#Circle of Profit

[kindredsoulsoftimesofold]

I think cancelling series that ended on cliffhangers should be banned, literally not allowed.

I am aware they sometimes don't know if they're gonna be cancelled until after the series is out, but so many goddamn series ended on cliffhangers only to be cancelled and I am sick and tired of it.

Esp if not based on anything (book, manga etc.), so you won't know the ending unless the creators decide to post it online (which never happens).

We need to normalize completing stories even if they're not the next BIG THING or at least giving the creators one more season to wrap things up. It's difficult to get invested in anything nowadays, because unless it explodes online you know you're pretty much screwed.

I'm actually more scared of liking something, then seeing its fandom even when small love it so much, and never see it through.

Yes, I am talking to Netflix directly actually.

[fingertipsmp3]

Maybe I did this to myself but it does irk me when people see me knitting and they ask who it’s for and I say it’s for me and the immediate reaction is “you should sell it” yeah… let me spend at least a week’s worth of my free time making an item I like, want, and would wear just to sell it on etsy, making at most a £2 profit on materials and not being compensated for my time whatsoever 👍🏻

[princehendir]

We need to figure out what's happening with the ao3 donation drives so that it can be replicated elsewhere. All else aside, the numbers they make are genuinely fucking impressive.

[scrawnytreedemon]

Logged onto cohost to find it read-only as of the start of this month and set to shut down by the end of this year. I'm not particularly surprised, but it is saddening. Massive props to the devs for doing all they could-- It felt like a lovely place, while it lasted.

[mamanbou]

leopold's the sort of guy who catches feelings VERY quickly i think he was a little infatuated with jamie from the moment he thought of him beautiful, but didn't think much of it until he saw him again in ep 93. like the "...gwen's brother is cute....." to "oh no i like him as a person and even worse i'm going to spend the next several weeks painting him over and over" pipeline. he separated jamie (real person) from the pink demon (creature haunting his nightmares) very early on. but unlike with gwen he didn't pursue jamie in a dating capacity because he just sensed that wasn't where jamie's priorities were at, i think. also probably was scared of the brutality of rejection from ANOTHER pastel sibling in rhe space of 2 months or something. he was being respectful and channeling his crush in ways that are much more insane than simply asking jamie out (such as painting jamie 1 million times and turning his photobooth into a sting operation for jamie and crossing country borders to figure out why jamie ghosted him and lying to help jamie sneak into his employer's home without any context despite having just been ghosted). i think he would have stayed silent about it out of respect for god knows how long if jamie hadn't accused him of having no reason for doing all of these things. like leopold, point of pride, had to clarify that theres a very good reason he's spent months dropping everything to help at all costs whenever jamie stubbed his toe thank you very much!!!!

[larkthorne]

wow a post vaccine baby is no joke! Haha I'm in danger dot gif.....

[despertara]

Irene bro if you see this I want you to know I've been podcasting (talking loudly and emphatically to myself) abt that Grammy Gun post for Hours. I started ranting in the rb tags and then I got so mad I started a spreadsheet on my phone Yes I have the Excel app. No I did not finish my tags

[burtlancster]

LANCASTER: Max Youngstein—who was the third major executive at UA—came down to the [Vera Cruz set] and said to me, "We don’t want to do this Marty." I said, "What do you mean you don’t want to do it?" He said, "Burt, you're gonna pay $250,000 for the picture and you're going to get bombed by the time you pay for prints and advertising—it's going to get up to $600,000. And who wants to see a picture with two ugly people?" That's exactly the phrase he used. So I said, "Look, it only costs $250,000. You know you've got an estimated gross on the current picture [The Kentuckian] at about $6 million. You know that this picture with Cooper and me is going to go through the roof. I think you people have a responsibility to underwrite new talent. If you don't want to do it, fine—let's break up our relationship and you go your way and we'll go ours." I was a big enough macher in those days—I was a gontser macher, as Tony Curtis called it—to have them say, "Okay, Burt, don't get excited, we'll do it." They did it. Now Marty went out and became the most prestigious film of its time. It won the Cannes award, it won the Academy Award. Ernie Borgnine won an award. It won the Berlin award, the Moscow award, and, of course, you couldn't count in terms of dollars and cents what that meant to United Artists.

— Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking, transcript of Judith Crist’s interview with Burt Lancaster during one of her film weekends at the Tarrytown Conference Center, 1975.

[soryualeksi]

I'm not going to stop screaming about this as long as there is oxygen in my lungs.

Gaza is experiencing an attempt at genocide and the Western world, led by the US and its trusty lapdog Germany, is facilitating it.

[transxfiles]

if elon musk ever tried to put a chip in my brain i'd end up killing either him or myself. one of us has to die for that.

[ragnarssons]

boi am i glad for youtube, because the amount of people i saw on tumblr i saw being like “oooh favreau expects us to feel SORRY for pershing??!!” while literally everyone on youtube is like “nah fuck that guy, look at how he sucks on that episode, that eugenist bastard!” and i feel like i’m not the crazy one lmao. i see no moment in that episode where the writing tried to make us feel sorry for that weak bastard.

[hum--hallelujah]

Elliot man up and give me some bokehs. don't be afraid Elliot. this is what you need to do.

[heartdirt]

i sometimes feel so alone in my day to day forms of activism. even my loved ones who i know for a fact hold similarly “radical” beliefs as me still don’t always show up in ways they could and it makes me feel like i’m an insane person for holding so steadfast to these small actions that don’t provide me or those around me with instant gratification

[larkthorne]

wow a post vaccine baby is no joke! Haha I'm in danger dot gif.....

[blorbosecrets]

Not really though. We might have this perception cause this is tumblr and many people come here to NOT be heavily advertised to and generally have a large scale social media platform that isn’t as heavily consumerist as others.

Everyone I meet in real life however buys from online advertisement and they don’t even question it. People might complain if it’s annoying like when youtube started showing two ads at the beggining of each video and even then they got used to it. Hell, I think most people I know haven't even heard of adblockers.

it's wild that virtually all modern digital infrastructure is built to constantly spy on us and harvast our data for advertising yet online advertsing is still basically worthless and nobody seems to actually be benefitting from all this

[gandalfsbignaturals]

i wish ppl on this website, and within leftist circles in general, were a little less gung ho about making jokes or statements like "billionaires arent people" "nazis arent people" "police arent people"

there is no level of evil where a human stops being a human. if you decide to kill them for their crimes, then you are killing a human. and sometimes that is justified! oil execs and war profiteers have destroyed countless lives in service of their own sick greed, and given the chance to enact that same violence on them, id probably pop their heads like a pimple.

but it is important that we do not shy away from the reality of that choice. it is a human life that is being ended. a person with interiority, feelings, family.

if we stop considering any group as people, even a group defined by their own evil actions, then we are drawing a line to divide society into persons and non-persons, and stating that those non-persons do not deserve to live.

i hope i dont need to explain why that is a dangerous position to take.

these people and all of their evil, their greed, their hatred, are just as much a part of humanity as art, culture, language, food. they are a part of us that has grown malignant and cancerous, and like a cancer, they must be excised for the sake of the whole--but they are still a part of us, made of the same stuff as us, down to their cores.

evil humans are still humans.