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inkskinned · 11 months

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you're in the habit of denying yourself things.

if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.

but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?

what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.

and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.

you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.

so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.

it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.

sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.

oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.

#warm up #this isn't good #writeblr #this is complicated by the fact i can't stand up too long or i fuckken pass out and <3 hit my damn head <3 #but i did take a deep breath and buy myself the stupid rice cooker #and!!! a very cheap sushi kit!!! i have been wanting to try making sushi for literally YEARS #the kit was only like 15 dollars!!!! and i haven't purchased it bc?!!??!?!?!?!!?#..... i didn't get the mixer tho that felt. like a lot. like too much.#on my list is a kitchenaid. one day when i get a check and i have paid off my student debt #and medical debt #i will put that first little bit of cash #into a kitchenaid 5qt stand mixer (with attachments)#i really do just go into their refurbished section and stare lustily at each option #but yeah i feel guilty about the rice cooker even tho i know for a fact this damn thing is gonna be a lifesaver #oh shit also fuck i forgot to mention . poached eggs

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isjasz · 6 days

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Damn guys this new anime's opening is fire. U should all check it out i think. The mc is a bit of a maniac but the series seems pretty cool so far /SILLY

#dddaily4sherin #day 328 >:D #smallishbeans #impulsesv #skizzleman #geminitay #grian #goodtimeswithscar #mumbo jumbo #hermitcraft #hermitblr #my art #NOT MAKING AN ANIMATIC I WILL DIE. (and im pretty sure ten thousand other ppl are doing that already LOL)#u guys can just have the cool still frames :3 #i was kinda regretting doing this halfway through ngl but I think the results paid off HAJKEHAJHEHEE #now. if this looks convincing. send it to someone to fool them and make them watch hermitcraft real /SILLY #the inspo is mainly jjk bc i really like how they do lighting but alas i couldn't do much of that here </3

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avenoirn · 9 months

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the pirate king and his right hand man

#opgraphics #one piece #op fanart #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #artists on tumblr #one piece fanart #zolu #kinda lol its intentional anyway so !#.art #figuring out the colors for zoro was hell...... paid off though god bless

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thepunchingbag · 8 months

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right in the motherfucking feels

#playing as astarion has fucking paid off #karlach actually is able to tell him she's proud of him #right in the motherfucking feels #ngl gonna headcanon him hearing this from karlach (who he's romancing) is just... it means a lot to him #he doesn't believe her really and he doubts he did the right thing #he's still afraid #but having someone who is PROUD of him?#someone who sees good qualities in him?#he just... can't believe it #karlach cliffgate #astarion ancunin #astarion x karlach #astarion #karlach #jaheira #astarion playthrough

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habken · 2 months

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deku and yuji doodles from class

#mha manga spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #mha 419 #bnha #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #midoriya izuku #itadori yuji #habs art #doodles #all those ‘take all of yuji’s pain and give it to deku’ finally paid off

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chloesimaginationthings · 2 days

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YOUR HENRY DESIGN IS EVERYTHING TO ME!!! HE'S SO!!!!!!

IM SO GLAD YALL LIKE HENRY’S DESIGN! 🧡

#ask reply #SERIOUSLY IM SO GLAD..#I held off on drawing in full because I wanted to get his vibe just right #FEELS like that paid off with talks comments 😭🧡#SOME of you calling him ‘perfect’ etc FILLS ME WITH JOY #nothing makes me happier with some of yall being into him too #I ALWAYS that that as a compliment #it’s cuffin season 🙏🏾#AGAIN promise I’ll draw him more soon #I definitely feel more encouraged after this!!#more Henry content soon 🧡🧡🧡#will it be with William? with Charlie? Michael?#yall just gotta wait and see 💜🧡

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friendly-neighborhood-furry · 2 months

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for anyone who doesn't have the Return YouTube Dislike Plugin, here's how Watcher Entertainment's "Goodbye Youtube" video is doing right now

yeah... gonna throw out a yikes on that one

i suspect this number will only keep growing in the coming days/weeks, especially the longer and longer we go without any sort of response.

EDIT: its only been three hours and the number has already jumped to 206K dislikes.

#the fucking balls to link to their merch store on the announcement video too #as a long time fan i'm very disappointed #i get that creatives want to and SHOULD be paid fairly for their work.#hell my dad got laid off by MF DISNEY for wanting to be paid a fair wage for the work he was doing #but we're not talking about the billion dollar mega-corporation Disney here #we're talking about a company that by *all respects* should be able to sustain itself off of Youtube Ads & Patreon & Merch & Live Shows-#WITHOUT blowing 100K on flying 6 people out to haunted houses or paying 20 people to make and produce ONE lets play video #in short: Watcher... get your shit together.#watcher entertainment #we are watcher #watcher #shane medej #ryan bergara #steven lim

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crescenttm00n · 4 months

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omori and friends gif animation :D

it was hard but I'm willing to do more animations like this <3

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welivefast-dieyoung · 1 year

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Some of y'all trying to encourage empathy for these unethically wealthy people, who agreed to be bolted in to a metal tube, that was unapproved, unsafe and was controlled by a fucking off brand playstation controller from 2011 just for a cute lil death tourism trip is why we as a society will never be free.

They went to a part of the ocean that is so deep, more people have been to space than that far down. With a man who said safety shouldn't be a concern. Oceangate literally fired someone for saying that the window wasn't going to be able to withstand those depths. They'd lost another vessel before for 5 hours. Like plllsss the self preservation left the room. This whole situation is absurd.

Even this man's own stepson doesn't give a FUCK and you want me to? Nuh uh you have the wrong one I'm afraid😭😭

#scribblesbyc #titanic #the way I was hooting and hollering as soon as I saw what they paid a quarter of a million to get stuck inside😭😭😭#this entire situation is fucking ridiculous so imma laugh #oceangate #yeah i know its a Logitech controller but its still an off brand playstation controller hence why i called it that 😭 dw guys 😂#sometimes a girl likes to add a bit of pizzazz when I'm on a rant pls don't come for me 😭

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zillychu · 5 months

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@phantomrose96's little sock thief!

#patches #my brief two week dive into the warriors fandom finally paid off #no don't ask me i still dont know anything about warriors but i watched a lot of animations and drew cats like i was possessed #chrissy i want to kiss her little head SO BAD #zilly art

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simpin-on-noodles · 10 days

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What do you mean this DIDNT happen! Nah this canonically happened-

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shortmexicangirl · 2 years

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marichat stans rn after 7 years of clowning

#never thought i’d see the day #the long game PAID OFF #ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug #marichat #ml season 5 #ml exaltation #ml elation #which one is it...?#my memes

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peri-helia · 17 days

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Stealing that helicopter got Tommy back in with the 118 and the way it's become a family, an award, a medal AND a boyfriend talk about a job WELL DONE

#fake mouth static never paid off so well #911 #tommy kinard #bucktommy #kinley #tevan #911 abc #lou ferrigno jr

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the-magnusinstitute · 25 days

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All staff,

In recent months there’s been an uptick in absences from work, and while we in the PR department appreciate that sometimes our Institute can be a difficult place to be employed, Elias Bouchard has asked us to lay out the following guidelines:

ACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- illness (physical or otherwise)

- travel difficulty

- medical appointments

- family emergencies

- religious holidays

UNACCEPTABLE EXCUSES FOR MISSING WORK

- ‘a freaky friday type of situation’

- ‘gender crisis’

- ‘trapped in a spiral maze’

- ‘met my clone on the tube’

- ‘jon from the archives’