#Scan-to-Email

[tottymatsuno]

Some of my favorite wallpapers from the fanclub!

[baejax-the-great]

When I was a kid, my dad used to cut out newspaper articles of topics he thought pertained to my interests (neuroscience and China mostly) and then he would mail them to me with no note. Every once in a while I would receive an envelope with an assortment of newspaper clippings from the five newspapers he reads a day.

And as I sit here sending star trek memes and mourning dove pics to friend 1, and knitting memes and terrible puns to friend 2, and sexy radishes to friend 3, never with any explanation or even an expectation of acknowledgement of receipt, I have to reckon with some hard truths about the person I have grown into and how it relates to my parenting.

[normcdf]

this truly has been shoko kaisen

[foxglovefaun]

nine hours in the ER sure will bend ur mind into some kinda shape

[sleeplessdaily]

Despite everything, I was able to get a copy 😭

[kazieka]

waitwaitwaitwait. can you guys not trigger a shiver response on purpose?? is shivering supposed to be involuntary?? are you not supposed to be able to control your goosebumps??????

[bununuu]

I’m like Actually really talking into the void here, but I can’t get over this letter from Wilfred Owen to his mom… he finally works up the nerve to talk to Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart, and they’re VIBING and Wilfred is legit in love.

They’re working on their poetry, so Wilfred obvs wants his old writing back from his childhood home. But to do that, he has to write his mom asking her to literally BREAK OPEN his desk to get his notebooks, while also pleading with her to 🚫 NOT OPEN OR READ ANYTHING 🚫

These notebooks are 100% long gone (considering the fact that he also asked his mom to destroy “sackfuls” of his papers/letters if he died during wwi) but I would love to see what they said tbh 👀

[redjayson]

now, I've not actually filled out any part of my tax forms yet. however! I've at least downloaded all the income/etc. forms that I need in order to do that! and that's half the (extremely anxiety inducing) battle

[fated-normal-767]

all day I’ve been complaining to people because I looked up the third party the place where I study uses to monitor the WiFi for ‘malicious or dangerous activity’ and it’s just plain creepy. Not as in like “I don’t like my searches being looked at but I have to tolerate it” as in “if you disconnect from the WiFi then reconnect to it it scans anything you did while disconnected at home the next time you connect, builds ‘user profiles’ with everything you look up, checks things you type offline, and can access your personal cloud storage”. And all fucking day I’ve been telling people this and they’ve gone ‘haha well I’ve got nothing to hide it can’t be that bad’ and I felt like I was going crazy. Then I got home and told my father and he just said “that sounds like a huge violation of the data protection act” and I felt so relived I wasn’t going crazy for thinking this was bad.

[sea-changed]

In retrospect I cannot believe I wrote this entire post without having seen these article scans wherein Tom Hanks so perfectly explicates my whole point that it's a little breathtaking. That he so specifically frames his experience of filming Saving Private Ryan and creating Band of Brothers as a process of historical revisionism and reaction against his father's firsthand account of the war as he experienced it really brings home I think the extent to which Band of Brothers is both intensely narrativized (in opposition to lived experience) and yet equally as intensely wants to be true. Hanks is framing both Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers here as representations of a sort of surrogate truth, which is better (and perhaps somehow truer--see the PhD comment) than his father's memories, which he finds lacking.

Like--we know all this already! We watched the series! But to have the impetus behind it so directly and forthrightly laid out like that is sort of incredible. Like, oh, Mr. Hanks, is a story true? Is a story untrue? As time extends does it matter less and less? Are the stories we want to believe the ones that survive? Jesus christ.

[icy-book]

"Just scan this QR code-" I CAN'T. I literally CAN'T. Just give me the fucking link!

[nina-ya]

coworkers are fucking me over and corporate thinks I can’t do my job yeehaw healthcare worker things 💃

[baketothefuture]

the one scanner app I have used *forever* has stopped working which is. frustrating esp since according to the app store reviews i am the only one having a problem

[florida3exclamationpoints]

[autumnhobbit]

i’m gonna throw hands with sam’s club again

[sassytail]

Doin some design for my character for a recording this weekend.