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another pointlessly fun oc ask post

because i’m crazy about fleshing out characters. I tried to keep these questions mostly positive.

send me one (or more) of these for any of my ocs!

1. what does music mean to them? what role does it play in their life? 2. if you were to hug them, what would they smell like? 3. what’s their favorite food? 4. what’s their least favorite food? 5. do they like nature? if they do, what’s their favorite natural setting (woods, beach, desert, lake, etc.)? 6. what’s their most prominent personality trait? 7. what’s their mbti? 8. hogwarts house? 9. d&d alignment? 10. if they were in a modern high school clique (jocks, goths, hipsters, geeks, etc.), what would it be? why? 11. tea or coffee? 12. dusk or dawn? 13. country or city? 14. what do they do in their free time? do they have any hobbies? 15. do they like animals? if they do, which ones? 16. how are they in platonic relationships? 17. how are they in romantic relationships? 18. do they have any insecurities about themselves? 19. what’s their favorite genre of book or movie (if they like to read or watch movies)? 20. what would their dream vacation look like? 21. how many hours of sleep do they get on average? 22. what is their body shape? are they trim or tubby? tol or smol? 23. if you had to pick five words/phrases (objects, places, weather, etc.) to describe your oc’s aesthetic, what would you pick? 24. do they hold onto grudges? 25. are they fiscally responsible? or would they prefer spending with wild abandon? 26. what’s their favorite kind of weather? 27. how old would they be if they didn’t know how old they are? (e.g., what’s their mental age?) 28. what’s their opinion of children? how are they around children? 29. what’s their sexual orientation? 30. what’s their favorite color? 31. what temperature would they prefer the room to be? 32. how mannered are they? how proper to they act? 33. how do they dress? 34. which season do they prefer? why? 35. what is their “morning ritual”? 36. what is their “nighttime ritual”? 37. have they ever had a one-sided crush? 38. do they like art? what form? 39. how do they read a book (if at all)? slowly, over the course of a few days, or within a few hours? do they sit, stand, lay down, all of the above? 40. do they have any recurring dreams/nightmares? 41. what would be their favorite subject in school? (e.g., English, Math, Science, History, Recess, etc.) 42. what physical features do they find attractive on other people? 43. are they patient or impatient? what situations would make them feel one or the other? 44. what is their opinion of authority? 45. what is their opinion of tradition? 46. are they into folklore and/or conspiracy theories? or do they think both are garbage? 47. if they were to have a “happy place” they retreated to in their mind during stressful/boring situations, what would that place be? what would be in it? 48. what is one value they hold higher than any other, in others and in themselves? (e.g., loyalty, intelligence, compassion, responsibility, etc.) 49. what is(are) their love language(s)? 50. what is their opinion of cheese?

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snailienz

I wasn’t gonna reblog this until i got that they album art is a visual pun and now im just dead.

victoriaringsinyourears

If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, and there’s ANY evidence of this, SHUT DOWN YOUR ACCOUNT AND USE YOUR REAL INFORMATION FOR A NEW ONE IF YOU NEED TO.

NO JOKE

PAYPAL IS SHUTTING DOWN ACCOUNTS THAT WERE OPENED BEFORE YOU WERE 18.

Sharing this here because I know this will affect a LOT of artists here.

PLEASE share this, this is super urgent and I don’t want any of you losing your funds.

victoriaringsinyourears

Seriously, this is not a joke or scam. Check the comments of that Medium article, or the Reddit comments.

Apparently PayPal will try to re-ban you if you use the same cards or whatnot, so if you need an alternative, try Google Wallet. (Because Google won’t let a damn industry go untouched.)

If you see your work as more as a business, try Stripe.

victoriaringsinyourears

LAST REBLOG.

BECAUSE IT’S FUCKING IMPORTANT.

marciaillust

Okay so this case needs a little bit more of explanation because there’s no need to panic

Are you calm now? Yes? Good.

Now listen:

The first thing that you need to realise is that you not being 18 is a serious legal issue not only for PayPal, but for ANY OTHER FIRM PROVIDING THIS KIND OF SERVICE. This includes the “alternatives” like Google Wallet and others. It is clearly stated in their TOS (which you are supposed to get familiar with before using their service). Therefore, if you made an account before being 18 then you, and let me repeat that, YOU are in the wrong here, not them. “But nobody reads these” my dude this is LAW, REAL CORPORATIONS and REAL MONEY we’re talking about here. It’s more than obvious that they won’t fuck around when it comes to the legal measures. Should any outside entity learn about your little lie it can result in something more serious that this, drag both PayPal and you down. You gotta realise that in real life rules exist for a reason.

Now to the money part: To tone down the stress I’m gonna say it right now that your money is safe.

This situation happened to me as I made an account when I was 17, so believe me when I tell you I know first hand what I am talking about. After a year of using it (so when I was already 18) PayPal asked me to see my ID to verify some info. After the verification it turned out I made the account when I was underage so they had to “shut it down” WHICH IS A VERY POOR WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.

The accounts are not being “shut down” and your money doesn’t “disappear” or whatever - PayPal blocks the option to send or withdraw money so your account is simply out of use. As we learned before, you broke their rules so they HAVE TO do something about it.

If you had read that oh so heart gripping story from one of OP’s links you would see this screenshot attached to it, which is PayPal informing them about their situation:

Oh? But wait!! Could it be???? That half of the email was cut off?????

In the second part of the email PayPal politely informs you that the problem can be easily solved by making a new account. Are you seeing that last sentence in the screenshot? “To continue using our service please open a new PayPal account”? Yeah, that.

Then, the email informs you that you will need to send PayPal a message from the new account that you would like your money transferred to the new account. Basically, you message them “hi this is my new account, my old one was XYZ, could you please transfer my money to this account?” and that’s it.

The money will be on your new account within 5 days MAX.

In conclusion: No money lost, PayPal solved their legal issue and you have a new, fresh, bombing legal account. No one goes to jail, everyone is happy. No fees, no nothing. As if you had never crossed any lines or broken the law.

TL;DR YOUR MONEY IS SAFE There’s a reason why PayPal is one of the most reliable services out there that so many other companies decide to trust. When you’re buying something online and you have the PayPal option accessible, why do you think it’s there? Because that’s just how it is? No. At one point the companies had to struck a deal, that’s why you can pay safely. And let me tell you, no company will skip reading the rules nor will they decide to trust a shady firm. Companies are real deals that operate under millions of regulations and are directly exposed to law (just like you tbh) and that’s why they’re strict about their rules. And you should be too.

Ps. If currently you are under 18 with PayPal account, don’t stress it ok? They won’t try to verify you until you start dealing tons of money or after a certain time period. But by then you will be 18, hopefully. So, chillex my dude it’s okay.

talesofnorth

Today at work came an order for a print on a mug, client asking to print “1488” on it. So I sent him back this.

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Wow, notes to this post are a wild ride. But, to clarify few things: 1) yes, he is a nazi. He literally used cropped out banner from a neo nazi site as a referance for the way he wanted numbers to look. Quick google search led me directly to the page he took the picture from 2) he took his order (which he was paying for after reciving the mug, not paying for it beforehead), which I’m honestly going to believe happened due him freaking out and not having guts to complaing and demend changing it 3) nope, I did not get fired. I do shit ton of work here, both majority of photo editing and souvenir production, so no one will be giving me shit for one “mistake” 4) yes, I could’ve just refused making his order and didn’t do anything at all. But, firstly, fuck nazis, and if he got pissed off when he first saw his new pretty mug I’m glad, either way, he paid for it, so there’s no loss for our company. And, secondary, he made the order literally few days prior Voctory Day, which is one of the most important holidays in Russia and if you don’t see the issue in it… Yikes? Also for these going on about “unprofessional thing to do, should’ve served them no matter the misguided beliefs :\”, go fuck yourself maybe :\

trashy-brain

You fucking GO GIRL

pro-gay

Whom else in here is gay and refuses to have healthy habbits

pro-gay

If u gay and on a linear path of self annihilation destroy that reblog button like it’s your sleeping schedule

theniftycat

wtf are bathroom passes

alex51324

In American schools, if students move from one classroom to another during the day, which is the norm in middle and high schools (roughly age 11 to completion of school), the whole school does so at the same set times during the day. Being in the hallways at these times is Passing Classes, which is fine; being in the hallways at any other time is Roaming the Halls. A student who is Roaming the Halls is presumed to be Up To Something, and may be stopped and interrogated by any member of staff who witnesses said Roaming.

Of course, it does occasionally happen that a student has a legitimate reason to be in the hallways outside of designated passing times. In those situations, the student carries a pass (”hall pass”) which can be presented to any member of staff who stops and interrogates said student. Usually, the pass is written on a form that is signed by the teacher who authorized the student’s presence in the halls: at my school, the form had spaces for student’s name, date, time, where the student is going, and from whence the student is leaving.

Filling out the entire form every time a student wants to go to the toilet is a pain in the ass, so some teachers use some other form of pass. In my day, it was either just a regular pass that was pre-filled and laminated, or a block of wood with the classroom number and “Bathroom” written on it. Apparently nowadays, using some cumbersome and humorous object as the bathroom pass is A Thing.

This is all regarded as completely normal, so much so that I have explained it in what may be a tedious amount of detail, because I’m unsure what part of it strikes you as unusual. How is this situation handled where you went to school?

floranna2

By raising your hand, saying you need to use the bathroom, teacher saying okay and you going. Nothing else.

alex51324

So if another teacher sees you on your way there, they just…mind their own business?

That would never work here.

fthgurdy

Would it never work there because of actual logistical issues, or do you mean people would not accept it as a safe solution?

Over here if a teacher sees you (they’re all in class anyway too so it’s unlikely anyone would be in the hallway during class unless they have a reason) they mind their own business, unless you’re dicking around or actually doing something troublesome or loud, or if they know you and know you’re supposed to be somewhere else, and you’re clearly not going to the bathroom. Or if they’re in a shitty mood and wanna yell at you for sitting on the windowsill which was forbidden in my school but nobody cared anyway.

Otherwise, no, no one’s gonna care. Not in high school, anyway- but in lower grades yeah because the kids are younger, but elementary schools will usually have a custodian walking around the halls. They’re still not gonna question kids going to the loo.

alex51324

Would it never work there because of actual logistical issues, or do you mean people would not accept it as a safe solution?

Short answer is, the second one. Long answer is, the American school system is permeated with a sense that teenagers are this chaotic force that must be contained at all costs. (I’m right now having this very clear sense-memory of a hall monitor * saying “You can’t just roam the halls any time you feel like it!”** in the same sort of tone in which one might say, “You can’t just stab people any time you feel like it!”) It’s not even so much a matter of what you might do while out in the halls unsupervised; the very idea of teenagers Roaming the Halls (of a school, which is full of both teenagers and halls) is understood as being inherently contradictory to the purpose of a school. It isn’t even that you might go somewhere you’re not supposed to be; it’s that at any given time, there is only one place any given student is supposed to be. A hall pass creates a temporary change in your prescribed location, without undercutting the fundamental principle that your location should always be prescribed.

(*My school had professional hall monitors–grown adults who were paid a salary to keep order in the halls.)

(**At one point one teacher issued me a Permanent Hall Pass, for Reasons, essentially licensing me to roam the halls whenever I felt like it. I forget how long that lasted, but eventually a hall monitor stopped me with it and was, naturally, convinced it was fake. They hauled me to the office and were like, “We’re going to call down TeacherName and show her this,” and I was like, “Please do.” So finally they did, and she was like yes, that’s my signature, yes, I wrote that; what are we doing here?” I ended up getting detention anyway, “because the policy is that if a hall monitor brings you to the office, you get detention.” The teacher was also instructed to never issue an open-ended hall pass again.)

theniftycat

Today’s question: is the USA actually a giant prison?

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WHAT THE HELL????????? What if you have no class in the middle of the day? We’d just hang out in the halls. Not everybody went to the library or sth. I probably spent a year of my life in the halls. It was actually kind of a way to socialise with people.

tartapplesauce

Yeah, there’s even a stock phrase as Gaeilige which is about the first thing you learn in school (my dad taught it to me before I started Big School, i.e. age of five) asking for permission to go to the bathroom.

If a teacher sees a kid hanging around the corridors instead of being in class, they may ask them what they’re doing and wait to see if they head off to where they say they’re going (the usual dodge is “Miss/Sir, I have to get my books out of my locker”) but there’s no Hall Pass or any of the rest of this.

Dear America, why is your education system so strange?

arcadiasilver-blog

Well for one, there’s never supposed to be a period where kids aren’t in class. There’s no study hall period, no free period, and you’re carefully monitored when you go to and from class as well as to and from lunch period. The idea is that, if kids are free-roaming, they’re going To Do Something like leave school (truancy) or cause some sort of problem.

But really, its more about training children for future jobs where their employers will treat them exactly the same way. If you are not in class/working, then you are doing something wrong.

toastynoneofyourbusiness

You’ve also got to understand that, in American schools, not only is there a serious lack of trust between teachers and students, but also that the school systems will try to cram AS MUCH CLASSES into one day at a time to “maximize learning.” This includes having extremely short lunch breaks and hall passing times (I swear lunch breaks in my elementary school were like ten minutes long, which contributed to how fast I wolf down my food to this day. I also distinctly remember passing time being only three minutes at my middle school and having a panic attack on the third day of school because i couldn’t get my locker open and I was that afraid of being caught skipping class). Oh, and by the way, we watched a documentary in high school that took place in a prison once, and I was shocked at how much the prison in question actually DID look like a high school.

neurodivergent-crow

schools operate on the premise that All Teenagers Are Inherently Criminals

valeria2067

Added to this, since the late 90s, teachers and administrators also have to know who is out of their classrooms and why and for approximately how long, so they can make an accounting of which kids might be in the path of a random shooter.

Because it’s more important for adults to have the FREEDOM to amass huge arsenals of guns than it is to protect the physical and emotional safety of children.

My daughter has been in school for six years (she’s 10), and she and her classmates have had to practice hiding in the classroom corner in silence with the lights off about twice a year.

American students and teachers now go about their business every day with the background knowledge that at any moment, a kid with his dad’s guns can show up and try to slaughter them all.

Tell me that doesn’t do something to your psyche.

13faeinapenguinsuit

To give you an idea of US schools.

My school started at 7 am. It got out at 2 pm. Our day was broken in to six periods and a lunch.

For those keeping track, that is seven hours in school.

In my school district periods were fifty-five minutes long with ten minutes to pass in the halls. Our schedule looked something like this:

7:00 am - First Period 8:05 am - Second Period 9:10 am - Third Period 10:15 am - Fourth Period 11:20 am - Lunch 12:00 pm - Fifth Period 1:05 pm - Sixth Period 2:00 pm - School gets out

Seems reasonable, right? Except that the bus ride was an hour and a half long. To be at school by 6:50 (the latest a bus could arrive - we have to have our ten minutes after all) I had to catch the bus at about 5:20. Most people allowed an hour to get up in the morning. So now our schedule includes waking up at 4:20.

This, by the way, is in fact when I woke up every morning to go to high school.

It gets better though. Our teachers? They are allowed to assign an hour of homework every day. That is in addition to any in-class work that you didn’t finish. If you were in an Honors or AP class, the teachers were expected to assign an hour of homework every day.

I assure you. Teachers did this, especially for grades 10, 11, and 12.

That’s six hours of homework a day that I was expected to do. And I got six hours of homework a day on a regular basis. Easily three out of the five school days. This is district policy by the way. They think it is perfectly acceptable.

To be clear, that means waking up at 4:20 in the morning. Getting to school at 7 am. Spending roughly six hours in class. Getting out of class at 2pm. The bus left at 2:30, got me home at about 4:00 pm.

By the time I walk from the bus stop to home, get out of my school clothes, get stuff sorted for homework, etc., it has been roughly twelve hours. I am still expected to do six hours of homework.

And here’s the thing… this was just for the required courses to graduate. If I want to get into college? If I want to stand out? That means extra curricular activities.

Those take place at two times; the Zero Period, and Seventh Period. That is, from 5:55 am to 6:60 am I had the option of orchestra, band, jazz band, choir, jazz choir, and a few others. Seventh hour was of course from 2:10 to 3:05. This was all the sports, cheer leading, student government, gay straight alliance, chess club, whatever.

We are taught, by the way, that if we do not take at least one 0 or 7 period class every semester that we will not get into college.

And you can bet your ass there was homework in those “optional” classes. Want to be in orchestra? You better be practicing on your own time. Drama club? Learn your lines on your own time. GSA? Bet you sure as shit are making posters and flyers and all that on your own time.

This is what high school looks like in the US. There are days where you are literally expected to do 20 hours of school related stuff and that is normal.

Of course, you point out how that leaves only four hours to sleep and the answer you get is, “Well, that’s what weekends are for.”

They tell us that high school is to prepare you for the “real world.” It’s not. It is about teaching you to accept unrealistic expectations as normal so that you will be a good worker.

Taking out the passing periods and the bus rides, I put more hours into school in a week than my parents worked. My mother worked 40 hours a week. My father worked about 55 hours a week. Between lectures, in class work, homework, I regularly had 80 hour weeks.

20 hours a day with only four hours to sleep sounds ridiculous - and it should! But my junior year? I almost failed because I was averaging less than 4 hours of sleep a night.

Welcome to the United States of Public Education.

mad-dyspunktional

Yeah. The weekend. When all of the teachers decide you’re going to have too much freetime and assign even more than an hour of homework each so that you literally end up with so much homework that you get little to no time to actually relax or catch up on sleep.

Yeah, the American education system is literally fucking hell.

rattle-and-burn

Fun story: I never went to school, I was tutored because of my dance stuff. I graduated at 15 and went to college. At 16 I needed working papers so I could get a job, this required a signature/form from the school. I called, was told to come into the office with my diploma and ID.

Got stopped by the resident police officer in the hall. Didn’t believe my ‘story’ Escorted to the principal’s office and forced to stay there. Kept telling them I didn’t go there when they kept asking what class I was skipping Finally they looked up student records, didn’t find me. Decided I was trespassing. Officer starts using Threatening Police Voice to tell me I’m going to be in so much MORE trouble if I don’t tell them why I’m infiltrating the school, they search my bag/coat for drugs without my consent. Finally call my parents, no answer because its a work day and they weren’t home. All in all I was detained for nearly four hours by a school that had no jurisdiction over me, accused of selling drugs/threatened with arrest, until they finally got ahold of my parents to come pick me up. Because they just couldn’t believe I was a tiny college student who needed a signature on a form and been told to do exactly what I did. That’s my only experience with public schooling in the US, never attended a day of classes and the idea still gives me panic attacks.

abolish-everything-deactivated2

America doesn’t sound real… like… are we sure that America isn’t like… a conspiracy or something…?

he was kinda upset when the afterlife was a thing

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take a fuckin sip, babes

deputychairman

Sure, cats falling off things is funny, but NOTHING is funnier than robots miscalculating the speed, force or angle needed to complete a mundane task. NOTHING.

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“Why do you hate tumblr so much?”

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ginnydiarchive

Okay, here’s the problem with the idea that oppressed groups can “alienate allies” by not being nice enough:

You shouldn’t be an ally because oppressed groups are nice to you. You should be an ally because you believe they deserve basic human rights. Hearing “I hate men” shouldn’t make men stop being feminist. Hearing “fuck white people” shouldn’t make white people stop opposing racism.

Your opposition to oppression should be moral, and immovable. Your belief that all humans should be treated with equal respect shouldn’t be conditional based on whether or not individual people are nice to you.