tinsnip:

indigobluerose:

“At school, when we used to do essays and English composition, my report generally read ‘Has little or no ability, but does his best,’ or words to that effect.”

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Wondering now if P. G. ever got that written on a report.

I got pretty much exactly that in phys. ed. in grade 9. She passed me because what else could she do? “Tinsnip can barely walk a straight line. But she tries.”

This happened to me in 11th grade chemistry, in which I got an award for “trying so hard, even though nothing made sense.”  I also once got 10.5 points on a test out of 50 in that class.  She gave me the half point for putting my name on the paper. 

I got A’s on everything else, but chemistry fucked me up.

(via tinsnip)

blue-author:

thorhugs:

hammerandrage:

I FOUND IT! I FOUND THE ANSWER!

Okay, maybe not the final answer, but part of the problem! Asks keep getting eaten. Which is a big problem when you’re doing something anon and don’t want to ask the person “did you get it”? 

If the ask contains an ellipsis without a trailing space, it gets eaten. It says delivered, but it goes nowhere.

So “Well… then” will get delivered but “Well…then” won’t!

Hopefully this helps in getting your asks actually delivered.

Post I made for my RP account, but very relevant elsewhere.

After discovering this, I tested it. Five different accounts between two people, anon vs not. No matter what, without fail, if the trailing space was missing, the message was not delivered.

I contacted Tumblr staff. They were already fully aware this was happening, but it is not documented anywhere. Nor do they seem keen on giving their users a warning about it in any fashion.

Help me spread the word because the staff won’t!

The reason this happens is the same as the reason they won’t fix it: this is how they prevent people from sending links in asks. Instead of using any of a number of easily implemented regular expressions for parsing/recognizing URLs, they just declare that any time there are words on either side of any number of dots with no space, that’s a link. So if you forget to space between sentences or you wind up one character short and decide to trim some spaces, you can also fall afoul of the filter.

It’s a very lazy, slapdash solution and the fact that they choose to make the asks silently fail to deliver instead of telling you a link was detected or whatever makes it even worse.

(via feltelures)

Slayers! <33333 (Wow I had the biggest a crush on Zelgadiss)

The -xel in Lady Yate-xel was borrowed from Xelloss when I was 14. :P Slayers was such a big deal to me for ages, and it’s one of the few anime I still love.

I’m always confused that characters have such clear-cut dreams like…if I tried to describe my dreams it’d be like “and then i was in the video game but not really and i was kind of awake at this point but i fell back asleep and kept dreaming-“

For me it’s that I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dream described that wasn’t just the author beating a metaphor into the ground in a really lazy way. “This character feels really guilty about hurting this other character, so we’re gonna see the other character as a broken puppet and he’s going to keep saying, ‘Why did you do this to me, First Character?’” Or “And then I saw my love interest turn into a bird and fly into a cage held by my rival for their affections.”  Just… really? You didn’t have some other way to depict guilt or relationship drama?  I rarely have dreams that use well-known literary symbols and signs to convey things and dreams are only marginally interesting when they come from real people.  Fictional people having over wrought fictional dreams?  I am checking out.

few things are as boring in fanfic as descriptions of characters’ dreams