#by this shitty company

[piovascosimo]

ticketmaster my #1 enemy

[official-lucifers-child]

still thinking about the brainrot that fast fashion has caused in people, like i made this pair of pants that are black and white with a cool flowery design, and an acquaintance saw them and said "wow i'd pay like 20 dollars for you to make me a pair" and i could barely think with how utterly horrified i was at that; i told them that 20 dollars wouldn't even cover the materials, let alone the hours of work that went into cutting, sewing, ironing, hemming, altering, etc. they just had this look on their face when i told them that, when i said i wouldn't make them a pair for even 100 dollars because that was still way too low of an amount, a look that said "you're crazy for thinking that those cost 100 dollars" and maybe i am crazy but holy shit, 20 dollars for a pair of handmade, durable, lined pants fitted specifically to your measurements? 20 dollars for upwards of 60 hours of work? 20 dollars for several yards of high-quality fabric, thread, and buttons? 20 dollars???

[sag-dab-sar]

Medical devices should not require an iOS or Android app to work. It took me twelve fucking minutes to set up and get my phone to connect to my migraine treatment device, 12 minutes during a horrendous migraine and I had to fight with my phone to get it to work instead of pressing a fucking button on the device. It might need a small controller to change strength but thats not fucking difficult to add.

Relying on a phone is bullshit: what if I'm out of battery? what if bluetooth is broken or something? what if I'm in too much pain to get the treatment app to work defeating the purpose? What if I'm paranoid about privacy so chose a non iOS/Android phone? What if I have issues with smartphones so use a classic cell phone? I know people that require that.

Requiring a disabled person to have iOS/Android in order for treatment to work is an unnecessary and borderline discriminatory practice.

Edit: After seeing all the personal anecdotes in comments reblogs and tags, I've come to a new conclusion— it is discriminatory.

[deanpinterester]

i cannot stress this enough: if your reasoning for clowning on the mcu is "they overwork their cg artists and animators" i 1000% guarantee that a show or movie you have been stanning for years also abused their artists and you just haven't heard about it because the production companies aren't in the spotlight like mcu productions are. that cartoon for kids? that incredibly animated movie? that non-marvel superhero movie? i've seen people declare their hatred for the way the mcu treats their workers and then turn around and gush about a show that i know for a fact was hell for the artists attached

and no this is NOT me saying "this means you should stop hating on the mcu uwu" it's me saying you gotta be aware that this shit is an INDUSTRY WIDE PROBLEM. you CANNOT "fix" it by refusing to watch mcu movies and feeling good about it. you have to be aware that it's EVERYWHERE. why do you think so many animation and vfx productions are sourced in canada? in india and the phillipines? we are not unionized.

i know it's hard to face the idea that your favourite show might have been made unethically especially when you've spent so much time hating the mcu for doing the same thing. you don't have to start hating your favourite show. just like...be aware. don't be smarmy about it. don't claim without research that a beautifully animated movie Must mean the animators were not working 16 hour days and weekends. i do think we can fix this 👍 but we can't fix it if 90% of us don't even realize what the problem really is

[iamenits]

The Gamesters of Triskelion

[kapacb413]

[art-is-kayos]

Totally real merch that exists and is real. I promise.

[saturngalore]

kinda weird for some simmers to be seemingly completely against ai and cf and then turn around to go play inzoi…things aren’t adding up

[unnonexistence]

imo a core part of the newmann dynamic is like... you've got these two very very intelligent people who have spent most of their lives being Smartest Guy In The Room. which feels great! but also, it's very hard to form close and trusting relationships when everyone else sees you as Smartest Guy In The Room. and if you maybe don't have great social skills to begin with, you can't figure out how to compensate. and it's hard to build up solid self-esteem when the only thing people value you for is your intelligence, and a lot of them resent you for that, too. so really it is very very lonely.

and then they meet! and neither of them is the smartest guy in the room anymore! and that is both EXHILIRATING (omg! someone who gets me!) and TERRIFYING (the fragile pillar i built my whole self-esteem on is crumbling! help!).

they do NOT know how to cope with this. best they can do is being obsessed with each other.

[flowers-but-gay]

[sunshades]

wait happy pride time to share this fanart i have of kris' iconic post

[melonisopod]

Made a post a long time ago about how Gregor compares to his book counterpart and now I’d kind of like to amend it. I think Gregor is supposed to be a bit of Franz Kafka himself mixed in with the book character (Gregor Samsa in the story is kind of a self-insert of Franz anyway)

And you know, Franz famously had a cripplingly low self-image and an impression that everyone around him hated him or barely tolerated him at best. Gregor doesn’t say this outright, but he kind of projects that feeling. It’s why he tries his damndest to be inoffensive and not step on anyone’s toes, and why he puts up with a fair bit of bullshit from the other Sinners (see: silently glowering at the little horse doodle Rodya drew on the window to go “Look Gregor, it’s you!”).

People have pointed out he’s not gotten a lot of “notable” moments like most of the other Sinners have since his own Canto, and I think that might be why. He’d prefer to fade into the background because he’s convinced he isn’t well liked within the group, even as they’re slowly coming to see each other as a found family. I think he has that lingering doubt that they care about *him* specifically, and he’s even kind of drifted a bit from Dante (After all, Manager-bud’s too busy keeping tabs on the other, more important Sinners, right?)

Hopefully, we get an event that addresses that side of Gregor more directly. His insecurity and feeling of being disconnected from everyone else, the sense that he’s not needed or wanted (could be further reflected in how a lot of his IDs are *good*, but not *game-breaking* on the level other Sinners have). I hope he gets a similar moment to what we got in Canto 7, the other Sinners reassuring him that they do love his presence in the company.

[shittykinaesthetics]

Shitty Don Quixote aesthetic: rip don quixote you would have loved medieval times. not like the time period. the restaurant. girl you would've eaten that shit up. rip don quixote you would have also loved the renaissance festival

[mag200]

i hope we are all going to romanticize windows 95 the same way we romanticize tape recorders and tea

[dykedvonte]

I think it’s so ironic that the Pony Express escapes a lot if not all blame in discussion. I can’t even say I am excused from it but it’s just how hard people circle back to the characters alone without considering the environment they were made to be in.

Why would they design a ship where only two of the rooms lock? Not the bathroom? Not the sleeping quarters? We assume that all the companies in the universe are this shallow and careless to their workers but we explicitly know the Pony Express in extra vile. They are fed processed slop pack they can’t even really cook and the ration of those pack is meager at best. They hired and made people with a plethora of conflicting demeanors and beliefs work together on a mission where cohesion is important if not an outright necessity and punish them for not being happy about it. There’s no social protocols, not chain of command other than Captain’s word/choice and the only way to enforce that is with a literal firearm. They don’t allow them to celebrate freely and even took away leisure activities that would make them less stir crazy. They are only allowed a few hours of sleep despite their being no other real responsibilities or work on the ship, no matter the position or its importance. With any crew, with any level of synergy, this was a powder keg waiting for a spark.

I’m not saying characters that made mistakes didn’t make huge ones, but I think part of the horror is that at least for some (this is targeting Jimathan) those mistakes are partly made by a force of the hand. There’s a running theme of lack of choice and being forced into something and the very nature of how The Pony Express expected them to function plays a big part.

[corvid-language-library]

My senpai and I are very different people lmao she just suggested we take the 100¥ bus to save us less than 15 minutes walking and I'm like GIRL I am NOT paying ANY amount of money if I can reasonably walk there