I have a suggestion… a wee little one… maybe don’t write asexual headcanons that suggest X character is “too noble/smart/committed to a cause/loves something else too much” to be anything but ace. Sexuality isn’t really about priorities.
THANK you.
Asexuality isn’t being ‘too busy’ or ‘not interested’ in sex.
Aces literally just do not experiencing sexual attraction towards others. Not because we find people ugly. Not because we hate sex or dating. Not because we are too busy. We just dont experience sexual attraction.
(Examples for people who cant imagine this: Straight men dont experience sexual attraction towards men. Lesbian women dont experience sexual attraction towards men. Gay men dont experience sexual attraction towards women. Aces dont have sexual attraction towards anyone… not too hard, right?)
I feel like Alabama and Georgie are a couple that have been together for twenty years and raised two beautiful children, god bless, but they’re just trying to figure out how to make their marriage work without the kids.
In one last ditch effort for happiness, they both take to Google.
You guys are sleeping on AZ wanting to straight up join the illuminati 😂😂
Indiana on that next level shit though
How to quit drinking what the fuck michigan
Are we all gonna ignore people in Indiana googling “How to Google something”?
So, fun things about adulting and doing taxes.
Ive been doing my own taxes for years. No problems. But goddamn, my fuckng 2015 taxes…
Filed it as usual with no issue.
Months later I get a letter from the Cali Tax Board saying their calculation of what I paid in CA income tax doesn’t match what I claimed.
I had W-2s proving that I paid the amount I claimed. So, I try to contact them to contest this, because that’s $100 fucking dollars, I cant pay that kind of money for their bullshit mistakes…
I tried calling. Their lines are literally so busy, you cant even get on the queue because the queue is full. This continued for months.
I tried going online. Their website system requires you make an account, then they send you a PIN code by mail, which expires within 15 days. Always arrived after the expiration.
I tried faxing my info and W-2s to the fax number they listed as one to send contests of tax liability to… I have a confirmation that it was successfully transmitted, but 6 months later, it was still never processed, so I can only imagine their fax machine just empties straight into the trash.
And I just keep getting threatening notices saying I need to pay, adding fines for not paying, threatening to take it directly out of my bank account or wages… and no way to contact them to inform them that this was a mistake on their part.
Yesterday I did finally manage to get through on the phone… after calling the number for an hour straight, going through the options, and being hung up on with a message that the queue was full… finally got into the queue, that had a wait time of 3 hours… and a few hours later got a hold of an actual live person to find out what actually caused their stupid error… It was allegedly because I had my name legally changed, so part of my taxes had been submitted under my old name. Sounds hella fishy tho, since it was almost exactly $100 dollars that they were saying was under my old name, when I changed my name nearly halfway into the year, so it should have been more than $100 paid under the old name by then… and the Federal Tax people had no issue with my taxes…
But basically, they admit its their error and I did pay my taxes… but get this… the guy doesn’t even know if the issue will actually be fixed. He said he doesn’t know if the taxes I paid under my old name will even count. So they may still go after me for these taxes, that I already paid, knowing that I paid them. Or, it may count, but they may not process the correction in time to not steal my money out of my paycheck or bank account.
Fucking California Tax Board are scammers I s2g.
And this took literally 7 months to even get this much information. The last notice they sent said if I didnt pay by today they would literally take the money so I dont know if theyre taking it out of my bank account or my next paycheck, but either way, Ill be so fucked because that basically comes out of my food budget then, which is already really small because Im fucking in debt because of my car breaking down.
Dont change your name in the middle of a tax year kids, it fucks your life up. At least, it does here in California, where the Tax Board doesnt seem to understand that changing names is a thing that people do, and will claim you are not the same person despite having the same SSN and everything.
I like to imagine that there are a lot of classes not mentioned in the books, or that wizard college is a lot more comprehensive and in-depth. So I dunno.
In the books, History of Magic is supposed to be really boring, but that’s probably mostly because the professor sucks (Why was he still employed? Was Professor Binns even getting paid? What’s a ghost going to do with money he can’t even pick up?).
I thought about this earlier this year, and I think, were I a wizard, I’d want to study non-human intelligent species, like Acromantula. Possibly a kind of cultural studies and diplomacy course. Everything in the Department of Mysteries is really interesting, but it doesn’t seem like any Hogwarts coursework applies to what’s actually studied there.
So like, a general ‘Study of Magical Creatures’, instead of ‘Care of Magical Creatures’? I think the regular class is supposed to deal with theory and study too, not just the practical stuff… The books didn’t really outline the scope of each subject, though. (Its probably in Pottermore)
I would imagine stuff in the Dept of Mysteries would be a combination of Transfiguration, Charms, DADA, Divination…. Or… basically every subject taught, except Muggle Studies, Flying, and History of Magic, probably. lol.
Obviously Divination, because of all the prophecies down there, and iirc thats where they kept the time turners too, so that would probably fall under Charms… That whole arch thing that Sirius fell through probably isnt something covered in regular courses, when I read it, I imagined it was like they found a natural phenomenon and built an arch to contain it (Charms again probably)… or they were exploring like, the nature of magic or something and created it with experimentation? (I think any general magic that’s not Transfig or Attack/Defense can be swept under Charms lol)
Department of Mysteries seems like the ‘science’ department of the magical world, to me. Like, Magical Science=Mysteries? I guess? idk but it seeemed like there was a lot of weird/experimental stuff down there, so I always imagined they were like, the wizards who wanted to discover more about magic, how/why it worked, find and push the limits, etc… like scientists. lol
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