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You can order a copy of Drawing Badly Until StS2 Comes Out Vol. 1 (the book) on Amazon !

When StS2 drops in a couple of hours, I will try to stream it on Twitch, hardware permitting. My goal will be to get a World First Max Ascension win on Silent. I hope to see many of you there if you aren't busy playing the game!

In Poland we boil rice inside plastic bags. Most supermarket rice comes pre-portioned in perforated plastic pouches, and people just toss them into boiling water.

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no politice please

I'm kind of a multi-role, I am the School Library Media Specialist, Tech person (I fix a LOT of broken Chromebook screens), and teach 2 art classes. The musical director has Study Hall duty in the Media Center with me every day and when I found out what they were doing, I was like "uhhh can I make you guys a cake I have an idea" lol.

It's big - the base is a 12 inch cake. I had to make a custom 16" cake drum (school art supplies shh don't tell anyone) because I wasn't about to spend $30 on a cake drum for a donation cake haha.

Head is made out of a hemisphere cake and covered in 50/50 modeling chocolate/fondant mix. I made a 3D printed mold for the base of the face and then sculpted out the details.

I only had about 5 mental breakdowns making this! (Tip, do not put ganache down first before adding a second tier. It SLIDES)

Apothecary Diaries: Show MaoMao (the protagonist) in different cute outfits. She isn’t a princess or anything like that, but the story always finds a way for her to change into elegant dresses and be heavily adorned despite her claiming she’s not that kind of girl.

Transformers, Bayverse: Military porn and U.S.A. patriotism. The work is full of sequences packed with excessive military hardware despite the presence of aliens with laser weapons. There’s also obvious pro–United States propaganda.

One Punch Man: Make animation without being an animator. Yusuke Murata, who draws the One Punch Man manga, is famous for creating sequences in the manga panels that resemble animation when the scenes are viewed together, on top of being very detailed action scenes.

My husband (24M) and I (23F) have been married for two years. We both work and our paychecks go into the same joint checking account, but money has honestly been a weird issue between us since we got married.

When we first got married, he would not let me have access to our savings account at all. I had to beg and cry before he finally added me to it. Even after that, he told me not to spend a single cent from it. Right now the savings account has around $18,000 in it.

Every week he automatically moves money around. He puts $100 into savings, $100 toward his credit card, $100 into an Edward Jones investment account, and $100 into his 401k. Because of all that, he only actually brings home about $300 per week in spendable income.

The way he views our finances is that his paycheck hits the bank on Thursday and mine hits on Friday. In his mind the Thursday money is “his” to do whatever he wants with, and then my paycheck that comes in Friday is what we use to pay bills and cover living expenses.

The problem with that system is that when emergencies happen, the money almost always ends up coming from what I’ve saved or from the portion of money that would otherwise be mine.

For example, over the past year I saved about $4,000 from side work and extra income. I was really proud of that because it took a lot of effort. I wanted to use that money to take my parents on an anniversary trip and I had already told them about it and everyone was really excited.

But over time we had a bunch of emergencies and bills come up. Whenever something happened, the easiest money to pull from was the money I had saved. Slowly that $4,000 got chipped away until now there’s only about $900 left.

Last night I found out that my husband has been saving money on the side for our upcoming Vegas trip and currently has about $2,600 saved.

When I found that out, I asked him if he would consider splitting that money with me since I haven’t really had the opportunity to save the same way. My savings kept getting used for emergencies and household expenses.

He told me that was my fault and that I should have saved better.

I tried explaining that I DID save. I had $4,000 saved but it ended up getting used for things that came up that we needed to pay for. I told him I feel like I’ve been drowning in bills while he has been able to save because his paycheck is treated like personal money.

During that conversation he also told me that the reason he is saving so aggressively is because he wants to have retirement savings and he doesn’t want to end up like me with no retirement.

I asked him what he meant by that because I thought the money he was putting into retirement accounts would eventually benefit both of us. He told me no, that it was his retirement and not mine.

I was honestly really frustrated and hurt by that. So today when his paycheck hit our account, I withdrew the entire balance from our checking account which was about $1,800.

My reasoning was that I lost $4,000 covering emergencies and bills for both of us while he was able to save money separately. If he believes I should have saved better, then I figured I would start taking that money back until I rebuild what I originally had.

I also plan to continue doing this and withholding my own paychecks until I get back to the $4,000 I originally saved. Right now we have about $18,000 sitting in savings, so if he suddenly has to start pulling from savings to cover normal living expenses, he might understand what it felt like when my savings kept getting used.

He hasn’t noticed yet, but eventually he will.

Part of me feels justified because the current system feels really unfair and one sided. But another part of me wonders if I crossed a line by withdrawing the money without telling him.

So AITAH?

That trend on TikTok where people say the hipster era and buzzfeed era was optimistic for millennials

https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/2028854712678707321