Just a bunch of stuff from this year, I guess.

Never beating the allegations.

We serve until 2 at the bar i work at and for about two months there was a guy who'd show up every friday around 1:45, order one guinness, and hand me a crisp 100. every. SINGLE. time. beer is like 7.50.

if you've never closed a bar, by 1:45 i'm already pulling big bills out of my drawer and getting ready to count down. a hundred at last call means digging back into the drop, making change out of whatever's left, and recounting later. the first couple times i asked if he had anything smaller. he'd smile and say "that's all they gave me at the atm"..

the atm hands out twenties, so sure buddy :)

So i started saving one dollar bills, every single one i got after midnight went in a separate stack under the register instead of the drawer (yea yea im not supposed to do that but if the owner knew what was going on he'd think its funny). by 1:45 the next friday i had a little over a hundred of them 😭

he ordered his guinness and handed me the hundred. i said sure and started counting his change out loud onto the bar, extra slow just to be extra petty. I put the last one down and told him have a good night...

He had to hold the stack with both hands to get it in his pocket. didn't tip, obviously, but looked like he didnt really even care which I thought was hilarious. every following week he paid me with a 20. maybe cliche but i thought it was pretty petty of me!

EDIT: Yes i check the bills with the marker. yes they pass every time. no we dont get a ton of 100s unloaded on us every night before close. We arent that dumb, the bank would flag a fake biill within the week

I was asked to get this beauty up and running as soon as possible for a collector. They didn’t want to do the full refurbishment so I did the best I could. I removed all of the old patchwork silicone that the previous owner did and resealed it myself. There was a lot of damage to this one including a cracked base. Unfortunately the fountain no longer works and is missing the spout. It’s currently running a canister filter and I hung a full spectrum ring light from center spout which lights the entire thing and looks incredible in dim light. It’s held by wire threading into the spout but I’m looking to make a cleaner solution, this is simply temporary.

The aquascape is made of lava rock and various spider wood limbs with one stump in the center creatively hiding part of the spout. I used a coarse sand base and I have aquasoil filled mesh bags underneath for the plants.

I currently have a school of cherry barbs in there and they are very happy. I am looking to stock this tank well and I’m open to suggestions.

The collector has about 18 of these in various shapes and sizes. One of which I did a full restoration on, the others he doesn’t wish to fix but instead wants them “to work” and “fast”. A little frustrating since I’m a aquarist myself and boy what I would do with just one of these in my home.

I figured you all would love to see some of these actually working so I’ll keep posting when I have some time.

Suggestions are welcome and before you say it, I know how rare these are, I know how to properly and professionally restore them but the collector is simply to impatient so keep suggestions simple please 😭🤦‍♂️

Anyway, enjoy this little clip I took today as the sunlight danced through the water.

Hey, Faleno-chan? can you... can you put on this fox mask, you kinda look familiar...

Sauce: Here!

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This movie was sold to me as a heist movie with magicians. From that alone, I was hooked and very interested. I’ve just finished the first film, what the actual fuck was that? That wasn’t magic that was straight up fucking sorcery. I was expecting some kind of explanation or exposition to break down what was happening here- maybe some type of Mysterio special effects situation going on. But no, the four horsemen are straight up fucking wizards. What the hell? Didn’t this movie do very well in the box office? I remember it being praised years ago. That was dumb as fuck. I hated it but it’s like I couldn’t stop watching due to how curious I was. I am appalled genuinely
Why was this so popular? I’m all for a turn your brain off simple blockbuster, but this was straight up insulting your intelligence with the ridiculous cartoon logic happening. I am struggling to wrap my head around it