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[naomiknight-17]

Welp. Seems to be that time again.

Despite budgeting very carefully for my much-needed counter replacement this past week, there were unexpected costs when we discovered damage to the plumbing under the sink

Unfortunately, getting the plumbing up to snuff put us painfully outside our budget, as seen here:

Leaving my bank accounts looking like this:

I know things are tough all over right now, but if you're reading this and you enjoy my blogs and maybe want to send a tip my way, now would be a super good time to do so. Or maybe share this around if that works for you.

Either way, thank you for reading this, and all the best to you

[canisalbus]

Have you considered selling merch? Some stickers pins or patches of the boys would go hard

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[vvynia]

my internal struggle, as a black woman, writing black reader-specific fanfiction: a reflection

sometimes i catch myself feeling bad for having many of my works be specifically geared and shaped around black readers. and this is because the last thing i believe will drive out harmful discrimination and exclusion is more segregation, but then i remember that there are a plethora of other works out there tagged with “white character’s sister!reader” that will simultaneously boast lines such as “you tried to hide the growing redness on your cheeks.”

my first contact with reader-insert fanfiction was when i was around twelve. they were written for various fandoms i’d lightly dabbled in. as i read them, i made myself feel better when i saw white or fair skin-coded lines by psyching myself into believing i just wasn’t the norm; that it was okay for me to not feel seen by others. after all, i could just pretend those lines didn’t exist, right?

but it sucked and, especially as a black girl growing up in one of the most poverty-striken states in the US, i felt weird for liking what i liked. all my peers were watching bad girls club or listening to solely rap and r&b, but i was getting into fairy tail and how to train your dragon and visiting barnes and noble almost twice a week. i liked vocaloid and MMOs and had the radio set to my local pop station for hours a day.

so when i catch myself feeling some type of way because i’m not feeling inclusive enough or like i’m perpetuating centuries-long issues just in reverse, i imagine little v right next to me in her school uniform, relaxed hair in a high pony, and ballet flats. i imagine her on her kindle fire scrolling through silk browser. she finds my—her—black reader fanfiction. she’s so excited that she has to inhale sharply just to catch her breath. she smiles cheek to cheek as she taps the link.

her seeing my work tells her that there are black girls out there who aren’t weird for liking what she likes, and they write too!

so i implore anyone with doubts to undersrand that “x black reader” fanfiction isn’t an act of segregation, but rather, an act of healing.

[biscuitquasar]

Everytime a fanfic insists Phoenix defended Edgeworth for free, in my mind i double the amount of money phoenix charged him for the defense

Phoenix is absolutely *willing* to defend ppl for free bc he has the morality of a shonen protagonist B U T the man's got burgers to pay for and half his clients are Maya, the broke teenage spirit medium, so Edgeworth's "i chartered a transatlantic flight on a moment's notice" ass is just gonna have to split the difference

[kookiecamera]

Please please please can we get the three of them in more scenes together. Marvel I am in your walls😳

[masgwi]

Wrote to the government agency for entrepreneurs for advice this morning. I think I am doing it. I am going out on my own. Its taking a risk but staying where I am it is also taking a risk in a sense. I calculated it and if I charged my same hourly rate that my boss charges clients for my work I would only have to bill 10 hours a week to make the same thing I am making now.

[frogeyedape]

I am so unbelievably pissed off. FUCK HOAs

Oh, my trash/recycling bin can't be visible except on pickup day? Ok whatever fine I hate you but I can deal with this

Weekly inspections?????? FU FU FU FU FU

SECOND NOTICE ALSO WE'RE CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SEND YOU CERTIFIED MAIL OF THIS TOTALLY LEGIT TOTALLY SECOND NOTICE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY A VIOLATION cue me: checks notes. Hmm. My recycling bin was. on the curb. on recycling pickup day. You know. The day it has to be out. The day it is motherfucking ALLOWED TO BE FUCKING OUT AND VISIBLE.

so. 1) not a violation

I have sent them the trash AND recycling pickup schedules, which are DIFFERENT, btw

I have disputed the fact of the violation

I have disputed the linking of this "violation" to a previous violation MONTHS AGO--their "first notice" in this case was a "Courtesy Notice" LITERALLY 5 MONTHS AGO and they've done so many inspections since then and my bin CLEARLY WASN'T OUT IN THOSE INTERVENING MONTHS so WTMFH

So I am posting like a crazy person here instead of sending the absolutely deranged email I almost sent (I did send a slightly less deranged version with the disputes, and requesting a hearing)

OMG. It has been. Less than one hour since I learned this fun fun news. My bin was out YESTERDAY, y'all. YESTERDAY. I am going to blow a gasket

[submisssivegf]

Can I show you my big thick cock to make you even more desperate to have your holes stretched? 😝

erm no

[housedyke]

I need $1,500 in dental work and money for an eye exam/glasses sooo it's time for me to make a fancy post peddling my wares

Hi, I'm Nat

For the past few years I've been making money doing interactive stories on Patreon. Unfortunately this has gotten harder to keep up with now that I've gone back to college, so I'm now in the middle of a self-employed career change.

Enter: zines

Eventually I'd love to have a zine club type thing going, but in the meantime I need to build up a body of work and... people who actually want to receive zines (and maybe other print stuff) in the mail. Right now a lot of stuff I have planned for the immediate future revolves around inspiration from college classes, personal silliness, and storytelling.

I receive: $2/month via Patreon or Ko-Fi

You receive: exclusive discord access and progress posts, plus the emotional satisfaction of supporting the arts

Current WIPs include....

Crimson Beak: re-imagining Crimson Peak as a Muppet movie

Bad Teeth: a zine about the time my teeth tried to kill me

a worldbuilding cheat zine based on real climate classifications

Digital versions of finished zines will be made available for purchase on my Ko-Fi shop, so if you don't want the subscription fees but want to know when zines are available you can also follow me on Ko-Fi for updates

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Some sugar daddy bot tryin get me to fuck em for $2000/month on a post about my infusions lmfaoooooo

[tyunningcore]

i wish usd to inr conversion rates weren’t so shit bc i would love to get my hands on podcast merch- especially stickers/ posters UGHHH

[tls12lessthan3]

also everyone pray for my wallet cause i know these books are gonna be $40 each at least and i will be purchasing every single one

[snow-system-wol]

(btw, FC members come first and that'll take a while, but any mutuals can probably score a discounted gearset (should be same as the IL for the time-gated new raid stuff) off me via like, Oceania trade or something since I feel like most people aren't EU server)

[jerejerejere]

Käärijä:

This is not a pornfactory

...or is it?

Jk

Unless... 😳💵

[10bmnews]

U.S. Inflation Stable Ahead of Expected Jump From Tariffs

U.S. inflation held steady in April in what economists warn could be a final lull before a likely surge in consumer prices because of President Trump’s trade war. The Consumer Price Index rose 2.3 percent from a year earlier, slightly below the previous month’s annual increase, data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed on Tuesday. Over the course of the month, prices rose 0.2…

[hyruviandoctor]

There's nothing quite like wanting to leave your job because it sucks but also desperately hoping you don't lose it before you can find something else since the company you work for is going to be directly heavily impacted by the new tariffs and everything else going on with the US