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hollowwish · 8 days

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You guys do realize a lot of watcher fans complaining about the six dollars don't just need to "cancel their disney+ or hulu subscriptions." They're the people who ALREADY can't afford streaming services. It's not that they should be supporting independent creators over big corporations, it's that they literally cannot afford to do either.

#Some people in this tag genuinely do not know how poverty works #Like. 6 dollars is A LOT by american standards right now #And that's not even counting countries with currency worth less #For some watcher fans this is literally '6 dollars towards content or 6 more dollars towards rent to keep my housing #Or food so I don't starve'#ren posting #watcher #watcher entertainment #Edit: there's also people like me who CAN AFFORD IT #But they have better things to put money towards. Like college and therapy and medications and a mortgage #So not every fan who can afford it will because there are simply more important things to pay for. Especially in this economy

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harbingersecho · 14 days

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they had to pause their morning workout to drive wash to the ER at 7 am bc he somehow got hit by a car while getting mail. there's traffic. maine fiddles with the radio and carolina is imagining herself parkouring over the other cars

#rvb #red vs blue #maine #wash #carolina #agent washington #agent maine #agent carolina #mine #*24 #i just saw that image again and wanted to redraw it and this concept just manifested itself #i lost the og ref photo but its the one w/ the big beefy guy and the blonde woman + they both got tits. if u don't know it dw lol #also in a modern au carolina has like a subaru or a honda civic and it's teal. she's the only one of the blues who even has a car #tex had a motorbike. no one else in blue team even has a license except wash but he doesn't actually have a car he just needed a license #but the blues are like 'we never even fucking go anywhere why would we pay all the car insurance shit + parking'#if they rly need to they can just bum a ride from someone or wash can rent a car or whatever #carolina will only drive them (she doesn't trust wash not to crash) in an absolute emergency bc they made fun of her car saying #it's a PTA mom car and she's petty. if youre not gonna die she doesn't care

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anarchopuppy · 5 months

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I hate to do this again, but I'm out of options. I have to pay my $350 power bill by 5pm CST tomorrow (December 7th, 2023) or I'll be disconnected, and my account is currently over $500 in the red from December's rent. I still haven't been able to find a new job and things are getting really desperate

If I can get $350 within the next 24 hours, I can pay the bill directly through paypal and at least keep my lights on while keeping my bank account overdrawn for now. If you're able to help out, my ko-fi is here, and you can DM me for my paypal or venmo if necessary. Reblogs are also appreciated. Thanks y'all <3

$0/350

#i'm really embarrassed to be asking again already #to preemptively answer some questions: the last post was about November's (overdue) rent. that was paid. the overdraft is for December #and no i don't know why this one overdrafted my account but the last one bounced #and yes $350 is an unusually large power bill. there was an issue with my water heater that my landlord took his sweet time to come fix #ugh i really do hate doing this again so soon i'm sorry #it's almost making me regret giving so much to mutual aid when i had a well-paying job instead of saving #keyword almost - i'm still glad i did - but damn this situation sucks

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kindledrose · 9 months

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goofy hermit doodles!! because uhh why not!!

#cubfan135 #zedaph #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #sorry for making zed purple-coded do you still love me /j (it's kind of a magenta. so.)#this was my first time drawing cub (unless you count scraps of doodles from like 2019 that i probably lost a while ago) !!#and as such it was a definite learning process! i could definitely draw him better now i think but this one turned out okay for now #i still feel like i didn't do him justice though.. i'll try again tomorrow #zed on the other hand came out fantastic and then i proceeded to not be able to draw him well ever again (he's from a few days ago)#fun fact i was trying to write a desert duo-centric little story a couple days ago and i randomly put cub in as a placeholder character for #-scar to talk to in a scene and my entire story accidentally became about convex instead. whoopsies #also zed lives in scar's basement. cub does too but he actually pays rent. they don't know about zed so it's funny #scar's house is a theme park. his basement is a hole #it's a whole thing. why am i talking about this? i don't know i'm really tired ok #doodles #reblogs super appreciated as always :D

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blueclearcloud · 6 months

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Reminder for the superbat community during these blessed times that THIS manga is coming out on November 7th, 2023

Volume 2 of Superman Vs. Meshi 2 by Satoshi Miyagawa (Author) , Kai Kitago (Illustrator).

If we're gonna talk about kissing we should appreciate them caring for each other too.

#superbat #Manga #Batman #Superman #Batman feeding Superman lives in my brain rent free #Im paying them to live there actually #This IS about the Dana Moore and Jorge Jiminez commissions at NYCC 2023 #Bless those fans and bless these men.#But don't forget DC Comics the company would not be ok with this if it were official #I will never forget or forgive the executives saying Heroes can't give head #Backwards old man pricks. Rant over

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rowanyx · 8 months

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There is something so deep about Laerryn's choice in the finale, and Brennan's phrasing of the decision to be made.

To clarify, this scene (copied and pasted from the CR wiki transcripts):

BRENNAN: On a 16, you must make a tough decision. Do you want to further limit the release of energy and make the release of energy safer for the physical environs of Avalir and Cathmoíra, or do you want to ensure that Rau'shan and Ka'Mort will be permanently banished from Exandria?

TRAVIS: Impossible.

AABRIA: Laerryn's little joke to herself was always that the Heart of Avalir was the thing she inherited, but it was too small. She made it bigger, she improved it. She improved the Etheric Net and built this and that she was the Heart of Avalir, and she gave everything to this city. But I know what people are fighting to protect and I remember what Quay said about going down with the ship. So we will ensure it. This will work. Avalir be damned.

or this timestamp of the episode (in case the link doesn't work for the timestamp, the first comment's list has it labelled Laerryn's Tough Decision):

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As we were first introduced to her, Laerryn Coramar-Seelie is the Architect Arcane. As Aabria herself even put, her whole life, all her work, is about taking the city and making it better. Building more. Expansion is the name of the game. So when Brennan specifies that the limiting of energy output will save the physical environs rather than the people, that holds weight.

Just, in a mechanics aspect, there is the fact she is an Abjurer. The whole point of her magic is exactly this choice. To stop things from being destroyed. Her wards that take the damage so that she or others will not. She is not built to bring destruction, leave the fight to others. She will be there to soften the blows that come her allies' ways. She is the one one deciding this, and it feels right, because she's spent her studies dedicated to figuring out how she will prevent the destruction that comes her way.

But that isn't all.

Because any other hero, any other party member, every other soul faced with this question could so easily think that it is a useless decision. A city can be rebuilt, but only if the Betrayer Gods are stopped before they kill all the people that can do so.

But Laerryn, who has dedicated her years to this, the position of Architect Arcane, knows this city and her structures far more intimately. She has been there, step by step, as she forged them. Designed them. Watched over their construction. It is by her hand it was built.

Asking her, specifically, is asking her to choose between everything she's done, or let it all burn. Asking her to make this decision is asking her to decide her legacy. Will she live on as the maker of the land that survived such devastation, but not the people, or will she go down as the one who helped stop the Calamity?

Her choice boiled down to this: Limiting the energy, their work, the libraries and churches, the colleges, grand towers and hallowed halls, stone and mortar, it all can go on unshattered. Or, stopping the Betrayers, the people may continue on.

Was her work more important than the lives she was surrounded by?

Aabria mentions Laerryn was given the Heart of Avalir, jokes how she improved it. But the Heart of Avalir, while magical, is only an engine. It was made, and can be again. So in this moment, I think Laerryn maybe realizes that the true heart of a city comes from the people. Always thinking, thoughts speed by her, whether or not she ever had time to really process the revelations before her demise.

Evandrin is already gone due her hubris. Who else would she lose? Would it have felt like home, without Loqautious there by her side? Would it truly feel like her city, without Patia keeping up with her? What would she cause, without Nydas to hold her back? What is Avalir, without her Brass Ring?

Her assistant, probably still waiting for her, in their offices, and the choice of which will see tomorrow?

How many will feel the heat of Rau'shan's flames as they die? How many will fall to Ka'Mort's earth?

None, she decides. Her friends and neighbors, the kinsmen of her home, will not feel these pains.

I think it is also a moment that beautifully showcases her accepting her death. She will not be here to heal her city. She's going down with the ship. Maybe her blueprints will be found and used, and Avalir will be as it once was. Maybe they won't, and they'll construct it all anew. But she won't see it, so it is their turn to take what was given and build on.

Of course, Rau'shan and Ka'Mort were not the only assets of the Calamity, and damage and destruction was still wrought across Exandria. But there are enough hands to clear the ruins and make their own stories. And that is because of the greatest Architect of them all.

She gave them a chance indeed.

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sofipitch · 1 year

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I can't stop thinking about how well they portrayed Louis in the show. I think the change in race also really helped solidify the "vampire with a human soul" part of his character. Bare with me for what I mean by this; a lot of readers of the book tend to "not get Louis" and this was especially true of the movie, even AR said where it just seems like Louis is being annoying and whiny, go be a fun vampire. But Louis main conflict is that becoming a vampire changed nothing about him internally. The issues he has, primarily a concern with consumption and damnation don't go away. Louis is afraid of sin and also his own desires for indulgence. To some readers this may seem abstract, but they are often clear metaphors for being gay or alcoholism, Louis is very concerned with regulation, and not because he has any issues with drinking blood but more with how he is judged. He is very concerned about being seen as a monster (see Babette and portrait painter scenes). His big fight with Paul is also about Paul telling Louis that their family wasn't being holy enough. You can quickly see how Paul saying that they need to change their entire lifestyle is a judgement on Louis, the head of the household. Louis also said that he didn't want to believe his brother could have been visited by saints, bc it would be proof his brother is somehow a better person than him. Louis's internal conflict is often easily summarized by his Catholic guilt, which again can be abstract to audiences who have never experienced internalized homophobia or just a large sense of shame/feeling you are being watched

Anyways, why is the change in race smart, it's another way we can see Louis continues to be human governed by human rules, despite being a vampire. We can see it very clearly in how he is treated by society in the show, he is still treated as "lesser". Lestat thinks Louis should be above such things because he is a vampire, and while being gay and being an alcoholic are to some degree things you can hide, Louis's race is not. The opera being the last scene in Ep 2 where the schism between Louis and Lestat begins to get worse, is also where Louis has to act like Lestat's valet in public. If they were both gay white men they could at least act as equals, friends business partners, whatever. But even Lestat "we are above society" has to go through with this act but is notably not upset by it while Louis is. So to audiences that didn't get his issues, Louis desire to basically just be "normal", not an alcoholic, not of a sexuality that would be remarked upon, (while both real these two in the books are not shown overtly and exist in Louis's fear of damnation, which is still fear of judgement by others, but it isn't something that has a scene of a random accosting him in the street, it's more a persistent fear in his head, in the show they showed both these more overtly in the confession scene and the police officers in their home) not of a race treated as inferior, not having to act up his masculinity, by mixing all of those together at least one should make you GET it. I think even Jacob Anderson said it in the podcast that Louis really just wants to have a domestic family life like anyone else, and in the book while it is glossed over Louis says the time he spent being happy was that domestic family life. He just wants to be loved and not judged

In a lot of ways vampirism should suit Louis, and the book IWTV often romanticizes Louis pouncing on his prey from dark corners of the street. And that is what fits Louis the best, the desire to be left alone to be himself

#vc #vampire chronicles #iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #i love him so much chewing on him like a piece of gum #a lot and i mean a LOT of readers don't get Louis bc he is kind of shrouded in metaphor #the stupidest analysis ive seen that lives in my head rent free is someone saying that louis doesn't hate lestat bc he's gay #but bc he kills ppl #what not paying attention in literature class does to a mfer

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shuploc · 6 months

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I will be posting a little Astarion piece later today! 🤗

#I really hope you guys don't mind!#-and I hope you'll like it!#ALRIGHT BUT OKAY' COME HERE *grabs you by your shirt collar*#I'm putting up missing posters all over town for my marbles' cuz I've officially LOST THEM #LIKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME #hey uhh' bg devs' uhh' why is it that I'm able to customize a character so it looks almost exactly like me #and then when I romance astarion' he makes me PICK HIM UP??#HELLO???#LIKE YOU'RE KIDDING #also' not me actually getting frustrated and upset over the fact I'm not in the bg universe-#-since astarion hasn't seen his face in hundreds of years and I can literally draw him 💔💔💔#these vampire boys in my head better start paying rent real' soon....#anyways... imma stop being cringe for now #-astarion piece coming up in a bit 😊👌

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barghest-land · 6 months

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welcome to my brain, that's what's in it this month

#barghestland #it's chaotic there #but good kinda #can't believe my brain isn't THAT dramatic and depressed this winter i wonder what happened #lucas do u wanna pay the rent there or something #anyway #enjoy the silly things #i still can't forget a player calling me a pretty mr. swordfish in path of titans #i wish i was a pretty mr. swordfish in real life #please can it be real. please #art #artists on tumblr #if u wonder why fish drawing is there #i don't know. don't ask

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7potato7 · 28 days

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Format from this post

I literally could not think of anything to put in the top left, so feel free to add in the tags

#svsss #shen yuan #bingqiu #the closest thing I could think of for the top left was like #sy giving sqh shit for his bad writing when sqh needed to do that to pay the rent #but that's not a fantheory that's literally canon so #also it's such an essential part of sy's asshole-internet-gremlin-monster-energy-cocktail that i don't even hate it that much lol

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t-eyla · 2 years

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“streaming services are untrustworthy now”

THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN

THEY. ALWAYS. HAVE. BEEN.

You want to own your media. The music you love, the TV you love, the shows you love, the fic and podcasts and fanworks and books you love, DOWNLOAD THEM. I don’t care if you pirate or buy them (though the smaller the creator, the more I’d suggest you buy, or at least donate to them through whatever means available), but if you want to be sure that you’ll always have access, you need to physically own this stuff. Yes, even if it’s all digital.

The thing that streaming services offer is called SVOD. That means “subscription video on demand”. You’re subscribing to a provider, and you do not get a choice what the selection of content is this provider offers. Think of them like a TV channel. You can watch what’s on at any given time, but there is no guarantee that what you’ve seen will ever be shown again.

Back in the day, people started to use VHS to record television content and keep it. Tons and tons of academic writing has been produced on how much changed when people could finally OWN THEIR MEDIA. Do not give that up. Make sure you have this stuff. Turn off your wifi and mobile data and figure out how much media you’ve still got access to. If there’s something you’re dearly missing, go and make it accessible to you offline right now.

Here’s what happened at HBO Max (as far as I understand): they spent money on the merger with Discovery, and then figured out that they’d acquired shows, or now had shows in their catalogue, that they didn’t expect to make money off of, because the shows either didn’t fit their brand or their desired target audience or whatever else stupid reason they had. There’s this tax thing you can do where you can declare an expense a loss, essentially, if you can be sure that you won’t be making money off of whatever you acquired with that money. If it’s declared a loss, you don’t pay taxes on it. Now that they’ve declared the money they spent on these shows a loss, they cannot be found out to be making money off of them. This is why those shows are getting purged. And because nobody ever produced any physical media of these shows, or offered them for paid download where you got to keep the files, they’re just GONE. (And this is why art and capitalism don’t mix, sigh.)

This will happen again. We’ve got so many streaming services now that the smaller ones are starting to get bought by the bigger ones. A streaming platform isn’t a particularly profitable business, and since we have a few big names bouncing around the market, these big names are each going to have to develop their own specific brand in order to be unique enough to warrant a subscription (if they haven’t yet). So we’ve got mergers in an industry that’s struggling to stay out of the red and whose big players are desperately trying to develop individual, distinct profiles. Shows that don’t fit into this silo structure will be dropped and purged. Just like it used to be on TV, anything that doesn’t bring in subscribers (i.e. that doesn’t have broad mass appeal) will not find a place anymore.

Streaming is still better than traditional TV. At least they’re now trying to appeal to the people watching rather than advertisers, and there’s more leeway in regards to the kind of content that can be run. But the creativity is going to narrow. So any show that you love, anything that is exactly the kind of thing that you’ve wanted to see for years but that never got made because it doesn’t have “mass appeal” -- download it. Make sure you own it any way possible. They can take it away at any moment, and they will, because money beats art when you’re running your creative industries for profit.

#soapbox moment #i don't practice what i preach either #but i try #hbo max #advantage of being a vidder is HAVING to acquire stuff to work with it #but man it's gotten so much harder to buy stuff to own #just sell me a fucking bluray!#i am happy to pay money but then i want to OWN it not RENT it #sob and digital storage media deteriorates so quickly #if i could i'd print my favorite shows #you wouldn't download a car NO BECAUSE I CAN PHYSICALLY BUY ONE ffs argh

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vampiregokudera · 2 months

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YoungJusticeFashionWeek2024 day 4 - Uniform. Any kind from anywhere

It is required by law that Bart be put into a cheerleading uniform.

Greta is wearing my local national railway worker uniform which i always think looks sooo pretty 🥰

As for Kon... ahahahahaha *puts the blorbo into retail work*

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anonfromtheflight · 3 months

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I'm going to share something extremely silly that happened to me today and that made my whole "back to work day", bearable and amusing!

I shared this OMR Beauty post in my instagram story, thinking I was only sharing it to my "close friends" aka my sister but accidentally posted for everyone to see and got more comments on it than whenever I post a personal picture lmao

My message was "LOOOK AT HIM!!!! 😍😍" (in Spanish) and the comments I got were like "I AM LOOKING" and "I CAN'T STOP LOOKING! 😍" lmao

Didn't know so many of my instagram acquaintances had such good taste in men, to be honest, but even my more conservative friend was like "Who is him and where can I find more about him?" LMAO

My friend who rewatched Young Royals with me also told me she always forgets how beautiful Omar is until she looks at him again? lol I don't know how she can forget about it, I think about Omar being the most gorgeous man in this planet all the time 🤭

Ohh and my sister's actual comment? "Okay I get it. I don't share it but I get it. And showing skin in the middle of winter, wow Omar Rudberg wow" lol

#I've been away from home from less than 24hrs and I already miss my mom and sister 😩#I wish I could work from home more often so I could travel there but I also was paying rent for nothing lmao #about me I guess lol #Omar Rudberg #I'm glad I was too busy to go full unhinged in my story now like WOW I don't need instagram people to know how obsessed I am with this man #That's only for you tumblr cuties to know hahahaha #using tumblr as my diary again

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swept-away-sands · 6 months

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Black Sails I: "A YOUNG SAILOR enters."

COOK: Oh, so you're a coward then?

JOHN SILVER YOUNG SAILOR: Yeah. You too?

Item the first: Where do I begin with John Silver? Actually, let's start from a different angle. John Silver begins Here, no sooner and no later than he sees The Opportunity (though he does not know the Narrative has chosen him just yet, nor that aligning his fiscal goals with those of Captain Flint will irrevocably alter the course of his life) and he takes it.

My first impression of John Silver is that he was a cheeky bastard an impish scoundrel who was possessed of the bad habit of biting off more than he could chew and just enough strategic/ballsy charm to walk away relatively unscathed. I was drawn in by the fact that he was equipped with a dashing smile, at least before, you know, everything that followed, but you could tell behind his big blue eyes that he was playing some sort of 4D Chess.

I would like to credit the writers, showrunners, and actor man Luke Arnold for unfolding this character like a map with only half a key. He intrigues me, he infuriates me, I hate him forever, I love and forgive him implicitly, I cringe when he makes me think of myself. That rare sense of unbalance and discomfort brought on by a story is something I will treasure and hope to even come close to brushing against again. There is a John Silver imprint on my heart, thanks to this story, my own personal Black Spot.

#my art #black sails #john silver #characters that live in my head and don't pay rent #man convinced flint that their interests were aligned like 3 days in #but has yet to convince me that he could handle making a grilled cheese sandwich #if only we could still outright lie on our resumes so easily #only thing i would change about the show #is for silver to have 1 (one) positive cooking experience #maybe serving flint or madi some stew he whipped up would have fixed something i dunno

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decolonize-the-left · 3 months

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Hi! I'm Decol!

TLDR: I can't work cuz I'm disabled meaning my trans gf is our family of 3's only income.

So to try and help bills, rent, and other needs get paid I set a daily goal of $25 to try raising through Tumblr.

Pls consider this mutual aid. I provide helpful, sourced posts for free on my own time. In return, all I ask is that you show appreciation by helping us meet our basic needs sometimes.

So whether you send something cuz you wanted to show appreciation or just because you want to help out by sending something our way thank you sfm. Reblogs are also acceptable and encouraged! Thank you!!

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25/25

Goal met tysm!!!

#rn we are falling behind in our car payment and we won't be able to pay that AND rent on time #we just paid January rent last week lol so we are Barely catching up and i don't wanna fall behind like that again #esp since “covid is over” where i live so they changed annual leases to month to month which is bullshit #but anyway do yeah being 3 weeks late paying rent is scarier than it used to be since rhey can just #kick us out whenever now ig

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wyn-n-tonic · 1 month

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Received my rent renewal proposal that would put my base rent up to $1417 per month so I emailed my property manager and I was like, "Hey, a $120 increase in my rent for a unit that has received no upgrades in two years while I also do not have the amenities that I was promised when I moved in is just a little more than insulting. Here are the upgrades I'm requesting and if you cannot accommodate these in the unit I have currently, I would like the opportunity to look at a unit that does have those amenities available."

And what do you know, I have been offered my choice of two fully renovated units with everything I want (and was originally promised two years ago) for less than the cost what my rent would be if I stayed in the apartment I have now.

Always negotiate your rent, besties.

#like i really like my community and i don't want to leave #but paying $1417 in base rent + $200 in utilities AND having to pay for my laundry? no fuck that

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