#Freelance deals for students

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[p0pp3t]

damn crew hcs because i miss them every day they’re not posted </3

sometimes when gavin is hanging out with his friends he’ll just. flop down on top of them if they’re sitting or lying down. genuine cat behavior. he gets very comfortable, his ear over their heart and their hand in his. he savors every second he gets. he also complains when any of them tell him they wanna get up

(for someone with such severe self worth issues) damien pampers himself SO much when if comes to hygiene. matching fragrances across all his products, shower steamers, bath bombs, candles, the whole deal. on friday nights you’ll find him wrapped in a plush bathrobe with a matching headband pushing his hair back, a clay mask smeared on his skin. he has a book in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, with some soft classical instrumentals pumping from the tv speakers. huxley loves coming home to find him so relaxed

sometimes, when he’s upset, huxley will go out into the backyard and lie in the grass for a while - letting the solid ground hold him and the soft grass caress him. other times, when he’s very upset, he’ll dig a hole and lie down in that instead. he feels safer, grounded (ha) and closer to his element. damien checks on him periodically with offerings of snacks and water

lasko is something of a fashionista (it might be why he and milo got along as well as they did at the E&E games) - he’s very meticulous about his closet; every item is lovingly sorted by type, color, material, and season. he frets whenever his “best” pieces are still in the laundry and no combination of the things he has on hand looks “good enough”. he’ll say it’s about being presentable but he also really just likes feeling pretty. dear assures him that he always looks lovely and helps him find an outfit he can at least tolerate for the day. such a diva

freelancer has an absolute BLAST on karaoke night. they’ve sung at least three (3) lovey-dovey duets with each of their friends and aim to do even more. (at first damien took some convincing with a direly serious “you love me, right?🥺”) as of late, their favorite singing partner has been dear - they’re always happy to indulge their freelancer and both their voices just blend so beautifully

in their quiet nature, dear has picked up on a lot of campus gossip when the people around them thought no one was listening. sometimes their students will come up to them and directly fill them in on the most recent, hottest rumors. they know how to keep a secret, but if damien needs dirt on another staff member he always knows who to ask

and speaking of - don’t let their professional appearances fool you; damien and lasko are total suckers for gossip. when their lunch breaks align with dear’s, nobody on campus is safe from their shit talk. lasko has a surprisingly sharp tongue where he feels it’s warranted

[thegirlfromblackwater]

If the Van der Linde Gang lived in Modern Times (Modern Au)

Life gives you funny ideas...and I'm going to write them down

Arthur

Would live on a ranch in Montana or Wyoming as a rancher

Offers services like trail rides, lessons, and boarding

Has a herd of cattle

Spends every Sunday watching Rodeos on TV

Watches while sitting in his favorite worn-out armchair

Always has a cold beer and a snack or his dinner while watching

Has a pickup truck that's a bit filthy on the inside. Addresses his car as a "she."

Treats it like a horse: calls it a "good gurl."

Has a mounted Trout and some taxidermy on the walls

The Wifi at the ranch is spotty..doesnt understand why guests need it when they're surrounded by nature

Network Name: MorganRanch Password: Ynnel123

Tried to fix the router once but not exactly tech savvy. Ended up punching it

Texts Albert Mason sometimes

Dutch

Definitely lives in a city either Los Angeles or New York City

Lives in a Snazzy Penthouse in the clouds with a skyline

Works as a motivational speaker

Wears a lot of bling

Has a bar in at his place

Molly always tries to find a way in

Calls Hosea a lot

Has a weird fetish for black, red and white furniture.

Still loves reading books by Evelyn Miller despite that the writer is a nobody living in Idaho

John, Abigail & Jack

They probably live out west on a farm (very much like Beechers Hope)

John works on the ranch and also has side multiple side jobs (thanks to Abigail)

Jack spends his time in the school library

Abigail is obsessed with this one bakery

Molly

Lives in whatever city Dutch lives in

Tries to make herself at home in the penthouse

Famous on social media for her makeup tutorials

The neighbors can usually hear Molly & Dutch fighting

Dutch: "Not now Miss O'shea" Molly: "Pig!"

Bill

Lives somewhere in the Midwest

Works as a truck driver for Walmart

spends a lot of his life on the road

Has a bit of road rage

likes rest stops

when he's not working, he is a part of a biker gang

has a tattoo sleeve and wears a white wife beater

one of those bikers that wears a bandana with the American flag on it

Marybeth

Probably lives in a quaint town on the east coast

Works in a bookstore during the day and is a freelance writer in her free time

Lives in a cute townhouse with a small garden in the front full of flowers.

Her house is cozy

has a seating area with big windows that look out over the street

spends her time writing and reading there

likes to sit at cafes and drink coffee

Lenny

Is a full-time university student by day and bartender by night

Lives in Chicago or Atlanta

Probably double majoring in Business and literature (if that combination even exists)

Lives his single life to the fullest

Mostly an A student who goes full ham on the weekends when partying

Micah

Lives in Las Vegas

Sells illegal drugs

Has no money because he gambled too much

Stays in different hotels

Owns a pawn shop

Everything for sale there was smuggled across the border

Has dealings with the cartels & other shady characters

Hosea

Lives a quiet life out west

Goes to his lake house on the weekends to go fly fishing

Reads a lot of books

Also likes to go hunting

Is a part time English teacher who teaches children to read

Talks to Dutch by phone

Sometimes visits Arthur and stays at his Ranch

Uncle

Lives in a trailer park in Florida where the weather is always warm and the cold won't bother his illness

Sits on a folding chair outside his mobile home

Plays the Banjo

Drinks a beer

Is a complete mess inside

Doesn't own much furniture

Can't work because of the Lumbago

Sweats a lot

Naps and snores too loud

Lives next to a swamp

Javier

Lives in Arizona

Lives in the desert

Grows cactuses

Owns a Music shop

Travels around playing at local bars

Works part time as a music teacher at the local high school

Has a YouTube where he shows off his music

Sadie

Probably lives in a city like Dallas or Denver

Works as a cop

Likes to catch people for speeding and sits on the side of the highway

eats Chick-fil-A while waiting

Watches Dateline

Carries a Taser

Always looks sexy in her uniform

Charles

Definitely lives in a cabin out west

works as a conservationist

Likes National Parks

Goes fishing with Arthur

supports and donates to the Bison Sanctuary (if one even exists)

Likes Camping

Trelawny

Lives a wealthy life in Charleston, South Carolina

Lives in a large southern mansion

Wears a robe to sleep

Has a whole walk-in closet full of clothes and accessories

Has a sauna in the basement where he relaxes

Owns a bunch of fancy cars: He loves his Bentley

Reverend Swanson

Probably lives in Philadelphia

Still works part-time at the church

Mostly spends his time helping people with addictions

Hosts an AA meeting three times a week

Rescues crackheads from the street

Mostly sober

Wrote a memoir on his journey to recovery

Sean

Lives in Boston

Likes the university/young people vibe

works at a pub

Everyone's favorite Bartender

Makes customers laugh

goes back to Ireland once a year

Takes Karen with him sometimes

Karen

Lives in Portland, Oregon

Works at a bar as a bartender and a stripper

Good Pole Dancer

Her large tits are popular amongst the men

Puts on shows in the evening

Talks to Sean a lot

Gets Hammered

Strauss

Works in Finance in New York City

Is a Workaholic

Has no friends

Goes back to Austria every few years

Boring to talk to

Always on a work call

Listens to Classical Music

Tilly

Lives in Nashville, Tennessee

Visits Marybeth a lot

Wants to be a Nurse

Likes taking care of people

Wants to travel around the world

Pearson

Lives somewhere in New England

Owns a restaurant and catering business

The restaurant is interestingly enough called "Pearsons"

Probably has a wife and some kids

Loves Maine Lobster one of those people that wears a bib when eating it because he's messy

Is a good Butcher

Susan Grimshaw

Lives in Florida

Is a housekeeper

Cleans uncles' mobile home once a week

Tries to control Tilly and Marybeth from miles away

disgruntled

[incorrectbatfam]

I need to know the story behind these goons

Anon is referring to these guys

Rob is a single parent with 6-year-old twins who turned to a life of theft to provide for his family after a series of layoffs and a bad investments left them hanging by a thread. As his schemes got more elaborate, he linked up with the rest of these guys in a deal where they all give each other a hand.

Blaise is a concert pyrotechnic who walked away from the industry after their boss ignored a safety issue that led to one of their coworkers getting hurt so now they only take freelance gigs that happen to be commissioned by bad guys.

Kellin got fired from the League of Assassins after only week because they botched a training exercise Wile E. Coyote style and blew up Ra's Al Ghul's sauna but still has the thirst for blood that made them wanna be an assassin in the first place.

Molly was a chemistry grad student until an academic dispute forced her to drop out. Now she synthesizes her own experimental drugs and sells them on the black market, hoping to save enough to pay for her gender reassignment.

Otto is a jaded car mechanic who has to keep working despite his old age and chronic pain, and at this point he's too tired to care who he's working with or what he's doing so long as his needs are being met.

Milo is a teenager with a long string of disciplinary issues who ran away from home after his parents threatened to ship him off to military school. He starts working odd jobs to support himself and lands amongst the rest of these guys.

Gene was pressured into going into biomedical research by an overbearing family and snapped under the stress, leading to a rampage that cost thousands in property damage and a decade of lost data. Everyone he knew cut him off and he's laying low from the authorities.

Mac has been stuck in the same dead-end IT job for years and longs for a challenge that no career seems to satisfy. He turns to being a gray hat hacker in his spare time, mainly for the thrills and the opportunity to be creative. Any money he earns is circulated back into his operation.

Booker is just there for college credit but he likes it and plans to stick around. His talents include fixing copy jams and setting up team bonding activities at the mini golf course.

[sgiandubh]

Five minutes of Instagram fame

The Brazilian fan is back with more attention-grabbing content, one week after she had thousands of eyes on her London shenanigans. Which I am not going to discuss, simply because I do believe there is no need to give the anecdote more space than it deserves. Enough is enough, and the apparent collective loss of all sense of measure is a sure sign that pause is needed, in that department.

What I am going to discuss, however, is the chutzpah of a 23 year old Nobody, who just wishes to keep those five minutes of fame rolling on and on and on.

Yesterday, she felt compelled to publish another batch of Instagram stories, in which she delivers her Toxic Shipping 101 lecture:

In the process, she basically just rephrases the main Anti Bible arguments, calls thousands of people 'insane', quotes two influential shipper blogs (slàinte mhath, @bat-cat-reader!) that didn't even come close to what I wrote about her, brings on board her mother and grandmother just to explain how upset she was about 'older American women picking up on her'. And ends with a rather pathetic plea for all of us, shippers, to 'seek immediate medical attention'. Same unnerving sotaque Paulista (São Paulo accent), with a posh and very fake tinge of British English. Same incoherent, amateur and immature discourse, endlessly seeking to bring attention to herself, mildly trying to victimize herself. Blah, blah.

I would have given her grace, were it not for this particular argument, in response to a X user asking a rather uncomfortable question, as she definitely has the constitutional right to do:

'OH God, not her again 23 yr old Brazilian trying to be a reporter in London, complete fail. but in BIG OL LONDON, 'JUST HAPPENED' TO Spot Sam, how dumb do you think we all are?'

Answer is the real dumb part of the story, if you ask me, especially coming from a very young woman: 'Forbidden to be a journalist and meet a celebrity in the street. Forbidden to go for a walk as a journalist, paging all my colleagues, ok? I had no clue I could be as scheming as they say I am.'

Ok, buttercup: it is my honest understanding that you want to be taken seriously and treated as a professional, right? Did I miss something, here?

Right. As the daughter of a journalist and a former Government expert in media policies (specifically dealing with media content broadcasting), I am going to do exactly this and honestly ask you, Mrs. Silva:

Do you consider, in all good faith, that you acted like a professional journalist, in this very circumstance?

Do you consider to have kept your impartiality and have you at least checked all the relevant facts and POVs, before slandering all those people on your social media account? Or did you content yourself to report the hearsay shared with you by other bloggers, and just conveniently quoted four random bloggers and commenters?

Have you the slightest idea that one of the commenters who reached out to you on Instagram, questioning your version of the facts, is not even a shipper (and actually, very violently far from being one)?

During the week separating your first post and this reaction to people's feedback, have you or have you not respected your due diligence obligation to contact and engage with the people you so easily treat as a bit less than the scum of the Earth?

Did you or did you not ask for permission to quote their published content on your social media account, especially in a polemic context?

Unlike you, I have diligently perused both your website and your Linked In account. Maybe it is time to tell all those people you have insulted the truth about who you are, professionally, at this very moment:

Marketing student, 3rd semester.

Let me count: 3 internships (correct me if I am wrong), in various junior positions for 1 local media outlet, 1 international corporation and 1 website, 4 different jobs - or should I say 'stints' (3 with your current employer, 1 as a freelancer for a local media outlet).

Still learning. There is absolutely nothing bad about it. But you have still a LONG way to go until you could pretend to be a real voice. And there is nothing in what you posted that could grab my professional attention and make me hire you. Quite the contrary and, believe it or not, I am awfully sorry to say so.

My three free and totally unsolicited pieces of advice:

Always check your facts, always get in touch with the people you plan to write about. In fact, your anger and ego got the best of your professional self and you lost a great opportunity for a paper you could have even titled ' Viagem na Shipperlândia' (A Trip to Shipperland). I would have read that. But you haven't. You preferred to act just like all the other 23 year old girls and make a belly-button story about yourself.

Never bring your family forward in questionable contexts. You expose people who have nothing to do with the irrelevant insanity of a fandom war, to which you contributed your own, perhaps involuntary, dose of chaos and unnecessary drama.

Never lie on your Linked In resume. Potential employers might and will read it. Never write things like:

.. when you also fail to accurately describe your former job position, denoting poor spelling:

Especially when words are your craft, bread and butter. The devil is always in the details:

As I mentioned in a previous post, you could have been my daughter. I have been that 23 year old girl myself, desperate to list every single internship and tempted to inflate language proficiency, in the hope it would land me the job of my dreams. And I have learned the hard way that being a true professional is cancelling your ego.

You'll learn. Until then, stop bitching on things you have no idea about and act like an adult, not an attention hungry teenager. This comes from a place of tough love: sometimes, the most effective life lessons are given by complete strangers.

[unknownteapot]

In light of Courtney mentioning they would possibly want to direct a movie some day during the Q+A, what do you think a Smosh movie would look like with this current cast? Would it be similar to the original Smosh Movie? I'm imagining something similar to Smost the Sitcom Live, like a sitcom comedy maybe? Anyway you don’t have to answer, I’m just curious 🤗

anon, you are NOT ready i was BORN for this question and i'm about to type up a storm so strap in!! thank you for sending it in!!! me being a yapper + film student is not boding well for me rn...

i completely see what you mean about a sitcom/comedy type thing, their vibes during ssl were immaculate, but i also think if they *were* ever going to make a movie it'd be something vastly different from what they've done before just to keep it fresh and give people something never seen before. which is why..

i propose to you: a horror comedy about the cast getting stuck at the smosh office overnight (more below the cut)

hear me out HEAR ME OUT god im so passionate about this. this type of premise would avoid the cast having to play characters per se, they'd kind of just play 'themselves' so it's easier for the existing smosh fanbase to transition to this new movie format without it feeling gimicky/overproduced- the movie begins with just a typical end-of-video outro into the camera for smosh games (maybe only main cast and not freelance? bc full cast might be too many people for a movie idk) and then cuts out to the cast getting off the soundstage like hehe good shoot whatever whatever. but. wait a second. why is it past midnight?? quickly they're realising everyone's gone and its WAY late and they're locked in. all the clocks have stopped around the office. phones are all out of service (but show a weird little digital snake symbol as foreshadowing to something ;)

so now they're like uh-oh. what the fuck do we do. and promptly the cast splits into groups/pairs that all deal with this in their own way the movie would cut back and forth between. maybe amanda and angela deciding to steal alcohol from the kitchen and then snoop on people's desks?? finding out ian has a love locket of anthony in his drawer?? damien grows mushrooms under his desk??? olivia collect's people's candy wrappers?????? idk it could be ANYTHING which makes thsi SO FUNNY to me

BUT this is where the horror comes in, because suddenly people start going missing. and its not fun and games at all. the air feels weird, its like 3 am, everyone's losing their shit a little bit. they start regrouping to see who they can find "hey have you guys seen Angela?" "No, but Courtney just went missing too." "Guys I don't feel well.." AND LITTLE BY LITTLE. THEY START SEEING APPARITIONS. SMOSH CHARACTERS. WHO HAUNT THEM.

like i'm sorry. tell me it would NOT be hilarious for Mental Illness to come haunt the cast in an eerie ghost form??? Augustus??? insulting the cast (but hitting truths about them) making them think about their life decisions??? COURTNEY FREAKING MILLER???? JUST YELLING???? TELEPORTING AROUND THEM AND SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF THEM>?>>>>??? god the jumpscares they could do with this insane INSANE. BIZANKA???????????????? im

BUT NOT JUST SMOSH CHARACTERS- fnaf characters in their eerie ass suits, chica demanding Amanda why she held the door so hard that one time and didn't let her in meanwhile everyone is terrified and somewhat sobbing

so now its CHAOS, they're trying to stick together to avoid getting haunted, they're trying to find their missing friends, they're running around to the footsteps of animatronics, when suddenly they find a door to some storage closet open. they walk in.

there they are!!!! all their missing friends lying passed out on the floor and.. what's this strange hissing noise and why is it kinda foggy in there.. "Oh my god!" Amanda yells out in relief that none of this was real (or was it), "There's a gas leak at the smosh office!" And then promptly passes out. So do they all. THE END.

maybe a post-credits scene of ian and anthony coming into the office in the morning and finding a MESS and them all passed out like god. we gotta put baby gates in here or some shit. they keep messing stuff up!! OR BETTER. they dont know about the cast at first and look at each other with knowing smirks like "wanna go get high :)" and then they head towards where all their friends are passed out and we find out it was actually their secret 'gas leak' spot where they get high on the regular from the gas. ian pouting like "damnit. they found our secret spot :(" anthony shruggs like "oh well" and then they prance around the room trying to huff the gas like idiots and also pass out.

more insane ideas idk how to incorporate yet:

a comedic bit where Amanda bonds with Chica from fnaf and reads her tarot cards (amanda would SO be the person to chat her up after getting over her initial fear and be like 'hey, you just need love, honey. i get it, we've all been there') and its this insane horror yet adorable moment where these two world collide?? BONUS: if the rest of the cast hide in a corner and look at her like "how is she doing this???"

Tim the IT guy actually turning out to be a hologram that haunts all the computers with snake graphics (from that one smoffice sketch 'it could happen to any one of us!') and actually gets his energy from sucking out ram from people's devices

Props and shit moving!!! just so much potential

INNOVATIVE FORMAT:

AND a great way to introduce horror elements could be through this whole 'found footage' thing- you know how in some movies you find like someone's security cam recording etc etc. they could SO integrate elements of that because the smoffice is primarily for content creation so there's LOTS of cameras everywhere

"Hey uh.. guys I think this camera's still rolling." And its us watching footage of that room through it MASTERFUL. or people recording tiktoks and we watch through their screen recording but we see stuff in the background moving before they do YEAH. the HORROR OF IT. god i love movies

okay for everyone's sanity i will now stop i was actually not expecting to type this much- anon who sent this ask, i owe you everything!! im now obsessed with this idea i wish this was real w o w

[aurorialwolf]

REDACTED CHARACTERS AS CARS: PART TWO, LISTENERS

Same stuff applies as the last one! These are the cars I think they are, not the ones theyd drive! This is based on the cars "faces" and vibes !! And also if anyone has done this before kudos to them :3 Angel - Bus (a cute one) (this is sort of influenced by the fact that my town has an "Angel Bus" to transport the disabled elderly around the towns)

Baaabe - 2020 Yellow-Sun Mercedes-Benz (idk why but I associate them with yellow, and this one looks yellow and smart)

Sweetheart - 2025 Mazda 3 Hatchback (it's got hella stealth / detective vibes) (i mean look at the way it's squinting at us)

Darlin - Ok I am really sorry for this one tbh, this would be early darlin as a car

But THIS would be current darlin: (Chestnut Bronze Alpina B7 Bi-Turbo)

Lovely - I'm not sure of the brand, but it would definitely be a dark cherry coloured car, cuz I think dark red is totallyyyy their current vibe with the whole "coming into their own as a vampire" thing they've got going on

Treasure (in their porter era, previous treasure would be a very sensible hatchback or smth)

Freelancer (I kid you not I looked up dark blue cheap car cuz they would totally have the vibes of a college student's ol' reliable car that they got for a good deal) (I mean this in a very positive sense)

Dear - Aqua car!!! Looks stern and like it could be a professor

Sunshine (sensible, and STRONG!! very reliable!!!)

Starlight - Hyundai Aura, Starry Night colour (it's a very sensible little car and it looks like u could take it on roadtrips and it would have a peek at things) (imagine puttering down a road at night in this nice lil car and that's starlight's investigative vibes)

Cutie - 2016 Fiat 500C Easy (it's very cute and I strongly associate light blue with Cutie!! Imagine this lil guy reading ur mind. super adorable)

Smartass (this is the snarky little car that showed up to work everyday. look at that face and tell me it isn't here to bug its boss)

Honey - Kia Picanto (it's honey-coloured and the face gives their vibes) (tough cookie partner with Guy being a goober.. thats their face when they're trying not to smile at his antics)

Pet (i ALMOST chose a car covered in suds to make a dirty joke. i have restraint, see?) (i dont have super strong opinions of pet ? but this is the car that i think matches their lil vibes)

If I forgot anyone they'll be in the next installment !! Along with some other characters I didn't mention in the first one :D @ashertickler

[ajaxcentral]

POST INVERSION HEADCANONS (listener's version)

notes: was looking for an excuse to post these and with the narrative push of avior and starlight dealing with the inversion this is perfect. i might do a part 2 :3

FREELANCER

not only did they become a trauma sponge for the rest of the damn crew but also to other damn students. i'd like to think they're fairly popular on campus so people come to them for help.

they know they can talk to the crew for help but they always hesitate, bottling up their emotions until a breakdown.

both gavin and caelum can sense the amount of knots in freelancer and they try their best to untie those knots.

thinks about xavier about once a week. the smallest things remind them of him

the damn crew know that they're struggling. they always try to get freelancer to open up but it always fail

more under the cut

SWEETHEART

stress stress stress stress!!!!!!!!

the department has our poor stealth working overtime. they leave early in the morning and come home later and later each night

always tries to make time for milo, even if they're on the brink of total exhaustion.

stress smoker. i'd like to think they quit once they met milo but after the inversion they picked the habit back up. they try their best to get ride of the smell of smoke off of them before going home (chewing multiple pieces of gum, switching clothes), actively trying to hide this addiction from milo

milo knows, yk those enhanced senses. him and sh have had a sit down about and are working together to stop the habit

LOVELY

free lovely frfr

just think about, they were tranced by vampire and then kidnapped by said vampire (adam hate club) and was used as food and found out that they're empowered. just when they got a hold of their powers, they we turned. powers stripped away from them

spend nights out in the living room trying to use their lost powers but it always just ends in a breakdown

combined nightmares of adam and the inversion that leave them rushing to the bathroom to throw up

daily talks with vincent

ANGEL

tries to stay up from david when he's working late. they spiral when they're home alone, the silence is unbearable. in the attempt to calm their thoughts they wear david's sweatshirts

like post post inversion like the first week or so, they tone down their personality. david calls they out and angel just pretends that they're doing nothing

i feel like angel is a stress cleaner. they come home from a long day at work and they're cleaning the house like a mad man.

imagine david coming home just to see angel wiping the kitchen counter on the verge of tears trying to remove a certain stain

[overgrown3d]

What do you need to hear right now?

✨How to select your pile?✨

1. Slow your breathing, taking deep inhales. Focus on feeling present in your environment.

2. Looking from left to right, use your intuition to pick the pile meant for you (what you connect most with.)

3. Doesn't resonate? No worries! Pick another, it's message may be just right for you.

• • •

pile 1 -> pile 2

-> Pile 3

Pile 1 ;

Cards: 6 of Swords, Queen of Wands, 2 of Wands, Knight of Wands, The Tower (base)

"You have the strength to move forward, Keep going!"

The biggest obstacle in your life right now may be your thoughts. Perhaps you have tried to change or improve certain aspects in your life, particularly the actions you perform to meet your goals, and feel burdened with insecurity as you face hardships and deal with your circumstances. Maybe you've tried to change your life in the past but got disheartened, believing you weren't capable of overcoming your struggles. It seems that you've nurtured an idea, business, relationship, habit, or any action that isn't serving you anymore now that you've grown outside of it. Like building a foundation on unsafe lands, only after an event happens do you realize that it is time to bring about change for your own sake, and rebuild your life on stronger soil. Realizing this may cause a great deal of pain for you, but this change will be fruitful in the end.

~~~~🍃

There is indecision in what next step you should take, but know that you've overcome the greatest leap of all: The first step. You absolutely do have courage to shake off the shackles of your past, whatever they may be. What's next in store for you is a lot of action, but this time with the right decisions and choices.

We all have different circumstances in life, what we need to do is make the best out of it, with whatever we've got. 💚

~~~~🍃

Pile 2 ;

Cards: 10 of Swords, The Emperor, Justice, 3 of swords, 7 of swords, Ace of Wands & The Fool (base)

"You must look like a fool before becoming the master."

Get to work, baby! The message you need to hear right now is get into action! You've got the m-fing chances to be successful! This signals massive career change or great profits. You may have healed or are in the process of healing from a catastrophic event, leaning into a lot of internal questioning, perhaps overcoming grief or loss. You may be exploring different careers you can pursue, or areas of study. You got to take action despite your hesitance to new beginnings, and there will be a great need for discipline, learning new techniques, acquiring skills to master your area in interest. Most likely you will need to sacrifice your hedonist tendencies, maybe even a person that is unbelieving in you, and whatever else is holding you back. I'm hearing "necessary sacrifice". I'm getting the vibe that this could be a business, freelance work, maybe a very demanding job that you considered doing. Delve into uncharted territories and keep reconsidering your career path if you question it being right for you. Your strength relies greatly on your ability to start, now you just need to GO! GO!GO!

~~~~🍃

Pile 3 ;

Cards : 10 of wands, Knight of Pentacles, The Star, Knight of Cups, Ace of Swords (rev)

"You are your biggest investment"

Focus on yourself more, man! It's likely that you're burdened with too many tasks and responsibilities, possibly some from a partnership? Get more in touch with your emotions, your relationships, with yourself, dammit!!! I'm getting massive workaholic vibes here, and that applies to all forms of labor btw! Give yourself a break, you deserve it so much. Neglect your logical, ultra-efficient side for now, because I guarantee that getting a break from your responsibilities (Maybe you are the breadwinner, caretaker, student, or an ambitious person trying to kickstart a business) will produce greater financial success/less financial burden. It's possible you're stressing too much about money, but to you, that stress is reasonable. Let go of the thoughts that limit you to your area of work, and start exploring more of your identity and emotions. You will be able to make a lot of progress with this balance. 💚

~~🍃 You reached the end of the reading, 'till next time!

[copperbadge]

Radio Free Monday

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways to Give:

laurenthemself recently missed a week of work due to COVID, and does not receive sick pay since they are a casual employee and freelancer; they are raising AUD$500 to cover living expenses due to the shortfall. You can support them through ko-fi here.

Anon linked to keplercryptids, a disabled queer artist who needs help to cover some dental bills for themself and their partner; you can read more, reblog, and find links to their etsy shop and fundraiser here.

Recurring Needs:

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And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can post items for my attention at the Radio Free Monday submissions form. If you're new to fundraising, you may want to check out my guide to fundraising here.

[aita-polls]

Am I the asshole for blowing up on my sister, and now wanting to cut off her and her fiancee?

TW: abuse, suicide mention, physical illnesses, mental health issues

Context: Sister and I have come from a difficult situation, basically I left my extremely abusive parents back to our home country to study on uni, and she followed me 6 months later, and came to live with me on a shared housing with others. Since the beginning, I've always felt uncomfortable with how controlling and stressful she is as a person, and how she took over our finances and dictated a lot of how to run our things, but yet, I am no saint either, and get very angry and defensive over things that others deem normal, and behaviors that don't bother others. Also, she accuses me a lot of blowing up over nothing, assuming the worst out of her, and being extremely rude and awful to her even when I don't mean to, and also, she says I make her life miserable because I am never happy (I complain a lot, but also, I've got a lot of complain). Mainly these recent years have been extremely difficult to me, in between several illnesses (got COVID several times, had several UTIs and other infections, even had gallbladder surgery and all) and their aftermaths and complications, and also me studying a course in an university that is knowingly elitist and with little to no student resources, including mental health related (to the point that student suicides are a recurring yearly event in my department and in others) and I've been pressured to drop out and give up in my dreams by implication or explicitly by professors and staff in my department. So like, I get it, I am miserable, and I have been seeking mental health support outside of uni on my own, to attempt to deal with it. But even then, things have been extremely difficult, and she isn't helping me either with the way she lashes out at me for complaining or being upset more than 10% of my time, and also she's not one to talk when she too is very irascible, including that I've got literal scars on my body from her digging into my skin with her nails when we fought in the first years, although she claims that she did that out of self-defense because I was "threatening her" when I literally was just yelling, but whatever.

Anyways, we have lived together for years in this rather rocky relationship, where we fought a lot but also stuck for each other a lot, mainly when other roommates tried to bother us. At least, once she also entered uni and started a LDR, she seemed to get better, and was legit happier, and I was happy for her. But she never let go of the monetary control and her bossing around, and, mainly when she got a job to complement the money that I got from my freelance work and scholarships that sustained us throughout the years, she ramped up the controlling of the finances a lot and started accusing me of basically leeching off her, blowing up over me even buying a candy bar or something for myself, even if I thought I had the money for it, but since I didn't know what was the actual amount I brought in and how much was my or her expenses (we shared everything financially, including the accountability), I assumed she was right since she knew more about it. This kept on escalating for more than two years, including that she had gotten a room for herself in the new place we lived in (before she got a job) and found it justified but kept on telling me I was "too poor" and didn't deserve a room of my own as well (we originally shared a room with another roommate, so afterwards it was me with different people sharing this same room). She chastised me a lot over the years for not getting a "proper job" to sustain us, and I argued that I couldn't because of the degree I'm in, and my mental health issues and she in response got to a point that she told me in one of our last fights before the big one that I should have given up on my degree long time ago if I can't afford it, which hurt me severely because of the aforementioned pressure from uni to do the same, and the fact that the only reason I'm still studying despite all the difficult is because it's my passion, and also, I'm literally so close to finishing it, despite taking much longer to do due to my situation and my mental health conditions (I literally got diagnosed with ADHD last December, and the verdict is still out whether I'm autistic as well or not).

This year, things began escalating to such a degree, given that the year already started badly for me, as I, after getting chastised yet again by her for supposedly not earning enough to sustain myself, tried to get a job anywhere during summer vacation, applied to over 900 spots, spent a month going to interviews all day all the time, only to get nowhere and get hundreds of rejections and "best luck next time"s. We had several fights over the finances, because to me it didn't add up that I was supposedly not sustaining myself at all, given that I never stopped doing my freelance job, nor getting my scholarship from uni, and I kept on pouring all of my money into the credit card that we both shared, and into the bills. In those fights, she even threatened me with homelessness, which she says she did it in response to me being "unreasonably angry" with her and supposedly physically threatening her, which once again, I did not, as the fights were literally while we were sitting across from each other on the living room table and I was angry with her because she kept on implying that none of my freelance work mattered because I don't get paid in a regular pattern like the job she had. Also, I was severely depressed at that point, and that was when I heard that about giving up on my degree, which to me was some sort of flashing point. I decided I wanted to get out of the shared housing, and was trying to figure out how to do that, and, after much, much fighting with her, we finally split up our finances, and I started managing my own, but that didn't mean she stopped trying to dictate how to spend the money I got. Anyways, her now fiancee assisted us to get out of our debt, as he sent money to quit over the credit card and all that I kept on paying off, and then later on the year he pushed onto me a financial stipend to help me get out of the place and all.

But that didn't last long because finally, when I first moved out of the shared house to an individual unit in the same terrain, I initiated a massive fight with my sister because she kept on guilt-tripping me over not wanting her to keep stuff I bought with my own money with her, and she threatened me once again with homelessness since she argued that the only reason I could sustain myself was because of her fiancee, something she said afterwards to her fiancee that no, that was not what she meant, and I'm distorting her words, but that was literally what she told me. Also, she once again basically said I had been leeching off her, and I did a whole 3 day investigation into my finances on my own, using my freelance job accountability and all to finally prove that no, I had brought in as much money as she did over the years, and that I had never leeched off from her, she went on to switch her argument about how she meant that she was earning more than me at that point (which is true) so anyways I was living off from her (which is provingly false), and how me getting sick and needing meds and all was eating up our finances (which is false, I get most meds for free from the public healthcare system) and how I didn't have enough to even live on my own (which is literally false as I'm literally now living on another place on my own without any issues) and never thanked her for all the money she brought in (which she never did for me nor I never wanted it either, I thought it was just basic comradery to help her financially). Also, she got mad at me for going to discuss with her fiancee when she blocked me, and made me apologize and all, but after I attempted to apologize and she said we'd only talk again with boundaries, I told her my boundaries and she blocked me again and sent her fiancee after me to chastise me for being "so passive-aggressive" and "distorting the truth" and all, and that argument literally devolved into him calling me names and using private situations I had with other people to justify demoralizing me and insulting me and demanding his money back, which I gladly sent back anyways (I never wanted it at first, my sister insisted I took it). I ended up blocking him but he kept on harassing me on email, and when I told him to stop contacting me as that was harassment, he kept on saying that it was my fault for responding to him.

Anyways, the situation ended poorly and unresolved, I had a miserable month of more deep depression, and then finally moved out of that terrain and into a new place on my own. Now, over a month afterwards, she keeps on pinging me emails that obviously read like attempts to talk again, and I feel awfully bad, because I feel like I was unreasonable for the way I reacted, given how much backlash I got from her, and mainly her fiancee, but another part of me wants to tell her to fuck off and go no-contact with her altogether. AITA in this situation?

[womp-womp-waa]

I see people saying that Wash was a good kid when he was younger. But, I can't agree with that.

To start off with his anger issues. Like he literally beat up his bully, how is that good kid behavior? And not to mention how he acts in freelancer. That's not someone who's just trying to not get in trouble, but someone who is trying to make up for how he acted when he was younger. Let's be honest he probably wasn't the best student to deal with. So now he was trying to make up for it by being on his best behaviour now

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Megan Squire and Creede Newton at SPLC's Hatewatch:

An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth Dillon, along with the identities of 14 pseudonymous Not the Bee writers, despite the website’s efforts to keep information secure. The Babylon Bee is a right-wing satire site that borrows a format from the satirical news outlet The Onion while amplifying far-right rhetoric and disinformation. Its sister site, Not the Bee, is a junk-news site with salacious headlines about culture-war issues designed to stir up right-wing outrage. Dillon, who purchased the Bee in 2018, has been tight-lipped about his past businesses, with prior biographical articles making only vague references to his history in “e-commerce” or a “legal filing service.” Publicly available data reveals that from 2004 to 2011, Dillon operated two term-paper writing services, Custom-Writing.com and TheWriteElements.com, which charged up to $18.95 per page to write term papers for college students.

The Write Elements website listed Dillon’s phone number, and that same phone number appeared in data sets stolen from Elance, a now-defunct freelancer search service, and later leaked to the public internet, where the Data Lab viewed it. Along with the phone number, the Elance data breach also listed email addresses for “sdillon” and “Seth Dillon” at both of the term-paper websites. The Custom-Writing.com site claimed to have been in business since 2001, and both term-paper businesses were located in Palm Beach County, Florida, according to information posted on the now-defunct essay mill websites. Seth Dillon attended Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college, in Palm Beach County from 2000 to 2004. He has had several residences there, including his current home in upscale Jupiter.

[...]

From Babylon Bee to Not the Bee

After purchasing The Babylon Bee from Adam Ford in 2018, Dillon launched a sister site called Not the Bee, with the tagline “your source for headlines that should be satire, but aren't.” Despite the claim to be “humor-based,” many Not the Bee stories feature strongly anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant themes. Nearly 600 stories on the site were tagged “Illegal Immigration,” “Biden’s Border Bloodbath,” “Border Crisis,” “Deportation Now,” “Build the Wall” or “Great Replacement,” while the word “illegals,” a dehumanizing word used to refer to undocumented immigrants, was used in 109 stories. More than 800 stories were tagged “Transgenderism,” “Transgender Craze,” “LGBT,” “Trans Cult” or “Trans the Kids.” These stories frequently misgender and mock the appearances of trans people, and some refer to Bible quotes about “millstones” being tied around the necks of LGBTQ+ people. Another 96 stories were tagged “Libs of TikTok,” promoting content from Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist. Bee owner Seth Dillon stated on Twitter in 2022 that he “worked out a deal” with Raichik to financially support her and her videos.

In 2022, the social platform Twitter, now known as X, suspended the Babylon Bee account for hateful posts aimed at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, a transgender woman. Eight months later, after Elon Musk took over the platform, Twitter reversed its decision and reinstated the account. Not the Bee was not suspended by Twitter.

[...] Joel Berry, who is the managing editor of The Babylon Bee according to his LinkedIn profile, has written about 20 articles for the site under his own name. However, the data exposed about Berry by the website also matches to a pseudonymous writer, “Davy Crockett,” who has written 140 articles, nearly all of which stoke fear about immigration with headlines about migrant crime waves and “illegal invaders” taking American jobs.

SPLC’s Hatewatch blog has a bombshell report on right-wing satire site The Babylon Bee and its sister far-right “fake news” site Not The Bee.

[kellycataclysm]

time for some headcanons hihihi

sfw: p, s, x

nsfw: d, k, u

Hello my dear friend! Such good letters! This is long, so settle in. Let's go!! SFW first!

Patience - Lyra is quicker to anger than Harvey, usually starting to cry, everything bubbling over as she tries to think carefully about what she wants to say before things spill over. Harvey tends to internalise things, becoming quieter, avoiding confrontation, smouldering emotions burning on the inside. When things do catch, he will speak quietly but sharply, his words like pointed barbs, because for him to have reached the point where his emotions rush out like wildfire, it must have been bad. However, as we saw in the long fic, when it becomes harder to say what you really feel, not knowing how to take that step, both of them retreat into themselves, keeping their cards close to their chest. 

In terms of patience generally, Harvey is very patient. He has to be when dealing with his patients. He is extremely patient with children, knowing that he can be a little intimidating as both a doctor and being as tall as he is. He always speaks with a polite and gentle tone of voice, one of the things Lyra absolutely loves about him. Lyra is a quiet and strong spirit, although she would not think she has any strength at all. She is a good listener and values being there for those she cares about. Harvey absolutely loves this quiet charm. 

Security - Both Lyra and Harvey came into their friendship with broken hearts and took slow tentative steps into a romantic relationship. Such was their desire to protect themselves and each other. By the long fic, they really didn’t mean to hurt each other as much as they did. Very likely they will never forgive themselves for the damage they caused to the person they love the most. 

Their height difference (Harvey is 6’4, Lyra is 5’3) means the protective aspect manifests in physical form. Harvey loves that she is small and she is all his. Lyra absolutely melts at how tall he is, feeling so safe in his arms, in her ‘Harvey Cocoon’. When they are in each other’s arms, they are home, the safest place they can be. And this absolute need for physical touch and to feel so utterly enveloped by the other also shows when Lyra wears Harvey’s shirts and he loves to see her in them. 

This protective instinct also extends to their daughter, always holding hands, wrapping her up. Although she was unplanned, they are so totally devoted to her and love it when she sneaks into their bed in the early hours of the morning, holding her close so she can dream pleasant dreams.

Xtra -  Lyra’s Harvey is very smart. He can play chess extremely well, but is also a fantastic pool player, something which has surprised the residents of Pelican Town on occasion.

Lyra became intrigued by astronomy while working at the university. Her partner before Harvey, Dr Charles Webster, was an academic, a physicist. Her favourite astronomical object is the Orion Nebula. She has three stars tattooed on her wrist, like the belt in the Orion constellation.

Now for the NSFW answers...

Dirty Secret - It is an obvious secret that these two have fucked in his office, fooled around at the Saloon, had a steamy session at the Spa, so here’s something new.

Lyra’s dirty secret is that she was once a lingerie model. Literally just one time. When she was in college, she helped out a friend, a photography student who was building a portfolio to begin looking for freelance work. After a drunken night at the bar, she promised that she would model for a lingerie shoot. When the day came, she was understandably anxious, but she trusted her friend to look after her. So, somewhere out there, are a set of photos of Lyra in her early 20s, reclining on a bed, wearing emerald green lingerie. It is most likely that from this experience stemmed her penchant for beautiful underwear, something that makes Harvey feel particularly spoiled. If he got his hands on those photos, he would possibly disintegrate.

Harvey’s dirty secret links, in a slightly embarrassing way, to his desire to become a pilot. His father is a commercial airline pilot and so Harvey spent plenty of time around airports, cabin crew, other airline staff. During his college years, he began a clandestine relationship with a very pretty cabin crew member. She seduced him when she flew into town and they spent a couple of days in her hotel room. He saw her occasionally between her trips around the country. Eventually each of them moved on. Harvey doesn’t tell anyone about this as he is a little embarrassed as to what people would think, linking his desire to become a pilot to his horny college years. Lyra knows about the relationship and has on occasion offered to dress up for him. At this teasing, he becomes embarrassed, flustered, intrigued. Maybe one day she will get her wish. 

Kink - Apart from both having very obvious praise kinks, they are extremely compatible. They both enjoy using restraints from time to time. Lyra loves the thrill of sex in a public/ semi-public place and has definitely convinced Harvey to take this risk too. She also enjoys a playful spank occasionally. Harvey loves to leave marks on her body, a little possessiveness coming through occasionally. (Shhhh… before long don’t be surprised if a little breeding kink starts to come through in the two of them.) 

Unfair - Both of them are absolute teases, loving to see the other one flustered and begging. They both know the subtle flirtatious touches that catch the other’s attention and drive them wild. Lyra will show off those freckly shoulders, the soft skin of her back and all he wants to do is touch her. She’ll keep herself just at arms length, a glance with those pretty blue eyes that tells him she is going to devour him… or wants to be devoured. Harvey will tease her with the little things that he knows she loves. Use his authoritative voice, roll up his sleeves, show a little of that chest hair.

In the bedroom, he loves to tease her, taking his sweet time with his mouth, his tongue, his fingers, a toy, until she is a quivering mess begging for release. Lyra loves to tease him by not letting him touch her, or moving slowly, building him up, not quite giving enough, until he is hanging by a thread, restraint about to break, ready to fuck her senseless. Because that is exactly what she wants him to do.

Thank you so much for these asks! They were so much fun to write!

[young-royals-confessions]

Responses to my job ask!

Thanks to all who wrote in, and thank you to the anon who suggested doing this—I found it so interesting to read the responses!

Occupations of Young Royals Confessions readers:

I'm an esthetician

I'm a videogame localization tester 😊

I am a teacher at a private school, and the history class I teach focuses primarily on revolutions and decolonization movements around the world. Working at a private school (but not being the same social class as most of my students) gives me a lot insights into the frightening soft power world of Hillerska.

I work in higher ed communications.

I used to be a civil servant, but got fed up with politics (and my bosses) and quitted. Now I currently don't work anywhere - keep my household, take care of my family and of myself.

I'm disabled. Was a teacher before.

I‘m a Marketing Manager :)

I am a teacher, I teach English at a secondary school in Europe.

I’m a graphic designer

Social worker :)

I have an engineer degree but now I work in the social field as a project manager.

Marketing manager by day, fic writer by night 🦸🏼‍♀️

I'm a train planner (shout out I've you've never heard of it before) and a freelance interpreter.

I’m an accounts administrator 📊

I'm an analytical chemist

Stay at home parent! 👶🏻

I work in a public university, writing grant applications and funding proposals, to persuade philanthropic organisations and individuals to fund our research and scholarships.

Casual retail worker, also meant to be a student but not currently at school lol

I’m a small business owner, selling handmade crafts and illustrations ☺️

I’m working as a Laboratory manager in a Biotech Company but I’m a pro in doing all things yr instead

I’m currently a full time student at uni but in my free time I help kids/teens with their homework

I’m a preschool teacher, work with kids aged 1-3. Sadly can’t read fanfic under the desk.

I work in a municipality where I help politicians and officials (no clue if that's the correct translation) with everything they need to keep the town and people happy. It's really interesting to sit behind the scenes and watch big decisions being made.

I'm a History of Latin America professor in an university and I'm also a second time PhD student. I also give surprise tests to my students to deal with my Young Royals feelings lmao

[mariacallous]

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