#sum and average

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Cross-stitch really does make you reconsider whether or not you understand basic maths. Like yeah, I know the difference between 4 and 5, definitely. Ignore me as I undo several stitches.

[daily-sifloop]

If you want a sifloop song rec I suggest 'no children' by the mountain goats it's very toxic yuri and I enjoy sifloop angst (if you want a fluffier sifloop song the only one I have is 'monster' from adventure time)

Day 61: no children

Textless version under the cut

[brainjvice]

I think my biggest pet peeve is when people un-asshole my fave asshole characters. Or, worse, make them emotionally intelligent.

Some characters are just assholes please let them be assholes. They are not built to be empaths nor to use therapy speech nor to function like an average human being.

Let them be weird little freaks...

[thinking-emoji]

ngl they were pretty famous in 2017, not like household names level famous, but definitely more famous than they are right now. i feel like even if u were just a casual youtube watcher and social media user, u at least heard of their names, and the phandom at the time was also huge (in part because, like dnp mentioned in their mukbang video, a lot of ppl who were generally into british youtube also watched them, whereas now, it’s mostly us really dedicated phannies who have stuck through the hiatus). also, although they had left the bbc by then, they ofc still had that cred attached to them for having been bbc presenters and brits hosts (granted, £250,000 is still Wilddddd, but yeah i’d say they were pretty famous then, even if a good portion of that was like Residual fame from the insanity of 2014-2016)

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I'M SO SORRY

I GOT THESE AND STARTED RAMBLING AND THEN WANTED TO LOOK SOMETHING UP AND REORGANISE THE POST AND THEN I SAVED THIS AS A DRAFT AND THEN. FORGOT. FOR A WEEK please forgive me 😭😭😭

Um. Do you still want the unstructured rant from a week ago. I'm not even gonna reread it, I'll just post it as it is including last week's tags 😭😭😭

Ok this sent me down a rabbit hole into the most subscribed to youtube channels of 2017, the post-brexit economy of the UK, tinder's revenue history, tinder's marketing budget history, youtube's revenue history (google "2017 youtube advertiser boycott" for a blast from the past), and way too little phandom and Fandom history so I still feel like I'm missing pieces lmao

The thing is... I distinctly *remember* seeing comments that dnp were past their zenith during ii? Granted I wasn't on phannie tumblr at the time so this must've been on twitter or idb, where people have always been more pessimistic I guess. But it's not like this was a lifetime ago, I know where I was and what I did in 2017 (secretly watch dnpg during a uni field trip while everyone else was getting drunk and hooking up with the professors) (until they realised i had mobile data even though we were abroad, which was when they started asking me if we could all watch skam on my phone) (bc apparently that was what the 20 year olds were into lmao) (which is also how i know nobody used tumblr anymore bc i found the pirated skam uploads through a doc linked on tumblr, while everyone else was trying to catch the youtube uploads before they got taken down after 2 hours), so I feel like I can't be misremembering it that much? Like, I remember everyone (irl and on twitter) talking about conventional "youtubers" (as in, person who talks into a camera without a large production company behind them) in these mind-bogglingly reductionistic terms after pewdiepie came out as a racist and then again after logan paul filmed that dead body (tbf that was in december 2017, so definitely after the tinder spon), and I specifically found it so strange that it seemed like none of these commentators knew any other professional youtubers. Like the whole business model seemed so strangely more niche than it had a few years earlier? Like, in 2012 all my friends were watching Tyler Oakley or Jenna Marbles, and then by 2016 they had moved on to watch... Seth Meyers clips? On Youtube? Or, you know, Skam reuploads. Which is not what the platform was for at all, but there was this strange shift in content that wasn't *made* for youtube.

All this to say.... I guess the ad *could* have been that expensive, especially bc immediately after brexit inflation went up in the uk, so that probably also affected the numbers, depending on whether they got the deal with tinder uk or tinder us? I still feel like 2017ish wasn't a high point for youtubers specifically. Apparently influencer marketing only really took off in the mid-2010s though, so I guess it was also this liminal space of already-ftc-mandated-testimonial-declarations-hashtag-ad but not-yet-moved-all-the-budget-to-instagram? Idk it was a weird time. I wonder how it'll go in the next 10 years

[creaturefeaster]

is there a way to break the vampire curse without death?

Nope. There are scams out there that sell themselves as vampirism cures, some of which do nothing and some of which kill the vampire. But never before on Theia has the curse of vampirism been separated from the soul without death.

[willidleaway]

and with Davina McCall's first appearance in Doctor Who since 2005's 'Bad Wolf', the summoning ritual is complete. we have now fully returned to RTD-era new!Who

[crehador]

100 DAYS OF SMIC DAILIES

TOTAL WORD COUNT THUS FAR: 146,825

ORIGINAL GOAL: 500 WORDS OR LESS PER DAILY

TASK FAILED

.........SUCCESSFULLY?

[doolallymagpie]

been trying to come up with a BattleTech “pitch” for fans of The Expanse, but honestly?

this is probably enough, plus the official “primer” document if you want actual information rather than just a bunch of pretty images and a banging soundtrack by Jon Everist (who I’m fairly sure admitted he wanted this piece to sound kind of Expanse-y)

or if you don’t want to click links or watch videos:

politics-heavy hard-SF space opera, thrilling heroics, (almost) zero easy answers to the dilemma of the day, main themes are “people are always going to be people” and “the end justifies the means, but there is no end”. obviously this describes both settings nicely.

one just uses that to explain why people are hopping into big war robots and slapping the shit out of each other.

[micahdotgov]

can't sleep. scroll the west wing ao3 tag. read all the good ones. go to dr who kink meme. open the master section. second fic is the west wing crossover.

[alex-just-vibing]

shput out to me accidentally staying up till like 2 am writing last night

[aluminia]

Made myself a new header image, I had the last one for 2 years I think. Might still change it though😭

(painting: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco de Goya)

[radiantresume]

Top 20 IF Formulas in Excel – A Complete Guide

Excel’s IF function is the backbone of decision-making formulas, allowing users to automate calculations and streamline data analysis. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced Excel user, knowing how to use the IF function in various combinations is essential. In this guide, we’ll explore the Top 20 IF Formulas that can significantly improve your Excel workflow. From basic comparisons to complex…

[slanky-here]

ngl its kind of a relief to be a sylvix monoshipper because if i had to not only bear the respective curses of miklan being Blorbo™, being a toxic matthias raoul gautier stan and enjoying a sylvain pairing that has 30 fics on ao3 - i honest to god would've exploded

[light-wrath-paradise]

On one hand I get how Jayce's astral plane speech can sound kinda ableist and it do be kinda funny because he goes "Imperfections aren't something to cure" about a progressive chronic illness that seriously worsened Viktor's quality of life.

On the other hand no no I get him. Let him cook. He gets it more than anyone has ever gotten it in the history of mankind.

[starburstgalexies]

If you're adamant on calling r.atio lovechild of two gnshn characters (a trend I'm vehemently against just to be clear), calling it ha.ikave.tham is high level copium. If any two characters fit the bill it's scr and thm. That's how ridiculous this trend is.

[supersaiyajopping]

deleted my two paragraph tweet on the subject instead posting it ✌️