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I am here to fangirl. she/ her/ any- 20s Demi Bi Queer, ADHD (diagnosed!!! its real!!!!!/joy) I am here to reblog shit and follow who I love! 😌marine biologist🦑🐶 birbs 💅blogging from under a rock x this blog welcomes twitter & reddit-fugees x in case you fuckers haven't figured it out, if you come in my messages / inbox begging for money, its an instant report block. period. if you have never spoken or interacted with me before asking me to post your info, if your blog has only existed a day, you are a scam and a bot and will be treated like one. fuck off.

[homunculus-argument]

Fascinatingly enough, romanticising small discomforts does make life better. I'm on my way home and suffering a Mild Headache Of Unverified Origins (top 5 most likely culprits being dehydration, jacket too hot, slept in wrong bed, too much caffeine, too little caffeine) so the best I can do for now is figure out how to enjoy being temporarily mildly miserable.

So I'm sitting in a train staring outside at the faint outlines of scenery only barely visible in the dark, and being Tragic And Dramatic about it. I'm on my way to my lovely home to the love of my life, after having a fun weekend with my friends who love me, but for the next 40 minutes I am going to be theatrically brooding in a train, staring out of black windows, living in a zero budget fan-made amateur music video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

[feverworm]

i just wanted to clarify some things

artists know the risk they are taking when they post their art online. people are inevitably going to take it apart, color edit it, flip it around or otherwise post it uncredited.

saying that an artist shouldn’t post their work if they don’t want it bastardized is probably the stupidest stance on this subject you could take. if all artists followed this line of reasoning, there would be no art on the internet. 

when an artist posts their work, they are trusting you to enjoy it respectfully. and when you betray that trust either knowingly or unknowingly, it’s like saying the artist’s time, skills and thoughts aren’t worth anything.

you are NOT entitled to an artists work just because they decided to trust you enough to share it with you.

an artist is within their right to feel upset that someone has used their work in a way they never intended it to be used. they are within their right to ask for it to stop and not happen again.

just because it’s “bound to happen” doesn’t mean it’s any less deplorable.

[lesbianshepard]

waaaay back when I was a cashier in retail we would talk about dumb shit while unloading the truck, and we got to the "what would you do in a zombie apocalypse" me and another worker were like yeah we would just die. End it all, we can't fight or run or shit. I refuse to put that much effort into survival.

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

Anyway, random shout out to that guy. You were too kind for retail management, Devin.

[lesbianshepard]

also afterwards everyone who was talking about their cool bunker fantasies were like "Damn, Devin's right, we should also be considering helping people around us." which is the only recorded instance of a retail shift making people better human beings.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[space-arcanist]

I can't get over "and comes fucks me".

[the-doctored-pepper-deactivated]

This video ruined all those aesthetic photos of fog for me. I can’t see a foggy landscape without this video playing in my head.

[commandtower-solring-go]

It's Comes Fucks Me Wednesday babes

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

I was gonna queue this but then tumblr user commandtower-solring-go declared it a Wednesday post and

[ahedderick]

Wednesday in the garden

Out in the garden immediately after barn chores, good job. Worked an hour and a half trying to restore order, because I swear the weeds grow about six inches a day when there's abundant rain. (grrrr) I do NOT love leaning over, sweating profusely, and having to tip puddles of sweat out of my glasses. Did enjoy the cat battles happening in the corn patch. Possum doesn't fear Rocky's White Paw of Death and he really ought to.

I also harvested the purple carrots I planted in mid-May. They are a mixed success. The ones that made it are excellent specimens; long, fairly straight, deep color. That said, it was very hard to get them started in the first place, and their slow growth meant that I had to weed very very carefully around them at least five time while they were tiny and easy to uproot. Due to the fact that the seed for 'fancy' carrots is much more expensive, it's impractical to just sow seed heavily like I do with the orange ones.

Then, after I cleaned up the bright harvest, I came inside to bravely slog through farm paperwork and property tax Stuff. I stapled, sorted, double-checked, and paperclipped, even. I am so brave.

Hopefully, I will be able to go back out after dinner and weed two more beds. The orange and the very few red carrots are in danger of being lost to the tide of weeds. Also, some youngest cuke vines need a wire trellis like, last week. It'll take two people to manage that.

[ahedderick]

Time to start canning salsa and marinara. Friday maybe?

Variety: Deep Purple F1 OG-pellet (the seeds are encased in a tiny pellet to make them easier to plant singly. Carrot seed is tiny) Full marks on color and size. I planted them May 11, so they're a little over 90 days, now. Also, there is one cylindra beet in there. They're my favorite because they're easier to slice than spherical ones.

[idc0o]

some of yall didnt go insane at 15 and it shows

[shinolavolume1-deactivated20240]

[peysk]

What if in like 10 years we find out that this was actually the best possible material to show 2-6 year olds for their development. What if all the kids brought up on this stuff all show unprecedented levels of emotional and academic intelligence and every bit of evidence points to this being what did it

[themetalhiro]

From the zine

[themetalhiro]

@greatcheesewarrior67 Like this

[borntoboil]

every time I read, "Smells like Doctor" I have to keep myself from cackling.

[parawyrm]

More from that one post

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[butch-king-frankenstein]

I think those fancomics where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is transgender are cute and fun but I also think it's a deep misunderstanding of Calvin's character to think he would transition into a heterosexual normie who goes to her high school reunion. That girl would have neopronouns and fang implants

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Adult Calvin is a tattoo artist named Panthera who is the bassist in a terrible metal band called Captain Napalm and Hobbes helps do faer E injections

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I know it's like 2 weeks too late to change it but I'm so mad I didn't realize that the band would obviously be called "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS". I walk the road of shame

[parawyrm]

[dobism]

[miamaimania]

Sharp-Nosed Reed Frogs (*Hyperolius nasutus*) ✾ brian.gratwicke — male & female pair with egg clutches on a dried leaf

[animentality]

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

A grill worth fighting for

[infertilityidol]

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Who's That Pokemon?

1hr checkpoint! Yellow half hexagon and yellow ring with silver plate inside, silver tube to the side. I like getting the chance to use my silver yarn again! Very shiny but also much thinner than I'm used to so it feels a bit off. The effect is very nice tho

[dailypokemoncrochet]

2hr checkpoint! Body mostly done

[dailypokemoncrochet]

3hr checkpoint! Body done, two legs, most of an arm

[i-am-a-fish]

healthcare should be freeeee what the hell are we doing dumbass government what are we paying you for

[ahedderick]

Dollars and no Sense

Well, I managed to get K's college bill. Only to find that the college "forgot" to apply her scholarship. Again. So tomorrow I get to call the billing office and listen to unconvincing excuses. WHY??

[ahedderick]

I wouldn't be quite so het up if they hadn't pulled the exact same shit last summer.

[ahedderick]

Welllll, we tracked down a phone number for the billing folks and jointly made a call to them. I get why college students are 'entitled to financial privacy' and there are good reasons for that . . but it also ends up with inexperienced college students trying to argue with mature adults in the college business offices. And that's a little unfair. Like, Ma'am, you F*ed around with her bill to the tunes of thousands of dollars, you ARE going to hear from me, the irate parent.

So, we made the call together, and maybe it's good for K to hear how these things go. Making business calls is a skill that has to be learned. We got a voicemail, of course, so I described the problem in what I sincerely hope was a polite, upbeat voice.

An hour or two later she got a text that the bill had been fixed, followed by a phone call to say the same. That's a good resolution, although I'm still a little vexed that they just 'forget' a substantial scholarship issued by the school itself. Every summer. Tune back in next year, when I expect to be Irate again . . .

[ahedderick]

It's next year, and - - Oh, hey, guess what?

I wrote a polite email about this. I have to emphasize, this scholarship comes from the college itself; there is no reason for them to "forget" it.

I got a slightly passive-aggressive email back saying that they were going through financial aid packages as fast as they could and it would get credited to her Sometime.

I'm skeptical, because it's a fixed amount, nobody has to calculate anything, it ought to be as integral a part of her bill as the tuition and the dorm fee. We'll see, here in the next few days. The due date of the bill is July 30; seems to me they oughta know what the amount sue is by the first of July. Ain't rocket science.

[ahedderick]

ha. ahaHAHAHAHA. Ok, here's how that shook out.

July 23rd there was an announcement on the school's webpage that they were having software problems and not able to calculate the students' financial aid timely. Just that, no "so we will be pushing back the payment deadline until we have accurate amounts for the bills"

Hrrmph

A few days before the July 30 deadline for payment, I went ahead and paid the amount that was actually due, including her scholarship, even though they had not applied that credit in their system yet.

August 11 I checked, and they were STILL showing her owing money, past due, because the scholarship was STILL not credited. I composed another polite email. Got another "we're working on it, be patient" auto-response. HOWEVER, by the end of that day, her scholarship was credited and her bill was showing a $0 balance.

Jeeeeez.