Your Local Gay Cryptid

Your Local Gay Cryptid

@kraest.bsky.social

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There's a dude at work who everyone thought got fired because he: -walked away from customers mid transaction -was rude to coworkers -left the registers unattended -head headphones on at the registers -took phone calls in front of customers -no call no showed for two weeks -stalked a coworker

Apparently...he was not fired, and is here today. Working. At the registers. And this time he's doing it with a pacifier in his mouth. And I don't mean metaphorically...he's actually walking around Home Depot, wearing an apron, sucking on a pacifier.

Also, as someone who uses references, both seeking out images and also creating my own, every single time someone says “I don’t use references” or shares something and says that they’re so proud because they didn’t use a reference, my first thought has always and without fail been “I can tell”.

LaurenWalshArt@laurenwalshart.bsky.social

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

I know that’s an impolite thought to have, but really honestly and for true, when I see work done with references, I don’t see the references in the finished piece, but it sure is super obvious when none are used.

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'reference is cheating' is the most bananas art conspiracy theory out there. A lot of the people you might consider masters were not just using a reference for a pose or something, they were setting up the whole damn scene and almost copying it.

LaurenWalshArt@laurenwalshart.bsky.social

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

Every once in a while I remember the first time I had a CT scan on my head. Lemme tell ya, the word "unremarkable" never feels as good as when it's in reference to your brain XD

I would fucking love - LOVE - if I could actually connect to someone in Elden Ring rather than getting the constant failures to connect that I've been getting for literally hours

Oh yeah, I hit 1000 miles on my bike on my way home from work the other night! I'm real glad the road was empty because I was watching the odometer more than the road just so I could pull over and get a picture when it ticked over XD

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That sandwich you got from Chick-fil-A helped to fund this happening. Thanks.

The coworker I took over for in the garden center today was SUPER sick, but she was wearing a mask and had a can on Lysol spray and Clorox wipes that she was using to clean everything after she used it, which I appreciate greatly, and she left Lysol and Clorox wipes with me to be extra cautious

I just remembered this thing my grandfather had when I was a kid that you could write an email on it, and then hold it up to a phone receiver at, like, a payphone, and it would convert the email to audio data, which then went to a server that converted it back and sent it over the internet an email

He did a lot of camping with my grandmother, so that was how he kept up with emails. I have no idea what the thing was actually called, and I've never seen another one since then

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It's that time of year again to make my yearly announcement. Do not touch the actors. This has been a formal threat. Ye have been warned.

ꇙ ꂵ ꂦ ꍌ ꓄ Ξ Ξ ꓄ ꁝ@smogteeth.bsky.social

I've been seeing some really bad treatment of Guests of Honor at conventions, paid actors, and Haunted House actors lately, and I'm extremely disappointed and disgusted. NEVER touch a haunt actor. NEVER put your hands on a stranger.

I feel so bad for my supervisor. There's a new guy at work who literally every single cashier is going "get him the fuck out, he's useless and also fucking dumb as a box of rocks and he's detrimental to our good job", but my supervisor has to give him a few weeks before he can tell him to get lost.

My head cashier tonight is super sweet and has a smile for everybody, and she was behind the registers cursing up a storm to me about how much she fucking hates him. It's DIFFICULT to get on her bad side, but this dude is FIRMLY there.

One of the things I love about my job is how easy my coworkers make it - not in that they do anything for me, but in that I can trust them to do what needs doing so that I can do my job without incident. This guy needs CONSTANT babysitting and cannot be left alone or else he WILL fuck things up.

I would very much like for people at work to not go over their allotted break times. I'm the guy who relieves people, so people get pissed off at me when their breaks are late, but if whoever I'm relieving takes 45 minutes on their 30 minutes lunch, it's not my fault but I'm still bearing the brunt.

This song was originally the first track on my 2023 EP, Reawakening, and I decided, just for shits and giggles, to rerecord the entire thing kinda as a benchmark to see how far I've come since recording the original. I think it's pretty good, if I do say so myself :D

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please stop labeling porn as graphic media unless it features beheading, cutting off limbs, etc. the adult label is enough

I nearly t-boned someone going 40 on my way to work. Dude pulled off to the right side of the road, then didn't even look as he just cut a hard left to cross both lanes. I slammed on my brakes and stopped maybe six inches from him. I also blew out my voice screaming "use your fucking eyes" at him

And I know that it wasn't that he didn't see me, because there were two cars behind him that also had to slam on their brakes, so he just wasn't looking as he decided to drive across two fucking lanes

Update: the shoes hurt so badly, I am in pain up to my waist and my ankles are very bruised.

Your Local Gay Cryptid@kraest.bsky.social

I got so drenched on my way to work that I'm currently waiting for my boyfriend to come pick me up so I can go to Walmart to buy new shoes and dry socks because I'm literally a walking health and safety hazard with how much water I'm leaving behind

I got so drenched on my way to work that I'm currently waiting for my boyfriend to come pick me up so I can go to Walmart to buy new shoes and dry socks because I'm literally a walking health and safety hazard with how much water I'm leaving behind