#ive been silent for TOO LONG

[husbo-venus]

since im on my hater wave i'll also hop in and say i dont get the yooyeon hype AT ALL. she cant sing and she has the personality of a cardboard box. i dont get it!!!!!!

[fluffythecactus]

It's time I spoke out about how overrated croissants are. All food content and aesthetic bitches post pics of croissants and I am SICK OF IT. They simply are not good enough for all the attention they get.

[dukesoakedoats]

DUKE SPEAKS

I’m banging my head on the wall

listen annotating books is great and all , like I do that it’s super cool and nice

especially when it’s like a second hand book because then you get to see what that person thought about

BUT JUST HIGHLIGHTIN A SENTANCE WITH THOSE SHIT NEON YELLOW HIGHLIGHTERS IS NOT ANNOTATING, THAT IS A BLOODY CRIME AND A HALF

[immabreaksmth]

Byler is real!!

[paranoidgemsbok]

chocolate guy callout post

All the branding on his videos?  the location he makes all this in? ‘the pastry academy’ ?

he co-founded that place in 2019... (just about around the time all those viral chocolate guy vids started circulating...)  the ‘school’ is located in las vegas.  his name is the one all over it, though.  The academy offers 10-week courses and masterclasses.  the 10 week course requires a 10%, non refundable deposit 

as of right now, this is the deposit cost

which means the entire, ten week course (which must be entirely paid by 60 days prior to your start date) will cost you $20,000

well at least you’re being taught by the famous chocolate guy, right?!

 not according to the site and not according to student accounts.  according to this AMA as well as the squirrely language on the FAQ , he will teach about 3 weeks of the course.  

at least hes a good teacher when he IS there, right?  

according to that same AMA, who is clearly giving a positive tone, he is sarcastic, he curses frequently, and he tends to not explain what he’s doing, leaving students scrambling to keep up.  that redditor provides multiple pictures from her time during the course in her history, so i’m inclined to believe her.

Housing is not provided, so you’re gonna have to find somewhere to stay near vegas for Ten Human Weeks, on top of the 20k you’ve dropped for the course.  meals are not provided at any point, either.

 will all this at least get students a good job?

the school does NOT provide references or find employment/interships, even in las goddamn vegas, where there are a million restaurants around the place.  you CAN however, do an unpaid internship AT the academy <3  

here’s my favorite part.

this isn’t a real diploma.

if you pay them, you will get a certificate, regardless of your demonstrated learned skill.  this certificate is not accredited by anyone other than the pastry academy.  you’re paying for amaury guichons name on a piece of paper.  you’re paying for clout. 

this is also, seemingly, how they can do things like this:

you’ll need a tourist visa- not a work or education visa.  because it’s not a school, or college.  

@clockworkrobotic​ pointed this out while i want ranting and raving at them

you can get an entire, real education, for more than ten weeks, for that much money.  

oh, also, all those craaaazy, so viral so tiktokable sculptures?  don’t you wish you could learn to make those?

all of those are also available as standalone, three-day classes!  wow!

and they cost $2,500!  boy wouldn’t it be crazy if those 20 sculptures that he can film being made and earn video ad revenue off of, while ALSO advertising for his college, if they could also be sold at corporate events orrr in his pastry shops across vegas as advertising pieces.  yknow, stuff like that

they’re currently offering 6 10-week courses during 2023. the soonest three of them are booked up (20 students per class, 20k per student.)  means he’s making 2.4 million per year off of those students ALONE.  this does not include those three-day courses, his netflix deal (also great advertising for his school!), the normal products hes slapped his brand onto* ,  and selling sculptures to corporate events

*same material + volume for $23 less, though he buys them in bulk so its more like $25+ less.  this is just one example, i JUST found this iste of his as i was making this post.  i also saw just 50g of colored cocoa butter for the same price as 200g of the exact same product elsewhere.

in conclusion,

[thealternatemind]

Some rando: so frustrating people quit the magicians after they killed the white male lead uwu

Me: 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

It’s been over a fucking year and I’m finally back to pop tf OFF.

SOOOOOO..... this is your friendly reminder that the magicians literally invented a new LEVEL of queerbaiting and bury your gays.

Quentin Coldwater was a BISEXUAL MENTALLY ILL CHARACTER WHOSE ARC ENDED IN POSSIBLE SUICIDE. The writers also glorified the suicide, saying he could only find happiness in death.

Apparently they took back the hints of suicide in season 5, but that doesn’t take away from how it looked AT THE TIME and how it affected fans AT THE TIME!

Of course this upset the mentally ill bi fans (like ME) who identified with him so much! Why do mentally ill and queer characters never get a happy ending, HUH??? Lexa??? Jasper Jordan??? Fuuuuuck!! Queer and mentally ill people are never allowed to be happy in media apparently!

FANS WERE 1000000% VALID IN BEING UPSET AND QUITTING THE SHOW AFTER QUENTIN WAS KILLED OFF IN SUCH A DISGUSTING WAY!

The show promoted the absolute FUCK out of queliot. They were used in promos!! We spent the whole fucking season holding our breath and waiting for them to reunite!

Then 4.05 happened! The show made it look like they were setting up a queliot relationship! Once again, they pat themselves on the fucking back and shared a bunch of articles about how amazing they were for queer representation. Then queliot became fucking subtext AGAIN!! Like it did EVERY. SINGLE. SEASON!!

It would rise to the surface momentarily one episode every season and then be beat back down to subtext because apparently queer relationships don’t deserve a spotlight! And then they didn’t address it on screen, forced Q back together with Alice (which wasn’t subtext at all—DOUBLE STANDARDS) even tho he said it would never happen again, and KILLED HIM OFF! They made a promise in 4.05 about queliot and through their promotions and they ripped that away!! THEY DID NOT FULFILL THEIR PROMISE. That’s like shitty writing 101.

Of course we were mad!!!!

Not only did they bury one of their two queers (the BI ONE!!!!!) but they also invented such a brand new status of queerbaiting that it should have its own fucking name!!

Hell it’s been over a year, and I’m still FURIOUS about what happened! Don’t you dare tell me that I’m not valid in those emotions. Don’t you dare tell me I wasn’t valid in refusing to watch season 5.

I thought I was finally getting the representation that I deserved—a bisexual mentally ill character finding nontoxic love in his life—and they ripped that away from me. They made it seem like he killed himself, told us that people like him (like ME) could only be happy in death, and then pat themselves on the back AGAIN because they thought they were being fucking progressive. Then didn’t listen to any of the criticism.

Absolute bullshit.

People are allowed to be PISSED. Even now in 2020. Ffs.

[synthlet]

man today is the second day in a row ive actually taken a nap but i always end up feeling MORE groggy and disoriented afterwards whats the point of naps anyways