#amazon within

[fjordfolk]

The problem with trying to gatekeep working breeds with hoops and shame is that it inevitably invites the heterodox tacticool brodudes to have at em so maybe we should just stop talking about malinois altogether and instead tell people not to get like, idk, beagles

[ettawritesnstudies]

Assume you are interested in the book in question, and you could get which ever format you wanted in either situation. (Ebook, paperback, hardcover).

For the preorder: Everyone gets the same rewards regardless of what you order. There might be a larger giveaway that would be won by lottery.

For the kickstarter: You can pick your tier + rewards going up in value for larger items.

In general, the merch itself would be the same for both campaigns, for example, everyone in the preorder gets stickers, and everyone in the lowest tier on kickstarter gets stickers. The rewards would be exclusive to either the preorder or the kickstarter, so you wouldn't be able to get them afterwards, except at special events like book signings or something.

please boost!

[angesaurus]

Dropped off $84 worth of Amazon returns and then spent $80 in target so target was free AM I RIGHT.

[tired-hellowl]

Comparison from Amazon Primes less then 1million dwindling viewership despite thinking she would have a larger audience going with Amazon, it hurt her more given that the company is more interested in promoting invincible, the boys, and good omens content more to suppress and hurt the fact that hazbin comes out in January, A24's website and email subscription are radio silent as well :x doesn't help that happy day in hell is a terrible opener and they should have just stuck to the original casting....

If I saw these numbers deflate this hard in viewership I would be terrified. People are more interested in the merchandising and shit post songs rather then your actual series :'D

She's so desperate for views that people are only coming for again, the character design appeal and the really terrible songs.... yikes she couldn't even clear halfway through season 2 without jumping the shark for merchandise..... remind me how she's independent?

THIS POST WAS MADE PRE-AMAZON HAZBIN HOTEL SERIES RELEASE AND WAS A COMPARISON IN DWINDLING VIEWRSHIP OF THE FIRST WEEK OF PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL BEFORE ITS RELEASE. DON'T GET IT TWISTED<3

[trinijanjan]

Coming in July '24...

Happy viewing!

[hobgoblinsandpeachfuzz]

no stay i don't care what you've said or done, don't go away, not now when life has just begun. come back and be the woman who i knew, help me to believe in you...

what on earth am i to do?

nothing gold can stay

[moongothic]

It is kind of funny to think about how popular the Kuja Crocodile fan theory is when you take a step back and think about where that theory kinda originates from Now to be fair, I'm not 100% certain where the theory came from, I can only remember so much of what the fandom was theorizing back in 2008, so I may be speaking from my ass a little right now

But from what I do remember, back in Yee Olden Days, there was a lot of speculation about why the Strawhats got sent to their respective island by Kuma the way they did. A lot of people did notice how each island seemed meaningful one way or another to each Strawhat and tied into their characters except for Luffy, and everybody thought that was a bit odd. Mainly because we didn't fully know HOW Kuma's ability worked. Now, nearly two decades later, we DO know how Kuma's ability actually works; People don't magically travel to islands they have a secret connection to or anything, Kuma himself has to actively choose where he sends people off to, meaning Kuma looked at the Strawhats individually and picked out islands where he thought they'd be best off at. Luffy being sent to Amazon Lily is arguably no different; Kuma knew Luffy was the brother of the soon-to-be-executed Ace, but also a target of the WG (due to being Dragon's son). Amazon Lily was close enough to both Sabaody that Luffy would be able to return there relatively easily if he wished to, or he could try to befriend the Warlord Hancock, who was also being summoned to participate in Ace's execution, to hitch a ride from her to go and try to save his brother. The only challenge Luffy would have to overcome there was indeed befriending the Kuja, at least enough to be taken off from the island safely and alive.

But indeed, we only really know and can fully understand that now. Back in Yee Olden Days, the fans did just seem to think Kuma's ability might be a bit more mystical in nature, and thus people got really curious what Luffy's Secret Ties to the Kuja and Amazon Lily could possibly be. And naturally that lead to people speculating that maybe Luffy's mom was a Kuja. Because what other subconcious connection could Luffy possibly have to the island especially when it didn't seem like it would help him reach/achieve his dreams any faster either.

But then we get to Impel Down and Crocodile gets those transgenderism allegations thrown right in his handsome face (and people start shitposting about him being Luffy's other parent) And I think that might be where the streams crossed. People noted how Crocodile has his funny little reptile motif going on, and how the Kuja ""also have a reptile motif"", transgenderism allegations, badabing badaboom Crocodile could be a former Kuja, secret past SOLVED.

But the connection there is really weak though, isn't it? Especially when you considder that the Kuja don't really have a REPTILE theme going on with them. Yes, the snake motif is important to the Kuja, our beloved Hancock being The Snake Princess and the sisters having the Gorgon/Medusa (fake) backstory, but the animal motif is limited to just snakes, not reptiles as a whole (otherwise we could also speculate that Moria is a former Kuja because he's also named after a reptile). And more importantly, the Kuja have a big FLOWER theme going on for them, namely in, well, their names; each Kuja is named after some kind of flower/plant. Sure, Crocodile could have a secret deadname but we don't know if he does, there is no evidence to suggest either way (but also, depending on when you think he would have transitioned then him just being able to have a secret deadname is kind of up in the air (see: Crocodad timeline))

So if Kuma's ability doesn't have a magical way to send people to places they have ties to (whether the person knows it or not), and if Crocodile doesn't have any obvious, thematic connection to the Kuja, then the only reason people believe he could've been a Kuja is because... he might be trans. And... yeah. That's kind of a weak basis for a theory, isn't it

[snobgoblin]

HEHEHEHEH I was curious to see how much his outfit would be, you know, assuming he didn't steal it or find it in the trash (which he probably did) SO all of these items, NEW, would be this much! I tried to find reasonable prices, while also avoiding temu and shien and similar sites (which was way harder than you'd think damn, especially for the shoes) anyway I used Craig McCracken's list of the components of Aces outfit for this

so that makes $153.47, which is $63.52 in 90s money (I don't know how much exactly each of these would have cost, I just adjusted for inflation)

interestingly, the boots, pants, and shirt were all listed as women's clothes

also- I debated adding the gel to this but calling it part of the outfit was a stretch, and I was already stretching with the shades... also I couldn't find an exact match for the vest unfort

[donna-rinascimentale]

“Far better were it to scatter pestilence and to poison the springs than to erect a capitalist factory in the midst of a rural population. Introduce factory work, and farewell joy, health and liberty; farewell to all that makes life beautiful and worth living.”

— Paul Lafargue, The Right to be Lazy

[i-dont-r3member]

Guyssssss I finally rewatched princess tutu for the first time since I was a kid and I crieddd oh gosh

[rustandruin]

Barry (HBO) has seeped so deep into my psyche, but man I appreciate that it is in some part in conversation with The Boys, especially in its depiction of how we not only expose kids to a lot of violence, but it is also framed into these narratives of heroism.

Barry’s life was rewritten to make him look like a sympathetic hero in the movie about it, while Soldier Boy’s entire narrative was fiction cooked up by Vought even as he remained a staunch asshole, and Homelander — much like Barry — has convinced himself that the messed up lens through which he views the world justifies all his violent actions.

And in a larger context too, we see how these cycles repeat and the impact it has. The only way out is being gentle and kind. That’s the only way to break the cycle.

We see this with both Butcher and Barry. Both had abusive dads that drove them to the military to escape (and possibly as a way to seek acceptance). Barry at least tries — in his own twisted way — to be a better dad to his son, but Butcher outright rejects any real relationship with Ryan, which leads him to turning to Homelander and accepting him as a father figure (possibly because it gives him permission to use his powers to act on his pain).

This is contrasted with Mother’s Milk, who sits his daughter down and explains their family history and how it triggered his actions, and (not quite) Sally who instead chooses to simply shield her son away from any depiction of his father instead of just talking to him about it. (Hughie is also an interesting case of recognising that his father was struggling and doing the best he could, allowing him to realise there’s different forms of “strength,” which in turn lets him fix his relationship with Starlight by acknowledging his faults.)

I just keep thinking of the final scenes of both the Barry series finale and The Boys season 3 finale and how especially haunting the latter is, because we know everything Ryan has seen firsthand and how he’s now responding to it, while John won’t know the full story like we the audience will because he was only ever there for a part of it — though he would have Sally doing her best to influence him otherwise.

[infizero]

every time i see those posts of people being like "if you can't live without mcdonald's here's alternatives/recipes/whatever!" and its like. appreciated obviously. but it is so insane to me that people out there even NEED that in order to be convinced to boycott.

you shouldn't NEED an alternative, you should boycott even if there was no fucking chance of you ever eating food like that again. how fucking selfish can you be to prioritize your favorite foods over the countless lives of palestinians

[rowlfthedog]

Just purchased The Book and I am, ironically, overjoyed about it

[heckinwacky]

😳😳😳😳

[epicwolfofdarkness]

Me: *sees people posting about the Goosebumps 2023 novelisation already*

Also me: *cries because it's not available here until the 10th*