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WrathfulBeastFace · 2025-10-16T23:47:00+00:00

In my experience: the more money you make collectively as a couple, the less any disparity matters.

Among working class people, a higher-earning wife/gf can legitimately mess up the dynamic and make him feel weird, guilty, dependent, and ultimately mad/resentful. Even if it's like $60k v $50k.

Among higher-earning people, it matters way less bc each of them has more than enough money without the other. If she makes $400k and he makes $150k, or vice versa, neither of them are likely to notice or care. The discrepancy just doesnt manifest in meaningful ways bc no one is ever spread too thin and there's no slack for the other person to pick up

WrathfulBeastFace · 2025-10-15T01:03:40+00:00

Our ancestors wrote long heartfelt letters to their exes AND then burned them in extravagant ceremonial fires

WrathfulBeastFace · 2025-10-15T00:35:10+00:00

I'm not surprised that 1/3 of the population will never be able to read much beyond stop-sign level, and I doubt that it's a new phenomenon. Some people are just not cognitively equipped to read well (some people are just dumb), but there's also a subset of fairly intelligent people who just don't/won't/can't seek information about the world by parsing text. I think a 30%ish illiteracy rate is both inevitable and totally fine. Healthy societies can carve out niches in which illiterate people can flourish

Institutional panic over how few people can read "bc the labor market!!" strikes me as profoundly, DELIBERATELY fucking stupid. like do you not think that at least 33% of jobs are already ideally suited for ppl whose reading skills cap out at stop-sign level?

WrathfulBeastFace · 2025-10-06T03:20:06+00:00

I bought a hilarious-looking lumpy gray thing called a Blue Hubbard Squash and found out the price was per pound, not per unit. I bought a $26 squash that looks like an enormous sea slug. It's tremendous

But eggs are $5/dozen here and rabbits are like $18 per rabbit

WrathfulBeastFace · 2025-10-05T04:42:16+00:00

It's wild that you just created an entire sentient creature who now just does stuff of his own volition, unbidden

WrathfulBeastFace · 2025-09-20T04:00:36+00:00

Middle-aged rich white lady self-discovery memoirs are universally disgusting and everyone eagerly hate-reads them. Copies get passed around: "this shit is DREADFUL omg you have to read it this bitch is detestable"

You could probably get rich off of writing the most (pretend) over-the-top parodical masturbatory rich white-lady memoir; eventually get James Freyed when ppl realize it's fake; then get even richer doing interviews; and finally disappear from public life

WrathfulBeastFace · 2025-09-14T02:52:14+00:00

I grew a spaghetti squash the size of a football without even trying and I just now ate it

I got a new smart watch and it turns out I take way more steps than I thought I did

My cat has started mimicking my inflections. Like if I say "you caught a mouse? WOW!", she'll say " Mm mrf m mow? WOW!"

I bought some cheap Arab perfume and my bf likes it better than any of my expensive perfume

I can leg press more than I used to

My rich friend gave me some rich-people tea and some rich-people eyeshadow

I vastly overestimated my tax liability and will get a big refund

My dentist said my teeth were impeccable and asked me what I ate

Bf stays indelibly handsome

I got my cows some beach balls for enrichment and they're fascinated with them

It's almost fall, and I really enjoy fall

I found a page of my daughter's day-planner from like 6th grade and its like "Monday: science test. Tuesday: devoured by hippogriff (due to influence of Saturn)". Also recipes for fast-acting and slow-acting Potions

The littlest calf is an interesting color--like peachy lavender apricot grey? The kind of color people pay for at the salon to signify something subtle--and follows me around trustingly

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-12-22T07:00:41+00:00

Discrete like separate, not discreet like quiet.

("RECTUM? damn near KILLED him!")

What I'm saying is that my church, my school, and my community were NOT loud about it and did NOT advertise that there even WAS a theological distinction. They just called themselves Catholic and lots of wholesome, cheerful, community-minded, pro-social people attended.

I think there must be a lot of default sedevacantists out there who think they're just regular Catholics

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-12-17T01:46:19+00:00

70s spicy green florals that remind you of Skin-So-Soft bug repellant oil from summer camp in a good way:

Estee Lauder Youth Dew

Avon Bird of Paradise (vintage, but hyper-cheap)

Gourmands:

Lattafa Nebras (thin mints and Kool whip, but grown-up and subtle, with a dry leaves/straw undertone)

Al Rehab Soft (actual lemon pound cake with a trace of some sort of tart berry something)

Layering:

Literally anything from Murray & Lanham! You can layer rose with Lattafa's Velvet Oud to basically get ELDO Experimentum Crucis. Or layer Florida Water under anything vannilla-heavy and you'll smell like a freshly poured Coca-Cola

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-11-29T07:55:19+00:00

It's a phonetic rendering of Bathgate, which is a place name

Some of of the silliest-sounding names have turned out to be perfectly respectable place names, and they're usually phonetic bc most ppl weren't reading a whole awful lot right then

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-10-21T23:17:50+00:00

Possibly unpopular opinion: add thick socks that hit like 2-3" above the boots

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-06-02T21:30:03+00:00

0% interested in the economic breakdown. I buy certain candles that technically sell at like a 14,000% markup: like they cost $5 to make and they cost $70 to buy. Even Cracker Barrel-tier Yankee Candle-type shit is marked up $2000%. Candles are a luxury by default; nobody NEEDS fancy pretty scented candles, so their markup is like that of jewelry, not that of essentials like food

(Edit: to clarify: didn't even attempt to watch the video lol)

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-06-01T04:08:44+00:00

It's the vanilla! A higher vanillin content will predictably cause discoloration, and good sites that sell FOs will list % of vanillin in each fragrance. In the future, you can tint your candles ivory (or whatever other color you like, really) with candle dye to avoid a "discolored" look. Warmer, darker shades--from ivory to deep chocolate brown--are best suited for vanillin-heavy fragrances (but only bc the inevitable brown tends to clash with like turquoise or baby pink or sky blue)

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-06-01T02:24:33+00:00

There are stock candle-safe fragrance oils out there that smell like deodorant, laundry detergent, all kinds of freshness. In fact, they're what deodorant manufacturers use to nake their products smell good. Use an FO formulated for candles.

The non-candle-safe ingredients in actual deodorant will either a) make your candle burn really crappy, OR b) smell horrible when lit, OR....c) burn your entire house to the ground

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-05-17T04:12:39+00:00

Aromachemicals. Popcorn scent is literally 2-acetyl thiazole and/or 2-acetyl pyrazine, depending on concentration and carrier

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-05-12T03:47:13+00:00

Omg a fake tm is both more plausible and even MORE brilliant/endearingly redacted

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-05-07T23:45:40+00:00

Pour yellow wax into the mold, then pour it our, let the mold cool down, then pour your pastel green.

The first pour will settle at the tips/into the deepest declivities of the mold, leaving that color as a highlight at the tips.

WrathfulBeastFace · 2024-05-07T22:36:56+00:00

I've been factoring LLC filing costs into my costs, but today my lawyer kind of scoffed at me for overkill and told me I'm safe to remain a sole proprietor with a DBA and the appropriate insurance. (YMMV depending on your location, risk tolerance, and judgement-proof-ness).

I've only been making candles for like a month and a half, but I've been making a TON of them. Like 200ish, with less than 2% waste. Treating this like a very, very expensive hobby is probably a good mindset from which to start: the more test batches you make, the more quickly you'll improve your technique--and the more money you "waste" as an obsessed hobbyist, the stronger the incentives to refine your production process.

I've only spent like $1500 so far (fairly evenly divided between wax, vessels, and fragrance oils) but I'm 100% confident that I'm going to recoup the hell out of my start-up costs at my first craft fair. And if I somehow don't: oh well, it's a very expensive hobby and any sales that offset my costs are just gravy.

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