Tag: just-ann-now

euphrasiefauchelevent:

pkmndaisuki:

princeloki:

so id like to tell you something, like, in the context of cryptid sightings

specifically, id like to tell you some things about cattle

  • they dont look like they move fast, but, in fact, they do. they move very fast, and theyre capable of doing so quietly
  • if a cow is black and has white spots, or if it is white and has black spots, both the white and black bits come together in the approximate shape of a cow
  • but in the dark, you cant see the black parts, and the white parts do NOT, form the approximate shape of a cow

what im saying is that i have at certain times been walking in the fields on a night with low visibility and i have, at certain times, seen an indistinct white shape zoom past me, and i am at least 95% sure it was a cow. and that if you see a white shape zoom past you in a field at night, it is also probably at least 95% of a cow

@queerpyracy

my name is cow
and wen its nite
and yu in fere
a cryptid site
be not afraide –
in mothmans sted
its only me

in serch of bred

monicawoe:

justgot1:

berlynn-wohl:

mydwynter:

oldgrimalkin:

Ask Meme for the “Experienced” Side of Tumblr

I’m faux drunk on migraine meds, so I made up an ask meme for those of us who are >30. But anyone is welcome to play! 

Go ahead and send me a number or three…  

  1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite? 
  2. When did you first connect to other people via computers? 
  3. We’re/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other? 
  4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job? 
  5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy? 
  6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?) 
  7. When did your family first acquire a color TV? 
  8. When did your family acquire a second TV? 
  9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”? 
  10. Have you ever been to a disco? 
  11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in? 
  12.  Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.) 
  13. Are you parents still living? 
  14. Do you have any gray hairs? 
  15. Did you or your family own a Betamax? 
  16. How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000? 
  17.  What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear? 
  18. Do you eat your vegetables? 
  19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities? 
  20. Do you feel like an adult? 
  21. Is youth wasted on the young?

Never thought I could love a meme. I’m reassessing that right now.

I like this one. Ask away!

AHAHAHAHA, a meme for oldsters, awesome. Hit me, dash.

ha! awesome

Is it gauche to answer some of these even if I haven’t been tagged?

Ah, well.  Fuckit.  

3. We’re/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other? 

AOL?  Yep.  That’s where I started.  Imagine websites with only 1 page deep, no links, and basically just the information that you’d find in the phone book on it.  My first interaction with people via internet was an AOL chatroom about fiberarts.  Just as fun as you can imagine.  

5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy? 

Uhmmm. No comment.  Don’t tell my doctor.

7. When did your family first acquire a color TV? 

Oh, that’s a good question.  We lived out in the country and could only get the three main channels (ABC/NBC/CBS) and that not always reliably through the antenna on our roof so I didn’t really watch much TV.  I don’t really remember.  I can tell you, though, that I first watched Star Trek on the old vacuum tube TV in my dad’s workshop.  It was the old olive-green screened thing that had a huge knob that thunked when you turned it.  Switch it on and you could hear the show while watching this tiny pinprick of light in the middle slowly expand out as the vacuum tubes warmed up until the whole screen filled with the image.  

12. Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.) 

No, I’m not at that point, yet, but boy are the artists I grew up listening to and watching dropping like flies lately. 

13.  Are you parents still living? 

Last I checked.  They’re in their mid-80s and discovered Facebook in the past year.  Now if only I can get my father from forwarding those gawd-awful, virus filled chain emails.   

14. Do you have any gray hairs? 

Many, and I stopped coloring my hair last year.  That and the wrinkles are actually very helpful, professionally.  I find that I get listened to a lot more now that I look older.  I don’t have to work so hard to establish credibility.  I’m at the peak of my career, and it’s awesome. 

15. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities? 

This is a resounding, fucking “YES!”  Especially since the responsibilities that you have are all really about taking care of yourself and the people that you love. 

17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear?

I don’t really hang onto clothing, but I have a single, thin braid that hangs from behind my ear that I started growing in 1996.  

21. Is youth wasted on the young?

I wouldn’t mind having the metabolism, eyesight, and joints I used to have, but I wouldn’t trade what I have now for what I had and what I was then.    

I am more and more aware that my time on this earth is counting down.  I have fewer years ahead of me than behind me.  It just seems to have gone by so fast. So, I think a lot about what I’ll be leaving behind and am still struggling with my own demons so that I can remain more mindful of the moment.   Even so, no, I don’t think youth is wasted on the young.  It’s right where it belongs, with people who need it for who and what they are.  

Source: oldgrimalkin