#it's about the rich eating us

[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!)

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 234

More of the Tiamat Au? More of the Tiamat Au! 

Sharing a body was strange. Ten limbs split between the nine of them- thirteen if one counted the tails and seventeen if one counted the fact that their cloak… skirt… whatever could mimic the wings of their other form. 

One which they would change back to after a few moments- there was much less stumbling when it was all fours. Not to mention that if not for the tails they’d have easily toppled over with how many arms they had making them slightly top heavy. Okay more than slightly, it was taking a bit to adjust. 

Honestly the fields of wheat and other crops did nothing to hide them with how tall even this body was, but it was still better than nothing, and they were using the fact it was the middle of nowhere to their shared advantage. 

At least the humanoid- not human, even now their shared power thrummed through the air, leaking from them- form was smaller than their true draconic one. Well, perhaps they shouldn’t call it their true form, when they were once all human, halfa and liminal alike, but they’d long since stopped being such. So perhaps it was in fact true to call the form they had become as their normal state now. 

Actually, could they even separate now? Or had their power melded together so much that it was impossible now, and an attempt would end them? It would at the very least crack their core- 

“What the fuck.” 

Their head lurched, a little too far if the jolt of pain was anything before it melted away. They were all too used to moving their own necks separately. But all of them agreed that discovery could not happen-

Oh.

It was a child. A preteen with red-orange hair, blue-green eyes, expensive clothing, and most damming of all, large swaths of bruising across his arms. Bruising that did not come from usual play, and looked far too much like hand prints for any of their comfort. 

Someone had very much not been taking care of this child. And that really made them quite angry. 

[onesidedradiostatic]

honestly thinking about the idea of the radiostatic falling out happening slowly rather than one big blow up. I mean a big blow up would definitely be more dramatic but at the same time...

imagine like little disagreements over time that became more and more frequent, arguments where they'd just be pissed at each other for a while then come back a bit later because they still wanted to hold onto the friendship even though it was starting to fall apart, until the straw that broke the camel's back that is vox asking alastor to "join his team", alastor rejecting and him getting pissy that causes them to break it off for good

I constantly think about how these two probably had very different ideals and yet still managed to be friends, but what if those differences are ones that did in fact keep coming up in their friendship but ones they tried to ignore BECAUSE they wanted to maintain the friendship until they couldn't anymore

[lastoneout]

this is my entire stance on the "american food is bad" discourse summed up

[moiraimyths]

Before we call anon rude because let’s see it from their perspective, imagine getting an entire feast to eat. That can be pretty hard to start with so much that’s going on, but if they start with one thing they know they’ll like (aka one character they like) that can be the start for them leaping to other characters to finish the story and the bigger story. I struggle the same way to start book series if I don’t have at least one character that drives me to read it, it’s all about what can be the hook to push them through. Sounds like the anon is neurodivergent (just a guess) so they might genuinely not see it as rude and see it as a solution to even play the game to start with.

Btw absolutely adore the game, the complex and rich characters making them all so unique is amazing. The art is so pleasing to the eyes I love it!! I’m waiting for it all to get out at once so I don’t get too impatient. Shae however interests me the most, which routes will have the most lore for them? Will there be routes that give more lore in general based on decisions you make or do they all share the same amount? (I mean general lore not just Shae lore)

Apologies; we are not trying to accuse any asker of being rude! We are simply explaining our perspective as the developers / are trying to broadly encourage folks to dip their toes into other areas of the story outside of the main route(s) they're interested in, especially considering some routes will be made available sooner than others, and these other routes will likely contain additional scenes/lore of everyone's fave(s) regardless! We want to give each main cast member an equal amount of love (and lore) regardless of their overall popularity, so our goal is not to tut-tut anyone for having strong preferences for one character over the others, but rather to explain that you may be surprised by how much *more* you learn about your preferred characters in the other routes. That's all!

For Shae... Well, they were a foot soldier for one of the worst periods of the War. Lore wise, any other story that touches on the War will likely have content relevant to them and their experiences. ^^

[anqaspond]

americans will make every issue in the world, whether its genocide or war or funding countries with revolting laws, about them. It always comes back to "oh god i hate my country so much for funding these awful things, they clearly hate americans because theyre doing all these awful things and running us into debt but they wont even pay us reasonable wages!" more so than it is actually about the awful thing

[hesitantweevil4]

one good thing to come of all this is the free bootlicker blocklist in these tags

[thedisablednaturalist]

I don't think rich people should get to play with their toys if their toys are using up the carbon emissions of entire cities (and countries!) and wreaking havoc on the earth that we all share.

[thenixkat]

Aside from the whole eating people thing, ye olden werewolves were like disliked for the whole stealing shit thing.

Mostly stealing and/or eating other people's livestock.

[internetfriend]

very interesting how people are bashing jk rowling for holocaust denial but the minute jewish people ask gentiles to stop parroting antisemitic shit in their politics NOBODY LISTENS

[nando161mando]

It’s not about “you” (individually), it’s about you (and actually, “us”, systemically

[gaffney]

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✨i’m losing it, all i get is jealousy, jealousy ✨

[creed-of-cats]

The amount of doomerism I've heard from fellow usamericn zoomers/millennials around me is starting to drive me fucking insane.

"We're all gonna die, it's hopeless, it's not worth doing anything. This is our penance as human beings/[insert other guilty identity]"

You know who you guys fucking sound like? Fucking Evangelicals.

Yeah it's fucking scary and big, I'm not trying to say it isn't. But what the fuck is your plan??? Sitting down and dying?? Are you really telling me that this world is not worth you even fucking trying?? That you're just gonna party it out until your miscellaneous end game apocalypse arrives?

This isn't the rapture. The apocalypse is a false concept. People have been living through "apocalypses" every day of their fucking lives for all of human history, especially during the past 400 years. Get up and stop the suicidal idealization of your own tragic death. Our lives in the first world are built off suffering. To lay down and say we don't have any power is to reject the duty we have as beneficiaries of that suffering.

If you are so convinced you're going to die young then die trying instead of baring your fucking throat.

[deepseacityunderground]

i think this speaks to a great us-american (and to a lesser extent western) misunderstanding of just how relative their wealth and position is compared to the rest of the world... having stable internet access, stable housing, stable electricity, stable water supply, stable economy (even with the inflation that most of the west has dealt w/ recently), stable government, all of these things are huge priviliges in fact. to turn around and blame your ignorance on a lack of education in one of the richest countries on earth, or turn around and lecture ppl on the usa is a "third world country w a gucci belt" (disregarding that the term third world was not about wealth but about political positioning on a global stage whatever) showcases a basic lack of understanding about wealth infrastructure and poverty on a global scale.

[lunarharp]

lazy scribbling of my baldur's gate 3 characters

[wittyno]

Does anyone else ever see a take so bad that you just hope they are the only person to have that take?