On a semi-hiatus. Blocking porn/spam blogs. Faramir and Kíli Singaporean fangirl once described as being like Hermione Granger. Also a fan of Singaporen singer A-do (sideblog at much-a-do-about). Cis minromantic asexual, pronouns she/her/hers. Avatar by fierceginny.
Reviving my Tumblr for this street team cover reveal campaign:
For fans of ✨ LEGALLY BLONDE and SILICON VALLEY ✨
When a fashion writer dives headfirst into the cutthroat Silicon Valley tech world, her future threatens to unravel in this addictive novel by Kyla Zhao, author of The Fraud Squad.
On paper, Zoe Zeng has made it in New York’s fashion world. After a string of unpaid internships, she’s now a fashion columnist at Chic, lives in a quaint apartment in Manhattan, and gets invited to exclusive industry events.
But life in New York City isn’t as chic as Zoe imagined. Her editor wants her to censor her opinions to please the big brands; she shares her “quaint” (read: small) apartment with two roommates who never let her store kimchi in the fridge; and how is she supposed to afford the designer clothes expected for those parties on her meager salary?
Then one day, Zoe receives a job offer at FitPick, an app startup based in Silicon Valley. The tech salary and office perks are sweet, but moving across the country and switching to a totally new industry? Not so much. However, with her current career at a dead end, Zoe accepts the offer and swaps high fashion for high tech, haute couture for HTML. But she soon realizes that in an industry claiming to change the world for the better, not everyone’s intentions are pure. With an eight-figure investment on the line, Zoe must find a way to revamp FitPick’s image despite Silicon Valley’s elitism and her icy colleagues. Or the company’s future will go up in smoke—and hers with it.
today, nearly 2,000 years ago, someone in pompeii baked bread.
Ahh, picture it. The time, around 2,000 years ago—the place, Pompeii. Simpler, happier times in some ways; and for the ruthless power games, insatiable sexual appetites, wild ambition, and creative genius, less so in others. However, following yesterday’s foray into pastries, and all things fluffy, warm, and flakey, it dawned on us that this day around 2,000 years ago a happy chappy somewhere in the city’s magnificent walls got to work and made some bread. CIL vol. IV 8972: XIII K. Maias panem feci—which translates as: On April 19th I made bread. And we love that for you, even millennia later! So, one day after our sweet celebration, it’s time to pay homage to pastries’ savory counterparts by marking April 19 with #bread. And a happy 2,000th anniversary to whichever miscellaneous Pompeian who decided not simply to make bread, but to mark the occasion with graffiti. But how do we know this? Well, it is thanks to the enquiring minds as evident in this post from @todayiwrotenothing, and indeed this commemoration on Reddit. Every day is a school day over here on The Internet.
Today it comes in countless forms, shapes, and sizes: wholewheat, rye, sourdough, multigrain bread, baguette, ciabatta, pumpernickel, soda, focaccia, cornbread, bagel, flatbread, naan, brioche, challah, and, last but by no means least, the ever-trusty white bread. As you will shortly see in the following string of bready content, this is simple yet limitless food: it can be braided, made by illustrated cats, or indeed constructed in the shape of the dashboard’s beloved, hapless vessel, the good ship Ever Given.
So here’s to you, as-yet-unnamed Pompeian who not only makes the bread, but brags about it too. We think you would have enjoyed this one-day tribute to your escapades here with #bread. We shall submit a formal application to rename it Tumbread, in your honor. But that’s still not all: rumor has it there is sister graffiti that reads “Olivia condita XVII Kalendas Novembres"—so come back on November 16th for preserved olives.
why aren’t there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:
decades of life experience
boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness
access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence
“I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit” attitude
and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.
one thing about me is that i will screenshot all the spam bots that follow me before i block them just so i have some random names to use in books for background characters
one thing I’ve noticed with being autistic is my innate sense of justice
people tend to be so passive to awful injustices and say “well it is what it is”
but I can never see it that way
how can people be so dismissive of other human beings and their lives? how can we reach equality when every person has such a selfish point of view?
it’s really horrifying, and yet we’re considered the ones with no empathy
This! Yes! It’s actually a very common trait with autistics.
This reminds me of a recent study where NTs and Autistics were given money and allowed to give as much as they wanted to a charity and keep the rest of the money for themselves.
When viewed, NTs more commonly gave more money and kept less. But when they thought they were alone, they gave less.
Autistics gave more and kept less no matter the situation. Viewed or perceived as alone, we gave more.
Edit: I forgot the kicker to this study.
They published the study to say Autistics are too giving.
It’s more than 1000 pages long!! Does she not have an editor or does her editor hate her??? Currently has 2.5 stars on Amazon with 4 reviews.
This is so embarrassing.
I saw people talking about this in the morning. I literally spent all day assuming it was the Onion or something similar.
You’re telling me this is *real*? 😬
Oh God, this so fucking cringe.
[also, re: the length, long before Rowling became Blessed Saint Jo, Our Lady of TERFdom, she was still eliciting eye-rolls from just about everybody in the publishing industry for refusing to let her work be properly edited. Even outside the bonkers transphobia stuff, it’s clear she has a massively inflated ego about her abilities as a writer and researcher, which explains why she failed so miserable when trying to expand her wizarding universe beyond the borders of the UK. A more sensible person—especially one with her financial means and connections—would have sought input from historical experts and cultural consultants. But Rowling didn’t, because she believes herself to be the goose that laid the golden egg, incapable of coming up with anything less than absolute brilliance. So what if she read one (1) Wikipedia article on Cities in Asia, or New York in the 1920s? Anything her extra-special magical TERF brain coughs out is a bona fide literary gem and deserves to be heralded as genius, and if you suggest otherwise she’ll block you, or sue you, or say you’re persecuting her]
Whenever I see someone refer to “Victorian era-” for places outside the UK I’m tempted to start saying shit like “Han Dynasty era Rome”, “Soviet era Australia” etc
“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”
The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America
I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.
Let me introduce you to 1940′s American children’s book author/illustrator Genevieve Foster, who was one of the first to present the idea of parallel or “horizontal” history rather than “vertical” history to the public.
I read the Washington and Lincoln books in the mid-to-late 1970s Basically it takes a specific portion of Washington or Lincoln’s life, such as boyhood or presidency (something American education will have at least touched upon) and then discusses what’s going on in other places around the world at that time.
I’m sure they’re terribly out of date and undoubtedly white- and western-centric (it was the 1940′s!) but I do remember sections on Russia and China. They really impressed on me the fact that things are going on everywhere, all the time, and history is local, not universal.
Never came across the Augustus Caesar one. Gonna have to see if I can get my hands on a copy.
Just realized that both coming out day and indigenous peoples day are on the 11th this year so here’s your reminder from your local queer native to not let Indigenous Peoples Day get ignored and forgotten this year. Support natives even if they’re not queer this october 11th, and don’t let white + colonized narratives be the main focus of the day.
Also I highly encourage white people to reblog this
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