#priciest

[cavenewstimes]

Jill Biden gets the priciest gift from a foreign leader in 2023 — a $20,000 diamond

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his family were given tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders in 2023, according to an annual accounting published by the State Department on Thursday, with first lady Jill Biden receiving the single most expensive present: a $20,000 diamond from India’s leader. The 7.5-carat diamond from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was easily the…

[silentreigns]

Makes me sad how much F1 doesn't really care about F1 Academy. These women deserve so much better but they can't give any kind of criticism in fear of being seen as ungrateful. Feels like they're deliberately being setup to fail so when the project flops they can go "ohhhhg but we did try to get more women involved"

[veiligplekje]

Dutch Traditional costumes photographed by Jimmy Nelson from his 'Between the Sea & the Sky'

From top to bottom: Land van Axel, Marken, Volendam, Arnemuiden, Various Friesian costumes.

[radarchives]

Here it is!

I went through my old edits again the other day, saw this and thought of you <3

mel you frighten me

pov: mephisto before that pesky angel who looks exactly like him fell and started homewrecking

[egglygreg]

Found this white silk shirt at the op shop last week. Looked up the brand when I got home, it's a $300 AUD shirt!! Bought it for $10 from the costume section!

[daughterofsarenrae]

just added a few shrimp to Kal's tank, everyone please send them "not eaten by a betta" energy ❌🚫🦐🍽️🐟🚫❌

[jitterbugbear]

Had some REALLY good luck at the thrift shop today! I'm especially happy about the double-sided fabric, it's SO beautiful irl + ONLY COST ME 2,20€ for 1,2m!! AND then I also found a pair of perfectly fitting trousers in a cute sage green on top of all this (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~

[analog-television]

what if i badly doodle my weatherman oc (zenith) in the weather app. thus throwing him into his natural habitat (the weather).

[holmsister]

I am so lucky that the italian version of dunmeshi manga has run out of volume 1 with no current intention of a reprint. If the collection I found at Feltrinelli the other day happened to include all volumes you know I wouldve dumped 200 euros on it like nothing but I'm not gonna spend money on a collection that risks remaining incomplete forever

[fangbangrr]

apologies if this has been answered on one of the other social medias (i have like all of them…) but when do you think the blankets will be released? i need one or i’ll die

hi!!! I don’t have an exact date yet, but if the final samples I’m waiting on arrive A-OK then I’m hoping to drop them by the end of October :D I’ll have the woven blankets in two colorways, and limited stock of a few super soft fleece versions!

[xtruss]

Minnesota's Most Expensive Home, On Sale For Almost $12.5 Million

Woodland Glen, a country estate sitting on nearly 3.5 acres overlooking Lake Minnetonka, is the priciest home in Minnesota. Built in 1988 and measuring almost 20,000 square feet, the place — listed for $12.49 million — boasts six bedrooms and a rather excessive 12 bathrooms.

The home's luxurious furnishings include a grand twin staircase, coffered ceilings, marble floors, a decked-out kitchen and a (again, excessive) dozen fireplaces.

Elsewhere in the giant house, there's a personal movie theater, a bar, a game room and an impressively sized indoor lap pool. And because no rich person's home is complete without a tennis court, there's one sat lakeside with enviable views of the water. This place has twelve fireplaces. Twelve.

— Image Credit: Zillow | Tuesday January 23, 2024 | Darcy Jimenez | Digg

[dammarchy211]

I would love to reopen commissions but the idea of having to redo a price sheet of any kind still plagues me

[miniongrin]

Statute of Limitations (Immortals AU)

Wrote 800 words for an AU that’s been rotating in my brain for over a year that I still haven’t written, but I’m posting this anyway because I do what I want.

AU context, sparknotes edition: Ingo couldn’t get sent back directly to the future for timey-wimey reasons and spent 140 years immortal, chilling in the Coronet Highlands. Accidentally befriended/tamed/domesticated the feral cat of a man we know as Volo (also immortal) while he was waiting to catch up to the future and his twin. Now the Nimbasa trio has been reunited for over a year and Volo is the twins’ weird roommate and Elesa’s bitchiest bestie.

~

“Hang on,” Elesa says one night, as they’re sitting around the twins’ living room eating Sinnoh takeout, two and a half hours and two-thirds of the way into an hour-long documentary on Hisui. They keep pausing to give Ingo and Volo the chance to expound on whatever topic the documentary didn’t have the time or information to elaborate on themselves; Ingo’s infodumping is familiar and comforting, while Volo’s is a bit of a surprise but hilariously bitchy. Even when the documentary gets things right. “Volo—you consulted on this? Historically?”

“That makes it sound like I did so fifty years ago,” Volo sniffs. “I was a historical consultant on the topic. Mostly by mail; by the time they were making this, Cynthia was a little too popular for me to go wandering around Sinnoh without a good excuse for looking like her fraternal twin.”

So, yes, but in fifty words instead of one. Cool. “You like… you got paid money for this? Is this your job?”

Volo makes an dismissive sound. “Yes, I got paid for it, but it’s not exactly reliable work, nor does it pay greatly. As a historian, the best money is in research grants, but those are a little hard to get a hold of without extensive history at a university, and my need to shuffle identities every decade or so did clash with the need to accumulate that sort of history.”

“…So, yes but no?”

Volo rolls his eyes at her. “Yes, but no.”

Elesa mulls over that. She doesn’t unpause the documentary just yet, because there’s a niggling question in her brain now—

“Do you have a job?” Emmet asks before she can. “You’re here a lot.”

Volo huffs, deciding to take offense in that catty way of his, so Elesa jumps in before letting him answer: “Dude, you’re clearly loaded, I have never once heard you say a thing about hopping back and forth between here and Sinnoh and plane tickets aren’t cheap. Frankly, neither is this apartment, and I’d be surprised if you’re just letting the twins pay for it all.”

Volo regards her shrewdly for a moment, then hums as his eyes slide away. “Don’t worry about it.”

That is the least satisfying answer on the planet. She and Emmet immediately turn to Ingo for answers.

“I do not worry about it,” Ingo says immediately.

Elesa and Emmet’s eyes meet. Weird, suspicious emphasis with no real answer. Hmmm.

“I am Emmet. Are we harboring a fucking criminal?” Emmet demands.

Volo sputters. “I beg your pardon? That’s your first assumption?”

“That’s not an answer,” Elesa points out, entertained. “He’s only going to get more suspicious the more you avoid giving one.”

“And you, of course, are virtuously on my side,” Volo mutters bitchily. “The disrespect! And here I thought we had something. A camaraderie, if you will—”

“It’s not like you’re a poacher, Ingo would worry about it a whole lot if that were the case,” Elesa interrupts him. “I can’t really imagine you beating someone up—”

“I can,” Emmet says.

“—without going full-on crazy eyes,” Elesa corrects herself. “So this hypothetical crime you may have committed and have definitely not denied committing is probably, y’know. Petty. Which fits, because you are a petty, petty bitch!”

“I,” Volo says with dignity, “am the classiest bitch any of you will ever meet.”

“I am the classiest bitch in this room, but nice try.”

“You’re all cutting-edge fashion and avant-garde, that’s not the same thing as class.”

Elesa gasps loudly in overblown offense. “You take that back!”

“Ladies, you are both pretty,” Emmet intones. “Ingo. Has Volo committed crimes? Yes or no.”

Ingo pinches the bridge of his nose. “He doesn’t have a valid birth certificate and yet has had a functional passport for decades despite being stuck at twenty-seven. Of course he’s committed crimes, we knew that already.”

“I am Emmet. I meant for money.”

Ingo shrugs and reaches for a new can of soda. “Well, that’s none of my business.”

“Ingo.”

“Look,” Volo sighs, “can any of you truthfully tell me that you’ve never talked to a particularly out-of-touch gentleman whose lone battling Pokémon is holding a useless nugget of gold worth more than everything you have on your person and thought, you know, I bet I have an island somewhere that I could sell this moron?”

There’s a beat of silence. Emmet snorts. Ingo puts a hand over his face that doesn’t hide the amused curl to the corner of his mouth.

Elesa cackles. “Oh dragons, you scam rich people for a living? I need to hear about this right now immediately. Story time! Funniest scam you’ve done, let’s go.”

“Accusing me of being a scam artist now?” Volo snips facetiously, but he’s smirking. “I will confess to nothing. …At least, not until I have the chance to check the statute of limitations for a few things.”

[jennhoney]

I made a pork loin with green chilies, in the crockpot, to have with a monster loaf of green chili cornbread I found at Costco. I paired it with this Pinot from the Willamette Valley, that I’ve visited several times, so it’s like hanging out with friends. And I smashed some potatoes. I planned to roast some brussels sprouts but I got a little tired and will make them tomorrow with leftovers.

[saucy-mesothelioma]

$99 to watch a fuckin Havoc game. Hell nah.

[thebigshotman]

I wish I was able to get to my threads as well tonight but between having work in the morning and the gift asks leaving me drained for some reason (even though they were a ton of fun to write) I think I’m going to leave them for tomorrow night and focus on drafting and queuing up the M!A end post for tomorrow afternoon at some point. Thank you to all who participated in the M!A, as short lived as it ended up feeling cause I was so busy offline lol 😅 And most of all, thank you to all who sent gifts for Spam to open! I loved them all, and he did too for sure!

This is just a heads up once again that activity will be nonexistent on Wednesday and Thursday this week due to late nights at work. I’ll be using what time I do have on those days to draft up the new and shiny rules I’ll be using on all of my blogs from here and on out, using this blog’s rules (because it’s my newest one) as a basis. Friday I’ll be back with a bang, and I’ll hopefully be able to do more maintenance than just rules on my blogs on that day too! I’ll still try to be around here that day even with maintenance, though.

Perfect time to remind you guys to follow my other blogs then (hope you don’t mind the plug lol): check out @always-together @city0f-dreams @experimentalxfilm !! They’re all very shaky presentation and navigation wise right now but when I get them going I’m sure we’ll have lots of fun at all of them!

In the meantime though, I’m off to draft for the rest of the night. A Merry Christmas once again to you all! I’ll see you all tomorrow!