#what the fuck is going on with the update to the inbox on desktop

[sojutrait]

thank you so much!!! 😭💓💓💓hope u feel better omg fuck the plague

i just simply started making sims kdjfkdk

I DO im so happy season 2 has started it reminds me sm of old school sims 4 lets plays with storylines and such UGHHH im so glad that style is making a resurgence

thank u!! again im so unhelpful when it comes to advice on making sims bc i really jus Go for it 😭 i dont really have a different approach when it comes to making masc frame sims either

probably not bc its such a small action (like theres only 2 or 3 steps iirc) it just wouldnt be worth the hassle and i dont think that many ppl would find any use out of it😭😭

well,,,, tis the season 🤔

i highly doubt it dkfdkkd

i didnt its from the gallery! i just decked out the inside

ahhh i play on desktop but theres 3 and 4 columns for different screen sizes u can read more about it on the actual mod page iirc

my defaults should be good but my mods arent but i cba to update them rn 😭

( @simarcana ) TYYYYYYY she really is, i just wanna spin her around in cas all day and gawk dkfndk

my only tip would be dont dress them in clothes only if u would wear it/its your style. more so let it be a reflection of their character and their own fashion sense. theres alot of my sims id never dress like djfdkfkd but i know its something they would like !

NOW- DIFJDIFJDK me and nia orphyd have written many dissertations about... That aspect of dante's life but i will not confirm nor deny if that was included

im drawing up blanks too rn 😭😭😭 id suggest if u already know like the ethnicity of ur founder sim to just google last names from that culture and go from there, thats what i usually do dfjkd

10!

thank u omg but no i would feel bad if anyone gave me their money esp considering my tendency to like.. dip for weeks at a time DFKDJK also love u tumblr but i absolutely do not trust u with my credit card information

strip naked/bald, facial features, skin details, hair, clothes, repeat any steps if i dont like what i picked initially

( @thatoneplumbob ) no thank u for enjoying them !!! 💓💓💓😭😭

thats an easy one i dont JFKDJFK thats all neighborhood stories and mcc, i would simply die if i had to do all that myself 😭😭😭 i just pop in and give them quick makeovers

( @cutie-with-glasses-blog ) thank u so much !!! u have a great day as well 💓💓💓😌

i havent, im not a big marvel movie fan 😭😭 BUTTTTT i have seen edits and fancams of shuris actress and i agree i would also sell my kidneys and yours for her, shes so fine

( @wildsangria ) THE WAY I ALREADY FORGOT THIS DISCOURSE HAPPENEDDHFDJHDJ ugh throwback to when i gatekept the decades old tabletop rpg game dungeons and dragons

ive been staring at this in my inbox for almost a month and it never fails to make me laugh yet also feel horrified great job you two

WELL GOOD NEWS I DID and ive only made one hs so far!! buttttt it was before hsy so it doesnt work with the pack 😭😭 ill prob make one for hsy eventually bc as much as i hate building im also drawn to it like a moth to flame

thank u!! but ahhh no i havent been having any problems with uni

thank u, i hope ur having a great day too! tbh its not like something i put like... effort into if that makes sense KJDSK like for my gameplay sims no matter how casual i try to make it i inevitably start adding unnecessary depth into them 😭😭 like ill just be cleaning my house and think hmmm this sim hates this food or once had this happen to them, so pretty much the same approach i do to my ocs!

I ACTUALLY RECORDED A VIDEO i just gotta grow some bawlz and upload it 😭😭 its just a quick cas vid for a sim i wanna do gameplay with on there but im still peeing in nervousness

TYYYY i am doing well i rlly am 😌😌 im on winterbreak so YIPEEEE hope ur both doing well too!

#asks #anon #simarcana #thatoneplumbob #cutie-with-glasses-blog #wildsangria

[austenmarie]

just say you fucking hate poor people and move on cunt

How dare I, a professional long time freelance artist, show that clip studio is actually making subbing OPTIONAL and making it so you can just stick with the version you have for free, so people don't have to spend money. Like I get your vibe must be being nasty and hide behind anon, and it must be exhausting having to take everyone at the absolute worst bad faith angle, but at least go through the bare minimum steps to comprehend what you're trying to be mad at before you embarrass yourself in my inbox??? Babes!! You know I gotta reply to anon publicly right? I mean I'm also assuming its you who called me a bootlicker (in a separate ask?? You're so mad??) which is also hilarious cause... again, complete lack of comprehension but that's on you babes Anyway, while I have people here, I also wanted to point out that a lot of the past updates for clip, which would fall under similar vibes (educated guess) of the 2.1/2.2 etc that will all be behind the battlepass DLC (until the next full version releases with them all) will PROBABLY be tools that the average person has no need for. Besides liquify (which rules) I don't see a LOT of the updates being handy for 99% of artists who are outside of the full time webtoon/webcomic making and who use Clip full time. like one of the updates was to view your webtoon as a preview on a phone which is handy but also if i had the choice to, even as a professional, i wouldn't sub and would wait. Oh also, one was like 'better shadows on 3d models' which again, I don't even know a lot of professionals who use the shadows on the models either. IMO would be a waste for a lot of artists and this way you can at least SEE what is going on and make an educated purchase if you want to. ANYWAY- if you have Clip now, hell yea, it whips ass and is extremely cheap for desktop if you can get it for a sale, but RIP the fellow artists already on that ipad sub. At least for me it has paid for itself every year, but I'm also on EX and the price is definitely steep and not recommended for the hobby artist. If you're not making any money right now off your art, which is totally fine, I wouldn't recommend doing any kind of sub and just vibe with the very free options for desktop, or if you did get an ipad maybe procreate since its $10. But it would also be 27.7(and some change) YEARS before the EX yearly sub price would come out to the same price as an Ipad pro and an apple pencil, so for the people saying 'just get procreate' -- its only a viable option if you already have the very expensive hardware. Got it? ok cool!

So ultimately you can just not buy anything and then see if these updates are make or break for you as an artist, and if they're not you save money. Cause wouldn't it suck if you DID sub and then none of the updates were for your version??? or for you specifically? (yes it would.) Also the clip team is a small team and a far cry from adobe saying they'd sue people who used older versions so, idk, cry more Anon? I already know you're not a professional artist cause no professionals would speak that way to someone trying to help, so I hope you sort it out soon and touch some grass weirdo! xx Or don't! I don't care lol. Ask your parents for money or something cause it seems like you're a big baby who is way too entitled. Hope this helps :)

#Clip Studio #Clip Studio paint #Clip Studio subscription #Anon thank you for the laugh you goofy lil tyke

[10piecechickenmcnugget]

hello I'm here (and I'm queer (i'm sorry i had to) to talk about cagons!

One thing that I love about these guys is that I like to call them the 'open source fandom/oc species' because more then half the characters I've made are fandom characters or fandom adajance (ocs from that universe for example)

This is a pretty fun thing but it also leads to cases of the resident oc edge lord is frienmeies w/ a Guy based of a lesser known creepypasta and the protags of a horror game where one is a cannibal and the other is trapped in a time loop. I am not making this up this was a thing in the older lore before I revamped it.

Might keep that actually because it's funny.

Also Teer (the Guy who is based off the creepypasta (don't ask I was an angsty preteen) is my favorite if we're going by design. He's crunchy and cool. I finished his updated design before I came on to write this and I'm so fucking sad I'm on desktop because you need the contrast the colored pencils and the marker have to get the full affect.

btw Teer's really sweet and technically a zombie bc he has these scars but uh. kinda died while getting them. He sold his soul to the devil which is how he knows the oc edge lord (Rio) and the horror game protags (Six/Hunger and Mono/Static from Little Nightmares)

Idk if this makes sense I am so tired.

ALSO ALSO. Little thing that means the world to me about the cagon universe: queer friendly.

They do not care if you like boys and you're a boy or like girls and you're a girl or if you're a different gender then what you were assigned at birth. nobody cares except a few really old fashioned kingdoms and even then, they can't hurt you or another kingdom would step in.

The cagons say queer rights and they'll fight for you

good night! I'm gonna pass out in a few lol

I think middle school me would have loved you (/p /pos)

thank you for ranting in my inbox, gn!

#10piecetalks

[bisexuallsokka]

If you’d like, do 12 for the “101 ways to say I love you”

12 "I have an extra ticket... Would you like to go with me?"

Zuko snorts as he walks into the living room and a familiar sight meets his eyes. His roommate is on the very edge of the couch cushion, his expression serious and his tongue just barely peeking out of his tight-lipped frown. He looks so tense, and his eyes don’t even flicker over to Zuko when he walks in. He’s completely focused on the screen in front of him, the grip on his controller so strong that Zuko wonders how much longer it will survive.

“I think your problem is that you need to relax,” Zuko says, repeating something he said earlier that week as he watches Sokka's player on the screen. “Every time the weaker monsters get close to you, your movements are too tense and erratic and they damage your health by the time you get to the boss.”

"I'm trying, this level is just so stupid," Sokka sighs. He doesn’t look at Zuko, but his frown deepens. “I thought you were terrible at video games?"

They had found the PlayStation2 by chance while browsing the pawn shop downtown, amazed that for the price they got it at, it turned on without Sokka getting the chance to tear it apart like he had wanted to. They only have one controller for now and a handful of games, so Zuko is content to spend his free time watching the game and pretending to not be staring at the way Sokka sticks his tongue out when he's focused or the smile on his face when he beats a level.

“I’m terrible at playing them, yes," Zuko agrees. "I have lots of experience in watching, though, between you and Azula.”

Sokka laughs. “Fair enough.” He isn't very good at video games either, but he likes the challenge, and he seems to enjoy having an audience for his gaming commentary.

He’s silent after that and Zuko thinks, this is it, this is his chance. But then he glances at the screen and realizes Sokka is fighting some of the smaller creatures off, and he waits until an aggressive punch has his character stumbling off a cliff to speak up.

“Is this what you’re going to do for the rest of your Friday night then?” he asks, super casually, the pinnacle of cool and collected.

“Hm?” Sokka asks, looking away from the screen as his character loads back to the checkpoint. “Oh, I was just passing the time. Do you have any plans?”

“I was actually going to the movies, they’re showing Shrek to celebrate the 20th anniversary,” Zuko says.

Sokka’s jaw drops open. “Really? I love Shrek!”

I know you do. “Oh, well, I have an extra ticket, actually...would you want to come with me?”

Practicing that line in the mirror a dozen times paid off. He nails the delivery, and then Sokka’s eyes light up as if Zuko has offered to take him on a fancy and expensive date and not like he just spent $5 to buy an extra ticket solely for the purpose of inviting Sokka.

Sure, they've seen movies together before, but those are usually with their friends, and they don't always get the chance to go just the two of them. Shrek isn't the most romantic of movies, and Zuko isn't actually sure he has seen the entire thing all the way through, but maybe if it gets Sokka in a good enough mood, Zuko will have the courage to--

"I'll go get dressed," Sokka says excitedly, and Zuko blinks back to reality to see that he has already saved and turned off the game. "Do you want to get dinner first?"

Zuko lets out a shaky breath. "I'd love that."

#what the fuck is going on with the update to the inbox on desktop #i hate it #anyway #ask me stuff #prompts #my writing #zukka #the game in question: jak ii on the ps2 #my fave video game #like sokka i am. not very good at it. but it is fun

[holidaywishes]

a bit of stress relief

  Requested: 👍

  Summary/Request: Can you PLEASE write about Freddie coming to your work and having a quickie in your office

  Warning: smut, fluff, whiny Freddie

  Author’s Note: REQUESTS ARE CLOSED for a bit. I do have one more in my inbox right now so I’ll add it to my drafts but after I write that I won’t be taking requests for... a while. Maybe a month? I have a few series I want to finish up before I start having requests piling up. I always love seeing my inbox full of requests for different types of fics, so this isn’t forever, just until I’m able to finish my Gally series for sure and possibly my 9-1-1 series. This request was fun and I just couldn’t say no lol. Thanks in advance for your understanding and I hope I’ll be able to get back to requests sooner than later but I’ll keep y’all updated! Stay Golden, loves! <3 

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xx

  Your boss asked you to go into the office on a Saturday to finish an assignment that she had forgotten to mention earlier in the week. You would’ve argued that you had plans but your boss said it was for a presentation the next morning that they needed the information for

  “I’m sorry, Freddie,” you whined to your boyfriend as he tried to convince you to stay at his apartment, “believe me, I’d much rather be here but I’m not about to get fired...”

  “It’s not your assignment, it’s hers,” he argued, “she made the mistake. Why do you have to do it for her?”

  “It’s my job” you admitted

  “Except when it’s not...” he groaned

  “Freddie,” you sighed, “I won’t be long I promise. I just need to go in and print up some stuff and make a couple calls. Nothing major...”

  “So why can’t your boss do it?” he challenged, “it’s her mistake, so.. she should be responsible for fixing it”

  “I know,” you repeated, wrapping your arms around his neck before kissing his cheek, “but I can’t lose this job. I have loans to pay off”

  “You know I can help with that”

  “No,” you scoffed, “no you absolutely cannot. I don’t want to feel like I owe you anything. That’s not the relationship we have... I’m not your sugar baby”

  “But you could be”

  “But I don’t wanna be”

  “Alright...” he laughed, kissing your nose playfully

  “I’ll call you when I’m finished okay. I give it one, two hours tops”

  “If you’re not finished in two hours, I’m coming down there and taking you home” he teased

  “Okay,” you scoffed, “I’ll see you later.” You got to the office and rushed into your boss’s office to find the information you needed to work on. The office was empty, as it should’ve been, but when you heard the door open and close, you popped your out of the door to see who was there, “Hello?” you called

  “(Y/N)?” your co-worker asked

  “Mason? What are you doing here?” you returned, noticing now that a bunch of your co-workers were walking in

  “We could ask you the same thing” he chuckled

  “Laura forgot to do stuff for the presentation tomorrow, so she asked me to come in and do it”

  “For the conference?”

  “Yup”

  “Yeah,” he replied, “our team is having the same issue. Except they’re saying they ‘lost it’ or that it ‘must have gotten deleted somehow’ so now we have to be here all day trying to fix this”

  “Why are any of this people in charge again?” you asked

  “Maybe they slept their way to the top” he joked before waving you goodbye and heading to his station. You started at this company as an intern, mostly handing out mail and grabbing coffee for everyone, but they kept you around because you had a good eye for graphic design which was important in a marketing firm. However, your boss, Laura, had replaced Debra, the former Head of Marketing, a month before you were hired to be her assistant and she really wasn’t all that fond of you. She claimed that your degree should be in Business or Marketing not Graphic Design and that you’d only ever be an assistant in this industry so ‘don’t hope for more than that.’ You didn’t think too much of her comments though, at the end of the day, you had a job to you and you were going to do it well; even if it meant coming in on the weekend to do her forgotten assignments. When you finally found Laura’s papers, you groaned audibly, realizing this wasn’t going to be quick work

  “Hey!” Freddie greeted you from the other end of the line when you called him to let him know what was happening

  “Hey...” you sighed

  “What?” he groaned, “what’s going on?”

  “It looks like I’m gonna be here for a while. Laura underplayed how much work there was for me to do...”

  “You can’t really be doing this?” he whined

  “Babe, I have to. I told you, it’s my job. But,” you added, hoping it would make him feel better, “it’s not just me! Apparently, all the senior staff forgot to do these super important assignments for the conference. So, a bunch of us are here working until we finish them”

  “You need to quit this job,” he grumbled, “clearly no one is good at what they were hired to do”

  “I can’t quit unless I have something lined up,” you argued, “babe, I’m sorry. I know I promised that we’d lay in bed all weekend because this was the first time that you had free time but I have to do this. I promise, I’ll work as fast as I can but the longer I’m on the phone, the longer I’m at the office. So, I gotta go. I love you and I’ll see you as soon as I’m done okay?”

  “Call me and I’ll pick you up,” he replied, “you shouldn’t have to take an Uber back here...”

  “Okay,” you smiled, “that would be nice. Talk soon. Love you”

  “Love you, too” he said before you ended the call. You took a deep breath and started getting to work. Organizing timelines and trying to understand doctors-note-handwriting from past meetings

  “How can she possibly expect me to be able to understand this?” you thought to yourself. You signed onto her computer and were immediately left in shock at the jumbled mess of her desktop, “holy fuck!” you exclaimed silently, it’s no wonder she gets nothing done, “she’s the most unorganized person I’ve ever seen!” You spent the next 20 minutes opening files to find what you were looking for, closing what was not it immediately so you could legally say you didn’t see anything, and then you had to spend the next half an hour printing documents and running back and forth between Laura’s office and the copy room

  “How’s it goin’?” Rob, one of the other team members who was forced to come in and work on a Saturday, asked when he noticed you rushing throughout the room

  “Oh, you know, I’m sure I’ll have a panic attack in the next, oh, twenty or so minutes” you replied, sighing as you walked back to the printer one last time. You had managed to get most of the paper work done but you still had to make a few phone calls to get estimates on some of the ad spaces needed and whether or not there could be a discount involved for the company

  “Hey!” Freddie said gleefully, walking into your boss’ office like he owned the place

  “Freddie,” you gasped, a slight sneer on your tone, “what are you doing here?”

  “I came to see you...” he replied, furrowing his brow at your response, “when you said you were gonna be longer than you thought, I thought I’d come down and surprise you. Maybe take the stress off a little?”

  “That’s sweet, babe,” you smiled, noticing the look in his eyes and realizing what he was really there for, “but I have to make some calls so I can’t... do that”

  “We can make it work” he teased, biting his bottom lip quickly before pulling you close to him

  “Fred...” you whined, kissing him once before pushing him away from you and walking back to Laura’s desk, “I really do have to work. You can sit if you want but that’s it...” he slumped onto the plush couch against the window and frowned before scrolling through his phone as you started to call the businesses on your list. After about 10 minutes, you noticed Freddie peering up from his phone to look over at you, as if he was trying to get you to hang up the phone just from a look, choosing to walk over to you when you didn’t. “Yes, that’s right. I know you’ve been with us for quite some time and our relationship has helped both our businesses grow,” you spoke as Freddie swiveled you and your chair out from the desk, “we want that relationship to keep growing” you continued before noticing the smirk on Freddie’s face as he hovered over you, kissing your neck as you tried to pay attention to the call. “Mhmm,” you said to the person on the other end of the phone, distracted by Freddie’s lips pressing against the sensitive skin on your neck, his hot breath cascading down your neck, “mhm, sure. I understand” you said again, trying not to let on what was happening. “Laura is so sorry she couldn’t make this call to you herself,” you lied, Freddie kissing his way down to your core, pulling off your leggings quickly and kissing your inner thighs as you spoke, “however, she is excited to showcase your work to those at our conference tomorrow. We all just wanted to make sure the numbers were 100% accurate...” you had to bite your lip and move the receiver end of the phone from your mouth in case any sound escaped when you felt Freddie’s tongue finally press against your clit. “Oh that’s great!” you exclaimed when the partner on the phone added a discount to the quote you’d already been given, claiming that, had he known other businesses would be hearing of his services earlier, he would’ve offered it sooner. “Thank you so much,” you smiled, Freddie’s hands pulling your body closer to his him as his mouth brought you closer and closer to your orgasm, “I or Laura will let you know how everything goes. Thank you again” you said quickly before hanging up the phone. “Fuck,” you cursed breathlessly, “oh my god, Freddie!” your back was forced to arch, as you were pretty much falling out of your seat as Freddie continued to stimulate your clit, only now moving his finger to caress your folds before slowly inserted it inside of you and pumping until you whimpered, tugging at his hair. “Freddie,” you squeaked, trying not to be heard from outside the office, “fuck” you repeated quietly, your grip loosening from his hair as his ministrations slowed and your breathing steadied.

  “How’s your stress now?” he smirked, wiping his mouth casually before standing up in front of you once more

  “You can’t do that” you said, small pants escaping your lips, making Freddie believe you less than you intended

  “I think I can” he teased

  “I was on a business call, Fred!” you exclaimed, pulling your leggings back up, “what if they heard something?”

  “They would only hear something if you let them” he countered and, ultimately, you knew he was right but you still shook your head

  “You can’t do that” you repeated and he scoffed, hovering over you once more to taunt you with a kiss but stopped right in front of your lips

  “We’ll see about that...” he smirked, taking his hands away from the chair and walking back to sit on the couch

  “What’s goin’ on with you?” you asked

  “I just want to be with you,” he whined, giving you puppy dog eyes and earning a scoff from you, “that’s what we were supposed to be doing anyway...”

  “I told you we would when I got home...” you said

  “Come here,” he said, patting his thigh, “come sit on my lap” you chuckled but obliged. You wrapped your arms around his neck after sitting on his thigh, playing with his hair and kissing his nose before he spoke again, “see, isn’t this better than making a few phone calls?” he asked, his hand beginning to rub your back lightly

  “You know I would rather be doing this, or more than this, with you,” you admitted, leaning in and kissing him softly, letting your lips linger a moment before you pulled back, “but I have to do this stuff...”

  “Just a quickie...” he whispered, “and then I’ll go. Then we can pick up at home”

  “This is my boss’s office” you whined

  “All the more reason to do it. We’re in a private spot, secluded from everyone else, it’s perfect” he replied, kissing your jaw before moving down to your neck and you let your head fall back to give him more room

  “Mmmm,” you hummed, melting into his kiss, “I can’t”

  “(Y/N)...“ he groaned

  “Just a few more calls,” you argued, “I don’t have a lot left. Just like, five, maybe six”

  “That’s a lot. How long are each of those calls? 10 minutes? 20?” he asked, “we could do a lot with that time...”

  “Stop,” you smiled, standing up from his lap and walking back to the desk chair, “just a few more calls...” you repeated. He slunk into the couch and angrily unlocked his phone while you picked up Laura’s phone and began dialing. You were able to make three calls before Freddie began sighing loudly across the room and you had to glare at him, which is when the texts started

  “I want you” he sent as you spoke to another advertising partner on the phone

  “Like now” another came through

  “I’m gonna come over there”

  “And make you cum again” you glared up at him and he smiled

  “And again” you shook your head, turning off your sound so the partner didn’t hear the constant dinging

  “And again”

  “And again”

  “Until you can’t cum anymore” you noticed him smile as he thought up more responses and you threw a pencil at him, still paying attention to the conversation on the phone before mouthing ‘stop’ to Freddie but he just shook his head with a teasing smile

  “You won’t be able to walk”

  “Your legs will be numb”

  “Your chest will be heaving because you can’t catch your breath”

  “You’re gonna crave my dick”

  “Every time you move”

  “You’ll have to physically stop yourself from jumping me in public”

  “Because you’re still feeling me inside you” your eyes went wide as you read his messages, heat flooding your face as you ended the call, forcing yourself to dial another number before Freddie could get the upper hand. He slowly made his way to the desk once more and you gulped as you swallowed the saliva that had filled your mouth, Freddie hung up the phone before it ever even really began to ring

  “Seriously, don’t...” you whispered, knowing that you were about to break from whatever move he made next

  “But I want to” he growled, grazing your nose with his and you started to give in when he walked toward the door, “crap” you thought to yourself when you thought he was about to leave but he was only locking the door

  “What the fuck?!” you exclaimed, “that was unlocked this whole time?!”

  “Yeah?” he chuckled

  “Freddie! What would have happened if someone walked in earlier?”

  “They would’ve gotten a great show” he replied, walking over to you, leaning over you but not doing anything. You took a deep breath before running your hands up his arms, tangling your fingers in his hair before bringing him down to kiss you

  “We have to be quick...” you whispered, earning a grin from Freddie before he pulled your leggings off and directed your thighs around his waist so he could pick you up to carry you to the couch. You laughed when he sat down and you fell into him clumsily, “quiet” you shushed him before kissing him slowly and trailing your hands down to his waistband, pushing his pants down just enough to free his erection while his hands lifted your shirt up, stopping to massage your breasts. You heard a laugh outside of the office and stopped what you were doing, “wait,” you whispered, “I think someone’s there” he didn’t listen, kissing your neck and lining himself up with your entrance before bucking his hips to yours; your nails digging into his shoulders to stop yourself from making any sound. His hands gripped your hips as he thrust into you, bringing your attention back to him while your lips found each other in a clumsy rush to muffle the sounds of each other’s moans

  “Fuck,” Freddie moaned first, “fuck” you were about to reciprocate his sentiment when the phone rang and your head jerked back in panic

  “Shit” you sighed, worry mixing with pleasure as Freddie continued to grip your hips tightly

  “Ignore it” he said, kissing your peaked nipple over your shirt before moving a hand to your core, but your head still stayed looking at the ringing phone

  “What if it’s her?” you whined, referring to your boss

  “Ignore it” he repeated

  “What if it’s one of the partners or the vendors? What if it’s one of the really important clients?” you asked, knowing he wouldn’t give any helpful advice other than

  “Ignore it” he said once more, pulling your face back to his before kissing you harshly. The phone stopped ringing and you felt a faint sense of peace course through you as you softened the kiss that Freddie had started, your tongue begging for his lips to part, a muffled moan intertwining with his warm breath as it brushed over your exposed neck. Your tongue danced with his for a while as his fingers circled your clit, pressing down on the sensitive flesh every so often

  “Fuck” you breathed finally, now beginning to ride him faster, feeling his thighs flex underneath you as he welcomed the sensation of you crashing onto him. “Fuck,” you repeated, “shit, oh my god. Fuck Freddie” you felt your climax build as his lips met your neck, his finger still working on your clit while you rode him harder; the loud ringing of the phone the only thing that brought you back to where you were. “Ugh” you groaned

  “Leave it” he groaned back

  “Fuck” you sighed, reluctantly ignoring the phone to continue fucking your incredibly broad shoulder boyfriend

  “That’s my girl” he smirked, watching you bounce up and down his length

  “Fuck, Freddie, I’m gonna cum” you panted, your hands clutching his shirt as your hips began to shake. “Sh-i-it, god fuck! Freddie” you moaned, still trying to be as quiet as possible but knowing that everyone in the office was probably putting on noise cancelling headphones just to try to escape the sounds they were undoubtedly hearing.

  “Almost there, baby” Freddie breathed, clutching onto your waist to assist your movements. Fuck, his hands fit so perfectly on your body, you really hated that this had to end so quickly, but that’s what he came here for. “Fuck, I’m gonna cum in you”

  “Fuck” you breathed, dropping your head onto his shoulder, your body taking over until you and Freddie met your release. Like clockwork, the annoying ringing of the phone appeared and you had to scoff at Freddie while you quickly got dressed

  “That was fun,” he smiled, “you sure you don’t wanna go round two?”

  “Hello” you greeted, picking up the phone to continue the work you had come to do, “I am so sorry about that. I’m not sure what was happening with the line…”

  “So we’ll continue this at my place then?” Freddie teased before and you nodded with wink before shooing him away but not before he kissed you goodbye. You were dreading the walk out of the office if Mason and his team hadn’t left yet but you knew it had to happen sooner or later

  “So, should we hire a clean up crew before your boss gets back?” one of the guys teased

  “Shut up” you said, hoping your embarrassment didn’t show too clearly

  “You do know we put on our headphones as soon as we saw him,” Mason admitted, “we knew there’s no way that he was gonna just show up to say hi”

  “He could’ve,” you tried, exhaling when you realized you were never going to fool any of them, “fine. Just, please, don’t rat me out. I just pulled together a miracle in that office and I don’t need Laura finding out about my office sex-capades — I don’t want that to be the reason she fires me. I’m not that girl…”

  “We know” another co-worker smirked

  “Don’t worry, your secret is safe with us,” Mason assured, “it’s a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy as far as we’re concerned” you gave him an appreciative smile before heading out to meet Freddie in the parking garage

  “Hey” he smiled as you sat in the front seat

  “Hi” you replied, leaning over to peck his lips

  “Did you get your work done?” he teased

  “Yeah,” you chuckled, “it was a miracle but I got it done” he took your hand and brought it to his lips to press a kiss to it

  “No more quickies,” he whined, holding your hand for the remainder of the ride, until he needed it for one reason or another, “I need more than that”

  “I agree,” you smirked, “now, let’s go home so you can fuck me until I can’t walk

  “Yes ma’am.”

#Freddie Andersen #Frederik Andersen #Frederik Andersen fic #Frederik Andersen imagine #Freddie Andersen fic #Freddie Andersen imagine #Freddie Andersen request #Freddie Andersen smut #Frederik Andersen smut #Frederik Andersen request #nhl #hockey #hockey fic #tml #hockey request #masterlist #the other masterlist

[thewriterslament]

writing a resume from scratch

as with literally everything i write, this got really fucking long! like, wordcounter.net estimates this will take 7 minutes to read. so i’ve placed the bulk of this post under a read more

this is not a quick tips kind of post; this is a detailed breakdown of how to write a resume from scratch, with examples that are largely taken from my own resume. this is primarily a resource for people who don’t know where to start with writing a resume, not for people who just want resume hacks

i’m saying all this so i don’t get people in my inbox complaining about how long this is. writing a resume takes a lot of time and effort, and this post does not shy away from that

creating a resume will take you a while, especially if this is your first attempt. don’t be discouraged! take breaks, and don’t try to make the perfect resume on the first try. this tutorial is designed to be completed in rounds

it usually takes me a week to get a new master resume into working order

don’t worry about page length right now. you should make a multipage master resume that contains every relevant experience before making a 1-page resume. after you’ve made the master, you can build custom resumes from it for job applications

this post is best viewed on desktop, because i use nested bullets, and tumblr mobile hates those

let’s get into it!

step 1:

list out everything you’ve ever done that could feasibly count as a resume entry: extracurriculars, jobs, volunteer positions, research, organizations you were a part of (professional or casual), freelance work, long-term hobbies. i will refer to each different experience as an “entry”

for each entry, write where (city + state) and when (timespan) you did that thing 

ex. tritones a cappella group, los angeles, ca, august 20xx - present

going forward, update this list as you join or complete new jobs/hobbies/whatever so that you don’t have to wrack your brain a year down the road wondering how long you held down that job or leadership role

step 2:

describe each entry

use bullet points to list out all the things you did within that role. start with the big picture, then move on to the small stuff

big picture: the goal of the role/organization/research, overarching and long-term projects, what results you were trying to achieve + why

ex. “studied the neuroanatomy and synaptopathy of the inner ear to determine the role of glutamate receptors in hearing loss”

small stuff: literal day-to-day tasks, every software and hardware you worked with, any particularly successful moments

basically, walk through a typical day or week in this role and list out every single thing you have to do, even the grunt work.

ex. “used redcap to administer neuropsychological batteries and collect biological data”

ex. “designed and implemented a novel article format that yielded a 10% increase in audience retention”

if you still have access to the original job posting or a corporate description of responsibilities for your role, pull that up and see how much you can paraphrase from it

no duty is too stupid rn. did you google weather forecasts for your boss every week? write it down. you can make it fancy or choose to delete it later

step 3:

fancify this shit

rewrite your bullet points from step 2 with better jargon. tell your employers what you did in a concise yet assertive manner

it helps to break down each point into its most basic components, which you can then generalize or rephrase 

ex. “googled weather forecasts” might become “compiled weekly reports on changing data points to assess weather trends over time”

use action words. you can find resources all over the internet for this, but if you’re still struggling, shoot me an ask and i’ll link some of the resources i’ve used myself

caution: you don’t want to sound like you used a thesaurus on every word. make sure you aren’t obscuring the meaning of your bullet points. “googled weather forecasts” should not become “utilized online databases to assemble weekly communications on meteorological variations”

start thinking about how your responsibilities for each entry relate to a) what skills you want to showcase and b) what the employer wants from you. does the employer want you to demonstrate familiarity with online databases, or does the employer want you to demonstrate familiarity with weather forecasts? your bullet point for “googled the weather” will change depending on the answer to these questions

step 4: 

look at the big picture

you probably have a metric buttload of bullet points for each entry. now you need to cut that down to what’s relevant. think about which bullets are most impressive, noteworthy, and descriptive of each entry

aim for 3-5 bullet points. any less than that and you have to ask why you’re including that entry. any more than that and the employer’s eyes will glaze over

try to combine bullet points

ex. “identify content and write articles when necessary,” “maintain a pool of freelancers,” and “identify key graphics and maintain tagging structure when uploading articles” all involve the process of creating an article, so they can be combined into: “identify content, assign stories to freelancers, write articles when necessary, and upload with appropriate graphics and tags”

start thinking about tailoring your word choices and bullet points to what the employer is looking for

if you can, pull up the job posting or a sample resume for the job you’re applying to and compare your resume to it. are you using similar language? are you demonstrating similar skills?

jobhero.com is a lifesaver

finally, eliminate redundancy in your resume, both in every individual entry and in the resume as a whole. if a skill can be demonstrated by multiple entries, you only need to list it once

kill your darlings! it may sound harsh, but the things that seem super impressive to you probably won’t even be a blip on the employer’s radar. “but saying i made coffee runs shows i’m dependable and a team player!” the employer isn’t looking that deep, my dude. you can showcase your dependability in your cover letter or your interview

you should redo steps 3 and 4 several times, soliciting feedback from your parents, peers, career center, etc each time

step 5:

add the Other Stuff

education

typically, you should only include institutions for the highest level of education you’ve attended. (undergrad and grad school both count as college for this purpose)

there are exceptions to this, depending on how long you’ve spent at a higher level of education, whether your alma mater will earn you brownie points, whether you had genuinely impressive accomplishments earlier in your life, etc.

once you hit, like, 2 years in college, you should try to get rid of high school achievements and showcase college achievements instead

list the school name, city + state, degree type (BA/MA/etc) and expected graduation date (even if it’s in the future), your major(s) + minor(s), and any related coursework (ie preprofessional tracks, specific courses related to the job). you can list your gpa if you feel it’s relevant, but i caution against doing this once you’ve graduated

ex. (where // indicates a new line) harvard university, boston, ma, may 2020 // bachelor of arts in cognitive neuroscience // minor: english: focus in creative writing // related coursework: pre-medicine, computer science 101 and 102 // gpa: 3.9/4.0 (dean’s list, all semesters)

skills

a list of items without descriptions. you can do a bulleted list or you can list the entries in paragraph form, separated by commas or bold bullets

hard skills: hardware, software, languages (spoken and programming), digital and communication platforms, social media proficiencies, other technologies and devices

ex. microsoft office suite, java, wordpress, slack, familiarity with ap and chicago style

soft skills: general qualities, buzzwords, personality traits

ex. leadership, conflict resolution, time management

certifications and awards

can be one section or two depending on how many of each you have

list each one on a separate bullet point

for each, write the certification or award, the institution that granted it, and the month and/or year you received it if relevant

publications

tbh i just cite my publications in the following format instead of following a style guide

lastname, firstname. “article or chapter title.” book title, publisher (aka company or website). publication date.

if you’re the sole author, you don’t need to list the author’s name

interlude: stretch the truth a bit. don’t lie about having experience or skills you don’t, but if you can reasonably google how to do something, boom! you’re proficient in it. if you worked with two team members who never pulled their weight? you just became the sole project lead. were you a beta reader for anime fanfiction back in the day? you’re a freelance editor, baby!

step 6:

now you have to organize all the entries from step 4

separate your entries into relevant sections. what’s relevant might change based on what you’re applying for

i’ve had, at various points in my life, some subset of the following sections: work experience, volunteer experience, leadership experience, research experience, writing experience, other relevant experience

list sections in order of descending importance

write all entries in reverse chronological order: start with the most recent and work your way backwards

write all bullet points in order of descending importance. unfortunately, i don’t have any quick tips on determining what’s important, but it helps to look at the job posting and see what matters to the employer

i tend to list big picture goals, then personal accomplishments (leadership skills, projects), then daily tasks

step 7:

format this shit

you can find resume templates online or in your word processor. templates serve as a good starting point, but i recommend creating your own format so you can edit and customize it with ease. this will probably involve a lot of fiddling with indentations, paragraph spacing, and moving things around

don’t go smaller than 10pt font

mess around with line and paragraph spacing to get the right balance of white space. if you’re curious about what i use, shoot me an ask and i’ll share my weirdly specific settings

keep an eye out for bullet points with orphan words (ie lines containing only 1-3 words) and get rid of them to streamline your resume

margins can be anywhere between 0.5″ and 1″

consistency is key! make sure each entry has the same kind of spacing. don’t use hyphens in one entry and en dashes in another

in the header, write your name, email, phone number, and address

interlude: save this version of your resume as your master resume. this gives you an unedited list of everything you ever did that you can now pick and choose from when you apply to jobs. update this list every 3-6 months.

step 8:

customize your resume for the job application

unless you’ve been in the industry for several years, your job-specific resume should be no more than 1 page

if you have more than 1 page: compare the job listing and your resume side by side and ask which entries demonstrate your capabilities most effectively, which bullet points are the punchiest, and if there’s any extraneous info

match each job requirement to one bullet point on your resume. then match each bullet point on your resume to a requirement in the listing. get rid of any bullet points that don’t meet either of those criteria. if multiple bullet points match the same job requirement, get rid of the extra bullet points

if you have significantly less than 1 page: see if you can add more bullet points or reformat your resume to introduce some more white space. a 2-column set-up is great for this, with section headers on the left and bullets on the right. do you have any hobbies you’re forgetting about? any soft skills you could add?

emulate the language of the job posting; use the same action words, the same soft skills

coda

your resume should work in tandem with your cover letter, but that’s a topic for another post. maybe in another 6 months i’ll write a post on that, too

always save your resume as a pdf! you don’t want your employer to have access to your metadata

if you made it through this whole post... i’m so sorry lmao but also thanks for sticking with me

let me know if you found this helpful or if this method scored you a job!

#studyblr #adulting #adulthood #job hunt #job applications #applying to jobs #resume #resume writing #studyspo #study blog #mine

[opsecretsanta2019]

Rules (mobile-friendly)

This is a mobile-friendly copy of the rules page for easy reference, accurate as of 24 October 2019. For the most updated version, please check the rules page in browser or on desktop.

Rules below the cut!

IMPORTANT STUFF

YOU MUST BE 21 OR OLDER TO OPT TO RECEIVE/ CREATE NSFW! Please don’t lie about your age.

If you change your url, please tell me. It’s how you’ll be contacted/ given your gift.

Don’t drop out.

If you MUST drop out, please tell me as soon as possible! You don’t have to tell me why, just please tell me.

Don’t worry about being “not good enough”. All contributions count if you put real effort in your gift.

You are great for finding time to participate.

Keep your inbox/submission open around the important dates. That’s how I’ll contact you.

Please be respectful and kind to your santa, even if you don’t like your gift.

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DETAILS ABOUT THE GIFTS

1. I will send you a message via your email adress, askbox or submit box telling you about your giftee’s preferences. 2. Once all the giftee assignments are sent to their santas, I’ll make an announcement post. If you see the post but you didn’t get the message - please tell me and I will send it to you again (you know how tumblr is…). 3. You’ve got the giftee details, you’ve sent me a confirmation… It’s time to make the gift! Try to think about what your giftee would like to see best. 4. Digital gifts only please! 5. You finished making the gift!

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4. On or before 27 November 2019, you send me confirmation that you can make a gift for your giftee. If you don’t reply by this date, I will take it that you have dropped out.

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#important #opsecretsanta2019

[jinxhallows]

NAUUUURRR OMG REBECCA??

LISTEN, I LOVE ME SOME VILLAIN HYUNJIN and what with Oddinary and the whole dark vibe/aesthetic I have been on cloud 9 just SEEING evil Hyunjin and living for it. My mind loves it but my hEart knows he’s just a soft lil baby so I’m conflicted 24/7😭😭😭 but he’s saur good at it the whole duality of Hwang Hyunjin ugh god, it has me absolutely reeling 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

But naur for sure! They don’t act without motive but still sometimes I just have to sit back and go “okay but was THAT necessary” lmao. so like, suaisowowjdososowokkosowoo. that’s all. lol. just: brain go boom 💥

BUT OMG REBECCAJIN??? (Not gonna say Freya bc tbh I didn’t like her 🤐. It makes sense tho, Rebecca was like one of the, if not the most, loyal Mikaelson of course paired with that crazy streak of revenge, manipulation, bloodlust, lmao. I can see it. Definitely can see it. Plus she’s like, the “little kid” and idk if you’ve seen TVD but it just made me sad how she just wanted love from her family and to be a normal person but couldn’t. I can definitely picture your Hyunjin having some similar complexes, but that’s just my hypothesis. CANT WAIIITTTT

I love talking to you about this stuff really I could go on all day. In fact, every time I go on my phone I check to see if you’ve responded and always get excited when I see that you have ahauzuajzj (I’m a loser)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy your evening!! It’s the weekend wooohooooo. No partying for me, tho, so just gonna sit and binge any and everything related to stray kids for the hundredth time 🙈🙈🙈 hahah

And needless to say, CANNOT wait for that update you’ve got me even more excited now

Much love,

🐺Klaus Anon

HIIII KLAUS ANON

I was waiting until I was ready to post the next chapter to answer this cause I didn't wanna run you back here to a whole lotta nothing LOLOL

honestly fuck freya LOL

THE HYPOTHESIS!!!!! i gag, i scream, i scrum. you are a serious sleuth!! you're not a loser honestly I've been waiting to come back here and chat back for a second LOL i had quite the week but i feel great about it i was just maxed out and im so so happy about oddinary and all the other goodies that are out and about since my brief absence

GEE I HOPE I CAN DELIVER LOLIFJLSIJFIDSJFSDL

thank you for gracing my inbox again my beloved klaus anon <3 (idk how to use emojis on desktop LOLOL)

#irl post #klaus anon #asks

[queerlynx]

i know we've discussed tumblr's major pain in the ass thing with the updated terms and the hidden 320 switches on by default but

have any of y'all tried to log onto tumblr from a different device recently?

notice how there's no password field? already a pain in the ass cause u can't just type ur email then tab then password (i know this is on mobile but it's the same on desktop)

but anyway let's enter our email address and click next, whatever, i guess

that's it. they send you an email. you cannot prevent it. you are not allowed to enter your password before they send you your email. so if you're on someone else's computer obviously you're not gonna have your inbox open and ready to go. and if you're on your own computer you're probably already logged in??!!????

what the fuck. just let me enter my email and password and not have to go through 2 useless pages instead of one and then to my inbox to delete an email i never asked for.

#txt #tumblr #Also Sprach Loïs #long post

[story-t1me]

History paper

FINALS WEEK. The most stressful part of the semester. I don’t sleep, I don’t eat, my hair’s falling off and my breath smells like coffee. Things can’t get any worse right? WRONG.

Here’s the story of my final paper submition.

My wonderful teacher decided it’d be a great idea to have the final and the research paper submition due date on the same day. Me being the wonderful procrastinator I am, ofcourse had to leave it to the damn last minute. My sister offered to help me and out of desperation I agreed. Note that I’d never had anyone do my papers for me before. She wrote like 70% of it but unstructured and not cited. Basically it was a hectic mess, but a 7 page long sophisticated mess. All i had to do was fix the citations and print it. After 5 long nights with barely any sleep, i did my final and rushed home to get started on this damned paper.

TO MY SURPRISE. My laptop decides to update (it takes a full day). No problem, let’s just work on another laptop. The first turned out to be broken. The seccond was out of battery and the charger wasn’t at home. Great, just great. I figured i could head to a local library and use the computers available there. So I do that, but it’s finals week, there aren’t any available. The place is packed. I looked around frusturated and I noticed there’s a laptop left on a desk with no one next to it. I walked towards it (not looking suspicious at all) and to my surprise it was unlocked. I quickly grabed a usb out of my bag and logged onto my email. All i wanted to do was get to my file. Suddenly, i notice some guy looking at me. “I’m screwed” i thought to myself but continued trying to find my file in my inbox. Here I am feeling like a secret agent deducting confidential information from my enemies when he walks up to me. I immediately appologize and explain my whole situation to him. He was surpisingly very nice and even let me edit the folder on his laptop and helped me fix my footnotes. I guess humans really do come together in times of need. I thank him and go on my way, satisfied of my work, ready to print.

I get to a print store releived that for once I finished an assignement 4 hours early. The file got corrupted. I couldn’t even open it. MY FRIENDS THIS IS WHY YOU MUST EJECT YOUR USBS, I REPEAT, EJECT THE USBS.

I rushed back to the library, hoping the nice guy was still there and hadnt deleted the file but he was long gone. Went back to the printing store to ask of there really wasnt any way the file could be fixed. I started pannicking and the guy in the store felt so bad for me that he let me work on one of the desktops that he had. Another hour passed, i finally finished my paper (for the seccond time) and now it’s time to email it to the professor and deliver the the hard copy to her office.

I logged on to my email, but it didn’t take the passwod so I refreshed. Once. Twice. Three times. What’s wrong with it? I just signed on to the nice dudes laptop. That’s when it hit me. I forgot to logg out. FOR FUCKS SAKE. And i thought he was a good person. I contacted my uni and they took forever to cooperate but eventually i managed to reset my email. How much time till the due date you might ask? 13 min. I quickly sent the email but how on earth was I gona make it to her office in time? Campus was a solid 25 min away.

Out of NOWHERE I get a call from my friend who’s asking me abt citations. To my luck she’s on campus and is willing to print my 10 long paper essay. I finally relax and go home. It didn’t hit me until after i ended the call with her that she the paper had to be in APA and i did MLA.

Oh well, screw it. I’m in summer now.

#summer #hectic stories

[unpretty]

You know I use tumblr almost exclusively on my phone but I never use the app because it’s the worst thing ever created. Mobile tumblr on a browser works just fine, minus tumblr constantly calling me a baby for not wanting their app.

honestly, the only good update to mobile i can recall was finally adding in the ability to add images to text posts. but even then, i only use the app to post pics/screenshots? i don’t know how anyone can actually browse when the app

consistently does weird html shit that fucks up paragraph breaks and makes raw code appear in chat posts

doesn’t hide readmores unless they’re in a reblog

unless the readmore is in an ask, in which case the text is inexplicably cut off without any actual link to indicate that there’s more to the post

doesn’t have a post button on the drafts page? you have to go into the edit interface? which sometimes breaks the whole post, which you had carefully drafted, because of the aforementioned html problem?

the total inability to tell if someone’s shitposting or if images have fucked up again

it literally uses more bandwidth than just looking at your dash in a mobile browser, how the fuck does that work

flattens the ‘tag’ and ‘search’ interfaces in such a way that if you try to check a tag on mobile, you will see every post that includes those words regardless of whether it was tagged

combined with the readmore problem that means people who want to, idk, vent about how much they hate cilantro can put their post behind a cut and leave it untagged and still have it show up for any mobile user that tries to check #cilantro, the only solution to which is to insert random punctuation into words and names like you’re having a stroke in order to keep randos from starting shit

there’s no ‘local’ drafts, so when a post fails to upload it just disappears into the fucking void instead, until it posts five times because there was no way to cancel its repeated attempts

that weird html thing also causes bullet points to fuck up all the time, this post is probably a travesty

automatically resizes every image in a text post to the width of the app, no matter how small, resulting in huge blurry weird shit

literally no option for pagination so if you want to backread your dash you just have to endless scroll for as long as it will let you before it fucking breaks

converts all tags to lowercase, including in the suggestion bar, so there’s no way of knowing if it will show up in all caps on desktop

no way to tag asks (i’m p sure this still requires xkit for some goddamn reason, like this isn’t basic functionality, whenever xkit breaks i cannot use this website)

no notifications for asks, and asks don’t get marked as read on mobile, which sometimes means getting on the computer and seeing a frankly terrifying number on the inbox icon

notifications on mobile just break at a certain point, so it has never been possible on mobile to just check your activity page, you have to go to your own blog and click the notes on every post that looks like someone might have said something if you want to see what’s up

i could go on but god isn’t this enough

#original #amarits

[sexshopshenanigans]

It’s backup day, shoutout to Vampireslug on Redbubble who designed the sticker on my portable hard drive. One of these days I might make it a label but it does a good job just making my stuff cute.

I’m slowly getting the hang of backing my shit up now that I’ve lost my life’s work multiple times!! I use a portable 2tb hard drive for the media I download as well as backing up the work I do on my laptop, but these little buggers are too dainty and fragile for my clutzy life. I’ve broken several of them by dropping them, balancing them on precarious armrests, or just forgetting they’re plugged into my laptop and accidentally flinging them across the room when I start packing up.

So now I have a double hard drive system! I need the portability of the small hard drive, since I use a laptop and I frequently have to move to a different room or apartment, or even get in the car and park on the side of the road to keep working. I’ve learned not to trust these little guys to last, so my partner and I share a 6tb hard drive attached to his desktop. I back up my laptop to the portable hard drive on an almost regular basis, and every so often I’ll back up my portable to the big desktop hard drive. This happens on a consistent schedule of “oh nO FUCK I dropped my hard drive again! Please work please work plea-phew ok I need to go back this up now Just In Case” with the very occasional “things are going Too Smoothly, what emergency do I need to start preparing for?” peppered here and there.

The data on my portable is sorted into two folders, New Shit and Old Shit. I have a very advanced organization method where everything goes into New Shit until I back it up on the big hard drive, and then it gets moved to Old Shit so I can still find it. The big hard drive is, theoretically, sorted into different folders like Research, Crafts, Media, etc. In practice, it’s sorted into New Shit 1-5 until I get around to actually sorting all my shit which will definitely someday maybe happen.

I’ll be honest, I know fuck-all about good computer habits. It took me years to get even the slightest grasp on “back up your work” because it was never really explained to me (telling me to “make sure you back it up!” is not actually teaching me how to back it up, which is why when I was a teenager I lost a lot of very personal and meaningful work by “backing it up” to a different folder on the same computer). Before I started using hard drives I would email myself any photos, stories, projects, etc that I wanted to keep track of - I also failed to label or sort them in any meaningful way, so I definitely did not keep track of them even if I technically still “have” them somewhere in my inbox. Foe larger files like movies or music, I’d put them on a flash drive that immediately got lost or loaned. Sometimes I find them again, which is either a fun blast from the past when I find a cringy short story I wrote in high school, or a bummer when the flash drive doesn’t work any more and I never find out what I was trying to save.

I’m still not sure if this is really the most effective or efficient way to back up my data, but it seems to be the way that works best for me right now. It’s definitely an expensive way to back it all up - I’m lucky I was in a position last year to replace my portable hard drive when it died, and to get an even bigger backup-to-my-backup with my partner just in case. If either of these drives go now, I won’t be able to replace them any time soon. My Internet access isn’t reliable enough for me to fully trust something like Dropbox or Google Drive, and even if it was, I’m leery of giving an outside service that much access to my personal data. If I don’t own it, if I can’t fully control how it’s used, if I can’t make sure I’ll still have access for the functional future, I don’t want it.

I don’t know. This post kind of just started as a way for me to keep track of when I updated my backups with a bonus plug for someone who made a cute sticker. I guess this is just a reminder from me to you to go back up your work, in whatever way works best for you.

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You can’t remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages they received from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their Facebook inboxes, while their own replies to him conspiculously remain. An email receipt of a Facebook message from 2010 reviewed by TechCrunch proves Zuckerberg sent people messages that no longer appear in their Facebook chat logs or in the files available from Facebook’s Download Your Information tool.

When asked by TechCrunch about the situation, Facebook claimed it was done for corporate security in this statement:

“After Sony Pictures’ emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications. These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages.”

However, Facebook never publicly disclosed the removal of messages from users’ inboxes, nor privately informed the recipients. That raises the question of whether this was a breach of user trust. When asked that question directly over Messenger, Zuckerberg declined to provide a statement.

Tampering With Users’ Inboxes

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that users can only delete messages their own inboxes, and that they would still show up in the recipient’s thread. There appears to be no “retention period” for normal users’ messages, as my inbox shows messages from as early as 2005. That indicates Zuckerberg and other executives received special treatment in being able to pull back previously sent messages.

Facebook chats sent by Zuckerberg from several years ago or older were missing from the inboxes of both former employees and non-employees. What’s left makes it look the recipients were talking to themselves, as only their side of back-and-forth conversations with Zuckerberg still appear. Three sources asked to remain anonymous out of fear of angering Zuckerberg or burning bridges with the company.

[Update: Recent messages from Zuckerberg remain in users’ inboxes. Old messages from before 2014 still appear to some users, indicating the retraction did not apply to all chats the CEO sent. But more sources have come forward since publication, saying theirs disappeared as well.]

None of Facebook’s terms of service appear to give it the right to remove content from users’ accounts unless it violates the company’s community standards. While it’s somewhat standard for corporations to have data retention policies that see them delete emails or other messages from their own accounts that were sent by employees, they typically can’t remove the messages from the accounts of recipients outside the company. It’s rare that these companies own the communication channel itself and therefore host both sides of messages as Facebook does in this case, which potentially warrants a different course of action with more transparency than quietly retracting the messages.

Facebook’s power to tamper with users’ private message threads could alarm some. The issue is amplified by the fact that Facebook Messenger now has 1.3 billion users, making it one of the most popular communication utilities in the world.

Zuckerberg is known to have a team that helps him run his Facebook profile, with some special abilities for managing his 105 million followers and constant requests for his attention. For example, Zuckerberg’s profile doesn’t show a button to add him as a friend on desktop, and the button is grayed out and disabled on mobile. But the ability to change the messaging inboxes of other users is far more concerning.

Facebook may have sought to prevent leaks of sensitive corporate communications. Following the Sony hack, emails of Sony’s president Michael Lynton who sat on Snap Inc’s board were exposed, revealing secret acquisitions and strategy.

Mark Zuckerberg during the early days of Facebook

However, Facebook may have also looked to thwart the publication of potentially embarrassing personal messages sent by Zuckerberg or other executives. In 2010, Silicon Valley Insider published now-infamous instant messages from a 19-year-old Zuckerberg to a friend shortly after starting The Facebook in 2004. “yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard . . . just ask . . . i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns” Zuckerberg wrote to a friend. “what!? how’d you manage that one?” they asked. “people just submitted it . .  i don’t know why . . . they “trust me” . . . dumb fucks” Zuckerberg explained.

The New Yorker later confirmed the messages with Zuckerberg, who told the publication he “absolutely” regretted them. “If you’re going to go on to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people rely on, then you need to be mature, right? I think I’ve grown and learned a lot” said Zuckerberg.

If the goal of Facebook’s security team was to keep a hacker from accessing the accounts of executives and therefore all of their messages, they could have merely been deleted on their side the way any Facebook user is free to do, without them disappearing from the various recipients’ inboxes. If Facebook believed it needed to remove the messages entirely from its servers in case the company’s backend systems we breached, a disclosure of some kind seems reasonable.

Now as Facebook encounters increased scrutiny regarding how it treats users’ data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the retractions could become a bigger issue. Zuckerberg is slated to speak in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on April 10 as well as the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11. They could request more information about Facebook removing messages or other data from users’ accounts without their consent. While Facebook is trying to convey that it understands its responsibilities, the black mark left on public opinion by past behavior may prove permanent.

If you have more info on this situation, including evidence of messages from other Facebook executives disappearing, please contact this article’s author Josh Constine via open Twitter DMs, [email protected], or encrypted Signal chat at [phone].

For more on Facebook’s recent troubles, read our feature pieces:

Highlights and audio from Zuckerberg’s emotional Q&A on scandals

Facebook restricts APIs, axes old Instagram platform amidst scandals

The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour

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Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes

You can’t remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages they received from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their Facebook inboxes, while their own replies to him conspiculously remain. An email receipt of a Facebook message from 2010 reviewed by TechCrunch proves Zuckerberg sent people messages that no longer appear in their Facebook chat logs or in the files available from Facebook’s Download Your Information tool.

When asked by TechCrunch about the situation, Facebook claimed it was done for corporate security in this statement:

“After Sony Pictures’ emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications. These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages.”

However, Facebook never publicly disclosed the removal of messages from users’ inboxes, nor privately informed the recipients. That raises the question of whether this was a breach of user trust. When asked that question directly over Messenger, Zuckerberg declined to provide a statement.

Tampering With Users’ Inboxes

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that users can only delete messages their own inboxes, and that they would still show up in the recipient’s thread. There appears to be no “retention period” for normal users’ messages, as my inbox shows messages from as early as 2005. That indicates Zuckerberg and other executives received special treatment in being able to pull back previously sent messages.

Facebook chats sent by Zuckerberg from several years ago or older were missing from the inboxes of both former employees and non-employees. What’s left makes it look the recipients were talking to themselves, as only their side of back-and-forth conversations with Zuckerberg still appear. Three sources asked to remain anonymous out of fear of angering Zuckerberg or burning bridges with the company.

[Update: Recent messages from Zuckerberg remain in users’ inboxes. Old messages from before 2014 still appear to some users, indicating the retraction did not apply to all chats the CEO sent. But more sources have come forward since publication, saying theirs disappeared as well.]

None of Facebook’s terms of service appear to give it the right to remove content from users’ accounts unless it violates the company’s community standards. While it’s somewhat standard for corporations to have data retention policies that see them delete emails or other messages from their own accounts that were sent by employees, they typically can’t remove the messages from the accounts of recipients outside the company. It’s rare that these companies own the communication channel itself and therefore host both sides of messages as Facebook does in this case, which potentially warrants a different course of action with more transparency than quietly retracting the messages.

Facebook’s power to tamper with users’ private message threads could alarm some. The issue is amplified by the fact that Facebook Messenger now has 1.3 billion users, making it one of the most popular communication utilities in the world.

Zuckerberg is known to have a team that helps him run his Facebook profile, with some special abilities for managing his 105 million followers and constant requests for his attention. For example, Zuckerberg’s profile doesn’t show a button to add him as a friend on desktop, and the button is grayed out and disabled on mobile. But the ability to change the messaging inboxes of other users is far more concerning.

Facebook may have sought to prevent leaks of sensitive corporate communications. Following the Sony hack, emails of Sony’s president Michael Lynton who sat on Snap Inc’s board were exposed, revealing secret acquisitions and strategy.

Mark Zuckerberg during the early days of Facebook

However, Facebook may have also looked to thwart the publication of potentially embarrassing personal messages sent by Zuckerberg or other executives. In 2010, Silicon Valley Insider published now-infamous instant messages from a 19-year-old Zuckerberg to a friend shortly after starting The Facebook in 2004. “yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard . . . just ask . . . i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns” Zuckerberg wrote to a friend. “what!? how’d you manage that one?” they asked. “people just submitted it . .  i don’t know why . . . they “trust me” . . . dumb fucks” Zuckerberg explained.

The New Yorker later confirmed the messages with Zuckerberg, who told the publication he “absolutely” regretted them. “If you’re going to go on to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people rely on, then you need to be mature, right? I think I’ve grown and learned a lot” said Zuckerberg.

If the goal of Facebook’s security team was to keep a hacker from accessing the accounts of executives and therefore all of their messages, they could have merely been deleted on their side the way any Facebook user is free to do, without them disappearing from the various recipients’ inboxes. If Facebook believed it needed to remove the messages entirely from its servers in case the company’s backend systems we breached, a disclosure of some kind seems reasonable.

Now as Facebook encounters increased scrutiny regarding how it treats users’ data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the retractions could become a bigger issue. Zuckerberg is slated to speak in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on April 10 as well as the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11. They could request more information about Facebook removing messages or other data from users’ accounts without their consent. While Facebook is trying to convey that it understands its responsibilities, the black mark left on public opinion by past behavior may prove permanent.

If you have more info on this situation, including evidence of messages from other Facebook executives disappearing, please contact this article’s author Josh Constine via open Twitter DMs, [email protected], or encrypted Signal chat at [phone].

For more on Facebook’s recent troubles, read our feature pieces:

Highlights and audio from Zuckerberg’s emotional Q&A on scandals

Facebook restricts APIs, axes old Instagram platform amidst scandals

The real threat to Facebook is the Kool-Aid turning sour

#Tech