🔫😊 I heard you need a little “encouragement”
*slowly walks back to my laptop*
*Begins writing again*
Commence monologue with typing noise as background music:
*one hand over my head*
I guess I have to write now that my life is being threatened by a water gun.
*fake sob*
Oh the horrors! The horrors of get my clothes wet! I shan't think about! No I must keep writing!
*furiously types away*
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Sometimes if I want to feel angry, I'll go look at the product description of Leon Paul's sub zer0 grip.
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In case anyone is wondering what the Reddit -> Tumblr migration looks like, here is a dispatch from Ground Zero.
For a long time, we have had a very successful mixed-social media marriage, but my husband, a long-time Redditor who considers the platform effectively dead, got bored and made a Tumblr.
That's not exactly correct. Apparently, he made the Tumblr several years ago, when we were planning the addition to our house, because he was following the "interiors" tag.
Anyway, I offered to help him get set up, since I am a Tumblrina of moderate experience. I made him change his blog's name, and select a profile pic (he used a picture of a fire he had made once). I then advised him to go into Settings and turn off "Best Stuff First" and "Based on your likes" and he was like "Why? I want to see the Best Stuff."
It's how to keep your timeline chronological, I said, the thing everyone wants from every social media. That way you'll only see what the people you follow post.
"I don't want to follow people," he said. "I just want to look at stuff. What tags should I look in?"
"What did you look at on Reddit?" I asked.
"The front page," he said. "Whatever there was."
I realized that I could not advise this man, he was going to browse Tumblr based on his own way of the ninja, and so he did. He went into the "my dog" tag, and proceeded to scroll down. After about two minutes, he realized he could like posts, and he liked every post in "my dog" that contained an actual picture of a dog.
Today, I showed him a picture of a drawing of some sharks that I liked. "How did you see that?" he asked. "Why did Tumblr show that to you?"
I explained that someone I follow had reblogged it, and that often, when I like a piece of art, I follow the artist so I can see more of their art.
"What are the tags on the post?" he asked.
"Sharks," I said.
"Thanks," he said.
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people being terrified of geese is so funny to me bc like a goose "fighting" a person is like 95% intimidation tactics because they are more than aware that you are way bigger than them and will kill them. you're an ape 10x bigger than this bird and you're letting yourself be intimidated by a goose?
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...watching the whole mask debate go down was incredibly surreal bc I learned about using masks to prevent transmission of other resp. diseases before covid happened. I got a nasty bug once (coughing, sneezing, the works) & wore medical masks at home for the duration & my partner did not catch it despite us living in a tiny 1 br apartment. Recently did a 4 hr drive w/ someone who was sick (not covid), sneezing and coughing and refused to mask 🙃 but I was wearing one and...didn't catch it.
...so all the people whining that "they don't work" and accusing others of being sheep was absurd in the face of actual concrete evidence.
(that's before you get into why surgeons & dentists are required to wear em like. this is not for no reason. lmao)
(also frequent handwashing. I take public transit & wash hands immediately on getting to my destination. I used to get sick several times a year & have been sick once since 2020)
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