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furiousgoldfish · 1 year ago

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Abusive parents will talk about your childhood experiences as if you were so stupid and annoying and obtuse that of course they had to humiliate and smack you and degrade you for how stupid you were. They'll act like it was your fault you didn't know that you're supposed to prioritize adults never being interrupted or inconvenienced or annoyed by you at all times! You just HAD to have that drilled into you and if they didn't do it you'd grow up an entitled selfish brat who'd be nothing but a huge burden on society. (they still call you that regardless).

But if you go back to reality, you can acknowledge that you were put in completely impossible scenarios, that even an adult would not be able to get out of without trauma. As a child, you were experiencing everything in the world, for the first time. You needed guidance, you need someone to show you how, to explain in a way you could understand, to allow you to try things out. You were supposed to be introduced to the world by someone who cared what kind of experience you would get.

Instead, what you got is people who didn't acknowledge that you were a literal child with no knowledge of how the world, and no direction to how their selfish minds worked. All you had was your genetic wiring which instructed you to ask for attention, to ask for help, to try things out one way or another, to ask for your needs to be met, to rely on your family members to be a support to you. It's what the society was built upon, elder members teaching and protecting their young. Instead, you get these mongrels who not only fail to teach you anything, but if you ever, without any instruction or guidance, do the wrong thing, you get to be punished. You get to be a child with no sources to how to do things, how anything works, but if you try and teach yourself, since nobody else will teach you, you are put thru pure hatred. If you mess up, everyone in the world that you know suddenly is enraged with you and hates you. They're ready to hurt you for not knowing the information you were never fed, that there was never a way for you to gain access to.

And they go above and beyond to make your lack of knowledge a shameful thing for you! They sabotage your learning process because now you're not allowed to show or admit that you don't know something! You're not allowed to ask questions, to request to be taught, you'll get laughed at and called an idiot and asked 'how don't you know this, how old are you?!' and possibly punished just for your lack of experience. You'll get shamed for 'not learning by looking at their example' despite them never giving you an example to learn from!

There is no way even a full adult would know what to do in this situation! In every other scenario in life there are guides, resources, mentors, teachers, guidelines, rules of what to do and what not to do. When you start a new job you spend time being trained and being allowed to ask as many questions as you want. In any normal educative scenarios, you're allowed to ask for things to be explained to you. In real life, you're allowed to try and fail something hundreds of times only to figure it out and get it right, with NO punishment!

So why is it that you, as a child, who had no way of knowing ANYTHING, least of all how cruel and selfish your caretakers are, had to get shamed for not knowing things in advance? Punished for making noise, for trying to learn, for accidentally annoying people who were supposed to be obliged to help you go thru this process?

And it's devastating to grow up like that! Since young age, constantly hyper-aware that if any problem rises up, it will be your problem and yours alone, nobody will help you figure it out. Not even when you sink into panic, not even when you don't know what to do and in your child head, the thing is a disaster which will cost you everything, not even if you're feeling dread and lack of hope for week, nobody will come and explain the realistic way to solve this problem and comfort you and tell you that you did nothing wrong. Instead, you learn that anything you do could potentially have catastrophic consequences if it accidentally annoys your caretakers, and instead of learning, growing, having fun, making friends, living care-free and normal life, your entire focus has to be on not accidentally annoying these people. You have to hide, learn to never cause any issues, never to have any visible problems, to cry silently, to not ask for anything, to try and figure out day after day, what would make these people hate you less, what would make you a less of a burden on them.

And then, these assholes can go and laugh at how 'stupid' you were as a kid. They can joke about how they 'had to punish you' so you would learn.

You were not stupid. You were alone. You took the overwhelming task of raising yourself because nobody else would. You didn't fail. You didn't do anything wrong. It was never warranted to punish you. You taught yourself how to live when nobody else would even look at you. You had to figure out friendships, relationships, education, parental relations, and on top of it, how to stay alive, how to not have any problems, how not to irritate anyone, how to never be visible or needing anything, or god forbid, making problems for anyone else, all by yourself. When you were just a child. You had no guidance, no protection, no caretakers. You probably got into so much trouble that would have been completely avoided if only one person cared enough to sit you down and have a conversation with you and showed you that they care, explained to you how things work. Who would have told you that you were a good kid and that trying and failing is how all of us learn.

There is nothing funny about the neglect they put you thru. There's nothing funny about torturing a child who never received care or attention. You were not supposed to grow up surrounded by people who felt nothing but contempt for you. You did not deserve to grow up without love.

#abusive parents #toxic parents #child abuse #abusive caretakers #growing up alone #child neglect #growing up neglected #sabotage of learning #toxic shame #enforcing shame on children for not being all knowing #enforcing punishment on children for things adults are not punished for #traumatic childhood #neglected childhood #psychological abuse #abuse denial #abuse excuses #promoting abuse as 'teaching tool'#traumatizing childhood

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citylighten · 1 year ago

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↳ A situation in which someone either must succeed by his or her own efforts or fail completely.

After the hospitalization of her father, the headstrong Rosaria Scozzari confronts Raphael Polombo in the pursuit of crafting a better deal to protect her family from further harm, even if it is at the expense of benefiting the seasoned boss. Now a lawyer in training for the Polombo family, Rosaria shadows Raphael’s underboss, Pietro Impellizzeri, as she learns about the seedy underworld.

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iwanthermidnightz · 10 months ago

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Universal Music Group (UMG) says it will pull its entire music catalog from TikTok when its contract with the service expires on Wednesday (Jan. 31), accusing the platform of “trying to build a music-based business, without paying fair value for the music,” according to a new open letter.

In the letter, released Tuesday (Jan. 30) and addressed to UMG artists and songwriters, the company states that it’s particularly concerned about the rates that TikTok is offering to pay for its catalog. Other points of contention include the amount of content on TikTok that infringes its artists’ and songwriters’ works without providing “meaningful solutions” to help them combat it, the level of hate and harassment on the platform and TikTok’s stances on artificial intelligence (AI).

#tiktok has been a big promotional tool for taylor not that she needs it #she understood early on she could use it to her advantage #but same with apple music and Spotify #they need to pay artists

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setaripendragon · 2 months ago

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JSaMN Readalong Liveblog - Chapters 2-3

Honestly, I have no idea if I'll be able to keep up with this, the first one took an entire afternoon, and while I have a lot of free time, I'm not sure I have that much free time XD Either way, I'm going to try, and see how I get on, because this is rather fun, if time-consuming. I've never actually taken the time to write down my thoughts as I read a book before. My approach to fiction is generally that if I'm not so absorbed I forget the real world exists, I'll go read something else, which makes this sort of liveblogging a bit impossible. Alright, here we go.

Chapter 2 - The Old Starre Inn (January - Fabruary 1807)

Every time I read or hear 'the old starre inn', my mind puts it to the tune of The Magician in York. (Warning: song contains spoilers up to chapter 4 of the book, I think.)

Narrator: Chapter 2: The Old Starre Inn Me: All on a winter's day~

I find it very interesting, the fact that Norrell gives them no specifics as to the magic he's done. After all, he hangs so much pride on his status as a practical magician that you'd think he'd want to show off. But it doesn't feel at all out of character, as he sees these 'pretend' magicians as so far beneath him that why would he need to?

Which is in such contrast to Honeyfoot's impression of him as 'humble' that it's funny. But at the same time, I don't think Honeyfoot is entirely wrong in his impression of Norrell. 'Shy' perhaps gives the wrong impression, but I get very vivid vibes from Norrell of that loner kid on the playground who no one wants to play with because they're 'weird', except once they settle into their isolation and do something cool because they're just trying to have fun by themself, everyone's suddenly interested in them, and their response is 'fuck off, it's mine not yours'.

"For the nation's good. He is a gentleman, he knows his duty..." This is such an alien perspective to me. I know it's a very common attitude of the time, and something of a theme in the book, but there's a whole commentary here on community and how people's sense of belonging has changed over time that I don't have the brain-power to make right now.

"Magicians in England are a peculiarly ungrateful set of men." I love this sentence. 'Magicians in England' - you mean the rich white gentlemen calling themselves magicians? Ungrateful? Perish the thought! XD

The fact that York is 'one of the most magical cities in England' with the possible exception of Newcastle is such an interesting piece of worldbuilding, and I can't help but wonder if that's a modern (to the book) thing, that simply scholars of magic happened to gather and set off a positive feedback loop, or if there is some in-world... concentration of magic. Given the connection of nature and magic, and the Yorkshire moors being so very iconic, there might be something to that?

Also, loving another little taste of the Raven King mythos, with the mention of 'the King's city of Newcastle'. Honestly, I've never been overly invested in English history (save for Arthuriana, but that's fantasy), but the way this book builds the fantasy on top of a skeleton of truth makes me much more interested in finding out about reality as much as the in-book lore of the place. (Much in the same way Assassin's Creed made me interested in finding out the truth of the history it depicts to better compare the story to.)

I might have to go on a wikipedia spiral about the history of places like York and Newcastle at some point. If these liveblogs don't swallow my entire weekend XD

"We do not care for men who build their reputations at the expense of other men's peace of mind." I do not like this man. (I know I'm not supposed to like this man, he is a representation of the worst sort of self-aggrandizing and complacent entitlement of rich white armchair-scholars, but it bears saying; I really don't like him XD Much respect to Segundus for not punching him in the face.)

"English magicians were only ever given common ivy." Ah, symbolism. I have a lot of thoughts about why ivy, honestly, and I definitely want to do some research on this later, but the phrasing here is so telling. 'Only ever given common ivy', making it so blatantly not some sort of accolade, but something commonplace and unremarkable. There's also the fact that ivy can be associated with neglect, as it's seen so often on old, crumbling buildings, and as a symbol of nature 'reclaiming' or even taking over that which people have built. (Again with the ominous whimsy of this book; the gothic imagery of an old house all over-taken by ivy matched with the tone in which the comparison is made making light of potential drama of the symbolism.)

There's also the correlation between ivy and lovers (ivy clings and binds and twines around things. And I recall reading somewhere about it being used for symbolism in the story of Tristan and Isolde?) but I don't think that's quite as applicable here, even though my brain does love to chew on it.

I'm noticing now, as well, that the author makes excellent use of 'show don't tell'. Instead of simply telling us that the room was noisy and everyone was shouting over each other, though we do get told that, we're also given the example of an old man being very passionate about some point that no one can actually hear over the noise.

I find it interesting because I've been reading a lot of things expressing frustration with the maxim because, I think, people take it too literally. That you must never tell, and only show, which of course will absolutely ruin your pacing and make your story very boring. But this, here, is what I think it means. Of course we could simply have been told 'it got loud as everyone argued', but the art of writing is not to simply tell people what happened, but to make them feel it. And by 'showing' us this little snapshot, by giving the noise a face in this old man who cannot make himself heard over the din, despite being very engaged in making his point, it makes the whole business feel much more real.

Oh, I feel so bad for Honeyfoot and Segundus in this part. Although I find it very interesting that we never actually got to see whether Norrell did do any magic for them. We cut from him confessing that he's a practical magician to Segundus and Honeyfoot leaving, and we don't actually know what happened in between.

And, of course, neither do Honeyfoot and Segundus. Which is deeply, deeply unnerving to me when I think through the implications. Not knowing where you are is one thing, but not knowing where you have been is a whole nother level of creepy. And yet, the narrative doesn't treat it as a particularly horrifying occurance. (Again with the ominous whimsy.)

There is something of a theme of this, too, in the book, with the truly horrifying things that magic makes people capable of being treated as a sort of just a thing magic can do, rather than lingering on the violations of privacy, personhood, and autonomy. Not to say that I feel that the narrative is treating them as inconsequential or in some way not as bad as they really are, but that it doesn't pass judgement on it, and lets you draw your own conclusions (which is a bit refreshing in this resurgence of purity culture in fandom at the moment).

Like, here, Segundus doesn't react with any particular horror or upset at his confusion and disorientation. Which, honestly, I find only heightens my own horror. He's just... sort of vague and fuzzy about it all, even in his emotional reaction to his memory being vague and fuzzy. (Like how someone with mind control telling someone to 'do a bad thing' is not nearly so horrifying as someone with mind control telling someone that 'you want to do a bad thing')

I find this part particularly gave me shivers, when Segundus and Honeyfoot are being questioned about the library and they're asked of the books:

"Had they been permitted to take them down and look inside them?" "Oh, no."

Like, everything else we hear from them is just... an obfuscation of the facts? There were a lot of books in the library, some of them were very rare, and that's the impression they've been left with even if they can't remember the specifics, but that? That, we know for a fact to be false.

Which then very abruptly throws Segundus's previous assertion that he knows for a fact that he hadn't seen any magic done into doubt.

Honestly I think that whole sequence is masterfully done. Because at the time, the way Segundus explains it, we're given no reason to doubt his assertion. He says he feels as though he saw magic, but knows for a fact that he didn't. Which can very easily explain away his awareness of the extra lighting and the... (I keep wanting to call it a maze-array, but that's the wrong fandom XD) directionlessness of the hallway, as him having the sense of magic, but not, actually, knowing for sure it was such because neither he nor us the audience were shown Norrell actually casting those spells.

Except then we get that blatant untruth, and suddenly that blank space of time between Norrell's confession at the end of chapter 1 and Honeyfoot and Segundus leaving at the beginning of chapter 2 just opens up with posibilities.

There's also the contrast between Honeyfoot merely being affected in the moment he tries to explain, and Segundus having felt 'heavy and stupid' for the entire week in between meeting Norrell and meeting with the Society. I do love how clear it is already that Segundus is sensitive to magic, the way he noticed so clearly the magical lighting and direction-obfuscation in the last chapter, and now this.

"Other men may fondly attribute their lack of success to a fault in the world, rather than to their own poor scholarship." "But what is my reward for loving my art better than other men have done? For studying harder to perfect it?"

Ooooo burn! He's so catty. What an asshole (affectionate)! Not to say that the Society (and Foxcastle in particular) don't thoroughly deserve it, of course. Everyone in this room is so ready to be offended, they're actively looking for reasons. Their lives must be so incredibly boring that this is how they choose to entertain themselves, holy shit XD

Oh, god. This attorney guy. Robinson. He is so... He's something, alright. "He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone, which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney." No kidding. And during the whole scene he's so... blandly inoffensive and faux-innocent and defferential that it puts my hackles right up. He is deeply unnerving to me.

'This would be only fair' he says, of a deeply unfair and rigged agreement designed solely to punish them. 'Then surely they would recognise magic when they saw it' he says, as if he's not perfectly aware that they've just been given an incentive to fucking lie about it. 'All your friends have done it' he says, as the only argument he can come up with to try and coerce Segundus into signing the agreement. (Once again, much respect to Segundus for not punching this guy in the face.)

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck. Creepy motherfucker.

I love the descriptions of scenery and environment in this book so much, they're so damn evocative:

"The very voices of York's citizens were altered by a white silence that swallowed up every sound." "The winter gloom was quite gone, and in its place was a fearful light; the winter sun reflected many times over by the snowy earth."

Oh. Hmm. I can't be sure, but I think this is the first time the narrator has inserted themself quite so blatantly into the narrative. Things have been couched as observations before, but I don't remember before this the narrator actually referring to themself, or directly addressing the reader, or positing an opinion of their own? (I may have to go back and listen to chapter 1 again to check...)

"brooding blue shadows of the cathedral's west face" "sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat black ship" "he had a strong thin face with something twisted in it like a tree root" More great description and more adjective-adjective-noun phrases.

And then we come to Segundus and Childermass's second first meeting. Again, I feel so bad for Segundus, having his mind and memory messed with like this, but, if you'll excuse me a moment, -shipper goggles on- Segundus still remembers him! "I've seen you... I can picture you! Oh, where?" Can't remember so much as taking down the books that so enthralled him in the library never mind reading them, but he remembers Childermass.

"He thought John Childermass very insolent." Aaaaa, that's my blorbo! He's so cheeky, I love him so much.

"Several looked about them before going inside, as if taking a last fond farewell of a world they were not quite sure of seeing again." And we end the chapter on yet another absolutely magnificent line. Not quite the almost-cliffhanger of the first chapter, but still extremely tantalising, baiting the reader with questions about what, exactly, is going to happen next.

Hmm. Since this one isn't quite as long as chapter 1, I think I'm going to stuff chapter 3 in here, too; try and condense things a little bit XD

Chapter 3 - The Stones of York (February 1807)

"The cold of a hundred winters seems to have been preserved in its stones and to seep out of them." I have been in old churches and this is entirely accurate. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the description in this book is really top tier. Simple, but incredibly evocative and poetic.

"Bells often went with magic, and in particular with the magic of those unearthly beings, fairies." More symbolism, and this one I know less about, but at the same time, it feels right in a way I can't actually explain. Just that the vibes, the atmosphere it creates of bells being this ominous sound associated with something dangerous.

That being said, on thinking about it, I find it very odd that bells are symbols of fairies in this book for two reasons. One is the way that humans often get referred to as 'Christians' as a whole (I remember this gets explained later as a consequence of fairies being bad at telling the difference between humans, I think?), and church bells are the most commonplace example of bells I can think of. So why, then, are bells so specifically associated with fairy magic when there's such a strong connection to the way the book talks about the people who are not fairies?

And also, one of the primary uses of bells, with more significance in the past but with the tradition continuing on to this day, is to tell the time. To put order and structure on the otherwise abstract passing of the day. Which is in direct contrast to everything else we've been told about magic so far. Magic thrives in the places that are not structured to suit humans. Trying to impose scientific reason on magic kills it.

...Okay, I am definitely reaching here, but it just occurred to me that the other primary use of bells is as a warning. I can think of a bunch of examples; ye olden ships and fire-engines, castles and forts and such. All used to say 'something is wrong, action must be taken to avoid disaster'. And that makes me wonder if the bells are less a product of the fairy magic and more, perhaps, some other magic acting as an alarm.

And the only person I can think who could have cast such a wide-reaching, long-lasting spell would be the Raven King. And wouldn't that make sense? Wouldn't a King want to have a warning that some other being is trying to abduct one of his people?

...I'm reaching, but I really like this theory actually. Even though we knew the Raven King had no compunctions about stealing his own subjects away himself. (I still think it fits, as a King would feel entitled to privileges that others would certainly not be permitted.)

Which is a whole 'nother thing I have thoughts on. It's very interesting that the second real bit of information we get about him (after the bit about him having 'only three' Kingdoms being mentioned in one of Norrell's books. I think that's the only time he's actually directly named before this?), is that despite being an Englishman, he has the fairy habit of abducting people to other lands. And that ballad about it!

"The priest was all too worldly, Though he prayed and rang his bell, The Raven King three candles lit, The priest said it was well."

What is this? What does it mean? It does answer a bit of my speculation about bells, I think - they're used as a warning/warding off it seems (given that it's paralleled with praying) - but then there's that bit about the Raven King lighting candles and this, presumably, causing the priest to say 'oh alright then, do carry on'? I'm gonna have to keep my eye out for any more candle symbolism as well, I think.

"This land is all too shallow, It is painted on the sky, And trembles like the wind-shook rain, When the Raven King goes by."

-shakes fist at the author- You weren't content giving me chills with your description in prose, now you're doing it in verse?! -weeps- God. God. I don't have words for how this makes me feel. I am going fucking feral. I want to print this song out so I can eat it. Fuck.

And it's followed up by the narrator absolutely roasting the Magicians of York, which is making me cackle far more than it probably should because I'm still high off that absolutely unnecessary bit of poetry.

I love the way the narrative builds up to the magic. We get the bells, and then a voice, and then what it's saying, and then another one, and then that it comes from a statue, and then the rest of them, and between all of it we get these elaborate descriptions of the magicians reactions and fears.

Going back a little bit. The tale of the girl with the ivy leaves in her hair. This coming in the very next chapter after we were told that magicians are associated with ivy I think can't be a coincidence. And I wonder if the girl being a magician might not be a part of why the stones care so much about her murder? Not that I think murder inside a cathedral is all that common, but I find it hard to believe it only happened once in over 500 years.

"Kings, even stone ones, dislike above all things to be made equal to others." Hmm. Given how many Kings we have this story, I have a feeling this is Significant.

The fact that the stone statues that were to be repaired flinched from the chisel is... Oof. The idea of stone having a concept of harm, enough to fear it, is wild. And it raises the question of how... aware of what they are the statues are. Obviously we have the examples of kings bickering and quarrelling because they do believe themselves to be kings. But are they aware that they are statues of kings, or do the truly believe themselves to be those kings? The first statue seems aware, talking about how 'no one saw but the stones', instead of 'I saw'.

And if they know that they're stones, then... what does it say that they're afraid of the very thing that created them in the first place? Or is the fear of being 'remade' into something different? Is it particular to that statue, and another might welcome the chance to transform?

...Apparently I am my father's child.

My dad: But what is it like to be a tree??? -overthinks it- Me: But what is it like to be a stone??? -overthinks it-

I love this conversation between Segundus and Childermass. Childermass is coming at the thing so side-ways and sneaky, and yet... he's so blatant about it? It's so obvious right from the very start that he's leading up to something, and then he just... waits for Segundus to offer, instead of actually just asking? It's such a weird approach to take.

Also, the fact that we get another of those lovely poetic descriptions of the snow and the clouds as Childermass is waiting really gives the sense of a long drawn-out silence, and I can't help but laugh at the idea of this bizarre little stand-off, these two men just... staring at each other in the snow.

-shipper goggles on- "Until all the world contained was the falling snow, the sea-green sky, the dim grey ghost of York Cathedral... and Childermass." Perhaps it's an aspect of the audiobook that doesn't come through quite as strongly in the text, but the weight put on that last? Putting him on the same level as these... rather ephemeral, magical things, the natural phenomena of the snow and the sky, and the 'ghost of York Cathedral'? As well as the contrast of these... pale, dim, ghostly things, to Childermass who's so often described as dark and ragged. Even without that description here, it makes his presence so stark against this hazy, light backdrop. (And all this implied to be from Segundus's persepective =3)

And then there's all those compliments Childermass pays Segundus once he's gotten what he wanted, too XD (Even if I do kind of get the sense that Childermass doesn't necessarily mean them entirely as compliments. I don't think he thinks very well of people who are too obliging, tbh.)

You know, this is very much my brain veering off into the wilds here, but the thing about Mr Honeyfoot pursuing the tale of the girl with the ivy leaves makes me think of... this idea I've had for a while, mostly inspired by a JSaMN fanfic, On the March, where Childermass 'wakes up' the Yorkshire moors, and the notion of how magic, which in this book is so tightly tied to nature and the wild, could so easily be affected by the location in which it's done.

And if a place like York Minster can be aware of what's going on even when magic isn't being done upon it... then are the stones aware of Mr Honeyfoots efforts on their behalf? Do they see, for whatever value of sight they possess, him fighting this battle for them, and does this earn him anything from them? Can a stone feel gratitude? Is there some reciprocity or good will there? Does Mr Honeyfoot forge a bond of some kind with, or win the favour of, the Stones of York Minster?

There's a fic in this somewhere. (Mr Honeyfoot gets into a disagreement inside the Minster, and a stone drops onto the head of his adversary. Crumbly old buildings, you know, someone ought to check and make sure it's not going to happen again!)

'The Last Magician in Yorkshire' Now there's a phrase you could build an entire other story around. Another quite powerful end to a chapter, though not quite as gripping as the last two.

Well, I'm glad these two were somewhat shorter than all my thoughts on chapter 1. And I'm now more than half way through this week's chapters. I hope I'll be able to get 4 and 5 done tomorrow (or later this evening, maybe, if I feel like it?)

#jsamn 20 readalong #jonathan strange and mr norrell #liveblog #jsamn liveblog #analysis #sort of #jsamn 20 readalong week 1 #spoilers #shameless promotion of one of my favourite fics in here #and a lot more theoretical meanderings and musings about symbolism #rather than analysing technical tools the author used

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tin-can-iron-man · 10 months ago

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I just. I love my dad so much guys

#MAN OF ALL TIME he's so fuckin rad #he came over to help me set up my desktop (got a pc btw) and funniest man in existence here he touched my desk saw it wobble and went ''NO'#came back with his tools and an office chair for me because he saw the chair I was gonna use and went :/#this man brought over an ENTIRE TOOLBOX just for me because I cannot for the life of me find where the old one went and just. fixed the des #that I had been struggling with for about eight months at this point. in like twenty minutes. and then set up my desktop for me #he also brought over a webcam and microphone without any sort of promoting just because he knows I do discord calls with my friends and gf #also I dug out the instructions for the desk and before I could even hand him the paper he was like ''so this is how we fix this''#and then fixed it and was like ''yeah you did that wrong but you were close''#and then was like ''dont buy furniture and stuff without letting me know first what you want I'll keep an eye out''#and I was laughing being like ''I didn't want to come to you every time I need something because I want you to see me as independent''#and he went ''you live by yourself of course I see you as independent'' and my bitches the way I almost cried right there #just. idk something something the way my families love languages have always been acts of service and gift giving #and my dad insisting I should rely on him more and giving me stuff I wanted but don't have without EVER TELLING HIM I wanted said things #just. my dad is so cool guys #sorry I saw my computer set up vibing on my desk and got completely overwhelmed #ignore me #not marvel related

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flythesail · 10 months ago

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I still think it's so awkward people are using AI at my job to do what is *my* job

#like yeah they're using it as a tool to get things done faster #but alsooo brands being all over social media already is :/#so the thought of in the future all the promotional stuff we're seeing everywhere - that real people might not even be creating it -#something something capitalism #i dont want it to be AI's job to be creative #flythepost

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5nakeb4it · 2 months ago

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*scrolling through Instagram*

*see some artists doing something interesting*

*stop scrolling to watch*

*it's an ad for some generative ai tool that makes what could've been a decent or even great looking picture with basic Photoshop skills into a garbled shit fuck of an image*

*my genuine reaction*

#i fucking hate ai #every time i see someone cheerily promoting it with those flat and uneven end result images i have an unbridled urge to #hurl a brick at them #the people who green lit the ad #the people who made the tool #the people who decided Photoshop should be reduced to shit fucked ai trash #and whatever hardware they used to make the whole thing #fuck em all #im hurling bricks if this keeps up

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curator-on-ao3 · 2 years ago

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Please everyone admire the Andorian Una that @emilie786 made for me and said I could post!!! 🥲🥲🥲

The backstory: I wrote a ficlet (from a prompt by @fiadorable) that included a disguised Una busting Chris out of an Orion slave market. With any alien disguise of the era possible, I chose for Una to be Andorian because @emilie786 loves Andorians (shout-out to her sideblog, @andorianicecave). So I made Una an Andorian for @emilie786, and @emilie786 made Una as an Andorian back for me using the excellent tool @star-trek-dumb-comics created and generously shared for everyone to use. AND THAT’S THE POWER OF FANDOM, PEOPLE! We listen and gift and lift each other up — and I love it! 💙💙💙

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I think the universe (every person I follow basically) is trying to tell me there's life outside of good omens, and to give the Deadpool franchise a shot, also the show with the gay vampires (not wwdits, the other show with the gay vampires). My dashboard keeps hitting me with Armand's amber eyes and fanarts of the new Wolverine being molested by Deadpool lol

#good omens #wwdits #deadpool 3 #interview with the vampire #/j #I'm only half joking but I now understand how fandoms work better as a promoting tool than any advertisings

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Introduction to Promotional Tents/Gazebos: At outdoor events without gazebo tent it might be difficult to get spectators’ attention in the busy atmosphere. A demarcated area that protects your staff and merchandise while also acting as a hub for conversation and engagement is what promotional gazebo tent offer as a solution. They function as a medium on which to present your brand’s identity, messaging, and products in an eye-catching way.

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Brand Visibility and Recognition: A well-made promotional tent or gazebo serves as a potent branding tool, boosting brand awareness and recognition. You may establish brand recognition and make a lasting impression on guests by showcasing your logo, colors, and messaging in a visible manner.

Cost-Effectiveness: Promotional tents and gazebos are a more affordable option for promoting a brand than standard advertising techniques. By investing only once in the tent or gazebo, you may take advantage of its recurring use at several events without having to pay extra for advertising. Because of this, they are an affordable choice for companies of all kinds.

Case Studies and Success Stories: Several companies have effectively increased their visibility at outdoor events by utilizing promotional gazebos and tents. These success stories—which range from small startups to large multinational corporations—showcase how successful this marketing technique is at raising revenue, generating leads, and brand awareness.

Tips for Effective Utilization: Having a well-thought-out plan in place is crucial to getting the most out of your promotional tent or gazebo. This include deciding on the ideal spot for the event within the venue, coming up with interesting displays and activities, and teaching your employees how to engage guests in a kind and educational way.

Conclusion: For businesses aiming to boost visibility at outdoor events, promotional tents and gazebos offer a versatile marketing solution. These items help you stand out, increase brand exposure, and create memorable experiences through eye-catching design, durability, and strategic placement.

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megas190 · 3 months ago

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10 Game-Changing AI Tools Every Affiliate Marketer Needs to Dominate 2024

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