Update: Thank you guys on this, want 100% sure what to do, but overall clear communication of conditions is probably the best way to go.

For the different medias we’ll have a “shit to mint condition” or STM for short: for Vinyls, CDs and of course Cassettes. For those medias that are under like a 3/5 we use restorative methods like normal cleaning and deoxidation. If we do end up in a situation where we need to restore a cassette beyond our capabilities it’ll be marked 1/5 to 2/5 and sold cheaper with reference to a cassette restoration service or a guide on restoring them themselves, which may include info to replace tapes if they so wish. anything way past recovery / not worth recovery can be used as up-cycle arts for local artists or in house (basically just us messing about haha)

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Ok, so we’re planning on opening a music+Alternative store in the near future and one of the medias were wanting to stock are cassettes especially since they're becoming more popular. However to anyone who knows about cassette tapes, they are extremely susceptible to yk. dying

While our stock atm is small, we already got one that is completely fucked on one side of the tape (muffled to no audio in one ear on both A and B sides) effectively the cassette is not good for sale. We’ve looked over some posts and some say to replace the tape and re-record the album, however they're all personal collectors, not sale. While the tape is dead, it’s not authentic or original if it’s repaired or well, realistically tape being replaced. If it was our personal collection no worries! But this is marked for sale. Maybe if it’s marked as “repaired” or something? Idk how other music stores handle this.

So long story short, would it be ethical to replace the tape and re-record the album and keep or for sale (and also marking it as repaired)? Or take the L and keep for our personal collection? We’re leaning on the latter, but if were over thinking things lmk thx

Ok so, this is a weird question, but i remembered this scene from a movie and i think it was in the beginning where it introduces the main character, a teenager, whom is seen going into a public restroom to opening a box for a phone. He then takes the phone out and replaces it with a Rick Scott rounded rock* the same size and wraps it with saran wrap and used the hand dryer to heat it up, sealing it like it was never opened. Then he walks to a phone store and talks to the cashier to return it.

Probably not the most detailed, but that’s all we can remember from it and it’s driving us crazy not remembering it. Lmk if you know it, thank you!!

Update: THANK YOU SO MUCH @neidu3@sh.itjust.works :D movie was Hotel for Dogs

Now we may watch it with our significant other later :3

This isn’t a cry for help, not suicidal or anything, just wanted to say we’re mentally slipping… feel like people in our friend group forget that we’ve been through… a lot. And we’ll, we’re currently going through a whole lot rn aswell.

Right now we’re in the most exposed position possible; our residency papers to legally work in EU have been delayed/no response (even if we get them we don’t ignore if anyone will hire a disabled person like us), our significant other can’t find work due to disabilities, we’re always in dire need of some form of funding, And we’re trying our best to do art commissions- but no matter how hard we try it’s never enough…

On top of it all our random crying is popping back up again, and even worse, been starting to feel art block/burn out. Just don’t know how much longer we can take it.

If we had a stable income for housing, food, medicine and other essentials we’d probably be far happier; Oh also some new clothes… it’s been over 2 years since starting transitioning mtf and we’re still wearing old handmedowns from hs and stuff since we can’t afford a change of clothes.

Overall mostly just want to be heard, thx

There is this stupid f****** ad on the top right of our discord (and were even using a client to block their ad stuff / to fix their UI breaking updates) and they broke the gift literally everyone nitro for a while and was showing up no matter how hard we tried to block it and now theirs a pernament leaf that directs you to their ad. WE haven't clicked it as we don't want to get into it, but apparently our friend with the same client clicked the didn't ask button and it kept crashing their discord, so they had to look at this stupid banner across all of discord yesterday. We're so close to stop waiting for a competent matrix client and make one ourselves just to get the fuck off discord ffs. And if your wondering, the only coding skills we have is HTML and CSS- we do art stuff so to go as far to say F**** REALLY LOUDLY BOOTING UP OUR PC TODAY AND WANT TO START LEARNING HOW TO CODE JUST TO MAKE A NEW PLATFORM IS A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL >:(

You know what F*** IT MAYBE WE WILL oiuerhbgfiuerbhgiuhernbiueairhgiuhertoiu

Can you show us a cool photo you took recently? We wanna see what you found cool enough to take a photo of. We usually take photos of things we’re interested in or are unique enough to put into a reference folder we have for art and well we’re wondering if anyone had any good photos to share! :3

Thank you!

Also the photo on this post we put up is a train we saw in the Train museum here in Spain! We had so much fun and think this would have to be the one of the more impressive ones (tho not our favorite haha)

Edit: Hoi peeps!! We love all these photos and this post got WAY more popular than expected haha! We’re wanting to reply to everyone, but it’s gonna take some time - so we’re not ignoring you and if we accidentally miss you aaaaa we’re sorry (there’s just so much @w@)! Thank you again everyone, this has been lovely seeing all these cool af pics!! :D