#banks are stupid

[kkaylium]

Not my current interest being the Great Depression lol.

I find it curious and wonder how new the idea of “credit” was at the time, as it seems at least part of the issue was people buying stocks with money they <i>did. Not. Have. </i> like….. we know now that is a bad idea, but did the people in the 1920’s know? I can’t say.

However. Like everything in CAPITALISM seems to go, of course the rich dudes decided “hey we can buy each others stock and make it look more valuable!” But bitch that didn’t work!

But also, mass panic (although I hesitate to place blame on the average person) didn’t seem to help. Like…. Don’t take out loans to invest in the stocks and then freak out the second the stocks look a little scary???? Don’t invest money you DONT HAVE????? But also fuck the rich that tried to pay to pretend the stocks were fine?????!!!!!!! OMG -____-

I can’t even conclude this, as I have yet to finish re-researching this piece of history I thought I knew so well when I was 12 lol.

Also, wtf, it took a WORLD WAR to fix this?!?!

Why on earth did humans invent money what the hell.

-____-

Might follow up later - we’ll see XD

#depression #Great Depression #history #1929 #circa 1929 #economic #economy #economic collapse #whyyyy #why is history like this #i wish i had a time machine #banks are stupid #stock market #stock market collapse #circa 1930 #humans and money should not exist in the same timeline #money is fake #fuck

[leviathan-supersystem]

on one hand it's tempting to point out to the drooling cretins who bring up lgbt rights as a ~gotcha~ against palestinian liberation that the palestinian territories don't have homogeneous laws on lgbt rights, and while homosexuality is outlawed in gaza, it's legal in the west bank and has been since 1951 (before israel legalized it in 1988 btw) but on the other hand even bringing this up is beside the point. even if palestine were every bit as unanimously homophobic as faux-progressive zionists like to pretend, israel's actions would still be utterly indefensible.

#before anyone tries to be fucking stupid no i am not claiming that there's no homophobia in the west bank

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

girls when the reckless blond boy they're falling in love with sacrifices himself to save their life, and they only just manage to keep him from dying

#do you understand #its hard to tell but they're making the exact same face #someone make gifsets of the similarities PLEASE #because they refuse to leave their stupid boy even though that means they might die anyway #they're both so in love you don't understand #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #percy jackson show #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv series #percy and annabeth #jj maybank #kiara carrera #jj and kiara #jiara #jj and kie #obx #outer banks

[tariah23]

:/

#Palestine #free palestine #they’re banking on people not giving a shit because the accessibility to cheap fast food and an insanely popular anime character is too #enticing to these people #who place fiction over reality and real world devastation #jjk #rambling #noury is also getting eye surgery soon I hope it works out well for them #it is so easy for these huge companies to pull these people in because most of them don’t care anyway because they’re Zionist to their #rotten cores and these companies know that people are treating the genocide like it’s a ‘we have to look at both-‘ #sides-‘ kinda situation like it’s so… #they also know that a lot of people are stupid and would rather remain ignorant than learn about the history of Palestinians and what #Israel did to them #Gojo is my fav but come on now this is so slimy because they know that he’s insanely popular like they know that ppl will buy tf out of #his happy meal similar to the Mulan Rick and morty sauce shit years ago this makes my head hurt

[captainkirkk]

Sometimes forget that I've carefully cultivated my tumblr experience so it's full of people who have seen the rise and fall of a hundred fandoms and their associated drama, so now they want to just sit in their corner of the internet like a grandparent that's raised 10 kids and just wants to spend their golden years feeding birds and doing sudokus

And then I go on tiktok and see people who are fully convinced that massive media corporations are going to make their gay OTPs canon, who fully believe that the fandom's nuanced theories about the next season must be true, and I realise how new the fandom over on tiktok is. The light is still in their eyes. Makes me feel like a kid again.

#an incredibly stupid kid but a kid nevertheless #my posts #its not their fault that media corporations are trying to cut corners and make a profit and that often results in predictable #or lazy writing #and they wouldn't do something groundbreaking when they could put in half the effort and still make bank #realising how bitter i sound #really do feel like someone's grandma preaching at the kids for daring to believe in the government lmao #also i think its Very Obvious what fandom this post is about oop

[lydiaas]

S02E05 vs S03E05

#jj x kie #outer banks #obx #obxedit #jiaraedit #jiara #outerbanksedit #jj x kiara #jj maybank #kiara carrera #jjmaybankedit #kiaracarreraedit #jiarasource #ALL HAIL EPISODE 5 #JJ DOING STUPID SHIT #but his reaction in S3 is so different from S2? #he's guilty and actually see's how badly he sacred her

[hungwy]

i am pretty excited to meet weirdo minnesotans in a few years that dont recognize the new flag because some other submission was better

#i will be one of them. submission F22 was better #a little cheesy but the river bank / lake shore symbolism is too good #moreover more foolproof. what if minnesota finally takes over wisconsin. then our borders are changed and our flag is made stupid

[melanodis]

#banking on this news with stupid memes my friends send me on discord. again #oceangate #titan submersible #shitpost tag

[irregularbillcipher]

bill cipher is the character ever. he swears in cartoon sound effects. he has beef with a baby. he didn't know what colors were until he was like at least 27. he's the most powerful being to ever visit earth. he only exists in dreams. he's an alcoholic. he's a victorian. he almost certainly worked retail. he doesn't know about his own gender. he also doesn't care about his own gender. he's depressed. he likes silly straws. he knows everything. he's stupid as shit. he thinks that normal is just a setting on a washing machine. he's touchy about his sides being uneven. he's a flatland oc. he's owned by disney. he responds to "willy." he thinks in all caps. he has a reddit account

#i always think it's really funny when people rewatch gravity falls and are like 'oh bill is uh. kinda stupid' like yeah!!!!!!!!! #that's why he rocks so much!!!! he's just a pathetic little man with a manipulative streak and godlike powers banking on the sales skills h #was forced into learning as a flatlander!!! he's so uncool in every way and that's why he's great!!!!! #his whole plan is just 'manipulate people a bunch so i can throw the sickest rager with my pals because i'm a repressed victorian' #which is DELIGHTFUL! it makes him one of the most funny characters ever #also i purposefully put 'touchy about his sides being uneven' next to 'flatland oc' for a reason #another url i considered was irregularbillcipher so. that's my highly specific hc of the day

[samvanished]

(The last drawing it a drawing of my partner as an avatar of the Web)

#the magnus protocol #tma podcast #the magnus archive fanart #tma #gerard keay #gerry keay #jon sims #tmp #the magnus archives #jmart #alice dyer #doorkeay #michael shelley #oliver banks #norris tmagp #stupid little computer guy

[lvcygraybaird]

OUTER BANKS ⇢ 3x05 | HEISTS

#ok but the way jj made sure kie was safe before he did whatever dangerous stupid thing he was gonna do :') also the way she trusted him even #though she had literally no idea what the plan was she jumped into a moving car bc he said so and she trusts him!!!!!!!!!! gahhhhh #outer banks #outerbanksedit #obxedit #jiaraedit #jiara #obx #obxgifs #obxdaily #obxhub #outerbanksgifs #outerbanksdaily #jj maybank #kiara carrera #pope heyward #sarah cameron #cleo #topper thornton #3x05 #obx 3x05 #mygifs #mygifsets #myedits

[amethystpath-writes]

Entertainment

(NOT A PR0MPT)

******

“I don’t love you,” Hero said. “I won’t love you, even though they all suspect it.”

“Isn’t it disappointing?” Villain asked.

Hero only hummed in question. She felt serene despite the storm brewing in her mind. For now, she would listen.

“To make another human your source of entertainment? You are televised. You don’t see your shepherds now, but there is a show playing in their minds during this very moment. You. Naked in my bed- as if we could ever be lovers. A scandal- because no one can ever be good enough. Nobody is allowed to be The Hero. That person, should they ever arise, must always be eradicated.”

Villain stared at the night sky from the park bench, swollen and wet from the rain which had passed. The dark clouds above appeared so thick that they stretched across space, blocking even the moon from seeing her subjects below. Another storm was being pushed through. “They wait for the day you’re found out- living out any trope that serves them, even if it’s not true of your life at all. Enemies to lovers.” He scoffed. “The new fad. Unfortunate for them, I hate you,” he said, and his eyes never left the stormy clouds. “We are not their love story, and I’ll spite you at every turn for making them think this rivalry could turn to such. Tell me, why did you decide to become their next victim, hero?”

“You make it sound like I wanted them to call me a traitor under their breaths.” Her voice held no contempt. She was too tired for that- for anything besides a quietly piqued interest. “I don’t want to betray them. I fight you because they don’t have the ability to. It’s all for them. It has always been for them.”

“And yet”- Villain shrugged- “what have they done for you? Spread rumors? Spoken to teen entertainment vlogs about their accounts on witnessing our ‘dates’? None of it is real. I tell myself I’m fighting for something, but the truth is, none of us are. Not even you, though you think your purpose is to oppose me- to oppose evil and all that is ill. It’s not.”

Progressively, Hero felt the tips of her ears warming- a deep contrast compared to the cold air around her. “I don’t entertain them.”

“You serve them. Is that phrasing any more to your liking?”

She couldn’t argue that. Hero did serve her community- by fighting Villain, by bringing justice to him. Or…trying to at least. The rumors came with their own consequences. She was outcasted. No one trusted her even though she never gave them a reason to distrust her. Hero fought Villain. That was all she ever did, but one person got it into their head that maybe- just maybe- they weren’t fighting at all. Maybe Hero and Villain were living a fairytale. Maybe they were an item and the fights were all a facade so at least one of them would be praised.

Still, it had nothing to do with entertainment. Hero didn’t want to think of it that way. If she did, it meant she did all of this for nothing. She had no purpose. She wasted her time, energy, and effort.

“Why did we meet here?” It was going to start raining again, and Hero was already shivering. She only met him tonight because doing so meant he was with her, in sight, and unproductive in his schemes. He volunteered her as a distraction; she wasn’t smart enough to say no.

“We might only be a means of entertainment, but I’ve learned to appreciate the act. You and I are not friends, but they think so. There’s a camera- over there…” He pointed to a tree, and Hero cursed under her breath. “And it’s been filming us the entire time. Having casual conversation on a stormy night where no one else would dare relax. Nice and private- though cold, but we’re willing to sacrifice that warmth if it means being together, right?”

“You set me up.” Here she thought she was allowing herself to distract him, but it was his plan all along. Of course he wasn’t wanting to fix this problem. “You said you were tired of the rumors, Villain. That’s why we were here, to lay them to rest.”

Villain laughed and finally looked to Hero. His eyes trailed to her ears, all red from her frustration. It irritated her even more and she untucked her hair. “You aren’t just their entertainment, Hero. You’re mine, too.” He muttered, “So easy.”

She wanted to argue: I’m not your entertainment; I’m Im no one’s, but it would only prove him right. Looking at his smile now, Hero regretted even pulling her hair from behind her ears.

I can fight him now. The camera would see it and the people would know that the two were not lovers at all. But again, she’d be amusing him. Right now, he was expecting her to make a move, to- to retaliate, if only to entertain him more. Yet, if she didn’t do anything, the tape he had now would only confirm in the community’s mind that she was a scandal. Untrue and unfit for being their voice. Would they arrest her?

“I’m all you have now. Your only security.”

Hero shook her head. “No. That’s not true.”

“Then who else do you have?”

The sky was sprinkling now. Fat cold raindrops touched on Hero’s shoulders and she shivered. “They’ll believe me,” she said, though it came out as a whisper. Still, Villain heard.

“Do they believe you now?”

No.

“If you are not with me, you are nothing but a bad face to them. I can give you a new identity. I can give you a new start, one where you can be the one entertained- not them.”

His hand touched her face. She flinched. When had she closed her eyes and when had he stood from the park bench? When did the sprinkling of them sky become thin, pelting drops?

It stung: his hand, the rain, the biting cold, the realization that she was running out of options.

“I don’t need your help.”

“They’ll arrest you. Treason,” he said, and rubbed his thumb across Hero’s cheekbone. “Isn’t that the highest punishable crime?”

Was it? She wasn’t sure.

He was scaring her.

He was scaring her, and it was working so well that she felt herself sweating despite also quivering in the downpour.

His fingers wrapped under her chin while his other hand rested on her shoulder. “I can help.”

“You’re the reason I’m in this position!” Hero tried to rip away, but Villain stopped her with a heavy grip. “I don’t want your help. I don’t want your help.”

“You put yourself in this position by fighting something you had no right mind fighting. You were unprepared, Hero. Ill-advised.” His thumb strummed her cheek again, calming, manipulative. “I only helped you realize.”

The drop on her cheek was warm- a tear, not a raindrop. “You told me we’re not friends.”

“No. I pity you.” The hand on her shoulder fell and Villain wrapped his arm around her back, pulling her into a hug. Instinctively, she turned her head against his chest. His shirt was soaked and cold, but it was comfortable. She stayed, forgetting entirely who he was.

When had the heat left her ears? Was it when the rain started or when she laid her head on his chest? “We’re not friends,” she said, but as she stood in the pouring rain, cheek pressed against Villain’s wet shirt, she couldn’t imagine leaving. Let them have their entertainment, she almost said, but no. She wasn’t supposed to be here.

Almost seeming to read her thoughts, Villain asked, “Who else do you have, Hero? Stand with me in this rain; let it wash away the hero you tried to be, and start anew.”

Thunder crackled across the sky. Hero remained silent. Enemies…lovers…amusement…what did it matter? She was comfortable in the rain, comfortable in the cold. “Will you delete the footage if I agree?”

He hummed.

“Delete it,” she begged, though her head never left his chest. “I want to start over. I would do anything.”

“Will,” Villain corrected. “I have some ideas for you.”

For now, they would leave the open sky, full of lightning and threatened existences. They would leave, and Hero would cry, grieve over her attempted heroism, and look to Villain- of all people- for a shoulder to cry on.

And as all villains do, he would take advantage of her, warp her mind, make her believe that she was wrong to be a hero, that she was a source of entertainment, though we, dear audience, know she was an inspiration all along.

#not a pr0mpt #Entertainment #whoopsy daisy- did I disappear off the face of Earth again? #I earned my Associates degree. #Learned bank stuff (being an adult is stupid). #Got hired for a lifetime career (we’re rocking it in higher education now). #Um yeah. I’ve been busy 🙃 #Oh yeah. And it’s my 21st bday 😆 #Shadow- I promise I am not ignoring you. I’ve barely even spoken to my family #I actually just looked at your text- I promise I’m responding soon 😅 #anyway this was a one-shot because I felt inspired and have not written in a millennia #hero x villain #heroes and villains #hero #villain #hero x villain story #hero x villain drabble #hero x villain snippet #writeblr #enemies to lovers #enemies to enemies

[coyoxxtl]

when people say falin had “pretty girl privilege” with how people treated her autism are insane like, she wasnt at that magic school by choice, she was sent there by her father because everyone in their community shunned her. and when she was there everyone but marcille thought she was a weirdo and didn’t fuck with her so, literally what are y’all talking about

#like sure this is all more apparent in the manga but even in the anime you can Tell that being pretty got her nowhere #you can argue her autism was harder on falin Because shes a girl. at least laios left home by his own volition #falin was literally an Embarrassment to her father. enough to send her away for convenience. laios truly has to be mad for the both of them #just bc shuro is a stupid lovesteuck man doesn’t mean shes rly banking on Pretty Privilege #dungeon meshi #falin touden

[rassilontdavros]

Why did Joe Biden lend military aid to a genocidal ethnostate (that a growing percentage of Democrat voters are opposed to) in a reelection year? Is he stupid?

#r/batmanarkham #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #free west bank #god dammit joe #cw genocide #tw genocide #stupid memes #cw joe biden #tw joe biden #venting #israel

[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

i'm going to need context for spaceship afton, like, immediately

Okay so I’m pretty sure it’s based off this one interview Dawko did with PJ Heywood (Bill’s VA) where Dawko joked that William could spend his resources making flying cars instead of murderous party robots after PJ lamented the lack of them in the modern day.

It led to the idea of flying cars that kill kids and a flying car with a Funtime Freddy in it so it’s basically cannon that Will fantasises about being the jetsons IRL

So like in the new Freddy in Space William in flying car is an enemy now.

#my bank of fnaf knowledge #i love William in spacecar image so much #asks #tinygigas #william afton #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #Freddy in space 3 #i think it’s also just the general idea that William drives stupid purple cars

[ech-e-sketch]

People are playing starfield and complaining because they expected it to be the be-all-and-end-all of space exploration games I’m playing starfield because it’s a goofy space cowboy simulator

#starfield #!! #bethesda #starfield fanart #my starfield character once I figure out how to mod stupid shirts #i love this game man all the mad reviews are crazy #I’m dogfighting in a spaceship and stopping bank robberies in the sci fi old west bro #also look it’s me that’s what I look like that’s a first on this page howdy 👋