#it'll be fine i'm just being annoying

[papermint-airplane]

Yesterday I returned to work after a week off. We're so unbelievably short-staffed because they're still trying to sell the department and they're not allowed to hire any new people to replace the people quitting in droves, so the mountain of work I had to do completely by myself immediately drove me into a massive panic attack that lasted all day and today, my whole body is swollen and hurts. So that's great. I'm trying to hold on until they finally sell and I get the severance (which is pretty decent since I've been there for 18 years...not huge or anything but it'll keep me afloat for maybe four months) but my mental health isn't keeping up with my resolve. All I want is a job that pays enough to cover my bills, offers insurance, and doesn't make me want to kill myself. I'm tired of being on suicide watch every other month because of this place. I just don't feel like I deserve any better. I don't know why I'm even posting this here. I have been asking for way too much sympathy/support/whatever lately and people are going to get sick of my shit. This is probably all oversharing anyway, I just don't know how to process it without talking to someone. My therapist is great but he's focused on getting me to quit and I just can't do that. I will NEVER find another job. My resumé is one page because I have had ONE job for 18 years. Nobody's going to want a college dropout with only one job on their resumé. I'm just so tired of wanting to die.

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[running-in-the-dark]

I'm still not feeling great. now one side of my face also hurts lol, it's just one thing after another, this body sucks

[tecchan]

Mitsugi squatting everywhere is the only highlight of this damn game

[churchyardgrim]

honest to god going to start making threat displays at my shift supervisor. he just got back from four months medical leave on account of obliterating both ankles (don't fall off ladders kids) and the first conversation he had with me involved an encouragement to "find something to do" when my work queue's low

and this. hasn't. stopped.

he keeps implying that busywork is either useful or productive, and that i should take the initiative to go find some, and this from a guy who literally just met me last week is really shortening my patience for his face.

my go-to response to shit like this is usually smile n nod, sure thing whatever u say boss, address my assigned tasks and then do whatever the hell i want anyway, but god is it getting harder not to challenge his ass. maybe if my next practice weld piece mysteriously takes the shape of a graceful middle finger he'll get the point.....

[youremyonlyhope]

why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up

[tardis--dreams]

I relate to shane madej because i too wish i could take a pill containing all the nutrients for a day instead of having to plan what the hell i should eat every single day of my silly little life

[fangirlandtheories]

Welcome back, on this episode of "My parents have been home less than an hour and have talked about my sister at least 5 times at this point" we'll be focusing on the effects of being the least favorite child. For reference, my older brother has been discussed twice. They didn't even ask how my day was.

[burnhamandtilly]

nothing's sadder than placing all your patterns on top of your fabric and realizing you don't have enough fabric to make it like you initially wanted

[silverserpent]

imma overshare here, but

I was told that, paraphrasing, "Silver is the one who understands their body-y feelings are emotions the best, and they are very open about it, so they are very annoying"

Right now, I'm alcoholed so i feel like I got complimened. (Complimenter is alcoholed too.)

but i am putting the criticism away for later

[sensitivegoblin]

Vent

[jedi-bird]

Let there be thunder and lightning (and one very anxious birdy)

[aturnipsingularity]

YA BOI IS GONNA HAVE A BED

[bamgeut]

i'll literally be talking about this stage until we get another beomjun stage

[graphic--horde]

How do you make your stamps? :0

Disclaimer: this is an obscenely long explanation, with pictures. Efficiency is stupid

So, for the static ones, I make a 99x56 px file on ibis paint x. Other programs are probably available online but I don't use them.

After that, I either upload an image I want to make into a stamp, or I draw one.

Then, I find a frame I want to use. Ill upload them here but let it be known I stole all of these right from deviantart

Most of them are from Lil-Devil-Melii on deviantart. The rest i have no idea. They're not all 99x56px but you can crop the canvas it's fine

Make sure to erase the edges of the picture , so they're transparent. It's not as cute otherwise

Upload those frames over your image in whatever art program you're using and viola, stamp.

For moving ones, it's a lot harder. Mostly because I refuse to download Photoshop.

There are a couple ways to do this. Some are simple animations, like with flashing text and whatnot. For these, you download the individual animation frames from your art program. Make sure it's transparent.

Then, upload each frame to ezgif.com under the option "GIF maker." You can play around with how fast each frame goes and whatnot but in the end, it'll be a stamp with some rad text that moves. This is easy, and doesn't make me want to shit my pants and cry. If you're new, do this. This is fun. This is good. This does not kill me inside

I made that↓ stamp with this method :)

this next one is how we turn gifs into stamps. This one makes me sad. It involves math and sucks. But we gotta do it. For the vibe

First, grab your gif. I'm using this cow gif because it's awesome

Then, I resize it using ezgif. Literally everything for this will be using ezgif. I am a simple man

At this point you should decide what frame to use. I'm using this one because its the first one I clicked

Figured out what size the inside of the frame is. That's what I resize the gif to, so the edges can be transparent. The inside of this one is 93x50 px, so those are the dimensions I'm making the gif.

Figure it out by putting the frame into ibis paint and realizing the canvas to fit just the inside of the frame, then seeing what the dimensions are. But there could be easier ways

Woah it's so small now

Then, still on ezgif, I go to the "crop" option.

Make sureeee to upload the smaller gif

press the button that says "extend canvas size", and then put the "width" and "height" as the dimensions for your FRAME. This'll put a bit of a transparent border around the gif. For this frame, I did 99px and 56px.

The "left" and "top" boxes show how many pixels the cropping happens from the edges of the canvas. The formula for finding that is

(width of gif / 2) - (difference between gif width and frame width / 2) = left box

For me it's (93 / 2) - (6 / 2) = 43.5

Then you do the same.for the height, which for me ends up being 22 from the top

This is reallyyy touchy and annoying though

Here's my result , with no visible difference

Okay so THEN you go to the "overlay" option, under "effects." And upload your frame. If the cropping was done right, you shouldn't have to move the frame at all and can just download it

Here's my result:

if you don't care about transparency, you can resize your gif to be the same size as the frame, and then put the frame over it. But I'm a slut for transparency

Anyways. I'm sorry if anything was unclear, it's two am. And I hope this was helpful :) these really are fun to make once you get it down

also if anyone has an easier way to make stamps from gifs, please god tell me

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for getting upset when my mom insists on clipping my nails?

I (adult male) still live with my mother because of finances/personal situations that make me unable to earn my own living. For the most part, this is fine. However, there's one thing that bugs me: she insists on trimming my nails for me.

I know it sounds weird, and it is. She's been trimming my nails since I was little, and I've always hated it. But now I'm an adult, and I don't need her to trim my nails for me, but every two weeks or so, she insists on doing it anyway. I'll admit that I have coordination issues that make things like that difficult for me to accomplish on my own, and hygiene isn't my strong suit either. But I don't need (or want) her to keep trimming my nails for me. How do I tell her to stop?

I've tried to explain it to her, but it's like I'm speaking another language or something. I've tried more direct methods, like pulling my hand away when she tries to bring out the clippers, but then she just says I'm being childish and it'll be over faster if I just let her do it, and that her dogs (she has two, they both hate me) are more well-behaved than I am. And then she trims my nails anyway, no matter how many times I tell her I hate it!

So yesterday, I finally got fed up. And right as she grabbed my hand and tried to come in with the clippers, I pulled my hand away and jabbed her with my quills! And then I curled up in a ball, so she couldn't get to my paws at all. She tried to reach for my paws, but I just poked her again.

My mom got annoyed, and said we'll have to try again tomorrow since clearly I'm in a bad mood. She seemed upset, and I feel a little bad for poking her so much since usually we have a good relationship. So tumblr, am I the asshole?

Pic of me so you can see that I'm a grown man that doesn't need his nails trimmed!

What are these acronyms?