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Whenever I randomly remember things from my earliest childhood memories, things that don't exist anymore really like the DVD rental place at my old grocery store and grocery stores that had tables and chairs inside to eat at, I think of that "Sure, Grandma, let's get you to bed" meme
#im sure these exist still at some stores but not mine#also sadly my childhood grocery store closed many many years ago.#oh and the walmart fish tanks#television before hdtv#driving using an atlas#calling information to get the phone number for a restaurant to make a reservation#phone books#im not supposed to feel old im 24#miss those days :(#mostly miss how it was easier to live in the world without access to the entire planet's worth of information in my pocket#oh lord i just remembered looking up things in a physical dictionary or encyclopedia#*insert im like the crypt keeper freaky friday gif here*#random#2000s nostalgia#1990s nostalgia
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How old are you?
I'll go first, I have a copy of this thing from when my grade school obtained access to a mystical thing called "THE INTERNET".
There was literally a time before search engines where there were so few websites online that you could catalog them in a single 600 page book and sell that thing to people as a way to advertise new sites. I think the last copy of this was over 1200 pages long and then they gave up trying to catalog them. 🤣
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I saw them fall so I don't think The Youths know this, but 20 years ago it was common to have a book in your house that listed the names and addresses of everyone in your town. This was public knowledge.
It wasn't considered creepy to call someone you knew or mail them a card or invitation using this.
Some people chose to be unlisted, but most most people were there! If you couldn't find the person themselves, it wasn't unheard of to contact a family member instead (the books were organized by last name, when checking if someone was in the book, you'd likely see their parents in there, even if the person themselves wasn't) if you had a good reason.
I recently looked up an older person using an old phone book and mailed him a letter (homeowner, unlikely to have moved). Sure enough he still lived there and he was really touched I took the time to reconnect!
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I made this lil comic 😔
Idk Its so funny to me 😭
#gravity falls#gravity falls fanart#book of bill#the book of bill#gravity falls ford#gravity falls stanford#gravity falls bill cipher#gravity falls bill#gravity falls ford pines#bill ford#billford#bill x ford#bill x stanford#bill cipher x ford#bill cipher x ford pines#bill cipher#ford pines#bill cipher fanart#ford pines fanart#ibispaintx#drawing on phone#doodle#comic
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made a little chart
bonus bc it makes me giggle:
#gravity falls#the book of bill#billford#aziracrow#stolitz#helluva boss#good omens#ineffable husbands#sorry if it's off center i did it on my phone rip dkdjkd#dottypost
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Shout out to FNAF phone guy finally getting a name!
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#phone guy#fnaf ralph#william afton#spring Bonnie#FNAF the week before#SO idk if yall heard#but a new fnaf book is about to drop but some folks got it early#and the book is called ‘the week before’#and it stars phone guy! official name revealed to be Ralph!#I’ve seen a few pages of it already and god it’s peak#phone guy is officially a full character now#SO in celebration I wanted to draw something out for him!!#William just calling Ralph ‘phone guy’ over and over#cause the book mentions too 💀 phone guy is his canon nickname in fnaf too#SO silly love it gonna get this book no doubt to read in full#fnaf is so good rn guys I’m deep in it 🩵#so expect more arts 🩵🩵🩵
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like or reblog if you use/save ~☆
#grey#brown#white#png#transparents#cottagecore#aesthetic#weirdcore#icons#pngs#carrd#layouts#messy#moodboards#resources#moodboard#techcore#coquettecore#voidcore#angelcore#phone#book#grungecore#soft grunge#y2k#heartcore#rentry#graphics#blog material
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insane how Red Robin is "the loner Tim Drake book" when he had friends and family just popping out of the woodwork like daisies asking him to come home and enjoy hugs like he used to 😭
#tim drake#red robin#batman#batfam#dc comics#steph cassie dick kon that whole screen of phone calls he ignored....#Tam literally RUNNING INTO THE DESERT after him because Lucius was worried#the way YJ and ALL the active Gotham heroes came out to foil Ra's' plan#M'gann randomly showing up JUST to help Tim fake his attempted assassination to Vicki Vale#the regular Dick-Tim-Damian teamups. The Tim-Steph teamups#Bruce popping in just so we could get that Bruce-Tim hug splash page#the way the book brought Lonnie back specifically to team him up with Tim#insane levels of 'COME HOME WE MISS YOU!!!' happening in that comic
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This is basically what happened, right?
#apologies for the shitty phone doodle#I'm lazy and it's late </3#art#fanart#the book of bill#book of bill spoilers#axolotl#the axolotl#bill#bill cipher#gravity falls#gravity falls fanart#theraprism
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class doodles
#i feel like every time i draw human bill he gets slightly closer to val#gravity falls#bill cipher#the book of bill#tbob#doodoo quality cuz i’m posting from my phone
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All illustrations for The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Russian Edition Exclusives, Volume 5
Finally got my hands on the russian истари/Istari publication volume 5 for Mo Dao Zu Shi, so here are high resolution scans of the art exclusive to this particular edition. The art here portrays events that occur in the post-storyline extras.
Full resolution available for download here (tumblr compresses images a little)
Illustration Artist: Marina Privalova (Baoshan Karo)
[Vol. 1] - [Vol. 2] - [Vol. 3] - [Vol. 4] - [Vol. 5] (part 1)
#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#the founder of diabolism#mxtx mdzs#wei wuxian#illustrations#wangxian#mdzs novel#official art#I'm working on making some upscaled scans of the art from the other novels as well#tbh these aren't actually “scans”#I actually just took pics of the pages with my phone and then have to edit it and redraw some parts of the original image or add space#because pages aren't flat and I don't own a scanner unfortunately#and sometimes the words on the other side bled through the page#these are 100% faithful though#the only things I ever had to extend are environmental#I looked for an epub or pdf of this book for so long but couldn't find it anywhere#and I mean literally anywhere 😭 scoured Russian social media sites for hours and nothing#did find an interesting weird mdzs Russian translation though#weird as in the translation was not accurate at all#but it had its own little art interspersed#I think it was a fan thing rather than an official translation
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spirit phone if it was awesome
#gravity falls#stanford pines#bill cipher#billford#<kinda?? i guess#grunkle ford#the book of bill#lemon demon#spirit phone#btw hiiii guess who watched gravity falls for the first time :3c
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Now THAT’s a number you can trust.
#gravity falls#Alex Hirsch#bill cipher#the book of bill#this phone line is spoiler free!#triangle things
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another random headcanon about how tintin sounds! he has a soft high pitched voice and sometimes gets mistaken for a woman over the phone (this never happens in canon but in adaptations he often has a higher pitched voice as he's a younger character. i like to think he keeps his voice even after he enters adulthood)
i did a comic about accents over here
#tintin#adventures of tintin#fanart#comic#i was going through my books for reference and the phone design is consistent!
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MOREE MOREEEEEEE!!!¡¡!!!¡!
Billy is really silly to draw man, so easy and so comfy :0
I thought that Bill x Ford was more of a joke but for now I've seen too much evidence..
AND NOW I'm into that old man yaoi lol
Don't judge me, my brains simple › see gay man = draw gay man :p
#one sixer please#drawing on phone#ibispaintx#bill cipher fanart#bill cipher#gravity falls bill cipher#gravity falls bill#the book of bill#gravity falls#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls ford#gravity falls stanford#ford x bill#bill x ford#stanford pines#stanford x bill#bill x stanford#billford
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so i wrote a book that comes out soon and having that be real feels like falling down stairs because i wanted this since i was 7 years old so now what do i want after it.
so tell me why today all i care about is the word trundle, that the word trundle exists. of course i have things to do and emails to send and a world of suffering to protect but today my brain won't let me look away from the sheer linguistic improbability of trundle.
i saw a truck doing it. i imagine animals did it first. or people maybe. to trundle comes direct from old english. cows do it on occasion, but more often sheep (in my experience). someone had to name lope and someone had to name slog. the verbs to run and to leap make sense; they are singular and important distinguishers.
but we can bask rather than relax. we can scuttle rather than crawl. sometimes when i move in dance class it is to undulate rather than roll. someone had to name things like sonder and whimsy. of course we had words for tangible things like tree and grass and root. i love those words, i'm eating them.
i don't know the word for this thing. where it's real-now. sometimes i feel it when i am dating someone i actually like-and-love and i realize that is real, i am dating them and it's real that i like-and-love them. sometimes i have this feeling when i have been planning a vacation or an event for weeks-and-months and it finally happens - the feeling this is happening, it's happening right now.
it happens randomly sometimes too. i will be at the carnival or at an ice cream stand or with the last light of summer in my hair and i will feel it again, that sense - i have waited my whole life for this, and im finally experiencing it, and i need to pay attention to it.
but it's real! how amazing! how horribly tragic! it's real. it exists. the moment is here.
i have no idea what to do with it.
#link to book is first line#writeblr#i lost my car my phone my job my laptop#all in the span of 9 months#so no otherwise stuff isn't going well lol#luck seems to work like that for me#.... i have BIG luck.#i don't get to decide which side of luck i fall on#i am either STUPIDLY lucky. i mean should-have-died#or i am STUPIDLY unlucky. i mean. my phone saw the ocean jumped out of girlpockets . and took a dive#PS updated the link idk why it didn't work sorry!!
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