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Just… let me be single. Stop trying to match make me. I’m not broken.

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

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@sunnydbeam is this Biohazard?

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BABY

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… I just dreamt that I was explaining to my mom why the phrase “Do you like the color of the sky?” was almost a threat.

My dream specifically used the word “threat”.

My subconscious is intimidated by the Super Long Picture. And that makes me laugh.

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Oh god, I would make EVERY HUMAN hate me.

I would tell the aliens about Bananaphone. And rickrolling. But Bananaphone? I have weaponized it here, on earth, IRL. I would DEFINITELY— WAIT, better idea. Pull a Salt and Pepper diner but with Bananaphone on repeat and one rickroll in the middle. Hahahaha

What if there was an alien species who didn’t ‘get’ music? They have no sense of rhythm or anything like that, so from their perspective humans occasionally just randomly change the pitch of their voices while talking about random things. They find it insane that there’s a whole human industry devoted to making instruments and other humans fluctuate the pitch and speed of their voices into a recording device.

Eventually the humans explain music to them and they learn to just put up with it as another 'crazy human thing’.

Now imagine a ship where half the crew is human and half is this other species. There’s a bit of a friendly rivalry between the two species and they often play pranks on each other. So one week the humans hide magnets all around the ship, knowing that this messes with the magnetic crystals in the aliens’ brains that help them find their way around. The humans have great fun watching their crew mates keep bumping into things and the aliens swear revenge.

The next week some music is played over the ship’s intercom. But it’s not just any music. Every song that the aliens have ever heard referred to as “annoying” or “catchy” is played over and over. To the aliens it’s just white noise, to the humans it’s torture. It gets worse, however. For days after the incident, the aliens dilate their breathing flaps in amusement whenever they hear humans complain about “that stupid song!” They’d heard about the human concept of 'songs getting stuck in heads’ but didn’t think it would work so well…

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Art fight Attack on @thatmooncake!

Here's Moonshoe crab enjoying some carrots!

There's a video out there of a horseshoe crab enjoying some pieces of carrot so maybe Moonshoe might also enjoy them as a tasty snack?

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To put into perspective on this, I thought I’d share how things work with my store. Keep in mind that this may not be across the board, but this is how the chain I work at does things.

It requires a bit of prescript. Corporate gives the store manager an allocation of hours to make a week’s schedule with. When I say “going over hours”, this is what I’m talking about. We are not supposed to go over this allocated set of hours.

Corporate is not known for giving reasonable hours to operate a store.

So, we are scheduled to close at 9. We are scheduled to be done with our shifts completely at 9:15. This does not give us enough time to do the things they want us to do after closing. After we lock the doors we have to do the following.

1: Sign off remove tills. (Cash drawer.)

2: Print Z-reads AKA release the tills from the system.

3: Shut down all registers

4: Count the remaining tills (usually cashier and closing manager, two tills).

5: Buy back ones and fives (counted in stacks of $20 for ones, $100 for fives, averaging $140-160 each night I’ve closed).

6: Count the deposit (Cash that is made during the day), verify the amount.

6.5: if it is wrong, we have to count the safe to make sure it has the required amount of money in it. Everyone hates this. Recounting the safe can add at MINIMUM 5 minutes.

7: When correct: handwrite the money into the deposit ticket and deposit log, and put the cash and part of the ticket into the deposit bag. (Pink tag stays out.)

8: Enter the amount into the computer TWICE. (That stupid survey was supposed to end two years ago and we still have to FILL IT OUT. Which requires district number, store number, manager name, verifier name, date deposit made, how much, date deposited at bank, what time… so even that takes a while.)

9: End Day (which is starting a mass transfer of data to corporate, which we have to stay and make sure it actually starts, if it doesn’t reach a navy screen, we have to figure out why End Day isn’t starting.)

10: Clock out, write down our clock out time plus ten minutes for the drive to the bank (and technically sometimes it takes longer than ten minutes, so we getting a bit shafted).

Now, the time we write down is SUPPOSED to be 9:15. We struggle to meet that on a GOOD night.

Now, add to the mix those people…

There is a customer I call Hippy Feet because he never wears shoes and I hated him. Thankfully, ever since I weaponized Bananaphone (either singing it badly at the top of my lungs or playing it on the intercom) I haven’t seen him, I’m pretty sure he’s learned to not shop at closing at my store. But this asshole used to come in five minutes before we close and on several occassions, a manager would have to repeatedly tell him to get his stuff to the register so we could close, keeping us from actually starting the end shift things like removing the bloody toll until 30 minutes later. Corporate gave us so much hell for the nights he was there because he kept us so late. Ever since I have learned Bananaphone can be weaponized, I use it. It works. But before I did, that asshole would get us in trouble because he thought in the mindset mentioned.

That mindset is not only dickish, selfish, and entitled, it can, and has, gotten people in trouble because the entitled jerk made us go over hours and that angered corporate.

So no. As a customer, you need to be OUT OF THE STORE at closing. Or you could get someone in trouble.

Whoever needs to hear this. Please know.

"Closed at 6pm" does not mean "The entry door locks up at 6, but if you're already inside you can keep on shopping."

It means, "you should be finished and out of the store at 6pm."

This is not up for debate

This is just how things work

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inspired by this ask

horseshoe crab Moon by @thatmooncake 

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Oh my god I love him so much.

hellow! (uwu)/ I love your horseshoe crab Moon i can't stop thinking about how cute he is! and i was wondering, did you ever thought about his color palette? :0

Not until you asked!

(Bonus under cut)

And here he is flipped over:

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Okay, storytime for anyone that wants to know. When I first moved to where I lived, I volunteered at the aquarium at the touch tank. I loved the horseshoe crabs.

I am a short girl, 5’2”, at the time 170lbs. So imagine me scritching the horseshoe crabs, tickling their mouths between their legs when they flip over, letting them “pinch” me, and then holding them up to a 6 foot tall burly biker dude covered in tattoos.

My small whimpy ass: “Wanna pet her? :D”

Him: *Eyes go wide and he takes a step back.* “NO.”

I love horseshoe crabs so much. Sweet things, gentle things, so sweet and good. Apparently still enough to scare bikers.

Moon horseshoe crab makes me so happy. He is perfect. <3

Moon but he’s a horseshoe crab:

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Reblogging my favorite little shit again. Mentioned him in the last post so I have to. I do like him. Very much.

annoying loyalist weasel man

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BRUH. Never let your love die!! I have been a hardcore zoid addict for well over … twenty years now (holy crap has it really been that long) and with how many absolutely obscene hiatuses between series (the 12 year drought between Genesis and Wild for example) it would’ve been insane to give up on something because it wasn’t on tv anymore.

But no, fans keep the franchise alive! Love the shows! Give them art and fanfics and new headcanons and stuff! As someone who follows an absolutely RAD person who keeps cranking out awesome Zoid work and stories and ideas (@derangedhyena-zoids, it’s you, you’re the rad person with rad work), I can tell you, just because something isn’t on tv anymore doesn’t mean it’s gone. The fans keep it alive. We are the ones who give shows life! Not the tele! It’s US! The fans!

Not to out myself as someone that’s been on tumblr for too long, but I’m so sad to see this new trend of people saying “I like this thing, even though the show isn’t airing anymore.” Like? That’s how things work! Keep enjoying them! Art doesn’t just vanish when it’s not airing, and it wasn’t made to be exclusively viewed live! 10+ years ago, the idea of saying “Ah, I’m still here in this fandom 2 years after the show was cancelled 😳” would have been BONKERS!

All these kids saying “It’s so sad the shows gone,” no it’s not!!! I saw your fanart yesterday! Last week you told me about my favorite character’s music playlist!!! I saw them running around in your AMV!

Where’s the longevity?? It was made for you!!! Not TV!!! It was made for keeps!!! Keep it!!! Please!!! That’s how art stays alive!!!

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exactly

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im convinced imaginary friends are a lie made up by the american media to sell more mental illness so. participate in my research

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My favorite little shit. (Affectionate.) You always draw him so well, and reignite my love for this rascal. <3

annoying loyalist weasel man

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I FORGOT I MADE THIS YEARS AGO.

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Link forgot how to blink. Wtf.