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cleolinda · 6 months

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The happenings, Tumblr edition

Obviously I am not happy about the prospect of Tumblr going into sunset "guess we'll just let it die" mode (or possibly "Let's sell it to fuck knows who!!"), if that is indeed what is happening. My clinical anxiety needs a lot of things. This is not one of them.

I've been using Tumblr as my primary hangout for pretty much exactly a year now. I am tired of watching platforms enshittify and crumble. Why does this keep happening to us. I am weary.

At the same time, yeah, Twitter is dogshit now, but a year after it got taken over, it is there still. There were some problems on Reddit, but it's thoroughly still there. There was time to figure out some migration for all the good it did.

I worked on essay-type posts and recaps all this year to figure out approximately how many spoons I have and how much I can expect to post a month, before I actually got the Patreon running in October. A solid 1-2 Long Posts a month, it seems like, and maybe more frequently if I do shorter posts. And Tumblr has great opportunities to just keep reblogging and sharing things, sometimes adding comments, so I feel like I'm active even when I'm stuck trying to finish a post of my own.

So now, fuck me, I guess

So I have the Patreon as a way to say, hey, I'm here no matter what else happens, sign up for the ~*free*~ weekend linkspam/check-in, here's what I posted wherever this week, I'll put up some early or extra stuff if you'd like to upgrade to a fancy tier someday. It is truly most important to me for people to just know where I am; you don't have to commit to the $1 or $5 tiers.

But I also want a way to post my writing publicly, so people can, you know, see it. So I'm gonna start mirroring my own longer posts on Dreamwidth, I guess. That's the place I know to go back to.

Hopefully Dreamwidth does not go also down in flames!!!!

I've started archiving some of my work (also from LJ and Twitter) as PDFs in Dropbox. Mostly as a safeguard for myself, but I'll make it a public link on the Patreon.

I would really like to keep up with where people are going, what sites people are going to try to migrate to next, and I'll pass that info on as I get it.

All that said, I think most of us will stay on Tumblr as long as we can, if only for the very unique shoot-the-shit culture it has. Like, people aren't leaving it so much as preparing for the future.

#tumblr #the happenings #me for some reason #odds and ends

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felidaefatigue · 1 year

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Another one done on my work breaks, Steward Acantha, Odds and Ends, and of course the Cairn Maiden, Old Soilbreath, the Bone Crow.

#i just wanna post this guy on its own post #cat scratches #tsv #the silt verses #the cairn maiden #acantha #steward acantha #odds and ends

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sehnsuchtz · 1 year

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fifarts · 10 months

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i would still be surprised i could find you, darling in any life 🌾🌄

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maiden-mystic · 4 months

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trainwreakgirlfactory · 2 months

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Finally got the rest of the songs downloaded. Gotta start it off with Odds and Ends my beloved TuT

#vocaloid #hatsune miku #project diva #odds and ends #playstation

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xxri · 1 year

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some mikus for miku day :)!

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #miku fanart #miku day #art tag #racing miku #matryoshka #odds and ends #two faced lovers #sand planet

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silvereddaye · 4 months

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You are a Dragon

[Fantasy AU] 12 year old Luke awakes in the night to meet a strange visitor.

Preview:

Luke's father placed him gently down. The sand was cold on his bare feet and Luke hugged himself to fight back the shivers. The man undid his cloak and wrapped it around Luke. It was warm and smelled of wood smoke.

"Luke," the man said. How did he know his name? "Let me show you what you truly are. What we both are."

The man slowly backed away and as he did so there was the sound of a bell. It was like no other bell Luke had heard before. It was a deep dark tone that reverberated in his bones. Luke titled his head to hear it better, perhaps discover the source, but as he watched the man his body went slack, eyes wide, and his mouth fell open.

The man started to . . . to change . . . His skin turned black and his body grew larger and larger. His neck grew longer as spikes grew from his back, neck, and head. His arms and legs grew thick, his hands turned into paws with large claws. A long tail grew out from his back while black wings unfurled from his back.

It was a dragon!

A dragon!

#my writing #odds and ends #wip #dragon au #dragons!#dragon vader #dragon luke #fantasy au #this is quite old #wrote this in august of 2020

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archivist-crow · 25 days

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Odds and Ends:

TRIANGLES OVER BELGIUM

Beginning in late 1989, a definite UFO "flap" converged on Belgium. The majority of the sightings occurred in the vicinity of Wallonia. On the night of March 30, 1990, over 2,700 reports of massive triangular UFOs were made to the Belgian air force; usually the air force received fewer than 300 UFO reports annually. Sightings were made by the members of the military, police officers, civilians, and five separate radar stations. The UFO had a light at each apex of the triangle and a large light in the center. One investigator described how these lights were predominantly red, but would change to blue, green, yellow, and white, as if the craft were sending messages.

During the night, two different NATO stations' radar detected one of the crafts. Two F16 fighter interceptors were released to investigate. The pilots both managed to lock on to the spaceship six or seven times, but, apparently controlled by intelligence, it would always break free of the lock. One time the spacecraft descended from 10,000 to 500 feet in five seconds. It would execute a zigzag pattern and could manage acceleration from 280 kph to 1,800 kph (174 mph to 1,118 mph) in seconds. The force necessary for such a maneuver would be beyond human endurance. Just as amazing was the lack of any sonic boom.

Interestingly, Britain reported a similar wave of sightings the same night. In Staffordshire a family watched the triangular ship fly extremely close to the top of their house as it emitted a deep "bass" vibration. A Royal Air Force officer at the local military compound saw the enormous ship casting a tracking beam across the landscape, as if searching for something. The gigantic triangles were sighted repeatedly for many months afterwards. Many people tried to photograph the ships, but only one man managed to obtain an observable picture.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

#odds and ends #ufo sightings #1989 belgian ufo flap

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oswaldbaskerville27 · 8 months

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#lottie baskerville #pandora hearts #artbook #odds and ends

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victusinveritas · 3 months

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A coin shot by Annie Oakley, found in Northwestern Georgia (state not country).

#annie oakley #metal detecting #odds and ends

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cleolinda · 7 months

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Sustained effort at not being productive this week. I want to wallow in autumn (we are finally getting temperatures in the low 60s °F. I mean the highs are still in the 80s but). I am trying to write more Let Me Tell You A Personal Story posts. The next one to go up could be:

The Kirk Cameron Sticker of Torment

I Grew Up in a Haunted House And Didn’t Notice

Tiny Moist Hand

Opinions welcome. I am definitely working on a vintage perfume review that is essentially about my grandmother, and for Halloween, the scariest movie theater experience I’ve ever had.

#odds and ends #me for some reason

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nobrashfestivity · 2 years

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