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    • Aria
      Aria last edited by

      Okay, I actually think the car parades with all of the honking for the kids who missed their graduations are super cute and really love them.

      But why -- FFS, why -- do the ones on my block somehow only ever seem to be scheduled for when I have a raging migraine? This is the third time.

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      https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
      There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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      • Tinuviel
        Tinuviel @Aria last edited by

        @Aria Why do you always schedule your migraines to line up with the car parade?

        He/Him

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        • surreality
          surreality @Testament last edited by

          @Testament

          1. Those are pretty frickin' neato.

          2. This used to happen to me... all the time with shoes, and I am a ridiculous girly shoes ho to the nth. We had a discount store near us that was amazing for shoes. This was great! ...unless we forgot to check there first.

          I dropped $275 on a pair of Docs once that were ❤ and perfect while traveling, because hey, unique and almost sold out and omg last pair is in my size! That place never had Docs... until I got home, and they had a whole fucking display full of that specific line. I felt only the tiniest bit better that they didn't have that exact pair. (And I did pick up another pair I liked for $25, so... I force myself to mentally average that shit out.)

          My disgruntled irk: that place is now gone. WOE.

          Woe because more than once I'd fallen in love with something fancypants that was $150-$300 and they'd have it there for $20-$50, sometimes the very next day. (They got tons of department store overstock, and I have the small feets in the sizes that don't often sell out fast.)

          I miss them. I miss them so hard.

          Oh fucking well.

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          • Rinel
            Rinel Banned last edited by Rinel

            A friend told me about AO3 and I mustered up the courage to register and only now I am learning that they don't technically accept original works.

            I don't know how to write fanfic.

            😞

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            • Tinuviel
              Tinuviel @Rinel last edited by

              @Rinel Write your original work, then change the names to protagonists of various works. Call it a cross-over.

              He/Him

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              • Rinel
                Rinel Banned @Tinuviel last edited by

                @Tinuviel

                Why are you like this

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                • Tinuviel
                  Tinuviel @Rinel last edited by

                  @Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

                  @Tinuviel

                  Why are you like this

                  I teach. The number of times I've read plagiarised works with just the names changed... it'd be nice to have the opposite.

                  He/Him

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                  • Roz
                    Roz Banned @Rinel last edited by

                    @Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

                    A friend told me about AO3 and I mustered up the courage to register and only now I am learning that they don't technically accept original works.

                    I don't know how to write fanfic.

                    😞

                    There’s a whole original works category tho

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                    • Rinel
                      Rinel Banned @Roz last edited by Rinel

                      @Roz

                      Yeah but apparently those are "original works" that have something to do with fandom, like Austen-style Regency romances, and they'll potentially delete stuff that isn't related to a fandom (though they claim nothing is deleted solely for being an original work).

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                      • Roz
                        Roz Banned @Rinel last edited by

                        @Rinel Ahh. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense, the purpose of AO3 has always been as a repository of fanworks. Are you just looking for some sort of archive for your writing?

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                        • Rinel
                          Rinel Banned @Roz last edited by

                          @Roz

                          Yeah :<

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                          • Roz
                            Roz Banned @Rinel last edited by

                            @Rinel Have you checked out Wattpad?

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                            • Rinel
                              Rinel Banned @Roz last edited by

                              @Roz

                              I will now!

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                              • Aria
                                Aria @Rinel last edited by

                                @Rinel You can also charge for stories on Wattpad! Most of the ones I've seen have, depending on length, included 3-6 chapters for free and then charged using their site-based coin system thing for each chapter thereafter. Or if you like it enough, you can pay in bulk to unlock the whole thing.

                                https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
                                There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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                                • Rinel
                                  Rinel Banned last edited by

                                  @Aria

                                  Bold of you to assume anyone would pay for my writing

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                                  • Kestrel
                                    Kestrel Banned last edited by

                                    I run a business and I try to do it as ethically as I can. I'm my only employee currently but perhaps that will change at some point in future.

                                    I'm very over people saying to me, 'So you're a Leftist, eh? But you run a business, huh? Isn't that just a wee bit hypocritical of you? Your politics don't seem to align.'

                                    That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Legit stahp. Why do people not understand the concept of criticising systems while being forced to operate within them or starve.

                                    Also? Miles better than having an employer I'm at the whims of, and working for a company whose principles I don't agree with.

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                                    • Ganymede
                                      Ganymede Admin @Kestrel last edited by Ganymede

                                      @Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

                                      That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Legit stahp. Why do people not understand the concept of criticising systems while being forced to operate within them or starve.

                                      "If you believe in defunding the police, why do you follow the law?"

                                      Yeah, I hear you.

                                      “It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

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                                      • Roz
                                        Roz Banned @Kestrel last edited by

                                        @Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

                                        I run a business and I try to do it as ethically as I can. I'm my only employee currently but perhaps that will change at some point in future.

                                        I'm very over people saying to me, 'So you're a Leftist, eh? But you run a business, huh? Isn't that just a wee bit hypocritical of you? Your politics don't seem to align.'

                                        That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Legit stahp. Why do people not understand the concept of criticising systems while being forced to operate within them or starve.

                                        https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

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                                        • sahin
                                          sahin Banned last edited by sahin

                                          week hasn't fully begun yet and I'm already over it.

                                          fuck this week. fuck cancer. fuck dogs getting old.

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                                          • Sunny
                                            Sunny @sahin last edited by

                                            @badger

                                            Me too.

                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUYvyAY954

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