#Skill Upgrade

[strategiadvizo]

Adapting to the Future: How Accountants Can Thrive by Embracing Digital Skills

In an era where technology is rapidly reshaping industries, the accounting profession is no exception. Traditional accountants who once relied on paper-ledgers and manual calculations are finding themselves at a crossroads. The advent of digital accounting has ushered in a new age of efficiency, accuracy, and opportunity. The shift towards digital accounting is not merely a trend but a…

[cagarash]

Peeeeeenny, fluffy Penny. I learned a lot of things painting you. Both times.

The OG from 2022 lessons learned.

[sunderwight]

Bingqiu AU where Luo Binghe's the chosen village sacrifice to the evil deity who lives up the mountain.

Normally the village sends maidens, but they've more or less run out of expendable girls of the right age and, ahem, "virtues". So of course Luo Binghe's early life bad luck kicks in. In the wake of his mother's death there's no one to really care about what happens to him, he's fairly pretty, and the village leaders decide that if they dress him up like a girl the teenaged homeless kid should pass well enough. And hey, y'know, he's probably got a hard life ahead for him anyway -- dying in a brothel of some venereal disease or on the streets of exposure or starvation. At least as a sacrifice, everyone else gets to benefit from his loss! And the kid will get added to a shrine and be remembered as a hero! If anything, he should be happy about this!

Binghe is not happy about this.

But he's also a skinny underfed nobody who is easily overpowered, dressed up like a bride, and tied to a post. So. Not much he can do but wait for the evil deity to come and do whatever horrible thing he's gonna do to him.

Meanwhile, Shen Yuan is pretty sure he's been isekai'd into the over-powered hero of some kind of supernatural adventure story? He's not totally sure because he doesn't recognize the setting, but the signs are there. He's got a shrine-like base of operations (though it seems to have become corrupted/ruined, probably he has to restore it somehow), he has a very resilient and handsome new body with spiritual energy of some kind flowing through him, and a very clearly magical sword. Plus lots of neat starter powers! Though it feels like he has other abilities that have been blocked somehow? Probably he has to level up in order to access them.

When he treks out of his "base" and finds what seems to be a distressed maiden, he takes it for his beginner hero mission. The girl claims that she's been doomed to be sacrificed to an evil god. That sounds a little above Shen Yuan's pay grade for dealing with, so he unties her and decides that they had better just get out of the whole region altogether. He already packed up anything useful from his base, anticipating he might get caught up in an adventure once he left, so they follow the river away from the settlement until they reach another one.

While they travel, Luo Binghe tells Shen Yuan about the cursed deity, Shen Qingqiu, who was cast out of the heavens for slaughtering one of his brethren and has apparently being do-who-knows what to maidens from the local village in exchange for his "protection" ever since. Sounds like a real asshole! And also mid-level boss type bad guy at least. Shen Yuan hopes he doesn't have to fight him, but he probably will.

Thank goodness he found Binghe, though! Clearly the helpful little sister type! He's definitely going to require her assistance if he's going to figure out how to navigate this world and level up his skills enough to take on a god.

[hellenhighwater]

how much do you work with stained glass? I'm really looking to try it out but the initial investment of equipment is scaring me off, I was wondering what stuff you'd consider the bare minimum of things you need to get started?

Honestly I do very little actual stained glass, in terms of soldering glass together. I wind up using my glass tools a fair bit to cut and shape glass for other reasons, like putting in lights or adding to furniture or even just replacing picture frame glass. Doing basic glass cutting is really easy, and the tools required are very inexpensive--a glass cutter, running pliers, grozing pliers, and sandpaper is all you really need to start. I also have some decent glass nippers. Each of those will run you somewhere in the ballpark of ten dollars, give or take a bit. I think my nippers were closer to $20. If you're just wanting to be able to add fun glass to stuff, then that's very achievable.

The more expensive tools are your soldering iron, and a glass grinder. The grinder isn't technically necessary, but the alternative is sanding/shaping entirely by hand, which sucks. Both of these are worth investing in decent tools. Solder and copper foil tape are also not the cheapest, and neither is glass, though glass, at least, you can sometimes find secondhand. If you're working inside, you also want to consider how you're ventilating, and whether you need some type of breath protection. I tend to do most of my soldering outdoors.

Long story short, if you're curious about stained glass but aren't sure if you want to commit, find a place that does workshops! Most stained glass supply stores will have classes somewhere, which usually include at least some of the tools needed. It's worth it to do a class both for the instruction and for the ability to decide if it's something you want to continue doing; it is not a cheap hobby, though it is very cool. Ideally, you'll find people who can point you to the resources you want for whatever type of stained glass you want to do.

[veneskaa]

the Acolyte is so incredibly prequel-coded to me in that it's communicating legitimately great and interesting ideas through some of the most mediocre pacing and dialogue possible

[noonewilleverknowistealkneecaps]

Back at it again

The Little Vampire(2017) mentioned🗣️🗣️🗣️💥💥💥💥💥

[shoelaceeater]

byler season 5 activities :3

this took wayyy too long to draw

[dollya-robinprotector]

would Alex accept great hawk? He fucking hates that bird. He keeps scaring his animals. One of Alex's sleep talk lines is "Dumb fucking bird..."

"Alex, meet Great Hawk. Great Hawk, meet Alex."

"Help protect wife. Will try not be too loud near your territory."

Gulugulu once told me Alex's scream every time he cums with PC's strap up in his ass alone is enough to startle all his farm animals lol

[ssruis]

Something something isn’t it crazy how rui was ostracized and villainized by his peers for so long but he always kept a deep love for humanity and people as a whole. Isn’t it insane how instead of starting to hate people and becoming bitter he just put the blame on himself for being too weird. Isn’t it bonkers.

[jazzberiperks]

this weekly art post is brought u by my unhealthy obsession with white autism boy (and maybe girl if I can put Falin in there 2)

[turtleblogatlast]

Sometimes I think about the potential possibility of Leo accidentally portaling himself to the Prison Dimension should his powers develop enough. Considering how much he struggled with them at first, if they were to get stronger, and moreso, if it became easier for him to portal to places he’d been before…I can imagine that developing into a constant, looming threat in the back of his mind.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Today *almost* makes the last 8 years worth it.

Don't get me wrong - there's still a long way to go to resolve the Harry and Meghan issues once and for all, and most of that path depends on what Charles does next - does he capitulate to Harry's demands or does he stay the course to push the Sussexes into irrelevance?

But I feel like many of us can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and the way out.

As long as we keep our eye on the prize:

we'll get there in the end together.

[fjordfolk]

considering finally upgrading the photo situation. been looking at new lenses, but not sure how much sense it makes to invest in more advanced optics for a 12yo camera that i'm constantly squabbling with, so. one of these days, maybe.

[emeraldhub225]

heres punished sliver

[thewolfprince]

Last night I had a dream that Jacob and Evie Frye were both trans.

MtF Evie and FtM Jacob.

I take the blorbos and make them TRANSGENDER!

[skunkes]

i understand that some drawing tablets do have different qualities like the amt of pressure levels they support but its soooo crazy how people still think that graphic tablets are a stepping stone to screen tablets, which are the "Goal"

I went looking for some info about my current tablet and if i needed to update anything to solve a small issue and found a thread asking about it with answers like "ehh its good for an art beginner but you'll be wanting to upgrade in a few months" like? says who.