[she/them, ace, 30?]
I am a dedicated queue user, sometimes I make my own content and I also throw that in the queue. If you need something tagged/see a problem, let me know. I don't tend to publish anon asks. :D
Description: An illustration of an ocean at night. Most everything is black or lit up by fire. In the distance, we can see the source of the light is a sinking ship up in flames. At the bottom edge of the illustration, outlined by the light, is tree mermaids watching the ship burn. One mermaid's eye turned towards the viewer.
TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."
I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.
Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.
Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!
I had a new "oh, my family were the weird ones" moment recently: it seems no one else's family celebrated Frog Night (the first warm rainy night of spring) by going down to the local vernal pool after dark to help the amphibians safely across the road and listening to the spring peepers. (We'd then go back in daytime later on to observe the egg masses, of course.)
Apparently "Frog Night" as a holiday is a thing my mother invented and not a widely-accepted idea, which is a shame because I've been referring to it as if it was for the past 30 years.
"the vocaloid community cant be THAT funny" here's kyounosuke yoshitate, voice provider of nekomura iroha, in the MIDDLE OF HIS VIDEO WHERE HE CAME OUT AS TRANS
i think about this so fucking often. its been 2 years and sometimes i still randomly go "i cant believe yoshitate kyounosuke used his fucking coming out to shill for iroha.... legend.... icon...."