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krisstheidiot · 1 month
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Valentine's Day Special
Summary: Felix and you meet again years after highschool in a cafe on Valentine's day. When you two decide to go on a spontaneous multiple valentine's day activities spree, will past feelings sprout again?, will Felix finally answer your highschool self's confession?
Genre: fluff, highschool friends reunited(crushes)
Warnings: Mentions of Sex, Fireworks
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Your sister had kept you awake all night until 3 to help her decide what outfit she was to wear for her date with her boyfriend. Sleep was completely lost so you had decided to go on a long jog at 6 am and then got ready to hang out at a cozy cafe a few blocks down.
Ordering your usual latte with a slice of apple pie as you sit down at a table near the flower display outside, reading a book on your kindle enjoying the quiet despite the lack of sleep.
A deep voice speaks out of no where breaking your concentration as you look up in shock, finding a familiar face in front you...
"Hey miss is this seat free...?"
Those honey brown orbs, the galaxy like freckles spread on those plush fair cheeks and that cute heart like smile, The face not matching the voice at all as you come to realize who you were face to face with.
"...Felix?"
Tilting your head as you gasp softly and stand up with a bright smile, happy you encountered an old friend, said man looked down at your face in shock as he took in all your features. It was no doubt you were pretty but you looked so beautiful as the morning sun gave you your golden hour, eyes twinkling with golden orbs.
"Y/n..? Omg it's really you...!"
Felix smiled brightly as he suddenly pulled you in for a warm hug, which you happily reciprocated.
"I wasn't expecting to meet you here!"
Felix exclaimed happily as he pulled away and you both sat at your table to catch up on what's been going with your lives. A while later you got curious about why he was here all alone, fiddling with your fork and apple pie crumbs you finally decide to ask.
"Felix i was wondering why you are here all alone? That too so early in the morning?"
Felix chuckles as he sips on his drink while thinking of a way to word his reason without it being awkward
"Well its valentine's day and I am single but all my other friends are dating I woke up to one of them having morning sex so yeah I had to make my escape so i came here..."
"Oh..."
Felix laughs at the face you make as you nod sheepishly imagining how awkward the situation would have been.
"Either ways they probably would have teased me if I had stayed also I am avoiding social media so I don't get coerced into doing a stream because I am sure even my fans would tease me about being so lonely that I stream even on valentine's day"
You giggle as you imagine all the 8 year olds bullying an adult just because he doesn't have a partner. Suddenly a spontaneous idea comes up in your head as you quickly take Felix' hand and get up grabbing your stuff.
"You know what Felix let's go on a date right now! The one we were supposed to go to in highschool but never could because I moved away. I mean if that's okay with you...?"
Felix grinned as he nodded eagerly making all the uncertainty in your head disappear. You smiled as you took his hand in yours and left the cafe after paying.
Finding yourself at a retro arcade that was empty as you and Felix buy a shit ton of coins for all the games. Trying out every single one from bunch of scammy claw machines to every car racing game.
Any game you found fun you would do. Tetris. You name it you played it. With the last coins you decided to play a boxy zombie game that looked like a stupid rip off minecraft as you tried to distract each other hoping the other would fall into the pit of zombie while trying to bridge with the jammed buttons of the machine. Finally you managed to bag the win for who bridged the farthest by kissing Felix's cheek to distract him.
Smiling as both you and Felix's hands are full holding bags full of the tacky toys and gifts he won for you from the claw machines and all the old timey snacks and games you had won from winning the competitive games as you walk next door deciding to play laser tag since you had won two tickets to it.
Coming out of the place as you whine childishly complaining that Felix was just too fast and he didn't win fairly since he literally picked you up and shot your tag with his laser. Felix in tow teasing you that you were just too slow and small to be able to win and his win was completely fair.
"Let's get lunch yeah?"
Felix asks as he smiles down at you as he takes your hand in his and leads you to the nearby beach that was 10 minute walk away. You guys come to a stop in front of a shack restaurant on the beach itself.
sitting on a table facing the sea as you guys order what you guys are gonna eat while talking about anything that came to mind like you were back in Highschool.
Finishing up lunch as the both of you decide to visit the shops at the beach before leaving, as you browsed shop after shop as you go into a very neon coloured shop looking around at all the vintage and retro stuff as you pick up some old pokemon cards blind packs and buy it while Felix is wandering around buying something of his own.
Now, walking to an old cinema as you chat about what anime movie you should watcha at the cinema. Both deciding 'My Neighbor Totoro' would be best as you go inside the cinema taking some artificially buttered popcorn as you sit down in the empty cinema giggling like middle schoolers.
"Hey Felix earlier I bought these old packs of pokemon cards wanna open them with me like when in highschool?"
You suggested, glad that it was dark in the theatre so that he wouldn't know you were blushing as you saw Felix chuckle as he pulled out what he had bought earlier. It was a bunch of old candy with no nutritional value just sugar. Pure sugar. You grinned remembering how you both used skip classes to watch anime at the library while opening pokemon cards and munching on candies just like this.
"Honestly Y/n I missed this. I missed us."
Felis whispered to you while sipping on his now watered down coke since the ice had melted, you looked at him, eyes full of emotion as you smiled softly.
"I missed us too alot, I wished that i had never moved away then maybe we would be spending this valentine's day as a couple not as just friends..."
Whispering sadly as you look back at the screen hoping you don't start crying.
You feel him take your hand in his as he squeezes it slightly.
"Who says we can't spend it as a couple?"
Felix asked straightforward about his intentions behind the question.
You looked up at him slightly in shock trying to gauge out the joke in his question and intent. He nodded to reassure you that he was saying the truth and what he wanted wasn't to joke with you, it was to be with you. A look into his eyes was all you needed to reassure yourself. Just as you opened your mouth to respond he pulled you in and kissed you. It was soft and warm and full of love, his lips soft against your own as he put his hands on your cheek holding you there as you reciprocate the action. Pulling away after a while as he smiles down at you, eyes beating the ones a certain heart eyed emoji has.
"I loved you before. I love you still. And I am sure I will keep on loving you. That's how much I feel about you Y/n, baking isn't any fun without you when i remember how much fun we used to have when we baked together."
You looked at Felix, eyes glossy with tears as you breathe out shakily, overwhelmed by emotions as you hug him close to you and whisper.
"I love you too, I tried so hard to move on convinced that you probably did too, but this its not just a highschool crush it goes beyond that and I don't want to lose the good memories of you. I don't want to lose you anymore not after i waited so many years..."
Felix smiled as he kissed your head and ran his fingers through your hair to comfort you as he spoke. The movie long forgotten.
"You aren't losing me hell even if you wanted to you won't be able to get rid of me now so don't be sad Sweets..."
"Sw-sweets...?"
You looked up at him blushing like crazy as he smiled and patted your head. He looked like a bright ball of sunshine whenever he smiled.
"Well I am assuming that this means we are a couple now so I am just calling my lovely girlfriend a cute nickname!"
"Well if I am sweets then you are Sunshine..."
You whined as took your cup of coke and drank to hide your blush.
"I don't mind darling"
The nickname teasing fest continued as both of you tried making each other blush by calling each other the cheesiest pet names.
It was 8 in the evening as both of you walked hand in hand now as a couple not friends. Smiling as you walked in a nearby diner and sitting down at the table as your eyes adjusted to the the 90s theme the diner was sporting.
Fishing out some spare change as you put it into the jukebox placed near your table as you grinned up at Felix playing the song that you always did in high school. 'Summer love' by One Direction playing as both of you grabbed your spoons pretending they were mics and singing the lyrics and dancing together like idiots in love which you were.
Dinner ended with you two full and satisfied as you walked to Felix's apartment to spend more time together. Both of you ended up playing mario kart as he started vlogging for memories. That's what he said.
Later you decided that both of you needed a sugar high after as if all that candy earlier didn't do a number on your blood sugar levels.
Both of you in his kitchen while trying to bake brownies at 12:50 am. Flour on both of you as you sprinkled choco chips on the brownie batter before putting it in the oven that Felix had pre heated. Closing the oven door as you get up when Felix suddenly wipes your face with a tissue to get rid of all the flour. You look at him, his face now absent of any flour from the playfight you had when he called you small. Leaning slightly to look at the time.
"Wanna do something? we can turn on the oven after we come back from the last adventure of today..."
You said as you take of the apron and take his hand leading him outside as you walk back to the beach.
"So what is this adventure about sweets?"
"You will see Lix..."
Smiling as you reach the beach and tell Felix to go and sit on a bench while you buy a few things. Coming back with two bags of stuff that Felix had no idea to what it would be used for. You looked at the time on your phone as you asked Felix to countdown with you while your eyes are focused at the sky.
Few seconds later bright explosions were visible. Fireworks everywhere. The colourful sparks littered the sky as you looked at Felix. He was absolutely beautiful, his eyes reflecting the colors in the sky as his hair flowed with the wind and his lips parted in amaze as he looked at you.
"My sister wanted to be extra for her date with her boyfriend so she decided on fireworks at the time when she had first met him."
Smiling back at Felix as you turned to look at the sky when suddenly Felix pulled you in to kiss you. Smothering you with kisses all over your face as you giggled under his attack. Few minutes later he stops as you smile and dangle the bag that you brought earlier in front of him.
"I brought sky lanterns and sparklers so we could have our own little light show..."
"I remember when all our friends went to that park at 12 am just to look at the sky lanterns that everyone released"
Felix said in response to your suggestion as you both pulled out the sparklers and played around for awhile, later taking the few sky lanterns and lighting them and releasing them while holding onto each other like the couples that were in the park the night you confessed to Felix while watching the sky lanterns float in the sky.
Watching as the sky lanterns you released float together while you hug each other. This may be a cheesy holiday for some but this was the day you found your love. The one that would stay forever with you. The love where you would go back home at 3 am and eat brownies and then cuddle and fall asleep on the couch.
This is your love and it is yours to keep forever and ever.
Because just like the sky lanterns you lit you burned bright for each other and would find your way to each other no matter how far you could be.
He was your sun, you were his star.
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A.N: Helloo! I am Kriss I hope you liked the oneshot it was kinda rushed and sorry if it was too cheesy. Anyways Happy Valentines day to everyone, to all the ones who are dating - enjoy your special day, to every single pringle - treat yourself to anything even if it's a small chocolate bar! Have a great day/night. Byeee!
Stay Tuned for more!
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roseverdict · 3 days
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would you be willing to stop publicly answering the scam asks? they're almost definitely automated and won't see your responses, but seeing them on my dash makes me sad - it's bad enough getting em in my own inbox
i completely understand where you're coming from, but i just wouldn't feel right not doing it. like, if me publicly answering scam asks to dunk on them helps other people who maybe are still on the fence about whether or not they're legit, i want to do that. i want to keep people from being lied to. ntm the fact that these dirtbags make minor changes to their URLs so frequently that, if somebody doesn't yet know how these kinds of scams work, they might end up trying to google the blog handle or something and not think to check variations for scamminess.
i'm not articulating this very well probably orz the curse of ten-to-3-AM. point is i'm well aware the scammers don't care, but i'm not answering for the scammers. i'm answering for the people who might have been targeted by the scammers and might need convincing that they're trying to scam them.
but anyway. likely-badly-articulated reasoning aside, i do tag any scam asks i answer with the tag "#scammers" in case you want to block it, though i may switch to "#scam asks" just so that other scammer-related stuff (IE, things to keep an eye out for) doesn't necessarily get lumped in with the actual scammers themselves.
scam doesn't even feel like a word anymore
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ornamentalcabbage · 4 months
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i’ve been thinking about how adults should have more access to professional coaches on a broader range of skills/areas. the only things i can think of that are common for people other than the extremely wealthy are personal trainers at gyms or music instructors, but i’m not interested in either of those areas of expertise. i would work with a PT to have someone knowledgeable about human anatomy examine me closely, identify exactly what’s fucked up about my body, and tell me how to compensate for it, but physical therapists are mostly only accessible if you both have insurance and were recently injured. specifically in my case i really really want to work with the type of handwriting experts they have in elementary schools. i never learned how to hold a pencil properly so i never built the micro-muscles and fine motor control i need to do it correctly and to be able to write for more than a minute without fatigue. i fantasize about meeting with someone one on one for several hour long sessions and doing hand-over-hand demos and getting a list of exercises to do as homework.
like, there’s adult classes and continued ed stuff but always in a group setting, and often entry-level. there’s something different about being able to work individually with one person, to be able to open up about maybe something you’re embarrassed about not knowing/not being able to do, and having an accountability partner. it could provide all the supposed benefits of talk therapy but with someone who leaves the therapist’s office bubble and comes out into the world with you and guides you. if you’ve ever tutored adult basic literacy you know self-esteem building and shame busting is a big part of the job
like, a goofy example that i guess does exist at least in the world of direct-to-streaming reality shows is the organizing guru. it’s silly to make a tv show of it but i actually think that’s a great profession that we should have more of. some trustworthy person to come in and spend time with you and help you build practical adult skills. there are some nutritionists i think who will go grocery shopping with you and teach you how to shop but we need more of that without the diet lens. money people who aren’t scammy instagram financial advisors but just like, help you set up autopay on your bills. someone who will spend an hour answering your dumb questions about cars so you don’t feel embarrassed at the mechanic.
these examples are veering into “they never taught us how to balance a checkbook in school!” territory but my point is the content of the coaching is less important than having access to someone you can work with in a trusted intimate way like that, that goes beyond just talk. so i guess i’m just reinventing rich white lady “personal coaches” but for the common person. hmm.
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strawberryoverlord · 2 months
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Hey, hi! Im really sorry for sending this, i just hope im not overstepping any boundaries as I’m about to ask help which is very important right now :( our cat, Sleepy needs an urgent vet care. She is pain and I can't afford to pay the vet to help her so I'm reaching out to ask for help, I mean even if you can’t help monetarily, reblogging or sharing it would truly mean a lot. She is my daughter’s best friend and she’s all I have left of my mom who passed away last 2021. In case you’d be insterested to help, I have pinned the post on my blog, please try to also answer the ask privately as some people tend to get weird on this stuff. Please send us prayers, be safe. ♥️🙏
DO NOT RE-BLOG OR DONATE TO THIS PERSON
this is a scam blog, this person does not actually have a sick cat, also its fuckign disgusting that you're using the tags of a GENOCIDE to boost your fucking scammy ass post
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the donation post is their only original post, and its their first post from 3 days ago and they only TODAY decided to start reblogging things and only like 5 random posts
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casstration · 4 months
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1 (discord counts), 57, 72, 74 & 91
hi shan <33
1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?
yes ofc i've booked my plane ticket im literally on my way....charlie better let me in the house
57. Do you believe in ghosts?
no lol one scammy ghost tour when i was 12 ruined that for me
72. Ever won a spelling bee?
no i used to misspell things on purpose to not win 😭 i never wanted to go on to the school-wide competitions
74. What is your favorite book?
haven't read a real book in so long idk if i have an actual answer but im going to say the ballad of songbirds and snakes. have i read it? no. but with how much i love the movie i just now i am going to love the book as well when i get to it! (hopefully after finals)
91. Best room for a fireplace?
i've never lived somewhere with a fireplace but i feel like one being in a bedroom is a good vibe
make me admit stuff
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goongiveusnothing · 2 years
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I found your blog a few months ago and when I was a fan I always had in the back of my head that H is not who he says he is and that my expectations of him as an artist are a bit too high because he doesn’t have that special quality like a lot of the great ones have. Over the past couple of years, I found myself disenchanted with H and for a lack of a better word just disengaged. I feel like there are a lot of fans who do feel this way. My thoughts
I think most of us were fans or indifferent or just felt positively about him at some point to some degree. At one point it seemed this whole "nice guy" stuff was something different and felt charming. The fans would also push this narrative that he was secretly deeply intellectual and thought a great deal about all kinds of social issues and it was very easy to buy into it, as nobody ever asked him anything of substance. I think the disenchantment began for most of us while he was even in the band, the distancing with the others, the clear attempt to cultivate his own brand and quest for solo superstardom. But people ignored it, because surely he couldn't be that conniving and egotistical?
To see who he's become now... sorry, to see who he has revealed himself to be, has been very whiplashing. The person most fans love is just an illusion, one created by a team of people and cultivated by his fans. One that rehearses PR answers, is given a list of PR questions, sits in interviews with all the closest bestest Azoff allies. One given a red carpet to superstardom without any of the real work. He is who his fans want him to be. He wants to be a genuine legend, one of the biggest most beloved icons in the world. A Michael Jackson, Prince, Elvis, Madonna, Beyonce... without any of the talent or hardwork. Just by convincing enough people that he already is that. And if you have allies all over the media who are willing to get in on this for the internet clout, the magazine sales, the payola... it's not the hardest thing to get away with.
I think his fans see blogs like this and posts like this and there's something in the back of their minds that knows what we're saying is true. That he's a fraud. That he's a greedy corporate capitalist to an almost sociopathic degree. That he's queerbaiting. That he seems to be surrounded suspiciously by the worst people. That he seems suspiciously to also be a bad or less than good person. I think people want to cling on to who they thought he was because it was a nice idea, but these things bother them and for many they come and search these blogs out because he has recently done something that embarrasses them or confirms to them that yes, he did it again, something cringe or fraudulent or dumb or scammy or greedy. And eventually that gets too much and people start accepting he isn't who they thought he was and get annoyed or angry about him, because now they can see through him too.
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moonsinkfoxgirl · 9 months
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hi! i remember you once talked about being into gunpla and as a new gundam appreciator i have been thinking of buying a couple of kits but it all seems so intimidating? i dont really get the “grades” and idk if i should have some tools at home already or if i can just order the kit without needing extra tools? also im in europe too and i thought they would be super expensive but i found them for like €10 so im worried i am on a scammy website and idk how to tell 😭 (the website i found is called hlj.com btw idk). anyway sorry this is a lot i just feel very lost and intimidated maybe you have some advice on how to get started?
Uhhh.. as of right now I do not own a single gunpla yet. I ordered a couple but unfortunately I'm still waiting. In any case, I'll gladly answer your questions as far as I can:
Hobby Link Japan is legit, the reason the gunpla are cheap is that the company isn't based in Europe meaning you'll be the one to pay the import tax, so an HG model is around 10 euros; as opposed to e.g. if you buy from riseofgunpla.com, which is a french site, then you pay ~10 bucks extra but you will not have to worry about the shipping company charging you taxes plus a fee because they paid the taxes for you. I still think hlj comes out cheaper in total, but I'm not sure.
As for the grades, you probably want to start out with HG, which stands for High Grade, which is basically the standard tier: 1/144 scale (so ~13 cm tall, though of course the exact size depends on the exact model), and they cost around 1500 Yen (plus minus some depending on the exact model), which comes out at ~10 euros, plus whatever cut your international/european store wants to make their little profit on top.
Then there's:
SD (Super Deformed) which is for like chibi style ones with huge heads, they're also relatively cheap iirc.
RG (Real Grade) also 1/144, but more realistic and more expensive
MG (Master Grade) 1/100, which are bigger ~19cm, and cost ~double I think?
FM (Full Mechanics) also 1/100 but maybe slightly cheaper? and only for specific Gundam shows? I'm not sure tbh, they're not on the same list as I get my info from
PG (Perfect Grade) 1/60, ~30cm sized ones where you get to pay money in the triple digits
As for tools I heard you want a side cutter (ideally one made for modeling), some kind of box cutter or otherwise sharp knife (ideally one for modelling), and a pair of tweezers (for stickers). And maybe some fine sand paper, or files made for modeling. You can probably get that kind of stuff from any local shop that sells model kits (whether they sell gunpla or not). Or I think there's complete tool sets for that kind of stuff on amazon. I'm probably just gonna see if I can raid my dad's model train toolbox.
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jasper-pagan-witch · 2 years
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Hi!!
I hope ur doing ok btw,so this one time I went to a tarot reader and while she was discussing she told me about how my third eye is over active and my root is under worked
Do you know Any idea of what that means? And if you don't want to answer it's completely fine! I just don't know how to fix that 💀
*cracks knuckles* I got some bad news for you, anon.
Firstly, the concept of third eyes and chakras have been appropriated, watered down, and bastardized in New Age occultism.
But even ignoring all of that, that sounds like a particularly scammy tarot reader. I don't know if this individual wanted more money to help you "open" them (ignoring, you know, the appropriation stuff), but whether they did or not it sounds veeeery manipulative.
If you do want to develop any magical abilities, the best thing you can do is just practice. Start out small, then gradually do more and more. You can always take breaks and you can always change your mind.
I hope that this has helped shed some light, or at least enough to show you that that reading was honestly some BS. Feel free to reach back out to me if you need any help, or to talk to my buddy @windvexer if you want someone else's thoughts on energy workings and exercising thine magic muscles. She's got some nifty masterposts of stuff she's written and encourages people to take what resonates and leave what doesn't.
Overall, don't worry too much about it, just do whatever you've been doing for your craft and progress at your own speed and comfort level.
~Jasper
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thefoxthief · 2 months
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Hey, hi! Im really sorry for sending this, i just hope im not overstepping any boundaries as I’m about to ask help which is very important right now :( our cat, Sleepy needs an urgent vet care. She is pain and I can't afford to pay the vet to help her so I'm reaching out to ask for help, I mean even if you can’t help monetarily, reblogging or sharing it would truly mean a lot. She is my daughter’s best friend and she’s all I have left of my mom who passed away last 2021. In case you’d be insterested to help, I have pinned the post on my blog, please try to also answer the ask privately as some people tend to get weird on this stuff. Please send us prayers, be safe. ♥️🙏
An example of a scam. They ask for help without specifying what is wrong. They just say their cat needs "urgent vet care" and that they can't afford it. No "my cat has X disease" or "my cat broke its arm doing Y/found it hundled under the bed in pain" etc. etc.
These scams also like to pile on the tragedy if an event, some are super obvious (an ask I reported yesterday said they had spine, lung, pelvic and 4 other body parts cancer) while others are more subtle. In this case the cat is a child's best friend and recently went through a death of a parent.
Another red flag is that they are asking me to answer privately because they are afraid that if I make the ask public then someone will warn me and others that this is a scam. You'd think that if they really needed help, they'd want as many people to know about it as possible to increase their chances of donations. Instead, they ask for a private answer and try to lure me to come to their blog "to help". Guessing that's where they have a scammy link to send me somewhere to steal my money.
I haven't been on their blog yet, but another way to tell it's a scam is if there are loads of "help me" posts but barely or no photos of a cat or whatever it is is causing their financial urgency. And if there is a photo, it could be a photo of any cat and something you can find online. Nothing like multiple photos of the same cat in different parts of the house, or with people, or something that tells you it's their photos they actually took of their cat.
I wonder if I report this ask after publishing this, if this post will then disappear. Hmm.
Edit: went over to their blogs and there were convincing-looking proof that this is real. But the fact their blog was only a few posts long (including the "like" part of it) and was only centered on their situation, that's another red flag. It tells me this blog was made only to spread their situation to other blogs, rather than a person who created a blog to have fun, explore fandoms, make art, etc. and it just so happens that their cat got sick and had no choice but to ask for donations. That blog is not like any blog you'll find around here where someome actually uses it to actively or passively engage with communties.
And that vet bill they have up is mainly black letters on a white paper. They could've written it themselves and put the name of a real vet clinic in there for good measure. Yeah, my judgement remains that this is all a scam. It sucks because as a human being you wanna help other human beings especially if their furry friends are the ones in danger and yet we have people on this site that do what they can to take advantage of others sympathies. And now the burden is on you to decide if it's real or not, do I help or is there no situation where my help is actually needed and this is all a false narrative? :/
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KittyCats.CO has some paid advertising, some free organic traffic from Search Engine Optimization, engaged affiliate traffic from online classifieds that accept our listings, and social networking traffic that adheres to their standards.  We are always seeking new advertising outlets to best assist our buyers and sellers.   Does it cost buyers?There is zero cost for buyers.  We offer "Social Cat" to continue to engage with your cat parents and keep in touch.  This service is free to both parties.   Do you pre-screen users or advertisers or offer guarantees?   We unfortunately do not have any way to guarantee the listings' credibility.  As a frustrated Craigslist user myself and hearing horror stories from some of my cat parents about scammers, this site was created out of the love for our cats, kittens, future, and current cat parents with the overall integrity of the breeders that list on this site. While we cannot check on every listing, breeder, or seller, for its credible insurance of the cat's health and upkeep, we do request if anyone believes a non-credible listing seller is reported and removed from KittyCats.co to help retain the credibility of our breeders, rescuers, caregivers and parents. If you believe a scammer is listed on this site, please report this to us immediately.  We hope to only have reputable breeders of wonderful kittens and cats.  How do I unsubscribe from everything or delete my account?You may close your account any time once logged in to your profile.  Simply cancel any service or subscription and delete your information.Do you give refunds?We do not give refunds. We use the bulk of our funds to pay for costly advertising and maintenance to bring buyers and sellers to our website. We don't offer any guarantees because there are too many variables are outside of our control. Seller accounts have subscriptions and Buyer accounts do not have subscriptions. Subscriptions may be canceled any time either through the seller's account within the 'upgrade' tab  or, if paid with PayPal, through the seller's PayPal account using PayPal's instructions to cancel. Considering subscriptions, it is your responsibility to cancel when you are no longer needing our service. Cancellations must be made one (1) day prior to the subscription renewal date. Otherwise, recurring charges will continue to be billed regardless of the user's account activity.How do I cancel my subscription?Seller accounts have a subscription service that may be canceled at any time through their account in the Profile section at the very bottom of the profile page.   We certainly will miss you and remember you can earn income by referring friends to the site to pay for your account or completely increase your income.  We honor your decision either way and hope to work with you in the future if you decide you must go. Read the full article
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Om: ”Okay, I didn’t mean to be so dramatic. Or use a clickbait headline, but in reality, what used to be Instagram is now dead.”
It sounds like a lot of folks are really disappointed with Instagram today. But what should you expect from Facebook? All of their products are built to leverage you, the user, as a revenue generation machine. They inject ads into your stream hoping for that click, they bombard you with people they think you should follow, and they chase every new trendy application related to images or video.
Instagram has turned into the worlds biggest A/B test. A playground for trends.
I still have my account but I stopped posting to it. I started posting my pictures to my blog. I mean, why not? It’s public, I don’t need to worry about Instagram bugging me to follow others, and there are no ads.
Bottom line, own your content.
Alberto Betella: ”One of the reasons why Anchor, and later Spotify, flourished in the podcasting industry is the open nature of podcasts. RSS was key to the success of podcasting because it addressed a potentially complex challenge with a very simple solution. RSS empowered the podcasting industry so everyone could focus on what really mattered: creating great content and building the best user experience.”
All the more reason places like Spotify shouldn’t call their short form audio stuff podcasting. As far as I know you can only get their premium audio through their app. Part of the joy of open formats is being able to use any application you’d like to discover and play your favorite podcasts.
I reminded myself of Bloom this morning. Such a great iOS app. It comes from a time when the platform was new and was full of promise and potential. Sadly, looking back now, it’s clear that Apple has completely botched its longterm stewardship of iOS as a developer platform. https://t.co/wJV0NlXDLy
— Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) July 17, 2022
This is telling coming from one of the engineers on the original iOS development team. Heck, the man is responsible for the iOS keyboard I’m using to type this post.
Perhaps someday Apple will make sweeping changes to the App Store to cull out all the scammy apps and help real, bonafide, app developers flourish. You know, the indies, the folks that put so much care into the apps you love and use everyday.
htmx: _”REST must be the most broadly misused technical term in computer programming history.”_
This was an eye opening read. I always understood websites and HTML as the prime example of REST. What I didn’t understand is to be truly REST means the format has to be self describing. Most developers receive data from an API in the form of JSON which are usually not self describing. Applications have built in knowledge of the thing they expect to receive and have code that understands how to use and display the data.
But it doesn’t matter to me if everything I’ve built isn’t REST. It’s completely reasonable and pragmatic to have services that return data specific to their intended use and have apps purpose built to display and interact with that data.
If we went around writing self describing JSON from every service we use we’re just building another form of web browser and we already have those.
Pragmatism wins.
MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem" REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment! Here's what you need to know:
— Madi Hilly (@MadiHilly) July 21, 2022
This is a really neat thread about how nuclear fuel is stored.
Hawaii Reporter: ”Spam is considered solely lower class food in almost every other state. Ask any Hawai‘i local if they like spam, and he will either 1) give you stink eye and assume you’re a tourist for asking the question, or 2) at some point in his answer mention how good the 7-11 spam musubis or Zip-pac are.”
One could say we didn’t exactly have a lot of money when I was kid. We had a lot of ground beef and Spam, and I honestly still love the stuff to this day. You can put it in or on anything and it works. I like it with eggs, in breakfast burritos, on a sandwich, and prepared as Spam musubi at my favorite Hawaiian food joint.
The stuff is delicious, I’m moving to Hawaii. 🤤
CNN: ”California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill into law that allows private citizens to bring civil action against anyone who manufactures, distributes, transports or imports assault weapons or ghost guns, which are banned in the state.”
I guess if Texas can make terribly cruel laws around Womens health care California can do something similar (although not cruel) to help quell the gun violence we have in our nation.
Not to mention being a safe heaven for womens reproductive rights.
Governor Newsom for President. 🇺🇸
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) July 19, 2022
Super funny thread of the same people are lazy commentary through the years.
Each generation seems to think their generation was tougher, harder working, than the next.
Gen X is definitely the toughest, hardest working, of them all. That’s just fact. 🧌
The Verge: ”Welcome to this week’s edition of This Week in Chancery Court! Delaware’s moment in the sun continues as the fight between Elon Musk and Twitter shifts from fiery tweets… to fiery legal filings.”
It really does seem that Mr. Musk will have to either pay $54.20 per share or will face some monster penalty somewhere between $1B and $20B, depending on the difference in stock price from today to his $54.20 offer.
Talk about screw around and find out. Ouch. 🤕
P.S. musk.social is waiting for you.
Fistpump McRunpants. https://t.co/I6AaVtbBXX
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 22, 2022
Rachel Maddow is a hero of mine. She also drops some pretty good Dad jokes on occasion.
Oh, yeah, Josh Hawley is a coward and a caca-doo-doo-head.
Enjoy your coffee and have a wonderful weekend.
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For someone who hasn’t written much, I have the brainrot of 3 different fics in my head that are rotating like plates on a Lazy Susan.
 One’s a pre-war fic with a preteen-young adult Gaster and an OC being friends who are both A Chaos, with me developing Skeleton Lore.
In this story, Common skeleton profession is a Scribe, since they can see in the dark(HC) and their script is consistent no matter how much they write, and don’t tire easily. However for Dingbats-type fonts like Zapf, Lucida Icons, and Fleuron(Not an actual font, but is a type of Dingbat anyway.), they are USUALLY illustrators. This gives Gaster plenty of access to something very uncommon re:Middle ages. Gaster in story ends up getting tons of frustration for his font script :C Does try to use his illustration abilities to imitate Aster’s script...but when he tries, the thicknesses are reversed!(See: Sans sleeping Z’s are not actually “Aster”!) So It’s “Wingding’s Aster”, a bootleg version of his cousin’s script. At least it’s readable, now.
No war, mostly fluff and hints of it to come, but I do not have the stomach to write that stuff. I am weenie.
Another is a slice-of-life fic with UT!Papyrus getting into a Big Brothers/Big Sisters type program with shenanigans resulting from that, with Papyrus being a fully capable adult with the Ambassador thing as his dayjob.
 And another is a UF!Sans/Reader while inverting the “abusive boyfriend/ex” trope in UT fic that pops up alot (Read: y/n and her BF break up in a VERY healthy way, and ex and Edge become good friends with a mutual goal of keeping an eye on their friend/brother to keep them out of trouble.), with a Fortune Teller Y/N and (if I CAN THINK OF ANY) may do Scammy(Read:Technically legal) stuff with Red as her Partner in “Crime”.(Why Underfell? I don’t fucking know, ask my brain. It isn’t giving ME an answer.) Which I got the idea from the discord server I’m on.
Did I mention I have problems actually writing the damn things? And for the stupidist reasons! Like: “You have to read all of Aristotle to continue this fic.”,
“Woops that name is taken by another writer, and also this other character is actually the name of your cousin’s husband, gotta change that.”
“You got a handful of scenarios for this one, think of more and the entire ass plot. Actually, entire ass plot for all of them.”
Send help.
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What pokemon do you think Beetlejuice and Lydia would have on their teams, or type if they were a gym leader? I do think Lydia would be a ghost type gym, but Beetlejuice might go a different way. He'd also probably have a mimicku on his team as a trainer, Lydia would have a cubone. What do you think though?
Ooh! Interesting question! I’m no Pokémon expert or anything, so I wouldn’t have very good answers based on, like, strategies, but it’s a fun what-if regardless.
I definitely agree with Lydia having a Cubone as a trainer (they have so much in common, what with the whole Dead Mom thing) and I can so see Lydia running a ghost type gym. As for Beetlejuice, I think he’d probably have a dark type gym, so he’d have Pokémon that’d be considered ‘evil’ n shit.
I know I’m biased af, but I genuinely see him having a Gengar. Much like Lydia and Cubone, Beetlejuice and Gengar just have a lot in common. I mean, really, they’re described as super evil and powerful monsters, but let’s face it; they’re both a couple of babies prone to temper tantrums who just really want a friend. They also like being the center of attention all the time and scaring people cuz it's fun. Also toooooooooooongue…
But as for the rest of his team, that’s kinda tough cuz I’m not super familiar with dark types, but I’d say his line-up would look something like this:
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Gengar — see the above explanation. Houndoom — Is hell hound for demon and mega Houndoom is metal as fuck. Zoroark — The illusions it creates seem like something he’d have a lot of fun with outside of battles. Obstagoon — the design strikes me as very Beetlejuice what with the stripes and black & white and such, but its description of how Linoone evolved while in Galar strikes me as spiteful, which I think BJ would be into, to some extent. Drapion — It evolves from Scorupi, which is bug-poison and I could see him having a bug type at one point. This one specifically stuck out to me because of the design, kinda like with Obstagoon. It’s segmented body kinda looks like the stripes, so to go along with the pre-evolution bug type, I could possibly see this one, but I admit I was reaching a bit. Grimmsnarl — The little Impidimp was one of the first things I thought of cuz I imagined he’d think it’s funny. It also has the ability ‘Prankster’ which seems to suit him well. Then, as a gym leader, it’d have evolved to Morgrem and then eventually Grimmsnarl.
As for Lydia, like I said, I love her having a ghost-type gym, but maybe a psychic type in there as well, if only for one specific one I have in mind. So I could see her line-up being something like…:
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Alolan Marowak — because if she’s a gym leader, she’d have prolly evolved her Cubone and she’d definitely have the ghost-type from Alola. Trevenant — specifically because it’d be a fun reference to the spooky tree she & BJ save in the cartoon. Chandelure — which takes the place of the chandelier in the house just for funsies so she can scare her family whenever. Mismagius — It’s a very witch-like Pokémon, which I think she’d dig. Runerigus — As a photographer, I’d see her wanting to explore ruins and stuff, so I could see her having his one in her party. Hatterene — if only to mirror BJ since it’s the companion evolutionary line in Sword & Shield to Grimmsnarl and I think that’s kind’ve adorable.
So ye…I hope that makes sense. Thanks again for the question.
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There is no shortage of takes about what's going on with Gamestop (and other surging stocks), Robinhood and Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, many of them contradictory - at least on the face of them. But I think it's possible for most of these takes to be right. Here's how.
First you need to understand the underlying mechanics of the story. Stock markets are fundamentally a way of making bets, including bets on the outcome of other peoples' bets, and bets on the outcomes of *those* bets.
All this complexity creates lots of exploitable opportunities. Some of these opportunities are considered legitimate and are given respectable names like "arbitrage." Others are considered illegitimate, and are called disreputable things like "stock manipulation."
A hypothetical Martian observing all this through a telescope could not tell you which kinds of bets were honest and which were dishonest, because the difference isn't about any objective standard, but rather, about power.
The strategies of powerful people are legit, while the strategies of their would-be dethroners are not legit. Sometimes, even outright frauds are OK if they're done by people with enough power.
If your scam pays out quickly enough, you can sometimes parlay the resulting cash into retrospective legitimization, so even the strategies of the out-group can end up being retconned as legit, if they're successful enough.
That's why Amway isn't illegal: Betsy DeVos's father-in-law was simultaneously the boss of Amway and head of the US Chamber of Commerce, and Gerry Ford was his Congressman, who was then elevated to president in time to legalize its business model.
To understand the Gamestop rise, you have to understand a couple of different kinds of bets.
"Shorting": this is a bet that a stock will go down. There's a complicated backstory to how you make this bet, but it doesn't matter.
The thing to know here is that shorting a stock can make you rich...if the stock goes down. But if the stock goes up, you lose money. There's not really any limit to how much you can lose here.
Every time the stock goes up, the shorts have to pony up more money to keep their bet alive (in the hopes that it will go down again later), or they have to take their losses, pay out the winner of the bet and surrender any chance of winning later.
Shorting isn't just a bet on someone else's failure - it's a way to fund bullshit-detection. If you know (or suspect) that a company is lying about its prospects, you can bet against it.
Shorts fund a lot of research into defective products and scammy businesses, because they win when bad companies are exposed and their stocks go down. Some of the scary security research you read about bad IoT software is funded by shorts.
That's why habitual bullshitters like Elon Musk *hate* shorts. Musk leads a cult of credulous worshippers who buy whatever he's selling. Shorts make bets that Musk's cultists will get deprogrammed. Musk uses this to sharpen his cultists' resolve: "they want us to fail!"
"Options": many different bets get lumped in as "options" but for the purposes of this discussion, buying an option means buying the right to buy stocks later. The people who sell you the option usually go out and buy the stock right away so they'll have it to sell.
"Front-running": Cheating. Front-runners insert themselves into transactions by spying. If I know that Alice is buying a bunch of Bob's shares, I can snap them up a millisecond before Alice gets there, mark them up, and sell to Alice at a profit.
"Retail investor": An "average joe" who buys stocks from a brokerage like Robinhood.
"Institutional investor": Hedge funds, private equity funds, pension funds, index funds, investment banks, etc. Whales and sharks.
"High-frequency trader": A bot. Someone (usually an institutional investor) who uses an algorithm to buy and sell shares very quickly. HFTs might buy a stock and sell it less than a second later (when they're front-running, for example).
With that all out of the way, here's what seems to be going on. Reddit's r/wallstreetbets is a "retail investor" forum of average joes, many of them angry at the scammy, evil stuff that the big institutional investors get up to.
Their grievances are mixed: some are angry that big investors have figured out how to destroy good businesses for money. Some are angry because *only* big institutionals get in on the action when that happens and average joes are locked out of those plays.
They are stuck at home, have little to spend their money on, and - critically - have access to "trading platforms" like Robinhood that let them buy and sell stocks without any fees (institutionals often have sweetheart deals like this, but average joes used to pay to play).
They're getting together to make money and to punish their enemies. The easiest enemies to punish are shorts, because if they push up a stock even a little, the shorts get pounded for millions of dollars.
If they can keep the stock up long enough, the shorts will give up and the average joes will collect their winnings. And the average joes are clever. They've figured out that they don't even have to buy the stocks to force the price up - they can buy cheaper options instead.
An option is a bet. The people on the other side of the bet usually buy the stocks they sell options on. If I buy an option to buy a stock from you and then the stock goes up, you have to go out and buy the stock and sell it to me at a loss.
If you're an option seller who thinks a stock will go up, you protect yourself by buying shares now.
Buying options is a cheap way to get someone else to buy a stock, which pushes the price up. If the price is going up, options sellers will snap up more stock.
There's two prominent versions of the Gamestop story. The first is that r/wallstreetbets represents so many angry average joes that they can "move markets" by buying unlikely shares, like Gamestop or AMC, and confound the markets.
https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/
The second story is that r/wallstreetbets has figured out a hack. They inflict asymmetric pain on shorts (a tiny gain for average joes is a huge wound to the sharks). By buying options, they can eke out tiny gains for a fraction of the price.
https://www.cnet.com/news/reddits-gamestop-stock-surge-is-a-terrifying-new-occupy-wall-street/
But there's a *third* story, and I think it's the most important one. That's Alexis Goldstein's account of what's going on with Robinhood and the institutional investors it's in bed with.
https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/
Recall that all of this is only possible because Robinhood lets average joes buy and sell stocks for free. How can Robinhood give away a service that costs it money and still stay in business? (Hint: They're not making it up in volume).
The answer is: surveillance. Robinhood partners with institutional investors and lets them spy on what the average joes are buying and selling. Sometimes, this is just "market intelligence" ("Hey, people like fidget spinners") but the main event is front-running.
If you're paying Robinhood to tell you what assets its customers are about to buy, you can go out and buy them up first and sell them for a profit to Robinhood's customers.
Or you can buy some of that asset up because you know its price will go up once Robinhood's customers orders are filled.
Or both.
Citadel Securities is Robinhood's main institutional investor partner. Founded by billionaire Ken Griffin, they combine tech (high-frequency trading), an "asset manager" (they spend other peoples' money) and a "market maker" (they sell things like options).
Citadel gets to see all those r/wallstreetbets buy orders before they're filled. They can fill some of those orders, making a profit. They can buy some of the same stock for themselves, making a profit. They can sell options, making a profit.
A little bit of this profit comes at the expense of average joes: if there wasn't a front-runner marking up the stocks they buy, the average joes would pay a little less. But the average joes are still profiting from the destruction of the shorts.
Citadel is merely taxing their winnings. The real losers here, though are Citadel's competitors, funds like Melvin Capital, who were seriously short on Gamestop and went bust thanks to all of this. Guess who bought Melvin at fire-sale prices? That's right, Citadel.
So the third story goes like this: there are a lot of average joes. They're numerous, pissed and smart. They move a lot of money against shorts and make it go farther thanks to the force-multiplier effect of options.
*Then* all this activity is multiplied again by Citadel, a fund that is no better (and no worse) than Melvin or the other targets of the average joes' wrath. Citadel's bots are triggered by the average joes' activity, which turns kilotons of damage into gigatons.
It's not clear whether the average joes know they're triggering Citadel's bots, or whether this is just Citadel's bet on frontrunning average joes paying off for Citadel. It's possible Citadel is the joes' patsy, and the joes are *also* Citadel's patsies.
It's also not clear whether Citadel - and its feuding cohort of competing finance-ghouls - can contain the storm. Maybe they profit off the average joes now, but the joes figure it out and turn their weapons on Citadel and the whole system later.
Remember, the "legitimacy" of a financial strategy isn't determined by its objective decency, but rather by the power of the people who deploy it. If the average joes can attain respectability, they may be legitimized.
But the road to legitimacy is rocky. Yesterday, the finance monopolist TD-Ameritrade halted trading on the stocks targeted by the average joes. Today, Robinhood followed suit. Maybe they fear that they can't control the monster they created?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254102/robinhood-gamestop-bloc-stock-purchase-amc-reddit-wsb
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