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When will the Death Note renaissance happen?

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I’m not dead I’ve just been on stan twitter

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Yeaaahhhhhh, fuck you.

A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

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In Response to Tumblr’s New Bullshit Move

As most of you have seen, I don’t particularly post anything nsfw. However, a lot of the blogs I follow contain a fair amount of nsfw content, which means that even if I followed them for their sfw content, they may very well be removed.

I’m not seeing too many people among the FFXV blogs I follow state that they’re leaving, and I don’t follow many nsfw FFXV blogs, but many of said blogs have been dying out anyway, and I’m seeing much less XV content on my dash than I used to be.

I know I’m not a big blog, and I haven’t posted much of anything in awhile, but I do have plans for this blog, and I have been writing (drawing, not so much). Yet this affects me as well. This affects all of us.

Tumblr has always been largely known as a (mostly) safe platform for nsfw content creators, and now this platform is being ripped out from under them because Tumblr’s staff and moderators do not know how to properly filter and moderate their content. There are problems with the how the site works that, once resolved, would protect nsfw content creators, but still get rid of the bots, pedophilia, and other rampant problems that in now way relate to real content creators. However, instead of addressing the problems with their website that have been present since the beginning of time that we users keep bringing up, they’ve decided to alienate and remove more that half of their users.

Every site goes through changes. Almost every site eventually dies (e.g. MySpace) and I don’t think any of us expected Tumblr to last forever, but I know I didn’t expect it die on December 17th, 2018, and not in this way.

Regardless of what I want my blog to be, I don’t know if I want to support a site that treats their users as such, or if I will be interested in using the site if the majority of the blogs I enjoy are going to be terminated, or if the users will leave because they can’t keep creating their content.

I’ll wait to see what happens on the 17th. But this might be goodbye.

tl;dr—Tumblr is making a fucking ridiculous decision and I don’t know if I’m still gonna be here in two weeks

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I have no idea what is going on right now but my dash is full of posts about tumblr deleting blogs, telling people to back up their blogs, etc.

We all know that four days ago the app went missing from the iOS store. It has yet to be put back up. We also have heard nothing from the site about why it was taken down, when it’s coming back, etc. I’ve heard it’s still up for Android users in the store but I’ve also heard it’s been taken down now so idk anymore.

We also know that safe mode for searches has apparently been turned on for everyone.

Here’s where all the info starts getting conflicted.

Apparently speculation is, that this is cause Apple deemed the app inappropriate cause of all the bots. The app was taken down to deal with all the bots and safe mode was turned on so bots wouldn’t come up in searches, etc, etc.

Then posts with links started disappearing from search results. Meaning if you posted a post with any link in it to anything, it wouldn’t show up in the search on tumblr. We all know that the spam blogs used posts with links in them so again, people are speculating that it’s cause of them trying to deal with this problem that links in searches have been turned off.

Now I’m hearing that blogs, even ones that aren’t spam blogs, that post or reblog content that is not safe for work are getting purged from the site. A lot of artists that create work that is mature are apparently getting deleted.

The conflict is people are also claiming they are having blogs deleted or know of people that had blogs deleted that did not post anything like that. People that have had this happen have said they were able to contact support and get their blog restored though so that’s a good sign. Artists have also had to contact support as well.

I’ve also seen a post going around saying people that have any links in the description of their blog are getting deleted. I’m not sure if that’s true cause some people are also saying they didn’t have links in their blog description and still got deleted. Also the spam bots never had links in their descriptions so I’m not sure why this would cause it.

EITHER WAY.

IF you are really paranoid about it you can back up your blog on desktop in a zip file by going to Settings>Edit Appearance and scrolling down and clicking “export yourblogname here”

IF you have a blog that posts or reblogs stuff that is mature, (regardless of how much of the content is that) consider turning on the “this blog is explicit” option in your settings. I did it for my side blog. That way you have yourself covered a bit in that your blog will only show up for those that are logged into the site and will not show up for anyone with safe mode turned on.

AND

IF for some reason you get deleted you can contact support and send them an email explaining that you are a real person running a blog and request to have your blog reactivated.

IF you are an art blog or have a large following or just want to keep your followers in the know in case something happens, consider making a post with any other social media handles you have. I wouldn’t suggest making a post with links to the them right now cause of the whole link thing but maybe just say “if I disappear you can find me as soandso on this site and thisandthat on this site”

All of this craziness with the purging seems to have started today so just keep an eye out and try not to panic regardless

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I feel personally attacked by these images

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Unusual Asks

Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora? 

is your room messy or clean?

what color are your eyes?

do you like your name? why?

what is your relationship status? 

describe your personality in 3 words or less

what color hair do you have?

what kind of car do you drive? color?

where do you shop?

how would you describe your style?

favorite social media account

what size bed do you have? 

any siblings?

if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why?

favorite snapchat filter? 

favorite makeup brand(s)

how many times a week do you shower?

favorite tv show?

shoe size?

how tall are you?

sandals or sneakers? 

do you go to the gym? 

describe your dream date

how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment?

what color socks are you wearing? 

how many pillows do you sleep with?

do you have a job? what do you do? 

how many friends do you have? 

whats the worst thing you have ever done? 

whats your favorite candle scent? 

3 favorite boy names

3 favorite girl names

favorite actor? 

favorite actress? 

who is your celebrity crush?

favorite movie? 

do you read a lot? whats your favorite book? 

money or brains? 

do you have a nickname? what is it? 

how many times have you been to the hospital?

top 10 favorite songs

do you take any medications daily? 

what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc)

what is your biggest fear? 

how many kids do you want? 

whats your go to hair style?

what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc) 

who is your role model? 

what was the last compliment you received?

what was the last text you sent?

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?

what is your dream car? 

opinion on smoking?

do you go to college? 

what is your dream job? 

would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs? 

do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels? 

do you have freckles? 

do you smile for pictures?

how many pictures do you have on your phone? 

have you ever peed in the woods? 

do you still watch cartoons? 

do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds?

Favorite dipping sauce? 

what do you wear to bed? 

have you ever won a spelling bee?

 what are your hobbies?

can you draw? 

do you play an instrument?

what was the last concert you saw? 

tea or coffee?

Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts?

do you want to get married?

what is your crush’s first and last initial?

are you going to change your last name when you get married? 

what color looks best on you? 

do you miss anyone right now? 

do you sleep with your door open or closed?

do you believe in ghosts?

what is your biggest pet peeve? 

last person you called`

favorite ice cream flavor? 

regular oreos or golden oreos? 

chocolate or rainbow sprinkles? 

what shirt are you wearing? 

what is your phone background?

are you outgoing or shy?

do you like it when people play with your hair?

do you like your neighbors? 

do you wash your face? at night? in the morning?

have you ever been high? 

have you ever been drunk? 

last thing you ate? 

favorite lyrics right now

summer or winter? 

day or night? 

dark, milk, or white chocolate? 

favorite month? 

what is your zodiac sign

 who was the last person you cried in front of? 

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Would Ignis be flattered or offended if I called him a spicy knife boi?

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Y’all I was gonna write a bunch of stuff for FFXV Crack Week and I did not do that so uhhhhh be prepared for way late FFXV crack because I’m still gonna write it even though it’s after the actual week

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NPC Weekend Day 3

Day 3: Chocobos

Bonus Characters: Aranea Highwind and Crowe Altius

Let it be known that Crowe Altius does not like chocobos. They smell, they have to be fed, and they make awful noises. (Libertus says the same thing about her bike, but at least her bike isn’t using the bathroom wherever it likes). So this mission was not at all one she wanted to be a part of, because it would require riding chocobos through most of Duscae and Leide.

Crowe preferred the missions that didn’t require her to leave Insomnia, or at least the ones that let her choose her mode of transportation. This was almost insulting. But it was her job, and if there’s one thing Crowe did well, it was her job.

Of course, all the complaining she did on the way to the outpost didn’t help her case, but she stopped complaining when she got there and met someone she hadn’t expected to.

Aranea Highwind was a name Crowe only really knew from stories. The commodore was fierce (as fierce as she was beautiful, if you asked any of the men) and lethal. She started as a mercenary and eventually worked her way through Niflheim’s ranks (supposedly) killing anyone who stood in her way and making it look like an accident. Crowe had always wanted to see such a woman in person.

She just hadn’t expected to see her for the first time while she was petting a chocobo blacker than the night sky.

First of all, that would definitely be the chocobo Crowe was using, because she was not going to be seen on one of those fluffy yellow chickens.

Second of all, Aranea really was as beautiful as the men had said.

It took Crowe a full minute to come out of the small daze she’d been in, and even then it took her awhile to approach the woman. The men were hanging back, either because they didn’t care or because they were afraid of Aranea, as they should be. But Crowe had always been in the habit of finding trouble.

Aranea grinned at Crowe wickedly as she approached, still lazily petting the chocobo. “This the one you want? She’s a sweetheart. I think you two will get along famously,” Aranea spoke, and maybe Crowe’s knees went a little weak.

“You think so? I’m not the biggest fan of oversized birds,” Crowe said, avoiding Aranea’s eyes as she approached, reaching a hand of her own up to the chocobo. “I feel like I’m gonna fall off every time I ride one.”

“Maybe I’ll just have to teach you how to do it properly.” If Crowe had been looking, she would’ve seen Aranea’s wink.

When the Glaives came back to drop the chocobos off a week later, Aranea was there again. Crowe smirked when she saw her, and told the others to go on ahead.

She’d catch up.

—-

For @npcweek’s #npcweekend

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NPC Weekend Day 2

Day 2: Returning the Favor (helping the Chocobros)

Bonus Characters: Monica Elshett and Weskham Armaugh

Okay, so Vyv wasn’t exactly the most giving of people. He had opinions and things he needed to say, and he was going to say them, dammit. He adored his company, and he was going to use his publications to get his messages out to the world. It helped that Prince Noctis and his entourage were kind enough to bring him some material so that he didn’t have to go out and get it himself. And he paid them pretty well for it, so he was a least a little giving.

Prompto was a nice enough kid, and he had quite a bit of talent from what Vyv could see. It started out as him just asking them for extra photos so that he could get his articles out ASAP, but then he started really admiring the kid’s talent. Vyv started asking for pictures that he didn’t really need, just to see how good the blond was. What really caught his eye were the landscapes Prompto took. Vyv’s favorites so far were the photos he’s had taken of the Disc of Cauthess, and Vyv left copies of them pinned up next to his desk.

One day, instead of letting the Prince and company to come to him, Vyv made an effort to search them out. And luckily enough, he found Prompto all by himself taking pictures of the view from Lestallum, which was perfect for Vyv’s intentions.

Paying them enough gil for a night’s stay at Galdin certainly made their time worthwhile, but Vyv wanted to pay them back in a more personal way. More specifically, he wanted to pay back the photographer who had gotten him all of those gorgeous pictures for his publications. Especially since climbing Ravatogh and going to an Imperial base just to take pictures were no small favors.

A quick conversation with Prompto settled it. A week later, Vyv had enough photos to fill an entire page. Another week later, and there was an entire spread in The Meteor with Prompto Argentum’s name on top, all of his best photos filling the pages, captions with pretty words and embellished stories written beneath or next to every one of them.

Prompto had some extra work every time he passed through Lestallum now, whether it was for Vyv or a local that had seen his work, and Vyv was confident that this would be a good start for the blond once he was done with his journey.

Vyv made sure Prompto knew that if he really wanted to be a professional photographer, there would always be a job for him at Meteor Publishing.

—-

This was fun to write! I think it definitely needs to be more polished, but I adore the idea

For Day 2 of @npcweek’s #npcweekend

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NPC Weekend Day 1

Day 1: NPC Friendships/Rivalries

Bonus Characters: Dino Ghiranze and Vyv Dordan

Being a freelance jeweler isn’t all fun and games. Especially not when you don’t exactly have access to the resources needed for such an occupation. Or when the town you’re trying to set yourself up in doesn’t have the sort of folk you’re trying to cater to. Duscae wasn’t known for its wealth, but Dino had started there because there was an abundance of precious metals and gems to harvest from the area. When it came to actually selling his wares, however... no such luck.

After setting himself up with a nice inventory—a good number of materials, tools, and pieces he’d already made—Dino set out for Galdin Quay, hoping to appeal to the wealthy that passed through and stayed the night. It took awhile for him to be noticed. People weren’t exactly going to Galdin to buy jewelry, and they often passed him by without so much as a second glance, even if his jewelry was rather nice (and with all of those status benefits? Who could turn that down?)

About a week and a half into his stay at Galdin, Dino finally made enough gil to try one of the fancy dishes at the resort. He figured it was probably a bad idea to spend so much gil on just a meal, but he’d earned it. Dino had only sold three or four items in the last couple of days, but that was better than the zero items he was averaging at the beginning of the week.

Dino wasn’t sure how to feel about Coctura when he first met her. She was nice, but that was the weird part. Being around all these demanding, rude people all day usually caused people to be the opposite of nice. Dino, well, he was the opposite of nice most days just because he could be, but it didn’t help that he was around such folk all the time now that he was in Galdin. And yet she was a literal sweetheart.

After that first meeting, whenever Dino was giving himself a break or there weren’t a lot of people in the resort that he hadn’t already tried to peddle to, he’d go and visit Coctura. He usually couldn’t afford to eat anything, but it was still nice to have someone to talk to, someone that he could call a friend. She eventually started giving him the plates that “didn’t turn out”. (Dino wasn’t sure what she meant by that—every dish she gave to him tasted marvelous).

So it became routine. Every day Dino would find time to visit Coctura and keep her company while the restaurant wasn’t busy, and she would give him a free meal, her pretty smile included at no extra cost.

Everything was going swimmingly until Dino ran out of materials. He’d been doing so well (after he’d reluctantly dropped his prices, at Coctura’s insistence) that he’d run out of all of his pre-made jewelry, and was having to make new pieces every other night or so to keep up with the demand. Now he had about three pieces left and no extra materials, and he needed more. He’d already been to all of the local spots he knew of to gather any gems and metals. He’d have to go back to Duscae to be able to find a enough to keep himself from having to harvest anything more for awhile.

Coctura frowned at him when he told her. “It’s going to be lonely around here without you,” she told him.

“I’m only gonna be gone a couple-a days.”

“And what if you get yourself into some trouble? You’ll be gone longer.”

“And miss out on your cookin’? Who d’ya think I am? I won’t be causing’ no trouble, I promise. I’ll be back in a couple-a days tops.”

When Dino came back, a sack of materials in tow, Coctura informed him that she’d started asking all the hunters that passed through to bring her any precious stones and materials they found along the way in exchange for a little bit of extra gil. She’d said it with a smile while she handed Dino a plate before he could even say hello.

“I missed you too,” he said instead.

—-

My first piece for @npcweek’s #npcweekend

I saw the prompt and Dino’s name and spit this thing out in a half hour xD

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Chocobros (And Friends!) Favorite Flowers (Nyx)

Cacti

There’s a little cactus in the corner of Nyx’s room. The entire thing could fit in the palm of his hand. It’s a pretty leaf green with enough spikes to put Noctis’s hair to shame, and Nyx absolutely adores it.

He even named it.

Nyx was glad it didn’t need to be watered very often, otherwise he probably would’ve killed it by now. Only about once a week did he have to water it, and he promised himself that he was not going to let it die a preventable death. He couldn’t.

His sister had given him the cactus before she was killed. Allowing it to die would make him feel as though he was failing her for a second time.

Instead, the small cactus was a reminder of his sister, one of the only things he had left of her, and he cherished it the same way he cherished his little sibling. Besides, it was good for him to have some sort of responsibility in his life that wasn’t his job, that wasn’t protecting the king and the city. Out there, he was expendable. Glaives could be replaced.

But in here, he was all the little cactus had, and he took pride in that. He knew his sister would be proud of him for keeping it alive, too.

Prompto | Gladiolus | Noctis | Ignis | Ravus | Aranea | Cor

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“I love writing well developed, slow building, plot heavy fics but I only have the creativity and attention span for one-shots,” a poem by me

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Chocobros (And Friends!) Favorite Flowers (Cor)

Edelweiss

Cor Leonis does not have a favorite flower. Never has. Never will. What Cor has is a collection of moments that seem to revolve around a specific flower that he doesn’t even find aesthetically pleasing.

Said flower is certainly not as aesthetically pleasing as the boy that keeps leaving them for him.

Loqi Tummelt has been a pain in Cor’s ass for what feels like years. It seemed like every time Cor stumbled upon the Niflheim empire, Loqi was somewhere to be found among the soldiers, usually trying to pretend like he was a higher rank than Cor knew him to be. But maybe that was just misinformation—one could never tell if the intel they’d gathered was accurate or not, these days.

It was after one of their small battles that Cor found an edelweiss flower, more or less just laying in the middle of the road.

This became the norm. If Cor met Loqi somewhere—a run-in with the empire, crossing paths as they were both trying to get to their respective posts, actively seeking one another out—he’d find edelweiss close by. It only took a few minutes of research for Cor too discover that such a flower wasn’t exactly easy to come by. It also didn’t take him long to discover the Niflheim tradition of giving this flower to someone as a promise of dedication.

What Loqi is promising to dedicate himself to remains to be seen.

(Cor used to think Loqi was dedicating himself to killing Cor, but recently he hasn’t been so sure. Loqi does smile at him an awful lot these days.)

Prompto | Gladiolus | Noctis | Ignis | Ravus | Aranea

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Habits They Want To Break

Ignis—he picks and picks and picks at everything he can get his hands on. Half the reason he wears the gloves is to keep himself from picking or scratching at something that does not need to be picked or scratched at (plus they look fantastic). He never had a lot of acne as a teenager, but he always ended up picking at it and making it look worse than it was, and he’d pick at the skin around his nails until he bled sometimes. To this day, he’ll pick at every loose thread or a chip in some paint, and he can’t seem to stop. But if he’s doing it excessively, or starts pulling off his gloves, all it takes is Gladio’s steady hand on his shoulder to remind him of how hard he’s worked to break the habit.

Prompto—he fidgets. The boy can’t seem to sit still, no matter the situation. Usually it’s his hands, always playing with something, clicking or rubbing or scratching or tapping. (It reminds Ignis of his own habit). When he does manage to still his hands, it’s not long before he notices his leg bouncing, or his feet swinging, toes digging into the dirt or tapping in tune to some unheard beat. It’s especially bad whenever he’s standing guard during some important meeting, and suddenly there’s all eyes on him, and he realizes that everyone can hear the way his foot is scuffing the floor. He’s yet to figure out what to do about it.

Gladiolus—the boy clicks his tongue whenever it’s silent. He’s gotten good at staying quiet when he actually needs to watch out for things, but if they’re in the car with no music, there will be clicking. Or if they’re around the fire at a haven and the conversation has died down, it’s only a matter of time before they can hear it. Most of the time he doesn’t even know he’s doing it. It drives Ignis and Noctis crazy, and sometimes Prompto will start doing it too. At first, whenever Prompto brought it to his attention, Gladio’s cheeks would go red and he’d forced himself to keep quiet. More recently, whenever Prompto starts clicking along with him, they’ll compete to see who can be the loudest, or try to make a song out of it, and Noctis and Ignis will debate on whether they still be able to hear it if they stick their heads in the fire.

Noctis—surprisingly enough, he’s the one that swears the most. He used to be good at watching his mouth around elders and children, but now he cusses so much that he usually says it before he can stop himself, and no longer gives a fuck. He’ll swear in front of your five year old, he’ll swear in front of your grandpa, he’ll tell you to fuck off to your face. He was legitimately worried about ruining his vows by stumbling over his words and then instinctively saying “shit, uh, I mean, fuck” in response (as he did every time he practiced them before they left Insomnia). Regis tried to get Ignis to help Noctis break this habit, as they couldn’t have a king that went around swearing in front of everybody, and Noctis’s response was: “Sounds like a waste of my damn time, I can watch my fuckin’ language if I feel like it”. (Apparently he never feels like it).