#but it was a cost for time LOL

[ok-pop-1]

a day by gut check rock

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[keferon]

I. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. I’m okay I’m fine I’m okay I’m fine I’m oka

The fic I'm illustrating and losing my mind about 👉 Mistakes on mistakes until

[yutamayo]

Toji: $20 for an hour

[cheriboms]

since manfred is learning to read (+ speak), and spite/cole both like being read to, i thought it only made sense theyd have a little unofficial book club :) unfortunately some picks are more... ahem... educational... than others >_>

[nenoname]

ford's canon appearances in season 1

[egberts]

well I got hella roasted by a music review clique on tiktok (in good fun, i think... i hope) so now YOU be the judge because Wake Up! is on spotify!!!!!! (and all other music streaming platforms)

(please remember I'm brand new to this, I'm doing it scared, and it's supposed to be funny, and i don't actually know anything about music theory yet. don't take it too seriously. kind advice is welcome) (if you're curious what they said about me, it was that i 1. need to read a thesaurus and 2. need to stop saying fuck so much. which are both bonkers advice to give somebody who was asking for help understanding the construction of music and not uhhh their lyrics. she said i need to pick a topic and study the flow of the greats but i'm not trying to sound like eminem or dr dre so idk why i'd need to study their flow. also i thought my topic of i'm trapped in a dream and just want some money was pretty on the nose. and, inevitably, somehow, despite roasting my level of human element mere moments before, i also got accused of being AI because you can't break into any artistic endeavor nowadays without that happening. AI ruined free artistic expression fr)

this is my first earnings from streaming. even if you hate me and the song, please help me make this number bigger 😇😋

i saw one guy say he made about $5 from 14k streams so this is gonna take a while

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Icarus but not at all, you know what i'm saying? Does that make any sense? Do you see him? Take my hand, we're watching him fall.

Also a bonus little alternate that I drew first but wasn't satisfied with the emotional choices at ALL. and an alt color of that lol cause you know i'm gonna abuse the hell outta that green color as much as possible lol

[timkontheunsure]

Pregnancies theory - Have their cake and eat it too

Best guess at where Millie's plots going

We know Millie past is going to be explored more in season 3.

And it very likely that part of it'll be Millie's half exes and oohs back story, her history with Chaz.

We didn't really get anything about how Millie and Chaz split, or what the relationship was like.

But the hints we've gotten make it seem like a very bad time for Millie.

Chaz is dead, making it unlikely he'll prompt the story himself (zombie 👻).

Logical that means it'll tie into Millie's current plot,

So past relationship trauma tyeing into Millie's current pregnancy chose..

A previous pregnancy seems a possibility right?

But ok let's look at what we what knows from Blitz's interview of Millie.

That's got to a be maybe a few weeks after her break up.

And straight after she got sacked.

Because Millie was employed when she nabbed the job out from Blitz and Moxxie.

And she did well enough to impress straight off.

So she wasn't sacked for something she did, as Blitz is confused anyone would let her go.

She says getting jobs and keeping them comes down reputation. And Blitz asking what Millie's rep is like now prompts her go into a rage.

So Chaz did something that'd made her seem unreliable to her former employer. Like something that would need her to take time off?

The underpaid goon work doesn't seem to come with a lot of benefits, or employment rights.

And Chaz is definitely the sort of scumbag dump Millie for a shit reason, like an unplanned pregnancy.

Leaving her feeling trapped in a situation, that even year's later makes her hulk out.

It's also feels a bit similar to how Chaz leaves Moxxie trapped and alone, to take the heat.

Edit adding these bits, cus it telling what made he rage was Chaz saying he financially secure with a the bright future, before inevitably trying to hookup with her again. (Not sure if would have checked if he had a kid knocking about to scupper the deal with Crim. Or if he'd have enough of fuckboy to not even ask).

Mills is drinking a beer when Blitz walks in, so unlikely to still be pregnant.

Without a job or support; she'd have really struggled to feed and look after a kid. Pregnancy would have undoubtedly ruined any chance of getting a good job.

There's very few examples in American media of abortions.

This is could look at the reasons a young single woman, who just lost her manual labour job, would want an abortion. It could do alot of good.

Media likes to pretend practicalities of just not making enough money to make a pregnancy a workable thing don't exist.

There are thousands of good reasons to have an abortion, and with the show being indy and set it hell; they can go there. (Restrictive religious media monopolies can go do one)!

But why I'm I betting on previous abortion; and then her keep it this time?

3 Reasons

Easy out of universe plot savvy reasons

Think that if they weren't going to have Millie decided to keep it, it would be set up to stay more private than it's gonna.

Millie left the test box in Blitz and Loona's bathroom bin.

Blitz is honestly the only one living there who I buy does the cleaning. (Loona's Blitz's kid who he spoils. Stolas wouldn't know how to clean).

Blitz is a very protective dad, who's going flip his lid if he thinks he's little girl is pregnant.

He's not going to keep this quiet, which means Millie's got no hope in hell of the whole of IMP not knowing.

As her boss, if anyone can tell her that they can make adjustments it's Blitz.

2. In universe support (backed up with some narrative reasons)

Millie has a similar mindset Blitz, that her only value is what she can do, especially for others. It's something she pins a lot of herself worth on.

Pregnancy would challenge this idea, cus she'd have to physical do less. (And helluva like to show previous trauma being overcome).

But Millie's situation has changed a bit since Chaz. Even if she in her panic hasn't really realized that yet.

She's got a supportive husband.

A better paying job, with alot more security that's doing well now.

And a boss that would be very willing to adapt to keep her.

They've got more resources they can ask for help, like knowing Stolas. Another parent, who's good with babies, and can empathize not feeling ready to have a kid.

Cus Stolas was a teen dad, and Millie's only 1 year into her marriage. (Narratively it'd be a good way for Millie and Stolas to bond).

And Blitz while he hasn't had parenting experience with babies, he's is an ex children's performer for years. So he is just pretty good with kids.

Stolitz would definitely babysit if Millie keeps it lol.

IMP's a small family business, they can be alot more flexible with childcare. And even have the kid staying in the office after she's back from her maternity leave.

It used to be really common for smaller families businesses to let parents bring their kids in, till they were old enough for preschool. Because there's always someone around, and well the kid's family. 🤷

(I was brought up like this. And just taken to whichever factories my Mum or Nanna worked at. A cot was set in the break room for any babies who need it. Because how else are working women ment to manage. It's basically unimaginably with Amazon isn't it).

And if Blitz and Stolas' don't go gaga over a sprog to play with I'll be amazed.

We also know Sallie May going to have bigger part going falwards, and Millie pointed out Sal can rely on over people more, to be able to take more time off.

So it is possible Sallie May could help cover her sister's maternally leave.

3. Foreshadowing and Menis

Moxxie loves kids but he's got alot to learn. And with how helluva does foreshadowing, it's likely he's going to get the chance to be a dad to screw up lol.

Seriously pretty sure Moxxie is going a very steep learning curve.

At least Millie has younger siblings that she appears to have had to look after, so it won't all be new to her.

(Even if parentifcation give a lot weird blind spots).

But ok the menis bit dun dun dun! Kidnapping

We know Crimson is after revenge on Moxxie and Millie, for different reasons.

He hates Millie because she murdered all his guys easily; and she's *gasp* a dame. How dare a woman show him up like that!

And Crimson has a life long hate and disappointment of Moxxie, for not being the macho man he wanted as an aire to inherit the totally legit business.

M&M's tot could seem like the perfect do over baby for him to mode into the perfect mafia don.

I'd kinda laugh my head off if Crim goes to all the effort to trying to kidnap the sprog, gets his arse handed to him by the whole of IMP, plus Millie's family; all for the baby to be a girly.🤭

I used @warblogs17282 helpful post that puts together the s3 hints for this wild guess post.

(I know you also put a post on here too, I'm just failing to find it sorry 😅).

[drawnbinary]

I wanted the first acrylic stand I designed to be deeply self-indulgent

[skunkes]

organizing my little tins

[ruvviks]

to celebrate nearly three years of posting about these bozos, have the clown brigade in all their glory (please for the love of god click for better quality)! bios are in order of the individual pictures! vincent "v" mayer [he/him] >> the living legend of the afterlife. a resourceful and skilled merc working for vitali dobrynin and many other fixers in night city vitali dobrynin [he/him] >> a high profile fixer from wellsprings, and v's partner. offers high risk / high reward gigs and is well known for joining his mercs on the job cato wu [she/her] >> one of kang tao's most wanted. becomes head of security for vitali after mikhail koshechkin steps down from the role shiro nakano [he/him] >> ex arasaka security turned assassin and security expert. handles vitali's most dangerous assassination gigs huxley byrne [she/they] >> skilled gunner and (getaway) driver. used to run with the moxes before becoming one of vitali's most trusted eddie wolfe [he/they] >> ex bouncer turned mercenary. handles most bodyguard-type gigs at vitali's office and provides on-site security lauren dimas [she/her] >> a skilled netrunner and techie from t-bug's circle. has known vitali since college and handles all of his office's cybersecurity mikhail koshechkin [he/him] >> vitali's ex head of security and main medic at his office. regularly tags along on gigs when no one else is available thibault lajoie [he/they/xe] >> ex doll turned mercenary. specializes in stealth operations and provides on-site security with eddie wolfe

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[egoarc4de]

homecoming

[aidedharbor78]

Day 7: Ice Scream!

[hplonesomeart]

Heyo I have come back from my animation hermit hole with some work to show. It was a blast to make and I think it turned out pretty nice! :33

This is an animation part for the Halloween MAP @the-lion-guard-88 is hosting by the way!! Make sure to stay tuned for the full release of it at the end of this month. And also if your willing, you could also check out the livestream on her channel happening on 26th I believe—should be fun 👍✨

Also I have to include this somewhere—it’s my civil duty as a Puzzle enjoyer. Behold the really poorly rushed Procreate photo mashup edits of Puzzles that I snuck into animation as a fun goofy Easteregg detail lol. Same thing with the SMG3 plushie in the corner—although he was included solely because I noticed other people had him in their MAP parts. So I wanted to keep a little continuity going to connect all parts together. We love sillies here <3

[akkivee]

WINTER IS COMING