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My first Baldur’s Gate 3 run, up to a certain point. I have more but this seems pretty long, I’ll post the rest later.

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So, even in a different life,

you still would've been mine

We would've been timeless.

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What kind of stupid question is that?

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YOU WHAT?!

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The other day I was taking a call from a gentleman who’d gotten rear-ended and it was clear he was on speakerphone because I could hear everything around him. Most prominent in the background though were a bunch of noises that were familiar to me.

Me: sir... are you playing Breath of the Wild?

Guy: oh, can you hear that? I’m sorry, my son is.

Me: oh no, it’s not a problem! I love that game!

(beat)

Me: sounds like he’s having trouble finding that shrine though.

Boy (from further away): I dunno where it is!

Turned out to be the stupid one on the mountain that you gotta slide down a little to find. Kiddo thought it was soooo cool that the grownup Insurance Lady played games too 😭😭😭

Definitely on my list of wholesome calls.

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first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

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I understand your social anxiety but have you ever considered that, sometimes, in a truly shitty day, your well-known and well-loved face is the one thing that prevents a server from breaking down?

I used to work as a barista and this lady would come in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a latte every 4pm (something to get her through the kids coming home). I asked if her kids only went to school on MWF and she said "oh no! Hahahaha! My kids go every day to school but I didn't want to be the Everyday 4PM Coffee Lady!"

She was always bright and bubbly and had a very wicked and dirty sense of humor which never failed to make me laugh.

On a Thursday, one of our espresso machines breaks down which means we're slow because we're only making use of one. We ran out of milk because, I shit you not, the delivery truck hit an actual cow on the way to the store.

So, customers were making tsk-ing noises and complaints about how long it was taking. And, to me, who has sensory issues, it was very very stressful and after the seventh customer reamed me out because I couldnt make their drink which required milk, I was on the verge of tears.

And then, the next customer comes up and says "guess I'm going to be the Everyday 4PM Coffee Lady".

It was her. She was in the cafe.

On a Thursday.

She smiled big at me and said: "I'll have brewed coffee! And three cookies for my kids!"

I forced myself to talk to her. I made her coffee. I bagged her cookies. After she said goodbye, I took a break and cried in the back room.

Seeing such a familiar and well-loved face on a truly shit day and then have that person give you nothing but kindness and joy was too much for me.

It galvanized me and made me feel as if whatever came next, I could handle. The day continued like shit until the end of my shift but suddenly, it wasn't as stressful, it wasn't as grey, it wasn't as anxiety-inducing.

All because a well-loved regular came in and treated me humanely.

Don't be afraid to be the Everyday 4PM Coffee Lady. We love you. You make the hours so much more bearable. You are an oasis in the hellish nightmare desert that customer service can be sometimes.

Starving to death this morning because ive been to the new local cafe twice this week already and if i go a third time ill look desperate.

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My hopes for the sibling relationship

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Scissor Wizard and Paper Wizard

It’s probably fine to leave them alone together.

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I know Goncharov felt like he deserved to die but STILL

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all this talk about goncharov but i dont see anybody posting the soundtrack??? like how are you gonna talk about this movie without the music

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🦇Service Mindset🦇

Don’t be rude to whoever has the midnight shift at McDonalds

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Alright this is rly sad but here goes. I started doing my once-in-awhile bot purge from my followers list. And. I used to be able to just quickly scan and see the bots. They were the ones with default icons and generator-sounding names like "noun-girl-827". And if you weren't sure, you could click on the blog and it would be immediately obvious it was a bot because there's either just bad porn click bait, or nothing there.

Well. This time I had to give up immediately because I got like ten followers down the list and was having immense trouble figuring out who's a bot and who's real. Never ever used to see this but like 5/10 of the first few followers I checked on had just totally empty blogs. It wasn't until I'd already blocked 2 - assuming bots bc empty blogs - that I thought to check if they had any likes. And bam! There it was. All of their user activity.

We have people on this website now who have never reblogged a single post.

Y'all, I'm sure you're sick of seeing "you have to reblog thing" but you literally have to reblog things. That is how this website works. You understand that, right? How do you think the post you hit "like" on got in front of you? It wasn't because you liked enough things and Tumblrs algorithm figured out what you like enough to hand it to you. It's because you followed someone, a human person, who reblogged that post. And it came from another person who also reblogged it.

You are killing this website by refusing to interact with it in the way that makes it better than the other websites you ran from to come here.

Anyway, I'm sure you're all nice people, but I'm not going to play the "bot or not" game if you have an empty blog I'm going to block you.

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reblog if it's okay to send you a nude

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Why do you say "do not repost" your art? Unless it's paysite material I mostly ignore that line. I mean, reblogs & re-tweets technically count as a art repost so that makes "do not repost" invalid. If you don't want your art out there don't post it to the internet. Not trying to come off as mean, that's just the mindset I have. Once you posts something to the internet... it's out there.

…… hm.

when i say “do not repost” i mean, do not: 

save my art to your computer

reupload it to your own social media site, especially without credit

exploit my my art so you can become more popular/get more attention/etc

reblogging/retweeting is not the same as reposting. those actually allow the artist to keep ownership of their own art as it gets spread around. they are different things.

it’s not that i don’t want my art to be on the internet. that’s why i post it. but i don’t want OTHER people taking credit for MY art and the hard work i put into it. i have a store where i sell my art. having people repost my art to their own sites literally takes money away from me. because people don’t know that I’M the artist who drew it, then they don’t know about my store, and instead consume my art mainly through websites that repost my art for their own amusement or profit.

do you know how many japanese artists have deleted their pixiv/twitter accounts because people kept reposting their art without permission, OR credit, and have even profited from stealing their work? so much art is floating out there without an owner because the japanese artists were harassed so much due to their art constantly being reposted without any credit to them, that they had to disappear from the internet just so they could keep ownership of the rest of their art. 

do you know how many people found my art through pinterest? i’ve gotten so many messages from people saying they found my art there, and it took them anywhere from days to WEEKS to find me and my blog, because most, if not all of it was posted 1. without credit, or 2, without a link back to the original, because the pinterest user reuploaded it from their own computer. 

do you know how many people try to apply for jobs with their art, but can’t seem to claim ownership of their own portfolio because it’s been so spread out and reposted everywhere on the internet, that companies can’t be sure that the person they’re interviewing is the actual artist themself?

i don’t think you understand just how detrimental reposting is to artists. and i don’t think you understand how important it is for people to respect artists’ wishes. my art is not yours to use for your own amusement. there is a reason why most websites have a dmca report option, to take down unauthorized use of their art. even the law recognizes it as a personal right.

i do want my art to be shown to the world, but under my own terms. i want my wishes in regards to my art to be respected. you are not doing me any favors by reposting my art onto other sites without permission or credit. just the opposite, in fact–your hurting me personally, financially, and possibly hurting my chances of earning a job with my art. 

so in conclusion, here are the dangers of reposting:

the artists loses ownership of their art

no one knows who made it anymore, and don’t care

the artists stop making art because all that happens is their art gets reposted without a source, and so they prefer to disappear off the internet entirely. the world has now just lost an amazing artist.

people make a profit off their art, literally stealing money and potential customers from them, because no one knows where the art originated from

they lose job opportunities because the reposting and art theft is so ubiquitous, that even if they are the original artist, no one can be sure of that.

etc.

reposting is detrimental. it’s not the same thing as reblogging/retweeting, it’s something that literally harms artists in the long run. 

at the end of the day, the biggest way to prevent this from happening is by respecting the artist’s wishes with some basic human decency. that’s literally it.

i hope i’ve cleared some things up for you.