Feb. 3rd, 2018

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Oh man can you IMAGINE??

Feemor would rip the council a new one, fuck the censure he’ll be getting for it, some things have to be said. Just like how Qui-Gon denounced him after that whole mess with Xanatos and even though it was a dick move to do to Feemor, it didn’t mean that Feemor didn’t still care about Qui-Gon and understand. It was necessary for him to forgive Qui-Gon, just like it’s now necessary for him to slam into a council session to ask them all if they’re all very high and can he have whatever they’re on??

Because WOW whatever they’re on must be some potent stuff if it’s making them act like such colossal asshats and skirt their responsibilities while still managing to make it sound like they’re just “respecting Qui-Gon’s wishes” instead of just being so incredibly selfish and irresponsible and petty and - 

At that point in his raging, he was escorted out of the council chambers and into the detention rooms. He hadn’t been in one of those rooms since he was - oh, holy hell, he was Anakin’s age the last time he was put into one of these rooms, because he was RAISED IN THE CRECHE, LIKE A NORMAL INITIATE. And his poor padawan-brother was given a highly traumatised, abnormally strong child who wasn’t raised in the creche at all because the council twisted the rules to allow him to become a padawan AT NINE YEARS OLD. After not even being RAISED among them and not knowing any of their social mores or having any of the necessary classes down or - 

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Xylaria polymorpha, commonly known as Dead Man’s Fingers is a type of saprobic fungus that can be found growing in wooded areas. In the 1800s, a large cemetery was closed down due to church-goers believing the fungus was a pair of human hands, attempting to clamber out of a grave.

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Okay, now I can’t help but imagine Feemor cooing over them…
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A hatching Devil’s Finger Fungus.

Image credit: Don Hoare

Feemor: Isn’t it lovely?

Everyone Else: *backs away slowly…*

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There is a plant called the Hemlock Water-Dropwort that leaves it’s victims with a smile on their face at the time of death…

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Guzel Bakeeva

The only pearl necklace I’ll ever accept.
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Soulmate AU

In which you can’t smile to anyone who isn’t your soulmate. But then, your OTP is just lying in the couch together watching some movie and one of them cracks a joke. Then they’re both laughing and when they finally stop they just sit there looking into each other’s eyes thinking “oh…”.

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bitchesgetriches:

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Alright I just wanna share a little something that happened to me today with ya’ll. As some of you may know, my boyfriend and I are moving in the beginning of February. We actually just signed our lease today, so it was time for me to contact our utilities company as well as our internet company to get them switched over to our new apartment.

Utilities went off without a hitch. So I call my internet company, I don’t wanna be a snitch so let’s just use a made up company name. Like, how about… Verizon? So I call Verizon and let them know that I will be move. I’ve been with them for about three years now, and previously I was on a contract with them, but this past year I have been on a month to month.

So I start speaking with a representative, and he tells me that the speed that my current plan has (75 mbps) is no longer supported by Verizon. They now only have 100 mbps and up. He tells me that I’ll have to upgrade to a different plan and that I’ll have to pay a termination fee to cancel my contract with them.

I’m like um…??? I don’t have a contract with you? I used to have a contract with you, but then I called to renew it and you put me on a month to month. And the guy is like “Well maybe that’s what he told you he did, but he actually put you on a contract”. And I’m like: “But I didn’t sign any contracts, the first contract I did with you guys I signed” and he’s like: “A verbal confirmation over the phone is enough”. And that’s the first point where I’m like, either this guy is new and has no idea what he’s talking about, or something is not right.

So I tell him that I’d be happy to stay on the contract with them. And he says that I can’t, because the place we’re moving only has the 75 mbps and up. And I’m like, “Well how is that my fault? You’re the ones who aren’t supporting my contract anymore. Can’t you just continue my contract and just update the speed?” And he’s trying to tell me that there is no way he can possibly do that. 

And so I ask him for the price breakdown and it’s the monthly price, plus the $90 termination fee, plus a $99 installation fee when the tech comes to set up the router in my apartment. And I’m like “I’m not paying an extra $189 to you guys for essentially the same service because you’re the ones screwing me out of my contract.” And he goes to talk to a supervisor, and they say the same thing. And he talks to another supervisor, and they say they can’t help. So finally I ask to speak to a supervisor.

I explain the whole story to the guy. And he’s like “The system over here won’t let me override this in your contract”. Listen up. Any time a representative that you’re talking to says this to you, ask to speak to someone else. This is complete and utter bullshit. I worked in IT for four years, and let me tell you, if there wasn’t a way to override every single system we used, then we would’ve been in serious shit. Companies will try to tell you that the system won’t let them override what you need done, and the truth is one of two things:

1. The person you’re speaking with doesn’t have the authority to override the system. In other words, they are useless to you. This is not their fault, politely ask them to transfer you to someone who can help.

2. They are deliberately lying to try and ply you for more money. In other words, they are useless to you. This is not their fault, this is what they’re trained to do. Politely ask them to transfer you to someone who can help.

So I was transferred to a different department. And I explained the whole story to yet another representative. And he immediately said: “If you move to a place where the services in your contract don’t exist, then your contract is null and void”. This, my friends, is what I vaguely remembered reading in my original contract with Verizon. So I said: “So you won’t charge me the termination fee?” And he said “Of course not, we’re not allowed to”.

And then he went on to waive half of the installation fee for me for all of my troubles. I was on the phone with this stupid fucking company for an entire hour, but in the end I saved $130. $130! After finally finding the right person to speak to.

TLDR: So please, if someone corporate tells you that their “system” won’t allow them to change your account, don’t take no for an answer. Keep pushing until you get what you need!

Reblog to save $130.

Calling call centers is nightmarish and WE HATES IT, PRECIOUS.
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Throwing this out to @hamelin-born who did most of the heavy lifting on this one.

For my part, I’m really of two minds about this. It would be a very interesting scene, no doubt, and cement Obi-Wan’s place in Middle-earth (plus Elrond would be happy with his one-time caretaker having returned), but… I’m not actually convinced Maglor is still alive and part of me doesn’t want him to be because imagine spending several ages alone with all that grief. He might have occasionally bumped into people, but we know that he canonically never met anyone who knew him again. Also, and this is unrelated, it would be a terrifyingly awkward meeting - they are blood kin, but Maglor never met his son, and Obi-Wan has absolutely no idea what to do with a parent.
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rendigo:

topographygo:

neshasha:

There was a bunny at Lowes today eating all the flowers

haha u go lil bun
fight the power

live the dream, small friend

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2615 Ridge Road, Oro-Medonte [Simcoe County, Ontario]

@elenothar

That first picture? Make one of those buildings a greenhouse, use less modern architecture - what does that maybe remind you of?
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miriammaisels:

The Fluffiest Place on Earth: Miyagi Zao Fox Village (Shiroishi, Japan) ~ キツネ村
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inconveniencedneutrons:

The most dramatic, epic, throw down fight between Tobirama and Izuna:

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Izuna: Your new Jutsu is absolutely boring.

Tobirama: Are those wrinkles I see around your eyes?

Izuna screeches, his hand coming up to clutch his heart: Yes well, your fluff is just a filthy rag!

Tobirama‘s breath hitches and then his eyes narrow with bloodlust: Your hair is just extensions.

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Sometimes Tobirama still thinks about that battle and then he has to go soothingly stroke his fur.

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thestoriesbeyond:

“… I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night …”

- by Mary Elizabeth Frye
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Ninfa Gardens by  Monica Iorio
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Yes! Turtle buddies! A new enthusiastic convert to the ways of Youth!
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gokuma:

APPLAUSE
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bluethisisforyou:

the opposite of ‘we die like men’ is ‘we survive like women’

@lectorel
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Feb. 3rd, 2018 08:21 pm
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*pats back*  <3
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Please tell me it’s a ballad of star-crossed lovers! Percival would be so grumpy about it, and for once Newt agrees with him because they cut out all of his loyal animal friends except for the pretty ones and that’s just Not On.
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Throwing this out to @hamelin-born who did most of the heavy lifting on this one.

For my part, I’m really of two minds about this. It would be a very interesting scene, no doubt, and cement Obi-Wan’s place in Middle-earth (plus Elrond would be happy with his one-time caretaker having returned), but… I’m not actually convinced Maglor is still alive and part of me doesn’t want him to be because imagine spending several ages alone with all that grief. He might have occasionally bumped into people, but we know that he canonically never met anyone who knew him again. Also, and this is unrelated, it would be a terrifyingly awkward meeting - they are blood kin, but Maglor never met his son, and Obi-Wan has absolutely no idea what to do with a parent.
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strangerthingsedits:

Nancy Wheeler + Weapons
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miserysplendor:

“Huttslayer,” Rinnrivin breathed in genuine reverence. “This is what we call you among ourselves, and it is a far greater title than either senator or princess could ever be. The Niktos know you for the warrior you are, Huttslayer, and you will always have friends among us.”

(Bloodline by Claudia Gray)

Star Wars movies + novels

@deadcatwithaflamethrower @lectorel @norcumi @dogmatix
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lyneraskalbi:

Andrew Hussie wrote Homestuck.

Rachel Rose Mitchell wrote music for the Homestuck Album coloUrs and Mayhem: Universe A (Distance of 1).

Griffin McElroy used a piece of Rachel Rose Mitchell’s work in The Adventure Zone (Distance of 2)

Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared on MBMBAM (Distance of 3)

Andrew Hussie is only three steps removed from Broadway.

correction: Broadway is only three steps from Andrew Hussie

Cowards

Andrew Hussie wrote Homestuck

Much of the music for homestuck was composed by Toby Fox

Toby Fox made Undertale

MatPat gave a copy of Undertale to the Pope.

Hussie is only three steps removed from GOD HIMSELF

Broadway is six steps from god

May I add: Jesus Christ, Superstar
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