#that's for me to know and you to hopefulky not find out!

[o-fficial-science-dept-13579]

And the least used gadget of the year is...

Oh, I completely forgot about this one! The lab has an official blog! Aw, Oscar told me about the blogging-inator on my sixth-and-a-half day (it was during lunch). I don't think I have the heart to scrap this gadget. It's just too special to me.

Well, time to dust off the old blogging-inator gloves because it looks like we're back!

[public-trans-it]

So what's up with this fucking blog and why doesn't it work right?

(Old pin here)

Actual explanation under the readmore. TL;DR for functionality:

This account CANNOT send asks off of anon. They will fail to go through 100% of the time. If you have anon asks disabled, sorry, you literally are not capable of receiving an ask from me. It can still recieve them normally, and CAN respond privately.

This account CAN follow other blogs. However, you will not receive any notification that I have followed you. Likewise, even if we are mutuals, only I will see that.

This account CANNOT reply to posts. Every post acts as if they have replies restricted to me. The exception is my own which let me attempt to reply, but the reply fails to go through. Other blogs can reply to me as normal.

This account CAN like posts. They show up in my 'liked posts' tab, and they increase the note count of the post I liked. However, they do not actually show up in the notes of that post, or the notifications of the person who posted and/or reblogged it.

This account CANNOT block other users. Fucking horrifying actually. Kinda sucks. The block button doesn't do ANYTHING. It doesn't even soft-block. Hell it doesn't even UNFOLLOW the person. After extensive testing I HAVE found a way to block people. However it is NOT 100% effective and people can evade a ban pretty easily based on their settings on this site. For hopefulky obvious reasons, I am hesitant to say which settings those are.

This blog CAN be blocked... partially. Blocking this blog will prevent me from reblogging your posts. It will NOT disable my ability to still view your blog. I can also still like your posts, but as mentioned above you will not get notifications about it.

It REMAINS TO BE SEEN if this account can be banned. Let's test that, shall we?

So, this account originally originally was just a NSFW alt (and also some other things but that isn't relevant) long before the porn ban, but as I started following more an more accounts that didn't use alts for NSFW with my main account, trying to seperate out the NSFW content from the SFW content on my feed became an exercise in futility, and I just gave up.

Later, I decided to use this blog for board game archival. I would scan all the resources for a board game and post them to a sideblog on this account both as a resource for others, and as an image host for Tabletop Simulator. I also was worried I'd accidentally respond privately to an ask instead of publicly (something that used to be a lot easier to accidentally do), which is always done from the main blog. So I changed my main blog and renamed it after some dickhead I was annoyed with at the time.

Eventually, realized tumblr was not going to be sufficient for the archival work I needed. Switched to github but eventually gave up on that too.

Deleted this account.

Or I thought I did.

A while later I decided to maybe make an RP account, cause roleplay tumblr was big at the time. Reused the same email only to find... I couldn't cause the account already existed. Could have SWORN I deleted it. Log in and... nope, the account is still there!

Lo and behold, there is my board game archive blog! And my main blog named after some dickhead! So I go to clean up the blog. Delete my archival blog, and then go to change the main blog up to be that new RP account.

But I can't. I can't change anything about the main blog. Every time I try to change anything about it, tumblr tells me that blog does not exist.

You know that error that happens very rarely on a post where it loses its notes? Where tumblr just fucking loses the source post but not the reblogs, so it doesnt save any information and interactions with it are weird and you can do stuff like giving it -1 posts by unliking it? Yeah. Turns out that can happen to an account.

This account is a sideblog that isn't attached to any main blog. Like... any API call to my main blog results in a 404 error.

I've used it for a few different things over the years. Currently, it's just a personal blog because my main got too big and is stressing me out. It's also a fun little experiment to test the functionality of this broken ass account on this broken ass website.

[wingedfabray]

Text || Anderbray

Tagging: Blaine Anderson & Quinn Fabray When: January 1st, 2018 Where: Respective Dorm Rooms What: A text/communication crystal conversation between the two. Warnings: None.

BLAINE:

[1/1/2018 3:07 AM] [text] I finally got discharged from the main building. I'm heading back to my dorm. I hope you're already at yours. Or at home. Just be safw. [text] Sorry about my typos that might appear. My sxreenxs cracked. I think we all know I'm not the best at alteratjon mahjx. I'll tru to get kt fixed soon. Hopefulky when the chaos dies dow . [text] I'm sorry about what happened, Quinn.

QUINN:

[text] Perhaps a new phone, Blaine. Our magic isn't necessarily conducive to repairing cell phones. [text] I haven't been allowed home, yet. [text] Actually, I haven't heard from anyone. Soon, I'm sure, or I'll be finding a way there myself. [text] Are you okay?

BLAINE:

[text] Hah, that's right, isn't it. It was my fault, though, it was rude to be on the phone during an event... not allowed home? Are your parents and grandmother alright? Miss. Francine Fabray as well? Did they contact you at least? I'm alright compared to the others. I think my father must not need to check in on me since Cooper arrived to Liberty Island. Aether. I'm still in shock at what we overheard.

QUINN:

[text] It's hardly a crime to pull out your phone from time to time. [text] I believe if there was something seriously wrong, someone would have contacted me. I have to. They must be alright, just busy. [text] I can't either. Something very big is happening, Blaine.

BLAINE:

[text] Yes... [text] I'm glad to hear that. I wish your family all the strength to overcome this tragedy. I wish you all the strength, Quinn. [text] Do you remember when we got our memories of last Samhain (2016, to be exaxt) back? What did you do then?

QUINN:

[text] Went back to falling madly in love with a pillow, if memory serves correct.

BLAINE:

[text] After when the curse nroke; I should have added on.

QUINN:

[text] I talked to my father and grandmother. Daddy didn't have anything to say, he avoided the question. Harper, she directed me towards a book, but I'm not sure if it had to do with the events of Samhain, or something else I'm dealing with. [text] I don't think my father knows anything. Not really. [text] And thank you, Blaine. I wish you all the strength, as well. [text] Did you try to speak with your family?

BLAINE:

[text] I'm sorry that I didn't get to properly greet them. I normally would and... [text] I'm sorry if I ruined yours and Hunter's gala. However I firmly stand by my choice to invite Kurt. [text] Cooper is probably overtiming tonight. I haven't spoken with my dad. I will in the morning. Strangely enough, I'm hoping that I don't have to talk to grandmother... I'll ask Eleanora. [text] ...Funny thing is that my dad said he didn't know either. This was in February of last year. Hah, a year and... and this happens. It's worse than before.

QUINN:

[text] Why did you bring Kurt? Blaine, you had to know. [text] I hope that your family knows something, anything. It can't truly be that no one knows what these...things are. It's happened twice to us, and there's no telling how many times they've covered this up in the past. [text] I'll be asking my father again as soon as I can, granted he contacts me, and I'm able to visit home. If he refuses to answer again, I'll find another way. [text] Someone has to know...

BLAINE:

[text] I... I really had to make it up to him somehow. I don't know. I just wanted him there. He likes that sort of stuff, fancy dresses and rich parties. I thought... I thought if he was there that it would... change how I feel about all of this. [text] ...Quinn I'll text you back. [text] I'm sleepy. Yawnnn. [ComCrystal rings][ComCrystal] Sorry. I didn't know how safe our correspondence was. [ComCrystal] We need to find a way to talk to each other without worrying about spies... my dad knows I am working to pursue the truth because I, um, told him.  He said he wouldn't be able to protect me. Hah. As if I need it... anyway. Do you think the cardines are actually the only ones behind the covering up or... as I am beginning to think, this is something happening within all the branches of the UMC?

QUINN:

[ComCrystal] Oh, hello, Blaine. Communication Crystals may be useful, I...hadn't thought of our text conversations being monitored. Hopefully a magical means will be safer. As for the Cardines, it's hard to believe they're acting alone. They seemed...confused. This is bigger than us, somehow. I want to pursue the truth as well. Regardless of what our elders have to say. We're not unaffected in this.

BLAINE:

[ComCrystal] Yes, the Chief and Cooper himself looked shaken. This was an impromptu thing. A thing that the government never thought could happen... I do hope we are safe here. As long as they don't know our frequency. But there's got to be a private way for us to talk and keep a record of our findings... I have no aspirations of following the Andersons. It's not about a name on the line, it's PEOPLE. Too many commons got hurt. Aetherhell, and on the news they're fooled into thinking it's the workings of a doomsday cult. It's not right to keep magic away from them when our world is the one spilling over!(edited)

[There's a pause in the conversation, the connection crackles in the silence.]

QUINN:

[ComCrystal] Many people died, yes, both Commons and not it seems. Regardless of whether or not knowing about magic would actually help Commons, or potentially harm us, whatever is happening needs to be solved, if not resolved. What if we told them, not knowing what was happening, and the solution was another witch hunt, Blaine? I–

I don't know. I only want to know what's happening, and how we can stop it – if ther's a way to stop it – before anyone else dies. My...my grandmother uses journals that can connect to other journals. As long as no one is allowed to read them, that might be a more secure method of communication. It would be nice to know I'm not doing all of this research alone.

BLAINE:

[ComCrystal] ...We can't just leave them behind when they are caught in the crossfire between us and... whatever the doors are, Quinn. Who knows? Maybe they can help us based on their technology? Magic doesn't have to be the end all...

Okay, same here. Journals? That sounds like it might work. It allows us to keep our notes in one place, our plans safe from prying eyes. What research have you done already?

QUINN:

[ComCrystal] Is it leaving them behind, if we're working to solve the issue? Blaine, we don't have the best history, and this isn't exactly a smooth situation...

But I can't argue that right now. It's not clear and cut.  Nothing is. My research has been admittedly sparse, as I've been a bit caught up in other things of late. I plan to do more, from here forward. I'll start with figuring out the journals. I do have some books that I gathered from various libraries in Europe, mostly on Witch history, some LN history. I've looked at some rare books at Grim and War, but it's been busy with the holidays. I'll see if there's anything I can purchase there that might be of help. Lazarus may be able to help with the journals, as well.