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#and it just. i just. hhhhhh *cries a lil* its so good to see its so validating i love it
roughentumble · 3 years
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*sees someone on my dash refer to geralt and jaskier as QPPs* *genuinely tears up*
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chickenfreeblog · 4 years
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Business talk: if over 4000 people bought something in order to get a chance at the 50 video slots I feel like this is an opportunity to float some profit numbers. Like, say, we theorize an average sale of $30 then that is $120,000 in sales but the. How much of that goes to salaries, overhead, shipping costs, other outlays?
oh rad, good catch bud!!!!!!!
honestly, first of all blanket disclaimer that i don’t actually know! the clothing & accessories market is notoriously volatile, especially for online-only companies. there’s some hard data, but a lot of it skews towards bigger public companies. i know enough from different businesses to have thoughts but obviously i can’t like, see into their business model to tell anyone what exactly they’re doing.
second blanket disclaimer that i cried my way through every finance and accounting class so like?? am i a trustworthy source??? maybe not!!
anyways first thought though: aaaaaaaaah 4k is such a nightmare number!!!!!!! the single digit thousands are a fiascoville where like, suddenly you’re out of the one-offs market and you’re A Real Business that needs to have its own website with its own servers, and storage, and a shipping plan, and staff, and custom runs, which means designers and manufacturing and quality control and and and and and Forever. at the same time………. 4k isn’t even half of what a big company can do on a random non-holiday day, so you’re not a Big Player that manufacturers are stoked to make special allowances for, you know? i’ve been trying to figure out what their run numbers would be like for months and 4,000 is a real Uncanny Valley type number that i tried not to consider until now lmao.
anyways, so bearing that in mind! there’s:
cost of goods sold: just the cost of Making This One Thing
gross margin: $$ the customer pays for the thing, minus the cost of goods
EBITDA margin: i’m using the real fucking term because if one of you pops out to be like “ugh chicken that’s NOT what operating margin is” i will scream. i tried so hard to fail finance classes and god didn’t let me. anyways this is basically the way we measure what percentage you have when you’re done paying for salaries and marketing and admin and everything else non-COGS that needs to happen in a year, before taxes.
gross margin is volatile but it’s ~~predictable-ish~~ across the market. there’s freaky numbers from some companies, but basically spending 50% or thereabouts on just the item itself is considered a respectable goal.
do i think dan and phil are hitting respectable goal numbers? like…………. kind of? sometimes? i think they sell some of the more porfolio project stuff for freaky margins that Would Not Happen if they were a company with outside stakeholders. i’d believe the 60 or even 70% on some of the more straightforward projects, but i don’t think they’re particularly good at (or interested in?) getting normal margins. i’ll play nice and assume 50% is the average even though i’m more than a lil skeptical.
anyways, so! then 120,000 / 2 = 60,000 in gross margin
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
generously that puts them at 60,000 in gross margin for two weeks out of a whole year, which, rad!
but we’ve already assumed:
the average sale was $30
they’re actually hitting that 50% markup on average
that two weeks is only a fraction of their yearly revenue and not, like, 70% of it, which is totally possible for some companies
if we turn down the tap on some of the stats, it’s pretty easy to start seeing, like, okay, maybe their gross margin for cyber week was 50,000 or 40,000 or 30,000, and maybe their annual isn’t all that much higher; we don’t really know
this is haphazard as fuck and feels Optimistic to me, but i’ll go back to ~120,000 and just assume that’s most of their Q4 revenues, x 4 to get to a guesstimated 480,000 in revenue for a year, 240,000 of that in gross margin
………….. and that’s kind of the point where it starts getting a little Choose Your Own Adventure, i guess? basically every company that reports EBITDA margins to the public only does it because they have public investors, so yeah, the EBITDA industry average is ~10%. that would get us to ~48,000 in annual profit before taxes, but……..
the thing with the way they have it set up is that like, dan and phil and martyn only really seem to answer to each other in terms of money? there’s no stakeholders. they’re probably not really in debt to anyone in the way most companies would be at this stage. there’s literally kind of nothing stopping them from shuffling that money where they want it, you know?
it’s totally possible that they’ve shuffled everything so they just pay martyn full time & their “team” is just a couple of contract people that show up once a month. maybe they’re making bonkers margins somehow and they’re the only people in the apparel industry getting 25% EBITDA! maybe they’re barely making anything and it’s genuinely a financial issue for them, idk. is that what it looks like to me………. not really? they look like they make middle of the road numbers and take home a little and basically run a sequin hobby farm, tbh.
i don’t know how to end this because i don’t have a real answer so in conclusion: 
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faunusrights · 5 years
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OFFAL HUNT REMASTERED LIVEBLOG // CHAPTERS 10 + 11
we had a week of peace and now we’re gonna get annihilated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have no clue how long this liveblog may end up but hell and high water i’m combining them both
she tore the jade pendant from her neck and flung it into the darkness.
let’s give a warm welcome, to sadness,
i’m very excited for all-new cinder content hhhhhhh if u havent gathered by now I Love This Bitch and I Love Her Many Problems so im thankful for this gift 😞
Cinder was a ruin, her pride carved and served like slabs of meat.
i can FEEL diesel n kc rly patting themselves on the back for every bit of wet meat they can toss at me!!!!!!!!!! U HEAR THAT I CAN FEEL U!!!!!!!!!!! but also i still love this shit w/ all my heart!!!!!!!!!! IM NEVER GONNA STOP SAYIN IT
She had never looked at Glynda’s files.
im so sorry cinder baby but that whole thing? is still HILARIOUS oh my GOD i cannot believe you fucked up that badly. u shoved yr entire head into a beartrap. u absolutely crapped yr pants on that one. yr gonna be thinking abt that on yr deathbed,
/looks at the chapter title again
hhhhhhhh im. so pumped. its gonna be hard to talk abt most of this w/o doing a million fingerguns a minute but i’m gonna try my best
Cinder approached the mirror and touched its silvered face with black-tipped claws,
I SAID IM GONNA TRY MY BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She was iron barbs beneath the nail bed, glowing coals underfoot, the singular capacity to do harm. She was a beast, armed with fang and claw and a deep, dark void where her compassion should have laid, and she was dressed for dinner.
HHHHHH god YES THIS IS THE CINDER IM THIRSTY FOR............ i literally cannot say anything that isnt a massive 👈😎👈 but AAAAAAA
like im reading thru this and i cant cherry-pick lines this whole bit? is SO GOOD...  kc n diesel are Yet Again obliterating me w/ their mastery of the narrative style of offal hunt and i just love all of this i rly wish i could explain how offal hunt is EXACTLY MY BRAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F U C K
The final touch on her mastercraft disaster: the four sawed-off horn stumps which grew among her silver-streaked hair.
HOOOO B O I i am. Losin it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HER HORNS.......... CINDR...............
Wretchedly, she wondered: did Glynda even respect her now?
any other villain: my plan didnt work and im mad >:( cinder fall: my plan didnt work and now im mad but also mostly sad :(
CINDER’S TRYING HER BEST GOD.......... i literally hate how the remaster has made her So Soft, Actually... I BELIEVE IN U CINDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE U!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO YR BEST
Every part of her was hot and hollow. She was sick with loathing.
i LOVE HER.... CINDER I HOPE U KNO THAT YR LOVED... god tho i dont like how SAD I AM RN... cinder’s so small and the world is so big and wants 2 Shit On Her blease
honestly like. im rly- LOOK I SAID THIS BEFORE BUT. this is why im rly lovin the new cinder content because in the first version we only got glimpses of her internal machinations and now we’re in full-blown Always Sad territory and everything is suffering :)
She blinked. Her double did not.
‘well’, thought murphy. ‘that’s terrifying.’
she’d only survived thanks to a keen instinct for danger, cultivated during her tenuous teenage years.
i NEED. I NEED. CINDER BACKSTORY. all these lil nuggets dont constitute a meal! I WANT A BIG MAC AND FRIES. WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS BABY DOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
also again. the body horror of offal hunt? peak content. Im Lovin It
its getting harder to divine what is and what is not a 👈😎👈 because we got bits sprinkled around and theres only rly a spoiler potential if u glue em all together so im still being extra careful and the answer is blared in everyones faces so this whole kondor scene will go uncommented unless some Bullshit Happens which it will, so,
When she had become so invested in Glynda’s approval? When had a desire to be recognized as something inhuman, something ferocious, something black and terrible and capable of keeping up with Glynda Fucking Goodwitch turned into this?
oh! oh! i have the answer! i do! i know the answer! it’s you a lesbian,
The spectres of her youth haunted this city, owl-eyed children and fox-eared teens. They’d been a second sort of family, the only kind she’d had within these walls, and she’d wondered what had become of them in the past decades, but…
It was too sentimental, and she wasn’t meant to be a creature of sentiment.
oh boy okay wow
okay so actually this bit made me cry??? fuck OFF im losing it!!!!!!!! LET HER BE SENTIMENTAL!!!! LET HER HAVE PPL TO CARE ABT!!!!!!!!!! IM LITERALLY CRYING IM GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!
She would go barefoot from this point on, her heels clutched at her side. When she left the hotel room to steal into the night, she promised herself not to look back.
im sorry im just. so sad rn. i havent cried over a fic in YEARS and we still have another chapter ago i hate this SO MUCH..............
here comes chapter 11 
if i cry even once more im going to stab!!!!!! im not sure what BUT ILL STAB!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even without his wings, the Manticore would easily have been twice the size of any of the other Grimm, far outstripping them in sheer bulk.
HATI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HATI HATI HATI
holy shit we actually get to see him this time!!!!!!!!!!! WE GET TO SEE THIS LEGENDARY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS CHONCC,
also hes a manticore now which is, Radical, may i just say, and just a little bit sexy,
The effortless grace in each move betrayed power most Grimm would not live to achieve. Once he stood, he had to dip his head low to meet her eye to eye. His canines were the length of her forearm.
if u werent here for the remaster? we never even SAW hati but now hes here, hes Big, and rly thats all that matters,
Like a child who’d been allowed to lie and lie until at last they’d strangled themself in the web they’d spun, Cinder couldn’t speak. Could only wait on his verdict.
every single one of cinder’s inherent themes is killing me and this business w/ family? stop. im dying. this is rude
The scant space between them popped and cracked like an sparking flame, warm and effervescent, and this time, Cinder lingered, hugging Hati close.
IF I CRY ONCE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MEAN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF U ASSHOLES MAKE ME CRY ONCE MORE I WILL DOXX YOU,
aaaaaaaaaaaaaah im loving this content i rly dont have words for it dhjfgsdfgjh i just, rly like the words, and the order theyre in, and i honestly keep forgetting to liveblog it cause i just wanna READ EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tempting as it was—as it always had been, ever since she’d left the relative safety of the wastes and learned what happened to scraggly-limbed teens with horns and fangs and gleaming eyes—
with every chapter i desperately have 2 kno more abt baby cinder i HAVE to know i am so. UNBEARABLY CURIOUS... baby cinder what happened... what happened 2 u....
A lantern’s glow warmed her, bleeding into the darkness leeching at them both. It was a gentle gold across her skin, and like an answering signal from a distant outpost, Cinder saw a flush of light through the dark fur lining Hati’s throat, as though flames licked at his insides.
i forgot. that cinder glows like that when she feels Loved or full of pride and you know what i dont like these chapters. they were made to hurt me and i Dont Like That (im mclovin it)
From the safety of Hati’s neck, she found it easier—after all this time, he was still her bastion.
WHEN YOU REALISE? THAT YR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?? STOP,
For a regular person, the machine would be able to draw out short bursts of power, the likes of which no Semblance could ever channel. The taxation would eventually destroy the soul so deeply, so thoroughly, as to leave it empty for good.
For a Witch? For—
the fact. she cut herself off before she could think ‘for glynda’. has me on the FLOOR. this bit is just So Much i dont like it
Glynda Goodwitch would not abandon this hunt. Cinder knew it, had read it from her palms like an open book—Glynda Goodwitch did not know how to stop. If it had been anyone else on Remnant, they might never return, might never pull themselves back into action after today—but Glynda did not have a shred of self-preservation.
me, knocking against cinder’s head: u kno for someone w/ so many schemes in yr brain yr pretty dumb and gay, huh,
firstly let’s talk abt cinder’s “””””””””””””””””””self-preservation””””””””””””””””””” instin-- whats that? not found? yes
[Glynda’s] eyes were empty, hungry, insatiable.
i feel like ive read this line before! lets jump back a chapter--
In [Cinder’s] eyes, there was a subtle, endless hunger.
WAKE UP CINDER SHE’S YR SOULMATE!!!!!!!!!!! THE COFFEE’S READY U CAN SMELL THE BACON FROM HERE WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With a fluid leap, they were in the air, the ground quickly shrinking beneath them. Pressing her face against his neck to shield herself from the wind, she closed her eyes and prepared herself for what was to come, trusting Hati to deliver her safely.
that said i ADORE my boy hati is literally the best part of offal hunt kc and diesel do not interact,
He was frozen in horrific anticipation, like watching an imminent tragedy and being absolutely helpless to stop it. Like all the tension was mixed with grief and hopeless, futile fear.
when will offal hunt be nice to me. when will any of these characters get to be happy. hello. im full of sadness.
The sound was like a saw working back and forth, but resonating inside her head, rattling every tooth in her jaw, deafening to her ears.
im literally gritting my teeth at this i can hear it in my own head and its Very Bad!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
okay god i can barely handle to quote anything more this bit is hurting ME so lets swiftly move on before I Die
Cinder closed her weary eyes, sinking into sleep like a shallow grave.
BE NICE TO HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BE NICE TO HER JUST THIS ONCE, PLEASE, IM BEGGING YOU,
They only knew death, only ever sought death; fangs and claws slicked with blood, magic rending meat and marrow apart, and everywhere that choking, scalding heat, spilled blood like magma, like the core of a planet.
hmm... that seems like a 👈😎👈 ~reference~
They were all alert, ears pricked, hackles raised like Hati’s. They all fixed on the same spot, somewhere beyond the darkness of the cave opening, and though she could barely think, she knew:
She was out of time. The Witch was here.
oh no.
okay so THATS CHAPTERS 10 AND 11! i only cried ONCE and u kno what thats. a Victory. these two chapters were VERY GOOD i rly loved em and i can tell new readers r gonna have a blast w/ this shit!!!!!!!!!! meanwhile i, a veteran reader, am full of peril,
terrible.
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zhennongs · 5 years
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Tell us what you think about the episode!
okok thisll be long so ill put under cut
first off i love minghao w all my heart seventeen is 1 of my ult kpop groups so yeah HHHHHH and also i cried every time i saw 1 of my top 9 (ESPECIALLY ZHENNING HES MY LOVE) and ive fallen more for jia yi and wang zhe bc wow wang zhe is just so endearingly calm but awkward too?? hes so expressionless but i find it v endearing and i hope over the course of the show he smiles more and jia yi :((( i started crying when he started crying bc now all i want is for mr tyger to debut as 5 ahhhh. but a lot of trainees surprised be esp huaiwei and wang jiayi (god his singing is so dreamy and his whole personality is like a forest prince in a fairytale) but ok to the serious part i feel the grading for evaluations is even harder than s1 but i do get why esp when yixing started asking abt their dreams and getting upset bc its true!!! the industry forces companies to put idols out even when they havent trained enough to handle being an idol and like if some trainees have no proper dream then sometime or another theyll hit a wall and not know what to do and also yeah the thing abt the rap it was a lil bit harsh but i also agree like idols are ppl who are usually supposed to be well rounded in many aspects so the trainees cant expect to only be able to do 1 part and thats it :(( but all that aside i really love all the trainees this season too and i just hope there wont be much drama and i hope we get to see the trainees improve !!! and i hope all the trainees are supportive and have good friendships like s1 :’))) im v excited to see whats gonna come!!!!
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daisybrien · 7 years
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Daisy, Zee, and Night for the character meme, my dude
Daisy:
1: sexuality headcanon
im like mostly about her being very bi. but a lil bit of me is projecting in that shes a lesbian and shes just like ‘boys? yeah i like them duh. ‘course i like fred i mean hes romeo and juliets gotta like romeo. hes decent. i can like him. yeah. sure. thats the way it goes right?’
2: otp
claisy i cant believe this
3: brotp
her n cal w adam is very good. also howie there was some good potential
4: notp
any of the boys really its. not happening
5: first headcanon that pops into my head
shes got SO much hair. shell turn her head and whip five people in the face. shes stretched out so many bobby pins
6: favorite line from this character
the entire fuckin space scene i cried
7: one way in which I relate to this character
*me, obviously projecting onto my fave* what? me? projecting? nonsense
oh booooyyy real talk tho? watching daisys trepidation in going into her parents room resonated deeply with 14 year old me. the way we see her react and the after effects on her mental health of having to deal with her moms illness called me the fuck out honestly. it fucks you up seeing a parent sick so young tbh.
also? horses man. horses
8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character
yknow like nyah~!
9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?
CINNAMON
Zee:
1: sexuality headcanon
super bi
2: otp
luzee or alzee are both rlly good. donovalzee is ultimate
3: brotp
it all is my dude
4: notp
????? sadness i guess.
5: first headcanon that pops into my head
*hanging out of a carjacked ttc bus w a tims triple triple in hand* DO YOU EVEN LISTEN TO DRAKE?? HASHTAG 6IX LIFE
6: favorite line from this character
i think of the one scene where alex is like on the brink of snapping his neck and describing his pulse like a baby bird and hes just like ‘please alex, just do it i want to go home.’
7: one way in which I relate to this character
the constant bounce around energy filled mood tbh
8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character
he doesnt know how to flirt its hilarious
9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?
problematic fave and i love him
Night:
1: sexuality headcanon
lesbian
2: otp
panight is rlly good but also. me and night? canon
3: brotp
every lesbian needs a big Truck
4: notp
any dude
5: first headcanon that pops into my head
pan: hey
night: i have to gay - i mean go
6: favorite line from this character
hhhhhh i dont remember enough but just appreciating thats this girls last line was straight up ‘son of a bitch’ and thats how i wanna go out tbh
7: one way in which I relate to this character
i dont know when the fuck we made night the Gay Icon but its really good.
8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character
sonicsona
9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?
problematic fave i love her sm
send me a character
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