heheheh >:D !! one day ill finish and post one of these at a normal time, but until then, enjoy another dumb joke for @justawannabearchaeologist s tfp wheeljack in tfa au!! idk i just have brain rot over these guys, i hope these help show that!
og audio below!
this is so nostalgic. tumblr rolls out something terrible. everyone complains. it breaks several people's dashboards. for some reason it only rolls out to a few people at a time with seemingly no warning. the community collectively and immediately searches for a browser extension that undoes the change. i know we've all gotten burnt out on all social media sucking but this is genuinely The tumblr experience. everyone who hasn't gotten it already gets an achievement. welcome to the club
*cocks gun* Put the dashboard back. This looks atrocious and I hate it.
(these are all real words btw)
Anonymous asked:
Hey! I'm not sure how different the laws are in Germany vs the US, but you really, REALLY should look into your rights as a renter. Typically in the US, a repair so severe that it essentially renders you homeless is something that legally MUST be fixed by the landlord, or in the case where the landlord is refusing, you would hire the repairman yourself and (if it comes down to it) take your landlord to court over the bill, since it IS their responsibility to maintain the property. Like I said, I'm not sure if it's different in Germany.... but that feels like something that should be a thing, to some degree. I'm glad you're safe for the time being, at least.
It's pretty much similar over here - I looked into it a couple of times for various things my landlord has failed to do throughout the years.
He walks in a grey zone with how much time he can take with approaching repairs. As far as I can tell, there isn't a legally binding time frame for certain things, but especially with what I had to deal with he should've fixed that within 4 days. And not stay on holiday for a whole damn week.
I could've called a repairman myself, yes, but I was genuinely too shocked for a bit that my landlord really just left me to deal with it all on my own. I think I would've considered calling a guy tomorrow though, if I hadn't managed to fix it tonight. ("Fun" fact, I did the repairs past-midnight my time. I am tired.)
I think that man genuinely thinks he's above the law on so many levels because his main job is also being a cop. No, I am not joking. I somehow got myself the worst dual-type guy to pay rent to.
I might consider paying a bit less rent this month, because I am legally allowed to do so. Though I will double-check that before I do, just to be safe.
In reference to my last posts - I'll still do the art livestreams, mainly to do sketches for a bit of pocket change for the upcoming move.
If you can't donate for a sketch, please don't feel bad. Your financial safety comes first. And just being there and hanging out is genuinely enough and means a lot to me.
I don't know yet what kind of theme I should go for for those streams - feel free to drop me some suggestions in the replies or my askbox.
So... it has come to the situation I've been dreading - namely a faulty thing in my bathroom finally breaking beyond repair. I've been telling my landlord about it for years, but he did not do anything about it. So now I am once again in a situation where I have to stay at my stepdad's place for several days, if not weeks. A place that is both a physical and mental hazard to me.
I am so fucking tired of this.
I will use the time I'll spend at my stepdad's place to find a small apartment ASAP. Close to where I already live, but ya know.
I will have to talk to several people tomorrow - to cancel appointments that I can now not appear at, including therapy, and then also the folks at the jobcenter because of my living situation.
I think considering this and other issues with my apartment they'll be fine with me moving to a new place this fast.
So yeah, I'll be stressed for a while and I don't know how I will cope, but I will do my damnedest. Maybe I'll even livestream some art if I can't sleep. We'll see how it goes.
Update: Call me stubborn and skilled because I fixed this damn machine (for the time being) all on my own. I believe it's called a "pumping system" in english, and no, I am not qualified to fix it. But I at least had to try. That thing has been my responsibility for as long as I lived here, it has never been checked by a professional or my landlord - so fuck it. I guess the repair guy had to be me again. No staying at my stepdad's place, thankfully. But I will focus now even more than before on finding a place to live because now it is clear to me that no matter what happens to my apartment (or myself), my landlord does not give a single fuck and rather stays on holidays instead of doing his fucking job, or at least helping me in some way.
So... it has come to the situation I've been dreading - namely a faulty thing in my bathroom finally breaking beyond repair. I've been telling my landlord about it for years, but he did not do anything about it. So now I am once again in a situation where I have to stay at my stepdad's place for several days, if not weeks. A place that is both a physical and mental hazard to me.
I am so fucking tired of this.
I will use the time I'll spend at my stepdad's place to find a small apartment ASAP. Close to where I already live, but ya know.
I will have to talk to several people tomorrow - to cancel appointments that I can now not appear at, including therapy, and then also the folks at the jobcenter because of my living situation.
I think considering this and other issues with my apartment they'll be fine with me moving to a new place this fast.
So yeah, I'll be stressed for a while and I don't know how I will cope, but I will do my damnedest. Maybe I'll even livestream some art if I can't sleep. We'll see how it goes.
I'm going to fuckin' combust-
Every year I want to do Artfight but the time it happens it is ALWAYS the hottest time of the year over here in Germany, which leads to me getting barely anything done. And that's on top of my usual chronic pain situation that I got going on.
At this point I might genuinely say fuck it and break the Artfight rule of not drawing ahead of time. It's just so depressing to me that I can't draw all the wonderful original characters I find in the extremely limited time I have.
also add in the tags if you want how your tolerance has changed over time!
On the earlier egg cooking post I reblogged -
Thinking about it more, I feel like I experienced a lot of weird change when I moved with my mom from East Germany to West Germany as a kid. Specifically from a poor household into one where her partner had considerable money.
The poking the egg thing was very much something my mom insisted on, possibly due to her chef background. The egg cups and spoons were a thing too, but that it genuinely just a common German thing all over the country. (No matter if the egg is soft or hard.)
But man, was it weird to have her partner tell us that we were eating the eggs "wrong", since he always cut off the top part completely with a knife, and my mom and I simply hit the top of the egg with the spoon and then peeled the egg open starting on that spot.
Same with the whole egg cooker bit. He suggested we get one and my mom and I were just like ???? pots work just fine ???, so at least on that we got to keep doing what we knew.
After moving out from my stepdad's place a couple years back, I have reverted back to a lot of cooking-related things that I was used to from living in East Germany. Like, I brush off his remaining insistence that I buy certain gadgets (egg cooker, bread slicer) and honestly I couldn't be happier.
I never got comfortable with the high / upper middle class way of life he pressed onto my mom and me - and I'm honestly thankful for it.
#with him it was just spending a lot of money on things that was not needed in my mom's eyes & I agreed with her#pots and pans work fine#spending money on unnecessary gadgets still makes me uncomfortable#it may be part of growing up poor#you work with what you have#and if it works it works#newt's ramblings
found the artist's name in the notes and went looking because this slaps (it's called A Place Where I'll Dance) and its not even their best song. check this shit out:
Before I… crack them open?
....before you put them in here:
the water cup even comes with a little needle at the bottom for hole-poking purposes, see:
sorry i meant boil not cook
WHAT IS THAT
It's an egg cooker!
It's like a toaster and an electric kettle had a baby and ...the baby boils eggs.
#is this specifically a German thing#because Germans tend to have Opinions about eggs#also the only people I know who actually know how to use an egg cup are German#teach me your ways - I still don’t understand why you’d use an egg cup. and I can’t imagine boiling eggs not in a pot on the stove
no egg cup:
egg cup:
i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw
the average swerve enjoyers
all these unfunny jokes about how german is such a hard and awful language >:(
well, can your language do this?
alle deutsche in den notes so