Anna the Crow

tedkordisanasshole: I find it hilarious that I managed to train myself in social situations to the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:54:45 +0200

I find it hilarious that I managed to train myself in social situations to the point where people who meet me now don’t even believe me when I tell them I’m actualy scared of social contact

I’m an asocial social butterfly

haha sounds almost like me!

it usually goes like this:

“oh F*CK no I dun wanna”

*terrified puppy noises*

“plz no first sentence and I’m already making an idiot of myself”

“aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH”

“wait nobody is laughing yet”

“this is going better than expected”

“OH NO NOW I’VE DONE IT they totes gonna laugh at me now”

“oh HELL NO if they gonna laugh LET’S PRETEND I MADE THEM!!”

*jokes*

*more jokes*

“CHEW THE SCENERYYYYYY!!!!!”

“…oh okay that’s it. I did it. I done spoke.”

*beat*

“oh no”

“OH NOOO”

“WHAT DID I DOOOOO”

“WHY DID I SAAAAAYYY THAAAT”

*tries bury herself”

other-wordly: pronunciation | “ne-me-‘siz-m

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:03:16 +0200

other-wordly:

pronunciation | “ne-me-‘siz-m

It is theoretically possible.

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:59:11 +0200

It is theoretically possible.

crowdraws: Bwuh. Exercise. Don’t be lazy, kids. (I am.) (no I...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:09:03 +0200

crowdraws:

Bwuh. Exercise. Don’t be lazy, kids. (I am.)

(no I am not supposed to work on the thing that needs to be done tomorrow why would you say that)

teenytigress: SO THIS GUY IN MY ENGLISH IS DOING A PROJECT FOR...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:49:19 +0200

teenytigress:

SO THIS GUY IN MY ENGLISH IS DOING A PROJECT FOR BIO WHERE HE GETS A DUCKLING TO IMPRINT ON HIM SO HE JUST CARRIES IT AROUND WITH HIM TO ALL OF HIS CLASSES AND I SWEAR THIS DUCK IS THE MOST WELL BEHAVED FUCKING POULTRY IVE EVER SEEN IT JUST SITS ON HIS DESK QUIETLY AND SOMETIMES HE PUTS IT IN HIS POCKET AND IT JUST SLEEPS LIKE WOW YOU GO DUCKY

laughingsquid: Cute Little Fox Plays With a Golf Ball

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:43:53 +0200

laughingsquid:

Cute Little Fox Plays With a Golf Ball

newtypelady: poupon: axl99: ienjoyfewthings: Dear anyone...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:38:21 +0200

newtypelady:

poupon:

axl99:

ienjoyfewthings:

Dear anyone responsible for a work of fantasy fiction,

This is how you warrior.

UGH. YES. LADIES IN PROPER ARMOR.

Two of those are by Marian Churchland, who is THE BEST

I WILL NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR MY LOVE OF FULL ARMOR.

mrtwentington: skepticalavenger: whats-an-algebra: do atheists say oh my god yep. we say it any...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:04:53 +0200

mrtwentington:

skepticalavenger:

whats-an-algebra:

do atheists say oh my god

yep. we say it any time we hear something that’s unbelievable.

If Yahoo buys Tumblr...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:02:00 +0200

squashed:

azspot:

squashed:

… okay. I mean, I guess that would be fine.

I guess change is inevitable. It happens fast on the Internet. The blogs I first followed on Tumblr are by and large gone. Or less active. In some way, I feel like the old guy who hangs out with kids because all his friends are dead. And he likes yelling at kids.

The point being, Yahoo isn’t looking to buy talent, technology, or a quick profit in Tumblr. It’s looking for relevance. It’s knows that when you drop a billion to buy a cool friend, you don’t immediately screw it up by doing something massively uncool.

It’ll be okay.

Is this misguided rosiness in lieu of Yahoo historical pattern of buying and burning successful online platforms?

OTOH, outside of steadfast service stability (which I am indeed most thankful for :)), Tumblr has languished in the past year — the only “enhancements” being of a negative nature (i.e., the recent editor “upgrade”, still riddled with bugs that make it excruciating to edit posts with blockquote text)

And it might serve as the needed impetus for me to complete development on my own homebrewed (and self hosted) tumble-wiki alternative.

In 2007, I was drinking coffee in Marco’s livingroom/dining room/office. He told me he and David had launched a website that had done remarkably well. He urged me to register before somebody else registered daniel.tumblr.com. Maybe I could write things there instead of on LiveJournal. There were about 27,000 users at that point, one of whom was AZSpot. Since then, Tumblr has grown to about 300 billion users, each more unique than the last. So it’s done okay. Marco has left Tumblr, started Instapaper, and recently left Instapaper. The last time we were drinking coffee together, he had a living room and a dining room and an office. So he’s done okay. And I’ve done okay with Tumblr as well. The point being, on the Internet, a lot has changed since 2007. And in 2007 if somebody had announced that LiveJournal was maybe being acquired, I would feel about like everybody feels now. (Where would I store my feelings!?!)

The point being, life is brutal and short on the Internet. When awesome websites are acquired and eventually shut down by other websites, it’s either a pattern or it’s just what happens on the Internet. Does anybody seriously think that if Yahoo hadn’t acquired GeoCities it would be the coolest site on the Internet now?

Though, there’s another angle. Yahoo was founded in 1995. In Internet years, that’s like the Roman Empire. (I’m going to resist the urge to troll you all by saying that, it’s not bad to be in a conquered province because at least you get to be part of the glory of Rome.) Yahoo has at least survived.

The broader point being, things change quickly on the internet. There’s always a younger, cooler site looming just over the horizon. I’m not sure that acquisition by Yahoo particularly diminishes Tumblr’s longterm prognosis. It means an influx of cash, stability, and technical capability. Heck, probably a functional search feature. And it means that Tumblr doesn’t need to desperately look for ways to monetize.

The Internet will kill everything you love. But by the time it dies, you won’t even care.

I think this is a good point. Let’s not write the obituary just yet, despite Yahoo’s history this still could end well.

And if Tumblr tanks… we might not be there by then. I’ve left several “homes” behind on the internet - some were shut down; most of them I grew apart from. And it’s not just an internet thing; it’s a community thing, a human thing. I’ve left several RL communities behind me, too - some of them ended; most of them I grew apart from. That’s how it goes.

(And that moment when you think “I hope it stays like this forever”? It’s usualy on the way down.)

So, yeah, let’s not cry over Tumblr yet. It might work out… and if it won’t we’ll just have to pack, say goodbye and hope we’ll meet again on the next stop.

EDIT: Tumblr submit form glitched on me and I accidentally posted the thing twice. This just writes itself.

artalias: electronicanonsensica: Everyone is missing the biggest problem here. Fuck the ads. Fuck...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:44:11 +0200

artalias:

electronicanonsensica:

Everyone is missing the biggest problem here.

Fuck the ads. Fuck the links. Fuck the email stuff.

Yahoo explicitly forbids pornography and sexually suggestive material on their websites and all affiliates.

That means no more porn on Tumblr.

… God help us all.

lemonadeleathers: crispy-ghee: susheep: probably one of the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:58:18 +0200

lemonadeleathers:

crispy-ghee:

susheep:

probably one of the most honest statements about talent i’ve ever heard. i try to tell people this all the time.

yup pretty much

It doesn’t make anything any easier, but it’s completely true.

plot twist: yahoo buys tumblr and we get proper blocking features, lockable posts, a sent folder in messages/fanmail with a better interface, ability to search multiple tags, removal of the post and message limits, proper search engines for likes/archives and removing that bloody "reblog as a link" option.

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:55:19 +0200

plot twist: yahoo buys tumblr and we get proper blocking features, lockable posts, a sent folder in messages/fanmail with a better interface, ability to search multiple tags, removal of the post and message limits, proper search engines for likes/archives and removing that bloody "reblog as a link" option.

corvidism: Experimenting with Processing. It’s a love/hate relationship. I love what it can do in...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:52:29 +0200

corvidism:

Experimenting with Processing.

It’s a love/hate relationship. I love what it can do in hands of artists (and by “love” I mean “fangirl faint over”)… but I hate how, well, math-y it all is.

(Math and me - not friends. We have a history.)

I think I’ll always need the crutch of a decent scenegraph, but I’m not giving up just yet. I guess I do hate to lose now and then.

haithinkimfunny: queenestelle: gothist: GET IGNORED SO MUCH BITCHES CALL ME TERMS AND...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:50:53 +0200

haithinkimfunny:

queenestelle:

gothist:

GET IGNORED SO MUCH BITCHES CALL ME TERMS AND CONDITIONS

at least you get accepted no matter what

that’s the most uplifting thing i’ve seen all day

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:05:55 +0200

grumpyfox: casually fangirls over her main is that a water...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:03:59 +0200

grumpyfox:

*casually fangirls over her main*

is that a water lily

does the lovely plantperson have a water lily growing out of his back

*c*

girljanitor: innocent-bystanders-inc: nudiemuse: princelesscom...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:57:56 +0200

girljanitor:

innocent-bystanders-inc:

nudiemuse:

princelesscomic:

girljanitor:

Self Evident Truths

S. Ross Browne

Ummm…I am so VERY into this right now!

But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.

Also holy shit I love these.

How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?

Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:

codaleia: nephyla: wtfhistory: theshewomanboyhatersclub: j...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:57:44 +0200

codaleia:

nephyla:

wtfhistory:

theshewomanboyhatersclub:

jesuisuneetoile:

THIS IS MARRIAGE!!

Thats right!

Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.

He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”

Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT

LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.

In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.

Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.

Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT.

Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.

FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.

reblogging for the AWESOME historical comments

Reblogging for the same ! XD
I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s COOL ! *0*

it is true !

I had Ancient Greek world history in University and I can tell you it’s true :)

diygeekess: I finally finished Garrus! The pattern is free...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:42:47 +0200

diygeekess:

I finally finished Garrus! The pattern is free because turians are awesome.

Hmmmm… *strokes chin*

frankenbolt: fatass-mcnotits: orlyman: chasingcomics: The...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:49:19 +0200

frankenbolt:

fatass-mcnotits:

orlyman:

chasingcomics:

The Man Who Lives Alone

My Intro to Comics final about ghosts and love.

This came out awesome chase, that last panel is working real well

this is really fucking cute and sweet

Oh my gosh thats adorable. ;u;

Anna the Crow

tedkordisanasshole: I find it hilarious that I managed to train myself in social situations to the...

other-wordly: pronunciation | “ne-me-‘siz-m

It is theoretically possible.

crowdraws: Bwuh. Exercise. Don’t be lazy, kids. (I am.) (no I...

teenytigress: SO THIS GUY IN MY ENGLISH IS DOING A PROJECT FOR...

laughingsquid: Cute Little Fox Plays With a Golf Ball

newtypelady: poupon: axl99: ienjoyfewthings: Dear anyone...

mrtwentington: skepticalavenger: whats-an-algebra: do atheists say oh my god yep. we say it any...

If Yahoo buys Tumblr...

artalias: electronicanonsensica: Everyone is missing the biggest problem here. Fuck the ads. Fuck...

lemonadeleathers: crispy-ghee: susheep: probably one of the...

corvidism: Experimenting with Processing. It’s a love/hate relationship. I love what it can do in...

haithinkimfunny: queenestelle: gothist: GET IGNORED SO MUCH BITCHES CALL ME TERMS AND...

Photo

grumpyfox: *casually fangirls over her main* is that a water...

girljanitor: innocent-bystanders-inc: nudiemuse: princelesscom...

codaleia: nephyla: wtfhistory: theshewomanboyhatersclub: j...

diygeekess: I finally finished Garrus! The pattern is free...

frankenbolt: fatass-mcnotits: orlyman: chasingcomics: The...

grumpyfox: casually fangirls over her main is that a water...