#thats my random 2 cents for the day

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⭐ -> star! ships. send your sexuality, gender, and a description of yourself and what fandoms you're in. ( as long as i'm in said fandom lol ) ill ship you with 1 or 2 characters!

I'm a straight female and my pronouns are she/her. I'm in the Harry Potter, marvel and stranger things fandoms!

I'm fairly introverted and it takes me a while to warm up to people. I love reading, my room is filled with stacks of books. I especially enjoy mysteries, poetry and Russian literature!I adore adventures, witty and playful banter, pulling harmless pranks, joking around and having indepth discussions on anything and everything. I love helping out and people come to me to vent or for advice and comfort. I'd consider myself really smart and I'm very ambitious; I love being the best at everything I do. I daydream a lot and I'm a hopeless romantic! I enjoy all forms of art and I have quite a few creative hobbies! I'm 5'9 and I have long and curly dark brown hair and brown eyes. I dress mostly in relaxed suits, blazers and coats and I love the occasional dress or sweaters layered over a white button down! I'm a taurus and a ravenclaw

Thank you very much!! Congrats on the milestone, here's to so many more followers ❤️

Thank you so much :((( <333

I do apologize though if this is bad, as i have never done this before. I love seeing those posts witg like people requesting ships with themselves and other characters and i thought it was cool so i wanted to try and im rambling but you get the point

From the MCU, i ship you with:

Loki Laufeyson

and

Peter Parker/Spiderman

𝐋𝐨𝐤𝐢 would definately have you read to him on a lazy morning/midday! Loki would love hearing about any random thoughts/daydreams you have. Would 100 percent help you decide on outfits and collaborate with you every once in awhile. When you and Loki inevitably find yourselves in Avenger's tower, you both would definately pull a couple pranks ( loki would probably take the fall for you lol ). Any drawing or sketch you gift Loki would be kept in a special spot and would never be crinkled, lost, or torn. I feel like you and loki would probably banter quite a bit ( nothing harmful! ) just to hear your smart remarks- Loki loves what your brain can come up with in the heat of the moment!!

𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 would fanboy over the way you dress since he isnt one to dress up unless theres a really good reason and overall you just look good🤷. If its tom holland spidey you like, peter would tell you about his spiderman thang when you started dating or whatvs idk. WORSHIPS the advice you give him- and probably says some 'damn thats pretty smart why didn't i think about that?' when you put in your two cents about his issues. OKAYOKAYOKAYOKAY I HAVE AN IDEA THAT I MIGHT WRITE A BLIRB OR SMTH ABOUT: when you paint realistic portraits and you need like a change of scenery or just something natural to take inspiration from, peter would have you pack up some water bottles, cups, snacks, your canvases, and paints in a drawstring and swing to a relatively natural environemnt ( i.e: a minimal amount of buildings, yada yada yada) and talk to you or listen to music while you painted

From the Stranger Things universe I ship you with...

Steve Harrington

i <3 my babyboy

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 ( season 2+ ) would looooove taking it slow and letting you warm up to him- trust is important. His rich ass would probably buy you blazers/suit jackets/ basically anything you want. Would probably ask you to draw random things he thinks about during the day. Such a worrywart tbh- especially when you drive to that one diner in town without telling anyone so you could get a shake and basket-o-fries and brush up on your Russian readings. Super protective as well. If you were with him and Robin during their little Scoops Troops thing: expect him to hold on to you while hugging just a little longer.

From Marauders era Harry potter universei ship you with

Remus Lupin

loml tbh

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐮𝐬 is lowkey a quiet guy with people he doesn't know. Understands social cues ( specifically yours ) and can easily calm you down if you have anxiety about something. Would probably tell you about Moony on accident, but would be happy that you knew so he didn't have to keep lying to you. Would rant and vent about all the dumb shit James n Sirius do and how Remus gets frustrated thaf Peter just follows them instead of saying what he needs to say. Compliments your dressing style and admires from afar. Would watch over your shoulder as you sketch/draw, loving watching the way your hand moves in a way that could create such a pretty thing. Please climb a tree and hang out with him

Golden trio era:

George Weasley

silly billy georgey porgey

𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 would be a big fan of pulling pranks with you, even if you don't want to do take the blame for it. Could sit and watch you make art for hours <3. Sorry not sorry would call you his little arm rest. Absentmindedly braids your hair when he's bored ( he knows how to braid because Ginny went through a phase when she was a kid when she wanted her hair braided 25/8). Loves hearing you talk about your ambitions and goals, and helping you when you're indescisive. You'd get a sweater from Molly and thats when you knew you were part if the family

𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧 𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 <33

#jules's 800 follower celebration #jules's celebrations 🥳 #ships #fandom ships

[redpandameg]

People who have to grasp at every single second of life and try to transform it into something meaningful are annoying.

Sometimes shit just be that way, not everything is a young adult indie movie, shut up already lol

#personal #thats my random 2 cents for the day #stop looking for shit that doesn't exist #sometimes a rose is just a rose and you're just annoying #xD #jfc #soooo cringey #people be pissing me off with their yound adult bullshit

[icewindandboringhorror]

these shoes that facebook recommended me..... nerf footballs......

#I think my concept of pretty much never interacting with anything on facebook except for my own posts which are all complete #gibberish (like I'll just post a status that says 'New Zippy Pasta Brand Gortellini Scrells With Lumbo Sause' and thats it) #or cat memes - has like.. successfully confused the algorithm #their advertised posts to me are almost always completely irrelevant bizarre #stuff.. it's like the ad bot is just throwing random things at me to try and see what sticks hoping I'll interact with something #to give them more info as to my preferences but I never interact with anything aside from taking a screenshot of it if it's weird #I also recently got reccomended this like.. buy fancy designer stuff website and the image is this weird $100 pair of clear #clunky rainboots and an 'art sculpture' of a bread roll with a bright green egg yolk in the middle that is apparently $8000 #yes i am very interested in fine art and discount gucci clothes! *has literally been wearing the same 25 cent shirt from the bins for like #2 years straight to the point that the fabric comes off in chunks randomly* #Sometimes I get advertised cat trees and stuff and that checks out - I also like a few cat pages on facebook #but everything else is just like... strange #ALSO the political pages gjhkhntkj.. I've literally been advertised #a super conservative meme page and THEN a leftist meme page joking about eating the rich or soemthing like.. RIGHT after it #on the same day during the same scrolling of the feed like 15 seconds apart from each other #they're like PLEASE interact with ONE of these.. PLEASE.... plEASE.. we need the data on WHO YOU ARE #are you a LEFTIST who wants discount designer shoes or are you a NEO NAZI who wants discount designer shoes? this is very important

[sweetalnazar]

Every time I read Muriel’s route, i am reminded of the fact that 5 minutes in, Mine was ready to marry him

#random thot of the day #HES SO CUTE WTF #OK BUT MINES REACTION WHEN ASRA CAME IN WAS LIKE #‘WHY HAVENT U PUT A RING ON THAT FINGER YET???’ #also the ot4 is great bc its a bunch of ppl who think Muri is adorable & never let him forget it #and they tease the heck out of him All The Time #look look hes too cute to resist sorry i dont make the rules #thinking abt the Muriel depictions ive seen so far #in fanfic #not a lot seem to emphasize his cuteness #WHEN ITS THE BEST PART #even in ot3 stuff (granted its Asra/Muri/MC) theres less focus on Muri being soft & vulnerable #& literally the most adorable member of the main 6 #thats just my 2 cents tho

[2centsnobodyasked4]

Teresa VS Rubi

I haven't watched a telenovela since like 2007. I feel like Rebelde was the last one I saw. However, I hold on to a couple of novelas that I thought were outstanding, such as Rubi. With the years, I've come across a lot of talk about 'Teresa' and I wondered why it had the same premise as Rubi. I was slightly intrigued. I learned that the story of Teresa came first back in the day, then Rubi. On social media such as tiktok and youtube, people are always comparing both. I kept saying that obviously Rubi was better because it was the one i watched. So in order to not be THAT biased, i decided to give Teresa a shot. So i just binged the entire novela in a couple of weeks. So here are my 2 cents.

Intro:

Song: La descarada- Reyli

Song: Esa hembra es mala- Gloria Trevi

With the songs alone, I will still have to give it to Rubi's intro song. I feel like it was more seductive and more true to what the novela was going to be about. On the other hand, Teresa's theme song felt like it would be more appropriate for Rubi. Because it was sang from the point of view of the 'betrayed friend'. Although you can argue that the betrayed friend was Luisa and that it would be from her point of view, but that only happened towards the very last episodes, so it wouldn't really make sense for it to summarize the entire novela as Reyli's song did.

Furthermore, I enjoy Rubi's intro more, especially the beginning were is says 'Una obra de ..." it makes it seem fancy and like I'm in for a special treat.

The actress

Barbara Mori vs Angelique Boyer

I know I'm going to sound like a jerk by comparing their physical appearance, but I'm going to do it anyway.

Face

They are obviously both beautiful women, but in MY opinion, Barbara Mori's face is more seductive without even trying. She reminds me so much of Megan Fox. On the other hand, Angelique's face is so youthful that she has to work extra hard and make over the top gestures to act out the seductress role.

Body

Although they both have fantastic bodies, they are very different from each other. Once again, Barbara's body gives off a more sensual and natural look. Even the way she moves is a perfect embodiment of Rubi. Angelique once more has a more youthful small body, and the main thing that makes her 'hot' is her boobs, which look really fake and it doesn't play into the story since she's suppose to be poor. Rubi didn't have much of a chest, but she still managed to appear more naturally seductive. Teresa was just constantly exposing her chest to appear seductive.

Acting

Barbara Mori's acting was excellent. She made me feel like thats how she was in real life. Everything came natural to her. Angelique's acting was all over the place. She really had to OVERACT to put her point across. Everything about the novela in general was overacted actually. Angelique had to do over the top facial expressions to show when she was scheming, when she was talking down to people or when she was in love. She came out looking like a cartoon character as opposed to Barbara that made her character seem like a real person.

Story

I've already made this post way longer than i expected and there's so much more that I want to talk about out so I'm just gonna have to shoot out random points:

Evil

I feel like they were both equally evil. They both were horrible to their families, to the men they loved and to their friends. I can't really make my decision on who was worse. I will hand it to Teresa though that she worked and studied hard to have a degree and was an excellent lawyer. However, I've seen arguments that mention that she was smarter that Rubi and relied on her brains instead of her body to get ahead. But thats not true. Sure she had a degree but she didn't get far because of it at all. She did the EXACT same thing that Rubi did, got ahead with her body provoking a rich guy. Sure she played the long game but at then end she did the same thing, not just with Arturo but with Fernando as well. She seduced him, nothing to do with her brain.

Ending

Rubi's ending was EXCELLENT. It has stayed with me for a long time because we finally have a main character that didn't win at the end. She got what she deserved. She lost the man she loved, she lost all her money which is what she fought the most, she lost her beauty, and she lost her beautiful body. EVERYTHING, and it was just excellent.

Teresa's ending left me baffled. She ended up with the man she loved after everything that she did. People may argue that she changed and felt remorse for what she did, but come on. She didn't even suffer for that long. She only regretted things because she was caught and exposed, otherwise she would've never changed. Also the fact that Arturo came to her after what she did to his sister is disgusting. Sure forgive her for what she did to him, but to his innocent sister? Seriously??? I get it, that they wanted for them to have a happy ending since the actors were dating in real life, but that just makes bad story telling.

Plot

It kind of gave me the impression that Teresa was going to follow a similar plot to Rubi's in the sense that Teresa was going to stay in love with Mariano all the way til the end, and that at some point when Teresa was not going to have any more money, that Mariano would now be super rich and prestigious but would want nothing to do with her like in Rubi. Although that would've been a Rubi copy, it would've been a better route to take. Because then other elements seem pointless. Something that I do admire more from Teresa was the fact that Mariano fell in love with Aurora, because in Rubi, it felt like Alejandro, although he married Maribel, it never seemed like he truly loved her. It was more like he cared for her. So i was so ready for an awesome ending to where Teresa was trying to stop the wedding and be suffering because the love of her life no longer loves her. That would've been so satisfying to watch and Mariano's wedding would also be triumphant because he overcame his temptation....however, that didn't happen. Teresa didn't even care, so it makes the wedding kind of pointless to the story. It really felt like 3 quarters of the novela they were building it up that triumph moment, but instead it felt like they changed the direction of story to fit in the real romance between Angelique and Sebastian. To be honest, Arturo's ending should've been the same as his counterpart role in Rubi.

In Summary. I have a lot more bones to pick with Teresa, but the ones that come to mind, are probably mostly the acting, not just of Angelique but of the cast. I think many of them were new actors or something, but their acting was horrible. I can really tell who was new and who was a veteran. Having said all of this, I DID enjoy watching Teresa. I know it may seem like I'm just hating on it and like I didn't enjoy it, but I really did. The first few episodes were really boring but after a while it was hard for me to stop. In one day I would go through 10 episdoes.....bruh, those are like 10 hours a day dedicated to Teresa. It was intriguing and interesting, especially many of the elements that were different from Rubi, such as her becoming a lawyer and her ways that she helped unmask Ruben.

In conclusion though, I do see Rubi as superior. A superior actress, a superior story and superior ending. Maybe a bit is from nostalgia but I did give Teresa a fair chance. Although entertaining, it was not what I would consider a good novela.

Me das miedo Teresa.

Rubi, tan bella como malvada.

#telenovelas #rubi #teresa #teresa vs rubi #novelas #Youtube

[dragcnlxrd]

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Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.

1. those tiny ass washed out icons where you can't even SEE the fc it's just like a blob with 2 dots maybe for eyes cause it's so pixelated and over exposed.. yeah wtf who said those were 'cool'?? like might as well NOT use icons if you can't even see your fc's face. WHATS THE POINT.

2. BEGGING FOR MONEY!!! I get it times are tough! Life is hard! Adulting is shitty but you know what WE ALL HAVE TO DO IT! A lot of people use RP as a means of escaping the bullshit of irl and if they gotta pop on and see 'signalboosting' posts of people begging for money with manipulative wording like 'If I can't make $400 I can't eat or pay rent' then that's on you bro. Learn to budget yourself or get a damned second or third job! And if you're guilty of making those posts on a regular basis you REALLY need to re-prioritize your life and what you spend your money on. If you can't have your basic needs covered BEFORE you splurge for whatever makes you happy you need to have a good hard think about adulting. The fact that you're begging for money from people on the internets is just horrible especially in the rpc where a good many of the people in the community suffer from mental health problems and might be taken advantage of because they want to help someone. NOT COOL! Like you've no idea how many times during my stay here in this hell site that I've seen the same repeat offenders posting about omg I need xyz amount of monies or I can't get my medications or make my rent or feed myself but they will post the next day about some stupid con they are going to or some random ass expensive thing they bought and it's like THATS WHY YOU HAVE NO MONIES! Stop trying to beg people out of their hard earned money because you can't handle yourself! I mean sure some cases might be an unexpected vet bill because animals are assholes and wait for you to be literally just two cents in the negative to eat fuckin orbies but don't beg the internet for money. Save that for facebook where more familial and people you know irl can help you if it's that bad.

#call 2 arms

[layce2015]

SPOILERS: My Two Cents on Joel's Death Scene

I've been seeing alot of criticism about how Joel's death was handled. And what's funny is that I've been seeing like a bunch of different perspectives of how it was handled.

Some people said it was good and that he deserved what he got. And that for someone like Joel, he didn't deserve a heroic death because they say he was basically the bad guy of the first game, just because of what he did at the ending of Part 1. And also, they say the game was trying to be a bit realistic, as in the real world death is sudden and you don't get to choose what kind've death you get.

And some people jump in and get mad at the people who didn't like this game and say well, you don't like it cause your straight white male character died. Which is so far from the truth!

Other people say that the way Joel died was a disrespect to his character and it felt like Naughty Dog was giving the middle finger to the fans. They say that he should've gone down in a blaze of glory. They also say the lead up to his death makes no sense cause Joel wouldn't have gone into that room as it was shown in the 1st game that he was very cautious, very untrustworthy and very smart and the writers made Joel stupid just so this scene could happen.

How do I feel about it? Well, I did say in my thoughts about Part 2 that Joel did deserve better. And I still stand by that but I wanted to go into more details about it.

And this is from someone who kinda likes the game. (Although right now I'm having a love/hate relationship with the game)

So, let's get on with it

Okay...so....I'm gonna put this out there:

No, I'm not mad that Joel died.

Honestly, I was expecting it to happen. But what I am mad about is how he died and how early in the game he died.

His death scene felt more like it should've been either at the middle or towards the end of the game, not at the fucking 2 hour mark of the damn game. Where it's placed feels more like for shock value than to tell a story. It also felt rushed like the game wanted to hurry and move along the plot.

When I first got to this scene and the moment Abby shot Joel in his knee, I ain't gonna lie I started crying. And when she gave that final blow to his head with a fucking golf club, I bawled like a baby and I couldn't stop.

I even stopped the game when I got to Ellie's 1st day in Seattle, and contemplated whether I wanted to finish the game or not because his death upset me that much. And it still upsets me.

And yes I know that's what Naughty Dog was going for, they wanted me to feel like Ellie, but the thing is...after thinking about it...his death really didn't make much sense.

How is it that a man that noticed an ambush right away just by looking at one guy holding his stomach and pleading for help then ran over that guy as a bunch of hunters come out of their hiding place is the same one who just walked into a room full of people and allowed himself to get surrounded.

And before anyone comments and say He had gone soft from living in Jackson for 4 years

We are actually shown in one of the flashbacks that he was still precocious when he tells Ellie to put on her mask. She even was like "Do I have to? It's just us." And he says "What if we run into someone?"

Plus I don't think living in one place for 4 years erases away your 20 years of living in the zombie apocalypse. And also he was shown to be untrustworthy at the very beginning of the first game when Tommy drives up to a family on the side of the road and Joel told him to keep going. And this was Joel the night of the Outbreak!

Now if we were shown, in the game, that Joel had gotten soft then maybe I would've believed it. But we weren't. Neil said in an interview that he had gone soft and I think he explained it but here's how I see it.

When you make a game, show or movie....SHOW, DON'T TELL!!

It doesn't look good when you have to explain some stuff in an interview or outside of your product when your product is supposed to do that for you, especially a video game.

Instead of having a character develop off screen, show us his development!

And for people that say Joel was the villian, go screw yourselves because he's NOT a villian. But yes he's not a hero either.

I always saw Joel as the anti-hero. He is someone that's not the good guy but he's not a bad guy either. He does things that only benefits himself or people he cares about.

Like Punisher, John Wick, Deadpool and one of the best anti-heroes, Walter 'Motherfuckin' White AKA Heisenberg.

But back to Joel, yes he has done bad things but in the world he lived in for 20 years, you have to do questionable and bad things to survive or you will die! Unfortunately, you can't live a peaceful life in the zombie apocalypse, you have to fight or you will die.

Plus let me ask you people that say Joel is a villian this, if someone you loved turned out that they are immune to a zombie-like virus and the only way they can get the cure is to kill the person you love. Would you let them kill the person you love? Or would you do everything in your power to make sure that person was alive?

I'm sure you guys would say "Oh I'd let them die to save mankind". Which is bullshit, cause if you were put in that moment, you guys would do what Joel did.

When I first finished the 1st game, I was conflicted. I wasn't for sure about the choice Joel made, but after thinking about I understood it and kinda agree with it.

Cause I know if it was my little brother or sister on that table, I'd have done the same!

Plus we aren't even sure if the cure would work! Yes I know there's a recording of the doctor talking about it and saying there's a chance for a cure. But thats the key word a CHANCE. Plus how do we know if the cure did work that the Fireflies wouldn't use that as a power play.

Cause sorry, human beings can be horrible and once they discover something that big and understand it, they want to weaponize it or do a power play and be like Oh look what I've got! Oh you want it too, well you have to do something for me first.

Anyway, I also didn't like that the game put Joel in a villainous light and it basically said that what he did was wrong, even though at the end of the 1st game it was being ambiguous and morally gray. There was no right or wrong answer to it, so I don't know what the hell happened there.

It feels like Neil Druckmann had succumbed to hating Joel and wanted him to suffer. It also feels like he hates Ellie too but that's a whole different conversation. Almost like he resents the things he has created.

And look yes, I do believe the consequences of your actions will come back to haunt you but there could've been a better way to handle Joel's death. He could've been captured and tortured and maybe Ellie tries to save him but at the last minute he dies in some form or fashion, I'm not sure.

Or how about this?

Have Abby beat the shit outta Joel and then be like "you know what? I want you to die right here, right now....but that would be too easy. So..." then she turns around and kills Tommy in front of Joel.

There you can still have your revenge plot and a story with Joel and Ellie!

I mean, I don't get why it took them 7 years to come up with a story and this game was the best that they could do and yet here I am, a random fan fic writer with no professional skills and a fan of the first game, came up with a better idea.

You know, it's just....I don't know, I wish I was like a very famous or popular person and was able to interview people cause I would definitely interview Neil Druckmann and ask him what the hell was going through his mind when he wrote this game?

Anyway, like I said there's so many ways to have dealt with Joel's death or with the whole story of the game but as for now thats all I've got to say. I'm sorry if it reads like I'm rambling but alot of thoughts kept floating through my head.

Let me know what you guys think and what are your thoughts on Joel's death?

Do you think it was good? Or are you like me and think it should've been handled better?

#the last of us part 2 #the last of us #the last of us joel #my thoughts #joel miller #joel #joel and ellie #tlou spoilers #spoiler warning #naughtydog #my two cents #anti hero #tlou joel #tlou #tlou2 #tlouedit #deserved better #justice for Joel Miller #fandom

[acidmatze]

Oh holy shit there will be a Gothic Remake for the PS5?????? From now on i cant spend any more money than i absolutely have to just so i can afford buying it for myself for Christmas

The question is.. how can i do that without my brother knowing about it....? Explanation and rant under the cut

Ever since I was tiny with the one exception being my first computer cuz I didnt had the money back then to afford one so lucky me had our parents buy it for me i bought my own stuff from my own money. My first Ps1 i bought from my cousin for 30 bucks (i sincerely hope in retrospect my parents gave him more money for it without me noticing cuz 30 bucks is way too little for a good console and 3 games) My brother complained and nagged how come I get a Playstation and he doesnt?

One year later (i was about 11) I got the Ps2 for christmas with some games... and Eye Toy. Ofc Eye Toy. Everyone had Eye Toy. My brother complained. How come I get a playstation 2 and he doesnt? I bought the PS2 from my own money. My parents got the games.

I got a new computer. My brother complained

Around 2011, another new computer. My brother called me to complain. He nagged. He yelled. He guilt tripped. How come I get a new computer and he still has to use his old sucky piece of shit? I bought the computer. With my own damn money. I decided I had enough money saved and wanna play new games also everyone says Win 7 is good so yeah. I had dad bring me to the store and bought a new computer. My old win xp computer was 10 years old at that point. I think I deserved that treat. (i think it was second hand when i got it....? I dont know anymore. My first PC was second hand for sure though)

Finally bought a Ps3 in 2014. Im fucking 22 at that point. My brother calls to chew me out how DARE I get a Ps3 when he didnt even have a ps2? Like thats my problem???? I wanted a Ps3 so i went and bought one. From my OWN DAMN MONEY that i SAVED UP from my FUCKING JOB. (office stuff during rehab. boring. but hey money!)

In early 2016 i buy an actual gaming computer. My most expensive thing i ever owned at that point. (it still is. this computer is the most expensive thing i ever had) Again, from my own damn money. My brother calls me to chew me out. Then calls our parents to whine about how i dont baby him and wont give him my old computer.

Late 2017 i move out. Buy everything from my own fucking money. Ofc i get a phone call. How dare i get shiny new furniture when he has to live in a dumpster? Yeah. “Get”. As if i just.. found them on the street or some shit. He always said “Get.” Not “bought”. And then he heard about my TV. A smart TV. Because thats almost the only TV you can buy in stores anymore. And boy did he throw a fit about it. HOW DARE I have a nice TV when he still has one from the early 2000s. For nearly an hour he chewed me out and guilt tripped me. For having a fucking TV. That I bought from my own fucking money. As if I somehow... tied him to the couch so he cant go out and get a new TV for himself. As if its my fault he buys random bullshit instead of saving and getting himself a nice thing.

And then ofc he flipped his shit again when he heard i bought a ps4. HOW DARE I HOW DARE I, an at this point fucking 26 year old adult man, buy myself a console He Doesnt Have. Isnt it enough I have an apartment and “fancy” new furniture and a TV he doesnt have? How dare i buy things I want without asking him first. I should know how miserable he is with his gf he actually hates but thats okay because she hates him too at this point and so does her son and a shitty run-down apartment he never cleans and I SHOULD GIVE HIM MY TV. The ONLY WAY to “make up” for this is me forking over MY TV for some reason. Yeah. No.

I need to add that roughly after I turned 12 my wishes for birthdays and christmas got “too complicated” so i bought my presents myself and got like 80% of the price back in cash from my parents. He didnt had to do that. Never. Still doesnt has to. He tells mom what he wants for christmas and she gets it for him. I tell mom what i want for my birthday and she says “Yeah you know how amazon works” I havent complained about this One Single Time. It just recently occured to me that that mightly be slightly unfair but whatever. Its too late to make a ruckus about it now. And especially i never complained to my brother about it. I never called him two days after christmas about how dare he get what he wanted for christmas, which is usually about 150€ worth of stuff cuz thats the budget my parents set for us. (my stuff costs less mostly. Dont think i get one cent more than what I paid for on Amazon. If it only ends up costing 50 bucks thats “my own fault” then. If my brothers stuff costs less than 150€ he gets the rest in cash) I never called him to whine and complain about how unfair it is and how mom constantly forks money over to him and somehow he still never buys anything he actually Needs and doesnt repair his car or gets a new TV or whatever. And how he TOTALLY should just give me something to “make up for it”.

So yeah if he finds out on christmas that i “got” a ps5 he will absolutely scream and yell at me and throw a fit right then and there and DEMAND i give him my ps4 because the ps5 is backwards compatible anyway, or some bullshit.

I know some siblings used to run to their parents and complain how unfair it is that their sibling wont give something to them. Usually the sibling doing the complaining is younger. Maybe about 5 or 6 while the older sibling is 10. Or something

But did I mention that my brother is 42?

#blablabla #oh boy wow that got long #thats my whole lifestory right here and there lol #and my therapist wonders why i never say anything positive about my brother

[dukes9917]

I was told to shuffle my music for 10 songs and write them down here. Here’s a random assortment of Pitter Patter...

1.) Hate It or Love It - G-Unit Remix; 50 cent

2.) PICK IT UP; Famous Dex, A$AP Rocky

3.) We Go High; Chance The Rapper

4.) Still Don’t Know My Name; Labrinth

5.) Blue World; Mac Miller

6.) Fight The Feeling; Mac Miller

7.) Dark Days; Local Natives

8.) Lost; T-Dre, Delux, Cali Life Style

9.) SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK; Joji

10.) If You Don’t Know Me by Now; Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes

I guess thats a good summary, definitely more but it is what it is.

[godshideouscreation]

I feel like they were opening up hoping you would relate to them in some way but clearly thats not a thing. Which is fine. So for the anon: I get it! Compulsion to steal is a thing (kleptos!) and I get it. As for compensation: ask for the raise you deserve! But also, i get that SO MANY companies (including the one I work for) will only give raises once or twice a year and even then its often a "cost of living" raise, which means they only give you like 30 cents more an hour which isnt helpful.

I'm not sure why you think I've never worked in my life? I've been working since I was 14, and no, I don't suggest or recommend stealing from work. I'm not sure why you keep sending me messages about one single anon when I answer lots of random ones all day, unless it was you and I offended you somehow, sorry? I don't agree with stealing. I understand what it's like to be driven by compulsions because I have OCD. And I get help. And I work on myself. I don't take it out on other people.

My current job, I've worked at less than a year and made 2 dollars in raises already. It has to do with the company, your work ethic, and asking. Not every company will pay you what you deserve. I know that. But that means you find something else. Not give up asking, not steal supplies. It's just going to come back on that person like I said, when they realize they are spending more than their budget on supplies.

[keyboard-smashed]

The Storm That's Brewing

Warnings: Snake, blood (not in detail but it's mentioned), tell me if there's anything else

(link to chapter 1 & 3 at the bottom)

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Chapter 2- Singing With The Birds

To Virgil’s surprise, three whole weeks past by with no incident- unless you counted the morning that Patton told a joke about something sciency that made Logan laugh so much he choked on his tea, which caused him to drop his mug, which caused Roman to run our of his room, his hair wrapped in a towel and wearing a red bath robe, brandishing a pool noodle as a weapon (though why he had a pool noodle in his room was beyond Virgil). No, Virgil would only class this as an incident if he’d not managed to get a picture, but his lock screen proved this not to be the case.

In the brief amount of time, all four men had managed to find jobs. Acting was Roman’s profession of choice, but the local theatre was already halfway through their rehearsals for the upcoming play (We Will Rock You) and no roles were left, so he’d have to wait a few months to persue that. Instead, he found a job as a singer in a small restaurant that had live music on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. He only worked two or three of the nights per week, but the pay was alright and the tips were very generous most of the time.

Patton’s job surprised Virgil the most. A librarian wasn’t something he’d ever imagined Patton being. Pat always been insecure about his dyslexia, avoiding books and reading as much as he could, unless he was being read to by someone else. Virgil had vivid memories of Pat begging him to finish a story at 2am. Sure, he loved stories, but he hated reading. That’s why when Virgil visited Patton at work, he was utterly shocked to see Patton sitting in a circle of kids, reading to them. He did well for the most part, but whenever he was struggling, he’d call on one of the older children to help him out. The scene was so sickeningly sweet.

And Logan- well nobody knew what he did. He spent most of his time hauled up in his room, and would rush out of the house at random hours and be gone from any time between forty minutes and a day. When asked what he was doing, he simply responded “work”, and retreated back to continue that. It seemed to be the only subject he wouldn’t lecture everybody about. The lead theory about his job was Roman’s, who believed him to be a spy. It was ridiculous of course, but the others had no proof against the claim to disprove it.

Virgil briefly, when delivering the message from Roman that dinner was ready, caught a glimpse of the inside of Logan’s room. As he’d expected, it looked like a science lab more than a home. The space was very impersonal. His walls were stark white and his bedsheets and curtains a dark blue, bordering black. A large bookcase sat next to his bed, filled to the brim with books. It was all extremely neat and precise. Except the desk. The desk was full of paper, strewn around like it had been hit with a small tornado- something very familiar to Virgil. He didn’t get a good look at anything specific Logan had been working on though, which left the work a mystery still to him, Roman and Patton.

Virgil’s work was a lot less interesting than Logan’s, as a barista at the local Starbucks. He hated it. The pay wasn’t great, he hated coffee, he had long hours and had to deal with rude people all day which left him too socially exhausted to do anything after work except eat the dinner than Patton forced upon him on the days he was there.

What Virgil really didn’t want to see when he got home- exhausted and in serious need of a nap- was a bunch of birds in the apartment, chirping at his brother, and his brother chirping back. Virgil really couldn’t deal with this today.

“Patton! What the hell?” Virgil scolded, quickly closing the door behind him, “What if Roman had come home, or Logan? How could you possibly explain this?”

“Hey, bad day at work?” Patton asked. He chirped something at the birds. They chirped back enthusiastically and flew through Roman’s room and out the window. Virgil relaxed a tiny bit.

Patton chuckled and put his arms up in defence, his attempt to change the subject clearly thwarted, “It’s okay, they’re friends of Margaret. Roman left for a manicure ten minutes ago, and Logan’s busy in his room.”

Virgil dropped his voice to a loud whisper, moving closer to Patton so he could hear him, “He’s inside the apartment?! What if he’d seen you? Or heard you?” Virgil’s mind was racing with all the ways that it could’ve possibly gone wrong.

“You know Logan, he doesn’t stop work for anything-” Patton started. Virgil internally screamed.

Suddenly Logan’s door swung open, “Is everyone alright? I heard yelling, and... Chirping?”

“Sorry we disturbed you, Lo, we’ll try keep it down.” Patton promised.

“Oh, it’s fine, I was just checking everybody was alright, and the chirping...?” Logan asked slowly. Patton and Virgil looked worriedly between each other. Logan continued, “Were you watching a nature documentary?”

Virgil visibly relaxed. He didn’t suspect anything.

“Actually, it was the sound of me tweeting.” Patton laughed. Virgil’s shoulders tensed. Whhhhy?

“Uh yeah, Patton has a custom sound when he tweets. It’s a bird sound because he’s tweeting.” Virgil recovered, sealing the deal with a completely unbelievable fake laugh. He couldn’t believe this was happening. Logan furrowed his eyebrows. There was no way he was buying it.

“Right. I must return to my work. If you do end up watching a nature documentary, please call me, the Discovery Channel is doing an intriguing piece on the kookaburra.” He said, walking back to his room. Virgil couldn’t believe he’d bought it. Had he bought it?

As soon as Logan was out of earshot, Virgil whispered, “How did he even hear us, we were whispering when he came out. Jeez, it’s like he’s got super hearing or something.” Patton gasped.

Virgil quickly said, “No. I was kidding. No.”

Patton pouted.

“Okay, I’m going to my room.” Virgil said, desperately needing a nap.

“Okay!” Patton agreed.

Virgil walked into his room, dodging the boxes be still hadn’t had the time to unpack, and fell onto his bed.

Patton followed and sat on the edge, “So, Margaret sent Michael to find-“ Virgil groaned and rolled into his back, “-the local birds that aren’t migrating this year, their friend has a hurt wing and they’re staying on our roof, so that we could meet them. She also wants to visit, as soon as she can get her kids to behave well enough to be this far into the city.” Patton finally paused to take a breath.

“Is Margaret the one that sat on my window and woke me up every morning?” Virgil asked.

“Yep!” Patton twirled himself around on the desk chair.

“And she had kids?”

“Yeah, how could you forget? We stayed up all night waiting for her eggs to hatch.” Patton said. The memory came flooding back to Virgil.

“Sorry, my brain’s a bit...” He trailed off, unsure what word would best describe the mental haze that seemed to lurk in his brain the past few days.

“Foggy? Cloudy? Misty?” Patton suggested. Virgil rolled his eyes. “Do you think it’s because you haven’t been using-”

“You were saying about the birds.” Virgil interjected, hoping his subject change would go unnoticed. To his joy, it did.

“Right! So Michael also told the birds that they can come to us with any problems they have-“

Virgil mumbled, “Great.”

Patton ignored him, “-and so they came to ask for help.”

Virgil sighed, there was no way he was going to get a peaceful night. He sat up in his bed, “Fine. What’s the problem?”

“There’s a snake trying to take over their habitat.” Patton said calmly.

“That’s snakey.”

Patton’s head shot up, Virgil had made a pun!

Virgil lay back down in his bed, “Forget I said that. What exactly do the birds want us to do?” He asked, already knowing the answer but praying for another one.

Patton offered no such solution, “They want us to talk to the snake and ask him to move.”

“Pat, come on, it could be dangerous. What if it’s poisonous? What if it attacks” Virgil said as his brain supplied him with all the possible solutions for what could go wrong. Gosh, he loved being him.

“Then you’ll save us.” Patton said with one hundred per cent certainty. Virgil wasn’t so sure.

“Snakes can strike really quickly, what if I’m too slow or it bites me first and then you. Nobody would find us.” He said solemnly.

“Why don’t we ask Logan about poisonous snakes?" Patton asked.

Virgil wanted to say, ‘Are you crazy?’, then realised that would be completely insensitive. He felt bad for even thinking it. Instead he settled for, “That’s too conspicuous, Pat.”

-

Virgil must’ve spent too long thinking about what he was going to say, because before he could talk Patton down, he was gone.

Virgil heard the sound of knocking and ran out of his room. Logan opened his door.

“Have you decided to watch a documentary?” Logan asked.

“Aw, not yet, sorry,” Patton said. Logan’s face dropped a little, “But we were wondering if you could tell us anything about how to tell if a snake is poisonous or not.”

Logan sighed, “Well I assume that you mean venomous. Poison is ingested, unless you plan to eat the snake, which is, of course, delicacy in some cultures,” Virgil and Patton both looked disgusted. Logan guessed that this meant they wanted to know about venomous snakes, “Alright then. You can usually identify them by the shape of their head. Venomous snakes tend to have broader heads and skinnier necks. Their snouts are also pointier. If you can get closer to the snake, which I wouldn’t recommend unless you are sure it is not dangerous, you will see that they have heat sensitive pads and their eyes are elliptical rather than circular.”

Patton looked back at Virgil where he leant on his bedroom doorframe. He shrugged.

“Uh, could you possibly draw that please?” Patton asked.

Logan nodded, “I suppose. I am not an excellent artist but I can probably show you the basic ideas.” He walked into his room to retrieve some paper and a pen. While he routed through his disaster of a desk, he said, “May I ask why you’re inquiring bout venomous snakes?”

Patton laughed nervously, “Well a little birdy told me that there was a snake on our roof.”

Virgil ignored pun. “On the roof? How did it get up there?!” He exclaimed.

“Large birds of prey often eat snakes. Perhaps this one escaped its captor.” Logan suggested. Finally he found some paper. He walked out of his room and closed the door.

“If there is indeed a snake on the roof like your confidant said, the proper protocol would be to contact the landlord. Then he may contact an exterminator if that is necessary.” Logan said, but he started drawing a diagram of a venomous snake anyway.

Virgil knew Patton would decline, he hated exterminators with a passion. It was one of the very few things he actually hated.

Just as Virgil had had known he would, Patton declined.

“I don’t want to bother them unless we have to.” He said, shaking his head. Virgil doubted he’d call in the authorities even if the snake bit him. His compassion was really going to be his downfall.

Logan considered for a moment, “Alright,” he agreed, “But I beg you remember that even non-venomous snakes can bite. I think it would be best if I went with you so that I could identify it or remove it. ”

Finally Virgil piped into the conversation, worried that Patton would accept Logan’s offer. As much as he wanted an expert- or whatever Logan was- to identify the snake, he couldn’t risk Patton’s cover being blown.

“No thanks. We don’t want to bother you working. I’m sure your drawing will be fine, and I’m sure I can remove the snake without being bitten.” He said.

Logan sighed. “If you’re sure.” He said, handing his drawing to Patton. Virgil walked next to him to see the drawing. Logan really hadn’t been being modest when he said he wasn’t a great artist.

“Wow Logan, this is really...” Patton tried to think of a suitable compliment about the drawing.

“You don’t have to try and compliment me. I am aware that my drawing skills are subpar and can tell when you are lying.” Logan said. Virgil really hoped the last bit wasn’t true.

“...Helpful!” Patton beamed.

Logan smiled slightly, then coughed and reclaimed his usual stoic expression.

“Thank you.” He said, pushing his glasses back up onto his nose.

Virgil rolled his eyes, “Right well we best be off- dangerously high roofs to be on, possibly venomous snakes to extract, ya know.”

“I best get back to my work.” Logan said, turning back towards his room. He paused, “Text if you need me.” He closed his door.

“So how are we going to get onto the roof then?”

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Taglist: lmaoooo as if

Chapter 1:

Chapter 3:

(^idk how to link stuff in the nice, wordy way)

#the storm that's brewing #tstb #tstb chapter 2 #prinxiety #logicality #roman sanders #logan sanders #patton sanders #virgil sanders #sanders sides #how do you link stuff nicely??

[prodigall]

In defense of the Battle Academy skin choices:

So, in wake of the wake of the new Battle Academy skins dropping I’ve seen a LOT of people getting mad about things like Lux and Ezreal getting more skins, their favorite champs not being in the skin-line, stuff like that. For the most part those complaints are all valid, I understand them, but I do think it’s not fair to get mad at riot for this specifically because a lot of their choices make a lot sense and the ones that don’t are really small, so, I’m just gonna...go over the list and state my two cents.

All the complaints basically stem from “these champions shouldn’t have more skins, it should have been somebody like Taliyah”  this is probably the most widespread complaint, and whilst its true, neither need new skins, it’s totally understandable why they got them.  First: Since Ezreal got reworked, he was always going to be getting a new epic or better skin soon-ish, without question. Every champion thats been reworked in the past 2 years got a skin some time after their rework, this isn’t a new practice, the day the rework got announced I stated that Ezreal would be getting a new skin soon because of it, then when Riot said they were making a skin-line inspired by Shonen anime I said “without question, Ezreal will probably get a legendary skin in this skinline and be the focal point of it.” To a multitude of people, Riot are on record as saying Ezreal was DESIGNED around Shonen anime tropes from the beginning, there are lots of ‘anime’ characters in League, like Yasuo and, yeah, Lux (we’ll get to that) but for what riot were actually trying to DO with this skin line? It was always going to be Ezreal, there was never any doubt in my mind. I know a lot of people think Pajama guardian counts as his skin but...no, it really doesn’t, its basically just a chroma, thats why it’s half price if you already OWN Star Guardian, so it doesn’t count. Second: Keeping in mind Ezreal was going to be the focal point of this skinline inspired by ANIME, all the characters around him needed to fit into anime tropes, because recently for their big ‘alternate universe’ skins Riot have been focusing more on a whole narrative to go with them rather than ‘oh this would be cool’, so they had more of a plan for the champs they picked keeping in mind Ezreal is the ‘protagonist’ (because he totally is). The ones Riot went for were:  Rugged teacher who cares about his students but isn’t super affectionate (Graves) Popular kid who is a best friend/elder sibling figure to the protagonist (Jayce) Principle who is a parental figure to the protagonist after some event in their past (Yuumi) Small scale antagonist who will later go on to be an anti-hero then full hero designed to be a prominent threat in early arcs to help establish characters (Katarina) And of course, the love interest (Lux) Keeping that in mind, Lux wasn’t just on the table for this skinline, she was GUARANTEED to be in it. Say what you want about EzLux, I personally am not that into it, but the fact is that riot like it, so much so that they outright made it canon in this universe, you can have your ships, you can like LuxJinx, you can Like EzSona, or whatever, but as far as riot are concerned , Lux and Ezreal are Riots golden couple (with Xayah and Rakan), they’ve been one of two pairings they EVER acknowledge in canon for basically their entire life span, and they do it BLATANTLY. It’s not surprising at all this happened. Third: The Narrative is actually pretty relevant to the choices they made here, and the big one that I think totally invalidates Taliyah as even a possibility is that this is a school of WEAPON users. All of the champions they picked have weapons of some kind and Ezreal states in his voicelines that they all use ‘god-weapons’ AKA the narrative of this skin-line is entirely centered around those weapons as of the moment, so that means EVERY champion who isn’t a weapon user were never eligible from the start. Would champions like Taliyah suit this skinline conceptually? 200%, I’d love to see it for the next batch if they make more and change up a few things lore wise, but given the fact they clearly have an overarching plot and concept behind this school at foundation level? she just doesn’t really work right now. Sorry.

Fourth: Okay real talk Riot dropping champs that don’t need skins into new skinlines isn’t new and never has been thats just smart business. Lets say they put all these resources towards making SIX new skins, with a whole new universe to accompany them, with no guarantee it’ll be popular, and decide to put champions that need new skins in there EXCLUSIVELY.  Then, the new skinline drops on the main server and nobody likes them and they’ve wasted their time. The fact is for as long as I can remember, when Riot launch a new skinline they ALWAYS make sure at least 50% of the champions in it are the POPULAR ones they know will bring in profit regardless of if people like the skinline as a whole, This time it was Ez Lux and Kat, K/DA had Ahri and Kai’sa, Oddyssey had Jinx Yas Sona and kind of Kayn, Star guardians did it TWICE with Lux and Jinx (releasing at different times admittedly) then they did it a SECOND TIME with Ezreal and Ahri, its not until the second batch where they go for more out there less popular champions and thats been their business practice with stuff like this for as long as I can remember. I get why people are complaining but the fact is if it wasnt these champs? it still would have been 50% champs who don’t need it like Yi Fifth: The fact is that a lot the champions picked , as usual with large skinline drops like this, all fill a different role, thats pretty normal Ez: ADC Lux: Mage Mid/Supp Kat: Assasin Mid Graves: Jungler Jayce: Top Yumi: Support If we push Yumi to the side for a second, each champ fulfills one role in a game each. Riot for a while now have been making it so if a new Champ releases with a new skin line beside them, or an update to said skin line, they make that new champs on release skin part of said skin line for convenience sake, so we can probably assume that the inital skin choices were made not counting Yumi who might not even have been RELEASED by that point if she wasn’t done yet, and if she was done she’d be added. So it was probably a an intentional choice to make sure they didn’t overlap in roles until Yumi came out in which case Lux and Kat could probably overlap. With that said, and keeping in mind the aforementioned NARRATIVE role they were meant to fulfill, the pool becomes a lot smaller. The big one here being Graves, because he’s the one I haven’t fully accepted myself, I normally say Riot don’t like releasing multiple skins within a year for the same champion unless they were already making one when the worlds winners said they wanted another, thats the only acception, but along comes Graves like “second skin in 6 months baybee” which is kinda weird, so keeping that in mind, I did some research to find every jungler (cos this needed to be a jungler) who was also going to be able to fit into the rugged not nice but still cares teacher role they still had open, who ALSO had a weapon. (For reference here I mean actual jungle picks not your random off meta pick, I’m looking at you jungle Lucian, you don’t count). Not even COUNTING the fact they also had to fit into the character _archetype_ they still had open, do you know how many choices there actually were? 7 Max, and thats if you count Pantheon and Diana which not everybody does. The full list of choices with the role they still had open was  Graves, Jarvan, Jax, Pantheon (?) Diana (?) , Vi or Xin, when you take into account that they also had to come off as a bit more rugged, old enough to be a teacher, and serious and not in a nice way, its down to Graves and MAYBE Jax. This is one I’M still on the fence about, but with context I think that it being Graves isn’t...overwhelmingly shocking.  Kat is much more open and close, the roster for midlane assassins is pretty big so they just went with Kat cos out of all the assassin mids who was a WOMAN she’d waited the longest for a new skin (that yeah, she doesn’t need) and they just went with her so there was an even amount of representation between men and women in the skin line...that’s kind of it really. So, anyway that’s my two cents, I get that people will always be mad when champions like Ez and Lux and Kat get new skins, if it weren’t for the fact Ezreal is my favorite champion and shonen anime is like my favorite thing I’d probably be a little bit mad to but, as ALWAYS happens with new skinlines, the people who got skins for their mains will always have bias but I hope this didn’t come off as to apologetic? I really do hope that if these skins continue champions like Kayn Ekko and Taliyah and hell maybe Zoe get a chance to shine in it, but as it is now I find it really hard to really get mad about who they picked.

#▐ OOC | ᴸᴼᴸ ᴮᴿᴼᴺᶻᴱ ˢᴷᴿᵁᴮ▐ #okay to reblog

[darkrarts]

A little effort pays off $$

save money while back to school shopping

I know, school is around the corner and you need to buy all of the hoe clothes to add to your collection without breaking the bank. Dw this isn’t one of those dumbass posts that’s trying to scam you. 

Here’s how I’m saving money for clothes to go to Uni this fall, and how I make money using literally only 2 websites. (Ill include screenshots) 

I fell into the trap of swagbucks and entering captchas for like a penny per 1000 captchas, and trust me that shit is nOT WORTH IT

Please note that this does take a bit of your time, but its summer and if you spend like 30 minutes right before you sleep every night and keep up tabs on all of these websites the money pays off. 

If you have ANY questions please don’t hesitate to DM me, I’m literally only doing this to help people and you don’t have to use my links if you do not wish to. I do ask to spread this post to help out some of your fellow followers!

1. Ipoll app

Love this app because I am experienced and fill surveys in half the time that they suggest. If you regularly keep up with this app you can easily make $25 biweekly. (I’m lazy).  The surveys are quick to do on ur phone, and if you run out of surveys to do on there, head on over to the ipoll website because they will have more ready there for you (Double your daily earnings). 

CON of this app

Min 25$ earned to use

If you want the money deposited to your paypal you require a verified paypal which is actually really easy to do ( All you do is log onto your paypal and go through a couple steps where they send 2 small transactions of like 2 or 3 cents into your bank account and you just enter the exact amount in the spaces paypal provides to verify and thats it!) But I know when I first realized that I was mad. Just dm me if you are having issues with that, Im happy to help.

2. Mysurvey.ca 

This is one I use alot because it has a much quicker payout. You can redeem a 10$ paypal gift card and it’s really quick to earn, especially when there are like 400 point surveys which is roughly equal to 5$. You need 919 points for a 10$ paypal giftcard and it doesn’t have to be a verified account. 

^ 2/4 of my total withdrawals. 

3. Save money with Ebates

If you use my link you will receive a 10$ initial bonus on your first purchase (5$ from the website, 5$ from me)

 Ebates is actually amazing, Its a rebate extension that refunds you money on literally almost all online purchases. Ebates works whether you are purchasing clearance or full price items. Suppose you are on adidas, and you have the extension like I do:

The button starts flashing, and when you click on it, it will automatically activate the rebate extension. Then it gives you as you can see above 2.5% Cash back of your entire purchase.or any other percent depending on which store you are shopping at. As you can see I earned $9.40 on a 60$ purchase at Sephora, and that money was delivered straight to my paypal.

There are over 750 stores, and it doesn’t hurt to have this extension. 

4. One of my ultimate money savers (Ur probably living under a rock if you don’t have this) The Honey Extension

We both get 5$ when either of us makes a purchase when using honey.

This extension activates when you are at the check out page of a store. So long ago are the days where you tumble around google trying to find coupon codes, this finds it for you, and automatically applies every single coupon code available to save you the most money on your purchase. 

Why wouldn’t you have an extension like this? It never lets me down at F21 btw.

5. The Dote app

Use my link so that we both get 5$ when either of us make a purchase.

Dote has literally every single online store in one place. All of your favourite stores can be selected, and when you are searching for that one piece of clothing like a jacket or some cool snap pants, yOU NEED THIS. Not to mention, this app has random coupons that if you are lucky enough to catch you can save major $$. This is especially helpful when comparing prices. Find the lowest price on that jacket without wasting time. 

FIN

I know this can seem overwhelming, but I’m here to help. Online shopping can save you so much money if you know how to finesse the system. P.S head on over to the Hollister clearance section on their website. I literally always order from that section because its so freaking cheap and using Honey, Ebates or dote ur sure to save/MAKE a bunch of money so ur getting clothes for dirt cheap. 

#save money #earnmoney #earn #back to school #back to school tips #University hacks #surveys #make money online #make money from home #save money tips #money #cash #quick cash #fashion #online shopping #dote #mysurvey #ipoll #best free apps #ios apps #how to make money online #money saving #tips and tricks #life hacks #uni hacks #shop on a budget #budget friendly #budget fashion #budget food #living alone

[magicthepathfindering]

Day 10

Special d4! It feels hella big compared to the usual d4s. I dont think ill ever use it, i like the uniformity when rolling handful of them

On a second note, it kinda annoys me that they have two d4s; personally id rather have just one, even if its the chunky one, and then an additional random die

But thats just my (d)2 cents

Oh also, am out of house until monday so ill post 3x dice then :)

#dice #q workshop #my dice #dice calender

[craftedcoils-blog-blog]

Any Bar At All

My friend from Miami was in town for a few days around Christmas.  It was pretty cold so I was hesitant to go out but I was bored out of my mind and he was in town so I took him up on the offer.  We met up at some little coffee shop where the walls had pictures of African people sifting through beans.  They were in time lapse columns from top to bottom.  I sat there and waited for ten minutes.  I thought about the pictures a little and decided they were OK because Africa has good beans, or so I was being led to believe.  I considered asking the barista, some guy with a flailing pompadour who seemed like way too hip to be considered even a person, whether or not Africa had good beans because I'd never really thought of Africa as a being all about beans or whatever but decided not to ask because I didn't really care all that much and I didn't really want to talk to anybody.  A few seconds later I realized that maybe it was Costa Rica and that I'm probably a secret racist or that there is probably an ambiguous line between being oblivious and insensitive.  I seem to ride that line drunkenly on a unicycle with a flat tire.  

I drank three cups of coffee while I waited, heavy on the cream so that they would go down easier.  When I went up to ask for my first refill and the barista, now suddenly a woman with a crow face wearing a Freddy Kruger sweater, informed me that the only given refills were ones in cups that are not to-go cups and that it was protocol, and that this time since no one told me it was OK.  I said OK and thank you and she said it was 50 cents and pressed the button that makes the ding and I said I only have a card and I hope thats OK.  "Wow, this transaction is just getting sadder and sadder," she said.  That was pretty funny so I laughed and didn't say anything witty in response like, "You think thats bad, I only have 48 cents on my card so can I give you 2 cents and you put the rest on my card?"  What I did say though, forgetting entirely that at this point in the game that she was doing me a favour was, "can I put it into a for-here cup?"  Stumbling with the proper way to describe a cup that is not “to-go”.  I don't know why I said this and she was like, "well I guess so," and then, as she reached for the cup, the reality of the situation hit me and I said, "no wait never mind." -gesturing awkwardly-  And then it was awkward and I laughed about this to myself several times throughout the night.  

After about and maybe around the third cup of 50 cent favours I found myself in a cripplingly manic state.   When I get into this state, however often it is, I do things like scream deeply inside, harsh meditation and contort my face in strange ways according to random firings of thoughts in my mind.  I also do crazy stare into space without blinking.  I dunno, I'm probably not as weird as I want to appear.  

I was listening to the faux rap beats playing throughout the room when my friend walked through the door.  He was all smiles, like a king in court, like the kind of smiles that happen when your attached to congress.  His hair was cut shorter than I remember, almost some sort of mohawk deal and he was wearing a sweater and leather gloves and a long brown coat, scarf and skinny tight pants.  There was another shorter guy behind him who I came to realise was actually with my friend and not just some other dude wanting some favours as the ones I had been gifted.  His name was Tim for some reason.  I gave my friend a hug and for some reason gave one to Tim as well.  He was dressed in similar attire but had hair like a goth wig and bright red sneakers and his facial hair was a perfect goatee.  

My friend told me that Tim and him had flown here together on some sort of strategy consultant oriented business or something, I wasn't really listening.  These are the aspects of people I tend to not care about.  For the most part, as a rule, the harder I stare into someone's eyes while they are talking the less I am actually hearing anything they say.  

We talked in this way for a bit.  I did find out that Tim was from here originally, that he used to be a visual artist in college, that my Friend was going to have a short story published in the online version of Vice Magazine.  I told them that my girlfriend used to be a stripper and now she was working as an intern at a radio station while I payed the bills which was a lie, I didn't even have a girlfriend.  

We talked about everything but myself and once the smiles and banter started to loose their fervency, it was Tim who said we should go to a bar.  He kind of looked around and smiled.  I thought that was a pretty good idea and laid out some suggestions.  I suggested Millie's, which I used to go to because they had a deck where you could smoke and drink at the same time or Jacko's where there was always a good show or the Madre Bistro.  There seemed, however, to be a mutual lack of enthusiasm between the two of them.  There was also Von's, I kept suggesting, a sports bar with an ethnic vibe right around the corner, and Laguna's Brewery and Tim's Tom Ding Dong and Fray the Eclipse and Fang Chia and the Mac Store had a bar and Ballet Shoes for Pets and I just kept going and getting nothing but apathy and sullen glances of distain from the other end of the table.  

"Hmmm, I just really want to go to a bar."  He kept saying and I gave him a frustrated glance.

"Ok, well we could go to Fremont there's bars there..."

"Yeah but I bet we could find a bar right around here that would be good."

For godssake, I thought and kind of fell into the table, alright "do you guys have something in mind?"

Tim and my friend looked at each other and my friend said, "yeah I have an idea of where we should go."

We all got up and left that silly coffee shop and went to a bar.

[lupintyde]

Thoughts on Miraculous Content Creator Black Out and reposting

Guys, this is gonna be a serious post.  I’m still drowning in plushies and watching 6 hour long Norwegian train shows, but I saw this post by @lairep​ and felt I needed to add my 2 cents and educate the masses.  

To recap, an anonymous person sent Lai this in response to a post about how her fan comic was reposted to Instagram.

“...But they credited you... Thats not reposting. Its just like rebloging. Cause if you put something online people are allowed to share. You're being unfair to someone who clearly follows you here, maybe even a fan! Someone who probably just wanted everyone to see how good your fanart was”

Some of you may have heard of the Miraculous content creator blackout, which aims to bring awareness to things like this.  A lot of you may feel the same as the anonymous person, so let me put this into perspective for you.

What is the difference between reposting and reblogging?

Reblogging: Being on the same social media site as the artist and hitting the “share” button.  Congrats!  You’ve not only let someone know you like their fan work, you’re also not stealing their well-earned spotlight!

Reposting: Copying an artist’s post from one site and pasting it on your post in another site.  The only way this is ok is if you:

Have the artist’s permission

Remember to credit the content creator (artist/writer)

Leave everything the way it originally is (including captions/watermarks)

Link back to the creator’s account

if your site won’t let you link back to their site, DON’T POST THEIR ART

(unless the original creator is ok with this)

If you do not do this, you are stealing.  End of story.

Here’s the thing, guys...Every social media site has a policy against reposting and if you do not follow the above guidelines, you CAN BE REPORTED AS VIOLATING POLICY.  Here is Tumblr’s, for reference.

(link)

Tumblr even has a link directly in their policy page to report this crap.  That should tell you what you’re doing is bad.

Also, it takes like 5 minutes to Google how to credit someone else’s art.  If you don’t know how to do that, you probably shouldn’t be on the internet unsupervised.

Laying down wisdom and random snark below the cut, y’all!

The artist/writer doesn’t own these characters, so they can’t claim copyright infringement, bro!

You’re half right there, pal.  They don’t own the copyright.  However, many people who do own the copyright (Miraculous included) support and even encourage fan works, as long as they don’t make money from it.  They won’t get in trouble for it.  However, YOU WILL.  They may not own the characters, but they still created that piece of art or writing and, therefore, you are stealing their creation.  Tumblr calls this misattribution, which is a fancier way of saying reposting.  

It seems a lot of these reposters go to Instagram, probably because they can hide behind the confusing legal jargon of their policy page.  However, their reporting for fanart reposting falls under “Intellectual Property”, which you can report violations of here.  This is Instagram’s policy:

You may say “but the fan creator doesn’t own the character!”.  No, but they own their distinctive art style.  Sorry, sports fan.  That falls under intellectual property, which you have now stolen.

But, I’m bringing exposure to this person’s work!

First of all, excuse you.  You’re bringing exposure to yourself.  Even if you link to the person who created the fan work, most of your followers are just going to hit “like” and move onto videos of cats dabbing or something.  I dunno.  It’s the internet.  Most of the exposure generated by this will be new followers for you.  The original person will be lucky if they get a handful of people that see that “original credit goes to blah blah on Tumblr” blurb you stuck at the bottom of your desperate grab for attention post.

Even if you are Suzy Snowflake and you’re pure and innocent and really do want to bring exposure to the artist/writer, ask permission.  Make them aware that you’re bringing them exposure.  Unless you don’t want them to respond with “please don’t repost” and that’s why you’re not contacting them.  Hmmm...

If you put something online, people are allowed to share it.

(to quote the anon)

Sure.  Tell that to Napster.  Or, I don’t know, every comic book artist out there.  Most of these people don’t own the characters in their art, and do fan art outside of work to post on their personal social media sites.  Even fan art of a character they’ve never been associated with.  When that art gets stolen, you can bet they have every right to report it.

Here’s something else to keep in mind.  If the copyright holder has a bad day and suddenly decides they’re going after people for creating fan works, you’re not only gonna be in trouble for reposting, you’ll also be contributing to copyright infringement.  Good luck getting a lawyer to side with you on that one.

You uninformed moron.

The internet tells me fan works are illegal, so the content creator is the one breaking the law!

I guess you were waiting for the tl;dr portion of this post?  If so, here you go you lazy ass.  

Fanart is only illegal if:

A)  The copyright holder does not support fans creating it (Miraculous encourages not for profit fan works)

B)  The fan work creator is making a profit from the work, and the copyright holder cares enough about that to sue (Hint:  Most of them don’t, which is why commissions are prevalent)

Reposting is not breaking the law unless you’re reposting original art that is copyrighted.  It IS against the policy of social media sites and could result in your account being frozen.  Also, there’s the negative backlash once your followers find out you stole someone else’s fan work.

One last thing to consider:  this fandom has had so many problems with fan art theft that talented artists like my husband have shied away from making what could have been some miraculous (pardon the pun) fan works.  I told him about why content creators were going on strike and he’s abandoned plans to do any more Miraculous fan art.  Reposting not only hurts current content creators, but makes potential ones think twice about contributing. 

And you guys probably would like him to contribute to this fandom.

Edit:  I did this post when I was pressed for time, tired and frustrated by incompetence, so I’m going back and removing a few “however”s.  I like that word.  I’m also cleaning up my grammar, but I’m still tired so I don’t know how much it’ll help -_-

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous blackout #miraculousblackout #stop reposting y'all #it's bad and wrong #it's badong #i'm not joining the blackout #but i fully support it #even though i don't think it's gonna change anything -_- #ppl will always want attention for their blog without working for it #2 weeks of no content will not stop that #although I do understand why the blackout is happening #long post is long #jen rants #lairep