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ace-and-ranty · 1 month ago

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Watching a personal finances guy on YT, and he was saying sometimes renting is better, and sometimes buying is. I was like, yeah, makes sense. Then he talked about some of the arguments people use against renting, including "you're paying your landlord's mortgage".

He proceeds to disagree with this argument.

He says, "By that logic, aren't you also paying your barista's mortgage?"

Amazing.

#no. also. no.#I may be paying for the COFFEE SHOP OWNER's mortgage.#in that scenario.#and again: no.#I am contributing a minuscule amount percentage of this person's salary.#in exchange for ACTUAL goods and services.#I am not paying the ENTIRE installment of their mortgage every single month.#for no other reason than that they own property.#NOT THE SAME THING.#REMOTELY.#AT ALL.

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modernchemical · 2 months ago

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watching death note with my family and after the college entrance episode my mom asked offhandedly if anyone had ever pictured L and light as a couple before. it felt like one single white dove had landed on a crystalline lake in a beautiful pure clearing. no i dont think anyones ever thought of that before

#she was shocked when i said yeah about 90 percent of tbe predominately female teen fanbase spanning 20 years. Mayyy eee #death note #lawlight #same thing happened when we watched sherlock

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cunning-and-cool · 4 months ago

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idk man but something about Stanley "taught himself extremely advance physics/math/probably many other things while running a relatively successful business" Pines and Stanford "is wanted in almost every dimension with a judicial system of some kind" Pines is sooo fucking funny to me

#one day stan corrects one of fords equations and both of them have to stop. and stare in horror #the same thing happens when ford starts talking about all the times he broke out of prison #gravity falls #stan pines #ford pines #stanley pines #stanford pines

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snowstories · 4 months ago

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My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

#I have a bit of a problem with giving everyone the same speech patterns but on god I try #Bc genuinely. This is the no. 1 most important thing while writing fanfic #If you can make a character sound like they would say that it doesn't matter if they actually would #My posts #Writing wise

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 9 months ago

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The math just adds up!

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath.#not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first.#I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*.#Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about.#I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/#Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight -#The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room!#Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...

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kitskiis · 16 days ago

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What I am gathering from current fandom discussion

#joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #wild life #wild life smp #wild life spoilers #trafficblr #life series #traffic smp #tbh I feel like the solar system symbolism hasn’t hit the same since the og 3 #but I find it so funny how it was kept alive as long as possible unfortunately Joel’s whole thing this season was a fucking Car #and that’s the line in the sand 😭😭

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marypsue · 1 year ago

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Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

#your brother is a vampire. he's sitting across the table from you chatting with your mother about her day #and he's dead and he's gone and he's never coming back.#he laughs the same and he talks the same but his arm is cold when he grabs you in a headlock and your dog won't be in the same room with hi #he'll still hang around watching TV with you and give you wedgies and make stupid jokes #but you can't tell him about the bullies at school anymore because this thing with your brother's face will just find them and kill them.#and not even stupid fucking Jason deserves what the monster in your dead brother's skin would do to him.#your brother is dead and lost and right there in arm's reach and gone forever with no hope of ever getting him back.#i'm sure there are corollaries to be written about like ghosts and zombies but this is the one i'm personally hung up on recently

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acorviart · 8 months ago

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not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram

the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis

#this sounds like a 'argh kids these days doing [insert exaggerated story they don't actually do in reality]' kind of thing #except that I've gotten soooo many emails like this #there's a reason that I don't have my DMs open on any socmed and it's bc they attract people getting way too casual/parasocial immediately #and forcing people to write out an email both filters out 90% of weird impulse messages and also throws them out of that casual headspace #except that I can actively tell when this fails and someone is treating emails as if they're the same thing as DMs

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gemwolfz · 1 year ago

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i think the best genre of image is "creatures trapped in starbucks cups with receipts reading [cup of water (no water, no ice, creature)]"

#bugs #the stupid wasp cup isnt really an example of the same thing but it's also a good image #starbucks employees are you like. required to print a receipt for every single cup you use #are your managers hovering over your receipts and remaining cups and going 'somebody got a free cup! someone should be fired for this'#because that sounds realistic under capitalism

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gay-otlc · 1 month ago

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Idk I feel like "Men are responsible for their own actions, women aren't to blame for men being misogynistic" and "You do not have to tolerate bigotry from others, call them out on that shit" and "People may be less likely to become radicalized if they receive kindness and compassion" don't have to contradict each other

#is misogyny okay? absolutely not. is misogyny the fault of women and/or feminism? also absolutely not #should we generally try to be kind to each other? yeah #shockingly enough i think multiple things can be true at the same time

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crowkip · 3 months ago

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yeehaw, baby!

#if u know me u knew this was inevitable #kon el #conner kent #tim drake #timkon #im gonna ramble after the boring tags ok #dc comics #fanart #western au #superboy #OK !!!! ITS TIME #so kon. obvs is a cowboy here #definitely a bit of a magnet for trouble but not an outlaw #still not the sort of person the son of the drake family's supposed to be talking to but yk kon's gonna try anyway #on tims end it pretty much follows the same events as the comics bc if it aint broke dont fix it #<- in terms of the whole sneaking out at night to do his own secret detective work thing at least #i have a whole silly story for the rest of it but im not gonna get into it all here lmao #but yeah i love cowboys and actual cowboy history vv much so this probably wont be the last u see of this au ദ്ദി ˉ꒳ˉ )✧#for now this post's rlly just for goofing around with design ideas #my art

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the-game-spirit · 9 months ago

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sometimes a piece of media just! grabs you by the throat and says, "hey buddy! I'm gonna irrevocably alter your brain chemistry now! have fun with that!!"

and then you just ! gotta deal with that ! you guess !!

#isat #in stars and time #bungou stray dogs #bsd #dp #danny phantom #spirit chats #this is specifically about isat rn but bsd and dp did the same thing to me tbh 💀#so they get an honorable mention for also screwing with my head in fun and unique ways #EDIT: SEVENTEEN THOUSAND NOTES LATER AND I FINALLY NOTICE THE GLARING TYPO 😭#mortifying. life ruining. a fuckin tragedy #throat..... not thoat..... 😔 tf man

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hinamie · 3 months ago

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