#they're cheap i'm free

[kowabungadoodles]

dumping some thoughts in the tags

#I've been TRYING hard okay #I've been trying to buy better clothes from smaller shops #but when they arrive it turns out they're cheap polyester drop ship crap #I've been trying to get more involved in the queer community and be more of a person #but the online zoom meetings were uncomfortable #the discord transmasc voice class went badly because I didn't understand how to use the bot #I booked a queer film night for me and my partner but it turned out to be creepy and churchy so we dropped out #I've signed up to steward pride we'll see how that goes #I went to a protest but it rained a lot so I only stayed for half #I've been trying to use amazon less but every time I go around my small local stores they don't have any of the stuff I'm looking for #I'm trying to be more myself and be more brave but my binders don't fit and I can't use a sewing machine #and every time I speak to a stranger or a colleague my voice goes up #I'm trying to work out more and eat less but I'm so tired #I'm trying to boycott and buy slave-free and say no to Ai and to genocide and to tiktok and disney and nestle and spotify #Telling myself I have food at home and to stop scrolling reddit and got get more sleep and to call my friends #All this therapy all these good choices all this work and so little to show for it some days #I am going back to fucking bed

[merrymorningofmay]

*dude writing about anglo-saxons in 1864* they drank beer, and also mead, which is very sweet so we assume it was for The Ladies,

#girl who takes 90% of her ethnography research from 19th century books bc they're free and i'm cheap #mari rambles

[hadephobic]

@angelic-stiletto-pointe

"Milf."

#I LOVE you and wanna give you something better but. this is funny. and I gotta be a clown first #angelic stiletto pointe #They're cheap; I'm free | IC #semi-crack

[2hoothoots]

i was in the mood for a little arts and crafts project this weekend, so i dug out my watercolour sketchbook and made some paper dolls of the FSAU archetypes. I'll find somewhere to put them at some point but for now they're hanging out on top of my monitor

#paper people real!! #future superstar agents au #i should get a proper set of watercolours at some point. these were just done with a set of cheap watercolour pencils #which imo are kinda the worst of both worlds #but maybe I'm just bad with them :p #they're mostly free-standing because the paper's pretty thick #and they have little tabs on the feet

[aesethewitch]

Hello! How are you doing? You were doing free tarot readings. Do you still do them? I just wanted to ask.

Hi! Yes, thank you for asking! I do free tarot (almost) every Friday. I've been doing sessions live on Twitch recently, but tonight's will be just here on the blog since I've got Zero Energy to be live tonight. Readings done on stream are 3 cards, readings done here are 1 card.

I have been considering doing the tarot streams earlier in the week (Mondays, maybe) and Free Tarot Friday on, well, Fridays. It's something I'm looking at for April.

The official post will go up later on this evening, but if you want to send a question early and "get in line" so to speak, you can read over my rules for requesting a reading and send an ask whenever. It won't get answered until I officially start, but I always go from oldest ask to newest.

(I also offer paid readings all the time through Ko-Fi commissions at more than fair prices)

#aese answers #free tarot friday #tbh i. should raise my commission prices probably #a friend told me i'm too cheap for what i offer shgdjkafhkjsdhf #so yknow. take advantage while they're low

[dennisboobs]

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#no time 2 talk i'm translating a song-- #first of all. hi. i'm not leaving <3 but. #the yakuza hyperfixation hit me like a ton of bricks it hasn't done this in YEARS i usually just play the games through #and then continue on but 8 has pulled me back into 2018 so. my ykz sideblog is @okitanoniisan #also the entire series including side games (judgment/lost judgment) are on sale for as much as like 80 percent off on steam & ps store #so if you want a bunch of very big meaty games with a shitload of fleshed out side content and fun minigames #and some of my favourite characters in existence. you can get the collection bundle (7 games) for like 40 bucks #or just get yakuza 0 for less than the price of a fancy coffee. you WILL want to get the rest of the games. i promise. #hiiiiiiiiighly recommend the judgment games if you like mystery crime thriller stuff imo they're even more compelling than the main series #and gameplay kicks major ass i have like 235 hours on lost judgment alone (i was going for a platinum and still haven't gotten it) #also if you get the ykz collection go for 'yakuza: like a dragon' too it's on sale for ridiculously cheap and its like a 50 hour jrpg #(it's the 7th game but the english release would never let you know that. followed by gaiden and infinite wealth as 7.5 and 8) #but the last two just came out so theyre not on sale yet <3 #go. be free. play good games. #i'm done shilling they're on sale until the 15th so go try out yakuza 0 at the very least <333 #ada speaks #we now return to our regularly scheduled dennising

[rockethorse]

Me @ me: Remember - as much as you enjoy building in The Sims 4, you hate actually PLAYING The Sims 4, so there's no point in buying expansion packs based on how fondly you remember the corresponding gameplay from TS2 or TS3 because you'll never actually play with those features enough to justify paying that much, just use CC if you want new build/buy options

Me @ the Sims 4 Black Friday sales: Ok but listen,

#making a new chat post seems like a risky choice given what happened to my last one. but I must speak my truth #also this isn't meant to hate on TS4's gameplay or dunk on the game as a whole I just know I'll always go back to TS2 #so for me personally investing more money in TS4 would be a waste because it's not worth paying for a whole EP just for the build/buy stuff #when the focus of those EPs is on gameplay I won't be using - like I keep getting drawn to cottage living or eco lifestyle ortiny living etc #because we don't have those sorts of features in TS2! and then I'm like. but you're not actually going to play with them in TS4 either #and in theory this is what TS4 kits would be perfect for - no sense in paying for an expensive EP if I only want the objects #when I could buy a cheaper kit that has only objects I'd actually use #BUT. that makes it more difficult to share lots on the gallery because fewer people own the same kits especially the more you use #and so if the only reason I avoid using CC is to make my lots easier to download on the gallery then buying kits would creat the same issue #so just use CC LMAO at least then I can advertise my lots off the gallery like here on Tumblr and people can download it for FREE #but even though I know all this. even though I know it would be a waste of money I really don't have atm #they're so cheap.........................

[simplepotatofarmer]

egg update!

going into lockdown for the second clutch and as far as i can tell, we have eleven viable eggs. i'm not expecting all to hatch but i'd be so thrilled if they did. <3

hatch day for the first clutch is thursday and there's four eggs. shipped eggs are a gamble so i'll be happy to have even one of the four hatch. keep your fingers crossed for one of the legbars, though, because i'd love to have an opal legbar.

#chicken posting #loyal's hatch a long #sadly they're like. $20 or more for a pullet and usually about $7 or so for an egg. #these i got free via a giftcard so i'm lucky in that regard #but! if not next year i'll try again #my chicken arc is also my 'everything for free trade or cheap' arc

[army-of-bee-assassins]

welp today i am feeling frustrated that you still have to pay fucking $35 for a fucking flu shot in this country if you don't have insurance

#someone told me they thought it was free at cvs/walgreens w no insurance so i called them #they say $35 #so i google the county health department and their website says you pay on a sliding scale if you have no insurance #so i go to the county health department and they said it cost $35 with no insurance! #they're the ones who are supposed to be cheap!!! and they couldn't even make it cheaper than cvs!!!! #like yeah sometimes they have free flu shot drives so i guess i'll be on the lookout for that #but i have a deadline of nov 1st for school so if i can't find something before then then i guess i'm shelling out the money #and it's not like i absolutely can't afford $35 #i mean i'm living off of savings rn but yeah i could pay that much #i just feel very strongly that i shouldn't have to #for a fucking flu shot #so i'll keep looking for something cheaper i guess until i just have to get it one way or another #j.txt

[hylianengineer]

Since other people are posting cookies, who wants to see the ones I made yesterday?

They're pointy because dipping them in frosting was the best way to create a uniform surface without going through all the trouble of using those icing bag thingys.

Also the color is really weird, look:

It might be hard to see in this photo but the frosting is distinctly full of blue and white flecks. The reason for this seems to have something to do with adding almond milk to it (to make it thinner, I assume, but I was following a recipe so I cannot be blamed for the results), which I suspect combined weirdly with the vegan butter. (Yes I have vegans in my family and yes I feel weird mentioning it on the internet where people sometimes have strong opinions on that. Don't be a dick or I'll block you.)

So. Speckled frosting. Weird but maybe kinda cool? I'm already schemeing about ways to use this effect on purpose, assuming it's reproductible - I'm thinking it'd look cool with green, like evergreen trees with snow on them.

Anyways, that's more than anyone wanted to know about my adventures in baking.

#i haven't tried them yet but allegedly they should have a texture like those cheap tollhpuse sugar cookies everyone brought to parties in #elementary school. #i haven't had one of those in a decade and i miss them perhaps more than is reasonable #so when i found a gluten free recipe i jumped on it #if anyone wants a gf vegan sugar cookie recipe lemme know and I'll send it to you. i can also report back tomorrow on whether they're good #food tw #hylian rambles #gluten-free vegan #I've mentioned on this blog before how accustomed i am to cooking for people with dietary restrictions. this is a good example. #I'm more proud of that than is perhaps reasonable #but i also made low protein cookies yesterday and lemme tell you that is an ADVENTURE #(low protein is required for people with phenylketoneuria btw. it's a genetic condition where people can't process a certain amino acid.) #low protein cooking is also on my list of weird highly specific skills

[custer-mp3]

anyway it’s really funny that my entire childhood my mother was desperate to connect with me about Aesthetic Matters Of The Flesh™ while also being bound & determined to keep me from Doing Anything Goth, which of course is the ONLY form of Aesthetic Matters Of The Flesh™ i was interested in, and had she y’know. just been supportive of that. we could’ve had that ~intergenerational Flesh Decor bonding experience~ she was so desperate about

#like wow gee whiz it's as if you give your kid the option of Not Being Themself or simply refusing to engage with the concept entirely THEY #RE GONNA REFUSE TO ENGAGE WITH THE CONCEPT ENTIRELY!!!!!!!!! #you can't force your kids to be something they're not y'know #anyway as an adult dressing like a freak is my primary hobby & where the bulk of my discretionary income goes tbh #like i eat food. i drink coffee. i read (free stuff) and write (free) and hang out online (free) and use all the money i'm saving by not hav #ing a more exciting social life to dress like an ABSOLUTE FUCKING FRUITCAKE while i do those things #LIKE DAMN MOM WE COULDA BONDED BUT YOU HAD TO BE A BITCH ABOUT IT LMFAOOOOOOO #anyway. bodyartforms order says hi #i got better-sized 12g rings for my septum cuz whatever cheap cbr from work i had in was IRRITATING IT it was getting jostled too much cuz i #t was TOO BIG #and a bunch of miscellaneous ends to match various setups & i'm p stoked abt it #i am passionate about looking cool but it's a set of standards that only exists in my own head & ig that's where i fucked up with my mom lol

[bredforloyalty]

Oh, I also like Rick and Morty and I'm too unironically emotionally invested. I may or may not be in possession of merch. 😈🤦

i am literally sitting here in a rick and morty jacket and there's like three more pieces of merch in this house JYSHVYJXY high five

#they're from the market mostly and almost all of them were cheap except maybe this jacket which costed about as much as a normal jacket #however it was my dad's money. #so it was free wasn't it lmao i'll take any opportunity to rip him off it's the least i can do #i deserved this jacket #my dad has this habit of just buying whatever he knows we have any relation to like if we watch something or mention something in passing #he WILL buy a shirt at the market #he'll buy anything that's cheap #he will. i'm wearing a deadpool shirt from the market. it says outta my way nerds #anyway merch yeah i get that #ask #rnm

[hadephobic]

"Fuck so scary and peculiar that I put the fear of God in him."

#diversity win! the violent bitch making a gross statement is using him in a 'he/him' lesbian kinda way #They're cheap; I'm free | IC

[awkward-teabag]

So tired of everything being derailed by racists.

Want to talk about jobs? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about the state of housing? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about post-secondary education? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about healthcare? Blame immigrants.

Want to talk about the state of the economy in general? Blame immigrants.

And it's never about the systems in place that lead to immigration or the how companies exploit young workers from elsewhere in the world (by taking advantage of their inexperience, their lack of support network, taking their money, and so on), it's all about how those dastardly non-whites are trying to screw honest Canadians out of everything by taking advantage of us, and they're personally going after you.

You can be talking about something and even be open to talking about the complex issue that is immigration but it immediately gets taken over by THEY TOOK OUR JERBS! assholes.

It's at the point where as soon as immigrants/immigration comes up, I peace out unless I know the person and can expect them to have a point beyond bigotry and fascism.

Because it's never about our systems, decade(s) of neglect, neoliberalism or conservatism, or anything like that, it's about how selfish, rich, and anti-white brown kids are and things would be perfectly fine if not for them.

#seriously i have heard so many people say the reason why housing is so bad #is because immigrants come from cultures where sharing a room is normal #so that's why it costs $2k to rent a room in a house you share with 4 other adults #it can't possibly be because the lack of social housing or that landlords were given a free pass to do that #or that many of our politicians have 'investment properties' including the federal housing minister #or that students (esp female students) end up being taken advantage of with housing #'cause living with a guy who rapes you for $500/month is feasible while $2k/month is beyond your means #and is preferable to dropping out and being homeless #also all it takes is one tiktok video of an immigrant saying they're taking advantage of something #and the racists will run with it and say *all* immigrants are doing that #e.g. that immigrants are taking food out of our mouths because someone said they go to food banks to get cheap/free food #i'm sure some of it online is psyops #but these sentiments have existed for a long time but now people have no problem saying them to your face #emboldened by american propaganda and pp fearmongering and appealing to xenophobia #also it should be noted since i was a kid it's been warned about how the country's economy couldn't be sustained without another baby boom #once boomers and older gen xers retired #immigration literally keeps our economy from utterly collapsing because we don't have enough workers to replace retiring ones #or enough workers to pay pensioners #it is a massive massive complex issue that goes back decades #and sure the federal government is complicit in all of it #but again for decades and that includes the conservatives who supposedly would fix everything if only we voted them in again #i'm far from a fan of trudeau but this started well before him #and you can't even criticize him without it being derailed to be about xenophobia or being assumed to be a fellow bigot #hell i avoid criticizing singh because the moment you do you're assumed to be racist or a fellow racist #canada is a fucking racist and xenophobic country and has always been so #stop assuming we're not or that we're no where near as bad as america or uk tories or anything like that #if you can believe that the british queen wasn't a nice old lady who never did anything wrong and the british monarchy is perfectly benign #you can believe that canada's pr and propaganda is wrong and it's not a good country #and maybe listen to canadians about this instead of what media tells you canada is like and how canadians are

[p2ii]

#I love how alot of riotgrrrl has managed to write about het romance from a female perspective in a very crude and gross(?) way #I always mean gross in a positive way when talking abt riotgrrrl tho because I feel it's both intentional and part of the appeal #same goes with songs like 'they're cheap (I'm free)' 'bridezilla' and 'hes my thing' #boys who want to be objectified go listen to 'hes my thing' by babes in Toyland btw it's so good #how I feel abt my blorbos FR #psii.mp3 #Spotify

[rubys-domain]

these dishes are literally everything wtf

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #i was actually planning on doing a “sweets impact” kinda deal. like，only cooking and eating sweets #yeah i know as a mid-late game player i don't really need to cook anymore #but where's the fun in being strictly utilitarian all the time forever in a game like this? #nobody NEEDS desserts irl either. but why deny myself those simple pleasures in life? especially in a game where they're literally free #(not needing irl money i mean. obviously they cost mora more often than not. but honestly pretty cheap compared to things like artifacts) #side note but i haven't spent a single drop of resin since i started casually playing again a couple days ago #and it feels strangely freeing. yeah sure i haven't triple-crowned my great magician yet #and crowning talents is stupid expensive #but right now i honestly don't care. my builds are all good enough for me: they get the job done and that's all i need #and i'm especially not fussed about still not being able to even clear floor 12 chamber 1 #the primo payoff isn't worth tearing my hair over making my characters do marginally better damage with a slightly better goblet imo #i'd rather get primos out of something i actually enjoy doing. which is running around the map and seeing the sights and picking shit up #now that i think about it，none of the activities i enjoy most in the game have anything to do with resin #maybe when i can be arsed to i'll start on that slow grind again. maybe my boy will even get that damn marechaussee set one day who knows #but right now i don't want to feel the pressure to never let my resin cap and end up doing domains and stuff every day like chores #right now i just want to have fun