it’ll never fail to amaze me that chessex, the game dice company - like if you bought your first dice set from a game store/comic shop/card shop you most certainly bought a chessex set - has such an ugly and poorly designed website. it looks like they went out of business 15 years ago.

i don’t know what’s better, the fact that they only sell five different things and felt like they needed a site map, the single uk location with the giant union jack, or simply the times new roman header which reads:

“The coolest dice on the planet.”  ™

THEY HAVEN’T UPDATED THEIR WEBSITE IN TEN YEARS????

my mistake, literally every single page you click on has a different copyright date. so far I’ve seen 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and most recently 2012. amazing. well done chessex.

BUT LANA
HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO ORDER DICE?????

you….you have to email them your order form. oh, gods. you…have to type your credit card information. into an email. so they can charge you seven dollars in shipping or 7% of the total order cost if it’s over $100. fuck. if you have questions about the cost of air shipping, you can fax them anytime. jesus christ. oh gods. fuck. fuck me up. chessex. the coolest dice on the planet.  ™

this is another reason why I let my friendly local store make my chessex orders for me

Me: The Chessex website isn’t real and can’t hurt me:

The Chessex website:

The best part is that this is literally by design

amazing

oh my god

These are the only people doing internet sales correctly

i hate to be the one to tell you this but

chessex have updated their website. you can order online now

Don’t know the details, but honey, if they didn’t like you before, this interview isn’t going to help.

I have seen the second homers come into my lake community and ruin it and push people out and take control of the HOA and try to turn this place into Disney Celebration Village II and now with this air bnb crap where it's even easier to monetize these second homes it's gotten ten times worse. These locusts come in try ban certain colors of houses, and work vans, and at home businesses, and police peoples yards, and mandate any farm equipment must be barn/garage kept and out of sight from the road and this and that and this other thing. They get up at HOA meetings and read reviews of renters and try to pass ordinances to prevent whatever the air bnber complained about. Like no mowing your grass in your bathing suit and only being able to mow or run power equipment certain hours of the day and only on week days. And these air bnb assholes complain about everything like this was some resort and everybody that lives here is like there for their entertainment or convenience. Right now our HOA meetings are like some country about to devolve into civil war. We have factions and caucuses. If you air bnb I hate you as much as the people you rent from.

That's not even half of what's going on here in Britain (where the story is from), and not just because HOAs aren't a thing here.

Firstly, as you will note lots of these people aren't even buying homes to live in, they're buying houses for them to spend the holidays in and leave empty the rest of the year (making AirBnB arguably an improvement in this regard). Secondly, because these people are generally wealthier Londoners/Home Counties types, they can afford the higher prices that result from the high demand for houses in these areas, pricing the locals out of the market. Thirdly, the parts of the country which are most in demand for these kinds of properties also happen to be among the ones with the strongest regional/ethnolinguistic identities (Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Cornwall and the Southeast, Wales, and Western Scotland), thus the pressure on housing stock threatens the actual viability of these communities, and in the case of Welsh and Gaelic only further endangers these languages (and both communities are keenly aware of this fact). It's not just 'people coming in and making life difficult', it's 'people who aren't even around making it impossivle for you to live where you grew up'.

nobody ever praises me or pats me on the head or feeds me small treats despite my consistent excellence in the field of not purposefully ripping cabinet doors off their hinges to fulfill some sort of maladaptive destructive urge

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

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I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

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omg girlies a catholic hate group lobbied to defund a library over my book and several other gay/trans titles and i have been invited down there by some friends of the library to make a massive stink about it at one of their local board meetings. i am soooo excited. i will happily drive 2 hours to make a 3 minute long dramatic scene. ohhh it’s going to give me the giggles