#text messages online

[suntails]

I’m going to paint you a picture of modern communication, and how it is fundamentally broken.

Let’s look at one friend. You chat pretty much everyday, and mostly talk to this person on twitter and discord, with occasional tumblr DMs. That’s three places you talk. But that’s actually not true, because you also have each other’s priv twitters and talk there as well. That’s four. Now account for, let’s say, one post reply per account per person, in addition to your DMs. That’s eight. But that’s ALSO not true, because not only do you talk in discord DMs with each other, but you’re in a friend group server as well! And you talk in those channels together! That’s nine.

This is one friend.

Now look around you. How many friends, how many mutuals are you in contact with. A few, a handful, a dozen, more? How many accounts per person do you have, how many places can you send each other posts, devolve into separate topics and conversations? How many people text you as well. Friends, family, coworkers? What do you do day to day around catching up, what IRL commitments will rip you away long enough to let the pile build again?

I can’t do it. I cannot live an actual life in the real world and balance this much interaction, it’s crushing. I reply to a friend’s post because I’m interested in the subject, I want to have a discussion! I WANT to talk about it with them, but I immediately kick myself for adding another conversation to the pile. Day by day, I ignore messages for hours on end and watch mountains pile around me, to reply en masse at the end of the night to let the cycle repeat. I wake up to six discord DMs and as I clear the third, the first replies back again.

We weren’t meant to have thirty simultaneous conversations. We weren’t. And you know in your bones that the number isn’t an exaggeration.

[chalkrub]

ummm hello everyone, any mutuals or cool people i vaguely know have art servers to reccommend on discord I can squeak on into….preferably for adults because that is what I am…I’m honestly sooo tired of being an internet hermit 😭 every art fight I’m like waow I’m having fun interacting with cool people who share my interests and then it ends. no idea how to make friends online beyond standing on the side of the road with a sign saying please add me to an art discord. I promise I’m nice. I love to play and have fun. I have been known to engage in conversation and say hello and other such things.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

my bank's app not consistently listing purchases chronologically is my villain origin story

[earlgodwin]

I know you focus more on Lucrezia and Juan (valid), but I was curious if you knew any books that went in-depth about Giulia? If not Giulia, any about the family in general, I just love the historical sources you pull from to parallel the show

hi!! i adore giulia so much! she's a truly captivating and intelligent figure to me as she wielded significant influence within her family based on the strength of her personality. remarkably at some point she defied the pope not just once, but twice, risking herself and her loved ones in the process. however, her close bond with lucrezia remains one of my most cherished aspects of the borgia history 🙏

“Admitedly, [Giulia] was quite different from Vanozza and in a manner that was not simply due to the great difference in their ages. Where Vanozza had been dedicated both to her own financial interest and her lover’s well-being, Giulia was lighthearted and featherbrained, never looking beyond the delights of today. and where Vanozza sought to tie her lover by submission and acquiescence, Giulia displayed an independence of spirit which kept Borgia’s interest at fever pitch even while such spirit could enrage him.”

— E.R Chamberlain - The Fall of the House of Borgia

“Vasari tells us, in his Vita degli Artefici, that over the door of one of the rooms in the Borgia Tower, the artist painted a picture of the Virgin Mary in the likeness of Giulia Farnese with Alexander kneeling to her in adoration, arrayed in full pontificals. Such a thing would have been horrible, revolting, sacrilegious.”

— Rafael Sabatini, The Life of Cesare Borgia

"The fifteen-year-old Giulia was already famous for her beauty. Giulia Bella, the Romans would call her a few years later, was not only beautiful, but intelligent, “endowed with gentleness and humanity.” Blond was the preferred hair color in those days, and legend has it that Giulia was blond. But a letter written to Cesare describes her as fusco (“dark complected”) with black eyes, a round face, and quidem ardor (“a certain vivacity”)."

— Emma lucas, Lucrezia Borgia

here are some fiction/biographies where giulia has highlighted roles (some of these books delve into giulia's relationship with rodrigo and the influence ower she wielded within the family, her political maneuvering and unwavering loyalty to her loved ones, capturing her fierce intelligence and her relationship with lucrezia) :

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day (Ferdinand Gregorovius)

The Life and times of Lucrezia Borgia, Maria Bellonci

Cesare Borgia: La sua vita, La sua famiglia, I suoi tempi, Gustavo Sacerdote.

Lucrezia Borgia, Emma Lucas

Cesare Borgia, Rafael Sabatini

The Fall of the House of Borgia, E.R Chamberlain

Blood & Beauty, Sarah Dunant

The Borgias: Power & Fortune, Paul Strathern

[firstelevens]

Questions I have answered in the past twenty-four hours:

how do I make custard without cornstarch?

is two hours a long enough connection time through Dubai airport?

what's that one umbrella shop in Mayfair?

how can I tell if my library card is still valid?

is this banter sexy enough?

what blouse can I wear with this sari?

if I found the cornstarch, can I add some in now?

[leclercskiesahead]

always matching

[turrondeluxe]

sometimes i forget not everyone knows how mikey and miguel met and how they fell in love and how they get together romantically .like what do you mean u don't know

[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[goldkirk]

When did the latest 1,000 of you follow me??? good lord hi and welcome, I should maybe pay attention to my notifications and activity page more 😭

[sinful-lanterns]

MY MOM SAW ELEVEN AND SAID "WHAT THE FUCK SHE LOOKS LIKE AN GHOST. WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER" 😭😭😭😭😭

I KNEW IT 😭

My headcanon about people thinking she is a ghost whenever she goes outside, is RIGHT. I mean, Eleven is super pale, has white hair, dark circles under her eyes. If I saw her I’d think she was on the verge of death as well 😨

…Doesn’t make her any less cute, though. Poor Eleven, someone give her some natural light and a smoothie. Then place her in your bed, tuck her in, and give her a goodnight kiss so this woman can FINALLY SLEEP FOR ONCE—

[tomndjerry]

[nerendus]

I think from now on I'll be playing Fromsoft games online because...I missed so much stuff that I only ended up finding thanks to player messages. I couldn't get into the ruins of Unte my first playthrough and I literally just followed the trail of messages telling me every individual step to take.

I would never think to burn the dead Furnace Golem nor realize that there's a ritual with the stone sword there or that there is a small area where you can fight the golem with relative ease.

Most of my favourite areas came from looking at a wiki but like...if I just played online, there would be so many vague and weird comments helping me find my way.

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[wingsofhcpe]

how do you politely tell your uni classmates that you're not gonna sit the exam for them

[imaginaryberries]

One nice thing is that I no longer have any doubt about my ADHD or autism diagnoses. If I ever feel doubtful about it I just need to think about the hundred million behaviours and habits my mum and I share which are incredibly clear indicators of both. Or the ones I share with my brother. Or with my ND friends. Or even the occasional flash of memory of stuff my dad used to do. The peer reviews are so strong. Doubting stuff about myself has always been a very prevalent part of my life so it's nice not to have any trace of it about this anymore.

[enchantedlandcoffee]

Online Friends Part One - The Messages

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