#horrible for the economy

[heinous-bitch]

all I can think about the whole watcher situation is that they're basically telling international fans to fuck themselves

#watcher #watcher entertainment #a horrible decision really #i live in ARGENTINA #do you have any idea how horrible economy is at the moment? #I can't afford it

[coquelicoq]

hmmm for the shipping meme! matonato and hankim or yoohankim?

[ID: A graph with the x-axis labeled "makes sense" on the left and "doesn't make sense" on the right and the y-axis labeled "compels me" at the top and "doesn't compel me" at the bottom. points labeled MN for matonato, HK for hankim, and YHK for yoohankim have been situated on the grid: MN in the top left (makes sense, compels me), HK at the top and to the right of MN (makes some sense, compels me), and two points labeled YHK, one slightly above and to the left of the center (makes some sense, compels me some) and one in the bottom right (doesn't make sense, doesn't compel me). /end ID]

wow this threw me off because for some reason i assumed that makes sense would be on the right instead of the left! so hopefully i made all the necessary corrections to what i originally wrote lol.

matonato: makes sense, compels me. probably obnoxiously obvious to everyone at this point. do they get a happy ending? i mean it's very fun to think about and i love me a good actually-together-matonato concept, but probably the most compelling thing about them is the star-crossed aspect. it's not will they won't they, it's why they why not they. why do they want this and why can they never have it? it's, how can i make this about natori's self-hatred? it's, who is matoba if he quits the exorcist business? (EXTREMELY JUICY AND COMPELLING QUESTION 2 B ASKING.) it's, what changes in their individual priorities and self-conception would be necessary before they could get together? asking myself these questions and understanding why they in their current forms can't be in a relationship helps me to better articulate who exactly they are and what motivates them and gives me avenues for thinking about possible character development. but like i said i do really love thinking about matonato endgame, and even though i know it's never going to be canon (which it doesn't need to be, obviously! we are in our sandbox making our own dreams come true), i'm reading the homura arc like girl why did you do that. where are you going with this??? fellas is it gay to stalk your homoerotic rival's enemies and the answer is a resounding YES. they are a good ship because thinking about each of them in the context of the other expands my understanding and appreciation of their individual characters, but also because it would be sexy for them to mash their mouths together. both are very important elements of shipping 2 me.

hankim: i want to say this is one of the most compelling relationships in orv but they are all compelling, it's actually insane. however hankim is definitely tied for first (with twenty other relationships). her love for him is the beating heart of the story. like the entire plot hinges around her loving him so much she would [redacted], but also the central themes are exemplified by how she feels about him and what she does about it. and he trusts her in a way he can't really trust anyone else, because she knows enough about the world that he can be open with her about things he can't tell others, and because he trusts her to be competent and able to achieve his objectives. mostly to me though their relationship Is About her love for him because of how badly he needs it and how little he can understand it, and how central it is to his entire character that he needs but cannot understand receiving that kind of love. i have not yet succeeded in imagining any kind of compelling sexual relationship for them, except the somewhat indirect one where he gives her permission to make a kim-dokja-looking avatar with which to fuck yoo joonghyuk while kim dokja is elsewhere minding his own business, but that's fine, they don't need to be having sex to have a compelling relationship, obviously. so yeah it's compelling af and it does make sense, but i'm taking some sense points off because the kdj-to-hsy direction is pretty standard shipping material while the opposite direction is like the entire point of the book. it's a lil unbalanced.

yoohankim: this ship fascinates me because i definitely never would have come up with it myself. hankim? see above. yookim? see below. but yoohan - DESPITE THE WHOLE DEAL AROUND WHO YOO JOONGHYUK IS AND HOW HE GOT THAT WAY - are just like. Only Here For Kim Dokja. any relationship they have with each other is a proxy for a relationship with kim dokja, mediated by their feelings for kim dokja, and put through the sieve of who the other person is to kim dokja. i think they have a very psychosexual thing going on where they're having a lot of sex with each other but mostly in order to feel close to kim dokja, who is not involved lol. which is its own kind of compelling, certainly. i guess you could say yoohankim is the ONLY way that yoohan makes any sort of sense to me whatsoever, so in that regard yoohankim is squarely in the northwest quadrant. but at the same time i feel like if kim dokja is actually present, their relationship with each other is more like in-laws than anything else. it's indirect. they don't have divorced energy…they don't even have metamour energy. i don't know. they're like this is my sister's mailman and i have no idea what he's doing at my nephew's piano recital, which is insane to me because they should have (nonsexual) parent-child energy if nothing else. so i also have to put yoohankim in the southeast quadrant. so far this is where most yoohankim fic i have read falls, but probably i just haven't yet found the one that would unlock it for me.

to close the loop i gotta talk about yookim (joongdok). the most enjoyable thing about it to me personally is that yoo joonghyuk so clearly wants kim dokja to hold him down and it's very fun to see kim dokja have to shift his entire paradigm to make that make sense. i mean, i think all of kimcom wants to hold kim dokja down (most of them nonsexually imo), but yoo joonghyuk is the one guy who's like "if you would just stop trying to kill yourself for two seconds then i could let you out of these handcuffs so you could have your way with me. you bastard." they make me crazy because they work together SO well and trust each other SO implicitly while also being like, wow this idiot has terrible priorities and so i have to manipulate him into furthering my agenda (keeping him safe) instead of his agenda (keeping me safe). they're also that evergreen combo of guy with low self-worth who's oblivious to other people's love for him/guy who loves so hard but never uses his words about it that makes me wanna read about them getting together 100 different times. in a slightly different sense than with matonato, thinking about them as a twosome better elucidates aspects of their own individual personalities and worldviews, which makes for a compelling shipping experience.

#it's funny after i wrote the matonato part i was like wait. am i actually saying matonato DOESN'T make sense to me? #and i decided that no it does. it makes sense to me that their current iterations can never be together. but in a way where i'm #still shipping them #it makes sense that they don't make sense. and 'here's how [ship] can still win' is a backbone of the shipping economy #natsume's book of friends #orv #natsume yuujinchou #horrible exorcists #natsuyuu meta #shipping #asks #not anon #thank youuuu for asking <3333 v fun to think about!

[richesthermit]

A Grian stimboard! ❀ requested by no one ┈ with HAPPY PARTY TRAIN themes x . x . x / x . 🚂 . x / x . x . x

#❀ ┈ made for mumbo #❀ ┈ stimboards #autism got the best of me #grian #g-train #happy party train #aqours #love live stim #aqours stim #idol stim #horribly hard to find g-train grian art in this economy #hermitcraft #multicolor stim #dance stim

[bunn-iiii]

Hashtag two of my favorite albums ever came out the year I was born

#damn did a horrible year for the economy incidentally have great music #btw I’m talking abt Folie à Deux by fob an Pretty. Odd by p!atd

[yokelish]

LET HYDRO ARCHON BE A CUNT LET HYDRO ARCHON BE A CUNT LET HYDRO ARCHON BE A CUNT LET HYDRO ARCHON-

#i dont want another Ei storyline aka Yes I am horrible tyrant who caused the death of thousands and fucked with the economy of my nation #but! it wasn't really me it was a puppet i made and also i lost mt sister #genshin impact

[gynoidgearhead]

"$2 trillion dollars" fuck off. that's not a real number (a frustrated shitpost)

You can't put two trillion dollars' worth of goods into a room.

You can barely even put two billion dollars' worth of goods into a room.

It is an actual exploit of our economic system that you can turn real goods into tokens that allow you to cram more ""value"" into a room than its referents would naturally allow.

No, fuck off. If you try to stack more than a million dollars, it should refuse like it's Minecraft or something. A million dollars plus one should still be a miilion dollars for rules purposes. A million dollars plus a further million dollars should still equal one million dollars.

At some point we have to admit that the numbers themselves are violent - that the nature of our economic system allows for distortions that are obscene and inhumane.

A human being should not be able to have ""a billion dollars"". If Elongated Muskrat or Jeffrey Bezos tried to cram a billion dollars worth of real value into a treasure chest, do you think he could even close the lid, let alone meaningfully "own" the contents of that treasure chest? No, and furthermore, fuck off!

Here is my rage-inspired proposal for a rules patch. If you put more than a million dollars into a pile, the value of the pile is instantly reduced to zero and the paper (or the digital medium holding the sum) spontaneously combusts. Numbers over a million dollars are just Metaphysically Banned. This affects larger sums first and is fairly broad as to what constitutes a pile.

"But that'd break the economy!" For all human purposes, our economy is already broken. Capitalism is the existential-risk paperclip maximizer AI that is already here, taking over everything.

The planet is dying for the sake of Number Go Up. In my desperation, is it really so unreasonable that part of me wishes the numbers themselves could break down, could rebel against this additive and multiplicatory madness?

#shitposting #economy #billionaires #cosmic horror #capitalism #ai risk #jeff bezos #elon musk #warren buffett #bill gates #bailout #madness #inequality #wealth inequality #wealth tax #taxation #i'm tempted to tag this ''poetry'' or ''fiction'' so you understand that the semantic content of this post is not entirely serious #like obviously if this actually happened it probably wouldn't fix anything at all #but it would bring things to a grinding halt as we'd be forced to figure something else out #and maybe that something else would be better or at least less horrible

[cosmos-tree-house]

another thing I want to change is that all of the Land Areas are way larger and more spaced apart. the ingame world map & playable area is sort of a condensed version of the actual areas.

Jamaa runs with a mixed economy deal with both bartering and currency; some places use gems and diamonds (usually businesses), others barter and trade (individual). Jamaa Township, the biggest and populous region of Jamaa, uses gems and diamonds primarily. This is because Jamaa Township is the main sort of marketplace for Jamaa, so they use a simpler system of currency (mostly). Lots of selling and buying going on there.

Jamaa Township is also a prolific great-plains biome! So theres some good agriculture in there too. But most of Jamaa's produce comes from two areas; the open corner of Sarepia Forest that neighbors Jamaa Township, and these four beautiful islands right here:

I haven't decided exactly what these islands are named, or if they have individual names, but they are independent from all of the other regions of Jamaa! They recently left Kimbara Outback with the help of Liza and Cosmo (and their apprentices). It's a little farming region! Very hilly with flowery meadows. Hosts a lot of orchards. Gets a lot of sun :)

Kimbara Outback hosts a lot of hospitals and a lot of medical study takes place here. It's also notorious for having TERRIBLE furniture.

Appondale... I'm not really sure if I'm going to keep Jammers owning... little versions of themselves? So Claws 'N Paws is being turned into an animal study facilitation, with a shit ton of equipment for studying wildlife. There's a lot of questions around non-sentient animals, and how it relates to Jammers. Appondale is a very academic region, with a lot of museums!

#im kind of talking outta my ass in the beginning here sorry Lol #idk economy horribly well but i read very briefly about bartering economies and. then i blacked out #animal jam #drafting #the story

[coffincoitus]

I looked up "band fandom" limited to f/f on ao3 bc I was curious to know of female band mates drama of mclennon proportions and I decided that would be the best method (I'm a scholar). unfortunately I forgot kpop exists

#kpop ruined the band eroticism economy #anyway. i refuse to believe women who make music have not had crazy horrible emotional attachments....

[mintycurry]

Seeing the stills reminds me of how unprepared I am for season 3 😭

#happy wilmon looks unreal #I can't believe they're happy #happy wilmon ⁉️ in this economy ⁉️ #young royals #wilmon #I'll go back to my little hole after this #I'm horrible at consistently being active #sorryy #but i love y'all 😤

[the-kipsabian]

im just unhappy scratch that the more i think about it the more im just straight up miserable and dont want to be here anymore

#is there anything i can do about it? no not really i cant motivate myself to do anything that would mean anything #i dont have a job i cant apply for anything i dont want to look into schools i cant get into #i look like shit i feel like shit everythings fuck awful and im a horrible person incapable of anything worth a shit #good morning im just gonna. fuck i dont even know anymore. im fucking tired but i have to get up for some god awful reason #i just wanna rot. would be for the best #night is an absolute mess on main #and good to know more stress about money stuff when things get cut and getting your applications accepted for help is gonna get more #difficult and selective than it already was. im already barely making anything now im gonna get even less #im just. what the fuck am i supposed to do to stay alive in this economy anymore

[crehador]

gotta be real with you boxxo i think they would've figured that one out whether she snitched or not

#crab watches #jidou hanbaiki ni umarekawatta ore wa meikyuu wo samayou #finance girl: who's been eating the silver coins around here? #guy who is a vending machine: oh wow what kind of horrible person would do such a thing haha... ha...... #in all seriousness though shoutout to vending machine isekai for actually addressing the economic ramifications #of a vending machine popping up in a fantasy world #and taking coins without the ability to recirculate them back into the economy

[cuethe-laughtrack]

Had some thoughts about Gotham city recently after jokingly comparing it to Detroit. But like… it got me thinking. What if the crime rates in Gotham are so high because it used to be a bustling city with a crazy economy and good job market but it was all reliant on a couple companies that went bankrupt years prior? So now there are all these people without jobs who had to turn to crime to get by. Of course Wayne enterprises kinda screws this up in theory, but if you think about it as WE is fairly new to the scene and only started to get massive since Bruce took over, it kinda works? I have always blamed the kooky villains like joker and scarecrow on Batman’s existence so factoring them out it’s not totally unreasonable to think that Gotham’s high crime rates are due to an economy collapse that the city and their ever growing population are struggling to get out of.

#Cause god knows the gouvernement (why is that French?) wouldn’t help a city of mostly poor disenfranchised people #and if most of the city officials are corrupt cause money and lots of organized crime… well it’s kind of a recipe for disaster #of course these are solely based on my very rudementary knowledge of business and crime rates and the economy #so take it with enough salt to send you into cardiac arrest lmao #just #i feel like the way Gotham is portrayed as this horrible awful city that almost has a life of its own #with no cause other than literally magic #Is really silly especially since there are actually places with high crime rates and reasons for those crime rates #add Batman into the mix and it’s not like there wouldn’t be an explanation #it’s just an explanation that doesn’t lend itself to Bruce being painted in a good light #after all if it was economic collapse a lot of gothams problems would be unemployment #and a corrupt capitalist system that wants to keep people down. cant get job cant get money cant live #and if Bruce Wayne could do something about it not Batman Bruce would be a really shitty person to keep his wealth to himself #(or he would just be your average billionaire) #and we can’t have Batman be the bad guy #comics #dick grayson #dc comics #nightwing #batman #bruce wayne #bruce wayne hate club #Gotham #Gotham city #jason todd #tim drake #robin #red hood

[airlock]

in the wake of the shit news from argentina, I find myself thinking back to 2018, to the year I spent arguing for my life and that of my community and lost

there's someone in particular I keep thinking about in that context: my old speech therapist. the nature of the contract meant I had to talk to her as much as possible, invariably; but she also seemed to respect, and seek out, my opinion as an intellectual. just, y'know, not to the extent that she'd listen to me before she'd listen to Whoever The Fuck on facebook

anyway, she voted for bolsonaro. she found peace and comfort in the blatantly false if you're paying real attention idea that his election would not come at a horrific cost in indigenous and LGBT lives; and furthermore, the reeeeal important thing to her is that, whenever bolelonabo was polling favorably, the stock market got excited and the lines went up.

she didn't like to think of herself as the kind of person who would step across my corpse for a profit. I think she especially wouldn't have liked to hear that that's what she was doing, when she was doing it

#my stupid text posts #anyway it turns out money people don't know a goddamn thing and bolsonaro wrecked the economy; who woulda thunk #more to the point though this one loser has become to me the face of the phenomenon of self-professed moderates falling in with the farrigh #when the storm rolls in we can find ourselves thinking -- what a horrible world; what a horrible place; the majority of the people hate me #for better or for worse -- that's not the truth. a lot of them don't feel strongly enough for active malice. they just don't care if we die

[steelycunt]

my university l<3ves making me fill out preference forms so poorly and vaguely designed they feel like saw traps and it l<3ves putting first come first served at the end of them also

#first come first served. i would have been FIRST COME if i hadnt been SITTING HERE FOR TWO HOURS trying to figure out HOW TO FILL OUT #YOUR TERRIBLE FUCKING SURVEY YOU PIECES OF SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also if you are my faculty reading this i am joking pls still give me #all my top choices for units next year because if i am made to do comparative and international economy i'll kill myself in ur lecture xx #first come first served in this context is like a horrible dastardly little gremlin cackling at you and going #heehoooguhhgoohh...whoever first solves my riddle >:-)...shall pass my bridge....>:-)hhehhteehhhhehhhooohoohohshshhaohohoo #(ridi's) bigmouth strikes again

[ehcahache]

I literally don't know what day it is today, how the hell do the drivers do this three times per month?? 😭

#context: i just arrived home after 22 hours flying and in the airports #just did south Korea -> Spain #horrible. would not recommend doing this in economy. next time I go see my sister I need to be rich and pretty tickets in business #hache personal

[mihai-florescu]

Was himeru always in my top 5 characters...?

#i go to sleep i dream im him and have to not let anyone see im not the real himeru. i wake up i think of him. girl you might be obsessed #actually tonight was horrible i didnt dream of es at all. i dreamt a mil was trying to set off a spider apocalypse #but i also kept waking up and the night felt so long aghhh #my body's been weird im constantly starving and im not used to it #cuz why did i finish off an entire wok of curry in the span of an evening? why did i down a schnitzel and restaurant ramen bowl and then #half an hour later i was starving again? can science explain this...? #i have 2 coconut breads i had saved up last night for breakfast and i regret not having bought more #this is all unrelated to my original post. i just needed to complain #my body doesnt even know what to do with all these vitamins like truly why is my stomach a black hole and how do i go back #in this economy? smh