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My letter to the world, that never wrote to me.

@typesetjez / typesetjez.tumblr.com

Blogging impresario, television aficionado, avid shoe wearer.I run howtogrowthefuckup.com and a few other things you like. If you're here for library stuff, check me out at mylifeinthelibrary instead.

I’m annoyed to report that tumblr has removed #howtogrowthefuckup. Claims I was using the account for spam, despite not posting in over a year. I spoke to “support” to try to dispute this and they told me there’s no way to get back deleted content, regardless of the reason.

Some of the guides are still available at archive.org and I’ll think about uploading to my personal site. I haven’t done anything with HTGTFU in a long time because t*mblr is such a toxic environment, but I knew it was okay to leave because the guides still existed and helped literal tens of thousands of people. I’m thankful I was able to help so many in the last 7 years. I don’t really have any better way to get the word out than this, since the site is just...gone. If HTGTFU was important to you, please spread the word to those who need to know. Love you all ⭐️

If you want to keep up with me, you can find me on twitter @typesetjez. It’s doubtful I’ll see your messages on tumblr, but I’ll try to remember to check in occasionally.

it is super unfair to my wallet that both manic and depressive episodes involve me buying things I don’t need

sometimes I think about the recording of Alex Goldman just laughing to himself from time to time and I figure that’s generally what my neighbors probably think of me

I have a client who communicates exclusively via Microsoft Word.

If she has something to tell me, I’ll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That’s where she writes her message.

Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does so via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.

But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL (“W… W… W… dot…”) and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.

I was so fascinated I didn’t even say anything.

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  • 10. Do you think your life will change dramatically before 2014?

It changed dramatically during 2014. That’s the year I moved to NYC and started grad school and everything. That’s the year I finally got to hang out with you guys in person.

Is my life gonna change dramatically before 2018? Doubt it. But who knows?

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We’re going on a life-changing field trip with Zuko soon.

someone: do you watch game of thrones?

me: not for years, but I have an exquisitely plotted story in my head about how Sansa Stark serves as lady of winterfell and falls in love with another northern lady but she doesn’t realize it’s Love Love because she’s just like “what very good friends we are :)” and the other woman is really good at resource management and where to put latrines so people don’t get sick, and they work together and are best friends and maybe more?? Yes, more. It’s a fifteen episode miniseries about rebuilding after war, peacetime governance, and gentle gay love, sexuality, and trust. I have the camera angles all planned out. Arya is there, and she has twelve direwolves puppies that cause mischief. At some point, the whole north is like “There Must Always Be A Stark In Winterfell And It’s Fine If She’s A Lesbian” 

someone: can you pass the salt?

me: Episode Three starts with Sansa standing by her window, watching a pack of giggling small children have a snowball fight. She looks cold, austere. She watches Arya fucking pile-drive a six year old into a snow bank. Sansa’s lip quirks. She is Healing. The plot of this episode is dealing with mice in the grain supplies. Sophie Turner is nominated for seven emmys in one season. 

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concept: an austen-inspired tabletop rpg where there are five classes

  1. single man in possession of a large fortune who is in want of a wife
  2. young woman with low connections who must marry so that she can secure her future
  3. cad whose main goal is to convince someone to elope with him
  4. wealthy, scheming woman whose goal is to ruin the happiness of the aforementioned young woman
  5. tiresome & vulgar elderly busybody (can be either a man or a woman)

I’m gonna split this out a little farther, because I feel like we’re blurring the lines between classes and stats. First you should pick your Austen class:

  • Bachelor/Bachelorette
  • Cad / Floozy
  • Husband/Wife
  • Matriarch/Patriarch
  • Busybody

Then you roll for your stats across the 6 basic Abilities:

  • Money
  • Intelligence
  • Connections
  • Manners
  • Looks
  • Snark
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