no more cold and calculating i want warm and calculating. i want characters who use deductive reasoning to figure out whether their friend would like a wool or cotton quilt based off of their lifestyle, career, hobbies, and habits. i want “your nails are often chipped because you work for a law firm as a typist for this company which notoriously underbudgets their IT department, so ive bought you a keyboard cover that will not only prevent manicure damage but is also sensory friendly because I know you dislike certain clicking noises”. i want characters who figure out their friends entire schedules and social battery levels just by examining who only use that info to know when the best time is to hang out with them. i want characters who create elaborate, supervillain level schemes just to get their hands on some collectible they know their best friend wants. most of all i want characters who do not use intelligence and reasoning skills as a reason to be cruel but as a means to be kind
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Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.
Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.
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#…the fourth question they ask is ”what country do you live in” #(with a long list of possible answers) #I am going to have to look into this #I still don’t *super* expect it to work #–later parts of the questionnaire kind of implied that the #only valid reason to be a non-resident citizen is if you’re on a military deployment– #but it does need further investigation #(tax-preparation services for non-residents normally start at USD$120) #(that’s for an ~installation-wizard‚ not a person) #(it’s $160 if you’re a gig worker) #(if you hold index funds outside of a short list of exceptional circumstances #you don’t qualify for the DIY tax software and you have to buy a human-assisted service for $550) #((yes‚ five hundred and fifty)) #home of the brave #tag rambles #PSA #adventures in human capitalism #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
#birds #art #comics #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
This is more unsettling. I know it’s there. I know it should be there. I know this pristine landscape is hiding its horrors like teeth.
[I.D. an edited version of the “children’s hospital” meme photo where the splattering red pattern on the hall floor has been removed. End I.D.]
Well duh. It’s just color theory
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#this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #unreality cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Y’know the thing people do in movies/shows where there like a monster/creature place and they poke a stick in there to investigate? Then it comes out shorter cause it got all chomped or broken? I want them to stick the stick in there and it comes back longer
I just grew your stick what’re you gonna do about it
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#story ideas I will never write #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
A guy who makes a big deal about “blood purity” which is why he supports kidney health and dialyses machines.
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#relatable #overly literal interpretations #(or maybe just-literal-enough interpretations) #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #racism cw? #illness tw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I’ve probably made someone cry with one of my posts but only as a statistical likelihood, not like it’s a skillset of mine, sometimes people get set off by random things
i’ve gotten multiple anons telling me i made them cry get on my level
I think it’s not out of the question that I’ve made someone cry by informing them how “gaol” is actually pronounced.
“Tell me the truth, I’m ready to hear it.”
“In Classical Latin, ‘c’ is pronounced ‘k’ and ‘v’ is pronounced ‘w’, so Cicero is ‘kikero’ and vice versa is ‘WEE-keh WEHR-sa’.”
“*cries*”
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#I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say ”Cicero” out loud‚ and I just *assumed* it was supposed to be Kikero #however my mind had not correlated enough of its contents for ”vice versa” #language #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because – and this is a direct quote – he was concerned that otherwise he might “become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify”. I have thought about this every single time that I’ve worked out since.
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It’s nuts that Antarctica is just down there. On this planet. With me. I want to know what’s going on in there
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#I have been reading through the archives of brr.fyi and yeah #it’s nonfiction but it doesn’t *feel* like nonfiction‚ you know? #I am intellectually aware that Antarctica is real but it’s hard to *believe* it‚ deep down #I feel the same way about‚ like‚ Jupiter #Antarctica #recs #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#art #fanart #birds #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 