#and/or doing my damn taxes

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

This has a bunch of authors I already love in it (Stephen Graham Jones, Darcie Little Badger, Waubgeshig Rice, and Rebecca Roanhorse!!), and several authors I've been meaning to try (like Tommy Orange, Nick Medina, and Kelli Jo Ford, to name a few), so I'm really hyped for them all to be together in one volume! Plus dark fiction is very much my jam (especially when it comes in a bright and colorful package).

#books of 2024 #books #book photography #never whistle at night #never whistle at night: an indigenous dark fiction anthology #shane hawk #theodore c. van alst jr. #stephen graham jones #rebecca roanhorse #darcie little badger #waubgeshig rice #i'm sorry i'm not tagging ALL of them lol there are twenty-six (26) stories in here and i do not have the attention span for that many name #i love all the details on the cover too!! #the longer i look at it the more i find #full disclosure: i did in fact used to whistle at night because i don't want to startle creachers directly into my face when i take out-- #--the trash or nocturnally shovel snow but uh. i have stopped doing that. since this book hit my shelf lol #(also sorry i just now noticed that the detached human eyeball is PURPLE of all things) #(driscoll posting) #(yeah this was vaguely in the driscoll lineup too #that's where it's been living on my shelf in the meantime) #(right next to OTHER TERRORS lol) #driscoll #in btw #anyway ignore this next text post i'm about to make pretend i'm reading this #and/or doing my damn taxes

[gordonsicedcoffee]

And you, huh? What about you? What sort of shady shit have you been up to, hmm?

I'm a Senior V.P. for a real estate development company.

JULIE BENZ as BRIT STEVENSON SAW V (2008) dir. David Hackl

#the way she just saunters up in her bitchy business lady stilettos...........miss gorl.................. #she makes me so insane. let's discuss #saw v #brit stevenson #julie benz #sawedit #horroredit #filmedit #mine #legitimately the BADDEST bitch #bad in multiple ways. esp morally. like damn shawty u are SO ethically bankrupt I want u to throw me down the STAIRS #her face when mallick calls her boring kills me #need her in concerning & inane ways #in all other ways but physical. I am on my knees under her desk. doing taxes. that's what I'm doing there. yeah #pls mumther one crumb of pussy & a slap in the face ?? perchance #<-if u think those tags are bad u do not want 2 know what I just typed and deleted #those words have been redacted due to their radioactive and corrosive nature 🙏

[goldiipond]

the word terrorist has lost pretty much all meaning to me because 90% of the time a white person says that word its used as a shorthand for 'nonwhite people resisting oppression'

#skye's ramblings #im soo fucking tired of seeing zionists spout their genocidal bullshit on literally any post abt palestine. im soo fucking angry #ive been trying not to have a meltdown on here but every day this continues i get more and more pissed. how many more people have to die. #we protest and scream in the streets and give anything we can spare and fucking nothing changes bc western democracy is a fucking scam #daily reports of brown children slaughtered and people will smirk behind the safety of their screens and smugly tell you they deserved it. #my native aunts and cousins who are still suffering from the effects of colonialism watch as the descendants of people who took everything #-use their tax money to send more bombs to an illegitimate state that is doing the exact same fucking thing in real time. i want to scream #god dammit im so fucking tired. i will never lose hope but god damn. i am so tired of white people feeling entitled to fucking everything

[n4b3]

For me i knew George was down bad bad when he did/does dream's taxes

#TELL ME ONE DAMN PERSON WHO ISN'T MARRIED OR DATING WHO DOES THAT #i wouldn't do my bff taxes nor anyones girl doing taxes is the most infuriating thing in the world #and yet george did dreams millionaire taxes..... like ........... that says so much so damn much u guys don't understand #txt

[bruciemilf]

I saw your Gladiator!Bruce AU idea and I happen to be a fantasy writer/worldbuilder (I hope you don't mind if I throw you a slightly different idea)—

As a prince, Bruce was taught his princely sword fighting and basic hand-to-hand skills. When the coup came, he was a boy.

He was thrown into a pit to die for the crimes of his father, because one death just wasn't enough. Bruce, 10 years old, 50 pounds, looks up to a fully grown man and learns just how inadequate the word dread can be. But the man looks down at him and cannot kill a child.

The new… tyrant, out of the good of his dusty, hateful heart, spares both of their lives.

Bruce is sent out into the ring regularly to be brutalized. Not because people like seeing a child lose fight after fight, but because they were told that Thomas was a terrible king, and they're still so angry, and someone has to pay the price.

Bruce is 17 when he finally wins his first fight. He's punished for it afterwards.

The new heir, a princess, makes her way to the dungeons. No one recognizes her. She creeps through the dark and the grime, silent and unseen, a shadow in the dark. She steps up to the cage bars, green eyes luminescent in the bleakness. Bruce is curled up on his hands and knees to keep the wounds on his back clean. The princess reaches in and rolls a tangerine to him, and it taps against his blood-crusted knuckles softly. By the time he looks up from his foggy haze, she's gone.

Years pass. Win or lose, his little mystery visitor sneaks him treats. Every time he approaches the bars, she disappears. Once he almost caught her by hiding off to the side. But he couldn't bring himself to use his full strength to hold her, and she slipped right through his fingers.

The king isn't getting any older. Bruce has a crisis where he knows he'll die here. When he's too old to fight well, when he's young but his ruined body makes moving fast enough too hard, he'll die. He doesn't even remember the feeling of silk anymore, the smell of perfume, the feeling of well-kept leather. But at least he remembers the sweet taste of berries.

It's not enough. But it's all he has.

The princess is married to some… specimen from a neighboring kingdom. She knows her father's plans to raze it all to the ground. This young man, this boy, is pretty and kind and polite. But her heart is distracted. She takes him to the games under the guise of courting him. Really, she'd just rather be spending the time with her champion.

The new prince (not a king here, either, as the odious king remains), watches with… complete and utter horror. The man in the ring is young — his age. But he wears a dented buckler and a leather skirt that's almost as scarred as his back. Ridges, canyons, burns, lashes — from his back to his fingers, this young man is a tapestry of abuse. And his pale eyes are blacker than night.

That night, the new prince sneaks into the dungeons. He's never really done this sort of thing before, but his hearing is good, his eyesight is better, and he can sneak and creep better than most any novice. He finds Bruce's cage and crouches down.

Bruce looks so much smaller in the dark. He sleeps as if bowing down to something, his back open to the air. But his head moves, and he looks up to his visitor. Bruce sees the most vivid blue of his life, looking down at him with kindness through the dreary night. He knows better than to speak. The stranger wavers.

"I saw you today," he whispers. His voice is… soft. It's airy and warm and gentle. There's no gruffness, no malice, no command. It's like what silk and satin would sound like, fire-warmed and lain across the shoulders. Bruce stares with wide eyes. He didn't know a man could sound so welcoming. "I'm sorry for what they're doing to you." Bruce gasps, quietly, but the wind is taken from his lungs. His mystery visitor never speaks much to him. But this new stranger reached right into his chest and touched the biggest wound.

Bruce turns his head to hide the silent tears. The stranger wavers. Then he apologizes again and leaves. The princess, hidden away, a pair of candies and a large apple in her hand, suddenly thinks she can learn to love the new prince.

The king ruins the neighboring kingdom. The prince is inconsolable, and it's only the princess' blade to his throat that convinces him to calm down and turn away from the thought of murdering her father for giving the order. He flees, breaking and smashing things along the way, because everyone he's ever known is dead and all of his people are being scattered to the wind like ashes. The princess lets him leave. She knows where to find him.

In the dungeon, with slivers of moonlight to cut the dark, the prince sits against the bars, his hand resting in Bruce's lap. Bruce doesn't weep with Prince Clark. That wound scarred over a long time ago for him. But he holds Clark's hand as delicately as his callouses allow, and he tries his best to trace the lines of this soft palm without inflicting pain. But Clark won't stop weeping.

Both broken princes nearly miss when the princess steps out of the dark. She hands them both caramels and sits to enjoy her own. Bruce tenderly unwraps Clark's for him, glad for the chance to be gentle. Talia watches them both, and as the caramel softens and melts in her mouth, she decides it's just about time for her father to learn about death.

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#BESTIE. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY IMMACULATE #talia my love oof. maybe love languages can be just tangerines and caramels #also god damn thomas what did you DO. imagine he made gay marriage legal and wanted to tax the rich and they were like mmm #cant let you do that chief #well sjsjsjs anyway bruce my beloved i make you suffer but alas

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#I'm not back yet but I do have cool things happening in my life that I want to scream about so #here I am for a moment! #so first of all #I paid off my mortgage?? like the whole entire thing??? #I just. own my whole entire house outright now. no recurring payments to continue living here. #except property tax and like. other bills but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN #so that was last week #and then THIS WEEK #guess who got a promotionnnnnn #(it's me I did) #got a fancy new title and a raise ayyyy #been dying with work lately so I damn well deserve it too lmao #anywayyyy hi everyone I love you I miss you mean #mine #personal

[bakuliwrites]

He's a little uptight, has dad energy, and looks like he could do your taxes. What more could you want in a man?

#nanami kento #xander fire emblem #shota aizawa #eraserhead #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #fire emblem #fire emblem fates #my hero academia #bnha #hatori sohma #fruits basket #furuba #love me an emotionally constipated man with dad energy and real world knowledge #do my taxes and I'll love you forever #there's plenty more but these were the four I could think of #i literally started watching jjk for nanami #i took one look and was like hot damn

[skullhaver]

I have never done my taxes so late before. I was putting them off for mysterious dreadful reasons. But this afternoon I finally sat down to do them and it only took me an hour!

If you are putting off your taxes I'm here to tell you it's gonna be okay!! Just google "IRS free tax filing" and put your info into a site that will spit out places to do your taxes with simple UIs for free

#next year's taxes are gonna suck tho lol - international relationship joint filing across two different currencies here i come #gonna have to get an additional master's degree just to figure out how to do my damn taxes

[compacflt]

What does Ice (or Mav) think about the Obama gay rumors? Will they be tuning in to hear the story of the man who allegedly fucked Obama? Are they bi Obama truthers? Is Rooster? Is Hangman? Any other Icebama interactions you're hiding from us? His cameo cracked me up and I need to know more...

the obama gay rumors

first im hearing about this

#‘why would you ask me; a top gun blog; this’ #r u talking about the guy who’s claiming to be Obamas brother on Twitter #is malik obama now claiming his brother barack is gay ? #i may be a zoomer but im not sure im quite that terminally online #ice would probably think something diasapproving like #‘it’s just like when those damn republicans said he was born in kenya or that his wife is a man. ppl say shit just to say shit 👎’ #mav would probably be like ‘hell yeah obama join the club!!! 😎😎😎 you me and everyone else on earth!!’ #though mav (thinks democrats take too much of his income in taxes) would still be registered Republican #were it not for his liberal husband threatening divorce and the gop’s recurring threats to send the military to invade mexico #would he??? i CANNOT get a political read on tgm mav #1986 mav definitely believes Bill Clinton is an affront to god #2020 mav I’m not sure #‘ok fine higher taxes is the price i will pay for marriage equality’ #does this have anything to do with Obama saying he only was a communist in college just to pull mad pussy? (relatable af ngl) #read the authors note on wwgattai ch 9. i am not up to date on my obama discourse clearly

[papa-evershed]

#rob james-collier #robert james-collier #rob james collier #robert james collier #vera #vera: cold river #richard #richard notgrimes #okay usually i don't do the same role back to back but i am so exhausted rn that even putting drafts in my queue is too taxing i'm sorry 🙃 #but also i mean...like i said last time this role is slept on #serving looks #grey in the hair ✅ soft belly ✅ #congrats on your existence #my brain does me dirty more often than not but damn it did a good job making me notice him

[talokanda-forever]

This beautiful chain-smoking bastard can do my taxes anytime. And I do mean ANY-TIME!

Accountant Tenoch is still hot af.

#where are my damn receipts? #tax season is quickly approaching #is there anything this man can't do? #even though he's not even an accountant here #tenoch huerta #agua papi #namor

[mistress-light]

Getting my pension in order be like:

#luckily i have a lot of tax advantages #but damn man #but finally did it #i hate stuff like this #it legit took me almost half a day to calculate every thing lmao #mistress blabbling #i gotta work until i'm 70 heheheheheheh....................... #hopefully i can drop out earlier that is if you live up to be 70 #i know so many people who just die before their pension and never like enjoyed life? #that's why i am working 4 days and just do things now #but still you never know how you'll be #another important note for me was that if i die early that my money goes to my relatives and not some state bs

[whatthebodygraspsnot]

70 FUCKING DOLLARS FOR TEARS OF THE KINGDOM HELLO???

#taking out a small loan to gather fruits and herbs and find a horsey to be my best friend #god damn #personal #WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN SALES TAX #5 DOLLARS SALES TAX??? #YOU'RE LITERALLY ZAPPING IT TO MY SWITCH WHAT DO YOU MEAN #75 dollars for a digit copy of a game if only my gamecube/ps2 ass could see me now holy fuck

[hdawg1995]

Me when I realized you enabled booping:

(Hope you're doing well, friend!)

YOU SENT ME A SUPER BOOP I NEED YOU TO KNOW I MADE A GIFT OF A PAW BOOPING YOU BUT I FORGOT TO SAVE IT!

YOUR DRAWING WAS SO POWERFUL IT SENT A SUPER BOOP THAT COULD NOT BE CHALLENGED!!

#also i could be better #i'm going to bake cookies for the tax office i work at #and make them look like the office's logo #cause i hate this place but damn do i love my co workers #and baking #and the logo is a funky shape #so obviously these cookies are gonna be fugly

[idk-my-aesthetic]

Respectfully if you are on a train and take up a table seat and don’t even use it I am eating your phone

#there’s only so many table seats on the commuter railAUGH #4-6 per car it’s a shared table #I get it if the train is full or if it’s super empty and you want a place for your elbows #but if I’m going 45 minutes all the way to the end of the line and you’re only 15 minutes from your stop #and you deprive me of my ability to use my laptop to get some work done before my aderall gives out and I pass the fuxk out #i am eating your phone #biteing it straight from your hand #I will grind the glass into dust with the strength of my jaw #also fuck you to whoever lied on the schedule claiming that it’s very empty #this is not very empty it’s one degree below max capacity #and who the hell keeps deciding to close off whole ass cars #is there something wrong with the car?? do you not have someone to monitor it??? #I can see the damn thing is empty let me IN!!!!!! #what’s the point of taxes when the trains still suck #we pay police so damn much why don’t they run the fucking trains #yada yada defund the police acab and all that #I’m so tired ur honor

[firebirdsdaughter]

Looking back at your Ask box…

… And realising you have Asks going back at least two years…

Which is a good thing bc I just accidentally found out someone blocked me that I think I only interacted w/ them all of once and I'm not sure why but I might know why and now I feel bad, and…

… Yeah. I'll. Uh. I'll go think about the Asks, maybe.

#Firebird Randomness #there's no real point in pursuing the other thing #I'm guessing it was my 01 melt down think I pushed a lot of people away w/ that one #I was twenty five and it was Covid and I was not in a great place emotionally #in it's own way 01 kept me going but damn did I get emotional about it #I still have pretty much the same opinions although I think I could explain them better now #I'm not stuck living w/ my parents I'm not in one of my most formative ages stuck in a global pandemic #I am constantly exhausted and burned out from work and thinking about going on meds again #I still have executive dysfunction and my social skills are subpar #I care to much and get worked up #I still have anxiety and depression #but I'm almost thirty (twenty nine end of this month!) I'm in a better living spot and I get paid okay #I still have weight and image problems and no motivation #but I don't have scurvy #gotta do my taxes #all in all… Doing okay #I still love Horobi and Fuwa w/ my whole heart #test for whoever reads the tags: who wants to see my merch/display wall??? #it's covered in dust and has some Hakuouki and DMC stuff on it as well but I still think it's cool!