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Level 20 Wizard/Sorceror: Can literally mold the fabric of time and space and bend existence to their will.
Level 20 Bard: Can play Through the Fire and the Flames in Guitar Hero 3 on expert mode with 100% accuracy
Honestly, the bard is more impressive.
they’re in love
i understand that ao3 staff have bigger problems on their hands like wrangling code and dealing with harassment campaigns and planning their next vacation but it is VITALLY IMPORTANT to my personal enjoyment that they add one feature and it is this: when looking up an australian character, there needs to be a ticky box to only filter for fics written by australians
junkrat is not a bogan, he’s a derro, also an ocker ratbag, acceptably a larrikin and/or dag, definitely scungy and a bit of a hoon but not a yobbo. i hope this clears things up, thank you for your time
hey quick question what the FUCK does this say
Bogan: Low income, budget housing city-dweller who drinks terrible beer. Derro: Like a bogan but also loud, rude, and unclean. short for derelict. Ocker: Australian who uses a LOT of Australian slang. Ratbag: cheeky child. Not necessarily a child who is bad, but a child who is always into things and teasing others. Larrikin: Prankster/Joker Dag: Someone who makes terrible, terrible puns, someone who is a little bit stupid. Scungy: mix of scum and grungy. Dirty, smelly. Icky to look at, basically. Hoon: Someone who speeds, and/or breaks the law in reckless ways. NOT inherently violent, however their unthinking actions can have negative consequences on themselves or others. Yobbo: Overweight, middle-aged man of a particular demographic. Think cork-hat and blue singlet stereotype.
shell-shagger? rhino-rider?? i’m lost
It’s called disappointing the Traveler.
A snazzy cyberspace Sombra.
Who else out here trying to ignore the fact that longtime romantic love just might never be a part of your life
Handcrafted Gold & Silver Owl Rings By ElinaGleizer On Etsy
Ethereal & Delicate Butterfly Jewelry & Accessories
UK based artist Helen Nevett from Under the Ivy creates exquisite pieces inspired by the ethereal beauty of butterflies. Influenced by the enchanting world of faerie folk, the textile and surface designer is impassioned by all things magical.
With a dash of glitter and sublime elegance, Nevett’s designs appear incredibly realistic and appeal to the geeky and fairy persona inside us all. And the best part of her pieces is that, she does sell replaceable wings in every color! Find them in her Etsy shop.
I kinda want everything in her shop.
I present to you, literally my favorite yelp review at the SmartPet I used to work at. It’s called CLOSING for a reason people
Boxing Day two years ago I was forced to work, even though I was the only employee in the store who’d worked both Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. But whatever - didn’t really mind. Work is work.
Now, there’s only a few members of staff in this store - it’s a designer boutique, so it can run with just 2 members of staff in at any one time, and lucky me, I’m the assistant manager. Anyway, I was alone for this last hour/cashing up the register. Just as I’m getting the keys at 5 minutes to close, ready to shut the doors, this guy wanders in.
Okay, whatever. He’s probably going to take a small look around and then leave. I bite my tongue and smile.
10 minutes pass and he’s still looking around. I’ve helpfully reminded him several times that we’re closing now. He magically thinks if I’m in the store, it remains open, and it’s his personal shopping experience.
He finally chooses something. Pays for it, taking his time, despite that I’ve closed the register. And then…just as I think ‘it’s over. I can leave and enjoy what’s left of the holiday season with my fiance (who had JUST moved over from the states and I was eager to spend time with)’ this guy sees something else and brings it to he counter.
‘I wanted this one, not what I just bought. I didn’t see this. Can I exchange it?’
At this point I’m nearly ready to explode but I do what he asks. We had an irritating process with exchanges and returns at this place due to the expensive nature of the items. So it takes another 5 minutes for me to run his exchange through.
Finally he leaves and I have to sort out the register. I get out of work on Boxing Day nearly forty minutes late. I miss one of the very few busses running and have to wait another hour.
I got home from work on a holiday almost 2 hours late because this one human turd thought he was entitled to extra shopping time.
Don’t be that asshole. Respect employees. Respect closing times.
i heard a story from my assistant manager about a thanksgiving some years back where some couple decided they were going to wander the store for another FOUR HOURS after closing.
mind you, i work in a department store- which means if a single customer is still in the store, every single employee on the whole three floors, including the cafe and restaurant workers, not only has to stay but has to wait to count their registers and wait to turn in money.
FOUR. HOURS. on thanksgiving night. and all because mr. and mrs. ebenezer scrooge decided to make a sport out of making all the little retail workers cater to them. that’s what it was, really was a sport- as they had been asked multiple times by a manager to leave, and had replied that the store would not close with them still there.
i’m being serious here. the store has set hours, and you know what they are. don’t be an asshole.
Our solution was literally just... turn off the lights. Stop serving. Close the registers. And, my manager’s personal favourite...
Play a mixtape of different versions of “Celebrate Good Times”. We literally just made the shopping experience as annoying as humanly possible. We would follow the customer. Stare at them. All. Of. Us.
It got them out of the store quick smart and because we were a major franchise who were literally only holding doors in that location to put a dent in some of the profits of the other major franchises around us it worked. Our store literally wasn’t there to make a profit, it was there to take the profit away from other stores. We could get away with pretty much whatever the fuck we wanted after closing.
won’t be able to finish this cuz my lack of patience.
okay but
fuck your stereotypes
long hair is not “girly”
the same way short hair is not “manly”
hair has no gender
hair is just hair
&as long as you’re not disrespecting a culture with the way you do it
you keep on doing you
Its like someone looked into my brain and decided to make a photo set based on men I would find so overwhelmingly attractive I couldn’t look directly at them if I met them in person
I…….I just…
today is a GOOD day!
Until I actually get one, I’m opening commissions. I will price the individual pieces based on their complexity, but stay within the provided brackets, with the busts being appropriately cheaper than the fullbody pieces.
If you can’t commission me, I would greatly appreciate a reblog! All the money I get will go towards my living expenses while I try to balance taking care of family members and my own mental issues.
If you’d like to see more of my art, you can find some on my blog! Forgive me no direct link, as tumblr takes down all posts with links from its tagged search…
If you’d like to commission me, please send me an e-mail to nemartpoland at gmail, titled “commission”!
Thank you <3
Judgement Day
Print for AX! A nod to a Klimt piece that I couldn’t get out of my head.
from your friendly neighborhood librarian:
all books are good books. you are not a “lesser reader” if you only read manga or comic books or a “better reader” for reading academic heavy texts.
reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy
reading is supposed to be fun and don’t let elitism sap any joy out of it
So I currently work in an English as a Second Language school for teenagers trying to get into Australian high schools. The kids have a period after lunch called Unassisted Solitary Silent Reading (USSR and yes, it is a joke amongst the faculty) where the students have to read an English book intensively for 15 minutes.
One of the biggest complaints the faculty got was that the books were too -boring-. Part of that is because it’s very difficult to find teenager-relevant books at a suitable level for these kids, but it’s also that the books were...
...Well.
There’s only so many times a kid can read book adaptations of Disney movies before they quite understandably lose their shit.
My solution was to bring in my personal books - lots of English manga (some of which I went out and sourced as stuff these kids would be into even though I’m not), the Avatar: Last Airbender comics, the Overwatch Visual Source Book, Regrettable Supervillians, a bunch of other books that the kids would actually be into to make the reading period less of a chore.
They loved it. Wanted reading time to go on longer than the 15 minutes of allotted time. The thing was, the kids actually -wanted- to read, it’s just that what they had to read was damn boring.
But the problem with my solution is that these sorts of books are damn expensive, and the school had a limited budget to put into these resources - which means that the kids are less likely to get the $75 Avatar Anthology and are more likely to get the $1 book from the bargain bin at the dollar store, unless a teacher chooses to put their property in the oftentimes unforgiving hands of teenagers (most of whom haven’t quite yet grasped the ‘be gentle with the thing that doesn’t belong to you’ concept unless you specifically remind them they have someone else’s property in their hands)
My point is - reading is awesome and people should read whatever the hell they want, but a lot of times this idea of ‘elitism’ comes from prioritising resources in schools away from things that are entertaining and more towards things that are either a) cheap, b) sturdy, or c) seen as ‘worth the value of the spend’. I’ve been outright told that the school wouldn’t spend $20 on manga, when they can get something more educational for the same price. Therefore, the books in the library become skewed towards this ‘elitist’ culture and another group of kids grows up thinking that these are the best sorts of books to read, nay, the only sort of books -worth- reading.
But the reverse of this is: If you don’t give kids things that they’ll enjoy reading, they decide they don’t like reading anything, which means that there’s an entire avenue of educational entertainment that you haven’t tapped.
When y’all put me in the ground I wanna be buried with this screenshot.
