#Pay Quickly

[oooocleo]

hmm hmmmmm hmmm

#my art #bug fae fate game #my take on my friends dragonfly fae design! #i was gonna offer these as a quick comm option but actually im incapable of drawing anything Quickly #to my own satisfaction.............lol.......... #esp when ppl r paying me #i might go ahead and open new YCH standee comms for september though!

[inkskinned]

hey btw if you're in the USA at  2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.

if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.

additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.

i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."

"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.

#watching ppl go from being like ''support neurodivergent ppl~~!" #to being like ''if this is going to give u a panic attack ur fuckken stupid'' #like..... gets me #yeah man. i know im going to be triggered by it . in the old fashioned term. it is GOING to give me a panic attack. it's pretty much certai #and i shouldn't have to tell u about what i have survived for you to be okay with that. #you can just trust that i ALSO don't want me to react to it. i'm not gonna be having a FUN time. #dismissing that bc you think it's stupid.... like is the whole problem. #these sounds are workshopped by entire teams of people to get you to pay attention and move quickly. #they arent meant to be fun and exciting. #OBVIOUSLY it's gonna set ppl off. #but yeah there's something so fuckken demeaning about ppl being like. well that trigger isn't valid bc u haven't undergone X #dude i have ptsd bc i was abused as a child. like plain and simple. the fact im 30 and afraid of the dark tells you how bad it was. #i shouldn't have to ask u for permission to be mentally ill. #the reason it's a fucking disorder and not a fucking choice is that I DO NOT CONTROL IT. #like how is it any different from when ppl are like ''oh public speaking isn't that scary'' like FOR YOU #for YOU this isn't scary. now if i could fucking eat my own amygdala...

[il-predestinato]

I love that everyone close to Max and Charles keeps dropping Lestappen content. 😊

This time, it’s Brad on IG story:

#charles leclerc #max verstappen #lestappen #go see the gif by sharlleglerg if you want the live action of this moment #thank you brad 😄 #‘that escalated quickly’… he was referring to the storm outside but applies to lestappen too 😅 #poor hinch is still waiting for max to pay attention to him #brazilian gp 2023 #interlagos 2023 #qualifying

[juiceagainandagainandagain]

nikitaaaa

#do not pay aTtention to how messy this is #i am aware #im jus t trying to crank as much stuff out as i can before i end up artblocked again #and i feel like just doing shit quickly helps me get better #nikita #call of duty black ops cold war #cod bell #cod bocw #original character #digital art #pixel art #pixel portrait #my art #im going to go do some value studies tomorrow because i am struggling bigtime

[arctic-hands]

For real tho health freaks who scream about how sugar and salt will kill us all and try to push for restrictions on things like candy and chips for SNAP recipients or politicians who try from time to time to replace food stamps all together and give out Government Approved Staples like bread and peanut butter and Government Cheese are gonna kill a whole lotta sick and disabled people like

Diabetics

POTS sufferers

Hypotensives

People with peanut allergies

People with celiac disease or wheat allergies

The lactose intolerant

People who can't eat solid food

People who are undernourished for any reason and need all the calories they can pack on

So-called "picky eaters" who can't tolerate certain tastes and textures without getting violently ill

A myriad of other human conditions that cannot be neatly tallied into categories because the human body and human experience is vast and infinitely variable

But I don't think ableds really care about us and our health like they like to claim so they can harass us about it, do you?

#tag yourself I'm five out of ten #health food is gonna kill me one day i swear to God #vasovagal syncope/POTS was actually a fun disease to have since the treatment is honestly junk food #to get my sugar and sodium levels up quickly so i don't pass out #but then the United States government in their infinite compassion slashed my food stamps in half #and now i can't afford 'luxeries' like enough chips and candy i need to not faint and concuss myself. again #add the celiac and to a lesser extent the lactose intolerancy and now two fruit allergies... #and I'm paying three times the amount for like fifteen food items and that is accounting for the food inflation even ableds are facing #whatever food shortages ableds are going thru right now i swear to you it's much much worse if you're sick/disabled #stop policing what food people buy with the money their given i don't care if it's a paycheck or welfare #SOMETIMES I'll get a pitiful and defensive 'well how was i supposed to know?!' when i confront people bugging me about this #you don't know so shut your trap about it in the first place #most people just ignore the reason and accuse me of making up excuses to eat 'unhealthy' foods tho #health nut #ableism #systemic ableism #food #Salt blessed Salt

[probably-a-plant-thing]

im on some level of mental illness, I tracked him down in the Halloween episode

He's literally only here for like 10 frames but I FOUND YOU, YOU ROACH. NOW I KNOW YOUR OUPRLE.

#fuck i need to draw him #his monster design is really neat #jthm #johnny the homicidal maniac #nny #terrible quality because i had to quickly find a pirated version #im not paying money rn #plus its a little funny when hes blurry he's like a lil cryptid

[t-eyla]

“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

[desceros]

soooo in order to keep y'all from sitting on the edge of your seats, i decided to put together a bit of a february road map. uh. such as i'm capable of having one, barring me being thwacked in the head by an idea i simply MUST get out, ahahhaa!

feb 14: leo valentine's day one-shot

feb 19: super secret project that definitely isn't a present for my roommate's birthday

feb... sometime: symphony 24 (will likely be before the other dates, depends on how quickly i can get them finished!)

feb 27: ...dont worry about it

late feb: donnie didn't mean to do that but well he's here now

late feb again, if i have time fingers crossed: symphony 25

march 1: mating season event

#text tag #dates are post dates not start working on dates. for clarity hahaha. i've started working on the leo one already #fingers crossed i'll have it finished...tomorrow? maybe day after? then i can start working on roomie bday thing I MEAN Definitely Not That #which... if i get finished quickly... means symphony 24. Fwah! so many irons in the fire!!!! #quick. someone pay me to write fanfiction so i can quit my job and write all day!!!! #EDIT I FORGOT ONE

[gideonisms]

Job interview tomorrow :/ would y'all still love me if I became an employed girl

#the job breaks my no constant social interaction rule but pays me more than i have ever been paid per day :/ #and i get to choose what days of the week i go #grits my teeth it will not kill me to talk to people all day. at least not quickly #anyway.

[andypantsx3]

boyfriend shouto who occasionally ices the door handle so you can't open it. when you whip around to demand he stop being a little shit, he taps his mouth with one long finger and says, "ah but you haven't paid the toll yet."

#very quickly he realizes the scalability of this move #and soon you are paying the smooch tax for almost everything #opening the oven & the fridge door & different jars and cans of things which somehow become blocks of ice if u leave them on the counter #andie's ideas #character: todoroki shouto

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is wanting to scream at your friend to just dump their hateful racist asshole boyfriend, while at the same time knowing that they won't listen to you because they are in love and apparently, that erases their ability for critical thinking

While also not saying any of that because it would be rude

A "hateful racist asshole boyfriend" sounds ripe for a situation in which your friend could be dating someone actively grooming them for domestic abuse.

In those cases, individuals often already have poor boundary control, and it's not the critical thinking actually missing: it's the security that creating boundaries doesn't mean losing someone who they feel cares about them. Judgements on their ability to "think clearly" are both misplaced and encouraged by the abusers, as worsening self esteem leads to an abuse victim seeking comfort... often from the abuser.

I think it's very, very important to recognize that the best thing you can do for them is to be there, continually reaffirm that they can always tell you anything, and rather than pressure them to break up... ask them to tell you about the relationship. You can guide them to red flags, but also try to present possible communication elements. There are guides online by great resources talking about how to best support these conversations.

And, of course, it's always possible it is simply that your friend actually is racist and they put up with the behavior because of that. It's not hard for some bigots to find an in through less overt bigotry. But I strongly encourage folks to realize that "in love with no capacity for critical thought" is a very dangerous warning sign that someone may be unable to recognize healthy boundaries, and worse - to recognize unhealthy boundaries.

#Anonymous #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #advice #abuse cw #basically the communicate or break up discussion should only happen if there is recognition that something is wrong #before that you have to understand that you can guide them towards noticing problem behaviors... but there are a lot of people #who have never learned healthy boundaries or relationships #and for whom the discussion is going to necessarily begin with gently reaffirming that they are allowed to have boundaries #or - in some situations - starting from allowing them a space to explore for quite possibly the first time... what they want and don't want #maybe that's in the context of relationships and will lend itself quickly to learning about how liking/disliking can mean something #like the necessity of communication or boundary setting #but it's also very possible that they may need to begin with understanding alexithymia and learning to name those emotions #this doesn't mean that this work falls on you by necessity... but it really pays to recognize that people are irrational for a *reason* #and that reason usually is not knowing another way to respond or not having the capacity to respond another way #in that moment or in general

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Ok since you said that Fantasy! Barnaby's tobacco smoke will change color depending on his mood, so like what colors mean witch emotion? Im very curious

oh, very general emotions, it's not very Specific i'd think. cool colors correlate with cool emotions - like a frosty blue would mean he's feeling frigid, yk yk

#warm colors - like a nice red or gold or orange - would mean he's Feeling warm #im not explaining what i have in my head very well! #so like if he's off to the side and smoking #and the smoke is warmly colored #everyone will understand that hes in a good mood! he's very approachable! he's feeling Affection perhaps! #but if he's exhaling blue #everyone will understand that he needs some space & time to himself #rambles from the bog #wh fantasy au #it can be hard to tell sometimes #since in my mind the smoke - no matter the original color when breathed out - will quickly fade into pinks/purples #gotta focus on the base color! gotta pay attention! #so a nice orange-red would be all the way at the 'good mood' end of the spectrum #while icy/sky blues are at the other #i mean there is variation #like purple-pinks can mean he's feelin a bit mischievous or sly i suppose #gold can be energetic while yellow-green can mean he's feeling uncomfortable #blue-green could be worry/concern! #reds/pinks tend to be a bit more flirtatious - with red more on the earnest side while pink is more uh. playful? #it all blends into each other i imagine... #kinda gotta get a feel for the nuances #i wonder if barnaby would notice? if no one pointed it out i mean

[eightyuh]

( @entomolog-t )

when people GET the set up ... 🤌🤌🤌🤌 girl who is not normal about her man is about to get even more Not Normal over him now that he's NOT NORMAL

#WICK'S END #freya ferguson #freya #oc #all ur tags r SENDING ME BTW ahhhhHHHHHHU i'm so glad u like ....!!!! #when ur limited to 30 pages and wanna keep the plot flowing quickly but naturally so u put plot elements ur not sure will b picked up by th #audience but r intended to build up and pay off certain aspects of the plot and characters 🫶🫶🫶🫶 #this is LITERATURE we're doing it guys !!!

[3000-200-grains-of-salt]

the soft blaze of glowstone lights your very own ballroom

*cough cough* ehehe, sorry to turn into an aesthetic blogger... its more likely than you'd think 👀

anyways, i.... wasn't gonna post this today. i waaaas gonna give yall a short break from the pathbubs art and my insanity, buuuuuut.... here we are, with far too many guassian blurred add layers and glowy things for no reason other than crow brain like shiny thing. tumblr decimated the quality. um, enjoy <3

and this is fanart for @aquaquadrant and @lunarcrown s hels to pay au! specifically the pathbubs drabble blah blah blah ive said this before, and i am stiiill insane baybeee!!!

#(also side note- sorry for tagging yall so much if it annoys you #i just get that you might want to see fanart n stuff? #in any case just tell me if you need me to stop and i will :] #but not even the force of a collapsing neutron star could keep me from posting fanart though. #<- has at least 3 pathbubs pieces in the works at the moment and is quickly becoming their biggest fan) #seattlesaltsartowrk #pathbubs #hermitshipping #hels to pay au #hels to pay art #htp au #htp art #ethoslab art #etho fanart #ethoslab #bdubs fanart #etho and bdubs #bdoubleo100 #bdoubleo fanart #bdoubleo #bdouble100 fanart

[ofliterarynature]

“It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.”

I can’t for the life of me find this shared in its own post, so here’s v2 of my Scorpio Races cross stitch!

#from 2018 of my camera roll is to be believed #yes you can buy the pattern #yes you can commission me! just don’t expect it quickly and be prepared to pay the big bucks #I really want to try stitching it on black fabric #the Scorpio races #Maggie stiefvater #cross stitch #needlework #craft tag #bec posts #2023 #from Instagram #books #booklr #bookblr #xstitch

[defiledtomb]

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#ouroboros-if #interactive fiction #I've been deep in the trenches. Surviving on moss and dirt and the occasional grenade just to spice it up a bit #life has been very hectic with a (distant) death that im helping with #the second interview for a possible promotion #and work that eats my energy more than it really should (but I can't help to get invested in) #I have tried to keep to a higher standard of words written/edited and it is paying off; im hoping to show you this tomorrow in its entirety #writing id's 101 has been so emotionally draining :') theres these guttural emotions that I don't face often... #really cathartic once they are on page. But agonizing to write-- to live in that moment. #I hope you'll like it. I hope I can finish it quickly too #without devolving into melodrama or that impassive tone I hate #I guess we'll see! [crazy person laugh] #ouroboros spoilers