#dont come for me about these categories

[rock-swag-tournament]

MINERAL SWAG TOURNAMENT

The time has come. The minerals are here!

As you will notice, the minerals are divided into four subcategories to make seeding easier! As you will also notice, these categories are not perfect. Pyrite and gold are not colorless minerals, I am fully aware of this. However, they're also not bright pink or green, so we'll all have to deal.

The gemstones category is hopefully self-explanatory. These are what I consider to be, for the most part, well known gems. Minerals that are difficult to break and that you would find in jewelry.

Colorless minerals are just that, minerals that are clear, white, grey, or black (for the most part).

Geologic deep cuts are minerals that probably aren't that well-known to most people, again with some exceptions. This category is also kind of just a miscellaneous category.

Lastly, #crystals. These are minerals that are popular among collectors. Minerals slightly more obscure than birthstones but that you would still find at the Smithsonian gift shop. Ones that would probably also be in a book titled "Crystal Healing." And ice is there, too.

Anyway, I'll be rolling out these polls category by category, so the posts will be much more staggered than the other polls so far. All of the pairings should be up in the next four days or so, and will be open for a week since that seems to be working well with the fun/fictional rocks. Reblog to increase the sample size!

[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[cator99]

out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

[koifrog]

I’m approaching 27 which means that we are now in this unexpected period of life where we need to replace all of our “good enough for now” things that we got super cheap (or free from family) when we first started living on our own. I am realizing that it is VERY difficult to get rid of things, not just from an emotional attachment standpoint but also:

“Well it technically DOES still work even if it’s unpleasant and falling apart” (especially applicable to ugly/uncomfortable furniture)

“We don’t have to get rid of it, we can always repair it” (it is literally broken and falling apart)

“Wouldn’t it be Bad and Consumeristic to just throw something away that isn’t actually broken just because I want a new one?” (this one plagues me)

“Getting a New Thing would be way too expensive” (hasn’t even checked the price of a replacement, I absolutely can afford it but it would cost more than $50)

Even when I’ve fought through those arguments (which is very hard to do considering these are things I learned while growing up during the 2008 recession and struggling financially due to severe illness and death in the family when I was young) and come out the other side determined to actually replace something, a new issue arises. “How am I going to get rid of the old thing?”

“I can’t donate this because it’s broken or stained”

“I want to sell this but this requires a lot of energy that I don’t have (photographing the item, pricing the item, posting an ad for the item, sorting through offers for the item, arranging pickup for the item, possibly even shipping the item)”

“I want to throw this away but it’s too large to put in the garbage so it must go on the curb and I don’t know the protocol for that”

“I want to throw this away but it’s too large to put in the garbage and too broken to give away so it must go to the dump and I don’t have a vehicle I can use to take this there so I will need to reach out to family for help”

“I want to throw this away but I’m not sure how to do so in an Environmentally Friendly way”

This sort of situation is a nightmare for my mentally ill mind, and it results in me simply giving up and putting up with keeping the shitty item I know I want to replace and repeating the same excuses to myself to justify it enough that I don’t break down in frustrated tears every time I look at the thing I’ve been wanting to get rid of for months.

I’m sick of it though. I am tired of having to put up with being stuck with something I don’t like just because it’s not “bad enough” to justify going through the stress of removing from my life. I am tired of living with these things that I want to get rid of taking up the space I want to give to something new that I do love that I picked out myself on purpose. I am tired of my own happiness not being a good enough reason to justify doing something difficult or inconvenient. I am approaching 30. I don’t want to live the next decade of my life like I’ve lived the first two, just dealing with what’s been given to me and not saying no, incapable of removing things I don’t like to make space for things I do.

[lwcina]

the fact that the us government can continue funding and arming a genocide despite massive public opposition really highlights how inherently non-democratic the united states is

[todayisafridaynight]

Tune In Next Time For The Kirby Opinions Tier List

I GOT YOU COVERED

[wormchaser]

they did not diagnose me with autism but if im being really real i think there were a lot of flaws in their reasoning.. i think that there are several good reasons for me to still think i have autism

[sonknuxadow]

the choices for bosses in sonic dash are so weird like eggman makes sense. if eggman was the only boss i wouldnt really question it at all. but hes not the only boss hes one of two bosses and the other one is ... zazz ??? why him . like having the only other boss be a deadly six member already feels like an odd choice but if youre going to do that why would you pick zazz over zavok

[hershelwidget]

When he Mafia AUs on your Inkling till you [The Mind Electric AMV]

I don't. Know what that caption is. I just wanted something funny to deter from the fact that this is probably the most threatening Inkling I'm ever gonna draw. why is he like that. peepaw stop glaring at someone in the distance like that you're scaring the crew

[skin-slave]

I know this is prob a dumbass thing to be happy about kinda, but I had a long debate over gender yesterday with a conservative Christian bro, and at the end he said I made good points and he disagrees, but will consider what I said. Like 🥹 did I just throw a starfish closer to the water

[deus-and-the-machina]

despite being quite into shipping dynamics and wolships (I gave my girl like. six. she's got a complicated love life) I do get incredibly annoyed when some people discuss npcs being into the wol as "canonical"

There's only like one or two npcs I can think of where there was explicit flirting, but most of the time it's just "oh this character has deep feelings of admiration, dedication and respect for the wol and you can interpret that as you like." and a lot of it is my aromantic ass, but when playing I mostly didn't see characters like g'raha, aymeric, etc as inherently romantic. I definitely went "I see why people ship this" but as someone who gets very giddy and eager about wanting to be friends with someone I think is really cool I could also see their interactions in that light.

honestly this isnt even directed at people who like shipping with these characters but moreso people ive seen talk about how they dont like "how many characters are pushed onto them" and im begging you...you dont have to interpret it that way. especially if its making you unhappy. but also just when anyone discusses characters being "canonically in love with the wol" I find it very often makes me go "ok we clearly had very different outlooks" and it can just be very alienating at times to see people act like romance is the one true canon interpretation.

[crunchycrystals]

i hate interpreting "give me back my girlhood it was mine first" as being about just virginity mostly because it feels so much more meaningful if you allow yourself to interpret it as your younger self and the childhood innocence you had that got taken from you but also because i hate the idea of calling someone's virginity their "girlhood"

[holidaydipstick]

why the hell in fallout 3 do they not let you tell your dad bout the events that transpired in the vault after he left. i know there's a user-made mod that adresses it, that isn't my point. from a story telling perspective it seems unreasonable to sideline the logic that your character escaped a violent escalation of tensions that involved being shot to death by security forces, and that your only response to your dad upon rescuing him and his interrogating you as to why you left 'the safety of the vault' is that 'you missed him (sad puppy face)' or that 'You Didn't Need The Vault... Youre A Badass.'. maybe it's endemic of the writing process and how ideas were considered for the story as a whole but this videogame is sticking to me like glue evidently so i want to interrogate Why. other than that adam adamowicz' art gave the game (and subsequently half of fallout new vegas' it's visual identity and style and that inon zur did a bang up job on the soundtrack. like what are the core ideas that keep me coming back. i think that comparing fallout 3 to earlier fallout games and coming to the conclusion that it is not a good game because it is not a good 'Fallout Game' isn't fair because they didn't really try to construct the game on fallout's set of guidelines. there's no hard moral choices but there IS a parody of the idea of morality through the ever-present 'karma system' where they show you the little vault man mascot dressed up as Satan from the bible. hey i never really though about it that much but it's kind of funny that your character is raised christian but is obviously not a practicing christian and that your secondary interaction system is this indirect karma/guilt tracking system that marks your descent into immorality as literally being like satan from hell with a pitchfork, goatee and horns. ohhhhh you're soooooo evil now hehee.

[just-spacetrash]

giys im watching marianne and if that fucked up writer and her assistant dont makeout before marianne kills the assistant im suing

[rxttenfish]

tbh as much as i do, like, Get what people mean when they mourn the loss of the classic and true evil villain and missing the "evil and loving it" persona

at the same time, sometimes i just look at a person who's getting a bit Too into it and Too upset about "redeemable" villains and its like.

wow bud, youre getting WAY too hung up on just wanting characters who are uncomplicatedly good and uncomplicatedly bad with no grey area between and way too upset about having to consider that sometimes people do things for complicated reasons.

[xaymak]

i think about asian link all the time. theyre asian to me like... "oh its not realistic theyre pale and blue eyed and blond" do u wanna know whats unrealistic. in the legend of zelda series thats fantasy/adventure. the way no ones just moved out of hyrule already just make a bridge and leave!!!! place keeps getting overrun!!! leave!!!!!!!!