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Snuzillaberry Pie

@andithil / andithil.tumblr.com

that's some cute full-circle bullshit
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How lucky we are to be in a world where the 8ball keeps shaking and the questions keep coming- to know that anything is possible and everything will have its time and day.

How lucky we are to watch it return six times over and not believe our luck. How lucky we are to wake up early to check the setlist and have our days started off in awe. How lucky we are to know something so special we can be so jealous to have not been there. How lucky we are to have a place in the world carved out just for us (it’s empty without you).

Just… how lucky can we be that music can feel this important?

Six 8balls, man. Six 8balls.

Six 8balls from the beginning to the end (you already got your TTTYG and SM(F)S fix earlier, c’mon). I got an honourable mention. It’s been said so many times I’m not sure it matters. We’re so miserable (and stunning). We’re all fighting growing old. I think you’re my best friend. I became such a strange shape.

I dunno, it just drills a hole in your chest and fills it back up, yk?

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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people always talk about leaving comments on ao3 like it's a nice thing to do, or the best way to encourage writers to keep writing, or overall like it's how you Do Your Part in fandom

and yeah, all those things are true, but having spent the past few months leaving enthusiastic comments on as many things as i can, i have a different perspective

you should leave comments on fics because it's fun

taking the time to stop and focus on what i like about a story has made me way more aware of what's going on in stories and what i like about them. there's bit more actual comprehension and appreciation and not just beaming content into my eyes to fill time

i like noticing cool little things in fics, or riffing on funny events. i've never been very good at speculating or picking apart characters, but sometimes something clicks and it rocks.

and of course it's pretty nice when you get a response and it's clear you've made another person happy

so yeah, you should leave comments for your own sake, too. it makes reading better!

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Sometimes I think about the fact that they lived their whole lives near the ocean, and that’s how they grew up, with all those endless childhood hours spent in close proximity to something that seemed just as limitless from the shore. The way Gob just finds Michael here like his feet know where to carry him. Like he can follow memories back to this one spot because he knows Michael has gravitated here for years. On lazy weekends, on summer evenings, on days when his shift would end at the banana stand but walking to the water seemed preferable to immediately riding home. I love how there’s that kind of familiarity in even this one moment. How neither one of them is surprised to see the other. How Michael continues to let the sand slip slowly through his fingers like this isn’t an actual interruption for him; it’s normal. It’s a well worn groove. It’s life as they’ve always known it.  

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