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Hey! Sorry i havent been writing here, im taking a break, a long one i guess- but im posting here in question
If i were to open headshot comms, would anyone be interested? I kinda want serious opinions, cause, i really want to do this, but im unsure if people would be intrested in my style?
This will be my first time with comms, so i want to see if people would actually want it
Examples: Furry, dragons, ponys, i can try humans but they arent my best
#art commisions#headshot commission#headshot#furry#wof#dragons#mlp#furry comms#dragon commission#lmk if u are intrested#maybe 10 or 15 dollars?#please be honest
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Look, I don't believe in preferential treatment, it's not right.... BUT ☝️ if we're gonna have changbin saying sydney is skz's second hometown I just think maybe australia could not be charged things like 60+ dollars shipping.... or 75 dollars for a normal album at the most prominent music retailer when other places pay 15-20 for the same thing.... lol
#like sometimes i think ppl think im being dramatic but over the years ive had ppl randomly look up how much we get charged for randon stuff#and every time theyre like WHYS IT 50 BUCKS MORE FOR YOU EVEN WITH EXCHANGE RATES FACTORED#and im like... idk ?#ausflation#like there are these little anime figurines my little cousin really liked and in jp yen which is equivalent to aud roundabout#theyre from about 36 to 42 dollars and in aus theyre all like 86+ dollars ? why. maybe 10 dollars more okay but why twice over ?#why#someone play why by skz#Why#like you can go online and find better deals but its sorta a hassle#and a regular old mum who has a 15 yr old who asks for a skz album for Christmas will probably just go in store and then be like why tf#lmao#we're being finagled#but also this just reminded me of last xmas when i saw a mum in the kpop section and she was so pissed off bc '#and i quote 'none of these albums have NAMES ON THEM' and then i looked and she was right#like there were numerous groups but very few had boxes that actuslly said NCT WISH or what#it was just like random graphic art or a couple were actually just plain boxes with a symbol#like if youre a kpop head you know the symbols but if you are aunty jen and you dont know this shit? fucked time really funny
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i wish my hearing wasn't so damn sensitive. i have white noise playing loud af when i go to bed so I won't hear anything else. the power went out twice last night which of course shut off the white noise. first i woke up to the sound of my cat chewing, the 2nd time I woke up to someone walking on the other side of the house. why does autism/misophonia have to do that omg
on the bright side having sensitive hearing isn't all that bad bc when i listen to music i can pick out every single instrument's part and learn how to play every part on every instrument i own so that's an autism win for sure. we have a badass electric piano from 1989 that lets you record multiple tracks at once. so when I was in band, I'd learn every instrument's part, record each of them, play them all at once, then practice my part on my instrument (viola, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone) along with it. like i said. autism for the win. sometimes
#i was doing that from 10-15 years old#quit band at 15 because 1. our band teacher tried to kill us (had to have an ambulance come for several students during a heat wave)#and 2. they wanted $350 for band fees and my parents couldn't afford it#my grandma bought that piano for $3000 in 1989 dollars which is $7628.25 in today's money#i don't even know how SHE afforded that. it was right after my grandpa died so maybe life insurance or something like that?#it's the most expensive item we've ever owned for sure other than cars#.bdo
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hasbro recognized transformers animated for the first time in 15 years. sound the alarms i am screaming my fucking head off
#liz blogs#transformers#transformers animated#THE TISM. THE TISM IT HAS BEEN ACTIVATED FOR JUST A MOMENT#ARE THOSE TOYS NEEDLESSLY OVERLY DETAILED? YES. CAN BEGGARS BE CHOOSERS? NO. NO I CANNOT BE#I'LL TAKE IT GODDAMMIT#I WONT BUY THEM BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE THE ORIGINAL TOYS OF THESE CHARACTERS BUT HOO BOY I AM FUCKING LOOKING#bee looks cute though.... bee always looks cute#he's my little guy#why the FUCK are his stingers GUNS though HASBRO#and that optimus looks badass. i actually think the style works for him#too bad he's $35 fucking dollars. back in my day a transformer was $10. maybe 12.#those fancy japanese import anime figures i always eyed up but could never get my hands on were $35. oh how times change#why did prices double in 15 years. inflation is stupid and made up
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Size comparison between Aster and the eevee cause when I said she was smaller I really meant she is smaller
#anyway I think I’m gonna try and get some needlefelts done to maybe try and sell? i know I am far from experienced but I’d like to try and.#make some money lol. plus it’ll help me buy more supplies and stuff.#they probably won’t cost much like 10-15 dollars (plus shipping)#have an armature done for a pikachu. probably will be a while til I finish it tho.#needlefelt#also included quarter in image for size reference#honestly I probably have enough dark grey to make another zorua
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i need to get a proper case for my copy of shadow the hedgehog ive only ever had the disc and its always bothered me
#but ive also seen people charge like 15-20 dollars for the case alone. which i dont feel like spending.#actually iirc i onlyl spent like 5-10 dollars on the game itself so consideing how much it goes for nowadays#i wouldnt actually be spending THAT much on it if i bought the case for that much. but idk i still dont like that idea#maybe i can fidn a blank case somewhere and print out the box art to put in it. idk
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DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FANART ID BUY IF I DIDNT HAVE TO PAY FOR FUCKING SHIPPING COSTS??? DO YOU KNOW??? DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I COULD BUY IF THE SHIPPING DIDNT COST DOUBLE WHAT THE ART COSTS???
#i wanted to buy fanart for one of my shoes and i went onto the artist’s redbubble but the shipping was like $50 dollars even though the#prints themselves were $15#LIKE FUCK??#bro???#and then i was like maybe if add more items like stickers and other prints the shipping will go down BUT IT DIDNT#and i don’t mind spending $5-10 on shopping but fucking 50???.#FLFJAJOSFJDNKSFJDNSLSPFHSNAK IM SO MAD#i know it’s not your fault fanartists :( i love you and i’m never blaming you#i just hate that i fanta buy y’all’s stuff because in cannot spend that much money on shipping#*can’t buy yalls#ciara’s convos#*one of my shows. i’m not buying fanart for shoes😭
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I dont know. Should I give up and try doing minecraft skin commissions again. Those were the only ones that ever sold before. Do people even still care about minecraft. I'm not sure i've ever even been able to launch it since the account migration and the time they did some weird thing that made me have to redownload like 3 different versions of the launcher
#the problem is i want money but i also can't in my heart justify charging more than 10 dollars for minecraft skins.#I mean theyre minecraft skins.#Maybe 15 dollars. If it wouldn't weigh on my soul.#But that's still not anything. That's like 1 kind of big box of microwave cheeseburger.#Or almost 3 small boxes of microwave cheeseburger.
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ok took a GET SCARED break time to go back 2 physics the library closes in an hour and a half..
#im trying 2 decide what 2 get 4 dinner... since it is my treat day :]]#im 3/4ths of the way done with my physics 4 the day. yay#3/4th is technically enough to satisfy da goal (the goal is 100/day but its rounded to da nearest hundred. so technicallyyy i only have 2 d#51 a day i just like having it be clean numbers... otherwise i get scared.#BUT. my weekly goal is 3 stars a week WHICH ive hit 4 this week. the stars r 1 star per hundred lessons rounded etc u get it.#and after i get these last 25 done today ill only have 284 left and then i can finally graduate lol. only a couple months late <- purely bc#ive been procrastinating. i couldve finished like summer of 2021 but i didnt feel like ittt. so yes./#but that means that if i just satisfy my weekly goal next week i will be allll done. i think i might let myself have a little extra spendin#money as a reward.. like maybe ill get 10 bonus stars for fully finishing school. and since school is a yellow task that is 15 whole dollar#very very very exciting ok now back 2 it.
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This post was a waste of time pls ignore tweet’s weird, I get to go on analytical rant yay
“tried going on a date last night to feel more normal and social” implies a few things: the date was unsuccessful in her eyes, she doesn’t normally go on dates, and she considers herself “not normal” and “not social”
She says he loved her until she mentioned OF and that he left after. Okay, did he straight up leave without another word? Did he make an excuse, did he say it wasn’t going to work out, did he explain an opinion regarding OF that made him not want to continue the date?
“didn’t pay for our drinks”, meaning she expected him to be the one to pay, and adds to her list of things he did wrong
“Left crying by some prick with a receding hairline” notice how she doesn’t mention any attributes about this dude until after she sets them up in her tweet as a bad person and that they’re all negative? She doesn’t actually explain this dude as a person until she’s explained that he’s a *bad* person. the tweet goes from her explaining herself as a person to pity (feel more normal), immediately to what the guy did wrong (to set him as the person to hate) and only then does she describe this dude. He was set to be the wrong person from the start; the fact that she’s ranting about it on Twitter proves that enough but I digress
the main issue is that his “receding hairline” wasn’t an issue she had with him until *after* he didn’t want to date her. He was the perfect (more like normal dude actually cuz again, she doesn’t describe him at all in the beginning) dude as long as he was interested, and the second he wasnt, he was a prick. It’s probably her coping about him leaving too cuz she was crying about it.
Dude didn’t want to date you cuz you did OF; okay, that’s his choice. He’s allowed that choice; in fact, that choice benefits both of you cuz it’s obviously not gonna work out if he’s not okay with you doing OF.
#However I don’t blame her#She says they went to a bar#60 bucks spent#even split of 30 being generous#Google says avg cost of a drink at a bar is 2-10 dollars#So she had somewhere between 3-15 drinks#Massive range but I’m pretty sure 3 drinks worth 10 dollars is gonna get you as drunk as 15 drinks worth 2 dollars#What I’m trying to say is she’s probably drunk and that’s what caused the crying#Maybe her being drunk also caused him to leave#There’s so much speculation that it’s crazy anyone in the replies to that post called him misogynistic#You don’t have 90% of the required info to make that claim it’s absurd lmao
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Why do they sell better wallets here
#angryborzois rambles#i saw really good ones at the markets#like the functionality was amazing#and they were only 5-10 euro#and i had to pay 15 dollars for mine and its not the best in functionality 😭#like damn maybe i shouldnt have bouught a new wallet before i came here#the ones i saw were perfect 🥲#but im not gonna buy another one im fine atp
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I forget exactly where I saw the initial post asking for volunteers, but on July 10th, I reached out to the listed email. Jane, the organizer, got back to me right away and within an hour I was added in their discord.
Up until this point, I had been maintaining an average 8 ESims myself, so I already had experience checking in on them on a daily basis. The folks there helped me onboard with the spreadsheets for keeping track, and now it's very easy for me to catalog new ones I buy and record daily data usage. The whole process takes me maybe 20-40 minutes a day depending now on how many ESims actually need to be topped off.
Jane has been very up front with lots of the group's information, with frequent announcements about the groups current funds and amounts of daily ESims sent out. She and the others have been super helpful with getting funds to us when needed, and I've almost never had to actually spend any of my own money for any of this.
In the time that I've been volunteering, they figured out how to run a Business account with the Nomad ESim company. Which means that now and then they can just send 15 or so ESims my way, and I just catalog them and send the QRcodes towards Mirna and the Connecting Gaza folks. No more wasting time with the purchasing process, while getting a bit of a bulk discount on top of that.
We also share updates on whatever brand of ESims are most needed. When folks on the ground tell us that one network doesn't seem reliable, we are able to switch over for a while until either the networking issue is fixed, or we all pressure customer service enough to replace them for us.
There's also lots of complaining about new UI updates an general website bugs. There's surprisingly a lot of them and it's good to know other folks are getting info from customer service when things go wrong.
In August they made a meme channel
Anyways....
Lets get into some stats for myself. In 2 months (July 10- Sept12) I have:
Send off 171 ESims
Maintained around 60 active ones
Topped up these active ESims 139 times
Spend over $6400 donated dollars
I have multiple power users who have burned through close to 100GB. 2 of them have broken 200GB. These are most likely being used as hot spots.
Why am I sharing all of this? Mostly to show how easy it has been to make a marginal difference. I have helped at least 60 people stay connected with the outside world in just 2 months. Probably more if we assume some of the power users becoming hotspots for other folks. This is 20-40 minutes of my time a day, and I honestly regret not signing up to do this sooner.
I was specifically limiting myself to this workload because I wanted to test the waters. Those stats was me specifically not wanting to push myself and see what impact a normal person could make with 20 minutes a day. At this point I think I will be taking more advantage of Nomad's Tuesday discounts to really bulk up my numbers. It's pretty easy to buy 15 or so every Tuesday, and then send em over.
If you would like to join us in this endeavor, please reach out to Jane at cripsforesimsforgaza(at)gmail
We are specifically looking for people in European time zones, since a lot of us are in the Americas and that's quite a difference between us and Gaza. If not, that's no problem!
If you can't participate, that's totally fine, but please donate what you can! Folks like you are the ones who keep us going!
I hope this information has been useful in some way. Like I said, I wish I had heard about this group sooner, with how easy it has been to do. I can track my direct impact of what my daily time is doing for folks, and seeing the data be used up a little bit more day by day gives me hope for everyone in Gaza. Thank you for your time.
#Initially I was gonna make this a whole comic#but then turns out I'm so tired nowadays and it went from a 1 month update to a 2 month update#free palestine#crips for esims#esims for gaza#palestine
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It's surreal to witness how easily some people can ignore the urgent situation in Gaza. They’re watching it unfold live: children and families in Gaza bombed, erased from their homes, but they still act like nothing’s happening. History will look back on this time, and it won't be forgiving. It won’t only remember those who supported the bombings; it will also remember those who sat back, shrugged, and scrolled past without a second thought. It will remember that we, as Palestinians, reached out for help but were met with indifference, silence, and passive inaction. There’s no difference between the Zionists and those who ignor our messages from Gaza. There’s no difference between the Zionists and those who witness our pain without acting. You are witnessing ethnic cleansing, and your reaction is ...... nothing. Blank faces, silence, a refusal to acknowledge the truth unfolding right in front of you. Are you really unable to spare $10, $15 or 20$ to save lives in Gaza? Are you too lazy to respond with even a word of support? Are we asking too much of your time?? Is 5 minutes of your time worth more than our lives in Gaza?? What are you going to tell your children, partner or loved ones when they ask what you did while all this was happening?? “Oh, I ignored their messages.” How will you justify staying silent when they flip through the history books in the future? A simple question for sharks: How do you think your followers will react when they realize you might turn a blind eye in their moments of need? What kind of influencer or artist chooses to ignore the pain of others? It’s been a year. More than 42,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, and over 100,000 injured. Isn’t that enough? Or is the number still too small for you to care? Should we talk about the 10,000 missing or the countless unjustly imprisoned? Maybe you need to see every building in Gaza reduced to rubble before it finally “counts” for you. Do you feel a flicker of empathy? Of humanity? Or are you still waiting for the “right” moment to speak up and take action? History won’t just remember the silence. It will remember even you who ignored this post when your help and action were needed. My family in Gaza urgently needs your help, so please help us and donate now!
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NIGHT RIDER, zhong chenle
working night shifts 24/7 at the convenience store while also supporting your boyfriend’s obsession with watching motorcyclists race is not easy, but little did you know that one of the bikers that he loves soon gets involved with you.
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— pairing: motorcyclist!chenle x fem!reader
— genres: social media au (smau), written, slowburn, angsty-ish, fluff, strangers to enemies to lovers (except they're not really enemies.. they just can't stand each other)
— extra: y/n is dating jaehyun (from boynextdoor) but they break up, jaehyun is kinda toxic, chenle is a lil shithead, probably inaccurate descriptions of motorcycle racing, y/n and chenle are crackheads when together
— warnings: lots of death jokes, profanity, everything in this story is pure fiction and not an actual depiction of how they act!!
— playlist: Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys | devil in a red dress - EIGHTYEIGHTWAV | eyes don't lie - Isabel LaRosa | HEARTBEAT - Isabel LaRosa | COLD BLOODED - Chris Grey | Rude Boy - Rihanna | OHMAMI - Chase Atlantic, Maggie Lindemann | Te Quiero - KISS OF LIFE
— authors note: my 2nd smau!! this one will be pretty different from got my ion you and hopefully better 🤭 i’m super excited for this one ngl..
— status: finished
— taglist: closed
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profiles 1 | profiles 2
1. fuckass job and bf worries
2. 40 dollars?!
3. kicked out (half smau/half written)
4. easy forgiveness
5. victim of bad boyfriendism
6. where’s the apology?
7. a fool in love
8. he’s a sim now!
9. scary stares
10. surprise dinner (fully written)
11. sensing something... ah yes, jaemrina
12. the long awaited breakup
13. living life to the fullest and fuck chenle!
14. or maybe… don’t fuck chenle?
15. bad energy and mewing
16. the witch is coming
17. good job, genius!
18. the race (fully written)
19. nightmare wishes
20. is it the end of the world?
21. apologies are in order… oh and you’re not that bad
22. single and ready to mingle
23. yuta, the rizzler
24. yes, a date is happening!
25. stood up (half smau/half written)
26. we’ll forget about it… right? (half smau/half written)
27. hooked by why don’t we vibes
28. prince sugarplums the 5th
29. she’s not my lovergirl! / he’s not my man!
30. who want backshots?
31. his true feelings (half smau/half written)
32. send help… or maybe don’t?
33. ho is u coo?
34. find her asap
35. king of racing (fully written)
36. nothing more than a bad decision
37. no deep meaning behind it
38. oddly specific lyrics
39. jaemrina sailed!
40. talk to me, please
41. hate you & miss you
42. mission get cheny/n to make up
43. mission accomplished (fully written)
44. our sims are getting married 100%
45. my angel
— end —
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I finally bit the bullet and bought the reputation and 1989 albums on eBay and Im excited forgive me 😔
#they weren’t THAT expensive#maybe like 10-15 dollars more than they would be just buying an album from the ts merch store#but as we know she doesn’t sell those albums anymore
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I've mentioned this thing in tags before but I've decided fuck it, it should be its own post.
I've seen this sentiment lumped into Eat the Rich posts which goes like "if you're worth more than $1 million I think you should die" and I think tumblr users need to know this is not the Eat the Rich statement they think it is.
Someone being worth $1 million doesn't mean what you think it means.
A 71-year-old widow who bought a single-family 2,000 sqft home in Somerville Massachusetts with her husband 40 years ago to raise their family in, who now lives in this home all alone because her children are grown and her husband is dead, is--without a shadow of a doubt--worth more than $1 million. Maybe even $1.5 or $2 million. And it's because of her home equity, because that's what single family homes go for these days in that area.
The 71-year-old widow may be living pension check to pension check, because her millionaire status can only be dipped into if she's removed from her home and sells it. And if it's the home she's loved for 40 years, where she simply wants to live out the rest of her time peacefully in, I wouldn't put her to the guillotine for that.
Maybe that comes off as an extreme example, like that's just an outlier of the "we hate millionaires" agenda. But I don't think it truly is. I'll scale back and tell you the median U.S. home price right now is about $430,000. And that's just median. Half of them are more expensive than that.
The statement "I think people should be able to afford to buy and own the homes they live in" is, I would desperately hope, not a radical statement to anyone on Tumblr. I think that's a pretty well-received idea. So someone who's done that, who's bought their home and worked many years to pay off the mortgage and now owns it fully, is worth close to half a million dollars on average. Many of them more than that, as many areas rapidly gentrify and drive up housing worth.
Statement 2: "I think people deserve to have a retirement fund which would comfortably support them through end of life." Too radical for anyone? I hope not. And I won't pretend to be an expert on how much retirement money is ideal. I'm sure it varies with cost of living in places. But considering this is money which, ideally, should support someone for the remaining 10-20 years of life (money which may be necessary to cover the absolutely crippling medical costs of end-of-life treatment) I'd bet it's well into the many hundreds of thousands. Even if someone was simply living off $30k/year of take home money and just making that work, then 15 years of retirement, costing $30k/year, plus maybe $50k+ of end-of-life medical costs... That's at least $500k.
Which is all to say, if you show me someone approaching retirement age who's "worth" $1 million dollars, my hope would be that their house is paid off and their retirement fund is comfortable. I'd be happy for them. I would want this for them.
Even that may not be true, though. Someone "worth" $1 million maybe owns a paid-off house which has rapidly appreciated to being worth $900k, and their $100k in retirement is something they're trying to stretch through end of life. Maybe someone worth $1 million owns a house which has ballooned to $1.1 million, and they're in fact $100k in debt.
And the fact that SO many Americans will never even meet this bar is significantly more appalling to me than the existence of people worth more than $1 million. "I own my home and can retire comfortably" is a bar we want every American to meet. I want more millionaires who are millionaires because they meet these criteria.
If Nana Somerville's house burns down tomorrow, she'll have lost everything. If a billionaire were to similarly lose $1 million of worth, he would not feel it. That's a fickle day at the stock market. That's Tuesday. That's the rich which desperately needs to be eaten.
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