#market worth

[star--nymph]

thinking about how as a templar, Cullen wasn't functioning as a person. He was just a cog in a machine; a rusted, chipped one that screeched when it connected with another cog, but a cog nevertheless. Templars don't have belongings, they don't have interests, they forfeit their family, if they are allowed to marry it's under strict guidelines. the lyrium isn't just there to make the powerful, it's to make them subservient, in theory it is meant to be the leash that yanks when the templars speaks for themselves or others. You want to rebel, you want to advocate for others? The leash can be pulled, taking you further and further away from a new drought of lyrium.

no one pays a templar to think. you are there for the honor and love of the Maker and you swing your sword for Him and no one else

and when he comes out of it, what does Cullen have? His suit of armor, his sword, his mantle, maybe an under shirt and a pair of breeches, and his coin

the coin that was his one act of rebellion in his seventeen year tenure

no one wonder he says to a romance inquisition 'when it started, I hadn't considered much beyond our survival' because why would he? Templars don't have futures, they have service and they either die in service or die on the street, starved of lyrium and dignity. It's an act of rebellion in and of itself for Cullen to think he has the possibility of a future with anyone or anything

maybe that's the greatest gift an inquisitor, romanced or not, can give him--a chance to leave service and for once, be a person with dreams and desires. And what does he do when he's given that? He creates a sanctuary for other templars, so they may no what it's like to be a person as well.

[muffinlance]

I'm barely to the massacre and I can already tell I'm going to be screaming at every this-makes-no-sense decision made by the writers (your temple is under violent attack, and you evacuate the kids... to a barely enclosed corner in a prominent temple room? Instead of to the hundreds of sky bison that were highlighted as flying in earlier? Why?) (And Aang left to clear his head and think instead of to run from his duties? That's such a less compelling plot arc?) (And the show had him briefly monologue about being a goofy kid who loves pies and his friends instead of using the extended temple scene to show any of that? Didn't want to pay more child actors, did you, Netflix?)

Yeah I'm just. Going to be screaming at the screen instead of enjoying this. Different decisions aren't necessarily bad, but when those decisions seem to be in the direction of "show a man burning alive before we even get to the on-screen massacre" this is just... not the show for me.

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

[thesophistiicate]

maybe an unpopular opinion but despite my passion for self development, i honestly dislike most typical 'self development' books and really believe you get a lot more self-expansion out of reading creative non-fiction, essays, philosophy, and literature. engagement with these types of works will expand your intellect and teach you how to grapple with big ideas for yourself, rather than following the rules set out by some girl boss or hustle bro in their glorified marketing pamphlet 'book'.

[mulletmik]

God I love being able to paint tangible stuff these are scrumptious irl

[not-gray-politics]

Trans women. I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and yelling. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE FEMININE AND PRETTY AND CUTE. PLEASE STOP MAKING DIETS PART OF YOUR TRANSITION GOALS. WEIGHT LOSS IS A SCAM. I LOVE YOU. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.

[repotting]

a pet peeve of mine is stuff proudly labelled vegan but it's farmed w slave labor. like how is that vegan then.

we made this without exploiting or harming any animals!!! (but the human children forced into dangerous and underpaid agricultural labour to make this product don't matter i guess???)

like how are you gonna try to sell me child abuse chocolate and tell me it's vegan like come on

[chronically-ghosted]

day before a 5 day holiday weekend. office empty. got me thinking thoughts.

[motof1bfs]

forget to tell the world i bought a custom flag with this design, made by me ofc

[princelancey]

recent posts in the lance tag have reminded me i saved some of the unlisted racing point videos and have very rudely not shared them, so fixing that

The BIG Mexico Quiz with Sergio Perez & Lance Stroll!

Chopstick Challenge with Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll

Calligraphy Challenge with Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll

The Boys on the Brazil Grand Prix | Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll

Lance Stroll on the Japanese Grand Prix

Old Tweets (some of the youtube links don't work but the videos are on twitter)

Our Movember Message (2019)

Lance playing Tennis, part 2 (2020) [yeah the tennis switch ain't happening]

Lance on the US Grand Prix

a Stroll around Monaco

Japan 2019 delay shenanigans

anyways not a fan of media becoming inaccessible (mclaren & alphatauri we have beef rn) so this is my part in countering that 👍

[tomwambsgans]

It's just, I only just got here again, and I'm--

I'm starving, too, like...

[mechanical-artery]

its MY birthday and and I get to make everyone look at this old guy

[rivertigo]

i think mcr’s marketing practices for this tour are ghoulish btw sorry to be a hater but I’m not gonna throw all the blame onto ticketmaster when I know that bands can choose to opt out of dynamic pricing and fight to have lower ticket prices. especially after oasis’s very public dynamic pricing debacle for their uk + ireland tour leg and their opting out for the other legs’ sales. their purposeful mysteriousness creates a high demand for tickets because no one knows when their next tour will be/if they’ll visit other countries so they can price tickets however they want knowing their diehard fans will buy tickets at exorbitantly high prices when they haven’t shown if there will be a higher caliber of stage presentation compared to their last tour. sorry 4 being a cynic and implying that one of the most merchandised rock bands of the last 20 years is in it for the money first but whatever I’m just going into marketing whatever

[zichqec]

ATM Machine v2.0.0

An update to a ghost that everyone here definitely knew about, because I definitely didn't just not post the original version to Tumblr!

Do you want to work for a bank and service their ATM? No? Well now with the power of ukagaka, you can! Work your boring day job and earn a small but steady flow of cash, while listening to annoying bank advertisements. Or maybe there's another way to earn funds more quickly...?

Changelog:

Added custom artwork for the shell. The original clipart is now available as a separate shell called Joypixels.

Added a custom balloon, called Unyu Bank Notes. If you already have ATM Machine installed, you will need to install the balloon separately from here.

The balloon's 6 color options can be changed between in ATM's menu.

Added 200 dialogues.

Added 2 minigames, which can be accessed after you "log in".

Migrated to the Simplicity Template. As such, the ghost now has responses to various SSP functions, the same as Simplicity.

Updated to YAYA Tc571-8.

Added crime.

You can download the ghost from my website, or read about it more on our wiki!

(Not sure what ukagaka are? Start here!)

It also comes with...

Unyu Bank Notes v1.0.0

A silly money and Unyu themed balloon with 6 color options in 5 sizes each.

Download the balloon here, or read more about it on our wiki.

That's all for now! Happy April Fools' Day, yes this is a real update/release.

[larsnicklas]

WILLIAM NYLANDER ✧ 240102 [What, if anything, can you tell us about how negotiations are going?] Like I said, I'm not going to answer any questions on that.

[adrift-in-thyme]

I find it funny (in a very very sad kind of way) when people talk about getting their fics to be “successful” or how you’ve got to “market yourself” or “solidify your brand” so people in your fandom recognize you

Like you do know this is for fun right? Branding and marketing are for LinkedIn not for picking on your blorbos