#shock and woe

[nymph-of-water]

Apparently, now we question the existence of Homer.

[total-drama-brainrot]

Also posting this here. Got married to my two beautiful spouses who can and will beat me to within an inch of my life every time I misbehave. (It's fine, I live on Looney Tunes logic so the frying pans and anvils only hurt a little bit.)

[fayeandknight]

Buying a car is bullshit

I am very seriously trying to buy a new (to me) car.

I need a bigger car to fit crates in since that will allow me to transport more dogs for boarding. I have opted to go the used route for a number of reasons.

After much research, input from some super helpful dogblr folks as well as coworkers, and some dragging my feet - I'm ready. I'm looking to buy a 2018 Toyota RAV4 XLE.

I found one being sold at a fair price given the low mileage and went to see it last Saturday. It was a trade in at a BMW dealership. When they brought it out I was a little taken back because it's pretty dinged up. Not to the point of hindering functionally but there are dents and scrapes on every panel and fixing it would $1000 in body work easily, if not more.

Honestly, I don't give a shit about cosmetics. This car is for hauling dogs around. But it would be silly to pretend it doesn't change the value of the car.

I noticed that the front tires were different from the rear tires and asked about it. Sales dude tells me they replaced the front ones because the originals were dry rotted. I asked if the mechanic measured the new vs the old because AWD can be sensitive and different widths can fuck it up. Sales dude tells yes, it's all on paper. Cool.

I take it for a test drive and notice the brakes are a little rough. I ask if the brake pads were inspected to see how worn they are. Sales dude assures me yes, the car passed inspection and they're fine. Am told, again, it's all on paper.

Once we're back at the dealership I ask him to please get me the info on the tires and brakes cause I'm ready to make a deal and buy the car. Sales dude asks for my price and I tell him my offer is contingent on the information so please get it. Guy comes back with a manager and oops, they don't actually have that info.

Which honestly really pissed me off. You lied to my face and what? Didn't think you'd get caught not having the very specific information I'm asking for? I don't know why I expected slightly less car sales bullshit from a higher end dealership but the jokes on me.

I leave with the agreement that on Monday (today) they'll have the mechanic get the info and call me promptly at X time. An hour and a half later, I ended up leaving them a voicemail.

Finally got on the phone with them, tires are fine but the brake pads are just this side of passing and I'll need to change them fairly quickly. Fine. Given the body work and brakes, not to mention all the fluid changes I'll need to do, I put in my offer - a little less than $1000 off listed price. This puts the car at just my side of a good deal rather than fair, but honestly not by much.

They eventually accept my offer. Awesome. I am ready to pay over the phone. No. They won't take the payment over the phone or even a deposit. I have to come buy it in person.

In an ideal world, I'd go Thursday morning and get it done before work since that's my late day. But I'm concerned about the time wasting tactics dealerships use to try to get people to "upgrade" packages. I am trialing Friday and Saturday.

That leaves my only actual day with time to spare next Monday. During the in between they will not hold the car for me or pull it from their listings.

It so fucking frustrating that a high end, fancy ass BMW dealership is giving me the run around for a busted up six year old Toyota that I am willing to pay for right now!

So, fingers crossed it's still there next week and I'm able to buy it. If not, oh well I guess. There's really not anything else I can do at this point. It's just annoying because if they had the information they said they did I'd have bought the car right then.

Anyway, let this be your reminder to not take car sales folks word for anything and make them show you on paper. They will lie right to your face and blame you for holding up the sale.

[ghostdnfie]

what happened who are people calling spineless and why

basically a discord screenshot got leaked of feinberg acting all guilty and apologetic for collabing with dteam for 1k dollars 😭 heres a twitter link of the ss (which crisgreen replied to and that made me die laughing)

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

Every time Dean dies in Mystery Spot. (At least every time we witness.)

Bonus - when Dean finally stops dying:

Poor Sam really, really needed those Tuesdays to end.

[birdsaretoddlers]

'bird please update static shock' i wish i could. unfortunately,

[yousaytomato]

I sometimes don't know what to say when people are like, "ugh it sucks being a woman - I hate shaving my legs!!" because it's easy to be like, "then don't", and for some people that works, but I also understand that it's a deeper problem than that, and whilst personally, I revel in the queerness of my hairy body, not everyone wants that, but also that body hair shouldn't be seen as un-feminine anyway and body hair shouldn't be some kind of statement and....idk.

[ana-cantskywalker]

Over here writing my Sabezra week fics and coming to the insane realization that I have never written a fic with a kiss scene

Not a one

?????????

[xxswagcorexx]

ash and red are kinda guys to wear hawaiian shirts and khaki shorts but like in different ways . ash would wear a hawaiian shirt that looks like a purple and black version of guy fieri's flame shirt with no buttons buttoned (whether or not he's wearing a shirt underneath is up to interpretation) with sneakers while red wears a red one with That flower pattern and its (reasonably) buttoned up. except red's dealbreaker is that he's wearing the ankle high socks and birkenstocks combo and looks like a dad on the brink of a divorce. either way both of them are fashion disasters for wearing hawaiian shirts with khaki shorts

[donnydamakkk]

not surprised at all that wes was helping bloody rose. he's had a problem w tabby ever since tabby's mom stopped him from grooming her. plus, he loved chip's lil rapist ass

[ragingbullmode]

☹️ kikis gonna get all her teeth yanked at the end of the month & dodgers got cavities…

[e8luhs]

actually so shocked to see that having 2 left leaning parents was the highest result on that poll. one of my ""favorite"" and """funniest""" insane parent lore drops is that when i was in high school i was playing minecraft with a couple of people i knew and my mom walked into my room unprompted and sat on my bed so i had to mute my mic, both of them told me to unmute, so they got to hear my mom rattle off about antisemitic conspiracy theory "theres satanist child-eating evil clone lizard people in the government and trump is going to save us from them" type stuff you know the usual because she did that multiple times a day every day so i was very desensitized. as they were listening to her my friends started laughing and going "what the fuck" because of how absolutely baffling it was to hear that so confidently come out of someone elses mouth and when i started to laugh too as i listened to them try to process what the fuck she was talking about she said very sternly to me "whats so funny." i guess at least watching my mom become a qanoner has made me a lot more educated on the progression of the altright pipeline and also way more privvy when it comes to identifying conspiracy theorist shit so theres that

[pizzafishandchips]

Fantasy RPGs really will be like, "Hey, here's a relatively large dungeon for you to go in. Oh, here's some undead and some nasty bugs to fight! Whoops, you've stumbled into an endless fight of undead that keep resurrecting until you figure out what the source is!!! Oh dear, you've wandered even further in, here's a giant ass glowing red spider that's labeled as a Construct for some reason??? Oh look, you've stumbled in even further, here are two nasty gargoyle-dragon ass looking beasties too for you to fight

What the hell did I walk into, the resident neighborhood monstrosity den????

[silverspleen]

Reading the first Mercenary Librarians book for book club (Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha), which is very funny, we usually do loose month themes and I'm guessing this month's theme was romance (I missed the reveal I was at ski week) because this is shelved in scifi but it's clearly a romance book, written by a romance author duo, it has that sort of particular world and character building and dynamic that romance novels do (this is not a bad this it's just very. Telling? The conventions of the genre you see) and is VERY spicy. But of course my stupid ass, who is a romance book reader, did that thing that I do literally every romance book series where I get super attached to the secondary slow burn couple who clearly is going to get together during a later book. Like uhuh yeah ok instant chemistry main books one couple suresure but tell me more about the two characters who are like. Staring longingly at each other and having meaningful moments but not touching due to their Tragic Backstories.

Like oh my god I am so predictable.

Anyway yeah I got the second book (digitally because I am on quarantine!) and they don't even bone until like almost the very end of the book and then it immediately careens into whump and ooooough yeah baby that's what I like to seeeeee. Tell your love interest that you'll never be used against her while you're being tortured and dying from your supersoldier brain implant!!!! Which she later has to save you from!!!! I love to see that shit!!!! Who cares about book one smouldering insta-attraction betrayal-angst when I can have the slow buuuuuuuurn I want them to brush shoulders during training and both need to go away to their private rooms to swoon and angst.

I'm super curious as to how the conversation will be steered in book club. The romance is very much the driving narrative, paired with a pretty standard "here is the group of bad guys we need to defeat using the power of the connections we've made with our FOUND FAMILY of couples who have gotten together over the course of however many books are in this series" (this time it's Evil Future Company Government) which is feel is pretty typical of most (paranormal) romance I've read.

Not a perfect series but a fun read, at least through books 2 of 3. But also like. As noted I'm insanely biased towards the ship dynamic that the second book is entirely focused on so like. I cannot be trusted in this.

[13lizardsinatrenchcoat]

Deep-hearted man, express

Grief for thy dead in silence like to death—

Most like a monumental statue set

In everlasting watch and moveless woe

Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.

Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:

If it could weep, it could arise and go.

Elizabeth Barret Browning

[marbleheavy]

whenever i tell someone i won’t kill an animal or bug they always go “well what if…” and like bro stop! i don’t fantasize about when i can kill them either!