Hello

[pettyrevenge]

Back in high school I had a HUGE crush on the “mysterious” guy in the class above me. Let’s call him Tom. He was waaaaaaaaaay out of my league so by some screwed logic I figured I had nothing to lose and started talking to him one day. Lo and behold, we became friends and I started hanging out with his group of friends most days after school. Since I came from a small town almost 10 miles away it was great to have new friends to spend time with, or so I thought.

As stated I had a huge crush on this guy and it was blood obvious to anyone involved - Tom included. He had already made it clear to me and others that he did not look for a relationship with anyone and this was confirmed by his friends, some of the girls told me that he just had a couple of short relationships during high school and that the girls had been the driving forces behind getting into said relations. Somehow I managed to push my feelings aside far enough to spend time with him as a friend, (God knows how a 17-yearold girl managed that) but I had my angsty, upset and jealous moments for sure…

And then, somehow, we started to spend more and more time together and on a friends Halloween party he actually asked me if I wanted to date him - as boyfriend/girlfriend. I was on cloud nine for sure and as happily in love as only a teenage girl can be. Until our group of friends found out. Their reaction was to “blame” me, saying I made Tom agree to date me, that it would never last more than a few months at best and then he would get bored with me as he had with the other girls and even so far as to once telling me to break up with him and move back home. I realized later that several of them must have had a crush on him at some point or another and then I showed up… Teenage girls can be brutal.

Anyway, most of those friendships crumbled as they tend to do, especially reinforced by the dislike from several members of the group. I got on with my life, school ended and I went through a couple of jobs before ending up as a manager at a local restaurant. I was working an evening shift when two of my old high school friends who had been very vocal about my unpopular relationship with Tom (lets call them Maddy and Ellie) walked in and seated themselves at one of my tables. It must have been at least 5 years since I last met them and even longer since we used to hang out together. I took their orders but they kept on looking at me, trying to figure out if and why I was familiar so I decided to help them out.

“Yeah, you know me. We used to hang out after school.”

Both of them shines up and smiles at me, that way you do when you meet people you have not seen in years or even thought about at all but still want to be pleasant to as to find out what they are up to now and if its interesting. And then Ellie goes

“Yes! That’s it! You’re Meenite! We used to be in the park all the time! And you used to date Tom!”

Oh, that glory, that wonderful glowing sensation of victory that you usually only find in the daydreams of a teenage mind - to have the privilege to be able to experience it for real.

“No, honey. I am still dating Tom.”

[neilnevins-deactivated20240617]

Author of 50 Shades did an ask tag on Twitter and it apparently went as gloriously as anyone could have hoped

[hotrodzandpinups]

[pawneegov]

[fayanora]

Caitlyn Jenner is the Donald Trump of the trans community, so I’m not much surprised by this. Disappointed, though. Always disappointed.

[pettyrevenge]

When I was around 12 I got my first phone. With one condition. That I’d give it to my parents every night before they went to bed.

I dreaded having to give my phone up every night and they made it a point to keep it in their bedroom so I couldn’t just go in there and get it. So I did the next best thing. I set up not one not two but five alarms to go off at random times throughout the night. Of course I played dumb and would “turn off” the alarms the following day and then turning them back on before giving the phone back.

The third night my parents didn’t even bother asking me for the phone. 

[cerise-darkshade]

im all for petty revenge, and this is definitely petty, but it isnt revenge. they never did anything to deserve the revenge part. thats just some ass who thinks that they deserve a phone and not have to listen to clear instructions that their parents have set. 

[faerieglade]

“theyre homophobic but theyre good people!!!” hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. are they really. are they REALLY. are they. are theyr eally. Are the

[faerieglade]

this post is making straight people mad keep reblogging

[mistercrowbar]

I can’t even with this

[dalmonite]

oh my god

[admiralpiplup]

Geez noooo!!

[password-simulator-2016-deactiv]

But.. that… that is employment. It’s self-employment. You are earning income straight from clients or organizations as opposed to relying on a business as a middleman. Why do people think that self-employment means that people just laze around all day and shit out content at will? Because that’s not how it works. Self-employment is an actual job. You’re not only your own boss, but you’re your own creative director, your own accountant, your own PR manager and your own… everything else under the damn sun. Sure, you’ve got the choice of not working for an entire week and you could just play video games instead. But you’ll lose money off of that. You need to plan accordingly. It’s not like working for a company in the sense that you’ll get compensated time and a half, because that is not how self-employment works. Then you’ve got taxes to worry about, which presents a far different beast than just filing a W2. You can’t afford to make a mistake lest you get audited, and if you don’t get audited, chances are you might owe taxes. You also have to pay for your own insurance. General stuff on top of maybe dental and vision too. Even so, if you get into a situation where you’ll be unable to work for an extended period, guess what? You get no sick leave much less extended leave. You won’t get a consistent paycheck like you would if you were employed elsewhere. You lose money for each day you don’t work, and much much more if you can’t work due to injury or illness. The great thing about it though, is that once you get a good grasp on how to handle being self-employed, it can be pretty damn rewarding. If you’re skilled enough, you can produce a lot more content in less time, or perform a service in less time than if you were employed elsewhere. Depending on the type of work you do, you can spread your work out to be done throughout the day, and you don’t have to completely sacrifice your social life to do what needs to be done. If you know your friends want to hang out at a bar one evening, you can spend most of the time before then that day to work, then hang out with them and relax a bit. And depending on the type of job you do, you can also work while eating lunch somewhere, or eating dinner, or elsewhere that’s not even your house. If you’ve got the proper items to do your job with and you’re able to lug them around somewhere, you can work wherever you damn well want. So I mean, as long as you know what you’re in for, know how to do your taxes, know how to keep a good budget, then for all I care you can stay self-employed. All Patreon does is provide a very easy platform for artists to allow their clients and customers to pay them on a consistent basis. It allows for content creators to keep doing what they’re already doing regularly instead of having to take up an entirely unrelated job that would inevitably take more time away from the things that they want to do. And those that do pay the content creator monthly truly WANT them to keep doing what they’re doing because they like their content, and want to see them do shit more often. So to all of you who think that they’re entitled to every single little thing an artist makes– fuck you. A good amount of artists produce enough stuff for everyone to indulge in, if they want to produce something special for the people that, you know, want to support them they’ve got every right to do so. Go take your dumbass entitlement complex and shove it up your ass.

[tokifuji-art]

yis plz I don’t get why some people think they can dictate what a creator does with their own patreon :T

[maxknightley]

Capitalism Stage V: even entrepreneurs are now entitled lazy-asses who don’t deserve income or respect

[averyterrible]

it’s been a while since i checked it, but there really aren’t as many jobs as you’d expect on USA Jobs

[kant-deactivated20190908]

who would win in a fight

courage the cowardly dog or scooby doo

circumstances: if courage loses muriel dies, if scooby loses then shaggy dies

discuss

[centurycolor]

scooby is a gluttonous heathen who cares for nothing but the contents of his stomach

[catbuddy-deactivated20161201]

counter: scooby eats courage

[macklemorehentai-deactivated201]

Courage would traverse the depths of Scooby’s stomach and find a way to get out and enact justice upon him. Courage has defeated stronger beasts than Scooby in order to save Muriel

[divinator-deactivated20180212]

Courage continuously surmounts his cowardice, whereas Scooby has only ever captured a monster through happenstance. Courage is more than ready to kill for his owner, and owes more to Muriel than Scooby does to Shaggy.

[kettlecom-deactivated20180801]

[shihtzuman]

Please tweet and share

[liberalsarecool]

2016 Hillary can’t steal another Bernie policy to cover up this 1996 heartfelt racism.

[eroscestlavie]

[toopunktofuck]

#WHICH ONE IS NOODLES#???!!!

[cumwitch]

[toopunktofuck]

VERY GOOD

[myulteriormotive-deactivated201]

The Curse of Aaron Ramsey: Every time Aaron Ramsey has scored a goal, someone famous has died shortly after.

[myulteriormotive-deactivated201]

THE CURSE IS REAL

[loremerchant]

No one should have so much power.

[dxscostick-deactivated20170429]

…..Make him stop

[dramatichoe]

im screaming she blocked her

[vlada-sasha-natasha]

Omg!

[inch-resting]

god bless

[cerise-darkshade]

the white one looks like that demon lady made of ice cream that pops up every now and again to scare us!

[paxamericana]

The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.

Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]

During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]

The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]

[gaypet-deactivated20150628]

please read the full wikipedia article

[lesbophobes-deactivated20220907]

Orgrimmar during the incident.

[lyinginbedmon]

This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.

[nerdgerhl]

This post leaves out the most incredible part, which is that the CDC straight up contacted Blizzard and asked for all the data they had on the Corrupted Blood Plague for the purposes of refining their models of epidemic behavior in real human populations. 

[unexplained-events]

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

[smileforthehigh-deactivated2017]

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

[desiremyblack]

(via TumbleOn)

[pearlsnapbutton]

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

[kiwianaroha]

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

[stephanemiroux]

Until I read the caption I thought the image was something else.

[reverseracism]

THE PLATYPUS (one of my favorite animals.)

Another one of my personal favorites is the story of the platypus and how the Aboriginal People told the Europeans of a creature with the “bill of a duck”, “body of a rat”, and a flat tail. This creature laid eggs but had fur, but do not anger it because it was poisonous.

Of course the Europeans totally dismissed this as “savage mysticism”, but LONG BEHOLD, one of the colonizers found one and couldn’t believe his eyes. Sent the dead body to Europe and got all praise for discovering an animal that already was discovered.

[elfboi]

via Afelia

[bwansen]

Well spoken.

[biculturalist-deactivated201612]

I appreciate that Americans who are anti-Trump threaten to leave the country and set their eyes north to Canada, like the world is their oyster and they can move wherever they want. But when another group of people are actually escaping real turmoil and want to move to the U.S. then it becomes a sensitive issue. Such entitlement even in jest.

[fancy0ctopus]

The people threatening to leave if Trump is elected generally aren’t the ones trying to kick out immigrants

[remakingthisblog123456-deactiva]

Also most of the people threatening to leave are people who will probably be actively oppressed by him. Women, PoC, muslims, LGBTQA+ people. We don’t want to leave because we think we can move wherever we want. We want to leave because we’re afraid we might be seriously affected by a Cruz/Trump presidency.

[autisticeducator]

As an autistic asexual woman, my life is likely literally at risk if Trump is elected. So fleeing to Canada is an option I am actually considering if Trump is elected. I’m legit scared that Trump will be a genocidal dictator.

[bird-lawyr]

if white people are 100% Not Racist ™ then why does talking about racism make them so uncomfortable??? i mean, if you’re not racist in any way shape or form then why does it make you so uncomfortable (to the point that you deny it or attack the person) when PoC discuss it?

because that sounds like the kind of reaction a guilty person would have

[starkillerrx]

You are a pedophile

[bird-lawyr]

how

[starkillerrx]

Well, if you’re not a pedophile, then why suggesting you’re one makes you feel uncomfortable? 

Sounds like the kind of reaction a pedophile would have.

See how dumb that way of thinking is?