#and also dont buy anything

[transfaguette]

if rich people want to stop paying taxes so bad they should just. have no job or assets or property or income. ez.

#coyote.txt #and also dont buy anything #if you wanna count sales tax too

[elftwink]

to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money

#it actually would be way better if they didnt work and made no money bc businesses would abandon them #this isnt like stocks where everythings abstract and is essentially gambling (i dont understand stocks) #like ppl in the ad industry create things. that make a tangible and quantifiable impact on the business #which is then used in further ad planning. it is NOT all smoke and mirrors #like its fake in that the industry is not providing a necessary service the way like. grocery stores are #but its not the level of fake where everything is abstract like theres deliverables #moreover there is an extensive body of academic work specifically on how to make ads more effective #ALSO i think some of u views ads like. as if they have a win condition. which is you buy product #but in current advertising this is pretty rare and comparatively ineffective #which is why you see MANY ads which dont seem to be selling anything in particular. or which have nothing all to do with the product #the 'win' condition for THAT kind of ad is something more like 'viewers remember our name' #like. ex i would say ads for temu have not been effective on me bc i havent bought anything from them #but temu probably thinks they were SUPER effective on me because i talked abt them like 5 different times at work #and i do in fact know exactly what the company does and what they sell #and they were able to capitalize on the reputations of existing companies (wish shein etc) to build their own brand #good idea generator

[kelocitta]

Give combustion gato an eye patch?

Their damaged eye actually does still work (not very well, but enough to pull a fast one on someone who thinks its a blind spot)

#rain world #rw anthro #i dont actually know anything about yakuza other than the guys dance and buy figurines of sonic characters #also obligatory note for having drawn a funny animal with its chest exposed: no slugcats do not have anything there its fine

[girlwiththegreenhat]

oh my god they added a stanley cup to neopets

#liz blogs #stanley cup #neopets #i dont get it these cups have existed for years and there are so many insulated cup brands #but apparently they gave some to a few influencers and now everyone thinks theyre special?? #i mean they're nice cups but damn people will buy anything if an influencer has it #there's also like. yeti. and a few other insulated brands. they all work the same #god influencer trends are annoying just buy the damn cup and be normal about it whbjdfghjbdfg #i say this as someone who loves a good insulated cup. love that my coffee stays warm for hours in a yeti mug #i just feel insane when people Randomly go feral for some product ONLY because of some dibshit influencer

[mihai-florescu]

How i feel stopping by the turkish bakery, polish supermarket, and indian minimarket in one journey through the neighbourhood

#i say minimarket but when i moved here it was a laundromat. the owner and sole employee started selling snacks and such later #i miss when u could buy 10 eggs for 2 euros... now a can of chickpeas one of tomatoes and a small rice pack were 7 euros #SEVEN EUROS? this used to be my struggle meal...? #also i feel like the owner started hating me... #im making this post like i had fun going outside as if i didnt spend 3 hours on priv contemplating if i should kms instead #whatevrrr whatevr i made it back in time for the episode. even if i dont get anything else done today at least i went outside

[aquanutart]

I absolutely LOVE the Squirtle/Wartortle illustrations by kantaro in Pokemon 151!

The Squirtle jumping so joyfully from the rock into the ocean, the colors are STUNNING! I love the contrast of the Squirtle's aqua blue framed in the vivid orange sky, the soft bit of blue reflecting in its shell and its tail just catching the sun, how little and squishy its body looks as it launches itself towards the water with such tremendous excitement!

The lineless style of the background gives me the feel of a travel poster and I sense the tropical environment around it from the rocks and trees framing the corners, the waterfall splashing with as much energy as the Squirtle!

The layered blues on the surface of the water and the bubbles rising at the corner make me FEEL the liquid rising to meet the Squirtle--I can just feel how the next moment it's going to break through and be immersed in a cool island swim!

And the Wartortle running along the sunset beach, this is somehow everything I always imagined for Wartortle! I adore the way the rich purple melts into the warm red/orange sky, the matching purple clouds and shadows in the foreground, and how the dimming sunlight glows red on Wartortle's deep blues!

I love how the yellow and orange of the sky illuminate the lapping waves, I can just feel the gentle motion of the sea at dusk. The aqua color of the ocean matches Wartortle's ears and tail and sets off the red-orange sand, I just love how the colors are here!

Wartortle looks so round and squishy, I love its happiness as it goes frolicking through the shallows, chasing the bubbles caught in the setting sun! The shine and deep shadow on its shell give it an almost jewel texture like real tortoise shell; I love the silhouetted splash Wartortle leaves as it goes running across the shore. It's so full of energy and delight at the end of a gorgeous day! The colors in these are SO vivid and harmonized and the style is so cute and bursting with energy and joy. I just LOVE it (also Squirtle is my starter)

#pokemon #pokemon tcg #long post #i have deep affection for bulbasaur as well though and i also love the bulbasaur/ivysaur cards in this set #i SO wish we'd gotten art of the final evolutions in the same style as the pre-evos' standard cards!! #(yes i do love the full art ones but i also love the illustrations on the standard cards!) #from the way the settings in these two were going; i would have imagined blastoise to be set at night (??) #i LOVE pokemon cards. i can't keep up with every set but i started collecting again now and then a few years ago #and 151 has really got me wanting the full set the way i haven't since childhood. SO many beautiful illustrations (but there always are) #it's like having little pieces of art of my favorite characters and it's only.. slightly... less expensive than actually commissioning .... #i KNOW it's less expensive to buy the individuals online but it's so much less fun #part of the fun is having YOUR own pokemon journey ((going to the store)) and seeing what YOU encounter ((when you open the pack)) #i do buy them online sometimes but i usually dont form as strong associations with them as when i open a pack in a certain setting or place #i tend to try to save them to open right before a significant event like starting something new or a holiday. so that i form associations #and it's like 'oh that's the galarian obstagoon from when my mom came home for christmas' #and 'that's the snorlax who reassured me when i was hurt' #i don't buy them too often so i've got to make it count #anyway i know i should wait for the prices on this one to come down because it's absolutely ridiculous #i didn't buy anything at release because i was like $6 for one booster pack??? but i couldn't take just sitting and watching them sell out #i really like the poster because i can look at so many beautiful pictures all together #i could say stuff like this about literally every pokemon illustration (if i had time to write it out) and sometimes i've wanted to #i just chose these two because these are a couple of my original favorite pokemon and i just couldn't keep it to myself. i LOVE these

[anominous-user]

the holiday hellbox is back this year so this is a reminder to please read carefully when they offer stuff like this because this is a scam

it only gives you a weapon and stigma, and you cannot choose which one you want to get.

and with the b-chip price in mind you pay up 55€ for two gears that you can't even pick and choose!

#honkai impact #also LOL at the ai stigmata being labeled like that as if all three stigmata had separate TMB parts. #if youre seriously considering buying something w/ the b chips just get the s-rank selector or something #or just. dont buy anything

[fleouriarts]

mini sketchbook dump. lowkey forgot this thing existed until last week

descriptions/refs and such below

1. based on one of the pics i took w hivemind, i told them to do cute poses and riley decided to just go O__O at the camera??? hes so silly <3

2. another livemind thing but this time it's from the video i took of them slow dancing. if i ever say no to a hivemind gay moment... call the cops my identity has been stolen for sure

3. finally drew one of my favorite little hivemind moments EVER oh my god they are so cute. literally me and who

4. this is just a cute pic of riley that i'd drawn literally right when i started doing hivemind fanart so i thought i'd redraw it. adding both the ref pic and my drawing from june 2023 so you can gawk at how much more angular my style has gotten

5. my dearest hex aka @gaydonweaver sent me this old pic of graydon (from a 2018 video i think) and i was enamored with his fluffy hair so i had to draw it

5. another one of my favorite cute hivemind moments... real compilationheads will recognize this as the thumbnail for 'hivemind juicy kissable boyfriend moments' which i remember riley being caught watching on stream 😭 im never gonna forget that i think its so fucking funny

also the section under the cut is a SAFE SPACE so here's some silly and kinda embarrassing sona doodles i did around these

#hivemind tv #my art #fanart #furry #fursona #2024 #sketchbook #OMFG i have had it up to HERE with my campus' scanners these things SUCK #tried all three methods of scanning shit at my library and all of them managed to fuck up a pic of baa-deca that i was gonna put in here #fully need to inherit my parents nice canoscan or just buy one. i finally have a biology job for the summer thats in like rural colorado #(aka way way way far from the nearest public library or anything) so i could use one LOL #anyway please enjoy #also disclaimer for the gay moments love wins etc things i dont think these youtube men are gay i just think its cute when theyre all #affectionate with each other and shit. the hivemind bromance mega compilation should be in the library of congress #you can tell im feeling ravenous in a gay way recently because i keep fucking watching it

[itsbrucey]

Alright gayboy. You ready for the championship?

#if another. very similar post to this appears on my dash. ignore it. Brucey is having difficulties tonight #anyway the rough color made him slay. im quite happy with this #sorry that thisnis the only fuckinf wip im posting IT ALL. I HAVE. #You followed me. you read the sign. Brucey posts random bullshit over and over. #its 3 am so anything goes im a free man #working on his thighs and i dont want yall to see my shameful anatomy. im drawing FEET and im bad at FEET #might give him socks. to hide my shame. #mayhaps ill add fishnets. lets see whats sexier #also i made this 300 dpi in the unlikely scenario i make this a print you can buy but idk. watch out #fun fact. he doesn't have ears!! if i made him bald his head would be capital S Smooth. no point bc his hair covered them.

[clericofkelemvor]

i am actually genuinely so mad about how larian is going about things, on a professional level. i work as a software dev - when i put something out that is meant to be public ready, i make as sure are possible that there are no bugs. if there are any, i fix that asap, before adding anything on top of it bc 1) it disturbs user experience and 2) adding smth on top of a bugged foundation means at best u reproduce the bug, at worst U MAKE IT WORSE and then u have to untangle that

youd think this logic would go double for smth as complex as a video game but apparently its more important to [checks notes] make lae'zel nicer????

like im aware theyre... allegedly, considering what i hear of the state of the game post patch 6.0... fixing bugs. but by modifying/adding other things at the same time theyre actually creating or worsening more bugs than theyre fixing. and its. fucking stupid. and it makes me mad because its such basic logic that they're completely ignoring

#larian critical #bg3 #bg3 critical #im mad for other reasons too i.e. them modifying existing characterization and content which i dont think they should do on a public version #also the ongoing and constant neglect of wyll and his lack of content. the half assed/rushed stuff thaths obvious when playing (halsin as a #companion is so lacking for example). the fact that minthara is constantly broken. #this is. honestly shameful imo. i used to think okay they need time to work on all this. so i gave them time. and they gave us worse #i bought the game so ill give it a go again when theyre done actively shitting it up but if i was looking now i would not buy it tbh #im so boggled. there are some very clear priorities and theyre just... not really doing anything about them. why

[mildmayfoxe]

yknow it is crazy to think about how much i have been able to improve my quality of life by selling art as a supplementary form of income. like obviously it's a second job and it's taxing but it's also so rewarding to know how much people enjoy my work and how much good it is doing me to like, feel like i can buy snacks at the store. to be able to get takeout every once in a while. like obviously those are extremely minor changes or things most people take for granted but to me it's huge. having berries in the house when they're out of season and more expensive. buying things for CONVENIENCE??! it feels so crazy to me to have such a sense of luxury which i know says more about the bleak feeling of poverty that's followed me around my entire adult life than anything else but i feel so much gratitude that i am afforded these small luxuries at least in part because of people that like my art. not to mention how nice is is to make things consistently again when, prior to 2020, i hadn't made art regularly in almost a decade. anyway. it's cool!

#of course there are extenuating circumstances! i finished my student loans in 2020 with help from family #i moved to a cheaper place in 2020. i get paid more now than i did then; even though i'm only working four days a week #obviously i am not RICH; i cannot afford to live by myself. housing here is crazy. but i can buy MEAT at the STORE #not only do i have SNACKS in the house i also have MULTIPLE KINDS! do you know how crazy that is. #and now of course a lot of it is combatting my wicked sense of guilt for buying anything i dont 'need'. like snacks. #but obviously i still buy them i just make myself feel bad about it for a while first. lmao #i mean i haven't done my taxes for 2023 yet who knows maybe i'll be hit with some big fees and i'll take this all back #but idk you gotta be grateful. anyway i think i'm gonna order pizza later #chatpost #i used patreon money to buy a new desk chair a couple years ago. a NEW one!! not one from the street!

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

girl help the content about palestine on tiktok is turning from actual journalism content and educational resources and organized ways to help to "boycott everything or you're a bad person and if you don't use a game filter that generates 0.00001 cent you're personally the problem"

#of course theres still a lot of good stuff on there regarding activism but. *please* #the all-or-nothing disorganized activism comes from a good place but can also end up being discouraging/confusing for other people #theres a difference between 'follow this concise list of companies with proof of supporting israel as best you can' #and 'boycott everything on black friday/cyber monday because its the same time as the ceasefire ignore the sales and #don't buy anything from these big companies just make this a thrifty/homemade holiday season' #even though bds has amazon listed as a NON BOYCOTT company #and some people 1.) dont have a good selection of thrift/secondhand stores as alternatives #and 2.) cannot on short notice switch to making gifts for everyone #(like me! i switched away from homemade gifts *because its too much to do in the holiday season*) #(and switching up what im doing to all thrift/homemade would *cause me to burn myself out*) #mine #tiktok #free palestine #boycott

[possum-tooth]

should i get into dungeon meshi

#tempted to go to b&n and see if its available...... also maybe go to the mall. just for funsies. #museum closes at 4 so i would only have like an hour to look around :( so maybe ill go early next week on my day off #but. i still need something to do today....... do i really Want to go to the mall tho....... #40+ min away and gas is expensive.. and i dont need to buy anything but i need to get out of the house......... #talk tag

[bestomato]

i know your heart,

and you, mine

#my art #naruto #naruto shippuden #sasuke #sasunaru #narusasu #love wins #omg hi everyone….. long time no see #i love drawing did you know that. this was so fun and im proud of it #also i am artblocked but i follow a sasunaru acc on twitter and they popped up so iwanted to redraw a manga panel w them #they were the blueprint for the gays in latin america i think #havent colored anything digitally in so long.. honestly i dont think i like it rn #now that i have been using colored pencils more for classes and stuff i #feel like i have way more fun with them #and digital coloring is so boriiiiiing to me. yeah #im going to go buy some acrylic paint and a canvas later for an assignment.. wish me luck idk how to actually paint

[bunnihearted]

funny that therapists whose job it is to listen to u are the WORST listeners in society lmaooooooo. they dont hear a single word u say. they genuinely dont care abt what u say at all, they're just gnna take what theyve read in some textbook and apply it on to u. whatever u say you're not a person speaking words, your just a box filled with their judgements and pre constructed notions abt whatever diagnosis theyve assigned to u. therapists and psychiatrists are the most useless and incompetent ppl in society lmao. such a fkn joke it's insane how theyre even allowed to get paid for the shit quality job they perform ._.

#im not even convinced they process or register anything i say #also do they even have an education.....? #i've tried bringing up my depersonalization experiences and they just sit there like blank pages #and look at me like I AM THE WEIRD ONE!!!!!! u have gone to school for it yet i am familiar w more concepts than u?!?!?????? #they dont even know what DEPERSONALIZATION or derealization or any of that is!!!!!!!!! #they just look at me w a bored dead look in their eyes and say yeah u are depressed #i've even been called WEIRD!! by therapists!!!!!!!!!!! #i now know that it was avpd behaviors but when i didnt know and i talked abt it w therapists #they scrunched their eyebrows and got frustrated w me for not just having social anxiety so i could be easy to deal e #and they were like 'uh huh thats strange' ?!?!!???? #that made it SO much harder to talk in therapy bc now i just constantly overthink every single thing i say and wonder if theyre gonna call #me weird. like idk i just rlly... hate therapists. i hate them so much #and psychiatrists? 🤢🤮 they look at u like a lab rat or a statistic or an annoyance #they dont give a single fuck abt u. they arent even competent enough to help u!!! #like idk maybe u have to be rich and buy quality care but every single one of them i have met have been utterly worthless #rndz

[adhdandcomics]

I made a collection of some of my favorite comics to print & sold them at a zine fest I did this weekend :) Here are the front and back covers

#i definitely want to make more of these and do more zine fests in the future and hopefully a con one day too when i make more prints n comic #im not sure if people would be interested in buying a collection in print because these are available online but. if you would be maybe #drop a comment or something? i dont have a store or anything yet but. idk if there was interest i could do this #i sold physical copies of lightbringer too and fingers crossed i will make enough new comic to do another collection soon! #i also want to make a little zine of daily comics. and finish my starship comic too. much to do #comic #comics #art #adhd comics