#about nothing

[herejusttosufferalong]

So are you saying Stella was right??

Oh she was right

[ofthecaravel]

me angrily making a sam playlist because sam playlists specifically always get him so WRONG and i am correct about everything always all the time

[moncuries]

whoever decided the best way to love ur family is a two week bombardment in close quarters and horrible weather during holidays what tha fuuuuuck

[great-and-small]

Turdus aficionados of Costa Rica please know I love your national bird but this is objectively hilarious

[heshmmity]

f4f (fag4fag)

[crehador]

so when food is too salty we might say "打死卖盐的" basically meaning "did you beat the salt merchant to death" but one time in an attempt to be a little polite and a little funny to the chef (my mother) i said "……是不是又跟卖盐的有矛盾了" meaning "are you... having a dispute with the salt merchant again" and now it's a whole thing in my family

anyway point being there has been another altercation with the salt merchant

[littlemut]

[fuhosh-i]

“Where’s the pathetic element?” Exactly Tom Hardy. Exactly.

(x)

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[baristabomb]

...weird amount of dunmeshi fans have been saying being a caretaker in a relationship is the worst thing ever..marcille must want to killl everyone soo bad because doing things for people suuuucks sooo muchh

it's an act of love, not just a job i promise. we all want someone who's willing to take care of us in some way, just like how senshi shows care for others by cooking for them :'|

[rafrfr]

i like the legend of zelda "cool! anything els-" NO

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

[m3djed]

"he would not fucking say that" but you ever be looking at fanart and suddenly its "he would not fucking have abs"

[s0fars0perfect]

vent post about this whole brand thing because i'm spiraling about it

disclaimer: i don't know shit about brand deals, this is just an average person's perspective on the whole deal

disclaimer no. 2: i'm generally pretty anti-"designer" brand so there's also that.

so fucking crazy to me that hybe decided to send enha to fucking milan for a prada event only to turn around and have sunghoon do a shoot with l'oreal paris of all things.

taking into consideration the fact that it's pretty common for idols and other celebrities to work with designer brands for brand deals because... obvi. it makes them look cool and chic and it's expensive and it brings in a lot of money to both companies so it just makes sense. it's just shocking and surprising to me that they then turned around and posted photos of sunghoon (who has all the makings of being kpop's next fucking it boy) doing a brand shoot with l'oreal paris, a drugstore brand.

and really, it's not even that i'm angry about the whole thing they're playing both sides of the market. of course they are, it's just good business dealings, i just think that anyone who's paying attention can see how fucking silly it is that they're doing deals with both brands.

and i say this because prada recently released a product that's color changing lip balm that does the same thing as every other fucking color changing lip balm on the market in that it reacts to your lips ph and then turns pink. yes, okay, great, you're getting in on the market but they're also charging 50 fucking USD for it. when i own a color changing lip balm that i bought, from the brand winky lux, for 14 USD.

that is almost 4x the upcharge for the fucking name PRADA being slapped on the outside of the tube. in all actuality, it's probably almost the exact same formula.

i bring this up because enha actually promoted this product. they promoted it on their insta w/ prada, the brand. meanwhile you have l'oreal paris, that while it doesn't sell a color changing lip balm it Does sell a balm-in-lipstick, which is a lightweight color lipstick that has a balm-like formula (think tinted lip balm, i suppose) and guess how much it fucking costs?

10.99 USD. 11 Dollars. less than a quarter of the price of the fucking prada color changing lip balm that you can get from any other fucking brand.

i'm not angry they're promoting a brand that is basically gouging it's clientele for it's brand name. pay whatever you want for whatever you want. if the brand matters that much to you, it's your money you're wasting not mine. i just think it's fucking hilarious that enha promoted a product that cost 50 USD only for hybe to turn around and have a member Of The Same Group promote a brand that sells basically the same products for less than a quarter of the price. it makes them look silly.

now don't get me wrong. i think it's great that idols are promoting drug store products. they're way more accessible to a much larger group of their demographic, it makes them look more relatable, it generally put them in a better light but i AM curious to see how this affects the trends in the industry as well as the sales of the brand in question.

will this cause more companies and groups to start promoting drugstore brands? i don't know, it's not super likely, but at the same time, enha is nothing if not trendsetting. unfortunately, money talks and as enha brings in more cash and more notoriety to their company, more companies are going to want their groups to be like them. that can include following in the trend and having their groups promote more inexpensive and accessible brands. it could make them look good by doing such a thing.

and as for brand sales, you have to take into consideration the fact that because the brands are more accessible, it's more likely that they'll see a real change in their sales in comparison to a designer brand.

prada probably has not seen a huge difference in their sales since doing brand dealings with enhypen because not a whole lot of enha's demo can afford prada products. there are a few here and there, trust fund kids, rich kids, older fans that make their own money, etc, etc, but far less than people who could afford l'oreal paris products.

take for instance, i own l'oreal paris products. my own mom owns l'oreal paris products. there are some people who swear by l'oreal paris' make up or skin products, and that makes sense. they're super accessible, you can buy them at wal*mart, for goodness' sake! the added promotion from a kpop idol could genuinely boost their sales a decent amount because it's not out of reach for the average person. a high school student, a college student, a minimum wage employee, you see the big picture.

the fact is, in comparison to prada, l'oreal paris could see real change in their sales and product counts, but what does that mean for their price points? what does it mean for the brand as a whole? only time will tell.

this whole brand thing is just so crazy to me, the fact that hybe has decided to have enha play both ends of the spectrum makes them look, to me, lowkey silly.

[january-summers]

"AO3 doesn't need a "dislike" button"

Um, actually, it already has one. Depending on your specs, it might look a little different but over all it looks kinda like this:

You can find it at the corner of your screen, which corner is dependent on your layout.

Anyway, if you dislike a fic, you can hit this Dislike Button until the fic goes away. It really is pretty amazing actually.

[femmeofhearts]

i hope (know) this is how everyone who has ever fumbled me feels