#it could be a hundred other things

[awkward-teabag]

Was looking at my iPod Nano and thought how utterly BS it is that companies say it takes too much room to have a headphone jack.

I already thought it was BS before but the claim invariably comes down to form factor and keeping the jacks would make the device too big.

My Nano is ~5mm thick with the jack (also it's thinner than that but the glass stands out to make it thicker). That's nearly 3mm thinner than the latest iPhone and even the thinnest iPhone is over 2mm thicker.

You're telling me as components and ports shrink and boards also get smaller, it's unfeasible to do something that was done a decade ago?

It's almost as if it's not that form factor/technology doesn't allow it and it's all about selling proprietary adapters and/or Apple-brand headphones/earbuds/airpods that can be paired without a jack, and removing customer freedom.

#it used to be about removing the option for customers to record music via the jack #but that's been something easily done for ages #'best' is when the claim is a jack is too thick for a laptop #a cell i could possibly understand but a laptop? #the hell is your board and battery if it's thinner than 5mm and you can't find room for the jack #'cause even on compact builds there's dead space #and it's not like optical drives are often a thing now so that frees up even more room #though funny story from when i got my nano #i wanted something to use at work for a physical job so it only needed to play music and fit in a pocket #the staffer (who was probably instructed to upsell everyone) kept trying to get me to buy a cell instead #because 'you can play music off it and do other stuff' #i legit only wanted to get something that did one (1) thing #especially given the chance it could be damaged #also even at the best of times a cell has trouble fitting in afab dress pants pockets #kinda hard to upsell someone on something that costs hundreds more and literally cannot do what they want

[brazilian-whalien52]

I hate how people are cancelled for shipping characters with age gaps because 80% of the time I do not pay attention for the age of the characters. I was raised in the 2000s cw tv shows where every teenager was interpret by an adult and everybody from 15 to 30y looked the same. In animation I also can't tell because every story follows their own style in character designs.

#ooh but you can tell if the character goes to high school or college or something #first i like fantasy #second these bitches be in high school but doing everything expect studying #for example i loove #sterek #but i had no idea what was derek age? the dude was there just with leather jackets looking cool #always wondered if he was hust a college drop out #or #bluepulse #they are all doing the heros shit #there is tome travel #and hundred of other things #how could u know the characters age?

[onejellyfishplease]

What would you say comes more naturally to you? Writing or drawing?

Id have to say drawing honestly,

but it is pretty even! ive been drawing and writing for as long as i can remember! but i think what has always been my first love is storytelling, and i can do that with either medium <3

#i remember i wrote this one story as a kid #about a girl who got turned into a tree by an evil magician #and then stayed as a tree for hundreds of years #and then ended up having a tree house built on her #and this other kid came and they hung out together #and the kid didnt know she was a person #he was just really lonely lol #but she could do little things like move her branchs and stuff #and blah blah blah she protects him from bullys #and then he moves away #and she uses magic #(which she has now) #to teleport the whole tree to his new backgarden #and i think thats as far as i got #and the whole time i spelt father as farther #because i had terrible spelling #the end #asks #anon asks #jelly talks

[nero-neptune]

i remember watching boardwalk empire and yknow it’s a show about actual gangsters and criminals during the american prohibition era. downright despicable people committing crimes from the very light to the especially heinous. and yet, and yet, outside of the tumblr bubble (which still had an active bwe fandom at the time), i’d come across thread after thread of why margaret thompson or gillian darmody or daughter maitland or lucy danziger or freaking billie kent was Actually the Worst Character on the show. when willie was Right There. people will always find a reason to uwu-ify the guys and dismiss the women as ‘annoying’. every time.

#margaret seems to have gotten the worst of it bc you type 'boardwalk empire margaret' into google #one of the first results if 'boardwalk empire margaret annoying' #when she Wasn't! she was actually a great character! #anyway. that's just one show. no imagine hundreds of other shows #a woman on a show could be nice and friendly and played by a model and people would Still find a reason to hate her #every time i watch a popular 'prestige' show and go looking for discussions about an episode or about an arc or about whatever else #everyone's more likely to hate the 'annoying female' over any guy. and everytime i'm like '...her?' #i should stop being surprised at these things #rambles #boardwalk empire

[enbysiriusblack]

dorcas meadowes and sirius black are the anti hero marauder characters.

#if you're wondering why regulus isn't here. i shall explain my decision. #right so. an anti hero is a character who does good but has un- heroic like traits #an anti hero focuses on personal motivation above a sort of greater good. #and is generally disliked/on the outs with the clearer hero/villian characters #dorcas is on a clear side of good. but the way they go about it isn't that moral #they kill practically hundreds of people (bad people) out of more anger and grief than anything else #dorcas could be classed as a hero with more villianous qualities (acting on more selfish desires/careless about people they hurt) #sirius comes from a family of more villian characters but runs towards good #his intentions are some 'for the greater good' and just. to rebel. #they tend to act selfishly and impulsively and make bad choices #sirius strives to be a hero but his trauma and intentions land them in anti hero #whereas regulus. #he (unlike sirius and dorcas) isn't on/striving for good. #he is a very neutral character that is trapped in a villianous world #an anti hero actively does both good and bad. an anti hero thinks firstly of themsevles #regulus doesn't. his good deed is stealing the horcrux. his bad deed is joining the death eaters. #he does do both good and bad. but that just lands him as a neutral character. a morally grey victim. a complacent rebel. #dorcas and sirius do good things with bad intentions and bad things with good intentions #whilst regulus does a bad thing and a good thing. and so on. which cancels each other out. making him neutral. #marauders era #marauders #sirius black #dorcas meadowes

[bsaka7]

fuck it lol im buying new running shoes

#I thought I could make it through this cycle on this pair but it's now obvious I cannot #these shoes r dead deceased nonfunctional and making my knee hurt so. #I know what shoe I want too if they have last seasons asics gt 2000 im getting it #the unfortunate thing is I've only seen asics at this one store #and they weren't very nice to me last time I was there lol #Which is fair. But also a bummer like i am gonna spend a hundred plus bucks on u lol #my brooks r still good i just need a fresh second pair #My guess is these shoes have500+ mi on then and my others r around 350. #So it'll be good to be able to get back into a 6mo #shoe buying rotation #Tetrapod runs

[dangerousdan-dan]

I invited a friend over and the moment he stepped into my room he said "wow, this is like a geek shrine" and I'm not sure if that was meant as a compliment or not

#to give you a visual: i have books and comics everywhere. my walls are covered in prints and posters from videogames and dc and other stuff #i also have figurines lying around along with other weird things #and the pièce de résistance: the skulls #(they're not real. most of them are made of clay but still) #he also seemed fascinated by the fact I still have CDs #i think it was like a museum visit for him. we were supposed to play videogames but he found his surroundings more entertaining i guess xD #but this also made me wonder about how popular the “minimalist” aesthetic is and how now it's “weird” to have stuff you enjoy in your space #like it's immature or something #all these trinkets make me happy so I'm keeping them forever. thank you :) #“but you're an adult. why do you still have posters and toys??” because i don't want to be boring like you #(< not something my friend said but something I've heard before) #besides look at it this way. if hundreds of years from now an anthropologist finds my stuff #they'll think I'm the most interesting btch in town #what would they think about your minimalist space??? what objects could tell them the story of who you were and what you loved?? #dan is rambling again #(tbh dan is a little tipsy too)

[godsfavoritescientist]

So there's this webserial called 'worm' about a world where superpowers started suddenly showing up in the 70's, and I'm trying so hard to think of a way to merge it with the stans-and-fidds 70s-and-80s plot events. The thing is, powers are caused by going through a traumatic event, and the powers are tied to both that event and to the person's various issues in ways that sometimes seems cruelly ironic. So you see my dilemma here, with there being so many options for events that could've given these guys powers

#godsrambles #fidds is easy: within worm's power classification system he'd be a tinker #which is where you get a superpowered understanding of how to create things that would otherwise be impossible #e.g. making killer robots far more advanced than current science is capable of #if working on the portal was what gave him powers though...... he could either get tinker powers specifically related to making portals #or if it was the greloblin then somethjng related to memory erasing #for stan. idk what would be the most upsetting. shapeshifting restricted to looking like other humans probably. #great for evading the law and for pretending to be ford for 30 years though #oh maybe ford would get precognition. ability to see hundreds of potential futures #maybe in combination with no longer needing to sleep. able to trap himself in literally endless rumination as he tries to figure out- #-how to stop bill #none of these are the Fun Flashy kind of powers though. stan would have fun with fire powers #oh wait. even worse for stan: powers that evoke leeches. able to temporarily steal or drain powers from others or something #or able to copy others' powers permanently in a weaker form than the original power. and he can have multiple weak powers at a time #in this world the mob would have powered folks in it of course so maybe a situation involving them could cause that power #OR. if his powers happened in the aftermath of the portal incident. #ability to teleport anything and anyone within his line of sight directly to him. #he'd be mad for 30 years straight about not getting that power before ford fell through the portal #that or the ability to summon common tools out of nowhere. such as a long rope #idk the powers are always very specific. pretty sure no one following me knows what worm is. #but you can at least appreciate the exercise of thinking up what powers would deal the most psychic damage to these guys

[coldflasher]

the flash should have ended with barry quitting his job at ccpd to become a stay-at-home husband and that's on that

#the fun part is it genuinely could have ended like that. i have no idea. still haven't watched it #NOBODY TELL ME BTW #THAT IS NOT ME ASKING FOR SPOILERS. I'LL GET TO IT #but honestly it's the only thing that makes sense. i have genuine reasons for this #namely: how the fuck is iris. an incredible but ordinary non-speedster woman. meant to look after a baby speedster #ordinary babies are already making it their life's mission to die. eating shit they shouldn't. rolling over and suffocating. #idk i don't know about kids but i know babies are breakable and will roll off tables and god knows what else #now imagine you have a toddler and she can literally move at hundreds of miles per hour #how the fuck was iris meant to cope? #i still maintain that when they did the 'she put a power dampener in nora' plot it should have been like. not a control thing #but also yeah. literally a control thing because HOW THE FUCK ELSE WAS SHE MEANT TO LOOK AFTER HER BABY #if barry is gone and she's a single mother. assuming no other speedsters are around to help her. what the fuck else was she meant to do? #of course she had to suppress her powers because how can you stop your toddler running into traffic if she can run 1000 times faster than u #how do you keep her in her crib at night if she can phase through the bars? #in that sense. yeah it's fucked up. but you can understand it. you can empathize. what other options did she have? #so yeah stay-at-home dad barry is the only thing that makes sense for genuine safety reasons #he is quite literally the only one who can keep up with the kids #they dropped the ball on nora is all i'm saying. again. fic that lives in my head where original nora's death actually means something #and we get a new nora who is ACTUALLY a different person. as she would be considering her whole upbringing was different #and she has to somehow live up to the memory of a version of her that was erased from time #part of barry and iris can't accept that that specific version of their daughter is gone and it's not her #THE ANGST POTENTIALLLL #in my head she doesn't even go by nora because she's like. THAT'S NOT ME. SHE DIED. WHY CAN'T YOU ACCEPT WHO I AM AND LOVE ME FOR ME #she goes by dawn bc yeah im still kinda sad they didnt use that name #fictional characters give ur kid an original name instead of always naming them after dead ppl challenge #my fics #my meta

[spookykingdomstarlight]

there will be no escaping the urge to listen to 《余年》 on repeat for the rest of the day

#xiao zhan #i haven't done my spotify wrapped yet and frankly i doubt i will #but last year this was the winner #and it could very well be the winner this year #but it would have stiff competition from 《廿》 #xz did not have to go that hard #this is why i'm not allowed to think about joy of life #all sorts of other things start happening #it took me a minute to decide which of the five hundred performances to link #but i'm a sucker for a black turtleneck so #tbh it's also my favorite #Spotify #Youtube

[chiropteracupola]

From tgarnsl:

tea au / fuck it what if they were samurai, please? :-)

as usual, I don't have much of the actual written component of the story to share (I'm still figuring out what various people are named, and how they ought to refer to each other) but this time I do have a picture of the whole tea set setup that I made for the story!

the fic premise I'm currently working out sets the canon storyline in early Tokugawa-period Japan, and rather than having the first meeting take place in mid-summer, places it in late autumn/early winter, as that's when this tea set is designed for!

#heronposting #em's adventures in the ceramic bowl mines #I mean. I technically do have a Lot of written work about this but it is a really dubious and too-long artist's statement and not a fic :/ #currently alison's teabowl and the mukozuke set are In A Display Case but I have vague ideas of actually using the other items sometime #the research for this is going to take a Hundred Million years (I mostly can say things about The Tea Set) #guess who was in the house with the book of information on/pictures of hundreds of years' worth of tea sweets #for every single micro-season you could imagine and Forgot To Look At It

[mars-ipan]

look i love my asexual headcanons to death and what i’m about to say in no way discounts said asexual headcanons. with that disclosed i do not think aziraphale is a “virgin” (<- virginity isn’t real but you get my point) take one look at that angel and tell me he didn’t go to bacchanals i mean come the fuck on

#marzi speaks #i have no opinion nor do i care about whether people think crowley fucks. i think it’s funny if he doesn’t but i could see it either way #but aziraphale? while i don’t think it’s his favorite thing in the world you cannot tell me he never dabbled #bacchanals (and dionysian raves before that) seem right up his alley #plus there’s the fucking. ‘discreet gentlemen’s club’ (THE FUCKING HUNDRED GUINEAS CLUB??? SIR.) #and this guy lives in soho!!!! i mean truly #i don’t think he really seeks sex out or anything #i mean there’s those diary entries where he turns down the woman who essentially flashes him (and i believe a man later?) #so like he’s clearly not someone who really wants sex that much #but there’s no way in hell he never tried it at least once. he’s wayyyy too curious for that #i have a feeling he really stopped ‘trying it out’ after 1941 though. i feel like after he realizes just how deeply he feels for crowley #he’d like. feel Extra Weird about having sex with anyone else #especially bc he isn’t attracted to humans (perhaps beyond like aesthetic attraction) #but he’s definitely dabbled #crowley? could go either way. on one hand: demon. temptations. et cetera #on the other: he’s far less cool than he acts and while having sex isn’t necessarily cool it feels like smth he’d lie about to seem cooler #plus i doubt he’d ever really have any proper interest in humans. probably even less so than aziraphale #see this still coincides with the asexual headcanons. it’s chill 👍

[skibasyndrome]

I'm about to throw all my academic values overboard to get this fucking article done

#linguistics are my enemy #not because I don't like the subject #I'm just........ so much less at ease with this than with literary sciene oh my god #I'm so glad I can mostly focus on lit in the future but let me tell you these few linguistics articles I have/had to do have really brought #me to my limit #and I thought I was already fed up and not giving a shit when I did that one article in summer... oh I had NO IDEA how much less of a shit #was capable of giving!!! #the thing is.... I think objectively I'm still? idk not the worst I could technically be doing #like there ARE people who straight up... idk don't even try to have a research question or who don't read more than a handful or articles b #t ugh #I like academic writing so much and I love putting in the work and I love actually getting into the reseach and finding the most important #texts and writing a balanced and well researched article but ugh..... I just feel like I keep reaching my limits with linguistics #and this time is worse than the others because this topic is SO FAR from being standardized and all I can do is ???? mention that there's #like a hundred different models and then just??? choose one and go with it? which is so fucking unsatisfying #but I swear... everybody in this field is just making up a new model that's just different words for the same thing (and not in the /normal #way that science /always/ is about making up a new model. no. this time they are very unnecessarily making up new models) #ugh. everything about this sucks #I should've chosen a different seminar I should've chose a different topic and I especially should've written more of this in summer when I #technically still had a little more time #sorry for blowing up your dash with complaints this festive season lol. I am just having a time (TM) with the different writing tasks on my #hands and I need a place to vent I guess #simon.out. #sounds so drastic btw I'm not about to cheat or plagiarize or anything but I'm about to do so much less of a proper work than I ever wanted #to allow myself to do. cherrypicking and all.

[artistfingers]

What was the biggest inspo for things that bleed?

Oh, anon. I am so glad you asked.

Hands down, our first and biggest inspiration was the fic series Of Madness and Mammals by Brairwitched. Specifically, we cite the fic Dysthymia in the first chapter of Things That Bleed.

Mammals is the very fic series I'd landed on after my AR novel reread—back when it was still updating, mind you!—and I was pretty much losing my mind just rattling the bars of my cage all alone. It was very, very much Mammals that gave me the setting and framework for my initial TTB proposal: that Alex, while on the run with Yassen someplace through the US, should run into SCP!Danny.

So I inflicted it upon Kei and Kkachi. They actually both read Mammals before any canon AR content, so a lot of our early TTB brainstorming referenced Mammals before we overhauled it and took a closer look at the books themselves, as well as the Alex Rider show. (...and then decided we have selective hearing and did our own thing HJKAGSD)

I asked Kei and Kkachi if they wanted to pitch in on answering this ask, so here's a little more from them!

@dp-belongs-in-a-hoodie said:

This fic was also inspired by Shadow of a Doubt! The whole "Danny on the run from a dark and traumatic past, helped out by unlikely strangers" is a genre that I honestly can't get enough of. The secrets!!!! A boy clearly haunted and rough around the edges but still gentle and kind. What's not to love??

We were also "inspired" I guess you could say, by my own fic Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton! At least in the sense that we used many of my hcs that I established for it! It gave us a really good jumping off point for pushing Danny even further into the the horror territory needed for a fic like this that crosses over into the SCP!verse.

@kkachis said:

devil and the deep blue sea inspired some of the more granular and darker elements in the alex rider part of TTB! some parts and characters of TTB are heavily influenced by the tone, manipulative strategies, and political machinations that you can observe in DatDBS. we won't claim to be as good as pongnosis at manipulating those threads, nor will an endgame like DatDBS be our end goal, but as the story develops and as we uncover more of alex's past, you'll be able to see more of its influence seeping through.

Thank you for reading and asking, anon! (o゜▽゜)o☆

for anyone who's curious, you can find TTB over on Ao3 and @thingsthatbleedfic 🖤

#honestly i'm sure we could drum up a hundred other non-fic inspirations as well but those are the most direct ones i think!! #things that bleed #danny phantom #alex rider #scp foundation #dp-belongs-in-a-hoodie #kkachis #ask #anon

[donnatroyyyy]

Batman has/had some kind of miscommunication going on with every single one of his kids. The bat family is just one big miscommunication trope after the other.

#him and Dick have miscommunication about how they see each other. Bruce sees Dick as a son and Dick sees Bruce as a father #but they didn’t think the other saw them that way so they never told each other. that’s what led to their fights in Dick’s later teenage #years and dick quitting and becoming nightwing. he thought Bruce only saw him as a ward/robin so he thought that as long as he couldn’t be #robin Bruce wouldn’t want him #and if didn’t help when Bruce stopped talking to him when he left. though to Bruce it was because he thought Dick didn’t want to talk to him #and also Dick really needs to tell Bruce like ‘hey you put me on a higher pedestal then you put even yourself which is saying something and #and I don’t like that cuz that’s too much pressure for me. and also since you did it everyone else does it and has done it since I was Robin #and it’s literally just a matter of time before I break from the pressure cuz I’m not fucking Superman and I can’t take it’ #and Jason with the whole UTRH thing. you know all Bruce had to say was that he had tried killing the joker over Jason multiple times and #maybe just explain to Jason WHY he doesn’t kill. a simple ‘you’re better than me because if I killed one person I’d kill everyone’ #or it could even just be a simple ‘I do love you Jason youre the kid that I felt most comfortable loving’ #and also maybe a ‘I don’t think anything changed after my death and that makes my death meaningless which I think goes against your no kill #rule because I hat is the rule of not a reminder taht death means something. and by that logic my death already went against the rule so why #can’t you do it again for the man that murdered me.’ and Bruce needs to make a presentation: ‘all the ways Jason’s death meant something’ #and Tim just needs a simple ‘I don’t see you as work I see you as family.’ maybe even a ‘you don’t have to be the grown up in this relati #anymore I’m sorry you were one to begin with. you should’ve always been the child’ #now his miscommunication with Damian goes much deeper but I’m one hundred percent sure if they sit down and air out all of their feelings it #would help a lot but I have a feeling that won’t happen #a ‘I have trouble understanding you because both your trauma and compassion run deeper than mine and I also never had to grow up to be a #weapon’ from Bruce and a ‘I don’t understand your optimism and moral stubbornness and easness why is it so easy to be good for u?’ #his miscommunication with Cass stems from two things a simple ‘why are you so afraid to show how deeply you love?’ from Cass maybe a #‘I’m jealous of you because you’re better than me not only in fighting but morally and emotionally’ from Bruce should fix it #and Steph— look I’m not even going to TRY to get into that that goes SO much deeer and wider than any one else’s miscommunication #but maybe a ‘you reminded me of Jason at a time where that wasn’t a good thing’ from Bruce should start things up #for Duke a ‘I can never truly understand what you’re going/have gone through and for that I’m sorry’ from Bruce should suffice #maybe also Bruce telling him that just because he sees Duke as a son doesn’t mean he’s trying any less to get Duke his parents back #oh and babs just needs to go up to him and say ‘I don’t like that what happened to me happened for your story and not mine and I don’t like #that you don’t let me make it into my story’ and then Bruce can follow up and say ‘I see so much of myself in you and it makes me worry and #also I can never look at you without feeling guilty cuz you’re right what happened to you happened for MY story so I’m at fault’ #then the two can go back to being too much like each other and sitting at their respective computers