#nickel and dime

[wat3rm370n]

Always check bank statements regularly.

I've had this account since 2007. I've not gotten paper statements in well over a decade now. They just hit me with a $2.00 "paper statement fee" when I actually just talked to someone at the bank last week because I got a notice they were transitioning the checking accounts and I called right away to make sure i was in a no fee checking account. And voila. Now I'm getting a paper statement fee when I haven't had paper statements in years.

Banks. They need more regulation.

[salios]

Just checked in for our flight home and fuck United airlines. Stuck us both in middle seats and the only places we can move are 125$ usd each.

Then, because of course, we still have to pay 100$ for our goddamn bags.

I'm just so fucking tired. So much for adult money being worth anything

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Simply Silver ~

[punkrockhistory]

41 years ago today

Double Nickels on the Dime is the third album by the punk rock band Minutemen, which was released as a double album on July 3, 1984 and deals, among other things, with the Vietnam War and racism in America

[jt1674]

[therivershit]

Uncropped "Double Nickels on the Dime" cover photo by Dirk Vandenberg, released July 3, 1984, SST 028

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime (1984)

[napunk-history]

Minutemen

Double Nickels On The Dime (1984)

[itswhatyougive]

What I don't get about the password-sharing fiasco is....if it was the olden days and you rented a couple DVD/VHS movies, until you brought them back to the shop you could do whatever with them.

You could give them to other people to watch. You could show a movie to a group of ten friends. You had already paid for the tapes, so who was going to care what you did with them in that time?

Similarly, if you have already paid for a Netflix/Max/Disney+/Paramount+/whatever subscription, you're getting charged monthly for that. The companies have already decided how much it is worth to rent their entire catalogue to you for a month.

So during your "rental period" for these movies and shows, who are they to say what you do with them? If you have someone over for Netflix and chill, they aren't part of your household, so should they not be able to watch a movie you are renting? If you want your friends to see something cool, who cares if they live a town away? That movie is still being paid for, and your "rental" will renew the following month when you pay your bill.

It feels like going to a video store, paying for a bunch of movies, then having to march back to the store with the friend who's going to watch them with you so they can also pay for the movies......while you're still renting them.

[mitchmarner-93]

and if i asked you what hurt more: dani leaving rb, mitch leaving tor or zayn leaving 1D, what would u say?

[highly-illogical]

currently working on a "spock gets his back blown out for the sake of the mission" fic because while i guess jim is the generally accepted honeypot of the ship, i think spock deserves to be dicked down every now and then.

uh and if anyone has any fic recs with that premise. send them my way. pls.

[stellerssong]

🍓🍄🌿 (picked the last one to continue with the plant/natural world theme honestly)

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

the need to have in hand the stories i’d been wanting to read my entire life finally hit critical mass and overturned the debilitating social anxiety/OCD magical thinking that told me i would be pelted with eggs and rotten fruit for daring to inflict my thoughts (and thots) upon other residents of the internet. only took 25 years, folks! prior to this i was simply trying to cram all of my nascent fanned fiction into the tags field of random posts on tumblr dot edu, which i’m sure was not annoying AT ALL for anyone making the posts that came under my fire.

now obviously i do not have that problem and i tag things normally.

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

eurydice hadestown is very handy with quick mental math and its applications, i.e. calculating tips, making change, emergency budgeting, guesstimating prices, etc. orpheus hadestown can subdivide ONLY in the context of musical time signatures and only ever passed a math class beyond algebra 2 because he has big sad eyes and his teachers felt bad that he was clearly trying really hard. this is perpetually baffling to eurydice, who is just like "if you tip 15% it’s 10% of the bill plus half of that, so you just move the decimal up a place and then divide that number by two and then add them and—" and orpheus is like no no that’s already too many steps. and she’s like well what do you just not tip your barista because it’s too many steps? asshole? and he’s like of course not! i always tip two dollars. and she’s like on a four dollar coffee? that’s a 50% tip?? and he’s like well no that one was $4.38, see, it’s just easier to not have to do the math. and she’s like [screams]

for orpheus’ part, he can diagram chord progressions to an extent that causes eurydice to lapse into a defensive coma, but of course that has no practical applications.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

no, YOU give ME some advice on writer’s block and low creativity!!!

i dunno, man, all the stuff that works for me is stuff that’s been said more eloquently elsewhere. if you’ve written one sentence that’s a sentence that didn’t exist before and therefore you have increased the thing. the time will pass anyway so you may as well pass it making something. sometimes you just need to look at another project, another fandom, another creative hobby, a tree, instead of your current project. you’re allowed to just think about it if thinking about it is all you have the heart to do. it’s easy to mistake the plateau before leveling up for stagnation, and it’s easy to mistake the upward climb for rotting and crumbling into dust.

you’re always improving. every day you wake up and see with your eyes and hear with your ears and think about the world around you, you’re banking sense-impressions and test-running dialog and feeling emotions that might one day find their way into a project. and this too is writing, in its way.

ask meme

[jackalspine]

ONE OF YOU SILLIES TOOK MY STUPID EDIT OFF OF HERE AND PUT IT ON PINTEREST LOL

[majorpepperidge]

if i had a nickel for every time i made a 'horse in a western or western-adjacent setting with a proclivity for firearms' one of my blorbos i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice

[jt1674]

[theloveinc]

tfw someone takes your idea w/o crediting you except they do a really horrible job LMAOOOO