#Hope this is helpful

[maygrcnt]

timeline for recent events regarding anirudh:

last night he posted and deleted these tweets

today the socials posted a s7 bts video including anirudh and he tweeted this in reply to an updates account reposting the video:

someone quoted the tweet being concerned that it meant he wouldn’t be returning for s8

and he liked that tweet 😔

[tiredandsleepyaf]

Blocklist of people engaging in antisemitism

Reblog of this post with some screenshots to back it up

Who you will see on this list:

Anyone who’s a Nazi, openly hates Jewish people, celebrates Jewish death, denies the Holocaust, harasses Jewish people simply for being Jewish or speaking out about antisemitism, etc. (examples: implying or blatantly stating Jewish people should be killed, implying or blatantly stating all Jewish people are evil, or claiming Jewish people are part of some secret society and controlling everything)

People engaging in antisemitic stereotyping, rhetoric, or behavior. (examples: blood libel or Implying or perpetuating that Jewish people run the banks/are all rich elitists/money hungry/etc.)

Who you will not see on this list:

People criticizing Israel’s government or calling for justice for Palestinian citizens without being antisemitic.

Disclaimer: This list is intended to be used as a blocklist or a list of people to unfollow, not as a list of people to harass.

I’ve added the reasons people have been added to this list so goyim stop harassing me (once again, this list and this blog is NOT for goyim. This list is intended for Jews so they aren’t harassed or subjected to antisemitism. But some of you can’t respect Jewish spaces). I strongly recommend Jewish people who are blocking these people so they don’t have to see antisemitism ignore the italicized text in blue.

I’d also like to add I don’t check people’s bios for what ethnicity, religion, nationality, or race they are when I add them to this list. So to all the goyim who have scrolled through this and checked every single person bios to find any detail they could to try and use against me, that says more about you than it does about me. Any one of any ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race can be antisemitic because all human beings are prone to bias regardless of those factors and the only fundamental differences these things guarantee are the experiences we have. That’s just common sense.

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toad-underhill. Mocking people fleeing from Israel even though they claim that’s what they want and reblogs stuff from a user who’s well known for being antisemitic (see screenshots for more)

radiofreederry

Perpetrating antisemitic stereotypes (see screenshots for more).

thyrell

Perpetrating antisemitic stereotypes and engaging in antisemitic behavior.

miinaandeg

Lying about Jewish people as an excuse to be antisemitic and harassing Jewish people. Bordering on blood libel.

goldencelly

Antisemitic conspiracy theorist who’s made posts about “noticing” (antisemitic dog whistle). Is also likely a white supremest.

brendanicus

Engaging in antisemitic stereotypes (rich elites controlling the media kind of stereotypes) and antisemitic behavior.

heritageposts

Engaging in antisemitic stereotypes and antisemitic behavior. Reposts antisemitic stuff from the person above.

tvsandmovies

Downplays antisemitism and the seriousness of the holocaust and claims Jews bring up the holocaust to play the victim card.

ouppykittygirlbileduct

Violent antisemitic posts and calling Jewish people k***s (see screenshots for example) .

votejainism

Literally has a swastica in blog name.

votejainism-misc

Same persons as above.

galaxy-free

Blatant antisemitism and strongly implying the holocaust was a good thing.

shirleymerly

Antisemitic conspiracy stuff.

kuzcat

Went under a Jewish persons post talking about antisemitism to say we should “eradicate religion”

staticespace

Goyim who tries to define what antisemitism is for Jewish people. Calls Jewish people talking about antisemitism “unhinged”

aemondtargaryenshair

Harassing Jewish people for speaking out about antisemitism and accusing them of being Zionists for talking about antisemitism.

sheesh-sarah

Harassing Jewish people.

jesterlaughingstock

Harassing Jews and mocking them for being upset/scared about antisemitism.

mithrifer

Mocking Jews for being afraid of antisemitism and harassing Jews.

demonicslut

Engaging in antisemitic stereotyping.

postinginthedark

Engaging in antisemitic stereotyping and genocide rhetoric.

hussyknee

Antisemitic behavior and violent undertones. Implies she doesn’t think Hamas did anything wrong.

lesbianchemicalplant

Engaging in antisemitic behavior and strongly implied hatred toward Jewish people who point out that there are Jews who support Palestine. Also, implies any Jewish person criticizing any antisemitism perpetrated by supporters of the free Palestine movement is a Zionist and is behaving in a way that strongly indicates a hatred for Jews.

dr-schwaglove (changed name to death-to-usa)

Mocking Jewish fear of antisemitism, but probably did a lot worse as she’s been banned multiple times on Tumblr for what she claims is for “anti-zionist crimes” but is likely just antisemitism.

onychophorum

Tw antisemitism ahead! here’s a quote from this person: “I HOPE EVERY ISRAELI CIVILIAN DIES BRUTALLY”

art-lover-genderhater

Proclaiming Jews as untrustworthy and basically accusing Jews of being oppressors who aren’t oppressed (seems to buy into Protocols of the Elders of Zion type antisemitism). Compares Jews to Satan. It’s worth mentioning this person is also a terf.

makiruz

Lying about Jewish people to instigate harassment (basically accusing Jews who aren’t Zionists of being Zionists) thinks most Jewish celebrities and Jewish people support Israel right now, downplays antisemitism, says she “stopped being concerned with things like"don't put horns on Jewish characters" or "X monsters is a Jewish caricature" and "X villain is Jewish coded"” because she “realized that was a Zionist worldview”

deletedmymeat

Self proclaimed Jew hater and antisemite.

frankendykes-monster

Tw antisemitism ahead! Here’s a quote, “People on here are still saying "Hamas is evil" whilst large chunks of Gaza are being bombed into unmarked graveyards. You need to be literally curbstomped.” I think we know who they’re talking about curbstomping.

streakoflavender

Claims anyone who doesn’t support Hamas is in support of genocide. Reblogged the post from prev.

epipiphorium

Lying about Jewish peoples intentions to justify harassing them and harassing scared/grieving Jews. Likely also searching for Jews to harass (this includes Jews that support free Palestine, but speak out against antisemitism).

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Unfortunately, the majority of people posting the worst antisemitic stuff are cowards on anon, so it can be difficult to figure out who some of the worst offenders are.

The blocklist has been closed and will likely stay that way

(explanation for why here)

If you are more resilient than me and would like to take it over, feel free to copy my list and any of my other post and continue it.

[moleshow]

I am a stupid person. Where should I begin reading about economics.

update: added pdfs for the books

where you should begin depends on what you want to know. my response is long so i'm putting it under a readmore

if you want to know about economic theory, that's one thing; if you want to know about economics in practice (i.e. the way economies operate), that's another. these things are related, but they're often in separate books.

if there's something you want to know about specifically feel free to ask--i may or may not be able to provide a suggestion on what you should read. my wheelhouse is mainly international economics and political economy so note that my recommendations are not the end-all-be-all of the field.

i've uploaded pdfs for all of these books here: https://gofile.io/d/hDB9vU i wasn't able to find a pdf of the 2020 edition of the Frieden but i was able to find the 2017 edition.

the first recommendation i have is unfortunately a textbook. theoretical foundations are important 😔

An Introduction to International Economics: New Perspectives on the World Economy by Kenneth Reinert

this book's focus is primarily on neoclassical economic theory (which is often what people mean when they say "economics"), but it provides a strong foundation for thinking about markets, trade, and currencies.

i also want to note here that economic theories are best thought of as lenses through which to look at phenomena. all of these lenses illuminate some things and obfuscate others. so the utility of a given theory is dependent upon what you're trying to examine.

2. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli

this book is a lot of fun, and falls pretty squarely into the "political economy" camp. Rivoli takes as her subject a t-shirt from a walgreens in florida (if memory serves), and follows the chain of production, to find out how it got there--as well as where shirts like it might go after being purchased. along the way she looks at the dynamics of production in practice, so she looks at the role of labor, firms, governments, brokers, etc.

i would almost recommend starting with this one or reading it alongside the Reinert so you aren't raw-dogging a textbook.

3. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century and Its Stumbles in the Twenty-First by Jeffry Frieden

for this one, you'll want to read the 2020 edition because the 2007 edition doesn't talk about the global financial crisis of 2008. this is a book that really is what it says on the tin--a history of global capitalism. it's particularly useful for understanding the origins and consequences of the postwar economic order. it contains some good discussions of keynesian economics and the neoliberal school of thought that followed.

4. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein

this one's not a crucial read, but it covers a different way of thinking about basic economic units in international economics (i.e. not limiting one's economic analysis to nation-state units but instead thinking about the global economy as a system).

5. Running Steel, Running America by Judith Stein

i've put this book here because the latter half of the book essentially goes through how and why american production changed in the latter half of the 20th century, focusing chiefly on the production of steel. (this is another political economy book.) Stein illustrates the consequences of US foreign policy for the domestic economy, particularly during the 1970s--a crucial period. the whole book is worth reading, but the first half deals more with labor and politics so it's not directly related to your question.

feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need clarification on something here👍

[silvyadrakkon]

3 Under-Discussed Writer’s Block Busters

You all know me as an artist, but my first love will always be writing. And writer’s block is REAL. 

So I thought I’d throw out a few of my moderately unusual writer’s block busters to help my fellow authors.

Of course, the most common “answers” to writer’s block are:

Just keep writing, even if you don’t want to. (Something is better than nothing.)

Write now, edit later. (Leave your perfectionism at the door.)

Find what makes you most creative. (Play music, write during the same time of day, find good snacks, write in the right setting, and so on).

These are definitely helpful tips—things you 100% want to do whether you have writer’s block or not, but they’re not much use against more stubborn forms of creative constipation.

That’s where my three failsafe fix-its come in. They have always worked for me, no matter the situation. 

1. Change your writing method.

Story time! I haven’t been able to write for personal prodjects on a computer for four years—about as long as I’ve been writing and editing for my career. I associate my computer with business—even now that I’m between jobs.

My creativity freezes up whenever I try to work on one of my stories, and I get really distracted. Eventually I end up down a rabbit hole looking up limnic eruptions or different types of crocodiles, having only written a paragraph of a completely unrelated story. 

I swapped to hand-writing stuff just after my son was born, and that worked for a long time. I filled several notebooks with some great content (that will eventually be ready for you to read). But then my kid started walking, and I became his favorite chair.

If I have a pen, my kid wants it. And he won’t take a decoy pen. He specifically wants the pen in my hand, so writing when he’s awake is kind of out of the question. (I can only draw when he’s awake because I can balance my tablet on the back of our sofa.) Plus, those of you with munchkins know that you’re generally doing other responsible adult things when the kiddo is asleep, making writing then rather difficult.

I learned I can get a lot of writing done on my phone in the Apple Notes app. It sure beats doom-scrolling Tumblr and is a vast improvement over my retro minesweeper game when I’m spending some quality time in the bathroom. It’s also something I can write with when standing up, sitting on the couch, or hiding behind the baby gate on our stairs.

Can’t get the words out on Google Docs? Switch to Microsoft Word. Getting distracted on your computer? Handwrite your story—in a notebook or even on colorful construction paper. Don’t be afraid to experiment, even across the same story.

2. Get a second opinion.

I have a character floating around my WIPs who’s an absolute blast to write (I can unleash my full punning arsenal), but he’s also an ENFP, meaning we see the world in completely different ways. I often find myself stuck on how he would get out of the really nutty situations he often gets himself into. Thankfully, my ESFJ husband has really strong Extroverted Intuition (an ENFP’s dominant Jungian function), so I can often turn to him and ask, “What would be the dumbest could-work way you’d fix this problem?”

Asking for a second opinion is surprisingly low on most writer’s block fix-it lists, but it is by far one of the most helpful. I’ve been my mom’s developmental story consultant since I could read, and it’s been a great way for her to really churn out the novels. (It’s also a great motivation to finish your story because at least one person will be wanting to read it when you’re done.)

Even if you don’t take someone’s advice, it might still spark something that’ll propel your story forward.

3. Change your story’s direction.

Adapted from The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Writing, in many ways, is a lot like digging a silver mine. As you rummage around your own head for precious nuggets (those really impactful scenes readers remember forever), you’re setting up a sturdy narrative shaft, using exposition and rising action to fortify walls so your story doesn’t collapse on itself.

Experienced miners know when a shaft isn’t structurally sound. They won’t willingly enter or work on a mine that could cave in on them, gauging the safety of the mine through small clues—clues their demanding boss is completely blind to. 

Your creative subconscious is a miner, and you, its employer. While not always, writer’s block could be an early sign that your story is about to collapse. Perhaps you’ve accidentally let a plot hole grow too large to fill with easy edits, or maybe the way you’re taking your story will fall flat, leaving you and your readers unsatisfied. Sure, you can force your creative subconscious to continue, but you’ll end up with a lot of unusable content in the end.

If you think you’re in a mine shaft writer’s block scenario, go back several plot points and start writing in another direction. If that doesn’t work, go back a few more plot points. While doing so may temporarily upset the plans you had for the novel, it will let you continue writing in peace and produce a better finished product.

[foldingfittedsheets]

I was just rereading one of your comics, and i just wanted to ask a question, artist to artist.

How do you deal with feeling like your work isnt good enough to share? Do you feel that way? I only have one medium i feel relatively comfortable sharing, gifting, ect, and I dont get to use it often because it's not exactly feasible for me to get out right now (its oil painting and i live in an rv, i dont have the space for stuff), so how do/did you deal with disliking or hating your work enough to share it

I think sharing your art is always better than not sharing it. You never know what kind of comments or feedback you’ll get, and to be honest even as a fairly big blog 99.9% of the feedback I get is positive and when I was much smaller it was 100%.

You can ask for folks to share thoughts or feelings and you can get perspective that you wouldn’t have if you were just keeping it to yourself.

Also the old masters were pretty much all oil painters, but they practiced with conte, charcoal, and such. See if you can get practice in another medium that might be a bit easier to flex your chops in until you can commit to canvas cause oil is indeed a pain. Practice is crucial to building confidence, and drawing from life as much as possible helps build your art muscles.

It’s still so hard to deal with the aspect of gifting my art, though. I’m a pretty good artist at this point but when giving something away I still viscerally remember being a tiny child with my crumpled drawing in hand being dismissively told “How cute,” after a cursory glance at the paper.

My best advice is to gift to people who merit the emotional turmoil entailed.

[ratcandy]

may i kiss sozo on the head,,, 👉👈

here is a helpful sozo kissing guide . pick your poison (because either way you'll be inhaling a lot of spores!!!!!)

[dorianthedoll]

had someone ask about my glitter GIFmaking process so i will give! i exclusively use web-based programs, so you don't need to download any software for this!

to preface, my process is a bit convoluted but it's so my images aren't compressed or made fuzzy. ALSO, these steps are for PC.

this is the final result, but you can make basically anything [and probably something prettier than this, i just made this image to demonstrate rotating & resizing pixel GIFs]

tutorial below!

the site i use for glitter backgrounds is online-image-editor.com

click "UPLOAD AN IMAGE" to get your picture in, then click the "Animation" tab. it'll take you to "Add Glitters". click that!

if your image is over 650x650 pixels, it WILL be rescaled. this is why i only upload images below that size, but it's up to personal preference and the compression isn't that bad unless you're using pixel art.

here are the settings i use when filling with glitter. i always change "Floodfill at selected Color" to "Replace selected Color" because it makes it faster, but it really depends on what you need to be filled. you just click the area on the image that you want to be filled on the preview and it'll be filled

kaoru jumpscare! here's my image so far! i just open the preview into a new tab to save it. it won't be PERFECT but it'll look presentable and that's all that matters.

NOW, for adding GIFs to this unsuspecting kaoru, i use photopea.com. i usually use GIFcities.org, glitter-graphics.com or tumblr to find GIFs. where the GIFs are from doesn't matter, just make sure you save them as GIFs onto your computer.

when you upload your GIF into photopea, you might realize that it's not moving anymore!

this is OK, it will be a GIF when you export it. if your image is not exported as a gif, make sure that all the frames of each single animation are in the same folder, and all begin with "_a_".

IMPORTANT because i didn't initially include this, but i recommend you duplicate every layer of your background image 1-3 times if you're inserting GIFs with a relatively higher count of frames so the glitter doesn't flash like crazy when you export. to duplicate layers, select a layer and "Ctrl+J". do this for every layer that doesn't have "copy" in its name first then repeat so you don't duplicate the wrong layers.

to open a new GIF or image, you go to "File", then "Open..." . note that you can do this with multiple images/GIFs in one go!

to add the GIF to the image you want edited, make sure you have selected the folder. go to "Layer" then "Duplicate Into ..." and make sure you duplicate to the image you are editing.

if you go to the image, it should contain a new folder containing all the layers from the image you duplicated from.

if you want to move the GIF, select the folder and use "Ctrl+Alt+T" to transform. if you only move the GIF it should not turn fuzzier, but if you want to resize the GIF i usually use ezgif.com/resize with the Gifsicle setting for "Resize method".

you can rotate GIFs by exact 90 degree increments if you hold the "Shift" key while rotating in photopea, however any other rotation WILL make your image fuzzier, and it's a bit harder to rotate the GIF but is possible!

i use ezgif.com/rotate for this, you can do any rotation you want but i did this one.

OK! it's rotated, but there's an annoying navy border so i'll show you how to get rid of that! DON'T bother saving the GIF you have just made, go from "Rotated image" and click "more tools", then "Remove background"

assuming you get the same navy as i do, the HEX code is #282840, but you can get you own hex code by converting the RGB to HEX [or getting a hex colour picker to work, didn't work for me. you can get the RGB by screenshotting and using MS paint]

voila! it is now transparent!

after you've added all your images in and you're satisfied with your image, you should select all the layers by holding "Shift" and selecting the top and bottom folders

and then, you go to "Layer", "Animation" then "Merge". you can always undo this and make edits so do not freak out if you've realized you want to edit parts

now, your GIF is ready to be exported!

go to "File", "Export as" and select "GIF"!

it'll take a while for it to load in, and you might notice an immediate issue! the GIF is too fast! you can fix this by messing around with the speed dial. this is the most frustrating part of GIF making for me because my computer is slow and freezes a lot. just stay patient, and do NOT reload your browser or you'll lose all your hard work!

annnddd that's it! bye bye!

[k1d1c4rus]

what era are the cboyz in? i'm struggling to imagine which look each character has xD. i'd also like to ask what your personal fave era of the dcd2 boys are lol

okayyyy this is interesting bc it's set in present day but I imagine the boys looking how they did at their ages in the fic. so:

21 y/o patrick

26 y/o pete:

20 y/o joe

25 y/o andy

the continuity gets a little funky w the other boyz but here's a general visual moodboard for what they r looking like as i write them:

your second question may have to wait for another post bc I have reached my image allowance for this one but!!!!!! I will answer never fear. for more visuals u can check out this post where u can see some of the cboyz pinterest board <33

[charms-of-earth]

my favorite pain scale that i've found because of the description of experience. it can be so hard to represent your pain as a number because most people just don't think in numbers (especially people with dyscalculia like myself). it was really surprising to me during my top surgery recovery how often i reported having pain levels between a 6 and 8, whereas without a description i would have said my pain level was a lot lower because i wouldn't want to worry my caretaker or wanted to appear "strong". when in reality, having pain and being affected by it doesn't make you "weak," it just means you have pain. also, caretakers need to know pain levels accurately as possible so there isn't needless suffering. i'm going to be the primary caretaker for my brother during his top surgery recovery and i'm planning on using this pain scale for him as well because it was so helpful for me. past surgeries i've had, nurses used the pain scale with the smiley faces, and as someone who struggles to read facial expressions, a simplified version that were basically just emojis was not helpful at all and i often reported inaccurate pain levels.

[skyward-floored]

You know every time I think about legend I always feel like that albw/tfh and attp/oracle/la should've been separate. Now I don't care that much about it, it's skill issue on my part, I should've just learned how to draw then made the linked universe first if I wanted them to be separate. Now contradicting what I just claimed, what's you're opinion on that take. I'm not sure if it's a hot take or not (probably not because else no one cares enough to have a opinion on this) but it would be nice to hear another's opinion on this.

(side question, I'm very new to LU so I'd like to know what are some good places to like start, or what ever the adjacent to a start be)

Well, for lu, it’s just an AU that someone made up, so its not my place to tell the creator she should have done something different. I mean, you all wouldn’t come up to me and go “I don’t like how you made Warriors and Sky the other Link’s uncles in the Incredibles au so I don’t think that they are. They’re their brothers now.” Like... that would be rude. And not that you’re doing that! I’m just blabbing, sorry.

Anywho, there is some reasoning for making Legend a combination of so many Links, and it’s touched on very minorly here I believe. It would maybe make more sense for him to be separate people, but honestly I think it’s interesting to have him as one guy. Leads to some fun things.

In a general legend of Zelda sense, I tend to think of alttp/la/oos/ooa all being the same Link, while albw/tfh is a different hero a couple centuries later. That’s what the timeline says anyway, and I usually stick with that (I’m boring lol). But I’ve seen people who have the oracle games Link as a completely separate guy, and that’s interesting too! It all depends on how people take things.

As for your side note, yes there’s a good place to start!

The @linkeduniverse blog has everything of course if you just want to look around. There’s the Archive, (where you can find everything) and linkeduniverse 101 (that has frequently asked questions (everyone always forgets about it lol)) as well, but if you’re looking for the “start” of the comic, I would begin here, at deep shadows pt.1 As has been said many times, linkeduniverse started as a bunch of doodles and one-off things, so this is as close to an official start as it gets.

Happy reading!

[sincerecinnamon]

Hey! I was curious, what kind if music do you usually listen to?

Hello! I listen to a lot of stuff lol

When it comes to genre, I usually just say indie, but I have no idea if that's actually accurate.

Bands/artists I like include: Tally Hall, Lemon Demon, Jack Stauber, TV Girl, JW Francis, Gable Price and Friends, Bill Wurtz, Bo Burnham, technically the fictional band Sex Bob-Omb from Scott Pilgrim if you count the songs from the movies as actual songs, etc.

Bands/artists I listen to some music from but am not entirely knowledgeable on include: Queen, DEVO, Weezer, Daft Punk, Girl in Red, The Cardigans, ABBA, Lesley Gore

And I also occasionally listen to soundtracks to musicals, usually if I'm hyperfixated on them, but for good measure, those musicals include: Hamilton, Cats the Musical, and Into the Woods

[gary-goldstein-law]

(I already asked Jerry sorry for copy and pasting but i need to ask)

Out of character

hi:)! I’m going to make a post with paul talking about his family so is Jerry Paul’s brother

-Lake

lol i actually made a family tree! It has Jerry and Gary as twins, and Paul is their cousin. it’s a tiny bit outdated because of some character developments around most of em, but this has everything with how I play Gary and Jerry in mind :3

[sakura-gyarugal]

how do i find other people my age on there

hi! Hmmm. I would say look for fandoms that have a younger base. So if you have an fandom you really enjoy, I would recommend finding some cool people also with accounts that say minor. South Park is one of my favorite fandoms because they’re in my age range but yeah…A lot of accounts usually put their age or age range. :) make sure you stay safe though some people do lie about their ages on this app to lure minors.

[crossplanar]

So I'm trying to create a magic system where people must learn it, not be born with it. I'm also attempting to make it challenging enough that not everyone chooses to study it. I've considered creating a rune magic system, but I'm concerned about how it could easily be commodified in world, which I want to avoid. Like, you carve a light rune and you have an instant lamp. While the existence of magic is public knowledge, I still want there to be a bit of a divide like in fullmetal alchemist or chainsaw man.

Okay this is a fun one.

In absence of a mechanical deterrent for the democratization of magic, you can pick from a few other options:

Cultural Deterrents - magic can be restricted culturally. Maybe there are religious restrictions on its use. It could be seen as corrupting or as foreign or simply undesirable. Most people find its use distasteful, and those who do use it are outcast.

Socio-Economic Deterrents - magic could be something held by the upper class, placed behind a barrier of education, monetary cost, and social dances so that the masses cannot access it.

Material Deterrents - what if you needed a special knife to carve runes or it didn't work and the blade had to be made a super specific way and most people just don't fucking bother. "I know how to draw all the runes yeah, but you gotta do it on the fancy paper and if you get it even a little wrong it backfires. Way easier to just light candles myself."

Probably More - this is just what came to mind off the top of my head as possibilities.

People will find a way to use every single resource they can get their hands on given the time. Magic is no exception. If you build it, they will come. Just gotta bend things around to work for you.

[soup-mother]

Hey, genuine question, what’s wrong with small businesses?

Exploitation of workers for profit! ppl confuse small business with like self employed artisans (like if one person was selling on etsy or selling knitting or whatever) but a small business has employees, and businesses make profit from not paying workers as much as they should. also you get a lot of issues that come with the company being small and understaffed like not having HR to report mistreatment to, union busting, harassment, pressure to do unpaid work "because we can't afford to hire anyone to do it right now", not being paid on time if at all and a lot of similar stuff.

basically all the issues any business can have but with the extra issue of it being tiny and way less regulated/prone to inspections and stuff and sometimes your boss can't afford to/doesn't pay you and if you're angry about that you hate small business, which ppl see as like the most ethical form of capitalism or even anticapitalist for some reason, just because they're not like a massive corporation.

also at least where i live, small business owners form government lobbying groups and get mad about proposed public holidays and stuff "because we couldn't afford the lost profits. I hope that makes sense! the exploitation of workers doesn't go away just because it's a smaller company, 'cus the exploitation is like one of the key elements of capitalism.

[saturnvs]

I'm newly getting into art and I love your style, what colour pencils would you recommend for a beginner? I've only tried cheap local brand pencils and they're. bad. like very little colour and stuff. so I kinda want to invest money but I don't know which brand to use ,:) really would appreciate your suggestion! xx

i personally use faber castell albrecht dürer watercolor pencils. i have a set of twelve, and i've bought some colors separately (i need to buy more lol).

they're wonderful quality, and while they're on the more fancy side, they're not too expensive! (depends on your budget of course, but just starting out i think a set of 12 can be enough to begin with). i draw with them normally but i often use them with water as well.

i also have a larger set (36) of faber castell polychromos pencils, and ahh, i love them!!

so long story short, i would recommend faber castell! i love my watercolor pencils so much, and polychromos are awesome as well - they're very vibrant. that is my recommendation :) i hope you have fun on your journey with art, anon!