is now a good time to post old lovesong fluff?
(via bastard-aziraphale)
MAYBE I TYPE IN ALL CAPS NOW SOMETIMES.
FAUST, 22, HE/HIM
MAYBE I TYPE IN ALL CAPS NOW SOMETIMES.
FAUST, 22, HE/HIM
somehow instead of saying “as a treat”, I’ve started using the phrase “for morale”, as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I’m not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
(via focsle)
Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?
They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.
Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?
So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.
And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.
And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.
If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.
I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.
(via coldpapernightmare)
who would be your favourite tumblr mutual?
dean (posts/reblogs about cars and barely uses tags. spamreblog cat videos)
castiel (uses emojis EVERYWHERE and adds onto posts)
sam (posts long ass posts and gets into so much drama daily. sends anon hate)
jack (literal baby. hits post limit every day. posts anything and everything)
crowley (pretentious and reblogs sparingly. fights with OP in tags. tracks tags)
charlie (posts cool stuff and has a web theme!! gives moots tags<3)
john (awful blog and adds onto posts. public nsfw likes. no profile picture)
bobby (only original posts but they’re dope as shit. he puts in the WORK)
garth (posts fanart and writes fic sometimes cooking recipes)
gabriel (has a celebrity gossip blog. public likes and call out posts)
please reblog 🥺👉👈 for me 🥺👉👈
(via coldpapernightmare)
Reblog with who you get stuck with~
oh god
oh shit the collage is such a good idea i should do that. sorry about you suffocating to death in an elevator though.
Quite old, but this was my 2021 cover for VCU’s Emanata Comic Anthology, Volume 8: THE END. A personal pleasure and a great bookend since I had been a contributor and editor on the publication for all 4 years of my time at the school.
(via trainwreckgenerator)
I mean I’d be pretty messed up too if I [spoiler] and [spoiler] and then I had to [spoiler]
Fujimoto: no. Devils again
first traditionally published novel CAMP DAMASCUS out today with @torbooks. thanks to all you buckaroos for proving that sometimes if you stand proud of your unique way you wont bend to the timeline, the timeline bends to you. we did this. LOVE IS REAL. out now buds bit.ly/CampDamascus
(via charaznablescanontoyota)
hope it's OK that I'm asking since you're going through a lot esp with anons and your mental health comes first, but I was wondering, is using the word "elite" inherently antisemitic or does it only apply to certain circumstances? like using the word "elitism" when it comes to people feeling superior is one I hear a lot and I didn't know that was antisemitism happening, too.
so as per usual with most antisemitism and antisemitic dogwhistles, you have to learn enough about it to recognize it when you see it. it’s not just the word “elite” we’re looking for when trying to identify a dogwhistle. it’s the word “elite” within the context of there being this shady group of people running things behind the scenes. you can learn more about the origins of this conspiracy theory here.
so if you’re given some examples:
- “ugh that guy in my class is so elitist, he thinks since his dad went to harvard and he’s a legacy that he’s better than everyone else.”
- “everyone knows there’s a secret group of elites running the media and influencing our politicians.”
- “there’s a small group of billionaires that control the vast majority of the world’s wealth and who take advantage of the working class in order to make more money.”
example 1 is just describing some dude who thinks he’s superior to others because of his privileged background. it could get antisemitic if the background is “he’s jewish and jews always think they’re better than everyone else” but simply saying someone is elitist isn’t a dogwhistle.
example 2 is antisemitism because it’s citing an antisemitic conspiracy and using rhetoric that’s unique to that conspiracy. other words to look for in this context are “cabal” and “puppeteers” though the second is less common.
example 3 is not antisemitic, it’s an accurate analysis of the current class structure that doesn’t use any antisemitic rhetoric borrowed from conspiracy theories. as with the first example, it could get antisemitic if the statement continues on to include similar rhetoric to example 2, or if the person tries to assert that all or most of these billionaires are jewish, but the class analysis in and of itself is accurate and not antisemitic.
i hope this is helpful for folks to start analyzing these things deeper. i know it’s easy to just add words you see to your “bad word” list, but especially because antisemitism is so baked into our world and so incredibly complex, it’s important to know the why behind these words. dogwhistles use everyday innocuous words for a reason.
i love the whole world violently. and i dont want to go to work
And another larger than usual canvas, this one a whole 5 in across
(via tuxedokit)
A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work. Not aware that 9 year old son was hiding in the closet. Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company.
Boy: ‟Dark in here.”
Man: ‟Yes it is.”
Boy: ‟I have a baseball.”
Man: ‟That’s nice.”
Boy: ‟Want to buy it?”
Man: ‟No, thanks.”
Boy: ‟That’s my dad outside.”
Man: ‟How much did you say the baseball was again?”
Boy: ‟$250.”In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom’s lover are in the closet together.
Boy: ‟Dark in here.”
Man: ‟Yes, it is..”
Boy: ‟I have a baseball glove.”
Man: ‟That’s nice.”
Boy: ‟Want to buy it?”
Man: ‟No, thanks.”
Boy: ‟I think I just remembered something I needed to tell my dad.”
Man: ‟How much did you say the glove was again?”
Boy: ‟$750.”
Man: ‟Fine.”A few days later, the father says to the boy, ‟Grab your glove. Let’s go outside and toss the baseball!”
The boy says, ‟I can’t. I sold them.”
The father asks, ‟How much did you sell them for?”
The son says, ‟$1,000.”
The father says, ‟It’s terrible to over-charge your friends like that. That is way more than those two things cost. I’m going to take you to church and make you confess.”They go to church and the father alerts the priest and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door.
The boy says, ‟Dark in here.”
The priest says, ‟Do not start that shit again.”JEFF WE TALKED ABOUT THIS
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