspiring and they've spurred me to post more, but I'm stuck during the few months of lull between them. But I really want Dreamwidth to start happening again! I want the return of what LiveJournal had (even though I think I was actually oblivious to 80% of it at the time). Everyone seems to agree that it's a solid option, *but*... I think we've all still got used to Twitter or Tumblr or whatever microblogging site has sprung up to fill the gap. I agree that being able to curate stuff is nice and I would like to keep that in some form. (Pinterest still exists but I think that has become shitty too, and is also full of ripped-off art with no credit).

Maybe I should make the challenge/prompts I want to see in the world. Anyone want to spitball some ideas?

every time tumblr pulls some bullshit I get closer to trying to remember how my brain worked well enough to use lj so I can get back on dreamwidth in a more functional way

part of my issue is that the dw interface makes me feel more pressured to have Something To Say as opposed to the occasional shitposting I normally do

also I love the ability to curate my blog by sharing posts from others as I do here & afaik you can't really do the elsewhere

I'm open to suggestions for either how to rewire my brain to work on dw or what other place to go to get what I get from here

I want another place I can refer to like I refer to this blue faesite :/

[scoriarose]

She came up with a new activity

[5mary5]

I have this little headcanon cause i was reading the comic of obey me and we as mc have been given the neutral name zephyr in the very early chapters since we are a sheep and all and they want to make it inclusive since the name itself is gender neutral but I was thinking that let's say one day the curse is solved and sheep!mc gets their body back but the characters continue calling mc zephyr, what if one day someone (probably a side or secondary character) brings up the fact that "hey you know what? Your face doesn't really scream zephyr" and mc is like "yeah that's because that is not my actual given name, my actual name is ________" and the characters are like "😱😱😱" I mean they did know that this wasn't their real name since they gave it to them cause they can't just call them human and all but it's still shocking to hear it coming out of their own mouth, they would also probably coo when mc tells them their birth name because it means they learn more about their favorite person, well I mean they would coo at everything mc does regardless so-