Late To The Party - Blog Posts

Were you remembered to spend Valentine's Day with someone you love?

Came to the party but it's already in cleanup

This is really just a "testing the waters" post and my jump into joining Tumblr but man....

I wish I had been more honest with myself and just got on here years ago, because I know this is a place I would've liked and I found myself frequently enjoying Tumblr posts, memes, stories, and art over the years. But I didn't because I kept lying to myself that I should try to avoid it because of the NSFW (before the purge at least), or that I wanted to "use less social media and enjoy my teenage years", and a plethora of other dumb reasons. But I've realized that these were just more excuses I kept holding myself to honor, amongst the various of other dumb things I never truly admitted to wanting to do.

I've wanted to skateboard ever since I almost ate shit on my friend's board when I was 11, or how I loved gardening in middle school but had to do softball instead every spring, or how I tried to avoid getting into Vocaloid because my mom thought it was corny and that only basement dweller loner middle aged men cared about a singing robot, and how I've wanted to learn baking and sewing and countless instruments, all of my denied feelings and more.

I'm joining here as a start to me doing what I want to do, but as I get closer to my 18th birthday and becoming an "adult", despite the plan to live with my parents until I finish college, I've realized (and my therapist) that I've held back from so many potential joys, for the sake of my academic career, softball, and partially the isolating feelings of most kids not liking what I did. I'm happy to enjoy the things I do, but there's a strong sense of lament I feel at missing out on the things I held back from, along with the things that were before my time or lost popularity by the time I learned to appreciate it.

TLDR: I'm regretting not just doing the things I wanted to do in the past, and now I can't help but slightly regret things when I enjoy them.

@fuckyeahgoodomens why do you have to go and be all inspiring like that?

(of course it would be a little bit of both options 🧡)

4 am thoughts:

Aziraphale comes to Crowley’s flat to wake him up but sees no sign of him. Finally, he hears breathing coming from somewhere above and finds Crowley gently snoring there, sprawled on the ceiling like a star. Aziraphale tries talking, shouting, stomping – to no avail. He can’t reach the ceiling either.

What I desperately need here is a fanart of Aziraphale with a broom, poking at the foul fiend in an attempt to wake him from a 2-month coma.

I live here now.

he is so proud of purposefully getting the otacon ending

60 Years of the Tokaido Shinkansen!

On 1 October 1964, a railway line like no other opened. Connecting Tôkyô and Ôsaka, paralleling an existing main line, the Tôkaidô New Trunk Line had minimal curves, lots of bridges, zero level crossings. Striking white and blue electric multiple units, with noses shaped like bullets some would say, started zooming between the two cities as at the unheard-of speed of 210 km/h.

This was the start of the Shinkansen, inaugurating the age of high-speed rail.

The trains, with noses actually inspired by the aircraft of the time, originally didn't have a name, they were just "Shinkansen trains", as they couldn't mingle with other types anyway due to the difference in gauge between the Shinkansen (standard gauge, 1435 mm between rails) and the rest of the network (3'6" gauge, or 1067 mm between rails). The class would officially become the "0 Series" when new trains appeared in the 1980s, first the very similar 200 Series for the second new line, the Tôhoku Shinkansen, then the jet-age 100 Series. Yes, the 200 came first, as it was decided that trains heading North-East from Tôkyô would be given even first numbers, and trains heading West would have odd first numbers (0 is even, but never mind).

Hence the next new type to appear on the Tôkaidô Shinkansen was the 300 Series (second from left), designed by the privatised JR Tôkai to overcome some shortcomings of the line. Indeed, the curves on the Tôkaidô were still too pronounced to allow speeds to be increased, while all other new lines had been built ready for 300 km/h operations. But a revolution in train design allowed speeds to be raised from 220 km/h in the 80s to 285 km/h today, with lightweight construction (on the 300), active suspension (introduced on the 700 Series, left) and slight tilting (standard on the current N700 types).

Examples of five generations of train used on the Tôkaidô Shinkansen are preserved at JR Tôkai's museum, the SCMaglev & Railway Park, in Nagoya, with the N700 prototype lead car outdoors. It's striking to see how far high-speed train technology has come in Japan in 60 years. The network itself covers the country almost end-to-end, with a nearly continuous line from Kyûshû to Hokkaidô along the Pacific coast (no through trains at Tôkyô), and four branch lines inland and to the North coast, one of which recently got extended.

東海道新幹線、お誕生日おめでおう！

enjoying elden ring for the first time. it's pretty fun, I picked samurai, killed a dog that had an axe. doing alright.