#Some stuff can just be an email!

[lemony-snickers]

dear body: when I complained about being So Very Tired for no reason, what I meant was that I wanted to wake feeling rested after a long night’s sleep, not that I wanted you to wake me up at 2:30 am and keep me awake.

#lemony overshares #ah yes there it is the work anxiety - the surety that I am gonna fuck this all up #I wonder how many times I have smiled when I wanted to sink my teeth into a forearm #Hey news flash - not everything requires an hour-long zoom #Some stuff can just be an email! #I hate the bureaucracy of capitalism! I hate knowing I am gonna screw this up! #and also the anxiety about this space - about not being wanted #I was looking forward to sharing some darker stuff and then chickened out. For what? #No one here has an expectation of me. There is no brand to tarnish no fan base to let down (lol the absurdity) #Instead I bailed on the back third of a fic because I knew it wouldn’t be under my name so who cares - got sad but it was my choice??? #Even when I try something new I can’t quite hit the right notes #Blah I am too old & tired for the same middle school bs yet here I am at 3:26am lamenting my fanfic 💀 #Hopefully yeeting these thoughts into the tumblr void will stop them repeating like broken vinyl in my brain so I can sleep #Here’s hoping 🤞🏻 #thanks for coming to my tag talk

[kndrules]

:D

#okaaaay so.... im sorry about the watermarks- from what ive read this is best practice for protecting your art from ai #though i worry it wont help at all. i just want to try #ive never cared about people reposting my art but the ai stuff makes my skin crawl #anyway if for some reason you want the version without a watermark just tell me and i can email it to you i dont care who has it #knd #kids next door #my art #I JUST WORRY THE WATERMARKS ARE STILL NOT BLOCKING ENOUGH like i worry theyre too light. but i hate using them

[angelogistics]

do you make original art? have you ever submitted to zines/galleries and been rejected? feel like there's no place for your cool weird stuff on the internet? well, fret no more.

under the floorboards seeks to highlight artists that go unnoticed on the internet and uplift non-fanart pieces that don't get as much traction. UTF will be free to read & submit to forever and published online for the forseeable future.

officially opening submissions for under the floorboards vol 1! there's zero timeline and also i dunno how long a volume will be. each artist spotlight/ article will be posted somewhere, probably on a neocities site i'll host (or maybe mine until i get off my ass and make a second acct).

pls be open to communication either thru email or discord, as i'd love to have a casual interview component as well! shoot me a tumblr dm or email (in tags) if you're interested in being featured.

#under the floorboards #original art #artists on tumblr #abstract art #fine art #art #zine #artist collective #d.txt #putting my email down here jic something goes bad lol i can remove it then. it's [email protected] #uh yeah! hopefully i can get some midnight gospel esque interviews goin with people #just a q&a format though ^3^ <3 should be cool stuff not just boring like ... how do u make art LUL #what else hm.. uh im a little busy so this might be on n off but we'll see :] i just wanna meet people & make cool stuff ngl #probably at some point if we get enough people interested we could have a litlte artist collective as well if other people would #wanna help run this? who knows im just throwin stuff at the wall & seeing what sticks. #tired of having zines which are a) just fan stuff and b) rlly gatekeepy urgh we have enough of that with galleries LOL

[n7punk]

buddy if you add up the recent sale prices for all of these things individually NIB it's like 37 + 38 + 120 + 39 + 36 and that does not come out even close to 406$. congratulations you scammed yourself

#and that's just the most recent sale prices i'm aware of! i have some of these and paid less #mylife #i tend to favorite/watchlist this stuff just to keep an eye on what's going on #i wanted to see how long this one would sit/how low it would go compared to original list price #or alternatively. who is really stupid. i guess #to be clear glimmer is usually listed at like 100+ but her most recent sale is very much 38$ unless i missed something #the catra put up with her by the same seller went up to 167$. but glimmer just is not considered worth that even by collectors #so even if she lists high she doesnt sell high. versus catra who I've only seen sold under three figures like 3 times #every time i see the same glimmer listed at 120$ over and over I want to email the seller with the link to that bidded listing #like LOOK HOW UNREASONABLE YOU ARE #if she was worth that she wouldn't have sold for a third of it in a bidding war with multiple interested bidders!! look at yourself #you can tell its the holidays though because some listings that have sat all year (she-ra + bow for 72$) are finally selling

[the-casbah-way]

if you are in the uk and want to do something about what's happening in palestine, you can use this website to contact your local mp and demand a ceasefire. all you have to do is enter your postcode and it will provide you with your mp's email address along with a pre-made email template, so you don't even need to write anything yourself.

#irls: if we have the same mp please let me know. we can co-ordinate some stuff. #you can also call your mp btw. you literally can just pick up and go 'ceasefire' and then hang up. i'm serious #you can also just email them 'ceasefire on gaza' or a picture of the palestinian flag etc. #just make some noise and make yourself visible. #include your postcode on emails so they know you are one of their constituents because if you are they are obligated to respond #i will be honest. their reply will most likely be a wishy-washy heap of shit that doesn't directly address anything #but it's more about getting their attention and letting them know that their constituents care and are paying attention #palestine

[strongermonster]

my household got one of the randomly assigned transportation surveys and this is a minor thing to be :) about but with all The Other Shit going on in the world, it's nice to see the ontario government not only keeping this up, but having really good phrasing :')

#it's so so so minor but feels Good to see #MTO said ''ok trans rights'' #jj stuff #i remember the first times i saw something other than m/f/don't want to say #or when they added the ability to have your sex changed on ID #you can change it to X for free with literally no hoops to jump through #just show up and ask for it and it's done #i'm still so nervous of putting anything in the 'other' category unless it's explicitly a queer-run/related survey #bc i'm worried they'll have some kinda internal ''ok they picked a weird one throw out the results'' #like that time ubisoft cancelled a survey if you put woman #or how my work engagement surveys secretly throw out yours if you answer too negatively #or that time bungie sent me a d2 related email and when i put female/higher education i got sent to the #''ok thank's the quiz is done now'' after TWO QUESTIONS

[alex51324]

Everyplate unboxing

I did the Everyplate offer again! Seriously, guys--I'm not trying to be, like, a corporate shill here, but if you do their introductory offer and then immediately cancel, they will beg to give you the introductory offer again. And again. And again. I've done it like six times, all with the same credit card/address/etc. They've even started adding bonus offers--this time I got an extra meal and a packet of steak for $1.

If you live in the US, have a credit card, and like cooking, you should probably do it, is what I'm saying. All you have to do is remember to cancel it when the box arrives.

Here's the box:

It's a nice box, with a corrugated/reflective lining for temperature regulation. It's sturdy enough that you can re-use it (and the ice-packs that you get) as a little picnic cooler several times.

Here's inside the box:

Everything's just kind of jumbled in there, so you have to unpack it and sort out what goes with each meal. I've been doing the 6 meals/2 servings plan the last few times (the first few times I did 3 meals/4 servings), and with the extra meal offer this time I got 2 servings each of 7 meals. (You can get a smaller number of meals, but the shipping is a flat $11 no matter how many you get. If you pay attention when you're choosing which recipes you want, you can easily stretch the box out over 2 weeks--pick some things with vegetables that keep well, like carrots and so forth, and put the meat component in the freezer.)

Chicken stir-fry and dijon mustard steak:

With their stir-fries, I like to add some extra vegetables; I made this one last night and put in carrots and some more peppers, and it ended up being more like 3 servings than 2. The other one is originally a pork-chops recipe, but I'm going to do it with my free steak instead; I'm planning to have it tomorrow.

Shepherd's pie and linguine:

These two I'm putting aside for next week--I put the ground beef in the freezer, and everything else should be OK.

Sweet-potato hash and sausage flatbreads:

The sweet potato hash is also for next week. I made the flatbreads today. It was a little more complicated than I thought--they have you making a white sauce from scratch; I had to go out and buy milk--but it was really good!

Cherry pork chops/chicken:

They do a lot of recipes that are chicken or pork chops with some sort of fruit jam--I've done apricot and fig ones; this one has cherry jam. Since I ordered two meals that came with pork chops (this one and the dijon mushroom one) I swapped one set of pork chops for chicken, but then I also got the $1 steak, so I have an extra packet of meat; once I decide which one I want to have, I'll put the other one in the freezer.

I paid, like, $35 for all this food. I don't really understand why it's worth it to them to keep sending me this introductory offer when I have never bought a single full-price box, but they keep sending me emails asking me to please consider letting them send me a big box of food that they cannot possibly be making any money on, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . I will oblige them.

#food #groceries #this can't possibly go on forever #but if you have a US address and a credit card you can get in on it while it lasts #back in the day they used to advertise this thing where you could get 8 cassettes/CDs for a penny “just pay shipping” #but then they would automatically send you stuff every month unless you told them not to #and you had to buy several items at full price before you were allowed to cancel it #this is not like that #you can do the introductory offer and just cancel right away #you do not ever have to buy a full-price box #they do keep emailing you periodically but just to keep offering you discounted boxes with no obligation to ever buy a full price one #I'm guessing it's some kind of enshittification cycle thing where it makes them look good to investors if people cancel and come back? #just spitballing #but anyway it's pretty good stuff and I cannot stress enough how very much they do not try to stop you #from taking advantage of the introductory offer over and over again #they positively encourage it

[anotherpapercut]

nothing makes me want to do terrorism more than being mildly inconvenienced by a corporation

#I ordered some stuff from hot topic for Christmas and it just like never actually shipped. like I got an email saying it did but #the website said it hadn't even processed. so I sent an email about it and the guy was like yeah it's lost so I'll cancel it and we can #resend the items. you're going to get an email saying it's been picked up tho. so I replied to email with my address like they asked and I #just got a response from a different person that says 'it looks like our records indicate you picked this order up so it should be good' #UM NO??? i was like idk if you can read the whole email chain so heres a screenshot #im genuinely fucking upset because the sweater i got is out of stock now so theyre not going to be able to send it #and it was very on sale so i dont even want the like $10 back i have wanted this fucking sweater for months #currently at that point where its like everything in my life that could possibly go wrong has or will i guess #ao i should just stop expecting anything at all to even slightly go my way #fuck

[arsonist-chicken]

What if I just developed social skills to be able to actually make new friends in person and then used those skills to get a new phone number and pack my bags and run away to a place where no one knows me and all my past mistakes and fuckups and started over there without going into social isolation

#i needed to hand my expose in in february and got an email about it this weekend and agreed to hand it in on tuesday #it is now sunday evening and i just got another email about it but thinking about opening it makes me want to throw up #she's so nice and i don't want to see her scolding me for AGAIN not sticking to a deadline #what if she tells me that was the final deadline and i won't receive a grade for that class and so i won't be allowed to write my thesis #until next january? I wanted to graduate this autumn. it's april and i haven't even started on my thesis and i have like three bullet point #for the expose; and idek if I'll be able skillwise and mental health wise/adhd wise to actually write the stupid thesis #like what if i can't do it and then i've spent the last one and a half years on a degree i won't get in the end and then i won't be able to #apply to a lot of the jobs i thought actually looked good #@god give me some social butterfly skills and I'll give or throw most of my stuff i don't absolutely need away so i can just.. #go somewhere new. start over. and not become even more socially isolated than i already am. #does anyone know what a panic attack feels like because i'm having suspicions that i might have finally gotten them this year #but didn't recognise them as such because it could be worse #so anyway. god grant me some social friend making skills #if you can't do that at least throw in some adhd and depression treatment. i am sick of this. #and by this i mean the way i've been living my life at least since i left high school; probably even while still in high school #vent posts #mine #i love my online friends so much but i can't meet them outside to sit in the sun or chat about anything at all or go have coffee together #or or or you get me

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Just applied for a summer childcare position (like for a camp type thing) that pays 20–28 dollars an hour based on qualifications (I should be towards the end of that scale because I work in a school; and the only requirement the job lists is to be 16 and have experience with children). So hopefully they’ll consider me. That would be wonderful.

#I hate applying for jobs so much. Everyone uses a different website that makes you sign up for newsletters that clog your email #that you have to manually unsubscribe to #But yeah that’s way more than I get paid as a para lol #which is kind of sad because being a para or teacher is a lot more strenuous and complex than supervising kids during structured play #Because usually the kids enjoy stuff like rock climbing and swimming #so you don’t have to guide them through ten different layers of mental gymnastics to complete their work #or sometimes physically keep them from leaving the learning area after every problem they complete #(of course I do the last thing very gently; and I don’t like having to carry kids from under tables back to their seats #but they’re not going to learn anything if they stay underneath tables all day long… that kind of defeats the purpose of being in school. #I give a lot of verbal warnings before too. Some kids just refuse to learn all the time regardless of their mood because it’s funny to them #Anyway: Kids should not be playing video games past bedtime on a fucking Oculus Rift #Like seriously the tech withdrawal in some of these babies is palpable #Horrifying #Anyway this summer job will be a breeze if I get it #Hopefully no one will be begging me for chromebooks during rock climbing #(I know it sounds like I’m irritated with the kids; and I am. But it’s more irritation with their parents letting them become addicted #to iPads for the sake of convenience; and also frustration directed at capitalism that makes the parents so tired #that they let the iPad babysit their kids so they can rest. It’s the whole system man. It’s fucked.)

[keeps-ache]

back on my puter !!! :D

#just me hi #YEYYY #i can finish some things i was doin !!! yay :DD #woo hhhhhoooo :D #anyway since i changed all my email stuff while off this thing now i gotta go change all my password stuff lol - ciaaaao :3

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#tfw ur life has been so busy that u forgot that with a new school u have a new email to keep track of #and u forgot to hook it up to ur outlook so now u open it up and see emails from abt a month ago #telling u to do TA orientation stuff. uuuuuh oops #so i guess i have some bullshit to figure out tomorrow. also i should finalize my class sign up staff #stuff* bc when i was doing yhat my brain was on fire. also i should email my new boss. oh god. why didnt i check that email???? #i dont even kno if im supposed to b a TA this semester??? i should just email the guy but also i dont wanna roll up like yo #im already damaged goods bc ive suffered a whole year in a state of burnout. also i fucked up my sign up process by not paying attention #but uh hi hello nice to meed u again for the 2nd time in my life. this is definitely not a bad omen for things to come #ugh. why have i done this to myself? i cant even call to try to fix anything until Monday. fuck. #but i mean. i cant b thr only one who's ever done this. so maybe itll b fine? hopefully? #but i wouldn't have this problem if id just fucking looked at my fucking email in the 1st place #i can already feel it. this is where the overlap starts. the overlap between my old lab and my new lab #will it tear me into pieces? perhaps. i have to shift into go mode. i cant b a sad sack anymore #ugh. im usually really good at being on top of stuff like this bc im such an anxious freak but here we r... #unrelated

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Tubehell Challenge... I'm so sorry but I have been dropped in the ocean... I will postpone the start date for you... Just a bit...

You will not be forgotten though this is happening whether the universe wants it to happen or not. The universe knows I'm too powerful and is throwing everything it has at me right now but I will win just you wait man just you wait

#literally have to drop everything for geck... #like I'm gonna have to wake up make some calls send some emails research more stuff #figure out how to clean the tank then clean the tank the best i can then rearrange the decor so its better suited to its needs #THEN figure out the food situation cause what the fuck is THIS #THEN make a list of everything we need which btw #is everything but the fucking gecko #and HOPEFULLY this health check I'm organising doesnt turn up some fatal deficiency caused problems #I'm willing to deal with solving the various health problems it undoubtedly has already #provided i can afford a vet bill longer than my current lifespan #but i do have to deal woth the anxiety of a fucking fatal problem until i can get the checks done... #and make do with what I have for now #WHICH IS A WHOLE LOT OF FABRIC PLASTIC LEAVES AND NOT A LOT ELSE #i swear if my little guy has a serious problem i will never and i mean NEVER forgive my sister for this. #and my niece is on thin ice but only because she's 12 #'i just cleaned out the tank' NO YOU DID NOT YOU FUCKING LIAR #GONNA NEED A FUCKING HAMMER AND CHISEL WITH THIS OH MY GOD #my mum paid for this by the way. #this is supposed to be a late birthday present since we agreed i was gonna get a gecko for it #but put it off until i was on my meds #now I'm on meds. my niece wanted rid of her crestie and i have never regretted wanting anything more in my fucking life #what the FUCK okay??? #AS IF I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH STRESSES MAN YEAH SURE JUST DROP A HUNDY FOR ANIMAL NEGLECT FOR MY BIRTHDAY #OH WOW THANKS THAT'S MY FAVOURITE #god... I'm going to bed... #and for the record my tag ranting is still not the fucking tip of this iceberg. #i am Overwhelmed. this isn't what i signed up for. #the joy of a new pet has never been more absent #this feels like a rescue or fucking amateur geck a&e #give me strength man I'm dying over here i would choose tubehell over this are you kidding me #hhhhh going to sleep. need it real bad. hopefully it recents my brain and makes this easier cause fuck me...

[craycraybluejay]

welp i wrote a shitty email thats almost definitely gonna be talked about to the actual group 😬 but tbf im super fed up and i should be able to ask where to jump ship to without anyone getting their panties in a twist

#i know you're in correspondence with them but please pleeeease dont tell them yet that im #planning to jump ship #cause it'll cause more problems and potential drama #and best case scenario they ignore it and send me a robotic email #worst case scenario they get mad at me or try to convince me to stay in the group so they can stroke their egos in my general direction #for more time #ok no best case scenario they don't email me at all and i get like 1 or 2 private byes from members #and i find a different place before that happens #maybe i'm trying too hard and should just let it go. do i really need this? #it might be the same stuff all over again or even worse #maybe it's better not to take up extra time and energy with something like this and instead focus on paid work and stuff #but idk. it felt kind of nice to socialize a little albeit the group shit was scary #maybe i should start a band then i'd have my own group and itd be small enough #i just. don't want to make a mistake and lose an opportunity you know? #it feels hopeless to even try to carve out a little social utopia for me #stupid even #im not looking for love. just respect and some excitement in life #why is that too much to ask

[aeide-thea]

very much an off-the-cuff post so there may well be bugs, i'm still workshopping my thinking here, but—

i seem to see posts fairly regularly in which a member of some marginalized group A is objecting to attempts by less marginalized group B to make connections between discrimination against A and harm experienced by B (the main thing i have in mind here is when people attempt to align themselves with visibly-trans people by pointing out the ways that transphobic legislation also impacts gnc cis people, theatrical crossdressing, &c, but there are definitely also examples along other axes)—

and like. the main objection i've seen from A is 'why do they have to connect my experience to their experience in order to care about it? why can't they just agree that i shouldn't be discriminated against as a matter of, like, compassion for fellow humanity?'

and this reaction does honestly always just seem a little, idk, naive to me?? like, i don't know, it's gotten very popular ime to complain about normies' clumsy attempts to Understand Instead of Just Accepting [this feels potentially linked to like. the way many of us now prefer silently clicking 'like' to producing our own original, maybe clumsy, responses? but don't @ me on that point], probably because a lot of the time they aren't genuinely seeking to Understand but just to point out all the ways our queerness &c doesn't fit their received (unexaminedly conservative) understanding of the world, which feels to us (very reasonably!) like renewed pressure from the establishment to make ourselves fit that established framework, and so we resist… but at the same time, idk, maybe i'm just outing myself as lesser-than-thou here, but for every sort of person i was raised to distrust and have since arrived at genuine loving acceptance/appreciation of, it's involved first coming to understand their frame of reference at least a little? not to say that there isn't a place for shutting up and listening while you're still working to understand, because there definitely is! but i do kind of think this idea that's become popular in certain liberal circles of like, 'you don't have to understand my experience, you just have to respect it,' is fine and true for keeping peace with strangers, but really isn't a recipe for winning friends or influencing people—it's a recipe for keeping people at arm's length where they can't hit you. and then people turn around and want to apply that rule to coalition-building, and get all shocked-pikachu-face when others seek to identify more active points of connection.

...

another ~Radical Objection to Liberal Approaches~ i've seen, though often not specifically in this context (of discussing the way attempts to oppress A have knock-on effects for B), is like—'there's no point in deconstructing their logic because it's fundamentally illogical! insert that sartre quote abt anti-semites!' and like. no, there's absolutely no point in debating their logic with them. but fundamentally when people assert a logical resistance to bigoted positions they are not doing it to Own The Bigots, imo, or at any rate shouldn't be; they're (we're) doing it to reaffirm the basis of their/our own camp's position, namely, we see your knee-jerk fears and reject them; we substitute instead a patient allegiance to logic, that reasons its way into compassion.

that said, obviously there's a conversation to be had here about, like, platforming bad positions, and to what extent deconstructing them is implicitly platforming them! but. i do think that complaining that logic won't win over bigots is missing the very fundamental point that the logic isn't for the bigots: it's for us. we're talking to ourselves; we're affirming ourselves. and yeah, we need to understand that this sort of intra-party discussion doesn't, on its own, constitute sufficient activism! messages need to be communicated beyond the bounds of the party! but i do think i disagree that there's no place for it.

#anyway i'm just sticking this all under a cut bc it got very long and i didn't arrive at a nice tidy overarching conclusion #but i guess i just think like. i'm not convinced that resisting people's attempts to understand a struggle as linked with theirs #is ever going to be a strategy that makes any sense— #i just think it's coming from a place of woundedness that wants its pain to be Seen and Matter In Itself #and not get ignored until someone else is also impacted #and like. that's SO emotionally valid! god! but also like. that's feelings and not a basis for politics??? #and the second point here— #which honestly could've been its own post; i was just thinking abt the two points together bc i saw a post that made them together— #really feels to me like. showing up at an internal org meeting and then complaining that it doesn't constitute effective public messaging #like yeah‚ people pass posts around on here that aren't gonna convince conservatives #but like. (a) how much convincing of conservatives do you really think is gonna happen on tumblr anyway? #and also (b) then make your own posts that *are* angled at convincing conservatives! or‚ you know‚ do something that isn't posting! #(in b4 'some of us have disabilities' yeah‚ me too! i emailed my representatives the other day! there's stuff you can do!) #but like. everybody just wants to critique other people's efforts (and obviously as per this very post i'm not immune!) #when it's like. most of what we're doing *isn't* activism—what it could be is the tentative social basis for a real coalition #on which activism could then be founded #but most of us would rather suspiciously snipingly in-fight than let these tentative social filaments thicken into binding ties! #anyway. a great example of a post by someone with adhd that will probably be prohibitively difficult for other ppl with adhd to read!

[throttlegainwell]

I got, like, the nicest freaking comment, and for some reason I'm very touched by this part.

I just discovered your work and I can't wait to make my way through it.

So like. That is so damn sweet. I hope everyone gets a comment like that at least once.

#fandom #fic comments #that is so flattering omg #i mean sometimes you get the kudos email and you can see #that someone is working their way through your stuff #which is neat #i've gotten comments like that before #but for some reason it just really hit me today