Well, whether Twitter’s sinking for real this time or not, I’ll be more committed.
- If you’re here for Wist, I tag everything either “Wist in the tags” or “Wist things”—the latter for posts I make. Feel free to filter these if you don’t want to hear about Wist!
Keep in mind that I use their character names here rather than their fanfic names, so Yt is Loez(ia) and Jh is Wuld (or Lin in some older posts).
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- I will aspire to be better at posting moodboards for when I publish or update a fic.
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- My ask box is open on both blogs, and you are more than welcome to send me questions!
obviously there’s a difference btwn someone who cannot do a task Literally Ever and someone who can do it under great duress in an emergency but i feel like these conversations ignore that the latter person, if their entire life becomes “an emergency”, is going to become the former person in about 2 weeks - 2 yrs depending. if you are the type of person who says “i can’t prepare my own food” and really mean “i can force myself to prepare my own food if i would die otherwise” and you are forced to prepare your own food All The Time lest you die, how long do you think that “emergency” skill is actually going to last? and how many other skills are going to go down with it? or: what else is the person sacrificing, on purpose or not, to stay alive under those circumstances? it may be Almost Every Other Skill They Have. this is where things like “autistic regression” come from!
This is a long read, but worth it. Some takeaways:
-Don’t use “buy now pay later.” The fine print isn’t what it seems.
-The fine print on medical financing, store credit cards, and contactless payment is also not what it seems.
-Payday loans are still predatory, even when offered by your employer
-Rewards programs are an income stream for the companies that run them. The points systems are manipulated so that the house always wins. They depend on people leaving money in rewards accounts and not in interest-bearing traditional bank accounts.
-Electronic payment apps like VenMo are not banks. You don’t earn interest. Your money is not protected.
-Your financial information is not private if your money is not kept in a regulated bank.
-None of this is regulated by the FDIC. Your money is not protected if it is held by a non-bank doing banking business. Our economy is not protected from the collapse of financial institutions that are not banks.
-The Biden administration was making progress in increasing accountability for non-banks operating as predatory financial services providers. The current administration is reversing those protections to favor corporations.
PEOPLE! DO NOT LEAVE YOUR MONEY IN VENMO OR APPLE PAY OR ANY OF THIS SHIT. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GO FIND A REAL BANK OR A CREDIT UNION.
If Venmo were to close tomorrow all your money would vanish. There’s no insurance or guarantee on any of these things. I know banks aren’t great but legit banks will have the “FDIC insured” logo on their doors and websites, which means if my bank goes under tomorrow I still get my money back. Also I guarantee you there is a credit union somewhere in your town, go find it.
You can leave some money in Venmo or Apple pay or whatever, but NOT ALL OF IT for the love of God.
i decided to google my top 1 favourite mushroom that i used to hunt as a child because it tastes heavenly but seems to be somewhat rare target and i wanted to know more about it
speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don’t say numbers. don’t give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it’s secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don’t let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it’s no fun anymore.
YOU GET IT
[ID: tags from @/thepioden that say:
#you may think you - the writer - are your own most autistic critic #but somewhere out there is a motherfucker with the world’s nichest PhD who has been waiting their whole life to prove you wrong
But when I say the “wholesome and funny” YouTube short I have been handed of students surprise showing their teachers 10+ year old photos of themselves and most them were emo/goth in some way and every single one now has medium brown beach waves and is wearing head to toe beige and immediately screams and hides the photo like it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world is a hallmark of a deeply insidious tendency to associate socially acceptable WASPy aesthetics with maturity and responsibility and perpetuates the idea that everyone grows up, “gets right” and becomes the most digestible unobtrusive heterosexual I’m “taking it too seriously”
“It’s not that serious” oh but it issssss because every day we perpetuate the idea that non-conformity of any kind to the white straight middle class standard is inherently immature and gets “left behind” when someone becomes a socially acceptable adult
This idea that maturity is conformity is everywhereeee if you look for even a moment
It’s sick how society will literally train autistic kids to disregard their internal experiences in order to submit to authority and societal expectations and then turn around and wonder why so many autistic people end up in abusive dynamics later in life. Like how exactly are the people who are famously bad at interpreting social dynamics somehow expected to know the difference between the supposedly “good” authority figures saying they have to do this and that even if it makes them really uncomfortable and “abusive people you shouldn’t trust”
one time i told a group of lesbian and bi women that i have never watched wicked and they were shocked, gagged, gooped, “but you’re queer. you like pussy. how have you not seen wicked?” yeah. well. i like pussy, not musicals?
i’m this exact post. all this just to fuck women.
“are you going to the lucy dacus concert?” no. i listen to gucci mane.
tbh the current default state of operating systems & internet browsers looks fucking indistinguishable from when i gave the family desktop one billion viruses downloading Free Neopoints Hack in 2005
not to be a millennial but back in my day getting blasted in the eyeballs by ads on your desktop the instant you turn on your computer used to mean something was extremely wrong
