#or any apps

[theknightlywolfe]

To be fair, as long as you aren't part of the Apple cult, most tablets and phones do come with slots for SD cards, and I just picked up a couple half terabyte cards for $30 each. I have my small tablet card filled with over 100hrs of TV shows that are available on YouTube and downloadable via many different tools (I suggest Newpipe, for all your YouTube needs) and dozens of PDFs of my favourite fics from AO3. The other card contains a full backup of my personal laptop files and is part of my travel kit in case something happens, I can just buy a new computer and immediately be up and running again no cloud needed. I have a 64GB SD card that cost me $20 a few years ago that carries hours of music mp3s and which I move from phone to phone as an old one dies.

Google Maps, as many things are wrong with it as there are, does still have a "download for offline use" function right there because it knows on longer trips you won't have signal. Netflix has a "watch offline" option via that big "Download" button when you look at a movie's description, as does Vudu. I have used these several times sitting in airports where I know the free wifi is junk and so don't bother to connect, and my tablets are all wifi only.

Yes, the app still needs to run and you still need the Internet connection while you do the prep of "downloading" but you very much can have your entertainments and your map directions with zero internet access. I have gone through many a power outage and drive through the middle of bumfuck nowhere literal desert and, again, many an airport happily entertained with music, movies, and reading because I simply did the prep. The prep being "hit work offline button when I see something I really like".

And I am old enough I beta-tested *CompuServe*.

smartphone storage plateauing in favor of just storing everything in the cloud is such dogshit. i should be able to have like a fucking terabyte of data on my phone at this point. i hate the fucking cloud

[brainbleedo]

Tumblr users getting together when AO3 goes down is like a national holiday or something, we all come together to collectively mourn it's all too soon death.

[chanafehs]

Maybe I’m just too sensitive to people using Palestinian culture for their own means (or just straight up stealing it) but I do get kinda annoyed when I see artists doing “biblically accurate” depictions of figures from Christianity and clearly using modern Palestinian clothing for it and not mentioning it anywhere. For example a thobe malak isn’t “bible clothing” and not mentioning your references anywhere contributes to the erasure of Palestinian culture. One of the aims of Zionist propaganda is the complete removal of Palestinians from both Palestine and our own cultural and historical narrative. Like sure man, you can use Palestinian clothing for your artwork, but at least say what you are referencing. Stop cutting Palestinians out of the picture because you don’t want to add another sentence to the description

[max-nicoxposts]

I cradled tiktok in my arms as it died. I watched my likes disappear, my comments, my reposts, my friends. The rest of the world just disintegrated under my finger tips and the only thing I can do is mourn. There's not even a wake, or a funeral to attend. There's only disconnection 💔💔

[lilislegacy]

i’m just gonna come out and say it

if luke comes back in a future book, i hope percy is taller than him now.

[starspilli]

now and then

very quick VERY rough very very very self indulgent doodles… i will accept no criticisms on this 🙏

[callmecoke]

In the midst of my depression I just want to let everyone know:

If you’re infertile, or simply don’t want children, your fave cod character will love you regardless. Literally any one of them.

I’m tired of seeing so much about domestic breeding kink and blah blah house wife blah blah bare foot and pregnant blah blah. Especially as someone who is chronically terrified of the idea of being pregnant to the point of panic attacks

So for anyone like me, yes, the cod men and women wouldn’t force you to have a child. They’d get it, they’d understand. They probably wouldn’t want kids either. They’re not going to abandon their relationships with you because of you not wanting or not being able to have kids. Because they want you, first and foremost. Anything other than that comes second.

This applies to ALL cod characters. Yes, even Price. Yes, even konig. Yes, even Johnny. Yes, literally all of them.

Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot and probably heavily biased. They also hate child-free people and probably women /j

You’re deserving of love outside of your ability to have a child. You’re deserving of love outside of the EXPECTATION to have a child. You are you, and that’s enough. Both in the real world and in the fictional one.

[heauxplesslydevoted]

“Disconnected” and on a macro level it’s a series of silly calls because of a downed phone line or internet server somewhere causing people to freak out. On a micro level, it’s Eddie in El Paso and Buck in Los Angeles, having separate but parallel mini tantrums because they keep trying to call each other, but missing each other. And Buck is not on his A-game at work, he’s super clumsy because he feels like he’s missing the left half of his body. And Eddie is El fucking Paso, disconnected from his people, the 118, the family he chose. And he and Chris are still making snail level progress. He’s just as disjointed as Buck.

And the other subplot is Henren trying to plan a sexy date night, but a series of shenanigans and mom duties keep forcing them to postpone.

The episode ends with Henren having a cute candlelit dinner. And Buck and Eddie finally being able to talk to each other. Buck answers the phone and does that cute flustered smile/sigh/exhale thing that he does when he’s around Eddie and says “Hi Eddie” and then the episode cuts.

[talisthighs]

I’m crying at the idea of Viktor just storming up to Jayce with his “visions.” Girl You Need Help. You Require Medical Attention

This is literally how Jayvik is talking to each other in the lab

[nori-no-name]

This is what I imagine the frontline Supreme Removers' team dynamic as (please tell me someone still remembers this meme, I couldn't find the original for the life of me)

I gave alt!Ladybug her Toxinelle hairstyle so it's more clear it's her, also I just like the space buns much better.

[morecrearty]

made a digital redraw of this sketchbook doodle

[steddieas-shegoes]

Steve’s parents send him on a gap year after high school in hopes that it’ll get him ready to apply to colleges and become a proper adult. They let him choose any of their three vacation homes so he chooses their condo in Paris.

He’s expected to find a job and himself.

The bakery down the block from the condo is owned by two old men who don’t wanna open anymore because they like sleeping in and sipping on their coffee on their balcony. Steve is happy to take over.

Especially when he sees the guy who works at the wine store across the road.

He’s in by 8 every morning, waving to the people coming in and out of the bookshop next to him and the bike repair shop next to them. His smile is contagious, and Steve often finds himself completely distracted by it even if he’s helping customers.

His long hair is always down when he gets there, but by the time Steve sees him leave in the afternoon, it’s pulled up and he has a sweaty sheen across his skin.

Steve decides to visit on his day off, maybe grab a bottle of wine even though he hates every wine he’s ever had to sip on at family functions.

But the man isn’t there when he stops by, or at least not at the counter. An older man is there, wrapping a bottle in paper for a customer who seems like they visit often.

It’s a small store, no bigger than the bakery, so it’s not like the guy could be hiding somewhere.

“Looking for something?” The older man asks as he walks around the counter towards Steve with a smile.

“Oh. Um.”

“You’re lookin’ for Ed right?” The old man’s smile turned into a smirk. “Ed! Customer!”

The man Steve had been seeing every morning and afternoon was suddenly rushing from the back of the store, clipboard in hand, hair sticking to his neck and forehead.

“Hi! What can I help you with?”

Steve could think of quite a few things he could help him with, but it probably wasn’t appropriate to say in front of someone else in his place of work.

“Sorry. Do you need me to speak French?” The man, Ed, asked in flawless French.

“No,” Steve assured. “I work in the bakery across the street. Just wanted to come by and say hi.”

Ed’s brows furrowed as he turned to the older guy who was already back at the counter trying to look busy.

“Does David need a bottle for something? He usually has Wayne pick his pairings.”

Steve shook his head. “No, not that I know of. I’ve just…um. Well, this is actually weirder now that I’m here. So I think I’ll go. Sorry to waste your time!”

Steve turned to go, but a hand grabbed his arm, tugging him back.

“Are you always this awkward?” Ed asked. Steve looked up from his feet to see him smiling. “It’s kind of cute.”

“Steve.”

“Steve. How about you come taste our sample bottle for the day? Maybe it’ll take the edge off,” Eddie offered, gesturing towards a side table that had an open bottle of wine and small sample glasses. “You like rosé?”

“I don’t really know.”

“Then let’s find out.”

Turns out Steve didn’t mind rosé that much, but maybe that was the company. The flavor was a bit less bitter than he was used to, going down much smoother without leaving a burning sensation on his tongue.

And later, after Eddie had talked to him for nearly an hour about himself and the store and his uncle who took him in and worked for him, Steve leaned in and got a taste of the rosé on Eddie’s tongue.

Steve decided he liked wine more than he thought.

[lunamarvels]

He’s so big and beefy ugh sirrr 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

[hailruth]

g-d sure did know what he was doing when he came up with that whole shabbat thing. idk how ANYONE is surviving the age of the internet without mandatory downtime on a weekly basis.

[vulturevanity]

Empath Naven memes because it's been six whole months since I read Prison of Plastic and I still hadn't drawn him.

Bonus:

[cheesemushrooms]

Soo I was pretty art blocked today so I decided to doodle @kirbyghoul's Athena (I'm excited for your new design (≡^∇^≡)