#Refundable Investment

[salmonight]

Robin!Tim decides he needs a baby brother so now he got a baby brother and no one can state otherwise

Bruce walked down the stairs half asleep after a long patrol to have breakfast. He walks into the kitchen.There's Tim with his usual mug of coffee sitting on his lap is another kid he had never seen before. Begin half asleep he continues toward the coffee machine to grab a cup for himself as well as if nothing's wrong.He abruptly stops halfway there realising what he had just seen and does a double take.

"Tim.." Bruce starts in a deadly calm tone "who is he?"

Tim looks over him with a look that makes it obvious he is questioning his intelligence. In the end Tim seem to decide to grace him with an answer "My baby brother" and turns back to the whole ass child he never seen sitting in Bruce's kitchen.

"Tim.. You do not have a little brother" Bruce says slowly.

"Yes. I do." Tim deadpans.

"Tim, sweetheart where did you find him? Tell me you didn't kidnap him?" Bruce asks while inwardly panicking 'oh no he is taking afte me. He is taking afte me. He even got the kidnapping habits'

"Well.. You see.." Tim starts "Yesterday on patrol I realised I was in a dire need of a baby brother. So now I have a baby brother" he ends up saying as if it should be obvious

"Tim, sweetheart. You can't just kindap kids from the street. Just hand him over and let me take him home. I'm sure his parents are worried"

Both of their head snapped over so fast you could hear a crack which made Bruce vince. Sharp green eyes locked onto him with a look that just dared them to try and take them away all the while they were begin hugged close to Tim who wore a scandalized 'how dare you say that in front of my baby' look on his face.

Just so we ar on the same page:

- it's Robin!Tim before TT incident and Kid!Damian

- Bruce tries to be a good parent. He is just overworked.

[honeybeezgobzzzzz]

decided to shave my legs for the first time this year.... (it wasn't even a good job either)

remembered EXACTLY why i don't shave my legs...

it is fucking exhausting

who the fuck knows how many spoons I just wasted on something that is just going to grow back over night....

[californiaquail]

i went into a chase bank today to see if i could close my account because i am tired of getting charged $12/month for being broke and unemployed and while the banker was trying to convince me not to do this she was like "i just love us so i don't like seeing people leave us" and like first of all maybe try cutting out the bullshit fees then and also refunding me but second whoooooo shills for jp morgan chase like that. "i just love us" ??????????? girl i know they are not paying you enough to act like that. she also tried to get me to get a credit card but i declined. and then immediately walked across the street to a local bank to ask them about getting a credit card.

[moonsinkfoxgirl]

Wait, I want foxy points!!

Um... How-- how about Return of the Obra Dinn? Ah, I think that's above 10 bucks... Hm...

Oh! Sunless Skies! That one is great.

What else.. Well, the Okami HD port for PC is on sale.

That's all I can think of.

Return of the Obra Dinn has been on my wishlist since it released funnily enough, maybe I should finally get it eventually should it go on a good sale...

I think I've tried playing Sunless Sea once and then was immediately intimidated by all the text and all the possibilities, but also it's not actually on my steam so I have no idea how I have accomplished this, unless I am just hallucinating my memories of making a Fallen London account and quitting within half a day into boat shape... or maybe it was an epic store freebie at some point? Sunless Skies also sounds fun but unless it's significantly more accessible I'd probably prefer the sea one...

Okami HD is also funny because I do actually just own that one for sure, I quit really quickly because everything felt so slow and I was in the wrong mood for that when I tried... wonder if I could get it running on my ubuntu laptop...

in any case definitely a neat set of games, that makes 20 foxy points for Lico-chan, sankyuuu^^

[amaxantys]

mn senate passed the bill making minnesota a trans refuge state !! specifically dedicated to protecting trans youth and their families who were forced to flee other states

very exciting day to be following state politics- all on the same day they passed the trans refuge bill, officially banned all conversion therapy in the state, and passed a bill expanding protections for people seeking abortions from out of state (as well as protections for the people who provide them)

[tlaquetzqui]

I kinda want to write some rules for RPG games. Like “don’t seem like you’re establishing characters as companions and then kill them off” (like Pillars of Eternity and Divinity 2) and “don’t force me to play as a human in a setting with other races” (like Divinity 1 and KOTOR). Also no killing off pets (Divinity 2) or babies (Pillars) you edgelord trash, how fucking hard is this?

[kuromi-hoemie]

i can't believe i used all my tags on this. i have MORE TO SAY. honorable mentions i will not elaborate on: pikmin, runescape, OG animal crossing.

the reason for all my tags is because there's a difference between "most fun" and "most important" and feel like if they're important u should at least say why :3

[scatteredcloud]

Going on yet another rant about “merch”

If you did not screen print that shirt yourself, you did not make it.

You made the design on it, which I’m sure would be a nice poster or sticker perhaps? Which of course you didn't print yourself, that sounds hard! An embroidered design? Maintaining a 12 needle embroidery machine capable of producing a design with that many colors for the number of orders being received is a lot of work, that's pretty impressive! Not to mention maintaining proper tension on the frame working with a hundred stretchy t shirts, which idk came from somewhere who knows! Your repeating pattern looks very nice on a skirt that you did not make and was mass produced by some Vietnamese person getting paid pennies so that ~50 gay people on the internet could pay for international shipping for a design you “made”. Wow that mug is awesome didn’t know you got into sublimation printing! And have a cylindrical heat press to be able to do not just mugs, but tumblers too! Woah your sublimation set up can do bed sheets (any size)? And shower curtains? And three different shapes of throw pillow stuffed with poly fill, which will never decompose and isn't comfortable to begin with?

Your poorly digitized vector art looks lovely as an enamel pin now that someone else (Who? More like who cares!) cleaned it up for you and then created moulds for and maybe even hand injected the enamel into only for you to sell maybe seven or eight of them. Aw damn your design got ripped off? Who could have guessed that with the distribution power of an entire manufacturing plafffnt that has hundreds, if not thousands of moulds sitting around that they might have used your mould to make themselves a profit for a change! Those money grubbing Chinese bastards! After all, you were there every step of the way, casting the negative of the mould, running the injection of liquid metal into that mould, mixing each color of enamel, and precisely filling each segment of the design, which you refused to simplify! You just can't compromise with art.

Ohhh I see they’re made to order so its more sustainable. So this factory (Guatemala? India? The Philippines? Pakistan? Could you point to it on a map? They just don't teach you this stuff in school!) Anyways this factory in some poor country has to keep your design on file, oh and for your enamel pins they have to keep the mould too! Ahh right but it’s sustainable, because it's a limited run. You’re the 100th person this week to place an order, and they're only printing 50 of your design, you should complain to the manufacturer about how slow your orders are being filled.

I love supporting small businesses - it’s just you after all! With all the hard work you’ve put into fiddling around in procreate who has time to figure out material acquisition, and production runs, and printer calibration, and inventory management, and machine maintenance, and payment processing, and international shipping, and packaging, and

[ma-du]

Well, there's this whole thing where if you register on the PROCON website and start putting your CPF on the invoices for anything that requires payment, the state government pays you back part of the tax revenue through weekly draws.

And after all this shit with the floods, I feel entitled to demand a refund for all the bus fare money I have to spend now that there is no subway until at least December. Pay me, you bastards, PAY ME!

[alhaithams-malewife]

I remember getting into a heated argument with him over this issue, actually. (Adding a cut because this went on longer than I intended)

I was struggling with a very condescending and belittling client for about five or so months and eventually what he (client) said got to me more than usual. I don't remember the exact comment, but it was something along the lines of "you force yourself to be perfect and yet you're never good enough." Needless to say, I was pretty devastated.

So anyway, I went to Lambad's, probably gave myself liver problems during the... four hours I was there, I think? Per usual, Lambad had to call Alhaitham to come pick me up because according to him I had drank so much I was talking to the chair across from me thinking it was Cyno. Why him, I don't know. Maybe because it was around that time that he was, contrary to popular belief, the first person in our friend group to figure out that I had a massive crush on him (I hate using such childish terms, though.)

I woke up the next afternoon with a searing hangover, and if anyone knows me, they know I get really, really cranky when I'm like that. I walked over to my desk and... this is embarrassing, but I threw everything off the desk in a fit of rage directed at the client, my inability to please clients, and myself. Haitham walked in thinking I had fallen out of bed and instead saw me breaking down. The conversation went something like this:

Him, standing in the doorway: "So, are you still drunk, or are you just unable to control your emotions even when sober?"

Me, sitting at the now-empty desk with head in hands: "Shut up. What does it matter to you, anyway?"

🌱: "Because one, you interrupted my downtime. Two, I heard your tantrum through my soundproof earpieces. And three, I had to see if I needed to have you pay for damages to the house."

🏛️: "Oh, boohoo. All you ever have to worry about is money this, annoyance that." (Why did I ever say that?)

🌱: "As if your career isn't drawing boxes and lines. You're the most famous architect in Sumeru yet you don't own your own home. How sad."

Then, for some stupid reason, I threw a pen at him and yelled, "You have no idea how hard I work every single day and every single night just trying to make the clients happy. But no, they go and tell me no matter how hard I work, I'll never be good enough! Then there's you, who makes a huge salary without ever hardly moving from your desk! So of course I'm angry. Of course I'm going to let it slip!"

🌱: "Well, do you believe them?"

🏛️: "What do you think?!"

I don't remember what he said after that, I just slammed the door and left. Then it started raining hard and he pretty much dragged me home. I asked why he even cared, and he said to use my brain. ("...or are you that dense?") Those were pretty much the conclusions I came to, except for the one about my father. @ags-haitham You did what?! /lh

He probably meant what he said in the best way, though. Either way, I'd rather have petty arguments like this than be without him at all.

"but what does he REALLY want with me?" my brooo, kaveh, Alhaitham does care about you just trust me, i'm the bedside lamp 😭

inspired by daikyto9

[daughters-of-liberty]

I just gotta day, for any fellow girlies who struggle with spending too much money when you go shopping at, say, Bath and Body Works, purely as an example: you don't have to buy every single item offered in a particular line. You love Warm Vanilla Sugar? That's great! I do too! But, you don't need to buy the shower gel AND body wash, ya know? You can pick whether you want a gel or a creamy body wash. Same with moisturizers; do you prefer rich body cream, lighter body lotions, or dry body oils? You don't have to buy them all!

Basically, these companies offer different types of body care choices to suit everyone who wants to buy that scent, not because you need the "complete" collection. They offer different choices because not everyone likes how heavy body creams are or they need more hydration than what a dry body oil can provide.

So, from one shopaholic to another, dont buy something for the sake of having it, dont be cowed by FOMO, dont even buy "just what you can afford," buy what you will use. That's my best advice.

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