#Making money as an influencer

[lastoneout]

"Violence only leads to more violence" TRUE! The thing is tho, a lot of people in power seem to think the start of the violence was the CEO getting shot, but they're wrong. The start of the violence was that very CEO running a company that turns immense, endless human suffering into money.

Violence did lead to more violence, decades of needless death and suffering willfully enacted by millionaires so they can make just a little bit more money, that was the start of the violence. If they didn't want it to escalate eventually, they should have maybe not made killing people the core functionality their entire company hinges on.

The people being tortured and killed by the health insurance industry are not the ones who started the violence, and tbh I don't really think it's on them to end the violence, either.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

💙❤️Happy Holidays!❤️💙

[vaggieslefteye]

ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴄʜᴏᴏꜱᴇ ↳ anonymous asked: HUSK and ALASTOR or angel and valentino?

[yuwuta]

gojo would kill your work husband. but if he were the work husband, that's a different story

REAL!! he’s such a hypocrite because if someone mentioned you had a work husband, his entire world would stop and he wold devise the absolute worst plans to make sure that your co-worker, everyone at your job, and everyone in the next building over knew that he was happily committed to you 

but if he is the work husband, he’s very........ dutiful in his role. there’s a loose office/lawyer au in my head where satoru is your secretary, and for all intents and purposes, your personal assistant, and he’s good at his job, but mostly because he considers his job to be pleasing you. he has coffee for you when you arrive, he moves your schedule around without you asking, he has answers to questions before you can even ask them, he has fresh flowers on your desk weekly, pokes into your meetings to pretend to hand you a file that’s really just maybe a single document in a manilla folder with candy on top of it—he’s made himself your business, your partner; he’s made himself irreplaceable, and he loves to remind everybody of that fact. 

he’s also extremely loyal. sure, he could day a week’s worth of work done in about a day, but that doesn’t mean he’ll just use his talents for anybody. he’s your secretary, so he’s at your beck and call, and everyone knows it. they know he’s the best, but also that he’s off limits—not because you won’t share him, but because satoru won’t let himself be shared. 

he also extends his duties beyond work, of course. when he hands you a print out of your schedule for the day and you’re confused by the three-hour block of time you have in the middle of the day, satoru just helps you shrug your coat of your shoulders and smiles, “that’s for the lunch date you have with me, of course!” hanging up your coat in your closet for you, “i’m paying, see you soon, sweets.” and because you’re great at your job, and satoru helps you be great, nobody really questions when the two of you have time for a 13-course tasting menu at 1pm on a tuesday afternoon. and if they did, all satoru would say that you two had a lovely date 

[inkskinned]

im gonna start a fight; and, at the same time, i need you to take this in the most good-faith way possible, but:

videos that involve body-checking and intentionally (and uncritically) show a mealplan of an unhealthy number of calories are just a revamped version of pro-ana food diaries.

and yeah, i know there's arguments. i address some of them under the cut. but at the end of the day, we're just coming back to romanticizing mental illness; we've just found a better platform for it.

this is already something we've done. we knew it was wrong and tried to stop it. and tbh. it just wasn't enough.

there are people who argue "well, what if you have an eating disorder, you can't help it if you don't eat!" except that as someone with an ED; we are not infants. we know what we're doing. part of having an ED is that you are like, maybe too self-aware. even if we can't help our own food choices, we don't need to fucking romanticize the disorder - something we've been warning you about since 2013. there are hours of setup, filming, and editing that go into these videos. they do not happen to fall into place randomly. there is a reason they are pieced together to be beautiful, bright, inspiring.

there's this woman who pretty much only posts daily plans under a normal amount of calories, and everyone defends her saying but it's better than nothing! and i'm like. except she opens those with images of her showing off her body and provides no context in the video or caption that suggests that she believes what she's doing is unhealthy. she has hundreds of thousands of followers on a platform designed for young kids and teens. i refuse to believe that by accident her content just happens to be cheery advice on "healthy" versions of starving.

for any other symptom of mental illness, we would be incredibly enraged by this kind of placid acceptance of a "tips and tricks" fast-start guide. imagine if people posted pink & pretty videos saying "best places to cut yourself" as if it was a fucking storytime. we, as a society, are so fucking fatphobic that we would rather accept blatantly harmful displays of self harm than admit that we are obsessed with a hyper-thin body type.

i am not suggesting someone never talks about their disorder. i talk about mine. actually, it's a plot point in my book.

here's the difference: i recognize it's a fucking mental illness. i am very careful to never mention a specific weight, eating pattern, or calorie plan. i always make sure to position it as something that ruined my fucking life. i do not put cheery music in the background and hearts and sparkles over my worst moments. i do not film it in bright light. i do not start each passage with an image of a thin body followed by "here's how to look like her."

eating disorders should not be framed as aspirational. and the problem is that society worships the "after" image, so long as you don't get too sick. there is a reason so many people who quit being "influencers" will later admit - i wasn't eating well that whole time; an obsession with food was completely destroying my life.

we let any uncredited, uncertified person write the most backwards, fucked up shit about how to get the body you desire! because the underlying, secret belief is: well, at least they're thin! and the real thing that fucking gets me each time - they make fucking money off of it. their irresponsibility and societal harm literally pays off for them.

"why do you care so much." "don't like it don't look." "so what if people experiment with new ways of thinking of food?"

thank you for asking. we're about to get extremely personal. it's because when i was 18 i discovered "thinspiration"/"thinspo." and it absolutely influenced, shaped, and codified my pre-existing eating disorder. i went from having some troubling habits and traits to being incredibly unwell within what felt like a matter of days. there were actual pages designed to train me on how to have an ED correctly. it was all so suddenly easy. i was sick; and the nature of the illness meant - i wanted to be sicker.

it takes an average of 7 years for a person to fully recover. i know this personally - even now, 10 years from the worst of it, i still fucking struggle. i am so much happier now and i eat what i want and i literally don't think about food at all (19 year old me would shudder) and yet - i still fucking know the calories of plain toast with butter.

an eating disorder is one of the deadliest types of mental illness. over 1 in 4 people with an ED will attempt suicide.

and i'm sorry. i just do not see the exchange rate of "high rate of engagement" versus "the value of a human life."

[whothehellisoli]

the most annoying lesbian you know just got ten times more annoying

[mammalsofaction]

The fact that the Doof had been paired and proved most compatible with Perry, canonically and repeatedly proclaimed to be one of OWCA's best agents in the field, is curious to me.

Some fics have a throwaway line or two talking referring to his compatibility with other agents. I think, also, about the canonical fact that he remains as third most dangerous evil scientist in OWCA's ledger.

I also like thinking about the fact that we have been proven, multiple times, in VARIOUS dimensions and fluctuations to the time space continuem, that were he not continuously thwarted throughout his career, he would not only have achieved tyrannical rule, he would have EXCELLED in it, and perfectly undefeated, EVEN BY HIS EVIL PEERS that people loved to pretend were always more competent than him.

Like. I think about that. Why? What makes Heinz so dangerous? What made everyone else incompatible to a point OWCA realized they needed to send their best, and he needed to be on call ALL THE TIME?

Curious

[hussyknee]

Tfw you colonize half the world for spices and three hundred years later this is where your civilization's ended up.

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

youtube FUCK YOU for putting ads in the middle of a child bride trafficking victim‘s testimonial of what was done to her. fucking disrespectful. do ads have to be fucking everywhere like are you so for real right now. fucking dystopian to watch a documentary about violence and repression against women and girls and suddenly there is a hellofresh ad

[physalian]

I’m feeling in a conscientiously objectionable mood right now, as an author who was brought up on the fanfic community and who is now published on the indie market.

There is enough room for all of us, original and fanwork. I don’t care if I get called a snowflake or if my kindness is seen as some charity participation trophy by cynics who are too proud and pretentious.

Writing is art, and art should be fun. I don’t care if it’s a songfic, I don’t care if it’s an E-rated smutfest, I don’t care if it’s a 500k word slowburn epic, I don’t care if it’s baby’s first fanfic rife with typos but with heart and soul, or a veteran’s memoir.

There is enough room for all of us.

Be kind. Leave comments and kudos and likes. Tell somebody they’re doing a good job. Tell somebody you like their work. Be lenient, be gentle. None of us are pretending to stand up against the literary giants. None of us think we’re perfect.

There are enough critics in the world that will tear art down for the sake of being art and “useless” because it lacks function. There are enough critics in the world who will say “Well, it’s no Charles Dickens, thus it could be better”. There are enough critics who will stand on their chosen virtue against queer characters, disabled characters, female characters, minority characters, no matter how well they’re written or how little what they are matters to who they are. There are critics who won’t even read it, and will instead parrot hearsay that was never true.

There are enough assholes out there. We don’t need to do their jobs for them holding other writers to impossible standards.

One kind review won’t turn someone into an egomaniac. One kind review won’t skyrocket a single book to stardom and the NYT Bestseller list. One kind review won’t boost them to the top of the charts. One kind review isn’t cheating or lying or rigging the system that’s already rigged against us.

But it helps. It gives somebody confidence. It tells them that somebody notices their work. It gives them hope that more will follow. It proves all their doubters wrong. It’s a hand outstretched, when they’ve only ever had people kicking them down. It’s five seconds of your time that might make their whole month.

If you’re going to gatekeep praise for only the best of the best, if you’re going to stack them up against the best of the best when they never presumed to, if you’re going to focus on what it’s missing, instead of what it has, when it never promised otherwise… well, that sounds like quite a lonely endeavor.

What do you stand to lose?

[transhawks]

brainstorming for catasterism which essentially is THE todo fic for me where I get to explore all my thoughts on them, and I'm wondering if people are okay actually discussing the likelihood Rei was the cause of the micro aggressions towards hereromorphs now (i.e. Dabi and that one time Shouto got mad)

Even mentioning Dabi might be slightly prejudiced was a huge berserk button for so many villain stans years back even though there was a solid body of evidence but with the Himura reveal, I am fascinated if anyone has been brave enough to actually put it out there that Rei, raised in a sheltered environment where the obsession with pedigree (and caste likely as since the whole Himura thing sounds super anti-Burakumin) would have kept hereromorphs out and small fears would leak out.

Particularly interesting given Natsuo's girlfriend/fiance, too.

[bloggingboutburgers]

Tbh I feel like going to the US while the Nazis are in power is suicidal. So of course I don't understand your choice of going instead of your SO coming to Europe. But while I don't understand, I wish and pray for you to be safe. Whatever you choose, I hope you guys will be okay

You might be right. I have no idea what the future has in store or if I'll come to regret it. But I've already stated my reasons. As it stands, with the year-long process we've already started and that we can't just flip on a dime overnight, my partner can't come and stay in Europe legally just like that. Legal immigration is not that easy in one way or the other. Also... Yeah, I've stated that before, but one shouldn't underestimate how shitty things have been getting in Europe for the past few years as well, and how the influence of the US (which is huge) is likely to make things worse. So again I'm not 100% sure whether that'd have been better anyway.

Also also... Ima be real, I've shared that before, but the time where I was separated from my partner due to the travel ban was the only time in my life where I had actual suicidal ideation. I don't want this to happen again. That's why I'm making moves so it doesn't, first and foremost.

[ithinkdogshouldvote2]

So not sorry when i say that I’m a tracker hater and a Nara fan.

[sojutrait]

billionaire's daughter who can't stay out the tabloids

[mumblesplash]

apropos of nothing shoutout to ethogirls for being hands down the most gratifying mcyt fans to draw for so far. u all are so comprehensively not normal about that guy it’s infectious