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Reblog this and money will be entering your life this week

Just doing what i was told

I have concerns! When that fucking thing said suspect document, they didn’t even look like they checked it properly. The only excuse for that is if there’s issues with the machine, but it sure as hell seems to be in good working order, as that was the only time it happened. And even then, you should still give it a better look than that.

Also! Who the fuck does 100s in bundles of $10000? Having worked in a casino, we did 100s and 50s in bundles of 20 – $2000 and $1000 respectively. Then again, we probably were avoiding having special straps for them. Instead we just used the straps for the 20s and 10s, which we bundled by the hundred.

Maybe they do it different in other places, but as a former cashier at a casino, I’ve handled ridiculous sums of money. I still check my money – subtly – whenever I’m handed anything larger than a ten. It’s habit. So. Either they had already properly checked everything, and were just running it again for posterity, or they are not someone I would want to see working with that much money.

If you’re a writer and you see this post, stop what you’re doing.

mark-helsing:

WHENEVER YOU SEE THIS POST ON YOUR DASH, STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WRITE ONE SENTENCE FOR YOUR CURRENT PROJECT.

Just one sentence. Stop blogging for one minute and write a single sentence. It could be dialogue, it could be a nice description of scenery, it could be a metaphor, I don’t care. The point is, do it. Then, when you finish, you can get back to blogging.

If this gets viral, you might just have your novel finished by next Tuesday.

bombboi:

Okay so as those of you who use PayPal are probably aware, PayPal has this new credit card type thing that they’re DESPERATE for people to use.

So I was buying something with Paypal and suddenly mid check out i noticed something that said I was signing up for their credit card, like not asking me if I want to buy it, one click away as if I was about to finish a transaction for it. I scrolled down and saw a “cancel transaction” button, pressed it, and suddenly I was back to my checkout screen.

PayPal now has a pop up screen that looks almost identical to their normal checkout screen, which will pop up while you’re mid-transaction and try to trick you into signing up for their credit card. Keep an eye out.

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18 Pictures That Prove Group Projects Are Pure Hell

This made me nearly bite a pencil in half in enraged memory. 

@  THE REST OF MY ANCIENT HISTORY CLASS; Y’ALL ARE WELCOME FOR THAT FUCKIN A THE REST OF YOU DID NO GODDAMN WORK FOR

Oh man, so I know everyone hates group projects with ample good reason, but lemme just tell you something that happened to me in my final year of uni. My dad got real sick and was in and out of hospital numerous times, one time with a suspected heart attack. Which meant my mum ended up caring for my dad, and I wound up caring for my disabled brother, on top of working a part time job and going to university full time.

My grades slid dramatically. I was having to appeal nearly all my results with my professors, and was mercifully granted extensions by all but one of them. (Which, if you’re out there Ronald: stub your toe and step on lego for the rest of eternity.) And then our Revolutionary Cultures prof. assigned a group project, and paired us at random with our classmates. And I knew, I knew I was just going to be a dead weight so I went to my new buddy and told them we should go to the profs office and ask for her to be switched to someone else who wasn’t just going to drag them down. And my new best buddy for the rest of the semester looked at me, looked at our assigned project, and very gently started to cry as she told me “I was just about to say the same thing to you,” and then tearfully told me her mum was dying, and the only reason she hadn’t dropped out to take care of her was because her mum wanted to see her graduate. She’d been given six months and we graduated in five. Provided we finished this class. And we were both out of appeals and leniency time.

It’s probably one of my most vivid memories from the whole college experience, just sitting on the floor of the Renaissance Lit corridor hugging someone who until a moment ago had been a relative stranger known only in passing, and trying to tell them it would be okay, we’d get the paper done. And we did. We scraped a C- together between the two of us and we managed to coast over the passing mark for the class and were allowed to graduate with abysmal but passing marks.

And I still think about her all the time. Especially when I wind up in group projects for work, and it feels like no one else is shouldering any of the burden, I make a note to reach out and say “hey, you don’t seem to be engaging with this much, are you okay?”

And a lot of the time it shocks people. They’re not expecting earnest concern for their lack of interest, and you find out things like their kid is sick, their dog just died, they’ve got health issues going on, or sometimes they just don’t know where to begin with the project and didn’t want to tell you that because they were frightened of being judged or perceived as lazy when they’re just overwhelmed.

And I honestly wish things like this were taught in team building exercises, cause that’s what group projects in school are. They’re supposed to be teaching you how to work well with others and achieve a common goal, while at the same time totally skipping over the fundamentals of human interaction and how to engage socially with others, and it’s fucking bullshit.

I had something snarky to say, but that last comment is too important to distract from.

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A 2500 year old mummy that had some amazing tattoos.

WHAT.

NO FUCKING WAY.

YO HOLD ON. 

IT GETS BETTER.

This mummy, found in the  Altai mountains of Siberia, is actually that of a young woman who died at about the age of twenty-five; she is thought to have been a member of the Pazyryk tribe.

She was buried with six horses and two similarly-tattooed men (the horned griffon that decorates her shoulder also appears on the man buried closest to her, covering most of his right side), possibly escorts. She was also wearing a horse-hair wig, silk, and elaborate boots, which is all a level of ceremony that would have likely only been accorded to a woman of high rank. You didn’t get inked like this unless you were very important, and had worked your way up to that importance. 

…Hence, of course, the references to her by researchers as ‘The Ukok Princess,’ although due to the lack of weapons in her grave they have concluded that the woman was in fact a healer or a storyteller.  

And now I’m all consumed with curiosity: Who was she? What amazing things did she accomplish? Why these symbols, and what did they mean? Who were the two men alongside her?

The most informative article about it can be found here, although I would completely eat up any other information you guys could find. 

@blackbearmagic

Makes me think of the 5,000-year-old Persian woman they found who was 6 feet tall and had a golden prosthetic eye.

In which Howl’s Moving Castle is full of those Relatable Millennial Feels

dwarven-beard-spores:

Sophie

  • Convinced she’s fated to be a failure by pervasive societal messages
  • Depressed and anxious to the point that leaving the house terrifies her
  • Constant excuses to not talk to people
  • Wears one color and it is grey (like her soul)
  • “I’m eighteen but I’m ninety at heart”
  • RAGE
  • Has to get away from her home so she moves into a terrifying moving castle bc it’s free and at this point why not
  • *everything’s on fire* “This is fine”
  • I KNOW EXACTLY HOW THE WORLD WORKS o wait shit fuck
  • Feelings? What are those? I only know cleaning.

Howl

  • Fancy degree that he has to move to another world to use
  • Loves his blood family but just… can’t be around them 
  • “Why don’t you have a real job”
  • Cannot handle responsibility
  • Is responsible for things anyway
  • “Howl we have no money” “I’m going to buy a skull”
  • Embodiment of Do It For The Aesthetic ™
  • also “treat yo self” 
  • Just Can’t anymore and has a meltdown over his hair (aka everything else in his life)
  • “Oh no I care for all these people why”
  • Overcharges rich people and undercharges poor people bc the system sucks
  • Last night on earth? Time to get wasted.
  • “I don’t care” he says caringly, while caring deeply.

Michael

  • Anxious bab
  • What is happening why this plz help
  • Stresses out over his homework only to find out the papers had gotten mixed up and he was doing the wrong thing
  • “I guess this now” :/
  • Better at adulting than the actual adults
  • Loves his gf so much and is so openly happy about it
  • A bit useless in a crisis
  • Tries so hard, gets so far
  • Found family is the best family

Calcifer

  • “I’m being exploited!”
  • Complains about everything
  • Bored. Just. So bored. Give him attention.
  • Used to be literal star but things went wrong and now he’s living in a fireplace
  • Eats everything and anything. 
  • “Guys I have arms be impressed by my arms”
  • Creates a castle for the Aesthetic that also looks like it’s about to fall apart and frightens people.
  • Oops he cares about these assholes now time to ride or die for them 

jemsauceonice:

Dear creators:

Can I just give a big, bold THANK YOU, to all the artists out there who freely contribute to fandom?  I know you have zero obligation to give us all these lovely pieces of your heart, and sometimes–often–you are taken for granted, and expected to churn out new works without any compensation, and without any promise of positive reception.  You put yourself out there, and give us these wonderful homemade gifts, often at risk of receiving negative feedback and criticism, and demands for more or better.  I just want you to know, I love your work, I am grateful for your contributions, and you deserve all my thanks and more.

Writers:  

Thank you for all the beautiful fanfic, poetry, music, and more–it is a privilege to be given the chance to explore all the little facets of our favorite characters, whether it be fluffy and tropey, or surprising and unexpected.  All the research and planning and outlining; drafting, editing, more editing… just… thank you.

Artists:  

Thank you for your gorgeous images; for bringing life to the beauty inside our heads that we would otherwise never get to see; for surprising us with something new that we never expected; for the hours of labor to get it just right, and those extra touches that really make the artwork shine.

Giffers:  

Thank you for giving us the pleasure of reliving our favorite moments in fandom, and for creating beautifully animated works of art.  For the unique color palettes and exciting editing that breathes new life into those moments.

Moodboard Makers:  

Thank you for bringing color and emotion together in beautiful collages that make us see our fandom in ways we never have before; for creating AUs and new stories, and offering new angles to our favorite characters with your beautiful compilations.

Cosplayers:

Thank you for stunning the world with your beautiful costumes and elaborate makeup, and for putting up with all the discomfort, because it is wonderful to see our favorite characters brought to life.

Crafters:  

Thank you for your beautiful and surprising creations that blow us away every time we see them.  What you create is unexpected and rare.  We never see it coming, and it rocks our world.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

Netflix: we’re making an Altered Carbon anime movie

me:

Netflix: it’s from the writer of Cowboy Bebop

me:

Netflix: we’re also making a Pacific Rim anime series with one of the writers of Thor Ragnarok

Me:

Netflix: we’re also making an anime based on the true story of a black samurai

Me:

Netflix: we’re also turning a graphic novel based on Philippine folklore into an anime produced by some of the storyboard people from Legend of Korra, Wonder Woman, and Thor Ragnarok

me: