do you all see my vision here

Sorry op

He's the biggest Mythomaniac in the world, he might win a competition against Judas.

only thing that comes to mind today.

Whoever wrote that Vanguard message did so with shaking hands, between sobs & swigs of bourbon straight from the bottle.

They're right, though. Now is exactly the wrong time to make dramatic investment moves. Everybody's shit is doing the same thing; unless you need your retirement money in the next twelve months or whatever, you're better off leaving it alone and waiting for the eventual correction. Like, this is not a comforting lie, this is good advice!

Adultier adult here, having had to talk to my retirement management people earlier this week. (I hate it. It's useless. But I told them to divest me from anything that holds TSLA in the portfolio/fund because Elon is an asshole and the company's financials are shit.)

This week has caused about three percent (3%) of my 401(k) to vanish.

And that's okay.

I can't touch that money without a tax penalty (or emergency) until the 2030's. It's not paying for cat food or keeping my electricity on. This is a privilege not everyone enjoys (yet).

If you're in a position to have any kind of investments, don't do anything rash and/or bananas with important chunks of money. (My financial guy gave me this advice, too. I specifically asked about cashing out the whole fucking thing.)

TUMBLR'S AGING USERBASE

Have I ever mentioned that I'm pretty sure I'm one of the major reasons you started being overwhelmed quickly when outnumbered I an Assassin's Creed game and can no longer sweep hordes of enemies unless you are playing RPG style?

Because I am uh. Pretty sure that's my fault. And probably has a lot to do with the Ubisoft exec that watched me play Revelations.

Be me

In college for illustration with a focus in concept art and a backup plan of medical anatomy textbook illustrations.

Concept art prof is friends of friends of friends with a bunch of studio execs.

Roommate is a furry deep in the fandom with a bunch of friends of friends of friends that are also studio execs.

Scouted by multiple studios and offered cushy jobs and relocations if I finish college (I didn't whomp whomp)

One of these people is a Ubisoft exec who comes to visit me at my house as I show him my portfolio. Gush about how much I like the Assassin's Creed series because this is well before my Ubisoft divorce.

Roommate has Revelations so he watches me play it on her Playstation. I start a new game and immediately make a show of pissing off every guard I can so they surround me and then I pick them off one by one.

By the end there are so many guard corpses surrounding me that the game is struggling to keep up with the framerates.

Ubisoft exec gets very quiet and says in a low voice "you were never supposed to be able to do that".

Ask for an explanation. He says simply that it's a stealth game and getting caught and surrounded like that is supposed to be an impossible situation for the player and more or less mean they have to run or game over.

Exec makes a series of texts on his phone.

The next game released (Unity because by now 3 is out and Black Flag is either out or in development) has made it significantly more annoying when you're outnumbered.

I'm not saying I'm 100% the reason but like. Seems sus.

Didn't finish college so I didn't get the job but I was supposed to be moving to Canada to work for Ubisoft immediately after graduating due to the offer of a cushy job from said exec so every time I'm playing a stealth mission in an AC game and it is significantly more annoying than it used to be when I fuck up and alert the entire base I remember that I very likely did this to myself 😩

thinking about that one moment when I was about to get top surgery

something has gone perhaps slightly wrong in my "frog" pond and the whole basin is now a blizzard of live Spirostomum, giant free living single cell protists. the snails are putting on a brave face but understandably do not enjoy being touched by one million things every second

[ID: short video of a dark brown aquatic snail moving along a twig underwater. The water is absolutely filled with thousands of moving white lines, which are Spirostomum single cell protists. Many are touching the snail. "Alpina Blue" from Yoshi's Story is playing. End ID.]

Seriously though, this is so incredible!!! It's always a treat for me to find out there are single-celled organisms this big that I didn't know about!

Seriously. ONE. CELL. I feel like that's not hitting home for people in the comments.

THESE ARE NOT WORMS. THESE ARE NOT ANIMALS AT ALL. THEY ARE *CELLS.*

cell heaven is snail hell is a very efficient system

Texas’ HB 3399 bill will kill people if it passes. It will make hormone therapy illegal. For all ages. Period. This was never about women’s sports. It was never about bathrooms. It was never about “protecting the children”. They want us dead. If you’re a fellow trans person and you live in Texas, I strongly urge you to be ready to move somewhere safer.

Not just hormone therapy, but also

This potentially includes

They really, really do want trans people - or anyone who potentially could be trans - dead.

(Tumblr won't let me link the source, but the bill is on Texas Legislature Online .gov)

I forgot to add this: you can use Resistbot to find and write to your state or federal officials, so this is a great tool if you don't know how to go about doing that. If you're a Texas resident, a quick message to your state reps asking them to vote against HB 3399 would be very helpful right now.

Remember to be polite, even if you don't like your official. I usually leave a nice note thanking their staff, too.

They also clearly want any person who can bear a child, to bear a child. This is staunchly anti-birth-control. It's horrifying.

Texas is still one of the only places in the United States that offers comprehensive care to intersex individuals via Kind clinics. Many intersex people rely on hormone therapy for essential body function. My joints and mental health fall apart when I'm not on the right hormone, and this list would ban me from my hormones even though I'm not trans.

Please always remember us. Please understand that there's definitely loopholes to continue masectomies on teenage boys. There's definitely loopholes to continue trimming the clitorises of infants. There's definitely loopholes to continue mutilating us while denying anyone consensual procedures that aren't mutilation. Please always remember us. Please include us.

I'd say this is an anomaly but seriously roos are sometimes nosy and just need to be in your business, OR they will fight you if you look at them funny. I love them, they're great, but they make little sense.

The fucking horror I felt in my soul of the 3 seconds it took to try to and work out what the fuck this animal was

“From whence you came” is a classic place to send back a foul beast

the internet these days is insane because every 3-5 days you see an honest to god neuron-rewiring video produced by some rando with too much free time, and it's so fucking good that you know would have been its own entire meme for MONTHS in 2005. but we're so saturated with phds in breaking bad editing so you can't go into work like "hey did you see The Bear No Rush video game?" because nobody has any idea what you're talking about. back in my day we watched 1 blurry video of a guy doing the Numa Numa Dance and it sustained all of society for an entire year.

(the.trauma.educator on ig)

*gentle reminder that body gets tired also after doing mentally draining work/job (which includes feeling stressed too, not just studying or working 9-5 in front of a computer -which holds responsabilities, anyway)

yes they are toxic but it is because of the love. without the love it would be a lot healthier actually.

in honor of twenty thousand notes… I have been, as the youth say, called out

The Apothecary Diaries // Kusuriya no Hitorigoto OP 1

i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

@holyknuckled you get it. lterally what are we here on earth for if not to occasionally impose gastropods upon unsuspecting customers. this story is delightful

people have got to learn the difference between I didnt like it and It was bad

+ a secret, third thing

The third fucking dimensions shit my god.