#renting advice

[windslar]

[electric-plants]

cyno: could you give me advice on how to get closer to alhaitham?

kaveh: huh?? why are you asking me? i hate alhaitham

cyno: haha oh yeah that’s one of my favorite jokes you do it’s so funny :)

kaveh: …..one of your favorite what?

[nashvillethotchicken]

Matter fact. If I was a vampire and I paid an old friend to interview me before he died and he talked to me and my current husband and talked about my DEAD child and ex husband the way Daniel do? Im doing more than making fun of him, I'm knocking him in his bulbous forehead like he's a beluga fuckin whale

[dramatic-dolphin]

in middle school for a creative writing assignment one of my classmates wrote the line "on a slice of bread, i sailed over to the sea of satiety" to describe feeling satiated after eating a sandwich. and my literature teacher read it out loud just to tell us "don't write something like this. please don't."

[coldresolve]

i keep seeing those "how to write complex/realistic characters" posts and every single goddamn time they start out by saying you need to know every single part of their backstory, including but not limited to childhood milestones and the moons phase and position during birth or whatever, and every single time it makes me cringe. like no. backstory is not what makes a character realistic. im sorry, but youre just wrong

unless their past plays a role in the plot and/or their development, i know next to nothing about character backstory whenever i start a story. it's all vibes-based. i know their fears, their motivations, their drives. i know their personality, how they speak, what they tend to focus on. strengths and weaknesses, that sort of thing. backstory, for the most part, is something i improvise in the moment if i have to - for some characters, it's so irrelevant, it never even crosses my mind.

think of a friend you have. do you know every single part of their past? nope, you don't. you don't know the majority of the events that shaped them into the person they are, you just know who they are now. and you can recognize the complexity of their personhood despite not knowing. you don't have to know. that same principle is true for your characters as well. you don't have to know. you can work it out if you want to, but it's far from necessary. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[anichibicore]

unfading sin

[otabekisautistic]

strikes are good strikes are great i am 100% in support of a general strike but also you cannot guilt trip random individuals for not participating in a general strike because not everyone can afford the lost wages. like it’s brutal out here some of our employers do illegal strike retaliation like it’s nbd and the unions have a hard time suing them because the employer holds too much power and is tied to the government :( some employers have enough money that they can just do illegal retaliation because when something is punished by a fine, it’s basically legal if you have the funds for it

[gin-juice-tonic]

maybe the long hike is part of the 4D chess 

[naamahdarling]

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[saltdomain]

I don't think Saltbaker makes enough money to be considered wealthy (especially because Cuphead takes place in the Depression era), but he strikes me as someone who'd reduce daily costs as much as possible so that he always has money saved up for fun, expensive things (ballet performances, vacations, art supplies, etc.) He's too proud to cut corners when it comes to serving food, but he's not above, say, saving up leftover steak & rib bones for making glue and then using that glue to mend his shoes for just one more year, come on, he knows that they've still got some life left in them.

I'm projecting here but post-DLC, I bet business picked up enough for Saltbaker to buy curtains that he didn't have to sew from scratch, and furniture that he didn't have to repair before using. Heck, he could have gotten great deals on things that other Inkwell residents were selling to pay their gambling debts.

"Look at this, Chalice! TWO matching loveseats for the parlor! They gave me an even steeper discount because of the cat hair, but that's nothing to me- it comes off with a good clothes brush- and not a single gouge to fill in!"

[yourdumbdevil]

the way this image single handedly changed my relationship to doing things. like a couple months ago I had an important job interview and I was so stressed about it I barely slept the night before, but this quote somehow kept me going. turns out I got the job. job that I'm starting this monday, and I'm terrified as shit cause a part of me keeps telling me they won't like me and that I'm not good enough. but this helps me through it. I can't be perfectly chill about it, but I can do it scared. I don't have to be perfectly chill about it. I can do it scared.

[silver-state-knights]

hi friends i have been given another insane NHLer gear tidbit that i feel the need to share with you all...this time, goalie edition!

some context to share with you guys, if i haven’t already: goalie sticks are sized and referred to by the length of the “paddle” of the stick (in inches), aka the wide fat part of the stick. most adults are using anywhere from 24″ - 26″ paddles, myself and many of the goalies i play with being among them. you really only see bigger if you’re exceptionally huge, then sometimes you’ll see some guys using 27″ - 28″ paddles. smaller than these are usually reserved for children, or teenagers.

unless you’re sergei bobrovsky, then you’re using a 22″ paddle, for some reason.

so for reference, let me show you some other NHL goaltenders, who use a more typical paddle size:

And, now that we’ve seen those guys in comparison, let’s look at how Bobrovsky’s stick compares:

another couple fun facts about this: 22″ is a pretty uncommon size for a goalie stick at retail and are kinda hard to come by, and is also typically the very beginning of what we would call a “junior” size, which is meant for children who are about 10-13 years of age. these are right above “youth” sticks in size, which typically end at 21″ paddles, meant for children about 4-9 years of age.