u/RobinCreek

I have recently been urged by my aunt and mother to consider buying a vacant lot and turning it into a microforest, and then maybe making it into a conservancy/turning it over to a nonprofit. To be very clear, they only urged this because I've talked about doing stuff like this in the past, and they want me to pursue my passions while also maybe using the microforest as part of a portfolio to get landscaping design work or some kind of job at a nonprofit that does similar work.

I have some money available to me that I could spend on a project like this, but that's money I'll need later if I ever want to do a down payment on a house, and risking it on a passion project that I can easily imagine turning into a massive liability and money pit is frankly terrifying.

I don't know. I'm conflicted. Making a native habitat is something I've dreamed of for a long time, but I'm so scared. Nothing about this is anywhere near a sure bet, and I don't have years of time and thousands of dollars I can afford to gamble on my dreams. There's no reason to think I'd find a stable job because of this, let alone recoup my time and money.

My thoughts are a bit jumbled right now. Does anyone have any advice?

I don't want to tread on anyone's toes, and I want to be respectful. I'm not sure that I want to practice Shinto itself, but channeling Inari Ōkami as an aspect of divinity seems like a perfect fit for me. I was thinking of wearing a Komendo over my face and robes of some kind while actively practicing, and storing the ritual garb in a consecrated box or chest when they're not being worn.

I'm open to learning more about Shinto, but I probably won't fully adopt it as my primary faith or practice. What I'm looking for is a mix of Japanese and more general Western practices. I don't want to run around in a culturally significant mask while mangling the pronunciation of a few Japanese words; I want to borrow what works for me and practice it with respect.

That means I'd be speaking in English, my native language, providing appropriate offerings based on the practices of Shinto, and genuinely not being a disrespectful embarrassment. That includes being open to being corrected when I make a mistake. Again, I don't want to tread on anyone's culture, so is this generally acceptable?

Looking for a basic mechanical typewriter with as many as possible of the symbols you'd expect from a standard laptop layout. I am sick to high heaven of my Brother EM-630 making me switch between keyboards when I want to type a question mark followed by a quotation mark, for example. It's genuinely so irritating. I just want something simple and clean. Y'all know your stuff. What model/source would be a good fit for someone who wants a low-maintenance offline writing solution?

Edit: I probably missed some obvious solution, and may possibly be an idiot who knows nothing about anything. Please, if there's a way to make this machine work, let me know.

I've filled out so many applications. Nothing is happening. No one answers.

I've been fired from my most recent job for being autistic. Not anything I can prove, but without going into details, I'm confident that's why I was fired. I'm twenty-four, unemployed, without a degree, and living with my parents. I don't like what my life is right now, and the future scares me. I have 1.5 years left on my parents' insurance, and then I'm on the hook.

I know they'd help me if I needed it, but I don't want to act like a leech just because I know they'd be there for me. What am I supposed to do? The job market sucks, I struggle in academics, and the idea of doing traditional work, like an office job, makes me miserable. I just want to tell stories and make art, but that doesn't put food on the table, build a retirement plan, or get me any closer to going to live with my girlfriend.

What am I supposed to do? It feels like the world is crumbling around me. I am willing to work; I want to work. I don't like sitting around all day trying and failing to get schoolwork done, trying and failing to make art. Almost everything requires prior experience, and everything that doesn't pays like garbage. I've been ghosted by dozens of employers without even a rejection letter. Not even fast food will employ me, as evidenced by the outcome of my latest job.

I'm willing to work in the trades, but I don't know how to get hired, and I don't have prior experience. I'm willing to run and get coffee, do unpaid internships, anything just to feel like I'm moving forward, but when I search for those opportunities, it feels like I'm surrounded by mirages in a desert. I ask again, what do I do?

Meera has always wanted to journey beyond her village. Now is her time to do so!

A sinking ship. Amnesia. An alien ocean on an uncharted world. Archer doesn't know who she is, how she got here, or how she knows the things she does. All she knows is that if she doesn't get off this ship, she's a dead woman.

I'm putting up my current campaign on a Substack! I'd love to hear feedback and share with y'all. Here is chapter one, A Rude Awakening!

To be clear, I haven't done anything like this. I'm just wondering, because I know it's hard to get good modern tokens, and I found a free public archive of real military photos and images, dating back well over a hundred years. As far as I can tell, it's free, even for commercial use. But to be clear, these are real pictures of real soldiers with names and lives and struggles. Would it be disrespectful to use their faces for tokens?

I was thinking about creating a sort of lets play out of a twilight 2000 game. The format would be notes and/or a story based on the events of the game. Definitely text based, and maybe an audio version of the story. The premise would be primarily focused on scrounging, survival, and staking a claim in the post nuclear world. I'm not sure if I'd do it solo, or invite a few people to play it, but would anyone be interested in this? Again, this is early days, and I'm still working out some of the details.