heck if I know

[hedgian]

look at that I'm somehow not dead. Abandoned this account because my EX was using it to stalk me lol

I don't think I'm gonna come back to it because idk but my new URL is sootlet.

[luminarai]

listen, I’m not the biggest fan of kids but if a child looks at me then you bet I’m gonna smile back at them. kids deserve to experience the world as a kind and safe place to explore okay.

[scarlet00rose]

But the world is not kind or safe.

[citizen-zero]

then Fucking do your part to make it that way.

[khaleeesii]

WAIT HOLD THE FUCK UP

IS ‘MRS’ JUST MR’S 

LIKE BELONGING TO MR

OMG

[shonktoo]

Mr comes from the French monsieur, which I think literally translates as ‘my lord’ and basically just means master, and Mrs comes from maistre which is the feminine form of master, so actually—for once—no.

[khaleeesii]

This was an extremely relevant comment and I thank you for educating me 

[fksisebdkausvddnc-blog]

in the tags, put 

- where u live

- ur first language 

- what u call this:

[lylahammar]

you can’t tell me this didn’t happen frequently, and Lucretia didn’t fall for it every damn time 

[stardustinjune]

“…How does Magnus die live?”

[thatgirlonstage]

I… I usually try to confine myself to tag talking but…

Holy shit

This is beautiful. This is wonderful. This is just… this is just everything.

I’m realizing I don’t think I ever listened that closely to the lyrics of this song before??? But God I think I’m always going to associate it with Magnus now.

Out of the PCs, Magnus is the only one where we never get ANY kind of background on parents or family. The one glimpse we get of his childhood is of him alone, friendless, without anyone to come to his aid. He always had to be the protector. And then, when we meet him, he is horribly alone, so completely alone. Like I think it gets overshadowed some by what happened to Taako because Magnus is dealing with it better, in a healthier and happier place generally, but he built a life, an impossibly happy life, and then he lost EVERYTHING to a vindictive, evil man. And he’s gregarious and friendly but he’s horrendously, unbearably isolated. BECAUSE he failed in that role as a protector. And it’s such a contrast to what he is at heart, which is man with so much love and desire to protect, a man who loves his family deeper than anything, so it’s so DEEPLY affecting to see him regain his family over the course of the story, to grow to care about Merle and Taako and Carey and Angus and the rest of the BOB, and to learn about his family on the Starblaster and see him fight to save them. And the way you’ve shown the family he’s gained and lost and regained, the song you’ve picked and the way you’ve lined up his life with the lyrics, it’s GUT-wrenchingly perfect. The transition to color, when Magnus is reunited with Julia, knowing he’ll never ever have to be lonely again, is so gorgeous. There’s so much detail and love in the art, so much care for Magnus’s character and what loneliness means to him and what it means for him to have friends and family around him.

I’m crying. Honestly and actually literally crying. The contrast between him surrounded by faceless aggressors versus dying surrounded by friends that love him. Showing Merle and Taako growing older and wiser too because we know that their happiness is as important to him as his own. Angus as a child like he and Julia never got the chance to even decide if they wanted, growing up before his eyes.

Thank you for this piece. I’m sorry I wrote such a rambling essay on it but I need you to know that I’m going to treasure this. It’s absolutely stunning.

@bircjosta @puppetmaster55 @thefancytomato anyone else I know who listens to TAZ, reblog from the artist so you don’t have to include my dumb lengthy comment but PLEASE help me get this the attention it deserves.

[grumpynug]

lesbians don’t need condoms in their bedside tables. they need hair ties.

[sbuttonthegiraffescientist]

I mean condoms are so good for women to have safe sex with. You can put your fingers in them for safe fingering or you can turn them into dental dams for safe eating, or you can put them on a dildo to prevent the spreading of germs as long as you put a new one on for every person and orifice. Also trans women exist. Safe sex is important y'all.

[pussysoupforthesoul-deactivated]

The idea that lesbians don’t need condoms is such a dangerous mindset like please know this is not a thing whether or not you’re lesbian 

[requiem-4-a-drink-deactivated20]

hope your pets stay healthy in 2017

[rotg-fan-page]

I almost didn’t blog this and felt guilty

[ckascade-deactivated20170413]

Not risking it

[unorthodox-views]

hope ya pets even healthier in 2018

[dbejfdewfbwekf-deactivated20211]

hope everyone with a shitty dad is okay today

[sympolite]

PSA: “#DropTheB”

If you see any memes saying “There are more than two genders #DropTheB” floating around, it’s a false flag operation from /pol/, and it’s meant to start outrage and infighting within the community.

A few screencaps of it can be found here.

[CW: Homophobic, transphobic, and antisemitic language.]

[fizzydog-deactivated20240325]

whenever i see someone who owns a double-coat dog like a husky or a malamute and they say that they’ll shave the dog during summer to “save them from the high temperatures” i get so angry please don’t do that to your poor dog!

[fizzydog-deactivated20240325]

for those asking why!: dogs with double fur coats need it to regulate their temperature, it prevents overheating and also protects them from the sunlight. trimming that fur will cause the newer fur to never grow back quite in the same way, and mess with the temperature regulation that the original coat gives. it also exposes the dog to sunburns and skin problems. And also it makes them look silly! 

[vaspider]

So in all seriousness...

… if you don’t want the stuff you buy on Etsy to become more expensive, start making the kind of noise about Etsy’s fee changes that y’all made about Patreon’s fee changes. 

Sooner or later, those costs become customer costs, one way or the other. :/ 

Make some noise, because this is ridiculous. Etsy isn’t giving us anything new: for the new features not only will we be getting hit with these raised transaction fees but we’ll also be required to pay a subscription fee. So what we’re getting for these increased fees?

Nothing. Just more fees. No more features, just more costs. 

(And yes, I am looking into alternatives, but omfg, make some noise on social media, please. Patreon backed down from their ridiculous fee grab with enough user pressure.)

[fabulousfidgets]

Please everybody listen to this. I try to keep my prices as low as I can but with these fees I’m going to have to start increasing process or find somewhere else and lose alot of my customer base.

Please make some noise and help out small business owners on Etsy by protesting these fee hikes.

[autisticrevolution-deactivated2]

Oppose the fee hikes! Support autistic businesses!

[madionspock]

Also the fact lies that it isn’t even just fees on the actual product you’re selling, it’s also on the shipping cost. So say I know exactly to the penny how much a package will cost to ship, so I charge the customer that much. Etsy now is taking a percentage of that fee away. So either I have to overcharge knowingly for shipping, passing that cost down to customers right off the bat, or I have to make up for the lost currency. Small businesses and artists who even just make some extra cash off of Etsy can not always easily afford the cost of buying and hosting their own separate E-commerce business. People who have built up followings on Etsy can’t force customers to move to other platforms. The entire situation is poo and people who want cool merchandise for the reasonable prices artists are currently able to offer need to make noise.

[vaspider]

And Etsy calculates that for some of us, too. So they’ll calculate it. And then add 5% to it? Do they charge the customer (like when they do sales tax for us) or just us? Am I gonna have to add a handling fee to cover the shipping upcharge?

Though honestly, the processing fee hike is… it’s terrible.

For those of us who do this full time, we already live in the literal margins of what we make. Etsy deciding to just snatch 1.5% of what I make out of my hands without offering me anything in return is… that shit adds up. I already only make - at BEST - maybe 40% of every dollar that a customer pays me, once you account for all costs.

Let’s assume I have an amazing year and we do 30K in revenue. Etsy’s fee hike means they’ve taken an additional $450 out of my hands. Which, in this assumed scenario, they’re taking that out of the hands of someone whose profit, that is, the money that’s really mine (assuming I owe no income tax, heh), 12K?

That’s … it’s brutal.

Oh yeah, and:

This ain’t about shit but making Josh the CEO, talking down to us peon sellers in that awful video, richer.

Fuuuuuck that.

[vaspider]

Added: the hashtag I’ve seen so far on Twitter is #etsyfees.

[vaspider]

In any case, please update your bookmarks - find us at www.nerdykeppie.com! Whether or not we break up with Etsy, you can always find us there.

[buildingbooks]

How do we make noise? Seriously I would love to but where do I complain? I also have serious concerns that these new “premium paid” options are basically Etsy saying “If you don’t go premium, we wont give you any exposure.” You know, basically like Facebook did with business pages.

[systlin]

Contact Etsy on social media and email them. 

[dnd-apothecary]

The 5% Shipping Fee is bogus: they provide a very meager discount if you buy your shipping labels through them, but they don’t provide you with actual supplies to print your labels, they literally DO NOT need to charge this 5% fee. Now they are going to charge it REGARDLESS if you purchase your labels through them or not. There goes my discount, and now I will get charged 5% whether or not I use their site to purchase labels vs using USPS or UPS or FedEx. What are they using it for? Who knows. Why are they charging it? Who knows. No information has been given other than vague “we’re investing in bringing more business to etsy”

How are you investing it? With whom are you investing it? And how will it help us, as businesses? How does this not translate to higher prices for customers, potentially causing smaller shops to close up bc they lose business? What is the PURPOSE?

Make some noise. Call them out. This stuff hurts both small businesses and large ones. It hurts customers. If I raise my prices to counteract these fees, I risk losing business. As a budding company, this isn’t something I can afford to do. 

As for their subscription plans, they don’t tell you WHAT tools are coming to the expanded and premium toolset, but they sure do have a price nailed down. For only $10/mo (From July to Jan 2019, then it bumps to $20/mo) you get Advanced Tools. What are they? Who knows! Etsy hasn’t said a damn thing about it, except that it’s on sale for $10/mo. The premium subscription is even more vague: a complete toolset but cost to be determined in Jan 2019. 

The only tools here are Etsy. 

Call them out for it. 

[theconcealedweapon]

An action being “punishable by a fine” basically means “legal for rich people”.

[gnotknormal]

Oh wow. That’s…

[icarus-tanning-solutions]

I once dated a rich guy and if I said “Hey it’s illegal to drink on the street” he’d respond with “Nah, it just costs £150″, or “You can’t park here!” “Yeh I can it costs £35″ like… literally… that’s how he saw fines, it was just how much you paid to do the thing. 

[invaderxan]

Reminds me of the double red lines in London. They exist because rich people kept parking on double yellow lines (which mean “no parking” in the UK) and then just paying the fines. So London started putting double red lines on major roads. If you park on double red lines, they don’t give you a ticket. They tow your car away and crush it. 

I like that.

[danthescribe-deactivated2018062]

most of scandinavia adjusts fines according to income, so rich ppl could end up paying tens if not hundreds of thousands for a parking violation

[rivierakid]

Homophobes: Ellie’s straight Naughty Dog:

[chewybitart]

Pay for Postage Raffle!!

June 29th at 4pm pacific

I’ll post each tiny painting up for people to claim, and you’ll only pay the price of shipping it out to you! Like last time tips are always welcome, as are follows. So please remove this and let’s get lots of people involved! The more reblogs, the more paintings I can get ready.

[glitchlight]

theres a big martian dust storm rn and its not clear if opportunity will survive

[glitchlight]

sci fi writers: humans dont care about robots

me, crying: OPPORTUNITY HONEY YOU CAN DO IT I BELIEVE IN YOU

[glitchlight]

Important clarification 

1)  Mars Rovers have to run heaters constantly (especially at night) because Mars is cold and they have sensitive electronics.  Opportunity has had to shut down its heater because it hasn’t been able to draw enough power over the past few weeks; the danger is that Opportunity may not survive the few days its expected for the dust storm to clear up. The other currently operating rover, Curiosity is younger and has more advanced panels, batteries, and, most importantly, an onboard RTG (tl;dr: nuclear power source) that means dust storms aren’t as threatening to it. Opportunity has some radioactive heaters too, but they’re older, smaller, and have less power output. It’s survived dust storms in the past but every one is always a risk.

and 2)

THEIR OFFICIAL TWITTER CALLS IT OPPY, OPPY I BELIEVE IN YOU!!! 

[uwugenides]

Don’t pet any dog in public without permission

I feel like this should be common sense. You just don’t pet a dog unless you know it’s okay, but seeing as how many people I’ve had to tell I guess it’s not that common, but it does still make sense.

The main reason I felt the need to make this post is that a few weeks ago I learnt that service dogs are not required to wear any identifying markers of their job. They don’t have to wear a vest or a collar or anything else that would make them stand out.

Now how is this relevant you ask? Well, just imagine, you’re walking and see a cute dog! It seems well behaved enough and the owner is busy in conversation or with something else so you just reach down and start petting the dog. No harm done right? Wrong.

If that dog were on duty and you didn’t know you could be distracting it from it’s life-saving medical care that it provides.

Now, why don’t all service dogs wear vests you ask? Well, a good majority do. It makes going into public places like stores and restaurants a lot easier, but it also means attracting attention. It means getting questions from strangers and rude remarks, especially if you have an “invisible” disability. Or sometimes it’s simply just too hot out. So, a handler may choose to not beat their dog or have them wear any other indentifying factor of their work.

You never know who’s on duty and who’s not. “But what if the dog is being roudy and playful?” Maybe they’re taking a break from work, but that dog still needs to be ready to go in a moment’s notice and you may interfere with that.

So, just ask first please. Ask, “Can I pet your dog?” or any variation of that. And if you’re told no don’t throw a fit, just move on.