#anticonsumerist

[tomatoluvr69]

My best friend getting herpees is the wake-up call I needed 2 stop getting 120% of my daily caloric requiremint from dubious random half finished drinks I find lying around in the gas station trash, Movie theater armrests, dumpster at the municipal airport, parking lot at municipal airport, etc (I do 120% a day so that on the sabbath I can lift weights from one minute past midnight to 11:48 pm (last 12 minutes are for passing a single bladder stone out my 11 inch urethra)

#anticonsumerist kweeeeeen

[hexjulia]

i'm like one of those desert saints except instead of visions of beautiful beautiful women i am experiencing targeted advertising for overpriced books i want

#you do NOT need a facsimile you freak <- healthy anticonsumerist self-talk

[anissapierce]

Is2g if tumblr doesn't make campaign pins for the lizard race april fool's day joke

#look ok ... the thing is.... #yes i try rlly hard to be anticonsumerist #but also i appreciate art #n tht coppy patch Was art

[scrivellc]

Saw a LSoH take so bad today. Absolutely bonkers shit. On one hand I want to start shit, but on the other I'm a grown ass adult and don't have time for that kinda thing. All I'm gonna say is that if you come out of LSoH believing some people do in fact deserve to die then you agree with the plant's logic, which I feel like I shouldn't have to explain is missing the point entirely.

#The lack of consistent leftist and anticonsumerist ideals in the tag is unsurprising but still disappointing #I'm doubting everyone's commitment to sparkle motion #Reason 304858 why the ending of the movie misses the point of the original stage show #I do love the movie but the happy ending is so indicative of the time in which it was made #You can't have a story where people are punished for their devotion to consumerism in the Reagan 80s #(Outta Skid Row) OOC

[ashwilliamschainsawhand]

actually i love corporations getting silly with the rainbow icons for pride. it’s funny. they’re like hey….. ur gay rite…. u wanna buy from us rite….. and i’m like no.

#all my anticonsumerist bitches put on ur jackets with inside pockets

[hollowboobtheory]

okay as a person who was raised on new wave but has gotten into goth recently. how the ever loving fuck did tiktokers think rock lobster was goth. how??? they out there listening to love shack and own private idaho and somehow thinking that was goth???😧

couple factors

tiktok kids do not seek out context generally. this is how we got any/all pronouns cartman. they engage with south park based only on the sound clips that become memes on tiktok. similarly, i think they just heard the song and accepted it at face value and didn't look into who the b-52d are or notice that these are the same people who made love shack.

goth is a very broad (group of) genre(s). rock lobster admittedly sounds like it could have been made by the cramps.

goth dad (@awfullysinister) has admitted to playing it at the clubs he djs for years

there are a lot of bands whose goth status is contested like strawberry switchblade and even the fucking cure.

in my opinion rock lobster on its own is goth purely because a lot of goths like it. same with strawberry switchblade even tho stylistically they're more like an early ancestor to vaporwave.

goth classification in general is quite complex tbh there's a lot of nuance. imo its more of a vibe check. and rock lobster passed the goth vibe check to those kids.

the blind leading the blind is kinda the guiding principle of tiktok and none of those kids talk to people older than them.

now now it turned into drama. hot takes coming.

i think a lot of them have tricked themselves into thinking that gothery is objective and easily quantifiable and not largely vibes-based.

they've tricked themselves into thinking that "music based subculture" means the music itself IS the subculture nothing else that grew out of the goth scene is important (they do this while stanning elvira and collecting bones and ofc wearing tradgoth apparel but ignore that doublethink is at play here)

i'm blaming the influencers with amazon affiliate links here. they're seeing girlies posting their looks plus a shopping list for how to replicate their life exactly plus affiliate links (or worse, tiktok shop links ew) and it doesn't pass the sniff check for them, but because they don't talk to people older than them and because the version of goth that's presented in mainstream media is stripped of its anticonsumerist ideals, they only way they can think to counter it is to parrot "goth is a music-based subculture" back and forth forever

not thinking about how the fashion being antique and vintage and reused and diy and gloomy and spooky are extensions of the ideals put forth in the music, as applied to a more everyday form of self expression.

they get that goth isn't something that you can buy but they don't know how to articulate that

um in case you haven't noticed, tiktok, a highly trend-based and consumerism driven platform, yanno with all its influencer shills and brand accounts and ads disguised as content and clones of each other and viral song of the week and they've recently baked shopping right into the app itself and every other video you see has that damn "eligible for commission" badge under it, where everybody is copying each other to sell shit or as an audition to sell shit, just might not quite line up with goth ideals.

which imo is more important than the music but obv the platform itself doesn't really lend itself to putting that into practice. again frankly tiktok as a platform is fundamentally incompatible with the goth subculture.

ok back to rock lobster bc the politics have been cut out all these kids have to back up their sense of gothenticity is music based subculture. meaning when they find out they've been dancing to a song that isn't even technically goth, that's really fucking embarrassing.

cue one zillion identical "um we can still listen to other genres and still be goth" tiktoks. which, like, true. still funny that you were preaching that shit while dancing to the boomer equivalent of like. idk old town road. what does the fox say. i don't fuckin know.

anyway now everybody's having a damn identity crisis calling each other posers and elitists and the influencers are laughing all the way to the bank. also setting their makeup haul videos to rob zombie who while liked by many goths is DEF not goth.

oh yeah and dollskill have been making the sponsored content rounds too. because this wasn't already enough of a shitshow

#beck rambles #gothtok #also i'm not exactly an insider in goth shit ok #i'm a damn hermit i'm not chatting about this with all the other grownup goths so this is genuinely just my read on it

[sonadow-the-fan-blog]

Just Some Head Canons!

Eggman has a photo of him and Maria as 3-4 yr olds before she was taken to the ARK. He has very faint memories of her, and she was the only child in the Robotnik family near his age.

Shadow knows how to tailor and repair clothing. (Inspired by the Sonic Twitter Takeover Q&As where Shadow is an anticonsumerist)

Eggman did genetic testing on himself, and found he has one of the genes linked to Maria's illness.

Shadow doesn't know about hegehog behaviors & culture since he was raised by humans in space. He has unintentionally flirted with Sonic because of this.

Dogs and Cats are the most common type of Mobian seen on the human continents

Agent Stone exists in the IDW comics universe. He works for GUN. He's disgruntled with the menial tasks GUN gives him. Robotnik, while in custody, is the first person to recognize Stone's genius. Also, Stone's life under the Eggman Empire wasn't all that bad...

#shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #sonadow #sonic #sonic headcanons #eggman #eggman x stone #eggstone #stobotnik

[explainslowly]

The intrusiveness of advertising hungrily reaching new frontiers, both like the insane "Skrulls photo bombing actual news broadcasts" and "mysteriously appearing Barbie house" makes me want to bite bite kill. Not completely new ideas but still, this is the time to go hardcore anticonsumerist just purely as an attempt to preserve sanity, I think. Participating in the world feels like getting your brain boiled in acid, I just want to exist, Jesus christ.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

all the shoplifters who've admitted it to me have been girls I've dated who've stolen makeup from cheap department stores, two of whom were very much just "yeah I wanted it and couldn't afford it so I took it" without any attempts at moral justification, and one of whom used anticonsumerist anarkiddie-adjacent arguments along the lines of "serves them right for advertising it to me and making me want it and putting it outside my price range, that made my life worst so I got a justified revenge". I do not have any takes or inferences about Society to make from this because I think it probably says more about my dating habits than Society.

Where do u meet girls just curious

#ask #anon

[coloradanum]

i am a vehement anticonsumerist however i have a pathetic weakness for plastic trinkets and figurines and collectibles and also treats and beverage and pastries and other such items and also pretty furniture and art and fancy restaurants and vacations to beautiful places. i am not making it out of this one fucking alive

#i am also : broke

[doctorseward]

gerard dear i love this new look but i am truly perplexed by the meta logo. is this some anticonsumerist statement? bizarre product placement? simply a design choice?

#mcr #my chemical romance #gerard way #foundations of decay #mcr 2022

[anniekoh]

The Scavengers' Manifesto by Anneli Rufus & Kristan Lawson (2009)

An exciting new movement is afoot that brings together environmentalists, anticonsumerists, do-it-yourselfers, bargain-hunters, and treasure-seekers of all stripes. You can see it in the enormous popularity of many websites: millions of Americans are breaking free from the want-get-discard cycle by which we are currently producing approximately 245 million tons of waste every day (that's 4.5 pounds per person, per day!).

In The Scavengers' Manifesto, Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson invite readers to discover one of the most gratifying (and inexpensive) ways there is to go green. Whether it's refurbishing a discarded wooden door into a dining-room table; finding a bicycle on freecycle.org; or giving a neighbor who just had a baby that cute never-used teddy bear your child didn't bond with, in this book Rufus and Lawson chart the history of scavenging and the world-changing environmental and spiritual implications of "Scavenomics," and offer readers a framework for adopting scavenging as a philosophy and a way of life.                                          

Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America by Carl A. Zimring (2005)

Over the past two decades, concern about the environment has brought with it a tremendous increase in recycling in the United States and around the world. For many, it has become not only a civic, but also a moral obligation. Long before our growing levels of waste became an environmental concern, however, recycling was a part of everyday life for many Americans, and for a variety of reasons. From rural peddlers who traded kitchen goods for scrap metal to urban children who gathered rags in exchange for coal, individuals have been finding ways to reuse discarded materials for hundreds of years.

In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimring offers a unique cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible. Because it was particularly common for immigrants to own or operate a scrap business in the nineteenth century, the history of the industry reveals much about ethnic relationships and inequalities in American cities.

Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

Susan Strasser (2000)

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change-the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale. Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep.

Snippets from the Scavengers Manifesto:

Scavengers need capitalism, and capitalism needs scavengers. Without your castoffs and junk, we’d have nothing to scavenge. And without someone removing, processing and reintroducing materials back into the system, the capitalism economy would eventually run out of raw materials. (Rufus & Lawson)

It takes a certain personality trait to enjoy scavenging. Even if you don't mind the potential for social disapproval, even if you're perfectly okay with delayed gratification, and even if you wouldn't mind getting a little dirty in your quest for treasure, you still might not be able to cope with the inherent disorganization.

Scavenger typology:

SOCIAL SCAVENGERS: Freecycler; Free-sample Forager; Freegan; No-Cost Gardener; Clothing Swapper

SPECIALTY SCAVENGERS: Metal Detector; Professional Archaeologist; Beachcomber; Amateur Archaeologist; Treasure Hunter; Rural Gleaner; Prospector; Found-Object Artist

RETAIL SCAVENGERS: Yard Saler; Bargain Hunter; Flea Marketer; Discount-Outlet Shopper; Estate-Sale Devotee; Coupon Clipper; Thrift Shopper

URBAN SCAVENGERS: Dumpster Diver; Aftermather, Free-box Forager; Urban Gleaner; Free Marketer; Library Lizard; Finder; Recycling Poacher.

The Scavengers Manifesto also discusses the shantytown Hoovervilles that sprung up in the Great Depression and named after then President Hoover. The authors discuss the 1933 musical film starring Al Jolson -- Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (there is a Marxist trash collector named Egghead who enthuses about the revolution) and the 1936 film My Man Godfrey in which a rich socialite goes to a Hooverville in search of a scavenger as part of their scavenger hunt.

Film and music references in the book

My Man Godfrey: William Powell is the “Godfrey” of the title.  We first meet him in a Hooverville overlooking the East River, when his peace is disturbed by a group of spoiled socialites dressed to the nines. The sisters are competing against each other in a fundraising scavenger hunt, and one of the items on the list is “a forgotten man” such as himself. 

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! original trailer linked below.

Second Hand Rose Fanny Brice video linked below.

#to read #trash #waste #depression #scavenging #recycling

[baniiiiiiiiii]

Pierrot le fou

Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anticonsumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, “the last romantic couple.” With blissful color imagery by cinematographer Raoul Coutard and Belmondo and Karina at their most animated, Pierrot le fou is one of the high points of the French New Wave, and was Godard’s last frolic before he moved ever further into radical cinema.

Via - Criterion.com

#goadard #movie #cinema #French cinema #French new wave #Pierrot le fou #godard movies #cinemetography #love cinema #films #French #Anna Karina #Pierrot #Ferdinand #jean luc godard #film photography #movie review #movieedit #movie art #jump cut #jean paul belmondo #french actors #France #love

[tomatoluvr69]

⚘ abelia and chamomile ⚘ hi rob ⚘

abelia ⇢ do you have a particular piece of jewelry you always wear or can’t part with?

i'm really not a jewelry person sadly :-( i think it stems from my terrible horrible nickel allergy in childhood, i couldn't wear cheap jewelry, and i was too young to be trusted with anything fancy. so i just never got used to wearing it. so i really have like...0 jewelry...i am a watch wearer however, if that counts.

chamomile ⇢ what kind of things do you like receiving as gifts?

i like nice cooking stuff!!! high on my list right now is a brulee torch...things of that ilk. I also LOVE mugs with wacky messages on them, would much rather recieve a weird $2 mug from the thrift store than a $17 one that's like impersonal with mass appeal bc it's bland if that makes sense. also, SOCKS!!!!!!!! i love to read so ppl always give me books but like......i usually don't like reading them unless i pick them myself so i really don't like recieving them bc then i just feel very guilty. same goes with clothes.... Also, i LOVE food gifts. A thing of tea, or cookies, or spices, or some kind of fancy chocolate i'd never buy myself??????????? LOVE that. I tend to give tons of homemade food gifts like a growler of kombucha, a tin of unique homemade cookies, homebrewed vinegar or homemade jam and stuff like that :-) i find that ppl pretty much universally love them and it fits with my sense of anticonsumerist ethics very well. But overall i REALLY just hate the idea that you are oblidged to purchase shit for every single person in your life in december. it's a ton of pressure and you're bound to both give and recieve things that just don't mean anything..........ahhh sorry for the rant. but it's getting better now that i'm older.

#asks #ask games

[clitfisto]

how do you people call this website anticonsumerist while its actively advertising the shittiest dropshippers humanly possible this is a fucking cesspool

[cannabisexual]

in my opinion, any company which chooses to engage in anticonsumerist practices should be automatically declared illegal and a defunct business.

#personal #capitalism #anti consumerism