#sorry for this bummer of a post lol

[spineless-lobster]

Sometimes my brain comes up with this horrid thought about all of the ghosts’ rotting corpses?

Like even Julian’s corpse is probably well rotted by now but like 20 years ago his body was still decomposing in the ground somewhere while his spirit was still at Button House

After doing some googling (I am now definitely on some sort of list) it turns out that for an embalmed corpse the decomposition process can vary from time to time. Sometimes only bones are left and sometimes the body looks exactly the same (give or take some mould)

This also leads to the similar thought that Alison could possibly track down some of the ghosts’ graves but that’s already been discussed

Idk it’s kind of morbid but this is the same show where we saw the light leave Thomas’ eyes so y’know not too off brand for this family comedy

[princesscharlesofmonaco]

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[snek-of-eden]

all my friends are pulling out of my birthday plans, i’m back to going it alone :) it sucks to have a birthday in the holidays

[soggy-fishsticks]

guys ive been drawing so much lately I've been starting to actually hate it 🙁

[cin-cant-donate-blood]

I think there is something really tragic about those posts that are like "man can you imagine future archaeologists reading our posts" because I don't actually believe even a fraction of all the things we say will survive for very long.

We supposedly live in an information age where everything is recorded, and people say that once something is on the internet, it is there for ever, but this is clearly not true.

Most of the internet is managed by corporations, and when a certain website dies, there is absolutely no incentive to spend all the money necessary to preserve ecerything that was ever posted. Maybe Archive.org will have saved a lot, but it can't save everything.

Even right now internet history going back as recently as the 90s is really spotty. A lot of forums and sites are simply lost to time.

And maybe one day Archive.org will run out of money too, and everything they preserved will be lost, not in a dramatic bang like the fire in the Library of Alexandria, but with a whimper, like the many thousands of times more documents that have been lost simply because no one copied them in the few decades they had before the mold or worms or whatever else got to them.

Think of Sappho and Catullus, two of the most celebrated poets of ancient Greece and Rome respectively. Both were prolific, and both were titans, widely celebrated for their extraordinary work, long after their deaths.

Both had a single century or two where people got tired of them, and almost every single thing they ever wrote was irrecoverably lost, because books do not last forever, especially not the ones written on papyrus, which was the dominant medium at the time and has a quoted life span of about 70 years unless stored in nearly perfect conditions (desert conditions, which is why we associate papyrus with Egypt).

All we have now are a handfull of fragments of their work. They are, once again, and perhaps forever, celebrated as geniuses, but we can't ever undo that single, brief moment where the majority of their work was lost forever, not out of malice, but out of indifference.

Everything not actively, painstakingly, expensively maintained will be lost, inevitably and irretrievably. Stone carvings last longer, but they're horribly space inefficient. The invention of parchment, which can survive centuries, greatly improved things, but that too is extremely expensive compared to paper or papyrus. Modern digital storage is the same; we just made the copying process easier.

One day, tumblr will die. It is as inevitable as your death or mine. Or the death of the sun. In fact, tumblr will probably die within our lifetimes. When it dies, some things will be saved, but many will not. Some will miss it, but most will forget. Out of millions of posts, perhaps a few hundred thousand survive as jpeg screenshots on reddit, instagram, or whatever sites survive tumblr. Then, as those die, perhaps ten thousand screenshots of screenshots carry on to new social media sites, as of yet not made. And then a thousand of those survive as those sites die.

And maybe those will be the thousand best, and maybe some expert will even be able to tell you that they're screenshots of tumblr, and in a few words what tumblr was, but what even is the thousand best? Every copying act is a choice by someone who thought it was worth copying. Tastes change, and as they do, maybe one generarion's favorite is destroyed by the neglect of the next.

Tumblr isn't special. This is the future of all social media. Echos will persist, but so much will be lost.

So maybe, one day, an internet archaeologist will find your silly tumblr post about how crazy it would be if someone was reading what you said centuries from now. Unfortunately, there will be so much context missing. Maybe your post will be one of a mere hundred remaining, most of which make references to in-jokes and memes long forgotten: incomprehensible and empty. Like the statue in Ozymandias: nothing beside remains.

I'll end this with a poem from the lost poets I mentioned, and since this is tumblr, why not a gay one? Both Catullus and Sappho have their share of love poems dedicated to members of the same sex, but the partial poem known as Sappho 31 is probably the most well known. This is Edward Storer's translation:

He seems like a god to me the man who is near you,

Listening to your sweet voice and exquisite laughter

That makes my heart so wildly beat in my breast.

If I but see you for a moment, then all my words

Leave me, my tongue is broken and a sudden fire

Creeps through my blood. No longer can I see.

My ears are full of noise. In all my body I

Shudder and sweat. I am pale as the sun-scorched

Grass. In my fury I seem like a dead woman,

But I would dare...

... and that's it. The ending has never been found. Scholars think anywhere between a few lines and half the poem is missing.

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[batz]

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[petshopbutch]

got told by my higher ups that i make corporate "uncomfortable" (explicitly bc of the way i look, e.g. my hair and my jewelry) so it's official: new job hunt begins tomorrow.

[forcebookish]

it's so weird that percy is still being written in books and he's like, a teenager. my nine-year-old cousin is telling me about all these new series with him in it and i'm like no percy is my age why is he trapped in these books

[snowstories]

Horribly awful pill to swallow for everyone including me is that your life can objectively suck for reasons beyond your control AND you can actively be making your situation way worse than it has to be by having a bad attitude

[babacontainsmultitudes]

80 or so years of life really ain't enough can I have an elf lifespan instead please? Or at least a dwarf's... I need at least a couple hundred years... Oh and a new spine every 5 or so years, if that's not too much to ask. 3. 3 years actually. Yeah, a new spine every 2 years, and a lifespan of 350-750 years, that's all I want really.

[ceramicbeetle]

i do love the holmes-watson dynamic in elementary but it is admittedly disappointing there’s not more weird fucked up moriarty-holmes fics out there.

[thefinalaeon]

I'm bouncing off the walls anxious, trying to keep it together, but.

I think I'm getting my dog back.

We rescued Yuna just under 10 years ago, when she was about 4. And then my parents divorced, I stayed with my dad in my childhood home, and then when I had to move in with my grandmother, we couldn't bring her because of her cat.

But my dog has been neglected, scared, antagonized, and banished to the outside because she bit the child who antagonized her. She's bit me twice just for trying to pet her. In case anyone is unaware, historically calm dogs do not just start biting people for no reason.

4th of July was the last straw, because they were forcing her to stay outside in the ridiculous heat and with all the fireworks going off. I could see she was scared, she was panting awful and shaking. And I asked my dad to keep her inside, and he completely fucking blew me off. Scoffed at my concern for MY dog.

So I asked him to let me bring her home. And so far, so good. With any luck my dog will be with me by the end of the weekend.

My mom and I have been distraught over not having her and seeing what she's dealing with. I don't know how many years she has left. She's old, unhealthy, most likely in pain. She needs interaction, she needs love, she needs care and not to be punished for something that isn't her fault. And god dammit, she's mine.

I just want her back. And her living here isn't going to be the best possible situation for her, because she'll have to stay in the basement for the time being while the cat is still here. But fuck if she'll be safe, in a climate controlled environment, and she'll be more than just fed and watered with my mom and I.

But I would rather see her be rehabbed and rehomed or even put down before I continue watching her rot in my dad's backyard.

Anyways. Please keep your fingers crossed for me that I can have my baby back with me soon.

[polycreek]

so.. what if i came back.. in my own time? [continuation in tags]

[bonejunky6669]

my opossum Skully died in 2023 but i still miss him every single day of my life. I have had a lot of animal companions throughout my life but Skully was truly my baby, i had never loved something the way i loved him. after he died i would sleep with the dirty blankets that were in his nest because they smelled like him. it was so hard when the scent faded away and i had to let them go. he slept in bed with me every night for those 2 years i had him and the loneliness from losing that has never really left me. I'll miss him forever.

[artbywaffless]

Update i felt like i needed to add

I said this in one of my other posts but im not in the alton towers fandom anymore. so like. if u came for that sorry but its just not my thing anymore thats why i dont post any more smiler id prefer to like move on from it cuz its kinda personal why i left i met some cool people in the fandom but i just think i should maybe leave cuz like i said in that one post it relates to mental health issues i had during that time that i just wanna distance myself from sorry if i kinda upset anyone with this post cuz i knew u guys liked smiler a ton even if i kinda associate him with a rough patch of my life and therefore dont feel all too comfortable continuing to use him so i guess this is goodbye for some ppl uh cya