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Feb 04, '22: notes- my saviour. truly.

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cats belong in dark academia

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What did you do all day?

Dream.

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Spotify Playlists - Decades Aesthetic (1940′s - Present)

Hi I’m addicted to making playlists, to the point where I made folders to categorize them, here are my decades playlists, they start to get longer and less coordinated as time marches on. 

Wartime Melodies (1940′s) - Your lover returned to you safe and sound 4 years ago, but these songs still make you think of when they were gone. Moonlight Serenade is still your favorite song, after all those years. 

Sock Hop Bops (1950′s) - You parents got you a transistor radio. You can finally listen to all the “degenerate” music your youth pastor told you to avoid. Your local radio disc jockey played “Shout” by The Isley Brothers 5 times last week and you’re in love. 

Revolution Records (1960′s) - Abbey Road just came out. Rumors of the Beatles tumultuous relationship are brewing. You sure hope they won’t break up soon. You listen to some of your parents older songs from the start of decade in the living room. 

Funky 8 Tracks (1970′s) - You’re listening to your old favorites driving down the highway in your 1979 Oldsmobile. Rumors are circulating that songs are gonna start to get released on cassette tapes, but you like your 8 tracks too much to replace them. 

MTV Music Videos (1980′s) - Lovesong by The Cure is your favorite song of the year, and you love catching it on MTV. You saw David Hasselhoff dancing on the top of the Berlin Wall. A lot cooler than watching the ball drop. 

Laid Back Tunes (1990′s) - Life’s just about kicking back and listening to some tunes. Suburbia sucks. Parents suck. You miss Nirvana. You pretend to not like Barbie Girl by Aqua. 

Childhood Jams (2000′s) - You are a literal child. You remember the tail end of MTVs era of music videos that they air in the mornings before Next, Pimp My Ride and Cribs. You got into the emo scene because of your older sister. You downloaded all these songs off Limewire. ***

Millennial Bangers (2010′s) - You, literal child have now grown up. Your 2019 Wrapped says your top genre is Rock, as if genres meant anything anymore. You’re super excited to go to all these concerts you got lined up for next summer. ***

Future Anthems (2020′s) 2020 was such a blur you forgot music still existed. You lay in bed comatose, the music washing over you. You hope it would help you feel something. It kinda does.  

*** Playlists with three asterisks have over 500 songs on them. be warned. 

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coffee academia

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Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania.

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Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

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gloomy days is the best study weather. x

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Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.

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‪“i want to make romeo jealous. i want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. i want a breath of our passion to stir the dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”

oscar wilde; the picture of dorian gray‬

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Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:

This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.

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🌱 ⠀ ❛ ⠀ echo. ⠀ —— ⠀ 響き ⠀ ★

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i think the reason i like tumblr so much is that it really emulates a piece of what the old web is like. a lot of people are mobile users now, but if you take advantage of desktop, you can have your own unique theme, make a bunch of cool pages for people to explore. tags let you explore other ppls art, depending on how long they’ve been posting, you can see how their art has evolved.

you really dont get that on twitter or other websites without having to scroll through a bunch of tweets to find a users art. once its posted, its basically dead because other tweets are flooding in.

user customization is non existent on those sites, you are forced to use the same layout as everyone else. constantly being advertised to if youre using their mobile apps.

web 2 is joyless. you’ve been turned into a product. too much focus on likes & views. you’re perfectly fine with companies stealing your personal info & make money off of you for the sake of convenience. web3 is being envisioned by the biggest assholes on earth.

“The indie web, it’s these thousands of websites delivering millions of pages, built up with passion, opinions and information by Net users assuming their rights as citizens. The indie web is a new type of link between people, it’s a free and open space of shared knowledge where vanity has no place. ” - the indie web manifesto, 1997

i encourage you to check out neocities. here are some webpages that might inspire you: https://dokodemo.neocities.org/index.html https://sukiyaki.city/ https://adilene.neocities.org/ http://lu.tiny-universes.net/index2.html https://mystsaphyr.me/ https://cinni.net/index.html https://entranceorexit.net/about.html https://msdos.neocities.org/ https://koinuko.neocities.org/index.html https://faiyubu.neocities.org/home/ and you can check out more here!

here are some guides to get you started on making your own website. it really isn’t too hard if you’ve messed with tumblr themes in the past. i’d say its simpler since you dont have to deal with tumblr’s backend stuff & different post types.

https://learn.sadgrl.online/sitemap/ - great tutorials on html & css, plus neocities specific tutorials

https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp - has a css section too, easy to follow & understand

google - chances are someone has had the same issue as you, and has had their question answered on stackflow already