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i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

Challenger

i remember we were listening to it on the PA in elementary school. Maybe... third grade? Don't actually remember anything ABOUT it in school, just that we were listening to it.

Then i got home, and my grandmother had the tv on and it just kept replaying the explosion over and over.

There are two for me, both from late 1989 (I was almost 7 years old).

1. Fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9th)

2. The Loma Prieta earthquake (October 17th)

The second was extremely memorable to me (tho I didn't know it was called that until I just looked it up) because... okay, so my family is sitting around the TV watching the baseball World Series, live broadcast, between the Oakland As and the San Fran Giants when the commentators get funny looks on their faces of vague alarm and then the entire feed cuts out.

Well, my grandparents live in San Francisco (I was raised in New York) and my dad is from there (he was not present watching this game with us, as my parents were divorced and I was raised by my mom) and I'm very familiar with the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeI because I'm the kind of kid who finds major disasters macabrely fascinating so cue some collective panic, cause at this point we have no idea how bad this earthquake is, how many people may have died, and if my grandparents and uncle and aunt who all live in that area are okay.

It was quite sometime later (that night? Next day? I'm not sure) that we got confirmation everyone was fine, the earthquake had just shaken them a bit and a couple pictures fell off the walls.

But yeah it was pretty memorable both for the "we were literally watching when it happened" and the "oh no is my family okay."

(From Wikipedia: "Television viewers saw the video signal begin to break up, heard McCarver repeat a sentence as the shaking distracted him, and heard McCarver's colleague Al Michaels exclaim, "I'll tell you what, we're having an earth – ."[63] At that moment, the signal from Candlestick Park was lost.[95]")

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

@animangacreators challenge 61 ✧ mystery genre ↳ favourite mystery animanga

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

Dungeon Meshi - Season 2, airing in October 2027!

Personal Update from the Owner of Duck Prints Press

Hey everyone! I’m Claire (aka @unforth , aka Nina Waters) and I wanted to let you all know that I am having surgery on July 1st. It’s a good thing, and it’s surgery I both need and want – while it is because a health issue was found, it’s also gender-affirming for me.

As a result of this surgery, I will not be working at all on July 1st or 2nd, and I will be working as little as possible through July 7th. I expect to then be on a light schedule to the extent possible (which isn’t a very big extent, as I will be attending Readercon in Massachusetts from the 9th to the 12th).

During this time, I would appreciate everyone’s patience, as I will be much slower to reply to communication, delayed on fulfilling physical orders from our webstore, and generally much less available than I usually am.

Thank you all for understanding!

Lil Nas X gives a life update.

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are

"if you can say the name in the article why can't you say the name in the headline?" what do you think a headline is for

Cover Reveal: WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS!

We are beyond thrilled to share the cover art that artist Jinx Inks has done for our next anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales.

This all-new collection, fourth in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… series, features 23 stories, 23 art pieces, and a 10-page comic, all inspired by folklore, fairy tales, myths, and legends with personal significance to the creator. Teasers, excerpts, and trims of the art pieces will be shared throughout our Kickstarter campaign. Check out the contributor list and read their biographies!

We’re also offering some awesome merchandise, all featuring art by the anthology contributors. We’ll be sharing reveals for these pieces over the next couple weeks as we lead up to our upcoming campaign launch.

Follow our pre-launch page on Kickstarter to be among the first to hear when our campaign goes live on July 8th 2026!

By the way, the full cover is wrap-around…