#we have breached containment

[i-tolerate-pear-aib]

THEYVE FOUND US

[valyrfia]

is charles leclerc trending on tumblr because of the lestappen padel date be so fr rn

[naanima]

MERRY EARLY CHRISTMAS, ETC ETC ETC.

Hope your holidays are filled with mpreg fics AND advertisements. Lols.

This is the perfume and campaign running at one of our local state pharmacy franchises. It is GLORIOUS.

I feel that fangirls have infiltrated every level of the world now. Lols.

Husband looked at it and went, "I thought it would be fangirl reaching. But nope. You are right. It is very obvious."

[princemick]

[shubblelive]

that one cg5 audio came up on my mother’s fyp while i’m sitting next to her and i felt my heart STOP

[mylittleredgirl]

even if you're not a supernatural fan, if you've been on tumblr long enough you are, like, culturally. like cultural christianity in america except it's the cw's supernatural. you may never have watched an episode or set foot inside the tag but your regular life shuts down on their holidays and all of your world news is delivered through that point of view. something to think about

[aroaceleovaldez]

Here is a link to the Cherokee Nation's official site. Here is the Visit Cherokee Nation youtube channel. Here is a playlist for learning Cherokee (and here's one for learning Ojibwe, as a bonus cause i'm biased). Here is a link to Daybreak Star Radio, which is a radio station based in Seattle dedicated to showcasing international first nations and indigenous music that you can listen to online. Here is a pdf of various recipes, including references to which tribes they originate from. Here is a link to The-aila-test's buy native tag, and here is a link to Beyond Buckskin's buy native list (though some of the links are broken). Here is a link to the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper's official site.

now go take a minute and come back once you've done some research so everybody can stop being weird about Piper.

[hanzajesthanza]

being a hanza fan is bullshit btw because when you want to buy merch of them you cannot just get one of them because they will be. lonely .

[brethilach]

euughh just saw someone say that Celegorm kidnapping Lúthien to force her into marriage was "out of character" and just. I understand the urge to smooth the edges off your blorbo's flaws or whatever but if you've gotten to the point where you genuinely believe the author's portrayal of his own character isn't in line with canon then I think you just misunderstood what you read

[il-predestinato]

Not Reddit fully embracing the Lestappen era: 😭

[phantomrose96]

Oh while I'm on U.S. economics, I have another thing that bugs the hell out of me: the hiking of mortgage interest rates.

For those who don't know, mortgage interest rates dropped low during the pandemic. Which is not all sunshine since it resulted in many bidding wars and a ton of way-over-asking offers in competitive areas, but it put home-ownership way more within reach for a lot of people.

Then the fed started to pee their pants over inflation, and hiked their rates up, prompting mortgage companies to follow.

Here's a chart of mortgage interest rates over the last 4 years

It hit a trough at 2.65% on average in early January 2021, and then you see it hiked itself way back up, now chilling at 6.27%

For context on how different these are: let's use an example of a $400,000 home - someone pays 20% down ($80,000) in cash, and finances the remaining 80% ($320,000).

Monthly payments at 2.65%:

This results in paying back, in total, $464,040. You'll notice that's well over the initial $320,000, and that's because of the interest paid over those 30 years.

Now, monthly payments at 6.27%:

This results in paying back, in total, $710,640. That's more than twice the initial loan of $320,000.

And, of course, it means the same exact property which could be paid for with a monthly budget of ~$1,300 in early 2021 now requires a monthly budget of ~$2,000 in 2023.

Also, those pandemic lows were an anomaly... Historically, mortgage interest rates were on average HIGHER than 6.27% - but also, historically, wages were much better relative to the prices of homes and people could afford the high interest rates (with the exception of the people who got screwed over in the 2008 housing market meltdown... There's a really good Cold Fusion video on that.)

And because these low interest rates were an anomaly, they may never come back...

So with mortgage interest rates going up, home-buying becomes harder. When home-buying becomes harder, rents increase (because renters have no alternative).

So who DOESN'T get affected?

ENTITIES THAT CAN PAY IN ALL CASH.

They need no mortgage. They pay the sticker price on-spot with no interest applying to them. And I say ENTITIES because, sure, some people can buy their home in all-cash. But a huge number of the entities that can buy in all cash are BIG investment companies--the Blackrocks and the Mega-landlords who scoop up properties to sit on, rent out, and turn for a profit later like it's a piece of stock, and not a habitable property...

Anyway I don't have a conclusion for this. Fix wages, or bring interest rates back down, or kill Blackrock. Preferably all 3.

[ixtaek]

Some things I’ve realized:

1. I don’t think Shadow Link from FSA has actually showed up in LU

2. Although Jojo has said the Colors are derived from the manga, we don’t know if any of the rest of the plot of the manga is canon

It has been pointed out that though the colors are an homage to the manga, per their ref, the note on Sunset pt 9 says not much else is being used from the manga (thanks @unexpectedstormy for the correction). HOWEVER, Shadow Link is still from the game, tricking people into thinking he’s Link and causing trouble and blowing up stupid large instakill bombs.

3. In the game, Shadow Link does not reform and Link and Zelda defeat him themselves

4. The overarching villain is called the Shadow an awful lot

[sketchingstars03]

Recently read a fic that had a scene that basically encompasses my frustrations with modern fandom treatment of Ink in fanfiction.

It was a reader insert one, that I’m not gonna specify what it was about because 1) I don’t wanna send harassment to the author and 2) I didn’t read the whole thing bc well I couldn’t it just made me too upset.

But the scene in question, or rather couple of scenes, was that the reader, who was living with Error, had just recently witnessed him murder several innocent civilians in an AU, the fic going out of its way to mention the screams of parents and children as they were killed.

And soon after, when the Star Sanses arrive to stop him, at one point the reader’s internal dialogue BLAMES INK’S “Creating too much” (cuz the fic operated on FGOD fanon bc of course it did. Not even tagged as FGOD mind you) for Error “”having”” to destroy AUs and kill innocents. Basically shifting ALL THE BLAME for Error’s actions into Ink because… neglecting the balance or something. Because obviously Error doesn’t want this right? He must be forced into it!!1! /s 🙄

We’re making Error out to be the victim at Ink’s expense again folks! 🙃

It was especially frustrating because NOT EVEN A FEW PARAGRAPHS AGO we had gotten a whole description of just how upset the reader was when Error was destroying and the sheer suffering of the inhabitants. But then they turn around and just, defend him??? Because what, Ink was being a little bit cocky????

Tbh I’m tired of the “UwU sympathetic protag Error, meanie unsympathetic antagonist Ink” trope already. It’s no longer subversive to popular fandom convention, it’s virtually the norm now.

[sexynetra]

If I had a nickel for every time a drag race stan account on Twitter screenshotted one of my fics and posted it publicly, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[prettyflyshyguy]

I've finally launched a Patreon for the SCP Dossiers project! Each month we'll be releasing an informational dossier all about a specific SCP object - the intent is to create a realistic feeling document that's both transformative of the original article, and new custom made elements that will make you feel like a Foundation employee while reading each dossier! If you love the immersive feeling of the wiki and want to support a fun independent project, please consider supporting this endeavor!

We're kicking it off with a revamped version of the original document that started it all - SCP-096, and we're offering both a digital download tier and a physical mail tier (international shipping!)

We're really excited to make more of these, and as the project grows we want to have more community interaction - hosting a Secret Lab server, creating a private discord, letting people vote on which skip they want us to tackle next, etc!

[iii-of-ender]

Okay I saw ‘breached containment’ and got worried for you but then I saw they’re just rping in the comments so. That’s good I guess. o7 soldier, hoping the freaks come home and the sterile are put off LMAO

LMAOO no this is a silly goofy one, im reading through it and giggling

YAYY let’s all make twitter shake in their boots