#over consumption

[prideprejudce]

everyone always seems to only talk about over consumerism and mass hoarding when it comes to “girl things” like purses, skincare products, and stanley cups but there should also be a discussion about how men hyper consume in unhealthy ways as well but it is more accepted in our society and goes under the radar more easily

#capitalism #over consumption #mass production #like let’s talk about……..video games specifically #or perhaps……gaming systems

[panicismydefaultstate]

A little more context:

I wanna see the Barbie movie, and at first I was enjoying the promo of the Barbie Fits and the set etc, however the more brand collabs that come out the more icky it makes me feel. I just know that so many of the clothes and random objects made for the promo will be thrown out once the novelty/tread ends, and it will contribute significantly to the wider problem of over consumption and capitalism in our society. Fast fashion is bad enough, and it’s worse when it’s endorsed like this like our planet is literally dying!

As an artist, I also just hate to see capitalism existing so blatantly with projects. (I get that Barbie is literally a commercial franchise and stuff, I just think it’s a great relèvent example for my feelings). I think when a project focuses so much on encouraging spending and consumption, it can impact how I view the work.

For example, I dislike a lot of Jukebox musicals because they just feel like an excuse to try and make a shit ton of money with a project of limited artistic intention/integrity, and it just becomes a spectacle of wealth and capitalism in full force. Capitalism is antithetical to the Arts, and so when a project goes all in on it- it feels yucky to me.

Want to again clarify: NO HATE TO THE BARBIE MOVIE OR PEOPLE EXCITED ABOUT IT!!! I am genuinely happy for you guys, I just think it’s a timely example to express some wider opinions I hold! Please don’t take it personally!

#tumblr polls #promise it’s not serious! #opinion poll #reblog for poll votes please! #barbie movie #barbie mattel #barbie #oppenheimer #oppenbarbie #capitalist society #capitalism doesn’t belong in the arts imp #anti capitalist #content consumption #over consumption #fast fashion #monetisation #barbie promo #what do you think? #what’s your opinion #capitalism #jukebox musical #movies #movie opinions #vibe check

[sugarbear2001]

I know this has been said before, but I'm going to say it again: wanting to have a different core aesthetic just because you saw someone else dressing that way on Pinterest, TikTok, Instagram, etc. just leads to more consumption.

I've seen people who want to change their entire wardrobe just to fit into a certain aesthetic whether, that be coquette, emocore, Twilight core, and now the next big thing being the office siren aesthetic.

There is nothing wrong with liking a certain style, but the problem comes when you're going on to Shein, Temu, Amazon and even the thrift just to have your entire wardrobe imitate that aesthetic.

Doing this just leads to more overconsumption, and yes, you can overconsume at the thrift store. People do it all the time with these giant thrift hauls of Y2K Mcbling clothing or whatever because they want to fit in with the next aesthetic trend.

While I don't change my entire style to fit with an a certain aesthetic I do have an issue with overconsuming just like everybody else and this year I'm trying to work on bettering myself in that area.

#allys diary #over consumption #thrifting

[feral-pixie-dream-possum]

I bet we would be much better off with limiting consumerism if everyone and their parents weren't trying to be influencers

#The new phones every year #New outfits for every day #Aesthetic meals #Stop it #Just be regular potatoes #Influencers #consumerism #over consumption

[disabled-sapphic]

I wish people could see that overconsumption is not just people buying huge shein hauls, it's also buying something new without checking if you can buy it second hand, it's buying anything for a single time use, it's not mending broken things, it's impulse purchasing rather than thinking hard about what you need

it's so easy to push the issue onto other people, but it's much more meaningful for dozens of people to not buy 1 or 2 things they don't need, than it is to get a single person to not buy 20 things.

#fast fashion #sustainability #over consumption

[petula-xx]

Black Money

Tonight’s news ran 2 stories. One was about how many billions are predicted to be spent over the next 4 days in the name of Black Friday. The other was about how so many local charities are struggling right now due to increased demand and decreased donations.

There’s something very wrong here....

#Black Friday #shopping #consumerism #capitalism #charities #money #sales #debt #over consumption

[annafromuni]

The Pressure and Subsequent Burnout of Bookstagram

Continuing from last week’s discussion post, let’s dive into the pressures of up-keeping a bookish social media account, specifically a Bookstagram account. I don’t have experience with a BookTok (and I will not be getting one anytime soon) but I will be mentioning booktoks as a part of the pressures of maintaining your brand and account as a bookstagrammer. Most people start a bookstagram…

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#2024 reading #annafromuni discussions #book discussions #bookish social media #bookstagram #booktok #burnout #elitism #elitism on bookstagram #hyper consumption #over consumption #readers #social media #social media readers

[theboarsbride]

i saw people saying how TikTok is turning reading and publishing into the next 'fast fashion' and I feel ill. Because. Yeah.

#you shouldn't have to become an influencer to publish books. #the over-consumption is INSANE. #just for that.......gonna go on a library trip today. #anti booktok #anti tiktok #jojo reads #jojo vents #booktok

[bleekay]

i can accept that teenaged zuko had defined abs only because you know that boy was not hydrating. fighting everything and everyone at all hours of the day and just absolutely did not drink enough water

#uncle's over here sipping tea all day #while zuko got his daily recommended water consumption in the middle of the night #waking up up parched and chugalugging a liter and immediately going back to bed

[midnightdemonhunter]

am i the original, the remains, or the later writing?

Fresh off my first watching of Sophomore Year, I was desperate for more Nightmare Forest-esque content for my beloved bad kids. Thankfully, I immediately stumbled upon @gilears fic Over and Through! I absolutely adored this fic, bingereading it in one go, and knew I needed to show my love and feelings somehow!!

So here are the six bad kids' personal hells, shown in my order of reading!

#d20 #riz gukgak #gorgug thistlespring #adaine abernant #fabian seacaster #fig faeth #kristen applebees #aelwyn abernant #fantasy high #dimension 20 #midnight draws #over and through #YEP i am a Consumption first person. certainly set the tone for the rest of the fic!!! #was halfway through the first chapter like Am i going insane. and then got to chap 2 and things immediately started to come together. #but GOD i loved this fic AND i loved the art series done for it so im thrilled to be able to contribute in my own way!! #op thank you for everything. i will be rereading this fic many more times 100% #need to leave a long comment too for each chapter lmao I have so many thoughts but have forgotten them all rn #just know there is SO MUCH thought put into these pieces and i would be happy to elaborate on any of them!!! im so normal!!!!

[tinytrainworld]

what no i’m fine. i’m just thinking about how harrowhark chose to lobotomize herself and remove all memories of gideon to preserve gideon’s soul, and how ianthe chose to kill naberius and consume his soul instead of corona’s soul. and i’m just thinking about how both harrow and ianthe did this - refused to consume gideon's and naberius' souls- out of a twisted love they held for their cavaliers. because harrow wanted to retain any chance she had of bringing gideon back, and because ianthe wanted her sister to live. and i’m thinking about how neither gideon nor corona saw this as love but instead as rejection (gideon saying “i gave you my whole self and you didn’t even want it,” corona saying “she could have taken me”) and anyway it’s just fucked up but i’m fine

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #griddlehark #naberius tern #ianthe tridentarius #coronabeth tridentarius #tlt coronabeth #tlt #lyctorhood is a really fun time with no bad consequences!!!! #gideon and corona view consumption as love #harrowhark and ianthe view it as selfish and harmful #or tbh maybe they see it as love too but dont want to lose those specific people #and especially gideon really gets to me because we see in her narration that she views this as a complete rejection! its so sad #harrow has been groping blindly around the mithraeum bleeding all over the place unable to regenerate just because she can't bear to absorb #gideon's soul. but because this necessiates rejecting gideon's sacrifice AND because gideon is now convinced harrow is in love with alecto #gideon is like Oh so you hate me.

[buticanfixhernoreallyican]

feeling kinda icky about the rollout of ttpd tbh

#taylor swift #obviously i’m excited for the music but the whole “oh wow get this limited edition cd before it’s gone jk you can get it again hahaha” is #giving over consumption & capitalism #making fans feel pressured to buy 4 cds for new photocards or a bonus track is just dumb to me

[sealrock]

tell me, what makes a human?

#mypost. #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #gifs. #first official gpose of the yearrr #this is for kirke's no. 1 fan (thefreelanceangel) #this is the only time i'm glad for the blurriness. it adds to the creepiness of it and how you can't /exactly/ see what you're looking at #these were meant to be still images since it was vertical but i had the idea of doing a gif like i did for hector #kinda hard to see as a result but open for full size #so kirke's new lore centers around transhumanism. i'm currently redoing it and she's. this now #kirke's technically not 'human' anymore. she's a cluster of sentinent allagan nanites (made by amon) who takes over the brains of the dead #to combat decomposition she's been adding cyberkinetic addons to it overtime because she likes this body #it's hard to tell but her torso down to her pelvis has been replaced. no more flesh #'but kirke why not just make a new body from scratch?' where's the fun in that #and similar to yves she needs aether to animate her body; but instead of needing aether for consumption she uses it as a 'battery' to move #since she's a big cloud of nanites if she runs out of aether she will more or less 'die' #and it takes a lot more aether to move a dead body it takes less power to animate a robot body #she's like a deranged energizer bunny #it's not surprising that yves and kirke ended up together. he's her own charger #also didn't use her normal hair here because her eyes are integral #body horror cw #glitch cw #flashing cw #q.

[impishtubist]

sure, regulus black is a loser, but let’s not forget that remus lupin is too??? they are both so pathetic and damp and look like they need to be sent to the seaside for their health. they are crumply lil waifs. sirius and james obsess over them anyway.

#sirius and james have a type and that type is 'looks like he might die from consumption' #they are so possessive over their boyfriends #and everyone is like don't worry we don't want your man #we're not even sure why YOU want your man

[lordevening]

labru fans are freaks (it’s me, I’m labru fans)

#tbf im more of a fan of other labru fans #labru #twitter is going crazy over there with labru content #its 50 percent shitpost #the other 50 percent is a dissertation on obsession consumption and love

[annafromuni]

Have Libraries Gone Out of Fashion?

In a time of hyper consumerism, you would think that utilising libraries as a means of free reading would be taken up by more readers. After all, the number of books being published in a month is increasing well above the average reading speed of many and the financial strain these book hauls have can leave you feeling like you’re misspending your hard-earned money. It seems that libraries are…

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#2024 reading #2024 reading habits #annafromuni discussions #book aesthetics #book discussions #book hauls #book unhauls #bookish social media #bookstagram #booktok #hyper consumption #library books #over consumption #reader aesthetics