miiitch:

“You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp massage at the place where you get your haircut, people who are jealous of you, an ex who won’t stop texting you when they’re drunk, Twitter followers, happiness maybe sorta, someone to buy you lunch at a fancy restaurant, a mentor who can tell you what the hell to do with your life, a reliable internet connection, a reliable human connection, a gift card to the grocery store, dinner parties with friends where everyone will pretend to have their crap together for just one night, a nice flirty text message to wake up to every morning for the rest of your life, for everyone to like you even if you don’t like anyone, and one of those nights that doesn’t end till 9 AM and reminds you what it feels like to be young and alive. Oh, and $$$. That’s all. Think you can get that for me? For us?”

—

Ryan O’Connell, What 20-Somethings Want

It’s true, I do want a lot of these things…

miiitch:

neon-hero replied to your post: It hurts my soul to know that people still put two spaces after every period. Please, please stop. Please.

Only Tumblr it’s stupid but when writing an essay or something you’re supposed to put two spaces between sentences.

No. No, no, no, a thousand times no. Putting two spaces between sentences is completely, utterly, and totally wrong. Let me explain:

Every single character you can type takes up a certain amount of space. For the entirety of the history of typography, letters have been spaced proportionally—for example, the letter i doesn’t take up as much space as the letter m. It’s just always been that way. Or it was, until the invention of the manual typewriter, which uses monospace fonts (in which every letter takes up exactly the same amount of space). Using a monospace font makes it difficult to distinguish spaces in between sentences (since there are so many gaps in between letters) so people began using two spaces. Even though the typewriter is a thing of the past, some people (a huge, ridiculous number of people) can’t kick the habit.

Unless you are using a manual typewriter or a monospace font, there is only ever one space between sentences. MLA and APA both recommend one space. Typographers (the people who study type and get to make these kinds of decisions) say one space.

I promise, it’s one space.

EXACTLY.