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#Abortion Rights#Anti Thurgood Marshall#Barbara Moore#Catholic#Clarence Thomas#Conservative#Dobbs Decision#Eugene Smith#I Didnt Sell Out I Bought In#Injustice#Play#Politics#Republican#Roe Vs Wade#Roman Empire#SCOTUS Justice#Stealth#Tarot#Tarot In Wonderland Tarot Deck#Twisted Tarot Tales#Unjust
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last year i found a wii at goodwill for 25 dollars and it came with everything except a wiimote but it was in such good condition i was like hell yeah ill take it how hard can it be to find a wiimote. the answer is it's nearly impossible to find them at thrift stores now so i've spent like 8 months looking for ones in thrift stores but there wasn't a single one and then online but i just couldn't bring myself to spend 30 dollars on one single wiimote so i waited so. patiently. and then 2 weeks ago i finally found one at goodwill for 9 dollars but it was absolutely disgusting and the battery cover was missing and the compartment was all corroded so i put it back and regretted it the whole week but then this last weekend i went to savers and there was an absolutely perfect wiimote just sitting there with no corrosion and a jacket and the wrist strap and motion plus and the nunchuck was there too and i got it all for 10 dollars so the moral of the story is that sometimes things seem right for you in the moment but you have to recognize that they aren't and leave them behind so the things that are meant for you will in fact find you when the time is right. peace and love <3
#for real though im so happy i cant even lie like i regretted selling my wii soooooo much but anyway im back baby <3#im disinfecting everything rn bc i have a germ problem but once it it's done.....i am SO back#when i first got it i didnt have the remote right so i couldnt plug it in and make sure that it worked but i did just plug it into an outle#to make sure it ran and it did and wii sports resort popped out of the drive so thats fun bc i didnt have that one#and anyway i might cry when i hear the menu sound ngl ngl.#but the city i live in is like an overgrown retirement home and so the goodwill is full of old people things and this wii had stickers#like explaining which cord was which so i just know it was a wii that they bought for like grandmas house and only played it when they were#over there so anyway cant wait to see what's on there and if the news channel and weather channel are still on the homepage even though#i dont think they work anymore lol#also shoutout to the type a kid who kept their wiimote in such perfect condition that i wanted to cry when i saw it sitting on the shelf#ty <3
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Chappell Roan print available on my inprnt! Link
#this is the test print i bought to check the colors. the other one didnt turn out good and i cant buy another test right now but this one#turned out good so here it is :3 they're also 20% off right now. also the white border is big cause its the 4x5 print.#so this is an actual scan of the print#this is more accurate than the photo thats on the website#this is the 4x5 so its really tiny#art#artwork#print#chappell roan#chappell fanart#roan of arc#drawing#illustration#artists on tumblr#art print#inprint#also kind of want to sell prints through my own website eventually but for now....inprnt will have to do.#but if i do then i'll do it of the other chappell piece and my Elliott piece :3c
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my friend cancelled on going to a concert w me last minute when i paid for HIS ticket do i kms
#he called me and said he couldnt make it bc its his moms bday and theyre going out...mf we made these plans a month ago#u didnt remember ur moms bday????#i feel like hes lying or hes genuinely stupid#i made him send me the money bc i was mad but now i dont even wanna go like#and now its too late to sell it for anything close to what i got it for#i also dont have any other friends who like metal so im stuck here#i dont think im gonna talk to him bc its always me inviting him out and not the other way and he STILL cancels#like hes going to a babymetal concert in 2 weeks and did he offer me to come along?? NO!!! but for this i reached out and asked before +#before i bought the tickets#its not fair#idk i dont mind going to concerts alone ive gone to a couple alone this year im just mad bc i thought i was gonna have fun today
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TODAY I got my blood stolen so they can test it, picked up my meds, went to the Craft store I'm going to consign with so I could ask a few more questions and such, AND went to city hall to inquire on the community garden so hopefully I can take it over. And it's only 2pm.
#i dont think im mentally ill anymore!!#could a mentally ill person do this??#its been a whole day already#went to the doctor. i used to be scared of getting my blood drawn cuz of blood and needles but now im fine with it#after that picked up my meds cuz ive been unmedicated for far too long#then i went to a thrift store but they didnt have what i was looking for which was sad#then i ate lunch#THEN i went to the craft store im going to sell my stuff at and met the woman ive been texting with and got questions answered#and bought some yarn because i am weak and it was pretty colors#then i went to city hall#because theres a community garden in the area that hasnt been operational for years#and i love gardens and doing things so i wanted to inquire about who runs it and if i can be that person#they said no one runs it and they seemed delighted that i want to be the one#so they took my name and number and the parks and rec guy us going to call me once hes out of a meeting#which is fantastic. very excited to maybe run a community garden#now im back home and im going to knit so i have stuff to sell at the craft store#and just wait for the oarks and rec guy to call me#thats wild. i have a good job. a space to sell my art. maybe a community garden#i think this is what life is supposed to be
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It's heartbreaking to sell my fave t-shirt (doesn't fit me anymore), but for the emotional price I sold it for, I know it's going to a good home. Figured I better write a grateful thank you note, and pulled out my old Vampire Knight manga (partial) collection to find a good panel to redraw.
I have not drawn on paper in a while. My shitty microns were so freaking dry. I kept fighting myself to not redraw it in my own style. (Wow, I can say I finally have a style these days. Never thought that day would come.) Zero ended up pretty goofy, but I can laugh about it and I hope the buyer can, too.
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LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK AT HIM LOOK AT HIM OH I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM!!!!
#AAARRJGFDJNFJGG I DIDNT KNOW WHEN HED BE ARRIVING THIS IS SO EXCITING IM SO HAPPY#I HAD NO IDEA HED COME TODAY IM SO !!! IM SO HAPPY!!!#HES SO PRETTY!!!! AAARRGTHFHDHFJHFJF#i say things#horse#this is the first model horse ive bought since i think christmas#1) bc i couldnt swing it financially and 2) bc none of the new ones Spoke To Me until this fella#ooough he's so pretty....#still have been meaning to go thru all my other ones and figure out which ones i wanna sell/get rid of...#need to make room for him hehehehe#for now! he will sit at my desk and watch me draw :3
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uh oh! you entrusted the most fiscally valuable thing you've ever owned to a contrarion defeatist who's more likely to throw it away and shrug than try to do anything productive with it!
#were never going to get out of debt if she wont even give the van a chance!!!!#he needs a good flush and fresh fluids. thats it! and we could sell him for a couple grand like we bought him!#the things older than us and built like a battleship. it turns over no problem! its just been sitting in arizona for a few years#since we hsd to make an emergency exit#she said she was going to visit Phoenix so shed get a mechanic to get it running and sell it for us so we can get out of luke 2g debt w her#and its been weeks and the only thing shes done is find a guy whos willing yo scrap it for her#like! you didnt even google the word mechanic before you wrote it off! its a GOOD VAN and people woule go nuts for it right now#bc its an old ford van with a huge emphasis in living out of it for travel. its enormous and beautiful#and shes just gunna hand it off to a junker for no money???? hello??????? i paid thousands in cash for it
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OH YEAH HERES THE STUFF I GOT ON THE WEEKEND (plus a closer pic to try and deal with the glare)
#im soo excited to put them on my walls but im visiting family now so i have to wait until September OTL#THE KNT STUFFFFF 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕#THE MAKOTO AND FUTABA LOOK SO SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#THE SQUARE ANN AND HARU ARE DOUBLE SIDED AND THE BACK SIDE IS BLACK AND WHITE WITH THEIR MASKS ON ITS SO COOL#WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH#the haikyuu sticker was a gift from a lady hanfing out stickers to cosplayers on the first day#and the howl and sophie keychain was a gift from my bf who bought it for me <3333#i couldve gotten so much more but we literally ran out of time (good and SAD)#there was a celty poster that i really wanted that was just her chest up with her sythe across the top and the quote#'because the world is not a cruel as you think' in the middle WHICH IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SICK#there was also a place selling xc3 pins of the main group but i dont really want pins so i didnt get any but i totally couldve gotten a mio#i ALSO wanted to get fire emblem stuff but idk#there was a sylvain piece that was good a byleth piece that was good and a marianne at the same stall there was also a bunch of good dimitri#but i wanted CLAUDE AND ALL THE CLAUDES LOOKED GOOFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#there was also a bunch of sick edelgards but i dont want edelgard stuff#i also wouldve died for an ashe but there was NOTHING#I ALSO WANTED A TOGA POSTERRRRRRR BUT I FORGOT WHEN WE WERE BUYING STUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF *DIES*#whatever i like the bnha girlies print i got <3#i wouldve loved a dabi or todoroki too but i didnt see any that stood out (that a like a couple dabis looked sick)#i think its very interesting that 90% of whaf i got and wanted was video game and not anime at this anime convention#if not video game then girl (character) or shojo LOL
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Good morning, today im going to pirate 5-7 videogames made by small indie game devs who are heavily dependent on sales 😚✌️
in WHAT world is the sims 4 or fucking crusader kings 3 an INDIE GAME
#either you are bitching at me for pirating paradox's mainline games which have around $800-1000 dollars worth of dlc#or think pirating indie games is a good thing to do#i already BOUGHT AND OWN all of stellaris and over half its dlc and all paradoxes published indie games (surviving the apocalypse/empire of#sin when it came out etc) when humblebundle/epic games/another service i cant remember the name of right now#had them on sale/they were free on epic#paradox interactive published games yes#but they have 9 development studios under their belt (including paradox development)#which make their core games (europa/crusader kings/hearts of iron/victoria) which are fully fledged triple a games that sell for like $80#on release and $40-$50 off#they have hundreds of dollars of dlc which makes experiencing the full game literally impossible for anyone who isnt#a youtuber or incredibly wealthy. like its not happening.#anyway literally my ethos is pirate from ea and pirate from paradox dev studio but dont pirate indie games#i didnt realize surviving the apocalypse was an indie dev i thought it was coreline and when i did i got it#on sale through the site i mentioned. its not a game launcher i cant remember it but i got jalopy from it a few years back#also sidenote i completely forgot i own empire of sin. like that game has not been in my mind since i watched a youtube video#of it back in 2020 when it dropped and thought it was cool and bought it#i also own cities and stellaris and an egregious amount of dlc for it please dont look at my steam account i spent money very wildly#as a teenager when they came out#i havent played skyline in a while and none of the stellaris dlc has been worth buying for a few years now unfortunately#i do plan on buying pillars of eternity when i can and the new vampire masquerade game when it comes out cos i fucking love isometric games#and vtm both video game and rpg#anyway this is now me rambling about video games my core ethos stands#buy from indie devs but pirate from EA and Paradox Dev#because they practise some of the most disgusting marketing practises in the video game industry and i despise#that its becoming the norm. a game should be able to be fully experienced for less than $100. to paywall it so severely with dlc#is money hungry bullfuckery
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finally accepting that anime conventions are no longer my thing even though they've been such a fun annual pastime for the past 10 years and i wont be buying a ticket with the rest of my friends who are still hyped and going together
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#its da fomo#but last year i was so genuinely disappointed that i wasnt into ANYTHING at smashcon except for what indie stalls were selling#and i only bought like 2 or 3 things?? and none of them were anime related#there wasnt even elden ring stuff (since based on experience the hit games of the year usually produced fan merch at the con)#the only game stuff were genshin which is so 😐#and the actual anime content i didnt even recognise even tho i saw the same characters over and over so im clearly out of the loop by now#one of my friends was disappointed that there wasn't a single one piece fan merch which is a classic yk? idk#this is me nostalgia ranting im not actually angry at the anime subculture for changing ofc#except for being overwhelmingly genshin that was fucking tragic
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YIPPEEEEEE I'M SOSOSOSO EXCITED FOR THE FIC I'm glad it sounds like you've had a pretty good day, it's well-deserved! :] I love Barbie aesthetically... I love Meta Knight...
OH BUT YEAH this was actually my third time watching The Deer King but it is JUST as good as the first... As I've Said I really love Tsutsumi's character and his little daughter and how their relationship progresses [Top Ten Most Doting Fathers Every Other Scene Makes Me Violently Clutch Whatever I Can Get My Hands On], BUT ASIDE FROM THAT the cast as a whole is very enjoyable!
Although it's a novel adaptation, it's also really intuitive to understand the setting and lore thanks to its decision to put personal conflicts in the foreground while the politics and major themes develop in the background, on top of some pretty well-utilized exposition and the movie's strong visual storytelling/direction/editing.
Visually It's Stunning, there isn't a single frame that's not SEAMLESS, but what stands out to me consistently throughout every scene is definitely how much weight there is to every movement [like The Physics Are Off The Charts, but it's also exaggerated to emphasize things in the way only animation can], and how strong the character "acting" is.
OVERALL. MAGNIFIQUE. I do Highly Recommend checking it out if you were interested :] Tsutsumi's character isn't the type to talk much but y'know... proud of him...
DON'T BE EXCITED YOU'RE SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR DISAPPOINTMENT but if i release it any time soon.. i hope you find some enjoyment from it.. but omg meta knight :)
THREE TIMES WATCHING well now i have to watch it if you've watched it three times: it MUST be worth its salt then.. 👁️👁️
#snap chats#i made him small so he couldnt take up The Whole Page... i coulda just posted my whole B&N haul but thats not the point of the ask ANYWAY#will have to give Deer King a watch when i get the time.. and after WMA2... turns out all my writing time took up all my B&N time..#oh but speaking of :) yeah i had a good day all things considered#i love the aesthetic of barbie too so im glad the movie was good.... def a fun watch even if it felt very In Your Face sometimes#but i mean it's for kids and if you wanna get a message across You Better Get It Across yk.#also sometimes you just gotta grab people by the shoulders and shake them with your message. i mean.#they basically did that in the movie too to resolve their conflict LMAO BUT YEAH OVERALL FUN MOVIE ENJOYED IT PLENTY#META KNIGHT SO SILLAY THO when i was growing up my sis and i LOVED kirby air ride and i remember in free-trial you could play as him#im p sure you could also play as him in Races but cmon... city trial was the selling point of that game... love him 5ever..#but nooo while i was at B&N i accidentally bought a new manga and a new bookmark 😷#i did try looking for After The Rain since i know THAT one has an english translation but alas... i just saw After The Bitch ☠️☠️#i forget the whole title dont even ask me i just saw After The Bitch and snorted and continued looking down the aisle for anythin else#the manga i did get's called Our Dining Table. i didnt MEAN to buy it#i dont usually read manga that star young adults I Like That Middle-Aged Flavor. like Dont Call Me Daddy but yk#i was just skimming it and by the time store was about to close i ended up on chapter 2 so i figured Might As Well#it was cute SOOOO why not. i could always learn a thing or two from manga and how they panel/pace things anyhow#i also got a new bookmark since i always like to get bookmarks when i get a new book :) cause IDK its the hoarder genes in me ig#the bookmark i got this time was this like. purple string charm with a butterfly pendant Very Pretty#almost as pretty as this other butterfly bookmark i have of a purple emperor#THAT one has a gold bar- thought one of the panels on its wings is missing.... still a good bookmark tho ive had it forever LMAO#butterflies always make me think of my sister- i feel like i mentioned that before but i also cant remember doing so..#fucked up that butterflies were for my sis and bees were for me The Fuck You Tryna Say Dad 😭 IM NOT A BEE 😭😭#bees are cooler than me... but they also die really easily so.... I Repeat Fuck You Mean Old Man...#jk i know what he means.. he means i was an asshole ☠️ weird-naming-conventions-aside NO WAIT I REMEMBERED A STUPID THING#i saw this weird-as-hell bee i saw on my walk yesterday.... tried looking up what it was but couldnt find anything..#in any case. its funny i think of my sis with butterflies since owls Also remind me of her since she LOVED owls growing up#i DEF know i mentioned that when i was talking about rings i owned... WHICH ALSO REMINDS ME#for the longest time i had this old-as-hell butterfly ring with like. Movable Wings since the wings were attached with springs#but one of the springs disconnected years ago so it's just kinda had one and a half wings BUT I FIXED IT RECENTLY
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#im so angry at my mom now#nothing new but just....#we've been trying to sell some housing stuff#and the housing stuff is like...10 years old and its been out in the rain for god knows how long#she didnt want to sell it cheap#and always said 'i bought it expensive'#like did you not understand the concept of secondhand stuff?#THAT SHIT IS 10 YEARS OLD NO ONE IS GONNA BUY IT ON FULL PRICE#AND SOMEONE ACTUALLY OFFER A GOOD MONEY BUT SHE REFUSE CAUSE ITS NOT FULL PRICE#i am so tired dealing with this family#either give me a job or kill me now#im honestly tired
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I also noticed recently that Sonic is jumping on the 'Charged drink' thing too with similar levels of caffeine. So be careful of those as well.
I see jokes about the Panera lemonade but no guys.. it actually killed someone.
The guy NEVER had caffeine due to health issues. He loved going to that Panera and they did not warn him. He had no way to know where was like a level of 380mg of caffeine in his drink. The equivalent of drinking like 4 redbulls if I remember correctly. The FDA recommends 400mg as the level max per day. (A shot of expresso is 65mg for context)
Panera KILLED this man with what he thought was a simple regular lemonade.
Apparently it ALSO killed a young girl with a heart condition
STOP BUYING THIS DRINK FOR A MEME
#It really is no joke#It should be illegal for them to sell those in large sizes.#I bought one the day after inventory at work to keep me awake and I was gently nursing it until I chugged the last 3rd of it#When I left work at 10pm bc I didnt want to waste it#Guys when I tell you I thought I was having a heart attack the next morning I wasnt joking#Like Iwas literally shaking and feeling like I was going to throw up#I almost went home from work early and didnt start feeling better until 3pm when it FINALLY got out of my system#I havent touched them since
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hello scout long time listener first time caller here I was aware you went to Japan to study but I didnt know you went to doushisha. I'm going there for a term of my study abroad year in the new year, do you have any recs for stuff to do / places to be social in the area
papa jon's cheesecake shop is right next to the imadegawa campus, EXCELLENT cheesecakes
once a month there's a flea market at toji temple, when my mom came to visit when i broke my leg she bought me a 200 year old konbu delivery box which i use to stash my weed now
shijo has a lot of really terrific world-famous brand stores like sanrio, pokemon (i think), Bathing Ape (and a few other fashion brands), and tons of restaurants and whatnot. check that out.
visit my apartment! i lived here for three years.
while you're nearby my apartment, check out ojamakan, a terrific used games store
while you're near ojamakan, check out fushimi inari taisha, the shrine with 10,000 gates!
spend some time in the kyoto botanical garden, it's one of my favorite places on earth.
take the train an hour south to nara, and feed the deer that walk straight up to you and bow (there are vendors who make and sell crackers to feed, usually something like 500 yen for a stack of them)
but also, spend plenty of time on the imadegawa campus. it's a really beautiful place.
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Opinion on the US's Cogs damn obsession with corn?
don't know what you're talking about specifically but my understanding of US agricultural policy in general is that being a farmer in capitalism sucks and has since colonization and for a long time the US government tried to make it suck less with subsidies which sometimes work (because people get paid predictably regardless of demand and its less like gambling with crops) but sometimes go over really badly (because then too many people grow it and the price per bushel goes down and then government has too much corn) and then a couple times they got rid of all the subsides and related regulations and that REALLY didnt work (because then the price just crashed hard and with nothing to compensate them a bunch of farmers, many of whom were in debt for other farming-related reasons, couldnt get paid and actually had to foreclose their farms, which accelerated the long-standing trend of farms getting foreclosed on and then being bought out by bigger farms that then ended up running INSANE multi million dollar operations, sometimes even on farms in other states where the owners do not live, in communities they do not contribute to) and they had to backpedal on it and then eventually they just started on the current system where you simply pass a farm bill every 10-12 years instead of yearly or biyearly and that way you simply dont have to think about it, and then when it is election time you go stand by a cornfield for a while for tv. it does not fix the huge enormous farms buying out smaller farms problem or any of the complicated related problems but it DOES put it off for longer which is more important.
sometimes also you (USAID for instance) can give the too-much-corn you have from farm subsidies to a foreign country as a 'gift' and say youre just being a helpful little guy, but in the process of doing so undercut the local farmers in that country because they cant compete with free stuff but that's cool because then the foreign country can't really survive as well without US agricultural aid and you can manipulate them to do imperialism better AND you have more demand for the corn which might raise the price per bushel in the US. also sometimes the corn is fed to livestock en masse because the meat is worth more and sometimes its made into gas or high fructose corn syrup, and sometimes the price is so low per bushel that the insurance on the field is worth more than the actual corn.
but. i CANNOT stress enough that the most important thing about corn is that you can stand next to it on tv and if you cant do that, maybe you can stand next to a guy who is around it a lot and say you are helping him.
in my relatively uneducated opinion the most epic way to solve this complex multi-century interdisciplinary push and pull of supply and demand would be to just pay farmers a salary through the state since youre already paying out massive state subsidies for crops you dont need anyway and the farmers are performing a vital service and that way you can guarantee people a consistent salary AND control how much of each thing gets planted so you dont have a massive stockpile at all times AND you reward individual people instead of paying out large amounts of money to whatever massive operation sells the most corn by virtue of being big, but if you dont want to do that then the second best thing is to just pass another mediocre farm bill whos inflexible 10-ish year lifespan makes it impossible for it to respond well to changes in market demand and that way you can just put off making tough decisions and instead stand next to a guy and a cornfield on tv again. which as we have covered is the most important part of american agriculture
#you know?#(i took an agricultural history class in college. dont remember everything but i remember my overall impression was this)#asks#plont asks
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