data accidentally consuming johnlock fanfiction instead of the original sherlock holmes material and forming a Lot of misconceptions about the book series with geordi in the holodeck

everybody focuses on the times when fitz describes the fool as being this gorgeous and otherworldly being who’s almost too beautiful to exist (and rightfully so) but i do feel like we sleep on moments like this too much

Fitz describing The Fool as a freak (affectionate) IS true love.

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stolen off instagram but i laughed so hard when i saw this

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Bones forms a thought

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Shout out to my main man, Lieutenant Jones, who was always there for us creepin in the background <3 

Maruyama Ohkyo / 円山 応挙. Japanese (1733-1795)

Jenny Press, 1988

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And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?

Would like to know how exactly she wouldn’t fuck up Netflix or Hulu

Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF

Yahoo’s grand plan for Tumblr was to turn it into a “next-generation PDF”

What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?

i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was

you left out the best part of that article. the poor yahoo emplyees at those meetings were just as confused as the rest of us.

Everyone is right to dunk on Yahoo and “tumblr is the new PDF” because yeah, everything about that era was stupid.

But the PDF thing kinda makes sense. Bear with me.

But first, some context.

See, in the 1990s before PDF files there was almost no way to generate a document on a Mac and read it on a PC. Or vice versa. Businesses struggled with how to email important documents around and guarantee they looked the same on the other end, regardless of what computer & software the recipient had.

Adobe changed all that with PDF.

Since Acrobat Reader was available (and free!) for Windows & Mac, suddenly the problem went away. Everyone knew how to read a PDF. Adobe became a universally recognized brand overnight even if you’d never heard of Photoshop, because everyone had goddamn Adobe Reader installed.

Because of that, every tech company yearned to be just like Adobe: invent something universally desired, used by billions of people.

Fast forward to a Yahoo/tumblr meeting sometime in 2013/2014.

Tumblr development staff demonstrates how the back end of tumblr works, which (honestly) is revolutionary as compared with how any other social media site worked at the time. Each tumblr post is composed of blocks of data, any one of which can be text, sound, an image, a movie… anything. These blocks of data are threaded together into what looks to the user like one cohesive message (a single tumblr post) but under the hood it’s magic.

Further, the mechanism for doing this can be standardized. In other words: tumblr could, if they wanted, publish the standard as a way for ANY social media site to manage its data.

If other sites did that, then they could trade messages with tumblr! Imagine posting a message on tumblr and reading it on Instagram. Or see twitter messages natively on your tumblr feed. I mean personally, that’s a horror show. But the concept is interesting.

(In fact, that’s how Mastodon and the Fediverse work in 2025. Each Mastodon post is a standard chunk of data that any website can read & display, assuming it understands the underlying ActivityPub protocol and plays by its rules.)

So the Yahoo executives attend this technology demonstration and one of them quite visibly has a light bulb wink into existence over their head. The light bulb is an old school incandescent, 300 watts at least, and glows furiously bright.

The Yahoo exec stands up. His chair knocks backwards.

“OH MY GOD,” he stammers. “This tumblr thing could revolutionize social media. It’d be like the new PDF!”

Then blood shoots out of his nostrils and his head explodes, but all anyone ever remembers from that meeting is “PDF”.

@sreegs or @cyle or @jv can probably explain it better, but that’s what I remember hearing at the time. Please feel free to correct me.

the details here aren’t correct, but as i’ve said many times, yeah, the PDF thing was in direct response to the Neue Post Format, which is how post and reply content is stored on tumblr. it’s not as dumb as it sounds. (without that context, it does sound dumb.)

Can’t believe over a decade later we’re finally getting an explanation for the PDF thing.

TEN

FUCKING

YEARS

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it’s just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

incase nobody remembers the hazards of finding a comfy position while using your laptop in bed:

TOP 5 MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS ABOUT CAPTAIN PICARD:

Is he GAY? Is he ALIVE? Is he GAY? Is he DEAD? Is he GAY?

I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.

still figuring out how i wanna draw her

Unfortunately, I am not surprised by Fitz stalking Molly and Burrich Frankenstein-style. That’s so him.

MS paint fantasy, mixed media.

California quail (Callipepla californica)

Wilhelmina Barns Graham
British, 1912-2004
Autumn Dusk, 1978
Signed W Barnes Graham and dated 1978 on the mat
Ink and watercolor on paper
Sight size 7 ½ x 5 5/8 inches (19.05 x 14 2/8 cm)

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Once again I would like to reiterate: I fucking LOVE Lady Patience.

Imagine if you found out your Roomba just. Deleted a portion of your home layout to make space for all 15 seasons of Supernatural. Well, my friends from PreservationAux don’t have to wonder.

rendering practice with a cool x files screenshot

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me before talking to anyone: plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird

Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.

Boss up king

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