General Pieces Of Advice For 2024:

General pieces of advice for 2024:

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Reblog stuff you enjoy for others to enjoy. Likes don't do much on this platform (I tend to think of them as tumblr bookmarks), but a reblog may make an artist's day

Cite your sources on images. The breadcrumbs you drop may lead to someone else's inspiration

Take pictures of the mundane, like your house -- never know when you will need to look back on that again for posterity or utility

Wear your face mask (KN95 or better, make sure it's a good seal) and keep up to date with you covid boosters. Not only do you not want to get sick, you don't want to be the reason someone else gets sick. It sucks, but getting long covid sucks more

Try to tag things accurately where you can

Install an adblocker

Ask questions (in general, not just on tumblr). Worst case scenario the answer is "I don't know"

Engage in good-faith discussions with your fellow user, you might find a new friend

Go to a Vintage Computer Festival if you can help it, there's cool stuff to see and things to do

Turn off "best stuff first" on your dashboard controls. It's your dashboard, you get to curate it, so might as well take full control

Take a moment to enjoy silence in your space

Take the old, original batteries out of your vintage computers so they don't burst and corrode the circuit boards within when you forget about them for a few years. You'll thank me later, mitigating a Varta meltdown is incredibly time consuming

Be good to each other

This looks really cool. I used an image prompt with a similar vibe to practise my creative writing for the HSC.

Sci-fi Landscapes by Andrew Porter

I just shared another random thought with my brother and he now wishes he could disown me.

Sharks are sometimes known as sea dogs.

I think that this means we should call dolphins sea cats.

They torture their prey like cats do mice, they're very intelligent, they commit war crimes and they're only friendly with people when they find us amusing / we give them food.

TW: self-harm

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My brother (jokingly) said he can't even kill himself because he doesn't want to have "survived by his loving brother" in his eulogy/tombstone because it would permanently associate him with me and the brain-hurt I have forced into the world.

All I can think about is that if you flip that piece of paper all of a sudden it says

.yo ...yo

req'd by @mossylemon

ahh the fanfic classic

text: oh... oh.

I don't know why, but ever since I decided I should start tracking my mood out of 10 in my journal, it seems that I've had tonnes of days where either something really good happens that is then balanced out by something bad, or I have really boring days, or they're days that I can appreciate but with minor inconveniences balancing them out. As a result, I've been having lots of 5/10 days, which feels kind of bad because that looks like I'm having a horrible time of it, but I'm just trying to be really objective and I've been having a very neutral time, exactly 5, not a good day at 7 or a bad day at 3.

I suppose it's just one of the introspective benefits of journaling that allows me to look back and notice how middle-of-the-road my life has been the last week or so.

Yay! Etymology!

I made a gargoyle in ceramics class when I was 12! It probably counted more as a grotesque according to this post but I put little holes in its mouth and under its wings to make openings into the hollow centre.

I might be hallucinating like ChatGPT but I'm pretty sure they defended castles by draining burning oil rather than water to set castle invaders on fire.

My gargoyle was a hippocampus btw. I'm pretty sure that it's disappeared permanently 😞 but I might have photos somewhere.