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volim2017

"It's Bondi till I die, not Bondi till I can't be fucked anymore." - BBMC Founder & Vice Prime Minister, Berry Benson

volim2017

"Hey Los Santos. Nice ass." - BBMC Enforcer, Collin McKinley

peterpparkour

Part 1

heuheu-the-goose

BBMC + text posts part one

count-slime

spiteswallow

I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.

spiteswallow

And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did

bixbythemartian

there’s a documentary called Sour Grapes and it’s about a guy who made a shitload of counterfeit wine and scammed a bunch of obscenely rich and obnoxious people out of money with wines he blended to taste like the real thing, it’s really interesting!

(I still think that some wine company should reach out to Rudy Kurniawan and get him to work with them on recipes, ‘this tastes like expensive wine you would not normally be able to purchase’ for, like, 20 bucks a bottle is wine I would 100% buy, especially if Rudy were involved.)

Also, somewhat uniquely, his crime mostly impacted obnoxiously wealthy people who were trading expensive wine as a money making thing, or drinking expensive wine as a show of wealth.

I also recommend the first season, especially, of the podcast The Dream, which is about multi-level marketing and how fucked up it is, it’s along these same lines.

doesnotloveyou

I love the wine grifter. I truly love any true crime scam where the victims were just greedy rich people whose only suffering was embarrassment because they immediately got the money back through like insurance or their own pyramid schemes.

Fine art scams, million dollar real estate scams, the bling ring, and that college scam? Hilarious. Waste of time to investigate sometimes, but lots of fun to hear about.

There's one on netflix about some rich people who thought they were buying all these rare, never before seen rothkos and pollacks (yknow, the easiest art styles to rip off?) but of course they were all fakes. it was hilarious though because they literally brought in the artist's adult children to verify the art and they were like "my dad never painted this" and the rich people WOULDN'T BELIEVE THEM. god, it was funny

beastlycreatures

“this is my husband, he stabbed me back to life.”

pasdecoeur

so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

pasdecoeur

anyway tag how old you were when you got into fanfiction, and your first fandom, and how long you’ve been stuck in the trenches with all the rest of us

blue-eyed-jay

This is awful probably, but fanfics were my first chapter books bc I could easily search what I wanted to read instead of trying to go off of titles/covers off the library shelves... I honestly didn’t go above T rated untill middle school tho bc I filtered them that way. Not that that’s great? But hey...

#naruto #8or9 #still in it at almost 25

benevolentgentleman

leahstuff

As a former band nerd, I can tell you that this instrument is finally being used as it should be :D

Also here’s a link to the entire song if you want it - there’s more silliness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6vBezPo3T0

viterbofangirl

The slapstick guy is named Grant and according to a YouTube comment:

pathos-logical

[Image ID: A screenshot of a youtube comment by Ava Giselle that reads: “grant isnt even a percussionist. he plays clarinet and is the human embodiment of chaos.” / End ID]

keplercryptids

adulthood gets such a bad rep and like yeah, a lot of adult things do suck (thanks, capitalism). but i do worry about what constant complaints about adulthood do to depressed kids and teens who feel trapped and sort of like adulthood is the only way out of their current situation.

so let me tell you, in case you haven't heard this ever, that in my experience, being an adult is 100x better than being a kid or teenager. being able to more or less control my living space and who i spend time with, being able to prioritize my health and wellbeing, being able to be who i truly am and pursue my interests and hobbies... all of that is worth the other dumb stuff, and none of it was possible when i was a minor. honestly, I've just gotten happier and happier the older I've gotten.

being an adult is GOOD. and it can be good for you too.

prismatic-bell

Ten cool things I get to do as a 30something adult that I did not get to do as a child or teenager:

1) Set a schedule that works for me. I work second shift specifically so I can stay up late and get up late. Can’t do that with school.

2) Collect whatever cool, weird shit I want. Buttons? Sure. Anime merch? You got it. Many many skeins of weirdly-colored yarn I may never use? I have four whole tubs of it.

3) Control my own wardrobe.

4) My periods got shorter and way less sucky in terms of cramps, accidentally turning my bed into a murder zone, etc. I have been the miserable ball of pain with ten days of nausea and heavy bleeding and cramping, and now I’m that asshole you all hate who has the three-day periods that are mostly spotting. A lot of people who menstruate report this kind of shift happening.

5) I still get acne from time to time (especially in a mask), but it’s not nearly as bad as my late teens/early 20s, and I know better now how to minimize it and make it go away faster. (A good facial cleanser. A good facial cleanser. Don’t waste your time with that Clean n Clear crap. Invest in something like Clinique or Oil of Olay and make sure you use moisturizer. I use Arbonne. It will change your life.)

6) I haven’t yet done this because I want to plan it perfectly first, but: go to a hotel with a spa, by myself, get a mani/pedi/facial/massage, chill in the hot tub, go up to my room, and laze around all evening in a very posh bathrobe and I don’t have to tell anyone where I am. “I’m going to be unavailable for the night” is a completely legitimate thing you can do.

7) As you develop life experience, you develop perspective. That is why when I skinned my knee at age six I screamed and cried and was inconsolable for an hour, long after the pain had faded, but this past March I cut my thumb so badly I needed four stitches and my response was to swear (because ow), look at it, and go “huh. That’s not good. I should probably see if my roommate can take me to the ER” and then I went and did that with no tears shed and no screaming. It’s true of physical pain and it’s true of emotional pain, too. You become able to just kind of take a step back and say “how bad is this really?” and realize that quite often, it isn’t actually that bad.

8) I get to pick what’s on TV and I get to pick what flavor of ice cream to buy to eat while watching it.

9) No fucking homework.

10) I was in my mid-20s before I found my tribe. The “weird anime kids” at cons are now all my children and neither I nor they make the rules, that’s just how it is. As you get older, you find other people who love the things you love, and you connect, and those friendships are wonderful.

Stick with it. There are so many reasons, big and small.

freckletini

Cannot stress enough how much better my 20s have been than my teens, a few years into them. And it’s just getting better from here. So much stuff about being an adult owns. ffs i JUST finished school a few years ago and even just that is such an enormous load off my shoulders. it really does get better, champ. you WILL be able to make choices that DO significantly improve your entire life.