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xxix • he/him • reluctant postmodernist
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i only recently started reading again. i hadn’t for years, mostly because of an inability to find the books i wanted. so, partially because i didn’t want anyone to go through the same thing, partially so i can show off my ~excellent taste~, i decided to start uploading books i love or plan to read~

Currently includes works by Jane Allen, Martin Amis, Petronius Arbiter, Henry H. Bashford, Alan Bennett, Mikhail Bulgakov, Truman Capote, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Neil Gaiman, Cédric Giraud (ed.), Ernest Hemingway, Patricia Highsmith, Tom Holland, Alan Hollinghurst, A. E. Housman, Erin Hunter, Christopher Isherwood, Franz Kafka, Ronald Knox, H. P. Lovecraft, Vladimir Nabokov, Hans Henning Ørberg, George Orwell, Robert Peston, Terry Pratchett, Marcel Proust, Anne Rice, Walter Rüegg (ed.), J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Tom Sharpe, Robert Louis Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, Donna Tartt, Voltaire, Alice Walker, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf. Complete list under the readmore.

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i think tomorrow i will get a banh mi

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imlizy

william the conqueror: i shall take england for normandy and become its king

william the concurrer: i agree

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

  • url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
  • url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 
  • url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
  • url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 
  • url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
  • url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
  • url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 
  • url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

the archive/tagged trick is a lifesaver!!

a caveat on op’s caveat is that if your blog/the blog you want to search is older than [whenever they forced everybody into the tumblr.com/user change], most of these tricks will still work whether or not they have enabled “custom theme.”

tumblr works it’s just a closely guarded secret

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psych0-r4tz

WAIT IS NICKLES AND TRANS PICKLES ACTUALLY OFFICIALLY CANON OR AM I JUST GOING CRAZY RIGHT NOW.

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trixisspy

Clarification for ya op, "Nickles is canon" is from this clip the first night of the Mutilation on a Spring Night tour. In the clip Nathan calls Pickles "cute" and "adorable". (Note this clip was reposted from a Twitter account of someone who went). The clip

And the "Trans Pickles is canon" comes from this post from a fan who talked to Brendon at the Mutilation tour meet and greet saying he (the fan, who is a trans man btw) jokingly said that they would claim them as trans to which Brendon said "As you should" (note people aren't allowed to record video or audio during the meets).

Brendon never said trans pickles was canon, but he is supportive of the fans' interpretations and headcanons. Nickles being canon could be the same thing too.

As for me personally, with my whole heart, Nickles being canon and Pickles being trans makes sense to me. And I know that's not every fan's cup of tea. Hope this helps!

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plagues history and global epidemiology as an autistic special interest was already a heavy topic but not a day goes by I dont briefly recall drunkenly telling people at the bar in autumn 2019 “yeah the next pandemic will probably be a coronavirus and we’re due for one”

if they remember that i have to wonder if they think they met the devil at the club that night

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My longhouse is perfectly constructed. Every morning when I wake up in bed at the far end of my longhouse, I say my syllable. Then I spend all day sitting in bed. By sunset my syllable has traveled to the other end of my longhouse and back, and as it smacks me in the head, I fall asleep. My longhouse is perfectly constructed.

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BTW, you remember the old “longhouse is perfectly constructed” post? I know it might seem embarrassing, but since making that post, my longhouse has been abandoned and ruined. It’s been 500 years since I made the post. These days instead of living in a longhouse, I walk around. Actually good for my ass muscle!

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"i'm mr sterling's right hand arm. man." is to say: i am the unutterable wisdom that precedes and gives rise to verbal understanding.

"i'm mr sterling everything" is to say: i am the undifferentiated matrix through which the phenomenon of "mr sterling" is apprehended.

"his confidant. his best friend. his silly rabbit." is to say: the unity of the two, differentiated and undifferentiated, quiescence and clarity, produces a third which is motion, who then goes on reproduce itself indefinitely.

"does he call you that? no." is to say: the name which can be spoken is not the eternal name.

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