"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.” - Benjamin Franklin. ~
My name is currently Adam, but I prefer to be known as Ashley.
British. Wiccan.
AMAB. Trans. Not yet ready to use female pronouns RL, but on the internet, anything goes.
For years I have struggled to cope with depression and self-injury. I'm not entirely free but I'm better than I used to be. Good days and bad ones.
I'm a writer of fantasy novels. While none have been published yet this does not stop me from writing.
I love all things sci/fi and fantasy.
Love Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie, Michael Chrichton, and a large variety of other authors.
I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades
but I am also super annoyed by the way it's framed as "without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is" way more prominently than it's framed as "hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?"
so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are
What retail workers wish they could tell customers - feel free to add to.
If you take something out of the fridge and change your mind, return it to the fridge, or else we have to throw it away. Don’t just put it on any random shelf.
If we say “we don’t have it” please don’t ask “do you have some in the back?” We aren’t hoarding stuff. The point of a business is to selling you things. Not keep them from you. If it’s not on the shelves, then we don’t have it.
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
my step mom was asking me more questions about the nonbinary thing and after talking to me for a bit, she said "oh, so youre a rosé! not a chardonnay transitioning to a merlot, just your own unique type" which was such a middle aged white woman way to frame it, but i cannot lie gang. it did make me want to cry
I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.
Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.
Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!