#laptop camping

[simphic]

Yassah for DAZED magazine. "The Wonderfully Odd" issue, an exploration on the new age of self-discovery.

[arty-tardigrade]

Max vs. Daniel! Who would win: a psychopathic cultist with a knife or a ten year old?

(Spoiler, it's the ten year old.)

[seventeenlovesthree]

Did you know that there is a clear "pecking order/priority list" Taichi and Koushirou have in common when it comes to calling their friends in case of emergency?

Did you also know that, even though there are exactly 10 episodes between these two moments, they both still take place on August 1st 1999?

[melveres]

so was anyone gonna tell me Dyvims canonically bi or was I just supposed to find that out from a comment on a twitter post and be sent on a quest to hunt down the stream and timestamp where it got mentioned

EDIT: I gave up on recording the clip bc the audio kept getting messed up so here's the link to the stream! [timestamp 56:34]

Dyvim Whitehart bi king!!

[gender-trash]

Back In The Day i went to this math camp for 11-14 year olds that had a really strict electronics policy -- you weren't allowed to bring a laptop, and you couldn't use electronics other than graphing calculators in class. i can't remember if anything specific was said about cell phones but this was in days of yore when middle school students didn't, like, have smartphones and the camp website DID specify that students could use the dorm landline to call home and the dorm computer lab to send/receive emails. personally i can't remember what i had for a phone but i was definitely running around with a canon point-and-shoot dangling off my wrist (and perpetually banging into EVERYTHING) and listening to music on my beloved ipod touch using wired earbuds.

(actually, i did illegally bring a laptop, because my mom told me she'd gotten me an exemption but this turned out to be a straight-up lie. i kept my laptop in my room so i only got in trouble for it in like. my THIRD SUMMER at the camp. when i got Lectured Sternly by the camp staff i sent my parents an extremely betrayed email which my dad described to the staff as "hysterical". this took place in 2013 and i'm still lowkey mad about it. anyway)

so i randomly wondered tonight what happened to the electronics policy now that middle schoolers are all on instagram or tiktok or whatever, and actually it has gotten stricter: you have to give your phone to the counselor who will give it back to you for half an hour every evening to call your parents and you can't bring any other device that can browse the internet (so if you want to listen to music you'd better grab yourself a good old-fashioned mp3 player). broadly a good idea, i think, but how the fuck are the math-obsessed youth of today supposed to fall asleep after an overstimulating day of math classes and impromptu set tournaments without the ability to read fanfiction and/or watch overwrought naruto amvs late into the night, i ask you??

(in hindsight this may have had something to do with why i was floridly sleep-deprived by about the third week of camp every year. otoh in college it really came in handy that i had all this practice at doing math homework while running on fumes and sleep debt)

[user-name-h3re]

They've been cooking in my brain for so long you guys dont even KNOW

[abirddogmoment]

It's been a month without Mav, here is a jumble of thoughts about it, in no particular order:

Mav was the coolest dog in the world

He was also pretty high-maintenance (in terms of exercise specifically); my exercise has plummeted without him. I have a lot more free time and I'm not really sure what to do with myself.

It was really, really fun to dabble in sports with Mav, but the titles don't really mean anything to me now. I love thinking back at the trial experiences (specifically the mishaps - alerting on cheese, visiting the judges, stealing toys) but I don't really care about the letters or certificates anymore.

In contrast, the Top CKC Rally Brittany brings me a lot of comfort. I like that Mav will be recorded in the brittany spaniel archives. I'll be really sad when we get usurped.

I'm glad I found a good group of people for dog sports. I could have gone so many different directions, and I'm so glad I went with the "be kind to your dog above all else" and I think a huge part of that was the community I found irl.

Mav's breeder is a gem, she has checked in with me so many times and I appreciate that so much.

I wish I had known more about training and handling before I got Mav. I'm sad for the gaps in his foundations and I wish I had known more to set him up better from the beginning.

I'm so happy he got to have so many adventures - big ones and little ones. I could have done more, but I think he got a lot.

I'm pretty sure his last thought was about a cookie, which doesn't really matter, but feels very on brand for him.

I can't remember the last time I smooched his head and that makes me kind of sad. Doubtless it was at the vet's but I can't remember for sure.

I spread his ashes in the area where he most liked hiking, and every time I've gone hiking there since then, I've thought of it as visiting Mav.

I still haven't thrown out his gross kitty cat stuffy, it's still sitting on top of his crate.

I'm really grateful for the people I got to meet through Mav.

I'm really happy I was so consistent about posting on Tumblr, I have such a good archive of his whole life and I love that.

Mav was a special kind of dog.

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

Camp Half-Blood Cabin Wallpapers Pt. 1

[queerastronautbr]

Camp Half-Blood AU

[campbenji]

jwcc ending turns 1 year old next month lol

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s2 episode 2 thoughts

woohoo! we are back for another s2 moment! each night i do my duolingo and then have mulder and scully time <3

so we open on a boat which is already awful. boats are lowkey horrific. and something grabs a man working on the sewage and pulls him under. what the hell! worst case scenario on MANY fronts

then we see our good friend mulder who is listening to audio recordings. and boy was this a scene, because he had sunflower seeds everywhere, cartons of takeout scattered, a million empty cans and cups, and a page of little doodles. all while he sits in the dark.

i figured perhaps this was the squalor of the single man apartment, but no! someone opens a door and light pours in, and tells him he has to leave and someone else will take over his case. and that poor man gets forced into his disgusting space. truly the king of not giving a fuck. please try and give one fuck for me mulder

skinner moves him to a murder case in new jersey and he's all "but why did skinner want MEEEEE"

anyway he goes into the sewers, which are thankfully now free of eugene tooms due to the hard work of that one escalator... everybody say thank you escalator... and he finds a body and says send that back to the FBI

mulder busts into skinner's office to yell at him while he was IN A MEETING oh mulder!!! i get ur mad but have some decorum! he's like WHY are you wasting my time! well mulder if you want to work your way back up the ladder i think screaming at ur boss is not a good place to start!

(we also see that skinner's first name is walter and that he has a picture of bill clinton on the wall which i know made sense at the time but in 2024 it's just really funny. there's old willy looking over business)

cutscene to mulder Pondering in the dark and look! enter our dear friend scully!

"is this seat taken?" she asks "no, but i should warn you i'm experiencing violent impulses" he replies. "well, i'm armed, so i'll take my chances" she answered, and i audibly said "AWWW" <3 how sweet

he says he wants to leave the bureau! but she is his only reason to want to stay! gasp! we are gonna have to unpack that later!

she's like but you have a body right...? can i see the body....? can i pls pls pls pls be involved in ur case?

girl's night: autopsy edition! this body was quite decomposed and it had me wondering how exactly they film these scenes, and while i was pondering the process of making a prop body, we hear a loud thunk of scully removing the dude's rib cage to which i nearly fainted but we were Fine it's okay

and i'm holding my breath trying to deal with seeing this dude's insides when we get a WORM JUMPSCARE crawling about in his corpse

back in new jersey we see more sanitation workers and another man getting pummeled by the sewer beast... have we considered giving these men a raise?

the man has a nasty wound and i wrote "i am not built for this" in my notes but mulder strolls into the doctor's office while he's being checked out to investigate... we see the wound that the sanitation guy thinks is a snake that got into the sewers... and i'm thinking that doesn't sound right but i don't know enough about sewers to dispute that information

scully calls and he has to hang up and he gets ANOTHER call and picks up like "scully not now >:(" BUT THE GAG IS... it isn't her... it's some guy saying he has a friend in the FBI....... um

scully has mulder come down to the lab to show off the worm she found and give the audience a nice PSA to not eat raw meat! thank you dr. scully! we then get some worm facts and she seems pleased

BUT MULDER IS MEAN and he accuses her of being responsible for the phone call and she looks so hurt! she says she wouldn't betray his confidence by talking about him wanting to leave! mulder i get that you're in your questioning era but literally one episode ago she picked up your mostly dead body from a jungle compound so?? let's be rational here???

the next scene involved blood coming out of sanitation man's mouth and mostly what i wrote at this point was a few variations of "AUGH" "i cannot look" and "cannot handle this"

at the sanitation plant they capture whatever this Thing is and oh my. well. all i can really think of are those fake mermaids. you know the barnum fake mermaid hoax? or is that too 19th century niche? well either way, it looks like that but Worse. and equipped with suckers. it's a gnarly beast to gaze upon and i wrote more "AUGH"s here

cutscene to scully on a computer reading worm facts. back when you used a big ol computer to research creatures. i miss the 90's (disclaimer: i was not alive for them at all)

mulder lets her see the creature (which they have put in a mental hospital?) and she is SO excited to see this sort of beast BUT she figured out it was connected to the first attack because someone slipped a magazine article with a hint under her door!!!! looks like there really is someone on the inside...

she also says "i'd consider it more than a professional loss if you decided to leave" WAHHHHHHH <- me crying like a baby at this line

mulder's sitting in skinner's office like a kid stuck in detention and skinner says they're gonna prosecute the worm monkey baby thing and i nearly cried at the mental image of putting that beast on trial. skinner was like "you want to put it in the zoo?" I fear that's far more reasonable.....????? like how is he gonna testify he's WORM MONKEY BABY THING

mulder is again very pissed off and tells skinner that they could have saved the second man (who died in the shower while i was looking away from his bleeding) because he had agents who could have handled it but he shut the x files down and skinner is like. i know. but i was just following orders... tea....

okay so i THOUGHT the worm monkey was baby sized but now they're taking him somewhere else and he is full man sized... but he breaks out of his restraints, we hear a gunshot, and he escapes into a toilet... NO, i yelled to the sanitation worker on my screen, THE WORM IS INSIDE (he couldn't hear me)

mulder's at the scene and gets another mysterious phone call telling him he CANNOT mess this case up because there needs to be undeniable proof the x files must come back... okay no pressure!

so the worm monkey is somewhere in the sewer plant and scully calls like "i think the little worm we found was a baby and it's looking for a place to lay its eggs so we CANNOT let it escape"

(mulder and another worker go into the sewers without any sort of worm monkey handling equipment, idk i was thinking a shotgun might be appropriate here. like what did they think they were gonna do? wrestle it?)

the other worker falls in so NATURALLY our hero mulder (who is still a hero even if he has been cranky af lately) jumps in after him

and mulder GUILLOTINES the worm monkey in what can only be described as an average fox w 🔥🔥

at the end we see scully and mulder once again meet on a public bench in the dark, where she shares that the genetic testing proved that this thing was actually a mixture of human and worm that came from radioactive waste at chernobyl??? so. that's fucked up. haven't they suffered enough.

(but i like that this is a monster made possible by humans and yet still very real, even if that seems... an unlikely story... still, for dana scully's sake i'm happy this is something that can be proved by Science)

((although i hate to know what the implications are for the chernobyl dogs in this universe...))

we end with a shot of worm monkey baby, who has been split in half, re-opening its eyes. now i do think sea worms can sometimes grow back so this isn't SHOCKING. but it is displeasing nonetheless.

overall, listen; mulder, you've had it rough. they've slashed your life's work and you doubt reality. but man. clean your desk up. be nice to scully. skinner is clearly on ur side. i need to shake his stupidly tall frame and knock some sense into him. that beautiful woman wants to tell you worm facts and you should be writing it all down intently.

(good angst though, love that she's the only reason he wants to stay. and love her little autopsy time <3)

[twisting-in-wonderland]

oops -!! someone’s made him angry---!!!

(lineart under readmore-)

he is out of ammo btw! ( this is a threat, not a reassurance-)

also, bonus of sorts-- i wanted to draw a beanfest thing during the. actual event. not a month or so after-- but it was when i was still reaaalll bad at drawing twst so i never finished it lol  :

he’s gonna hunt you for sport! :] fun!

[ssruis]

Going through a straight up comical amount of irritating situations to get the stupid 4* guaranteed ticket from the welcome to sekai campaign. It Will Be Mine.

[novel-nook-blog]

Essay update 🌸

Three days ago I downloaded Scrivener. Do you know the app? Not so long ago I found out about nanowrimo and scrivener and it got me hooked! I read a bunch of articles about both, saw a few videos and fell in love. On June 15th the longer trial version for Camp NaNo started and I had to download it and try the app for myself. I was worried that it wouldn't go well with my native language and also I was scared I'd get lost and won't figure the app out, because I'm too lazy to read all the manuals that it has.

So I downloaded it and three days later I'd consider myself a pro. I love the app. I put all my novel info and research from several notebooks in it and it's all in one place!!!! And it has so many features! Being in the app itself brings me joy.

My point is… I kind of wanted to have the essay done by the 15th so I could focus on my novel. Kind of didn't happen… and it was hard for me to close scrivener and go to my lovely Microsoft Word. Around an hour ago I got a brilliant idea - why couldn't I write the essay in Scrivener and then ctrl+paste it in Word? And it was the best idea I've ever had! I wrote so many words just in one hour! I'm incredibly happy about it! And it's soooo aesthetic!

Do you see how pretty it is? I'm writing at my desk today, which is usually inconvenient because I have a window right above my head and most of the day direct sunlight goes through it and I'm baking alive. But today it's cloudy so the right amount of light goes through and it's just so perfect.

[thrnwhip]

while I do like the idea of all the companions coming with you on the road to baldurs gate and all i also think it's just as funny that some just stay at camp lmaoo like

imagine coming back to wyll at camp and tav's like "Hey man thanks for cooking the stew! we saved your father the duke, saved the city from the perilous reign of lord enver gortash and the steel watch and got you out of your pact btw. is there a veggie option?" and wylls just like ?????

[gender-trash]

make the sphere poll!

okay! here goes

elaborate on context in the tags, if you like (did you watch it in an educational context? did a friend show it to you? did you stumble upon it alone, in a late-night youtube binge kept secret from your parents?)