#I don’t have a lot of money

[qbebou]

i understand why ppl don’t believe quackity rlly didnt know abt the working conditions with the admins, it’s his server, he should be overseeing everything, etc etc. but i think many ppl aren’t taking into consideration how massive of a project the qsmp is and how big the team is. on top of the roleplaying admins (eggs, capys, bunnies) there’s likely lots of offscreen admins, builders, mod devs, writers, artists working on the project as well. it makes total sense to me for q to have hired and trusted ppl to handle parts of quackity studios that he a. didn’t have time for b. didn’t have the experience to make the best decisions for or c. that he just didn’t want to do. at the end of the day q is a content creator and yes that means he also is a businessman and yes he owns quackity studios but he’s also shown himself to be INCREDIBLY busy and things like managing finances, vetting, hiring, and paying out employees takes a lot of time and can go super wrong if he didn’t have the knowledge or experience regarding how to do such things. he’s also shown himself to be pretty hands off with a lot of the server administration stuff, afaik he still isn’t op’d on his own server which makes sense bc he does have a team running things behind the scenes. i worked administration in a small office a while back and we had plenty of miscommunication issues bc my boss didn’t handle every part of his business. he didn’t even know how much i was being paid bc he had hired someone else to do the onboarding, offboarding, and payment for employees. even tho our team consisted of like 13 ppl at any given time, there were still miscommunications. and we were all seeing each other in person! we weren’t even dealing with differing time zones or different languages.

at the end of the day, q is young and inexperienced. he trusted the wrong ppl to handle parts of his business. all we can hope for is that things change for the better, the whole quackity studios team gets paid fair wages, have stress loads taken off of them, and feel safe and comfortable continuing with the project. i rlly hope pommes admin comes back bc the qsmp wouldn’t be the same without her even if another admin took the place of pommes character. idk if lea would want to come back but i feel like the door should be open for her too and she still deserves compensation for the work she did in her time working on the team. i have high hopes that things will get taken care of and some restructuring happens within the company

#qsmp #lex.txt #idk i just feel like ppl rlly jumped down his throat when the news first broke #and a lot of ppl have called him stupid or incompetent or what have u for not knowing what was happening but also have likely never worked #on an administration team or dealt with situations that would make him not knowing make complete sense #hell if i hadn’t had experience i probably would’ve also thought the same thing #but obv the qsmp is a major passion project and has had so much time money and care put into it #i don’t see q actively making the decision to jeopardize something he has dreamed abt for ages over something like this #or rlly anything at all #do i tag this as discourse????? idk wth #qsmp discourse #quackity

[iwatcheditbegin]

This is all I’m gonna say

#the internet is so fucking bitter #I don’t care if it’s Pocket change it’s so much more than other rich people do #she’s not even a billionaire and she’s giving more #very rarely Is a whole team compensated #also that amount is a lot of money #it is more than many make in a year and can improve the quality of life #people have gotten way too comfortable saying what is and isn’t enough #it’s like when she donated to fans during the pandemic - not a lot of money for her but kept a roof over people’s heads #I hope it sets precedent #she has always done stuff like this tho #this wasn’t even the Taylor subreddit #Taylor swift #rich folks hate her bc it makes them look bad

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

i think the most annoying part of dog food discourse is how many people will act as though proplan/hill’s/Royal canin diets aren’t extremely and prohibitively expensive and that THAT is the reason so many people look into healthy alternatives.

People complain about corn being in the first five ingredients on most of those feeds because, regardless of other factors here, that is not an expensive ingredient. But it makes up a large chunk of the dry food. So the dry food should be fairly affordable, right?

Oh… with tax you’re spending about $100 for one 45lb bag of food where the third ingredient is wheat and the fourth and fifth ingredients are corn.

Oh… well! It’s slightly cheaper! But the second ingredient is rice, third is wheat, fourth is corn, and then fifth is poultry byproduct. None of those are very expensive so this just must be the low end cost of dog food unfortunately. The vets recommend it so surely that means prices aren’t inflated, right?

Oh? This one has similar ingredients with the only real difference being no corn? And it’s half the price?? Well surely that’s just a fluke.

Oh. Oh no.

This one even has CORN in it and it’s $20 cheaper?? Wow!

Like listen at some point I don’t care if your dog food has the ichor of the gods in it, I’m not spending $100 every five days if there are cheaper options with just as many “good” ingredients in it. If you think I’m a dog abuser because I can’t afford this overpriced garbage, that’s too bad. I don’t care. My dogs are perfectly healthy with the food I give them. Great weight and great coat. People giving dog food recommendations that aren’t those top three hyper-expensive dog foods aren’t trying to epic own those dastardly vets half the time, but I really don’t blame the ones who do lose trust in vets when the only heartworm protection they recommend lately are expensive triple-action brands like Simparica Trio that costs $120+ as opposed to the other heartworm protections that are only about $40-$60 on average, which is still cheaper even if you add on a $20-$40 flea and tick protection separately, and only recommend dog food that costs $85+ a bag even if your dog doesn’t have specialized dietary needs.

Those top three foods are GREAT at making competent prescription diets, I don’t deny that. I do still have to criticize the pricing of those prescription diets though because I have spoken to DOZENS of people who had to pull their pets off of a prescription diet and struggle to find something comparable because they couldn’t afford the food, and that’s terrible! These are not poor companies! Purina, Royal Canin, and Hill’s can ABSOLUTELY afford to lower their prices to make their food accessible to people who need it for their animals but they don’t. They probably never will. Because at the core they are run by greedy corporations. It doesn’t matter how many good nutritionists are on board if the company is run by people who put profits over customers and make the food impossible for people to afford.

#I keep seeing posts from people on both sides of this #and it is frustrating to see how many vets don’t seem to acknowledge #that a MASSIVE part of the dog food debate has and always will be #the inaccessibility of these three brands #because whether corn is good or bad or neutral for a dog #It’s a cheap ingredient #any meat byproducts are a cheap ingredient #wheat in any form is a cheap ingredient #rice is a cheap ingredient #they aren’t putting Diamond dust and gold flakes in the kibble it’s very accessible and affordable ingredients for the most part #and many comparatively smaller companies use very similar ingredients and make food people can actually afford #So yeah when people look at these factors it does make them distrust vets who will almost exclusively push expensive brands #and that’s where the distrust is coming from #it’s not primarily smug tiktok kids who think they know everything #it’s just people who have less money than you and get treated like they care less for their animals because of it lol #and people who feel scammed because anything veterinary is already expensive to the point not everyone can afford it as regularly as needed #the fact people have to give pets vaccines themselves to make ends meet because most vets charge so much just to walk in the door #is a sign of a larger problem #I criticize people who avoid taking animals with surprise sickness or injuries to the vet #but it’s not exactly hard to see why that isn’t even an option for a lot of people #people can’t even afford surgery on themselves if they’re suddenly injured out of the blue in this country #So I can’t pretend to be shocked they don’t have $10k squirreled away if something unavoidable happens to a pet #no one is entitled to an animal they can’t afford yes yes but a routine vet visit shouldn’t be $600-$1000 per animal sorry #give me a copay or something

[rubysrevenge]

every time i see a youtuber reviewing rwrb and they make jokes about how “everyone but henry and alex get low and they stare at each other and that’s silly” i wanna rip my hair out bc people clearly don’t understand symbolism and how it was shot like that intentionally to show that alex and henry have been watching each other all night through the crowd. i really love that scene and thought it was beautiful cinematography and unobservant people just kill me lol.

#i know a lot of it has to do with youtubers trying to be comedic and make some money but it still drives me crazy how unobservant people can #be regardless. maybe that’s just me idk. but i don’t think it hurts anyone to just stfu and enjoy things for what they are #anyway i thought the movie was really cute and it’ll always have a special place in my heart #rwrb #red white and royal blue #[ ;rwrb ] #;;ande speaks

[jessieren]

Stupid work has distracted me from the important business of Tux Tuesday…

But oh boy is it nice to see all that hotness on my dash 🥰

Normal service will be resumed shortly.

In the meantime here’s someone hot looking extremely smart…. and very hot

#shaun evans #itv endeavour #endeavour morse #tux tuesdays #he’s so fucking hot in a tux #tuesdays used to be my least favourite day #but not any more #then again we have lots of good days now #if only work didn’t get in the way #why do I need to earn money #why can’t I just stare at pics of shaun all day #and a variety of related questions #that I have been asking myself all day #sadly my mortgage company doesn’t agree #with my prioritisation of shaun gazing #vs earning money to pay my mortgage #which I consider unreasonable #I mean look at him #lol… I know you all have #so you don’t really need me to tell you to do that #but look at him again anyway #because you know why not #scientific studies require dedication #so there you go #oh god #I have no idea where my tags are going #sorry... not sorry #brb #hot damn evans

[alaraxia]

mini me banner I made originally with the intention of using it for my ko-fi account, but I realized I don’t have the energy to keep something like that meaningfully updated, so now it’s just a general banner for my socials if I feel like it

#I do have a ko-fi I just don’t advertise it really because currently I’m not in need of extra financial help because job #like on one hand it would be great to make money off of making things I enjoy but on the other hand #I would feel beholden to the whims of supporters and feel the constant need to be making things I think they’d like #or things that would potentially make me more likeable and make me more money #so in that sense I think ultimately I’m a lot happier having a financially stable job and thus allowing myself to make things I want #decoupled from the expectation that they could be profitable and having my creativity tied to my ability to pay bills #I still have my inprnt shop tho where I put some of my bigger pieces and I appreciate the support of it #anyway this was not intended to be a monologue I just got carried away #capitalism is hell but drawing silly pictures of my OCs makes the weight feel just a bit lighter #go draw a silly picture of your OCs #digital art #also secrets the government doesn’t want you to know: you can just draw yourself as a lil elf wizard whenever you want #mini me

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

hey guys just doodling the guy again (i am booed offstage)

#death note #l lawliet #bright colors #eyestrain #my art #yeah it’s him again #went to actually draw something but like #eh #might as well draw this guy #i’m projecting my tiredness onto him but is it really projection if he’s also tired? i don’t think so #i would pay cash money to pass out for the next 24 hours dm me and i’ll give you my location and u can bonk me on the head w a bat #genuinely think the lack of sleep has been aggravating a lot of my issues i’ve been weirdly flipping between like #paranoia and weirdly happy and irrational anger and just deeply numb #which actually now that i think about it is exactly what happens every time i don’t sleep enough for long enough #methinks i should sleep more snork mimimi it makes my brain work better #god i want to sleep so bad rn #but i have to do laundry and make 2 pies for other people to consume tomorrow #i plan on decorating the crusts w dicks or smth bc i hate the people it’s going to and they are very conservative religious sorta vibes #but some people there would get a kick out of it (the good ones) #u know i was wondering if i really complain about being tired enough for those anons about sleep and y’know what #i really do #and i will forever #if i’m tired u will know of it and thats because it’s always #maybe i should try that caffeine shit people rave about (<- has not drank energy drinks or sodas or coffees since i was like. 14) #actually i think my heart would give out idk what’s with it but it gets silly sometimes so i don’t think it would like caffeine #or maybe idc who knows #the best solution imo is passing out forever and ever and waking up and hopefully being refreshed or smth

[sunny-sainz]

audi you have the chance to do something hilarious

#they do seem to have lots of money #and I’d think it would be hilarious #plus i need good news for carlos and this is how i get it #just don’t go to ferrari #cause #fuck ferrari #adrian newey #redbull #red bull racing #redbull racing #scuderia ferrari #carlos sainz #carlos sainz jr #formula one #f1 #audi

[lornasaurusrex]

I miss you Lorna… this is such a mess

This is an old message and I had several other similar messages, but I miss you guys and hope you’re all doing well!! I’m sorry to see nothing has improved.

I saw I was kindly mentioned by @awesomefringey and some other commenters the other day, so just wanted to log in and say hello and log back out for a few more months. 💕

Sending so so much love to all of you. Take care of yourselves and each other, please.

The video is still on YT.

#Anywayyyyy #The fandom added a whole lot more C to my C-PTSD #So a nice random message every few months instead of a freshly posted death wish is LOVELY. #Don’t fret. On meds and therapied but fresh tf out of money from it so @ L and H… lornasaurusrexx at g*ail is the PayPal if ur bored 🙃 #I hate to be like this but protect your hearts. They’ll never be able to look out for you guys and they feed these trolls ammo for snacks #and it seems to have only gotten worse. Gotta keep them hets hetbaited for their money whilst actively encouraging them to bully yall? Why? #STILL!? At this point it feels like they’ve both chosen that path deliberately now and I find it quite gross. but I’m also very far removed #So don’t worry about my opinions. Keep trusting your own intuition!!! You all see it. I love you guys and your beautiful hearts and empathy #But I hope they can sleep at night knowing the absolute fucking genuine WRECKAGE they left across the Big Gay War generation/era of Larries #Don’t worry guys I’m just as dramatic as ever. None of this has anything to do with them coming out or anything. Just how we were treated. #But trust I fuckin mean that shit from the deepest darkest pit of my Demon Larrie™️ heart. They encouraged this. 🤷🏼‍♀️ #Anyone who cares about my actual life updates: I’m a school nurse now and will be working at a bougie summer camp over break #Had a surgery I needed. Got new tattoos and piercings. In a happy and healthy relationship with the best dude for almost a year now. #OH and I went to New Zealand last year with Prettytruthsandlies!!!! We made a pact back in our Big Gay War/college days to go. And we DID!! #I got overstimulated and overfed and puked in Hobbiton. 🤣 (It was the best time of my LIFE GENUINELY🥰🥰🥰🥰🥹🥹🥹) #Okay BYE LOVE YOU GUYS #There are better and more humane ways to maintain a closet ..like literally STFU entirely. Ignoring it and not exploiting a kid is FREE #🇵🇸

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I don’t understand how politicians can live in a country and just. Be so removed from important issues. Be so removed from what people want.

#I don’t think ‘everyone gets treated with basic decency and rights’ is a controversial opinion. #I don’t understand the pushback. I just don’t. #‘there’s not enough money’ …there isn’t??? I wonder about that #money does seem to come in magically when it’s suddenly needed #look I’ll delete this later it’s just. I really think the government structure needs to change. #I don’t know what would actually be better though. so if you don’t know what’s feasibly better. You have to work with what you’ve got #but it’s just tiring. I’ve always felt like we just do everything we do to not offend the usa. can’t we grow a spine??? #I know I’m probably way oversimplifying a lot of things. but it’s how I feel at least.

[sun-e-chips]

Per waterpark au, you mentioned that they were able to retain water in their frame to add to their weight. Do they have any other useful skills built in?

You've yet to mention any human employees, and we already know they double as Life Guards, so I'm curious if they're able to imitate breath for CPR as necessary or if there's a proper nurse of sorts on-site for these cases. I'm curious about all of it actually. The whole AU. Like every square inch of it in fact (<<< withholding 742 more questions, visibly frothing at the mouth)

Oh ho ho!!!! I see you caught onto that lil detail hehe

Yes they have that feature built in for heavy duty labor and emergency purposes only. One of those purpose being minor construction. As of currently there are no human employees so when the park needs maintenance the sun and moon are the brawn to get the job done! Lil fun fact the park did have human employees during the first two years of the park being opened, but not in the sense you might be thinking. The waterpark is a branch of the Fazz Company but it was a very experimental one. Having animatronics mixed with water, the chair heads weren’t entirely confident in its popularity so they didn’t focus much of their attention on it during it’s construction so a small team came together to build it as a sort of passion project that could function on its own without much leadership. Hence on opening 3 types of animatronics were designed to run and maintain the waterpark. The only human employees were designers, marketers, financial advisors and other outside overseers of the park.

After the two years Sun and Moon gained ownership of the waterpark under some minor agreements. The park still has an attachment with Fazzco and all of the shares that aren’t going towards the waterpark directly go to them, other than that they released all the other responsibilities to our two animatronics. It’s not the greatest deal but Fazco doesn’t stick their nose into their business and the boys are free to do as they please with how they want to run their waterpark!

(And yes the boys are able to perform CPR haha, they can blow up a tube within 6 seconds! They also can fool around and blow the hats off of guest, it didn’t take poor y/n long to find out about that)

#Hi muzz!!!! #it’s not that sun and moon don’t like having human employees they just like handling everything themselves #they like to be more in control of something so precious to them #but dang muzz now you got me thinking about sun and moon performing cpr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #the park is so dang baby proof they don’t get to exercise that ability much #need to group together some volunteer y/n’s to help with practice #also i like that the park had a lot of love put into its design and not built by some commercialized money grabbing people #the team was happy to release something magical into the world then take a step back #but trust my the animatronics had to work really hard to get to where they are and keep what they have especially sun #sb daycare attendant #Daycare attendant au #waterpark au #WP au asks #waterspark

[sugume]

Do you read Rina Kent books?!! 👀 I neeeed more dark romance recs!

Yesss I love Rina Kent I’m slowly making my way through her backlist (legacy of god series is MWAH)

here are some of my favorites —

Torment duet by Dylan Page (omggg when I tell you this shit is dark ITS DARK and it’s such a mindfuck that you’ll find yourself in love with the bad guy and he’s BAD not in a sexy way in a get away from her way, I don’t even know how to explain this book just know that I was sobbing and screaming, check TW!!)

The dark verse series by RuNyx (mafia, the plot is dark but the men are so down bad for the girls , gotta be read in order because it follows a mystery)

Cora Reilly books (look up reading order bc they all connect, mafia series, my personal fave is Twisted Emotions and By fate i conquer, ALSO she isn’t the best writer but they’re my comfort books lmao)

Harrow Faire by Kathryn Ann Kingsley (a dark circus, I read this series at night around Halloween and It was so creepy 😭he’s a puppeteer and quite literally tries to turn her into one of his dolls and he has a creepy shadow that’s his subconscious mind, he’s so obsessed and clinically a maniac I was scared for the FMC.)

The golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley (reads like a Daenerys and Khal Drogo fanfic, girlie gets teleported to a primal world where men chase the women in the forest to claim them, I have a love hate relationship with this book bc the man did something I deem unforgivable so I was sad the rest of the book. Look at TW’s)

ALSO if omegaverse is your jam or your wanna try something new

The 12 Sectors by Isoellen (post apocalyptic world, very VERY primal like breeding and dominate obsessed alphas but it was so so hot. If you’re like me you gotta read it during your ovulation bc that’s when I let shit like this slide and when I tell you that dirty talk was FLITHY I had to pause a few times.)

#pls pls check TWs I don’t wanna traumatize you #a lot of these are not for the weak 😰 #have fun reading #tho #bc Ik I did #Rina Kent has my heart and soul and all my money #can’t wait for EliAva #book recs

[crippled-peeper]

pls stay alive so I can send some money I'm waiting on my new card

I don’t deserve yall 🥹 you’re too sweet lol

#you don’t have to send me money but if you do know it’s probably gonna go to wet food for the cats and laundry and my power bill cuz I — #— I lost my job recently #ily guys a lot

[xpennytrickx]

(Not og anon) I agree with separating the art from the artist and pirating music but it seems like you still buy merch/go to shows/like these people genuinely?

well msi has been dead for years so i’m never gonna get to go to one of their shows anyway but i think pete could bring a loaded ak-47 into an all-girls catholic school and go to town and i’d still suck him fat and dirty so when it comes to faII out boy specifically i have to admit that it’s a bit of a moral failing on my part

#no fr i don’t think that pete is currently a genuinely bad person. i think he’s done horrible nasty shit in the past #but i do think he’s not still currently engaged in that lifestyle that he used to thrive in #yeah i joke here. we all joke here. but i do think that pete is not currently a sex abuser and a lot of what he did was informed by #horrible addiction and a refusal to get treatment #if you feel safe in drug abuse and fetishizing your own sadness you will do bad things #he did shitty awful things. i don’t think he’s still doing shitty awful things #and i want him to have a little walking around money #also i don’t think that any of the people i currently listen to are like. Insane #really i’m not married to a lot of artists lol i fucking love the front bottoms and aIex g but they’re good guys #i just listen to a lot of random shit #i did stop listening to swmrs when the Allegations came out mostly just because i was like. too sad #bunnyaskz

[paimonial-rage]

DILUC AND 8 (their pet peeves) -- @milkstore

[Character Analysis Ask Meme]

What are Diluc’s pet peeves?

Lack of respect for service workers - Some may find it surprising seeing how rude Diluc is to the Knights of Favonius, but it’s true. Growing up on the winery, Diluc has seen firsthand the amount of work that goes into making wine and caring for the mansion. He understands the pride his workers put into their jobs. Not to mention his father raised him, not only to respect those under him, but to protect them as well. Is it really surprising then that he does not stand for those who harass his workers? To him, they’re the scum of the earth.

#genshin impact #genshin x reader #diluc #diluc x reader #my writing #character analysis #i realize now that the question is plural but i only include one whoops #oddly enough although i think we may have talked about this before but i think wanderer shares the same trait #though i think this is a trait most people know it’s still one of my favorite #i think kaeya mentions in his hangout that like… #one time diluc thought that someone was harassing the maids so he ran out with his claymore in hand to beat them up LOL #that being said diluc and pet peeves are hard because imo…… he doesn’t seem like the type that’d get irritated very easily #that is to say….. with very unique things #inefficiency irritates him… injustice frustrates him… but pass that? #*past #i don’t really think a lot of things bother him haha #oh! maybe people trying to flirt with him for his money would… but most would feel that way in his shoes #oh and also people that binge drink on the regular would annoy him too #but other than that imo he’s p chill. just has a mean rbf #it’s hard bc we usually think of diluc in the presence of kaeya but when you separate the two like… #he doesn’t have much to be bothered over imo #maybe i’m wrong but i just see him as an awkward but kind person #thank you for sending in a diluc ask tho like he’s so mid but i still love him <3 #but with this i am caught up on all my asks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #now to actually write HAHA

[dreamlanddoll]

If you’re someone like me who struggles with anxiety around calling people on the phone, especially important/authority figures, here’s a site with some short scripts I found that you can read off of for when you call your reps for ceasefire in Palestine. It’s not as complicated or long winded as you think it has to be, nor do you have to answer any questions. All you have to do is fill up their inboxes with demands for a ceasefire, they can’t ignore us forever.

also, if you really really cannot under any circumstances call, please at LEAST send as many emails and sign as many petitions as you can.

here are a few more petitions for you to sign

amnesty.org

oxfam.org

take action.amnesty.international

#palestine #free palestine #from river to sea palestine will be free #isreal #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #all eyes on rafah #save rafah #starbucks #mcdonalds #puma #hp #bds movement #human rights #also don’t forget to boycott please don’t stop boycotting #I wanted to do something for people who genuinely have no access to money for donating rn (myself included) #there are so so so many ways you can help please don’t give up #I know this isn’t a lot but I figured putting a few resources in one place might make it easier for some people