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penandinkprincess · 1 month
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okay i know this isn’t an advice forum BUT! as a 5-year-old adult i feel like im stuck on the tutorial level. do you have any handy tips for creating a budget? or grocery shopping strats (like buy xyz at dollar tree, buy abc at this other place)? o mighty pen i beseech thy wisdom
okay so i am ABSOLUTELY not a fully fledged Adult yet (at least in my head. i cannot overstate how much i am faking it until i make it.), but a few things i have learned in getting to this level in the adult game:
i need a simple budget to stick to. i tried doing itemized stuff (gas/toiletries/groceries/fun money/etc.), but that just DID NOT work for me. too much to keep track of. now i just have an excel sheet of basic categories. i get paid twice a month, so i split my budget into pay period A and pay period B.
first up with those categories: put down everything you HAVE to spend money on, i.e. bills: water, electricity, insurance, car payment, etc. here's a free tip from me: link your rent/mortgage payment to a savings account and just transfer half of whatever you owe there each pay period. i, a moron, once paid $20 a month to a rental place to split my rent into two parts for me to pay WHEN I COULD HAVE JUST DONE THIS THE WHOLE TIME. 🤦 okay, now that you have your bills put down, figure out your averages. some places will do this for you and tell you what your average is and other places will not. now, this is just what i do, but i then add $20ish on top of the average for my variable expenses. (so for my car insurance, it's usually about $100, but I earmark $120). this helps cover me if it suddenly varies a smidge, and it gives me a little built-in cushion. in tight months, i can dip into any excess, but in usual months, this just gives me a little cushion in my account to help prevent overdrafts for any unexpected little expenses (like a scentbird thing i paused for three months and forgot to go back and cancel and they did it without giving me a heads up) (BASTARDS) (...just as a totally random example)
after you have your bills (so what you HAVE to pay each pay period) done, think about your savings. i have a house, so i round up my payment each pay period to add a little bit of savings over time, and i also try to put SOMETHING into savings each pay period. sometimes it doesn't happen bc life is life and life is expensive, but even just a little bit for a rainy day is good.
after bills and savings, we're left with excess. i keep this as a lump sum for anything else i will need to spend money on (toiletries/fun money/groceries/etc.). i know some people itemize this, but that doesn't work for me. i have one lump quantity of money to spend, and that's it. it's easier for me to keep track of, and it also helps me keep the mindset of "do i really want this?" (for example: do i want a $5 matcha latte and a $4 croissant now more than i want almost $10 to spend at the grocery store or a craft store later?) (sometimes the answer is yes, but often the answer is no).
this is a matter of personal preference, but i like to highlight anything that doesn't automatically get paid in red so i remember that that's money *I* have to move the day i get paid. so as an example:
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as for which stores to buy things at, that's really gonna vary based on your local stores/whether you coupon or not. i have the walmart app on my phone, so my go-to if i'm not sure if something's a good deal or not when i'm in a store is to open the walmart app, check the item, and see if it's the same or if walmart is cheaper. this is helpful for couponing bc sometimes even with a coupon/store "special" (@ cvs y'all are bastards about this), walmart is still cheaper. so my "is it a good deal?" answer usually depends on this.
if you wanna get into couponing, a good starting place is krazy coupon lady. couponing is SUPER helpful for me bc it means i never have last minute "oh goddamnit" expenses, like having to buy toilet paper and papertowels on a slim week. if i have a small stock of things, i can buy when it's really cheap and not have to pay full price or buy it unexpectedly on a week when that would cut into what i can pay on groceries.
as a grownup tip: SIGN UP FOR REWARDS PROGRAMS. you're gonna get better deals, and a lot of places will even let you earn points that you can put towards discounts on gas or groceries.
also with groceries, learn when your grocery store puts things on clearance! from trial and error, i've learned that the grocery store near me usually puts clearance out early on saturday mornings, so that's when i go to get some good deals. (i meal plan pretty loosy goosey, as in "stir fry veg with tofu" or "salmon with potatoes and a veg" so i can keep it open for a good deal).
also check the sales paper! a lot of stores put it online, so you can just give it a quick look before you even make your list and see what's cheap. (i know some hardcore people will go to multiple stores to get the best deals on multiple things, but i don't personally have the dedication/gas money/patience for that). (i'll check the sales papers for aldi/my local grocery store, and then i'll go to the one that has the better deals on multiple things i want).
this is also a personal thing, but i also like to put all of the things i'm planning on getting into the online cart as if i'm doing grocery pickup, and then i'll know how much it'll be. sometimes i will then do pickup, but even if i don't, i'll know how much wiggle room i have if something in-store calls to me. (so for example, if my grocery budget is $70 and i know the things i'm planning on getting are $50, i know that i'll have about $20 to spend on a treat or something i find on clearance in the store. i may not spend this and it can go towards something another day, but it helps me not have a surprise at checkout if i know "okay, i have my $50 main purchase, and i picked up $12 in extras. i'm still in budget.")
related to that: plan your meals. it fucking sucks. it's annoying. it's easy to forget what you even know how to make. but it'll save you so much money and wasted food. if you want, you can write down meals on popsicle sticks and just pull at random when you're planning. then you just make a list of what you know you'll need, and you'll minimize what gets wasted because you KNOW you'll need what you bought.
ALSO related to grocery shopping (i'm sorry for so much grocery content, but SO FUCKING MUCH of life is just Groceries): prep what you can prep the day you get it. "i'll do it later" no you won't. that's satan talking. wash your fruit and put it in a tupperware or reused jar. it'll be ready when you want it with no further prep, and it'll stay good way longer. it takes more effort, so you just have to ride the momentum of grocery shopping. for me, i just get home, put away the rest of my groceries, and leave out what i need to prep. then i prep it and put it away as it's good to go. it takes like half an hour when i get home from start to finishing clean up, but it's the only way i'm gonna use everything and let as little as possible go bad.
okay, i'll stop now bc i'm pretty sure this got longer than you expected, but i hope this help! again, i am absolutely not an expert, but these are things i've learned through trial and error that work for me! i hope at least one or two is helpful!
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hylianane · 8 months
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My favorite bit of costume design from the live action promo has GOT to be Usopp with the sick coat and the more standard pirate Captain’s hat. And maybe I’m just reading too much into it, but not only does Jacob look damn good in that outfit, it also feels so incredibly fitting to Usopp’s character. Specially this very early days Usopp, who is still only ‘playing pirate’. The Usopp who’s still idealizing the journey ahead, just a little bit, and still kind of wants to be the Captain or Co-Captain, just a little bit. An Usopp with the potential to live up to those big dreams of adventures, but still needs time to ground himself and mature and grow into his own identity. Who, for now, is only dressing and acting the way pirates are expected to dress and act. I am charmed and heart-eyed and I cant wait to see this Usopp in action.
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citrongarde · 5 months
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late cringetober prompt: maid dress/sailor uniform ft. neelaverse scarlet/violet's #girl of some times penny cybercrimes mondal
(prompt list under the cut! not mine it's just the one i'm using)
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mattodore · 8 months
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bunny moment
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tea-earl-grey · 2 months
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there's something so dismal about how so much of tv fandom's energy nowadays seems to go towards trying to prove to big corporations that their show is good enough to save. like whenever a new episode or series comes out it's "remember to watch it all in 24 hours or it won't get renewed!" "play it on repeat for a month or else it'll become another piece of lost media!" "don't stop talking and posting about it during the hiatus or else this season that's already in production might not air!" "if this tag trends on twitter for long enough we might get eight episodes instead of six!!!" it feels less like we're enjoying a show that so many people worked hard on and more like we're trying to create rituals to please the gods (which replace gods with The Algorithm and you're not far off).
like i haven't even been involved in fandom for that long but even just seven or so years ago if a show did well enough that it was nominated for awards and trending on twitter and having well attended comic con panels then it would be renewed for at least a season or two. and back then being renewed for another season meant "we're for sure going to get a new season next year!" with almost no possibility of cancelation. and even shows that did just okay ratings wise would easily get 5+ seasons.
and it was more fun. when i was watching Doctor Who or Arrowverse or whatever in 2014 i could enjoy and critique the media itself instead of constantly being nervous about whether the next season will be cashed in for nostalgia bait or have its episode count cut or be postponed for three years or just outright canceled because it was slightly less popular than last year. like the fandom would still stress out over potential bad narrative choices or whatever but we would also get excited about the future.
maybe it's just my own perceptions but i just tend to find myself favoring fandoms for shows (or at least eras, i'm looking at you Doctor Who) that have been completed. i like Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death and Strange New Worlds and Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the latest Doctor Who era but i just find it hard to get invested when there's so much anxiety around if there will be a future to those shows and so much of the fandom activity revolves around that anxiety. and then as a result when the show does end for good (whether through cancelation or design) the fandom starts to fade away too because so much of it was based on the temptation of The Future.
and i'm also quick to admit that production in pre-streaming era shows had their own problems (once popular shows running for 15 seasons and jumping the shark just because it's a cash cow, tampered down diversity in the interest of "popular appeal", the whole quantity over quality issue, etc) but at least the fandoms were more optimistic and focused on the story itself instead of just being angry about the eternal potential of cancelation or outright deletion.
(also there are obviously much larger issues to the streaming model re: residuals and everything else brought up during the wga and sag strikes but that's all been said much more coherently so i'm just speaking from my own perspective as a fan. and even then there's still definite overlap between the fandom anxiety over renewal and the real world economic anxiety for people involved with production over "will we have a job/be paid". it's far too early to tell but i really hope the strikes will help to solve this problem.)
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monty-glasses-roxy · 10 days
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I was trying to listen to some dramatic music to get my head in the game of coming up with interesting ways for Roxy, the Minis and Barney (Foxy's bird) to take down all the other animatronics, and I forgot my fatal flaw of finding horses incredibly dramatic.
I will not add animatronic horses to this. I will not. The temptation is there, but I won't do it. They would be out of place. I say as typing the words immediately hits me with a way to make them make sense. I won't do it. Not because I can't, but because I have enough modes of transport to work with already. None of you are allowed to let me keep doing this.
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coquelicoq · 8 months
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my ex, who lives alone, is apparently about to buy a 5-bedroom, 4-bathroom, 2-garage house. what. i'm getting stressed out just hearing about it. tf you gonna do with all that space, bro? how you gonna clean all those bathrooms???
#he's like well i want one room for my home office and one room for my hobby and one guest room#add in a bedroom for him and that's still only 4 bedrooms? you have an entire extra bedroom????#plus an extra garage???#damn he thinks he's lonely now but dude just you wait until you spend every day ALONE IN A FIVE-BEDROOM HOUSE#trying not to project too much onto him but i really think this is absurd outside of my own preferences#he's been stressed living in his 1b apt bc his hobby takes up a lot of space#but i think this is just another example of his general propensity to treat the symptoms and not the disease#the problem is he's overcommitting & extending himself too much & he never finishes anything#that's what actually stresses him out#so him in a 5b house is just going to be him filling all that space with stuff until he's stressed again#anyway i have NO IDEA how to react to this because i think it's such a bad idea#i'm really bad at faking things i don't feel but i feel like it's too late to say 'wyd bro???' because apparently his offer was accepted#i did ask him how he's going to clean 4 bathrooms and he said he's just not going to use them#also it feels weird morally for a single (rich) man to buy an entire 5b house only for him in the middle of the seattle housing crisis#not like if he didn't buy it someone else would buy it and make it into affordable housing units so maybe it doesn't matter#still feels weird though and contributes to me not knowing how to react#if you have any advice for me followers...i am all ears#i've been really floundering on how to be a supportive friend to him lately#just really struggling with how to engage with him when it feels like he's his own worst enemy#and like it's not that he needs to have the same priorities as me it's just that he comes to me all stressed out and idk how to react#bc 'no shit you're stressed out. have you tried making completely different choices?' isn't a great option lol
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jacketrepresents · 2 months
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toward the end of the fall semester i had a class that was just a professor reading out wacky/hyperspecific/wrong/completely made up definitions for lgbt microidentities à la on here ten years ago. and today i had a class that was just people arguing loudly and impassionedly about food taxonomy à la people on the internet (feels like reddit but has happened in all these places i suppose) arguing about whether a hot dog is a sandwich. in the first case the professor was a self purported ally who maybe half remembered an infographic he saw and was rehashing his version with total confidence and definitely made like 25% of the room more homophobic. i cannot stress enough that this was the entire class period. in the second case the professor was trying to teach us abt semantic associations but unfortunately was not aware of the bizarre social niche these discussions have taken & was getting so annoyed at everyone carrying on. in both cases the experience of the class session was so absurd that i wish someone was there to see what i mean bc i can’t do it justice with prose
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sisterdivinium · 4 months
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In the off chance Tumblr dies for real, what if we got ourselves a WN message board like in the olden times?
Or maybe I'd just set up a Dreamwidth account (again) and talk to myself, idk. There's still so much to analyse about WN and there's no fun in doing it without sharing it.
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designernishiki · 8 months
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I wanna flesh out a yakuza oc but every time I think about it I end up thinking about an oc of mine who already Exists who’s not a yakuza oc. but is, in fact, an oc who is a yakuza. and that fact is genuinely completely unrelated
#he existed WAY before I started playing yakuza or knew really anything about it#actually he contributes to why I got into yakuza to begin with. cause when my friend first showed me y0 I was like ough… my character#grew up in this exact environment and culture and structure and etc (son of a patriarch)#so it was legitimately a good reference for his background and stuff#I kinda wanna talk about him/his background more on here but. like i said he’s. not technically a yakuza oc#and he can’t be because he. canonically. has PLAYED yakuza. like the games EXIST cause it’s just a normal real world type universe and#I won’t get into all this much but he ends up in the states on the dl for Reasons. accidentally ends up with a son when he’s 22 (son’s#mother being significantly younger but again we’re not gonna get into THAT mess). ends up seeing the first game being sold somewhere in nyc#and is unable to restrain his curiosity about it (as an Actual Yakuza) so he ends up getting his son a ps2 for his birthday partly just#as an excuse to buy and play yakuza 1 because he NEEDS to know what’s in it#something something it ends up being a weird bonding thing with his son who’s definitely too young to be watching this game being played#(he was born the same year as haruka so he’d be like. 8-9. also already a concerningly violent child with many issues but. anyway)#something something he ends up disappearing out of the blue from the states when his son is 12 but the pastime still sticks for said son#from then on. so uh. yeah weirdly significant that these games Exist in this story/universe bdsjhfdfjnd#idk why I’m avoiding saying his name. his name’s asura. he’s a year or two older than daigo (born 1974) and his family’s supposed to be a#pretty powerful one in the tokyo area and he was supposed to be a nepo baby sorta like daigo except he’s not Technically an only child- he#has a much younger sister. but obviously she wasn’t gonna be considered for taking over their father’s seat nor would she want to#she wants absolutely nothing to do with any of it and changes her last name pretty soon after moving to the US to get away from them#no beef with her brother or anything she was just treated absolutely horribly and disgustingly by older members of their family growing up#ANYWAY I should stop talking bdshshcbsnnf I didn’t mean to infodump all this the lore is just. deep with these guys#Asura wasn’t even made to be a particularly prominent character or anything it’s his SON who’s a Bonafide Main Character and asura’s ties in#the story are mostly related to Him. (though his sister is also a pretty prominent character so there’s connection there too)#rambling#also one more note. yes. the timing and location of where asura would’ve first bought yakuza 1 means that it would most likely be the#infamous original english dub version. which is hilarious to think about#especially because his son’s mom (I keep calling her that because they weren’t really in a Relationship they just co-parented and lived#together a little less than half the time. it’s complicated) Did Not Approve of a game that Adult around their kid. so she would not be fond#of walking in the room and hearing TEN YEARS IN THE JOINT MADE YOU A FUCKING PUSSY#luckily she was so young and considered her son a lost cause and a burden as it is so. she complained but didn’t really do anything about#it. I mean shit she was like. only around 24-25 I think. but yeah
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jay8934 · 10 months
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Guys guys guys do you think that Spyro's going to have elytra as in the little book 4 intro he's sitting on a throne of purpur blocks or something which come from the same place as elytra
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sporkberries · 1 year
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debating writing a meta post about how bruce isnt a good father but i dont know if i want to invite the discourse. 
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possibly-eli · 2 months
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once again posting a reminder (very gently, when you consider how fucking frustrated i am) that i am anti-kff! there are otherkin terms that people can use and, instead of educating themselves on this, they actively CHOOSE to belittle and bully otherkin folks, all while being a teensy tiny little bit ableist in how they go about it. its not a "erm these people are just minding their business and they're ALSO kin anyway" NO they are NOT. they are, by very fucking definition, either 'hearted or 'link (IF their connection is genuine ANYWAYS). that is NOT. KIN. and its kinda fucking telling if you think a community whose entire existence hinges on deliberate ignorance and harassment of a group is equal to the group theyre harassing and bastardising the terms and experiences of
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citrongarde · 11 months
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the pretentiouscore anime poll is fun even though i havent watched more than a solid 1/2 of those animes & its great to see utena sweeping. my only fear is that in the next foreseeable rounds ppl will start spreading misinfo abt revolutionary girl utena to dissuade voting for it, seeing as “revolutionary girl utena is the racism misogyny abuse apologism anime and you’re a bad person for liking it” is a take on the rise :(
#neela speaks#personal#utenasweep....please.....#but also. not to sound like a pretentious anime nerd but how much do you have to misinterpret utena to get#'oh this anime is misogynistic and glorifies c/s/a' out of it -_-#liiiike did we watch the same anime?#utena is literally about breaking free of oppressive systems!#when anthy says 'all girls are like the rose bride' she means that girl (in ohtori specifically) are trapped in a system#that takes advantage of them and reduces them to either a perfect doll or an evil bitch#utena could never be anthy's prince bc in ohtori the role of the prince is a detrimental controlling one! not bc she's a girl or whatever#utena would not be the same show if all of the 'actually these fairytale roles are impossible standards and end up contributing to systems-#-of abuse' stuff was boiled down to 'yesss being the prince is a good thing hashtag feminism girlboss utena!!!'#bc THE FAIRYTALE ROLES ARE DEHUMANIZING IN UTENA!!!! YOUVE GOTTA BREAK OUT OF THEM BECAUSE HUMANS ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN A ROLE IN A PLAY#i mean. yes it has problems. what media doesn't. but some of you have no literary analysis skills. god bless u_u#also. um. utena leans pretty heavily on the 'umm abuse is bad and inc*st is bad' route#ak*o is the villain. you realize that right. that his abuse of anthy is another way he maintains power and control.#bc hes keeping everyone trapped in their proverbial coffins. to perpetuate vicious harmful cycles. right#and anthy finally escapes the cycle escapes the story because she gets the agency to do so#because utena makes the ultimate sacrifice not for anthy as a concept but for anthy as a person.#anyway rant over. ummmm. utenasweep. OR tutusweep i like that anime too
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drewsaturday · 2 months
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yeah two cakes theory but something about being in... small to medium sized fandoms makes doing the same thing someone else did feel like a social violation honestly?
i immediately lose all motivation to do a thing if someone else does it first because to me, it'll come off like i'm shamelessly copying them or that i thought i could do it better.
(sometimes i probably could, but i'd rather not come off that rude by actually doing so even if i'd had no idea someone else was working on it when the idea hit me.)
#txt#i should probs get into bigger fandoms where there's such a sheer volume of stuff going on no one would even NOTICE similar works j;alskdjf#but alas the brainrot only hits for environments where i can't enjoy making anything without worrying this will happen#if i'm not contributing anything 'new' i simply cannot justify the energy#can you tell i just saw some art of a niche idea i wanted to draw for one of my small fandoms j;LKJajl;sdfjk#in this case though that person did it far better than i could so i can't even be disappointed#just like. ough#this is a big reason i havent rly vidded anything lately too#the couple soooorta recent fandoms of mine i wanted to vid for were more medium sized and someone ended up using the exact song#i was working on for that character so i noped out bc the copying concerns hit even harder in those cases#i need to go do something original sometime ever in my entire life so my creative existence stops being about filling a#niche no one else is in so i feel like i have a tiny little place i slot into or belong in or whatever#because the whole nature of fandom means 'mine' does not exist#and it feels like even if someone outright DOES copy you...#you have no right to be upset about it because you're all playing with someone else's dolls anyway#(see: someone literally doing this after i posted about an idea i was writing and them interacting w the post so they DEF SAW IT#without crediting/involving me in the finished thing at all and saying it was their idea#i never want to do that to other people or come off like i am lol)
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craycraybluejay · 3 months
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4 THE ALBUM GAME I’d like to know what’s you think of the album ‘less than three’ by mindless self indulgence, I think it’s you, at least it resonates with how I perceive you ^w^
SOMEONE ALREADY SAID THAT TO ME HAHA very much me apparently. I love that album smsmsmsm. Favs from it are probably Pay For It and Make Me Cum. Banger songs all of them.
The music feels very stimulation-seeking; about sex, judgement, junk food (A La Mode, anyone?), etc.
Which yeah. It's the reason social media got so toxic for me and the reason for a lot of things. I require mental and physical stimulation to the point where my satiated ideal would probably read as self harm or something akin to it to most people. Stagnancy is boring and frustrating.
Anyway, their music fucks severely, if anyone bothers me about any controversies I'm going to give them the Laser of I Don't Care Loser :3. I know I have great names for lasers.
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