#run with us rebels

[hislittleraincloud]

Yes to all of it. We oldies remember the days when we actually owned the programs we used instead of renting them off of the websites. Because that's what it is...we are forced to rent and keep paying rent on shit like Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator (and even our own damn simple functionality of connecting our computers to the internet. I was horrified to find that I couldn't just connect without the fucking cloud shit saving every little thing that I did ("OneDrive" SUCKS SO MUCH!).) As if we don't pay enough rent as renters, or even homeowners who RENT the fucking equipment in order to get internet service (with the fucking rental fee for the fucking modem).

This is fucking greed

It's FUCKING GREED.

My 81yo father is a graphic artist (as well as a microbiologist and botanist) and he's complaining that his Photoshop doesn't work now. I told him that he needs to download the legacy CS2 (or 5 or whatever it is) and use that for free since the Adobe mfs are charging people rent now. CS2 is what I use. I OWNED THE DISK. Anyone can find the program online somewhere, find an old password crack, and get in.

When I was dirt poor and just getting my first computer out here on the West Coast, it came with a shitty Adobe program that was LIKE Photoshop; not as extensive (PhotoDesign? I forget what it's called now), but it still had layers...it was kind of like MSPaint but with layers and 50% more functionality. It was somewhere between Paint and Photoshop, but it worked just fine bc I could create the same things that I could if I had PS.

I wrote some pretty raunchy ABC Daytime Soap fic back in 1999 (the sex in there would put everything in Afterburn to shame). And I mean stuff that WOULD get me on the antis Wanted Posters. I used that shitty program to make the headers (yes, my fic had headers BACK THEN). I don't remember what website hosted them but it was one that accepted adult-oriented NSFW things/fic...it was an NSFW web host, if I recall I was formatting and FTP'ing it all and had a little website. I was even chatting with Catherine Hickland about getting her own website up and running because I was such a fan boy and back then it wasn't too weird to communicate directly with celebrities (I emailed Kate Mulgrew in 1997 because I found her Paramount address somehow, and she freaking responded to me 💀). Cat had no idea I was writing dark smut though, thank the gods. But anyway, I made all my headers, buttons, character bios, etc. with the free program that came with the printer and the headers looked no different in quality than the headers I make today. 1999 or 2024, just give me a simple program with layers and fonts and I'll make it work.

Ignorance is a product of laziness, not limitation. (Thanks, Cairo.)

Download legacy programs that you can get to work. Use them, and stop paying rent to The Man.

It should be illegal to require that any device or software connect to the internet just to run. I shouldn't need to log in with microsoft to open any of their programs on my local computer. All games should be playable without access to an online server. All media you pay for should be downloadable to local disk as a raw file and if they don't like that because they know you'll share it and upload it, tough shit. They took your money already, they'll live.

[sunlit-mess]

consumed by the inevitable

[little-pondhead]

Your Ancient History, Written In Wax

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Danny knew he should have put better security around the Sarcophagus of Eternal Sleep. It wasn’t even Vlad who opened it this time! The fruitloop was too busy doing his actual mayor duties because for some godforsaken reason, the man got re-elected.

No, it wasn’t Vlad. And it wasn’t Fright Knight, either. Nor the Observants. Who opened the Sarcophagus, then? Danny didn’t have time to find out as Pariah Dark promptly tore open a hole in reality and started hunting Danny down.

The battle was longer this time. He didn’t have the Ecto-Skeleton, as that was the first thing Pariah had destroyed. The halfa had grown a lot over the past few years, and learned some new tricks, but apparently sleeping in a magic ghost box meant that Pariah had absorbed a lot of power. The bigger ghost acted like a one-man army!

Amity Park was caught in the middle of the battle, but the residents made sure it went no further than that. Vlad and the Fentons made a barrier around the town to keep the destruction from leaking. Sam, Tucker, and Dani did crowd control while Danny faced the king head-on.

Their battle shook the Zone and pulled them wildly between the mortal plane and the afterlife. Sometimes, residents noticed a blow from Pariah transported them to the age of the dinosaurs, and Phantom’s Wail brought them to an unknown future. Then they were in a desert. Then a blazing forest. Then underwater. It went on like that, but no one dared step foot outside of Amity. They couldn’t risk being left behind.

It took ages to beat him, but eventually, Danny stood above the old ghost king, encasing his symbols of power in ice so they couldn’t be used again. He refused to claim the title for himself. Tired as he was, Danny handed the objects off to Clockwork for safe keeping and started repairing the damage Pariah had done to the town. The tear he’d made was too big to fix, for now, so no one bothered. They just welcomed their new ghostly neighbors with open arms and worked together to restore Amity Park.

Finally, the day came to bring down the barrier. People were gathered around the giant device the Fentons had built to sustain it. Danny had brought Clockwork to Amity, to double check that they had returned to the right time and dimension.

Clockwork assured everyone that they were in the right spot, and only a small amount of time had passed, so the Fentons gave the signal to drop the shield.

Very quickly did they discover that something was wrong. The air smelled different. The noise of the nearby city, Elmerton, was louder and more chaotic. Something was there that wasn’t before, and it put everyone on edge.

Clockwork smiled, made a remark about the town fitting in better than before, and disappearing before Danny could catch him.

Frantic, Danny had a few of his ghost buds stay behind to protect the town while he investigated.

He flew far and wide, steadily growing horrified at the changes the world had undergone. Heroes, villains, rampant crime and alien invasions. The Earth was unrecognizable. There were people moving around the stars like it was second nature and others raising dead gods like the apocalypse was coming. Magic and ectoplasm was everywhere, rather than following the ley lines like they were supposed to.

Danny returned to Amity.

The fight with Pariah had taken them through space and time. Somewhere along the way, they had changed the course of history so badly that this now felt like an alien world.

How was he supposed to fix this?

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In the Watchtower, The Flash was wrapping up monitor duty while Impulse buzzed around him, a little more jittery than usual. The boy was talking a mile a minute, when alarms started blaring an alarming green. Flash had never seen this alarm before, and its crackling whine was grating on his ears.

Flash returned to the monitor, frantically clicking around to find the issue, but nothing was popping up. No major disasters, no invasions, no declarations of war. Nothing! What was causing the alarm?

Impulse swore and zipped to a window, pressing his face against it and staring down at Earth. “Fuck! It’s today isn’t it? I forgot!”

“What’s today?” Flash asked. He shot off a text to Batman, asking if it was an error. The big Bat said it wasn’t, and that he would be there soon.

“The arrival of Amity Park. I learned about this in school; the alarm always gives me headaches.”

Flash turned to his grandson, getting his attention. “Bart,” he stressed. “What are you talking about?”

Impulse barely glanced over his shoulder. Now that Flash was facing him, he could see a strong glow coming from Earth. “The first villain, first anti-villain, and the first hero,” he said anxiously. “They all protect the town of the original metas. They’re all here.”

“Here? Now??”

“Yeah? They weren’t before, but they are now. The first hero said there was time stuff involved, which was what inspired me to start practicing time travel in the first place.”

“I’m not following.”

“It’s okay. We should probably go welcome them before they tear apart Illinois, though. The history I remember says that some of them freaked and destroyed a chunk of the Midwest during a fight with each other.”

“WHAT?”

[princkleeatscookies]

booga *drops you cookie run fanart*

hello and welcome back to "princkle doesn't know how to use tumblr again and wants to revive her tumblr time and time again" I've always wanted to post more on this website to connect with further cookie run creators here :0 I thought it's a good time for me to actually be active on here instead of blatantly abandoning it so yeah! time to re-introduce myself, my name is princkle! I'm a 20 year old artist who is into a lot of cookie run and Clotted Cream Cookie is my favorite out of the bunch haha I have a Cookie Run oc (who is yet to be introduced here but I'll introduce her soon) you may or may not know her - oh shit, wait this is tumblr- I can do whatever the fuck I want HAHA- it'll take me some getting used to-

[roseetube]

Idk what happened guysss!!! Everyones sad except, AND including steeb ?? They jus gotta hug it out :333

@pogostikk they are slowly eating all my braincells one by one

[raventrigonsdaughter]

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[strangesmallbard]

*The corpse regards you lifelessly.* ↳TORLYNN ALDERSTAR — SPEAK TO THE DEAD 🗣️💀

[squirrelno2]

In general I find star wars rebels to be a delight but every day I wake up and I think about the fact that it's canon the empire did not once change their codes and protocols since rex left the army. Either that or the man is straight up lying about how he acquired intel for no goddamn reason in his world or on a narrative level because if there was a narrative reason for it then we would have found out why. You're telling me. Rex left before the empire was even an empire. Cody up and deserted. Whatever the hell happened in season three of tbb happened which I didn't watch it but it sounded like a big, clone-related deal.

And these motherfuckers didn't change their goddamn passwords???

[akkivee]

was thinking about chuuoku distributing the mics for their drb tournament shtick and am once again wondering about the criteria for the initial handouts lol like what about these tdd wannabes made chuuoku think they needed to participate lol???? the fact they were based in shibuya and could potentially cause ramuda trauma??? they have crazy backstories we’ll never know????

[ramblings-from-an-audhder-author]

Shout-out to the Smart Kids™️. We who so often stumped the grownups with our vocabularies. Whose teachers accused of cheating because we did it in our heads.

Take it from an elder-- The ego you get from that shit is no joke, and has a high potential to be toxic to all involved.

Unfortunately the decades since I embarrassed my mom at Scrabble haven't done much to convince me of humanity's rational prowess by and large. But my cortisol levels dropped to an historic low the day I stopped caring about convincing people of my side.

[qtubbo]

Omg the Fit and Ramon dynamic ♡. That sounds both cute and goodness they've been going through it. I love it.

I read the game had bombs + Tazercraft's debut game and I side-eyed Mike so hard LOL.

Speaking of, have you thought about what is his deal after what happened with Pac?

Sadly I think Mike would end up more vindictive about the games, he would start seeing most of the competitors in the game as deserving it. He’d also have a false belief that if he was just a bit better, just a bit more liked he’d be able to get Pac back on the team. I think he’d work really hard to be favored again so he could spend all his time with Pac instead of just seeing him off season. Even though pac would have forgiven Cellbit (thats what happens when you actually talk to competitors and see the districts) Mike would be kinda like the devil on his shoulder not letting him leave the feds influence.

[always-a-joyful-note]

Okay but about that new Alien Stage thing....I know this is a tired and true cliche that is pretty popular with most modern metafiction but, like....I'm unironically asking. What if we're the aliens observing these characters like they're our pets?

[bookshelfpassageway]

anyone mind me niche bookposting

anyway I've been reading Prophet of Panahmindorah and am about 2h from the end of the audiobook? and oh my god there's so many things in here that have me going

given my understanding of Panahmindorah from the Pirates of Wefriviain series

[mizu-melon]

If Herb Cookie was released in 2023, so many Kingdom-only players would be saying "erm... should've been a rare"

[starlooove]

He is in fact not cool with his friends killing people he just can’t do shit about it and the fact that he thinks he can do smth about (and does!) when it comes to his kids is like a major point

[greyias]

After two years of writer’s block, I pick up and finish a long lingering chapter of a WIP. And then decide to go try and fill in the placeholder markers I left, pull up Wookieepedia to double-check myself and—

—guys I think the post-KOTOR, pre-Shadow of Revan lore for Manaan specifically is a fucking mess.