#i am currently unemployed

[writing-for-the-stars-and-moon]

I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year. Again. Hoping to actually complete it this time, which I am on track to do.

With that out of the way, I might as well yeet out the two haikus my brain came up with in the middle of the night and I wrote down before they disappeared.

Shadows over me

Winter's breeze pierces my heart

Grief reigns over all

November's folly

Dreams and nightmares align from here

Fate's dark fortune killed

[eccogirl]

(via "Fanfiction Stiles" Sticker for Sale by EccoGirl88)

[intotheelliwoods]

Ahh this event has gotten so much reception! I dont think I can answer you all but I will certainly try to get to as many as I can! :)

Maybe this can last 2 days? 3?? We will see!

[trianglesimpfordpines]

ok so like 2 people said they wanted to see the "ford is the most realistic genius" post and that's all the encouragement i need. i'm probably gonna sound pretty full-of-myself on this post but that's just how it be like sometimes.

a lot of the time, "intelligence" is assumed to mean "knows more things." fictional characters who are supposed to be geniuses typically just...miraculously Know information they have no real way of acquiring, anticipate events that cannot reasonably anticipated, or every other character just suddenly gets stupid when the genius character is around so that the "genius" character just doing the logical thing comes off as particularly smart.

so you have a character who supposedly has a really high iq, but in practice they may as well be psychic.

as someone who actually has an iq of 147 (bear with me, because this isn't a flexing post), being "really intelligent" does not mean Just Knowing Things. what it means is that someone who's "smart" (in the traditional sense) can process more information, draw more conclusions, and do so faster than most people. it also usually means being really good at rationalizing things. so if you're someone who's well-adjusted and well-informed, that can definitely look like knowing all the right answers...but if you're someone who's not well-adjusted or well-informed, it can, if anything, make you even wronger. you get better at rationalizing your mistakes and digging yourself in deeper. and heaven help you if you have paranoid tendencies, because it's that much harder to convince someone they're being irrational when they're on a whole 'nother level of finding information to back up their irrationality.

ford is a genius. he learns incredibly fast and thoroughly. but he's also constrained by the information he has available to him, and by his own biases and past trauma and people issues.

that one writing advice post that made the rounds saying that a character's biggest flaw is usually their biggest strength in the wrong situation is very true of people who are very intelligent. it's why, for example, you'll sometimes see doctors, academics, experts buy into conspiracy theories. it's not because they're stupid; it's because they're smart enough to recontextualize all their knowledge to support their biases and beliefs.

and so many people do not understand this because they still think of "intelligence" as "knowing & being right about everything." so you get people arguing that ford isn't really a genius, because he was wrong and he made mistakes. but in my opinion, the mistakes he makes make perfect sense because he's a genius. that kind of recklessness is exactly what you get when you combine abnormally high iq with ford's myriad of personal issues. you get someone who's great at rationalizing, great at taking in information, and great at finding surprisingly well-thought-out reasons why their paranoia and antisocial tendencies are totally just the rational response.

think of it this way; the smartest people alive in the medieval era believed in the miasma theory. they weren't too stupid to understand what bacteria and viruses are; they just didn't have the tools needed to observe them. so they came up with a theory based on the information they did know, wrote essays and papers about it, made medical practices based on it...and it was completely incorrect, because genius without correct information leads to spectacular and very well-thought-out mistakes.

anyway, all this to say, as someone who could nominally be considered a "genius" but has been hella wrong about a lot of things in my life, i think ford is an incredibly realistic take on what most "geniuses" are really like. impressive in the right situations, not so much in the wrong ones, and very much not magical beings capable of mysteriously knowing all the correct information because they're Just That Smart. and very much not immune to emotional and personal issues getting in the way.

thanks for coming to my "i-just-slept-for-20-hours-and-my-brain-is-a-bit-scrambled-right-now" ted talk

[5qui99l3draws]

one fairysona with a pigeon friend for @pfandghoul!

commission info here

bonus thumbnails because they're cute:

[frumentariae]

not to e-beg again but i’m frighteningly Poor™️ at the moment and am having trouble affording groceries. the local food pantry i go to will be closed for the next week, which means that i’ll have to go shopping this week :’)

i’m still waiting on funds to come in from my school to help with my living expenses, and unfortunately traveling to the rez to visit family wasn’t as covered by my dad as i needed it to be.

long story short: i’m super broke at the moment and need to be able to get gas (i live in a semi-rural area—driving is unfortunately a necessity) and eat. my paycheck will be coming soon to cover my car payment, and rent for this month is taken care of for now— but in the meantime, we are in a really tight spot.

i’m hoping to raise like $100-150 to help cover this week’s groceries and gas. since we got a used printer for my partner’s birthday, i’m also willing to mail out signed prints of any of my artworks that you like with donations greater than $20 (you’ll just need to DM me a mailing address you’re comfortable with sharing. you can send it to my discord, gerardkeay, and delete the message if you’d like once i post it.)

if you made it to the end of the post, philamayaye 💖 you’re wonderful

paypal

ko-fi

[y2sims]

hi! i started retexturing in the new hair system back in 2019 and since then i've been sharing hundreds of hairs and taken many requests from y'all. i'm not planning to stop doing that, but from now on, i have opened commissions on my ko-fi page.

if you'd like to support me and my work, please consider tipping or requesting a hair (or nine!) 😄💖

you can request one hair (1€), four hairs (3€), or nine hairs (6€).

i'm open to retexturing hairs in other hair systems, too!

you can also send me requests for other recolors: eyebrows, lips, clothes... just ask me first!

i will try to get your requests done in 24 hours, or less (but i will always have the right to not accept your request if i feel like i can't execute it properly)!

i will share with you the download link, and it's up to you whether or not you'd want me to share your request publicly. i will still keep the rights to publish the hairs at later time (after a month or so).

[strawberrybyers]

posted on facebook an image from one of the sets of stranger things to see if any of my 80’s babies/children/teens/adults fam members or whoever might be familiar with the lore and give me the insight.

i wrote out the post so formal though so they couldn’t get a whiff of the fact i am not asking because i intend to write an article for cinemablend but instead for my tumblr blog so my fellow mentally ill queers and i can go insane over a piece of prop to prove one of the hundreds of theories we all have ping ponging between us

[impmakesart]

OPEN ART COMMISSIONS!

If you are interested, please send me an email at impalartsociopath@gmail.com (or DM me) with: the style you want the art in, your idea, visual references, and your PayPal email. If your idea/project is different from what I offer here, we can talk about it via email as well! I’ve done pet portraits, character reference sheets and Twitch emotes in the past too :)

You can find the full information on payment and process in my terms of service, here: [x]

You can also support me by throwing a couple of bucks in my ko-fi, here: [x]

[astral-circuitry]

realized in order to quit my job i need to know when i signed my employment contract, and because me and my important documents are not on speaking terms, i had to go look through discord messages i exchanged with someone i don't even talk to anymore these days in order to find a "oops i gotta go sleep early, i have to go sign my contract tomorrow" message, lmao

[cosmic-lullaby]

well children, I've officially fallen so far down the depressive - episode rabbit hole I've started rewatching the worst comfort show possible.

[ravengales-glade]

*If you had the money to pay a small business

Please answer assuming you had the money! This is hypothetical, I simply want to see if there is a market for myself (IN THE FUTURE) or other people ^^

[ttaibhse]

i need to start volunteering again but i don't want to. i need to start properly consistently regularly applying to jobs but i don't want to. i've had enough of it all i just don't want to. but i also don't want to be unemployed again lol. no winning

[thegreenleavesofspring]

A genuinely horrible thought just occurred to me. Would everyone please pray that the court does not order me to put my children in public school so that I can go get 'a real job'?

[frogatz]

commissions are: CLOSED

I will draw just about anything for your personal use. get it printed, make a custom wrap for your car, i do not care !

I prefer to take payment in USD through ko-fi, but am willing to discuss other methods

[system-threat-detected]

Hello all! For the Horizon Day of Service I decided to help out my native pollinators and maybe even some monarch butterflies! The solitary bees that frequent my garden LOVED my basil flowers when they went to flower last year, so I allowed all my basil to go to flower a bit early this year to help them out!

[ID: Two stacked planters filled with plants. The first is a green planter with calendulas, peppers, dwarf stock flowers, lanceleaf coreopsis, johnny jump ups, sweet alyssum, and basil plants which have gone to flower. The second is a tan planter with more flowering basil, marigolds, chamomile, squash, and a small melon vine. /end ID]

Then I planted even MORE basil so that when my first wave of flowers dies off, the bees have some more!

[ID: three basil plants in a white pot. Each plant is about 5 inches tall. They have not flowered yet. /end ID]

I’ve been making a valiant struggle against the grass around where I planted the milkweed, but that darn stuff sure is tenacious! Hopefully they get a bit bigger soon, and return next year!

[ID: two pictures of small milkweed plants, about 6 inches tall each. A hand is gently holding both plants, helping them to stand out against an army of grass trying to strangle them /end ID]

Finally, the bees really liked my nasturtiums in the late fall last year, so I’m starting some more sprouts to plant! Only one has sprouted so far, but I can see the others disturbing the soil! They should sprout soon.

[ID: a small nasturtium plant in a seedling tray, an inch tall. It has two leaves, and a white tag labeling it as “regular nasturtium” stuck into the soil near it. It is very cute. /end ID]