#it used to be like 10 for $25

[ilikedetectives]

Was gonna check out some new mods today, but then got distracted by the craziest embezzling case in Vietnam's financial history, this real estate tycoon (Trương Mỹ Lan) stole what is an equivalent of 10% of Vietnam's entire GDP???????? (x)

#truong my lan #she put 10% of stolen money in CASH and stored it in her home basement?????? like how big is that basement #$44 billion USD total and $4b in her basement #idk in what currency she stored the cash in but if it's in VND that's even crazier because our largest denomination is less than $25 #when you scam so much money the news have to measure it using a country's GDP asdasadsas #me browsing my timeline today: why are Vietnamese policewomen on my twt timeline I recognize that uniform #'oh that's because they took the photos of her being escorted into the courtroom' #colin mumbles

[cinnamon-bunni]

hey so ummmmm everyone go read Moonlight (every single night) by @heleentje right now. like, its a botw fic with timeloops, what more do i have to say

#okay i may not have finished it yet bc i dont read fics like i used to but god dammit is this fic GOOD #listen time loops are my JAM and weakpoint like if a fic is a timeloop its already an 8/10 #but moonlight is so well written?? with good characterization??and SUCH an interesting plot and mystery to it??? #AND (again) GOOD WRITING???? #i am biting it and chewing it like a chew toy (pos) #idk how many botw mutuals/followers i have but. *shoves into your hands* read. read it now #anyways imma get back into reading this and heleentje i PROMISE you im gonna rant SO much in the comments section of the last chap lmao #bunni mumbles #also the fic is like a 25/10. to me

[marblerose-rue]

it is my birthday today!!!

#my art #not gonna tag this for much bc i am gonna use the tags to ramble ^_^ #it is currently 12:30 am and i turn 20 today and it is so weird #this is also a special fall for me because not only do i turn 20. my fursona turns 10 #like ive had her for ten years. for half of my life ive drawn and loved her and i got to watch not only her grow but myself grow through he #granted she wasnt made until nov 25 but still. she is very important to me. she will be as old as i was when i first drew her #SENTIMENTS ASIDE i am very happy and lucky and fortunate to be where i am now and to have such wonderful people in my life #BUT YEAH TO ANSWER THE HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION where would i be in ten years. i think id still be drawing #i cant see myself doing anything else and i mean that in the most comfortable and confident way possible #i am gonna call it a night though bc i am tired BAHAHA but who would i be if i didnt post at midnight on my birthday

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #seattle mariners #mariners #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #fun fact number 1 the team has a pitcher whose last name is kirby #they use game boy style kirby graphics when he pitches good #fun fact number 2 the team is 10% owned by nintendo #so while it doesn't exist *yet* #hyperniche kirby x mlb crossover merch *could* exist #just for me. as a treat. #(this teal is really like. not one of their main colors anymore.) #(I'm not entirely sure in retrospect it ever has been?) #(I think it was when I was a kid like 25 years ago) #(I did at least sort-of-try on the logo tho)

[britneyshakespeare]

barnes and noble has been raising the prices of everything and further pushing for their premium membership option (which they raised the price of by 60 percent this year!) and then when they have big sales events, they're less than what they used to be.

last year at this time you could get one of their leather-bound book annex tomes for $12.50 (without a member discount) because of the 50 percent off all hardcover sales. but they raised the price of those tomes from 25 bucks to 30, and they decreased the sale from 50 percent off all hardcovers to 1/3rd off. so that same book that was $12.50 at last year's end-of-year sale is now 20 bucks. and that's supposed to be savings enough to induce me to walk into one of their stores this week?

i'm sorry but b&n has just gotten so greedy, even though their business has only been doing better and better in previous years. they do not have to be raising prices like they have been, and they can damn well afford to have the same savings events they used to. if you went to one of those hardcover sales a year or two ago, even if you lived in a less populated area like i do, you had never seen a b&n so busy in your life. things were flying off the shelves. they WERE making bank.

and as a company they've only been growing and growing (as much as the publishing industry has been, in recent years). but there are so many other ways to buy books. CHEAPER ways to buy books. MORE SUSTAINABLE ways to buy books. and since books and booksellers are doing really well right now, i don't see why barnes and noble is getting so greedy when they don't have to be. i dont like new shiny books that much. people buy books for the content, ultimately. sometimes we as consumers might make the choice that a new shiny book is worth paying a bit more for, but not that much. barnes and noble has just been demanding more and more of their customers' money for less and less benefit.

#kaily and i shared a membership account for several years but she cancelled it over the summer #bc of them raising it from 25 dollars per year to 40. i'm sorry but we just were not spending enough to make that worth it #the benefits for a member used to be 10 percent off everything in-store and free shipping online. #now it's 10 percent off everything in-store AND online with free shipping. which sounds good enough #but not for a 60 percent pricehike. and a bunch of other supposed benefits no one would ask for #like a free tote (geez. thanks. yeah i really need a free tote every year) and like. a free treat at a cafe on your kids' birthday? #i dont have a kid. #between the two of us. we were not buying 400 dollars worth of stuff at b&n every year #oh and it's also 10 percent off the in-store starbucks. but im pretty sure that USED to be a benefit they had #years ago?? like i SWEAR ive gotten money off at the b&n starbucks so i guess they got RID of that at some point #and gave it BACK when they HIKED UP THE PRICE TO 40 BUCKS A YEAR #text post #barnes and noble #it's a shame bc where i live. barnes and noble is the only like fancy bookstore #and i live in an area that my barnes and noble... is like. what a boston barnes and noble eats for breakfast. #it's two floors. there are plenty of books that it doesn't have. plenty of sections that are very small #like the poetry section is just pathetic. i look at it every time i go and it just makes me sad. #i guess a lot of the book annex stuff contains poetry but still that's not really enough to entertain a rich interest in the genre for long #i outgrew the limited selection at my own local b&n poetry section by the time i was twenty. i was like i already know everything here. #which isn't to say i'm an expert in poetry. it's to say that the poetry section is barely bigger than a shelf #in fact ive never thought about it before but I OWN more poetry books than you'll find in the poetry section #at my local b&n. lol #i have a lot of nostalgia for b&n even though it is a big company that does not love me. i have very few books i bought new #that are not from barnes and noble. i got so many books that changed my life from them #i guess it's like a childhood/teenage attachment at this point bc ive had more mixed feelings abt the direction theyve been taking #for several years at this point. #and no i dont mean that theyve been expanding to selling more toys/games etc. theyve literally always done that in my lifetime. who cares. #they still have books #as an adult ive been more capable of seeing how limited their book selection is and how i have so many problems w that. #and it ultimately comes down to them being a big greedy company

[chambers003]

oot/mm link is so fucked up like.

you are a 10 year old child, living with other children, and you are different from them. you don’t know how.

you are a child, and you have found other children, supposedly like you.

you watch as your newest friend is torn from you, leaving only an ocarina and knowledge of a sword behind.

you pull the sword from its pedestal and the world goes white.

when you awaken, you are a child in a 17 year old’s body, and the world has turned to ruin in your absence.

you are a child in an adult’s body, yet you begin your quest to defeat the evil that took your friend from you.

you have gotten used to being in a 17 year old’s body, but the first friend you made in your new world has just sent you back to relive the childhood he believes was stolen from you, without even asking your permission. he does not know you’ve gotten used to this life.

you remember your previous life, in this new one. he would not have known.

you are 9 years old. you are an adult in a child’s body.

you face a demon puppeting a child’s body.

you have three days until the moon crashes. the moon crashes. you play a tune, and you have three days until the moon crashes.

you try not to think of yourself when you look at the skull kid, wearing the mask of the demon controlling them.

you try not to think of them when you tear the souls from others and craft them into masks. the agony of donning them is enough.

you do not know how old you are. you are 9 years old. you do not know how many times you have lived three days. you are not 9 years old.

you hold the power of a god in your hands.

you wear the power of a god on your face. you are a god in a child’s body.

you do not know what you are.

#my post #yes i he/him oot sheik. he didnt NEED to trans his gender when he went into hiding. but he did. #anyway #my timeline is #oot link was 10 and he aged up to 17 upon pulling the master sword. (pulled from the fact in botw 17 is considered adulthood) #mm link was around 8 or 9 when he was like ‘yeah no i cant wait any longer i know what’s coming and i wanna stop it NOW.’ #so he did that and then mm takes place when he’s 9 #this is all just physically ofc #mentally he’s probably closer to 20-25 at this point #then ofc mm happens and Who Knows how long he was stuck in termina. and then the power of the fierce deity… he becomes the fierce deity? #how old is a god? #so he’s been around for ??? years timeloop included. and fierce deity is ???????? years old. and link himself is somewhere between those two #(the number of question marks used is indicative of how old relatively they are to each other) #the legend of zelda #ocarina of time #majora’s mask #i love oot/mm. would love to play it one day. (ive started oot but hit a roadblock rly early on)

[seahdalune]

the TF2 community talks constantly about "E Spam" but i think we need to talk more about "E Silence", where none of your teammates call for Medic even when they're at 15 health and you're forced to figure out who needs to be healed lest they die during a crucial moment.

#tf2 #shitpostdalune #i think nobody calling for Medic actually freaks me out more #might be because i'm a beginner (25 hours baby!) #but i NEED people to call me or i'll end up wandering around the map (and get killed by the enemy team) #a few times i got into matches like those and while sifting over my team's health i would see 1 or 2 people at 10 health #i felt like crying over those teammates while scolding them #''WHY THE HELL AREN'T YOU GUYS CALLING ME'' #''I AM NOT A HUMAN DISPENSER. I HAVE LEGS. PLEASE PRESS E FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIIIFEE'' #but what do i know. #maybe there's bias against the Vaccinator? or whatever layout i use. #or i SMELL of beginner LMAO

[insert-neologism]

bad astrology by flower face

#yellowjackets #jackieshauna #ITS DONE OMG ITS FINISHED #what do I do now. with my life (ranking) #also ive decided i am gonna do literary analysis. on all of em #literally i have NO idea if anyone cares. well. i do bc I care and tbh that's enough to me #<- guys look im living so healthy #anyways this was a blast #hope somebody has at least discovered flower face trhu me bc its one of my fav artists #mitos incredible life #mine art tag #also im sorry the like long scenes 3 and 4 arent on beat :/ i love that song but it has so long instrumental stuff and idk what to do there #ALSO!! i had it all planned out like at least half in my docs (like always) #and then in the middle i was like 'omg what if I only show jackie-after-the-argument and shauna-after-jackies-dead' #(excluding the argument and the flashbacks (they used to hear us thru the floor)) #which was. restricting. very much #also meaning was changed (originally wanted jackie to have the line 'idc if ure not made for me' but the only scene i could think of was th #ure hungry for and that was the next scene already so.) #anyways this was originally gonna be lottienat before i started with The Shark In Your Water #bc I thiught it fit them SO well. (still do) but now I like have to get away from the jackieshauna thought and then ill do the lottienat #probably #omg also I want everyone (who has read this far. whoever would do that) to know i was running on like 25 screen #recordings and 3 jackieshauna scene packs form yt #that's why. I dknt have that many clips alright im not using like 10 scenes over n over on purpose #gotta go but im gonna make a wrap post thingy once im back slay #no actually I get like average 7 notes (<- that's a lie Idk bc I didnt count) but im proud of myself this is amazing #ive wanted to do smth similiar alr #but it was some album by alec benjamin and a different thing for every song (like a poem‚ a painting or a play) #but I lost motivation this is the first thing that i actually pulled though all the way I think #jackieshauna: The Shark In Your Water

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#had an interesting conversation with my sister the other day. odd i guess bc my sister is pretty smart #on paper shes smarter than me. or at least less dyslexic than me #but she didnt seem to kno what cancer is. i mean like how it works. i mean. cancer is a mistake. a confluence of unfortunate accidents #leading to unrestrained cellular growth. when it metastasizes. when it moves to other parts of the body. those same cells continue growing #if u have smooth muscle cancer and it moves to your kidney. you body is trying to grow more smooth muscle on your kidney #at least as i understand it. and she asked why it wants to kill you. it doesnt want anything. it just is. its not a thing of malicious #intent. its neutral. it grows. it takes up resources. it takes up space. and it grows and grows until the organ it grows on stops #functioning properly. like a parasite she said. but no. not like a parasite. it grows like an empty space. a mass of flesh. a constant #obstructive pressure. it grows like only a tumor can. i dunno. it didnt seem to connect with her that this thing didnt want to kill our mom #but it did anyway. and she felt weird about how long she lived after they took her off any support. but thats how cancer kills #it stops an organ from functioning and most of those r important so it only takes one. so her heart kept beating for 12 more hrs bc it was #meant to beat for 40 more years. but not much it could do without working kidneys and without working blood #but that's life. that's death. that's nature. its all nutral even if it feels horrible to the individual. #i dunno. i thought it was interesting. shes 25 and her mother had cancer for 10 years so id think shed kno more #we're at a weird phase now bc its been a week since she died and everything feels normal. we'll see what happens at the wake this week #its been interesting for sure bc she was sick for 10 years but my parents didnt prepare at all for her to die #so my dad is scrambling to put together the pieces shr left behind to make sure that all the bills r paid and whatnot. he had to guess her #computer password. she didnt tell us what she wanted us to have. she didnt tell us the importance of her jewelry and who it belonged to #before her. i dunno. we're seeing the outline of my mothers Pathology in what she left behind. both in the physical objects and in the #feelings she imparted. i dunno. its been weird #unrelated

[obstinaterixatrix]

Also it looks like I’ll be taking ex-coworker out for pho this weekend, she’s never had it before :V if I’m being evil and strategic, I won’t tell her that it’s a cash only place so I can pay her back for the burger. but I suppose the fair thing to do is give her autonomy and fight over the bill on equal terms rather than having an unfair advantage.

#my ramblings #tbh it’s been pretty easy to cut takeout out of my spending habits #because I kind of hate ordering delivery #the food prices are jacked up AND you have to pay and tip the driver AND the food isn’t as fresh #I’d rather eat at a restaurant as a treat or eat with friends if it comes down to it #and also food is so expensive in the usa #I used to think a reasonable amount to spend on lunch was 10-15 and a reasonable price for dinner was 20-25 #nowadays the prices aren’t that… #any time I see the price of a cucumber roll I wince #that guy used to be $4 tops what do you mean it’s being sold for $5-6 #also also I never trust delivery from a restaurant I haven’t been to #in fact I barely trust delivery from a restaurant I *HAVE* been to #there’s a place that only does hash browns for the breakfast menu #like grated potato hash browns #I love when the potatoes are grated. I hate grating potatoes for hash browns but it tastes so good. #ANYWAY I paid the STUPID upcharged price for delivery #and it came COLD #so fucking mad. I’ll never order delivery from that place again. #I’ll go to eat tho I haven’t been there in a while #it’s a little fancy. not like folded napkin fancy but farm to table fancy. #eating out at a restaurant last weekend was like ‘yeah I do enjoy this :) especially going to restaurants I enjoy :)’

[tittyinfinity]

I have no money left, my fiends don't have any old vapes, and I'm legit scared of what vaping is doing to my lungs (random chest pains but it's also long covid too), so I'm just gonna try to push through the nicotine withdrawals, wish me luck!!

#i got wayyyy to used to not having to buy my own stuff #my mom and partner always gave me their leftover cigs #most of the vapes I've had were given to me #but fuck vaping is so much cheaper #a carton of cigs is like $70-90 and my partner and i would go thru those in less than a week #my mom buys these cheap cigs for $25 a carton (10 of them) but it's still $100 a month for her #for regular cigs you're paying like $200-$300 each month #anyway if you do smoke and don't wanna quit #the 24/7s really aren't that bad and they're $2.50 a pack where I'm at #compared to a fuckin $8 pack of marlboros #.bdo

[icewindandboringhorror]

Trying to find something to go with these tights? I don’t have a lot of bright clothes that match them, so went more in a mixing it with lighter colors sort of direction, maybe sort of sky themed (rainbow with the blue and white clouds)?

#self #ootd #should I start tagging things as that?? lol.. I mot sure how to tag things like this that are. not costumes really. just outfits. but not a #specific style or anything. just like experimental #I need more cloud print items also.. there just arn't many of them. OR actually. There are not many of them if you're someone like me who #pretty much exclusively gets clothes at places like the bins and thrift stores. All of the cloud print items I have are the small like 0.5% #of my wardrobe gotten from ebay in the past 10 years. I have never seen a cloud print thing out in the wild actually #OR sometimes you finally find stuff that's sky/cloud themed but it's like... a washcloth for babies. instead of a shirt. ... sad #they probably do have them and you can maybe get them at stores sometimes but. hhhh..... #Buying things new is so stinky. everything costs over $10 >:( why.. why cost mony >:( #I think once you get used to everything being like 25 cents an item to MAYBE $8 or something at a real thrift store #going to online or in person stores and seeing stuff like a cloud dress but it's $65 is like.......... I could never. I could never fathom #I mean. I WOULD pay $65 for a dress if it was literally like. Exactly every specific thing I love all in one and I know I would never find #it again in my entire life and could not make it myself and etc. etc. Like a pastel blue and white historical style dress with #puffy sleeves that goes down to the ankles and has a high ruffled collar and also has a pattern with cats and clouds and stars on it and the #sleeves and striped and there's lace and bows and things dangling from the cuffs and part of it is irridescent and there are long buttons or #lacing or some other elaborate details and tassles somewhere also and it's layered and 3 sizes too big for me so it's not tight #or etc. etc. I would pay maybe $80 for that. Perhaps $100 if it came with accessoriy bits (like a ruffled fancy apron or shawl or hisorical #bonnet or matching gloves that also had cats on them etc. ) - but otherwise. No. #ANYWAY. for someone who loves clouds SO much. I have so little actual cloud themed clothing and house things lol #If I had a billion dollars though... >:) I would give 80% of my money to charity obligatory but what I had left I would use to have like. #the most Themed house ever. so much clouds and also cats. rug shaped like clouds. a cloudy sky mural on every cieling. #full wardrobe of cloud print cloaks and stuff. so on and so forth lol

[skeletalheartattack]

happy almost birthday :o)

:) thank you!!! there's gonna be a bounce castle at my birthday party and every body is invited

#ask #catboygirljoker #ough.... the passage of time marches on. #on that tuesday i will be 25. fucked up. #i dont really do much for my birthdays honestly. besides my mom taking me out to a restaraunt to eat. #on the day of i just get a good pizza and thats enough for me #a friend did recently offer to get me a desktop computer. and the tower has been here since thursday. #im currently waiting on the monitor. which should arrive in a few days. #im. really bad at accepting gifts. that said. even after having accepted this one im still experiencing grief #the computers an older model. but it runs on windows 10. #im. internally scared to think about what it can and cant run. i even dread thinking about even finding out. #like. ohhhh how id love to play animal crossing city folk again... or even minecraft... #but im doing. my best. to keep my expectations low. #i really hope it runs emulators (gamcube/wii/ps2 era ones) well. i need to play dbz budokai again i need to look at zarbons model again #the monitor is 1080p. which i dont think ive ever had a monitor that high res. #ik that TF2 probably wont run the best. but i hope sourcemods run fine. #ill have to do so much re-installing of things....... ogh..... #it doesnt have a wifi chip so i think temporarily ill have to use a usb to connect to the internet. #which i can live with. ik theyre not as powerful but its fine. maybe at some point ill get a wifi card. #though. i dread the thought <- had internal ptsd thinking about touching anything within a computer again #tldr. had a good laptop. screen went dark one day. was told it was probably the cmos battery. #tried to do repairs myself. ooggh..... the horrible memories.... #ik adding a wifi chip is incredibly easy. but that doesnt mean im not scared #anyway :) thank you for the soon birthday wishes

[dragons-in-spaceee]

The fear my bank account feels every time comic-con approaches…

#LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT LAST YEAR #so the tickets are honestly decent price. not expensive #stuff at stalls is also decent price and there’s TONNES of sales at basically every stall #BUT me and my friend are extremely stupid when placed in front of star trek merch #we ended up spending a rather large amount of money cause we’d both want stuff from a stall #then realise there was like a ‘5 for £25’ sale on or whatever #and agree to split it between us so we could get the good #but let’s just say I ended up buying a few more things than I would’ve otherwise #came home with like 10 books and 4? 5? posters #plus a bunch of other stuff #it doesn’t sound like a lot but it was aksjakdj

[moodr1ng]

listen im not talking about the One Kid Whos Cringe About It specifically bc who cares but in a more general way whats going on w the brazen entitlement to getting interaction with your art on tumblr.. ive been sharing art on my art blog for 8 years, never got to 1k followers, vast majority of my art gets less than 50 notes and frankly a lot of it doesnt get to 10 notes. i dont throw a fit abt it lol.. part of it is luck (and having more popular mutuals/followers) part of it is the effort i put into properly marketing my art (which is.. not much) part of it is just im not making stuff that a lot of people are interested in. sure it gets depressing sometimes but also the earlier one can accept that sometimes no one but you is gonna give a shit and youre still gonna put in the work because YOU give a shit the earlier you can move on from paralyzing angst about not getting enough attention and just make the art you wanna make yknow?

ig what rly scares me abt that attitude is the "i didnt spend (x amount of time/effort) on this for (x subpar amount of notes)!!" cause like. ideally you wouldnt be making art FOR notes on tumblr in the first place?

#97 #sometimes its also crazy to me to see artists whine about 'only' getting the amount of notes that id usually consider a win #(eg: if i get more than 25 notes lol) #it makes me think abt.. how when you do get social media engagement and you rly rly care abt that it becomes kind of a vicious cycle? #bc the numbers youre used to getting become 'normal' and less than that becomes like a betrayal from others not giving you enough etc #im here like well alright my piece got 7 likes. taking the l moving on yknow. #and part of that ik from personal experience bc i did fanart as a teen #and fanart always always always does way better than original art #so i was used to hundreds or thousands of notes and my stuff being reposted on pinterest ifunny etc etc #i was used to attention! and it did not feel special at all. #today when my oc art gets like 200 notes im so amazed but it was v routine to me 10 years ago when i made fanart. #the numbers are never enough! start loving your art for itself!!

[actualraune]

when i was in high school i sprained my ankle on one of those big inflatable trampolines (because having kids jump on a dome-shaped surface is a really good idea) and it swelled up so severely that even though nothing showed up on my x-rays the hospital staff still worried there might be a small hairline fracture, and they advised me to stay off it and use crutches for a week.

my second day of using crutches at school my social sciences teacher, who was primarily a gym teacher and sports team coach who i guess they just stuck with that class, got really weird about it. like during class in front of everyone he started telling me how i didnt need the crutches and should stop using them and when i told him the doctors wanted me to use them for a week he started saying that a sports doctor would have told an athlete to start walking on it immediately to get back on the field as fast as possible, and who did i trust more? he acted like i was an idiot for saying i wanted to listen to the doctors who had actually examined my injury, because anything they said was just part of an agenda to get more funding for the hospital or whatever. as opposed to a theoretical sports doctor, who of course would have had no agenda whatsoever.

#sorry i saw the words sports medicine #any time i hear anything about sports doctors i think about this #it was so fucking stupid #public healthcare btw this is canada i did not have to pay for the x-rays and the crutches were like #a measly $25 or something like that #god forbid our hospitals want more funding #btw i stopped using my crutches early cause he made me feel so embarrassed about it #didnt take them with me when i went on vacation like 10 days later and my ankle balooned up on the plane #i needed a wheelchair to get out of the airport and into my hotel room