#i don't have a job anymore so i can't afford to just BUY more.

[mcflymemes]

AS SAID BY GARRUS VAKARIAN, updated version  *  assorted dialogue from the mass effect trilogy, adjust as necessary

i can't find any hard evidence.

good luck, [name]. maybe they'll listen to you.

i'm coming with you.

sometimes it feels like the rules are only there to stop me from doing my work.

i just couldn't take it anymore.

maybe i can get the job done my way for a change.

if you're wrong, we'll pay for it. but if you're right, and we did nothing, i think we'd regret it a whole lot more.

i thought you were dead.

it sure is good to see a friendly face.

at least it's not hard to find criminals here. all i have to do is point my gun and shoot.

my feelings got in the way of my better judgement.

i'll make you a deal. you get me out of here alive, and i'll tell you the whole damn thing.

nobody would give me a mirror. how bad is it?

don't make me laugh, damn it.

some women find facial scars attractive.

i'm fit for duty whenever you need me.

when i got to the meeting point, no one was there.

kill you? no. but i don't mind slowing you down a little.

what do you want from me, [name]?

i know you want to talk about this... but i don't. not yet.

it's so much easier to see the world in black and white. gray... i don't know what to do with gray.

my instincts are what got me into this mess.

never knew you had a weakness for men with scars.

well, why the hell not? there's nobody in this galaxy i respect more than you.

if we can figure out a way to make it work, then... yeah. definitely.

you're about the only friend i've got left in this screwed-up galaxy.

you don't ever have to worry about making me uncomfortable. nervous, yes... but never uncomfortable.

i brought wine.

your hair looks... good. and your waist is... very supportive.

hopefully that's not offensive in human culture.

i want something to go right. just once.

think you can win this thing, [name]?

i'm pretty sure we'll still need giant guns... and lots of them.

so... is this the part where we shake hands?

the scars are starting to fade. i remember they drove you wild.

i've been doing some more research on human customs.

glad to know my romantic skills made an impression.

let's not go there.

i can afford the good stuff.

what about you? i'm starting to see some wear and tear.

don't forget to come up for air. and not just because all these people need you. because i need you.

if you're suggesting i'm scared... game on.

still trying to make me blush, huh?

i'd be lying if i said i didn't hope it would inspire a certain... mood.

it seemed like you needed time to... figure us out.

the worst part about the galaxy going to hell would've been never getting to see you again.

not saying you don't know how to handle a gun. just saying some of us know how to make it dance.

i've actually seen you dance. no comment.

i know there are other things you're good at.

probably not a lot of air in here. an hour if we're lucky.

so tell me. think a girl would fall for that?

it gets even better when you try it in bed.

you don't lack for places to get lost.

did we break anything last night?

you'll find a way to win. and when this is over, i'll be waiting for you.

if this thing goes sideways and we both end up there... meet me at the bar. i'm buying.

forgive the insubordination, but your boyfriend has an order for you.

come back alive. it'd be an awfully empty galaxy without you.

we're in this 'til the end.

we didn’t kill these people. and we’re going to shut down the bastards who did.

looks like we’ve got a siege on our hand.

if anyone needs fresh clips or a bathroom break, now’s the time.

oh crap!

guess he didn’t like the food.

looks like we got the jump.

pretty extreme, but those were desperate times.

we won’t get a second chance.

that was me, sorry.

nothing like being stranded.

we’ll do more than that.

just the usual minor flesh wound.

what would these people have done if we hadn’t shown up?

i was there when you two had your thing, remember? just get a room and work it out.

stay angry. we’ll need it to get through this.

drinks will be on me.

one of my favorite places to fight!

i’m hard to kill. you should know that.

it’s gonna be bad all over.

for whatever it’s worth, i’m with you.

you’ve waited long enough for this day.

just wait ‘til this war is over.

you came along and warmed my heart with your winning personality.

maybe you’d like to go work for them instead?

how do i not have one of those?

surprise on our side for once. i like it.

brutal, but it makes a certain kind of sense.

#garrus vakarian #mass effect #mcflymemes #rp prompt #rp meme #rp memes #roleplay memes #roleplay prompt #rp starters #ask meme #ask memes #roleplay meme #roleplay inbox prompts #rp inbox meme #inbox prompt #inbox meme #sentence starter prompt #sentence starter #sentence starters

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for making my dad pay my phone bills?

I (Adult F) live with family. I make minimum wage so I can't afford anything, but I want to be independent someday. My dad (63M) is responsible for paying all the bills in the house, and each of us his children would be paying for our own separate expenses. BTW, this arrangement is the norm where we live, because it's a patriarchal country.

I was jobless during the whole covid period, so my dad was paying for everything.

After I start working again, he told me to pay my own phone bill. I agreed, but wanted a cheaper plan because my current one has a lot of data that I don't even get to use because our house is out of service. I can only use it when I'm outside, which is rare unless it's for work, and our workplace bans phones on the hour.

Anyway, it was my father who got me this phone number, I don't want to change it because it's the number I'm used to and I'll lose many contacts if I change it, but when I called the company to get the cheaper plan, they refused because this number isn't mine technically. My father will need to go to their office in person, which closes very early, and it happens on the time he's working his side job and he work everyday there, he doesn't cancel unless he has an emergency, and he doesn't have any day off because this job is mostly a hobby he likes, not a steady source of income.

Which is why, I'm stuck with a phone plan I don't want. I do pay it, sometimes. I did so regularly, but one time I was late, and my father paid it accidentally. All the bills show up on his bank app and he pays them without double checking. One time he came to me laughing and said "hey, I paid your bill accidentally because you forgot."

I laughed back at him and offered cash in return, but he refused, he told me to just pay it the next time myself.

However, these days I just ignore the bill completely, because I started working in a supermarket, and when I find good deals, I buy grocery for the whole family. Shared grocery is my dad's responsibility, so I could demand him to pay me back but I don't because I'm making him pay my phone bills anyway but he does pay me sometimes. For reference, my phone bill is about 30$ but the grocery I buy is sometimes more, sometimes less, and sometimes nothing. It depends on the deals I come across snd the brands our family like. I feel guilty because my dad most likely has no idea he's still paying my bills, even though I'm helping him with grocery. I also don't demand an allowance from him anymore unless I'm in a pinch, even though I'm entitled to it since it's a cultural norm.

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

[aaronsrpgs]

A Worksheet Manifesto (Rough Draft)

The Worksheet Manifesto is an attempt to explain why I'm moving my game design toward something I can print for free at the public library and give away. It's not a scold or a call to action; I buy full-color zines and hardcover books, and I support people charging for their work. This is a personal manifesto—an exercise in self-exploration.

The first reason I pursue this is ACCESS. I want people to be able to find and play my games. (Accessibility is maybe a better word for this, but I don't want it confused with the process through which something is made easier to use for people with disabilities.)

Some of the main barriers I've seen are financial (someone can't afford my games), technological (lack of computers and/or printers makes it more complicated to read my games), and international (shipping to someone outside the U.S. is prohibitively expensive).

Combining these three elements, I realized I wanted my games to be cheap or free. The common "community copies" solution on itch.io is much touted, and for good reason, but as I tried explaining the process to friends who weren't familiar with the site (or who flat-out aren't tech savvy), many responses were confused or frustrated. So I've set most of my games to pay-what-you-want with a suggested price.

Going from computer tech to printer tech, my most recent games were laid out in black and white, without ink-sucking textures (although some still have large spots of black in the art--something I continue to consider). Many American libraries offer limited free printing, and I always hope people will "utilize" the printers at their jobs or schools. I want people to be able to easily print out my games and share them at the table or pass them to friends.

And more selfishly, I hate dealing with fulfillment and shipping. It's stressful for me, it requires money up front to print things, and I'm bad at it, which means shipments go out slow, or not at all if someone lives outside of the U.S. Creating a file that's easy to print hopefully encourages people to create their own copies.

These cheap print copies also hopefully contribute to a feeling of DISPOSABILITY. I grew up with comic books, magazines, newspapers, and mass market paperbacks, and I think these cheap, short slabs of culture helped them feel like someone could engage with them without having to be fancy or educated or in the know. (A lot of us gatekeep ourselves!)

Prices for RPGs, like so many nerd collectibles, have steadily risen at least since the start of the pandemic. Crowdfunders often capitalize on FOMO, encouraging people to go all in on deluxe hardcovers with fabric bookmarks or whatever. And if my experience working at a used game store is anything to go by, lots of those fancy editions go right onto the bookshelf, unread. Don't want to break the spine or get fingerprints on it!

And I guess I'm just against consumerism? If someone wants a nice thing, I hope they get it, but a culture of games as luxury items and status symbols is not something I'm interested in.

So if someone has a game of mine and they don't want it anymore, I hope they pass it on, put it in a little free library, or recycle it.

And those dirty little printouts of my games? I want people to touch them and write them. I want TACTILITY. This is partially a usability issue: 300-page hardcovers are hard to find information in, and they're heavy if you have to lug them to a friend's house.

So I try to design games where everything a player (including the GM) needs is on, at most, three sheets of paper. I want them to be able to spread a couple pages out and take in the shape of the game they're about to play. I want them to circle things and make notes in the margins. Moving a pencil around does wild things to your brain, the same way that picking at a guitar or molding clay does. It focuses attention in interesting ways.

And in the end, you hopefully have a personalized article of play. And if you spill beer on it, no one's worried about replacing that $50 hardcover.

Speaking of beer, I want my games to be available to and contribute to COMMUNITY. As the pandemic started, I retreated into lots of online spaces, and those were absolutely vital to my survival. But I lost touch with lots of my friends and acquaintances in my city. I want to reconnect with them.

One of my favorite cartoonists, Mark Connery, is known for drawing little zines and just...leaving them all over. Coffee shops, art galleries, bathrooms. And when I think of him, I think of an artist responding directly to the places around him. Is it sad that some of this work is probably "lost" to all readers other than the person that happens across the zine? A little bit. But I think that comes from a bad part of my brain, the part that wants to own things.

I certainly don't want the entirety of my own work collected and widely distributed. Some of those things were specific responses to specific times that I've moved past. Some were bad! But I want to keep responding to my specific times and my specific place. I want to give things to friends (even if they just pass them on or recycle them). I want to give a game to someone at a zine fest and have them recognize my name from a zine they read in a coffee shop bathroom. And maybe they'll give me a zine in return.

My last hangup is MODULARITY. First, similar to tactility, I want to be able to give a player only the rules that matter to them. Character creation and basic rules? Here's a page. And once you're familiar with that and we've entered a downtime phase, here's a page with those options. You want to start a farm? Here's a page. I want it to feel like printing coloring pages for kids or ripping out my favorite magazine articles. These are the parts that matter. And if they stop mattering, you can get rid of them.

But I also want modularity on a system level. I want to add a subsystem to game as I think of it. I want to throw in an adventure pamphlet when it comes to me. I can keep them all in a little box, like a care package from my past self, and when it's time to run a game, I can dig around like a verminous animal and build my nest out of the best bits.

In CONCLUSION, I want to reiterate that this is a personal practice, and I'm not criticizing people who work differently. I used to work differently, and in the future, I'll probably work differently again.

This is simply the way I've identified what's important to me, set that up against the things that cause me to stumble, taken advantage of the privileges I have, and tried my best to bring that all together in a way that keeps me excited about my own work.

#ttrpgs #indie ttrpgs

[whumpster-fire]

Leading Thieves Say Millennials and Zoomers "Ruining the Crime Industry"

A variety of criminals have spoken out over the past few weeks, saying that crime just doesn't pay like it used to because Millennials and Gen-Z-ers are so broke, they have nothing of value to steal.

Stephen "Fingers" Gilligan, Pickpocket: Pickpocketing has been on the decline in America for a while, but it's getting ridiculous now. Nobody carries cash anymore, and even cards aren't paying out. The other day I stole a wallet with five debit cards, and all but one of them declined. The last one had just enough to buy a Sierra Mist from a vending machine. That was my second best score all week. The best was a $40 Olive Garden gift card and a crumpled, discolored $5 bill that I had to use archeological techniques to retrieve without it disintegrating in my hand.

Burt Crustman, Mugger: Man, nobody walks through dark alleys at night since the pandemic hit, and when they do? Jackshit. The only valuable anyone under 40's got on them these days is their phone. Admittedly lotsa people have $3000 phones, but you know what the market for fencing iPhones is like? It's shit! Everybody's buying new phones because their phone's the only nice thing they can afford!

Monty Derailleur, Bike Thief: Well the bike theft business would be going good, if people ever used the bikes they bought. The sales are high, but the fact of the matter is, the bike lanes around here are shitty or nonexistent, there's no room to take them on the bus, and there's no bike racks so everybody knows it's gonna get stolen.

Jerry Rigby, Car Thief: I don't know what you're talking about, Grand Theft Auto is booming. There's $75,000 pickups, $60,000 SUVs, $100,000 Teslas, and most people can't even afford to buy a used car legally so fencing's never been easier. The reason it's hard for those of us in the business is twofold. First, too many people living out of their cars. Second, the competition. You see a nice car parked somewhere, you gotta be on it like that, or the fucking illegal towing rackets will beat you to it. It's nearly impossible to make a living as an independent car thief.

Dwayne Pipe, Burglar: The only reason to be breaking and entering in the post-Pandemic years if to use somebody's shower. I swear to god, half the time when I break into a place, the only furniture is a mattress on the floor and a mid-sized computer monitor as a TV, and those are only good for scrap because with planned obsolescence the way it is, they have a life expectancy of about 6 weeks after theft. To be honest with you, I'm running a loss on most jobs. The only reason I haven't gone straight is because all the legal jobs pay jackshit too. That, and I really like replacing people's family photos with pictures of Nicholas Cage.

Brittlyghn McKannyck, Shoplifter: Shoplifting these days is a hobby, not a career. Half the time the stores are too understaffed to even stock the shelves, and if they're not, everything's locked up. I had to get a guy to unlock a magnetic tag on a box of Crispix the other day. If I didn't live with my parents, there's absolutely no way shoplifting full time would be viable.

Norman Gore, Master Hacker and Identity Thief: Scamming people out of their financial info or cracking passwords has never been easier, but the scores just aren't worth it. I keep getting into bank accounts that pending overdraft fees. It's pathetic. I have to leave the lights off so my hacker den's only lit by the monitors, and type on three or four keyboards at once to hack enough people to make ends meet.

Jack Gazebo, Digital Pirate: Oh my fucking God, people, stop paying for streaming! Learn to torrent! I'm telling you, man, this generation just doesn't have the technological literacy to pirate media.

Captain Tom Stillcutt, Analog Pirate: Let me tell ye something, matey, it be a sad day for piracy. No more galleons laden low with gold doubloons, rum, and exotic spices, nay, it be all scurvy container ships full o' mass produced plastic now. Me last prize was a forty foot container loaded full of over a hundred thousand Funko Pops, en route from the East Indies. The worst part of it was as the cap'n I gets a double share o' the booty, whether I want it or not. I've been makin' one walk the plank every day, and my cabin's still full of the blasted things. Shiver my timbers, I hate these damned Zoomers! At least the ones in me crew are happy.

Geraldo Cardamom IV, Gentleman Thief: The economy's just horrible for heists these days. Art heists? Jewelry theft? All the rich idiots are blowing their money on crypto, NFTs, and custom furniture from hipster woodworking YouTubers. Nobody just has a gallery in their house with priceless antiques in glass cases below a conveniently placed skylight, or millions of dollars in cash and gold bullion in vaults behind secret doors with seven different elaborate locking mechanisms anymore. Nobody secures their valuables with networks of criss crossing laser motion sensors. The only guys with that kind of money are assholes like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, and they don't have the sense of style for that. They just hire a bunch of assholes with guns.

Carmen San Diego, Legend: You must be joking, right? The reason I retired is because the infrastructure in this country is so dilapidated it's impossible to move it without it disintegrating. My last heist was "stealing" the World's Largest Pothole in Lansing, Michigan. I lifted the entire six lane wide, fifteen foot deep pothole out of the ground, disassembled it, and shipped it across the country to a warehouse in Las Vegas, then filled in the hole with pristine asphalt so it looked like it was never there. Nobody investigated. Nobody came after me. The city threw a parade in my honor. It didn't even take a month before my record holding pothole was dethroned by one in Cleveland, leaving me with nothing but a bunch of dirt, crumbling asphalt, and broken dreams. That's when I realized it was time to call it quits. Well, maybe the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid, but it already looks stupid enough in the middle of Tennessee that the only way stealing it would be funny is if I put it in the original Memphis.

#shitpost #the wide world of crime

[invidiia]

Lippmann with assistant darling, a concept:

You’ve always been good at your job, did all that he asked for with no complaints and go along with what he had in mind, that’s why he likes you so much. You don’t really know or expect just how deep that “like” runs, it’s not even just fondness anymore it’s obsession, he doesn’t know when it took for a turn but it did at some point. Does he want to go back? Never, not really.

He realizes he likes you and he’s deep into the pit of desiring you to be with him. He’s nice, and he keeps an eye out for his reputation but there isn’t anything bad if he gave you a bit of a raise, yes? You deserve it after all, along with a lot of other nice things in life he could get ahold of—

being his assistant - yandere!lippmann (bsd)

includes ; lippmann (bungo stray dogs stormbringer)

warning ; yandere themes, mentions of murder, mostly soft!! <3 still yandere. i talk about the reader's hair here so if you're bald then i apologize 👍 also a gaslighting joke but i think he'd do it

note ; I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS. GIGGLIGN AND VIOLENTLY SHAKING AND CAUSING AN EARTHQUAKE. I COULDNT REALLY TELL IF THIS WAS A REQUEST (PROBABLY WASNT) BUT I WANTED TO WRITE MORE FOR IT ANYWAY SOO

being lippmann's assistant was an easy job, really. no issues, aside from maybe a jealous fan who thought you were kept too close to the famous actor you worked under.

you caught him staring on numerous occasions. he was just so kind, wasn't he? you know how some famous people aren't as nice as they are when they're interviewed? this just wasn't the case for lippmann - he was perfect, exactly how he presented himself to the public.

sometimes, no — more often than just sometimes, lippmann gave you gifts and compliments. little hair clips, rings or any other accessories from recent movies that he got to keep? why, of course, it goes straight to you! just take the gift, it reminded him of you the entire time he filmed! he made sure to say that the thought of you helped him focus on set. he was just so kind, wasn't he?

lippmann always found himself touching you. was it an arm on your shoulder while he thanked you kindly for bringing him the drink — your choice, of course. go ahead and get yourself a cup of the same thing. he wanted to know your favorite. chances were, he'd ask for the same drink again — or was it the way he gently placed his thumb on your cheek, taking your focus away from the papers of this week's schedule and to him. he would tell you it was dirt on your face, but he kept his thumb there for another moment before straightening his tie and walking away, back to whatever he was doing while your face had flushed from his sudden affection. was there anything on your face? nope!

obviously, your paycheck was smaller than his. you could afford nice things, but of course, lippmann could always buy clothing with the nicer fabrics, and just about everything else with better quality. he knows that you don't have the money for things as nice as he does, but you get around just find with about half of what he makes, aside from any other forms of income he has. the man enjoys buying you things. no matter how much you protest against him spending that, you come to an agreement that you'll pay it back to him. does he let you pay it back in the future? nope, he probably gaslights you 🫶

this is.. obsession. what started as a fond liking to you had escalated and grown to a deep infatuation. lippmann has a good name out there, and getting blood on his hands for you? he'd do it, absolutely. as much as he would love to kill someone who wronged you, you can't get revenge and keep a spotless reputation.

but being a part of the port mafia, he has his ways, doesn't he? lippmann has good connections, and while you don't exactly know other than his relations with the legal side, he still has the ability to get a target on that person's head. who from the organization would pass up an opportunity to kill someone for money?

[ a/n ;; honestly i got more but im so fuckign tired its like 4:33 am and i'm running out of brain energy ]

#klya..anon #bsd x reader #yandere bsd x reader #yandere bsd #yandere bungou stray dogs #yandere bungo stray dogs x reader #tw yandere #bsd lippmann x reader #lippmann x reader #yandere lippmann

[ravenbloodshot]

Wealthiest Members of Exo 💰💲

Ranking from most wealthy to least:

Baekhyun

Kai

Suho

Xiumin

The last five will rest here (none of them are in good places financially rn)

From what I'm getting, none of these members are particularly "wealthy" most of them I would say are "comfortable". But calling them wealthy would be like comparing Bill Gates' wealth to a homeless persons (not saying they're homeless btw)

Baekhyun- He seems to be the most stable financially to the point that he seems quite unamused with his life. He's really bored. It's like the energy of a person that has all of their bills paid with a nice amount of money sitting in the bank and now is just looking around at what to do next

Kai- His finances is giving me the energy of a person walking away from the gambling table, not exactly empty handed but he doesn't have a pocket full of gold either. It could be that while being in the military he doesn't have much access to his money or gaining any wealth. I'm also seeing some betrayal here, so I'm not sure if he put someone in charge of his money but they could be screwing him over

Suho- I think he bought something quite big recently (like a house/apartment/building etc...) and in terms of his net worth he's sitting pretty high up but when it comes to liquid assets (physical money one has access to) he doesn't have much. It's probably bc of this purchase. I'm also seeing a possible new project, so overall he's invested his money into something so rn he has none, but there is a possibility as time goes by that he would get a return on his investment

D.O- Rn he's fighting to get more acting roles and gigs. I think he wants a specific role that's costing him time and money since he's wasting time waiting to get this role and arguing with ppl over it. When he could be using this time to make money doing other things instead of obsessing over a role he probably won't get. This energy is also giving arguments with the company SM and his manager as well

Xiumin- I don't think he's making any money doing anything besides being an idol. Maybe he has small gigs here and there but they're few and far between. Good thing is that he has the drive and motivation to up his finances (unlike some of his other members, I'll get to them soon)

Chanyeol- He has no passion rn to work or any motivation to make money so his money isn't growing. He could be completely over being an idol and would rather spend his days hanging out with friends (lowkey living the slum life, no shade lol). The energy feels like he's housing a bunch of his boys and they're all just drinking and smoking all day while jamming to music.

Sehun- I don't know if these guys have a contract renewal coming up but it seems like he's waiting to get out of his contract. If it's not with SM , it's with another gig he worked for. It's like he doesn't want the responsibilities of some type of job anymore (I'm not sure if it's his idol job or something else). He's quite over it and he also isn't feeling up to working rn so his money is suffering for that

Chen- He's spending more than he's making. I think he's finding it hard to focus on work these days, I see his wife and possibly his children (but more so his wife) taking up a lot of his time and money. The wife could overspend but he also could too, like buying the kids random things they don't need. But I also see his health isn't the best, he's not taking care of himself properly.

Lay- I don't know what's going on but it's like his putting in a lot of work and putting in the time but he's not really seeing a lot of money for it. Whatever he's doing these days for money seems like dead end jobs that won't really get him anywhere financially but leaves him feeling burnt out. Also, he's spending a lot of money on a romantic relationship, buying them gifts and possibly funding his lovers life style. It's like hes taking his girl on a bunch of shopping sprees that he lowkey can't afford. And it's not that he's broke but it's just that it takes A LOT OF WORK and hustling on his part to make money so he can't recklessly spend like he has.

#kpop readings #kpop #kpop tarot #exo #sehun #chanyeol #exo kai #d.o exo #exo suho #baekhyun #lay exo #xiumin #chen exo

[moriahwritez]

How Vi and Sevika take you home on a rainy night (When issues happens).

Hey guys again. You could listen to rain sounds for further experience. Make sure to follow more stories. Enjoy!

You could find the link here to listen while reading. https://youtu.be/aCLgmgukgfw

Anyways....

Vi:

On a cold rainy night, you finished a council meeting with Mel Medarda. "Please be safe out there, Y/N and hurry back home," says Mel coming out the front door. "Will do, Ms. Medarda. See you another time." You open your umbrella and walk down the stairs. While walking close to the sidewalk, a group of boys who roam around the street starts talking crap about you. "Did you see how the way she's dressed? I'm surprised Mel let her in." Then another says, "I feel like Ms. Medarda wouldn't let her be some kind of Enforcer if she's that poor. She can't even dress up professionally." They laugh at you. You clenched your teeth and close your umbrella, running straight at them. "I won't be poor anymore, once I get in this job! And you could complain all you want. You won't get in like I will someday." You swing the umbrella at them. One of the boys lean back and kicks you on the ground. "Like how so? The only thing you could afford is working at selling stuff. But what will you buy you ask? Probably yourself." He kept on laughing at you. Your clothes were damp from the soaked ground and all you can do is cry. "I won't let that happen you…you brat!" You yelled at him. "And who's gonna stop me?" He asked, sarcastically. Suddenly, Vi ran up and kicks him away from you, while the others immediately ran off, knowing she's that badass girl from Vander's side who can smack the life outta people. Vi looks down at you, reaching out her hand. "Don't worry about those, assholes. Let me take you home." Your eyes flustered as you recognize who that was. Vi picks you up and adjusted your umbrella. She touches your skin from the arm, which causes you to shiver from your damp clothes and the ground. She took off her jacket and wraps it around you. "That should keep you warm from all that, hopefully." Then, she holds your umbrella up to cover each other. "Your not cold?" You asked. Vi chuckles. "I'm actually used to rain and the cold weather. Pretty warm-blooded so am alright." You let out an awe and lean down her shoulder, covering half of the jacket she gave to you, to her and walk away alone together.

Sevika:

Night arrives after you finish your job from the last of drop. It started heavy raining, when you felt a droplet from your nose. And more came down faster. "Shoot," you said. You forgotten your umbrella at home, but didn't know it was gonna happen today. What you only had was your rain coat. You zip it up and cover your hair with the hoodie and started speed walking on the sidewalk. You weren't paying attention on ground, after you fell from a rock. You fall hard on the wet ground, trying to get back on your feet but couldn't. Grunted in pain, you wish to see someone helping you out. You were alone at night….until someone approaches towards you. A large hand shows up close to your face. You lift up to see who it was. There was a tall women bending down at you. "You alright? You must've been hurt after what I saw," She says. "Yeah, pretty much." You hold her hand. The women brings you up causing you to fall almost again, but landed on her chest. You look up at her and blushes fully red from seeing how beautiful this women was. From her darkly grey eyes, to her cute shape of the nose, her dark mouth and a blue scar on the side of her cheek. You shake your head, not trying to focus on her looks and get back on what just happened. "I'm sorry for my clumsy side. I don't know what's wrong with me tonight." "Probably has been a hard time from working at the bar," says the women. You nod at her. Then, the women took off her cloak, covering you up. "You shouldn't be out here alone at night. Even if you did had an umbrella. But since you don't have one, I'll take you home safely." You smile at her relief. "Oh, that's so sweet of you uh-" "It's Sevika, love." She carries you up and wrapped you more like a baby and continues on walking. Once you got home, Sevika put you down on the couch. She folded her cloak from the damp rain and passes to you. She walk to your bathroom and finds an aid kit. She came back and takes the stuff out to fix your foot and arm that had bruise from the fall. "This gonna hurt, so be prepared."

Cries (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

#sevika arcane #arcane #sevika #arcane violet #vi arcane #vi x y/n #sevika x reader #sevika x y/n #vi x reader #vi fanfic #vi x female reader #sevika x female reader #vi x you

[piovascosimo]

the blur thing is making me insane, and it is maybe hard for people from the outside to get it. but picture this, a 16 year old starts getting into a band in 97, then goes crazy about them when they release a masterpiece a couple of years later but we were still mostly offline back then, access to things was so limited. my first email is from 98 but back then we didn't have internet at home or even a good computer. i used to listen to music on cds, waiting all day for mtv to show one video, and here in brasil they've always privileged awful american bands like 'faith no more', and 'rhcp', ugh. i was thinking beetlebum, but i am pretty sure it was 'country house' or 'the universal', that first appeared to me late at night at some point, that is why i went and bought blur/blur when it came out in 97. i still remember the store and the act of me buying it, that spark of energy that you could feel back then, oh i think this is for me. when 13 came out i was in love with them enough to not need visuals for it, but i used to buy 4th gen copies of concerts via mail order from a pirating store in são paulo. it was so hard to come by any kind of content. finally by the early aughts we got the early (good) internet, some official dvds, and we could illegally download so many great music, buy on ebay old magazines, and discover every single hidden blur song that they ever made, but what i was really excited about were the new songs, the new album. and then i find out via a shitty webcam that graham was out of the band. i understand now that it was a hard time for everyone, but i couldn't help and really resent them for leaving graham behind. it was so depressing, it felt like getting really into the beatles just as about they were to break up, i picked sides, i was upset, i hated (still resent) that album that sounds nothing like blur (and that hideous banksy cover, barf). it was such a bittersweet feeling, when i finally could get somehow near them, my main reason for me loving the band was cast apart. years went by, every reunion they did felt like a triumph and a step closer to where they were before, i saw them for the first time live in 12, after missing the 09 ones, bc i couldn't afford it. you could feel they wanted to put it right, but often you could tell the wound was still raw. i'm a big fan of the magic whip, the album that graham put together, because he wanted there to be more blur, that think tank wasn't the end. i understand that the way the album was created wasn't 'organic', graham made it happen because he wants to work with damon, he wanted to show they could do it again, and i think he did an amazing job, i think it is a beautiful album. but it was not until now, that i have felt that we've come out at the end of the tunnel, so now i am reading all these interviews of damon talking about their friendship and how important musically it is for graham to be there for blur to be blur. it feels like 23 years later i am getting what i was expecting to get back then. the more i listen to the album, more layers i find about them, their friendship, and it's so fucking nice that damon is finally talking about it too. i guess most people get over their teenage obsessions, i am not 16 anymore, but unlike most bands from that era they've kept growing and growing, they don't want to be stuck to the past anymore than i do (my teenagedooom was the worst). it feels really nice growing up with your favourite band. that is why this feels so joyful, and why i can't stop talking about it. feeling grateful about it.

#blur #mio #i don't know where this came from #just a rant #personal #graham and damon

[hectorisagoodboy]

I am an adult baby, I know how the world works, but I don't ask others for money to please my hobby. nice attempt at manipulation you tried Bravo!

😳

This makes me perplexed...

I'm an adult, I don't hide behind an anonymous message and... Wow, you know what...?!

Drawing for me is also my job!

My hobby is collecting crystals and shells, cataloging them, reading books about them and I've never asked money from others to "carry on my hobby", if I can't afford it I don't buy any, if I can afford to give myself a gift I buy them...

My hobby remains only to please myself or my friends and relatives!

When I make fan art, I also offer other people to please themselves with my visual art and many are happy to be able to enjoy my content! I'm sure you pay to see a movie or an animation, I hope! Do you pay to read a picture book or comics book? Do you think what you see has magically created itself, or that there are people behind it who have worked hard to show you what you see? Do you even understand the difference?! 😒

What I do on tumblr is also a pleasure for me, I don't doubt it, but I assure you that I continue to do it only because I have positive feedback from my "readers".

However I work in organizing comics events, commissioned illustrations and comics books, logo creation and handcrafted works, so think about it.... Fan art is just a little extra part of my job!

In any case, I don't think I specifically asked you for money... 🤣 Lol... So what exactly do you want to prove?

I had to answer you to finish specifying my point! but now don't write anymore, I won't waste any more time answering this, I think there's nothing else to add! Move on and have a good life!

[aleniksimmer]

Necklace and miraculous done (there will be three versions in CAS in the necklace category: the two neclkaces alone and them together like the picture).

Now I ""just"" need to make the hair (I guess they're going to be pretty difficult).

Under the cut some life updates.

So, a year ago I told you I was going to finally live on my own thanks to my uncle's empty flat. Well, that's not the case anymore apparently, we've talked to a surveyor and basically, despite the flat being abandoned since the beginning (40 years ago), with missing services, floors and broken windows, it's still going to cost a lot of money just to buy it from my uncle (around 140k euros) since my parents doesn't want me to rent it due to it's incomplete status.

About University, I officially renounced and I still don't know if I can save all the exams I passed till now in my career due to the burocratic "block".

I still can't find a job despite all my attempts, they keep refusing my applications even on basic jobs cause I don't have an university degree (that's how my country works apparently) and it's a lot disheartening.

My plan now is to keep making sims content for a year so I'll be able to afford two of three years of a videogaming 3D graphic course in a very good school in my city, the one that one of my brother's collegues went to and now has this stable job and is highly qualified. This school costs a bit more than my long time "dream" school but gives you way better knowledge and you're more likely to be assumed at the end of the third year. The taxes are about 5k a year and I'm extremely motivated to follow this path.

I hope this is the time I can finally change my life the way I wanted, even if not everything is going as planned.

#faq #the sims 4 mylene haprele #sims 4 mylene haprele #ts4 mylene haprele #mylene haprele #the sims 4 miraculous #sims 4 miraculous #ts4 miraculous #the sims 4 miraculous ladybug #sims 4 miraculous ladybug #ts4 miraculous ladybug #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #delete later #the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4

[lesbienyu]

all the anti-feminist "tradwife" shit I see that's like "omg why do women have to work now instead of living on a farm and letting the man provide, it'd be so much easier, let's go back to the old days" fuckin kills me as a rural woman on a semi-functional homestead.

I live in the family farmhouse and we cultivate about an acre or two of food for ourselves every year, and forage in the woods as well. It isn't sitting in a nice farm dress and picking berries. It's hard, physical labor to till, plant, and weed, and god forbid you do it without equipment - I try to do it this way bc I'm poor and we can't always afford to replace parts. You are covered in dirt and sweating. And men don't help, at least on smaller, non-profit driven farms- it's perceived as domestic labor, and every woman I know who lives how I do is the one responsible for the garden plots, esp if they have a man, even if he doesn't work. It will fall onto you.

And the fantasy of existing like this without working just isn't viable- my mother and I both work, and can barely afford to survive despite having a well instead of a water bill, growing and foraging large amounts of our own food, repairing things ourselves. Rural areas are generally economically depressed - I had to spend hours on a bus to the cities every week last year just to get a living wage and we still qualify for state assistance despite being two working adults with college degrees. The economy just doesn't really work that way anymore, and there aren't good jobs in most rural areas, at least in my part of the world (upper Midwest US).

Substance abuse is common, and that's a risk factor for DV. not saying addicts are automatically abusive, I am an addict, but male addicts have rates of domestic violence that are hard to dismiss. added on to that, there's no adequate mental health care in many rural areas (at least here- I'm not gonna speak on other countries bc I don't have the knowledge to do so), along w the economic depression which tends to exacerbate substance abuse. it's normal to be an alcoholic or addicted to other drugs in a lot of rural areas.

law enforcement is especially unempathetic to women in rural places. I reported the guy that assaulted me in high school, he confessed, there were texts and other evidence, along with other open cases against him, and it was dismissed as "he said, she said," despite him saying the same thing as I did. it's way, way worse for women in relationships with men. men in small communities bond, since everyone knows everyone, and most law enforcement is male, cops are shit, do the math.

It's also a lot easier for abuse to happen here- I turned 24 today and rang a cowbell, blew a bugle, and hit an airhorn in the yard, just for funsies and to scare off wildlife while I stargazed, and no one heard me. Imagine if I was screaming instead of being goofy. In cities, it's easier for neighbors to notice if something is wrong purely because they can hear you. Add that to the fact there is nothing within walking distance and many abusive men restrict women's access to their own cars or finances to buy gas, and there's a recipe for trouble. It's unfortunate, but domestic abuse is incredibly common in rural areas, especially since misogyny is so culturally engrained.

There's also not women's shelters here- the nearest is an hour away by car. This isn't uncommon in rural America. It also can take an hour for emergency services to show up, if not more.

I dunno. I still adore being rural, but I am a lesbian living with my aging mother and disabled brother. it's still a pain, obviously, but I am not at the same risk of abuse as these young women on tiktok or whatever talking about how they want a man as a provider so they can "just garden and bake all day." that is only a reality for the wealthy, and the wealthy do not tend to exist in the places they're fantasizing about. most of these women are fantasizing about this shit as an escape from capitalism, and I don't necessarily see founding a relationship on that being healthy. even ignoring that, being rural vastly makes violence against women a lot, lot easier for abusive men.

I feel like the whole "cottagecore tradwife go back" shit is a way of manipulating women who aren't familiar with the realities of rural living to resign themselves to an environment in which abuse and exploitation is easier to do and harder to see, to give up financial independence, and to likely end up in an even more misogynistic environment than they left

#this is a half baked drunk thought but like idk i feel so weird about this shit as a rural woman #radblr #radfems do interact #radfems do touch

[iturmom]

i physically cannot sleep. i'm kinda starting to get tired but i cannot fall asleep there's absolutely nothing i can do to shut my brain off i just cannot quit desperately trying to figure out how i can prevent my life from spiralling into danger. but i don't think any of the ideas i have come up with could work. there's literally nothing i can do. i have absolutely no control over my life it is not mine anymore. ffs i was forced to exist against my will the least they could do is not fucking torture me for it but this is just how the powers that be operate they see us as no more than livestock. if there was anything (morally sound i don't value my life over anyone else's i would rather just die i refuse to compete) i could possibly do to stop suffering i would start right away god knows i can't sleep. but there's nothing. i'd even sell nudes at this point but no one wants that there's millions of free nudes online and i don't have anything to offer i mean i have nice assets but so do the millions of other free nudes online? i know how to paint pretty well but i don't know how to make art and i don't think i will ever be a good artist and i don't care i don't have anything to prove i don't want to compete i have nothing to offer there's plenty of great art out there and it's not going to come from me bc i just don't have it in me. i want to sell commissions but no one wants to buy paintings from someone who's not an artist. i literally just have no options for a job with a living wage. i have nothing to fucking offer that the powers that be value enough to let me survive. and i had 5000 from tax returns and covid stimulus. i could survive on that money for a little while. but my mother tried to kill me because i am nonbinary and mentally ill and not a fascist and a lot of other reasons she hates me for that are just not deserved. she tried to kill me. her husband helped hold me down. they twisted my arms and legs. my mother knocked my phone out of my hand and i was wailing begging for my partner i was on the phone with to help me somehow. until my mother silenced me with her hand on my throat. she choked me 4 times. when the cops arrived she was still on top of me and i got arrested. and i was homeless and i wasn't safe there obviously so i had to travel between alabama and texas for court i could not stay in alabama it was not safe. so i had to spend all my savings for the court bullshit and of course the case just ended up getting dismissed because she attacked me. but now i'm just left to die. i get no reparations. my mother tried to kill me the state arrested me for it and costed me my life's savings and everyone just tells me tough shit. i can't get disability even with all my trauma i can't fucking function without constant distraction or i'm just constantly tortured by cptsd. as mentioned i am too fucked up to function but i also have nothing to offer an employer i'll never make a living wage! honestly i'm being fucking purposely personally tortured by the world and they'll just keep getting away with it because no one will fight for me. my mother fucking tried to kill me for being nonbinary no one cares. i was date raped no one cares. i was an orphan. you know i busted my ass to build myself a stable living by my fucking bootstraps by 23 and had it all taken away from me by a violent roommate who attacked me and once again the police did nothing to help and rejected my protection order. one person chose evil one time and ruined my life irreparably. not to mention just the fact that i was forced to live with sketchy people just to afford to survive and all the fucked up shit that causes that to be the case. i'm fucked. and it doesn't fucking matter. i'll never have my life back. i'll never have autonomy over my life. my life was stolen from me and now i'm forced to suffer with no other option available.

[martsonmars]

Hello people! Happy Sunday 💖 it's only 3AM but I'm sad so you get this now.

I haven't written much these past few days because I'm home for the weekend and it's harder for me to write at home, apparently, AND because every time I open the docs of my two “urgent” WIPs I'm filled with existential despair and I close them because I'm obsessed with both ideas and convinced I'm only going to fuck up. I know I can't live up to my own expectations, I know I'm not the kind of writer that would make my heart beat as a reader. I'm not saying I'm not good, and I'm the first who's proud of my stories when they work... It's just that my writer self and my reader self can't make each other happy. Not always. And so when I try to develop these ideas that I'd really be obsessed with as a reader (because yes, I love all the ideas I have but I rarely write the things I truly want to read, I don't know how to explain this), I can't help but think — if any of the writers I admire was writing this, they'd do a better job, I'm not going to live up to that standard. And this is undeniably true to me, external validation can't do anything about it. So yeah. It's hard.

But! I just managed to reorder a little my thoughts for chapter 11 of where I belong (psst I posted chapter 7 yesterday!), so here's a snippet from chapter 10 to celebrate:

Tags and NaNoWriMo under the cut!

Here's a snippet from the longest scene of my original story so far. I'm not making much progress with it (it's the sixth NaNoWriMo day and I have 1800 words, so basically as many as I should've written on the first day alone), and while it's fine (the goal was never to write 50000 words in a month, I knew I couldn't, I just wanted the pressure to focus on this story), I still wish I was making more progress.

Either way, I'm really proud of this scene, so here it goes.

Her smile broadens, and she sets her bag on the floor, sitting down. The skirt hikes up even higher on her thighs. It's basically pornographic. “Thank you. Are you new here?”

If I didn't have any self-control, I'd be snorting. Ugly snorts, coarse laughter, slamming my fist on the table for emphasis.

Am I new here?

I wasn't when we slept in the same dormitory at fourteen and she asked to borrow my nail polish as if her parents couldn't afford to buy her an entire carriage of every polish shade in existence. I wasn't when I helped her with chemistry homework and she spent most of the time making heart eyes at the boys on the other side of the room. I wasn't when her boyfriend sucked the magic out of me and was given a medal for saving the world, while I got an expulsion letter and the gentle reminder that I wasn't welcome anywhere in our country anymore.

Am I new?

“Yes,” I say. “I'm Riz.”

A flicker of interest flashes in her eyes. “Riz.” She says it as if she was tasting it, slow, deliberate. She clicks her tongue. Do I meet her approval, now? “I'm Ophelia.”

I suppose I could make a post about this story if people want to know more about it...

Now tags! Love you all.

@wellbelesbian @urban-sith @tea-brigade @sillyunicorn @mostlymaudlin @facewithoutheart @palimpsessed @otherpeoplesheartachept-2 @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @forabeatofadrum @johnwgrey @fatalfangirl @prettylightsbigcity @whatevertheweather @jbrrring @confused-bi-queer @moodandmist @bookish-bogwitch @letraspal @dragoneggos @captain-aralias @takitalks @excalisbury @shemakesmeforget @starwarned @cutestkilla @ileadacharmedlife @gekkoinapeartree @bazzybelle @bloodiedpixie @stardustasincocaine @aroace-genderfluid-sheep @angelsfalling16 @basiltonbutliketheherb @messofthejess @ivelovedhimthroughworse @nightimedreamersworld @artsyunderstudy @foolofabookwyrm-activated @ionlydrinkhotwater @yellobb @orange-peony @ic3-que3n @whogaveyoupermission @bucketfishy @katmiscellanious @yeonjunenby @erzbethluna @larkral

#six sentence sunday #my writing #where i belong #nanowrimo

[caffeineandsociety]

Honestly, as much as many people point out how much large quantities of money spent by the ultra-wealthy on frivolous things could change their lives as a reason that the level of wealth inequality we're at is absolutely unconscionable, and they're ABSOLUTELY correct that it's a great illustration of the problem...

I think an underrated and equally important illustration is how much those quantities CAN'T do.

Let's think about a million dollars. That's a quantity that says "HOT DAMN, you REALLY made it!" to most people. That's a lot. It's more money than most people will handle at once in a lifetime.

And it can BARELY buy most single-family homes in California. It can't buy many that don't even qualify as McMansions, just...nice houses. It's even worse in NYC, where you can find apartments the size of a postage stamp that it can't buy.

And if you want to RETIRE with "just" a million dollars? You'd better hope you die soon.

Suppose you retire at age 55 with a million dollars. Congratulations! If you live to age 75, that's 50k a year. 85, it's $33k a year. 95? You've got $25k a year...and it's likely that you're ending up with medical bills that take an entire year's worth of money in one go. Ending up in assisted living? Well, the median cost of assisted living in the US is...$54k a year. Congratulations, ALL your money goes to rent now! Every cent! Better hope you die within 15 years!

You COULD avert this by putting the money in a high-yield account and only skimming off the interest, yes - the average retirement account, with an interest rate of 5-8%, would give you $52-83k a year...but even then, you have to have a million dollars in the first place and not withdraw from your initial principal, which, good luck doing THAT with the complications that tend to arise in old age and health insurance deductibles and coverage limits and loopholes to make you pay out of pocket. $83k a year may sound like a lot, and it certainly is to most of us, and even so, life has a way of eating through it fast, especially if you're retirement age.

In addition, there's a concept that I call "item debt" - it's about those things that, sure, you can SURVIVE indefinitely without them, but you will live a longer and healthier life if you have them. This can be anything from a stove that can actually maintain a constant temperature, to a computer that lets you do your job without freezing and crashing every few minutes, to assistive devices. Item debt can be the need for transportation in the US's car-centric society - you can't even afford a shitty old beater, so you have to take the bus 3 hours each way; the first thing you'll do if and when you get the money is buy a car and...then what? Your bills are no less impactful; if anything, they're worse because now you have to pay maintenance on the car. It can take the form of, "well, I really SHOULD be using a wheelchair, but I can't afford that and I can walk ENOUGH that my insurance won't even partially cover it, so guess I'll rely on this $10 cane until it inevitably gets worse." It can take the form of saying "I'd aggravate my various orthopedic problems a lot less if I had more power kitchen appliances, but those are expensive, so I guess I'll make do without" until you can't lift a bowl anymore without hitting 8 on the pain scale. It can be the empty first apartment, bare mattress on the floor, that's a wonderful improvement over wherever you came from but if you don't get a bedframe you're either going to wear out that mattress really fast and have to spend a ton of money replacing it, or have to strain to pick it up and let the underside air out every day, which may not seem like a lot now but will destroy your back over the years if the cheap mattress itself doesn't do it first.

Thing is, most people who are not MULTImillionaires have some form of item debt - and if you have multiple disabled family members or a sufficiently expensive illness in the family (e.g., need for a lung transplant, which can cost upwards of $1mil WITHOUT complications, or cancer that requires a particularly expensive type of chemo), sometimes it'll take something like $10mil to get out of it.

Again, we're talking about WAY more money than most people will see IN THEIR LIVES. We're talking about quantities of money that MOST people are expected to live our entire lives without. We would all live longer, healthier, happier lives if we could all have basic food and water, sufficient living space, and health care including home medical devices as needed, guaranteed. There is no scarcity reason why we SHOULDN'T have these things guaranteed to everyone except a many-times-over-disproven myth that everyone would just stop working and then we'd have no supply chain if we didn't have death by poverty as a constant looming threat.

And so these things remain out of reach to EVEN THE LOW END OF THE WEALTHIEST 10% OF AMERICANS.

And for what? 90% of the country is left second-guessing, postponing, or even outright foregoing NECESSITIES, and FOR WHAT?? So the top 0.5% of fucking assclowns can have megayachts and eat gold and spend amounts of money that could change people's lives on stupid and dangerous shit whose horrible safety standards they can then inflict on the rest of us??

If that doesn't piss you off and tell you something needs to change I don't know what will.

#$250k would be able to clear MOST of my item debt #i would be able to get all the kitchen appliances i need to stop destroying my body to cook #id be able to get some mobility devices and braces ive been badly needing #but it WOULDN'T be enough to get me a house that could actually meet my accessibility needs without moving ro a cheaper state #where i would know no one and not be able to see my own doctors anymore #now that ive FINALLY found a medical team that ACTUALLY works for me #and tbh i find THAT to be an even more damning illustration of the problem than what that money COULD do

[frc-ambaradan]

Topolino raise its price from 3,20 to 3,50€...

Honestly? I don't care. That's ok.

With inflation trotting and paper price spinning, what do we expect? Le Journal de Mickey just announced they're gonna reduce the issue releasings because of paper's high prices. And if I'm not mistaken Micky Maus did the same some time ago.

This is not Panini's way to open readers' checkboxes (they have other means to do that and they're very good at it 😒)... this is a common problem publishers are facing. And I would also remind people complaining that Panini is a multinational corporation, not a charity organization. As John Rockerduck said once: "What are they complaing about? Don't they know that making money is my job?".

You can't afford to buy Topolino anymore? That's fine, don't buy it. But if you can afford it, then support it. If more people bought it, maybe prices wouldn't have increased that much. People don't read and most importantly they don't teach their children to read (and I'm a voluntary worker at a public library so, believe me, I know what I'm talking about), it's up to us few die hard fans and collectors to keep the machine going.

And please, stop comparing nowadays prices with those of 30 years ago. First, there was another currency. Second, money value was different. And third, Topolino used to sell over a million copies, now it's down to a tenth.

We should be grateful we still have a quality Disney magazine coming out every week. Do we want it fortnightly again? It's been a weekly publication since 1960 but... ok, sure. Sincerely, I prefer it to remain weekly, even if I have to pay more.

#ramble #complaining about complaints #topolino magazine #price increase #disney comics #('fortnightly' is such a weird word 😅)