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What if in hellsite but not gay
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This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:
If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.
This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace
everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.
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Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.
IT GETS WORSE
I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.
LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES
AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.
Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien
STORYTIME. Last February, I sold a mug on Etsy. Common occurrence. Great. After it arrived at its new home, I got an email from the woman who bought it. She thanked me for the beautiful piece and remarked that the handle was perfectāshe struggles with arthritis and finds many mugs difficult to hold. I was so touched!
Fast forward to six weeks agoāI receive an email from her husband, explaining he broke the mug (lol) and asking if Iād be willing to take on a commission to replace it. He reiterates how she has arthritis but also shares she used to make pottery, herself, but can only really paint, now. I say of course! Come to find out, he wants a WHOLE SET of mugs to replace the broken one. Even better! I end up making the whole set twice (I wasnāt satisfied with the first attempt), but finally get them packed up and sent off across the country.
I just received the kindest message from the husband, saying āIt is not often in today's world that someone does 100% of what they have promised,ā thanking me profusely, and sharing that his wife is already happily using the new mugs.
Anyway, I guess the point is that making art is hard. And commissions always cause me a lot of undue stress, but things like this remind me why I love creating and connecting with people. š
Op those are GORGEOUS š. Can we please see the handles?
God that glaze is amazing. I'm so happy that they ended up buying an entire set. Best wishes to you and the customer!
Thank you so much! šš©µ
If I was a thinking woman, clearly I would've been more strategic in the picture I chose to include haha. But, of course! Happy to share more pics! I was simply too enamored by the glaze to not post that close-up...
You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.
Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. š
Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.
I mean this with all due respect:
You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.
Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.
Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.
If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.
You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.
Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer
Autumn in Kyiv by Samuel Kaplan, 1973
Credit card companies will TRY to saddle you with this kind of debt by the way - if ever a loved one dies and you are not co-signed on their credit card, do NOT agree to pay their debt unless you ask a lawyer first if you truly have to.
They will say ādonāt you want them to go to the grave without debtā, they will try to guilt you, they will take advantage of your vulnerability.
Source: when my father died, he had some credit cards that my mom wasnāt on that she had no access to. The companies contacted her while she was sorting through the bills and getting a handle on how to run the house alone, badgering her with his credit card debt.
She wasnāt liable for any of it, but if she had ever agreed to pay before finding out that she didnāt need to, she would have been considered to have taken on his debt and would have HAD to pay it. Itās slimy, itās predatory, and itās entirely legal for them to do this.
Never accept the credit card companyās word about your obligation to pay anyone elseās debt, if you donāt have access to the card, ask a lawyer before agreeing to anything.
Convenience isn't bad because of some inherent value in toil or it rots your soul. Convenience is bad because it often comes at the cost of an exploited underclass. I don't care if someone wants to taxi their meal to their house instead of making it themselves or even driving to the restaurant themselves. I care that meal delivery apps underpay their workers (they don't even consider them their workers), provide no workplace protections, and prey on their desperation.
The desire for convenience is a morally neutral thing (no matter how many capitalists want their workers to see unproductivity or aversion to the "grind" as a moral failing). Companies that sell you only convenience by making it worse for yourself and for others are not.
I'm sorry but this is the exact thing I was talking about when I said "convenience does not rot your soul."
You talking to a person over the counter to order food at a restaurant is not an anymore meaningful interaction than talking to someone who delivered that food. Delivery and take-out have always existed. That option to pay more for that convenience has always existed. The major difference now is that most restaurants no longer employ people in-house to do delivery, because it's being done by contracted gig workers who get absolutely no benefits or protections. The major difference now are the working conditions.
I agree societal connections are good, but you just going outside to order food and the coming back is not meaningfullly participating in society. Removing deliveries or any sort of accesibility service (cafes not having wifi for example) will not force people to interact with strangers if they don't want to do that. Convenience facilitates people who already don't want to interact with others, but convenience isn't what's making people lonely! You cannot passively consume your way to community.
Most people aren't gonna talk or build relationships with folks in that restaurant. They're gonna eat and leave, and that's less "community building" than someone who ordered take-out so they can stay home to participate in an online book club or zoom their loved ones in another country. Do not romanticize past toils and lack of accessibility. Convenience and accessibility leads to people having more time to connect with each other, not less.
Yep! Well, maybe not since the stone age, but since before 79 AD in Pompeii's thermopolium at least.
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I live also to spite every reactionary right wing power. I gotta outlive them. it's easy to want to give up my mood swings make it hard but I gotta outlive this term and for the future, even if it's hard.
im doing terrible but I gotta live I'm transgender
if you're transgender you gotta live.
idk if I've told this story on here before but one time I was sitting at my desk at work and a random dog I'd never seen before strolled into my office and curled up at my feet. and I was like oh you are adorable but what the fuck?
then a woman knocked on the door and said "oh I'm so sorry he's a therapy dog he's trained to seek out people in severe distress"
and I was like right okay, just getting my whole life drive-by roasted by a dog then
being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.
This is the IR degree in me, but I dislike how in Arcane they watered down/completely removed the geopolitical antagonism between Piltover and Noxus that was in the original lore all just to push a really really contrived "unity of oppression" theme that makes extremely little sense, is much worse foundation for future storytelling, and is more boring to boot (a true microcosm of all the issues Arcane has caused).
To those watching at home, Piltover in the pre-arcane lore always had an under-the-table hostile position toward Noxus from the get-go. This wasn't because of some specific event (because relying on specific events for state-v-state antagonism is over simplistic) but because of actual geopolitical logic. Piltover wasn't hit with the stupid bat like they were in Arcane. Noxus is a rapacious, murderous empire that is extremely open and explicit about their desires to conquer everything (most empires are usually not so obvious). Noxus has already conquered much of the territory surrounding Piltover, and Piltover itself is an incredibly important strategic location that is the only link between the Eastern and Western oceans. Even ignoring Hextech and general wealth they've accrued, Piltover would always know that they are very close to being on the chopping block.
So what does Piltover do? It actually had half a brain unlike in Arcane and had sought to bilk Noxus for everything it can and placate them where possible while distracting Noxus with irrelevant issues using economic influence, espionage, and misdirection. It knew that it cannot fight an existentialist total war with them (although Pilt's navy was considered a fearsome one), so it sought to keep itself out of Noxus' gaze while getting it entangled in irrelevant theaters of war and internal rebellions/court intrigue that ensure that it can never bring a strong, collective response against Piltover.
This takes many forms and some are more morally dubious than others. The most morally dubious one is that Piltover does facilitate some Noxian expansionism. Sea passage through the Sun Gates has allowed Noxus to expand westward at a significantly faster pace than before (Swain's conquests in Shurima would not have been possible), although Piltover does charge exorbitant fees for their military passages to the point of bankrupting the previous Noxian regime.
At the same time on the more incidentally morally upstanding end Piltover actively provides and sells arms and material to anti-Noxian resistance movements in Shurima (like the Suns of Bel'Zhun) and to independent powers like Stonewall and various Ionian factions resisting Noxian incursions.
Piltover had interesting things going on in the wider world and the institutions that were a wealth of storytelling potential that add good conflicts and depth to the region. Things like the Inteligencers of the major Piltovan Clans like Camille offered interesting subterfuge and and espionage activities in games of tit-for-tat against Noxian Warmasons and Black Rose incursions. But we can't have those because for Arcane they needed Piltover to be bunch of dumb-as-rocks morons. All to make Noxus look "cooler".
It's also not even an unheard of situation that a smaller power can deter a significantly larger one by being a porcupine. People often fall into imperialist propaganda and assume that an empire that desires to destroy something can *always* do so. Athens was a hornets nest that the Persians for centuries preferred to never outright provoke it because the cost of doing so was so prohibitive. Theoretically Athens could be crushed by Persian size, but locally Athens had too heavy a naval presence in the Eastern Mediterranean for them to want to bother and so they had to find proxies and indirect means to weaken them (this ended up being Sparta). Where Athens and Piltover differ is that the former was desiring to be an imperial power while the latter is not so more diffuse methods of deterrence are politically palatable and available to Piltover.
There's much more avenues for storytelling by leaning into conflict between Piltover and Noxus than in making them buddy-buddies.
Ironically, pre-Arcane it had been Zaunites who have provided the most explicit material support for Noxian imperialism in the form of chemtech expertise, weapons sales, and direct assistance in several genocides during the Ionian invasion (don't worry though, Rito always ensures that there's a "good" Noxian to make a sad face at it though so we know they don't approve...). This was an interesting situation as we can understand and even empathize with the reasons why they'd do this. Gotta get that cheddar as one might say when the avenues for opportunity in Zaun itself are so limited. But nuance like the sympathetic Zaunites doing bad things to people because they benefit from the suffering of people that don't affect them is apparently too much for the writers (or the fandom, probably) to handle.
Sure, you could argue that Piltover could "develop" some of these things post-Arcane but that's fundamentally lamer angle. Tension and conflict are best in this kind of storytelling when two groups are at rough equity to each other. So many famous Cold War stories and spy thrillers don't work if the CIA and KGB aren't roughly equivalent or at the very least have strong sets of unique skillsets. It's the difference between setting yourself up from the get-go for a story and being forced to wait for the narrative equivalent of Paid DLC in the form of narrative progression to get the kind of content that we could have had from the start. Not everything within a setting needs a dedicated origin story. Not everything needs to be an underdog story.
idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each otherās clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and itās lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
...Oh
second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but thereās already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
Itās not that thereās already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that thereās so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like āI can explain!ā and youāre just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like āI can also explain.ā
Married version is shoving your hand in your partnerās clothes when youāre out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is.Ā Or wearing a weapon in a spot you canāt draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouseās weapons.
Every single one of you is a genius
I swear Verity and Dominic did this at least once.