#pandemic discount

[senatortedcruz]

Apple Music replay has dropped put ‘em up

#I still bum off my student discount even though the last time I was a student was post pandemic pre vaccine #stunned that K-pop is not my number one song I replayed that shit for hours

[youngninelifer]

the gender euphoria of a good cowboy makes me feel RABID

#I love cowboys so much I’m gonna rip my own arms off about it #it just???? hit me out of nowhere & like I was already trans for years but seriously it was a transgenderification beam #like transgender squared #I put on my cowboy hat & want to scream w joy #listen. maaaayve Cobb Vanth was the seed. maybe. but also my dnd character Maddox the lovable rogue halfling w a cowboy hat did numbers too #& if I’m being rly introspective . the tiny cowboy from night at the museum should not be discounted either. #Steven Yuen in Nope did not help matters either. #also obviously orville peck #bz bz #cowboy tag #idfk idfk #this is what the pandemic did to me. I WAS VULNERABLE

[dearreader]

im at the point in the parks and rec rewatch where they got really really big and it kinda loses some of its charm

#i’ll finish #but like… i love the show (obviously my most long term url was inspired by ben wyatt) #((if you remember that url you’re entitled to a veterans discount)) #but getting older i can kinda see it’s not as good in the latter half #though it’s still really really funny #can’t believe nbc canceled the show because the actors were getting to big and nbc was worried they wouldn’t return #like… yeah rashida jones and rob lowe left in season 6 #but that doesn’t mean a lot of people would leave #especially with how attached the cast was to the characters #like they all just said fuck it and did a zoom call special episode durning the pandemic to help spread awareness #like i do not think anyone would’ve left the show until it hit like MAYBE season 10 #but that’s just a theory #anyway i’m most likely going to finish this tonight (probably go back and rewatch a few episodes i passed out during) #then start a fmab rewatch cause i don’t know if i got the energy to read currently #though i do wasn’t to draw later #kelly babels #kelly watches things

[noxtivagus]

prom. dress. 🫣🫣

#🌙.rambles #dark blue w silver accent yh 🥺 #i'm so excited !!!! #it'd be. so cool to have a partner tho sob but i'm good on my own anyways n #there's extra payment for non-stag so good for me ig 🥹 #i'll just like. dream maybe. idk #hmmm what else hehe #ah i've been thinking lately of what i want to pursue when i'm older #wait. hfsjgkhskfs i get so shy w compliments.. T_T #i wonder do me n apollo like. yk we look smart. bcs that's what they said #lucky that yk my mom has connections 🥹🫶🏼 discounts ily #hmm w profession tho. i want to be some sort of doctor. not sure #but other stuff i'm interested in r like. neuroscientist psychologist psychiatrist #i want to do writing as a side n. i cld do some freelancing w programming? or idk just work on my own projects at my own time #i cld also teach ppl actually. w my smarts n. i used to help my classmates pre-pandemic. so yk i cld do well too i think #music too.. in my own time 🥺 #haven't finalized my questions yet for my interview later w my aunt buuut i wna ask a lot #bcs. idk what doctor i want to rlly be. n there's a lot i'm interested in #i want to do some lab stuff too. n i cld do well w surgeries too bcs i've always had good hands #i'll. cultivate my talent. n i want to use what i have to help others too. #i love helping others so i'm good w being a doctor anyways. n. hdkfjskfd science's my strength fr #when my cramps aren't fucking bs i'm gna do a lot 🥺🫶🏼 #yk. w dark blue n silver i guess i'll be. sorta matching w like. noctis or smth #when i was like. a few years back yh i had that lil story w noctis 🫣 #he rlly does resemble the night n the sky tho.. i still love noct v much hfjsfkhskfs he's like tied w alphi/emet for a chara i'd associate #myself w yk? there's kainé too n. oh i use mostima as my pfp so her too. help i rlly rlly rlly liked noctis a lot back then #no like. i still do but yk. uwahh noctis means a lot to me 🥹🫶🏼 #was the blueprint too for the first version of like. one of my dearest osts. the love interest of my self-insert oc 💀 #before artem they were named caelum after all 😭😭 #nyways thinking of that. in a way that's one dream come true tho hehe in a way

[miss-floral-thief]

Maybe

Going to try out new hair place

#hope #it’s cheap than the other one I don’t haft much on me #maybe they’ll give me a discount their first month of opening xD #if not then I can just get a smoothie #might rain but I don’t think I need an umbrella #personalice #I forgot sunscreen but it’s overcast/past 530 so should be ok #I only have cash on me but idk if I can ask for a pricing before paying #the other one wasn’t too bad but it’s over 9 dollars now bc pandemic #it does advertise as a barbershop so maybe more male focused? #8 #I could use a trim #my sides I can do myself but can’t see my back #although bro also gets uptight when I make a mess in the natheoom so easier to just pay for the conv roe cD #I forgot a water bottle tho #and prolly should’ve left half an hour earlier #if #it’s not closed maybe I’ll go to the usual place anhwyas

[fantasticcomics]

Saturday moving sale 2020 #2 half off books on our pandemic delayed discounts! Every Saturday weather permitting! Open 12-5pm Pay in cash, no tax charged!

#Saturday moving sale 2020 2 half off books on our pandemic delayed discounts! Every Saturday weather permitting! Open 12-5pm Pay in cash #no tax charged!

[eastofoktober]

my leasing company sent me the rates for renewal and it’s $181 more than my current rate. and that new rate is still the cheapest per sq ft rent i can find in this expensive ass city. 😭 goodbye money i guess.

#like i have a one bedroom #and a studio apartment in the building across the street #is $2600/month #wtf #im glad i got an extremely discounted pandemic rate #and rent incs are capped by the county

[ane-doodles]

A little help please

update: we did it!!! (you can read in my reblogs)

Greetings

I'm not one to write or tell things about my life here, but I'm here to ask for a little help.

To explain myself, I would have to tell you that the computer I currently work with art and comics is not mine, it belongs to a friend of my father who lent it to him during the pandemic (2020) so that he could work from home and I would have a place to do my University's homework. It's not a super-cool computer but it got us out of trouble back then.

It's been a while since then, but last year my dad has mentioned the idea of ​​returning it soon. The problem with that is that if he does then I won't have anywhere to draw or work or study.

My current job as a graphic designer and illustrator from home depends entirely on this computer, which in itself is not very good…

The monitor burns my eyes after a certain time, the memory and processor is limited so it does not support several programs, it does not have a graphics card and even the mouse has started to fail recently.

This is why I come here to ask for a little help… I have a goal of approximately $400 to buy a new computer (including a good monitor, but not a keyboard or mouse). The budget is not fixed due to the constant changes in the country's economy that make it difficult to save in the long term. But if we get over that line I admit it would be something great…

I am willing to work on commissions to reach the goal, I plan to organize my time between work and studies for that. Unfortunately I am in the process of writing my thesis so sometimes it will take time, but if you are willing to wait I promise to put all my heart into my drawings.

I'll be doing special commissions, some discounts, YCH, adoptables and maybe giveaways… Whatever comes to my mind at the moment, so stay tuned.

Donations are also highly appreciated!! If you do I will give you a huge hug.

And that would be all. For now you can check my pinned post to see my commissions, or check my Kofi page directly and check if they are open. If you don't have the opportunity to contribute monetarily, don't worry, sharing this post is also a great help.

I hope you have a beautiful day/afternoon/night :)

#artist support #ane talking #please help #reblog #thanks for your support

[copperbadge]

Hi Mr Starbuck! Some friends and I are moving in a few months and we're eyeing various places all over the US. Chicago came up as a relatively affordable big city (compared to LA and NYC) and I have to ask the resident Tumblr Chicagoan his opinion. As a resident who lives and works in the windy city, what's your big pros and cons of residing there (especially things you might not encounter as a tourist)? (also, how accurate is your "guide to chicago" still, since its been a few years!)

Well, I definitely have opinions!

The guide to Chicago is no longer accurate -- too many places have closed or moved, and the pandemic altered a lot (for example the Money Museum still exists but I'm not sure if it has regular hours even now). I should do a new one but like, I really don't get out much anymore so I can't talk about restaurants outside of a VERY local area, and I never could talk much about hotels, which just leaves points of interest mostly already covered by Atlas Obscura. :D At this point it'd just be kind of moot, others are doing it better than I am.

Chicago is inexpensive compared to New York or Los Angeles, but like, that's everywhere in America. Chicago is still a quite pricey city to live in, mainly because the taxes are so high -- 10.25% sales tax, for example, and my property taxes are also pretty steep. People joke about Taxachusetts, but I'm pretty sure Chicago at least has it beat (and 2/3 of the state's population lives in Chicago or the outlying suburbs). Housing is not at a premium in the way it is in NY and LA but depending on where you want to live and how far you want to commute it can still be very expensive. My housing was never less than half of my monthly income until I bought this place, and then ONLY because the job I'm in now came with a $10K/yr raise from my last one.

Chicago does have great culture, great museums, great food, and it's a liberal island in a pretty conservative region. It is however quite segregated, so if you are any race other than white, living here can get a little more complicated than I've portrayed it as a white dude. There is significant crime and particularly gun crime, but it's generally confined to specific regions of the city. That said, even if you discount crime, the Chicago PD are corrupt as fuck and uninterested in being helpful, so if you are from a demographic the cops enjoy harassing, it will not be different here.

I do love the city, warts and all. I like the water, I like the people, I like the midwestern vibe. I'd find it very hard to leave, especially because I have a network of friends here, but also because I just plain like it and I know it really well. There is a very short list of cities I'd consider leaving Chicago for, and most of those would have to have a well-paying job waiting for me. But it did take me time to fall in love with it -- it took a few years before it felt like home.

It's a little difficult to get more specific without knowing more about your situation -- what you do for work, what your budget is like, what your goals are in leaving where you are. Do you prefer to drive most places? (Parking and traffic can both get dicey.) Can you tolerate taking public transit if driving is inconvenient? Is the industry in which you work something that has a lot of openings here? Do you want to live in an urban environment, and if so are you prepared to live in a likely somewhat shitty apartment to do so? If you prefer to live in a house, are you prepared for a long commute? What do you like to do for fun and is there a thriving culture for that here? What is it important to have access to -- museums, concerts, theater, sport? Where do you need to travel to regularly (ie, I go to Austin several times a year) and how do you prefer to travel there?

Anyway, yeah -- like, I love it but I have few illusions about it. If you want to chat further feel free to hit me up by email, happy to answer more specific questions!

[transmutationisms]

do you think the covid situation will ever get any better or do you think it will be a few generations before high risk people can go outside without risking death again (unless climate change unleashes some more new deadly pathogens)

prior to covid, at-risk and disabled people were already being excluded from most public spaces by lack of accommodations, including lack of basic protection from communicable diseases. this is not just an epidemiological problem, but a design issue: as long as we remain a capitalist society that not only discounts but actively attempts to exclude and eliminate disabled people, we are going to see this type of hostile public space continue to proliferate, regardless of what happens with covid specifically. there are absolutely things we can do on a political level to mitigate the risk of disease transmission, which would allow many more disabled and at-risk people to exist in more public spaces; these are things we should have been doing prior to covid as well.

i'm not sure what the prospects are at this point in terms of controlling covid specifically. certainly ventilation, testing, masks, vaccines, &c should all be in wide use, but once something is endemic like this i'm honestly not well-researched enough on this to know what degree of disease control we could institute. i do think it's highly likely that we will see more pandemics within the next century, partly because pathogens always exist and partly because of factors like climate disruptions, poor sanitation, poverty, &c. which is all the more reason that, regardless of how covid continues to play out, we should not just sit around accepting the existence of public spaces that are inherently inaccessible to disabled and otherwise vulnerable people.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Inflation has pulled back significantly from its pandemic-era peak. In fact, some categories have fallen into outright deflation, meaning consumers are seeing the prices decline instead of rise.[...]

Demand for goods soared early in the Covid-19 pandemic, as consumers were confined to their homes and couldn't spend on things such as travel or concerts. The health crisis also snarled global supply chains, meaning volume couldn't keep pace with demand for those goods. Such supply-and-demand dynamics drove up prices.

Now, they're falling back to earth.[...]

"Supply chains are going back to normal," said Jay Bryson, chief economist for Wells Fargo Economics. "And on the demand side, there's been somewhat of a rotation from goods spending back toward services spending."

"We're kind of reverting back to the pre-Covid era," he added.[...]

14 Feb 24

Deflation may soon start biting into Chinese growth, as Beijing looks at another three to six months of a "very painful economy," according to one analyst who covers the country.

"This is something investors need to be cautious of. The economy here is bad, it's pretty ... it's really bad. I've been in China for 27 years, and this is probably the lowest confidence I've ever seen," Shaun Rein, founder of the China Market Research Group, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Monday.

“So deflation is starting to wield its ugly head[sic]. Consumers are waiting for discounts. They’re very nervous.”

Linked to a decline in the prices of goods and services, deflation is generally associated with an economic slowdown — raising questions over the growth outlook for China, whose post-Covid-19 recovery has already fallen short of some expectations in 2023. In December, depressed prices for pork — which makes up around a fifth of China’s CPI basket — heralded the possible advent of deflation.

“Deflation is a serious issue, I know the Chinese government doesn’t want me saying it, but it’s an issue that we need to be worried about,” Rein stressed. [...]

Economic slowdown is widely seen as a potential threat to Xi Jinping, whose Chinese Community Party has cultivated national political legitimacy through rapid growth.[...]

″[Buyers] think housing prices might continue to drop, so even if there’s pent-up demand for housing, a lot of home buyers are telling us, we’re not going to buy this month, we’re not going to buy this quarter, because we’re scared prices are going to drop another couple [of] percent in the coming months,” Rein said Monday.

22 Jan 24

Curious 🤔

#deflation (good) vs deflation (bad comma chinese)

[max1461]

What are your longtermism objections? The two broad camps seem to be 1. Rejection of future people's inclusion into moral circle, defense of steep discount rates, you have to exist yet to be a moral patient. Vs 2. Future people matter but there's nothing relevant or desirable in our action space.

Some people break down "can" vs "should" to make longtermism a conjunction of three things (future people matter, we can do something about it, and we should) but for me I think the should follows from the can (this is a personal preference that applies to this specific case), so for me it's two.

Do you think the 1 vs 2 distinction works satisfactorily? Or are they more entwined for you? Or do you want to throw out my prompt and start over from scratch?

I think that future people matter, but

It's hard to predict except in a very coarse way what their desires will be, making it difficult to determine what doing right by them would constitute.

It's extremely hard to make meaningful predictions beyond the near-term, making evaluating the long term effects of most actions in a meaningful way impossible.

The upshot of these two facts taken together is that while I do think "we should try not to end the world, somewhat" is a very reasonable position, more flamboyant forms of longtermism that aim at things like "steering human technological and social development to direct the maximal amount of matter and energy in the future light cone towards the end of human flourishing" and so on are goofy.

I said "they might be evil if they weren't so dumb" because this kind of totalizing impulse to engineer society to a specific end has in the past been the domain of, you know, Hitler and Stalin. But my impression is that longtermism is mostly composed of internet posters' sci-fi daydreams and venture capitalists' marketing hype, and I don't think we're going to get EAdolf Ratler any time soon.

Anyway, per the second paragraph I am sympathetic to the "plausible concern in the next century or so" type stuff that sometimes gets talked about under the heading of x-risk, e.g. efforts to avert nuclear war, climate change, another pandemic, and indeed (as mentioned in the post) intelligent AI misalignment. I don't think we're in for an AI apocalypse any time soon but I think it's always good to have someone thinking about these things.

#society

[noxtivagus]

mhmmm prom or batch night 👀

#🌙.rambles #batch night was cancelled pre-pandemic 🥹 #honestly i'm a lot more interested in prom #i wna look pretty #i probably have no one to bring idk but oh well :') #wnvr bringing up prom #i find it funny how my mom always mentions that #she has a friend that can tailor smth for me n apollo n give us a discount 🥺 #i'm honestly really excited i want prom #WAIT THIS IS SO CUTEEEE #the entrepreneur stuff of gr 12 r so cute #this one here is a package w a letted/spotify playlist/crocheted keychain w a flower #I WANT SOMEONE TO GIVE THET TO ME OH MANNN #letters? songs? flowers? 🥹 give me that n i'll fall in love 😔 #tulips or daisies tho huh #roses are my fave but i think those flowers r pretty naman as well #'if you are going to send it to a special someone' 'significant other' :copium: #my hopeless romantic antics have returned thanks to tumblr #tbf i've been a romantic for years so eh i've been a dreamer at heart anyways #can i give this package to myself Hashtag Self Love #white tulips 'im sorry' huh. IM SORRY for being so in love with myself yes 🤍 #hashtag Girlboss hashtag Self-love omg omg 🫶🏼 #uwah i feel so at peace w myself rn 🥺 yk i love jow my creativity thrives the most when i don't let anything in reality hold me back #i still feel v sick so i'll rest for a bit but i feel v motivated rn ❕<3 #i apologize for the outburts n mood swings here 😭 last night was really harsh but yayy i made it through that mess again #it's painful often yes but i love how deep i think. i'll make the best of it n forge my deserved success #my... poor stomache rn.... help #owwie :c #i'm gna rest for a bit .

[beardedmrbean]

WASHINGTON -- Inflation has changed the way many Americans shop. Now, those changes in consumer habits are helping bring down inflation.

Fed up with prices that remain about 19%, on average, above where they were before the pandemic, consumers are fighting back. In grocery stores, they're shifting away from name brands to store-brand items, switching to discount stores or simply buying fewer items like snacks or gourmet foods.

More Americans are buying used cars, too, rather than new, forcing some dealers to provide discounts on new cars again. But the growing consumer pushback to what critics condemn as price-gouging has been most evident with food as well as with consumer goods like paper towels and napkins.

In recent months, consumer resistance has led large food companies to respond by sharply slowing their price increases from the peaks of the past three years. This doesn't mean grocery prices will fall back to their levels of a few years ago, though with some items, including eggs, apples and milk, prices are below their peaks. But the milder increases in food prices should help further cool overall inflation, which is down sharply from a peak of 9.1% in 2022 to 3.1%.

Public frustration with prices has become a central issue in President Joe Biden’s bid for re-election. Polls show that despite the dramatic decline in inflation, many consumers are unhappy that prices remain so much higher than they were before inflation began accelerating in 2021.

Biden has echoed the criticism of many left-leaning economists that corporations jacked up their prices more than was needed to cover their own higher costs, allowing themselves to boost their profits. The White House has also attacked “shrinkflation,” whereby a company, rather than raising the price of a product, instead shrinks the amount inside the package. In a video released on Super Bowl Sunday, Biden denounced shrinkflation as a “rip-off.”

Consumer pushback against high prices suggests to many economists that inflation should further ease. That would make this bout of inflation markedly different from the debilitating price spikes of the 1970s and early 1980s, which took longer to defeat. When high inflation persists, consumers often develop an inflationary psychology: Ever-rising prices lead them to accelerate their purchases before costs rise further, a trend that can itself perpetuate inflation.

“That was the fear — that everybody would tolerate higher prices,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY, a consulting firm, who notes that it hasn't happened. “I don't think we've moved into a high inflation regime.”

Instead, this time many consumers have reacted like Stuart Dryden, a commercial underwriter at a bank who lives in Arlington, Virginia. On a recent trip to his regular grocery store, Dryden, 37, pointed out big price disparities between Kraft Heinz-branded products and their store-label competitors, which he now favors.

Dryden, for example, loves cream cheese and bagels. A 12-ounce tub of Kraft's Philadelphia cream cheese costs $6.69. The store brand, he noted, is just $3.19.

A 24-pack of Kraft single cheese slices is $7.69; the store label, $2.99. And a 32-ounce Heinz ketchup bottle is $6.29, while the alternative is just $1.69. Similar gaps existed with mac-and-cheese and shredded cheese products.

“Just those five products together already cost nearly $30,” Dryden said. The alternatives were less than half that, he calculated, at about $13.

“I’ve been trying private-label options, and the quality is the same and it’s almost a no-brainer to switch from the products I used to buy a ton of to just the private label," Dryden said.

Alex Abraham, a spokesman for Kraft Heinz, said that its costs rose 3% in the final three months of last year but that the company raised its own prices only 1%.

“We are doing everything possible to find efficiencies in our factories and other parts of our business to offset and mitigate further price increases,” Abraham said.

Last week, Kraft Heinz said sales fell in the final three months of last year as more consumers traded down to cheaper brands.

Dryden has taken other steps to save money: A year ago, he moved into a new apartment after his previous landlord jacked up his rent by about 50%. His former apartment had been next to a relatively pricey grocery store, Whole Foods. Now, he shops at a nearby Amazon Fresh and has started visiting the discount grocer Aldi every couple of weeks.

Samuel Rines, an investment strategist at Corbu, says that PepsiCo, Kimberly-Clark, Procter & Gamble and many other consumer food and packaged goods companies exploited the rise in input costs stemming from supply-chain disruptions and Russia's invasion of Ukraine to dramatically raise their prices — and increase their profits — in 2021 and 2022.

A contributing factor was that millions of Americans enjoyed solid wage gains and received stimulus checks and other government aid, making it easier for them to pay the higher prices.

Still, some decried the phenomenon as “greedflation." And in a March 2023 research paper, the economist Isabella Weber at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, referred to it as “seller's inflation.”

Yet beginning late last year, many of the same companies discovered that the strategy was no longer working. Most consumers have now long since spent the savings they built up during the pandemic.

Lower-income consumers, in particular, are running up credit card debt and falling behind on their payments. Americans overall are spending more cautiously. Daco notes that overall sales during the holiday shopping season were up just 4% — and most of it reflected higher prices rather than consumers actually buying more things.

As an example, Rines points to Unilever, which makes, among other items, Hellman's mayonnaise, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soaps. Unilever jacked up its prices 13.3% on average across its brands in 2022. Its sales volume fell 3.6% that year. In response, it raised prices just 2.8% last year; sales rose 1.8%.

“We're beginning to see the consumer no longer willing to take the higher pricing,” Rines said. “So companies were beginning to get a little bit more skeptical of their ability to just have price be the driver of their revenues. They had to have those volumes come back, and the consumer wasn’t reacting in a way that they were pleased with.”

Unilever itself recently attributed poor sales performance in Europe to “share losses to private labels.”

Other businesses have noticed, too. After their sales fell in the final three months of last year, PepsiCo executives signaled that this year they would rein in price increases and focus more on boosting sales.

“In 2024, we see ... normalization of the cost, normalization of inflation,” CEO Ramon Laguarta said. “So we see everything trending back to our long-term” pricing trends.

Jeffrey Harmening, CEO of General Mills, which makes Cheerios, Chex Cereal, Progresso soups and dozens of other brands, has acknowledged that his customers are increasingly seeking bargains.

And McDonald's executives have said that consumers with incomes below $45,000 are visiting less and spending less when they do visit and say the company plans to highlight its lower-priced items.

“Consumers are more wary — and weary — of pricing, and we’re going to continue to be consumer-led in our pricing decisions,” Ian Borden, the company's chief financial officer, told investors.

Officials at the Federal Reserve, the nation's primary inflation-fighting institution, have cited consumers' growing reluctance to pay high prices as a key reason why they expect inflation to fall steadily back to their 2% annual target.

“Firms are telling us that price sensitivity is very much higher now,” Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a member of the Fed's interest-rate setting committee, said last week. “Consumers don't want to purchase unless they're seeing a 10% discount. ... This is a serious improvement in the role that consumers play in bridling inflation.”

Surveys by the Fed's regional banks have found that companies across all industries expect to impose smaller price increases this year. The New York Fed says companies in its region plan to raise prices an average of about 3% this year, down from about 5% in 2023 and as much as 7% to 9% in 2022.

Such trends suggest that companies were well on their way to slowing their price hikes before Biden's most recent attacks on price gouging.

Claudia Sahm, founder of SAHM Consulting and a former Fed economist, said, “consumers are more powerful than President Biden.”

#nunyas news

[frozen10fanzine]

Frozen Through the Years

Yearly Spotlight: 2016

Written by @secretsofthestorymakers

2016 was a BIG YEAR for the Frozen fandom. There were not many big events, but the real-world reach of the franchise itself expanded greatly.

In Disney World, the newly-rethemed Norway in Epcot opened, including the ride Frozen Ever After, the Royal Sommerhus (where guests could meet Elsa and Anna), and a Frozen-themed shop selling everything from plush dolls to drinkware. At Disney’s California Adventure, fans celebrated the opening of Frozen: Live at the Hyperion, a 55-minute show that ran multiple times per day until the park closed for the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Sales of Frozen merch were going strong all over the world, to the point where discount shops stocked Frozen items along with the food they sold. Of course, most of the merch was aimed at children, but the Disney Enesco figurines proved to be popular among older fans! In March, Disney in Concert brought songs from Disney classics - including Frozen - to stages in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, allowing the magic of Frozen to be experienced by whole new audiences. The brand extension Frozen Northern Lights also began in 2016, expanding the lore of our favorite story in the form of 5 books published (4 of them in 2016) and 4 LEGO shorts (though some of this lore was decidedly not canon).

Within the fandom, 2016 was also the beginning of shipping wars; intense arguments over which characters should be together ensued, proving to be somewhat divisive for a previously unified fandom. As the official franchise and the fandom continued to grow, Frozen remained in the hearts of superfans and casual viewers alike.

Stay Tune for More

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#frozen10 #frozen 10th anniversary #water has memory #frozen #frozen 2 #frohana #kristoff #sven #olaf #elsa #anna #olaf's frozen adventure #ofa #frozen fever

[stormblessed95]

Like Crazy: Jimin

My thoughts over Jimin's song, Like Crazy! I know I've promised this post for freaking ever, I'm sorry I'm just now getting to it! This will probably be part 1, and I'll do a post about all possible queer coding in this MV and the dance in a part 2 in answer to an ask I have waiting. Or at least, I might mention it here, but I'll go into more detail about it in the secondary post.

The MV really kicks off when this person, with a hand covered in grime, grabs Jimin and pulls him away. This person is wearing the same Jacket Jimin wears at some point and the same jacket the girl we see highlighted in the MV does too. It honestly just seems like this means that he yanks himself away and into this dream. And that the girl in the MV is used as a stand in for his own reflection.

It appears to be that he is playing off of the archetypes highlighted by Jung (who BTS have referenced before in their music) of Anima and Animus. Basically speaks to how everyone has 2 "faces" inside of you, the feminine and the masculine. This is highlighted as well with how the woman in the MV mirrors everything Jimin does. When he moves, she moves. When he turns his head, so does she. They never otherwise touch and never truly meet. And when they come face to face... the scene cuts to Jimin looking in the mirror. Leaves us to speculate that the girl is the one in the mirror. And in the end... part of her darkness becomes his own, the grime from her hand transferring onto his own.

This is compounded even more by the makeup and accessories Jimin chose to display on his own body during this MV too. Where one half has white eyeliner and an earring being more traditionally feminine presenting styles. And the other half has no eyeliner and no earring, therefore representing things as more traditionally masculine of a style. One half, he is both.

And he has done this before on many occasions, such as in BE (flower earring on one side, plain hoop on the other) and in Filter (masc snd femme words for temptation on his hands). And honestly with his recent photofolio depictions of Artemis and Apollo too. Post Here

Jimin talked about this song on his live, basically saying that it was about feeling lost. Lost in the the feeling of losing yourself honestly. Not wanting to do things, just wanting to "go crazy" and just live in your dream. Not have any worries.

He talked about living this way during the pandemic and how bad it got for him. And how it wasn't until the PTD Concerts really that he started to shake himself free of that and how good the members all were to him too. Puts an even sweeter spin on JK just coming to his hotel room constantly to just sit and check on him all the time too. Not even doing anything or needing to say anything. Just offering him his company and support. Sweet.

I talk more about that in my post over the FACE album in its whole. About how none of these are simple break up songs but about Jimins feelings of discount, dissatisfaction and depression and loss over the past few years. You can read that post here:

He mentioned in an interview how the dream he doesn't want to wake up from is BTS. And I honestly think this is fairly self explanatory. And no, it doesn't mean he didn't want to do solo work or isn't loving the freedom of doing whatever he wants in a totally solo album too. You can feel multiple things all at once. Lol BTS is his dream. The group, the fans, the music together and solo. All of it. It's something he loves. Something they all love. And cherish.

Was the movie part of his inspiration for this song? Yes. It's a movie and longing. About putting forth so much work and effort into something you desire SO MUCH and also questioning if perhaps all the pain that effort brought was worth it in the end, even when you achieved what it was you desired. The movie is left open ended on purpose too. And those feelings, they can apply to so many things. So many dreams and desires. So many types of relationships. It's a good movie too. Its free on YouTube for now, you can watch here

The movie was the inspiration behind the narration voice intro too. Which Jimin thought worked really well for the story he was crafting there too. They did a great job.

The balancing act between the feminine and the masculine is something that is portrayed within the choreo for Like Crazy too. As well as just being sexy and entrancing. Lol and we know that Jimin had a hand in requesting parts of how he wanted the choreo to go. That he had a vision and he felt that it was well executed. The idea of the women being his reflection that I mentioned above is also played out through the dance pretty clearly too.

There is so much more we could keep talking about within this song too. A whole lyric breakdown and discussion if we wanted. It's such a good and catchy song and still so emotional too. I'll do another post, under an ask I got, about more of queer coding within the video in my opinion next. Including more than just the gender portrayals I just mentioned here in this post.

Thanks for reading my rambling thoughts over Jimins genius here. 😍❤️

#Jimin FACE #Jimin Like Crazy