#i need to post more patterns

[raspberryconverse]

WTAF, Etsy?!

So a few weeks ago, I sold a cross stitch pattern on my Etsy shop and realized it'd been so long since I sold anything, my bank has actually been closed for over a year. I never had checks for this bank and I didn't have the routing/account number written down anywhere because it was in the app. I went into my seller account and apparently in order to change your deposit account, you need to enter the old account number.

I went back and forth with customer service, even showing them the letter saying the bank was closing. They still stood firmly and said that if I can't enter the old account number, I can't change my deposit account. They even tried to send it to the closed account and it obviously got returned, just like I said it would. The only thing they said I could do was open a new store. They'd help me transfer everything to a new store and refund any listing fees that were leftover from the old store.

Obviously, this was a ridiculous thing to have to do. Especially since I have a listing in my drafts for the absurd amount of metal circular needles I'm getting rid of (they hurt my hands).

Today at work, I was cleaning off my computer desktop and realized I have a few tax returns and W2s saved on there. It occurred to me that if I could find my taxes from a year when I still had that account, I could finally enter it in and change my account.

I went upstairs to our file box and found a tax return with the account number. Then, I opened my Etsy finances and clicked "edit" next to the old deposit account number. Instead of asking me for the old account number, it directs me to Plaid, where I can login to my current bank account. Within a few clicks, I was able to switch to my current bank account.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

I spent several days going back and forth, pleading with Etsy to let me change my deposit account because the bank was closed and I had plenty of proof to show them that was the case, just not an account number and no one to call to get it. Then, I dig out a tax return that has the account number I must enter to change my account and all I had to do was login via Plaid and it changed it without a problem.

Fuck you, Etsy. All this for $1.86.

[ariadne-mouse]

I feel fandom would get along a lot better if there was mutual understanding that liking a character, agreeing with a character, and thinking the character is well constructed/executed are all separate (if often overlapping) positions, each with their separate tastes and subjectivities. Also: character portrayals are intended to make the audience feel things; this is separate from (if often overlapping with) analyzing/appreciating their actions and role in the story.

[limewatt]

they make me ill

[thankstothe]

shots were exchanged

[pink-toonss]

I drew them and it made me so happy I love these stupid mfs. I think I gotta draw the other half of them at some point

[umblrspectrum]

ive been struggling big time coming up with anything funny to draw that hasnt been done yet so have my rw au art dump

[leblogreblog]

ok, but imagine a post/mid-credits scene:

We see a dark door to Bucky's apartment from the inside, then hear rattling. Bucky opens the door while on the phone with Sam, ranting about what happened during the movie.

Then, he notices that there's faint light in one of his rooms, abruptly stopping the conversation and saying he'll call back. He cauciously walks up to the room as silently as he can, pulling out some kind of weapon in the meantime. He takes a steading breath and walks in.

Near a lightstand sits a man, one Bucky knows all too well, reading one of his books, his coat folded nearby. He doesn't look at Bucky but acknowledges him, greeting him.

Then he starts to talk.

He talks about power, how it corrupts absolutely. He talks about irony, how somones impulsive want can become their only purpose, the thing that was supposed to kill them the only value keeping them alive. He talks about a mission he was sent for, how it obviously is something he wasn't supposed to return from alive. He says that they can call it paying back for his help from last time, to make them even.

Bucky only raises his eyebrow, visibly unimpressed that so little info was supposed to convince him to do anything, especially for him. He asks for more details.

The man looks at him for a moment in silence, then closes the book he was reading.

"Say James," says Zemo, tilting his head, "What do you know about Latveria?"

[clumsypuppy]

updated Sleight ref!!

[brambletakato]

I got bored so I made a little chart of frequently seen eyes and their details in Professor Layton!

[unopenablebox]

finished my shawl!

[raayllum]

spark notes edition but:

For Rayla, Runaan, and Soren, a job is a sacred calling. It is something (or was something, in Runaan's case) something you strive towards upholding even when it goes against your sense of self or personal desires ("part of me wishes I hadn't seen you," "all of us pledged a part of ourselves," "to carry out my dark work") , and it ripples down and effects all that you are. For Soren and Runaan, there seems to be less separation between job as a part of who they are vs all that they are; Soren in particular scaffolds his identity almost entirely, therefore, on who he is/has become in relation to Ezran as an internalized feedback loop ("I can't do that, I'm sworn to King Ezran" / "I am a crownguard, and he is the true king!"). Rayla, meanwhile, has a hard cognitive dissonance of your job (i.e. the actions you take while operating under parameters) being entirely separate from who you are ("assassins aren't evil, they're doing a job" which also loops around to not holding Runaan's against her against him when he was operating as an assassin) when they align with that specific calling, except when it comes to her being bad at it, which does get internalized as something that is fundamental to her as a person ("I'm not good enough and I never will be") rather than a bad fit for that particular occupation. All of their jobs, notably, also centre around fitting into a collective whole (assassins, crownguards) that serve — conceptually in their own minds — as protectors of Something Bigger Than Themselves (their monarchs/kingdom, their people, etc): "[Soren] told [Corvus] that the young king was not only Katolis’ hope, but all of Xadia’s" / "for all of Xadia" / "I had convinced myself I was a peacemaker".

For Viren, his job is intrinsically tied to his search for self-esteem and self-importance. Given that Viren wants to find external sources to prop up his internal sense of self ("I thought you were going to be something special, something important"), he pursues jobs/actions that will make him important, largely in proximity to power ("the Dragon King and Queen kept this closest to where they slept; it must be important"). It is unsurprising therefore that being High Mage was always going to make him at least a little deranged, being that close to power ("it is an honour to serve him") while still be constantly reminded that you matter less than the person at the very top, hence his desire to eventually be king when his loop of validation with Harrow is irreparably broken. Viren sees his job as high mage (and as king) as being a protector, but in a less genuine way than the prior 3 discussed above do: this may be what he tells himself, but there's still prickles of self-awareness, especially when he coins Kpp'Ar: "Without dark magic, you're just a frail old man. You're no one. I am the High Mage of Katolis. I have power, purpose—" (dying for Harrow would've given him purpose, proved that he'd mattered). His job doesn't justify his actions so much as give him wider reach in which to make 'uniquely good decisions for the greater good of everybody himself', and therefore makes himself somebody.

For Callum, your job is a restriction and/or entirely separate from who you are and what you/he wants. He finds his title as high mage stuffy, he's decently inconsistent in the post, it's something he does find some pride (5x07) in, but that's still mostly tied to being a primal mage at all ("I'm the first human to do primal magic") which is tied to his desire for agency and to have his agency recognized (power, external) > internalized pursuit of self worth the way it might've been in earlier seasons (s1, maybe s2). We see him emotionally toss the job away with very little fanfare (consistently leaving the castle without hesitation; trying to leave the meeting; being distracted at the meeting to the point of barely paying attention) even before he does so directly. While this could be a fit of "right guy wrong occupation," Callum is someone pretty defined by 1) not letting anyone put him in a box (so much of s2) and 2) not listening, by proxy, to anyone else around him. He consistently goes against people's expressed wishes — right or wrong — and only takes up Viren's staff (something passed down between high mages) after he's abandoned the job. Callum is a wild card who will not let anything restrain him, taking only mage as an identifier and leaving most other things (except "Ezran's brother" and "Rayla's partner") entirely out to dry if it gets in his way.

[sunnemona]

☆i have lately been feeling pretty anxious with myself about the pace at which i create. it is difficult to feel like i am doing enough when my peers are doing more, difficult to balance my constant need for attention and admiration with how much "content" i can realistically create at any time, difficult not to be upset when my peers who create more often than i do receive more of the attention i crave than i do - it feels like i have missed a train and i am running to catch up with it. i am not burnt out, far from it, but i fear my light is not bright enough to reach others, i fear i am not doing enough to make it bright enough. does that make sense?

☆in case anyone needs to hear this, though i know this is likely a sentiment expressed many times before by people more eloquent than me, it is okay to not create all the time. it is okay to only create when you feel like it, to be unable to create on a schedule or to meet a self imposed deadline, to be unavailable to create because of obstacles like school or work or home management or disability, to be in a mental valley and be too tired or hurt or in pain to create. it is okay. you are not worth any less because of it. the world is not moving on without you, you will not become irrelevant because you have not posted in a week or cannot find it in yourself to draw something every day. creation is meant to bring joy, not stress, this is not a job, you are allowed to work at your own pace. there are no consequences to suffer for it. no matter what there will always be someone out there who will enjoy it, wholeheartedly. no matter how long it takes for you to create something or if you think you've been forgotten. you are allowed to want your creations to be loved by another. and they will be. rest if you need it

[astrasomnium]

thinking about the last time a dt character broke a fandom by being involved in a desperate lapel-pulling kiss with a clever blonde after a devastating and long-awaited love confession, I mean if I had a nickel right?

[wafflesrisa]

Oh wait is it a toxic family when the father refuses to take accountability and instead blames the kids for his mistakes? And as a result the kids are unwillingly shoehorned into roles where one is the golden perfectionistic never allowed to criticise the family child, and the other is the black sheep difficult selfish disobedient child?

And the golden child is about to explode because he’s never allowed to have his own opinions and so when he feels real frustration at his father, he can’t land the blame there and so he’s conditioned to blame his sibling instead?

And the black sheep child just takes the criticism and the blame and learns to become overly defensive, because he’s learned no one will watch his back but himself, not even his sibling?

Oh wait it’s not a toxic family.

It’s Scuderia Ferrari

[taraxippos]

Sorry I have to be a little hater but I keep seeing this post with spec evo design tips and like. The 'sausage' body plan shown here is the only one that makes sense as having a functional gait as far as I can tell? Neither of the 'corrected' examples could walk without the limbs being at risk of constantly bumping into each other (MAYBE the paired legs could move in tandem but that doesn't make much sense as a body plan that would develop to begin with, and would drastically limit their available gait patterns).

Most insects DO have limbs that are grouped closely together but that's just at the origin point, they mostly have widely sprawled limbs whose range minimally overlaps rather than these erect(ish?) limbs. And like the only comparable >4 legged animal I can think of without an arthopod body plan (tardigrade) has a limb pattern almost Exactly like the Say No To Sausage.

[astral-schools]

enjoy your stay!