The Blue Seer

But times are tough, so also I want yall to please take care of yourselves first. Keep going, you're worth it. I said the moment I started taking commissions, and then with patreon, that I don't want to take money people need to live. I'd go get more service work before that. You're worth what you earn and more, so you come first

First Rite of Lust~

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“But I’m worried my betrothed will get mad if I ask for one!” If even a hypothetical discussion of how the two of you would handle splitting up makes your would-be spouse get angry with you, imagine how maturely they’d handle an actual divorce! Don’t marry that person. Don’t have children with that person. Don’t share finances with that person. Don’t even adopt a pet with that person.

“But bringing all that paperwork into a relationship isn’t sexy or romantic!” Hard disagree + marriage isn’t always gonna be sexy or romantic either + you’re already bringing paperwork into your relationship by getting a marriage license. You can stay together and keep sexily filing your very romantic income taxes single.

“But prenups are only for rich people! I can’t afford that!” The median U.S. wedding cost in 2024 was $13,195. Approach a normal, run-of-the-mill family law attorney in your area at least sort of in agreement already about how you’d handle splitting up assets/debts/children/spousal support/etc and you should be able to get a prenup for under $1000. Either factor it into your wedding budget or start saving up for a divorce, because hooooooo boy, you don’t even wanna know how much pricier that is! (Fun fact: Even before everyone hires their own lawyers and things get messy and drawn out, just *filing* for divorce costs a few hundred dollars in court fees!)

A good friend of mine, had a sister who got married and unfortunately passed about 5 years later. Her husband unfortunately inherited most, if not all, the jewelry she wore. Great something Grandma had outlined in her will, that the jewelry was property of the Family and not One Person.

Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)

Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household's experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)

Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)

Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don't even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I'm very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)

Privacy International's guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)

You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don't know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I'm bad at following directions (and it's kind of complicated if you've been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider's configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I'm not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.

Also!! if you've never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here's is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.

I also use Blokada on my phone when I'm not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).

burn it 🔥

i genuinely encourage non black people to engage with this, who might be worried they can't because of the word "nigga" because they feel like it's overstepping. the only way it would be overstepping is saying it to me when ur not black, but please don't be afraid to engage with black art.