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@incessant-honking
School being so traumatic people have anxiety dreams about it for life sure doesn't seem uh. Normal
I didn't even have a particularly bad experience at school outside unmedicated ADHD stress but I get school nightmares constantly
I feel like so many people accept this as a quirky fun shared experience. But it's pretty alarming that such a huge chunk of people have RECURRING dreams about forgetting to take a class or complete a project DECADES after leaving the school system
god some of you are just so weird about having content on this site
"justify"?! babes it's a bullshit internet scrapbook not a fucking phd thesis
You know the thing where you find something funny and you hold out your phone to your friend so they can see it too?
Reblogging is just you holding out your phone to show us the neat thing you found
Some people: I won't reblog something unless it's deeply meaningful and I can contribute.
Me: time to reblog fifteen pictures of frogs, three pieces of fanart, twelve shitposts, and six political posts about somewhat niche issues!
*opens the groupchat at breakfast to backread like its the morning paper*
NEWS FROM BULLSHIT CITY:
Your Friends had a Weird Discussion About Marbles
So much hostility in my inbox would be solved if people just clicked through and read links.
So You're Against Amazon Changing Their Heinous E-Book Return Policy Because You Didn't Read The Posted Articles And Only The Titles.
Common messages in my inbox from the last 24 hours.
Wait, what is going on??? Amazon is changing its automated e-book return policy after pressure from authors/author unions, in response to a TikTok "hack" which encouraged people to buy books, read them in full, then return them for a full refund. The refunds were then taken from the author's royalties, often leaving them/us with negative income at the end of the month. (That's bad.) These returns were automated and not monitored, so people could do this with multiple books repeatedly, often hitting an author's entire series in a week, leading to significant losses. Authors begged TikTok influencers to stop promoting this trend and to use libraries instead if they wanted to read books for free. While many stopped and apologized, some with large followings doubled down on being amoral fucktrumpets and started targeting said authors, telling their fans to exploit the buy/refund policy while often using (undeclared) affiliate codes to link to the work, which meant they were earning directly from the author's misfortune. As a fun aside, it is illegal in the US to use affiliate/promo codes and not disclose this to your audience. Just, y'know, throwing that out there. This prompted two of the most prominent author unions, the Society of Authors, and the Authors Guild, to go into talks with Amazon Books. The latter agreed to end the automated return policy for books over 10% read. If you have read under 10% of the book and find you are not enjoying it, you can still use the automated return system. If you have read over the 10% mark and something happens which makes you not want to finish the book, you can contact customer support to start a refund.
Banning refunds is bad! Refunds are not banned. They are merely stopping the automated system which was being exploited. If you have read less than 10% of a book and find you do not enjoy the style/tone/whatever, you can still return it for a full refund. If you have read over 10%, you will be required to open a manual return ticket with customer service.
But talking to real people on the phone is scary! As someone with profound social anxiety, I empathize, but you will most likely not be required to make phone calls if you don't want to. Amazon now uses an IM feature to handle a lot of customer service issues.
I can't afford books :( As a disabled, self-employed, queer author who lives paycheck to paycheck, I also empathize with not being able to afford fun things. I also cannot afford to have people stealing money from me each month, which is what was happening with this trend. If you cannot afford books, please reach out to your local library and request them. Doing so helps both the library and the author! Some of my most regular checks come from services like Overdrive and Libby. You can do this online or by visiting your local library in person. The more people request things, the more likely libraries are to get them. You may have to wait a while if a book is popular, but waiting for a little bit is better than exploiting authors who really don't earn as much as you think they do. If you do not have access to a library at all, try reaching out to the author or check out places like NetGalley.com to see if you can get approved for ARCs (advanced review copies). A lot of authors are happy to send out ARCS in exchange for reviews, as reviews really help to boost our credibility and also reader interest. You can also do what I do and save up. Many a time, I've had to wait several months to buy a $5.99 book on Amazon because it just wasn't in my budget. But I got there eventually, one dollar at a time.
But that takes too long, and I want it now! Listen, I get it. Instant gratification takes too long for me as well, but wanting something doesn't make you entitled to it. Especially not when it's at the cost of someone else's livelihood. This isn't Walmart. The money isn't being taken from a big corporation. It's being taken from indie authors, often marginalized creators who cannot break into mainstream publishing because the whole industry is a monopolized racket. You're not stealing from The Man. You're taking food from the person next door, who is already struggling the same as you.
Is my Kindle Unlimited subscription harming authors? Nope! Books that are enrolled in Kindle Unlimited (Amazon's lending subscription service) are not affected by this. Carry on reading and returning KU books to your heart's content. You're paying someone's bills. Just remember to scroll to the very end. Every page view counts.
Why don't more authors use KU, then? Because KU demands exclusivity, which prevents ebook sales from other retailers and access to libraries. While some authors are fine with this and make their entire living on KU, many of us prefer to reach a broader audience and not give Amazon exclusive rights to any of our work.
It's your own fault for using Amazon! Wow, such society. Very participate.
You're a bitch! Probably.
Can we see Holly Mop? 🥺 Always.
You're not stealing from The Man. You're taking food from the person next door, who is already struggling the same as you.
I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.
#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)
Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.
This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).
But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.
Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.
Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.
Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.
A charity where you can do this, right here.
Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!
Reblogging for the website.
yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.
Ok I will have to dig into it a bit because the internet has given me trust issues but I may have just found my favorite charity
Barman spellcaster who instead of doing the hand somatic gestures hes mixing a drink
Fireball!
req’d by @wyrmtung
yep no errors i can see here
text: I live in Spain without the S/ Ah yes, penis
Inspired by Plastiboo’s Space Garden drawings!
WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) dir. Martin Rosen, John Hubley
vampires who lie outrageously about meeting famous historical figures, when in truth they mostly spent the last 500 years cooped up in dilapidated castles & caves like cranky hermits. nonetheless, interviews with vampires are technically considered primary academic sources, to the continual annoyance of the entire global community of historians
this is even funnier if vampires flat out refuse to update their language abilities/restrict themselves to one language, so historians are forced to conduct/decode interviews in a bastardization of 14th cent norwegian/vulgar latin/600 AD sahidic coptic etcetera and so on
This is missing the part where vampires genuinely are a linguistic treasure trove. You make your interview, get cranky that you can’t understand shit, you take it to a philologist for decoding and, next thing you know, that language nerd is kissing you on the mouth
I am OBSESSED with people telling me how they met the love of their life. Just found out my director met his wife through a misdirected email - that’s fate right there.
“I saw her last name was Jewish - and I’m Jewish, so when I corrected the email I told her Shabbat Shalom with a smiley face — this was the very beginning of the emoticon era, you understand. She had a watermark of a dog rescue at the bottom of her email, and I love dogs, so I found her website and there she was — all these videos of her rehabilitating dogs and talking about the organization. I fell in love with her just from those videos.”
😭😭😭
“I asked if we could meet for coffee, told her I was looking for volunteer opportunities — which was halfway a lie — and she said ‘okay, but just so you know I have a boyfriend, so this is strictly business,’ and I was so disappointed, but I did want to meet her. We sat in that coffeeshop until they turned the lights out on us, and she broke up with her boyfriend the next day.”
MULTIPLE people in the notes have told me how important these tags are to them so here’s to keeping it in the main post.
I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(
hnn I WANT IT SO BAD
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
now we enter the testing phase
yup. looks good.
Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?
OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement
*roar sound effect*
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)
There’s more!
I love.
I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!
(just fine)
Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures
Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)
so it’s come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think that’s very cash money of her.
we’re coming to you LIVE More than two hundred thousand notes later from HALLOWEEN 2020, where WEXTER continues to be absolutely DINO-RIFFIC!
… at least for as long as it takes to chew the costume off.
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merr chrismas
It annoys me how a common trope on Star Trek is ‘tee hee, I’m a workaholic, I have twenty stardates of leave saved up because I never take a break’ and that’s supposed to be something we admire. Take a holiday, idiot. Especially if you’re the boss. Set a fucking example. It’s the future now and you’re better than this toxic shit.
“Unprecedented success” is just a fancy way of saying “we have no idea why this worked”.
finally finished my Elden Ring speedrun any% any time any gear any deaths any damage flasks allowed breaks allowed summons permitted normal controller my friends helped me and i looked up tutorials
Werewolves and sexy dragon-people and such are well and good, but there’s something to be said for that one character in a piece of fantasy or sci-fi media who you’re… like, pretty sure isn’t human? But nothing absolutely conclusive is ever shown (though there may be plenty of near misses!), and they’re annoyingly cryptic about certain critical dimensions of their personal history (though they may otherwise be perfectly willing to hold forth at great length about their life’s story), so you can never entirely rule out the possibility that they’re just a huge weirdo.
Frodo Baggins ghostwrote this post to talk about Tom Bombadil
I feel like the respects in which Tom Bombadil is questionably human are largely independent of the respects in which he’s a huge weirdo.
