#all my college funds

[garmabawls]

WTFFFFFF??????????? i never noticed this.

^ actual photo of me and my beloved mutuals & followers I LOVE LOVE LOVE U ALL SO MUCH 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

mutual appreciation speed run in tags

[writterings]

fuck man i dont wanna work today i wanna like. idk clean my bedroom or smth.

[wttcsms]

full fledged concept coming soon but long story short: hallmark movie-esque concept ft. finance girlie that's going through it & heads back to her childhood hometown she's spent most of her life trying to run from x the boy she used to beef with all throughout high school who is now running a successful business - the onigiri shop that is the only place hiring in the general vicinity.

osamu miya x reader, childhood nemeses to awkward boss/employee to friends to lovers 🤭

general things to tackle in here: what happens when we prioritize what other people's perceptions of success is over what makes you feel happy and fulfilled, getting off on the wrong foot (and then continuing to have that same foot be the one in ur mouth) every time you interact with the person who's literally your soulmate, vanity is so overrated (you grapple with going from six figure salary corporate girlie to literal fast food cashier), realizing that "starting over" can be either the worst or the best thing to happen to you in life, don't be mean to the boy next door - he might grow up to be a super hot business owner... and your future employer

[comic-sans-chan]

garak on his deathbed after a long and happy life married to julian and valiantly serving the state: julian... tell me the truth.... am i fat julian, right beside him, also on his deathbed after an equally fulfilling and wonderful life: no elim. tell me the truth. am i still young and beautiful garak: ye both of them: *fucking die*

[cakemoney]

it is extremely teenager-coded to not even think to ask for help or not be able to articulate the help you need, and also i understand these High School Junior Year Struggles exist for the sake of the season arc and individual character development and that's probably why the entire gang isn't breaking into porter's house to christmas carol him into approving gorgug's multiclassing, but also it is super jarring for there to be both a literal trust fund baby living unsupervised in his massive house and an orphaned (?) teenager who needs to get a part-time job to pay for her school supplies. fabian's house definitely has barrels of diamonds just sitting somewhere, but instead adaine has to cut the Infinite Strudel for eight hours a day.

[lobotomizedlady]

oh good my whole days plans are thrown off bc my sister took the car. lol. I sure do love sharing one shitty vehicle made in like 2002 with 5 other people. being poor is so fun! whatever I'm gonna take my dog to the park and suck the dregs from this weed pen & try to let the daylight do it's work so i don't feel like overdosing on my pills when I come back home

[secretmellowblog]

Every day I wake up and horrified by the implications of AI on the entertainment industry….a lot of my friends are going to lose their jobs and starve to death because Elon Musk thought it’d be fun to fund a machine that automatically steals artists’ work against their will to create generic algorithmically generated mass market slop.

I feel like I’m going crazy because everyone pretends they care about how “popular media sucks now because it’s all created to be as generically marketable/similar to other things as possible, almost like it’s algoritmically generated >:(“ but then they’re also like “WOW COOL AI ART!”

Like dudes???? Don’t you understand that supporting AI art means that you’re supporting eliminating and eviscerating any last vestiges of humanity from art……..a company will definitely settle for “mass produced AI slop generated by an algorithm to look as similar as possible to whatever generic popular slop came before” if it means they don’t have to pay a human being.

And that’s not even going into the way that these algorithms monetize themselves……some of them have “free” tiers now but that’s extremely likely to change in the future. I can’t wait until the most prolific “comic artists” of our times are like, hedge fund managers who can afford to buy 1000000 prompts on Dall-E.

And once that starts happening more we’ll all be drowning in a tidal wave of hollow empty shallow algorithmically generated “”””art””””” created by machines that can’t feel, think, intend, or care— machines that can only rip off the artists they were designed to replace, the artists whose actually meaningful thoughtful creations were stolen to provide their training data.

I hate all of this, and I hate the mass callous indifference to it. I am baffled that people don’t see the dangers of a future where none of our art is created by people who care— by people who are trying to mean something and to say something and to connect with you from one person to another—but by algorithms mindlessly mashing pixels together. It’s going to be horrible. Especially because in a time of climate change and intense social stress/collapse it’s going to be very important to connect with other people through art, but AI removes humanity from art entirely. If climate change wasn’t likely to cause the collapse of society anyway I’d say that if we keep heading in this direction the art and entertainment industry is a bit doomed

[chronotopes]

WHY do no virginia colleges have nonfiction mfa programs except for the one i don't really like the nonfiction faculty at. it's not fucking fair.

(warning so much whining occurs in the tags)

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[slippery-minghus]

gods, why didn't i get a college degree in anything useful?

[homeplanets]

it is utterly absurd to me that college professors don't need to have any sort of qualifications or training in pedagogy to teach, except having (presumably) been a ta (some amount of years ago) and having taken college classes (??) from professors. maybe I'm being too optimistic since I've certainly had terrible teachers with teaching degrees in my k12 years but it's also just very strange to me the research university system of forcing ppl to teach classes if they want to research. like being good at research and good at teaching are two entirely different skills and it's okay to not have both. Like not to be too generous to shit professors but it's like You fucked up a perfectly good researcher is what you did. Look at him. He and his students both have anxiety now. but I also do find it very depressing how many professors HATE to teach like don't you want to share the wonder of your chosen study area :( ? and are derisive towards students like... Many such cases of professor only teaching advanced classes because intro classes are beneath them & then complaining about "stupid" students who don't have the prerequisite knowledge they expect like You're the one who didn't teach them that!!! And not even getting into the issues with tas and adjuncts.... It's all a hot mess

[coockie8]

i dont think ive ever seen the sentence "whatevers cheapest honestly" used to describe an engagement ring like wouldnt you want your partner to show how much you mean to them?

Not to be a communist cuck or anything, but I don't give a flying fuck about money.

My partner would be actively proposing to me. I think that in of itself would be kinda showing me how much I mean to them :/ They don't need a $10,000 hunk of compressed coal to express that :/ :/ :/

I'd be happy with a sparkly rock they found on the beach, 'cause at the end of the day "showing me how much I mean to them" is about showing me, and you can't really put a price tag on that.

I would expect my partner to get me whatever they could reasonably afford, 'cause if we're at the point of getting engaged, I'd expect my partner to know me well enough to know I would be very upset if they put themselves in debt over a fucking ring.

[tsunanami17]

Commissions I did within the last week to help with my textbook cost!! I had a ton of fun drawing for everyone!! I still have 2 slots open if you would like to commission me :3 First Piece-- Character owned by iAmFrostii on TWT Second Piece-- Characters owned by bazileaf and KokkunRimu on TWT Third Piece-- Character owned by AstralAscension on IG Fourth Piece-- Character owned by MisterPeople on Discord Fifth Piece-- Character owned by @faeylord Sixth Piece-- Character owned by KyleStyle on Discord

[beanbagbuddies4life]

regarding your comment on post (/) 723687963758886912: beanie hunting is only expensive if you go online to do it. the antique & thrift stores are where you get them cheap. i get hauls of ~10 for 7 to 10 dollars at my local thrift store. which is why i have 90 something of them excluding dupes but thats neither here or there

For those following along at home, here's the post: https://www.tumblr.com/beanbagbuddies4life/723687963758886912/pov-you-have-9-new-friends-if-anyone-says-bean In which i said "If anyone says bean hunting is an expensive hobby, spit on them: this is a $15 haul and 5 of them have tags" (I bought 9 Beanies total)

And true it is expensive online!! Beanies retail for $7 (and basically have since their inception) so if you're trying to buy NWT online it'll universally be AT LEAST $7 + shipping. Of course beans that aren't new are less, but they still orbit around that $7 mark. And, of course, there are still people who think that retired Beanie Babies are worth money. So If you've never been Bean hunting, a collection of 100 Beanies might look like over $700 worth of toys. I don't know if the conception that Beanie collections are valuable is as widespread as it used to be, but I can see why someone might think that.

Thrift stores near me often sell beans in bags of 3-5 for $2-6 each. I'm pretty surprised if I ever have to pay more than $2 per plush. Which is why it's so common to see collections of well over 100... lol.

This is all to say that if you spend time oogling Beanies online, consider a trip to some local thrift shops or garage sales and chances are you'll find Beanies at less than half the cost they were!! If you want a big collection it's probably much more attainable than you think!

[obeetlebeetle]

not joking even a little bit when i say this is real and it happened to me mid-masters program

[evilsonicofficial]

get the checkmarks

I'm broke my dude