#budgeting for a trip

[rustingcat]

Had the absolute pleasure to meet some of my pocket friends in France last week 🇫🇷

To commemorate that, here are our favourite ladies in a romantic gateway in Paris!

#it was so great to meet them! #because it was a budget trip there were no special atractiins or fancy food #But I'm sure Lena treated Kara to all the michelin cheff restaurant and best cuisine france has to offer #I don't know why but I imagin them going there on a business trip for Lena that just accidentally turned more and more romantic by the day #supercorp #supergirl #kara danvers #lena luthor #my art

[collisiondiscourse]

not even gonna pretend like i understand or empathize with watcher's decision. its dumb. this is dumb.

#watcher #codi.txt #have they not seen how many cautionary tales exist out there? did we not learn from roosterteeth? #you dont need that budget. we never cared about the fancy food or trips to other countries. #its frankly tone deaf as fuck

[disneyfoodislove]

Chorizo and Potato Empanada with Turmeric Aïoli and Annatto Aïoli. EPCOT International Festival of the Arts.

#i know I know #it's been like 7 months #I needed to clear my head & get back to it #2023 was not a great year #walt disney world #disney food #mine #epcot #FARTS #seriously that is what it is called #haha I had said that the first time they introduced the festival #posting this as I am reflecting on my last trip #good food good company #love the gift card #glad I can budget for it #so much coffee was had & it was freezing out #don't know when I'll be back posting but at least I go today #and glad I am

[its-yashas-strong-arms]

i just got my first fulltime job salary and like. this is only two weeks' pay and it covers almost two months of living expenses under my current lifestyle

#for the past 8 years my budget was about 500 euros a month for utilities food extras (like clothes and gifts and trips) sports and savings #which means i was living off about 1000 a month total #including rent #and now for the first time in a good while i can actually save a decent amount??? i can just go out and buy clothes if i need to #i can already feel myself relaxing a little bit knowing that (fingers crossed) i'm entering this stable new phase #and it's only two weeks worth of money #what the fuck #also im not trying to brag i just didn't realize i was worried about money all the fucking time and now it's sinking in that thats over #capitalism is still evil

[princessslea]

Käärijä announced his Tour dates and of course they are all in Finland (makes sense) and I am genuinely considering flying to Finland for a concert

this is financially irresponsible but I want this so bad

#I could probably budget for it #but I already have a few other trips planned #so this could be difficult #I could also do the responsible thing and wait for a Europe tour #käärijä #kaarija

[useless-englandfacts]

maybe this is just because i went to a non-selective state school but. i’ve just finished series 2 of heartstopper and i need to know if anyone in the uk has attended a school as clean as the one on that show.

#maybe this is just what life is like for people in kent #not a single pee pee carved into the desks… no display boards where the paper is ripped and/or curling… #trips to france where they stay in pricey hotels? a prom that has a budget of over 50p? a library with books published *after* 1990? #like i left school in 2015 so a lot has probably changed in that time but. wow. #(this is obviously tongue in cheek i have no beef with the show please don’t attack me) #heartstopper #tv #schooling #education #admin dominique

[nintendroid]

Yogi Bear for Nintendo Wii.

#yogi bear #hanna barbera #cartoon network #wii #nintendo #ranger smith guilt trip #nintendroid #game is pretty good #think donkey kong returns on a budget

[isocrime]

Isozyme, your hrpf is so tight and snippy, you pace it all so well. Yoy have the plot so well tied to each scene. My question for you is, how do you do it,? Is it a matter of planning the end to end story before starting to writing? Thank you for your ficts!

Thank you!! This is a good question and very gratifying because one of the things I aim for with my fics is to always be compulsively readable no matter where in the story you’re at.

I don’t actually know the story from end-to-end at a high level of detail when I start out. Usually I know about how long the story will take to tell, the setup, and then the next couple things after that. As I write I sort of build the track ahead of me, so I’ll often have a detailed outline for the next scene, a couple bullet points for a handful of scenes after that, and then a sort of general vibe for anything farther away. (With a few exceptions, like I knew Matthew was going to get a supportive phone call from Sid in LMLAY for ages and ages before I finally got to write it.)

Basically my pacing philosophy is that every scene should have a job to do, and ideally also have some side hustles, and I sort of build it up layer by layer as I come up with each upcoming scene.

Let’s spitball a scene as an example. Hypothetically let’s give me a mcmattdrai wip where they’re all training with Scary Gary and in the scene in question Matthew is trying to figure out if Leon is sleeping with Connor. Maybe they’re waiting for the elevator together after a workout, that’s a good setting for two people who sort of know each other to have a stilted conversation. Matthew can joke that his legs are too tired to take the stairs and Leon can complain that he doesn’t know where the stairs are yet (this establishes their different levels of comfort in the setting in addition to giving some character notes). Leon probably also looks hot and sweaty, Matthew can notice that several times during the scene to amp up the sexual tension while he asks Leon awkward questions. A nice thing about elevators is that they have a timer, so I get to control when the elevator arrives and cuts off their conversation; probably right around when Leon reveals that he’s not sleeping with Connor (one mystery tied up, that’s the big job done by the scene) but now Matthew wants to know why Leon’s not sleeping with Connor (another mystery opened). They could keep talking about that inside the elevator but I don’t like that because I think that mystery should stretch out into the next couple of scenes, so to fix that (and add comedy) just as the elevator door is starting to close Connor can obliviously run up and join them. Now Matthew can’t ask Leon any more questions about Connor but he can observe the two of them together and start making some theories. However now that I have Connor in the scene, I should give him something to do from his plotline as well. Maybe I can make him talk about his struggles with a fundraiser for sick kids he’s trying to organize. Naturally Matthew volunteers Leon to help, which leads to Leon volunteering Matthew to also help as revenge, and that leads me neatly into the next scene (3 idiots struggling at event planning together in between their workouts).

I don’t know anything else about this fake story or where it’s going, but the scene is still dense and feels connected to a plot because all the elements are doing some kind of work on behalf of the story. And that’s pretty much how I do it when I’m actually writing something with a lot of plot — come up with what the main goal of a scene is, and then while achieving that goal try to have the stuff happening in the background work to move along side plots and set up the next thing.

Pacing is like a tricky little puzzle and it’s hard but I think it’s worth it when the work pays off; very glad you’re enjoying my hockey fics!

#isozyme answers #i learned how to write trying to sell original scifi/fantasy short stories to online magazines and the pacing there has to be super tight #so that definitely informs my fic #the pro mags pay by the word and their budgets are small #they want a full story with worldbuilding and characters and deep themes in 5k or less #so you're really packing for a 2 week trip in one carry on bag and a purse #every pair of socks better be justifying the space it takes up #no paragraphs just wandering around vaguely adding to the atmosphere #do a job or get cut for wordcount! #i'm such a hardass control freak about writing don't take this as advice on the only way to do things #you could also be normal and not freak out about adverbs

[thestaplerqueen]

#Poll #polls #i rarely buy clothes so it always boggles me when I see people have a ‘monthly clothing budget’ #Like yeah I guess I could set some aside every month for when I do go on the one shopping trip several months later but I suck at budgeting

[phantasyhalation]

i'd like to think 'evangelion is a deconstruction of the mecha genre because the battles have psychological consequences on the teenage pilots' has been dead in the water for years now, but it's still funny to think about. 'evangelion is the best mecha anime because it's subversive' is a take one can only hold if you have not seen other mecha anime. it's more like a reddit battle shonen-head mind virus than a belief anyone informed genuinely held - the show's entire prestige reputation was predicated on everyone talking about it not actually watching anime.

#i'm way more heated on this issue on the pmmm side of things but many people seem to still actually believe that on here #NGE is good because it's a fantastic and hilarious example of a studio tripping on its own budget like jumprope and somehow- #sticking the landing after stumbling down an entire treacherous hillside snagging on every root and rock #latency.txt

[jellogram]

I told my coworkers I'm gonna be living in Toronto for a few months this year and one of them is like "Airfare from YYZ to Scotland is super cheap right now, you should come visit!!!" and it's like $600

#like there's a reason im planning to take trains and rental cars through canada 😭 #the airfare up there alone is gonna blow my travel budget #I'm hoping to get to europe at some point this year but that's gonna depend on how much my job will fork over #so like. i gotta convince them i can create content from the trip #and a city in scotland where two coworkers already live is NOT gonna be an easy sell

[roses-red-and-pink]

Believe me when I say I am this close 🤏 to packing up my life and moving to the sea.

#my life #the sea would fix me #PEI #maybe I’ll take trip there #or I could go for the budget friendly version of finding a nearby lake

[invincibleweasel]

#rwby #rwde #unironically hilarious #what DO YOU MEAN you don’t have a high enough budget to make longer episodes #is rwby not the rt cash cow? #where the FUCK are the earnings going then #if not the show and its crew? #maybe rt should stop giving their higher ups expensive cars and trips overseas #and start funding their shows and giving their employees proper wages #what a fucking joke of a company

[bigothteddies]

I got paid a few days ago and paid off my credit card fully and still have a good bit left over and now I have to desire to get a little treatsie but also I need to start saving for my trip in September so I am torn!

#unimportant thoughts #and even if i DID get myself a little treatsie #it’d irresponsible because i have a list of expenses i need to handle #i still need to pay for my hotel for my trip and a pass to the bike park and food budget and suvenior budget #and i need to get a new bucket helmet and new riding gloves and i think i need to get a new brake rotor as well #so like those are the things I NEED to get eventually #but wheres the fun in that!