not only am i pro self diagnosis, i am anti-getting an official diagnosis. only get that shit formalized if youre getting accomidations and/or controlled substances out of it, otherwise the legal system and the psychiatric system do NOT need to know that shit

Exploring Ventus

The city of Ventus. We pictured it as the vacation destination for Tevinter, when the oppression of the big city becomes overwhelming. You'd find it under Qunari occupation. By Matt Rhodes

its important to have games on your wishlist that keep going on sale every couple of months and you still never buy it

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.

For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:

(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)

But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:

"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."

Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."

Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:

1. That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!
2. Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?
3. So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.

Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.

While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.

Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:

This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.

Trying to buy a house will jokerfy you

Turns out it's not even the ridiculous prices, the interest rates, or the barrier for entry that is needing tens of thousands for a down payment and closing costs. It's also that someone will always have more money to bid than you, and even if you muscle up and decide to go for a fixer upper that's ~75k less than you intended to spend, some landlord or home flipper can walk up with a cash offer and snatch even the shitty houses away from you

I need to impress upon anyone reading this that it isn't just not getting a house. It's that making an offer on a house is generally a no-takesbacksies ordeal, which means every time you even attempt to buy one you have to put yourself in the headspace of committing to a major life upheaval and all the work that's going to go with it. You need to be mentally prepared to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt as well as any additional costs for maintenance and fixes. You've gotta be ready for all that just to ask nicely for them to consider letting you buy the house, then if you don't get it you have to snap back to normal and start the whole process over again.

I'm going to be honest chat the psychological toll this process has been taking on me is something no one prepared me for. It is a miserable affair.

bastard sounds great in an irish accent. if an irish person calls you a 'daft bastard' it just feels right

the welsh have the monopoly on things ending in hell. fuckin hell and bloody hell hit different in a welsh accent. its like music to my ears

the scots have piss and shite for sure. "its pishin it doon out there" "this is a load of shite" absolute poetry

if i may speak for the english i think we do penis related words very well. dickhead, knobhead, twat, etc.

and for all the shit we give them, you gotta admit that no one can deliver a 'goddamn' quite like an american. theres a certain weight to it that you just cant achieve in other accents. when an american says goddamn you know shit just got real

Sam, please put a Jacob Wysocki travel show in the Dropout 2026 lineup.

The notes get 0 stars in reading comprehension

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me in the spring grass