#“...we pay taxes?”

[nostalgia-tblr]

oh shit now i'm thinking those thoughts about how the Federation is definitely a liberal democracy even though we never see elections or the run-up to elections and nobody votes for anything ever and there's a president and some sort of coucil/cabinet(?) but seemingly no other elected representatives below that so apparently every decision is made at at least a planetary level and nobody ever writes to a minor official about the bins not being emptied last Tuesday and Jake Sisko gets a job as a journalist but there's no other indication of a free press or even an unfree press and like i know this isn't the focus and we're just supposed to accept that Obviously the Federation is a functioning democracy because they're the good guys so they must be but is it too much to ask for Harry Kim to mention in passing that it's a good thing he got that postal vote in before they left because even if he never finds out who won that election at least he knows it wasn't his fault?

[inkskinned]

100,000 dollars is not a lot of money.

it is also a lot more money than i will ever have. my student loans make up half of that - they're coming back, i'm told, like we all bounced back recently. the other day while paying for gas to go to work, i overdrew my account without knowing it.

i sat in the car and looked at the charge and tried to do the math. where the fuck is the money even going? i don't live extravagantly. i live in a hole in the ground, in an apartment the size of a sneeze; covered in ants. yes, i wanted to live close to a population center. maybe that's my fault. i've downloaded the apps and i've spoken to the experts and i've cut back on excess. i can't help the pharmacy bills or the medical debt.

i have a good, well-paying job. when i googled it to see if i was getting a fair salary, i found out i'd be making "upper middle class" money. which doesn't make sense - is "upper middle class" now just "able to afford a one-bedroom without a roommate". when i was younger, upper-middle meant a nice big house and a backyard and vacations and not flinching about eating at a resturant.

i was talking to my friend who is a realtor. he said 100,000 dollars is extremely cheap for housing. he's not wrong. 100,000 dollars would change my life. 100,000 dollars also won't really buy you anything. it could get you out of debt, potentially, if you were lucky and had a certain amount of scholarships to tack onto your degree. you could pay off the car and then have enough left over for "spending" money. how fucking amazing. one vacation, maybe two if you're thrifty. and then - like magic - the money would evaporate into nothing. people would sigh and tell you see, you should have put it into savings! like "upper middle class" people can't afford to value "actually living" over squirrelling wealth. you should spend your life only in scarcity. like that is what made the rich people all their real "actually a lot of money".

100,000 dollars would literally set me free. it also would just set me back to "earning normally" instead of paying down debt into infinity. god, do you know how many of us just want that? that our first thought is we could stop scrambling and just be free of debt if we won the lottery? that we don't even necessarily need to stop working - we just wouldn't have to worry about failing or falling?

and. at the same time. 100,000 dollars is next to fucking nothing.

[movie-robotnik-positivity]

Ever think about how much GUN must hate Tom Wachowski? He commited multiple crimes, he's housing aliens. He tied a high ranking commander to a chair. And they can't do anything about it.

They want to arrest him so badly but since he's the dad of the three most powerful creatures in the universe they literally can't touch him.

[peepee-magee]

Lucifer: Mc, this must stop.

Mc: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Lucifer: I know you’re the one giving Cerberus pieces of cheese every time it’s your turn to cook. It must stop. None of us can cook a meal without him begging, and with how often Beel eats he’s getting rounder by the day.

Mc: I love you very much, Lucifer, but I won’t commit tax fraud for you.

Lucifer: Enough! There is no such thing as a cheese tax in the Devildom!

Mc: Well maybe there should be!

[saint-ambrosef]

"interest rates" this, "interest rates" that. you know what is also a major cost prohibition in homebuying for people? high property taxes.

[shrub-jay]

Wes Weston: IRS.

Wes Weston is used to billionaires having sketchy finances. An offshore account here, and offshore account there-- A second home in a tax haven. He's never seen books like Wayne Enterprise's before.

"What even is BASE jumping? Why do they have a whole Applied Sciences department with only one guy working in it?" Wesley Weston had questions for Bruce Wayne. Questions he would get answered, if the billionaire was ever actually in his office. This was why he found himself rumbling up to the Wayne's well manicured, monoculture lawn in an only slightly questionable Uber.

"Wes Weston, IRS," he whispers, practicing under his breath before knocking on the door. "Wes Weston. IRS," he says more confidently, fumbling to get his badge out of his pocket. The door swung open, and he jumped. Goddamn rich people with their motion detecting doorbells.

"Dick Grayson, Blüdhaven P.D."

---

Wes Weston stood back from his cork board as rain pelted his hotel room window.

"Holy ghost. Bruce Wayne is the fucking Batman."

[phlondsbian]

it’s nice to know that they’ve split up the work on the phortgage so dan does all the stressing about it and phil is the one who actually pays it

[flyin-shark]

[bmpmp3]

finding out ur coworker is way older than you thought and having to very quickly reorient how you talk to them

[lunian]

that's all funny how my total luck of sexual life doesn't bother me until just someone or something tells me that "I have to have sex or its weird/unhealthy or that means I'm ugly/unpleasant loser"

literally anyone can find sexual experience if they are willing (I talk about morally right ways) like

im not religious, so for me there's nothing special about this act, nor if you are having much of it or none at all, for any goal or purpose

I just feel uncomfortable that society tells me im strange that I don't have it in my priorities at all ...and with each year as I'm getting older it becomes more and more grim

[mmelete]

guys, if Fable/Legend ends up becoming a ship in LU, that means that Legend canonically just has his dark world counterpart (Ravio) and his demented rat-bird pet (Sheerow) living in his house (in his basement??) and they sell Legend’s highly magical (cursed???) items around Hyrule.

How illegal is this? Yes. But is it funny and extremely in-character of them both? Also yes.

[skellyweb]

Christopher x Vefve 2024 Best Ship OTP Fuck You

Heyyy I heard people were talking shit about vefve in the main tag again so I thought I'd draw this! Some harmless ship art that hurts zero irl people! :D

Y'know I don't even like drawing indulgent selfship art of other people in the first place, who knew that the push I needed was pure spite? Thanks for the confidence guys!!! <3

[cindytoast404]

breaking news: the entire starkid fandom is arrested for tax evasion but at least we funded the kickstarter 🥰

[t4tieflings]

In honor of pride month I’m out here not only supporting YuGiOh characters’ gay rights but also their gay wrongs. 

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Violence and macro-aggressions

[First] Prev <–->Next

[charbies]

ADHD double dash: I forgot to pay my car taxes, so there's a warrant out for my arrest. except it was actually just a warning letter, and my partner read it too fast and thought it was a warrant