theotherguysride:

apeculiarangel:

pinkdementors:

everyone who writes their ‘7’s with a little dash through them had a conscious moment of truth where they actively chose to write ‘7’ in that way and never stopped doing it like if you can’t clearly recall that fateful decision wyd

i feel like this applies to a few things:

Okay but consider a reality where if I didn’t dash my 7s nobody could tell if I meant 7 or 1 or 9. My handwriting is god fucking awful.

It’s actually easier and more natural to put that loop in the two than to stop and go a different direction to get the pointy bit, especially with a pen. I have never had a pointy two. It’s all curves.

shatar-aethelwynn:

Tagged by @thatlittleegyptologist   

Name 3 of your current favorite hobbies, 6 of your current favorite bands, 9 of your favorite desserts, and tag 12 people.

Hobbies:

  1. Reading (sometimes I call it studying so people leave me alone)
  2. Sewing/Jewelry making (often put on hold in favor of reading)
  3. Learning languages (sadly neglected because of adulting)

Bands (currently):

  1. I really
  2. haven’t been
  3. listening
  4. to music
  5. lately
  6. …unless Eurovision counts?

Desserts:

  1. Buche de Noel cake (I have a wonderful flourless recipe *happy sigh*)
  2. Fruit
  3. Kiffles
  4. Is tea a desert?
  5. Ice cream (sometimes…maybe?)
  6. Fruit
  7. Chocolate pudding pie
  8. Fruit
  9. Probably any baked goods made from scratch that have chocolate

People:

  1. @silver-and-ivory
  2. @misskimia
  3. @serejane
  4. @godtierhoroscopes
  5. @terrypratchettappreciation
  6. @nochillrocket
  7. @bibliomancer7
  8. @burning-harvest 
  9. @morgynleri
  10. @hadanelith
  11. @imsemiclever
  12. @pandaswaittillmarriage

(Sorry, I just tagged the last people in my notices that tumblr would allow, because the only people I talk to have already been tagged…)

Hobbies:

1. Gardening (dirt under my fingernails and the smell of mints and thyme and sage freshly harvested, and the taste of strawberries from my own garden…)

2. Reading (mostly fic at the moment, but books are my first love. I just haven’t had the spoons to face them lately, because brain weasels)

3. 15th century history (Henry V of England, the Hundred Years War, Richard III of England, War of the Roses, Margaret of Anjou, Burgundy, Charles VI of France, Lucrezia Borgia, Florence, Milan, the Sforza family, the Medici family, Vlad Tpesh, Wallachia, and I could keep going, but suffice to say I have a grand time researching particular people and going link hopping and I end up buying books because Reasons.)

Bands:

1. Linkin Park

2. Flogging Molly

3. Wolfstone

4. Heather Dale

5. Oysterband

6. Paramore

Desserts:

1. Double Dark Chocolate Milanos

2. Chocolate Ice Cream

3. Apple Pie

4. Apple Crisp

5. Apple Dumpling from Cracker Barrel

6. Brownies

7. Fudge

8. Chocolate Cake

9. Apple Biscuits

Tagging (no fuss if you’d rather not):

1. @poplitealqueen

2. @jabberwockypie

3. @theotherguysride

4. @norcumi

5. @lacefedora

6. @godoflaundrybaskets

7. @hamelin-born

8. @lferion

9. @lynati

10. @petermorwood

11. @deadcatwithaflamethrower

12. @dogmatix

And anyone else who wants to play.

Reblog if it’s ok for people to give you $599.99

bootyisagirlsbestfriend:

shysweetthing:

imhellafit-personal:

sailed-0ut:

Please don’t hesitate

1 penny below reporting limit for the IRS… I see what you did there

(Don’t give me $599.99)

That’s not the right IRS rule.

$599.99 is the amount below which a business does not need to issue a 1099 to a contractor who provides business services. The contractor still needs to report the income on their taxes.

The correct number for the IRS rule for money that is gifted rather than received in a business transaction is $13999.99–more than that, and the recipient has to pay tax on the gift and report it to the IRS. Less than that, and there’s no taxation or reporting requirement.

If we’re choosing amounts on the basis of IRS limits, give these people $13,999.99. 

Go. Do it.

Reblog if it’s ok for people to give you $13,999.99

stainedglassstar:

autistic hearing

“I’m sorry, what?”

“… I still didn’t catch that.”

“please say that again, I really can’t understand what you’re saying”

.

*distant, vague noise*

“the fuck was that? what do you mean you can’t hear that”

.

“it’s raining. no, it’s like, just a super light drizzle, but it’s definitely raining”

*5 minutes later, drizzle becomes a thunderstorm*

“I told you it was raining”

.

“I know I’m like 2 feet away from you and you’re speaking at a good volume, but I seriously have no idea what you just said and I’m sorry”

.

*floorboards creaking faintly, in the the periphery of your hearing*

“someone is coming”

.

*more than one person speaking at once*

“PLEASE SHUT UP”

*silence for one second and then everyone proceeds to ignore you*

.

*3 am and someone has been blasting music two blocks away, but you still can hear the bass*

“this is fine”

ladyshinga:

With
cutting benefits and fighting the “opioid crisis”, there’s a war on the
disabled and sick. And we need the able-bodied and healthy to step up
and fight. We’re in pain, we’re tired, we’re home-bound and sick. We
can’t protest as easily, we can’t make calls and send letters as easily,
we can’t be a the front lines of our own fight even when we really want
to be. Help us.

This is not for you.

ladydrace:

This is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can’t do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway.

For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder:

– Posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who have money. Not your broke ass, still worrying how to buy food next month.

– Posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who have energy to care. Not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails. 

And, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don’t pay/reblog/signal boost/care? Those posts can fucking die in a fire.

TL;DR: Posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give? 

THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU. 

I need help, folx. And no, I’m not asking for money. Matter of fact, I’ll pay you.

ophie-opossum:

ophie-opossum:

I’m trying desperately to leave the US, and I’m on the Next-To-Last-Step so I can apply for Immigration. I need to take the IELTS language test. I currently live in North Carolina. The only tests before 07/28/18 are on the West Coast. Literally the West Coast, Oregon and California. All I need is someone I can share the 40+ hour drive with, ideally I’d be going to Portland, OR for the test on 05/24/18, so I need help *FAST*.

You’d need to know how to drive stick, and have a valid license. Although, at this point the last bit is negotiable. I don’t care if I have to pick you up partway there and drop you off on the way back, I don’t care if you literally just want me to ship you to somewhere else along the line as long as I can pick someone else up less than 10 more hours in. I don’t care if I end up sharing the car with 20+ people over the course of this drive, I just want to go, take this stupid fucking test, and come home. I will cover food and gas, I expect sleeping, if any, is gonna happen in the car. It’s an old Subaru Outback, so it’s plenty spacious.

Please pass this on, the more people see this the higher the chance I won’t have to wait 2 goddamn months to take a test for a language I was born speaking. Shoot me an IM on here, or if you know someone who would fit these criteria and would be fine riding with a stranger who doesn’t have a Tumblr, have them email me @ ophie.opossum (at) gmail.com

I fucking hate everything. Okay, guys. So, I wasn’t able to sign up for the test after I posted this because I didn’t have a passport-style photo in digital format. The test signup said it would be open until 05/23/18, but I guess it filled up because when I went to check this morning it was gone. I’m pretty fucking pissed about it, but what can you do. I’m still taking a week offa work, so if people wanna just drive/dick around for a while, I’m down. Kinda thinking I might drive up to visit a friend in Toronto. So cancel the emergency bolo, basically, now it’s just for fun.

EDIT: Just FYI, this is basically opening me up to go wherever. I’m legit a free agent for that week, so hit me up. For real. My goal is to hit Canada for at least a few days, but aside from that…

garashirs:

you know what i need??? more myth and superstition in scifi.

give me starship captains like the sailors of old, weathered and wary of the vast beast that is deep space, who religiously keep their own personal traditions and rituals to appease her and guide their ships safely through her vast depths.

give me wide-eyed ensigns eagerly drinking in tales of great creatures of the void, space whales and other more malevolent leviathans, dismissed as tall tales by more cynical cadets who only trust the sense of their own eyes.

give me whispered accounts of ghost vessels, lost long ago in great battles across the universe, populated by a literal skeleton crew.

give me a space bermuda triangle.

give me a universe as cold and unfathomable as the ocean, and no less mysterious and forboding.