#$500 full setup

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$500 CashApp Deposit

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$500 CashApp Deposit

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Come to papa Furfrou

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1930 Ford Highboy Coupe

There’s always lots of detail work with any build and this ’30 Ford highboy coupe is no exception. Look closely and you will find Craftworks Fabrication handmade steel motor mounts. The license plate and valve covers were painted by Jeremy Seanor of Luckystrike Designs. He also painted all the accompanying engine and tranny parts. The powdercoat was handled by Pittsburgh Powder Coat while the chrome plating was conducted by Jon Wright’s Custom Chrome Plating.

The chassis is comprised of a Roadster Shop custom frame that was stepped, stretched, and features contoured ’32 Ford-style framerails. It was also then boxed, capped, and has hole punch flared front framehorns. From here the frame is outfitted with a Super Bell 4-inch drop, drilled and plated I-beam axle, low-profile monoleaf spring with Ridetech tubular shocks paired to custom-made drilled billet radius rods from Johnson’s Hot Rod Shop. Steering falls to the Flaming River box and a LimeWorks Hot Rod column topped with a four-spoke Billet Specialties Sprint Car–style leather-wrapped wheel. In back there’s a Currie 9-inch rearend outfitted with 3.70 gears, 31-spline axles, QA1 coilovers, a Pete & Jakes Panhard bar, and a parallel four-link setup. Braking is a combination of disc/drum front to rear. The forward braking dark gray–painted Wilwood Dynalite calipers are neatly hidden behind the Pete & Jakes finned backing plates. While in back the 9-inch is outfitted with 11-inch brakes, this time hidden beneath the SO-CAL Speed Shop finned drums all the while the chassis rides on a full set of 16-inch Dayton wire wheels wrapped with Coker/Excelsior rubber measuring 5.50R16 in front and 7.00R18 in the back.

All hot rods have something fun settled between the ’rails and beneath the hood (well if they have a hood). In the case of our ’30 Ford highboy coupe it sure appears to be a vintage Ford Y-block but after more than a cursory look we begin to see the telltale signs that there’s something more. Indeed, while it may look like a Ford it truly is a 376-inch LSX iron block, with aluminum heads and ARP studs, plus adapter-equipped small-block Ford (Windsor) valve covers all from Don Hardy Race Cars and then assembled by Talik and Marc Mullin. The intake is an Edelbrock LS dual quad with a pair of Thunder AVS EnduraShine carbs dressed in OTB air cleaners. Delivering the gas from the Tanks stainless reservoir is an Earl’s Performance billet fuel pump. More engine accessories include an MSD 6AL box to go along with the MSD billet Ford small-block distributor that functions through a timing cover adapter from Chevrolet Performance all the while using an MSD coil and Lokar vintage plug wires. Powermaster also supplied the alternator and starter, the battery is an XS Power AGM, and a Wegner Motorsports water pump is used as well as a Wegner front accessory drive unit. This 500-plus hp V-8 utilizes custom headers made at Craftworks Fabrication based on Ultimate Headers LS header flanges. The pseudo-Ford small-block is backed up to a TCI StreetFighter 700-R4 with a 2,800-stall speed converter operated by a Lokar shifter. The trans cooler comes by way of Derale Performance and moves the power through a 3-inch-diameter custom-made driveshaft.

[starryytales]

More Manipulative Ragatha.

ACK-

This was meant to be ~500 words and one part of a short story that went into detail of Ragatha doing different things on different days to push Pomni's boundaries, get her closer, etc. And was inspired by yesterday's ask about Ragatha intentionally throwing herself into harm's way to get hurt and get Pomni's attention.

Instead it ballooned up into a little over 2000 words and will be something of a standalone.

I would like to give my thanks and dedicate this to @miguxadraws whose enthusiasm helped push me to hit the ground running with this one!

With that said: small TW for needles (the sewing kind), and I hope you all enjoy..!

“I’m never sure how to start these things…”

I muse to myself as I tap the colorful pencil’s eraser against the empty, waiting page of my journal. Being the second longest lasting person in The Digital Circus changes how you think about information. Unlike Kinger, for example, I’m doing my best to not go insane by holding on to every piece of information until my mind snaps and I become amnesic. That means writing things down. Journal writing and compartmentalizing things. Separating the bad from the good and keeping the good close and the bad locked away.

“I suppose starting with this morning wouldn’t be a bad idea.” I flip the pencil around and begin jotting down what all happened…

Pomni woke up on me today. I didn’t bother with sleeping. Instead I just enjoyed watching her quietly snore throughout the night. God, she’s so cute when she’s asleep. She’s even more cute when she’s startled. She woke up, adorably mumbling about whatever dream she was having (I heard my name!!!), and stared up at me for a few moments. I didn’t say anything because she was clearly still out of it and wouldn’t have understood me anyway. When she realized she was using me as a full body pillow she let out wildest little yipe I’ve ever heard. She nearly hit the ceiling from jumping off of me so hard! It took a hot moment and a re-heated, leftover salmon cake to calm her down after that. I let her get dressed in peace (thank you again, God, for giving me a button eye to stealth watch with) and she left with a sweet little smile on her face.

I pause writing for a moment when I hear someone trying to stay quiet while working on something outside my door. Probably Jax. Probably with a bucket of insects and some kind of mechanical trap setup. I shake my head irritably but stay quiet. Jax would have been a lovely boy toy to keep if not for the fact he can’t stop being a punk for more than ten seconds. My single regret with him is that he only had one heart to break. The sound of his trap construction jolts me back to writing by jogging my memory.

The adventure!

How could I have nearly forgotten that when it was a huge amount of progress with Pomni?

Caine rounded us all up just like he does basically every other day.

“HELLO MY MUTANT MASHED POTATOES TODAY’S ADVENTURE BLAH BLAH BLAH-”

It was some kind of movie-like, ancient temple we had to find the treasure room of. The important part was Pomni and I took the ‘medium’ difficulty route, and we did it by ourselves. I was just about to see how well she dealt with an unprompted hand on her shoulder when I realized I had seen the hallway we were in before on a different adventure. Caine doesn’t just re-use NPCs, he re-uses chunks of levels sometimes. And I knew we were about 15 steps away from a circular saw trap that would shoot out from the wall and try to leave us with a nasty cut, to put it lightly.

My first instinct was to let Pomni walk into it. I thought it’d probably go right through her leg, maybe even both of them. I’d have to carry her all the way to the end and she’d have no choice BUT let me hold her. My better judgment got a hold of me, though. That was an awful plan. She’d hate being useless and dependent on me (at the moment, anyway). But I could still use the trap to my advantage to make her touch me…

I suddenly remembered why I nearly forgot the whole thing. Ever feel so much pain your body and brain try to factory reset?

“Hey, I think I’ve seen this hallway before.” I told her as I switched the side of her I was walking on. I picked up my pace slightly to make sure I triggered the saw without catching her as collateral. I braced myself as hard as I could without letting on something was up. A small part of me was begging to just not do this, but the opportunity was too good to pass up.

“Really?”

“Yeah! From a different adventure!”

And I think she was going to ask if I remembered anything helpful about it. That’s about when a single stone beneath my foot pressed down and I let out probably the longest running censor-bleep in Digital Circus history. The saw was as quick as lightning. My left arm, right above my elbow, was effortlessly sliced off, and the blade tore through my side like I was made of paper. I screamed and fell away from the blade. I landed against the wall opposite of it and started sliding down to the floor. Good God it hurt so bad I was seeing stars. Pomni shrieked and rushed over to me, hovering over me like she’d found a murdered body in an alleyway. I was in too much pain to get her to stop screaming for a moment so I could tell her what to do, and then she said that she would go get help.

That lit quite the fire under me, because:

1. I needed to get her used to touching me by getting her to patch me up, and, perhaps more importantly-

2. I’M TIRED OF HER RUNNING OFF WHEN I AM IN INCREDIBLE PAIN.

I have to say, despite the pain I was in, I was pretty slick with my next words.

Any person scared and hurt might say ‘don’t leave me,’ but if I left it at that, she might have just offered me a platitude about being back as soon as she could be. I had to twist the knife. She managed a single step away before I lunged at her foot and seized her ankle. I didn’t need to pretend to cry, as there were plenty of real, agonized tears.

“Please don’t leave me again!”

The ‘again’ sold it like beer at a college ball game. Oh, it hurt to see so much remorse in her eyes but it’ll make her think twice before running off again in the future. She dropped to her knees next to me and sputtered a dozen apologies before going quiet when I placed my hand on her upper leg to get her attention.

I remember gritting my teeth and having to hiss through the pain to direct her to my dress pocket (conveniently on the same side I was missing an arm on, and oh my how those little hands wander in a pocket) where I had my emergency sewing kit. Ugh. I could have died from cute-overload while watching her fumble so shakily while trying to thread that needle. When she finally managed it she looked at me with huge, worried eyes for guidance on what to do next.

I pause again to enjoy the memory of her looking at me that way. It’s almost dreamy to picture her like that. So nervously hanging off my every word… I could REALLY get used to that. Where was I? Oh, right, my little jester doing doll surgery on my side.

Feeling her touching me gently was so, so nice. And she listens so well. I bet if I told her that the stitching would only hold if she barked like a puppy, she might have actually done it. I’m so used to sewing myself up that the little pricks of the needle barely registered to me, so I up-sold the pain they caused. Clenching my teeth and (remaining) fist, and scrunching my eyes while hiccuping every few seconds as if I were holding back a breakdown. She paused once and held my cheek, and told me if I needed a break she would stop. AGH. I could have eaten her alive on the spot for being so sweet! Instead I sighed, enjoyed the touch, and thanked her but said I was okay...

I love Pomni to bits but she sews like a blind grandmother with arthritis. No cut like that is ever good or easy to work with, but even Gangle manages a cleaner stitch on a bad day. Still, that meant we got to spend the rest of the adventure like that. Her pressed up against my side, trying her best to hold as steady as possible, while keeping my stuffing from falling out as she stitches me back shut. Definitely worth every ounce of pain. When she was done she even crawled over to my arm and offered to try putting it back on. Absolutely precious.

I told her not to worry about the arm. Caine could fix it when we get back, and about when I said that our AI Overlord’s voice rang clear throughout the structure. Caine congratulated Gangle and Kinger for reaching the treasure room first, and declared the adventure over. Pomni and I fell through a portal that suddenly opened beneath us, and just like that we were back in the tent.

Caine looked me over and quipped I had gotten “too adventurous for my own good,” before snapping his fingers and fixing my arm. He then said something about seashells and vanished. The others were already heading their separate ways when I walked over to Pomni and hugged her. She jumped slightly, but didn’t pull away. I thanked her as warmly as I could for staying with me, and I saw on her face that same guilt from earlier being soothed slightly. It wasn’t enough to put her at peace, but enough so she knows I will happily praise her for doing something good.

I let her go and I offered her another meal tonight – if she was feeling up to it, that is. I could see her putting real thought into it-

My writing is once again interrupted by a dainty knock at the door.

“Ragatha? I’m here for dinner, but-” I quickly slam my journal shut and hide it away again. The last thing Pomni needs to see is the contents of that book. I hop up from my chair with a spring in my step and grab the doorknob, only for Pomni to suddenly shout.

“D-don’t open the door yet! There’s a bucket full of something on the door frame. It’s attached to some kind of trigger. Kinger’s getting it down now.”

I hear Kinger scraping something metallic away from the door before the man himself speaks up.

“Oh! That’s where you’ve all been. How do my centipedes keep winding up in buckets..?”

I had clean forgotten Jax trapped the door. The thought of being stuck with a bucket on my head as all of Kinger’s little hellspawns crawl over my face is almost enough to make me throw up, pass out, and start writing a manifesto. All at the same time. Did I say earlier I only have one regret about Jax? I have two. And the second is that I can’t drown him in the cellar.

“Okay! It’s safe now!”

Cautiously I crack open the door. My eyes are drawn to the movement of Kinger walking down the hallway with a bucket full of nightmares in his arms, but I quickly focus back on to Pomni. I let out a low, tired sigh and smile at her.

“You saved me twice in one day.” I try not to swoon, but it still kind of comes out that way. The little blush she starts sporting on her face doesn’t help.

“Ah- don’t worry about it.”

God she’s so cute when she’s bashful. I open the door and step aside to welcome her in with a playful flourish.

“Well, come on in! A hero deserves her heroic feast! I’ll get on it right away.”

“A heroic feast of spaghetti and meatballs?” She laughs, the sound as sweet as wine, as she enters and steps passed me. I laugh back with her as I start to shut the door so we can start another night off right.

“And garlic bread, that’s the really heroic part!”

[sarnai4]

The Underworld

I cannot even express how excited I was to listen to the Underworld Saga. It did not disappoint at all (of course, I wanted more songs, but the trio was amazing). Spoilers ahead for Epic the Musical.

"The Underworld" was an amazing setup for what we had coming. There are just so many tiny details! There are callbacks with "Full speed ahead," "Open Arms," and of course, we also have the "Ruthlessness" callbacks with the army. That would be so horrifying. He's surrounded by the 500+ soldiers who relied on him and trusted him to bring them back home. He even stated back in the Ocean saga how he didn't lose a single soul in the war. It's when they leave that everyone starts dying. Then, we have the heart-breaking Polites cameo, reminding Odysseus of how he cost his best friend his life. Now, the part that got me a little choked up was when his mom showed up. I have read even the story, so I know that she's gone, but it hurt so much to hear him realize he'd been at war so long that he never got to see her alive again. Him saying "Bye, Mom," just tears my heart strings right out. I love the contrast too of the quiet sadness in his voice with this line, then immediately yelling "All I hear are screams!" There's so much rage and pain as he's forced to confront everything that's kept him away from his family--including those he'll never be reunited with in life.

Then, we have "No Longer You." When I say the snippet did not do this song justice...(sighs dreamily). I still enjoyed the snippet, but this is probably my favorite of the bunch to listen to. The melody, the vocals, it's all just so beautiful. The tune just seems to float like you could do a ballroom dance with someone. That's not to say that the lines aren't great too. I love how this one plays on Odysseus's fears and how his increased time away from home has jaded him. The prophet basically says, "I see you with your wife, but you're messed up from your time away" and our Ithaca king is just pissed that he saw someone with his wife. Uh, buddy...well, I guess you'll find out soon enough. It's also so fun to know the story and get reminded of what Odysseus will be doing when he returns to Ithaca, fighting subjects who just assumed he had died and don't have respect for anyone in his family now. Even this entire concept to me in fascinating since it considers an underlying theme of the play: how people change due to their experiences. Odysseus will return, but it'll never be the same Odysseus who left in the first place.

And we end with "Monster" which is such an awesome ending to a first act. I wish this was live, so the audience could erupt in applause. (Small detail, but I love the music at the beginning. It's so unique when compared to the other songs and is pretty cool, gradually growing when more instruments are added). A bigger detail is that you have the instrumental intro matching the intro for "The Horse and the Infant." It just shows how far they've come and calls back to the very first time Odysseus was responsible for a lost life in the musical. My favorite line in this song is "I'm the only one whose line I haven't crossed." That's saying something too because this song is full of amazing lines. I just love the implication since we know Odysseus has often had lines he thought were too far. He didn't want to kill the baby, chose to spare Polyphemus, didn't kill Circe when he won in the fight, etc. Still, as he finally admits in this song, he did kill the baby. Despite that, he hasn't crossed his line. Why? I think it's because he keeps pushing it back each time he's confronted with something he doesn't want to do but feels he has to. It ties into the end of this song where he considers everyone he's lost, fully understanding the scope of it now that he's seen the spirits of his loved ones. Turning into someone he never wanted to be doesn't matter anymore. If he's a monster who still has a living family and hasn't proven the faith people had in him was foolish, then it's fine. He might have even been a monster before by not going against their enemies with everything he had. It's all a matter of perspective. Was he a monster for killing the baby, one for causing so many in his fleet to never return to their families, or one for both of those choices? The ending going back to "The Horse and the Infant" with him calling out for Penelope and Telemachus AND pairing that with the repeat of "Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves" is marvelous. It's almost like it's in the same sentence where he's explaining his actions to them, telling them that he has to become a monster because it'll make things alright for everyone they hold dear.

The only thing that made me mad about this is that I have no clue when the next saga is coming out or what it's even called. So, I'll just be playing the songs on repeat until I can add however many more to the playlist.

[lumienn]

Coming back at you: what are your favorite writing tips? 💚

Yayyy thank you for the ask Vortex! 🤗

I love asking people this question but I never expected to be asked it back haha. But I'll try my best (and disclaimer: almost all my fics at this point are either oneshots or wips, so I'm hardly a super serious writer myself)

Anyway!

1. Write on your phone. There will be typos.

2. Screenshot those typos- the day will come when you can laugh at them and compare them to the finished thing

3. If you don't have enough patience, laugh at them right now and send them to your group chat with the friends you're sprinting with. They will laugh too. (And if you're particularly unlucky one of them will also be a secret writer for the same fic fest you're secretly writing for and instantly guess which prompt you're doing T-T)

(this is totally not from a true story or anything)

Just kidding, but the first tip actually blew my mind with how useful it is. I always used to think I needed an entire setup- laptop and all, with just the doc open and nothing else- to be a Serious Writer Who Writes (ideally 500+ words in one sitting). And looking back? That's an insane amount of pressure! No wonder I barely got any writing done.

Now I aim for 100 words every day on most days, with music and full mental permission to scroll random apps in between, and I actually have fun writing haha. The first draft quality may suffer a little bit (see: typos) but it's nothing editing can't fix. Plus they make editing all the more entertaining :D

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Cash App ATM Withdrawal Limit: How Much Can I Withdraw from ATM Daily?

Cash App has rapidly become a preferred method for making online and in-person transactions. But when it comes to accessing cash directly, there are specific Cash App ATM withdrawal limits that users should be aware of. This guide will cover everything you need to know, including daily and weekly limits, fees, and answers to frequently asked questions.

What is the Cash App ATM Withdrawal Limit?

With a Cash App Card, you have the convenience of withdrawing funds at ATMs worldwide. However, Cash App has set limits on the amount you can withdraw. Currently, the Cash App withdrawal limit per day is set at $1,000. This daily limit is further divided by transaction, capping each individual withdrawal to $500.

Cash App also has weekly and monthly withdrawal caps:

Weekly Limit: $1,000

Monthly Limit: $1,250

Cash App Withdrawal Limit per Day: Details and Exceptions

The daily withdrawal limit for Cash App users is intended to offer flexibility while ensuring the security of accounts. While this $1,000 daily cap is standard, there are a few nuances that users should consider:

Single Transaction Cap: Although you can withdraw up to $1,000 daily, each transaction is capped at $500. This means to reach the $1,000 daily limit, you would need to make two separate withdrawals.

ATM Operator Limits: Some ATMs may have additional limits, so even if Cash App allows $500 per transaction, individual ATMs might restrict the amount further. It’s recommended to check the ATM’s specific withdrawal limits before attempting a larger transaction.

Exceptions with Verified Accounts: Verifying your Cash App account by linking it to a bank account and confirming your identity may occasionally allow for increased withdrawal options. However, the daily cap generally remains at $1,000 for all users.

Fees for Cash App ATM Withdrawals

While Cash App itself doesn’t charge a direct fee for ATM withdrawals, there are associated costs:

ATM Fees: Most ATMs charge a standard fee for withdrawals. This fee is usually $2-$3 per transaction but can vary depending on the ATM operator.

Cash App Fee for Unlinked Accounts: If your Cash App account isn’t linked to a direct deposit, you may incur additional withdrawal fees. Cash App offers a unique benefit by reimbursing ATM fees (up to $7 per withdrawal) if you receive $300 or more in direct deposits into your Cash App account monthly.

For regular ATM users, linking a direct deposit to Cash App can be a practical cost-saving option.

Can I Withdraw $1,000 on My Cash App in a Day?

Yes, you can withdraw up to $1,000 daily, provided you meet Cash App’s verification requirements and manage multiple transactions. As each withdrawal is limited to $500, achieving the full $1,000 daily limit would require two withdrawals within a 24-hour period.

For those needing higher limits or larger sums of cash, consider linking your Cash App account to a bank account and transferring funds there, as bank withdrawals typically offer fewer restrictions than mobile app ATM limits.

Increasing Your Cash App ATM Limit

For users looking to increase their Cash App ATM limit, here are a few essential steps:

Verify Your Account: Cash App encourages users to verify their accounts to access higher spending and withdrawal limits. Verifying requires users to provide their full name, date of birth, and the last four digits of their Social Security Number.

Set Up Direct Deposit: Setting up direct deposit with your Cash App account can unlock certain features, including the reimbursement of ATM fees. This setup may not directly increase the withdrawal cap but adds value by making regular withdrawals more cost-effective.

Consider Bank Transfers for Larger Withdrawals: If your Cash App limits are insufficient, transferring funds to a linked bank account can offer a more flexible alternative, as banks typically have fewer restrictions on withdrawal amounts.

Tips for Managing Cash App ATM Withdrawal Limits

Managing your Cash App daily withdrawal limit efficiently can help maximize the utility of the Cash App Card. Here are a few expert tips:

Plan Withdrawals in Advance: If you need to withdraw more than $1,000 in a short timeframe, consider staggering your withdrawals over multiple days.

Link a Bank Account: Linking a bank account allows you to transfer funds directly, which can be withdrawn from your bank with fewer limitations.

Use Direct Deposit: Not only can you potentially reduce ATM fees, but having regular direct deposits may also qualify you for additional Cash App benefits.

Monitor Your Limits Regularly: Check your Cash App balance and remaining ATM withdrawal limits within the app’s “Limits” section. This helps avoid exceeding your daily or weekly caps.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Cash App limit at ATM?

The current ATM withdrawal limit for Cash App is $1,000 per day, with a per-transaction limit of $500. This limit resets every 24 hours, allowing users to withdraw again on the following day. Weekly limits are capped at $1,000, while monthly limits are set at $1,250.

How much does Cash App take for ATM withdrawal?

Cash App itself doesn’t charge for ATM withdrawals, but most ATMs impose their own usage fee, generally between $2-$3. If you receive a direct deposit of at least $300 each month, Cash App will reimburse up to $7 per withdrawal, covering most ATM fees.

Can I withdraw $1000 on my Cash App?

Yes, you can withdraw up to $1,000 daily. To withdraw this full amount, you would need to complete two separate $500 transactions. However, it’s essential to check both Cash App’s and the ATM’s limitations before initiating a larger withdrawal.

What is the ATM withdrawal limit?

The ATM withdrawal limit for the Cash App Card is set at $1,000 daily, with a cap of $500 per transaction. Weekly and monthly limits are also in place, restricting users to $1,000 per week and $1,250 per month.

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4 Trade Ideas for Goldman Sachs: Bonus Idea

Goldman Sachs, $GS, comes into the week approaching the all-time high. from two weeks ago. It has a RSI rising in the bullish zone with the MACD positive and turning higher to avoid a cross down. It had been extended from the 20 day SMA when it made that high and with the two week sideways price action is now much tighter to it. There is no resistance above 504. Support lower sits at 492 and 484 then 480 and 471. Short interest is low at 1.7%. The stock pays a dividend with an annual yield of 2.40% and will trade ex-dividend on August 30th. 

The company is expected to report earnings next on October 15th. The August options chain shows biggest open interest at the 470 put strike and then at the 480 call with the 520 and 510 call strikes also large. In the September chain the 480 put strike has the biggest open interest. on the call side it is biggest at 515 and then 500. The October chain covers the earnings report and has biggest open interest at the 450 put strike and much larger open interest at the 510 and then 500 call strikes.

Goldman Sachs, Ticker: $GS

Trade Idea 1: Buy the stock on a move over 504 with a stop at 492.

Trade Idea 2: Buy the stock on a move over 504 and add a September 495/480 Put Spread ($6.45) while selling the October 550 Calls ($6.25).

Trade Idea 3: Buy the September/October 520 Call Calendar ($6.40) while selling the September 470 Put ($6.20).

Trade Idea 4: Buy the October 465/505/525 Call Spread Risk Reversal (45 cents).

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After reviewing over 1,000 charts, I have found some good setups for the week. These were selected and should be viewed in the context of the broad Market Macro picture reviewed Friday which with three trading days left in July, saw large cap and tech focused index equity markets showing weakness with small caps continuing to hold strong.

Elsewhere look for Gold to continue its consolidation in the uptrend while Crude Oil consolidates in a tightening range. The US Dollar Index continues to drift in broad consolidation while US Treasuries consolidate in their downtrend. The Shanghai Composite looks to continue the short term move lower while Emerging Markets continue to hold their newfound short term uptrend.

The Volatility Index looks to remain low making the path easier for equity markets to the upside. This is with the backdrop of the July FOMC meeting and non-farm payroll reports next week among many large cap tech earnings reports. The charts of the SPY and QQQ look setup for more downside on the shorter timeframe and possibly the longer timeframe as well, but with no real damage in the weekly chart at this point. The prevailing narrative has been the rotation into small cap IWM and it is showing relative strength, but more in a consolidative mode then a full thrust forward this past week. A new high Monday could change that perspective fast. Use this information as you prepare for the coming week and trad’em well.

[luci-in-the-stars]

Bad Vibrations||| Van & Luci

TIMING: A few months ago, before winter LOCATION: The Commons PARTIES: @luci-in-the-stars & @vanoincidence SUMMARY: Luci's experiment on boosting a good vibe only necklace doesn't go very well, and Van gets to deal with it. CONTENT WARNING: None!

Luci was usually fairly careful with her magic, especially now that it was acting strangely. However, almost in spite of herself she seemed to need to experiment. It wasn’t malicious - she didn’t want to hurt anyone - but it was a curiosity she couldn’t stop even if the prices were increasing. 

Which, she thought as she looked at the state of herself as she tried to amplify a spell that was already attached to a necklace, was becoming stupidly high. It should have been relatively easy - the ruby-ish jewel already had a protection spell on it - but now it was clattering across the ground  in a way that made Luci think that it was about to push everything away in a five mile radius. She was just lucky that she had picked a relatively sparse part of the park to work on the spells. Until she saw someone round the corner. 

“Uh - Sorry excuse me Don’t come any closer!” Luci shouted her hands up to wave the other down as she saw the necklace shake again in the grass. “I think I did something wrong again,” Luci said, pulling her notebook again to look at the circle that seemed to have fallen out of step since the last time she’d looked like it. Like an invisible hand was erasing bits of it. “Please hold. I’ll try again.” 

___

Not being able to go home was becoming boring. Van was bitter and she missed her desktop setup, even if Cass had told her that she would get her a new one. The 300$ that Xóchitl had transferred was burning a hole in her pocket and she had already poured a significant amount into rolling for a lightcone she didn’t really need. She’d never been any good at saving her money, and that remained true when she had literally lost her home. 

Okay, so maybe it hadn’t quite settled in that her house full of memories would probably become a gooey scrap pit at some point if something didn’t change and change soon, but it wasn’t like Van needed to worry about that. Not right now, at least. 

She’d been walking aimlessly, longboard tucked under her arm, before she noticed a person sitting in the grass. She didn’t care about people sitting, but what she did care about is when people told her to not do something. “Um, I can definitely get that. Doing things wrong, I mean.” Van’s voice carried across to the girl and the blanket and the necklace. Was it moving? Van’s brows furrowed. “What are you trying?” 

___

Luci was very much trying not to look panicked as the necklace seemed to be shaking in a way it shouldn’t be. Afterall, science was partially mistakes happening, and - well she didn’t know what the worst thing could happen but she imagined it wouldn’t be life threatening. So, she was trying to have an air of confidence about herself as the other stopped and looked at her and at the necklace. She was trying very hard to find the line that should have been there to contain the shield - if only so she knew why it was shaking.

At the question Luci looked up to the person who wasn’t leaving and gave her a sheepish grin as she replied, “Oh um - my boss asked me to fix something on it - make it stronger, and I think perhaps I changed the wrong thing. It’s supposed to protect people from ‘bad vibes’ - no I don’t know what that means in this context either - and so I was trying to expand it’s range.  It’s not supposed to be shaking like that. I’m trying to figure out if it’s stable or if it’s going to explode and push everyone away from it- I believe 500 feet.. If it does - that’s probably not good. Not extremely bad, but I’m probably going to have to run in a minute if I can’t get it to stop. ” Especially because she wasn’t sure if she could move out of the range herself. 

“I don’t know why my equations keep unbalancing themselves, they shouldn’t be doing that,” Luz muttered under her breath, not trying to get away from the necklace while there was still a chance she could fix it.  

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The stranger was speaking and Van wasn’t entirely sure what any of it meant. Something about bad vibes and the necklace together didn’t really make all that much sense. Was it like one of those funny gaydar keychains? Except it detected bad vibes? Or what it thought were bad vibes? Was this person some kind of tech genius? Van had no clue, but she stayed put and squinted, looking towards the necklace as it vibrated lightly on the blanket that the girl was sitting on. 

“You think it’s going to explode?” Van’s eyes grew slightly wide as she took a tentative step back. At least she’d never done that. But she couldn’t even be sure this wasn’t just science. It definitely couldn’t be magic. How many other people were there out like her? Like Milo? That was the only other spellcaster she knew of, aside from the person who had insisted she had magic when she melted her car’s wheels. She bit the inside of her cheek, wrapping her arms around herself as she watched the necklace shake. 

“I don’t know how far 500 feet is, but there are like, other people at this park.” She paused, eyebrows pulling together in near permanent concern. “Should we like, call the bomb squad? Is this one of those robots for class or something? Are you on a robotics team?” 

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Luci’s attention was split now looking at the necklace that seemed to be picking up on wobbling and her notebook quickly rebalancing the equations to deamplify the necklace. It was harder now - her magic insisting on erasing and adding things she didn’t. If she wasn’t sure that it was doing it, she might have thought it was her own carelessness. It wasn’t though as she chased a two around the circle to put it back properly. 

“Yes - well. Possibly at least. I don’t think it has enough power to go boom - ah I got it,” Luci said with a nod. With the question inherent in what 500 feet was she said, “Oh about 200 steps from me I believe. No the bomb squad couldn’t do anything about it and I’m not a fan of robots. Do you like them?  Here we go - necklace please don’t explode, wouldn’t be a good vibe.” The last bit was mostly under her breath as she put the paper onto the necklace with very little fan fair. 

For a moment nothing happened, then the paper glowed the necklace stilling as Luci let out a breath and gave the other a small smile. “See! - oh no that’s fire huh?” She said as soon as she smelled a familiar burning as she started moving back off of the blanket moving her things with her. “Yeah that’s a fire - um - oh shoot. Not exploding though.” 

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Van wasn’t really sure what she was watching. The fear that she felt was impossible to place, because deep down, she knew what this was, even if she didn’t want to admit it. Magic hung in the air, she could feel it beneath her skin. It was a new feeling, being able to place that, and she hated it. She wasn’t sure why, though. 

“I don’t know anything about robots, no.” Van watched with bated breath as the stranger began to speak to the necklace as if it’d actually listen to her. She wasn’t sure why she thought it would, but maybe there was something that Van didn’t know about what the other was doing. She was ignorant to all things magic, so it seemed. 

There was a beat of silence, and something hopeful pulled over the girl’s face, but it quickly disappeared. Van was left to stand in horror as the necklace caught on fire. “No exploding, but there’s fire! Put it out!” She wasn’t sure what to do, but she knew that they couldn’t catch the whole common on fire. Anxiety swelled in her chest, and the blanket’s edges began to melt away into goo— no heat to be found, but just liquid. Shit, Van thought to herself, hopeful that the girl would think it was the weird necklaces doing and not hers. 

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“Ah - well that’s okay I think. Really they aren’t as fun as they seem like they’d be,” Luci said with a nod. The other seemed to be panicking, which to be fair - most people would be. She was just used to the failure of an experiment. Most of her mind now though was on the burning as she quickly pulled her bag and other belongings away from the necklace which was now being fascinatingly weird in a different way. Scrambling just away to keep the fire and strange goo away from her Luci sighed. 

“Oh I didn’t consider goo coming out of it - No worries I got it.  “ Luci said as the other told her to put it out, she saw it seeping and for a moment wondered if her magic had caused it. Pulling out her water bottle she Dumped it onto the fire and goo - hoping that it was just melted blanket. “ I always keep a full bottle of water incase - I used to carry a fire extinguisher but - did you know they don’t let you bring that onto planes?” Getting closer to where the necklace was absolutely not protecting either of them from bad vibes she sighed and said, “well at least it’s not on fire? Don’t know about the goo.”

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The stranger seemed more concerned with her belongings than the actual object on fire, and really, Van could relate. She’d definitely save her phone over pretty much anything else. She stared wide-eyed at the scene unfolding before her. If she were on the other side of this, she’d be panicking way more, but the girl who seemed to be about a few years younger than her seemed totally cool about what was happening. That didn’t make much sense. 

Lucky enough for her, the girl seemed to think that the melting was from the necklace. That was good, at least. Van’s stupid secret was safe for another day, even though something told her that it wouldn’t be much of a secret within the vicinity of the girl ahead of her. As soon as the fire had started, it was gone– a splash of water, and it was like nothing had ever happened. The blanket was still a little melted, both from the power and from Van’s anxiety. She felt uneasy, noticing the way it was seemingly different from the actual parts of the blanket that had gotten burned. But the stranger mentioned the goo, and Van decided to follow it up, “yeah, I mean– there’s goo everywhere, maybe it um, came from underground.” Her mouth tasted like iron again. Fuck. “But um– can… I ask, what were you doing? It wasn’t robotics, right? That’s not what that was?” Because it had been magic, Van could feel it, even if she wanted so desperately to ignore the way it buzzed under her skin. 

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Luci sighed at her failure wanting to kick the grass and deciding that she had, in fact, already did enough to the park. She really thought this one was going to work out, but like the slowly increasing amount of her magical experiments it seemed to fail. Usually she wouldn’t be too upset by it, but now someone else had seen her do it too. Moving her glasses back properly on her knees and letting the little stars on her glasses chain hit her face she wondered if the other had figured it out. 

At the idea of the goo coming out from under ground she tilted her head thinking about it. “Huh - maybe. I don’t see why it couldn’t. Once it’s not so - everything I’ll move the blanket to check.” After all, it might be more likely that the necklace had somehow done it. At the question Luci looked back up at her realizing she did not have her normal excuse of chemistry experimentation. After all, she was not anywhere near a sterile lab and the other did seem very smart. 

“Oh - no, not robotics. I’m not really good with technology to be honest - just the normal stuff like social media and spotify - well I guess not everyone does that but you know,” Luci started talking a mile a minute as she tried to figure out what she should reveal, a bit uncomfortable as she rolled up her sleeves. “Oh that’s not really the question is it. I was trying to uh - enhance the good vibes of the necklace through amplifying known elements through a series of calculations and introducing new potentially helpful materials,” Luci said after a moment knowing that none of that was technically a lie but was absurd as she went to her bag to pull out her notebook, hoping the other would at least be bored enough not to ask for more information. “Apparently, I only gave it bad vibes instead.” 

Thinking that maybe the other might call the fire department on her, she thought on her feet a little and decided that maybe showing the calculations would help her argument “Um - I can show you? It’s not anything scary or something you should tell the fire department about,” Luz said, showing one of her pages that she had tried before this one. “See?” 

________

Maybe not a great excuse to use. If the girl moved the blanket and  didn’t see the goo coming from underground, she’d be suspicious wouldn’t she? Van clasped her hands together, fingers nervously twitching against each other as she watched the girl move around the object of her experimentation. Van watched carefully, only lifting her gaze when the other confirmed that it hadn’t been robotics. 

Obviously it hadn’t been, but a part of Van had hoped it was. Because if it was, then she could put her head back into the sand. “Social media and Spotify aren’t really technology…” She bit the inside of her cheek before shaking her head, “it doesn’t matter though.” Because it didn’t, not in the context that this conversation was taking place over a melted blanket and a necklace that had caught fire. Van’s expression twisted, presenting the confusion that came with the girl’s explanation. “I don’t know what any of that means, but I mean, like, I trust you, but I’m not really sure what good vibes came from the necklace catching on fire.” 

Maybe she was being a little too judgmental. After all, all she could do with her magic was open up black portals and melt things. That wasn’t really impressive, either. 

Van had to keep herself from snorting in response to the bad vibes comment, because really, that’s what it had exuded. 

She found herself continuing to stare at the necklace. It was no longer vibrating on the ground, but it was eerily still— and a part of her thought it might erupt in flames again. Her gaze shifted once the question of whether or not she wanted to see bloomed. Van could think of nothing else she’d rather do than not see anymore of whatever was going on here. 

“No, I’m— no it’s okay, I believe you. Um, you know what you’re doing, and like, I never passed science class really not without a ton of extra credit assignments, and I like space a lot more than like, this, whatever this is, so it’s okay.” She was rambling, and she unclasped her hands, tucking her thumbs into the pockets of her cargo pants. But the page was already directed towards her and she looked over it. It wasn’t as scary as she thought it might be, but it still made no sense. “I like the way you write your I’s.” A dumb comment, all things considered. Another brief pause, before Van was clearing her throat again. She needed to go before her anxiety reared its ugly head. “I should— what was your name?” 

________

“Yeah you're right, they really aren’t,” Luci said with a nod. At the idea of what good vibes were supposed to appear she shook her head a little, sad about the failure in front of her for the first time. Experiments didn’t always work, and she knew that but she wasn’t sure what Vera was going to say. “I think ‘vibes’ just aren’t something a necklace can really do anything for - I’ll be honest I’m not quite sure how to quantify them anyway. So you know. Bad vibes. ” 

After all, she was an alchemist and whatever magic this was had been done by someone else. She had just hoped to amplify it. She probably should have clarified it though.

Holding the notebook, she saw the other was a bit hesitant but really Luz just wanted to show that she wasn’t doing anything particularly dangerous. After all, for most people this would look like nonsense - maybe something chemical but not something that caused fires. She seemed nervous, and that made Luci want to show that she was - normal? It would be a stretch for that - more so that she wasn’t dangerous. 

Well - Luci didn’t think she was dangerous at least. 

“Oh I like space too! - Thank you,” She said rapidly the comments making only tangential sense. Although it didn’t seem like the other was about to call the fire department on her. “Oh - My name is Luci. What’s yours?” She asked, not quite confident on how the conversation turned but eager to be on a new subject. 

_____

“Bad vibes,” Van agreed with a small nod, eyebrows pulling together. The sooner she left, the easier it would be to breathe and ignore everything she saw and made happen. The last thing she wanted to have to do was explain to somebody else who was clearly using magic that she also had magic. 

If it was that, and Van was sure of it– she could feel it beneath her skin in the same way she did when she became anxious, but this time it felt different, more muted. 

“Luci, okay, like Lucille or something– uh, I’m Van, but not like the car, so I guess you wouldn’t be like Lucille and just Luci.” Maybe Lucinda. She cleared her throat, clearly embarrassed. “I think– it was good to meet you Luci, but I should probably head home, or to work. I can’t remember what I was doing.” Before Luci could say much else, Van took her opportunity to leave, head ducked against the wind. She felt silly and stupid, and she sincerely hoped she would never run into Luci again for the sake of absolving herself of her embarrassment. 

[blurban-form]

Seaside Hotel

Mum is in need of a beach vacation, and the family travel to this hotel.

It looks like the hotel is situated in a less built-up area than the part of the Gold Coast where Nana lives (note all that greenery) but the area still supports multi-storey hotels.

The hotel’s parking entrance has that annoying setup where you can’t quite reach the card scanner / gateway access control unless you pull up really close in your vehicle. With little stub arms like dog-people have, this is probably a common problem.

(In real life, this can actually be very problematic if you unbuckle your seatbelt, open the door to reach out, slip, and get run over ‘cause your foot is off the brake. Be careful out there!)

The translucent garage door is a neat idea.

For the car buffs, vehicles in the parking level include an old VW Van and an old Fiat 500.

Again, an example of a parking structure with good lighting.

This hotel seems to lack proper luggage carts but in place of that there are a number of shopping carts and a kind of heavy-duty cart you sometimes see at places like Hammerbarn.

The room is noteworthy for a couple of reasons. It’s one of those suite-style ones that are good for families and extended stays.

The bunk beds in the kids room are nice to have. Here’s the kitchen, with a full-size fridge.

In the living room, Bluey and Bingo must weigh next to nothing for a recliner chair mechanism to launch them. Fun!

The hotel suite has two bathrooms (?) Here’s the first one.

The second has a jetted tub in it.

I’ve been in hotel rooms with tubs like this once or twice and they usually put a nice feature like a jetted tub / Jacuzzi in the main room, but here it’s in a bathroom with a toilet next to it.

Oh well. I shouldn’t complain, the beach access is awesome to have and that’s a great view from the balcony.

Hope Mum (and the family) managed to get some rest and relaxation and enjoy the time at the hotel. I’m sure they did.

[violetlypurple]

Linux for FFXIV and more, Extended version

Its been a month since my previous post about FFXIV and general use with Linux. The more time I spend with it, the more I have both refined my setup and and made discoveries that are worth going more in-depth about. This is going to be a long one, so I'm putting it under a cut as a megapost of nerd shit.

Chapter 1 : Discord

First up, and the first thing that might make a new user turn right back around: Discord. Look. If you're an MMO player, chances are you have your social circle of friends that live across country, or across several countries, that you want to hang and share things with. If you're here and you don't use Discord constantly, I have questions about you. Anyway.

Discord screenshare does not work. It virtually never has. Now, full truth is that, sure, you can share your screen. But not audio. Wanna stream games to your friends in chat? Not viable. Wanna group watch something? Not viable. The available workarounds for this are a combination of technical bodgework to make your mic transmit screen audio (which a new or casual user is unlikely to do, or want, since you can't talk while doing it) and potential ToS violations using 3rd party clients. I consider my Discord account too essential to risk a ToS ban.

Surely Discord is working on this righ-

Ah.

Discord's own feedback forum has a thread that is over 4 years old with near 1900 upvotes for a Linux screensharing fix and there has been no traction. It is the most upvoted topic and second place has 500. I'm not holding my breath on this one.

Maybe this isn't important for everyone, but this single feature in this single programme is going to be the thing that keeps Windows reluctantly installed on one of my drives.

Chapter 2: Ways to Play FFXIV (and others ft. Lutris)

I went over, in my last post, how Steam's compatibility features will run FFXIV just fine if you have the Steam version (and the non-steam version if you copy over the game files from a Windows install). The more graceful solution for non-steam accounts, which I explored for the sake of cleanliness, is Lutris. TL;DR - Lutris will run anything you don't have through Steam.

What is it?

Lutris is a programme that installs games and game launchers inside a compatibility framework that mimics a Windows environment, similarly to how Steam does. The Lutris website maintains a library of configurations which allow you to install launcher based games, with the option for Lutris to download the launcher for you, or download the install file yourself and provide Lutris with it to complete the configuration. You could make an account with Lutris if you like, but it is not necessary.

I successfully installed Battle.net (and installed WoW though the Battle.net launcher) and FFXIV fresh with Lutris. So far it has been flawless*. You can do this with other storefronts too, if you have games on the Epic store, EA store, etc.

Lutris will set up a folder for the game and, nested inside, is an entire windows directory and virtual C:\ drive where you can go in and view the install. In theory, tools like shaders that only need be dropped in the game folder should work by dropping them here in the same way, but I have not tested this. You can also add any .exe to Lutris and have it try to run it, though success is not guaranteed.

Chapter 3: Desktop Environment

As far as I am concerned, there are two options here.

KDE and GNOME

Most Linux distros will give you an option to pick. Either when you download the install media or during the install itself. The important thing to remember is that your desktop is not specific to your distro. Ubuntu comes with GNOME but you can download and install KDE later if you want to, and switch between the two at login.

Pick based on how you like the look. GNOME has a MacOS look and feel and simple menus. KDE is more Windows-like with more customization of colours, themes, and extended system menus that may be more familiar to Windows users and easier to get to things like detailed networking options. KDE also has HDR support, if that's a thing you have.

Each comes with an array of software which can be installed independent of the desktop environment you use. For example, I use KDE but have GNOME's Disks utility downloaded as my go-to for disk management. When I use GNOME, I still use KDE's Spectacle for a snipping tool and KDE's Krita as a screenshot editor.

Chapter 4: *Caveats and I am an Optimization and Temperature Control Freak

You're still here! Awesome! Now I am going to go over some things that have more to do with the fact that I am a freak about my PC hardware. If you are a laptop user, and/or are the type to just use one SSD and touch nothing about your PC, this might be safe for you to skip.

4a: Storage

SSDs and HDDs that are not your primary install drive for Linux will often be mounted in the system as removable media. This means that they have the potential to be reassigned to different mount points on each boot. You might see how this might be a problem if your Steam or Lutris libraries are not on the same SSD as your Linux install. This turned my Lutris install of WoW upside down several times.

This is something that I would love to be able to provide a new-user friendly solution for, but it isn't a friendly process if I'm being honest. How you do this will likely vary depending on your comfort with the command line and the distro and desktop environment you use. The solution I came to was to have drives mount by their UUID in GNOME's Disks utility. Disks is pretty friendly and makes this not terribly technical.

Finding the UUID if you don't use Disks is something for a more detailed guide, but if you haven't run off yet you're either invested enough to look that up or already know how to do it.

4b: Controlling Fans and GPU (all of this is going to require command line, editing config files, and more knowledge or strong googling.)

I am very particular about two things with my PC. Operating temperatures and fan noise. If you build your own PCs, chances are you're like this too. Fan control on Linux is a mixed bag, since we don't have access to the excellent Rem0o FanControl. Generally, if you connect all your fans to normal fan headers, you can set up your fan curves in BIOS and let that take care of everything. Alternatively, modern distros have lm-sensors and fan control, both of which require command line to configure and use. There is a gui app for fan control, but in my case, downloading it through my package manager always returns a version that uses Fahrenheit instead of Celsius and I couldn't abide it or be bothered installing it from GitHub. I have Lian Li Uni Fans, AL120 v2. These come with a USB controller normally run by Lian Li's software, which has to be told to pass control over to the motherboard connector. On the off chance that you have these too, here is a utility that allows you to set this in Linux. In the end, I let my BIOS take care of all my fans for simplicity's sake, after setting up that UniFan utility.

For advanced GPU and CPU control there is corectrl. For the most part corectrl is great and straightforward, but for some GPUs you need to edit specific boot options outlined in their install guide (this ended up being the case for my 6900XT, which I run an undervolt on. If you want it to run without requiring a password every time, that needs to be tweaked as well.

After all that, I have my temps and noise balanced just as well as I did in Windows! Yay!

Chapter 5: Boy Howdy Do I Hate Flatpaks and Snaps

For those of you who are not yet Linux users and somehow got this far, an explanation is on order.

The traditional way of installing applications on Linux is though the command line terminal, using a package manager. If I wish to install Steam on Ubuntu, I will open up my terminal and use the apt package manager with "apt-get install steam", or in Arch i'll use pacman with "pacman -S steam". This prompts the package manager to download and install the application and its dependencies from a repository managed by the organization that maintains the distro. This looks a little intimidating to new users, but is the one "true" way to install things.

Distros and desktop environments will almost always come with an app or software center that allows you to install applications through an easy graphical interface. These applications are packaged in Flatpak or Snap packages.

In KDE this is Discover.

Unfortunately these things suck.

When you properly install an application, it has access to everything it could need with regards to hardware and software dependencies. Steam, for example, needs access to your hardware to add secondary drives to your library. OBS needs access to webcams or capture cards, etc.

Flatpaks and Snaps are self-contained. They run in their own sandbox, isolated from the rest of the system. Ergo, Steam installed this way cannot access additional drives to add for additional library storage. OBS installed this way cannot access said capture cards or other devices.

This makes me very angry, since these user friendly packages could be doing so much to make Linux easier to use for newcomers, but they are hamstrung in functionality compared to a command line install.

Chapter 6: RGB GaMeRRRr

Install OpenRGB.

...ok, OpenRGB is a bit much if you're used to something like iQue or Synapse. In my experience, I needed to determine how many LEDs were in my fans and RGB strip. That info is generally available online. Once I did that math and told OpenRGB how many LEDs were connected, it was fairly easy to use after that. I generally just do solid colours, but OpenRGB and its plugins are another rabbit hole to get into.

OpenRGB also supports a long list of keyboards and mice... which mine aren't on (the Razer Naga X is such a lost and forgotten lil mouse), but that's ok, most people will be covered by this.

Chapter 7: A Point About Drivers

With Windows, we're used to having to install drivers for most things. Desktop Linux is different with the way drivers are handled. Which is to say, you don't have to do anything. Drivers are part of the kernel that makes up Linux. If you are using a rolling release (Arch-based) distro, you are getting all the drivers everywhere all at once every time you update. For other distros, the long term support version may be behind on drivers for things released after the LTS distro, but more current (often deceptively named 'unstable') releases are generally good about updates. This leads in to a much larger discussion about distros, but without getting into that, the TL;DR is: You're fine, just get your Nvidia drivers and everything else is already there.

I think that's it for now okbye

[quinloki]

Commission Info

Commissions are CLOSED - Go here to see if there are open slots, and read below to see what I will and won't do and for how much.

Things I’ll do:

Erotica | Romance | Adventure | Action | Kinks of all Kinds | Yandere | Angst | Fluff | OCs | Furries | Hypnosis | Age play | non-con | dub-con | Monsters | AUs | etc.

Things I won’t do:

Write real people | underage smut

You can ask if you aren’t certain, the worst I’ll say is no. No judgement.

Writing Prices:

All word counts are nebulous, I won’t stop a 500 word fic at word 500, and a 1,500 word fic might be 1,360 words. These are just guidelines for charge purposes.

-:- 500 words (Drabble) – 10$ -:- Short and sweet, these include 1-3 characters max, and minimal setup. Good for first or final moments, or something with an open ending. Here there be head canons, I don’t often write this short.

-:- 1,000 words (Short One-Shot) – 20$ -:- Shorter, and maybe a little sweeter. Still solid for 1-3 characters, maybe 4 if it’s a single scene. Little more detail, little more action. A good number of Kinktober 2023 items hovered around here.

-:- 2,000-3,000 words (Longer One-Shot)  – 30$ -:- The average of most of my one shots, honestly. Plenty of room for some set up, a little world building, best kept to 1-2 characters, but if you’re not worried about the set up, you can certainly go closer to 4. Elevator Music falls into this category.

-:- 5,000+ (Longest One-Shot) - 40$ -:- Here there be dragons. My one-shots don’t normally break 5k as it is, but I got about 8k on one before I turned it into a multi-chapter story. But if you’re talking a lot of set up, or the inclusion of several characters, it’s not hard to hit this level of words. There’s room in this bad boy for several tropes and a lot of sex. >.> (this will never break 10k words) At almost 4k words, Magic Trick is the closest.

Multiple Chapters requests are done case by case. Estimates are going to be 30$ a chapter, since that’s the average length of most of my chapters for what I write, with a minimum of 90$.

Multiple chapter requests will not be done any faster than one chapter a month, and may take longer based on life circumstances.

Art Prices (Process and CYA stuff below!)

Prices listed are in order of inked, flat colors, shading & details:

Inked/Greyscale = 40$ // 60$ for 2 Colored = 60$ // 90$ for 2

SFW and NSFW are the same. Additional people are allowed, hit me up for custom quotes.

I'll draw anything EXCEPT: seriously DETAILED gore, kids in nsfw situations, and real people (without their explicit consent). I love OCs, D&D characters, couples, self-inserts, etc.

Please see this collage to see some of the stuff I've done in the past, and check out my side blog @quin-draws-smooching to see the sketches I've been doing lately.

How will the process go?

You tell me what you want! \o/ By filling out this form!

2. I tell you if I accept! ~ Some negotiation can occur here regarding parameters, length and cost.

3. I’ll give you the price, and you decide if you can afford it. ~ Currently I’m only accepting Ko-Fi for payments.

Legal CYA stuff.

I won’t start on a piece until I’m paid, and have 30 calendar days to deliver from the time I’m paid.

Note: You can pre-pay monthly for something. Once the item(s) are paid in full, I'll begin the 30 day clock.

If I can’t make the initial deadline we can talk about either an extension or I can refund you, and we can try again later.

Within 15 days of the time I’m paid you can request a cancellation and refund, but beyond that no refunds are issued unless I initiate it. You agree to this as part of the commission contract, I’m not going to fight about it. However, if the piece is done prior to the cancellation request, then no refund will be issued. (I’m just saying this to avoid giving someone a finished piece 3 days later and having them request a refund on day 14.)

Once the piece is done, small, editorial adjustments can be requested, but anything more than that *may* result in additional charges before the piece is released. I’m pretty flexible though, so don’t panic.

Understand that any story will have variables even within a given set of parameters, and what I write might not be 100% what you expected, but you’re paying for my time, and if you ask for a full re-write of something I won’t be bullied into doing that for free.

I highly recommend you read at least some of my works before commissioning me to get a feel for my vibe and style. If you don't like reading on Tumblr, I'm currently on Ao3 and Wattpad under the same user name of Quinloki.

Abuse of these terms, or scam-like behavior, will be dealt with on a case by case basis. Just don't be an ass, I don't want to deal with it.

-:- Table of Consent -:-

[toranekooo]

HAPPY 3RD ANNI, TORANEKOOO!

hi hi, everypony! in honor of hitting 500+ followers and celebrating this blog's 3rd anniversary, i'll be holding a simple and quick event! consider this a big thank you for all the support and kindness you've given me so far that i've actually managed to stay in this blog for over three years lol ^_^ old pinned here!

you've returned, reader-chan. the rules for this game are simple:

it's a gacha game! every requester is provided a set ten (10) nekocoins, which they can use as currency to roll for edits. there will be no increase from this number, sorry! anons will need a sign off to participate. now, while the rules may be familiar, there's an added twist!

TWIST: rather than being able to spend the coins and budget them on your desired edit types, as this is a gacha game, you'll only be allowed to specify a character and aesthetic! the edit type will then be randomized based on how much nekocoins you used to roll~

the edit types will cost as follows:

icons - 3 coins for 6 icons | 5 coins for 9 icons

layouts - 6 coins for standard layouts | 10 coins for full blog setups

moodboards - 4 coins for regular moodboards | 7 coins for gif/moving moodboards

stimboards - 8 coins

gifs - 10 coins

example event request:

"hello! may i please roll for akito shinonome with 6 coins?" <- rolls like these can either land on layouts or two sets of 6 icons!

"good day! could i use 9 coins to roll for ako udagawa? thank you!" <- this could land supposedly on a set of 9 icons and a regular moodboard OR it could land on stimboards with one nekocoin being returned to the requester!

if there are any questions, feel free to direct them in my ask box! this event will go on indefinitely, so feel free to have fun ^_^

with that out of the way, i've been ia for so long i may not know many people so could i ask for a promo? feel free to ignore and lmk if i should remove your @!

@5seraphim @prismdol @enananhearts @garikei @thornybenevolence @warmteabake @angelldose + anyone else who wants to!! thank you so much~

[lairn]

Book 7/24: Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie Rating: 3.25/5

And with that, I have officially finished The First Law trilogy!

I’ve never read a book series quite like this before. Typically, the first book stands alone and the middle books have self-contained narratives with some unresolved plot elements. Abercrombie fully committed to telling one story spanning three books. In some ways, this concept is successful. I felt compelled to finish the whole series because I wanted the full picture, including payoff for plot elements set up very early in the series. However, by the third book, that early setup is also a weakness. By laying groundwork for events in the third book in earlier installments and then occasionally reminding the reader about them Abercrombie gives the reader a lot of time to figure things out. Some developments are anticipated long in advance and the actual reveal falls a little flat. Tolomei comes to mind. Not everything needs to be a twist, but when the reader has the general shape of a mystery’s solution in mind hundreds of pages before, the answer has to provide something a little unexpected.

I think the waiting also tried my patience at times since the books are all 500+ pages, and occasionally it feels like Abercrombie is stalling so that he can time his climaxes correctly. There are chapters where the characters are like animals pacing their cages, making no forward progress in plot or personal development. However, I have mentioned in another series that war stories are not my favorite, so I may have been more impatient than the average reader during this last installment.

I dragged my feet through the Gurkish conflict, but once that was resolved the book’s wrap up went by quickly enough. Overall, I enjoyed the earlier portions of the book and the last hundred pages. I complained about characters being used to fill pages for timing purposes, but I still enjoyed reading where each one ended up and the changes or stagnation they underwent. Logen’s looped story, Glokta finally answering his “Why do I do this?,“ and Jezal confirming that yes, his spine is a non-Newtonian fluid were all fitting and satisfying conclusions. Some things still fell by the wayside, making me wonder if they will crop up in other books. Ferro just kind of leaves and the Shanka concern is all but forgotten. But Ardee finally got to stop pacing that cage and have a change in her life, which I’m happy about. I’m not totally clear on the nature of the Bloody Nine even now. I might write a separate post about it.

Anyways, I think this series is flawed but interesting and I’m not sorry I read it. I would actually like to read more of Abecrombie’s work, because although he did not fully deliver, there’s something about his writing that speaks to a capacity to tell a really good story. I’m going to take a break from his writing, but if anybody has suggestions for what book of his to read next, let me know!

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