Words and Things

paper-mario-wiki:

my mom is playin fuckn animal crossing in real life

she got this painting for $75 in an old case at an antique market shes been going to for years, and she thought it looks really beautiful, so she sent an email to a local art center to have it appraised

and now she has an art conservator in her emails making a plan to have her come bring it in to be appraised as a genuine Hokusai wood block print from over a hundred of years ago

thats so fucked up to me. my mom went fuckin shopping at Crazy Redd’s

krismaggot:

astronomical-bagel:

alpine-hoplite:

toskarin:

reddit, how do I make my firstborn stop playing with the fans, the ornaments, and the makeup when he is supposed to be a warlord. I fear I shall raise a poet.

Absolutely based quote my dude

smooth-jazz-radio:

@green-with-envy-phandom-event lineart by @wynterfay

Palette used below

daftoaster:

Staring

breakfastatmiles:

Another @green-with-envy-phandom-event entry 🩵

Obsessed with all the line art by @hithisiszooz

Alt. Version under the cut

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yudamori-art:

@moochypoochie
We spent six hours repainting the Creation of Adam but it’s Technus last night. Six fucking hours. My first art of 2025 and it’s THIS.

Worth it.

bayesic-bitch:

Currently doing an Insomniac’s Gambit. For those of you who don’t know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

The Insomniac’s Corollary: After the miserable and abject failure of an Insomniac’s Gambit, you will learn nothing from the experience and go on to repeat it many times in your life despite all evidence against it.

midnightmaelstrom:

I asked my girlfriend what she considers a Round pokemon to be and she sent me this.

headspace-hotel:

kirtlandswarbler:

thefairyquill:

girlmostlikely:

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via @bobafett

Calling scam victims stupid, much like cult members, serves to do nothing but make you feel superior, blame victims for the wrongs done to them, and in turn actually makes you more vulnerable to scams (and cults, and so on). “Look at these people! Morons! I could never be one of them because I am smart, unlike these people who fell for them because they are stupid. It is not about vulnerability and luck, both of which are factors that could affect me, it is all simply a matter of in-born intelligence, which is why I, a better human, don’t have to worry about falling for them.”

And boom, you have already let your guard down - you would never fall for a scam (or cult, etc.) so you can safely click on that link or read that pamphlet because if it was a scam you’d have identified it as such immediately, because you are smart. You don’t need to stop and question. You’re too smart. And, really, if they didn’t want to get scammed they shouldn’t have gone out dressed like that.

We’re all potential victims. Every single one of us has been at one point or another been at vulnerable to a scammer, or a pickpocket, or any other number of external force trying to harm you for their own benefit. Blaming the victims feels good but it doesn’t help shit in the long run.

Being Cautious makes life really hard…everybody wants me to scan a QR code for some shit or click a link or sign in using an account or put information into a google form etc etc etc just for basic stuff and being like “I don’t trust it” makes you seem weird

Sure it makes you seem weird, but there’s power in owning being a paranoid little freak and denying everyone everything because you’re bonkers.

Not only does this filter out some of the more common scams, it also gets you out of things that aren’t scams that you don’t much care for, too!

That said, the way they’re getting bots to impersonate your contacts and spoof their numbers/accounts these days is vile, you can’t be too careful with anyone asking for money or personal information really. It’s very easy to fall for your “best friend” asking you for some emergency money until payday, for example.