Done

FYI I am going to be stepping back from Scalding Karn to start a new blog. If you want to follow the new blog, please PM me off Anon and I will send you my new name when I create it tonight. :D

Meaning of your birthday in Japanese

1日：欠片（かけら）： Fragment 2日：天使（てんし）：Angel 3日：涙（なみだ）：Tears 4日：証（あかし）： Evidence 5日：夢（ゆめ）：Dream 6日：心（こころ）：Heart 7日：しずく: Drops 8日：ようせい：Fairy 9日：音楽（おんがく）：Music 10日：光（ひかり）：Light 11日：鮫（さめ）：Shark 12日：けっしょう：Crystal 13日：ささやき：Whisper 14日：おつげ： Prediction 15日：おぼじない： Spell 16日：偽り（いつわり）：Lie 17日：祈り（いのり）：Pray 18日：猫（ねこ）：Cat 19日：みちするべ： Signpost 20日：熊（くま）：Bear 21日：保護者（ほごしゃ）： Guardian 26日：バナナ：Banana 27日：狼（おおかみ）：Wolf 28日：翼（つばさ）：Wings 29日：お土産（おみやげ）： Souvenir 30日：かいとう：Thief 31日：妄想（もうそう）：Delusion Month: 1月：月（つき）：Moon 2月：愛（あい）：Love 3月：空（そら）：Sky 4月：水（みず）：Water 5月：花（はな）：Flower 6月：宇宙（うちゅう）： Space 7月：太陽（たいよう）：Sun 8月：星（ほし）：Star 9月：森（もり）：Forest 10月：影（かげ）：Shadow 11月：天（てん）：Heaven 12月：雪（ゆき）：Snow

water banana??? water banana………

Delusion sky, ITS A FUCKIN SIMULATION

Drops love…

Drops love what?

WHAT DO THEY LOVE?

Dream Moon

No, I refuse to go back to anything similar of Eldritch Moon, take it back, I don’t want it

Lie Sun? what?

Lie Space? Huh

Fragment Heaven.

I am the love guardian, guardian of the love.

Question:

When opening a pack, do you look through the cards one by one, or do you go straight for the rare?

i count commons to determine if foil or not, then check out uncommons, then rare

The suspense is important. I go one by one

One by one, can’t be disappointed until I see the whole pack!

One by one because, yea, the suspense is important

I go right to the rare, then flip through the commons and uncommons

Straight to the rare. Gonna get the most painful part disappointment out of the way first

If I’m drafting, I go one card at a time to sort first picks. If I’m just ripping packs, I go straight for the rare

I open all packs the same. Straight to the rare then back through to the commons. I find it helps me control my draft picks better while still being the spoil sport I am of going to the best thing first.

it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.

example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.

(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)

thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.

the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.

pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.

so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.

so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.

Meaning of your birthday in Japanese

1日：欠片（かけら）： Fragment 2日：天使（てんし）：Angel 3日：涙（なみだ）：Tears 4日：証（あかし）： Evidence 5日：夢（ゆめ）：Dream 6日：心（こころ）：Heart 7日：しずく: Drops 8日：ようせい：Fairy 9日：音楽（おんがく）：Music 10日：光（ひかり）：Light 11日：鮫（さめ）：Shark 12日：けっしょう：Crystal 13日：ささやき：Whisper 14日：おつげ： Prediction 15日：おぼじない： Spell 16日：偽り（いつわり）：Lie 17日：祈り（いのり）：Pray 18日：猫（ねこ）：Cat 19日：みちするべ： Signpost 20日：熊（くま）：Bear 21日：保護者（ほごしゃ）： Guardian 26日：バナナ：Banana 27日：狼（おおかみ）：Wolf 28日：翼（つばさ）：Wings 29日：お土産（おみやげ）： Souvenir 30日：かいとう：Thief 31日：妄想（もうそう）：Delusion Month: 1月：月（つき）：Moon 2月：愛（あい）：Love 3月：空（そら）：Sky 4月：水（みず）：Water 5月：花（はな）：Flower 6月：宇宙（うちゅう）： Space 7月：太陽（たいよう）：Sun 8月：星（ほし）：Star 9月：森（もり）：Forest 10月：影（かげ）：Shadow 11月：天（てん）：Heaven 12月：雪（ゆき）：Snow

water banana??? water banana………

Delusion sky, ITS A FUCKIN SIMULATION

Drops love…

Drops love what?

WHAT DO THEY LOVE?

Dream Moon

No, I refuse to go back to anything similar of Eldritch Moon, take it back, I don’t want it

Lie Sun? what?

Lie Space? Huh

Fragment Heaven.

I am the love guardian, guardian of the love.

During a conversation with my manager this morning, she mentioned that her manager– the district manager– had told her that “We want people who are passionate about our products. We don’t want people working here if they’re doing it for the money.”

To which the manager (internally, because she doesn’t want to be fired), went “you’ve got to be fucking shitting me.”

Here’s the thing: it is totally possible to do a job for the passion and not be obsessively thinking about the money every minute of every day. In fact, there have been economic studies regarding that very thing.

You know when it starts?

When the employee in question is making $50-75k per year.*

That’s the starting point of financial security. That’s the point when you’re fairly secure that you’re going to have rent, food, and basic living expenses covered. 

I’ve worked a lot of jobs over the years. A lot. I saw the same working as a freelancer– when I charged lower rates, my clients treated me like shit and acted like they were doing me a favor; when I charged more, they respected me as a professional. A newspaper that started out paying me above market wage also treated me very kindly, because they started with the assumption that I was a human being who needs to eat.

In my experience, the employers that insist that your job be your “passion” are also the ones that pay you nothing and treat you like garbage. It’s exactly like abusive people, who tell you that you would put up with their abuse if you “loved them enough”. It’s a way of convincing the victim that they’re responsible for their own mistreatment, which is absolutely fucked up.

Here’s my advice to you:

It is absolutely okay to take a job that doesn’t pay you what you deserve–  you’ve got to eat, after all. But don’t think for a second that you have a responsibility to that job. If you see something available that pays better and treats you better, take it and don’t look back. Don’t waste an ounce of sympathy for employers who try to convince you that passion is an acceptable substitute for survival. 

What the fuck are people doing when they’re in the shower for 30 minutes

Dissociating

Having an existential crisis.

All of the above + singing.

Rehearsing for conversations I’ll never have. 

imagining scenarios that will never happen

crying

water warm

feels nice

Literally all of these

Protip for better hair. Put conditioner in first, then do all of these things.

A new event has been announced for Pokémon GO. Starting from today at 20:00 UTC until March 29th 2017 a special Water Festival event will be held. This event has Water-type Pokémon including Squirtle, Totodile and Magikarp. Water-type Pokémon will be more common in areas they usually spawn. In addition to that, a special Magikarp hat will be available during the time

There are numerous reports of Shiny Magikarp appearing in the game during this event. They will appear in the overworld as standard but are said to be Shiny in battle and will only be shiny for you, not for other people. Rarity for this is not currently known and there have been no reports of any other Pokémon being shiny at this time. We’re currently investigating.

an aromantic person staring in horror when they learn the curse can only be broken by true loves kiss

And then sighing with relief when they remember that there are many different types of love out there.

And then going on a rather mediocre adventure to get a kiss from their mom, or their best friend, or their cat.

“Mooooommmmmm I got a curse again can you come kiss it better?”

“This is the third time this month, dear god you need better friends. I’m getting you a dog.”

The dog is also able to break the curses. Who is a good boy?

an aromantic person staring in horror when they learn the curse can only be broken by true loves kiss

And then sighing with relief when they remember that there are many different types of love out there.

And then going on a rather mediocre adventure to get a kiss from their mom, or their best friend, or their cat.

“Mooooommmmmm I got a curse again can you come kiss it better?”

“This is the third time this month, dear god you need better friends. I’m getting you a dog.”