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the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

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@mnvart // Kaveh Akbar, 'Calling A Wolf A Wolf' // @PinkRangerLB on Twitter // @kosmogrl // @devinsturk, '15 Proverbs for the Fellow Chronically Ill' // Jasmine Deporta // Anaïs Nin, House of Incest // the gentle wisdom uquiz by @inkskinned // Rora Blue, 'Sweet Dreams' // Hala Alyan, Dear Layal

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Which one is your favourite? @thoughtstherapy

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I didn't get enough boops as a child

#boop

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44 club!!

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reblog this if you're ok with spam boops i'm about to be such an overachiever

#boop

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This made me make a sound like I'd been punched in the gut.

Tiny bun

#bunny #cute #rabbit #smol

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The only times I really feel like I've expressed myself is when I've meowed at someone. It feels much less overwhelming than having to talk about how I feel.

My first cat didn't talk much, but my current cat is a really chatty catty. My social need bar has been much fuller since we got her 🥰

i dislike small talk. not because i think im better than everyone and only deserve thoughtful conversation, but because the purpose of it is outside of my field of vision, like infrared light. i dont have access to the thing that allistic people have happen between them when they go through the motions, i'm not smarter than you i'm actually way dumber

#autism #cats #social skills #asd #social #cat #kitty #meow

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Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

Eckhart Tolle

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please be patient with me im from the 1900s

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I like the idea that most magical creatures like gnomes and elves also think that humans and human creations are a myth. Detroit? Detroit doesn’t exist. You said you saw a box moving on its own on big wheels, thimble? That’s ridiculous. Drink your mushroom booze and get back to sleep.

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Just finished watching The Artful Dodger on Disney + (in the UK). Can't recommend enough. Totally enjoyable, great pacing, witty and insightful (but not in a preachy way, in a 'omg I didn't actually know that about life, history and medicine and that's so interesting' way), bit of Peaky Blinders style modern music to get you amped for all the crime caper parts. It's graphically gory in places but I just watched through my fingers 😅

It's got the kid from Love Actually and Queens Gambit. And the werewolf teacher from the best Harry Potter film. Don't know the rest of the cast but they are all great. Especially the mother.

I've never read/watched the source material so I can't comment on the accuracy. I think I saw the animated version with the cats once but I don't remember any of it. But you can def enjoy without knowing the original story.

Support good things and check it out 💕

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do i believe in romance…not sure. am i obsessed with it…absolutely

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OMG yes!! Genius solved it!!

I'm so happy for Azriel 😭😭😭

Azriel making requests of a Prythian orchestra to recreate the songs Bryce played him:

"It went *doof doof doof* *ttunz ttunz ttunz* and there was this ethereal sound like swelling strings but metallic. I need to hear it again."

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Some additions because I love this so much (but too tired to work out how to do the card template thingy, soz):

I'll avenge your stupid ass decisions 15,000 years after your death - love Aidas

I'll dump you in another realm without your adopted son - love Bryce

I'll leave you alone when you're on your period - love Pollux

I'll punch you through your throat and then resurect you as a reaper - love Ithan

I'll marry you, what's one more stupid decision? - love Tharion

I HATE you!!!! But if you divorce that bitch, I'll take you back - love the river queen's daughter

I'm not screwing you before this big battle just for a power boost I swear - love Bryce/Hunt

I'll stay silent during your scolding because I know you can handle yourself, and it's kinda awks for me to smash my best friend's face in since I'm actually pissed at you too because I can't believe you put us all in danger like that - love Cassian

I appreciate your concern readers, but I'll be OK, really - love Azriel

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Screaming and Crying and Dead 💀

#hofas #hofas spoilers #crescent city #crescent city spoilers #cc3 #sarah j maas #sjmaas #sjm #baxian #baxian argos #ruhn danaan #ruhn #lidia cervos #declan and flynn