Random Musings of a Tired Human

[homeboygirl]

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

[charlesoberonn]

[bearfeathers]

[audacityinblack]

I'm going to start calling this crap "hostile web design." It's the internet version of hostile architecture. Designed to keep out people who can't or won't pay, results in less accessibility for disabled users.

HOWEVER! There is a solution.

Go to https://bugmenot.com/ and enter the URL of the site you're trying to access that's demanding a login. In most cases, you'll get a list of usernames and passwords you can use to log in.

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[jasmehraj]

Oh my God!

It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.

[tamsinswriting]

Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[deckio]

It’s my birthday next month

It has been a long time since the last time I posted but today I feel the need to send my thoughts into the void. When the virus and lockdown started I remember thinking “I hope we won’t be in lockdown for my birthday”, and as time progressed I so desperately hoped conditions would get better and restrictions would ease up and I kept this hope going like my birthday was some type of goal for getting through the pandemic, to keep me sane even when seeing the news of anti-mask anti-lockdown protesters, people cutting their holidays short just to rush back home to avoid having to quarantine for two weeks per regulation, so many flocking to the beaches or the number of people dying because someone broke quarantine and infected an entire bubble while the number of cases/deaths either remained the same or increased despite a fair number of effected places having managed to get the numbers down consistently enough to go back to normalcy and maintain that. However with the news that a ban on visiting other households indoors is being reinstated and won’t be up for review until after my birthday I must accept that I will be celebrating my birthday in lockdown. It feels like a silly thing to be upset by, and a selfish thing to have wanted considering everything and I certainly am not the only person to be having a birthday in lockdown as many, many people have already had to go through the same and many of them celebrating much more significant birthday milestones than myself (16th, 18th, 21st 50th those sort of birthdays) and many more will have birthdays in lockdown after me.

But we’ve been in lockdown since like march, its been nearly ten months since we first learned of the virus and other countries have handled this so much better while others are still so concerned about businesses that they’ve all but decreed “you will work or you will die but also you may die while working/we want to have you not working but literally don’t have the financial ability to do so”. I’ve seen my family twice in the last six months, I haven’t seen the vast majority of my friends at all since lockdown began and I’m really burning out at this point and the depression is hitting hard and I’m just managing to get enough energy to get myself into work sanitizing everything to try and keep learning establishments going.

I really wanted to not be in lockdown for my birthday. I really hope that we as a community and as a one people can just get a grip band together follow the rules and guidelines and just act in the best interest for everyone less safety and well being and just maybe we can get back to being able to visit our friends and family next year.

I am tired, I am sad but I’m still surviving hope everyone out there is surviving too.

[deckio]

We made an album!

I’ve finally finished my masters album, presenting You Can Hear Me Now!.

An album exploring my experience with mental health through the medium of music. 

https://soundcloud.com/rhokio/sets/you-can-hear-me-now 

[bekkathyst]

BEKKATHYST SUMMER 2019 GIVEAWAY

~This giveaway is in no way affiliated with Tumblr.~

Please read thoroughly before entering!

Hello lovely Tumblr folk! It’s that time again- I have a giveaway for you all. Wee just opened up our brick and mortar shop, and it's time to celebrate! We want to give back to the community that started this for us 🥰🙌

All these items came from our online shop and/or our brick and mortar store!

What you get:

$50 credit that can be applied to anything in our shop.

Triple moon altar cloth

Rose quartz palm stone

Amethyst scepter crystals from Brazil x2

Mini selenite tower

Rough kyanite crystal

Azurite/malachite rough chunk

Moroccan quartz geode piece

Agate keychain

Lapis lazuli stretchy bracelet

Sunstone polished double point

Rose quartz moon carving

Rough rose quartz chunk

Obsidian knife carving (the knife is non functional)

Smoky quartz heart

Selenite pebbles x3

Rose quartz pendulum

Rough lepidolite

Rainbow moonstone pebble

Rough Illinois fluorite x6

Wooden baby elephant carving

Lepidolite skull

Rose quartz sphere

Selenite wand

Massive 9" rose quartz polished point

Labradorite palm stone

Assorted tumbled stones: rutilated quartz x2, rhodonite, larimar, mangano calcite, star garnet, amethyst x2, rose quartz

Pack of natural lavender incense

Celestial wooden incense burner

This has a retail value of $362 in addition to the $50 shop credit!

Rules:

You must be 16 or older. (If under 18 you MUST have parent’s permission)

You don’t have to live in the US to join!

Shipping is entirely free, I will cover it. But if you live outside the US and for whatever reasons your country wants to charge you import tax, you are responsible for it. If it gets sent back to me, you will need to pay shipping to have it sent again.

You must be following me, so you can get updates if anything about the giveaway changes.

Please check out our shop!

DO NOT tag this post as giveaway. That will risk the notes getting messed up, and this will be ruined for everyone.

Reblog this post to enter. Likes count, too. No giveaway or spam blogs. If you reblog on a side blog, let me know in the tags what the name of your blog is that you’re following me with.

Please don’t spam people with reblogs- limit 2 reblogs per blog per day.  

At the end, each entry will be assigned a number and the winner will be chosen by a random number generator.

The giveaway ends Tuesday, July 30th at 6 pm Pacific time.

The winner will be messaged and must respond with their full name and address within 24 hours, or a new winner will be chosen.

Please respect me and my rules, and have fun!

[deckio]

slightly changed my name

in other news starting from tomorrow I am cutting out take-aways and buying snacks on days that aren’t monday, should hopefully be hearing back from a flat application and a job interview tomorrow so needing to prepare for possible new and exciting life changes and part of that involves being better with money and not using so much on food :-P 

life is good

[deckio]

Sims 4 let’s play thoughts

been contemplating having a go at making a sims 4 let’s play, I have starting sims but I’m not sure whether I should incorporate vampires and aliens into the story or try and be as realistic as sims allows and if it’ll be considered bad that I don’t have seasons in my game and have no intention of getting it cause past experience seasons in sims 2 and 3 caused the game to become unplayable with lag

[bekkathyst]

BEKKATHYST SPRING 2019 GIVEAWAY

~This giveaway is in no way affiliated with Tumblr.~

Please read thoroughly before entering!

Hello lovely Tumblr folk! It’s that time again- I have a giveaway for you all. As current followers know, we are opening up a physical shop in addition to having our online shop! This giveaway is to thank you all so much for supporting us and helping us get this far! We definitely need all the help and support we can get right now, so hopefully this attracts some new customers as well 💞💞💞

All these items came from our shop.

What you get:

$50 credit that can be applied to anything in our shop. 

A carved triple moon wooden box

A (treated) titanium aura amethyst cluster

Two rainbow fluorite points

A mini selenite tower

A mini selenite sphere

Three little AAA quality amethyst clusters from Uruguay

An amethyst scepter crystal from Brazil

A fossilized agatized coral cabochon

Two rose quartz palm stones

Two clear quartz palm stones

A pile of rough amethyst chunks

A pile of rough quartz crystals

A rainbow fluorite slab

A high quality amethyst heart from Brazil

A high quality “super seven” included amethyst heart

A blue crazy lace agate sphere

A crazyyyy extra quality rainbow obsidian heart!

This has a retail value of $368 in addition to the $50 shop credit!

Rules:

You must be 16 or older. (If under 18 you MUST have parent’s permission)

You don’t have to live in the US to join!

Shipping is entirely free, I will cover it. But if you live outside the US and for whatever reasons your country wants to charge you import tax, you are responsible for it. If it gets sent back to me, you will need to pay shipping to have it sent again.

You must be following me, so you can get updates if anything about the giveaway changes.

Please check out our shop!

DO NOT tag this post as giveaway. That will risk the notes getting messed up, and this will be ruined for everyone.

Reblog this post to enter. Likes count, too. No giveaway or spam blogs. If you reblog on a side blog, let me know in the tags what the name of your blog is that you’re following me with.

Please don’t spam people with reblogs- limit 2 reblogs per blog per day.  

At the end, each entry will be assigned a number and the winner will be chosen by a random number generator.

The giveaway ends Saturday, April 20th at 6 pm Pacific time.

The winner will be messaged and must respond with their full name and address within 24 hours, or a new winner will be chosen.

Please respect me and my rules, and have fun!

[deckio]

Current household finally got round to getting married today, gotta say these two are one of my favourite households enough to rival my sims 3 the Jones family with their aliens, vampires, werewolves and fairies. I don’t know how to make the icon above the head go away but still cute.

[deckio]

I don’t like being by myself

It’s not the most pleasant feeling being in a chilly flat, alone for an extended period of time with my thoughts and recently I’ve not been feeling to great about myself, it’s been getting more difficult to drown out the self-deprecating thoughts that have been springing up in the recent days which isn’t fun, I’m stressed about my uni assessments, about job hunting which looks like I’m set to get a job in basically the same thing I hated last year but hey no one else is giving me a job I’m unlikely to get into uni next year so I won’t get anymore money from the family and I can’t go back to living with my parents that ruined my mental health last time I had to move back briefly, I’m going to see a counsellor next week though which is good

[deckio]

This is a call out post

To the random dude in the chemists, thank you for electing to stand in front of the chair next to your friend instead of sitting down in the chair next to your friend now no one can sit there without putting themselves awkwardly level with your butt and now I can’t see the counter cause your blocking my view

[deckio]

Christmas Time

Christmas is an odd time of year, my brother won’t be home cause of work my sister won’t be home because she’s throwing a huff two of the meals we’re having are gammon and turkey which I don’t like, yesterday had a meal I didn’t like cause despite earlier agreeing to go to whetherspoons mum decided she wanted to go somewhere else so we went there, I’ve already had a funny anecdote turned around to be a lecture of why everything's my fault, the room I’m in is cold to sleep in as is everywhere else in the house and it continues to be a thing that I am forced to spend one on one time with my mother who is once again complaining about some ache or pain she always has and I’m starting to wonder whether my enjoyment and excitement about Christmas is a forced emotion that’s gone on for so long I can’t just stop, guess we’ll see in a few days if my family has even bothered getting me something I like or have expressed want/interest in or if its going to be another year of random unwanted items

[deckio]

Sims 4 adventures

that moment when you use mc command centre to kill a sim cause five days in a row the neighbours been partying, arguing and woohooing sometimes twice a day waking up my household and shrugging off the families legitimate complaints and then just randomly walking into my flat like its no big deal :-/

[deckio]

terrain tools...

so sims 4 free update gives players terrain tools... I can’t be the only one that doesn’t really care for terrain tools right? I mean in older games I could never get the hang of it and I just flattened any lots I was building houses on with the exception of a tiny pond eh oh well

[deckio]

so due to unexpected uni scheduling I’ve now wasted £100 on a trip that I can’t go to anymore and since I was meant to go and thus clearly had no plans I’m now in charge of looking after the dog which means spending and extra £25 on train tickets to spend the weekend alone in a chilly flat far enough away to stop me doing anything social with anyone, my flats door buzzer doesn’t work and the letting agents haven’t gotten back to me about repairs and now the oven is so greased out my brother nearly started a fire so I’m now responsible for cleaning it out meaning I’m going to be going at least three days without a proper dinner cause I don’t have the extra money to order take out and can’t use the oven, this is all making my mind hurt and I’m not feeling that chipper at this moment in time but you know just gotta keep trucking along

[deckio]

Headache resurgence

So recently my headaches which have been better since getting medicated for it have started getting more pronounced, and while its still on the cards to go check things up with the GP I have realised a possible cause, the headaches started up again a little after I restarted this semester of uni maybe I’m more stressed out about uni than I was consciously aware of

[deckio]

I’m feeling sad and I don’t know why, it’s made me very tired though so I’m going to try sleeping it off cause that’s basically the human equivalent of switching off and on again