when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all
This is sickkkkk
I think I just accidentally became someone's loan shark??
Okay it sounds bad but bear with me:
Someone owes me a significant amount of money, and has made it clear that they do not intend to pay me back.
I sent them one text to follow up about it around two months ago, letting them know that I wasn't stressed about it and I could wait or do installments if they needed time or things were rough, and they promptly blocked my number and deleted me on social media.
I was kinda bummed, but then, you know. I figured, it's a lot of money, but at least they've removed themselves from my life, right? If I were to choose between thinking someone like that was a reliable friend or paying a lump sum for the trash to take itself out, I could make peace with it. Whatever. Live and learn.
So, I haven't seen them in a few months. Cool. But then I was walking downtown and I see someone out of the corner of my eye just sitting around, having a drink. Don't know who, don't know what. Not paying attention, yeah? I'm living my life.
But as I get closer to walk past them, I see them get up and start booking it. And as I turn to figure out what's up, why is someone running, I recognize the back of their head, and as they look over their shoulder, we make eye contact, and then they're gone.
And I realize
I just got off work. I'm power-walking in what could ostensibly be interpreted as their direction. They look up and see someone they ghosted, who they have screwed monumentally, coming at them with a hundred-yard-stare and what they may not know is a regular resting bitch face. I don't even care about the money anymore, I've accepted it as a loss, but they blocked me on everything so they don't know that. And they went, "fuck this shit, not today" and dipped.
And that would be funny on it's own, but we do not live in a large, heavily-populated area. It's definitely going to happen again. So my question is this:
How long are they going to let themselves live in fear of my stumpy 5'3" ass hunting them down like John Wick or the devil himself before they snap
And how good is this gonna get while I let them
I need to be clear that I look like this
gonna start saying “you couldn’t make x movie today” but for reasons unrelated to political correctness
you couldn’t make Home Alone 2: Lost in New York today because the strict airport regulations put into place after 9/11 make it nigh impossible for a child to simply walk onto the wrong plane
You couldn’t make American psycho today because Christian Bale would actually kill Jared Leto for real
I don’t see that as a deal breaker.
You couldn’t make *TRON* today, because… uh…
Because nobody remembers lasertag
all those terms for when you dont really like something but someone else does and you respect that… youve heard of “not my cup of tea” and “whatever floats your boat” and now its time for this phrase to shine
lars all due respect but no the fuck it isn’t
sounds like this one just isnt your fav hentai of pennywise and that’s okay
There's been some frustration further into Spavined Cirque where it seemed like certain skills might become obsolete, but fortunately some characters return to indulge those who studied the small pointy blade.
Tumblr kept cutting off the little sound at the end that I believe to be the very funniest part but I think I got it now. Now you can hear the little plop.
Idk how to phrase it exactly I feel like there comes a point for all trans women where for a lot of us we essentially have to decide to be in community with other trans women. Like i have been out as a trans woman for years and been around and friends with the few other transfems around me for even longer, but it was almost like the culture of the queer spaces on and offline was structured it was much easier for a lot of us to stay isolated than to unite as a group. Like not just to be friends who know each other but to like form our own culture in these spaces that still feels like a distinct part of the whole.
Like i had to make the conscious decision, far more recently than I'd like, to like prioritize transfems and transfem culture and identity. Making friends with more transfems, seeking out and loving the art we make, reading and talking to each other's ideas on our identity and our oppression as transfems. It was never something that came natural to me or was made easy by the tme dominated spaces. And I'm not joking making that decision is right up there with transitioning as one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Bloodborne bosses/NPCs as Monster Hunter icons, round 2 - can you recognize them? Also, it is the first time I’ve designed MH icons for human characters! It’s very experimental since they don’t exist in-game. What do you think?
I have recently beaten TotK and couldn't resist the urge to draw Monster Hunter style icons of the dragons. I just love them so much! 🥰
(Be considerate of others, no spoils in the comments!)
btw its absolute fucking crime that loz always takes place in a time period where it is literally impossible for link to ever play fortnite
things that i think would change link legendofzelda’s life if he had access to them
- a skateboard
- rock candy
- those energy drinks that taste like sour patch kids
- minecraft survival mode
- they/them pronouns
- basketball shorts
- a therapist
- these earrings
your move, mr nintendo
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.
poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website
okay we all like to have a laugh at it but theyre fucking right. i want any disabled girlie to come here and tell me they think their doctors are competent OR courtious bwcause i know theyd be lying through their fucking teeth. i didnt spend years fighting to get a diagnosis for pains and fatigue and come out thinking thats good care but fuck the second you pay someone to draw a fat bellied doggirl you just know theyre gonna do good work. fuck doctors
ko-fi req: “I would like to request Vegeta eating an order of Blazin hot wings at Buffalo Wild Wings because he heard that Kakarot can easily eat them but hes clearly having trouble eating them but he wont stop because of his Saiyan pride and has this really intensely angry face”
one thing about tumblr users isthat they love to disagree with posts. another thing is that they love to do is disagree with things that were not even in the post as if they were
this is just absolutely not true. people do not normally drink printer ink.