#But what do I know 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[lleeanarr]

pt 3.

summary: The relationship was unexpected not only from the fans, but it was unexpected to the both of them as well.

genre: fluff, smau

paring: Lando Norris x Influencer!reader

warnings!: swearing, attempted humour

fc: Lani Pliopa

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yourusername : you never told me you played the drums

landonorris : was i supposed to?

landonorris : also

landonorris : how did you know?

landonorris : are you stalking me🤨🤨

yourusername : does it count as stalking though?

yourusername : its all online….

yourusername : isn’t that’s public information😊

landonorris : NO⁉️⁉️

yourusername : oh boo😒😒

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yourusername posted a story!

bsfuser very much needed from the rant

yourusername stopp😖✋

yourusername thats exactly why.

yourusername went through pinterest. did not expect those pics to hit me hard

bsfuser woman you are whipped for someone you haven’t even met😀

yourusername bitch the pics hit HARD

yourusername i scroll, my eyes widened, cover my mouth in shock, put my phone down, and the process repeats🙁😔

bsfuser you need help��

yourusername dont we all🤷‍♀️

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landonorris : shit completely forgotten that i am not available on the 18th😭

yourusername : oke

landonorris : okay?

landonorris : that's it????

landonorris : you arent going to beg me to come?

yourusername : nahh why should i found someone better to go with🥰🙏

landonorris : wow not even a small bit of dissapointment🙁✋

yourusername : do you even check your calender?

landonorris : no…?

yourusername : exactly so i became the better person and asked someone elsed because according to research your supposed to be in austin then

landonorris : fair

landonorris : hope you enjoy the concert though

yourusername : i will thank you very much😇😇

yourusername : i refuse to go with a go with a guy anyways 😒

yourusername : ITS BROS BEFORE HO‼️

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landonorris : where do you live?

yourusername : excuse me??

yourusername : what happened to hi?

yourusername : hello?

yourusername : good morning?????

landonorris : just tell me which country you live in

ladnonorris : please?

yourusername : idkk man how am I sure I won't be kidnapped?🤨🤨

landonorris : no joke yn

landonorris : which country

landonorris : i wanna meet you

yourusername : OH‼️

yourusername : well in that case

yourusername : i live in miami

landonorris : aight bet

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taglist: @iamahallucinationnnn , @hurtblossom , @papaya-twinks , @kami10471633 , @ahnneyong ,@dark-night-sky-99 , @jxnellat , @that-one-little-soybean

[criminalmindsfanantic]

Rossi: The task was to “Steal the Most Impressive Thing Possible”

Penelope: Emily, what did you bring in?

Emily: I stole Hotch’s wife. Come on in Haley.

*Haley enters the room and gives Emily a hug*

Emily: We went on a date. We had a magical time. I stole her heart.

*Everyone laughs*

Emily: Do you find that amusing, Derek?

Derek: I think that’s impressive.

Emily: You know what else is impressive? I also stole your girl.

*Savannah enters and gives Emily a kiss on the cheek and everyone laughs again*

Emily: Will, were you laughing?

Will: No, I don’t laugh

Emily: Oh, okay. Well it’s probably good that you weren’t laughing because I also took your wife.

*JJ enters and kisses Emily on the lips*

Will: *shocked pikachu face*

Emily: Oh and I’m not actually giving her back, JJ’s mine now. You should have taken better care of her I guess 🤷‍♀️

Emily: Reid and Garcia, I didn’t have the heart to do that to you guys

Reid: I’d like to see you try to steal my non-existent girlfriend

[yan-lorkai]

Imagine this: PLANTONIC! Lilia's daughter comes into the dorm beaten up, falling into his arms saying "I won Papa.", the falling unconscious in his arms. Not dead, but fainted from the pain and exhaustion defeating a group of people that outnumbered her. I think you'll like this idea

.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡ A/n: I did like this idea bcs I did something similar in middle school lmao. My parents weren't happy though, but what can I say? If someone is mean to you and no one helps, you take matters in your hands 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡ Warnings: platonic yandere content, implied murder

.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡ Lilia is panicking. And when he isn't panicking, he is planning how to get back at those other students, for certainly they have done something to provoke you. He sends Sebek and Silver to investigate while he tends to you, bandaging any injury and using his magic to heal you, sitting beside your bed as he waits for you to wake up.

.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡ He's not too worried because he taught yourself and your brothers everything he knows about self-defense and where to attack to hurt the most - he's proud of that, by the way. Yet, despite that, he still hates that you had to fight, many things can help in a fight. He knows you're able to fend for yourself but he also hates it.

.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡ From now on, you're leaving the dorm and being accompanied by Malleus, as nobody would approach you if he was near. Otherwise, Malleus would crush them with a snap of his fingers and he had Lilia's permission to do so.

.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡ Now, as you recover and your brothers dote on you, Lilia will have revenge on those who fought you and he'll make them pay for hurting you. Now, darling, if they suddenly dissappear, who knows, maybe they transfered to another school? Don't think too hard about it.

[aeli-tan-art]

These questions are pretty stupid natured so- you dont have to answer all these

1) Will we get more comics where the trio are all sweet and domestic (these have me kicking my feet and GIGGLINGGGG, esp the first part of Movie Night and the entirety of the post halloween comic :3) or are we (finally) going to see more lore/intense comics…

2) MORE LIAM SMOOCHES !!!! I feel he deserves it (Does he like getting smooched?)

3) How powerful is Liam compared to Canon!Bill? Or are they on the same level and Liam is just a different color

4) Will we ever get to witness any jealous trio in comics?

5) How much can Dee lift?

6) How small can Liam make himself be?

7) What does Ronnie find cute about Liam even tho he wont admit it

8) Do they wear wedding rings or any memorabilia of their marriage?

9) Who’s the most petty out of them

comic-wise, a lot more lore

yis

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with each other or other people? not much either way. they get a little bit territorial but that's mostly to let others know what's what

a lot, especially with his enhanced gloves

subatomic, but he rarely does. makes him dizzy

the way he's so easy to read (literally his feelings are all flashing neon colors) Liam acts indifferent about their little rituals but is essentially now a cat with a schedule and gets huffy when Ron takes too long to choose what book to read together before bed

Dee and Ronnie? none. with Liam, there's the choker necklaces

They all can be petty but will show it differently, Dee is more subtle while Liam's more obvious

[tietensgo]

Thoughts on the Karl Jacobs thread

Market share may be good for the company, but it’s not necessarily good for you, the customer. I think Karl could do better in being aware of these types of nuances in the future.

On Apr 4 Karl replied to the Twitch Support Twitter account with some thoughts about their announcement that they were going to implement sponsored streams on Twitch.

Karl, in a four-tweet reply thread, stressed that he was “wildly unimpressed” and called the implementation a “malicious and manipulative bandaid solution”,  arguing that Twitch should not implement sponsored streams, and should instead focus on growth and market share over profitability. This seemed odd to me, that Karl would suggest that a company as large as Twitch was misstepping by trying to do something so egregious as turn a profit. But it appeared I was in the minority, going by the overwhelmingly favorable replies and quote tweets.

So I made this post. Just to present another way of thinking about this issue :)

Is growth and market share a good thing for a company to hold? Sure, for the company. In fact, increasingly the attitude of startup companies is to ignore profits for longer and longer time periods so they can get exactly that- the lion’s share of a market/user base (think Amazon, Uber). However, we have to remember two things:

There is a real cost (money, and people) to doing business this way

The monetary debt that is racked up has to come due at /some/ point, and users often pay the price

1: The cost of growth - regular companies without large pockets are unable to compete with growth companies, going out of business and leaving all the power in the hands of a few giant corporations

Amazon notoriously operated at razor thin (to nonexistent) profit margins for years. They /purposefully/ sold their merchandise for less than it was worth, operating at a loss specifically so they could put competitors out of business. Diapers.com, Zappos, nearly Barnes & Noble, likely several others that were too small to be mentioned - competitors gone, absorbed, or maimed. Uber purposefully used introductory pricing, lowering their fees to make their inroads into the market, cannibalizing Yellow Cab. All for the sake of growth. Amazon kept its edge by copying real products from real hard working people and making rip-off versions so that they don’t have to do any development work and instead can capitalize on the success of anyone that comes along.

THIS is how growth works - get big, and get big fast, and eff the poor guy who is in the way, even if their product is /better/. (Even if their product is priced the way it is so they can afford to pay their employees!!)

And if this seems too abstract (companies compete all the time, so what?), it’s real to you - the more growth tactics put competitors out of business, the more power the few companies left will hold. And they don’t always use it well.

Have you ever tried to get a hold of Instagram or YouTube if someone falsely flags your post/video? The recommended method (known by large creators as well, even though they have representatives to help them get around it) is not to go through the company’s appeal process, it’s to go to Twitter and AT the company! Ticketmaster, which holds 70% of the ticket market, implements service fees on top of the ticket price (some which go to the venue, some which they take as profit) - and these can be pricey, but if you want to see major acts, you’re stuck!

Market share may be good for the company, but it’s not necessarily good for you. The more power a single corporation has, the less they have to pay attention to any individual customer’s needs, so you’re sol if you have issues with how they treat you - they have a million more users waiting to replace you.

2: Growth companies rack up costs that have to be paid back, and these costs are often passed on to the customer

Growth companies lose money on their products through introductory pricing, (and paying employees and buying server space and and and) but they can’t stay making no profits forever for (at least) two reasons:

a - unfavorable business conditions and

b - competitors with bigger pockets.

A - Not too long ago, a virus no one saw coming impacted the entire world, closing 700,000 businesses in the US alone. These businesses went under because they had no money. It might be ‘annoying’ that Twitch is introducing sponsored streams, but these streams bring in money to help keep the doors open in case any unforeseen events happen in the future. It’s good for Twitch to be profitable, it’s like having a savings account of funds to dip into in bad weather times.

B - Growth companies have to fight /other/ growth companies. Netflix was happy putting Blockbuster out of business... until it met Disney+ and Amazon Prime and HBO Max and and and. Twitch was happy without sponsored streams... until Kick and YouTube decided to push for streaming. These growth companies are fine making no money as long as they’re the biggest fish - they can always milk their users for money later. But the moment they find a competitor who can steal their users and put them out of business, suddenly the scramble is on for cash.

Where does the cash to keep the doors open come from? In some way, shape or form, the user generally has to pay for it. Either they do what Uber did and bring prices back up once they want to turn a profit or they do what Netflix is doing and introduce an ad-based tier/no password sharing, or they do what YouTube did and introduce ads or what Twitch is doing and kill the 70/30 split for their favorites and introduce sponsored streams - eventually all of these companies have to stop eating loses and make a plan for profitability, and that price hike or decline in the user experience will always come after (sometimes years after) they have lured in enough users with introductory rates that no one can meaningfully complain.

So what do we do? And what does this mean for what Karl tweeted?

I think we need to slow the roll with the growth tactic stuff. Profitability is not a bad word (see: Apple). It (generally) means you have a good product/service/idea and it’s selling well. What is ‘malicious and manipulative’ might actually be the way growth companies do business, putting competitors out of commission through unfair pricing. Having to turn a profit might actually force them to /compete/ in the marketplace instead of undermine it.

I think Karl is coming from a good place in trying to speak up for the users and creators of the site, who might get annoyed at having to sit through a sponsored stream or annoyed at having to do them. And that’s fair! We need that kind of advocacy, goodness knows Twitch has issues (low discoverability on the platform, for example). He talks about wanting to keep Twitch from ‘exploiting its creators’ and stop ‘massive layoffs’. That’s great! (You know what might stop massive layoffs? Profits)  But the way to do it is not, in my opinion, to subscribe to flawed business methodologies that result in the consolidation of power in the hands of a few corporations at the expense of users.

Instead.

I think what Karl could focus on is advocating that the creators and those who work at Twitch should see a larger percentage of the profits that the company makes. It might be easier to do a sponsored stream or sit through one when you know Twitch is handing over 70% of the revenue to the creator, or that Twitch is using the revenue to support well paid employees and not lay them off in hard times! I think Twitch could consider including creators in the decision making process of the platform whose influence they help to build. Honestly, I actually think Twitch should even look into whether its business model fundamentally is sound when it can be so easily replicated or poached (*ahem* Kick/YouTube *ahem* Ludwig). These are all tough questions that need to be asked.

But it’ll take time to figure them out. And I think it would be nice if Twitch gets a little bit of our support and patience in addition to our skepticism as they try to figure it out.

[wyrmwright]

bro he does NOT want to hear you practice your villain monologue

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

Title: The Tradition of You and Me

Pairing: Alex Turner/Miles Kane

Summary: One summer, Alex and Miles watch the Euro Cup together. It becomes something of a tradition. Tags: Fluff, Smut, Developing Relationship

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so a couple of months ago @daddy-long-legssss made this post about miles and alex watching the euro cup together in miles's mr bridger designs and... well, this happened. it was meant to be a short drabble fic, but it's me, so naturally feelings got involved and it's now 4,000+ words 😅

i know it's been taking forever for me to post the next chapter of four walls (i'm so sorry, it really is SO nearly there, but it probably will still be about a week before it's actually ready for posting), so i thought i'd share this in the meantime! i hope you enjoy, if you feel like it then feedback would absolutely make my day 🥰

[intricate-ritualz]

edwin is stronger than me bc personally i wouldn’t have the heart to be in an eternal situationship. “you’re the most important person in the world to me” “we have literally forever to figure it out” WHAT DID U MEAN BT THAT..GOD JUST TELL ME NO DONT GET MY HOPES UP W THIS COSMICALLY BONDED PLATONIC(?) SOULMATES SHIT

[whereismyhat5678]

Okay, so I watched Digital Circus FINALLY because I have been seeing it EVERYWHERE-

I thunk to myself, why not give it a shot 🤷‍♀️

…

I FUCKING LOVE CAINE AND POMNI

Caine mostly since he’s.. like the PERFECT sociopath there is and HIS DESGIN- I’M DEAD FOR THIS MAN-

But I also have to give credit where it’s due, I LOVE POMNI 💖💖💖💖💖

SHE DESERVES THE WORLD- Poor thing is terrified out her mind I NEED TO HUG HER STAT- SHE NEEDS A HUG ASAP 🫰🫰

Anyways, I’m gonna draw Caine soon (I still need to learn how to draw him-) but for now you can have this adorable ass jester Pomni 😌

AND

Because we’re talking about a very anxiety written clown that may have a panic attack at any given second- LETS PAIR HER WITH ANOTHER ANXIETY WRITTEN CLOWN THAT MAY HAVE A PANIC ATTACK AT ANY GIVEN SECOND-

They both need hugs, they both need comfort, but MOST OF ALL, they need each other 🤝

[jonathanbyersphd]

I mean honestly a lot of Jonathan's issues stem from the fact that he doesn't have time to unpack them right now

[douwatahima]

as someone who's been doing fandom stuff for over twenty years, i think one of the most important lessons you can learn is not everything is for you. we're all nerds on the internet, banding together because we feel at least a little unhinged about our favourite shows/movies/ect. there's going to strong opinions any way you slice it, and other people's opinions won't always align with yours. maybe someone is obsessed with a character you don't like or a pairing that makes no sense to you, but that person still has as much of a right to be in the space as you do. that doesn't mean you have to interact with those ideas, i'm a big proponent of blocking whoever or whatever you need to, but you don't get to tell them to stop just because you personally don't like it.

obviously, there are cases where this doesn't apply. if a take is super racist/homophobic/transphobic or someone is using their personal headcanon to harrass others, then absolutely that's something that should be addressed. but if it's just something harmless that irks you personally, you need to understand that that is a you problem and not a them problem. and, quite frankly, if you can't come to terms with that, maybe fandom isn't for you.

[oh-noplss]

my DD & haley 👫🐶

[screwpinecaprice]

Do your Connverse kiddos fight at all, or are they all pretty close to one another? Personally, I think Rohini probably wouldn't get along with her siblings, but that may just be me projecting based off my own kiddo headcanons.

Haha kinda with Rohini, though she mostly bickers with just Zachary, but it never gotten too serious. Other than that, there's the sibling rivalry here and there. (I mean at least so far, lol)

*inserts doodle I made that I dunno what to do with but kinda relates to the topic. Trying upper angle without reference practice.*

Ebony gets along pretty well with all of the siblings, usually acts as a mediator among them.

Rohini idolizes Ebony. Had that classic phase of younger sibling copying the older sibling. And although Rohini and Zachary have their squabbles, and she could not relate to Sakura's very feminine and vain ways, she's quite protective of them both.

The twins also look up to the Ebony, but they're relatively closer to Rohini, specially with the former started frequently going out on Gem adventure.. traveling stuff.

Basically, that's their fight to peace.. sibling meter... I dunno what's the actually term it is. (⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠˙̫̮⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠) They all generally get along fairly well and if there's fighting, it's expected to be Rohini and Zachary.

[drksanctuary]

Some Hugo expression practice

[mrehkka]

This is a Zim who's universe-hopped (perhaps a zim that made it out of the ZimVoid?) and ends up finding an earth that is zim-less so he sticks around. Dib isn't around anymore in his home universe so it caught him by surprise

Dib is still on his zim-is-sus kick... but he's noticing some differences. Which honestly just makes him more suspicious of him lmao

[faunandfloraas]

"Seungmin would be SO hot if he got muscle like, can you imagine?" You would be hotter if you shut your mouth but we can't always get what we want so <3