[Cult of the Lamb] Gone were the Bishops of the Old Faith, left was the usurper of Death

I recreated some of my vacation pictures with the historical locations in AC Odyssey

Porch of the Caryatids, Erechtheion

Propylaea

Parthenon

Theatre of Dionysus

Temple of Hephaestus

People often look at the tags on my handmade goods and declare that my prices are outrageous. I did the math and THIS is what that handmade beanie you want for $10 ACTUALLY cost to make.

So if you see that $30 on the label, be courteous. Know that I am paying myself far, far less than minimum wage in labor ($2.22 per hour, to be exact) to even come to such a supposedly ghastly price. I can't take that $10 for a hat because no one can live on $0.37 an hour, much less sustain a business.

Handmade goods aren't overpriced, people just undervalue the hard work and years of skill artists put into them.

Honestly. This is exactly right. And if you’re fighting for 15 imagine what this would cost. Small businesses are not exempt

manufactured goods mass produced by horrendously exploited and underpaid workers have conditioned us to wildly undervalue handmade crafts

i do embroidery and i think i’m pretty damn good at it.

the average person can stitch 2700 stitches per hour. if i were to charge even just $.01 per stitch thats $27/hr. most of my pieces take about 7-12 hours of work. if i charged that rate i would NEVER get commissioned.

i have to give deep discounts to sell my work when i want to. the comment above mine is 100% correct. people see hand crafted items as a cheap fun hobby because “i can find that somewhere else much cheaper”.

you’re right, you can, cause some poor soul in a sweatshop is going hungry for you to afford it.

both those workers and i deserve to be paid fairly for luxury items, cause that’s what handmade goods are.

Ophidia

“No quiero hacerle daño a nadie, te juro que no, te juro, te juro, te juro que…“ —-Me Llamo Sebastián—

Glasses guy killed one of his boyfriends

How

This is true and an insane story. It was noodlesandbeef

Do people not know about this anymore?

Yes, the guy’s fetish was dudes with extremely huge ballsacks so he pressured his bfs (who were all like Extremely Subservient to him all the time) to inject their balls with silicone to stretch them out. Since this is not a procedure done by like doctors, the silicone migrated into his bf’s lungs and killed him, but noodlesandbeef like covered it up and set himself up as the beneficiary to his bf’s insurance. It’s fucked up and imo your last words should not be “thank you for allowing me to serve you” to the person who directly caused your death.

Someone mentioned in the tags but yeah, it was more than just “pressured his bf” it was an abusive polycule of which he—NoodlesandBeef/Dylan—was the center/leader to the point of Cult-like status. Eventually the wider kink/gay community in SF figured out what was going on (a very unhealthy, controlling,abusive dynamic) and some folks attempted to intervene, at which point they all fled up to Seattle where Tank (the big ginger bull in the group/cult) died shortly after under very suspicious circumstances, Noodlesandbeef/Dylan attempted a clumsy coverup and basically went into hiding afterwards. I know at least one of the members escaped back east to MA but don’t know what happened to the rest.

Here’s a link to the Stranger article that lays out most of the facts:

https://www.thestranger.com/features/2018/12/11/36994119/disturbing-new-evidence-emerges-in-the-noodles-and-beef-case

I need folks to understand that "conflict resolution" does not mean

"every time I accuse someone of something":

Sometimes, conflict resolution means you learn that your accusation was unfounded and you were in the wrong. You misunderstood something, you overreacted, and YOU caused harm.

Sometimes, conflict resolution means YOU end up apologizing.

Tom Hardy

I wanna stroke someone's dick 😩

feeling good about my body for a moment

Men will be like "look at my bulge" and I do

random wrinkly corpse: ‘ludwig the accursed is coming… have mercy… have mercy upon us…’

me: ‘LUDWIG THE ACCURSED IS COMING LETS GOOOOO<3<3!!!!!!!′ 

"Sorry I sweat so much." "Sorry I precum so much." "Am I crushing you?" ENOUGH. We teach bears to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.