#barter for shit

[fantrollology]

…Pj and Elisse?

pls N O | not shipping it | nah | maybe? | I WISH it’d work | yasss | I ship it | wOW PLEASE!

romantically no cuz pj is super gay re: red/black and is taken pale-wise, and also i think Elisse and him would enable each other a lot in terms of pale stuff anyways.

however... i think they should be friends. i think they would have so much fun 2gether and could def go to parties and stuff. and, as long as she's nice to Io (hard sell), they could be actual friends rather than just party ones

[waterparksdrama]

I have no one levelheaded to discuss this stupid band with so I'm directing this to you but. Oh my god the way he constantly complains about having no hits is making me crazy. I get some of the frustration w fbr I guess but I feel like he's focused so hard on that and is scrambling to blame someone for them not being in arenas as if funeral grey radio play would have propelled them into household name superstars. They're not the world's biggest band but he genuinely seems so bitter they're not 21p or fob when they're doing well considering how the music industry is. It honestly puts a weirder taste in my mouth than the favoritism idgaf about that

here's what anon is referring to for context but wow still bitter as he was in 2022 when he was realizing they were going nowhere even with a label that famously fucks people over unless they're marketable enough but hey at least instead of lashing out at his own fans that provide for him he identified at least on source of his failures can't say that about every man's problems. too bad he didn't realize one of the problems was himself so that's another loss for self realization.

(can i also point out how he's clearly trying to play victim in a situation he brought attention to like yes this label is bad but are you trying to get them on your ass by saying the quiet part out loud????)

this pursuit shouldn't be surprising honestly, awsten always talks about wanting to be a pop star and is the worst with labels and fbr is one of the most draining alternative labels out there for trying to make every one of their artists a pop star and dump them if they're not marketable enough.

if you wanted to go deeper, i guess you could also root some of awsten's own obsession over business and metrics affecting the quality and reception to his works back to the people he looks up to/has boosted parx's career and him naturally adopting those habits in his own way. big example right now is finn mckenty aka the punk rock mba. parx got their start posting their music videos on his old music site, stuffyouwillhate.com which was a blog that covered alternative music and awsten has hung out with him irl on a tour stop in the past couple of years. and despite all this music stuff, finn has retired from his youtube channel because he says he actually hates music and only cares about money and essentially does a wiki read on all the bands he covers because he only cares about marketing. yeah sure okay dickbag at least you're being honest now but spewing out slop and blaming the market instead of going against your own interests is stupid lol.

don't even get me started on the maddens and their fucking outputs and crypto bro isms bleeding into everything they do. they had good songs i'll admit but that was like over ten years ago and even since they reunited, they haven't put out a new album since then to focus on stuff like buying altpress and attempting to cater to their decidedly alternative fanbase by shoehorning joel madden's podcasts (usually with mddn artists, most of which have dropped them as management at this point including parx) every fucking week and trying to make web3 stuff a thing on there for a couple years when PEOPLE ONLY FUCKING CARE ABOUT MUSIC AND NOT STUPID ATTEMPTS TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF BLOCKCHAIN DOLL MAKERS

ugh anyways you can already see some of these patterns and habits in awsten the real big difference is he genuinely does love music and making things and producing and being insane with thousands of demos but sometimes the business side gets the best of him thinking it must be transactional that because of the amount of insane work he can put into making even just one mixed and mastered song warrants success and if they don't get it, he will beg and barter his way with fans into getting enough streams for him to get one taco in houston or lash out when someone points out a flaw in that thinking because obviously he can't possibly be part of the reason waterparks isn't getting any bigger but just gaining a small portion of more insane fans who want to tear him to pieces and fuck the wounds all while he goes more insane with them because if he doesn't have the success he wants, he at least wants the consistent attention and affection he can get from fans that don't turn on him.

but yeah, sure funeral grey could've been a pop radio hit but maybe other things that led him to now could've changed too. - iz

[tridentrans]

Making oc stories is great man I can make "mailman" the world's most complicated job. like: the slow apocalypse is upon us and postal service was taken over by what originally was an intra-company DNA sample and confidential data delivery service for a company that amounts to a clone manufacturer. riskiest job around with the highest mortality rate. because you're hunted by creatures who want to harvest part of you (and your cargo). But you get a flamethrower! and because of the danger of the job you're regarded as sooooo brave and everyone thinks you're so cool and hot! and doomed. and the red lined jackets are a rare collectors item!!!

[egregiousderp]

Had to stop for a moment at work thanks to the sudden realization that thanks to the Mouse Droid fic, it’s canon that Eli Vanto is exactly Tarkin’s type, and that makes his promotion process So Much Funnier in Thrawn.

[ask-artsy-oncie]

I was reminded of the time that tumblr tried to make "monster high but with tumblr sexymen", and one of the characters was (obviously) the daughter of the once-ler.

And the funny thing to me about that is that in the canon of the illumination lorax movie, the once-ler is heavily implied to have an estranged daughter. I don't know all the sexymen off the top of my head but I think he might've been one of the only ones referenced in that trend who actually had a daughter in his own canon.

[miisfits-toys]

Happy halloweeeen Based on people in my life telling me I should dress up as "artist"

[gargelyfloof118]

I'm so very fortunate for the friends I am making up here.

One of my friends has family with cherry orchards and she invited me to come get some tart cherries. I need so many for my jam and pies that I asked how much it would cost for whatever I need.

All they want in payment is a cherry pie!! Can you believe it?!

So I have a double pie in the oven to pay for my cherries. I'm planning on getting them tomorrow.

Hometown barter system is amazing. I'm VERY fortunate to have my friends.

[maggotwithanf]

sometimes people are like "meat why don't you play blackjack outside of wasteland world events" and it's like. can you bribe the dealer to keep hitting? what do you mean there's no traditional casino songs you can yell when the dealer busts?! what's their policy on cheating?? i thought so

[victorinoxghoul]

doing what is essentially studies in order to trade them for antique photos so expect some of that on the art blog

[sternenhimmel-mond]

Otumeel is now my favorite and I will both die and kill for him.

[autisticcassandracain]

Have a Cass today!

[Image: panels from Batman (1940) #567, showing Cassandra Cain holding out an apple to Barbara Gordon. Babs reaches for it, surprised, saying: "How did you... where...?" Then she smiles up at Cass, saying: "Apple for teacher, huh? Sit down." End description.]

Her!! I just saw this panel again because I was double-checking the issue numbers for the previous ask and I just. Love her so much. I also really liked the issue in No Man's Land that follows the barter system; the intricacies of the barter system are some of my favourite worldbuilding from No Man's Land so I really enjoy reading this scene in context and knowing just how difficult it is to obtain an apple, just how prized fresh fruit is, and seeing Cass give it to Babs. Cass's character introduction is just *clenches fist* so good.

[quantumkaworu]

horror moment when I am fully clocked by this 5 year old asking loudly "mommy is that a boy or a girl?" and I'm trying so hard not to bust out laughing because the mom is MORTIFIED because she sure as hell dont know so I tell him I'm a boy and he's like "but I can see your hair? it's blue!" and his mom bless her soul pointed out that she had green hair so I think I am the first boy with dyed hair this kid has ever seen 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my work gender is literally whatever will get you want you want and out the door fastest i dont care. I have old dudes calling be buddy and frat boys calling me bro some days and hijabi girlies telling me about their hair dye disasters and have customers that seek me out because I'm the only femme/faggot on staff. I hope every time someone calls me miss or lady because they think I'm a trans woman that support goes to a trans girls in need. I know.im 5'2 and care about my appearance. I'm aheem/ahiim at this point

[akumanoken]

Me when talking about pricing to people for the first time

[mossytrashcan]

i’ll discuss economics with you. well, you can talk and i’ll listen and ask questions cuz i know nothing about economics. (idk why i can’t see that post anymore, tumblr has it out for me i swear)

it’s not up because I DELETED IT. being an artist has given me a supernatural ability to tell when a post is going to reinvent the word failure for me

[zeawesomebirdie]

Omg the amount of power I feel from learning how to carefully clean up and mend a granny square blanket

It's like magic except I know how to do it

[teiasviago]

the other week my brother asked my what my utopia looked like for a school assignment and it was a little funny how i had to extensively explain what i meant by “a world without money”