POINTS AT YOU REALLY LOUDLY

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[snarkb1te]

[addendumbeekeeper]

there’s a tumblr person right in front of me and i can’t do anything

[beanabouttown]

[dredsina]

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

When we bought our car, I told Sean to let me handle it. I walked in and said "We have X for a down payment and cannot pay more than Y in monthly payments." My Y number had some leeway, but I didn't mention that.

First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."

So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.

Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.

Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit."

"Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?"

"Something I can't afford."

He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite.

He went back to talk to the manager again.

It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.

The trick to resisting high-stress sales tactics is doing the math at home, knowing exactly what you can afford, and then walking into the room and stating that number minus 15%. Then refusing to budge from that number. Never, ever, meet then where they want. Always meet them where you want. Because at the end of the day, you can walk away and go somewhere else and say "I told the people at Z what my terms were, and they refused to work with me. Here are my terms. Meet them, and you make a sale today."

[crowwkui]

a night out 🍻

[yokowan]

discord, an application with no regard for your storage with a cache size that regularly balloons into many gigabytes, still has not figured out how to store thumbnails for your saved gifs, forcing you to sit there and wait for each one to slowly load over the network like it's 1990. bravissimo. no other app like it.

[bluegiragi]

a young baelor targaryen visits his family's dragon eggs.

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thoughts under the cut

(in the last page, baelor is referencing the storming of the dragonpit when he says they'd "protect them properly this time")

I have a lot of headcanons on Baelor and how his mind works. He's simultaneously above all the xenophobic rhetoric that swirls around him and his dornish blood, but he's young and so he of course still manages to internalise some of it. It manifests in a hyper-awareness of all the aspects of himself that make him lesser. His status as heir is nothing but diminished by his lack of dragon or ancestral sword. And as he grows up alongside Daemon who serves as an everpresent reminder of his "shortcomings", I imagine that he'd be tempted by childish fancy like. for instance. somewhat halfheartedly asking your family's long dormant dragon eggs to hatch. not even for you, because why would they, but for your beloved brother, who is by all measures the most worthy of one.

[plumeriyaaa]

Coworker friendships be like (inspired by that one ayo edibiri and ebon moss-bachrach story pic)

[olyoil2-deactivated20250812]

meow *turns to look at u*

[marwyn]

[stupendousnightinspo]

me when I’m a lesbian who was forced to have children as a child and my fated half is getting eaten out and praised by another woman and my daughter is having a breakdown and a child and I’m miles away and the assassin sent with me to kill my son is killed by my son and so I have to kill my son who wants to kiss me to somehow get back to my daughter and I don’t want to kill my son with my own hands but most of all I don’t want my son to kiss me again and my son’s witch lover won’t let me kill my son and won’t let me be gay even in dreams and so I’m trapped with my scary son I tried to kill and a hot 200 yo witch who hates me

[goldcrescent]

the way Gwayne kicked his entire fucking leg above his head just to hop off a horse made me laugh really hard. If you’re from the reach and not a diva Garth The Greenhand will strike you dead

[callsign-fangirl]

X X X 💰

[driften-sea-snake]

ormund was worried that his grooming victims might unionize so he used a time-honored union busting tactic that the citadel employs against TAs: call one of them gay

[rebvilla]

specter

[shanebuffys]

“Criston Cole’s death is anticlimactic” THATS THE FUCKING POINT! He thinks that he is this great warrior who is going to die heroically in battle after taking down tons of other soldiers but instead he is killed by a woman and the rest of his men get slaughtered. His misogyny against Rhaenyra is what lead him to the green’s side of the war. For a woman to take him out like it’s nothing is a fitting end. It also shows how pointless this war has become. No one is really fighting for green or black, it’s just fighting to fight and in the end death is meaningless. Media comprehension is in the toilet in this fandom.

[deadendhalls]

sibling things