#Talking about tumblr premium

[shaibonbon]

So tumblr got it's own twitter blue thingy now?

[lifemod17]

More please🎧🫶

songs 🎧

thank you shuffle gods because I will never shut up about this band!!!

hi hello do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Friday Pilots Club and how amazing they are and then maybe we go listen to their debut album entitled 'Nowhere' together?

but for real, if anyone reading this wants to listen to the full album and talk about it afterwards, it would be so cool and i will treasure you and put pretty flowers in your hair 🥺👉👈

[dairyfreenugget]

Sorry for not posting much btw, I've been laser focused on figuring out designs for my new vernid ocs (basing them off of FaaF PK, WL, Flower and Hornet/Ghost >:D Comfort ocs pulled right out of my comfort AU) AND furry designs for FaaF characters (struggling with Flower's rn.. I dread getting to WL)

These WIPs won't see the light of day, outside of my Patreon

[feather-and-roses]

Dear advertisers: If I see an ad for your product, my likelihood of purchasing it goes down by 12 percent

[killuaisaprincess]

I got curious how active my tumblr followers are so I started clicking on blogs to see if they’re still active and the amount of people at the bottom of my list that it’s been two years made me have a crisis

Where did the time goooo

[girlivealwaysbean]

was thinking about how to make irl friends and of things i should say to make them like me and what i said here that so many ppl love me and if i should even be friends with them cause like yeah it would be fun to have friends but they seem kinda loser ish and boring and play video games all the time and then you're your own kid started playing thank u taylor for solving my problems for me 👍

[adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction]

I've seen a couple of comments from someone around paying Tumblr for stuff that I want to address. I'm not going to mention the person who made these comments because I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I think they're worth talking about. The comments in question are: "you think user money is anything compared to advertisers" and in a pinned post they tell people to not give money to Tumblr.

The thing is, user money can definitely be something compared to advertisers. There are multiple ways that an online company (in general, not just Tumblr) can make money, but let's break them down into three categories:

A. From the users - selling merchandise, subscriptions, premium packages, asking for donations, etc.

B. From advertisers - selling views and space on the platform to companies that use it to try and sell stuff to the users

C. From data - selling information about the user base to other companies that might use it in a whole bunch of dodgy and malicious ways, or just try to find better ways to sell stuff to us

All three of these are viable ways for a company to make money, and many companies use some combination of the above. What matters is what the company sees as their PRIMARY method of making money, because that is what drives their corporate decisions.

If none of the methods are making money, the company will shut down, and I don't want Tumblr to shut down - I like this hellsite. If option B is what makes them the most money, then they will make business decisions that make the platform look better to advertisers and this is likely to drive everything in a more algorithm-centric direction and give users fewer options to curate their own experience. If option C is what makes them the most money, then they will focus on features that enable privacy invasion and data harvesting. If option A is what makes them the most money, then they have to think about how to keep the users spending that money. Now, option A doesn't always lead to good outcomes - in mobile/online games it can end up as loot box gambling add-ins and pay-to-win options, but thankfully Tumblr isn't the sort of site where loot box mechanics would make a lot of sense. Which makes it more likely they'll go the other option: delivering the features that users want to keep them coming back and paying for subscriptions. 

I would much rather Tumblr goes for option A than options B or C because it means that Tumblr is more likely to put the user base first when making decisions instead of advertisers. We just need to show them that it's a viable option.

Tumblr is trying what online games have done for years - crabs and checkmarks are the equivalent of horse armour DLCs and cosmetics. They're trying to make the business work through microtransactions. If enough people spend a small amount, it can add up to a large amount of money. The point of crab day is to send a message to Tumblr that option A is viable so that they make the choice to focus on that. If everyone goes, "No, don't spend money on Tumblr, you're nothing compared to advertisers," then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and Tumblr will have to go with options B or C if they want to keep making money.

I'm not giving Tumblr money out of naivety or because I think they're somehow deserving - I'm giving them my money because I would much rather they make money directly from me and give them an incentive to provide features I like, than by making the site worse so that they can exploit me.

[gemmahale]

Ficbook.net and Unauthorized Translations - An Update

Update to the update: some of the fics have been removed! 🎉 This happened before I finished this write-up even!

You may have seen this post last night about some CoD X Reader fics having unauthorized translations posted to the Russian site ficbook.net. @karlachismylife was monumental in helping me understand what's going on, and there's some explanation in that link from her POV as well.

Basically - multiple people have copied and translated fanfics into Russian and hosted them on ficbook.net. They're rough translations, some going as far as to use literal translations for turns of phrase. Most likely, they were run through a translation software (Google Translate or similar) and then roughly edited. (Juju mentioned that there is a subset of jobs in Russia where that is your job description. 😖)

Most of them have come from Tumblr posts, some from AO3. Very few had attribution beyond "tagging" the original author. (Aka - no consent was given for these translations.)

@syoddeye took the time to compile a list found here (google sheet). At the time of writing, 65 fics CoD x Reader fics were found - we know there's more but we only have so many knives in a day. (Sy did not look into slash fics either.)

Authors that have been tagged in the comments: I'm sorry you found out this way. I wanted to tell you in person, but given Tumblr's likelihood of thinking I was spamming you, I felt that this was the best option to alert you, provide you with options, and let you determine how you wish to move forward.

So what can be done?

If you already have an account, please report the fics! I'm told that spamming reports gets it taken down. Also consider messaging the author and ask them to remove them - they do not have the author's consent to publish them.

If you want to make an account and report the linked fics, you can. I have chosen not to, because I don't want to give Ficbook any extra support I otherwise might by doing so (clicks, ad views, account numbers).

If the author does not have closed comments (or you have an account), you can leave a comment on the fic.

Russian: Автор оригинала лично подтвердил, что не давал разрешения на перевод и публикацию. English: Author of the work personally confirmed that they did not give permission to translate and publish.

Finally - check in on your author friends that are on that list. It's devastating to find out your work has been plagiarized, translated and hosted somewhere else without your consent. Reblog their work, share comments, hype them up!

A couple of notes: (Juju correct me if I've fucked any of this up 💚)

The posters are likely not making money off the unauthorized translations. The website and their owners definitely are (ads, "premium features", promotion tools, etc.)

Ficbook.net is the biggest Russian language fanfiction platform - somewhat akin to AO3, but it doesn't have a great reputation within Russian circles because of the stealing and underhanded practices the owners use.

AO3 is banned in Russia, and Tumblr is one of the few places Russians can easily (aka without VPNs and Mirrors) read English version of fanfic.

CoD isn't the only fandom affected - there are dozens that have more posted, and we only scratched the surface in our list.

Finally, if you want to translate works, TALK TO THE AUTHOR. A lot of folks don't like having their work shared without their consent. Even if you feel like you are doing a good thing spreading it to a wider audience, YOU NEED THE AUTHOR'S CONSENT. If they've deleted their presence and their stories from hosting sites (tumblr, AO3, etc) - you don't get to pretend you're doing them a favor by reposting them. Respect their decisions.

[sexhaver]

can you tell us all the plugins / ad blockers you use

on desktop, uBlock Origin (NOT Adblock Plus! they sold out years ago! they literally take money from advertisers to make sure their ads get through their filters!) and SponsorBlock for Firefox. if you still see ads on youtube specifically check out this page. if it's green, then the problem is with your specific installation and you should check out this reddit megathread. if it's red, then tough luck, wait a few hours for uBlock's crack team of hackers to catch back up in their constant arms race with Youtube.

for Android, get ReVanced Manager from here and use that + an .apk download of the latest Youtube release (just google "youtube apk") to patch yourself together a version of the Youtube app that acts like you paid for Advanced even though you didn't, which means no ads. also, side tangent, that's where the name comes from: originally it was just "Youtube Vanced" because it was "Advanced" without the "ad"s. then the Vanced team got slapped with a C&D for being dumbasses and minting NFTs of the Vanced logo, which was literally just the Youtube logo, so ReVanced rose from the ashes to continue its legacy. oh also there are a shitload of boxes you can check off during the patching process and one of them just integrates Sponsorblock for you, so that's nice.

i should also mention here, for no reason in particular, that the Vanced Manager app lets you patch a number of other apps in the same way, removing ads and adding "premium" features without you having to pay. one of these apps may or may not be Tumblr itself.

as long as you're fucking with your Android, download xManager and use it to get ad-free Spotify without paying for it. iirc the app auto-downloads the apk for you but it's been months since i last fucked with it so i might be misremembering.

honorary mention goes to NewPipe for being a way easier to install alternative to all of the above if you don't care about logging in. it's an alternate frontend for youtube that lets you watch it ad-free right out of the box. the main drawbacks are that the UI is a little ugly (especially compared to the official/ReVanced version), you can't use Sponsorblock, and it doesn't sync with your Google account (this could be a plus for you if you're big into privacy but personally i like having my likes and watch history synced across desktop and mobile). although now that i just did some research to make sure i wasn't talking out my ass, it looks like the original dev is working on a forked version of the app named Tubular that does have Sponsorblock and is apparently trying to get google account stuff working, so that's cool. oh and it can also browse/play Soundcloud ad-free, if you still use Soundcloud in 2024

[creelarke]

Remember when all social media platforms were actually free because their sole purpose was for people to connect and post/talk about their interests?

YouTube without YouTube premium

Twitter without Elon Musk bullshit and X premium

Tumblr without Tumblr premium

Instagram without paid subscriptions and loads of ads

Good time

[homeofthelonelywriter]

Fucking the Captain‘s Daughter | Part 2

(A/N) There you go! I hope you like it. (Although I'm really not happy with the smut, I'm sorry.)

Also, what the fuck is Tumblr Premium?

Pairing: Simon x Price!Reader

Warning: smut, p in v, fingering, dirty talk

Synopsis: We continue the chaos that is Simon fucking Price's daughter.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

You had no idea what you had gotten yourself into. Or rather, what your dad had gotten you into. When he had asked if you wanted to drop by your Granny’s later, you had assumed that it would be just the two of you, but before you knew it, you found yourself in a car with the entire 141. Your Dad was in the driver’s seat, Soap in the passenger since he had insisted on being the DJ. Meanwhile, Gaz, Ghost, and you had to squeeze yourself into the back row, with Ghost insisting on sitting in the middle. And you knew exactly why.

While your father was blissfully unaware and focusing on the road, Ghost’s hand quickly found its way into your pants, only covered by the backpack you held on your lap. You had no idea how he did it without attracting any attention and in the moment, you didn’t really care either, as this thumb was stroking fast, tight circles over your clit.

It took all the willpower inside you, not to contort in pleasure and moan his name, something you would have done if you were alone, if your father wasn’t driving. Instead, you pressed your body into the seat as your hips started to involuntarily thrust against Ghost’s hand. You glanced at him, your hand wrapping around his wrist in warning, but he just kept going, a cocky smirk under his mask. Oh, how you wished to wipe it off his face. But instead, he was busy wiping any sort of look off your face, that didn’t display the pleasure he was causing you.

And you were so close. Just when he pushed two fingers inside you, a blissful sigh escaped your lips and you immediately felt your father’s eyes on you.

“You okay, honey?”

You swallowed the thick lump in your throat before nodding.

“Y-Yeah, just remembered that I forgot to hand in the mock report.”

He chuckled, before his eyes returned to the road, a proud grin on his face.

“That report isn’t due for another week, and you’re already done?”

Now it was Simon’s turn to chuckle.

“’course she is, Cap. ‘s your daughter after all.”

You didn’t know how he could stay so cool. He had his hand stuffed down your panties and was about to make you orgasm and all of that in front of his boss. Your father! You glared at the Lieutenant, but he just winked at you, as he pressed his fingers against that one spot inside you, that made you see stars.

You felt the coil in your stomach snap as you choked on your own spit. As you began to cough, Simon quickly pulled his hand out of your pants and instead padded you on the back, a mock sympathetic look on his face. And again you felt your father’s eyes on you, but as you glanced up, you noticed that instead of looking like his usual cheerful self, he almost looked suspicious. Trying to look as non-suspicious as possible, you shook your head, gesturing wildly until you could finally speak.

“S-Swallowed a bug. ‘m sorry.”

Your dad didn’t seem convinced, but at least he said nothing as he passed his water bottle to you. With a thankful smile, you took it and drank half of it, before passing it back to the front. The moment his eyes returned to the street, you elbowed Simon in the side, but he didn’t even react, just reached back and pinched your ass with a smirk hidden underneath his mask. Before you could retaliate, your dad pulled into your Granny’s driveway and shut off the engine.

“Well? Let’s get some of that pie, shall we?”

The lot of you got out of the car and made your way to the front door, which your grandmother opened before you could even knock.

“Ah, my little darling.”

You grinned at the older lady and hugged her tightly, before gently pulling away.

“Hey, Granny.”

She smiled at you before she turned to your father and pulled him in for a hug as well. After that, she turned to the other men, a knowing grin on her face as she caught Simon staring at your ass.

“Oh, do come in, make yourselves at home.”

You all followed her into the house, everyone shedding their shoes at the door, before venturing in deeper. While your grandmother disappeared into the kitchen, undoubtedly to start some tea. Meanwhile, the guys sat down in the living room, man-spreading all over the couch. After a quick look in Simon’s direction, you made your way to the kitchen, joining your grandmother.

“He likes you.”

You glanced at her, as you cut the pie she had made into even pieces and plated them.

“Who?”

She grinned, placing six cups on a tray and placing a tea bag in each. The tray already had milk, sugar and honey on it.

“The masked one. He was staring at your butt the whole time.”

You chuckled as your eyes flickered toward the living room. Simon really had no shame. When you glanced back at your grandmother, her eyes lit up with mischief, and a grin spread across her lips.

“You already fucked him, didn’t you?”

“Granny!”

Your eyes widened at her words and you felt your face heat up. She has always been blunt, but that was new. She started to cackle, as she carefully poured hot water into the cups.

“What? It is quite obvious.”

With a sigh, you rolled your eyes and grabbed the tray, giving your grandmother one more playful glare, before you carried it into the living room and placed it on the table. Your grandmother followed closely behind you, with the pie and small plates, putting them down beside the tray.

“Help yourself, please.”

The guys all thanked her, before grabbing a plate with pie and a cup. Before you could sit down in the only empty chair, your grandmother sank down on it, giving you a little smirk. Now the only open space was on the couch, right beside Simon. As soon as you sat down, you felt his thigh press against yours. If it was anyone else you would have jotted it up to typical man-spreading, but you knew it was intentional. And when you glanced at your grandma, she had that mischievous grin on her face that kind of scared you.

It had been two hours since you arrived at your grandma’s house and you all agreed that it was time to leave. While you were saying goodbye, your dad made his way to the car and jumped in, trying to start it, but…it didn’t. He tried again, as all of you glanced at him, but after a few more tries, he gave up.

“Damn thing won’t start.”

With a sigh, he walked back up to the house, scratching his head as he was considering what to do. But your grandma was quick to offer a solution. Took quick.

“Well, nothing you can do. At least not today. You can stay here tonight, the house is big enough for all of you, and I have enough dinner to feed an army.”

You glanced at her and the look on her face told you everything you needed to know. She did something to the car.

Your dad tried to argue that he could just call the base and ask them to pick you up, but after a bit of arguing, your grandmother convinced him that it was nonsense and that he shouldn’t bother anyone this late. So everyone walked back into the house, once again taking off their shoes.

After dinner and a bit of playing UNO, your father went upstairs and collected some of his clothes to give to the guys, so that they could sleep in something more comfortable. While you and your dad would sleep in your own rooms, Soap and Gaz had to share the guest room and Simon had to sleep on the couch.

Once everyone was comfortable, you all bid each other goodnight, before retreating to your individual resting places. But when you walked up the stairs, you felt a pair of eyes on you and you knew that you would not sleep that night. At least not a lot.

As soon as you slumped into bed, you started to toss and turn, but you found no rest. You expected a knock on your door any second, but nothing happened. And the longer you laid there, waiting, the more frustrated you became. So you took matters into your own hands.

Once you were sure you heard your father’s snores through the wall, you quietly made your way back down, leaving your pants upstairs on purpose. Not wanting to appear as desperate as you felt, instead of walking straight to the living room, you instead walked to the kitchen, acting as if you were just getting something to drink. As soon as you opened the fridge, you felt a pair of rough hands grab your hips and pull you back.

“You little minx.”

His lips immediately found your neck, leaving a trail of wet kisses as they slowly traveled up to your chin. A quiet moan escaped your lips as Simon started to rut his hips against your ass, his cock painfully hard against your flesh.

You quickly shut the fridge and turned in his hold, attaching your lips to his, as he hoisted you up, setting you down on the counter. A quiet hiss found its way past your lips as your warm flesh made contact with the cold stone. Simon took the opportunity to push his tongue past your lips and into your mouth, stroking it against yours while his hips kept rutting against you.

“Fuck…you’re driving me completely insane, princess.”

Another moan left your lips as his fingers dug into the flesh on your hips, definitely leaving marks. But you didn’t care. You wanted him to mark you, mark you as his. And he would.

As if you weighed nothing, he picked you up and carried you into the living room, throwing you down onto the couch, before covering your body with his as he connected his lips with yours. His hands returned to your hips and slowly started to travel up, pushing the oversized shirt until he could pull it over your head. As soon as he threw it to the floor, his fingers found the waistband of your panties, ripping them off you and throwing them to the floor as well.

“Si…”

You moaned his name, as your fingers pulled at the waistband of the sweatpants he was wearing until you managed to push them down and free his cock. Immediately, you wrapped your fingers around it, giving it a few lazy pumps as Simon threw his head back, his eyes squeezed shut as waves of pleasure ran through him.

“Shit…”

His arms wrapped around the underside of your thighs, pressing them up until your knees almost touched the fabric beside your head, and then, with one thrust, he sheathed his entire cock in you and started fucking into you like a dog in heat. You immediately slapped your hand over your mouth, stifling the string of moans leaving your lips as his tip hit your cervix with every thrust. The angle caused his cock to rub against that spot inside you, making you see stars as he kept his pace, leaning his entire weight onto you.

Prophanities flew out of his mouth, as he ledged his lips onto your neck, sucking and biting one bruise after another onto your skin. Your fingers found their way into his hair, scraping against his scalp and pulling on the short strands.

“Si…Simon, I’m gonna…I’m…I…”

“Shh, it’s okay love. Cum for me.”

The coil in your stomach snapped as you leaned up and bit into Simon’s shoulder, effectively quieting your moans. A deep groan left his lips, his pace stuttering for a second, before he sped up again. You were still a panting mess when Simon pulled out of you, making you wince at the sudden emptiness. But he quickly flipped you onto your stomach before pushing into you again. If your face hadn’t been forced into his pillow, you would have surely woken the entire house with the moan you let out.

You heard him chuckle above you, as he fucked you into the couch, his hands beside your head, holding his weight off you Grunts escaped his lips as his hips hammered against your ass, pushing your entire body forward again and again.

Quickly, the coil in your stomach tightened again and it felt like it was about to snap, when you grabbed onto one of Simon’s wrists. He immediately knew what you wanted to say.

“Me too, lovie. Me too. Gonna come inside you, fill you up so good.”

His words pushed you over the edge, your pussy clenching down around his cock as you came with a muffled scream, feeling his lips press against your shoulder. A second after, Simon’s hips stilled, pushing his cock into you, as deeply as possible. You felt his cum fill you as you milked him dry.

You had just started to catch your breath when Simon slowly pulled out. With a sigh, you turned your head to watch him, as he pulled the sweatpants back up and tugged himself away, before glancing down at you with a soft smile. He crouched down and reached out, gently stroking your cheek and cocking his head to the side as he observed your fucked out face.

“Come on, let’s get you to bed, yeah?”

Simon grabbed the shirt you had been wearing and threw it over his shoulder, before picking you up bridal style and carrying you up to your room. Once inside, he laid you down on your bed and pulled the shirt over your head. With your help, he found your panty drawer and you didn’t miss that he grabbed an extra one that he stuffed into his sweats.

Once you were fully clothed again, he pulled the blanket over you and was about to leave, when you grabbed his sweats.

“Stay? For a bit?”

He hesitated, but after a second, he gave in, telling you to scooch over, so he could also get in. As soon as he laid down, he pulled you into his arms, so you could rest your head on his chest. And you fell asleep like that.

Next morning

“What the fuck?"

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Call of Duty - Masterlist

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[kvothbloodless]

Looking into the business side of the UHC shooting has really shifted my perspective on how to approach the practicalities of "greedy" businesses and similar things. To be clear, it hasn't in any way affected (and thus I'm not at all talking about) the purely moral side of things.

Disclaimers: Obviously for profit healthcare is morally repugnant, etc. etc. Please do not yell at me about the morality of private healthcare or how this entire post is evil because I'm discussing the situation at hand rather than the ideal world where we have public healthcare. Also, while I've done a decent amount of research over the past few days, I am still the furthest thing from an expert here, so please take everything I say with a heaping handful of salt, and feel encouraged to correct me if I make any dumb mistakes. Also also, most of this was realized by talking with friends, I did not just have an epiphany on my own.

That aside though, I've been looking at profit margins, and what contributes to costs. Mostly for the healthcare industry (insurance, hospitals, pharma, etc.) but I think this applies to most businesses (at least in America; this entire post is from a very American perspective). To vastly oversimplify, there are two types of corporate "greed", and the general categories of possible solutions look different.

The first is the one that Tumblr seems to treat as the only category, the one that we’re all thinking of when we say "corporate greed". This is where companies fuck over their customers/public to make big numbers even bigger, so they can keep expanding, make shareholders absurd amounts of money, etc (even this isn't actually that simple, but it is relatively kinda simple). This kind of greed can be affected/"fixed" by public pushback, government regulations, etc. Pharma companies fall into this category. The industry average for profit margins for pharma corps is in the large double digits, somewhere upwards of 50% (and to be clear that's taking into account the genuinely massive amounts of money they're investing into research and development, just to head off that line of argument). If a drug company is price gouging on a medication and it becomes a public scandal, they can easily afford to cut the price by A Lot, and still make a profit overall. If you pass laws that simply impose stricter regulations on production, or that cap prices, the companies will object and grumble and try to get around them, because that's what companies do. But at the end of the day, it's theoretically possible to just tell them to cut that shit out, and they Can do it.

Critically though, at least in healthcare, this is Not the category health insurance falls into. Nor most healthcare! This category only applies to businesses with a decent profit margin; the industry average for profit margins for both health insurance and hospitals is in the low single digits (and even though the executives are obviously insanely overpaid and ridiculously greedy, they still account for only a tiny fraction of these companies' budgets! Slashing the pay and bonuses of execs is not going to solve this problem)! Yes they're making Billions of dollars, but they're also spending billions. “Necessary” spending. We can discuss and debate Why this is the case (though it seems clear to me that the main culprits are massive inefficiency due to lack of centralization and the artificial, imposed scarcity on the number of new doctors and medical facilities), but I'm not interested in that here.

My point here is that, while obviously the execs of United Healthcare are greedy bastards willing to screw people over to make an extra .1% profit, the current system is set up such that they sort of have to be (again, this is not a moral justification). Like, the money has to come from somewhere! In the absence of government subsidies, a private insurance company is operating pretty close to the razors edge; if UHC wants to accept more claims, they've got to have higher premiums, or screw over their own employees across the board, or make up the money somewhere else (and again, slashing exec salaries and bonuses will not make a big dent here). This means that they are Not going to be nearly as amenable to public pushback, and even simple government regulations won't really work. If the government told UHC that they needed to accept more claims without raising premiums a corresponding amount (or slash all employees' salaries, etc.), then either UHC will find a way around those new regulations, or they will go bankrupt, and everyone they insured will have to go buy insurance from another company that did one of those other things.

While you Can rightfully still call this behavior greedy, it seems to me an obviously different Type of greed compared to the first category. It's a sort of systemically Enforced greed, rather than one owing to any given board's choices. Like, in the absence of single payer healthcare (obviously a better option), insurance companies Must be horrible and greedy because if they are not they will stop being a functioning company. And you can't really pass the buck! The profit margins for medical facilities and specialists and such are all equally small. This isn't a situation where you can say "well the insurance companies are unnecessary", because healthcare (in its current form, in the USA) itself is pretty expensive to pay for!

Prices are negotiated between a healthcare facility and each insurance corporation, so it gets a bit more complicated, but at the end of the day, these businesses rely on both the reliable but individually lower income from insurance companies, and the sporadic but insane price gouging they charge for people without insurance. And this sucks! But that doesn't change the fact that if you tell a hospital or whatever that they must significantly reduce how much they charge for, say, an MRI, or even an annual checkup, then they must either find a way to charge more elsewhere and make it up; they must fire employees or lower wages, lowering the quality of care; or they will go out of business. They just don't have a large enough profit margin to handle any sort of significant reduction in income.

Aha! I hear you say. While slashing executives salaries and bonuses wouldn't put a dent in expenses, slashing doctor's salaries would! And you'd be correct, to a degree. However, doctors have massive amounts of medical debt, and also regularly work 12+ hour shifts. Until that changes, significantly reducing their salaries (and it would need to be a Large reduction to make a useful dent in costs) is an extremely thorny issue.

So where am I going with this? No idea, to be honest. Except to say that, issues with murder and such aside, putting the fear of god into insurance CEOs quite literally Cannot make a major difference long or even medium-term. They simply do not have enough profit margin to play around with. As I said way earlier, this is not the sort of corporate greed that can be significantly "fixed" by public action or simple government regulations; without a major change in the entire system, private insurance companies are fairly essential to people getting decent healthcare, and those companies are obligated to be awful and greedy, or they will go bankrupt. I know I'm coming dangerously close to mentioning game theory and summoning Moloch, though this is really a couple levels below that, so I'll stop here.

Oh, except to say that, if you're dead set on shooting a CEO, go for a pharma corp one rather than health insurance.

[thefloatingstone]

Puff please tell me about Grunt I just saw a Tumblr post you reblogged that vaguely went into detail and I read a small bit of his wiki page but I want to hear it in your own words because it's like 10x more interesting with that filter. Fill my dash with grunt lore

GRUNT IS SHEPARD'S VERY LARGE SON

I don't know whether the designers originally created him with this thought in mind or not but it's really funny because by the time the DLC came out for ME2 you can see the games just fully embracing what was originally just a joke in the Mass Effect fandom.

I used to not be fully into it as a concept but as I'm busy replaying ME3 and having just played ME2 again... nah people were right. He's our son.

He was created in a lab to be an "ultimate krogan warrior" or whatever, but when Shepard cracked how out of his tube, he had did not have that "burning desire of revenge in the name of his species" the scientist who made him was obsessed by. Physically he was perfect, but psychologically, he just didn't understand why he should care about being a krogan. in ME2 when he's introduced, his story arc is helping him connect with what it means to be a krogan, and to help him find purpose as an individual. You essentially help raise this adolescent fully formed person out of apathy and teach him how to care about things, concepts and people, almost completely through actions and not so much through words.

As ME2 goes on, it becomes clear Grunt very much wants Shepard's approval about things, which is funny because at first he comes across as a cold, uncaring fully formed adult, but as you help him learn how to connect with being a member of his species, he'll sometimes want to talk to Shepard JUST to be like "Hey Shepard!! I thought about something to do with being Krogan I thought you'd approve of! listen to this!!"

In the DLC for ME2, you can read up on his internet search history as well as his online purchase history and I just.... think a lot of it explains SO MUCH about him as a character. So I'm just copy and pasting those here

SEARCH: krogan history SEARCH: great wars SEARCH: genofage / ERASED / krogan victories SEARCH: okeer/ ERASED / great generals SEARCH: toochanka/ ERASED / tuchanka SEARCH: urnot wrex SEARCH: battlemaster shepard/ MODIFIED/ commander shepard/MODIFIED/commander shepard normandy SEARCH: animal fights / MODIFIED / large predators SEARCH: tryrannsauros wrex/ ERASED / earth lizard wrex SEARCH: dinosaurs

SEARCH: battlemaster humans/ ERASED / earth humans SEARCH: human history SEARCH: earth wars // DOWNLOAD 6.1T NEWS FOOTAGE - HUMAN GENERAL HISTORICAL - CONFLICT // SEARCH: warrior humans // DOWNLOAD 2.1T DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE - HUMAN GENERAL HISTORICAL- MAJOR MILITARY FIGURES // SEARCH: great humans/ MODIFIED / honored humans // DOWNLOAD 0.7T NEWSFOOTAGE [sic] - HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT- AWARDS // SEARCH: great storytellers human SEARCH: war stories // DOWNLOAD 0.67T LITERATURE - HUMAN WRITERS CONFLICT// SEARCH: human homer kipling hemmingway // DOWNLOAD 0.13T LITERATURE - HUMAN WRITERS – EARNEST HEMMINGWAY // // DOWNLOAD 0.06T AUDIO BOOKS // // THE SUN ALSO RISES // 14% COMPLETED // FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS // 100% COMPLETED // A FAREWELL TO ARMS // DELETED // THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA // 100% COMPLETED SEARCH: sharks

CATALOG ORDER: Ultra Black Ops Mega Catalog PURCHASE 2823- UG-652: Case Premium 54/ER Engine Oil VIDEO DOWNLOAD: The Madness of Sacrifice: The Unauthorized Biography of Warlord Okeer PURCHASE 2856- UG-122: Economy Box, Fishdog Food Factory "Tastee Bites" VIDEO DOWNLOAD: When Fauna Attacks! Volumes 1-10 PURCHASE 3254-UG-975: Batax's Hot Fish Spice VIDEO DOWNLOAD: Vaenia (this is a movie) VIDEO DOWNLOAD: Asari Confessions 26: True Blue (this is porn) PURCHASE 9683- UG-662: Fornax Special Spotlight: Krogan Edition (this is a human magazine focusing on interspecies sexual relations) PURCHASE 8856- UG-972: Captain Cosmic Action Figures: "Garr the Krogan Battlemaster" with real smash your enemies action!

By the time ME3 comes around, most of the rest of the squad is referring to Grunt in terms poking fun at the fact that Shepard is his mom. I think it's Joker who at one point comments "Our baby boy's all grown up" or something to that effect. I can't remember the exact dialogue. I think at one point Garrus also jokes about how "they grow up so fast" or something along those lines.

He also loves spicy ramen.

Grunt is a good boy.

[comicaurora]

How did you get into Tumblr? It's a weird place that not many people use.

And how/why is Blue not here yet, he'd fit right in with the nerds having niche discussions about topics no one else cares about (/s)

tumblr has hundreds of millions of users, it only feels sparsely populated because the dash is entirely self-curated and most of us don't talk to each other except to dunk on the imaginary strawmen we extrapolate are behind each other's keyboards that conveniently hold a beautifully arranged cornucopia of all the opinions we dislike

Anyway I use tumblr because it's extremely curatable and pretty good at letting me post super-enormous comic pages without compressing them out the ass or charging me for a premium hosting service, sometimes when I think too hard about a story I like to immerse myself in a nice hot bath of five million fanart and multiparagraph analysis posts, I like the askbox system as an extremely manageable way of handling fan interactions, and seeing you guys panic in the tags sustains me more than food or water.

Blue, however, is not on tumblr, because we've discussed this and concluded that he would get way too mad. People assume that, of the two of us, Blue is level-headed and polite while I am the firebrand, when in actuality I am at a constant simmer of about 10-25% Maximum Riled-ness while Blue can spike up from a comfortable 0% to a full 100% just by seeing a display of poor reading comprehension. I've been microdosing on rage my whole life so I've built up a tolerance for even the most egregious of bullshit, but Blue has Normal Person levels of "wait, that's stupid!" and reacts accordingly. Poor guy doesn't have the constitution for this place.

[incorrectbatfam]

Batfam having tumblr.

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I don't care what the media has told us about antiheroes, but there is absolutely ZERO excuse for taking another human life and if you do then you're no better than the thing you're trying to stop.

redrobin ⇌ official-batman

op is a furry

official-batman ⇌ redrobin

Firstly, I don't fit the definition of a furry since I do not wear the suit for recreational purposes nor is the design remotely in vein. Secondly, you shouldn't be ridiculing people's interests. As I was saying, there's a plethora of scientific evidence showing that while humans have killed in certain instances, we are biologically wired to be altruistic people and shouldn't give into moments of anger.

thatpurplething ⇌ official-batman

"Just don't murder" wow way to oversimplify a broader systemic issue AND minimize the trauma murdered people experience

notmysecretanimeblog ⇌ thatpurplething

Not to derail because it's a good point but user @/thatpurplething endorses unethical consumption by having chicken nuggets in her profile picture.

i-am-darkness-i-am-the-light ⇌ notmysecretanimeblog

Actually those are bofa

dickwings ⇌ i-am-darkness-i-am-the-light

bofa deez updogs

your-tired-librarian ⇌ dickwings

Going back to OP's point, there is a lot of debate around the biological killing instinct. As an example, some animal species cannibalize themselves, even within the same families. Sometimes it's out of desperation or an attempt at protection, but other times it's overt hostility. Even at the cellular level, microorganisms can absorb and break down their own kind. There's a great book from some Ivy University professors talking about the self-destructive programming found in nature. #op being a furry is still a massive oof

orphanized ⇌ your-tired-librarian

the cain instinct

bluebirdz ⇌ orphanized

Me when my brother falls down the stairs and tells me he's been Destiel Superhelled

local-zombie ⇌ bluebirdz

Me when my brother

kitty-central ⇌ local-zombie

What is happening?

pennyworthy ⇌ kitty-central

Batblr's splendid work as usual.

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why was i blazed this post

[cosmowgyral]

Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog~

This is Akira here, but you can also call me Meg (both are shortforms/nicknames for my real name). I am in my early 20s and my pronouns are she/her.

I have been here on Tumblr for a while but I haven't introduced myself, so it might be late for an introduction but better late than never!

Dividers courtesy- @strangergraphics, @enchanthings

This blog is mostly dedicated to my love for the Ikemen Series games (IkeVil, IkePri, IkeSen and IkeVamp- especially the former two). I enjoy sharing snippets from the routes I play and talking about them. I am an active player in the EN versions of IkeVil and IkePri but I also play IkeVil JP version. I am not a native Japanese speaker but I am preparing for JLPT so I do understand the language a bit. That said, my understanding of certain events/scenarios in the JP routes can turn out to be wrong, so please feel free to correct me.

I am basically a Jude Jazza yumejoshi, that is I self insert with him, he is my f/o. But since he is a very popular Ikemen character, I'm okay with sharing. You can dm me/send asks about him and we can gush about him together! ♡ Therefore, my blog WILL have a lot of ramblings about Jude as I love love love him too much.

Other Ikemen characters I like include Silvio Ricci, Gilbert von Obsidian, Clavis Lelouch, William Rex, Mitsuhide Akechi, Kenshin Uesugi, Kicho and Arthur Conan Doyle. So you might find posts about them here and there.

I also enjoy anime, manga and other games and at times share posts related to them as well.

Now this might be irrelevant, but I still wanted to share. My username cosmowgyral (actual sp- cosmogyral), means whirling around the universe. This is because I am an astrophile and also hold a certificate degree in astronomy. That's right, I am in love with the moon and the stars and everything that belongs to the outer space! Hihi.

Thank you and have a nice day!

Jude Jazza's Main Story

Summary and Screenshots

Chapters 1-2 || Chapters 3-4 || Chapter 4 Premium || Chapters 5-6 || Chapters 7-8 || Chapters 9-10 || Chapter 11 || Chapters 12-13 || Chapter 14 || Chapters 15-17 || Chapters 18-19 || Chapter 20 || Chapter 20 Part 2

Mad Love Ending~ Chapter 21 || Chapter 22 || Chapter 23 ||Chapter 24 || Chapter 24 Premium || Chapter 25 || Epilogue

Blind Love Ending~ Chapter 21 || Chapter 22 || Chapter 23 || Chapter 24 || Chapter 25 || Epilogue

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