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if you ever doubt your writing, be it your themes, or the reason behind it, remember that h.g wells wrote war of the worlds both as a commentary on colonialism and the horrors it brings, and because he fucking hated his neighbours and his 13 hour job, and wanted to write about the town in which he lived getting blasted to the fucking ground by lasers into an irreparable heap and all of the townspeople dying painfully 

you, too, can channel your hatred for that guy that lives down the hall and blasts music at 4am into the one of the most influential science fiction stories ever written! fuck it! i believe in you!!  

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Washboard — Tumblr Savior for mobile devices

Hello, Tumblr! Over the last few months I’ve been working on a project that brings keyword blacklisting to mobile devices, and it’s finally ready for the public. If you’re not familiar, Tumblr Savior is a browser extension that allows users to hide posts containing certain keywords or tags. It works great for desktops, but it can’t be used on phones or tablets, and the official Tumblr apps don’t offer any alternatives.

That’s where Washboard steps in: just sign in with Tumblr, import your blacklist from Tumblr Savior, and start browsing! Washboard also features infinite scrolling, a “Safe Mode" toggle that hides images, and a few other features that make mobile browsing as painless as possible.

Any questions or suggestions? Send me an ask or tag a post #washboard.ws and I’ll look at it as soon as possible!

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I LET THE OFFICER INTO THE HOUSE TO MEET THE KIDS.

HE'S STILL SO CONFUSED.

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A PERFECT PLAN WITH ABSOLUTELY NO HITCHES.

geminidoomed said: ye2 hello poliice II would liike two report 2omeone beiing iillegally green

GUILTY AS CHARGED.

creativegeneric said: That is…..bad?

IT’S HILARIOUS BECAUSE I HAVE A COP HERE JUST COMPLETELY CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT TO DO. I HAVEN’T ACTUALLY DONE ANYTHING EXCEPT EXIST.

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A while ago, for fun, I started doing some reading on some of the stranger naming choices made by the Puritans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. (Yes, for fun. I am a dork.) Here are a few of my favourites:

A Sussex jury roll from the 1600s includes the names Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Fly-Fornication Richardson, Search-The-Scriptures Moreton, The-Peace-Of-God Knight, Stand-Fast-On-High Stringer, The-Gift-of-God Stringer, and Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith White, Obediencia Cruttenden, Called Lower, Hope-For Bending, More-Fruit Flower and Meek Brewer. Some other wonderful Sussex names around this time include Safely-on-High Snat, Mortifie Hicks and the marvellously-named Humiliation Scratcher. And let’s not forget Be-Stedfast Elyarde, Faint-not Dighurst, Hew-Agag-in-pieces Robinson, Swear-not-at-all Ireton and Obadiah-bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-in-irons Needham.

Here’s another good naming method: There was a tradition among some Puritan villagers of opening the Bible and selecting the first name their eyes landed upon, which led to some interesting christenings. One poor child was landed with the name Ramoth-Gilead as a result of this method, reportedly leading a rather bemused parson to ask, “Boy or girl, eh?” There’s some evidence that certain parents, whose reading was perhaps not the best, would simply open the Bible and choose a word at random - hence the existence in Connecticut of Maybe Barnes and a girl by the rather unfortunate name of Notwithstanding Griswold. One child in England was christened Sirs, the parents insisting that it was a Scripture name and citing as proof the passage “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Another Puritan named his dog Moreover after the Gospel passage “Moreover the dog came and licked his sores.”

Yet another story tells of a priest who was befuddled when a woman informed him that her child was to be name “Axe-her”. “What name?” he spluttered. “Axe-her,” repeated another woman. After much discussion he discovered that the women were referred to Achsah, the daughter of Caleb. This may also explain the existence of an Axar Starrs in Stockport - the daughter, appropriately, of one Caleb Starrs. The name Axar remained popular in Devonshire for some time.

A little boy called John wound up with an unfortunate bonus name due to his godparent’s strong accent and a misunderstanding at the baptismal font. “What name?” the priest asked, to which the godparent replied, “John honly.” The priest dutifully went on to declare, “John Honly, I baptise thee…”

Thomas and Elizabeth Pegden, residents of Kent during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, named their first four sons after the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. When Elizabeth gave birth to a fifth son in 1795, they decided to continue this theme by naming him after the next book of the New Testament, and thus he was christened Acts-of-the-Apostles Pegden. According to one source, his nickname was Actsy, “for the Vicar of Boughton has heard a parishioner speak of her uncle Actsy Pegden.” An older relative bore the name Pontius Pilate Pegden.

In the late 1800s, a Thurstonville man named his four sons Love-well, Do-well,Die-well and Fare-well Sykes. Around the same time, another boy, being the younger sibling of sisters Faith and Hope, was given the name And Charity.

Another fellow, rather bemusingly, named his son Judas-not-Iscariot.

Zachary Crofton, died 1672, clearly scoured the Scriptures in order to find names for his children. His five sons were called Zachary, Zareton, Zephaniah,Zelophehad and - presumably after all alliterative possibilities had been exhausted - John.

The Presbyterian clergy were fond of foisting on illegitimate children names reflective of the sins of their parents - names like Helpless, Repent, Repentance,Forsaken, Fly-fornication.

Among many other excellent Puritan names, there was also:

Abstinence

Abuse-not

Continent

Creature (a unisex name, apparently!)

Do-good

Experience

Fear-not

God-helpe

Hate-evil

Increased

Job-rakt-out-of-the-asshes

Joye-in-sorrow

Lament

Learn-wysdome

Magnify

More-fruit

More-triale

Muche-merceye

No-merit

Obey

Original

Preserved

Refrayne

Renewed

Safe-on-Highe

Silence

Sin-deny

Sorry-for-sin

Thanks

The-Lord-is-near

Unfeigned

What-God-will

All of these are trumped, however, by a Puritan girl who, when asked for her Christian name, replied, “Through-Much-Tribulation-We-Enter-The-Kingdom-Of-Heaven, but for short they call me Tribby.”

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geminidoomed said: ye2 hello poliice II would liike two report 2omeone beiing iillegally green

GUILTY AS CHARGED.

creativegeneric said: That is.....bad?

IT'S HILARIOUS BECAUSE I HAVE A COP HERE JUST COMPLETELY CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT TO DO. I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY DONE ANYTHING EXCEPT EXIST.

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APPARENTLY ONE OR MORE OF OUR NEIGHBORS ACTUALLY CALLED THE POLICE ABOUT ME.

THE POLICE.

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TFW YOUR CHILD CRIES FOR NO APPARENT REASON. "ME TOO, LITTLE BUDDY. ME TOO."

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Here’s an extended version of Stronger than You :D

I really think they should’ve kept the extra verses, they tell alot more about Ruby and Sapphire than the shortened version, but i guess some stuff had to be cut to fit the time slot.

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have u ever met someone so terrible that it makes u a better person like u learn from mistakes that you haven’t even made purely from observing them, thank you for being so obnoxiously terrible, please don’t ever interact with me again

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I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU EVER NEED AN EXCUSE TO SMOTHER YOUR CLADE WITH AFFECTION.

PEOPLE NEED REASONS TO DO THAT???????

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PEOPLE NEED REASONS TO DO THAT???????

OKAY, FAIR.

OURS ISN’T A SOUL EXCHANGE BONDING THING… BUT IT IS A KIND OF BONDING THAT STRENGTHENS THE PACK AND ESPECIALLY THE ALPHA. SINCE DAVE HAS ME, OUR KIDS, AND L9VE, HE IS MADE STRONGER THROUGH US AND US THROUGH EACH OTHER.

I THINK AT THIS POINT, IF HE REALLY WANTED TO, HE COULD TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE CONTINENT.

INSTEAD WE CUDDLE AND USE OUR LINK TO LET EACH OTHER FEEL HOW MUCH WE LOVE EACH OTHER.

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omfg y’all. FRIENDSHIP COLLARS. 

HOLD THE PHONE, ORDERING IMMEDIATELY. 

(find them here.)

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OKAY, FAIR.

OURS ISN'T A SOUL EXCHANGE BONDING THING... BUT IT IS A KIND OF BONDING THAT STRENGTHENS THE PACK AND ESPECIALLY THE ALPHA. SINCE DAVE HAS ME, OUR KIDS, AND L9VE, HE IS MADE STRONGER THROUGH US AND US THROUGH EACH OTHER.

I THINK AT THIS POINT, IF HE REALLY WANTED TO, HE COULD TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE CONTINENT.

INSTEAD WE CUDDLE AND USE OUR LINK TO LET EACH OTHER FEEL HOW MUCH WE LOVE EACH OTHER.

EXCHANGING SOUL PIECES JUST SOUNDS LIKE OVER ACHIEVING.

ALTHOUGH VIA WEREWOLF MAGIC WE ARE BONDED SO WE HAVE A MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL LINK NOW. ALSO WE CAN DO POWER SHIFTS? SOME HOW THIS WORKS.

I’VE BEEN HELPING DAVE LEARN HOW TO USE SOME OF MY SPRITE BASED ABILITIES THAT HE’S ABLE TO USE AT ALL.

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YARE YARE.

Yar?

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EXCHANGING SOUL PIECES JUST SOUNDS LIKE OVER ACHIEVING.

ALTHOUGH VIA WEREWOLF MAGIC WE ARE BONDED SO WE HAVE A MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL LINK NOW. ALSO WE CAN DO POWER SHIFTS? SOME HOW THIS WORKS.

I'VE BEEN HELPING DAVE LEARN HOW TO USE SOME OF MY SPRITE BASED ABILITIES THAT HE'S ABLE TO USE AT ALL.

OK SO FIRST OFF, WE’RE HUMAN MARRIED. WE HAD A CEREMONY THAT’S NOT AT ALL LEGALLY RECOGNIZED, BUT STILL HAD. I HAVE A RING AND THERE WAS CAKE AND EVERYTHING.