anyways. centrelink has fucked me over irt my payments by marking me as a student while simultaneously making me ineligible for either student or job seeking financial support, preventing me for reapplying or correcting any information. i need to contact them on monday to have this fixed.

im loathe to share my personal circumstances in detail here but its also important to me people know any money they choose to send to me isnt being wasted. its being used to buy food, medication, hygiene necessities, gas, phone credit to make calls, and may potentially be used to buy new work appropriate clothes so i can attend interviews.

An explanation for why I’m auctioning off a copy of my book that I sat on

It ended up selling……for $3850……

today's funky frog of the day: sudell's frog (Neobatrachus sudellae)!!!! their other names include the painted burrowing frog, trilling frog, and desert trilling frog. these friends live in southeastern australia and are sometimes kept as pets!

I am working overtime to provide for my partner, my mother, myself, and even potentially for my father as well.

Winter is really tough on my body with sickle cell and arthritis; my partner needs surgery for PCOS and will need money to pay bills during their recovery, my mom got a call two days ago that my grandmother in Georgia is trying to manage internal bleeding from a ruptured ulcer; my dad will need extra help in the near future to set up better care for my grandfather in Alabama.

I was just digging through “Xanathar’s Guide to Everything” for stuff to steal inspiration and I found the table of Rivals—not the real enemies of the campaign or assassins hired by the Big Bad, but an NPC that opposes the party for reasons of their own, like that shitty Lake-Town mayor in The Hobbit or Walter Peck in Ghostbusters. Roll d50:

Rival adventurer or party out for the same goal for different reasons

Rival adventurer or party that wants to steal something currently owned by the party

Politician that genuinely thinks adventuring parties in general cause more problems than they solve

Politician that genuinely thinks most adventurers are fine but the players’ party specifically causes more problems than they solve

Politician that claims the party causes more problems than they solve to try and hide the fact that they caused the problems in question themselves

Tax collector that thinks the party is evading

Wealthy idiot with no day job that believes some treasure held by the party is legally theirs by ancestral rights

Wealthy idiot with no day job trying to manipulate the party into a particular action to win a bet

Tradesperson whose livelihood was ruined by the party’s actions (e.g. a farmer whose fields were trampled, a fruit-cart owner whose cart was knocked over, an undertaker whose customers were revived by the party’s necromancer, etc.)

Wealthy landowner whose property was ruined by the party’s actions

Merchant or other public figure that thinks the party’s actions negatively affect “the economy”

Cleric that believes the party has offended their deity

Wizard that blames the party for some recent disruption to the magical or natural world

Sorcerer that believes the source of their magical blood was wronged by an ancestor of a party member

Warlock ordered by their fiendish patron to tempt a particular member of the party to evil

Barbarian upset over some trivial slight

Rogue that is just an asshole

Bard that says the party’s Bard stole a song/routine from them

Fighter that wants to prove they’re better than the party’s fighter

Ranger convinced the party magic-user cursed them

Druid concerned about the path of destruction left by the party, in particular to monster-based ecosystems

Assassin (any class) that was assigned the party not as a real contract but as a challenge to earn their guild membership

Adventurer (any class) whose sworn enemy was previously defeated by the party, out for revenge for denying their victory

Jilted lover of a party member

Jilted lover of the current lover of a party member

Jilted lover of a known enemy of the party that believes by capturing, disrupting, or killing the party they will win favor

Person that was arranged to be married to one party member that has no real interest in them but can’t get their inheritance until they do so

Adventurer that was kicked out of the party at some point in the past (if the party was only recently formed, they were kicked out of one of the members’ previous parties)

NPC that formed an unrequited para-social relationship with the party and wants them to stop adventuring and come hang out

Childhood rival or member of a rival clan from a particular party member

Person from a party member’s village/clan that wants them to come home to fulfill their destiny

Former employer or mentor of a party member that claims they left without completing their contract

Estranged sibling or parent of party member

Sibling or ally of defeated enemy

Ghost (or other undead version) of defeated enemy, out to kill the one that killed them

Ghost (or other undead version) of defeated enemy, out NOT to kill the one that killed them but to make their life as long and miserable as possible

Ghost (or other undead version) of a party member’s ancestor’s defeated enemy

Inventor of some spell or equipment being used by the party that thinks they aren’t worthy of it (or the ghost or an heir if the spell/equipment is too ancient)

Member of the same college or clan or whatever as one party member that believes they are unworthy of membership

Person that claims a member of the party is an imposter and they are the real one

Person that believes an item held by the party secretly contains the soul of their master or loved one

Time traveler trying to cause or prevent a certain chain of events (if this is too sci-fi for your setting call it “a magic-user trying to manipulate destiny” or “a seer that divined future events, out to re-weave the tapestry of fate” or something)

High-level adventurer of an opposing alignment that just wants to test out a new spell or piece of equipment

Beholder that was convinced by someone else that the party is out to get them, presumably as a distraction to get it out of the way while robbing its lair

Extraplanar, Fae, or other similarly otherworldly creature that has decided to test the world by placing trials before the party

Extraplanar, Fae, or other similarly otherworldly creature that thinks the party is fun to annoy

Conspiracy theorist that believes the party is in league with their enemies

Honest journalist that believes the party is up to something

Scandalmongering journalist out to make the party look bad

my cat and guinea pig are both sick.

my cat, freddy, has rapidly lost weight and he's been much less energetic lately as well, i don't know what's wrong with him but i really can't take any chances.

my guinea pig, munchie, has his head tilted constantly and has been much less social. im pretty sure he either has an ear infection or pneumonia but i can't be sure.

i literally love them both to death and me and my familys income is way too low to afford the upcoming vet bills with all the other bills we already have to pay

my goal is $300.

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this is freddy he means the world to me

this is munchie he also means the world to me but i only have one picture of him cause he doesn't stay still

reblog, share to other places, tag who you can, anything helps even if you can't donate. thanks

All shootings in the US are tragic, especially if religion is a factor, but I feel like people aren’t aware of what Sikhism is. Four victims of the Fedex shooting were Sikhs.

Sikhs are often mistaken for Muslims, but they could not be more different. Islam is a Western Abrahamic tradition along with Judaism and Christianity.

The spiritual center of the Sikh religion is a kitchen. It serves between 50,000 and 100,000 people a day for free. The only catch is that everyone must eat together: Men, women, Hindus, Muslims, rich, poor, everyone regardless of caste must eat together like equals. Gays and women are not only allowed but welcome. And that is not a new thing in Sikhism. They do not even ask people to become Sikhs.

In 1922, there was a train full of prisoners that was scheduled to pass through Hasan-Abdaal, Pakistan. When the British government heard the Sikhs’ plan to feed the prisoners, they decided not to stop the train at that station. The Sikhs were determined to feed the passengers and many of them sat cross-legged on the tracks. The train ran over 11 Sikhs before it stopped. The Sikhs fed the prisoners.