#this is an American post obvs

[actual-corpse]

Employers should partner with something that gives employees FREE Spanish lessons.

Like... Shopping sucks... I'm sure it sucks even more when you need help, and the person helping you is a monolingual who is hopelessly floundering to help you.

[fixing-bad-posts]

vote blue it’s going to happen

[blossoms-phan]

this is so fascinating to me i know dan talks negatively of that time and the kind of circle of youtubers they got looped into a lot and i do look back on that time with nostalgia but it’s also incredibly real and im glad he gets to be honest about it now and no one really gives a fuck bc they’re still relevant than most of them except we kinda have our own cool little corner of the internet where people that don’t even care about them anymore might not even know they’re still doing all this stuff

[rafesbbyy]

So when are we gonna admit that the writers of HOTD were just expecting the show to be carried by GOT's legacy and success? They put zero effort into understanding their own characters and it's so obvious (seriously, are s1 and s2 even the same shows atp?). Its so obvious they're relying on GOT's legacy which isn't a bad thing, but they're also not doing anything good with they current story that they've got. They've completed butchered every character, every plot line because they know the show will still be popular due to Game Of Thrones.

[splickedylit]

i think. it's been too long since I drew something.

[hesgomorrah]

evidently bonanza has grown on me a lot but pernell was right on literally all points lmao the scripts ARE clunky ben IS weirdly controlling of his three adult sons and they DO really need to stop doing brownface

[simptasia]

why didn't charlie call claire "luv". why didn't he throw out a casual luv at his friends. he's a northerner what else is he good for

[mydollsaregay]

I know a while back, quite a few people on here were talking about making a new AG wiki. This isn’t exactly that, but it’s not NOT that either. I’m currently helping out on a project to make a communal doll-collecting wiki, where doll collectors can share information and archive images (without having to use wikia’s awful hosting service).

Though the website is for all doll lines, I’m personally focused on building out the AG part of the database (and there’s no pressure to work on anything you don’t want to). It’s a pretty chill little project, and customization to fit your brand is encouraged! (You can use html and css to get super fancy with it, but you also don’t have to haha)

If any of y’all on agblr are interested in doing some work on the American Girl side of things, whether it’s designing/adding info to character pages, adding dolls and items to the database, doing some graphic design, making fun lists of themed items (which is highly encouraged, unlike on *some* websites), or anything else you can think of, please feel free to send me a dm, and I’ll see if I can add you to the project! I’d love to have more people to help out around the ag side of things (there are so many American girl items guys), and I know some of y’all would probably be having as much fun with this as I am 😄

The website isn’t up publicly yet, as we want to get things a bit more polished before we start showing people. However, many hands make light work, so I hope to share more about the project relatively soon :)

[straightlightyagami]

top tier bio i saw what someone called themselves a leftist and said they support “democracy, joe biden, the rule of law, and the space program” sfhhdgdjjfd

[levil0vesyou]

Having a post get popular enough to be independently reblogged by someone you follow but aren't mutuals with is. Wild

[cinnabargirl]

Its crazy how much the adage "a lot of you would have gone crazy about WMDs un 2003" holds up time and time again

[trimmtrabbing]

american libs are so fucking dumb

[zehecatl]

every time i see an 'use this instead of amazon' i just

okay is this available literally anywhere outside of america. is this easily available in europe. or are you once again just assuming everyone on the internet is in america

[jasonntodd]

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[iconsumeheadcanons]

WHY ARE PHONE CALLS SO FUCKING QUIET??? I HAVE MY PHONE AT FULL VOLUME EVERYTIME AND ITS RIGHT NEXT TO MY EAR AND I STILL Can't FUCKING HEAR THE PERSON I'm TALKING TO OR THE SHITTY ASS HOLD MUSIC I HAVE TO LISTEN TO FOR HALF AN HOUR EVERYDAY

[the-technorats]

ok ive been wanting to post abt this for a while. i think a part of the reason that i started to grow away from the 1d fandom recently (and more into 5sos, actually, which will be relevant later) is for these exact realizations. it became pretty clear, during the band's lifetime but mostly once the band went on hiatus, explicitly and implicitly, that being in one direction was extremely unhealthy for the talent involved.

and so not only did it become a kind of moral dilemma, bc how do you support and love something that you know is abusive, but it ruined the mirage of the essence of the band, which was, as louis put it, about having fun and being normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers, because you knew that under the surface of their silly, goofy live shows they were probably not having that much fun all the time and were definitely at points in either physical or mental anguish or both at once.

it feels so disillusioning because their primary appeal to their fanbase wasn't that they were like, hot or whatever (though they were and that was definitely part of it (but also their fanbase was so fucking queer that that metric could only do so much)), but it was that they were friends. the explicit marketing was sex appeal, sure, but the implicit marketing was community.

we wanted to think they were having as much fun as we were, that they loved being in the band with each other as much as we loved them. and once they broke up ("went on hiatus") and people started realizing they weren't quite as good of friends as we all thought they were, that they were coworkers, that they don't even have each other's phone numbers, that's when it didn't feel as good.

which is interesting. we all wanted so badly to be convinced that what we all knew was happening wasn't.

i think we desperately want that. as 1d put it: to be loved and to be in love. and we want to think that friendship and community and love can withstand anything, no matter how abusive and oppressive. because we want the hope that in our own abusive and oppressive life, our community can carry us through it. we're like, fantasizing about unionization and collectivization in a way that feels safe. and no one wants to hear this, but this IS a weapon of which we (and your faves) are victims.

like, god, if the success of capitalism isn't that it makes you think you want it. people want community? people are realizing that collective action is what overturns oppressive systems? give them this. this band of boys from working class backgrounds who love each other and made it to superstardom through nothing but the power friendship and love and art. give them that experience through an artificial projection of community that only ever makes you complicit in the commodification of yourself and your artists. the strongest sedative is the one you already want to take.

and if that isn't the reason 1d were doomed to fail. because they were created by the exact power that people want to push back against. you can't eat your young and have them too.

if being in one direction was all sunshine and rainbows, the boys would have come back after that hiatus and zayn would have never left.

behind closed doors, those boys were suffering.

it kills me that i never saw that because all i saw was that they made me happy and surely they were happy too.

that couldn't have been farther from the truth.

this is killing me