#phone books

[television-overload]

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

[amalgamasreal]

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. 🤣

[soymimikyu]

It is 2024 and I wish I had a phone book right now. Like one of those giant yellow ones. Two would be better. I need to make myself a booster seat….

[urfavoritemistake]

made a little chart

bonus bc it makes me giggle:

[pensivelyplayfulme]

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!

[candyh0rns]

I made this lil comic 😔

Idk Its so funny to me 😭

[chloesimaginationthings]

Shout out to FNAF phone guy finally getting a name!

[paintedcrows]

Ever think about how Bill Cipher has canonically threatened every member of the Pines family, except Stanley, with suicide? I think about that a lot... Kid's show villain everyone!

Individual Panels below the cut!

[candyje11yfish]

many bills⚠️

[emrysmoss]

I looove how they had to describe this line in the Merlin books as Arthur giving a “forced, tight smile” because if they described the way he actually delivered this line they would have no reasonable explanation as to why he says it so fondly…..

[starridge]

class doodles

[fantastic-nonsense]

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 😭

[inkskinned]

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.

[max-1mum]

This is basically what happened, right?

[pangur-and-grim]

is there any etiquette for how you're supposed to act during a 7 hour tattoo? I've only done 1 hour sessions before

[uhcasual]

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)

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